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Braves and Buffalo : Plains Indian Life in 1837. Water-colours by Alfred J. Miller with descriptive notes by the artist. Introduced by Michael Bell
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1973. Orange cloth, orange endpapers. 24 x 31 cm. pp 176, colour reproductions throughout. Fine copy. Black dust jacket has tears, rubbing, about VG in general. Miller, an unknown artist from Baltimore, went in 1837 with a party of fur traders to the Oregon country, becoming the first artist to paint the Rocky Mountains. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.; Oblong octavo 0802020933
Book ID: 45032More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Braves and Buffalo : Plains Indian Life in 1837. Water-colours by Alfred J. Miller with descriptive notes by the artist. Introduced by Michael Bell
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1973. Orange cloth, orange endpapers. 24 x 31 cm. pp 176, colour reproductions throughout. Fine copy. Black dust jacket has tears, rubbing, about VG in general. Miller, an unknown artist from Baltimore, went in 1837 with a party of fur traders to the Oregon country, becoming the first artist to paint the Rocky Mountains. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Oblong octavo 0802020933
Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 29981More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY: a life of Jonathan Mayhew 1720-1766
Edition: First Edition
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964. Red cloth. pp (xiv), 285 + frontispiece portrait. Bibliography, notes, index. Yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has yellowing to spine, VG otherwise. Rev. Akers, of Boston's West Congregational Church, preached rebellion from the pulpit.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 44768More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
CAMP AND TRAIL
Edition: First Canadian issue
1907: Musson, 1907. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and purple, lettered in white. pp (xii), (237), [1], [1, ads], [3] + coloured frontispiece photo with tissue guard and 12 other b&w plates from photos except one which is a drawing by N.C. Wyeth. Made from sheets of the NY: Outing, 1907, first edition with cancel title leaf and Outing ads. Spine lightly darkened with light flaking to white spine lettering, VG clean, tight and unworn otherwise. A non-fiction book about camping and traveling in the bush.
Book ID: 41655More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS 1875-1911
Edition: First Edition
New Haven / Toronto / London: Yale / Ryerson / Oxford, 1943. Quarto, dfark blue cloth, colour endpaper maps. pp (xx), 507, indexed, map in text at front. Yellowing to page edges; small ink initials at top of front pastedown; else a fine copy. Dust jacket has a few nicks, spine very lightly darkened, else fine. Published for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with their complimentary slip tipped in at front. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 23831More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
CANAL BOATMAN: my life on upstate waterways
Edition: First Edition
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1977. Blue cloth. pp (xiv), (224), [2]. Well illustrated with line drawings and photos. Fine in jacket. Boats and barges on the Erie Canal and the Barge Canal System in upstate New York 1918-70. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 44952More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
CASE OF CUBA. WITH A LETTER FROM JOHN D. SHERWOOD, ESQ., ON THE RIGHT OF RECOGNITION.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 31025More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
Chicago: 1985-2005
Chicago: Istituto italiano di cultura, 2005. Inscribed by contributor; Card covers. pp 167, illustrated, DVD at rear. Soft crease to front cover and first two leaves, VG clean and unworn otherwise."Published with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Italidea." Celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Istituto italiano di cultura. Inscribed by Francesca Valente, Director and author of the Preface. to Leon and Connie Rooke, noted Canadian literary couple. 1.1 kg parcel; Quarto; Signed by contributor
Book ID: 53170More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES: or the Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, During Eight Expedition Across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 27894More details Price: USD $1,500.00 USD $1,350.00 -
COUNTRY MATTERS: collected reports from the fields and streams o Iowa and other places
Edition: First printing
New York: Dial, 1973. Octavo, cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped yellow dust jacket has very light darkening, sunning to the red author lettering, and one minor abrasion, VG.
Book ID: 45973More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy, 1786-1986
Edition: First Edition
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Terra cotta cloth. pp (xxiv), (204), illustrated, indexed. Fine copy, no owner marks. Dust jacket has sunning to the spine, else fine.; Octavo 0870494597
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 26894More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
DEATH HOUSE LETTERS
Edition: First Edition
New York: Jero Publishing Company, 1953. Card covers. pp 168 + photos. Covers rubbed, corner creases, VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. Letters to their attorney and each other published to raise money for the future of their sons. ; Octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 44835More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
DEDICATORY PROGRAM. Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, East Aurora, New York, September 2nd to 7th, 1918
Edition: First Edition
East Aurora, New York: 1918. Quarto, pp 32, string tied in tan card covers printed in green and red. Numerous photos (one in colour), vingette illustrations in light green in lower margins. Light foxing to first and last page; crease to upper outer corner throughout; VG clean & uworn copy otherwise. Though not stated, this was clearly printed by The Roycrofters. Scarce.
Book ID: 41748More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
DEMOGRAPHY IN EARLY AMERICA: beginnings of the statistical mind
Edition: First Edition
Cambridge: Harvard, 1969. Red cloth. Index. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has light rubbing, small tears, faded spine, VG otherwise.; Octavo; (xvi), 357 pages
Book ID: 55441More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DISCOVERIE OF THE NORTH PART OF VIRGINIA
Edition: First of this edition
Ann Arbor, MI: University Micofilms, 1966. Octavo, blue cloth. pp [8], 48. Adds a two page Foreword for this edition. Fine copy. Facsimile reprint of the London, 1602, edition. The first English description of New England. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Hardcover; Octavo
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 39191More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
DR. FRANK: life with Frank Porter Graham
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 53557More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
DRIVEN FROM SEA TO SEA; or, Just a Campin.'
Book ID: 3551More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00
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Early American Music Engraving and Printing: A History of Music Publishing in America from 1787 to 1825 with Commentary on Earlier and Later Practices
Edition: First Edition
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press / Bibliographical Society of America, 1980. Brown cloth. (xx), 321 pp, indexed, illustrated. Fine copy, no owner marks. Tan dust jacket has spine fading, else fine. An excellent reference work on the subject. Note: over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. ; Octavo 0252007263
Book ID: 25026More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON'S AMERICA: selections from the writings of the artist-naturalist. Edited with an introduction by Farida A. Wiley. With contributions by Julia M. Seton. and drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton
Edition: First Edition
New York: Devin-Adair, 1954. Octavo, yellow cloth stamped in red, red top page edges. pp (xxiv), 413 + plates. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations in text, index. Yellowing to page edges, slight sunning to the red top edges, a few light foxing spots to front free endpaper; near fine otherwise, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has some chips, tears, rubbing, spine lightly sunned, just good but still fairly respectable in appearance.
Book ID: 42855More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
FACILE PRINCEPS: the story of the beginning of life insurance in America
Edition: First Edition
Lancaster, PA: Presbyterian Ministers' Fund, 1956. Black cloth spine and green boards with cover label, illustrated endpapers. pp (xiv), 292. Illustrated, index. Ex library, with pouch at rear, rubber stamp on front free endpaper, ink notations on verso of title leaf, else fine, no other library marks. The first American life insurance corporation was created by Presbyterian ministers in Philadelphia in 1761.; Octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 44747More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50