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Gas Engines Magazines
PAPER BOOKLET
There are seven (7) Gas Engines magazines. 1) Jan-Feb 1967 Volule 2 #1. 35 pages, black and white ilustrations. Aultman & Taylor #106 Complete Restoration (with story and pictures; 2) March 1987 Volume 22 #3, 65 pages. Black and white illustrations. Color front cover of4 HP Holand Vertical engine, back cover 1930 HI Clearance Caterpillar 10 and MightyMite tractor; 3) June 1986 Volume 21 #6, 88 pages, black and white illustrations, front cover color pictue Square Piston Engine 1944 WD97 tractor, CG General tractor, 1913 5-12 Little Bell Tractor; 4) March 1986 Volume 21 #3, 56 pages. Front cover color of 1948 Schramm Fordair 60 Crawler, Gas Engine Display in Mechanicsburg, PA and Olin 4 HP Serial #89; 5) June 1985 Volume 2 #4, 80 pages. Front cover color Dayton engine with restoration story and pictures, back cover a homemade tractor and 2 Case tractors; 6) Nov. Dec 1979 Volume 14 #6, 4 pages, Front cover color Weber engine;7) Fan Feb 1980 Volume 15 #1, 51 pages. Front cover color 3 HP York engine. All of these softcover magazines have wonderful stories of restoration of engines,other articles about sparkplugs, gas engine shows and auctions, Ladie's Page, Vermont Made engines, etc. All seven for $50.00 or your choice $8.50 each.
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50.00 USD
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Abbott, J.S.C. Christopher Carson Known as Kit Carson.
Published by Dodd Mead, Hard Cover
CR 1873, this is 1898, 348 pages. Frontis is only illustration, slight foxing, owner's stamp on endpapers, covers have white spots on spine and cover edges, content good+. Western Americana, Kit Carson, indians, native americans, fur traders.
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34.00 USD
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Abbott, Jacob. Rollo's Tour in Europe - Rollo In London.
Published by W. J. Reynolds, Boston, 1855, Hard Cover
entered 1854, 222 pages. Cloth embossed front and back covers, brown, edgewear, slight fade. Gilt lettering, all good+. This is the 4th in a series of tour books. 15 engravings. History, Europe, Trave l in Europe, London, Britain.
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40.00 USD
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Abbott, Lyman & Rev. Halliday. Henry Ward Beecher.
Hartford, CT Published by American Publ., Hartford. Entered 1882 Hard Cover
Entered 1882 & 1887, this 1887 with 670 pages. Brown covers, corners slight bump, slight wear o/w good+. A Sketch of his career with analyses of his power as a preacher, lecturer, orator and journalist. Biography, New England, Religion, journalists, orators.
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Ables, Tom. The Story of Buck Knives.
El Cajon, CA Buck Knives, Inc. First Edition Hard Cover
Large book. CR 1991, 120 pages with index. Beautiful color photos of knives, black and white of Buck family and knives. Dust jacket mint, covers brown semi-leather spine, brown cloth with gilt lettering. For those of you who are true knife buffs - this story of the perfection of the most famous knife - Buck's Model 110 Folding Hunter is unfolded in detail. how it came about and how it revolutionized the knife industry.
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65.00 USD
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Abraham, Herbert. Asphalts and Allied Substances.
New York D. Van Nostrand Second Edition Hard Cover
Their Occurance, Mode of Protection, Uses inthe Arts and Methods of Testing. Corrected second edition, 208 illustrations, black and white. Title date 1920, CR 1918, 1920. Old tape marks back two pages, spine loose. Pages 561-563 taped. 608 pages with index and 2 pages of ads. One table, one fold-out. Page edges rough, has been used a lot but it is all complete. Front and back spine has small separation, corners show wear.
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40.00 USD
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Adams, Kramer A. Covered Bridges of the West.
Berkeley, CA Howell-North First Edition Hard Cover
A history and illustrated guide, states of Washington, Oregon & California.Dust jacket and book very good condition, 146 pages, black and white photographs. Illustrated covers. You may still find 120 covered bridges, including a few built in the 1960's. You will find enough basic information to build your own covered bridge.
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34.00 USD
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Adams, Kramer A. Covered Bridges of the West.
Berkeley, CA Howell North First Edition Hard Cover
A History and Illustrated Guide to Washington, Oregon and California. Dust jacket slight tears, illustrated covers of plans for bridge. CR 1963. Beautiful pictures of covered bridges on the West coast of the U. S.
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28.00 USD
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Adams, Ramon Six-Guns and Saddle Leather.
Hard Cover
A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen. Published by the University of Oklahoma, Norman. CR 1969 with 808 pages and index. This is the new edition, revised and greatly enl arged. Dust jacket shows slight wear. Covers and content very good. An excellent resource for collectors and lovers of the old west.
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105.00 USD
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Adkin, Mark. The Charge.
