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Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory: The "Rubber Room" Phenomenon.

By: Holzer, Harold, and Frank J. Williams

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gettysburg, PA, Thomas Publications: 1998

Seller ID: 051790

ISBN: 1577470281

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Booklet, stiff orange illus. wraps. As issued. 44 pp., illus.
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Children's Work and Welfare (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

By: Horn, Pamela

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 051245

ISBN: 0521557690

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff illus. wraps. Light crease along front joint, otherwise as issued. vi,85 pp.
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Soldiers of Progress and Industry

By: Hornady, John R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Co.: 1930

Seller ID: 022705

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Dark green ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt. Moderate shelf/handling wear, modest binding lean, spine lettering faded and partially rubbed on front cover, short closed tear to cloth (repaired) along rear joint. Text block edges dulled by age, endpapers somewhat soiled, interior otherwise clean. vii,243 pp., color frontis. portrait of William Patrick Lay, (21) b&w plates. 1st edition, no additional printings indicated. Exceptionally scarce early response to the 1929 stock market crash and worsening economic climate of the era.
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Presence of the Past: A History of the Preservation Movement in the United States before Williamsburg

By: Hosmer, Charles B., Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1965

Seller ID: 040411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Dark red cloth, lettered in gold foil. Red topstain somewhat faded/sunned, slight foxing to text block fore-edge, with slight dampstaining to bottom text block corner, otherwise essentially as issued. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. Color illus. dust jacket shows sunned spine panel, chipping to head of spine, loss at bottom rear corner, a few minor edge chips and tears, now in mylar. 386 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates.
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The Music of George Washington's Time

By: Howard, John Tasker

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C., United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission: 1931

Seller ID: 016553

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: VG-

Booklet, pale yellow wraps, illus. in blue. Lightly soiled, short closed tear along top front edge. 104 pp.
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U.S.iana (1650-1950): A Selective Bibliography in Which are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States [Revised and Enlarged Edition]

By: Howes, Wright (compiler)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, R. R. Bowker Co. For the Newberry Library: 1962

Seller ID: 013956

ISBN: B001JAVF5Y

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Near Fine

Brown buckram. 1988 ptg. of 1962 2nd edition. 652 pp. Indispensible reference for the Americanist. Minor surface rubbing, nearly as issued.
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TIME Special Issue: American Visions [Spring 1997]

By: Hughes, Robert

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Time, Inc.: 1997

Seller ID: 019946

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Special issue centered around the publication and PBS series of Robert Hughes' American Visions. 88 pp., illus. in color. Slight shelf/handling wear, very nicely preserved, no address label.
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Bring On The Clowns

By: Hugill, Beryl

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Secaucus, NJ, Chartwell Books: 1980

Seller ID: 004289

ISBN: 0890093431

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

224 pp., illus. in color, b&w. Virtually as issued, dust jacket slightly chipped at top fore-edge corners. Illus. history of clowns and clowning, circus lore, Harlequin, Pierrot, etc.
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The American Pilgrim's Way in England to Homes and Memorials of the Founders of Virginia, the New England States, and Pennsylvania, the Universities of Harvard and Yale, the First President of the United States & Other Illustrious Americans [#28/500, Larg

By: Huish, Marcus B.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, The Fine Art Society Ltd.: 1907

Seller ID: 035898

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: VG+

Medium brown 1/2 morocco, tan marbled paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on upper front cover and spine panel, deckled text block edges. No. 28 of a large-paper edition limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered and initialed on limitation page (verso of half-title). Leather is mildly rubbed along portions of both joints, with slight separations along upper joints. Binding firm, interior fully intact. xxvi,312 pp., copiously illustrated with 130 illustrations, including 60 tipped-in color plates of watercolors or drawings by Chettle w/ captioned tissue guards, many additional b&w plates. Ap...
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The Paths of Inland Commerce: A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway [Chronicles of America No. 21]

By: Hulbert, Archer B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, CT, Yale University Press: 1920

Seller ID: 046050

ISBN: B000ZGHSOU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark green cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, ivory and black, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Minor shelf wear, slight binding lean. Clean interior. xii,211 pp.
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In Their Name: Dedicated to the Brave and the Innocent Oklahoma City, April 1995 [SIGNED BY OKLAHOMA FIRST LADY CATHY KEATING]

By: Irving, Clive (editor); Mike Brake (oral history editor); Tom Brokaw; Suzanne Hodgart (photo editor); Rev. Billy Graham (fwd.)

