Category: American History

Picturesque Los Angeles County, California Illustrative and Descriptive

By: James C. Young (Pres.), Herve Friend (Sec. and Artist)

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Chicago, American Photogravure Co. : 1887

Seller ID: 5251

Condition: Very Good

Half morocco with cloth boards. Gilt particulars to both boards and spine. Boards have bevelled edges. 5 raised bands. Floral patterned silk end papers. All edges gilt. 65 photogravures with tissue guards. 22 pp. 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. First Edition.
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Ticonderoga, Patches and Patterns from its Past.

By: Jane M. Lape and Marguerite Balding et al.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Ticonderoga, NY, The Ticonderoga Historical Society : 1969

Seller ID: 6933

Condition: Near Fine

Dark muted blue cloth boards with red stamped text to front board and spine. Pictorial endpapers, the front being a map of Alexandria and the back an 1884 reference lithograph of the town with list of notable places (35 listed). Black and white photographs throughout. Chapters are: Background and First Attempts at Settlement; "Work, Want and Wolves,"--Revolution to 1800; A Town is Born, 1800-1823; Lumber, Iron, Graphite, Boats, 1823-1870; We Grow With America, 1870-1900; Oats to Gas, Mud to Pavement, 1900-1935; Churches; Inns and Taverns of Old Ti; Ticonderoga and Its Trotters; Education in Ti...
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To Market To Market/ An Old-Fashion Family Story:The West Side Market/ West 25th Street & Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

By: Joanne M. Lewis/Design and Photography by John SZilagyi/ Editor by Suzanne Ringler Jones

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Ohio, Elandon Books, Inc. Cleveland Heights, Ohio 1981 : 1981

Seller ID: 7128

Condition: Fine

An as new copy without previous owners' names or other markings. All shipments through boxed USPS Priority Mail Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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The Burning, Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley

By: John L. Heatwole

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, Virginia, Rockbridge Publishing : 1998

Seller ID: 5827

Condition: Very Good

Brown boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine; pictorial dust jacket. No previous owners' names or other markings. xiii, 266 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War with Mexico in the years 1846-7-8.

By: John R. Kenly

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott : 1873

Seller ID: 3217

Condition: Very Good

Beveled green cloth boards with black decorative stamping to front cover. Gilt particulars to spine. General all over wear. Wear to corners. Damage to rear cover. Rear gutter cracked. Textblock is clean without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 521 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Historia del Nuevo-Mundo

By: Juan Bautista Muñoz

Price: $1,375.00

Publisher: Madrid, por la Viuda de Ibarra : 1793

Seller ID: 3426

Condition: Very Good

Vol. 1 (Vol. 2 never published), [Sabin (51343) : "This volume only reaches to the year 1500. The continuacion never appeared in print, as it was prohibited by the Spanish government, being too enlightened and truthful]. Spanish mottled calf. Gilt title and author to red morocco label to spine, five raised bands. Decorated endpapers, deckled edges. [4], xxx, 364 pages portrait, and folded map. Frontispiece engraved portrait of D. Christoval Colon, portrait artist Mariano Maella and engraved by Fernando Selma.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for One Nation Under Sex (SIGNED by authors) How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History.

One Nation Under Sex (SIGNED by authors) How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History.

By: Larry Flynt, David Eisenbach

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Palgrave, Macmillan : 2011

Seller ID: 6384

Condition: As New

Signed by both authors to half title page. First edition, first printing. Dark blue paper boards with red text to spine. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Previous owner had the book signed at an event in California at the Book Passage. Section of black and white photos in middle. No previous owners' names or other markings. An unread copy. 288 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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The First Hundred Years of Avon Park, Florida (SIGNED by Author)

By: Leoma Bradshaw Maxwell

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Florida, The Historical Society of the Old Settlers Association, Inc. : c. 1980

Seller ID: 5336

Signed by author to front endpaper. Vibrant red cloth with white text to spine and front board. Black and white photographs throughout text with one color photograph tipped in at the end. 268 pp. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches First Edition.
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We Shall Overcome. [March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963]

By: Louis Lo Monaco

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York, National Urban League : 1963

Seller ID: 7461

Condition: Very Good

Scarce portfolio from the March on Washington issued at the iconic Aug. 28, 1963 March On Washington For Jobs and Freedom where Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have A Dream Speech" Red, blue, and black pictorial wraps. Consists of five collages from Louis Lo Monaco printed on black paper, along with an introduction and table of contents. A total of seven unpaginated leaves. Introduction page has facsimile signatures of James Farmer, MLK, John Lewis, A Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young Jr. Portfolio and leaves measure 9.25 x 11 in. Wear to cover foredge (see image). No previou...
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Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, Evanston, and London, Harper & Row : 1967

Seller ID: 7460

Condition: Very Good

A nice copy of quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards with original accompanying dust jacket wrapped in mylar. Includes the " D-R " publisher's code on the copyright page indicating that it was printed in April, 1967. Dust jacket has the code of "0667" showing it was released June, 1967. Stains to verso of jacket with some penetration to covers (see image). Small incision to front flap of jacket. No previous owner's names or other markings. Shipped through USPS Priority mail. 6 x 8.5 in Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Reise in das innere Nordamerika

By: Maximilian Prinz zu Wied

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Augsburg, Weltbild Verlag : 1995

Seller ID: 5449

Condition: Fine

An as new set with no previous owner's names or other markings. 5 x 7.75 in Dust jacket present.
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New-York Herald. Saturday, June 22, 1805 [James Eilliot to his Constituents]

