Humphrey, Grace

The Story of the Marys

Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Edward Shenton. Signed by Author(s). 203p. Black cloth. gilt title. Edgewear anc chipping to head of spine, 1/2 inch chip near bottom of spine, contents are mildly toned but clean. SIGNED INSCRIPTION by author on front free endpaper. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002367

Catalogue: Children's, History

Keywords: Queen Royalty England Signed

James

Introduction to the Manual of Geography Designed for Junior Classes ini Public and Private Schools.

New York, Chicago and New Orleans, A.S. Barnes & Company, 1867. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 61pp. Pictorial paper over boards. Very light wear to cover, text is clean and sound, foxing to endpapers. Thirteen color maps, plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. An attractive and well-preserved book. Very Good.

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Book number: 004646

Catalogue: History, Geography, Textbook

Keywords: Textbook School Maps Geography

Jankowski, Stanislaw and Ciborowski. Adolf

Warsaw 1945 and Today

Warsaw, Interpress Publishers, 1971. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 119pp + 22pp photos. Beige cloth. Book is in sound condition, contents mildly toned. Dustjacket is lightly soiled and worn mainly along top edge. Laid-in is a 44 page "Warsaw Tourist Guide" from same publisher also dated 1971. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001858

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, History

Keywords: Europe Poland "World War II"

Kark, Norman (Publisher)

To-day (Photo World) Picturing Today. Vol. 14-No.1

London, Norman Kark, 1953. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft cover. 96pp. Stapled illustrated wraps. Shelfwear and light soil to cover, contents lightly worn. contents lightly toned but sound. Commerative issue featuring the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth; many illustrations. Good.

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Book number: 001001

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Royalty England Britain Coronation Pageantry "Queen Elizabeth"

King, Martin Luther Jr.

Stride Toward Freedom ; The Montgomery Story

New York, Water Committee of the City of Brooklyn, 1958. First Paperback Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. Mike Davis - Photography. 190pp. Mass market first paperback edition. Light wear to cover, slight corner crease, contents age-toned, binding is tight. Dr. King's early implementation of non violent resistance. Good.

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Book number: 004165

Catalogue: American History, Social History, African-American

Keywords: Ebenezer Abernathy Alabama "Civil Rights"

Kingdon, Frank

"That Man" in the White House; You and Your President

New York, Arco Publishing Company, 1944. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft cover. 77pp. Stapled stiff wraps. Light edgewear, contents mildly toned but clean. A series of essays on World War II dealing with many of the issues current today. Includes a message by Rex Stout. Very Good.

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Book number: 003508

Catalogue: American History, Government and Politics

Keywords: Roosevelt "WW II"

Kippis, A.

Captain Cook's Voyages' With an Accounr of His Life,during the Previous and Intervening periods

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 404pp. Brown cloth, paper labels to cover and spine, 12 illustrations. Faint stains to boards, spine ends lightly chipped, text is age-toned and has very scattered foxing, and binding is tight. Book is overall sound. Good.

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Book number: 002696

Catalogue: History, Travel and Voyages

Keywords: Sailing Seafaring

Knickerbocker, Diedrich (Washington Irving)

A History of New -York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

Glasgow, John Wylie & Co. 1821. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 372pp. Full leather, leather label. Neatly rebacked, original label, some chipping to upper edges, but binding is overall sound. Text is tanned and occasionally foxed, some separation at title page, owner's name on title page, binding is tight. Good.

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Book number: 003128

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Humor, History

Keywords: Satire

Labaume, Eugene

A Circumstantial Narrative of The Campaign in Russia, Embellished with Plans of the Battle of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz

London, Printed for Samuel Leigh in the Strand, 1815. Fourth Edition, Considerably Improved, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 269pp. 2 folding battle plans. Original paper boards. Cover is worn and soiled, retaped and split, contents age-darkened, front endpaper mising, some loose signatures, insecting by considerate bugs who dined mainly in the margins, owner's name on title page, folding maps are age-darkened, edgewear to one map, both maps complete, and text is complete. Poor.

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Book number: 003373

Catalogue: Military, History

Keywords: Moscow Vistula Wilna Napoleon Doroghoboui Kaluga

De Lamartine, A

History of the French Revolution of 1848. (2 Volumes in 1)

Boston, Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1849. First American Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 245, 270pp, 2 volumes bound as one. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Corners and spine ends chipped, joints cracking but holding, binding is tight, frontispiece and endpapers heavily foxed, rest of contents mainly clean and unmarked. Good.

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Book number: 003118

Catalogue: Military, History

Keywords: Barrot "Louis Philippe" Girardin Lamartine France

Lazare, Edward J. (Compiler)

The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed By the Late Thomas Wintrop Streeter; Index , A Dictionary Check-list of the Seven Sale Catalogues October 1966-October 1969

New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. 1970. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 352pp. Blue cloth, silver lettering. Spine is faded, book is otherwise in clean and unworn condition. Original clear vinyl jacket has a 2 inch tear mended with tape. Near Fine.

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Book number: 003565

Catalogue: American History, Books About Books, American West

Keywords: "Rare Books" Voyages" "The West"

Lee, Cazenove Gardner Jr.

Lee Chronicle : Studies of the Early Generations of the Lees of Virginia

New York, New York University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 411pp. Grey cloth in grey slipcase. Spine is sunned, book is otherwise near fine. Slipcase has light fading and soiling, corners lightly rubbed, dturdy and solid. Background and lives of Lee family members, by a descendant of them. Illustrated. Very Good.

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Book number: 003329

Catalogue: American History, Biography, Military

Keywords: "Civil War" Confederacy

Lowitz, Sadyebeth and Anson

The Pilgrims' Party

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Oblong 8vo. Hardcover. Anson Lowitz. Signed by Author and Illustrator. Approx. 80pp unpaginated. Pictorial boards. Half-inch abrasion along edge of front board, other Ight wear, contents mildly age-toned and clean. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by authors and illustrator on dedication page. Illustrations accompany text throughout. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004306

Catalogue: American History, Children's

Keywords: "Plymouth Rock" Plymouth Massachusetts Mayflower

Mackay, Charles

Life and Liberty in America : Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-58.

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1859. First American Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. viii, 413pp, 10 illustrations. Brown embossed cloth, gilt spine lettering, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Light wear to corners and spine ends, slight splitting to rear joint, covers faded, spine still readable, contents age yellowed. The author's travels and observations during his visit to United States. Good.

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Book number: 003940

Catalogue: Social History, Travel and Geography

Keywords: Slavery Ethnicity Culture

Mahan, A.T.

Makers of American History ; Admiral Farragut

New York, The University Society, 1905. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 333pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Spine moderately sunned, gilt lettering bright, owners bookplate on front pastedown, text is clean and sound, binding is tight. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003051

Catalogue: American History, Biography, Military

Keywords: Navy Vicksburg Porter