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Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. The is the First American Edition. Size: 12mo. This is a mixed set of the First American Edition with Volume I being three quarters gilt stamped leather and black pebbled cloth over boards, and the second volume green gilt stamped and blind stamped cloth over boards. Volume I has marbled end papers, XII, 13-365pages; Volume II has yellow glossy end papers, XII, 9-387 pages, 8 pages advertisements. Leather along side of spine of Volume I is worn, pages lightly toned; otherwise interior is clean with no writing, marks or foxing, and the binding is sound. Volume II is bumped with some wear at head of the spine, foxing on end papers, interior pages lightly toned; otherwise, interior is clean with no writing, marks or foxing, and the binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 1 oz. Category: Fiction; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…
Read More Electrogravures of Eighty Galesburg Homes by Green, Allen Ayrault - 1899
by Green, Allen Ayrault
Electrogravures of Eighty Galesburg Homes
by Green, Allen Ayrault
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None Stated, None Stated, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None Issued. Size: Rectangular 4to. A scarce book comprised of electrogravures of eighty Galesburg houses taken by Allen Ayrault Green. "The original photographs were taken by Allen Ayrault Gree, Galesburg, Illinois, and the engraving reproductions were printed by him under his new Electrogravure process." Also includes a electrogravure of the Burlington Route Denver Flyer (No.1), "taken while running at a speed of 75 miles an hour. The Flyer is pulled by No. 1591 the heaviest passenger locomotive in the world," "Copyright 8-26-99 by Allen Ayrault Green, Official Photographer, Burlington Route." Flexible black pebbled cloth over boards with the title, date, and photographers name on front cover, eighty homes, one to a page, one side only, each with address and name of occupants; also photo of the interior of the Lescher Drug Company (the Lescher home is one of those in the book), the Walton Cycle Co, the G.B. Churchill Co. (appears to be a hardware store, but also has a row of bicycles), and then two pages of ads for local businesses, including F.E. Augerson Photographic Supplies and Cameras. Corners and spine ends bumped with wear, covers worn, front free end paper detached but present, previous owner's bookplate on front end paper, which is missing piece of paper at bottom corner, title page toned, most interior pages have finger smudges mostly at lower corner, light toning. Otherwise, interior is clean and unmarked, binding is sound. All electrogravures are are in excellent condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 7 oz. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Books; Architecture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 005888. .
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- Date Published 1899
- Keywords BZDB7 NOISBN Electrogravures of Eighty Galesburg Homes, Galesburg, Illinois, Allen Ayrault Green, Photography, Photogravures, Burlington Route Denver Flyer Engine No. 1591 Photograph, Electrogravures Genealogy & Local History; Books; Architecture.
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither In Two Volumes
by Melville, Herman
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Cohoes, New York, United States
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Work of E. P. Roe
by E. P. Roe
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Port Saint Lucie, FL, Florida, United States
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Vintage Set of 4 E. P. Roe works. Includes: "He Fell in Love with His Wife" (1886); "The Earth Trembled" (1892); "Near to Nature's Heart" (1876), and "Miss Lou" (1888). Books are similarly bound to use as a set. In good condition overall. SLSetof4
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WANNASESKA (The Prophet)
by Shipp, W. W.
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Meridian, Texas, United States
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Rare hardcover 1st edition. Cover has some wear and water marks on the edge. Some shelf wear & corners bumped. Some light tanning. Nice, tight binding. Good for its age. Fictional story of Wannaseska, the Cherokee prophet set during the time the State of Georgia (white settlers) were about to confiscate Cherokee Lands in N. Georgia. The prophet is first hand eye witness and victim to the outrages. Story ends with the Trail, of Tears when the Cherokees agreed to move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
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The Real War: First Edition (Signed by Richard Nixon)
by Richard Milhous Nixon
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780446512015 / 044651201X
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Warner Books, 1980. Hardcover. Like New. 8x6x1. Collectible first edition, first printing of 37th President of the United States The Real War. First printing statement and full number line to copyright page. Inscribed and signed by Nixon on bookplate mounted on half title page to daughter of former US Senator Robert Burren Morgan thus: "Richard Nixon | for | Margaret Morgan." Signature unconditionally guaranteed to pass any COA examination. Includes priced dust jacket in archival Brodart sleeve. Also includes handwritten laid-in note from attorney Carey Miller to Margaret Morgan, Miller speaking of a recent week spent with Julie and David Eisenhower. See attached images. 341 pp. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". Tight, immaculate copy. Extremities crisp. Internals unmarked front to back. Dust jacket flawless. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste Two Volumes
by ALISON, Archibald
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- Used - Good
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GALSTON, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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Edinburgh, Scotland: Bell and Bradfute, and Archd, Constable and Co., 1811. Leather Binding. Good/Without Dust Wrapper (As Issued). 8vo - 7.75 to 9.75" tall. Good - full calf binding, gilt decoration to the spine, speckled edges of the text block with head burnished. Corners bumped, wear to the extremities, calf thinning at the hinge of the boards, bookplate of William Ord. Edinburgh on inside of front paste down (bookplate possible of William Ord of Whitfield, MP for Morpeth & Newcastle-upon-Tyne), light tanning throughout otherwise contents clean, bright and tight. As this item weighs over 1kg when packed additional postage will be required for delivery outside of the United Kingdom.
