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Image for The Cruise of the Cow - Being an Introduction to San Diego, Mexico's Baja California, and A Voyage into the Gulf of California -- This Combined Region of the Southwest Corner

The Cruise of the Cow - Being an Introduction to San Diego, Mexico's Baja California, and A Voyage into the Gulf of California -- This Combined Region of the Southwest Corner

By: Miller, Max

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1951

Seller ID: 025436

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold title box on spine. Clean, with slight fading to edges. No fraying. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - small previous owner name on front pastedown. Illustrated with map and 47 photographs by Lew Walker. 256 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), has some edge chipping, slight wear at folds. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey 1793-1798

By: Moreau de St. Mery (Roberts, Kenneth and Anna M. Roberts, Editors)

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1947

Seller ID: 027570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Later printing of the first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Translated and Edited by Kenneth Roberts and Anna M. Roberts; Preface by Kenneth Roberts; Introduction by Stewart L. Mims. Color frontispiece painting by James Bingham. Very clean rust brown buckram cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 394 pages with index. Clean illustrated jacket is unchipped, some wear and tiny tears at base of spine,...
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The Saga of Texas Cookery - An Historical Guide of More than One Hundred Twenty Recipes Illustrating the French Influence on Texas Cuisine, the Spanish Influence, & the Mexican, Including Also Contributions from the European Settlers in the Republic of Texas & from the Resou

By: Morgan, Sarah

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Austin, TX, Encino Press: 1973

Seller ID: 018758

ISBN: 0884260321

Binding: Book

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition, in unclipped original jacket. Very clean illustrated paper covered boards with no bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Signature by author on title page appears to be facsimile. 64 pp., page decorations. Dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (6.95 on front inside flap), with slightest faint trace of soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Travels in Philadelphia

By: Morley, Christopher

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay: 1920

Seller ID: 028343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean decorated American trade binding. Green cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering, line border on cover, gold lettering on spine. Light surface wear to spine edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 264 pages.
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Biography of A River - The People and Legends of the Hudson Valley

By: Mylod, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Bonanza: 1978

Seller ID: 027588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Very clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Turquoise boards with bright yellow cloth spine, black lettering on spine. As new condition, no bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 244 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, unclipped, one very short closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Close-up U.S.A

By: National Geographic Society (U.S.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington DC, National Geographic Society: 1986

Seller ID: 027258

ISBN: 0870446495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Very clean and complete set of 15 regional maps, Distance Chart, 1 U.S.A. map and hardcover book guide to the U.S.A. all contained in clean yellow hard plastic case. Everything in clean, top notch condition. Beautiful maps unfold, with rear side giving information on points of interest the region with beautiful full color illustrations. Unusual, informative and collectable.
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Our Pennsylvania: Keys to the Keystone State

By: Oakley, Amy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, Bobbs Merrill: 1950

Seller ID: 007902

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. Limited Edition, SIGNED by author and illustrator. 467 pgs. Illustrated with drawings. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has closed tear on back panel (taped), very light edgewear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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The Greater America

By: Paine, Ralph D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Outing Publishing Company: 1907

Seller ID: 025201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition decorated American trade binding. Clean green cloth boards with striking black and white illustration of a town in the foothills of the mountains with a train passing through, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Tiny spots of wear to several corners. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated throughout with full page black and white photographs. 327 pages + one page of publisher's advertising at rear of book.
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The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

By: Parkman, Francis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 026891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First thus, numbered Limited Edition, of which this is number 400. Published 1925 by Little Brown, with beautiful tipped in color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth and Frederic Remington. Beige boards with red cloth corner and spine, bright gold lettering on spine; small Remington drawing on cover. Hint of very light soiling to front beige areas. Pinhead size spots of wear at base of spine corners. Gilt top page edges, others page edges deckled. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. All illus...
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The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

By: Parkman, Francis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1963

Seller ID: 028993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Modern Library No. 267 in illustrated dust jacket. Toledano binding no. 11. Clean turquoise cloth boards with blind-stamped hexagon Modern Library logo on cover, gold lettering and torchbearer on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound; clean bright Kent endpapers (Brockway Hall Library bookplate from Syracuse University on front free endpaper). Brockway Hall ink-stamp at base of half-title and title page. No edge markings; card sleeve on rear free endpaper. With an Introduciton by Henry Steele Commager. 366 pages with index. Clean dust jacket ...
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Roaming the Mountains with John Parris

