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And There's Tomorrow [inscribed]

By: Weir, Alice M. [Emma Maude McLaughlin]

Price: $424.54

Publisher: Hawthorne, CA, The Christian Book Club of America: 1975

Seller ID: Books011527

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xi, 449 pages. Jacket toned, creased, and chipped. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the author using the initials of her pseudonym. Two promotional pamphlets for the book laid in; from one: "An intriguing novel interwoven with documentation, beginning in 1780, of the Left-Liberal Movements in Religion and Governments. Contents include some activities of The Establishments. Including the demoralizing National Education Association. Background of the satanical National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America. Conspiratorial CFR-Council On Foreign Relations and its du...
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Modern Cavalry. Studies on its role in the warfare of to-day with notes on training for war service

By: Wheeler-Nicholson, Major Malcolm

Price: $979.69

Publisher: New York, The MacMillan Company: 1922

Seller ID: Books011967

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, [iv], 213 pages. Previous owner's signature to ffep. (in an elegant hand) - E.J. Mooney, Major, 28th New Brunswick Dragoon Guards, part of the 6th Canadian Mounted Rifles during the First World War. The number 38 stamped above signature. Pencil lines to outer margin of a few leaves. While Wheeler-Nicholson acknowledges his sources of information, a penned note on the title page suggests that the book contains "pilferings" from British Field Service Regulations. The first book of this man who was a progenitor of the American comic book.
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Elements of Universal History on a New and Systematic Plan: from the earliest times to the treaty of Vienna. To which is added, a summary of the leading events since that period. WITH: Questions to White's Universal History

By: White, H; John S. Hart

Price: $111.04

Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary and Co.: 1850

Seller ID: Books012035

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

xii, 13-523, 36 pages. Boards and leather rubbed and soiled; endpapers a bit grubby; 358-388 dogeared. Binding is sound.
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A Treatise on Counterfeit, Altered, and Spurious Bank Notes, with unerring rules for the Detection of Frauds in the Same.

By: Wilber, E. J. & E. P. Eastman

Price: $359.22

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, NY, Published for the authors: 1865

Seller ID: Books011387

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

51 pages plus plates, and pages 3-20 of Making Money from Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Red cloth stamped in blind, with gilt title to front; all edges gilt. Frontispiece and four full page plates. Cloth stained, and rubbed at extremities. Foxing to endpapers, offsetting from plates, and tideline to upper corner of all leaves. Binding is slack, and split at rear. Lacks first leaf of the Harper's article. Old ownership inscription to front free endpaper of one David O. Zook at Eastmans College, Chicago.
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Rational Horse-Shoeing

By: Wildair [John E. Russell]

Price: $228.60

Publisher: New York, Wynkoop and Hallenbeck: 1873

Seller ID: Books011943

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

49 pages, with frontispiece and seven plates. Spine sunned; light wear to boards; pencil ownership inscriptions to mauve front endpapers. Light foxing to first few leaves; ding to fore-edge of pp. 5-8. Binding is sound.
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Where American Independence Began, Quincy, Its Famous Group of Patriots; Their Deeds, Homes and Descendants [inscribed]

By: Wilson, Daniel Munro

Price: $97.97

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1902

Seller ID: Books010420

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 287 pages plus plates. Light sunning to spine; top edge gilt. Warm inscription to front free endpaper: "To Dr. J. Bion Bogart. With grateful acknowledgment of his skillful assistance, without which this book never would have been published." dated Dec. 17, 1902. Light foxing to endpapers; clean interior; binding sound.
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Literary Haunts & Homes - American Authors

By: Wolfe, Theodore F.

Price: $40.76

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott: 1899

Seller ID: Books009845

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

227pp. t.e.g., foredge untrimmed and uncut, previous owner's signature to front paste down in pencil, spine titles and decoration to front board bright, all tissue guards for illustrations in place
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By: Wolfe, Tom

Price: $64.13

Publisher: Toronto, Bantam: 1969

Seller ID: Books010136

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

372 pages and a leaf of ads at rear. Light rubbing to extremities; no spine crease; all edges with publisher's yellow stain - top edge dusty/spotted. Likely an unread copy, published October 1969.
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The Right Stuff [inscribed by Alan Shepard]

By: Wolfe, Tom [Alan Shepard]

Price: $1,632.81

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux: 1987

Seller ID: Books012138

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

436 pages. Inscribed by Alan Shepard on the front free endpaper, beneath which is a promotional sticker for the September 1992 American Bankers Association Bank Card Conference, featuring Shepard. No explicit date of issue, and no price on flap: Wolfe's works facing title page list to Bonfire (1987). The "new foreword by the author" was 1983. Jacket rubbed and creased, with light discolouration to white verso. Textblock edges foxed and grimed; thumb-smudge next to Shepard's face on sticker; contents otherwise clean.
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Signed letter regarding the sale of Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps