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Mardi: And a Voyage Thither In Two Volumes
by Melville, Herman
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Cohoes, New York, United States
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Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. The is the First American Edition. Size: 12mo. This is a mixed set of the First American Edition with Volume I being three quarters gilt stamped leather and black pebbled cloth over boards, and the second volume green gilt stamped and blind stamped cloth over boards. Volume I has marbled end papers, XII, 13-365pages; Volume II has yellow glossy end papers, XII, 9-387 pages, 8 pages advertisements. Leather along side of spine of Volume I is worn, pages lightly toned; otherwise interior is clean with no writing, marks or foxing, and the binding is sound. Volume II is bumped with some wear at head of the spine, foxing on end papers, interior pages lightly toned; otherwise, interior is clean with no writing, marks or foxing, and the binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 1 oz. Category: Fiction; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…
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Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion: The experiences of Frank J North and Luther J North, Pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882 and their defence of the Building of the Union Pacific Railroad
by George Bird Grinnel
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company. First Edition, 1928, Two Great and Their Pawnee Battalion, The Experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, Pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882, and their defense of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. 299 pages, 2 page map, "Map Showing Routes of Expeditions of the North Brothers" frontispiece. Book is near Fine, ultra clean ribbed red cloth with bright gilt title to spine, very light wear to corners as well as to head and heel of spine, Tight and square with No previous owner bookplate. Writing on inside cover may be pertinent to history. No other writings or marks in the book., or writing. Top edge gilt, foredge and bottom edge untrimmed, Interior is Fine in never read condition. Ultra clean and most presentable in custom mylar cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928.
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Dante.Translated by Henry W. Longfellow.
by Dante Alighieri
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Light brown embossed design calf with gilt title on the spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volumes I, II, II.
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Homeri Odeyssea. Tom I. Tom II.
by Homer
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Brown leather binding with maroon title plates, gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Two volumes.Translated by Samuel Clark. Greek and Latin. Good clean examples of bookmaker's craft. Homer was the reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential writers of all time. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary. The Homeric… Read More
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Froissart's Chronicles.
by Sir John Froissart
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Red leather binding with raised and gilt banding, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Gilt decoration on both boards. All edges gilt. Contains coloured plates. Dimensions are for one volume. Revamped edition.
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My Painted Tree, and Other Poems
by Green, Allen Ayrault 1880-1963
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Waynesville, Ohio, United States
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Allen Ayrault Green, 1904-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. ***please read*** Deluxe edition - book is tight and clean with some rubbing/discoloration on boards - may have a name and greeting plus a note in light pencil on flyleaf - no marks on text - no DJ - inside a mylar sleeve - 46 pages - my shelf location -28-d-60
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MY PAINTED TREE AND OTHER POEMS (signed)
by Green, Allen Ayrault
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Glen Head, New York, United States
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Chicago 1904 first edition. Author. Hardcover. thin octavo. About 40p. Illustrated. This is the De Luxe Edition with mounted photograph printed on piece of silk mounted on front board panel; gilt lettering; white linen cloth. **Presentation copy signed by Green. Two small labels of previous owner Judson S Hill Jr of Morristown, Tennessee on front end papers. (one label partially obscuring part of the inscription. VG. One poem is titled "The Happy Colored Boy" with 3 photo illustrations of smiling African American children. .
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My Painted Tree, and Other Poems
by Green, Allen Ayrault 1880-1963
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781373606235 / 1373606231
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campbelltown, Florida, United States
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Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing
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RHYMES OF THE WOODS
by Green, Allen Ayrault
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mansfield, Missouri, United States
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The Cadmus Press. Galesburg, Illinois. 1911. Printed by the Wagoner Printing Company of Galesburg. First Edition., 1911 Bluish paper covered boards with a red cloth spine. Front cover lettering in gilt with a color photo paste-on inset into the center of the cover. 50 numbered pages. Small 4to. Seven double sided full page photo plates. General moderate wear to the book; small tipped-in plate apparently removed from the front (Possibly a picture of the dedicatee, Julia A Carney). Photo illustrated book of poetry for young folks. A very very scarce photo illustrated book for children. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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The Land of Lost
by Green, Allen Ayrault
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HOUSTON, Texas, United States
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Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardback. 142, worn and badly soiled green cloth HB with black and orange illustration on front of little people dancing around base of pl; Orange lettering on front and spine/several tears on spine and at top and bottom spine/hinge loose but book intact/gift inscript .