London, England Leo Cooper First Edition Hard Cover
The Real Reason Why The Light Brigade Was Lost. Dust jacket and book very good condition. CR 1996, 285 pages with index, notes, and sources with four appendices, black and white photos, 15 maps, and seven sketches with symbols and abbreviations used on maps. One of Britain's best known glorious disasters. The Charge of the Light Brigade, is taken apart by a former professional soldier. With his military expertise and detailed research of participant's accounts and a careful study of the actual ground, the result shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why it happened, and who was to blame.
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25.00 USD
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Ageton, Arthur. Dead Reconing.
Washington, D. C. USGPO Third Edition Hard Cover
Altitude and Azimath Table. 1940, 53 pages. Previous owner's name in ink at bottom front pastedowns. All charts, graphs, etc., have pages with tabs. Black covers with gilt lettering, slight soil, but overall very good condition.
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14.00 USD
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Ainsworth, Ed The Cowboy In Art.
New York Bonanza Books First Edition Hard Cover
CR MCMLXVIII (1968), 242 pages with index, black and white and color illustrations of paintings by Remington, Charles Russell, Fred Harmon, Jr., James Boren, W.R.Leigh, Charlie Dye, etc. Foreward by John Wayne, with frontis of Wayne on horseback. The cowboy and his horse have inspired thousands of remarkaale works of art. Dust jacket slight tears, covers and content good+.
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48.00 USD
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Alaska. Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers.
Hard Cover
Published by World Bible House, Pennsylvania, CR 1897. 555 pages with 3 pages of ads. White covers with some of the illustration left on front and back covers. Lettering on front and back covers can s till be seen. The words Alaska and Klondike are in gold (faded). Slight paper split front inside cover hinge. Otherwise the condition is good, tight and complete. Every known practical and contemplate d route to all gold fields in the North, are fully, comprehensively and minutely described with maps and tables of distances, all of which are absolutely reliable. The only newspaper to send a staff c orrespondent to the gold fields and his letters describing the great Klondike "strike" was the first announcement in this country of the discovery. Black and white illustrations. Invaluable informatio n for historians and researchers. Western Americana, Americana, Alaska, Gold Mines, Gold, Klondike.
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50.00 USD
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Alexander, John. Ghosts - Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories.
Washington, D. C. Washingtonian Books Hard Cover
Dust jacket has tears, all else good+ condition. CR 1975, 152 pages with index. Back blank page torn out. Sepia and black and white photos. A collection of 64 reported incidents and legends about spirits of the great and near great of Washington that still come calling on the city. Stories with George Washington still riding across his estate on horseback... Dolly Madison's nocturnal parties at the Octagon, John Quincy Adams pacing in the Old House of Representatives, and Abraham Lincoln counseling Presidents inside the Executive mansion.
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30.00 USD
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Allen, Alexander. Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks.
Published by Dutton, NY in 1900, Hard Cover
believe this is a first edition in 2 volumes. Volume 1 - 650 pages, Volume 2 - 956 pages with index. Maroon w/gold covers. Backstrap on volume 2 has a slight wrinkle in cloth at bottom. Top edges gold (TEG). All good+. He was a Professor in Episcopal Theological school in Cambridge, MA. Religion, Theology, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA., New England.
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40.00 USD
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Allen, C. Frank. Engineering Law for Engineers.
New York McGraw Hill Book Company Third Edition Hard Cover
Part 1 - Elements of Law for Engineering, Part II Contract Letting. CR 1917, 1929, this 1933. Approximately 560 pages, tan covers, slight soil, overall good+ condition. To give the engineer a sufficient understanding of important fundamental features of law.
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60.00 USD
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Allen, Paul M. Out of Season.
New York Vantage Press. Stated first Edition Hard Cover
Dust jacket is price clipped, otherwise all good+ condition. CR 1968, signed by Allen on title page over his printed name. 195 pages. A South Carolina man was going to write about the Negroes who worked for his family for the past 75 years, found that his memories widened and he wrote about his family life in the country and in the city from post-Civil War readjustment days to now. His father was a doctor in an area that encompassed Spartanburg, Enoree, and Cavins, South Carolina.
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35.00 USD
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Allen, Richard Sanders. Covered Bridges of the Northeast.
Brattleboro, Vermont Published by Stephen Greene, Brattleboro, CR 1957, Hard Cover
CR 1957, 1st edition, 121 pages w/index. Dust jacket tears o/w all else good+. Complete story of covered bridges in words and pictures. Connecticut, New England, covered bridges, wooden bridges.
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30.00 USD
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Allen, Richard Sanders. Covered Bridges of the South.
New York Bonanza Books Hard Cover
CR MCMLXX (1970), dust jacket (price clipped) and book very good condition. 54 pages with index and glossary. Previous owner's name stamp front pastedowns, black and white photos with a roster of all existing structures in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky; and of bridges that are no longer there in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. Tells of John Montgomery's single span, 436 foot wooden suspension bridge, the longest ever built in the world. Horace King, the freed slave who built many bridges in Alabama and Georgia, and much more.
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38.00 USD
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Allis, Marguerite. Historic Connecticut.
