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An Old Boy Remembers

By: Adams, John Quincy, D.D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Ruth Hill, Publisher: 1935

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

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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The Wines of America

By: Adams, Leon David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1973

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027799

ISBN: 0395154561

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean purple cloth boards with gold bunch of grapes on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 465 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, very slight rubbing to edges - enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The fascinating story of North American wines and winemakers from the 16th century to 1970's.
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Some Famous American Schools

By: Adams, Oscar Fay

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Dana Estes & Company: 1903

Edition: First

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 Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers - And Their Founding of New Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony

By: Addison, Albert Christopher

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company: 1912

Edition: First

Seller ID: 022757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, first impression. Clean decorated American trade binding. Gray cloth boards with gold, white and black sailing ships and seagulls, gold lettering decorating cover; gold lettering and sailing ship on spine. Two very small (pin head size) spots to rear board. No fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top edges. Clean decorated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis portrait of Joseph Cotton with clean tissue guard (total of 48 illustrations). All pages have green decorative border, including index pages. 243 pages.
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The Saving Remnant: An Account of Jewish Survival

By: Agar, Herbert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1960

Edition: First

Seller ID: 010800

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition in dust jacket. Blue-green cloth boards with blind-stamped design on cover, gold lettering on spine. Faint water mark along top edge of front board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name, address on front free endpaper. 269 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has corner chips and closed tears. Enclosed in new mylar cover.
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My War With Japan

By: Alcott, Carroll

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1943

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 023497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, SIGNED by author, in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with burgundy lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Signed on front free endpaper by author: "Faithfully - Carroll Alcott - June 1943." Very small previous owner last name at top edge of front free endpaper. 368 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), has fading to spine, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. American newsman and r...
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Art from the Trenches: America's Uniformed Artists in World War I (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

By: Alfred Emile Cornebise

Price: $40.00

Publisher: College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University Press: 1991

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028288

ISBN: 0890963495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unworn dust jacket. Clean golden brown cloth boards with dark brown lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean light brown endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Amazing images by artists of scenes from World War I which utilized everything from horses to airplanes, barbed wire and trenches, cannons and grenades and gas. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Presented here is the first comprehensive account of t...
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The American Guide: A Source Book and Complete Travel Guide for the United States

By: Alsberg, Henry G.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House: 1949

Seller ID: 005417

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Clean boards with two very small faint white spots to front bottom edge and top rear edge (smaller than a pea). Very little wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking, pages and edges are clean. Maps on endpapers. 1348 pgs. with index. Illustrated with maps. Very small P/O label at inside edge of front free endpaper. History, maps and suggested regional tours of the United States of America. 8vo. Americana.
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Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945

By: Alvarez, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University Press of Kansas: 2000

Edition: First

Seller ID: 008565

ISBN: 0-7006-1013-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean blue boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 292 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, unclipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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Alabama Raider - A Story of a Confederate Warship

By: Anderson, Betty Baxter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia / Toronto, John C. Winston: 1957

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026888

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in clean illustrated dust jacket. Very clean light gray cloth boards with crisp red lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Harve Stein. 115 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (2.75 on front inside flap), has small chip at top left corner of front panel, slight price sticker residue at base corner of rear panel. Author photo and biography on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Tr...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

By: Appiah, K. Anthony; Gutmann, Amy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press: 1996

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028633

ISBN: 0691026610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean hardcover book in clean dust jacket. Charcoal gray cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; small marginal notes on two pages. 191 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Life on Earth A Natural History

By: Attenborough, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown: 1981

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027890

ISBN: 0316057452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First American Edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with bright gold unchipped lettering on spine. Small bump to one corner tip. Very slight fading at top board edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. Clean green endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with full color photographs. 319 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, hint of light edge wear, small price clip to upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An amazing look at the history of life on our planet, the evol...
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Paradox Isle

By: Bache, Carol

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1943

Edition: First

Seller ID: 014792

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean teal cloth boards with illustration on cover and spine. No bumping, light wear to spine edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 184 pgs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, hint of soiling, 1/16" loss at top edge of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An absorbing and intimate record of fourteen years which an American woman spent in Japan as an agent of the Military Intelligence Division during the time leading up to our involvement in World War II.
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The Siege of Paris

By: Baldick, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1964

Edition: First

Seller ID: 024209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First American Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with burgundy title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece illustration of huge hot air balloon, many beautiful illustrations throughout taken from contemporary engravings and photographs. 248 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, small closed tear to spine center, not price clipped (6.95 on front inside flap). Jacket is reproduced from a plate...
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The Engine and the Gun

By: Barbary, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Meredith Press: 1963

Edition: First

Seller ID: 009378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean charcoal boards with white cloth spine, black title box with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean red endpapers. 159 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, slight wear at top of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Historical Fiction.
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The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest

By: Bass, Rick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Lyons Press: 1998

Edition: First

Seller ID: 010963

ISBN: 1-55821-697-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Clean brown boards with black cloth spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Clean endpapers. 165 pgs. illusrated with drawings. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear or tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Nature.
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America in Midpassage (2 Volumes Complete in slipcase)

By: Beard, Charles A. & Mary R. Beard

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1939

Edition: First

Seller ID: 006836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Very clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Bindings are tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 977 pgs. total. Illustrated with drawings. Clean blue slipcase with unchipped paper label on spine; light wear to corners and edges of slipcase, starting to crack at top edge. 8vo. American History.
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The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition

By: Bell, Bernard W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Amherst, The University of Massachusetts Press: 1987

Edition: First

Seller ID: 015842

ISBN: 0-87023-568-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean black cloth boards with burgundy title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 421 pgs. with index. Clean unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, unclipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A comprehensive interpretive history of the African-American novel (more than 150 novels are discussed). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black History.
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From the Alec Thomas Archives: Gone for a Soldier- The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard

By: Bellard, Alfred (David Herbert Donald, editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown Company: 1975

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027016

ISBN: 0316088331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering and decoration on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white with the sketches of Private Alfred Bellard. 298 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one very short closed edge tear at flap fold. Enclosed in new archival quality removab...
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Lindbergh

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam: 1998

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027865

ISBN: 0399144498

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean dark blue boards with black cloth spine, silver lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean blue endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. 628 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Nice clean book and jacket - collectible quality. From one of Americ...
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Keyword:American History