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Image for The New Universal Letter Writer, containing letters on duty, amusement, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, trade, religion, and other useful subjects,

The New Universal Letter Writer, containing letters on duty, amusement, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, trade, religion, and other useful subjects,

By: Cook, Rev. Thomas

Price: $450.66

Publisher: Charlestown [MA], and Newburyport, Samuel Etheridge; Thomas & Whipple: 1805

Seller ID: Books011087

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

285 pages and one advert leaf at rear. Title continues: "Also Moral Maxims and Reflections, by the late Duke de la Rochefoucault. Likewise, a copious English Spelling Dictionary". Half of spine label perished; first leaf is the title page; 3/4 of second free rear endpaper torn away leaving remnant of 1808 inscription. Leaves tanned. Binding is sound.
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Cranberry Culture [U.S. Department of Agriculture; Farmers' Bulletin No. 176]

By: Corbett, L. C.

Price: $52.25

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 1903

Seller ID: Books012383

Binding: Side stapled

Condition: Very Good

20 pages. Illustrated. Staples rusted but holding fine.
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The Marvellous Country; or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, the Apaches' Home

By: Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth

Price: $431.25

Publisher: Amherst, NS, Rogers & Black: 1874

Seller ID: Books013309

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

532 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. "Illustrated by upwards of one hundred engravings." Old gift inscription to first blank. Light wear to cloth; free endpapers creased; foxing to first two and final two leaves. Binding sound; hinges sturdy.
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Image for The Twins: or An Account of the Happy Lives and Triumphant Deaths of Sophia Crocker, who died May 13th, 1822, And Her Sister Maria, who died Nov. 3d, 1823.

The Twins: or An Account of the Happy Lives and Triumphant Deaths of Sophia Crocker, who died May 13th, 1822, And Her Sister Maria, who died Nov. 3d, 1823.

By: Crocker, Sophia, and Maria Crocker

Price: $865.69

Publisher: Norwich, Conn, Courier Office: 1828

Seller ID: Books009451

Binding: Side stitched paper wraps

Condition: Good

44 pages. Side stitched printed wrapper chipped. Foxing throughout, round stain persists to page 10, closed tear through pages 7/8. Composed primarily of the sisters' diary entries and letters concerning piety. Baptist connection, with note at foot of 7: "When the Female Society was formed in 1815, she [Sophia] became a member, and the three last years before her sickness, she acted as their Secretary or President". Both women died of consumption, as did their sister Lora in 1826.
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The Old Waldorf Astoria Bar Book with amendments due to repeal of the XVIIIth

By: Crockett, Albert Stevens

Price: $907.85

Publisher: New York, A. S. Crockett: 1935

Seller ID: Books011696

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

viii, 177, [1] pages. Soiling to cloth; extremities rubbed; endpapers toned; lower edge of preliminary leaves nicked; discreet tideline to upper margin. Binding is sound.
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Image for Jim Cummins' Book. Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas. [with stamped signature of Frank James]

Jim Cummins' Book. Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas. [with stamped signature of Frank James]

By: Cummins, Jim

Price: $1,567.50

Publisher: Denver, CO, The Reed Publishing Company: 1903

Seller ID: Books011121

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

191 pages, with all photo plates and illustrations as called for. A collectors' anomaly, bearing on the first front free endpaper a stamp in mauve coloured ink of the signature of Frank James brother of Jesse. I have gone through the usual channels within the trade to determine whether this stamp is known - was it a sales gimmick? was it an ownership stamp of Frank James? I remain in the dark, and the colleagues contacted have not seen its like. Offered here as a curiosity, with no guarantee of direct association. Purchased from a granddaughter of a resident (b.1911) of Shelby, OH, a gun colle...
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The Spirit of Seventy-Six , or, The Coming Woman . A Prophetic Drama. Followed by A Change of Base , and A Change of Base and Doctor Mondschein

By: Curtis, Ariana Wormeley and Daniel Sargent Curtis

Price: $424.54

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1868

Seller ID: Books010591

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

141 pages. Cloth rubbed and spine sunned. Pencil note re. authorship to half title. Sound binding. Presumed first printing as there is no indication of later issue/edition.
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Fairyland. The Marriage of the Princess "Sunbeam".

By: Cushing, Maria J.

Price: $1,250.44

Publisher: New York, T.L. Cranston: 1890

Seller ID: Books009892

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

16 pages and four plates. 7.25 x 5.6 inches. A Fairy poem, with four unattributed illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt to front. Binding professionally tightened retaining all original elements. Brown slate endpapers. Gift inscription to title page. A half inch closed tear to foot of one plate. The author was an 1869 graduate of The New York Medical College and Hospital For Women.
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The New England Almanac, And Farmer's Friend For The year of Our Lord 1868 [and 1870, 1879, 1887] Four issues

By: Daboll, David A.

