Randolph, Edmund

Hell Among the Yearlings

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1978. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxvi, 406, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, plus seven additional illustrations; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Early 20th century Montana and the cattle business in the post open range times. Very good .

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Book number: 19183

Catalogue: Western Americana

Reynolds, Charles B.

The Standard Guide, Washington, a Handbook for Visitors

Washington DC, Foster & Reynolds, 1899. Later printing, the first edition appeared in 1896. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (9), 10-166; Illustrated, photographs, maps and plans, a folding map; Index at the front of the guide; pictorial blue cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A lovely visitor's guide to the American National Capitol. Very good .

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Book number: 14000

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Washington Dc; Travel Guides; Middle Atlantic Americana

(Richards, Thomas W.)

The Lonaconing Legacy; Its Cornish and Scottish Sons and Daughters

(Arlington Va.), Thomas W. Richards, Sally Miller Atkinson, 2000. Limited Edition, 1/500 copies privately printed. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 379, bibliography, index; frontispiece and many photographs, diagrams, maps; black cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. Genealogy and a history of this Western Maryland Mining town. Inscribed by the Publisher on the front free endpaper. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14690

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; Regional; Maryland; Genealogy Middle Atlantic Americana

Roosevelt, Nicholas

The Townsend Plan Taxing for Sixty; Introduction by Lewis W. Douglas

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. viii, (ii), 81; red cloth lettered in black in a dust jacket; Very good in a jacket with a faded spine and a little wear at edges. The Townsend Plan was a proposal by Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired medical doctor, during the Great Depression for an old-age pension in the United States. For a few years it spawned a popular movement, but with the passage of Social Security the Townsend movement lost most of its steam.Cousin and intimate friend and advisor to both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Nicholas had a long and interesting life and career. Very good/good +.

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Book number: 13192

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Politics & Politicians

Rose, Robert T. Edited by Gene M. Gressley

Advocates and Adversaries; the Early Life and Times of Robert R. Rose

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1977. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 322 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece and ten additional plates including a map; dark blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. A never before published account of the activities of Robert R. Rose during the eight years he practiced law in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Very good .

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Book number: 19023

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Lakeside Classic

Rosenthal, Michael

The Character Factory; Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire

New York, Pantheon, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 335, index; black and white photographs; gilt lettered cream linen and cream paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket; With an errata slip. Interesting analysis of motivation and effect of the Scouting movement in the waning of the British Empire. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14719

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Boy Scouts; England; Imperialism; Empire;

Sheldon, George

A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts. A Facsimile of the 1895-96 Edition with Forewords by Amelia F. Miller and Donald R. Friary. Two Volumes

Deerfield, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1983. Facsimilie reprint. Cloth. Octavo (6" x 9"), green cloth with gilt titles. 672, 477pp. with historical and genealogical indices. Illustrated with black and white photos at the front of each volume. A vertical crease down the spine, and some scuffs and a few faint white spots on the spine of of volume I. Very good .

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Book number: 19415

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; Massachusetts; Deerfield; Genealogy Massachusetts

Shofner, Jerrell H.

Daniel Ladd: Merchant Prince of Frontier Florida

Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth. 180pp. with index, notes and bibliography. Illustrated with frontispiece and three maps. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 10790

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; Florida; Economic History Southern Americana

Stanley, Henry M.

My Early Travels and Adventures in America

Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. First Bison Book printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxv, 301, index; Frontispiece portrait and a double page map; original pictorial blue paper wrappers. Stanley was on a New York Herald assignment when he visited the changing West in 1867. He travelled to Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. Very good.

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Book number: 13853

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Travel & Exploration, America, Henry M. Stanley. Western Americana. Western Americana

Stanley, Henry M.

My Early Travels and Adventures in America

Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. First Bison Book printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxv, 301, index; Frontispiece portrait and a double page map; original pictorial blue paper wrappers. Stanley was on a New York Herald assignment when he visited the changing West in 1867. He travelled to Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. Very good.

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Book number: 16711

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Travel & Exploration, America, Henry M. Stanley. Western Americana. Western Americana

Starkweather, H. H and others

Investigation Into the Affairs in the District of Columbia Together with; Suggestions of Mr. William E. Chandler, Counsel for the District of Columbia, in the Investigation Into the Affairs of the District Made Before the House District Committee, April 24, 1872

Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1872. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xx, 755, with index, 23; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Internally very good and complete with the addition of the Chandler "Suggestions" bound in at the rear; the binding is chipped and worn, the front joint is broken but holding, overall a fair copy externally but a good or better copy internally. This 1872 Congressional Investigation dealt with the irregularities in the running of the District. Sen Sumner also advocated for better treatment of the Negro in the District in terms of schooling. An important investigation and a look into the workings of DC in the post Civil War era and in the time of great corruption in the Grant Administration. This copy is bound with the related Chandler piece. Good + .

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Book number: 18997

Catalogue: Americana

(State of New York)

Engravings of Plans, Profiles and Maps, Illustrating the Standard Models, from Which Are Built the Important Structures of the New York State Canals, Accompanying the Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals for 1859

Albany, Charles van Benthuysen, 1860. Cloth. Albany: Charles van Benthuysen, 1860. Octavo, brown cloth decorated in blind with gilt titles. 15 folding maps and plans of canals, locks, bridges, culverts, etc. Most maps have some closed tears from rough handling, but all material is present. One map has tape repair. Sporadic foxing and some soil. Good .

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Book number: 5810

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana, Canals, Engineering, Transporation.

Stewart, James B.

Blood Sport; the President and His Adversaries

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (9), 10-479, index; Photographs; blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards lettered in silver, in a dust jacket. Bill Clinton gave his opponents plenty to work with beyond politics and policy. Stewart is a Pulitzer Prize winner and insightful writer. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14186

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Presidents; Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Clinton ; Impeachment; Arkansas; Politics; the Clintons; Hilary; Hilary Clinton; Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency

Storrs, Lee W.

Town Father, a Biography of Gamaliel Painter

New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, (2), 3-242, sources; line drawn decorations; red cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket; jacket has creases and a small chip bottom left. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Painter served in the Revolutionary War and later founded Middlebury College. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 14237

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Vermont; Vermontiana; Middlebury College; Middlebury; Signed Books; Vermontiana

Sutton, Ann and Myron

Yellowstone, a Century of the Wilderness Idea

New York, The Macmillan company, (nd). A Chanticleer Press Edition. Quarto. yellow cloth in dust jacket. Ill.: Illustrated with numerous photographs by Charles Steinhacker and others. Good in good or better jacket. Boards splayed. Small soil specks on boards. Top edge foxed. Text block tight. Jacket lightly scratched wtih light edgewear at head and tail.

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Book number: 7321

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Yellowstone, National Parks, Wildlife Refuge. Illustrated with Numerous Photographs by Charles Steinhacker and Others. Western Americana