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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Near Fine. 1895. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A near fine first printing of the first edition, this book is worn around the edges with frays tothe fabric of the hard cover. A large sticker is present on the first paste down from a previous book collector that has left an accidental water mark on the opposite first loose page; ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 219 pages .
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About Paris - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Davis, Richard Harding
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Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollections of War and Politics During the Lincoln Administration
by McClure, A. K., LL.D.
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Philadelphia, PA: The Times Publishing Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1892. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Fourth edition in Good+ condition with front hinge starting, long presentation inscription to front flyleaf verso, and bookplate of George R. Petersen, a longtime member of the Abraham Lincoln Association and Lincolniana collector, to front pastedown, lacking dust-jacket; Author corrects many popular myths about Lincoln's character and actions ; Ex-Libris; B & W Plates; 8vo; 496 pages .
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The American Claimant - 1st Edition
by Twain, Mark [; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
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New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.. Very Good+. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. First edition, BAL 3434, original unrestored olive-green cloth binding in better than Very Good condition, little rubbing to extremities; The American Claimant is Twain's comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches, all revolving around the serious debate between the hereditary aristocracy of Europe and the democracy of America; B & W Illustrations; 8vo; i-xvi, 17-277, [1], 8pp. adv., [2] pages .
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The American Commonwealth, Vol 1 The National Government - the State Governments
by Bryce, James
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London and New York: Macmillan and CO. Very Good. 1891. Second Edition. Cloth. Ownership inscription on front endpaper dated 1891, small tear to end paper. Blue cloth cover with gold lettering. Moderate rubbing and bumping of cover and corners. Page block in Very Good+ condition; The American Commonwealth, Vol. 1 is a history of the United States from its colonial beginnings to the early years of the Republic. The book is written in an easy to read style and covers a vast amount of information in a short amount of time. The book is perfect for anyone looking to learn more about the United States' history.; 8vo; FSA .
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Both Sides The Border
by Henty, G. A.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair. 1898. Hardcover. Fair condition with a starting spine hinge, extensive soiling and edgewear to both the boards and pages, and the front flyleaf is completely detached; A tale of Hotspur and Glendower. This narrative takes place in the beginning of the 15th century which was in a continual state of unrest and chronic warfare between the Welch and England; B & W Illustrations; 8vo; 378 pages .
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Christianity and Anti-Christianity in Their Final Conflict
by Andrews, Rev. Samuel J.
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Chicago, IL: The Bible Institute Colportage Association. Fair. 1898. Revised Edition; First Printing. Cloth. Revised and Popular edition in Fair condition with no dust jacket with loose front and rear hinges, annotated pages, removed library panels, bumped and rubbed corners, ex-library stamps on front and rear flyleaves, and faded gilt embossing on front board and spine without dust-jacket; ; Ex-Library; 8vo ; 358 pages .
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Das Neue Testament Unsers Herren Und Heilandes Jesu Christi
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Berlin And Köln: Britische and Auslandische Bibelgesellschaft. Very Good-. 1897. Condition in very good- condition with rubbing to the boards and bumped corners. The pages have light foxing and tanning. There are faded discolorations on both front and back boards; 2 lb .
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David Harum: A Story of American Life
by Westcott, Edward Noyes
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New York: D. Appleton & Company. Fair. 1899. Later Printing. Cloth. Later printing in Fair condition with front hinge starting, previous owner's address written to front free end paper, three torn leaves -- the last advertising page, the next leaf, and the rear free end paper -- with part of the leaves missing, and soiled boards and page edges without dust-jacket, as issued; David Harum: A Story of American Life is a biography of American entertainer and vaudeville performer David Harum. The book is written by Edward Noyes Westcott and was published in 1951.; 8vo; 392 pages .
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Die Bibel Oder Die Ganze Heilige Schrift Des Alten Und Neuen Testaments Nach Der Deutschen Übersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers
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Berlin: Britische Und Ausländische Bibelgesellschaft. Poor. 1899. A poor Edition that has much wear from aging and life on the shelf, including the spine cover loose from the front board and only attached by the rear, stamping an dinkin gform a previous owner dated 1908 on the front flyleaf, and minor soiling. P. O. Name Rita Hartmann 1908 on fly leaf; 289 pages; 2 lb .
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Die Versunkene Glocke: Ein Deutsches Märchendrama - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Hauptmann, Gerhart
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Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag. Near Fine. 1897. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This first edition/first printing is in Near Fine condition. Royal blue binding with red edges. Nice clean and tight copy. Cover shows some rubbing, especially on spine, with slight bumping of corners. This particular copy is of the collection from Fritz Rentsch (1867 -1946, German impressionist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig) as validated by his stamp on the half-title page; Die Versunkene Glocke (The Sunken Bell) is an important early play by the German Nobel-Prize winner. It is a symbolic story of a master bell founder and his struggle as an artist and is one of Hauptmann's most popular plays ; 12mo .
