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Men. a Young Man's Paper (Representing the Young Man's Christian Association of North America) 53 Issues

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Company: 1897-1898

Seller ID: 24879

Binding: Periodical

Wraps, geneally very good copies, a broken run between May 22, 1897 (Vol 22, No. 54) and September 3, 1898 (Vol 23, No. 50).53 issues in all, Illustrated with photographs. Christianity emphasized in profiles of historical figures, history, reviews, conference reports, new of college interest, etc.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; c 20 pp
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The Past and Present of Rock Island County, Ill. , Containing a History of the County -- its Cities, Towns, & C. , a Biographical Directory of its Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion...

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Evansville, Unigraphic: 1973 (orig 1877)

Seller ID: 25279

Binding: Hardcover

Near fine in blue library buckram, originally published in 1877, this is a facsimile reprint. Includes an 112-page index.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 474+112 pp
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The Mouth-Piece. Volume 3: 1-12 (1930)

By: N/A

Price: $85.00

Publisher: n.p., Associated Telephone Utilities Company: 1930

Seller ID: 26082

Binding: Periodical

A bound volume, very good+ with all 12 monthly issues from 1930; the magazines themselves and their covers are in near fine condition. The Mouth-Piece was the house organ of the Associated Telephone Utilities Co. Was a leader in electric power companies, offering telephone service in 20 states in the Midwest. They began in 1929 in Indiana, acquiring five Wisconsin telephone operations in 1930. They went bankrupt in the Depression in 1933. This journal is an excellent research source for data on telephone history and personnel, with many photographs in each issue. OCLC locates only one holding,...
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Voter's Guide [Berks County, Reading, Pa.]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Reading, Pa, League of Women Voters of Berks Co: 1955

Seller ID: 29210

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, tabloid on newsprint, fine although folded once as distributed. Four-page guide to the candidates running in the election of November, 8, 1955, with many candidates' photos and with biographies of all. Offices are of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, County Commissioners, County Treasurer, County Controller, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Sheriff, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, District Attorney, Prison Inspectors, County Surveyor, Mayor, City Council, City Treasurer, City Controller, and School Directors. ; tabloid 9 x 12; 4 pp
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What Should I Pay? For Meat, Dry Groceries, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables ("This is your wartime price guide.")

By: N/A

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Washingon, DC, U.S. Office of Price Administration: 1945

Seller ID: 29208

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, very good with a few short edge tears and corner creases; illustrated brocure issued by the Office of Price Administration telling the shopper that ceiling prices for each grocery item have been established and are posted in all grocery outlets. Shoppers are asked to report any seller that tries to charge more than ceiling price for any item. Store types are grouped into 4 groups, OPA 1, OPA2, etc. and the group number will be posted in the shop window. A thinking woman shopper is drawn on the front while pages two and three are devoted to charts and examples, all featuring graphics. Th...
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In the Footsteps of the Lincoln

By: (Lincoln, Abraham) Tarbell, Ida

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1924

Seller ID: 27665

Binding: Hardcover

Nice and bright boards, fine but for reading crease on spine and previous owner's short inscription on front free endpaper, in very good dust jacket with small chips and tears around edges and corners, and with light soiling. Tarbell, an important muckraker, began researching Lincoln's early life in the 1890s, revealing a number of previously unknown facts, and she continued to write about the Lincolns throughout her life. An uncommon book in dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 418 pp
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Wyoming. a Guide to its History, Highways and People

By: (WPA)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1946

Seller ID: 27540

Binding: Hardcover

Very good- with some sunning and general wear, in very good- dust jacket with short tears and tiny chips at spine head. Map on front endpapers, folding map in pocket at rear. No price on DJ flap with tiny clipped corners on all flaps.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 490 pp
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The War-Time Manual

By: American Red Cross Society

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, Service Publishers: N.D.

