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Image for Sunshine at Home: Sparkling Pages for the Child, the Youth, the Parent. A Family Portfolio of Natural History, Biography, and Bible Scenes. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations.

Sunshine at Home: Sparkling Pages for the Child, the Youth, the Parent. A Family Portfolio of Natural History, Biography, and Bible Scenes. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Michigan, Review and Harold: 1883

Seller ID: 2266774

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edges rubbed, stain on rear wrapper. 1883 Large Hardcover. 112 pp. Sparkling Pages for the Child, the Youth, the Parent. A Family Portfolio of Natural History, Biography, and Bible Scenes. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations.
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The Story of the Life of Mackay of Uganda, Told for Boys by His Sister

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son: 1895

Seller ID: 2202686

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Minor staining to edges, spine cocked, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor foxing to pages, minor pencil marginalia. No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 1895 Hard Cover. vii, 338 pp. This book is written especially for boys, in the hope that Mackay's example may lead many of them to think of Africa, and devote their lives to its moral and spiritual regeneration.
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George Armstrong Custer and His 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 (Montana Heritage Series, Number Seven)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montana, Montana Historical Society Press:

Seller ID: 2272307

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine. 20 pp. Two original essays and a reproduction of one of the greatest of all the battlefield paintings, keyed to actual battlefield episodes.
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Old No. 1: The Story of Isaiah Thomas and His Printing Press

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Worcester, Mass., American Antiquarian Society: 1989

Seller ID: 2279598

ISBN: 0944026109

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Smudges on rear wrapper. 1989 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. A short history of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) , the Massachusetts printer, publisher, and founder of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Official Program of the Inaugural Ceremonies, Inducting into Office Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, John N. Garner, Vice President of the United States, March 4, 1933

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Ransdell Incorporated: 1933

Seller ID: 2282987

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Faint crease to wrappers, front wrapper very faintly foxed, a couple light stains on rear wrapper, minor surface tear to rear wrapper. 1933 Stapled Binding. 64 pp. Official Program of the Inaugural Ceremonies, Inducting into Office Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, John N. Garner, Vice President of the United States, March 4, 1933.
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V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: England, Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou...
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Recollections of Three Kaisers

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited: 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2290462

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards spotted and lightly rubbed, edges and a few pages lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. ix, [10]-315, [5] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece of Empress Frederick, 6 photographic portraits in text. An account of three generations of leaders of the German Empire.
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Post, the Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963: John F. Kennedy, 1917-63, In Memoriam [Norman Rockwell]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, The Curtis Publishing Company: 1963

Seller ID: 2296534

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A few light creases. No chips. Wrappers intact. 1963 Magazine. 84 pp. COVER: Norman Rockwell portrait of JFK. In Memoriam: A Senseless Tragedy; The New President. CONTENTS: Articles - Hate Knows No Direction (Speaking Out); When the Highest Office Changes Hands, by Dwight D. Eisenhower; The New President: He Ought to Try to Slow Up, Alsop Interviews L. B. J.; The Assassination; Death in Emergency Room No. One; A Eulogy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, by Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.; A Profile in Family Courage; What's Ahead for the G.O.P.?; New Weapon against Muscular Dystrophy; Wacky Search for Gold...
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The Illustrated London News, April 4, 1953, No. 5946--Volumes 222: In Memoriam Number Queen Mary

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News: 1953

Seller ID: 2299940

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. No chips, no tears. Light general wear. 1953 Stapled Binding. Includes two-panel color photograph of Queen Mary.
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Image for A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, in 8 Volumes, Part Three: Orations - Vol. I: Greek Orators; Vol. II: Roman Orators; Vol. III. Orators of Continental Europe; Vol. VI: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. V: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. VI: American Orators; Vol. VII: American Orators; Vol. VIII: American Orators

A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, in 8 Volumes, Part Three: Orations - Vol. I: Greek Orators; Vol. II: Roman Orators; Vol. III. Orators of Continental Europe; Vol. VI: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. V: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. VI: American Orators; Vol. VII: American Orators; Vol. VIII: American Orators

