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100 American Drawings and Watercolors from 200 Years by: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.
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100 American Drawings and Watercolors from 200 Years by: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.

Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with illustrated front cover, white back; rubbing and a few marks on the back. Staple wrappers. 12 b/w plates of drawings and watercolors from various American artists. 100 items listed. Short introduction on several of the less well-known artists in the exhibition, as well as the history of American watercolor and drawing. Tight, clean copy. Record # 808543
Price: $12.00 

100 American Drawings and Watercolors from 200 Years by: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.
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100 American Drawings and Watercolors from 200 Years by: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.

Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with illustrated front cover, white back; minor rubbing and a crease in the back. Staple wrappers. 12 b/w plates of drawings and watercolors from various American artists. 100 items listed. Short introduction on several of the less well-known artists in the exhibition, as well as the history of American watercolor and drawing. Tight, clean copy. Record # 808542
Price: $12.00 

1630-1897 A Brief History of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Roseboom (1739-1805) and of Jesse Johnson (1745-1832) by: Roseboom, CatharineRoseboom, Dr. J. LivingstonSwinnerton, Rev. Henry U.White, Joseph H.
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1630-1897 A Brief History of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Roseboom (1739-1805) and of Jesse Johnson (1745-1832) by: Roseboom, Catharine Roseboom, Dr. J. Livingston Swinnerton, Rev. Henry U. White, Joseph H.

Softcover. Cherry Valley, NY, The Co-operative Press, Reprint, Circa 1900s, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite a tear at the bottom of the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. John Roseboom (1739-1805) was born in Albany, New York, the son of son of Hendrick Myndert Roseboom (1707-1803) and the great grandson of Henderick Roosenboom (d. 1703). He settled early on in Schenectady as a merchant. He was a member of the Committee of Safety, and a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution. Most descendants listed here lived in New York. Clean copy. Record # 33929
Price: $25.00 

1688: The First Modern Revolution by: Pincus, Steve
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1688: The First Modern Revolution by: Pincus, Steve

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2nd Pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 647 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations and maps. In this book, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution of 1688 was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. Clean copy. Record # 34539
Price: $25.00 

1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac
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1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1995-04-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1126 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 464388
Price: $12.00 

1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac
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1920 Diary by: Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Light wear, scuffing to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 453649
Price: $12.00 

722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York  by: Hood, Clifton
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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by: Hood, Clifton

Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st pbk, September 1, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 454376
Price: $12.00 

 Golden Age, TheVidal, Gore
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Golden Age, The


Vidal, Gore

Paperback. NY, Doubleday, advanced reading copy wraps , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Fading and discoloration to page block. Tight copy. Advance reading copy.

Record # 108825


Price: $15.00 

 

Mexico City


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and World, Inc., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 212 pages. 14 color and 85 B/W photographs by Dick Davis. Cloth cover faded on front bottom edge and spine. Dust jacket has small tears on top and bottom edges otherwise very clean.

Record # 802515


Price: $13.00 

 

"Charles W. Morgan", The: The Story of the Last of the Old Whalers


Dickerman, Marion

Softcover. Old Mystic CT, Marine Museum, N/A, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, stapled binding, 28 pages with b&w illustrations. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 411918


Price: $13.00 

 

"I See No End to Travelling": Fascinating Accounts from the Personal Journals of the Early Australian Explorers and Pioneers, 1813-1876


Millar, Ann

Hardcover. Bay Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Red pictorial dust jacket. Red boards with slight edgewear. Soiling to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850592


Price: $25.00 

 

"Our Special Artist": Alfred R. Waud's Civil War


Waud, Alfred R.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 2nd, April 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Sticker on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454487


Price: $15.00 

 

"Pioneer" Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851, The


White, John H.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages (pgs. 241-268 from US National Museum Bulletin 240), b&w illustrations, cream colored paper wraps, stapled binding. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411933


Price: $15.00 

 

"Shedding the Veil"


Suarez, Thomas

Hardcover. NJ, World Scientific, 1st , 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Mapping the European Discovery of America & the World. Many black & white, color repros. of maps 1434-1863

Record # 54957


Price: $40.00 

 

"Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds" - The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley


McCaffrey (ed), James M.

Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 185 pages. Numer six in the War and the Southwest series.

Record # 204826


Price: $20.00 

"Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds" - The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore LaidleyMcCaffrey (ed), James M.
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"Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds" - The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley


McCaffrey (ed), James M.

Hardcover. Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Number six in the War and the Southwest series. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 204825


Price: $20.00 

 

"The Dark People": Russia's Crisis


Poole, Ernest

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Nine black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Some bending and wear on edges of covers. Minor rubbing. Light sun-fading and edge wear on spine. Slight damp stains along bottom edge. Small pen marking on rear flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856347


Price: $25.00 

 

"The Dye is Now Cast" - The Road to American Independence 1774-1776


Miller, Lillian B.

Paperback. Washington, DC, Natl. Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian, 1st wraps, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many Black & white illust. Pub. to coincide with an exhibition of the same name. 326 pages

Record # 54233


Price: $13.00 

 

"What So Proudly We Hail'd" An Exhibition in the William L. Clements Library Marking the Sesquicentennial of the War of 1812


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Softcover. Michigan, Michigan U.S. Daughters of 1812 and the University of Michigan, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers. 50 pages. Bulletin 71: 2000 copies. Contains some black & white illustrations. Fading to covers. Glue starting to loosen at spine.

Record # 508308


Price: $10.00 

 

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' (Canto original series)


Schr

Softcover. US, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1996-08-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 172 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463781


Price: $19.00 

 

'Ware Sherman - A Journal of Three Months Personal Experience in the Last Days of the Confederacy


LeConte, Joseph

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Intro by his daughter Caroline LeConte. Black & white illust. Spine with light fade otherwise

Record # 57045


Price: $75.00 

 

100 Greatest U.S. Coins


Guth, Ron & Jeff Garrett

Hardcover. Whitman Pub Llc, 2nd, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460074


Price: $15.00 

 

100 Years Ago: A Picture-Story of Hong Kong in 1870


Warner, John, Wucius Wong

Softcover. Hong Kong, Urban Council, 8th printing, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. English text by John Warner. Translation into Chinese by Wucius Wong. Bilingual edition. Black-and-white photos throughout. Light sun-fade to spine. Very minor soiling on covers. Small crease on spine. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856358


Price: $15.00 

100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American CultureSpears, Mr. Timothy B.
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100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture


Spears, Mr. Timothy B.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Extensive notes and references. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468341


Price: $25.00 


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