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FARMINGTON
by Darrow, Clarence (warmly inscribed by author)
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition (published the same year as the First)
- Published
- 1904
- Binding
- Hardcover, Decorative Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$645.00
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Small octavo (7 3/4 by 5 1/4 inches) x, 277 pages. Original green cloth binding, with embossed pastoral vignette (a rural scene accented in several colors) on upper cover over title and author's name in gilt; title, author, and publisher in gilt on spine; top edge gilt, deckled fore-edge and bottom edge.
On the title page there is another bucolic vignette… Read more about this item Item Price
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SIOUX CITY ILLUSTRATED: The Pioneer Period And An Authentic Sketch of The Sioux City of To-Day
by Heizer, E. P. ("Edited By")
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- Used
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- Original
- Published
- 1888
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$275.00
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Quarto (12 by 9 1/4 inches) stiff wrappers: 64 unnumbered pages illustrated with numerous vivid black and white lithographic views of business blocks, mills, various industries, office buildings, banks, homes, and other prominent landmarks; cover tinted in colors.
Good condition (minor chipping at edges, and along spine; light, old water stain extending from upper right corner of title page to middle… Read more about this item Item Price
$275.00
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ROUTE FROM LIVERPOOL TO GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY
by Linforth, James (Edited By)
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- Used
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition
- Published
- [1959]
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- Hardcover, Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$47.50
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A faithful reproduction of the very scarce original 1855 edition, quarto (12 by 9 1/4 inches) Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1959. viii, 120 pages, illustrated with 30 unnumbered leaves of engraved plates, nine woodcut illustrations, portraits, 1 folded map, textured black cloth, fabrikoid binding, with title in gilt (within an embossed framed ornament in blind) on front cover, and gilt… Read more about this item Item Price
$47.50
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RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY
by Squire, Watson C.
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- Used
- Edition
- Original First Edition
- Published
- 1886
- Binding
- Sewn Wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$145.00
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Small quarto (9 1/4 by 6 inches) Hanford Stationery and Printing Company, 1886. Original First Edition. 72 pages, large foldout map (18 1/2 by 24 inches) attached to back wrapper, bound in original sewn wrappers, very good condition.
Written before Washington became a State, the author describes "Some of the reasons qualifying this Territory for early admission into the Union .… Read more about this item Item Price
$145.00
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MEMOIR OF MAJ.-GEN. GEORGE H. THOMAS
by Johnson, Richard W.
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1881
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$120.00
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Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches) Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. First Edition. 322 pages illustrated with engraved frontispiece and portraits (including Sheridan, Sherman, Rosecrans, and Grant), Appendix (containing "Speech of General W. T. Sherman," and letters from George B. McClellan, and others regarding the unveiling of a statue, and the dedication of a monument in honor… Read more about this item Item Price
$120.00
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HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
by Van Horne, Thomas B.
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1875
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$395.00
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Small quarto (9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches) Cincinnatti: Robert Clark & Co., 1875. First Edition. Two Volumes, xiv, 454 & v, 478 pages including an Appendix, with details on the construction of block house fortifications, and an Index."Illustrated with Campaign and Battle Maps Compiled by Edward Ruger, Late Superintendant Topographical Engineer Office, Headquarters Department of the Cumberland," in an… Read more about this item Item Price
$395.00
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THE LIFE O MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS
by Van Horne, Thomas
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1882
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$115.00
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Octavo (8 3/4 by 6 inches) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. First Edition. x, 502 pages, eight folded maps, frontis is an engraved portrait of Thomas.
Appendix contains "Roster of Troops Engaged at Mill Springs, Kentucky January 19, 1862," and "Organization of U. S. Forces Commanded by Major General Geo. H. Thomas, at the Battle of Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 15… Read more about this item Item Price
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FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX
by Longstreet, James (Lieutenant-General Confederate Army)
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- Used
- Edition
- Original First Edition
- Published
- 1896
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$475.00
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Small quarto (9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches) Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. Original First Edition. xxii, 690 pages, illustrated with [46] pages of plates: 40 illustrations, including portraits, battle scenes, and a facsimile letter to Lee, and 16 maps with color denoting battle lines (red for Confederates, blue for Federals), an appendix with letters of General Robert E.… Read more about this item Item Price
$475.00
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LAUREL LINE Interurbans Special 103
by Henwood, James N. J. and John G. Muncie
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Hardcover, Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$45.00
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Quarto (11 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches) Glendale, California: Interurban Press, 1986. First Edition. 207 pages printed on coated stock, illustrated with black and white vintage photographs, time tables, tickets, diagrams of cars, roster of equipment, bibliography, index; hardcover in very good condition with original colorful dust jacket.
Interurbans Special 103: History of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, most notable… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
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THE B. & S.
by (Signed) Pietrak, Paul
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- Used
- Edition
- Original
- Published
- circa 1960s
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$75.00
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Quarto (11 1/4 by 8 3/4 inches) Privately Published, circa 1960s. Signed by the author. Original. Hardcover. 130 pages illustrated with black and white vintage photographs of lumber mills, locomotives, railroad shops, stations, bridges, water towers, and train wrecks; there are also maps, a roster of locomotives, diagrams, examples of tickets, schedules, and railroad passes. Hardbound, and in very good… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
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CAMPING IN COLORADO
by Gordon, S. Anna
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- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1882
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$55.00
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Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/4 inches) New York: W. B. Smith & Co., 1882. Second Edition 201 pages + 8 pages of publisher's ads, dark red hardcover, cloth binding, with ornamental rules framing the title, centered in gilt on front cover beneath a gilt decoration of a riverside camping scene, ornamental rules at top and bottom of covers,… Read more about this item Item Price
$55.00
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SEVENTY YEARS IN TEXAS
by Franks, J. M.
