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Barkerville, Quesnel & the Cariboo gold rush by: Elliott, Gordon R.
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Barkerville, Quesnel & the Cariboo gold rush by: Elliott, Gordon R.

Softcover. Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 4th printing, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages, Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 459922
Price: $12.00 

Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest by: Weems, Jason
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Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest by: Weems, Jason

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, soft cover. Paper covers have some minor dents and marks on the exterior, and are slightly bent at the front corners. Interior pages are clean and bright, and the binding is solid. B&W illustrations and aerial photography throughout. This book offers a panoramic vista of the transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that enabled Americans to conceptualize the Midwestern region as something other than isolated and unchanging for the first time. Clean copy. Record # 33722
Price: $25.00 

Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game by: Wallace, Joseph
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Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game by: Wallace, Joseph

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w and color photos from photo archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 801190
Price: $12.00 

Battle for Korea - The Associated Press History of the Korean Conflict by: Dvorchak, Robert J.
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Battle for Korea - The Associated Press History of the Korean Conflict by: Dvorchak, Robert J.

Hardcover. PA, Combined Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. 317 pages. Personal accounts by the writers and photographers of the AP. Record # 63074
Price: $12.00 

Battle for the Falklands, The  by: Hastings, Max
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Battle for the Falklands, The by: Hastings, Max

Softcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1984-09-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462322
Price: $12.00 

Battle of Bosworth, The by: Bennett, Michael
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Battle of Bosworth, The by: Bennett, Michael

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. 75 black and white illustrations and three maps. Detailed reconstruction of the battle that claimed the life of Richard III and ended the Plantagenet line. Wrinkle in dust jacket laminate. Record # 512292
Price: $12.00 

Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 by: Pratt, Richard Henry Editor: Utley, Robert M.
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Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 by: Pratt, Richard Henry Editor: Utley, Robert M.

Softcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is about how General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt's long and active military career included eight years of service as an army field officer on the western frontier. He directed the Carlisle school, believing that the only way to save Indians from extinction was to remove Indian youth to non reservation settings and there inculcate in them what he considered civilized ways. Previous owner's markings in black pen are present through the first half of the book. Record # 34127
Price: $12.00 

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by: Bradford, Ned (ed.)
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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by: Bradford, Ned (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc,, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 626 pages. Blue cloth, gilt on spine. Boards show minor edgewear. Dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn. Tears tape-repaired. Price-clipped. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. B/W photographs throughout. Record # 804426
Price: $12.00 

Beethoven's Hair by: Martin, Russell
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Beethoven's Hair by: Martin, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, October 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Very good. Record # 454897
Price: $12.00 

Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley
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Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510814
Price: $12.00 

Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley
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Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2004-04-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462933
Price: $12.00 

Beginnings: Intention and Method by: Said, Edward W.
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Beginnings: Intention and Method by: Said, Edward W.

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been price clipped and has some mild edge wear, in good condition overall. Tan cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a major event for literary criticism and for humanistic study in general. This work proposes brilliant interpretations of various philosophical works. Clean copy. Record # 34374
Price: $24.00 

Behind the Spitfires by: RAFF
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Behind the Spitfires by: RAFF

Hardcover. London, England, Methuen & Co. LTD., 2nd, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 106 pages, hardcover. Orange cloth covers are in generally good condition, though the spine has been sunned and is no longer square. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is slightly loose, but the pages still turn well. Contains many B&W illustrations throughout. This humorous volume introduces a commoner to the lives of the aircraft men who were responsible for servicing and flying the machines of aerial war in Britain during WWII. Clean copy. Record # 34058
Price: $12.00 

Ben Line - Fleet List and Short History by: Somner, Graeme
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Ben Line - Fleet List and Short History by: Somner, Graeme

Softcover. Edinburgh, Scotland, W. M Thomas Company, 1st, 1967, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. From shipbrokers to sailing vessels, powered vessels and vessels managed by the British Government. Black and white map of Scotland. Record # 512336
Price: $12.00 

Benjamin Franklin by: Morgan, Edmund S.
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Benjamin Franklin by: Morgan, Edmund S.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462657
Price: $12.00 

Berlin zur Kaiserzeit by: Lemmer, Klaus J.
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Berlin zur Kaiserzeit by: Lemmer, Klaus J.

Berlin, Rembrandt, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Berlin under the Kaiser as seen in contemporary engravings by various artists. German text. Record # 601690
Price: $12.00 

Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry by: Rodgers, Andrew Denny III
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Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry by: Rodgers, Andrew Denny III

Hardcover. Durham, NC, Forest History Society, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 623 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with some minor edge wear. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This edition includs a frontispiece photo of Bernhard Fernow. A comprehensive biography of the life and career of Bernhard Eduard Fernow (1851-1923), the first professional forester in North America and an organizer of the forestry movement. Andrew Denny Rodgers reveals the history of forestry in North America through the lens of biography. Clean copy. Record # 33817
Price: $15.00 

Best Thing I Ever Tasted, The - The Secret of Food by: Tisdale, Sallie
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Best Thing I Ever Tasted, The - The Secret of Food by: Tisdale, Sallie

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 311 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy. Record # 177880
Price: $12.00 

Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?: American Elections, 1980-1998 by: McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?: American Elections, 1980-1998 by: McWilliams, Wilson Carey

Softcover. New York, Seven Bridges Press, LLC, 1st, August 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 454400
Price: $12.00 

Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by: Jr., Edward Bliss
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Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by: Jr., Edward Bliss

Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2000-12-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462660
Price: $12.00 

Big Bam, The : The Life and Times of Babe Ruth by: Montville, Leigh
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Big Bam, The : The Life and Times of Babe Ruth by: Montville, Leigh

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, Bc. Ed., 2006-05-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464071
Price: $12.00 

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by: Singh, Simon
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by: Singh, Simon

Hardcover. US, HarperCollins, 1st US, 2005-01-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463548
Price: $12.00 

big broadcast, 1920-1950, The by: Buxton, Frank
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big broadcast, 1920-1950, The by: Buxton, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 32 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear to dust jacket. Dust Jacket price clipped. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. . Record # 467656 Record # 467656
Price: $12.00 

Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure by: Wolff, Alexander
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Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure by: Wolff, Alexander

Hardcover. US, Warner Books, 1st, 2002-01-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461957
Price: $12.00 


  
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