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Through role-play, children quickly gain confidence and learn to play and share. With the help of this book and a few simple household items, they can escape into another world.New. Clean. Tight. 24 pages.

Through role-play, children quickly gain confidence and learn to play and share. With the help of this book and a few simple household items, they can escape into another world.New. Clean. Tight. 24 pages.

New Jersey, USA: Two-Can Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. New. Dom Mansell. New, never used. 10 1/2" x 10 1/2". Has facts and information about cowboys and their life-style. Also includes several projects to make such as knapsack, sheriff badge, old west vest, horse to ride, lasso, cardboard cow, tent and food to prepare. Colorful hardbound book. Great fun fo rchildren both boys and girls. 24 pages.

Through role-play, children quickly gain confidence and learn to play and share. With the help of this book and a few simple household items, they can escape into another world.New. Clean. Tight. 24 pages.

An informational quilt block design and description book - along with a cookbook with easy menus and recipes. No color photos, only black and white graphics.Very Good- condition. Front cover has slight creasing at bottom corner. Entire book has slight bottom corner wear. Please see photos. 109 pages (including index).

Autobiography of the humorist Oscar Ameringer. Originally published in 1940 by Henry Holt and Company. This reprint, 2005. From Foreward by Carl Sandburg: "I have seen him in Milwaukee and Chicago, taking the platform in a crowded, smoke-filled hall, facing rows of somber and sober-faced workingmen, talking to them about their troubles, about woe and injustice and inequalities, drawing contrasts, soon bringing smiles to the faces and finally roars of laughter. ... Yet he is more often a man on fire over the injustice between man and man, over the chaos and darkness of so many human fates where he cannot be a silent witness,..."Fine condition except very minimal bottom corner wear and a few brown spots on bottom page edges. Otherwise clean and tight. No spine creases. Almost like new. Please see photos. 476 pages including Index.

"This book tells you what it was like to live at the time of the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. It tells about life in the North, or Union side of the war, and in the South, or Confederate side."Clean and tight. Front and back covers show wear, rubbing, corner wear, red circle sticker on front, and scratches on back. Page corners also show wear.

From back cover: "Contains more than 440 full-color and black and white original photographs, drawings, and lighographs, including rare images specially commissioned by the author. ... Divided into siz main categories: soldiers, uniforms, leaders, generals, battles, and weapons for easy reference." Book - Fine condition. Looks like new. No edge/corner wear. Clean and tight. Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Looks like new. No edge/corner wear. No rubbing. Please see photos. 300 pages. Oversize book - will require additional postage.

Atlas covering Eastern Theater, Western Theater, Coastal War, and Far West. Lots of photos and illustrations with accompanying text. Fine condition. Printed cover with colorful image and gilded page edges. Beautiful book. Inside is some age discoloration. No Dust Jacket. Please see photos. 320 pages including Index.This is a large, heavy book and will most likely require some additional postage.

From front cover: "Explore dozens of art styles, traditional and experimental techniques, and different mediums and materials - to help you enhance your skills and develop character and style in your artwork.
Book - Very Good condition. Blue paper over boards w silver gilt on spine. Very minimal edge wear (except a bump at top), but bent in corners. Previous owner's name in marker on inside cover. Otherwise, clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Light bumping on front cover, very minimal edge wear, light corner wear.
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152 pages including Index.

From the Foreword: "Favorite of the Peruvians, Wind Power of the Osages, Chinese 10,000 Perfections, Pure Symbol of the Right Doctrine, Battle Ax of Thor, Catch Me If You Can, Heart's Seal, Mound Builders - all names for one quilt pattern; scraps of folk poetry for the pieced-work folk art that, nurtured by necessity, flourished in pre-industrial America." "Quilt makers were prodigiously inventive - 710 quilt designs are compiled herein. They showed a remarkable sense of design and an intuitive grasp of geometrics." Black and white pattern images. Book: Very Good- condition. Clean and tight. Bottom of front cover has 4 small "dents" and back cover has a bit of rubbing on the bottom edge. ALSO, THERE IS A SLIGHT "STORED IN A BASEMENT SMELL" to this book, but no mold, mildew, or water damage. Cover - Very Good- condition. Clean, inside is lightly tanned. The same 4 dents show on the front cover. There are tiny chips at the top of the spine and there is about a 3/4" closed tear on the front cover near… Read More