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier: 1900

Seller ID: 2302557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front hinge of volumes two and four broken, minor general wear. 1900 Hard Cover. Brown boards. Eight volume set, part three of a larger set of 32 volumes. Notable speeches include Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death, Gettysburg Address, abolition, military, political, Presidential, etc.
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Image for The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Presidential Campaign of 1960 (Freedom of Communications, 87th Congress, 1st Session, Rept. 994, Part 3)

The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Presidential Campaign of 1960 (Freedom of Communications, 87th Congress, 1st Session, Rept. 994, Part 3)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304592

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine creased, minor ink marginalia in Contents. 1961 Soft Cover. xiv, 699 pp. Final Report on the Committee on Comerce United States Senate Prepared by Its Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications Pursuant to S. Res. 305, 86th Congress. Part III.
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Order of March Inaugural Parade, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1961

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Inaugural Committee: 1961

Seller ID: 2306930

Binding: Single Sheet

Condition: Near Fine

No chips and no tears. 1961 Single Sheet. Single sheet. Printed on front and back. Units, organizations, and individuals in the order of the march.
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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park New York

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: .,

Seller ID: 2267216

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date. Unpaginated. Fold-out. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum holds the records of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States (19331945). Located on the grounds of Springwood, the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, the library was built under the President's personal direction in 1939-1940, and dedicated on June 30, 1941. It is the first presidential library in the United States and one of the thirteen presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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General John Swift, Founder of Palmyra, N.Y. [New York]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., 1923

Seller ID: 2299120

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Papers laid in, title page and last page lightly foxed. 1923 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. In commemoration of dedication of General John Swift, Memorial Cemetery, August 18, 1923. James R. Hickey Post, No. 120, American Legion. John Swift (June 17, 1761 July 12, 1814) was an American military officer during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He founded the town of Palmyra, New York. In the winter of 178889, with the Wyoming Valley situation not going in the Connecticuters' favor, John Swift and John Jenkins purchased a large tract within the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in what is now ...
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Francis Butler Simkins, 1897-1966: Historian of the South

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columia, S. C., The State Printing Company: 1967

Edition: Signed Copy

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2303057

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription. Smudge on front wrapper, ink name on front wrapper. 1967 Soft Cover. 85 pp. A pamphlet published by his family in memory of the Edgefield Native who spent his teaching career at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia. Francis Butler Simkins (December 14, 1897 February 8, 1966) was a historian and president of the Southern Historical Association. He is best known for his highly praised history of the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina, that gave fair coverage to all sides, and for his widely used textbook The South, Old and New (1947) and his monographs on...
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Rochester and Other Literary Rakes of the Court of Charles II. With Some Account of Their Surroundings.

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 2303180

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards and edges lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and university library stamp on title page. 1903 Three-Quarter Leather. x, 330 pp. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Top page ridge gilt. With portraits. Charles II (29 May 1630 6 February 1685)[c] was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and I...
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Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, [Longmans, Green & Co.]: 1916

Seller ID: 2304623

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fair

Lacks front wrapper. 1916 Soft Cover. 294 pp. Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism.
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Timothy Leary: A Biography

By: 38Greenfield, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Orlando, A James A. Silberman Book / Harcourt, Inc.: 2006

Seller ID: 2200978

ISBN: 0151005001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages faintly toned, a few small marks to top page edges. Near Fine. 2006 Hard Cover. 689 pp. To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, Tune in, turn on, drop out became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness...
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The a Becketts of 'Punch': Memories of Father and Sons

By: a Beckett, Arthur William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co Ltd: 1903

Seller ID: 2263572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edges rubbed, hinges beginning to loosen, ink name on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 333, [3] pp. 8vo. A biographical account of the family behind Punch magazine, who were contemporaries of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Josephine (Makers of History)

By: Abbott, Jacob

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1902

Seller ID: 2203418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. A very nice copy. 1902 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 328 pp. With engravings. A biography of Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Image for Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

By: Abbott, John S. C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Mason Brothers: 1856

Seller ID: 2301435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former a binder's copy - has been repaired. Loss to spine head, spine base and to front joint; ink name on title page. 1856 Hard Cover. 404 pp. With numerous illustrative notes and anecdotes. Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages.
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George Eastman

