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The Price of Place

By: Blythe, Samuel G.

Price: $115.47

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran: 1913

Seller ID: Books009730

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

359 pages. Shallow chipping to extremities of jacket. Top edge dusty. Publisher's decorative binding in superb condition; as is the unmarked interior. Pictorial endpapers. Binding is sound.
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Baseball Through a Knothole. A St. Louis History

By: Borst, Bill

Price: $39.19

Publisher: St Louis, Missouri, Krank Press: 1980

Seller ID: Books012128

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

iii, 120 pages, previously owned by Nova Scotian baseball historian Burton Russell, his signature to title page
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A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians in Minnesota. Including the personal Narratives of Many Who Escaped

By: Bryant, Charles S. and Abel B. Murch

Price: $305.66

Publisher: Cincinnati, Rickey & Carroll: 1864

Seller ID: Books010120

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

504 pages and 6 leaves of ads at rear. Seven plates, as called for. Brown blindstamped cloth, spine a little lighter with faded gilt. Ads on front and rear pastedowns. Eighth Thousand. Sporadic foxing throughout, and the occasional offset from flowers interleaved. tideline and shadow at head of leaves from page 455 to end. A sturdy example with sound hinges.
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A Lady. Manners and Social Usages

By: Bugg, Lelia Hardin

Price: $189.41

Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers: 1893

Seller ID: Books009566

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

317, [1] pages. Blue cloth with gilt to front and spine - moderate soiling and rubbing. Paper split along front gutter but binding sound; light foxing to front endpapers; smudge to colophon; else clean and unmarked. Second edition stated on title page. Uncommon volume of etiquette.
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Pulp

By: Bukowski, Charles

Price: $62.70

Publisher: Santa Rosa, CA, Black Sparrow Press: 1994

Seller ID: Books012240

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

202, [3] pages. First printing of the trade paper edition. Light soil and rubbing to covers; tideline to lower outer corner of final two white leaves. No spine crease.
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Buffalo Bill and His Adventures in the West [Fireside Library]

By: Buntline, Ned

Price: $65.31

Publisher: Augusta, ME, P. O. Vickery: 1896

Seller ID: Books010891

Binding: Printed wrapper

Condition: Good

314 pages. Wrapper chipped, creased, soiled, and reinforced with tape along spine. Edges soiled; interior clean. Cheap paper tanned.
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The Boy Scouts' Handy Book

By: Buzzacott, Francis H.

Price: $359.22

Publisher: Chicago, Hamming Publishing: 1912

Seller ID: Books010715

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

9, 514, [2]. Red cloth worn, stained, and faded. Title page has copyright M.A. Donahue & Co. 1912; published by Hamming; with Walter at foot of spine. Endpapers grubby; two old pencil ownership inscriptions [both in Nova Scotia] to front free endpaper. Loss of a third of page 265/6. A few leaves stained, and a few corners dog-eared. Binding remains sound. Profusely illustrated.
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Old Creole Days

By: Cable, George W.

Price: $135.85

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1879

Seller ID: Books008567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

229 pages. Blue cloth decorated in black, with gilt titles. Spine rolled forward a touch an d extremities lightly rubbed; elegant unobtrusive old signature to half-title. Decorative endpapers, as well as two white blanks at front and at rear. Small spot of foxing to first white endpaper and more to final blank. Clean interior; binding sound. Date of 1879 on title page and copyright colophon.
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Oology of New England: A Description of the Eggs, Nests, and Breeding Habits of the Birds Known to Breed in New England, with Colored Illustrations of Their Eggs

By: Capen, Elwin A.

