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pp. 443, lii [Publisher's Appendix] + Portrait Frontis and full page plates, maps and a large folding map on tissue paper. Inked ownership of Clifton Wright, Oct. 6, 1888 from his father. Floral endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Front board decorated with a design in gold and black of the Mississippi River and rear board decorated with the source of the river in Minnesota. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Beveled edges. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Binding slightly soiled. Hardbound. AMERICANA BOX 4.
(ca. 27,8 x 21,5 cm). 732 p. (English Language). Original boards (soft cover) with title to spine and illustrated title to front cover. Boards with low signs of use, otherwise well preserved. Generally in good condition. - - - ACHTUNG! Dieses Buch kann wegen seines Gewichts oder seiner Größe nur als PAKET verschickt werden. Innerhalb Deutschlands 5,80 Euro. (Portokosten ins Ausland bitte erfragen.) ATTENTION! Due to its weight or size this book can only be sent as a PARCEL. Within Germany 5,80 Euro (For shipment abroad please ask.)
6 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
78 pages.. Glossary. Discography. "An analytical instruction method of blues guitar including blues chord progressions, melodic structure, rhythmic units, instrumental breaks, based on the lyrics of Etta Baker, Bo Carter, Rev. Gary Davis, John Fahey, Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Frank Stokes, and others, in standard musical notation and tablature." - from front cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Contents clean but for prior owner's name inside front cover. A worthy copy of this impressive work. Book
258 pages. Features: American Country Houses; Colorado Craftsmen; American Pastoral; A Rural Michigan Property Extended with a Modernist Eye; On Martha's Vineyard; Into the Woods - an art-filled guesthouse on Long Island; Mississippi with a Twist - putting a contemporary spin on a Greek revival planters' cottage near Natchez; Aspen Stone Work. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Patricia Ford's Popular Pottery; M*A*S*H Remembered; Minis go back in the closet in New Jersey; The French Dollhouse Mystery; Maryy Penet & Phil Lavigne - a marriage of miniatures; Camille Stromm's Boutique de Parfum; The wasahachie Cottage - miniatures on a shoestring; Life on the Mini Mississippi; The Small Belongings of Dress - The Pilgrim Century 1607-1690; Fezziwig Accessories - The Traumas of Tiny; Joann's American Indian Crafts; Nearth and Home Floor Coverings; Room of the Month - Cobwebs and Clutter; Building with Bob - Finishing the Interior; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
86p., illus. Newbery Honor Hardcover Good condition
329 p. incl. col. front., illus. (part col.) plates, col. plates. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 102 pages. Blurb taped to front endpaper.
363 p. + Engraved frontis portrait from an ambrotype by Brady. Foxed. 12mo. 19 cm. Original full cloth binding. Milburn was famous as 'the blind preacher' who had been six times Champlain of the Unite d States House of Representatives. His first book, 'Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags' was an account of the trials of a minister's life in the unsettled wilderness. It was hugely popular. He was also the a uthor of 'Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley.' He claimed that he was first urged to write this auto-biography in 1854 by the historian Prescott, and curiously on the next day Longfellow ma de the same request. It is most interesting where Milburn gives his accounts of the Mississippi Valley, the Southerner, and the Negro. Sabin 48919. W148
pp. v, (5)-217. Foxed. Wide margins. XLib bookplate and manuscript ownership of the Abington Friends Meeting Jenkintown, PA. 8vo. 205 mm. Original full cloth binding, decorated in blind. Front board decorated with flowers in gold gilt. Corners worn with slight loss. Slight loss at head of spine. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Interesting essay on the climates and seasons around the globe. NW48 FarRt
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. viii, 464; pp. 276. Age stain. Damp stain. Lacks first fly leaves. XLib Pennsylvania Military Library. Stamp on first title page and elsewhere. 225 mm. Virtually disbound. Leather boards very worn. Lacks spine. Spine crudely taped. Poor. Howes F200; Thomson 423; AI / SS 12424. "The text of the second volume had not appeared previously." - Graff 1356. Includes much useful and early infomation on Texas and Oregon. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W10 Rt. Rear
572 p. + Half title and two page map. Map loose with slight tear in margin. Profusely illustrated with full page plates and text drawings. Age stain. Manuscript ownership of Charles H. Rowes, Whitehall Station, PA, 1869 on front fly leaf. 225 mm. Original full leather binding, worn with loss at head and tail of spine. Boards fragile. Hardbound. Good. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, adventurer, and author. This work describes trip through Texas, from Preston to El Paso, on the U.S. Mail coach. Full of keen with observations. This is a greatly expanded version of Howes R253; Sabin 70980; Raines p. 173. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W7
572 p. + Half title and two page map. Profusely illustrated with full page plates and text drawings. No front fly leaf. Preliminary leaves detached but present and complete. 8vo. 225 mm. Original full publisher's cloth binding, rubbed at extremities. Hardbound. Very good. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, adventurer, and author. This work describes trip through Texas, from Preston to El Paso, on the U.S. Mail coach. Full of keen with observations. This is a greatly expanded version of Howes R253; Sabin 70980; Raines p. 173. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W7
298 pages. Features: Playthings of the Past - the Bernard Barenholtz collection of American antique toys; The Architect and the Interior - Drawings of British Country Houses; The Masterson Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hunting Lodge of Stupinigi at Turin; Westmoreland, County, Pennsylvania, Fraktur - an initial survey; The Dr. Dubs House in Natchez, Mississippi - living with antiques; Arthur J. Stone, Silversmith; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy reference copy. . Book
