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1865WRCAM50649Washington 1865. 7pp. Folio gathered signatures. Light soiling to outer leaves internally clean. Very good. An important western treaty concluded Oct. 12 1863 ratification advised with amendment by the Senate March 7 1864 amendment accepted Nov. 24 1864 proclaimed by Lincoln Jan. 17 1865. "The treaty stipulates a cessation of all hostilities and depredations upon the emigrant trains mail and telegraph lines; freedom of all routes through Indian country; permission for the erection of forts and establishment of station-houses telegraph and overland stage lines and to prospect the country for gold and silver" - Eberstadt. Sets boundaries for the tribe in western Utah. EBERSTADT 126. GOODSPEED'S 76. unknown books
1866WRCAM50657AWashington 1866. 6pp. Folio gathered signatures. Mild soiling and toning. Very good. After the Civil War the government moved quickly to control the western Indian tribes and this treaty is one of the first actions taken. The treaty was concluded Oct. 19 1865 at Fort Sully Dakota Territory amended and proclaimed March 17 1866. The treaty calls for the Sioux's subjugation to the U.S. government the ceasing of Sioux attacks on whites and their withdrawal from overland routes made through their country. The government agrees to pay them $7000 annually for twenty years for allowing free travel on these routes. The treaty is signed in print by Brig. Gen. Sibley among others. EBERSTADT 130. unknown books
1855WRCAM50640Washington 1855. 7pp. Printed on blue paper. Folio stitched as issued. Gatherings loose. Edges toned internally clean. Very good. Concluded September 10 1853 proclaimed February 5 1855. Concluded by Joel Palmer at Table Rock in Oregon Territory. The Rogue River tribe agrees to sell their lands between Rogue River and Siskiyou Mountains in return for $60000. EBERSTADT 109. unknown books
1854WRCAM50634Washington 1854. 6pp. Printed on blue paper. Folio stitched as issued. Concluded May 18 1854 proclaimed July 17 1854. Important Indian treaty accomplished during the Pierce administration in which the Kickapoo tribe ceded to the United States their lands southwest of the Missouri River in Kansas. The compensation given the Indians was $300000. It was concluded May 18 1854 and proclaimed July 17 1854. EBERSTADT 61. unknown books
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 148 pages.
1881090450.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2019169605Les deux royaumes Les deux royaumes, 2019. In-4 relié plein cartonnage éditeur. Très bon état.
2018295859New York: Basic Books 2018. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. xxii 281 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w.; very minor scuffing to bottom front edge New York: Basic Books 2018. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Basic Books unknown books
2018157272New York: Basic Books 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.; 9.6 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 304 pages. Basic Books hardcover
2018002288New York: Basic Books/ Hachette Book Group 2018. First American Edition 1ST Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. May 2018. Concerning impeachment authors " . . . illuminate its proper role in our age of broken politics. "front flap 241 pp. plus: Acknowledgments Notes Selected Further Reading Index About the Authors. Book has very slight wear at head of spine ow it is as-new. Unclipped DJ has light edge/shelf wear. Flatsigned SIGNED by L. Tribe. Bookseller's Inventory # 202288. <br/> <br/> Basic Books/ Hachette Book Group hardcover
82 pages. Features: Harry Shuler Dent; An ABM Primer; Alaska Wildfires; The impoverished Havasupai tribe; Las Vegas reaches a new pinnacle of preposterousnous; Rockefeller's tour of Central and South America; The Lesson of Ben Het in Vietnam; Land for South Vietnam's peasants; Ad for the VW Squareback sedan; Heroin deaths in NYC; Oriole pitcher Dave McNally; Are courts more severe with black defendants; Reinforcement Therapy; Singer Tom Jones - article with photo; The Jackson brothers hog hollering in Spivery's Corner NC; Diagram illustrates bioaccumulation of toxins; The Art of Henry Tanner; Sex as a Spectator Sport - changing sexual attitudes in the U.S.; Conversations on the new Eroticism - article which includes photo of Billy Graham in Times Square smut shop; Article on bank credit cards; Copycat ads; Oakland Raider Art Powell starts successful business Black & Brown Trading Stamp Co.; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1973158777Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1973. XVI, 511 Seiten. Mit einigen schwarzweißen Abbildungen im Text. