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Derwent; or, Recollections of Young Life in the Country


Chester, John

Hardcover. New York, Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Original advertising leaflet for book laid-in. Moderate rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613670


Price: $63.00 

 

Desert Eagles


Wynn, Humphrey

Hardcover. Osceola, WI, USA, Motorbooks International, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 140 pages, with maps and photographs. Small pen mark on front fly leaf, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456776


Price: $12.00 

 

Detroit: Dynamic City


Pound, Arthur , Illust. by: E.H. Suydam

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 397 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of Detroit's dynamic growth in the early part of the 20th century. Illustrated by E.H. Suydam. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Rubbing to top and bottom board edges. Fading to prelim pages, frontispiece bright and intact. Rough-cut fore edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450045


Price: $31.00 

 

Devil Soldier, The - The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the Most Honored and Controversial American in Chinese History


Carr, Caleb

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 366 pages.

Record # 58107


Price: $50.00 

Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that built American's Cruise-Ship EmpireGarin, Kristoffer A.
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that built American's Cruise-Ship Empire


Garin, Kristoffer A.

Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Group, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Previous owner address label on front flyleaf. Some foxing on top edge, otherwise, clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "...a terrifically entertaining history of this always astonishing industry, infusing the genre of the business narrative with sparkling cultural commentary and compelling social criticism as it traces cruising's growth...".

Record # 30191


Price: $19.00 

Dewey and Other Naval CommandersEllis, Edward S.
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Dewey and Other Naval Commanders


Ellis, Edward S.

Hardcover. New York, Hovendon & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Blue cloth covers with bright gilt and 3-color design. Illustrated with black & white engravings and color plates. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 509917


Price: $28.00 

 

Diary From Dixie, The


Chesnut, Mary Boykin

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Rep., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Ben Ames Williams. 572 pages.

Record # 66720


Price: $18.00 

 

Diary of Ebenezer Parkman 1703-1782: First Part- Three Volumes in One 1719-1755


Walett (Ed.), Francis G.

Hardcover. Worcester MA, American Antquarian Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850026


Price: $60.00 

 

Diary of Francisco de Miranda, The - Tour of the United States 1783-1784


Robertson (editor), William Spence

Hardcover. New York, Hispanic Society of America, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions of archival material. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604070


Price: $38.00 

 

Dictionary of American Portraits - 4045 Pictures of Important Americans from Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century


Cirker, Hayward/Blanche Cirker

Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 756 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Dust jacket worn, with closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610098


Price: $50.00 

Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, A (Two Volumes)Conrad, Glenn
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Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, A (Two Volumes)


Conrad, Glenn

Hardcover. New Orleans LA, Louisiana Historical Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1132 pages in two volume set. Bound in red leatherette, title gilt on spine. Some edge wear, corners slightly bumped. Interior very clean.

Record # 809053


Price: $100.00 

 

Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century American Artists in Italy, 1760-1914, The


Soria , Regina

Hardcover. London & Toronto, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Scarce title. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to slightly sunned spine. Pictorial dust jacket, light overall wear, small closed tear to front cover, back-flap chipped at upper edge, ink-marks to front fly leaf. A very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606300


Price: $300.00 

Diddy Waw Diddy - Passage of an American SonPorterfield, Billy
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Diddy Waw Diddy - Passage of an American Son


Porterfield, Billy

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 417 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white photos. Memoir of a Texas journalist growing up in the Texas oilfield in the 30's.

Record # 51506


Price: $18.00 

 

Discoveries & Considerations - Essays on Early American Literature & Aesthetics Presented to Harold Jantz


Israel (Editor), Calvin

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609073


Price: $12.00 

 

Discovering History in China


Cohen, Paul A.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, November 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Foxing to top edge. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454732


Price: $50.00 

 

Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, & Politics


Rosenberg, Harold

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor tear to lower edge of back cover). 336 pp. index included. "The book's five sections deal with illusions arising from various intellectual disciplines; the socio-political dynamics of the contemporary art world; problems of identity in American culture; the situation of the Jew in the contemporary world; and the role of myth in modern politics.

Record # 805114


Price: $22.00 

 

Distaff Sketch Book - A Collection of Notes and Sketches on Women's Dress in America - 1774-1783


Klinger, Robert L.

Paperback. Union city, Tennessee, Pioneer Press, wraps, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, light stains on cover, internally clean. 61 pgs of b&w drawings

Record # 108586


Price: $15.00 

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North AmericaFreeman, Victoria
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Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America


Freeman, Victoria

Hardcover. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1st, October 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 535 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with minor sunning to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458524


Price: $15.00 

 

Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Ketchum, Richard M.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, other than some slight foxing on top edge, clean inside and out.

Record # 30727


Price: $15.00 

 

Divine Politician, The


Akers, Charles W.

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern Univ., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Samuel Cooper & the American Revolution in Boston

Record # 51406


Price: $20.00 

 

Dixie Clockmakers


Gibbs, James W.

Hardcover. Gretna, LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 191 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. History of eighteenth and nineteenth century clockmakers in the south. Brown imitation leather, gilt lettering to spine. Minor bump to spine ends but still a nice looking copy.

Record # 605107


Price: $29.00 

 

Doctor at All Hours - The Private Journal of a Small-Town Doctor's Varied Life 1886-1909


Kellogg, M.D., David S.

Hardcover. Brattleboro, Stephen Greene, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with light soil, stain

Record # 57709


Price: $35.00 

 

Doctors in Gray - The Confederate Medical Service


Cunningham, H. H.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ., 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 339 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 61960


Price: $38.00 

 

Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century


Coultrap-McQuin, Susan

Softcover. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459814


Price: $10.00