46 pages. Text in English. Features: Gisele - Freunc - Master of the Leica; Jack Hulme - Master of the Leica; When the Leica came to Britain; Thurston Hopkins - Master of the Leica; Grace Robertson - Master of the Leica; Ferenc Berko - Master of colour; Dr. Paul Wolff - a pioneer in 35mm photography; Cornelius Meffert - On the Mississippi; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
50 pages. Text in English. Features: Jurgen Herschelmann - ladies' shoes; Stanley Greene - romance in Paris; Enrico Ricciardi - Noctilux; William Klein - Close Up; Amateur movie cameras made by Leitz (II); Andrew Morang - Vicksburg, Mississippi; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: George Washington - Printed Linen Panel - Collection of Doctor George D. Lyman; Homespun Quilt with Hand-Printed Decoration - collection of Mrs. Florence Peto; Another Old new England Farmhouse Restored; The First New Hampshire Clockmakers; A Mississippi Valley Panorama; Living with Antiques - Cove Hill in Rockport, MA; Furniture of Monmouth County; The Benjamin Franklin - In Print and Glass; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Above-average wear and soiling with some moisture exposure. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Book
Features: The Most Awful Abduction of Elegant Elaine; He Fought the Blizzard of 1880 and won!; Incident at Las Cruces; The Diamond E and Diamond X Ranches; First Movie House West of the Mississippi; Ruthless Relative; Wild Game Country; Adventures of an Army Post Photographer; Cow-boy life in Texas or 27 years a mavrick; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Day We Bombed Mt. McKinley; South of the Antarctic Circle; Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Safari Photographers; Society's Antithesis - Wedding Dance of the Samburu; Inti Raymi - Inca Festival of the Sun; Measuring the Three Highest Mountains in Greenland; Willard Glazier and the Discovery of the Headwaters of the Mighty Mississippi. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Protests in the U.S. - photo of MLK; Apollo 204 - report on the capsulre fire disaster; Photo of RJK in Mississippi; Photo of Tom Clark in 1942 beside "Enemy Alien" poster; Time Essay - the Churches' influence on secular society; Feature article on Brazil and its President - with many color photos; Vietnam war update; Nice full-page color ad for Tempo cigarettes; Singapore - with photo of Kee Kuan Yew; Nice Jeepster ad; Mario Andretti; Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell in action photo; Shotputter Randy Matson; Loan shark Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg; Credit Cards; Boeing 737 maiden flight photo; Ford executives rewarded for success of Mustang; Emmett & Stone - merchandisers; Pipeline push in western Europe; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
In 8. Dim. 22x14 cm. Pp. XXII+353+(7). Edizione del 1873 di queste memorie di caccia del cacciatore e autore versatile Benedict Henry Revoil (1816-1882) vissuto negli Stati Uniti tra il 1841 e il 1849. L'autore descrive un'ampia varietà di animali autoctoni come l'aquila, il mustang, il coyote, l'opossum, procioni, cani della prateria, orso grizzly, bufalo ma anche falchi, piccioni, gatto selvatico, caribou, cervo, orso bruno durante i suoi spostamenti in Mississipi, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisville, Louisiana, Carolina del Nord, Arkansas, Edisto, Canada, New Brunswick ecc... Belle illustrazioni a piena pagina di Jean Edouard Van D'Argent (1824-1889). Al contropiatto anteriore cedola di assegnazione del volume come premio ad un alunno nell'anno scolastico 1877-78. Copertina in piena tela editoriale con titolo in oro e decorazioni a secco ai piatti. In ottime condizioni. Copertina in peina tela editoriale con titolo in oro e decorazioni a secco ai piatti in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni con fioriture. Edition of 1873 of these memories of hunting by the hunter and author Benedict Henry Revoil (1816-1882) who lived in United States between 1841 and 1849. The author describes a wide variety of amrican animals as eagle, mustang, coyote, opossum, racoons, cani della prateria, grizzly, buffalo but also pigeons, wild cat, caribou, during his movements in Mississipi, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisville, Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Edisto, Canada, New Brunswick etc... Beautiful full page illustrations by Jean Edouard Van D'Argent (1824-1889). In the internal part of front plate paper of assignation of the volume as a prize to a student dated 1877-78. Full cloth editorial cover with golden title in the spine and embossed decorations in the plates. In very good conditions. Full cloth editorial cover with golden title and embossed decorations in very good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with foxings.
331 p. incl. front., plates. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Features: My wonderful country - Joe Lee, the most famous of all Navajo Indian traders; La Pondre's Nuggets; A Total Breakdown of Justice - execution of an Chinese man in California; Helena, Texas says die; Ta-Tanka-Buffalo; Famous old bridge to the west - the Muscatine over the Mississippi; Socorro killer - Joel Fowler was lynched in New Mexico; Badge of honour - land and cattle gave the Californian prestige; Come and get it! - boarding houses were run by women; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Three Generations of Lawman - the Roy Johnston Family at Yukon, Oklahoma; The Myth of Deadwood Dick - six men who vied for the honor of being the 'hero' who never existed; Noisy, Sinful Goldfield, Nevada; And the Band Played On!; Wrangling Dudes in Yellowstone; Quicksand - Nature's Booby Trap; Silent Night of the Hermit; Fastest Track West of the Mississippi - some unforgettable races in old Spokane; The Fine Art of Ignoring Trouble - the town of Two Dot; Buried Riches on Old Horn's Peak; Murdered in Church - Socorro, New Mexico; Fishing in Idaho - spear heads; Mein Herr Gets a Look at Aljaska Land - first pictures ever published in Germany portraying 'Seward's icebox' (the former Russian America); and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. One inch opening at top of cover fold. Nice copy. Magazine