From back cover: "More than 700 rare and moving photographs, war-correspondent sketches, and original maps showing battles, significant figures, unknown soldiers, historic artifacts, and more." "23 chapters that capture the drama and pathos of all the major battles...- as well as the war's major players...and key turning points.Book - Good condition. Maroon leather cover with impressed title. Some bumps, plus a few spots of paper stuck on the front that came from the dust jacket.The top of the closed book pages show light tan water stains. Some of those drips affected the first half of the book with small "wrinkles" mostly in the top margin. The binding is tight, the pages are free of marks, and the book does not have an odor. Please see photos.Dust Jacket - Good condition. As mentioned above, the dust jacket has a portion on the back of the front cover that peeled off and stuck to the book in a few places. It also has some water staining and slight wrinkle at the top. There is also a spot that looks… Read More

This book appears to be fiction with politics being at least one of the subjects. From the back pages: "John Henry's philosophy is of the most approved up-to-date brand. He is by all odds a young man of the period: he is a man about town. He is a slang artist; a painter of recherche phrases; a maker of tart Americanisms."Fair condition. Cover is tan cloth with black text and black & white image. Staining and discoloration. Some edge wear. Corner wear. Front few pages appear to have some water damage/staining, name is written in blue crayon? on front end paper, loose from binding at first title page, there is at least one loose page, but all pages appear to be present, pages have some staining, page edges are rough and chipping. Please see photos.107 pages of story, then additional info about other books at back.

From back cover: "Warrensburg, Missouri, was destined to be more than a one-horse town. When Martin Warren set up his blacksmith shop in 1833, the farmers who gathered there to have their horses shod became the community's first citizens...During the Civil War, Warrensburg hosted both Union and Confederate troops...When the railroad reached Warrensburg...the frontier town began to thrive."

There are" more than 200 vintage images, detailing the faces, places, and events that have colored the town."
Healing waters of Pertle Springs and a slain hunting dog, Old Drum, made Warrensburg famous.

New book in New condition. Clean. Tight.
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128 pages.

From the back cover: "[This book] begins after the hard times in the 1930s and focuses on the 1940s through the 1980s, when many schools, churches, and industries expanded or moved to new quarters. Stores and businesses around the courthouse square modernized and competed with new commercial centers developed in other sections of the expanding town."

New book in New condition. Clean and tight.
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127 pages including Bibliography.

From inside flap: "In this first comprehensive history of Cockrell's Missouri Brigade written in more than a century, Phil Gottschalk vividly documents its combat record second to none amoung any brigade North or South. At least 40,000 Missourians fought in the armies of the Confederate States of America and nearly tow of every three of the 6,000 who fought east of the Mississippi River died in battle or from wounds or disease. Their 40 months of hard service included 13 major battles and 6 sieges in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama." Book - Fine condition. Clean. Tight.Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Slight edge wear with a little chipping at corners, also slight rubbing. Please see photos. 562 pages.Note: this is a heavy book and may require additional postage.

From the back cover: "Historian and nationally recognized educator, Philip Bigler has created a classic as he presents the past, present, and future of Arlington National Cemetery to the reader. This definitive history of Arlington National Cemetery is told with the dignity, respect, and pageantry that is due one of America's most honored and deeply rrevered sites."
This edition has expanded coverage of ceremonial units, including the caisson platoon; the dedication of the Women in Military Service Memorial; the identification of the Vietnam Unknown; the impact of September 11; the war on terrorism; the war in Afghanistan; the war in Iraq; the Columbia; and other developments since the last edition.
Good+ condiiton. Covers have some bumps and the back cover has two sticky spots probably from price labels. Very little edge/corner wear. Text is clean and binding is tight.
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151 pages including Index.

From back cover: "...Simons has accumulated a vast amount of information from widely disparate sources that gives his readers a real understanding of the harshness of the war in the lower Mississippi Delta. From Union raiders to Confederate guerrillas to the civilians in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana who suffered from the depredations of both sides, these voices from the past make real a dark time not just for Chicot County, but for the entire state of Arkansas." Very Good condition. Light rubbing/bumping. Light edge/corner wear with crease on front top corner and lime green price sticker remains. Otherwise clean and tight. Please see photos. 224 pages including maps, illustrations, and Index.

Benjamin Franklin describes his arrival in Philadelphia in 1723. This is a story of his life and inventions. Clean. Tight. Never read.

In 1608, Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith. She made enormous contributions to the survival of Jamestown. This is her story. Clean. Tight. Never read.