2 Volume Set - 1st Edition Arthur H. Clark Co. - 1917) No marks noted in text. Bindings are tight and square. Includes 4 color maps (Three in Vol 1 and one in Vol 2). Gilt on top edges. There are some uncut pages on front edge. Only minor wear on blue boards with minor corner bumps. Nice solid copy of this set. This book won the 1918 Loubat Prize (awarded by Columbia University every five years between 1898 and 1958 for the best social science works in the English language about North America). . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: VOLUME 1: 1.) Government by factions -- 2.) The treaty of pe... View More...
Previous owner's name inside. Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover. Tanning to pages. View More...
1st Edition THUS / 1st Printing of 1997 Random House Edition - CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. From private collection, dust cover is in archival mylar. . . . . . In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world, and the white world as well, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess. As the book opens, Maya, in order to support herself and her young son, gets a job in a record shop run by a white woman. Suspicious of almost ... View More...
First edition, 1977. Inscribed by author on title page. Pages clean and unmarked; binding tight and square. Dust jacket lightly sunned on spine, clean with no rips or tears. In protective mylar cover. View More...
1st Edition / 1st Printing - Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom page edge. View More...
Signed by Author. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Light wear on cover. Gently read. . . . . . . A tour of American life and history based on Cooke's television series on the nation's growth and development and illustrated with photographs, cartoons, prints, and paintings. View More...
Previoius owner's name inside front cover. No apparent marks in text. Binding tight and square. Covers have been protected with permanently adhered vinyl. View More...
No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Faux red leather boards with inset picture and gilt lettering and decoration. Includes: ** Cather Country by Wayne Fields Return To East Anglia (It is to the U.S. Air Force what Normandy is to the U.S. Army. The monuments are harder to find, but if you're willing to leave the main roads, you will discover a countryside still eloquent of one of the greatest military efforts in history.) by John Mcdonough School For Sailors (A novelist and historian takes us on a tour of the Academy at Annapolis, where Ame... View More...
No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Faux green leather boards with inset picture and gilt lettering and decoration. Includes: -- How America Helped Build The Soviet Machine by Thomas P. Hughes. // . -- Trainmaster bu Oliver Jensen. // . -- We Were What We Wore by Ink Mendelsohn. // . -- When Robert Louis Stevenson Was One Of Us by Margaret Hodges. // . View More...
No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Faux brown leather boards with inset picture and gilt lettering and decoration. Includes: ** A Message In A Bottle: Or, Honeymoon On Cannon Mountain (As newlyweds in 1901 they were the first to climb the towering Montana peak, but when evidence of the feat surfaced after eighty-four years, nobody believed it) by Marian Cannon Schlesinger. // . ** Collecting History (Wherever you travel in this country, you have a good chance of bringing a piece of the past home with you) by Richard F. Snow. // . ... View More...
1st Edition THUS (1st Scribner's Printing - 1901) - Missing Frontispiece. No marks noted in text. Damp stain in early pages in top inside corner that diminishes to negilgable by the end of the book. Front hinge cracked but pages are secure. Red cloth cover is worn and any lettering it might have had is worn away. . . . . . . . . This is a condensed survey of the life of Custer after the close of the civil war, from Mrs. Custer's *Tenting on the plains,* *Following the guidon,* and *Boots and saddles.* . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) On leaving the Army of the Potomac -- 2.) Politi... View More...
Stated First Edition 1947. Vintage book. Pages are clean and unmarked, though modest aging/tanning to aged pages. Deckled page edges. Binding sound. Very light shelf wear to cover. View More...