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, CR 1934, Hard Cover
343 pages w/index. Originally published under the title "Connecticut Trilogy". Dust jacket has many tears, large piece missing on bottom, a small piece on top, covers blue with gold lettering and illu strated spine is fading. Overall good. Illus. with photos by Samuel Chamberlain, pen and ink sketches by author. Illus. endpapers. A friendly, informal but authoratative story of the oldest Connecticu t towns, legends and lores, relics and abiding charm. New England, Connecticut, history.
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34.00 USD
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Allsberg, Chris Van. The Wreck of the Zephyr.
Boston Houghton Mifflin Seventh Printing Harad Co Author Illustrated.
Written and illustrated by author. CR 1983, 28 unpaginated pages, oblong maroon covers with gilt picture of sailboat on front cover. A story of a boy and his sailboat, the Zephyr, and the storm that carried them to a place where boats soar like gulls, high above the water. Full color pastel paintings that make you feel like you are sailing with the boy. Ink inscription front endpapers "Christmas 1988, Jon and Mom May the winds of life always carry you in the right direction. love Merrily".
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18.00 USD
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Alter, Robert Edmond. High Spy.
New York Published by Putnams, Hard Cover
Daged 1967 with 222 pages. Dust jacket, covers and content all good. This is an ex-library with stamps, packets, everything. Illustrated by Albert Orbaan. A novel about the Civil War. Civil War, Fiction, historical fi ction.
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12.00 USD
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Amann, William Frayne (edited and intro by). Personnel of the Civil War.
Published by Thomas Yoseloff, CR 1961, Hard Cover
CR 1961, this is the 2nd printing March 1964, 366 pages. This is Volume 1 only. The Confederate Armies. Blue covers, slight fade, overall good+. Contains local destinations of Confederate Org., Memorandum of Armies, Corps , and Geographical Commands in Confederate States 1861-1865. X-library with card and stamps and number on spine. Civil War, history, americana, Confederates, Confederate statistics.
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52.00 USD
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American Heritage. Historic Houses of America Open to the Public.
New York American Heritage Publishing 07-001135-4 Flexible Hard Covers
CR 1971, 320 pages with picture credits. Illustrated blue covers, flexible faux leather covers, with gold lettering, all very good condition, with a blue ribbon marker. All states are covered in this wonderful guide, easy to carry around on your trip to these homes.
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24.00 USD
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American Institute of Steel Construction. Steel Construction.
American Institute of Steel Construction Third Edition Flexible Hard Covers
A Manual for Architects, Engineers and Fabricators of Buildings and Other Steel Structures. CR 1937, this in 1939, 398 pages with index. Flexible covers slight bend to front cover, much wear to spine, contents are tight and good.
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48.00 USD
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Anderson, J. Jay North Wilkesboro The First Hundred Years 1890-1990
North Wilkesboro, NC North Wilkesboro Centennial Committee First Edition Harad Co
CR 1990 Delmar Company, Charlotte, NC, 279 pages with index. Maps on pastedowns, black and white photos. Contains biographies, mayors and commissioners of town, newspapers, cemetaries,, and bibliographies. A wonderful century of history. Blue cloth with gold medallion on front cover. All very good condition.
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85.00 USD
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Andrews, Lynn V. Windhorse Woman.
Warner Books First Printing Hard Cover
A Marriage of Spirits. CR 1989, Sept. 1989, first printing. Dust jacket and book good+ Special price sticker on front of dust jacket. A true story of a woman who became an apprentice to Agnes Whistling Elk - a shaman woman from Manitoba Canada. She wanted to share the mysteries and revelations, discoveries and warnings she learned. An autobiography of an apprentice shaman and the start of another quest for the truth only reached through struggles on the human path.
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15.00 USD
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Andrews, Mrs. Lewis R. & Mrs. J. Reaney Kelly Hammond-Harwood House Cookbook - Maryland's Way.
Annapolis, MD Sixth Printing Hard Cover
CR 1963, this is 6th printing, CR 1966, 372 pages with index and 3 order forms to order this book. Dust jacket has many, many tears, covers and inside good+ condition. A Collection of Traditional Receipts Selected From Three Centuries of Maryland Cooking. 145 illustrations of the Maryland scenes which inspired the receipe. Photos by A. Aubrey Bodine. Sketches by Marina Hiatt, John Mall, Don Swann. Wood Engravings by Clare Leighton.
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22.00 USD
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Andrews, Ralph W. Curtis' Western Indians.
Published by Bonanza, Hard Cover
CR 1962 by Andrews, 176 pages w/index. Dust jacket and book very good. Ink inscription front endpapers. B&W photos and illustrated endpapers. This is a 30 year story of indians gaining nothing from white men, but disease, vice, becoming a vanishing race. He tried to correct that by living with them and trying to record their lives. Western Americana, native americans, indians.
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35.00 USD
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Andrews, Wayne. The Battle For Chicago.
