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Wall & Nassau: An Account of the Inauguration of George Washington in Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, April 30, 1789

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bankers Trust Co.: 1939

Seller ID: 047420

ISBN: B000KLTSZC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Color printed cloth. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, slight soiling to upper back cover. 78 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w plates. Tipped-in compliments card from the Bankers Trust Co. noting the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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The Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln Collection [Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalog, 19-20 Feb. 1952]

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries: 1952

Seller ID: 051595

ISBN: B00481U8HC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light blue paper covered boards. 264 pp., 842 catalogued lots, illus. w/ b&w plates. Ex-library copy, typically marked/stamped but never circulated, minor rubbing at head of spine.
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Notes on Thomas Jefferson

By: A Citizen of Maryland [Lloyd D. Simpson]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Sherman & Co., Printers: 1885

Seller ID: 046013

ISBN: B000TNBEIA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-VG

Brown cloth, lettered/decorated in gilt and blind. Narrow bands of cloth loss and mild rubbing to spine extremities, corners rubbed with top corners somewhat layered. 182 pp. Former owner's book plate mounted on front fixed endpaper, with his address inscription on front flyleaf and verso of another front blank, a few light pencil marks to early pages of text, otherwise clean and ummarked.
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American History, Illustrated with Numerous Maps and Engravings - Vol. I: Aboriginal America

By: Abbott, Jacob

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and Boston, Sheldon & Co./Gould & Lincoln: 1860

Seller ID: 040464

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original dark mauve textured cloth. spine panel lettered in gilt. Cloth quite rubbed/flecked on front panel, spine panel tanned. Minor loss to spine extremities. Firm binding. Scattered interior soiling, generally minor. xiv,15-288 pp., illus. Former owner's signature in pencil on upper main title, dated Christmas 1864. Wear commensurate with age, but no compromising condition issues.
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Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the Present Time [Salesman's Sample]

By: Abbott, John S. C., and Russell H. Conwell

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Portland, ME, H. Hallett and Co.: 1882

Seller ID: 037979

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Goldenrod cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt and black. Salesman's dummy. Modest handling wear. Sample spine panel mounted inside front cover. Sample pages and engraved plates. Subscription blanks at rear show four entries on one page in pencil, otherwise blanek.
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Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America [Episodes of Violence in U.S. History Volume I]

By: Adamic, Louis

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Chelsea House: 1983

Seller ID: 30s049

ISBN: 0877543615

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Red stiff paper wraps. Facsimile reprint of the 2nd (1934) edition, originally republished by Chelsea in 1974. xii,495 pp. Very slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. Very scarce in this edition.
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New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801

By: Adams, Abigail; Stewart Mitchell (editor, intro.)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1947

Seller ID: 046610

ISBN: 007DKEYM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor toning to text block edges. Color illus. dust jacket chipped at corners and spine extremities, with mild rubbing along edges, now in mylar. xlii,281 pp. 1st edition (matching dates).
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The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams

By: Adams, John, and John Quincy Adams; Adrienne Koch and William Peden (editors, intro.)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1946

Seller ID: 046787

ISBN: B0007DMW7O

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to extremities, text block edges a bit dulled by age. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover, some page reference notations penciled on rear flyleaf, some checkmarks and a few neat underlinings scattered through interior. Stated 1st ed. xxxix,413,xxix pp. Dust jacket typically a bit toned, with modest soiling to rear panel, rubbed edges, now in mylar.
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Early American Newspapers and Their Printers: 1715-1783

By: Apfelbaum, Charles and Los

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Appletree Press: 1980

Seller ID: 029769

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Brown cloth, lettered in gold foil. Covers show light spotting, with slight bump to heel of spine. Text block bound in upside-down but otherwise intact. Separation of paper along front hinge at staples, otherwise intact, binding unaffected. Imprint partially inked out (original to issue), publisher retained. 300 pp., reproducing in facsimile examples of 52 different colonial American newspapers, each preceded by a two-page introduction providing title, date, printer, history, and summary of contents. All are gathered from the New England and Mid-Atlantic states, some named simply for the ...
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Native Grace: Prints of the New World, 1590-1876

By: Arader, W. Graham, III [Wendy Shadwell (intro.)]

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Charlottesville, VA, Thomasson-Grant: 1988

Seller ID: 009111

ISBN: 0934738475

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

128 pp., fully llus. w/ color plates by Catlin, Audubon, Catesby and others. Approx. 12"x12". Dark green cloth, essentially as issued; former owner signature on front flyleaf. Dust jacket shows very slight edge wear.
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Fugitive Days: A Memoir

By: Ayers, Bill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2003

Seller ID: 034560

ISBN: 0142002550

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color pictorial wraps. Slight shelf wear, a bit rubbed on upper front cover. Square, uncreased binding. [xii],308 pp.
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Amazing and Unusual USA: Hundreds of Extraordinary Sights

By: Bahr, Jeff

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Lincolnwood, IL, Publications International, Ltd.: 2009

Seller ID: 047426

ISBN: 1412716837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Glossy color pictorial boards. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows foil Christmas gift stamp mounted at bottom rear panel corner, otherwise as issued and now in mylar. 320 pp., illus. w/ color photographs. 1st ptg., complete number line.
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The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century

By: Bailyn, Bernard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press: 1955

Seller ID: 052291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark rust cloth, lettered in gilt. Relatively minor shelf wear. xi,249 pp.
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Life of President Garfield: The Complete Record of a Wonderful Career...

