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CINCINNATI, OHIO: THE STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1929 NICE LOOKING DARK BLACK TEXTURED COVER, FORMER OWNER NAME AND ADDRESS INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. PICTURES SHOW SONGS.
SUITABLE FOR SPECIAL MUSIC IN EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, CHURCH SERVICE, BIBLE SCHOOL, CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR, ETC.
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NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1905 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, WHITE PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, LIGHT WEAR AND FADING SPINE. NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT, CLEAN AND TIGHT, TERRIFIC, ENTERTAINING BOOK. RICE WAS A WONDERFUL STORY TELLER. Samuel Sidney McClure (February 17, 1857 March 21, 1949) was an Irish-American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism. He co-founded and ran McClure's Magazine from 1893 to 1911, which ran numerous exposées of wrongdoing in business and politics, Sandy is the third book written by Alice Hegan Rice, and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1905. It was originally published in serial form in The Century Magazine from December 1904 through May 1905, and first appeared in novel form in April 1905. The novel is based on the boyhood stories of S. S. McClure, publisher of McClure's magazine, and his upbringing in Ireland and early struggles in the United States. Alice Hegan Rice, also known as… Read More

NEW YORK: PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1930 RARE BOOK, ONLY 1200 COPIES OF THIS PARTICULAR BOOK INITIALLY PRINTED. BLACK PROTECTIVE COVER WITH PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, BOOK ITSELF OS BLACK WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE AND FRONT. BOOK IS GOOD CONDITION WITH SLIGHT WEAR, INSIDE IS CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY GOOD CONDITION. TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH BY OSCAR WILDE. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 ¿ 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. The Satyricon, or Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as prosimetrum); serious and comic elements; and erotic and decadent passages. As with the Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass) of… Read More

BOSTON: D.C. HEATH & CO., 1909 VERY NICE DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, TIGHT AND GOOD CONDITION INSIDE, SOME SMALL NOTES IN PENCIL, NOTES IN THE BACK IN ENGLISH AND VOCABULARY. INTRODUCTION IN ENGLISH AND PLAY IN GERMAN SCRIPT. SPECIAL EDITION WITH VOCABULARY. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GERMAN LANGUAGE. The Maid of Orleans (German: Die Jungfrau von Orleans) is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller, premiered on 11 September 1801 in Leipzig. During his lifetime, it was one of Schiller's most frequently-performed pieces. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German; 10 November 1759 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (17881805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: SCOTT STAMP & COIN CO., LTD., 1925 DARK BLUE COVER WITH ORANGE PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, VERY SMALL TEAR- 1/4' BOTTOM SPINE COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME AND ADDRESS FRONT IN PENCIL, OWNER ALSO CORRECTED SCOTT STAMP LOCATION IN PENCIL INSIDE. 2 1/4" THICK. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE COLLECTOR. GIVING DATE OF ISSUE, SHAPE AND VALUE OF EVERY STAMP, THAT HAD EVER BEEN ISSUED BY ANY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD. ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEARLY EVERY TYPE STAMP, AND GIVING THE PRICEAT WHICH MOST OF THEM MAY BE PURCHASED, USED OR UNUSED. NICE INDEX AND ADVERTISEMENTS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: SCOTT PUBLICATIONS, INC., 1938 VERY NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGOUT. GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION AND STAMP PICTURES THROUGHOUT. INFORMATION IS SEPARATED BY COUNTRY. The history of postal service of the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters, whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later also encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

HARRISBURG, PA: THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 1879 DARK BROWN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT ON SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE, INCLUDES A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE CORRELATION OF THE COAL MEASURES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO. WITH A FOLD OUT COLORED GEOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY AND 134 VERTICAL SECTIONS. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model. Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outcrops and landforms, to intrusive methods, such as hand augering and machine-driven boreholes, to the use of geophysical techniques and remote sensing methods, such as aerial photography and satellite imagery. Such surveys may be undertaken by state, province, or national geological survey organizations to maintain the geological inventory and advance the knowledge of geosciences for the benefit of the nation.… Read More

HARRISBURG, PA: THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 1880 DARK BROWN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT ON SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE, 33 PAGE PLATES AND 2 MAPS, AND ACCOMPANIED BY AN ATLAS CONTAINING 8 SHEETS OF MAPS AND SECTIONS. NICE INDEX. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model. Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outcrops and landforms, to intrusive methods, such as hand augering and machine-driven boreholes, to the use of geophysical techniques and remote sensing methods, such as aerial photography and satellite imagery. Such surveys may be undertaken by state, province, or national geological survey organizations to maintain the geological inventory and advance the knowledge of geosciences for the benefit of the nation. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: MCBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY, 1915 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, SILVER AND GOLD DESIGN FRONT, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME AND NOTE INSIDE FRONT, SMALL LABEL FROM A BOOKSELLER IN BOSTON INSIDE FRONT, FRONTISPIECE OF WILLIAM I. 15 NICE ILLUSTRATIONS. A FOLDOUT MAP IN BACK PUT OUT BY BELGIAN GOVERNMENT BEFORE HOSTILITIES. LIGHT FOXING FRONT, BACK AND RIGHT EDGE OF BOOK. GREAT DETAIL INFORMATION. PUBLISHED JUNE 1915. The House of Hohenzollern is a German dynasty of former princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family arose in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th century and took their name from Hohenzollern Castle. The first ancestors of the Hohenzollerns were mentioned in 1061. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: G. W. CARLETON & CO., 1868 DARK GREEN COVER WITH DESIGN FRONT AND GOLD PRINT SPINE. VERY LIGHT FOXING. MAY HAVE BEEN REBOUND, NOT SURE BECUASE OF EXCELLENT WORK. VERY NICE ARTWORK. 38 CHAPTERS. TIGHT AND CLEAN. PREFACE DONE BY POMEROY 1867.
A FEW OF THE ARTICLES ARE A FEW REMARKS ABOUT THE ROAD LIFE, WE REASON TOGETHER ON SUCCESS, SATURDAY NIGHT, A SHORT TALK ABOUT HOW TO GET ALONG, FIRESIDE MUSINGS, WE FIND WHERE TO LOOK FOR HAPPINESS, HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MANY OTHER INTERESTING TOPICS.
Pomeroy was born in Elmira, New York in 1833. As a young man, he worked as a printer's devil.
Pomeroy established the first newspaper in Corning, New York in 1854 and then moved to Wisconsin in 1857. There he was a La Crosse, Wisconsin newspaperman, editor of the La Crosse Democrat from 1860 to 1869, then editor of Pomeroy's Democrat from 1869 to 1887 (1869 to 1879 in New York City, then in La Crosse, with branch offices in Chicago and probably elsewhere).
It was during this time that he acquired the… Read More

NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1927 BLUE GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER BOOK OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH NORMAL LIBRARY MARKINGS, MAYER WAS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY IN TUFT'S COLLEGE. LARGE NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND PICTURES. 14 CHAPTERS: BOOK OF NATURE VERSUS BOOK OF MAN, GREKK LEARNING, DARK AGE OF SCIENCE, ASTRONOMY & AUTHORITY, RENAISSANCE, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, ADVANCES, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHEMICAL, ATOMIC, COSMIC, GEOLOGY, BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL AND AN INDEX. VERY INTERESTING BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF SCIENCE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

MOSCOW: FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1950 NICE LOOKING BLUE COVER WITH BLACK TREE AND SILVER MOON ON FRONT, SILVER PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. ONLY MARKING INSIDE IS FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT COVER MARKED OUT WITH PEN. VERY LIGHT BROWNING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. PRINTED IN THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS IN BACK. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY, TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN BY OLGA SHARTSE. NO DATE, CIRCA 1950s to 1960s. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 ¿ 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, 1928 Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 ¿ 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. He worked as a poet, songwriter, and comedy sketch writer in Music Hall before creating the Sax Rohmer persona and pursuing a career writing weird fiction. NICE LOOKING RED BOOK, BLACK DESIGN FRONT OF WOMAN AND SWORD ON SPINE. PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT, GOOD SHAPE, NO MARKINGS ACCEPT FORMER OWNER SIGNED INSIDE.

PHILADELPHIA, PA: GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO., 1892 BEAUTIFUL BOOK COVER, DARKER BROWN WITH BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE, FRONT SEAM. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, WONDERFUL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. COLLECTED FROM EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, AND PACIFIC ISLANDS. ALSO PICTURES FROM LEADING GALLERIES AROUND THE WORLD. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE PHOTO AND ART LOVER. PHOTOGRAPHS THAT ARE A PART OF HISTORY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

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: REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, 1931 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT. LIBRARY CARD BACK, DATE INSIDE FRONT, MARBLING PAGE EDGES. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 13 SECTIONS, VERY NICE ARTWORK. GREAT EDUCATIONAL DETAIL. FOR THE PERSON INTERESTED IN EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING CHRIST'S COMING. Francis David Nichol (February 14, 1897 – June 6, 1966[1]) was a Seventh-day Adventist editor, of the church's main newsmagazine, and supervising editor of the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, author, and also chairman of the Ellen G. White Estate board of trustees, and considered the leading twentieth-century apologist for the prophetic ministry of Ellen G. White. In 1965, Walter Martin described him as "the most able Adventist apologist. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

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.

USA: THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, 1933 VERY NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVER, SILVER DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER LIBRARY WITH CARD HOLDER IN BACK. NICE ARTWORK INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. FORMER OWNER NAME IN FRONT. FRONTISPIECE ARTWORK OF THE DOG SILVER CHIEF. ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. 12 CHAPTERS: INCLUDING BIRTH OF THE CHIEF, LAW OF THE WILD, THE MAN HUNT, THE CAPTURE, FOR THE LOVE OF A MAN, THE SHOT IN THE DARK, PRISONERS, THE BITTER TRAIL, AS HOPE FADES, THE END OF THE BITTER TRAIL, THROUGH DARK HOURS, HEADIN HOME. ENTERTAINING BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF DOGS ND WILDERNESS. ANTIQUE BOOKD DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, 1929 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN THREE BOOK SERIES. FORMER LIBRARY BOOKS MOUNT UNION COLLEGE LIBRARY, GIFT CARNEGIE CORPORATION, SMALL BOOKSELLER LABEL INSIDE FRONT FROM CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND. 1914- 359 PAGES, 1929- 368, 1927- 386 PAGES. John Addington Symonds (/¿s¿m¿ndz/; 5 October 1840 ¿ 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love (homosexuality), which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, referring to it as l'amour de l'impossible (love of the impossible). He also wrote much poetry inspired by his homosexual affairs. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: CHAUTAUQUA PRESS, 1886 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH SOME WEAR, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT WITH BLACK IN DESIGN, SPINE SHOWING SAME. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT SHOWING DATE OF SEP. 22, 1886. 62 CHAPTERS, 16 ILLUSTRATIONS, 15 MAPS SHOWING DIFFERENT BRITAIN TIME PERIODS. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. A GREAT AMOUNT OF DETAIL AND VERY INTERESTING INSITE. A FEW CHAPTERS ARE THE ROMAN OCCUPATION, THE RED KING, WALLACE, THE SCOTCH PATRIOT, THE ENGLISH TERROR, EXECUTION OF CHARLES THE FIRST, KILLIECRANKIE, IMPEACHMONT OF HASTINGS, BATTLE OF WATERLOO, THE STORY OF CAWNPORE AND MANY OTHERS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.