Anonymous,

Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Michigan for the year ending April 30, 1940.

Bay City, MI, Grand Lodge Michigan, (1940. G. Purple binding, gilt lettering & decoration spine. First blank page removed, edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS035584I

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Anson, Robert Sam,

War News: a young reporter in Indochina.

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1989). 1st ptg. G in G DJ. DJ edge wear, tear at edge of spine bottom, dent at top of ft cover.

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Book number: BOOKS023923I

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and Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities,

Boston and the Parker House: a chronicle of those who have lived in that historic spot where Parker House now stands.

Boston, J. R. Whipple Corp, 1927. VG. Paste down pictorial cover showing historic plaque. Laid in notice from Sherrill Press about the Boston Tercentenary. Gray blue binding, gilt decoration black lettering. Slight fading toward binding edges.

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Book number: BOOKS047638I

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Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities,

Old-Time New England: Summer-Fall 1978 Vol LXIX nos. 1-2 Serial Nos. 253-2541.

Boston, MA, Society Presersvation, 1978. VG PB. 18th century Field Patterns as Vernacular Art by Stewart G. McHenry. Crease to top of front cover, slight soil.

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Book number: BOOKS052014I

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D'Antonio, Michael,

Hershey.

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2006). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Real life rags-to-riches story of Milton Sh. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose. created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day. The son of a minister's daughter and an irresponsible father who deserted the family began his career inauspiciously when the two candy shops he opened both went bankrupt. Undeterred he started the Lancaster Caramel Company which he eventually sold and went on to perfect the production process of chocoate to create a stable consistent bar with a long shelf life and an American icon was born. A progressive thinker he built the largest chocolate factory and a utopian village for his workers on a large tract of land in rural Pennsylvania. During the Great Depression he used his own fortune to keep his workers employed and in addition secretly willed his fortune to a boys' school and orphanage both of which now control a vast endowment.

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Book number: BOOKS045416I

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Appelbaum, Stanley,

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: a photographic record.

NY, Dover, (1980). VG lg sz PB. Photos from collections of the Avery Library Columbia University & Chicago Historical Society.

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Book number: BOOKS037069I

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Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson, edited and with introductions by,

The Women's West.

Norman, Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1987). 6th ptg. VG lg sz PB. 21 articles about pioneer women who were actors in their own lives, not passive participants in their husbands' ventures. Hardy seeker who came west, sometimes alone, in search of jobs, freedom, or land to homestead. Political activists who worked tireless to win the right to vote and to hold political office.

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Book number: BOOKS047704I

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Armstrong, Richard,

The Discoverers.

NY, Praeger, (1970). 2nd ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Usual library markings. Last flyleaf missing.

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Book number: BOOKS008167I

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Armstrong, Richard,

The Early Mariners.

NY, Praeger, (1970). 2nd ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Usual library markings. Last flyleaf missing.

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Book number: BOOKS008168I

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Armstrong, Moses K.,

The Early Empire Builders of the Great West: compiled and enlarged from author's early history of Dakota Territory 1866.

St. Paul, MN, E. W. Porter, 1901. VG. Maroon binding, gilt lettering. Edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS043343I

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Armstrong, Warren (pseudonym of William Bennett),

Fire Down Below: true stories of the most disastrous fires aboard ship.

NY, John Day, (1968). G in G DJ ex-library. A seaman recounts horrors of worst modern nautical fire disasters. Chronicles negligence & lack of foresight that. paved way for these tragedies, selfishness & panic that turned doomed ships into hells on earth. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS034523I

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Armstrong, Karen,

Islam: a short history.

NY, Modern Library, (2000). 7th ptg. VG in VG DJ. A vital corrective to the popular theory that Islam is an extreme faith that provokes authoritarian government, female. oppression, civil war and terrorism, not the much richer and more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest. Crease to edge of front DJ flap at top.

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Book number: BOOKS043900I

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Armstrong, Hamilton Fish,

We or They: two worlds in conflict.

NY, Macmillan, 1937. VG in VG DJ. DJ rubbed. Owner inscrip. fep. Two rival conceptions of life democratic & the dictatorial locked in conflict in the world.

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Book number: BOOKS005688I

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Department of the U.S. Army,

American Military History: 1607-1953, Dept. of Army ROTC manual: ROTCM 145-20.

Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt Ptg. Office, 1956. VG. Corners bumped. From the beginnings of the American Revolution through the Korean War, America's military history.

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Book number: BOOKS001126I

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Captain in the National Army,

Italy at War and the Allies in the West: the war on all fronts.

NY, Scribner, 1917. VG. Italy was holding a front that was longer than the French, British and Belgian fronts combined, more than 450 miles, she. alone among the allies was doing most of the fighting on the enemy's soil, fighting an army which was 4th in Europe in numbers, third in quality, and probably second in equipment. Red embossed binding, gilt lettering on spine.

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Book number: BOOKS046552I

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