By: Wolfe, Udolpho

Price: $288.56

Publisher: New York, 1854

Seller ID: Books013100

Binding: Single sheet

Condition: Very Good

Brief letter to Lucius J. Hendee [merchant] of Hebron CT regarding his purchase of a case of pints of Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. Signed by Udolpho Wolfe, 4 February 1854, on 22 Beaver St. NY, letterhead. The gin was shipped to Hendee by Adams Express. Manufactured at his distillery in Schiedam, Wolfe introduced this eventually popular brand to his home country of the US in 1848, selling in pints and quarts, promoting its medicinal properties and purity. "Udolpho Wolfe's Letter" inked to verso, not in Wolfe's hand. Horizontal and vertical folds; small oil spot beneath signature.
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Reminiscences of An Active Life

By: Wood, Bertha M.; David L. Smith

Price: $305.66

Publisher: West Chester, PA, Self published: 1902

Seller ID: Books009773

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

122 pages, with a frontispiece portrait and five plates. Nick to spine upper hinge; cloth bubbling from rear board but stable. Binding and hinges secure. A few spots of thumbing; brief pencil annotation in margin of page 99. Interesting familial notation on front free endpaper. Uncommon.
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Rose and Agnes : or, The Dangers of Partiality

By: Woodland, Miss

Price: $71.85

Publisher: New York, W. B. Gilley: 1827

Seller ID: Books010511

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

108 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Publisher's quarter leather with gilt to spine, printed paper with Recent Juvenile Publications list to rear. Early Hebron Connecticut gift inscription to front free endpaper. Foxing throughout. Binding is sound.
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Anne

By: Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Price: $160.31

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1882

Seller ID: Books013055

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

iv, 540 pages, frontispiece and 28 illustrated plates as called for. A well worn example: spine cocked; cloth rubbed, soiled, and splitting along lower joint; upper board creased. Terracotta endpapers; foxing to first few and final few leaves; occasional marginal soil within. Xmas 1884 gift inscription to first blank leaf.
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Plutarch Restored: An Anachronatic Metempsychosis Illustrating the Illustrious of Greece and Rome.

By: Worth, Thomas

Price: $489.85

Publisher: New York, George Ward Nichols: 1862

Seller ID: Books010642

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

24 illustrations, with text on facing page. Oblong 8vo. Head and tail of spine and hinges profesionally repaired. Light soiling to margins throughout. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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Wendingen: The Life-Work Of The American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright With Contributions By Frank Lloyd Wright, An Introduction By Architect H. Th. Wijdeveld...

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd, et al.

Price: $881.72

Publisher: Stantpoort, C. A. Mees: 1926

Seller ID: Books012807

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Fair

164 pages. The collected edition (without individual wrappers for the 7 issues), and this not bound in boards. Spine panel and binding cloth perished, so each leaf is loose. Considerable wear to covers, fore-edge of first loose leaf chipped; else very good. Complete.
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Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines, Cordials and Liqueurs from Fruits, Flowers, Vegetables, and Shrubs

By: Wright, Helen S.

Price: $293.91

Publisher: Boston, The Page Company: 1933

Seller ID: Books012275

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

156 pages. Sixth impression, October 1933. Jacket rubbed, with chipping at extremities. Publisher's purple topstain. Thin stain to lower edge of textblock; no inscriptions; binding sound. A very good example, issued at the tail end of prohibition.
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The Man's Prerogative [&c.] Tales From Town Topics No. 42: December 1901

By: Zile, Edward S. Van, et al.

Price: $97.97

Publisher: New York, Town Topics Publishing Co.: 1901

Seller ID: Books010733

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

247 pages, 9 pages of ads at rear. Dampstain to top of front cover bleeding on to title page. First three leaves foxed. The Man's Prerogative runs from page 7 through 85.
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Memoir of John Lang Bickersteth, Late of Rugby School

By: [Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler]

Price: $84.91

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union: 1850

Seller ID: Books012578

Binding: Quarter Cloth

Condition: Good

71 pages. 6 x 3.75 inches. Paper label on spine chipped and illegible. Scribbling to pastedowns and endpapers. Moderate foxing and soiling throughout. Binding is sound.
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The Little Red Book [12th printing]

By: [Ed Webster]

Price: $163.29

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, The Little Red Book: 1957

Seller ID: Books012086

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

168 pages. Cloth rubbed at extremities; gilt faded. Former owner's name (a doctor in Minneapolis) to front pastedown and two of his cards laid in (one ripped in two with notation on verso], with his ballpoint scoring throughout.
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Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

By: [Edwin Eastman]

Price: $67.93

Publisher: Jersey City, Clark Johnson: 1873

Seller ID: Books007336

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

309 pages, plus leaf at rear extolling the virtues of [the publisher's] Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup. A clean sturdy example, with hinges fully secure. Spine slightly darkened; moderate spotting throughout; two childlike squiggles: on second front endpaper, and beneath the text on Contents leaf. Included is the christmas card dated 1882: "To Grandma with Charlotte's book".
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Category: Americana