Published by Harcourt Brace Hard Cover
Cr 1946, 1st printing, 358 pages w/index. Dust jacket is torn, covers and content good. Black and white photos. This is the story of Chicago's money peerage - The Fields, Armours, Pullmans, Insulls, McCormicks and others who have dominated and enlivened its 100 year history. Chicago, Illinois, wealth, Mid-West, money, Americana.
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12.00 USD
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Angler's and Shooter's Bookshelf Out-of-print and Rare Hunting and Fishing Books.
Goshen, CT Soft Cover
There are eleven (11) catalogues in this group on hunting, fishing, the art of sports, and reference books on firearms. Soft cover, printed by the Angler's & Shooter's Bookshelf, Goshen, CT. List #77 A-K only; List #80 A-K and L-Z; List #81 A-K & L-Z; List #82 A-K & L-Z; list #83 A-K & L-Z. No dates, circa 1970's. Some writing and circles around items listed. Overall good+ condition,. Price is for all eleven copies.
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55.00 USD
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Anthony, Irvin. Paddle Wheels and Pistols.
Philadelphia, PA Published by Macrae Smith, Philadelphia, CR 1929, Hard Cover
CR 1929, stated 1st edition, 329 pages. Illustrated front cover and endpapers. Color frontis, slight stain to covers, all good. Illustrated and decorated by Manning DeV.Lee and Lyle Justis. Mississippi Valley, history with paddle wheelers, etc. Native americans, indians, paddle wheelers, LaSalle, DeVaca, Mississippi Valley, Louisiana.
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28.00 USD
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Aronson, Joseph. Book of Furniture & Decoration.
New York Published by Crown Publ., NY in 1936, HARD COVER
CR 1936 to 1941, this 17th revised edition. 358 pages with index. B&W photos, red covers, one loose page otherwise good+. Covers period and modern furniture. Furniture, Antiques, antique furniture.
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10.00 USD
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Asbury, Herbert. Gem of the Prairie.
New York Published by Garden City, CR 1904 Hard Cover
CR 1940, this in 1942, 377 pages with bibliography and xix index. Illustrated red covers, slight wear, o/w good+. An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. Chicago, Illinois, Mafia, Cossa Nostra, gangsters.
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14.00 USD
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Aschan, Ulf. The Man Whom Women Loved.
New York St. Martins Press Stated first american Edition Hard Cover
The Life of Bror Blixen. CR 1987, 237 pages with index. Dust jacket and book very good condition. Black and white photos, dust jacket is price clipped. Blixen was the ex-husband of Isak Dinesen. A romantic figure of mythic passions for women and for adventure as the Great White Hunter in East Africa. Blixen insisted he never went after women - they simply couldn't resist him. The author is Bror's godson and the photos are from family acrhives.
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48.00 USD
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Asimov, Isaac. The Intelligent Mans Guide to Science.
New York Basic Books Stated first Edition Hard Cover Slipcased
CR 1960, stated first edition. Two volumes, slipcased. all very good condition. Volume 1: The Physical Sciences has 382 pages. Volume 2: The Biological Sciences to page 853 with index, list of illustrations, bibliography and an appendix, "Mathematics In Science". Black and white illustrations, photos and charts. Blue covers. Introduction by George W. Beadle. Professor Asimov is a master teacher. He knows and understands science in both its history and its substance. He explains what science is all about, how it came to be, and some of the people involved in its development. Books have a very slight musty odor - don't believe anyone ever read the books.
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70.00 USD
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Atwater, Mary Meigs. The Shuttlecraft Book of American Hand-Weaving.
New York MacMillan, Fourth Edition Hard Cover
Dust jacket has slight tears, small tear on spine of dust jacket, overall very good condition. Illustrated endpapers, owner's name also. CR 1928, title date 1935, this fourth Nov. 1955. An account of the rise, development, eclipse and modern revival of a national popular art. Information of interest and value to collectors, technical notes for the use of weavers, and a large collection of historic patterns. 281 pages with index, slight foxing, profusely illustrated.
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85.00 USD
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Auchter, E.C. and Knapp, H.B. Orchard and Small Fruit Culture.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1929, Hard Cover
CR 1929, 584 pages w/index. Light green covers, corners show slight bump, overall good+. Mainly printed to assist Deciduous fruit growing in a College of Agriculture. Shows machinery, equipment needed to run an orchard. Technical, fruit growing, natural history.
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35.00 USD
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Audell, Theo. Audel's Mason's and Builder's Guide #3
New York Theo Audell Hard Cover
Practical illustrated trade assessment for Modern Construction for Bricklayers, Stone Masons, Cement Workers, Plasters and Tile Setters. CR 1924 to 1951, 772 pages with 5 ads. Mint black covers. Previous owner's signature. Concrete Making, Blocks, Placing Forms, Stucco are covered in this guide.
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38.00 USD
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Audubon, J.J. Audubon Game Animals.
Hard Cover
A Select Treasury for Sportsmen. Published by Hammond, Inc., NJ in 1968. 172 pages with index. Contains 82 full color prints of Quadrupeds of North America. Illustrated front cover, all very good. Aud ubon, Natural History, game animals, hunting.
