Antique & Collectible Books #261

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(978) 331-0895
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George Catlin and the Old Frontier by Harold McCracken (1959) The Dean of INDIAN PAINTERS

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George Catlin and the Old Frontier by Harold McCracken, Published by The Dial Press, New York (1959) good in good- dust jacket with some wear. Large hardcover. "A biograp...morehy and picture gallery of the Dean of Indian painters. 36 beautiful full-color illustrations."

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Poems of Places. Switzerland and Austria by Henry Longfellow (1877)

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Poems of Places. Switzerland and Austria by Henry Longfellow. Published by James R. Osgood, Boston, (1877) good condition small hardcover....more

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (c.1900)

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Published by Hurst & Company (c.1900) good condition, cloth hardcover. "The ground breaking work on evolution with "Historical Sk...moreetch" of the progress of opinion in the origin of species, previously to the publications of the first edition of his work."

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ALL-IN-ONE Automotive Green Book ALA (1933)

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Good condition softcovers with tons of information on hotels, maps etc. Some wear....more

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Scott's Standard POSTAGE STAMP Catalogue (1924)

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Good condition small hardcover with little wear. The Scott Catalogue of postage stamps, is updated annually and lists all the stamps of the entire world which its editors...more recognize as issued for postal purposes.

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The Poetical Works of ROBERT BURNS (c.1880) Decorative Binding

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Good condition, cracked hinge, nice binding for the shelf. Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is ce...morelebrated worldwide.

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Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrier (1953) First Edition

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Good condition with fair/good to good condition hardcover with some tattering. Seven Years in Tibet: My Life Before, During and After is an autobiographical travel book w...moreritten by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950.

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The New Master Course in HYPNOTISM by Henry Arons (1961)

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The New Master Course in Hypnotism by Henry Arons, Published by Power Publishers (1961) good condition with dust jacket.....more

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History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent (1850) Three Volumes

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History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft, Published by Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, MA (1850) Fair/Good...more condition, solid but without spine labels, and is volume one through three, not complete. George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state, at the national and international level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845.

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The ROAD TO OZ by L. Frank Baum (c.1950)

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Good condition hardcover, with some general wear, reprint version from the 1950's? The Road to Oz: In Which Is Related How Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button ...moreBright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter Met on an Enchanted Road and Followed it All the Way to the Marvelous Land of Oz. is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books. It was originally published on July 10, 1909 and documents the adventures of Dorothy Gale's fourth visit to the Land of Oz.

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Stories POSTAGE STAMPS Tell: What We Can Learn From Them (1930)

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Stories Postage Stamps Tell: What We Can Learn From Them by Sigmund I. Rothschild, Published by Putnam's NY (1930) good condition, no dust jacket, one page filled with co...morelorful postage stamps from the 1930's.

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RARE North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1935)

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North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Published by Harcourt Brace & Company, New York (1935) First Edition, Ninth Printing. This firsthand account of the flight m...moreade by the Lindbergh's to the Orient in the summer of 1931 is told from the perspective of Mrs. Lindbergh and illustrated with maps by Charles A. Lindbergh. Fair/Good dust jacket in good hardcover. Dust jacket with some tattering. Anne Spencer Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.

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DISCOVERY: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition by Richard Byrd (1935)

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Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition by Richard Byrd, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1935) good condition in good generally dust jacket with so...moreme shelf wear. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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The Afrika Korps: An Organizational History 1941-1943 by George F. Nafziger WW2 GERMANY

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The Afrika Korps: An Organizational History 1941-1943 by George F. Nafziger, Published by Nafziger Collection (1997) Comprehensive organisational history (mainly presente...mored in column form) of the German Afrika Corps. Good condition.

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The Berlin Direction 1945: Extraction of the Official Soviet Army Order of Battle of the Berlin WW2

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The Berlin Direction April-May 1945 an Extraction of the Official Soviet Army Order of Battle of the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation April-May 1945 by Craig Crofoot,...more Published by The Nafziger Collection, West Chester (1999) An extraction of the official Soviet Army Order of Battle of the Berlin Strategic Offensive operation April - May 1945. Good condition softcover.

