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High Treason, the Plot Against the People

by Albert E. Kahn

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1950
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New York: Lear, 1950. Covers creased and worn, page edges brown and brittle. History of right-wing intolerance in the US, sadly topical. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by `.
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Letters of Historic Interest

by Vincent Cornelius Neale (Cornelius Vincent Webster Neale)

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First Edition
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Hardcover
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Croydon: Roffey & Clark Letters from the son of John Mason Neale, the hymn writer, to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Sidney Oldall Addy. (Sidney Oldall Addy was also a writer; his wife, Mary, was the sister of Vincent Neale's wife, Eliza). Letters dated from 1912 to 1923, nothing remarkable, but fascinating details of life in California at the time, including the… Read more about this item
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The Disinherited

by Jack Conroy

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Used - Good
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First UK Edition
Published
1934
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Hardcover
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London: Wishart & Co, 1934. Red cloth, partly faded, worn on corners and spine ends, marked on back; endpapers bit discoloured, contents good. Stamped inside cover Pioneer Bookshop for Socialist Literature, 268 Upper Street, Islington. Scarce edition of this early proletarian American novel. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
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The Orchard: A Memoir

by Adele Crockett Robertson

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Used - Near Fine
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Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1995
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Hardcover
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9780805040920
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New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1995. Slight wear to corners of dustwrapper, one very small tear. "Memoir of a young woman's struggle to save her New England farm in the Depression". First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Sabers & Suites - the story of Chicago's Ambassador East

by Rick Kogan

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Used - Near Fine
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Good
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First Edition
Published
1983
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Hardcover
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Chicago: Privately Printed, 1983. Story of a hotel and its famous guests. Dustwrapper worn and frayed on edges and folds. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.
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An Original Belle

by Rev. E (dward) P (ayson) Roe

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Used - Good
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Edition not Stated
Published
9999
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Hardcover
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London: Ward Lock , 9999. Green embossed cloth with gilt titles, boards slightly warped. No date, looks round about 1900. Name on half-title dated 1933. Some foxing front and back. Novel set during American Civil War, in which the author was a chaplain.. Edition not Stated. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
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American Scene

by Harry J. Greenwall

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First Edition
Published
1937
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Hardcover
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London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. Green cloth, bit faded on spine, rubbed on corners. Some stamps on flyleaf, label on rear endpaper from library of Chelsea Hospital.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Shoe Town

by Rodney Lee

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Used - Near Fine
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Near Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
2004
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Hardcover
ISBN
9781929039272
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Worcester, Massachusetts : Ambassador Books , 2004. Dustwrapper has slight creasing at head of spine. Memoir of Endicott, N.Y. Illustrated. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man (Twentieth Century Classics)

by James Weldon Johnson

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Edition
New Edition
Published
1990
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Paperback
ISBN
9780140184020
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London: Penguin Books , 1990. Slight wear to edges of covers. Introduction and notes by William L. Andrews. First published in 1912, written by the first black executive secretary of the NAACP, presents a frank picture of being black in America. . New Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Funny Stories

by Phineas T. Barnum

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Used - Fair
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Edition
First UK Edition
Published
1890
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Hardcover
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. Decorated red cloth worn, spine darkened, hinge cracked, flyleaf and portrait frontispiece loose. Good reading copy. Uncommon.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.
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The Wrath and the Wind

by Alexander Key

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Used - Good
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Good
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First Edition?
Published
1949
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Hardcover
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Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949. Slight spine lean; dustwrapper bit rubbed, and bit frayed and torn on edges. Greenish blue cloth, gold lettering; appears to be first edition. Novel of Florida and the slave trade.. First Edition?. Hard Cover. Good/Good.
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Wild Harvest, a novel of transition days in Oklahoma

by John M. Oskison

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First Edition
Published
1925
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Hardcover
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New York & London: D. Appleton, 1925. Endpapers brown, few spots of foxing, binding bit worn, corners bruised. Appletons' Colonial Library sticker inside front cover. Brown cloth, black titles, 300 pages. "John Milton Oskison, 1874-1947, was born near Tahlequah, Indian Territory to a part-Cherokee mother and a white father. He was a member of the first graduating class from Willie… Read more about this item
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Christopher Columbus, the tragedy of a Discoverer

by H. H. Houben, trans. John Linton

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1935
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Hardcover
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London: George Routledge, 1935. Translated from the German by John Linton. Good condition except that most of one side of the spine has been eaten by something, probably mice. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Chattily written biography. First?. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.
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Indian Country

by Peter Matthiessen

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Used - Good Plus
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Good Plus
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First UK
Published
1985
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Hardcover
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9780002173452
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London: Collins Harvill, 1985. Edges a bit darkened, slight crease some page corners, dustwrapper a little worn on top edge. Account of the white man's abuse of the native American, and appeal for preservation of the traditional way of life. Map endpapers. First UK. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Plus.
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and Tell of Time

by Laura Krey

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Reprint
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9999
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Hardcover
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London: The Book Club, 9999. Cloth stained and faded, top of spine frayed. Red cloth, 727 pages. Novel about the beginnings of Texas. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.
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Output and Productivity in the Electric and Gas Utilities, 1899 - 1942

by Jacob Martin Gould

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First Edition
Published
1946
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Hardcover
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New York: National Bureau of Economic Research , 1946. Blue cloth, 195 pages, with diagrams. Publication no. 47. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico

by Susan Shelby Magoffin, edited Stella M. Drumm

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First Edition
Published
1926
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 1926. 294 pages; black cloth a little dull, corners bruised, endpapers a little spotted. The diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847. 8 b/w plates. Journal of a young woman accompanying her husband on an ostensible trading expedition, really an undercover mission to attempt the bloodless conquest of New Mexico by the United States. .… Read more about this item
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Les Etats-Unis d'Amerique en 1863

by John Bigelow

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First
Published
1863
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette , 1863. Front board missing, spine badly damaged, rear board worn on corners, some small tears to edges prelims. Marbled boards, leather spine & corners. French language. Title page has blind stamp of Statistical Society, London, and small tear in top edge; otherwise text clean & sound. Histoire politiques, resources mineralogiques, agricoles, industrielles et commerciales,… Read more about this item
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Forgotten Frontiers, Dreiser and the Land of the Free

by Dorothy Dudley

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First Edition
Published
1932
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. Pale greenish cloth with red paper labels. Spine faded & discoloured, spine label frayed, foot rear joint split 2 inches; rear board slightly bent and cracking; contents good. Booksellers label E.G.Glaisher, Highgate Hill, London. Heavy might need extra shipping to some locations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.
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San Francisco, a Pageant

by Charles Caldwell Dobie

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Published
1939
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Hardcover
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New York: D. Appleton - Century Co., 1939. Spine quite badly damaged; margins a bit water-stained; covers a little marked; hinges cracked. Heavy - may require extra shipping to some locations.. Not Known. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by E. H. Suydam .
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