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Tacoma Illustrated
Chicago: Baldwin Calcutt & Co. /Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, 1889
Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. " A Careful Compilation of the Resources, Terminal Advantages, Institutions, Climate, Business, and Manufacturing Industries of the "City of Destiny". End papers and covers scrappy; internals very good. Profusely illustrated. stiff cloth coversornamental gilt titles. 98 pp.
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95.00 CAD
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The Story of Nellie Bly
New York: Americvan Flange & Manufacturing Co. 1951
Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thje story of Elizabeth Cochrane, Seaman (Seawoman?) whose undersea diving exploits gave rise to the invention of steel barrel; she also went airborne and lived out part of her life as a patient in an institution for the insane. A period piece of Americana replete with photo-illustrations and reproductions.
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20.00 CAD
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Anon. [James Stephens] War in Disguise ; or, The Frauds of the Neutral Flags
London For I. Riley & Co. 1806 Second American Edition Re-bound In Very Good Antique Condition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
[vi], 228 pp. untrimmed. From the controversies leading up to the Embargo Acts, the American edition of a London pamphlet defending the British practice of boarding American ships in search of English deserters. The preface to this American edition notes the publisher's original intention "to have prefixed to this edition, an Introduction of some length, exposing, in a succinct manner, some of the sophistries with which this singular work abounds, by way of putting the reader on guard against them," Boards lightly edgeworn and spine repaired neatly with bookbinder's material; a good, sound copy in the original boards.
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75.00 CDN
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Bradley, Michael The Black Discovery of America
Toronto Personal Library 1981 First Issue Cloth Near Fine Very Good++ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
193pp, notes, illustrated. Letter from Mr. Bradley to Book Reviewers referring to an earlier book "They Came before Columbus" (1976) and stating that he did not know of this previous work when he embarked on this one. No owner names or marks.
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30.00 CDN
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Brown, Dee Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1977
Cloth. Very Good/Good-Price Clipped. First Edition. 8vo Oblong. 1854 saw the first railroad linking the East with the Mississippi; by the end of the nineteenth century five major transconinental railr oads linked East and West Coasts. This is the story of the undertaking. 31 pp. map epps. bw figures and photos.
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Clyman, James Journal of a Mountain Man
Missoula, Montana Mountain Press 1984 Soft Cover Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
295 pages clean and bright, no creases... An interesting accont of the life of men who pushed back the frontiers in the American west. One of a series of books from Stackpole that we purchased, new.
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Cook, Reginald Lansing The Concord Saunterer
Middlebury, Vermont: MIddlebury College Press, 1940
Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In virtually 'unread' mint condition. Beige oatmeal paper over boards with black titles and Thoreau cabin vignette. Oatmeal jacket repeats the design. Black-on-rose endpaper maps. 91 pp. The jacket misses 'fine' because of a chip at head of spine, which is almost invisible because the covers are of the same paper as the jacket.
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40.00 CAD
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Curtis, Edward S. Portraits from North American Indian Life
Toronto New Press 1972 First Canadian Cloth on Paper Covered Boards Very Good ++ No Jacket as Issued Oblong Folio
176 pp. illustrated with 81 full-page prints of Curtis' sepia-tone photographs. Published in Association with the American Museum of Natural History. Oversized heavy oblong folio, approx. 15x18 inches. Pictorial hardboards (Canon De Chelly - Navajo) with black cloth spine; metallic copper printing front and spine; very light shelf wear restricted to spine extremities. Textblock clean, square and tightly bound with no splitting, Handsome, important book in collector's condirion with no owner names or marks.The 81 sepia prints contained within are near-full-size images of part of Curtis's monumental work of 2500 photographs.
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475.00 CDN
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Davidson, Marshall B. Three Centuries Of American Antiques
New York Bonanza Books 1979 First Thus Vynil Covered Boards Very Good ++ Very Good ++ 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
415 pp. 2000 illustrations, 375 in color. Comprises: The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques (Vol. 1), The American Heritage History of American Antiques - from the Revolution to the Civil War (Vol. 2), and The American Heritage History of Antiques from the Civil War to WW1 (Vol. 3). No owner names. Plasticised unclipped jacket.
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45.00 CDN
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Falconer, Thomas; La Salle, Robert Cavelier; Tonti, Henri De On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and on the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western Boundary of the United States, with a Translation from the Original Ms. of Memoirs, Etc. Relating to the Discovery of the Mississippi, by Robert Cavelier De La Salle
Shoal Creek Publishers 1975 Facsimile Reprint Paper Covered Boards Fine No Jacket as Issued 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Introduction by Dr. Dorman H. Winfrey. Original publication in 1844. With 99 pp.; fold-out map. Faux marble pictorial boards. facsimile reprint done in 1975 of the rare 1844 edition published by Samuel Clarke, London.
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20.00 CDN
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