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Publisher: National Braille Press
Year: 1989
Description: The Constitution of the United States (Braille Edition). Braille edition prepared by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution. Printed/ dated (July 1989) letter from Warren Burger (ex-Supreme Court Chief Justice) laid in.
Author: Mrs. Abbie Gardner-Sharp
Publisher: Kenyon Printing (Des Moines)
Year: 1910
Description: Full title: History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner . A scarce Iowa county history, important for its quite detailed account of Indian wars along the northwestern border of Iowa in the 1850s. Includes an autobiographical account of the captivity of Abigail Gardner.
Author: T.M. Newson
Publisher: Donohue, Henberry (Chicago)
Year: 1890
Description: Full title: Thrilling Scenes Among the Indians. Stories of life among the Indians, including a not so thrilling account (from Gen. Custer's perspective) of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Author: Edward Eastman
Publisher: Clark Johnson, MD
Year: 1874
Description: Full title: Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and Apaches, An Autobiography. Fabricated Indian captivity tale (or, in modern parlance, alternative facts) by "Edwin Eastman". Includes a testimonial for advertisement Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup which is hawked several times throughout the book.
Author: Shelby Foote
Publisher: Random House
Year: 1958
Description: Volume 1. First printing. Not the reprint edition. What was a best seller became a classic after Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War, based heavily on this work. (not price clipped = $10). A nice set with volumes 2 and 3.
Year: 1963
Description: Volume 2. First printing. Not the reprint edition . Price clipped d/j
Year: 1974
Description: Volume 3. First printing. Not the reprint edition . Price clipped d/j
Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Year: 1920
Description: Full title: A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland's Part in America's struggle for Liberty. An account with great detail, letters and statistics of Irish troops fighting in Washington's army. The author was an Itish historian with Separatist sentiments, Front and rear inner hinges beginning to separate but still firm.
Author: John Muir
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Year: 1902
Description: Presumed second edition. Forest green cloth-backed boards with gilt-stamped and illustrated front. Contains numerous illustrations first published in the Atlantic Monthly. Oddly, the presumed second edition is much scarcer than the first edition.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher: Syndicate Publishing Company
Description: Cover features a dramatic bold and color embossed scene of Roosevelt shooting a lion. Illustrated with color plates and over two hundred photographs. An early decorative edition of this popular title in very good condition.
Publisher: Scribners
Year: 1926
Description: Full title: African Game Trails (2 volume set). 2 volume set. Ex-library. Many photos-illustrations throughout. Embossed green covers.
Author: Horace Greeley
Publisher: O.D. Case & Company, Hartford
Year: 1866
Description: Full title: The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion : 1860-'65 (2 vols.). A detailed account of the Civil War with 10 steel engravings and more than 45 plates. A reading copy in original leather binding, but lack the spine. Text is clean and complete.
Author: Mason Whiting Tyler
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY
Year: 1912
Description: Memoirs and letters from Lieutenant Colonel Mason Tyler. Tyler served with the 37th Massachusetts, Infantry Regiment. Includes three fold-out maps at the back of the book.
Author: Abner Doubleday
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Year: 1882
Description: Full title: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (Campaigns of the Civil War VI). Attractive embossed dark blue boards with gilt lettering. Slight yellowing to pages but contents are clean and tight.
Author: Elizabeth B. Custer
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Year: 1885
Description: Libby Custer was a strong advocate for her deceased husband, but her works are also a goldmine of information on daily military life in the Dakota Territory. Front cover features a gilt sunrise over the Black Hills, gilt titling with a bugle and musical score. This is the more desirable 2nd printing with frontispiece of George Armstrong Custer and map of Montana & Dakota and chocolate color endpapers.
Author: Samuel Glasstone, ed.
Publisher: US Atomic Energy Commission
Year: 1962
Description: Full title: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Prepared by the U.S. Dep't of Defense. Illustrated with color frontis charts, diagrams, and b/w photos. Rear pocket holds the scarce plastic wheel calculator called "Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer", which was sold separately for $1 at that time. Ex-library copy.
Author: H. Montgomery
Publisher: Porter & Coates
Year: c 1885
Description: Full title: The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison. Spectacular period binding heavily decorated with gilt title on front board and spine. Frontis portrait of the 9th president, whose term lasted only 31 days. Tight binding and clean pages.
Author: William Ralston Balch
Publisher: Hubbard Bros.
