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Brave Boys of France: A Story of the Late War in Europe. (Golden Crown Library)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Thomas B. Noonan & Co.: 1885

Seller ID: 2180839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly rubbed, St. Patrick's Church Library bookplate on front endpaper (no other marks). 1885 Hard Cover. 304 pp. 8vo. An anonymously written 19th century juvenile military adventure novel focusing on the Franco-Prussian War.
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Edith; or, The Quaker's Daughter. A Tale of Puritan Times. By One of Her Descendants

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Mason Brothers: 1856

Seller ID: 2294791

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Spine previously mended with tape, boards loose but holding, title page clipped along top edge. 1856 Hard Cover. 407 pp. Red boards with a repeated design of crosses across the full front and back boards.
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Ranch Romances: First April Number, March 31, 1950, Volume 157, Number 4

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ind., Warner Publications, Inc.: 1950

Seller ID: 2308121

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some small chips and small tears to wrapper edges, small pencil mark on front wrapper, general wear. 1950 Soft Cover. 96 pp. CONTENTS: Novel: Land-Grabber, Elsa Barker; Novelette: Trouble Rides Double, Joseph Chadwick; Short Stories: The Dragon Slayer, Clark Gray - Runaway Cowboy, S. Omar Barker - Winter Wedding, Everett M. Webber - Fortune's Bluff, Val Gendron; Features: Whitewash Bonanza, a True Story, Hazel C. Arnold - Elementary Zoology, Verse, Helen Castle; Serial: The Leather-Slapper, Part 2, Wayne D. Overholser; Departments: Ranch Flicker Talk, Beth Bright - Know Your West, a Quiz - Rat...
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Roy Rogers and the Snowbound Outlaws (New Better Little Book, 701-10)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Company: 1949

Seller ID: 2308143

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Spine cocked, board rubbed, bottom edge of front board lightly bumped, pages toned. 1949 Small Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Join Roy Rogers and Trigger as they ride the range in this 141 page chilling adventure Roy Rogers and the Snowbound Outlaws Children will love this easy-to read storybook with pictures on every page! Enjoy a trip back in time with the best titles from the golden age of movie cowboys. CoolCowboyComics has made these classics western stories come alive with image enhancement and restoration for your enjoyed reading experience.
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The Chief's Daughter; or, The Settlers in Virginia (The New Series of Historical Tales Illustrating the Chief Events in Ecclesiastical History, British, American, and General, Number 3.)

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, John Henry and James Parker: 1859

Seller ID: 2306597

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards soiled, rear joint starting, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, title page loose but included, hole along page edge of some pages. 1859 Small Hard Cover. 126 pp. 12mo. Colonial American fiction, featuring a frontispiece of Pocahontas saving the life of English settler John Smith. Sabin 12688.
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The Log of a Cowboy

By: Adams, Andy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Lincoln, NE, Bison / University of Nebraska: 1967

Seller ID: 2265250

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Light edge wear. 1967 Trade Paperback. A fictional account of true depiction of the life of a cowboy. Sixteen-year-old Andy Adams charts his first journey from Texas to Montana along the western trail during the years following the Civil War.
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Canal Town: A Novel

By: Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club / Consolidated Book Publishers: 1944

Seller ID: 2279311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Very good in good jacket. Ink name on title page, minor sticker removal mark on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1944 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 470 pp. A historical novel set in Palmyra, NY in the era of the construction of the Erie Canal. Endpapers feature idyllic color illustration of the Erie Canal & surrounding countryside. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 - November 15, 1958) was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism. Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. In...
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1901

Seller ID: 2262055

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Two half-inch tears along top edge of jacket front, jacket edges lightly rubbed, ink marks on rear jacket flap. Ink note on front endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 335 pp. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men'. Little Men tells the story of Jo...
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (Illustrated Junior Library)

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1947

Seller ID: 2278345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

One inch by one inch chip to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed with multiple small chips and creases. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Color endpapers. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little...
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Person or Persons Unknown (Sir John Fielding Mysteries)

By: Alexander, Bruce

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam: 1997

Seller ID: 2307638

ISBN: 0399143092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book club edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. An blind eighteenth-century judge, Sir John Fielding and his assistant and ward, Jeremy Proctor, investigate a series of murders that leads them around streets and alleyways of eighteenth-century London.
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Anthony Adverse

By: Allen, Hervey

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket toned. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National Guard serving on the Mexican Border, Hervey...
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Anthony Adverse

By: Allen, Hervey

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Jacket toned, minimal loss from jacket spine head, a few closed 1/2 inch tears along edges. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National ...
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The Choir Invisible

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1898

Seller ID: 2202908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

18th printing. No jacket, large stain to corner of rear paste-down endpaper and rear endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. James Lane Allenwas an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as Kentucky's first important novelist. This novel, by the author of John Gray, is a story set in the green wilderness of Kentucky. Parts...
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The Reluctant Ghost (Lovers of Steadford Abbey No. 1)

By: Allen, Sheila Rosalynd

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Walker Books: 1989

Seller ID: 2304177

ISBN: 0802710573

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Faint foxing to page ridge. 1989 Hard Cover. As pennance for a romantically misspent life, the spirit of Sir Harry Aldworth must help young lovers overcome their differences, and his first project involves Jane Steadford and the man who unsurped her family home, the Earl of Warwick.
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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 1999