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: Hunting Wild Cattle - an Englishman's stirring adventures while catching bulls in Patagonia; My Mine-Sweeping Experiences - Joe W. White describes his WWI mine-sweeping and submarine-hunting adventures in home waters - a valuable record of the dangerous work and daring methods employed by our fishermen in destroying enemy mines and driving away submarines - with great photos; The Golden Nugget (short story); The One-Handed Hunter and the Rhinocerous; In the Wilds of Siberia - Part III - fascinating narrative with many photos of convicts/prisoners; My Adventures with the Wanderobo (a warlike African tribe); The Strange Order of the Dervishes - article with great photos; Filming the Sea Elephant; The Adventures of a Newspaperman - part 5 - some wartime experiences with German spies and other curious characters; My Week-End at Freetown - a picturesque account of the capital of Sierra Leone, with photos; Relief Worker's Adventures - part III - thrilling photo-illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia (The American Committee for the Relief of War Victims in the East); Kangaroo Hunting and Bark-Stripping; My South African Adventures - part 2; Canary Birds at School - French methods of breeding and training canaries; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with loss to bottom of back strip and openings between front cover and spine at each end. Bit of writing on back cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
88 Pages plus 16 pages of ads. Features: A Girl of the Island - a beautiful girl is shipwrecked on a lonely tropic island; A Man's Luck - Part III - Hjalmar Rutzebeck story of life and love in the Far North; The Mystery of Charlie Ross - tragic story of the kidnapping of four-year-old Charlie Ross from his home near Philadelphia; My Island of Dreams - Part I of the adventures of amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings - with his photos; Taming the Head-Hunters - author and a party of ten police enter the little-known hill country of British North Borneo to punish a tribe of head-hunting Dyaks; Through Central America on Horseback - Part IV of Eugene Cunningham's trip by horseback through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala, with his photos; Our Canoe Trip - Carleton L. Dyer and a friend canoe in the wilds of Northern Ontario; The Feast of the Vultures - a remarkable annual festival near Constantine, in Algeria; A Pocket Republic - photo-illustrated account of a visit to the remarkable Republic of Andorra; Attacked by an Octopus - a fisherman's terrible experience on the coast of California; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 354-440 plus 24 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Bullet-proof Scotchman - an adventure of John Mundell in the Pampas of Uruguay; ; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part I - wonderful photos in China; An Exciting Trading Trip - efforts to trade with a warlike tribe in East Africa; Some Strange WWI Escapes from Germany - part II; Interesting photo and short article of Dog Rib Indians in Canada receiving their annual grant of one pound, as well as presents, from the Canadian government; Among the Wild Tribes of Darien - exploring the native tribes of Panama - with great photos; Stories of the War - Thirty Hours in No Man's Land - in WWI an Australian trooper on the Western Front is wounded and must make his way back to his own lines; Siringa's Last Battle - a native boy helps in one of the first fights in German East Africa, A Week in a Lens Dungeon - McLean and Ebbs of the 87th Canadian Battalion hid in a cellar for a week before making their way back to their lines; Miraculous Escapes from Sunken Submarines; An Adventurous Hunt After Man-eating Crocodiles - in Victoria Nyanza; The Mountain Warriors of France - excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - part II of what happend when Zulus killed an Englishman to use his body for love medicine; Wonders of Northern Syria - article with many great photos of architectural remains; Carter's Exoneration - a stirring story of the Australian Mounted Police. Great multi-page advertising feature on the Waterproof Products Corporation. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
200346526Stuttgart, Dino entertainment AG, 2002, 2003. 153, 156, 155 Seiten , 19 cm, Hardcover/Pappeinband
598p. Large 8vo. Penciled underlings. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket over a Maritime New York State College dust jacket. AFRICA/3
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (green/brown respectively), gilt backs, both very good, bright, clean copies in unclipped dustwrapper.
20081-1846075726Bbc Pubns 2008. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 192 pages. 9.96x7.64x0.79 inches. Bbc Pubns hardcover
20101-1846079861Bbc Pubns 2010. Hardcover. New. hardcover edition. 128 pages. 7.99x5.20x0.43 inches. Bbc Pubns hardcover
1988249466Salt Lake City U.S.A./Cambridge U.K.: University of Utah Press/Cambridge University Press 1988. Volume 9. Ex-Library book. No Jacket. Brown hardcover looks a bit worn and grubby with signs of wear at corners and ends of spine. Contents in very good clean condition. Ex-Library sticker to spine front inside cover and FEP. E. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. University of Utah Press/Cambridge University Press Hardcover
62440332University of Illinois Press pp. 408 . Papeback. New. University of Illinois Press unknown