By: Balch, William Ralston

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edgewood Publishing Co.: 1881

Seller ID: 037532

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue cloth, lettered/decorated in gilt and black. Mild shelf wear with minor exposure at bottom corners, toned text block edges. Front hinge paper split but hinge itself firm and intact, clean interior. xxii,29-442 pp. (complete, as given). No edition or date given, but clearly a posthumous tribute to Garfield issued shortly after his 1881 assassination. Title accurate as given, not the far more common "Life of James Abram Garfield, Late President of the United States."
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The Godlike Black Dan: A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster

By: Barber, James, and Frederick Voss

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery: 1982

Seller ID: 024634

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Tan stiff wraps, lettered in black. Booklet. 48 pp., illus. in b&w. Light shelf wear. Scarce,
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Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself [Biography Complete to April, 1872]

By: Barnum, P. T.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Buffalo, NY, Warren, Johnson & Co.: 1872

Seller ID: 051661

ISBN: B00XX6VUJ8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Brown pebbled cloth, decorated in blind, spine panel lettered/illus. in gilt. Covers with surface rubbing, edges and corners rubbed with some exposure and fraying, same to spine extremities. Foxed endpapers and prelims, scattered interior foxing (generally minor). 870,[2] pp., illus. Firm binding, decent reading copy.
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In Pursuit of Purity: American Fundamentalism Since 1850

By: Beale, David O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Greenville, SC, Unusual Publications: 1986

Seller ID: RS471

ISBN: 0890843511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark blue cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Former owner's name stamp on front flyleaf and bottom text block edge, minor foxing to text block edges, otherwise as issued. xiv,457 pp. Dust jacket shows slight dampstaining to upper front flap, minor surface rubbing. 1st ptg. (complete number line).
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Writing History: Theory and Practice

By: Berger, Stefan, Heiko Feldner, and Kevin Passmore (editors)

Price: $99.95

Publisher: London, Arnold-Hodder Headline Group: 2003

Seller ID: 051253

ISBN: 0340761776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Glossy color illus. boards. New/as issued. xiv,338 pp. 1st ptg.
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Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 [Vol. I + II + III + IV, Complete in 4 Volumes - Standard Library Edition]

By: Beveridge, Albert J.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1928

Seller ID: 040452

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Complete in four (4) volumes, uniformly bound in dark blue cloth, gilt on black title/author labels mounted on upper spine panels, top text block edges in gilt. 1st thus (after limited edition). Modest shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners and spine extremities, 2 volumes with short closed tears to cloth at head of spine, one volume showing a few light scuffs to lower spine cloth, one label chipped on one side (no lettering loss). Minor surface rubbing to cover cloth. xxvi,297 + vii,310 + vii,361 + vii,381 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Bindings firm, interiors clean. Decently preserved set wi...
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The European Vision of America: Notes on the Exhibition

By: Borowitz, Helen O. (text); Gabriel P. Weisberg

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Kent, OH, Kent State Univ. Press for Cleveland Museum of Art: 1975

Seller ID: 031012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Booklet, illus. goldenrod wraps. 48 pp. As issued. Issued in conjunction with the 1975-77 traveling exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Grand Palais (Paris).
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The Meaning of the Twentieth Century: The Great Transition

By: Boulding, Kenneth E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Colophon: 1965

Seller ID: 052331

ISBN: 0060900679

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. [v],208 pp. 1st thus: 1965.
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Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning

By: Boyer, M. Christine

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cambridge, MA and London, MIT Press: 1986

Seller ID: 052484

ISBN: 0262521113

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Slight shelf wear, nearly as issued, with square, uncreased binding, clean and unmarked interior. xii,331 pp., illus. 5th ptg.: 1994.
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Peter Bezaillion's Road [Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (1939)]

By: Brackbill, Martin Hervin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Lancaster County Historical Society: 1939

Seller ID: 052377

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff gray wraps, lettered in black. Mild tear with minor surface loss to top rear corner. Lead article on one of the early and important fur trails in Pennsylvania occupies the entire issue (pp. 1-48), with map.
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution [SIGNED]

By: Brookhiser, Richard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2003

Seller ID: 037917

ISBN: 0743223799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Burgundy two-tone paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. One leaf (pp. 101-02) creased, otherwise as issued. xviii,251 pp. Signed by author on lower main title, full signature, no personalization or date. Scarce signed copy.
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Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $23.50

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell: 1901

Seller ID: 003399

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Dark blue cloth, gilt stamped lettering. 287 pp., illus. w/ plates. Lightly sunned spine panel, a bit frayed at top extremity, else quite nicely preserved. Front hinge slightly starting, binding firm, a few former owner signatures on front endsheets. Interior fully intact. Scarce.
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Category: American History