Seller ID: 2200656

ISBN: 006019491X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 399 pp. 8vo. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquin takes o...
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Portrait in Sepia

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2001

Seller ID: 2200660

ISBN: 0066211611

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. 8vo. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile -- a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune. Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora d...
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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers (Translator)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2020

Seller ID: 2306489

ISBN: 0063021730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Lower corner bumped. 2020 Trade Paperback. In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment, but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she explores the mystery of her past. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Isabel Allende Llona (born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works...
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Bugle, a Puppy in Old Yorktown (Tip-Top Elf Book, 8618)

By: Andrews, Mary

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally & Company: 1958

Seller ID: 2272839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Corners lightly rubbed, pencil name on title page, pages lightly toned. 1958 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. The story of a dog living in Colonial times in Yorktown, Virginia.
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Comanche: The Story of America's Most Heroic Horse

By: Appel, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company: 1951

Seller ID: 2308450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small chip to jacket spine base, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1951 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Illustrated by James Daugherty. Comanche was a mixed-breed horse who survived General George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876).--Wikipedia
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Mistress Dorothy Marvin: Being Excerpta from the Memoirs of Sir Edward Armstrong, Baronet, of Copeland Hall, in the County of Somerset (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 188)

By: Armstrong, Sir Edward; Snaith, J. C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2302634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Spine lightly toned. 1896 Hard Cover. viii, 419 pp. A fictitious account set in Somerset Country, England.
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She Stands Alone: The Story of Pilate's Wife

By: Ashton, Mark

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, The Page Company: 1901

Seller ID: 2308489

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1920 10th printing. Includes original jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with some loss. 1901 Hard Cover. Engraved frontispiece and plates. Rear jacket includes ads for the first five books in L.M. Montgomery's Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables) series. A historical novel set in the time of Jesus Christ, focusing on Pontius Pilate's wife, Euphrosyne.
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The Plains of Passage

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam: 1991

Seller ID: 2203045

ISBN: 0553289411

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine creased. 1991 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths ofThe Mammoth Huntersand into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers.
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The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children No. 5)

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Crown: 2002

Seller ID: 2291634

ISBN: 0609610597

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small tear to upper jacket. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalars people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homesformed in great cliffs of vertical limestoneare a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondala...
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Plains of Passage (Earth's Children No. 4)

By: Auel, Jean M.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Crown: 1990

Seller ID: 2291635

ISBN: 0517580497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Rear jacket lightly rubbed. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. The best-selling author of the Earth's Children series continues the epic story of Ayla, the mythical heroine of Ice Age Europe. The Plains of Passage takes Ayla and the brave Jondolar on a dangerous cross-continental odyssey in search of that place they call home.
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David Alden's Daughter and Other Stories of Colonial Times

By: Austin, Jane G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1892

Seller ID: 2280442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Boards faintly toned. 1892 Hard Cover. viii, 316 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jane Goodwin Austin (February 25, 1831 - March 30, 1894) was an American writer, notable for her popular stories of the time. During her lifetime, she was the author of 24 books and numerous short stories.[2] Her friends throughout her life were some of the most well-known American authors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott.[3]
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The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War

By: Bahr, Howard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Picador: 1997

Seller ID: 2206464

ISBN: 0312265077

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Light sticker adhesive to rear wrapper. 1997 Trade Paperback. 266 pp. The Black Flower is the gripping Story of a young Confederate rifleman named Bushrod Carter. When Bushrod is wounded, he is taken to a makeshift hospital where he comes under the care of Anna, who has already lost two potential romances to battle. Bushrod and Anna's attempt to forge a bond n the midst of pathos and horror is a powerful reminder that the war that divided America will not vanish quietly into pages of history.
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The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War

By: Bahr, Howard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Charleston, South Carolina, The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America: 2012

Seller ID: 2206465

ISBN: 1877853747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Sticker to rear wrapper. 2012 Trade Paperback. 266 pp. This powerful story of a young rifleman's agony during the Battle of Franklin in 1864 ranks with the foremost novels of the Civil War. It has already won praise for it's originality and power in the New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Southern Living and many other journals. The black flower symbolizes the rifleman's sense of doom in the midst of Union cannons firing upon John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee. That army literally disappears in a hail of rifle and cannon fire from the Union entrenchments. Bushr...
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Colonel Greatheart

By: Bailey, H.C.; Ralph, Lester

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1908

Seller ID: 2204119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper. 1908 Hard Cover. 472 pp. This is an unusual story of the English Civil War. There is a good account of the Battle of Newbury, and many historic figures appear: Cromwell (very prominent), Ireton, Prince Rupert, Charles I, Fairfax, and Lambert. The setting for this tale of men and arms is taken from the stirring days of the Bavaliers and the Roundheads, of Puritans and the so-called malignants; but the machines of war are rather in the background, while in the spotlight is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a marker of destinies. The story tell...
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The Eye in the Door

By: Barker, Pat

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Plume: 1995

Seller ID: 2208536

ISBN: 0452272726

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 1995 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is faced with the possibility of defeat by Germany. A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives, the the eye in the door becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society.
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The Ghost Road

By: Barker, Pat

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Plume: 1996

Seller ID: 2208537

ISBN: 0452276721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 1996 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. The Ghost Roadis the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all ghosts in the making. In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working cla...
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