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The Land of Lost
by Green, Allen Ayrault
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. 142pp illustrated. A very good copy in green decorated cloth . Tipped in is 5 x 7 inch sepaia photo of the author inscribed by Ayrault. Green 1880-1963 was a photographer who practiced his craft at Knox College and the surrounding area from 1890-1910 Inscribed By Author
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The Land of the Lost
by Allen Ayrault Green
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1908. Green cloth, orange titles outlined in black, pictorial cover, map endpapers/pastedown, charming color frontis, & with black & white illustrations in the text; A good+ solid copy with modest fingersoil/toning to cloth, & 2 early gift inscriptions; 142 pages. Size: 8"x9.75". Hardcover.
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Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)
by Claire, Erin St (Sandra Brown)
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- 9780373482474 / 0373482477
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Olive Hill, Kentucky, United States
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Silhouette, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Sandra Brown writing as Erin St. Claire, 253 pgs
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Mars 1999 (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by O'Leary, Brian
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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1987 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED to include shark-faced rocket cartoon - "Exclusive Preview of the U.S. - Soviet Manned Mission - book: very good - pages show toning from age - dj: very good - some toning from age - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Cognac a Liquid History (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Calabrese, Salvatore
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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2001 - 1st edition - INSCRIBED by author on the title page "To Anthony Salute 18 03 05" - prior owner inscription "With love for Michelle 26 Dec 2014" - "Seen through the eyes of Salvatore Calabrese, a renowned and respected cognac expert, this book is a personal and insightful perspective on the spirit that earned its image of virility and strength from Napoleon Bonaparte." - book; very good - filled with images - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked, no folded page corners, dj: not price clipped [Price in UK 25.00] - small dime size chip on the back upper left corner repaired with archival tape - slight amount of scuffing - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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If I Die At Thirty (INSCRIBED)
by Woodson, Meg
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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1975 First Edition (No Additional Printings) - INSCRIBED by the author in pink ink on the front free endpaper "With best wishes and prayers from the author - Meg Woodson + Peggie :)" Rare book to have an inscription - "A rare and unforgettable glimpse into a young girl's mind as she faces the reality of her own death: - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - back two pages are a little wavy with a from the book of sticker on the last page (see photographs) - dj: very good- - not price clipped ($4.95) - a few chips, tears, and edgewear repaired with archival tape - dj in protective sleeve
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Bloody Sunrise
by Spillane, Mickey
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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More Than Forever
by McLean, Jay
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- good
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- 9781505999471 / 1505999472
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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2014. Book Four in the More Than Series 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Please note: This book has a Mature Readers Advisory. From back: "Lucy - There is love so fierce it cannot be measured... Cameron - Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. THere is no measure of time... But our forever isn't always." Creased back cover and last few pages, worn corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.
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Unreal Tournament Bradygames Official Strategy Guide
by Marcus, Phillip
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- 9780744009552 / 0744009553
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Bradbury & Evans, 2007. Covers PC-CD ROM/DVD ROM & Playstation 3 Computer Entertainment System 4to sized softcover; 271 heavy glossy pages with color illustrations throughout Brand new, but note some edgewear and blemish to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
by Becker, Ernest
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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New York: The Free Press, 1971. Second Edition. Contents include: The Man-Apes; The Origins of the Mind; The Distinctive Human; The Inner World; Socialization: the Creation of the Inner World; The New Meaning of the Oedipus Complex; Self-Esteem; Culture and Personality; Social Encounters: The Staging of Self-Esteem; Culture: the Relativity of Hero-Systems; What is Normal?; What Would A Science of Man Then Be?; Religion: The Quest for the Ideal Heroism. 228 pages. Edgewear; light wear to covers; worn corners and light creases on spine. Deeply creased spine opens flat at pages 60/61. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
by Shoemaker, J. W
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- 1906
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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A Million Miles from Boston
by Day, Karen
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- First
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780385738996 / 0385738994
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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2011. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 215 pages. Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition From jacket: "(Lucy) wants to get out of Boston and forget her worries about starting middle school and about her father's new girlfriend. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself, and where memories of her mother, who died when Lucy was six, are strong and sacred. But this summer, nothing is the same. Ian, a boy from home in Boston, comes to Pierson Point...Lucy's father wants his girlfriend to become a bigger part of Lucy's life. Though Lucy struggles against change, she gradually realizes that sometimes, change is for the better. Average wear to jacket; bumped corners and head and heel of spine, owner's name on fep. Autographed Copy sticker on front of jacket; one previously folded page corner. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits…
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