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20.00 USD
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Author Unknown. Some Talk About Animals & Their Masters.
Hard Cover
This is by the author of "Friends in Council". Published by Strahan, London in 1873. 226 pages with index and 32 pages of other books by Strahan. Some uncut pages. Foxing, Inside hinges starting to sp lit, but attached, brown with gold covers, all good. Concerning treatment of animals. Animals, domesticated animals, animal husbandry, Natural History.
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30.00 USD
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Bachrach, Max. Fur. A Practical Treatise.
New York Prentice Hall Fourth Printing Hard Cover
CR 1930, 1946,, February 1946, 672 pages with index. A book for the School of Retailing at New York University. Geography of the Fur World, Climates and effect on fur, habits and life of mammals in the fur trade, skin and hair structure, classification of mammals. All mammals are listed individually. Fur farming, pelts, dressing, bying and bleaching, etc. Black and white photos, diagrams, etc. All good + condition.
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35.00 USD
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Bakeless, John. Lewis and Clark Partners in Discovery.
New York William Morrow Hard Cover
Title page 1947, CR 1947. X-Library with stamps, numbers and pocket in back. Has been rebound with library binding, 498 pages with index. Black and white maps by George A. Berk. Two Portraits, black and white sketches by George Catlin. Charles Bodmer pintings that have been reproduced. This is a biography of Lewis & Clark - not a study in local history, and he has not fictionalized or invented conversation. All has been gleaned from correspondence, diaries, etc. A very easy read full of material unknown before.
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28.00 USD
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Baker, Clyde. Modern Gunsmithing.
Hard Cover
Published by Small-Arms Technical Publ., Samworth Books, 1933, CR 1933, 2nd edition, 525 pages w/3 pages of ads. Dust jacket has many tears, pieces missing, etc., some taping, price clipped with tape marks on end pastedowns, green with gilt lettering on front cover,a circle with embossed hands working on a gun, name stamp on endpapers, all good+. Chapters include setting up a workshop, woods for g unstocks, checking, carving, chambering, blueing, browning, etc. The most complete book on gunsmithing. This 2nd edition also contains the original blueing method and the best one to use. Firearms, gu nsmithing, guns, technical.
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44.00 USD
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Baker, Nina Brown. Cyclone In Calico.
Boston Little Brown, Hard Cover
The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke. CR 1952. Frontis is a woodcut of Mary Ann by Bernard Brussel-Smith. 278 pages with index and notes and bibliography. Born Mary Ann Ball in 1817, she married a widower with young children and moved to Galesberg, Illinois. Reverend Edward Beecher and his congregation sent her to Cairo with donations for the war effort (Civil War). She worked at Fort Defiance Hospital in Caior. Then she joined Grant's Army and continued her nursing work. A hospital ship during WWII was names after her. All good+ condition.
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24.00 USD
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Baker, Sir S. W. Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia.
Hartford, CT Published by O.D. Case, Hartford, 1868, Hard Cover
Dated 1868, 1st edition, 608 pages with index. Maroon covers with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 21 black & white plates from original sketches by Sir S. W. Baker, with a full page colored map. Baker, Burton and Speke had by this time finally proved that the source of the White Nile lay in the Lakes Albert and N'yanza. Baker traces his discovery of the sources of the lower nile in the Atbara River and the Blue Nile in Abyssina. Also has highly exiting adventures of the author among animals of Africa and along the Nile, accompanied by expert native sword hunters. Slight foxing, slight wear to co vers, overall very good. Africa, explorers, exploration, safari, White Nile, Blue Nile, European/Asian/African history, natural history.
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165.00 USD
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Ball, Kenneth. Workshop Manual for MGB 1969-71. Autobook for MGB GT 1969-71
Brighton, England Autopress Ltd. Second Edition, Revised. Plastic Covers
Fully revised March 1971, CR 1971, 174 pages with index and list of Autobook series of workshop manuals. Wonderful black and white sketches, diagrams, wiring diagrams, etc. Gray plastic covers over boards, illustrated front cover with MGB's and a muffler system and wrench in white. Slight soil to covers, overall very good.
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Balleine, G. R. The Bailiwick of Jersey.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton Hard Cover
Dated 1951, this is 2nd printing in 1962, 114 photos, 170 pages w/index. Map on endpapers. Dust jacket does have tears. The Indispensable Guide to All It's Treasures and Beauty, The King's Channel Islands. Ink inscription front endpps. History, England, Channel Islands, Europe, Travel.
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Banks, Louis Albert. The Sinner and His Friends.
New York Funk & Wagnalls First Edition Hard Cover
CR 1907, 259 pages. A Volume of Evangelistic Sermons. Prevous owners sticker on pastedowns. Ink bible verse on page 221 and underlining. Mustard covers with gilt and blind stamped picture of a woman's face with flower border. Slightly loose and soil. Banks was the Pastor at Trinity M.E. Church, Denver, Colorado. Thirty dynamic sermons appealing to the non-Christian.