By: Parris, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Asheville, North Carolina, Citizen-Times Publishing Company: 1975

Seller ID: 028088

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

1975 softcover reprint of the original 1955 edition. Clean trade paperback with illustrated cover (By C. E. Dameron). No creasing, chipping or wear. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Introduction by Robert Bunnelle. 246 pages. A wonderful book of history and folklore on the mountains and valleys of Western North Carolina.
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The Covered Bridge

By: Petersen, Herman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1950

Seller ID: 008502

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Very slight wear at top of spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 376 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has some loss at top of spine (1/3"). Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Upstate New York.
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The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch

By: Poague, Leland A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: A. S. Barnes: 1978

Seller ID: 010145

ISBN: 0-498-01958-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with some notations in light pencil by previous owner on front free endpaper (easily erasable). Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, with slight hint of superficial rubbing to corners. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 vo.. Filmography.
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A Guide to Early American Homes - South

By: Pratt, Dorothy and Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1956

Seller ID: 025209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean patterned boards with burgundy cloth spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Profusely illustrated with photographs. 227 pages with index, plus two pages of photographic credits. Dust jacket is clean, bright, not price clipped (6.95 on front inside flap), has a few tiny shallow chips at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Breathtaki...
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A Guide to Early American Homes - North

By: Pratt, Dorothy and Richard

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1956

Seller ID: 025210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Blue patterned boards with blue cloth spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. Thin line of black at lower board near edge from old style mylar cover (now removed) -- no other soiling or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpapers (narrow black line at base of endpapers from same). No names, writing or bookplates. Profusely illustrated with beautiful photographs throughout. 249 pages with index + 2 pages of photographic credits and "About the Authors". Du...
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Canal Water and Whiskey - Tall Tales from the Erie Canal Country

By: Rapp, Marvin A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1965

Seller ID: 018056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean green cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean green endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 189 pgs. with index. Illustrated by Norman Truesdale. Clean unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, just a hint of rubbing. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A charming collection of Erie Canal stories, tall tales, anecdotes, newspaper squibs, and folksongs.
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Out of the Saltbox: The Savour of Old Vermont

By: Rasey, Ruth M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rand McNally: 1962

Seller ID: 013782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean light blue cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Hint of wear to two corner tips. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on the half-title page. 256 pgs. Illustrated by Kathleen Voute. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, front flap has separated at fold, several small edge chips and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Scarce book, signed by author. 8vo. New England.
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Out of the Saltbox: The Savour of Old Vermont

By: Rasey, Ruth M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rand McNally: 1962

Seller ID: 027783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Printing in clean unchipped dust jacket, SIGNED by the author. Very clean light blue cloth boards with crisp black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright. A Christmas note from 1962 is neatly penned on the front free endpaper, stating that the author has autographed this book for the recipient. Inscribed and signed on the half-title page by the author as follows: "For Ethel Schultz with warm regards and best wishes for my fellow writer and Pen Woman, Ruth M. Rasey, December 15, 1962." Black and white ...
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When Pine Was King

By: Reimann, Lewis C.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Lewis C. Reimann: 1953

Seller ID: 026472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean hardcover book in original dust jacket, SIGNED by the author. Clean brown cloth boards with bright silver lettering and two trees on cover, bright silver lettering and small tree on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with slight browning to endpapers. Signed by the author on front free endpaper: "Lewis C. Reimann". Previous owner name and date at top of front free endpaper. Frontispiece map of upper Michigan. Illustrated with many full page glossy black and white historical photographs. 16...
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Frederic Remington's Own West

By: Remington, Frederic (Edited by Harold McCracken)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Dial Press: 1960

Seller ID: 024986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket, inscribed and SIGNED on front free endpaper by Harold McCracken to Bob Rockwell (Robert Rockwell, founder of the Rockwell Gallery of Western Art in Corning, New York) - association copy. "To my very good friend Bob Rockwell - These articles & stories by Frederic Remington are a wonderful background for the Western Americana art in which you and I are so deeply interested. I do hope you enjoy them. - Sincerely, Harold McCracken - Cody, Wyoming July 6/61." Book is clean unfaded brown cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and ...
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Category: Americana