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UNITED STATES: C.S. HAMMOND AND COMPANY, 1953 NICE LOOKING DARK BROWN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT. LIGHT WEAR EDGES. FORMER OWNERS LABEL IN FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. DRAWINGS BY HERBERT PIERCE. SOME COLOR ART. 10 SECTIONS THAT INCLUDE ROCKS AND MINERALS, SHELL COLLECTING, PLANTS, TERRARIUM, ACQUARIUM, BIRD, BUTTERFLIES AND INSECTS, NATURE AND WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY, FISHING AND HUNTING. A WONDERFUL BOOK TO ENLIGHTEN AND EDUCATE THE HOBBY ENTHUSIAST. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1927 "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA"- LAWRENCE WAS a British soldier serving as a liason officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916-1918. Tremendous personal account of history and service. The REVOLT IN THE DESERT WAS WRITTEN AS AN ABRIDGEMENT OF 130,000 WORDS OF SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM: A TRIUMPH. PORTRAIT IN THE FRONT OF T.E. LAWRENCE BY AUGUSTUS JOHN. A VERY NICE FOLD OUT MAP IN THE BACK 15"' X 8", VERY NICE, JOURNEYS MAPPED OUT. GREAT LOOKING BOOK. TAN COVER, BROWN INLAY, DESIGN FRONT, CAMELS ALONG SPINE. COUPLE SMALL INK MARKS FRONT COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME SIGNED VERY SMALL INSIDE, NO OTHER MARKINGS. TIGHT. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

PITTSBURGH: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, 1950 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. REFERENCE TO LETTERS AND HISTORY INVOLVING CHARLES SWAINE AND THEODORUS SWAINE DRAGE. THEY WERE BOTH TRADERS AT THE TIME OF COLONEL BOUQUETS EXPEDITION OF 1763. VERY GOOD ADDED DETAILS. Henry Louis Bouquet, generally known as Henry Bouquet (1719 2 September 1765), was a prominent British Army officer in the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War. Bouquet is best known for his victory over a Native American force at the Battle of Bushy Run, lifting the siege of Fort Pitt during Pontiac's War. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY, 1887 NICE LOOKING DARK RED TEXTURED COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. EBERS WAS A TERRIFIC EGYPTOLOGIST SO THE BOOK IS QUITE INTERESTING AND EDUCATIONAL ON EGYPT. Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, 1 March 1837 Tutzing, Bavaria, 7 August 1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. He is best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world. Georg Ebers was born in Berlin and was the youngest of the five children of an affluent family of bankers and porcelain manufacturers.[1] The Ebers children were raised by their mother on her own, after their father committed suicide shortly after Ebers was born. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1910 WONDERFUL BOOK OF POETRY AND WRITINGS. BEOWULF, SONG OF ROLAND, NIBLUNGS, STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS. VERY NICE DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1910 WONDERFUL BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY, IN THREE VOLUMES, VOLUME I CHAUCER TO GRAY. VERY NICE DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: E.W. WALKER & CO., 1887 BROWN COVER WITH LEATHER COVERING SPINE ARE AND BOOK CORNERS. PAGES HAVE RED EDGES. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. LARGE BOOK SET WEIGHING 14 POUNDS. INCLUDES 850 ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD AND STEEL, VIEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD COMPRISING MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, PALACES, CATHEDRALS, CASTLES, ABBEYS AND RUINS WITH ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS BY THE BEST AUTHORS. LOCATIONS FEATURED IN VOLUME ONE ARE ROME, TIVOLI, PARIS, ST. PETERSBURG, NOVGOROD, MOSCOW, SIBERIA, CHATEAUX AND CHURCHES FRANCE, BELGIUM, MEISSEN, TREVES, ZEELAND AND HOLLAND, STRASBURG BLACK FOREST HEIDELBERG, WURTEMBERG, BAVARIA, DANUBE, TRANSYLVANIA AND TURKISH, MOUNT ATHOS AND ATHENS, SICILY SND LIPARI ISLANDS, TEMPLES OF PAESTUM, SIENA, VINTIMIGLIA, SPAIN. LOCATIONS FEATURED IN VOLUME TWO ARE PORTUGAL, AFRICA, NILE, MADAGASCAR, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY, BABYLON, PERSIA, INDIA, INDO CHINA, AUSTRALIA, CHINA, JAPAN, SANDWICH ISLANDS, CALIFORNIA AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS, MEXICO, CUBA, BRAZIL, PERU, NORWAY, DENMARK, POLAND,… Read More