Price: $1,240.94

Publisher: Boston, W. B. Clarke: 1908

Seller ID: Books010040

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

116 pages and 25 tissue guarded plates as called for. Old pencil price to front and rear free endpaper; pencil signature dated 1920 front pastedown; small number stamp to front and rear pastedown. No inscriptions; binding sound. All plates in superb condition.
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Champions of Freedom

By: Carpenter, Mildred Carver (editor)

Price: $32.66

Publisher: Worcester, MA, The Huguenot Memorial Society of Oxford: 1958

Seller ID: Books009740

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

96pp.
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Chessie

By: Carroll, Ruth

Price: $424.54

Publisher: New York, Veritas Press: 1936

Seller ID: Books010596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated. No edition stated, copyright 1936. $1.00 price on front flap. Shallow chipping to jacket and two half-inch closed tears from top of front panel; board tips rubbed. Former owner's name in pen to head of title page. Binding is sound. Jacket will be housed in a removable archival sleeve.
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The Border Hearth. A Legend of the Delaware Indians, Written 1800 [warmly inscribed]

By: Chandler, William

Price: $196.98

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, New Era Printing Company: 1912

Seller ID: Books009480

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Good

32 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Saddle stapled printed paper wrapper with moderate staining to front. Warmly inscribed by the author on verso of title page. Every leaf with oval tideline to fore-margin. Offsetting to pages 24 and 25 from newspaper clipping. "This legend of the Deleware Indians was written to while away the winter evenings fifty-seven years ago at Belvidere, N.J." [Author's note Copyright page].
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Bars and Shadows. The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

By: Chaplin, Ralph (intro. by Scott Nearing)

Price: $52.25

Publisher: New York City, The Leonard Press: 1922

Seller ID: Books010703

Binding: Thin boards

Condition: Very Good

48pp. light wear to top edges of dust jacket and boards, slight griming to dj
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The Pilgrim Fathers; or, The Journal of the Pilgrims At Plymouth, New England in 1620 with Historical and Local Illustrations of Princples, Providences, and Persons

By: Cheever, George B.

Price: $89.78

Publisher: Glasgow, William Collins: 1862

Seller ID: Books013221

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

309 pages. Spine sunned. An attractive example in publisher's stamped cloth. No inscriptions.
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Lizzie [Swallow Stories No. IV]

By: Chester, Sallie

Price: $293.91

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1873

Seller ID: Books010445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

48 pages. Frontispiece and one plate. Measures 4.5 x 3.2 inches. Cloth spine, floral paper over boards with pastedown of girl on front. Front hinge split. Christmas 1896 inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is sound. Copyright date of 1873, no date of issue specified. OCLC notes 3 plates. This copy has 2 plates (and numerous head and tail vignettes).
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Chicago - A Century of Progress, 1833 - 1933

By: Chicago World's Fair

Price: $52.25

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Marquette Publishing Company: 1933

Seller ID: Books009733

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

158pp. light damage to cloth at spine hinges, still very secure
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The Awakening

By: Chopin, Kate

Price: $1,603.13

Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company: 1906

Seller ID: Books012797

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

303 pages. Good: cloth worn and discoloured; occasional marginal staining within. 1910 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Half title present; binding sound.
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American Slavery and Maine Congregationalists. A Chapter in the History of the Development of Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Protestant Churches of the North [signed]

By: Clark, Calvin Montague

Price: $97.97

Publisher: Bangor, ME, The Author: 1940

Seller ID: Books010585

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

ix, 198 pages. Plain unprinted jacket sunned, stained, shallow chip and a few closed tears. Offsetting from flaps to free endpapers. Publisher's blue topstain. "Compliments of C. M. Clarke" on slip of paper laid in. Clean and unmarked, in sound binding.
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The American Gardener : A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying Out of Gardens, On the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; and On the Propagation and Cultivation of the Several Sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Flowers

By: Cobbett, William

Price: $189.41

Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary & Co.: 1851

Seller ID: Books011909

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

230 pages, and ten leaves of ads at rear. Four full-page plates. Complete, in attractive publisher's binding, with J. & J. L. Gihon at foot of spine. Closed tear and 1852 inscription to front free endpaper; title page foxed, light foxing throughout; binding sound. Bookseller's ticket of Wm. Murray, Lancaster, PA.
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A New Spelling Book, Adapted to Different Classes of Pupils

By: Comly, John

Price: $163.29

Publisher: Philadelphia, Kimber & Sharpless: 1827

Seller ID: Books011599

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Fair

168 pages. Stereotyped by J. Howe. Spine chipped and worn; front hinge slack. Two front free endpapers with inscriptions; pages 99-106 loose; marginal loss to p. 129/30 with slight loss of text. Toned and foxed throughout. Lacks one rear free endpaper, the other with inscriptions; else complete.
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Category: Americana