Price: $101.89

Publisher: New London, C. Prince and [later] Chas. Allyn: 1886

Seller ID: Books009466

Binding: wraps

Condition: Good

Side stitched, measuring 6.6 x 4.5 inches. 40, 40, 64, 64 pages. Of particular interest for the numerous advertisements in each issue. Clothing, druggists, dentists, T.A. Scott Submarine Engineer and Diver, Books, Pens, quack medicine, photography, &c. 1868 a little stiff and with moderate staining; cover chipped and stained on 1870; title page chipped and detached and final leaf chipped on 1887.
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The Life Savers of Cape Cod

By: Dalton, J. W.

Price: $189.41

Publisher: Boston, Barta Press: 1902

Seller ID: Books010882

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

159 pages including ads at rear. Light offsetting to endpapers. cover price of 50 cents pencil amended to 25. No spine crease; sound binding; small crease and short tear upper left front panel. A remarkable well preserved example.
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Image for The Usury Laws. Speech of Mr. Dickinson, in the Senate, February 10th and 11th, on the bill introduced by Col. Young, to repeal, with certain restrictions, the Title of the Revised Statutes "Of the interest of money."

The Usury Laws. Speech of Mr. Dickinson, in the Senate, February 10th and 11th, on the bill introduced by Col. Young, to repeal, with certain restrictions, the Title of the Revised Statutes "Of the interest of money."

By: Daniel S. Dickinson

Price: $33.96

Seller ID: Books007220

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Good

Argus Extra No stated date or place of publication. 8.4 x 5.4 inches. Disbound from larger volume but leaves remain bound together. 11 pages plus rear blank. Foxing particularly to first and final leaf; dampstain to lower right corner; fore-edge cut too close to text with initial/final letter shaved off or nearly so on some lines of half the pages. Inscription to verso of final leaf of text: Chanulla ... Saratoga... {??}.
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King Spruce

By: Day, Holman

Price: $65.31

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1908

Seller ID: Books012012

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

372 pages, frontispiece with tissue guard and three plates in full colour. Textblock edges tanned and spotted; occasional light soil within. Christmas 1908 inscription to reverse of frontis. A handsome publisher's binding.
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Thoughts On Missions

By: Dibble, Sheldon

Price: $545.06

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1845

Seller ID: Books013262

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vi, [7]-225, [1] pages. First mainland edition, not before 1845, with the author's introductory letter dated 17 February 1844 at Lahainaluna. Light occasional foxing and toning; a tidy example overall.
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Image for Dilworth's Assistant : Adapted to the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States. Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical.

Dilworth's Assistant : Adapted to the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States. Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical.

By: Dilworth, Thomas; James Gibbons

Price: $961.88

Publisher: New York, Hurtin & McFarlane: 1798

Seller ID: Books012571

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

x, [4], [1]-228 pages, with folding table. Preface signed: James Gibbons. New-York, August 22d, 1798, in which he acknowledges the superiority of Dilworth's work and its success in America. But, "its usefulness has been somewhat diminished in this great commercial country, by not having been particularly adapted to the federal money, currencies, and commerce of the citizens of the United States." Old paper repair along spine. Front board detached, front free endpaper lacking. Tanned and foxed, but legible. The folding plate has been mis-folded (creased) and has a 2" closed tear. 1" closed tear...
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Frank Zappa et les Mothers of Invention (Rock & folk) (French Edition)

By: Dister, Alain

Price: $64.13

Publisher: Paris, Albin Michel: 1975

Seller ID: Books010178

ISBN: 2226001964

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

192 pages. Light wear to covers and edges; interior unmarked.
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"We Are Coming Father Abra'am": The History of the 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865 [signed]

By: Don Wickman

Price: $52.25

Publisher: Lynchburg, Va, Schroeder Publications: 2005

Seller ID: Books008775

ISBN: 1889246239

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

526 pages. As new: clean and unmarked, save for warm inscription by the author on title page.
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The Haunted Church, or The Little Organ Girl

By: Doten, Elizabeth [Lizzie]

Price: $1,603.13

Publisher: Boston, J. M. Usher: 1852

Seller ID: Books012441

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

76 pages. First edition. Boards soiled; light rubbing to extremities. Inscription dated at Medford 1852 to front free endpaper [Alvarez E. Richardson], and a very faint gift inscription penciled to second leaf [From Alvarez and Henry Franklin to George Edmund]. Moderate staining throughout, with pp. 6/7 heavily soiled. Binding is sound. 6 x 4.5 inches.
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Image for The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; or The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally; With Descriptions of all the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country

The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; or The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally; With Descriptions of all the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country

By: Downing, A. J.

Price: $173.14

Publisher: New York, John Wiley: 1852

Seller ID: Books012877

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xiv, 594 pages. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine sunned to brown; foxing throughout; early ownership signature to front free endpaper and title page. Binding is sound.
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