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Doctor Warricks Daughters - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Davis, Rebecca Harding
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Fine. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine first printing of the first edition. The book itself sits at a small slant and there is a signature on the front paste down from a possible previous owner ; ; Black and White photos of original paintings ; 8vo; 301 pages .
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The Emperor's Candle-Sticks
by Baroness E. Orczy
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London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited. Very Good+. 1899. Hardcover. An edition in very good + condition. The fabric on the hardback and pages are discolored possibly due to exposure to water however still legible. It looks as though someone has tried to restore the paste downs in the front that connected to the inner binding; ; 8vo; 288 pages .
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Eric's Good News
by Le Feuvre, Amy
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New York, Toronto, Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. c1896. First Edition. Hardcover. An attractive, Near Fine first edition in the original light blue cloth with striking floral design in the rare, printed dust-jacket, little tattered and chipped with about one inch triangle torn from lower back panel. Ghosting of jacket flaps onto endpapers; Amy Le Feuvre's account of Eric Wallace, a little invalid boy, and the story of the influence he had upon the life of a world-worn young man with whom he became acquainted at a seaside resort. - Fleming H. Revell Company ; 12mo; 47, [1] pages .
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False Evidence
by Oppenheim, E. Phillips
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London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited. Very Good. 1896. Hardcover. A very good edition with a cracked hinge and rubbing of fabric of hardback. Pages are tanned. There is a sticker on the first paste down labeling a bookshop that carried this copy. There are dates and a signature on first flyleaf and inscriptions throughout the book from possible previous owners along with a sketch on the back paste down with the signature R. Campbell; ; 8vo; 199 pages .
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Farthest North
by Nansen, Fridtjof
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London: George Newnes, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1898. 2nd UK Edition. Cloth. The second English edition following the Archibald Constable publication from a year earlier. Elaborate silver and gilt pictorial cloth binding. Little foxing, mainly to endpapers, rear endpapers of Volume II cracked, hinge a trifle weak, else Fine in alike custom cloth-slipcase; The Nobel Laureate's account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past four hundred years; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; xvi, 480; viii, 456 pages; Not listed in Arctic Bibliography .
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The Flying Islands Of The Night
by Riley, James Whitcomb
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Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co.. Fine in Poor dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Cloth. A just about fine first edition, Binding variant B, S cloth, bicolor, maroon at top, brown at bottom, top edges gilt. Printing 1, signature marks 2 - 6 on the outside of gatherings, BAL 16587. Dust jacket fragments included, lacking spine but front and back panel as well as flaps are present ; The only play written and published by Riley, telling about a kingdom besieged by evil forces of a sinister queen who eventually is defeated by an angel-like heroine; 8vo; [viii], 88 pages .
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Fram Over Polhavet [; The Fram Across The Polar Sea, Farthest North] - 1st Edition
by Nansen, Fridtjof
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Kristiania (Oslo): H. Aschehoug & Co.s Forlag. Very Good+. 1897. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A handsome two-volume set of the first (Norwegian) edition. Arctic Bibliography #11988. Original green cloth with bright gilt lettering and illustrations in better than Very Good condition, light rubbing to extremities. Published in English as Farthest North. 40 plates, 3 color plates, 3 folded maps and numerous illustrations; Nobel Laureate Nansen's account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past four hundred years; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; xiv, 526; xii, 554 pages .
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Frances Waldeaux
by Davis, Rebecca Harding
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Near Fine. 1897. Hardcover. A near fine copy with some frays to the fabric on spine, sunning to the pages and rubbing to the spine. A very clean copy; ; B&W Pictures; 8vo; 207 pages .
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Frank in the Woods
by Castlemon, Harry
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Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. c1893. Reprint Edition. Cloth. An attractive copy in publisher's pictorial cloth boards in Very Good+ condition, lightly soiled boards and tanned leaves, small tear to front pastedown in Very Good- pictorial dust-jacket with a couple of chips, mainly at spine ends. Reprinted by the John C. Winston Company in the early 20th century ; Frank in the Woodswas one of a number of adventure stories published by Charleston Austin Fosdick, better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon. This novel was originally published in 1865, but this edition dates from the early twentieth century, probably prior to the 1930s. Castlemon's books were quite popular in their day and often went through numerous reprintings; Frank and Archie; 12mo; [i-iv] v-vi, 7-256 pages; Book dates from the early twentieth century, no earlier than 1904 based on the address of the publisher from the dust-jacket, and no later than 1960,…
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The Great Streets of the World - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by James, Henry
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine first edition first printing with some tears to the edges of the boards and inner front paste down ; A compilation of essays accompanied by illustrations; 4to; 253 pages .
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