Seller ID: 018884

Binding: Paperback

Wraps, 16mo, 144pp, National Edition, WW I-era, very good with offsetting from clipping to two pages. First-Aid, equipment lists, history, military, more.
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A Shelf Of Lincoln Books. A Critical, Selective Bibliography Of Lincolniana

By: Angle, Paul M

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ Press: 1946

Seller ID: 020277

Binding: Hardcover

One of 1000 copies of the first edition for members of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Fine in very good dust jacket with chips.
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A History of the United States from the Discovery of the Americn Continent: History of the Colonization of the United States, Volumes I, II, and III (Complete)

By: Bancroft, George

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown: 1846

Seller ID: 27630

Binding: Hardcover

Volumes 1 & 2 are 13th editions, Volume 3 is a 12th edition. Three volumes, in brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine titles; head and foot of spines chipped. Some scattered foxing. Plates include portraits, vignettes and maps (some colored). Very good-.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 469; 466; 477 pp
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Native American Picture Books of Change. the Art of Historic Children's Editions

By: Benes, Rebecca

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Santa FE, Museum of New Mexico Press: 2004

Seller ID: 26210

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in fien dust jacket. On children's books illustrated by Native American artists.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 168 pp
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The Last Agony of the Great Bore

By: Bird, F[Rancis] W[Illiam]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Boston, E. P. Dutton: 1868

Seller ID: 27896

Binding: Softcover

String-tied signatures, very good with corner crease to lower rear corners. This is (likely) the greatly expanded edition of the same author's Look before You Leap into Another Great Bore, also published in 1868. In a prefatory note, the author states, "In the following pages, I have made free use of papers I have heretofore laid before the public." The Hoosac Tunnel construction took place between 1851 and 1875, the final cost of $21 million being 10 times the estimated cost. It ran near the Northwest corner of Mass, near North Adams, in the Hoosac Mountain Range, an extension of Verm...
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Byron Birdsall's Alaska And Other Exotic Worlds

By: Birdsall, Byron

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Seattle/Portland, Epicen/Graphic: 1993

Seller ID: 022038

Binding: Hardcover

Oblong sm 4to, fine in fine dust jacket. This copy neatly signed and inscribed in the author's handsome script.
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Herblock's State of the Union

By: Block, Herbert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1972

Seller ID: 24771

Binding: Hardcover

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 224 pp
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History of Kennebunk Port from its First Discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, May 14, 1609 to A. D. 1837

By: Bradbury, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Kennebunkport, Durrell Publications: 1967

Seller ID: 25945

Binding: Hardcover

Near fine copy with very light soiling.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pp
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Solitary Star. A Biography Of Sam Houston

By: Braider, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Putnam: 1974

Seller ID: 018129

Binding: Hardcover

8vo Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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Image for The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Including His Speeches, Messages, Inaugurals , Proclamations, etc. etc.

The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Including His Speeches, Messages, Inaugurals , Proclamations, etc. etc.

By: Brockett, L. P. MD

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Bradley and Company: 1865

Seller ID: 29011

Binding: Hardcover

Fully bound in leather, worn and rubbed, gilt stamping on spine quite legible,but the leather is beginning to powder,light foxing to prelims, both joints and hinges cracked but both boards are still attached which is very unusual for this fragile book which is nearly always found with one or both boards detached.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 750 pp
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Wondrous Times on the Frontier

By: Brown, Dee

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Little Rock, August Home Publishing: 1991

Seller ID: 30171

Binding: Hardcover

No. 206 of 1500 hand-numbered copies signed by the author. The book, dust jacket and slipcase are all quite fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pp
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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians

By: Catlin, George

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2009

Seller ID: 24229

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in fine slipcase, a handsome edition with many glossy color plates. Extra postage may be required for international shipment of this oversize book.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 470 pp
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The Story of the Great Lakes

By: Channing, Edward; Lansing, Marion Florence

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1909

Seller ID: 28204

Binding: Hardcover

Very good with fraying to ends of the lightly sunned spine and some corner wear.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pp
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