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Bar-Zohar, Michael. Bitter Sweet. The Case of L'Oreal, Nazis, and the Arab Boycott.
New York E. P. Dutton 525-94068-5 First Printing Hard Cover
Dust jacket and book good+ condition. CR 1996, 264 pages with index. The story of how L'Oreal became a haven for ex-Nazis. Reveals the alliance that L'Oreal forged with the Arab Boycott Bureau. It brings to light the secret link between L'Oreal high command and the President of France, Francois Mitterand. An excellent read of intrigue, violence, and suspense more riveting than the most spellbinding fiction. Written on the inside of the front cover of the book; "Strong alliance between France and the Middle East makes France a very lukewarm member of the international community when events in the Middle East and Asia destablize". Seems to be written in pencil.
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Barret, Richard Carter. Bennington Pottery and Porcelain.
Published by Crown, CR 1958, Hard Cover
342 pages with 6 pages of list of illustrations and descriptions. Dust jacket has tears, book overall good+. Large book. A guide to identification of Bennington. Halftone photos by Lloyd Oppenheimer, color and black and white. Over 2,000 illustrations, with all authentic marks. Redware, stoneware Rockingham, flint enamel, granite ware, scroddled ware. Bennington pottery, bennington porcelain, redw are, Rockingham, granite ware, antiques.
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Barrett, John (Director) Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Slipcase & Dust Jackets, HC
Union of American Republics. Two booklets, paper, March 1920, cover has many tears, 370 pages, B&W illustrations. March 1919, no covers, 372 pages, B&W photos. History, Americana, Pan America.
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Barron, Leonard. Lawn Making.
Hard Cover
Published by Doubleday Doran for National Garden Association CR 1906, 1923, this is 1928. B&W photos, inscription front endpapers, dark green covers, spine faded. Overall good+. Also contains proper k eeping of putting green. Natural History, Agriculture, farming, lawns, putting greens.
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Bartlett, Lanier (edited by). On The Old West Coast.
Hard Cover
Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger, Major Horace Bell. Dust jacket has tears, illustrated endpapers, B&W illustrations in book. Covers are good. Grosset & Dunlap, CR is 1930 by Literary Guild. 33 6 pages with index. Western Americana, Texas Rangers, Biography.
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Bashline, L. J. (edited by) America's Great Outdoors.
Chicago Published by Ferguson, Chicago in 1967, Hard Cover
Dated 1967 with 376 pages with index. Dust jacket and book near very good. Color and B&W illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Front cover of book illustrated also. An anthology of 200 years of writing. The story of eternal romance between man and nature. Natural history, anthology, hunting, fishing.
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14.00 USD
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Bass, Rick. The Ninemile Wolves. An Essay.
Montana Clark City Press Limited Edition, First Printing Hard Cover
CR 1992, 165 pages with map, black and white photos. An essay about wolf packs and what happened to each one, and advocating wolf re-introduction and re-colonization. Not just a scientific study but one man's vigorous and emotional inquiry into the relationship between man/nature. Dust jacket w/mylar, X-library with numbers, stamps, etc.
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Bates, Charles Francis (Colonel) and Roe, C.F. Custer's Indian Battles.
Hard Cover
Published by Old Army Press, Colorado, no date. Large book, dust jacket has tears, overall good+. Dust jacket is illustrated with a color picture, blue covers with gold decoration. Inside illustration s are black and white. "Custer's Last Battle" is by C.F. Roe, 16 pages. "March of the Montana Column" by Edward J. McClernand, page 17 to 42. Also contains "Narratives and Reminiscenses of Sioux India n War", newspaper articles, one about "Comanche", the only horse to survive Little Big Horn, and many more articles from newspapers. Western Americana, history, americana, Custer, George Armstrong Custer, Little Big Horn, Calvary, military.
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60.00 USD
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Bates, Joseph D., Jr. Fishing - An Encyclopedia
Hard Cover
Published by Outdoor Life, no date, 718 pages with index. Dust jacket has slight tears otherwise covers and content good. Drawings by Ted Burwell. Guide to tackle, tactics for fresh and salt water fis hing. Angling, fish, natural history, sports, outdoor sports, reference books.
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Batten, L.A., Bibby, C.J., Clement, J., Elliott, G.D. & Porter, R.F. Edited By., Illustrated by Ian Wills Red Data Birds in Britain.
London, England: Publ. For Nature Conservancy Council & Royal Society for Protection of Birds By T & A D Poyser, 1990 Hard Cover
Red Covers, Hardcover. All good+. Action for Rare, Threatened and Important Species. 349 pages with "Population Estimates of British Breeding & Wintering Birds", "List of Red Data Bird Species with Cr iteria for Selection", and Index to species accounts. Black and white photos. Black and white sketches of each species with text covering "Legal Status", "Ecology", "Distribution & Population", Threat s To Survival", "Conservation", and "References". This book covers birds of Great Britain, but does not include birds of the Channel Islands or Ireland.
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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Retreat from Gettysburg.
