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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by: Okrent, Daniel
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by: Okrent, Daniel

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Scribner, rep, 2010-05-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462687
Price: $12.00 

Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, The: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness by: Olney, Buster
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Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, The: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness by: Olney, Buster

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy. Record # 471749
Price: $12.00 

 

LAST OF THE INCAS, THE: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN EMPIRE. by: Hyams, Edward, & Ordish, George

New York, Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color pictorial end papers of Macchu Picchu Ruins. Illustrated title page. 294 pages. Illustrated maps and plates. 8vo. Gilt pictorial gold boards and red cloth spine. Gold and white edge worn, pictorial dj. Record # 220618
Price: $12.00 

Last Train North, The by: Taulbert, Clifton L.
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Last Train North, The by: Taulbert, Clifton L.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Tulsa , Council Oak Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468224
Price: $12.00 

Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer by: Gifford, Bill
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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer by: Gifford, Bill

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Harcourt, 1st, 2007-02-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 331 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462655
Price: $12.00 

Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865 by: Editor: Tower, R. Lockwood
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Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865 by: Editor: Tower, R. Lockwood

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 343 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor edge wear, but is still in very good condition overall. Gray cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. The exterior edges of the pages have some light foxing, but this does not affect the legibility of any text blocks. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book provides an intimate firsthand look at the Army of Northern Virginia through the correspondence of Walter Taylor, who served as General Robert E. Lee's closest aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant general throughout the American Civil War. Clean copy. Record # 34588
Price: $20.00 

Liberty: A Centennial History of the Statue of Liberty in Post Cards by: Bossert, Jill
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Liberty: A Centennial History of the Statue of Liberty in Post Cards by: Bossert, Jill

Softcover. NY, Madison Square Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Stapled binding is solid. Contains 40 facsimiles of 19th century postcards, and a 4 page essay on Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty. The cards are all intact and unused, with perforated edges and postal details on the rear. A remainder mark is present on the bottom edge of the pages. Clean copy. Record # 34372
Price: $18.00 

Like No Other Store: The Bloomingdale's Legend and the Revolution in American Marketing by: Traub, Marvin
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Like No Other Store: The Bloomingdale's Legend and the Revolution in American Marketing by: Traub, Marvin

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Times Books/Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 428 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some creasing to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468320
Price: $12.00 

 

Lincoln and the Emperors by: Tyrner-Tyrnauer, A R.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Record # 408313
Price: $12.00 

Lincoln and the Jews: A History by: Sarna, Jonathan D. Shapell, Benjamin
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Lincoln and the Jews: A History by: Sarna, Jonathan D. Shapell, Benjamin

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book provides readers both with a captivating narrative of Lincoln's interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34139
Price: $28.00 

Lincoln At Home: Two Glimpses Of Abraham Lincolns Family Life by: Donald, David Herbert
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Lincoln At Home: Two Glimpses Of Abraham Lincolns Family Life by: Donald, David Herbert

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000-11-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages. Previous owner's signature in prelim-page/ Tiny sticker scar to front cover, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 466160
Price: $12.00 

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

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 2008-10-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 623 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466157
Price: $12.00 

Lincoln's Quest for Union by: Strozier, Charles B.
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Lincoln's Quest for Union by: Strozier, Charles B.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Basic Books, 1st, 1982-06-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 466156
Price: $12.00 

Locus Mentis: Poems [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Miller, MaryAnn L.
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Locus Mentis: Poems [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Miller, MaryAnn L.Locus Mentis: Poems [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Miller, MaryAnn L.

Locus Mentis: Poems [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Miller, MaryAnn L.

Softcover. Jenkintown, PA, PS Books, Reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This collection centers around a lifelong exploration of personal and physical reality, anchored by the author's medical journey. Beyond dealing with acceptance, the poems also branch into family history, love, relationships, and the transformative power of art. Author's inscription to the previous owner is present on the title page. Record # 34646
Price: $15.00 

 

London Yankees, The : Portraits of American writers and artists in England, 1894-1914 by: Weintraub, Stanley

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Faint foxing to top edge. Record # 462509
Price: $12.00 

Lost German Slave Girl, The : The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans by: Bailey, John
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Lost German Slave Girl, The : The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans by: Bailey, John

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2004-12-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462392
Price: $12.00 

 

Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum Rescued from Oblivion, Recorded and Preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the Old Township of Harvard Massac

Softcover. Fruitlands and The Wayside Museums, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black & white photography of utopias. Soiling, edgewear to covers. Record # 509006
Price: $12.00 

Love On The Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America by: Rotskoff, Lori
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Love On The Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America by: Rotskoff, Lori

Softcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages, soft cover. Covers have two 'used' stickers, one on the rear and one on the spine, and light bumping to the corners, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. Clean copy. Record # 34232
Price: $12.00 

 

Major Campaign Speeches by: Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Record # 220677
Price: $12.00 

 

Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson 1952 by: Stevenson, Adlai E.

NY, Random House , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Record # 200369
Price: $12.00 

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by: Wiencek, Henry
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by: Wiencek, Henry

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468087
Price: $12.00 

 

Meet General Grant by: Woodward, W .E.

New York, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages, b&w illustrations. Life of U.S. Grant. Hinge cracked before title spread. Record # 700734
Price: $12.00 

Memories of the Early Days in the Town of Troy, Vermont [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Butterfield, Anne Huckins
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Memories of the Early Days in the Town of Troy, Vermont [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Butterfield, Anne Huckins

Softcover. Troy, VT, Privately Printed, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages, soft cover. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. This book is a detailed look at the early history of a small town, Troy, in Vermont. It is thoroughly researched and informative. Authorial inscription reads: "May the reader of this book enjoy a few memories." Clean copy. Record # 33924
Price: $30.00 

Men And Issues Of '92. A Grand National Portrait Gallery Containing Photographs Of Leading Men Of All Parties: With A Full And Fair Presentation Of The Great National Questions Of The Day by: Boyd, James P.
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Men And Issues Of '92. A Grand National Portrait Gallery Containing Photographs Of Leading Men Of All Parties: With A Full And Fair Presentation Of The Great National Questions Of The Day by: Boyd, James P.

Hardcover. NY, Publisher's Union, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 656 pages, hardcover. Cloth covers have begun to fade, some minor aesthetic staining is present, and the front hinge is cracked. Interior pages are clean and bright, however, and the binding is solid. This book discusses political campaigning in 1892. It was sold by subscription, and includes black and white photos of most of the prominent politicians of the time. Clean copy. Record # 33698
Price: $18.00