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Boston, Mass.: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Frontispiece, a large fold out map. Pink, blue and white pages. Business, house, street directory and miscellaneous information. Manchester, New Hampshire ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .
Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44 by Fremont, Brevit Captain J.(ohn) C.(Charles) - 1846
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Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44
by Fremont, Brevit Captain J.(ohn) C.(Charles)
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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprinted from the original copy issued in wraps by the Senate in 1845 (Howes F370). Issued without maps or plates. This is the stirring account of Fremont's early explorations. John C. Frémont,(1813- 1890) was an American military officer and an early explorer and mapmaker of the American West, who was one of the principal figures in opening up that region to settlement and was instrumental in the U.S. conquest and development of California. He was also a politician who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency in 1856 as the first candidate of the newly formed Republican Party. Bound in contemporary black cloth with debossed design to covers and gilt titling to spine. Binding is bumped and soiled. Interior pages generally very good with scattered foxing throughout. Pencil notes on rear free endpaper. A nice copy. Octavo. 186 pages plus 6 pages of publisher advertisements. TRAVEL/032931.
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THE MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE DIRECTORY For the Year Ending November 1, 1926 (Vol. LXI)
by Sampson & Murdock
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Biographical Review (Volume XXIII) : Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties, New Hampshire
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Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .
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1898 Mt. Holyoke College Yearbook: Llamarada
by The Board of Editors
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Privately Printed by the Press of the Bryant Printing Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Original 1898 Mt. Holyoke College Yearbook: Llamarada. Bound in dark-red cloth with silver gilt lettering and botanical decoration to front panel. Much historical content, including rosters of faculty, students, alumni and much, much more. Densely illustrated with photos and drawings. Includes many period ads. Obituary of 10th President Elizabeth Storrs Mead laid in. 260 pp. + 34 pp. of ads. Tight, unmarked copy with one slightly pulled but strongly attached signature. Light shelf wear to extremities. In all, a very presentable copy of an important historical resource. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book: Every recipe triple-tested by our Tasting-Test Kitchens staff
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Meredith Publishing Company, 1953. Binder Condition: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Five (5) Ring Binder. Stated First Edition, fifth printing. 416 pp +four bonus pages of recipes clipped from the Better Homes & Gardens magazine with dates of March 1949; January, 1950; November, 1956; and February, 1957. Small tear on page 59 caused by a paperclip that was removed. Text is lightly tanned typical of age and edges are lightly sunned. No written notations within although a few recipes are marked with a small checkmark. 20 numbered pink card stock chapter index tabs including an index. Loose-leaf binder with 5 metal rings in excellent like new condition; all pages are original and are clean and complete. Card stock binder protector after index. This edition has illustrated front and back endpapers, with pink temperature and measurement charts and a full color photograph of a blue and white rolling pin and several pies, which is continued onto the title page. This is a classic, rare copy in Fine…
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March, 1875 South New Jersey Newspaper, The Vineland Rural, With Supplement
by Landis, Charles K.
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Charles Landis, Vineland, NJ, 1875; 21" x 28", 4 pgs., plus 2 pg. Supplement. March, 1875 issue of The Vineland Rural newspaper, published by dynamic 19th century visionary Charles K. Landis (1833-1900), founder, designer, developer, and promoter of Vineland, New Jersey. After traveling throughout the United States in search of an ideal location, Landis settled upon Cumberland County, New Jersey as the site to realize his plan for a place of beautiful homes, manufacturies, businesses, schools, and churches, populated by hardworking, prosperous, contented citizens, all laid out with a mind toward beauty, and surrounded by thriving farms. "I desired to make Vineland so desirable a place to live in by reason of its various privileges, and over all to throw such a halo of beauty, as to make people loath to leave it." After purchasing 20,000 acres in 1861 from prominent Quaker landowner Richard D. Wood, Landis quickly set about drawing up plans, clearing a wide boulevard, and…
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THE MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE DIRECTORY For the Year Ending November 1, 1926 (Vol. LXI)
by Sampson & Murdock
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Boston, Mass.: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Frontispiece, a large fold out map. Pink, blue and white pages. Business, house, street directory and miscellaneous information. Manchester, New Hampshire ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .
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Biographical Review (Volume XXIII) : Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties, New Hampshire
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Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .
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1898 Mt. Holyoke College Yearbook: Llamarada
by The Board of Editors
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Privately Printed by the Press of the Bryant Printing Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Original 1898 Mt. Holyoke College Yearbook: Llamarada. Bound in dark-red cloth with silver gilt lettering and botanical decoration to front panel. Much historical content, including rosters of faculty, students, alumni and much, much more. Densely illustrated with photos and drawings. Includes many period ads. Obituary of 10th President Elizabeth Storrs Mead laid in. 260 pp. + 34 pp. of ads. Tight, unmarked copy with one slightly pulled but strongly attached signature. Light shelf wear to extremities. In all, a very presentable copy of an important historical resource. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book: Every recipe triple-tested by our Tasting-Test Kitchens staff
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Meredith Publishing Company, 1953. Binder Condition: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Five (5) Ring Binder. Stated First Edition, fifth printing. 416 pp +four bonus pages of recipes clipped from the Better Homes & Gardens magazine with dates of March 1949; January, 1950; November, 1956; and February, 1957. Small tear on page 59 caused by a paperclip that was removed. Text is lightly tanned typical of age and edges are lightly sunned. No written notations within although a few recipes are marked with a small checkmark. 20 numbered pink card stock chapter index tabs including an index. Loose-leaf binder with 5 metal rings in excellent like new condition; all pages are original and are clean and complete. Card stock binder protector after index. This edition has illustrated front and back endpapers, with pink temperature and measurement charts and a full color photograph of a blue and white rolling pin and several pies, which is continued onto the title page. This is a classic, rare copy in Fine…
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March, 1875 South New Jersey Newspaper, The Vineland Rural, With Supplement
by Landis, Charles K.
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Charles Landis, Vineland, NJ, 1875; 21" x 28", 4 pgs., plus 2 pg. Supplement. March, 1875 issue of The Vineland Rural newspaper, published by dynamic 19th century visionary Charles K. Landis (1833-1900), founder, designer, developer, and promoter of Vineland, New Jersey. After traveling throughout the United States in search of an ideal location, Landis settled upon Cumberland County, New Jersey as the site to realize his plan for a place of beautiful homes, manufacturies, businesses, schools, and churches, populated by hardworking, prosperous, contented citizens, all laid out with a mind toward beauty, and surrounded by thriving farms. "I desired to make Vineland so desirable a place to live in by reason of its various privileges, and over all to throw such a halo of beauty, as to make people loath to leave it." After purchasing 20,000 acres in 1861 from prominent Quaker landowner Richard D. Wood, Landis quickly set about drawing up plans, clearing a wide boulevard, and…
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Attempt on Roosevelt Life
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
by Leaf, Munro
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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DOLLY MADISON: WOMEN OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, cocked spine, bumping & fraying to spine ends, pencil marking to FFE, owner's name to title page, a couple of small tears to title page else still a bright and solid copy. SA 6/21
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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BOSTON ~ 150 VIEWS: One Hundred and Fifty Glimpses of Boston and Historical Surroundings
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Union News Company , New York and Boston, circa 1910, Very Good Stapled Softcover, 50 pages, 10" x 7", 150 photographs of Boston points of interest, landmarks, buildings, bridges, street views and more.
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