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1995

Seller ID: 013172

ISBN: 067944825X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated 1st edition. 176 pp., illus. with color plates. As issued. Dust jacket shows very slightly rubbed edges. Inscribed by Cathy Keating, First Lady of Oklahoma, on half-title.
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The Dream City: A Portfolio of Photographic Views of the World's Columbian Exposition

By: Ives, Prof. Halsey C. (intro.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Louis, MO, N. D. Thompson Publishing Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 046880

ISBN: B01M9HSM5T

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Brown 1/2 leather, brown pebbled boards, lettered in gilt (cover variant with no illustration, text only). Binding copy with both covers detached but present, lacking spine panel (binding intact and firm). Leather rubbed with loss. Contents intact and generally clean, a few minor scattered soil marks.
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A Year at Monticello -- 1795

By: Jackson, Donald

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Golden, CO, Fulcrum, Inc.: 1989

Seller ID: 045431

ISBN: 1555910505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Black 1/4 cloth, tan paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in gold foil. As issued. Dust jacket as issued. [vii],117 pp.
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The Life of Andrew Jackson (Complete in One Volume)

By: James, Marquis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill: 1938

Seller ID: 001024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Previously issued in separate volumes 1933, 1937, 1st combined. Lightly soiled toward bottom edge, slight shelf wear. Very minor closed tear on fore-edge of frontis. portrait; interior slightly toned, former owner signature on verso of FFEP. Firm binding.
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The Life of Andrew Jackson (Complete in One Volume)

By: James, Marquis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Co.: 1938

Seller ID: 040493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Red buckram, gilt on black title panel on upper spine, top text block edge stained red. Previously issued in separate volumes 1933, 1937, 1st combined. Slight shelf wear, text block edges a bit toned by age. [xiii],972 pp., illus., endpaper maps.
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An Historian's World: Selections from the Correspondence of John Franklin Jameson

By: Jameson, John Franklin (ed. Elizabeth Donnan and Leo F. Stock)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society: 1956

Seller ID: 001154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Slightly rubbed edges, else virtually as issued. Dust jacket moderately toned, with slightly chipped edges and extremities, one tiny hole toward lower spine panel, price-clipped front flap. xi,382 pp.
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The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson [Vellum-Like Binding Variant, ca. 1890]

By: Jefferson, Joseph

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 016602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Relatively uncommon binding variant, vellum-like ivory paper covered boards, decorated in blind, bordered in gilt, with gilt spine lettering, top edge in gilt, deckled edges. Royal 8vo. Mildly soiled, mild shelf wear. Evidence of repair to lower front joint, which showed slight separation. xv,501 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Small private library plate mounted on front pastedown. A few slightly ragged edges due to deckling (original to issue). Likely first edition, with 1889 and 1890 copyright dates, no date on title page.
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The Provincial and Revolutionary History of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia 1753-1783 b/w George Washington, St. Peter's and the Episcopal Church

By: Jefferys, C. P. B.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, St. Peter's Church/Washington Bicentennial Committee of St. Peter's Church: 1932

Seller ID: 019640

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Near Fine

Original edition, rebound in olive buckram, lettered in gilt (not ex-library). No title page (as issued?), with title and author provided at top of p. 1. Main text is 104 pp., the second article (following) approx. 24 pp. (unpaginated), illus. w/ 9 b&w plates. Light shelf wear. Clean interior, firm binding. Scarce.
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Life of Andrew Jackson

By: Jenkins, John S.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Green Forest, AR, Attic Books-New Leaf Publishing Group: 2011

Seller ID: 036747

ISBN: 0890516030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Paper covered boards, deckled edges. As issued. Facsimile reprint of original 1850 edition published by American Sunday School Union. 395,[3] pp.
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A College Album, or Rah, Rah, Yesterday

By: Jensen, Oliver

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, American Heritage Publishing Co.: 1974

Seller ID: 012824

ISBN: 0070324573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pictorial boards, lightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities, else as issued. Light shelf wear to dust jacket, short closed tear with associated crease at bottom front corner, clipped front flap, now in Brodart sleeve. 112 pp., illus. w/ fascinating vintage b&w photographs.
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American Advertising 1800-1900

By: Johnson, Myron

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Scotia, NY, Americana Review: 1960

Seller ID: 038186

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, light brown wraps, lettered/illus. in black. Light shelf wear, a few light surface/soil marks to covers. [32] pp., illus.
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Pioneer Spaniards in North America

By: Johnson, William Henry

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 026688

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: VG+

Dark green cloth, lettered and illus. in orange, gilt and black. Ex-library copy, typically marked/stamped but with little actual wear, call number on spine panel, stamped text block edges. xvi,381,[4] pp., illus. Firm binding, clean interior beyond library markings.
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Going, Gone, Gone: Vanishing Americana

By: Jonas, Susan, and Marilyn Nissenson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books: 1994

Seller ID: 006302

ISBN: 0811802922

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

176 pp., b&w photos. Slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. Front flap price-clipped.
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American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century

By: Kammen, Michael

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1999

Seller ID: 048143

ISBN: 0679427406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Black and dark rust paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. New, as issued, dust jacket now in mylar. xxvii,322 pp. Stated 1st ed.
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Himself!: The Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley [SIGNED]

By: Kennedy, Eugene

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1978

Seller ID: SBS55

ISBN: 0670372587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Green 1/4 cloth, black paper covered boards. Very slightly tanned along edges, essentially as issued. Dust jacket shows light shelf/edge wear, just a bit of soiling, several very minor (1/8" or less) closed tears along bottom front edge and base of spine. xv,288 pp., illus. Signed by author on front flyleaf. Very scarce author-signed copy.
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Category: American History