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An Old Boy Remembers

By: Adams, John Quincy, D.D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Ruth Hill, Publisher: 1935

Seller ID: 011817

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean brown pebbled cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and SIGNED by Adah N. Adams (author's wife): This books is presented to Mrs. Charles R. Thomas as a memorial to the love and esteem felt for her by the author and his wife. - Adah N. Adams - Aug. 30th, 1940". 125 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has corner chips, shallow loss at top and bottom of spine, a few closed tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Delightful reminiscenses of a on...
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Some Famous American Schools

By: Adams, Oscar Fay

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Dana Estes & Company: 1903

Seller ID: 027866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition decorated American trade binding (signed binding - monogram AMS on cover - Amy M. Sacker). Red cloth boards with orange, blue and black decoration on cover, small blue and black decoration on spine. Tiny spots of wear to corners. Some pages have very faint water mark to top or bottom page edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece photo of St. Paul's School with tissue guard. Many full page photographic illustrations of schools throughout the book. Preface by the author. 341 pages. Descript...
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The Last Resorts: A Portrait of American Society at Play

By: Amory, Cleveland

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1952

Seller ID: 028687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean Stated First Edition in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with black cloth spine, red and white lettering on spine, small white illustration on cover. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean color-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings and eight pages of wonderful photographs of the great resorts across America. 527 pages with index. Clean dust jacket has very slight hint of edge wear, no chips, two very short closed edge tears, not pr...
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Andrews County History 1876 - 1978

By: Andrews County Heritage Committee

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Andrews, Texas, Andrews County Heritage Committee: 1978

Seller ID: 025242

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition, First Printing. Clean faux leather brown boards with elaborate gold stamped design on cover, gold lettering and small decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean photo-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. 488 pages with index. Large book - approx. size is 9" x 11-1/2". A really attractive, solid copy. A complete history of Andrews County, Texas, with everything from Indian history to family histories and photos, r...
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Seedtime on the Cumberland

By: Arnow, Harriette Simpson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1960

Seller ID: 028708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Printing in clean dust jacket with publisher's price still intact (7.50). Very clean green 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 clean map-illustrated endpapers. Previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of half-title page. Illustrated with maps. 449 pages. Dust jacket is clean with very slight edge wear, no chips, a few tiny edge nicks. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of the first white settlers who came to...
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Seasoned with Salt

By: Arny, Mary Travis

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Westminster Press: 1959

Seller ID: 018757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean beige/gray cloth boards with small green illustration on cover, green lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 230 pgs. Dustjacket is not price clipped (3.50 on front inside flap), has short closed edge tears, and light edge wear, hint of rubbing, two clear pieces of tape reinforcing corners of jacket. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of an American family in Montclair, NJ, whose rambling old house became home to family, and to assorted boarde...
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Spanish Texas - Yesterday and Today

By: Ashford, Gerald

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Austin/New York, Jenkins Publishing Company: 1971

Seller ID: 012530

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean beige cloth boards with black decorative lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean marbled beige endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 296 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with several short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. This book tells the story of the Spanish heritage in Texas. 8vo. Texas.
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Old New England Churches - And Their Children

By: Bacon, Dolores

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1906

Seller ID: 021983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition clean decorated American trade binding. Red ribbed cloth boards with gold church and tree decoration on cover with double ruled line border and gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading, tiny points of corner wear, gold lettering on spine has some wear but still legible. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis photograph of the spire of the Old South Church, Boston, with printed tissue guard; 33 additional photographic plates of New England churches. 442 pages.
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Horseback Honeymoon: The Vanishing Old West of 1907 Through the Eyes of Two Young Artists in Love

By: Ballard, Dorothy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Two Continents Publishing Group: 1975

Seller ID: 005991

ISBN: 0-8467-0105-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean brown cloth boards with orange lettering on spine. No bumping or wear to boards. Binding is tight, pages are clean (a little age speckling to top edges). No names, writing or bookplates. Endpapers illustrated with photographs and maps. Clean bright dustjacket has not been price clipped, is unchipped, with just a hint of edgewear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Adventure.
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The Winter People: A Return to Cape Cod

By: Barnard, Charles N.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead: 1973

Seller ID: 025158

ISBN: 0396067808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing in fine condition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean brown cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean golden cream endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated chapter headings. 173 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A lovely book. Author seeks the beauty of Cape Cod in the winter season, and discovers the people one may see but never kn...
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The Story of Man in Yellowstone

By: Beal, Merrill D.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, Yellowstone Library and Museum Association: 1960