New York Castle Books Hard Cover
CR 1956, special contents by Thomas Yoseloff published in arrangement with A.S. Barnes. Dust jacket and book very good. 752 pages. This is Volume 3 of the set of 4 about the Civil War. The most authoritative source book ever published on the Civil War. Eyewitness accounts, hundreds of drawings, steel engravings and maps from the original set.
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Bauer, Erwin. Bass In America.
New York Published by Simon & Schuster, Hard Cover
CR 1955, 1st printing, 137 pages. Dust jacket has many tears, covers and content very good. Illustrated endpapers, color frontis. B&W photos. A charming leisurely and informative book for the impassioned fishe rman and for the dispassionate connoisseur of good reading about the outdoors. Fishing, angling, natural history, anthology, bass fishing.
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Baum, Dan. Citizen Coors. An American Dynasty.
New York William Morrow 0-688-15448-4 Stated first Edition Hard Cover
Dust jacket and book good+ condition. Front blank endpapers torn out, 367 pages with index. CR 2000, black and white photos in center of book.A chronicle of how Adolph Coors stowed away on a ship to America in 1868, his family and how he turned a brewery into a billion dollar beer company, through devotion to product, rejection of modern marketing and refusing to borrow as much as a nickel. The ups and downs, family dynamics, kidnapping, suicides, and murder.
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Beale, J.H. Picturesque Sketches of American Progress.
Hard Cover
Published by Empire Co-operative Association, CR 1889, 445 pages. Steel engravings, maroon illustrated covers, dark gold lettering which is rubbing off, overall good+. Official description of great Am erican cities showing origin, development, present condition, commerce and manufactures, American scenery, celebrated resorts, wonderful achievements of our country under various administrations. Also has testimonials from various Mayors, etc. Technical, Americana, American commerce, trade, History.
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Beard, Frank. Picture Puzzles.
Published by J.Nichols Hard Cover
Hard Cover. 157 pages. Subtitle: How to Read the Bible By Symbols. Illustrated by author and others. CR 1903, New revised and enlarged edition, marbled edges, leather corners and spine, and cloth. Wea r to edges and corners, small split front outside hinge. This is filled with B&W sketches throughout the book. This is designed especially for boys and girls to stimulate a greater interest in the Bible. Juvenile religion, bibles.
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20.00 USD
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Beck, Emily Morison (edited by). Sailor Historian.
Hard Cover
Best of Samuel Eliot Morison. Published by Houghton Mifflin, CR 1977, title date 1977, 1st edition, 431 pages. Dust jacket has tears, overall good+. Foreward by Walter Muir Whitehall. Author is daught er of Samuel E. Morison. Morison finished the introductory notes for this seletion of his writings shortly before his death in 1976. Literature, New England, Authors, explorers.
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Beck, Henry Charlton. The Roads of Home.
New Jersey Rutgers University Press Stated Second Printing Hard Cover
Lanes and Legends of New Jersey. Introduction by Carl Carmer. Dust jacket with mylar, slight tears to dust jacket, otherwise good+ condition. New Jersey map on pastedowns. Ink inscription "To Daddy, Happy UNBirthday and many more, Love Leigh 3/22/57" CR 1956, 289 pages with index and bibliography. Lost towns and legendary people whose exploits have added humor, horror, wisdom, and whimsy to folk-history.
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Beebe, Lucius Comstock Commotion.
Stanford, California Stanford University Press Hard Cover
The Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. CR 1954, 130 pages. Illustrated pastedowns. Black and white sketches and sepia pictures. Mylar over mustard covers with slight stains, overall good+. A story of the beginning of a newspaper and its survival over the years. The Territorial Enterprise in Carson City, Eagle Valley, Utah in 1858 and its history.
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Behan, Richard J., M.D. Pain.
New York D. Appleton Hard Cover
It's Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance. 191 illustrations in text and diagnostic charts. CR 1914, 1916 on title page, 920 pages with index and bibliography, two fold-out charts. Name "Dr. F. E. MacCracken" on front endpapers. Pain is universal and is present with every disease and generally pain is the reason we visit the doctor. Red covers, all good+ condition.
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Beito, Commander Edwin A. (revised by). Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.
Published by U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1951, Hard Cover
CR 1926 to 1951, 10th edition, 850 pages w/index. Blue covers, slight wear. The original was written by Commander Benjamin Dutton. Technical, navigation, nautical, marine, ships, boating, astronomy.
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Bell, Archie Sunset Canada - British Columbia and Beyond.
Boston Published by Page Co. Hard Cover
MDCCCXVIII (CR 1918), , stated 1st impression, 320 pages w/index. Illustrated green with gold covers, color photo pasted on front cover, spine also illustrated, all very good. Illustrated endpapers, B&W and color illustrat ions w/tissues. Account of settlement, progress from early days to present, review of Hudson's Bay, Varied Climate, Landscape, Industries, etc. Canada, British Columbia, travel exploration, natural hi story.
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Bell, Ernest A. Fighting The Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade.