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1924
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$145.00
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Octavo (9 by 6 inches) Gatesville, Texas, 1924. First Edition. 134 pages, frontis portrait of the author, original stapled wrappers, very good condition (mild chips to top and bottom of spine, lower right corner of front cover slightly chipped; contents not affected).
The author's reminiscences that include "killings," "captures," and "escapes," while mentioning "Wild Bill," Kit Carson, "Wolf Boy," and many… Read more about this item Item Price
$145.00
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HISTORY OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS 1862-1865
by "By A Committee of the Regiment"
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1884
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$165.00
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Octavo (9 by 6 inches) Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1884. First Edition. 405 pages, "Roster and Record," index, original brown cloth binding with gold emblem on the front cover, and title in gilt on spine, both covers decorated with bands in blind, very good condition (mild shelf wear to edges, not affecting contents).
A chronicle of the IX Corps,… Read more about this item Item Price
$165.00
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THE LAND OF POCO TIEMPO
by Lummis, Charles F. (signed presentation from author on front fly leaf)
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Later Printing (First was 1893)
- Published
- 1925
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$145.00
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Octavo (9 by 6 1/4 inches) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Later Printing (First was 1893) 310 pages, illustrated with 38 black and white halftone images taken from photographs by the author, along with drawings by others, and music; hardcover, good condition, decorated brown cloth, with stamped black and yellow pattern on cover and spine, resembling Southwestern weaving, and… Read more about this item Item Price
$145.00
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THE MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED:
by Scammon, Charles M.
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Original First Edition
- Published
- 1874
- Binding
- Hardcover, cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$950.00
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Quarto (12 by 9 1/2 inches) San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Company, 1874. Original First Edition. 319 + v pages, hardcover, bound in original green pebble cloth, with title in gilt on spine, and gilt vignette of a seal on upper front cover; 27 lithographic plates drawn by the author, and printed by Britton and Rey, plus many other… Read more about this item Item Price
$950.00
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OUR CURRENCY: What It Is, and What It Should Be.
by Drew, John G.
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Published
- 1874
- Binding
- Sewn Wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$45.00
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Small quarto (9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches) New York: S.R. Wells, 389 Broadway, and H.C. Baird, 406 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1874. Third Edition. 24 page sewn booklet in wrappers; three advertisements, good condition (minor old-age stains along lower margins, one to lower right corner of title page, four minor pencil notations, light chipping to margins - text and contents… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
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SPEECH OF HON. WILLIAM B. SHEPARD
by "Delivered in the Senate of North Carolina, November 27, 1850. Upon His Resolutions on the Slavery Question."
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Original
- Published
- 1850
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$75.00
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Octavo (8 3/4 by 5 5/8 inches) Raleigh (North Carolina): Printed at the Star Office, 1850. Original 12 page printed speech in the form of a pamphlet, bound by thread, folded into thirds, to fit into its original mailing envelope (formed by a folded sheet of paper, with wax seal) addressed to "Andrew Calhoun Esq. Union Town Perry County, Alabama,"… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
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THE WRITINGS OF CALEB ATWATER (containing) "A DESCRIPTION OF THE ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY; ORIGINALLY COMMUNICATED TO THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY" (and) "REMARKS MADE ON A TOUR TO PRAIRIE DU CHIEN THENCE TO WASHINGTON CITY, 1829"
by Atwater, Caleb
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition of "A Description .... "
- Published
- 1833 and 1829
- Binding
- Hardcover: full early original leather
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$325.00
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Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches) Columbus, Ohio: Published by the Author, Printed by Scott and Wright, 1833 and 1829. First Edition of "A Description .... ". Hardcover: full early original leather. 408 pages, two separate titles bound together as one book, with consistent, and uniform pagination, illustrated by 10 engraved plates (6 are fold out; plate 8 is… Read more about this item Item Price
$325.00
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LETTER OF GEN. A. J. HAMILTON, OF TEXAS TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
by {Southern Support For The Union During The Civil War}
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Original First Edition
- Published
- 1863
- Binding
- Original Wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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$250.00
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Octavo (9 by 5 3/4 inches) New York: Loyal Publication Society of New York "No. 26.", 1863. First Edition, very good condition, 18 pages, original stitched wrappers, with stab marks along the spine, and minor chipping to edges; not affecting contents which are intact and clean; Wm. C. Bryant & Co. Printers.
Hamilton was a "Southern Union man." He opposed secession,… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
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Garfield and Arthur campaign song book, 1880
- Condition
- Used - Excellent condition, with no tears
- Edition
- Original First Edition
- Published
- 1880
- Binding
- Wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, USA
- Item Price
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$115.00
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Octavo (8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches) Washington DC: Republican Congressional Committee, 1880. First Edition. 24 page stapled booklet, with lyrics to more than 40 songs, and music to at least 14 of them; salmon/peach colored wrappers, with title, and black and white woodcut campaign portraits of both candidates, centered on front cover, with a floral and geometric border; back… Read more about this item Item Price
$115.00
