City Art Museum of St. Louis: Handbook of the Collections

St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth. x, 272pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, decorated endpapers. Very good. Errata slip tipped to frontispiece verso. Later printing. .

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Book number: 415

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Keywords: ART; ARCHITECTURE; MISSOURI Art Illinois & Midwest

CIVIL War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865

Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. Paperback. Small 4to. First five volumes (out of six) in stiff pictorial wrappers. iv, 41pp; iv, 117pp; iv, 169pp; iv, 151pp; vi, 149pp. Numerous illustrations. Overall very good. First edition. This extremely detailed day-to-day chronology may not be annotated, as Nevins points out, but still provides a vast amount of useful data and makes an excellent reference tool. NEVINS I, 236. .

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Book number: 24655

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War

The CIVIL War: An Emergent New America -- a Conference in Celebration of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Gettysburg College

[Gettysburg, PA], Gettysburg College, 1957. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. (4pp). Very good. Ownership signature at bottom of front wrapper. Handsome program for this scholarly gathering, listing featured speakers such as Allan Nevins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Roy F. Nichols, David Donald and Clyde G. Walton. Laid in is a separate program for this conference's music concert and a printed reservation card. From the library of noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold Gates (1914-93). .

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Book number: 26159

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Keywords: Civil War

CIVIL War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865

Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. Paperback. Small 4to. Five volumes (out of six) in stiff pictorial wrappers. iv, 41pp; iv, 117pp; iv, 169pp; iv, 151pp; vi, 149pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Near fine. Boldly signed on the front wrapper of the first part by E.M. Eller, Director of Naval History, whose Navy Department office was responsible for compiling these volumes This extremely detailed day-to-day chronology may not be annotated, as Nevins points out, but still provides a vast amount of useful data and makes an excellent reference tool. NEVINS I, 236. .

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Book number: 27741

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War

CIVIL War Story: A Review at Centennial Time

[Cincinnati], Troy Savings Bank, 1961. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 20pp). Illustrations, color pictorial foldout map at rear. Near fine. Interesting promotional item, being a month-by-month chronology of the war's major events, with a charming "Civil War Map Depicting Locations and Events of the War Years 1861-1865" foldout map tipped to the inside rear wrapper. Probable sole printing. Tight and attractive. .

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Book number: 28575

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Keywords: Civil War

The CIVIL War: Photographs from the Special Collections of the Library of Congress -- a Book of Postcards

San Francisco, Pomegranate Artbooks, [n.y.]. Paperback. Wide 32mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 62pp). Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Edition not ascertainable. Tight, handsome copy of this gathering of 30 heavy stock picture postcards. .

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Book number: 30376

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CIVIL War Game: Master CIVIL War History & Geography

Charlottesville, Educational Materials Associates, 1994. Hardcover. 4to. Original pictorial paper over boards box housing instruction booklet, map, poster, other paper inserts. Very good/fine. Minor edgewear to box, but all contents present and unused. "New Deluxe Edition" of this revised edition of a board game first published in 1974 and reissued several times since. Complete and quite nice -- touted on the box as "America's #1 Map Game. .

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Book number: 30378

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CIVIL War: A Catalog of Books in the Army Library Pertinent to the American CIVIL War

N.p. [Washington, D.C.], Department of the Army, 1961. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. 51pp. Fine. "Mainly a general and campaign bibliography, but useful for material on arms and special services." -- Nevins. NEVINS II, 30. .

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Book number: 574

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CIVIL War History Book Reviews

Collection of about a dozen offprints of the book review section of Civil War History (Iowa City: State University of Iowa) between March 1956 and December 1959, plus offprints of another CWH articles, small 4to, bound in stiff red boards and plastic comb binding. Approx. 200pp. Fine. A number of Arnold Gates' book reviews appear in these offprints. Unusual collection. .

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Book number: 575

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War

CIVIL War Ordnance-I

Washington, D.C. American Ordnance Association, 1961. Paperback. 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. 32pp. Illustrations. Fine. Excellent collection of articles reprinted from "Ordnance" magazine, including "Civil War Small Arms" and "Artillery Forward!" by Fairfax Downey. .

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Book number: 576

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War

Clues to America's Past

Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 199pp. Color frontispiece, numerous color photographs, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. First edition. Fascinating study of archeology in the U.S. .

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Book number: 1217

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Keywords: NATIVE AMERICAN Native American

Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus Official Program and Daily Magazine

N.p. N.p. 1961. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glazed color pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 50pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Bibliographically frustrating, but a tight, handsome issue nonetheless. Housed in a modern heavy mil mylar protective sleeve. .

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Book number: 7510

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Keywords: Film & Theater

Coachella Valley Desert Trails: The Salton Sea Saga and the Romance and Sex Life of the Date

[Indio, CA, Shields Date Gardens], 1960. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 39pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Very good. Tight and attractive later printing of the 1957 fifteenth edition -- a promotional piece for this landmark seller of dates, a local tourist attraction. .

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Book number: 32875

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Keywords: Western Americana

Collection of Traditional Amana Recipes: Family-Size Recipes of the Foods Prepared and Served in the Amana Villages for over a Century

Homestead, IA, The Ladies Auxiliary of the Homestead Welfare Club, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Black decorated cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 120 pp. Decorations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Jacket a bit aged tone, mainly on the spine, and with several small edge chips along the top. First edition -- tight, clean, charming. Homestyle cookbook containing recipes for everything from "kuchen schnitten" (French dessert toast) to "nonnen kuchen" (nun's cake). .

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Book number: 743

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Keywords: COOKING Cooking

The Collector's Guide to Antiquarian Bookstores

New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. Hardcover. Introduction by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxx, 529pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this in-depth guide to "the way we were" -- with a fine archival decorative-edged bookplate on the front flyleaf signed by the two Grand Doyennes of antiquarian bookselling, Rostenberg (1909-2005) and Stern (1912-2007). .

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Book number: 36591

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Keywords: Bibliography & Books About Books