Published by G.S.Ball, Hard Cover
CR 1910 with 481 pages. Slight soil to green covers, slight wear, overall good+. The Greatest Crime in the World's History. Foreward by Edwin Sims, U.S. District Attorney in Chicago. Picture pasted on front cover. Americana, History, Slavery, White slavery, Slave Trade, Prostitution, Slave Traffic, crime.
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Bell, Malcolm, Jr. Major Butler's Legacy.
University of Georgia Press First Edition Hard Cover
Five Generations of A Slaveholding Family. Pictorial dust jacket, unread condition. CR 1987, 673 pages with index, bibliography, and notes. Black and white photos and illustrations of slaves, family, homesteads, etc. Tracing the private and public lives at their homes in Philadelphia and the plantation in South Carolina.
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Bellwood, Peter. Man's Conquest of the Pacific.
New York Oxford University Press, Hard Cover
The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Dust jacket and book very good condition, large heavy book. Title date 1979, CR 1978, first published 1978 Wm. Collins, Auckland. 462 pages with index, bibliography, footnotes, black and white illustrations, drawings and color photos. The author hops his way through 2 million years of 16 thousand east-to-west kilometres of prehistory- starting with earliest traces of homosapiens, his predecessors and contemporaries . Art forms, canoes, weaponry, flora and fauna. Drawings of tools, and creations of massive stone structures, megoliths, etc.
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Benet, Stephen Vincent. John Brown's Body.
New York Rinehart & Co. Hard Cover
Illustrated by Fritz Kredel and Warren Chappell, CR 1927, 28 on text, CR 1954 Rinehart, 368 pages. Last page slight separation at bottom of hinge, all very good and clean. Blue spine with white covers,drawing of soldier on horse blowing bugle on front cover. A very nice book for a gift.
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Benner, J. A. Lone Star Rebel.
Winston-Salem, NC John F. Blair Hard Cover
Woodcuts by R.B. Dance. CR 1971. Heritage Printers, Cherokee, NC. Dust jacket with mylar and book all very good condition. 232 pages. Historical fact and fiction, a 14 year old, Rob Crawford, set out on an 800-mile trip to join his brother who was with Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross, heroic commander of the Sixth Texas Cavalry in Mississippi. This book records his trip to Mississippi, his adventures as a courier and later an orderly to Colonel Ross.
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Berger, Meyer., Illustrated by Black and White Photos The Story of the New York Times 1851-1951.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951 Hard Cover
Red w/gold Lettering, Cloth. No Jacket. stated 1st printing, 589 pages w/index. Red covers with gold lettering, all good+. Illustrations are black & white photos and front pages of previous newspapers . Bookplate front endpapers. History, Americana, Newspapers, journalism, news reporting, reporters.
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Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr. The White Man's Indian.
New York Al. Knopf, Stated first Edition Hard Cover
Dust jacket and book good+ condition. Title date 1978, CR 1978, 261 pages with index and notes, black and white photos and illustrations. Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the present. He reveals how the indian was invented by the white men and details the subtle but persistent forces that have given that idea such a long and pernicious life. Columbus named them Indians because his geography was faulty. Now five centuries later the Indian is still obscured and misunderstood.
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Bernsen, Paul S. The North American Waterfowler.
Salisbury Press/Superior Publishers, CR 1972, Hard Cover
CR 1972 with 206 pages w/index. Dust jacket has slight soil on it, otherwise all is good+. Paintings by Les Kouba, black & white and color. Photos by Bob and Ira Spring. Natural History. Hunting. Waterfowl, ducks, geese.
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18.00 USD
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Berry, Henry. Make The Kaiser Dance.
New York Doubleday Stated first Edition Hard Cover Signed by Author
Living Memories of a Forgotten War. The American Experience in World War I. Dust jacket and book good+ condition. Signed, dated and inscribed by author on front endpaper "To Tom, This uncle and namesake proudly carried YD103 on his license plate. Best regards, Henry Berry 7/22/'79" Stated first edition, 455 pages with index with black and white photos. This is a unique history of World War I told in human and intimate terms by 100 veterans of that "war to end all wars". Voices from the past reliving hectic days in boot camp, long days on troop ships, gas attacks, laughter and songs in the trenches, the waiting, and the dying.
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Berry, William A. With James edwin Alexander. Prisoner of the Rising Sun.
Norman, OK University of Oklahoma First Printing Hard Cover
CR 1993, 241 pages with index, black and white photos and 6 maps. Berry was a POW in Japan during the second world war. He and other POW's escaped from a camp, and because of that escape caused the Japanese to publish new rules organizing prisoners into "blood groups" of ten men each; and if one man escaped, all ten were executed. Black covers, all very good condition.
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Better Homes & Gardens. Fish and Fishing.
Published by Meredith Press Hard Cover
CR 1963, 1st edition. 224 pages with index. Dust jacket has many tears, covers and content are excellent. Contains 80 species of fresh water fish in full color. How to catch, clean and cook fish. Fishing, natural history, angling.
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