By: Michael Burnham, William Coleman

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York, Michael Burnham : June 22, 1805

Seller ID: 6882

Condition: Very Good

Contains an article, acquired by the Vermont Journal, by James Elliot to his constituents regarding the addition to the Constitution that slaves will have 3/5 a vote and why he is opposed to this. The article begins: "The part of the constitution of the United States, which allows to the people of the southern states, a representation in congress and in the election of the president, for their slaves, (for it is not a representation of slaves) is the only part of that instrument which I consider as materially objectionable; and I shall not be deterred from an expression of my sentiments upon t...
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The Marconigram, Vol. II, No. 5

By: Monroe & Monroe

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Munroe & Munroe : October, 1904

Seller ID: 6465

Condition: Very Good

Cream wraps with picture to front wrap and advertisement to back. Includes the article, "A Revolutionary Process of Generating Electric Power, Destined to Supplant Steam--Its Discovery and Its Discoverer," by A. N. Wray. The discoverer in question is James H. Reid. Angus Campbell Reid, and the seven Reid highlanders. The electric process is the "dynelectron, an engine for extraction from the three elements, heat, water and air,... without the use of boiler, engine or dynamo." No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 32 pp. 9 1/2 x 13 inches. Small chip missing from ...
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A Lawyer Tells the Truth

By: Morris Gisnet, Introduction by Norman Thomas

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, The Concord Press : 1931

Seller ID: 7148

Condition: Fine

"Special Lawyer's Edition De Luxe Limited to 299... this is copy number 193." Green cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Orange dust jacket with red text protected in mylar. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light scrape to back board (see image). Light soiling and small loss at base of spine to dust jacket (see image). 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Lincoln in Illinois

By: Octavia Roberts

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1918

Seller ID: 7256

Condition: Very Good

Copyright page states: "This special large-paper edition is limited to one thousand copies." Tan paper boards with illustration to front board, and caramel cloth spine with gilt particulars. Tan dust jacket with illustration and text. Sur blanc plates with tissue guards throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings, save for a small note to front pastedown ("abt 1945"). Very light beginnings of fraying to head of spine and light wear to base; slight losses to gilt on spine; chips, closed tears and soiling to dust jacket with liquid stains to dj spine (see images). 7 x 10 1/4 inches. ...
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The Rifle in America

By: Philip B. Sharpe, Julian S. Hatcher (Intro.)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company : 1938

Seller ID: 6449

Full grained deep burgundy morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt rule and particulars to spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Organized into 31 chapters, some of which, but not limited to, are: The Early Springfields, The Early American Cartridge Rifle, Metallic Sights, The Winchester Rifle, The Stevens Rifle, The Newton Rifle, Choosing Your Gun and Ammunition, The Custom Gun, The Care of Your Rifle, The National Rifle Association and Target Shooting, and the Future American Rifle, among others. Illustrated with black and white photographs as well as figures throughout text. No previous own...
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A Proclamation of Queen Anne for Settling and Ascertaining the Current Rates of Foreign Coins in America A broadside printed by Charles Bill in London 1704

By: Queen Anne

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles F. Heartman : 1919

Seller ID: 2940

Condition: Very Good

1 of only 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Front hinge beginning. Some wear to covers, however interior is very clean. Marbled endpapers. Folio foldout facsimile of proclamation broadside to front of book with text repeated to subsequent pages Heartman states: "The Broadside reprinted ... is one of the earliest printed records relating to the money of the early colonies." A very nice copy of a hard to find book. ; Heartman's Historical Series; Vol. 20; slender 4to ; Unpaginated pages; Al...
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Medals of the United States Mint, The First Century 1792-1892

By: R. W. Julian, N. Neil Harris (Editor)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: California, The Token and Medal Society, Inc. : 1977

Seller ID: 7267

Condition: Near Fine

Caramel cloth covered boards with silver particulars to spine and debossed emblem to front board. Printed endpapers with marbled design. Black and white images throughout. Includes, but not limited to: Indian Peace Medals; Mint and Treasury Medals; Personal Medals; School Medals; Marksmanship Medals; Religious and Fraternal Medals; and others. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light marks to front board and slight bumping to head of spine (see image). 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail. First Edition.
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History of the Nineteenth (19th) Army Corps

By: Richard B. Irwin

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press : 1892

Seller ID: 7288

Condition: Very Good+

Blue cloth over boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Top edge gilt; deckle edges. 15 maps and battle plans throughout. Remnants of previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise no other names or markings. Wear to boards with bumping and slight fraying to head and tail of spine (see images). 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. All shipments through insured USPS Priority Mail. First Edition.
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The Laws of the United States of America (4 vol. set)

By: Richard Folwell

Price: $2,400.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Richard Folwell : 1796 & 1799

Seller ID: 6684

Condition: Very Good

Complete set with the scarce volume IV. Vol. I: Acts from the first session of the first Congress in 1789 with reprint of Constitution. Detached full calf boards with significant wear. "United States" embossed to front cover. Lacking most of spine. Bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Light, infrequent foxing. Otherwise, text block good. Vol. II: Acts from the first session of the second Congress in 1791. Full brown calf. Red morocco title label to spine. Chipping to tail of spine. Blind tooled border motif to front and rear covers. Hinges cracked but attached. Name of prev...
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Category: American History