Seller ID: 020245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Revised Edition, SIGNED by author, in illustrated dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering and decoration on cover, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. Signed by author on the title page. 320 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. Dustjacket is clean (hint of very faint soiling to rear panel), 1/4" chipping at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A detailed and thorough history of the ...
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Gettysburg - The Pictures and the Story

By: Blocher, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gettysburg, PA, Blocher's: 1930

Seller ID: 021215

Binding: soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Revised Edition (Twenty-second Edition). Very clean brown wraps with silk rope binding intact. Illustrated cover. No chipping or creasing; a few tiny closed edge tears. Oblong book (12" x 9-1/4"). Clean "spider-web" tissue guard at front and rear. 68 pages, illustrated with large black and white photographs. Information on the Gettysburg National Park, map of the Park, history of the battle, monuments, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on back of rear panel.
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Borein's West: Leaves from the Sketchbook of the last Artist of the Longhorn Era

By: Borein, Edward (Edward S. Spaulding, Editor)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Schauer (Edward Borein Memorial): 1952

Seller ID: 028552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in nice original illustrated dust jacket, SIGNED on half-title page. Beige cloth boards with stagecoach illustration, brown lettering on cover; brown lettering and running longhorn on spine. No bumping or wear; very slight foxing to edges (barely visible). Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean illustrated endpapers; small neatly penned name in upper corner of front pastedown. Wonderful drawings throughout by Edward Borein of the vanished American west he saw and put down on paper. Signed as follows on half-title page:...
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Land of High Horizons - An Intimate Interpretation of the The Great Smokies

By: Bowman, Elizabeth Skaggs

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Kingsport, Tennessee, Southern Publishers, Inc.: 1948

Seller ID: 027171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean hardcover book, SIGNED by the author, in original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering, gold line decoration on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean map-illustrated endpapers. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page as follows: "Inscribed to Josephine Seikel with good wishes and the hope that you will enjoy this armchair trip through the Great Smokies - Sincerely, Elizabeth S. Bowman." Illustrated with wonderful black and white photographs. 212 pages....
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Hoosier: A Composite Portrait

By: Bowman, Heath

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill: 1941

Seller ID: 020248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Author signed, numbered limited edition (this no. 52 of one thousand signed copies) in unclipped dustjacket. Clean rust brown cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. Very small ink mark on bottom page edges (size of grain of rice). Tasteful privately printed previous owner bookplate on back of front free endpaper. Illustrated from photographs by the author. 360 pp. with index. Clean dustjacket has small chips and edge wear, is not price clipped (3.00 on front in...
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Fifty Years of Collecitng Americana for the Library of The American Antiquarian Society 1908-1958

By: Brigham, Clarence S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Worcester, Massachusetts, Clarence S. Brigham: 1958

Seller ID: 028353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

One of 1000 copies printed for presentation only to the Friends of the American Antiquarian Society - copyright 1958 - in original dust jacket. Very clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 185 pages with index. Dust jacket is quite clean, not chipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Then & Now: Quaker Essays: Historical and Contemporary

By: Brinton, Anna

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 1960

Seller ID: 007588

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in original dust jacket. Pale green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Clean, with a few faint white specks to boards. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Previous owner name in very tiny print at top edge of front free endpaper. 352 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight age-toning to white edges, small corner chips and 1/3" closed tear at top of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years 1827-1927

By: Brown, Harriet Connor

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1929

Seller ID: 025247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, Published October, 1929, in original dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. 369 pages. Dust jacket has a few small edge chips and short closed edge tears, small price clip to upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Valentine's Manual of Old New York No. 7, New Series 1923 - When the Gay White Way Was Dark

By: Brown, Henry Collins (Editor)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Valentine's Manual, Inc.: 1923

Seller ID: 027394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Hardcover book in scarce original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with black decorative seal on cover with single line border, black lettering on spine. Some wear and soiling to this book: a little fraying at top of spine, small spot of wear along front spine edge (grain of rice in size), some browning to spine, some foxing to rear board. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. All pages and edges are clean and bright with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Wonderful historical photographs and illustrations throughout - seven plates in color, eighty-th...
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Pearl Buck's America - A Personal Travelogue by Pearl S. Buck, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Nobel Laureate-with 200 Photographs from Life Magazine

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bartholomew House: 1971

Seller ID: 026909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Printing in original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying 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. Illustrated with 200 photographs from Life Magazine, in full color and black and white, taken across the United States of America. 320 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped at top corner of front inside flap, is clean but has 2" closed curved edge tear, some surface rubbing to rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable ...
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Category: Americana