LOUISVILLE, KY: FAWCETT PUBLICATIONS, 1940 GOOD CONDITION MAGAZINE MADE FOR YOUNG WOMEN. SOME WEAR, VERY NICE SHAPE, TIGHT. True Confessions is a confession magazine targeted at young women readers. It was originally published by Fawcett Publications, beginning in 1922. With a cover price of 25 cents, the front cover of the October, 1922, issue heralded, "Our Thousand Dollar Prize Winner¿'All Hell Broke Loose'." During the 1920s, Jack Smalley was the editor, and early issues in the run sometimes featured cover illustrations by Norman Saunders. TERRIFIC MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN. WONDERFUL ADS, NOVEL OF THE MONTH, CONFESSIONS FROM LIFE, FASHIONS, BEAUTY, HOMEMAKING. BEAUTIFUL PICTURES AND ARTWORK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1904 NICE LOOKING RED COVER WITH LIGHT DESIGN AND PRINT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUHOUT. FRONTISPIECE IS OF A WOODSMEN MEETING OTHERS IN FOREST. 7 ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. INTERESTING ENTERTAINING BOOK. A strenuous detective story, laid in the author's chosen field of the North Woods. The dramatic power of the book alone would make it famous. In addition, it has the fascination of the great, white, quiet forests--the Silent Places. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

MUSCATINE, IOWA: IOWA BIBLE & PUBLISHING CO., 1874 LIGHT RED TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, LIGHT WEAR COVER. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL OF A VERY INTERESTING LIFE AND TIME PERIOD. MANY TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING SLAVERY AND LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. He fell into a dispute with fellow Republican President Ulysses Grant on the question of taking control of Santo Domingo. Grant's allies stripped Sumner of his power in the Senate in 1871, and he joined the Liberal Republican… Read More

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1899 LIGHT GREEN COVER, WHITE LETTERING FRONT AND SPINE, WEAR DUE TO AGE AND USE, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, COUPLE LIGHT SMUDGES IN FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN OTHERWISE. 34 CHAPTERS AND LISTING OF ILLUSTRATIONS, A VERY ENTERTAINING HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL THAT EGGLESTON PREPARED FROM HIS BROTHERS TIME AS SCHOOLMASTER IN INDIANA. FOR THE LOVER OF SCHOOL HISTORY AND INDIANA. The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston. The novel originated from a series of stories written for Hearth and Home, a periodical edited by Eggleston, and was based on the experiences of his brother, George Cary Eggleston, who had been a schoolteacher in Indiana. The novel is noted for its realistic depictions of 19th-century American rural life and for its use of local dialect. Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837 September 3, 1902) was an American historian and novelist. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK CITY: WM. WISE & CO., 1927 A WONDERFUL BOOK ON PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE. GREAT INFORMATION BY A GREAT PERSON. NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, BEAUTIFULLY MADE, TEXTURED FINISH, DESIGN AND GOLD ON FRONT, PROTECTIVE COVER IN POOR CONDITION DUE TO FRONT AND BACK ALL THAT ARE LEFT WITHOUT THE SPINE, ARTWORK VERY NICE OF HUBBARD. FRONTISPIECE IS A PICTURE OF HUBBARD ON A PHONE. PAGES INSIDE ARE THICK AND CLEAN. ABOUT 1/2 OF THE PAGES ARE LOOSE FROM THE SEWN INSIDE- BUT PAGES ARE STILL IN ORDER AND VERY NICE. BOOK IS COINED FROM A LIFE OF LOVE, LAUGHTER AND WORK, BY A MAN WHO ACHIEVED GREATLY IN LITERATURE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS. PRINTED AND MADE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOPS, IN EAST AURORA, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK STATE. PAGES HAVE ORANGE DECORATION THROUGHOUT. HUBBARD STORED UP HIS SCRAP BOOK OF OTHER MEN'S GENIUS AND DID NOT INTEND TO PUBLISH. A NICE INDEX IN THE BACK LISTS SUBJECTS. HIS NARATION ON EACH WORK IS ENLIGHTENING AND HELPS GUIDE THE READER AND HELP IN THEIR… Read More

NEW YORK: WORTHINGTON CO., 1885 BEAUTIFUL BOOK BY A GREAT WRITER. TAN COVER WITH DESIGN IN GOLD AND BROWN, ART PICTURE OF ELIOT. DESIGN ON SPINE AND GOLD PRINT. TWO OWNERS NAMES INSIDE AND NOTE WHERE IT WAS IN A LADIES HOME. SLIGHT WEAR ON EDGE OF FRONT RIGHT CORNER. George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, "Middlemarch", is not only a major social document but also one of the greatest novels in the history of fiction. Romola (1862¿63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". It first appeared in fourteen parts published in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 (vol. 6, no. 31) to August 1863 (vol. 8, no. 44). The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its… Read More

BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, 1916 LIGHT COVER WITH BLACK, GREEN AND GRAY DESIGN. LIGHT WEAR. INSCRIPTION WHERE GIVEN AS A GIFT TO PREVIOUS OWNER. PICTURES THROUGHOUT THAT HELP ADD TO SCOTTISH HISTORY. TIGHT AND CLEAN. IONA ST. MARTIN'S CROSS PICTURE FRONTISPIECE. 25 CHAPTERS, CHRONOLOGICAL FRAME WORK OF SCOTLAND HISTORY. GREAT DETAIL INCLUDED. VERY INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING FOR THE LOVER OF SCOTLAND. William Elliot Griffis (September 17, 1843 – February 5, 1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: A.L. BURT COMPANY, 1895 NICE LOOKING DARK GEEN COVER WITH DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE IN BLACK, RED AND YELLOW. SOME WEAR EDGES. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, VERY NICE ARTWORK. AN INTERESTING AND POPULAR STORY TELLER. Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of noms de plume. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies[4] and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

MEXICO: EL MODELO, 1930 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT COVER AND SPINE. DESIGN EAGLE AND SNAKE FRONT, CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. PHOTOS THROUGHOUT.
76 CHAPTERS.
DORNUM WAS HEAD OF THE SPECIAL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND CAIN SUPERINTENDANT OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF MEXICO.
TERRIFIC DETAIL OF MEXICO AND THE WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES. VERY INTERESTING HISTORY. FROM THE PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS, AZTECS TO REVOLUTION OF MODERO AND CARRANZA TO CALLES.
FOR THE HISTORY LOVER.
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico.
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USA: SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY, 1936 TWO COPYRIGHT DATES LISTED- 1930 AND 1936. SOME WEAR, TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE, GREEN COVER, RED MATERIAL SPINE, ORANGE AND BLACK USED IN DESIGN, A FEW HARDLY SEEN PENCIL MARKS FRONT AND BACK, BEND IN FRONT COVER AND SMALL PIECE OF TAPE INSIDE EDGE OF CREASE. INSIDE IS SOME LIGHT BROWNING WITH AGE, PAGE 5 HAS 1/2" TEAR UPPER LEFT CORNER, VERY SMALL 1/4" BROWN STAIN LAST 3 PAGES AND BACK INSIDE. Dick and Jane were the main characters in popular basal readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp[1] and published by Scott Foresman, that were used to teach children to read from the 1930s through to the 1970s in the United States. They first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers used in the 1930s, which themselves were heavily revised and enlarged editions of the Elson Readers originally produced by William H. Elson in the 1920s. The books relied on the whole word or sight word reading method, (not to be confused with whole language) and repetition, using… Read More

NEW YORK: THE MODERN LIBRARY, 1928 MODERN LIBRARY, GOOD CONDITION, FLEXIBLE HARD COVER, DARK BROWN, GOLD LOGO FRONT, PRINT SPINE, TEAR INSIDE AGAINST SPINE- NICE AND TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. ONLY MARK IS BLUE RETAILED BY MACYS STAMP IN FRONT. Émile François Zola; 2 April 1840 ¿ 29 September 1902 was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, the object of which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire", the subtitle of the series. Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. GREAT BOOK. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: HAWTHORN BOOKS, INC., 1956 FIRST EDITION, THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER AND THE ARMY IN WHICH IT SERVES. 1775 TO 1956 WITH TERRIFIC DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT AND AN INDEX IN THE BACK. PROTECTIVE JACKET IN GOOD CONDITION WITH BLACK AND GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND BACK. BOOK HAS NICE GREEN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT ON SPINE.FORMER OWNERS NAME AND ADDRESS INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. GREAT HISTORY TOLD BY A MILITARY LEADER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

CHICAGO: THE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, 1938 BEAUTIFUL DETAILED INFORMATIONAL SET, BLACK TEXTURED BOX, MAROON LABEL, GOLD PRINT. 15 BOOKLETS INSIDE, COVERS MAROON, LABELS FRONT, NEAR FINE SHAPE. LESSONS COMPRISED OF VOCABULARY DEVELOPEMENT, GRAMMAR, PRONUNCIATION, ENUNCIATION, AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE ORAL EXPRESSION. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.