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Senses of Walden, The


Cavell , Stanley

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 120 pages. Some sun-fading on dust jacket. Chipping along spine and along flaps of dust jacket. Small pencil marking on rear dust jacket and pen marking on front flap. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, with pencil notes. Pencil markings and underlining throughout. Good reading copy.

Record # 856109


Price: $15.00 

 

Serpent's Tongue, The: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos


Cather, Willa

Hardcover. US, Dutton, reprint, 1997-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466110


Price: $25.00 

 

Service in the King's Guards: By Two of Them


Barrows (Introduction), Walter M.

Hardcover. Boston, Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society , 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 344 pages, b&w plates. Much on frontier life in Nebraska and the Dakotas, with visits to the Indians, revivals, missionary work, Sitting Bull, Indian missions, etc. Covers show light wear, rubbing. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf "presented by the author/6 July 1891".

Record # 410618


Price: $63.00 

 

Settlers on the Eastern Shore, 1607-1750


Scott, John Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light soiling of covers. A little spotting on bottom edge. Foxing on top edge. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856186


Price: $21.00 

 

Seventeenth Century North America


Sauer, Carl Ortwin

Hardcover. US, Turtle Island Books, 1st, 1977-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463655


Price: $19.00 

 

Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1885-86


Powell, John Wesley

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office , 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 656 pages w/ index. Brown-red cloth, gilt lettering. Minor edgewear and corner bumps to boards. Several brown spots on end papers. Pages clean and unmarked. Folded map in back pocket. Illustrations throughout.

Record # 804478


Price: $80.00 

 

Seventy-Five Years in California


Davis, William Heath

Hardcover. San Francisco CA, John Howell, rep , 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Some color and black & white illustrations. Edited by Harold A. Small. Foxing to top edge at spine.

Record # 801693


Price: $26.00 

 

Shadows on Glass - The Indian World of Ben Wittick


Broder, Patricia Janis

Paperback. Savage, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 210 black & white photos from the late 1800s of the American Indians of the Southwest. 224 pgs.

Record # 125417


Price: $35.00 

 

Shamanism in North America


Hunt, Norman Bancroft

Hardcover. Buffalo, NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 232 pages. Color photographs. Black cloth covers with gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket like new. Excellent condition overall.

Record # 802611


Price: $19.00 

 

Shaping a National Culture - The Philadelphia Experience 1750-1800


Hutchins (Ed.), Catherine E.

Hardcover. Delaware, Winterthur Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 50940


Price: $25.00 

 

SHAPING OF A BATTLE, THE: GETTYSBURG


Montgomery, James Stuart

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 220700


Price: $16.00 

Shaping of America, The: A Geographic Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume 2: Continental America, 1800-1867Meinig, D.W.
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Shaping of America, The: A Geographic Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume 2: Continental America, 1800-1867


Meinig, D.W.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 636 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows minor age wear, slight chipping to upper back edge. Clean and tight copy. Volume 2 only.

Record # 2230974


Price: $31.00 

 

Shem, Ham & Japheth Inc. - The American Crucible


Topolski, Feliks, Illust. by: Feliks Topolski

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Music by David Fanshawe. Unpaginated. Black & white drawings and photography by author.

Record # 204740


Price: $35.00 

 

Shenandoah Valley Campaign, The


Gallagher (Editor), Gary W.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Collection of essays on Civil War campaign. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951198


Price: $15.00 

 

Shepard Kollock: Editor for Freedom


Anderson, John R., Illust. by: Ray G. Ellis

Hardcover. New Jersey, Chatham Historical Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of the New-Jersey Journal in Chatham, New Jersey from 1779 to 1783. With an introduction by John T. Cunningham, and illustrations by Ray G. Ellis. Unmarked. Mild rubbing to upper and lower board edges. Light age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951568


Price: $19.00 

Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders: From the American Chronicles of John H. WatsonMillett, Larry
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Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders: From the American Chronicles of John H. Watson


Millett, Larry

Hardcover. US, Viking, 1st, 1998-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 466390


Price: $10.00 

 

Sherman - Fighting Prophet


Lewis, Lloyd

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Bruce, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Small nick to back cover. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper,

Record # 57707


Price: $31.00 

 

Shingle Styles. Innovation and tradition in American architecture, 1874 to 1982


Roth, Leland M

Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1999-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462263


Price: $38.00 

 

Short History of the Brick Presbyterian Church 1768-1943


Farr, James McCullough

Hardcover. NY, Brick Presbyterian Church, 1st, 1943, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54808


Price: $20.00 

 

Short Story of American Destiny 1909-2009, A


Dann, Kevin

Softcover. San Rafael, Fortunatus, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Softcover. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612997


Price: $20.00 

 

Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910


Cigliano, Jan

Hardcover. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 398 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs from the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society. Purple cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new in original shrinkwrap.

Record # 605533


Price: $45.00 

Silver Wings: A History of the United States Air ForceBoyne, Walter J.
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Silver Wings: A History of the United States Air Force


Boyne, Walter J.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, photos in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463384


Price: $15.00 

 

Silversmiths of Rochester


Schild, Joan Lynn

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, No 8, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue covers with minor sunning along edges. Staple binding is tight. Pages in excellent condition with one large crease on title page. Titled as a Guide Bulletin for the museum. 21 b/w plates and much description and history of silversmiths. 32 pages.

Record # 807027


Price: $35.00 

 

Singing Rails


Pease, Herbert L.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner signature on front endpaper. Covered in black fabric, has a little age wear, light abrasions and discoloration, but still intact. Pages and edges yellowed with age, slight bit of foxing to edges. Top edge dyed red. From the foreward: The incidents related in this chronicle of railroading as I knew it in the early 1900's are without exception drawn from actual happenings."

Record # 30593


Price: $25.00