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Life Among The Apaches - Classics Of The Old West


Cremony, John C.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Time Life Books, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Faux-leather bound with gilt decorated covers. All edges gilt.

Record # 202549


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel


Horan, James D.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 62 pages with b&w images followed by 160 removable illustrations including 36 plates in full color. The first complete biography of Charles Schreyvogel, painter-historian of the indian-fighting army of the American West. Binding a little loose in the back. Dust jacket slightly torn. Otherwise in good condition.

Record # 605058


Price: $58.00 

 

Life and Services of Gen. John A. Logan as Soldier and Statesman


Dawson, George Francis

Hardcover. Washington, D. C. , The National Tribune , 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Light shelf-wear to illustrated maroon cloth covers with slight fraying to edges of spine. Previous owner's signature on prelim page. Light tanning to title page from printed frontis, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857068


Price: $63.00 

 

Life and Work of Theodore Roosevelt - Memorial Edition


Russell, Thomas H.

n.p., L. H. Walter, 1st , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 512 pages. Many tributes, essays about Roosevelt upon his passing. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 66485


Price: $125.00 

 

Life In a Year, A - The American Infantryman in Vietnam 1965-1972


Ebert, James R.

Navato, CA, Presidio, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages. Black & white photos.

Record # 68756


Price: $25.00 

Life in Camelot: The Kennedy YearsKunhardt, Philip (Editor)
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Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years


Kunhardt, Philip (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, September 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452849


Price: $30.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Life of Israel Putnam: Major-General in the War of the American Revolution


Cutter, William

Hardcover. New York, George F. Cooledge, 1st, 1847, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages, blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. Black and white frontispiece portrait and other engravings. Cloth torn along edges of spine, covers edgeworn, moderate foxing to pages.

Record # 404103


Price: $50.00 

 

Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, The


Reich, Cary

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1996-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 875 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465801


Price: $15.00 

 

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)


MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell

Hardcover. Boston, Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1st, 1841, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, brown cloth binding worn, front covers detached, cloth covering on spines mostly gone. Interiors are good plus with bindings still solid. Makes a great set if rebound. Mackenzie was a officer in the US Navy and infamous for the execution of three sailors convicted of mutiny on board the USS Somers in 1842. He was also an author and historian publishing a number of books on naval war heroes.

Record # 412442


Price: $63.00 

 

Life of William McKinley, The


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Hardcover. New York, P.F. Collier, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and four full color plates. Front hinge tender at title page. Pages bright and unmarked. Light fading to purple spine cloth. Overall a nice copy.

Record # 609038


Price: $50.00 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 18611889Bartley, Theodore D.
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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 18611889


Bartley, Theodore D.

Softcover. Fleischmanns, N.Y., Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. SIGNED by descendant Barbara B. Bartley. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457124


Price: $25.00 

 

Life, Speeches and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln


Barrett, J. H.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 842 pages. Missing frontis illustration. Brown cloth cover with embossed border, gilt lettering to spine, includes messages, proclamations, letters, etc. Rear interior hinge paper cracked. Worn, faded cover with chipping at top and bottom of spine, foxing evident, light signs of mildew evident to endpapers, previous owner's signature to blank preview page, small newspaper clipping with illustration of and poem about Abraham Lincoln to blank preview page; otherwise a neat, tight copy.

Record # 604790


Price: $96.00 

 

Light Impressions : American Works on Paper 1875 - 1925


Adelsons Gallery

Softcover. New York, Adelsons Gallery, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 48 pages, illustrated throughout with 39 plates in color and b&w. Light wear to pictorial stiff wrappers, else like new.

Record # 401351


Price: $12.00 

 

Lighthouses of Maine The - A Guide for Photographers and Artists


Frost, Jr., Walter S. and Harold Simms

Paperback. no place , Privately printed, 1st wraps, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , 36 pages, photographs and maps. Plastic spiral binding.

Record # 304462


Price: $18.00 

Lights and Shadows of American History (Parley's Cabinet Library)Goodrich, Samuel G.
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Lights and Shadows of American History (Parley's Cabinet Library)


Goodrich, Samuel G.

Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 320 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, full page illustrations plus text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Some light water stains to pages in last third of book. Covers show mottling, discoloration to fore-edges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.

Record # 411480


Price: $44.00 

 

Limners and Likenesses


Burroughs, Alan

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages, hardcover. Gilt decorated boards. Three centuries of American painting. Heavy fading to spine. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards as well. Minor bumping to corners. Age toning and spotting to text block. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951506


Price: $31.00 

 

Lincoln - A Steven Spielberg Film - A Cinematic and Historical Companion


Rubel, David/Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy

Hardcover. New York, Disney Enterprises, Inc., First Edition, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with stamped titles to cover & spine. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750413


Price: $25.00 

 

Lincoln in the Political Circus


Gernon, Blaine Brooks

Hardcover. 1st, The Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. B&w frontispiece. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Minor edgewear, rubbing to cover. Spine slightly faded. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 851672


Price: $50.00 

 

Lincoln Papers, The - The Story of the Collection With Selections to July 4, 1861 Vol II


Mearns, David C.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., Rep., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol II only. pages 333-6781. Gilt titles on spine. Dj worn, chipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 59239


Price: $16.00 

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861Holzer, Harold
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Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861


Holzer, Harold

hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 640 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468925


Price: $19.00 

Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers - Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil WarLane, Kit
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Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers - Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil War


Lane, Kit

Softcover. Saugatuck, Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light marginal wear to covers. Faint smudge to bottom edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Record # 750484


Price: $23.00 

 

Lincoln's Choice


Buckeridge, J.O.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, Stackpole Company , 1st, 1956, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Fair, 254 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Rubbing and tears to top edge of dust jacket. Back cover of dust jacket missing large portion. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 857325


Price: $23.00 

 

Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy


Current, Richard Nelson

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated endpapers. Tan covers, gilt title on spine and front cover. Binding tight, pages bright, clean inside and out. Looks barely read. "With this path-breaking book, Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War."

Record # 31523


Price: $15.00