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The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (2005) WW2

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The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (Modern War Studies) by Robert M. Citino, Published by Univ Pr of Kansas (2005) very good condition, ...morehardcover. "Citino discerns both the strengths-finding a way to fight short, sharp wars that ended rapidly in a decisive battlefield victory-and the weaknesses-logistics, intelligence, counterintelligence-of the Prussian 'metaphysics of war."

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AMERICAN POEMS (1882) Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell WONDERFUL BINDING

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Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, and Emerson with Biographical Sketches and Notes. HOLIDAY EDITION, Houghton Mifflin Company (1882) VERY GOOD CONDITION - WON...moreDERFUL BINDING FOR SHELF.

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RARE CAMERA ADVENTURES IN THE AFRICAN WILDS an Account of a Expedition in British East Africa (1910)

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CAMERA ADVENTURES IN THE AFRICAN WILDS, Being an Account of a Four Months' Expedition in British East Africa, For the Purpose of Securing Photographs from Life of the Gam...moree. A. Radclyffe Dugmore, published by William Heinemann (1910) good general condition with shelf wear. With numerous photographs from life by the author. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt with wear at extremities. Wonderful book.

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Poems of Home and Country. Also, Sacred and Miscellaneous Verse (1895)

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Poems of Home and Country. Also, Sacred and Miscellaneous Verse. Rev. Samuel Francis D.D. Smith, Published by Silver, Burdett and Company (1895) good- condition with sl...moreightly cracked hinge and stain on the title page. " "Samuel Francis Smith (was an American Baptist minister, journalist, and author. He is best known for having written the lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", which he entitled "America". Smith gave Lowell Mason the lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4, 1831, at a children's Independence Day celebration at Park Street Church in Boston. The song, titled "America", was first published by Lowell Mason in The Choir in 1832. Smith later wrote an additional stanza for the April 30, 1889 Washington Centennial Celebration."

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The PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan (c.1880) Decorative Covers

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Good condition, browning pages, owner signatures, some wear on pages, nice decorative covers....more

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The Lost World Of The Kalahari by Laurens Van Der Post (1958) Bushmen of Africa

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The Lost World Of The Kalahari by Laurens Van Der Post, Published by William Morrow and Company, New York (1958) good condition in good dust jacket. "This is the story of...more a journey in a great wasteland and a search for some pure remnant of the unique and almost vanquished First People of the author's native land, the Bushmen of Africa."

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The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara by Rosita Forbes (1921)

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The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara by Rosita Forbes, Published by George H. Doran Company, New York (1921) good condition hardcover, no dust jacket. Rosita Forbes was an En...moreglish travel writer and explorer. In 1920-21 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya (together with the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein), in a period when this was closed to westerners.

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WILD LIFE of Our World by John and Crossland (1934) Photographs

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Wild Life of Our World by John and Crossland, J. M. Parrish. Published by Collins, London (1934) Hardcover, with green cloth boards, pressed implant of elephant on front ...moreboard. Pages are clean and tight. 340 pages with b/w photos throughout. A few in color. Good condition with some light wear on the covers.

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RARE Jock of the Bushveld by James Percy Fitzpatrick (1907)

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Jock of the Bushveld by James Percy Fitzpatrick, Published by Longman's Green & Co, London (1907) good condition with loose binding and owner signature. "Jock of the Bush...moreveld was first published in 1907 when it became an instant best seller and a classic. Since then it has never been out of print and it has been the subject for a South African film. The author, Percy Fitzpatrick later recounted these adventures as bedtime stories to his four children. Rudyard Kipling, a good friend of Fitzpatrick, also took part in these story-telling evenings and eventually persuaded him to collect these tales in book form."

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RARE The Age of Fable; Or Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (c.1855)

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The Age of Fable; Or Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, Very good condition - but has no title page? which is odd because the rest of the book is wonderful . I bel...moreieve it may be the "S.W. Tilton & Company, Boston (1855)" version but if not it is 1850's. Fully illustrated.

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