Year: 1881
Description: Full title: The Life of James Abram Garfield. Salesman sample. Abridged. These books were carried door to door to sell the book. Frontis of Garfield and numerous illustrations, along with sample of spine affixed to back of front board. Partially tallied record of pre-sales bound in rear of book.
Author: George Alfred Townsend and Gen. Lew Wallace
Publisher: S.S. Scranton
Year: 1888
Description: Full title: Life of Gen. Ben Harrison. Also, Life of Hon. Levi P. Morton. Decorated gray cloth with gilt and black lettering on the front cover and spine. This is a campaign biography prepared to introduce the men to the 1888 presidential campaign electorate.
Author: Don C. Seitz
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell
Year: 1929
Description: Detailed account of 14 famous American duels including Burr vs. Hamilton. Black and white illustrations. Scarce first edition.
Author: Thomas Gamble
Publisher: Review Publishing and Printing Company
Year: 1923
Description: Full title: Savannah Duels and Duellists 1733-1877. Softcover with 37 black and white illustrations. With errata sheets. A clean copy.
Author: Thomas Stark King
Publisher: Crosby & Ainsworth
Year: 1864
Description: Full title: The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry. An early guide to the area around Mt. Washington. Includes "60 engravings by Andrew from drawings by Wheelock"
Author: Rev. Samuel Fallows (intro.)
Publisher: Hubert D. Russell
Year: 1906
Description: Full title: Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror. A very good copy of an account of the 1906 SF Earthquake and its aftermath. Published very shortly after the disaster. Interestingly, as if that disaster wasn't enough of a selling point, this book "also comprises a vivid portrayal of the recent death-dealing Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius"
Author: Walter Hutchinson, ed.
Publisher: Virtue and Co., Ltd.
Year: 1940
Description: (7 volume set complete). Black leathercloth with striking gilt lettering and blind stamping to front covers. Light rubbing to very head and foot of spines and some bumped corners. Illustrated
Publisher: Valentine's Manual Inc.
Description: Full title: Valentine's Manual of Old New York, 1926. Leatherbound edition. Includes attractive fold-out map.
Author: Peter Cartwright
Publisher: Carlton and Porter
Year: 1856
Description: Full title: Autobiography of Peter Cartwright. Early printing of classic frontier life of a Methodist circuit rider. Cartwright, a Methodist missionary, helped start America's Second Great Awakening. Lincoln defeated Cartrwright in 1846 for a US Congressional seat. 1/4 leather binding with marbled endpapers, and gilt title on raised spine.
Author: Esther Singleton
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Year: 1909
Description: Comprehensive work about the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam / New York. Subjects include religion, servants and slaves, trade and taxes, marriage and courtship, and costume, etc.
Author: H.D. Northrop
Publisher: National Publishing Co.
Year: c. 1900
Description: Full title: Indian Horrors or, Massacres by the Red Men. A history of battles and interactions with American Indians. Heavily decorated cover with gilt illustrations, which is faded and worn. Many illustrations.
Author: Ernest Ingersoll
Publisher: Edgewood Publishing Company
Year: 1897
Description: Full title: Gold Fields of the Klondike and the Wonders of Alaska. Illustrated green cloth cover with decorated spine. Photographs throughout. Spine is separating but book is all intact.
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Publisher: Gurdon Bill
Year: 1863-66
Description: Full title: The History of the Civil War in America (2 volumes, complete). Original hand tooled full leather boardswith marbled endpapers. Stunning steel engravings of battle scenes and portaits including a frontis of a very young Lincoln in Volume 1. Volume I was published mid-Civil War (1863); Volume 2 was cpmpleted post-war (1866). Foxing throughout but a magnificant set.
Publisher: Lincoln Savings Bank
Year: 1969
Description: Full title: Apollo 11: Flight to the Moon LP. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with this unusual vinyl record from Lincoln Savings Bank
Author: Donald J. Trump
Year: 2004
Description: Whether or not you want to learn to think like this billionaire, the Trump family crest affixed to the first end page should provide some amusement to the owner of this book. This crest was copied from an identical registered coat of arms -- replacing the word "integritas" (integrity) with "Trump". Go figure.
Publisher: Time Life
Description: "The Dramatic Story of Man's Boldest Venture Told in the Voices of Those Who Achieved It" A lavishly illustrated book accompanied by 6 LP's chronciling the history of the US space program from World War 2 to the landing on the moon July 20, 1969.
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