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Memorial Address of the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866


Bancroft, G

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, First Edition, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover. Brown pebbled boards with gilt titles & decoration in very good condition. Frontis engraving, Abraham Lincoln, printed at the Treasury Department, protected by tissue guard. Light toning to edges to frontis illustration & throughout. Endpapers toned, marked from original glue, smudge to one preliminary page. Otherwise clean, unmarked. A nice copy.

Record # 750410


Price: $250.00 

Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States, AN/A
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Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States, A


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Hardcover. Boston, Boston City Council, 1st, 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Brown cloth covers with beveled edges. Gilt medallion of Boston on front, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511981


Price: $77.00 

 

Memorial of the American Patriots Who Fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775


N/A

Hardcover. Boston , Boston City Council, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many B&W plates, some fold-out. With a dedication of the Memorial Tablets. A little shaken light wear to edges of cloth covers. Gold stamp on front.

Record # 304269


Price: $100.00 

 

Memories of a Hundred Years ( 2 Vols. )


Hale, Edward Everett

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 318, 326 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Black and white images throughout. Clean, unmarked set.

Record # 470740


Price: $31.00 

 

Memories of a Mountain Town (Lincoln, Vermont) - A Bi-Centennial Commemorative Collection of Old Photographs Contributed by Her People


Norton (Chairman), Linda/Genevieve Burke/Ronald Rood/Donald Brown/Lincoln Bi-Centennial Committee

Softcover. Lincoln, Lincoln Bi-Centennial Committee, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages plus laid-in map. Heavy paper covers - Measures: 9" X 6". Illustrated with black & white photographs contributed by the people of Lincoln, Vermont. Foxing to cover spine and edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613278


Price: $44.00 

 

Men Against Time - Salvage Archaeology in the United States


Silverberg, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609680


Price: $12.00 

 

Men in My Life - A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950's Manhattan, The


Bosworth, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean unmarked text. Remainder dot to bottom edge.

Record # 614221


Price: $23.00 

 

Men in Rebellion


Martin, James Kirby

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages. Dust jacket spine sunfaded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608357


Price: $12.00 

 

Men in Space


Segel, Thomas, Illust. by: Dmitri Vail

Hardcover. Boulder, CO, Paladin Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Cover and dust jacket have some wear to corners and edges. Inside is clean and bright, with beautiful b&w and color illustrations throughout by Dmitri Vail.

Record # 853248


Price: $20.00 

 

Men of Our Day - Or Biographical Sketches


Brockett, L. P.

Hardcover. St Louis MO, Zeigler and McCurdy, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated with 42 engraved portraits (6 pages, 7 to a page). 696 pages. Internally very good with previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Different previous owner's signature on blank prelim page. Brown cloth covers worn with tears along spine edges, some chipping. Front hinge cracked.

Record # 601345


Price: $40.00 

 

Men Stood Like Iron, The


Herdegen, Lance J.

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Subtitled "How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name." Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951126


Price: $19.00 

 

Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe, The - The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II


Stout, Jay A.

Softcover. Guilford, Stackpole Books, First Thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750873


Price: $15.00 

 

Mentor Graham - The Man Who Taught Lincoln


Duncan, Kunigunde & D.F. Nickols

Chicago, IL, Univ. of Chicago, 1st , 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 274 pages. Some minor underlining, check marks in margin.

Record # 66486


Price: $25.00 

 

Merchant Prince of Dodge City, The - The Life and Times of Robert M. Wright


Haywood, C. Robert

Norman, OK, Univ. of OK, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 236 pages

Record # 67316


Price: $25.00 

 

Mercy Short - A Winter Journal, North Boston 1692-93


Faber, Norma

hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64477


Price: $15.00 

 

Meriwether Lewis: A Biography


Dillon, Richard

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann, Inc., First Edition, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Deckled side edge, maps to endpapers, black & white illustrations throughout. Light toning throughout. Dust jacket has light edge wear & is protected with a plastic cover. Gilt titles to spine. Clean copy.

Record # 6670162


Price: $15.00 

 

Messages and Papers of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy: Including Diplomatic Correspondence 1861-1865


Richardson, James D./Allan Nevins

Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House-Robert Hector Publishers, 1st Thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 643 pages. Volume 2 - 760 pages. No dust jackets as issued. Clean, bright copies.

Record # 611969


Price: $75.00 

Metropolis: A NovelGaffney, Elizabeth
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Metropolis: A Novel


Gaffney, Elizabeth

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 2005-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 461 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to previous owner ON TITLE PAGE. Personal correspondence (cards) between Gaffney and previous owner laid in. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466772


Price: $50.00 

 

MGM: When the Lion Roars


Hay, Peter

Hardcover. US, Turner Publishing, Inc., 1st, 1997-08-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463602


Price: $31.00 

 

Michele Felice Corne, 1752-1845: Versatile Neapolitan Painter of Salem, Boston, & Newport


Smith (foreword and notes by), Philip Chadwick Foster

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations, with a couple color illustrations. Some sun-fading to covers. Minor spotting to front cover. A little creasing and tearing to rear, with a few of last pages also lightly creased. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856467


Price: $23.00 

 

Middlebury College Centennial, 1800-1900: Record of the Centennial Anniversary of Middlebury College, A


Middlebury College

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College, 1st , 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , 292 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt tiles to spine and pictorial seal to front, stamped borders, top edge gilt, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece of Middlebury College President Jeremiah Atwater. Minor rubbing and soiling to covers, crisp pages, stiff binding; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 300427


Price: $25.00 

 

Might and Right


A Rhode Islander

Hardcover. Providence, RI, A. H. Stillwell, First Edition, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 324 pages. Frontis illustration, Thomas Wilson Dorr, Inaugurated Governor of Rhode Island, May 1842, protected with tissue guard. Soiling to cover board & spots to gutter of endpapers. Heavy foxing to tissue guard. Light foxing to margins through p. 15. & small soil marks to p. 255 tp end. Brown embossed boards with gilt titles to spine & fraying & wear to head & heel of spine.

Record # 751363


Price: $63.00 

 

Mighty Hard Road: The Woody Guthrie Story, A


Yurchenco, Henrietta

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 159 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Author assisted by Marjorie Guthrie. Introduction by Arlo Guthrie. Some sun-fading and creasing along dust jacket spine. Small stain on rear dust jacket cover. A little edge wear on rear dust jacket flap. Front dust jacket cover creased, with closed and open tears. Tiny tear on bottom of front flap. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856222


Price: $25.00 

 

Mighty Stonewall


Vandiver, Frank E.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 547 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR 0N PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Related article laid-in. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611995


Price: $63.00