By: Ackerman, Carl W.; Seligman, Edwin R.A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston and New York / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2306566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, top and bottom page margins lightly stained. 1930 Hard Cover. xviii, 522 pp. 8vo. Black-and-white photographs, including air view of Kodak Park and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and images of several significant buildings in Rochester such as Eastman Theater. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a deca...
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 2011

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2276300

ISBN: 039307241X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front board lightly cocked. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 322 pp. Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia?loss of language?and could utter only a single syllable: mem. The standard therapies yielded ...
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Ansel Adams: America's Photographer

By: Adams, Ansel; Gherman, Beverly

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2295693

ISBN: 0316824453

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. Page edges very faintly toned. 2002 Large Hardcover. xii, 110 pp. The renowned--and revered--photographer would have been 100 years old in 2002. To celebrate the life of Ansel Adams, this biography takes young readers through his rich life: from the earthquake that broke his nose to the valley that shaped his world, revealing the humorous, artistic, and thoughtful personality behind his legendary work.
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Sir Christopher Gardiner, Knight: An Historical Monograph. [From Vol. XX. of the Proc's of the Mass. Hist. Soc.], With Additions

By: Adams, Charles Francis

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cambridge, John Wilson and Son, University Press: 1883

Edition: Signed Copy

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2007291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1883 printing. Rebound in red cloth, retaining original coral printed wrappers. Signed by author on front wrapper. Front wrapper loosening, boards lightly rubbed, bookplate of Charles Edwin Stratton on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 36 pp. 8vo. A monograph originally published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, detailing the story of Christopher Gardiner and his flight from the consequences of a rather duplicitous romantic life. It became well-known enough that Longfellow based a poem on it, entitled The Landlord's Tale: The Rhyme of Sir ...
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The March of Democracy: The Rise of the Union (Volume I)

By: Adams, James Truslow

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scriber's Sons: 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2266170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. No jacket, bookplate on front endpaper. 1932 Hard Cover. xvi, 428 pp. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. CONTENTS: Discovery and Settlement; The Colonial System Takes Form; The Duel with France; American Life in 1763; The Insoluble Problems of the New Empire; The Revolution; The Federal Union Formed; The New Nation Gets Under Way; Jeffersonian Democracy; The Presidency of Jefferson; The War of 1812; The Era of Good Feeling; The Jacksonian Period; The Nation in Mid-Century; A Decade of Expansion, 1840-1850; The Inevitable Conflict.
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The Trial of John Peltier, Esq. for a Libel against Napoleon Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, at the Court of King's-Bench, Middlesex, on Monday the 21st of February, 1803.

By: Adams, James; Mackintosh, James

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis... for M. Peltier: 1803

Seller ID: 2305162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

French and English text. Hinges weakening with first gathering loosening, boards lightly soiled and discolored. 1803 Hard Cover. xxxii, 312, clii pp. 4to. Blind-stamped brown cloth with cloth title label affixed (the label is likely newer, as it does not match the style of the rest). An account of the trial of John Peltier, who published a journal called L'Ambigu after fleeing France for England in the late 18th century. He was charged with libel, specifically for his criticisms of Napoleon, and was found guilty despite a spirited effort by Sir James Mackintosh in his defense ('His greatest p...
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Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life

By: Adams, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2008

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2200965

ISBN: 0374281157

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Very good. Jacket lightly toned. 2008 Hard Cover. 340 pp. John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience (Alex Ross,The New Yorker). Now, inHallelujah Junction, he incisively relates his life story, from his childhood to his early studies in classical composition amid the musical and social ferment of the 1960s, from his landmark minimalist innovations to his controversial docu-opera...
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (Penguin Classics)

By: Adams, John and Abigail; Shuffleton, Frank

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2004

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2296771

ISBN: 0142437115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. Small surface tear on front wrapper from sticker removal. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxxvi, 473 pp. The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history - the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and...
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The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American Political, Social and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk

By: Adams, John Quincy; Nevins, Allan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1929

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2292105

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

2nd printing. Hinges loosening, spine toned, light stain to top edge, edges lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. xviii, [2], 585, [1] pp. 8vo. The personal diary of the sixth President of the United States, whose family served in government for four consecutive generations. Footnotes throughout, bibliography & index follow text.
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Keyword:BIOGRAPHY

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