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Last of the Great Scouts ("Buffalo Bill")


Wetmore, Helen Cody

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 333 pages, illustrated, with foreword and conclusion by Zane Grey. Author is the sister of Buffalo Bill. Dust jacket edge wear and wear, one inch chunk missing from top spine edge, foxing on edges. Otherwise, internally clean and tight copy.

Record # 853363


Price: $15.00 

Law and Letters in American CultureFerguson, Robert A.
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Law and Letters in American Culture


Ferguson, Robert A.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very minor wear to edges, spine very slightly cocked, small stains to upper text block. Otherwise clean and tight copy. Name of former owner whited out in front end papers.

Record # 2230963


Price: $35.00 

 

Layfayette


Woodward, W.E.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 472 pages. Dj with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 61245


Price: $20.00 

 

LBJ: Architect of American Ambition


Woods, Randall B.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Shuster Inc., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1024 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Slight yellowing to top edge of front cover. Small stains on top text block edge. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 470953


Price: $23.00 

 

Lees of Virginia, The - Seven Generations of an American Family


Nagel, Paul C.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 332 pages.

Record # 60951


Price: $10.00 

 

Leonidas Polk: Bishop and General, Volume II


Polk, William M.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages, with pull out maps and tissue guarded illustrations throughout, volume II only. Small ex-library stamp on rear endpaper, and minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853700


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters from Prison - Personal Letters to his Wife and Son with Political Comments on Domestic and World Issues During the Eventful Years of 1951-1955


Dennis, Eugene

Hardcover. New York , International Publishers, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages. Hardcover. Dennis, a Communist, was imprisoned for challenging the HOAAC during the Red Scare era. Edited by his wife, Peggy Dennis. Dust jacket worn, chipped and now covered in brodart. Pages darkened, covers faded.

Record # 302804


Price: $20.00 

 

Letters of Horatio Greenough, American Sculptor


Wright, Nathalia

Hardcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. A collection of 241 of Greenough's letters, 188 printed in their entirety for the first time. Purple cloth, dust jacket with minor wear. A very nice and well preserved copy.

Record # 605203


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Virginia Woolf, The: Volume 2 1912-1922


Nicolson, Nigel (Editor), Joanne Trautmann (Asst. Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st American edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Volume II only. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, purple quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age on spine, otherwise in good shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page clean. In very good condition. Even richer than it's predecessor, Vol. II of Virginia Woolf's letters covers the first decade of her marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of the Hogwarth Press; and the years of World War I.

Record # 32340


Price: $23.00 

Lichtenstein in New York: A Pop Art LifeBernardo, Mark P.
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Lichtenstein in New York: A Pop Art Life


Bernardo, Mark P.

Softcover. Albany, CA, Roaring Forties Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Gray spine with read lettering. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. This book looks at Lichtenstein's life through the lens of New York City, taking the reader to the Manhattan that Lichtenstein knew, from the Prohibition era through the postwar era and countercultural revolution to the well-heeled iconoclasm of the 80s and 90s. It is a fascinating biography of a major but sometimes neglected trailblazer of 20th-century American art.

Record # 471464


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 Art of William Merritt Chase, The


Roof, Katerine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York, Hacker, reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Biography over one of Americas central Renaissance painters, following him on his journeys around the world: Munich, Venice, London, Spain and Holland as well as New York and California. Beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New copy, still in original shrink wrapping. In mint condition.

Record # 605225


Price: $32.00 

 

Life and Art of William Merritt Chase, The


Roof, Katerine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York, Hacker, reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Biography over one of Americas central Renaissance painters, following him on his journeys around the world: Munich, Venice, London, Spain and Holland as well as New York and California. Beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 606143


Price: $32.00 

 

Life and Art of William Merritt Chase


Roof, Katherine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York , Hacker Art Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Yellow cloth, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856895


Price: $25.00 

Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks -  (3 Volumes)Allen, Alexander V. G.
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Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks - (3 Volumes)


Allen, Alexander V. G.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes complete, (524, 542, 530 pages plus index), maroon cloth covers with gilt decoration, lettering, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's bookmarks otherwise clean, tight set.

Record # 801519


Price: $40.00 

 

Life and Letters of Washington Allston


Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805227


Price: $19.00 

 

Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield, The


McCabe, James D.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Jones Brothers & Co., 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 768 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt decoration and stamped black border. Gilt lettering on spine with black illustration. Rubbing and edge wear on spine and corners, and binding slant. Decorated end papers, binding cracked in multiple places, but otherwise complete. Black & white frontispiece, with fine steel and wood engraved illustrations, previous owner's signature on end paper.

Record # 408744


Price: $25.00 

 

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 Thomas Eakins, The


Hendricks, Gordon

Hardcover. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 306 b&w illustrations, 54 color plates. Light wear and chipping to dust jacket, price-clipped; a very tight, clean copy.

Record # 605476


Price: $96.00 

 

Life of Abraham Lincoln, The


Arnold, Isaac N.

Hardcover. Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 5th printing, 1891, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. B/W frontisportrait of Lincoln with tissue guard (guard is partially detached). Stain around edges of frontispiece page and very faintly at bottom of title page. Pages age toned and browned on edges. Some browning and discoloration of front inside cover and front flyleaf. Minor smudging and marking to read endpaper. Very faint water stain along bottom edge of pages. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear, marking, and scuffing. Light edgewear, and wear to top and bottom of spine. Corners are rubbed and bumped.

Record # 803244


Price: $40.00 

 

Life of Admiral Mahan, The.


Taylor, Charles Carlisle

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Small sticker, and residue from larger sticker, on spine. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Front hinge cracked. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Some foxing on beginning pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852683


Price: $20.00 

 

Life of Frederick William Von Steuben


Kapp, Friedrich

Softcover. Corner House Historical Publications, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 735 page pages, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456637


Price: $28.00 

 

Life of George Washington, The


Sparks, Jared

Hardcover. Boston, Ferdinand Andrews, 1st, 1839, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 562 pages, including several portraits of Washington with tissue guard and gilt title on spine. Light foxing throughout, spine cracked but cover and all pages intact, small sticker on spine and front endpaper, corners bumped and frayed. Otherwise, in clean and tight condition.

Record # 853965


Price: $60.00 

 

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