Category: Americana

Barber Shop Photograph

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 1920s?, n.p. : 1920s?

Seller ID: 31445

Vintage barber shop photos with a head count of 20 + the legs and feet of a civilian at the left edge. Very good. ; 7 x 4½ " oblong
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Men. A Young Man's Paper (Representing the Young Man's Christian Association of North America) 53 Issues

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Company : 1897-1898

Seller ID: 24879

Binding: Periodical

Wraps, geneally very good copies, a broken run between May 22, 1897 (Vol 22, No. 54) and September 3, 1898 (Vol 23, No. 50).53 issues in all, Illustrated with photographs. Christianity emphasized in profiles of historical figures, history, reviews, conference reports, new of college interest, etc.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; c.20pp each pp
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The Mouth-Piece. Volume 3: 1-12 (1930)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: n.p., Associated Telephone Utilities Company : 1930

Seller ID: 26082

Binding: Periodical

A bound volume, very good+ with all 12 monthly issues from 1930; the magazines themselves and their covers are in near fine condition. The Mouth-Piece was the house organ of the Associated Telephone Utilities Co. Was a leader in electric power companies, offering telephone service in 20 states in the Midwest. They began in 1929 in Indiana, acquiring five Wisconsin telephone operations in 1930. They went bankrupt in the Depression in 1933. This journal is an excellent research source for data on telephone history and personnel, with many photographs in each issue. OCLC locates only one holding,...
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The Past and Present of Rock Island County, Ill. , Containing a History of the County -- its Cities, Towns, & C. , a Biographical Directory of its Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion...

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Evansville, Unigraphic : 1973 (orig 1877)

Seller ID: 25279

Binding: Hardcover

Near fine in blue library buckram, originally published in 1877, this is a facsimile reprint. Includes an 112-page index.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 474+112 pp
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Voter's Guide [Berks County, Reading, Pa.]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Reading, Pa, League of Women Voters of Berks Co : 1955

Seller ID: 29210

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, tabloid on newsprint, fine although folded once as distributed. Four-page guide to the candidates running in the election of November, 8, 1955, with many candidates' photos and with biographies of all. Offices are of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, County Commissioners, County Treasurer, County Controller, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Sheriff, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, District Attorney, Prison Inspectors, County Surveyor, Mayor, City Council, City Treasurer, City Controller, and School Directors. ; tabloid 9 x 12; 4 pp
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The War-Time Manual

By: American Red Cross Society

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, Service Publishers : N.D.

Seller ID: 018884

Binding: Paperback

Wraps, 16mo, 144pp, National Edition, WW I-era, very good with offsetting from clipping to two pages. First-Aid, equipment lists, history, military, more.
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A History of the United States from the Discovery of the Americn Continent: History of the Colonization of the United States, Volumes I, II, and III (Complete)

By: Bancroft, George

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown : 1846

Seller ID: 27630

Binding: Hardcover

Volumes 1 & 2 are 13th editions, Volume 3 is a 12th edition. Three volumes, in brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine titles; head and foot of spines chipped. Some scattered foxing. Plates include portraits, vignettes and maps (some colored). Very good-.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 469; 466; 477 pp
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Native American Picture Books of Change. the Art of Historic Children's Editions

By: Benes, Rebecca

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Santa FE, Museum of New Mexico Press : 2004

Seller ID: 26210

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in fien dust jacket. On children's books illustrated by Native American artists.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 168 pp
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The Last Agony of the Great Bore

By: Bird, F[Rancis] W[Illiam]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Boston, E. P. Dutton : 1868

Seller ID: 27896

Binding: Softcover

String-tied signatures, very good with corner crease to lower rear corners. This is (likely) the greatly expanded edition of the same author's Look before You Leap into Another Great Bore, also published in 1868. In a prefatory note, the author states, "In the following pages, I have made free use of papers I have heretofore laid before the public." The Hoosac Tunnel construction took place between 1851 and 1875, the final cost of $21 million being 10 times the estimated cost. It ran near the Northwest corner of Mass, near North Adams, in the Hoosac Mountain Range, an extension of Vermont's Gr...
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Solitary Star. A Biography Of Sam Houston

By: Braider, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Putnam : 1974

Seller ID: 018129

Binding: Hardcover

8vo Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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Wondrous Times on the Frontier

By: Brown, Dee

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Little Rock, August Home Publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 30171

Binding: Hardcover

No. 206 of 1500 hand-numbered copies signed by the author. The book, dust jacket and slipcase are all quite fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pp
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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians

By: Catlin, George

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society : 2009

Seller ID: 24229

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in fine slipcase, a handsome edition with many glossy color plates. Extra postage may be required for international shipment of this oversize book.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 470 pp
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The Story of the Great Lakes

By: Channing, Edward; Lansing, Marion Florence

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan : 1909

Seller ID: 28204

Binding: Hardcover

Very good with fraying to ends of the lightly sunned spine and some corner wear.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pp
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Cry Uncle, Sumbody

By: Crolwell, Thomas Ray

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Highland, IN, Success Press : 2011

Seller ID: 26283

Binding: Hardcover

Signed and inscribed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. A civil war diary, a novel.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pp
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A History of the First Century of the Town of Parsonfield, Maine, Incorporated Aug. 29, 1785, and Celebrated with Impressive Ceremonies At North Parsonsfield, August 29, 1885

By: Dearborn, J. W.; Bradbury, James W., et al.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Portland, ME, Brown Thurston & Company : 1888

Seller ID: 25938

Binding: Hardcover

Very good- with general wear, especially at the frayed spine ends, minor separations between some signatures and pages.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 499 pp
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North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment, from Prehistory to the Present. Concise Edition

By: Dubin, Lois Sherr

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Abrams : 2003

Seller ID: 26214

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in fine dust jacket.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 159 pp
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Annandale Blues. a Journey in Ralph Ellison's America

By: Ducornet, Guy

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Chicago, Charles H. Kerr Company : 2012

Seller ID: 23096

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, a fine copy, illus., not issued in cloth.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pp
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The Public School Problem in America

By: Evans, Dr. H. W. (Imperial Wizard, Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: n.p., KKK : 1924

Seller ID: 25879

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, very good with small chip and tear at fore-edge. The Klan's policy and program for the public school system.; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 25 pp
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The W Effect. Bush's War on Women

By: Flandeers, Laura, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Feminist Press at City University of New York : 2004

Seller ID: 30191

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, page edges browning,otherwise fine. Side by the editor. Many contributors including Patricia Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem and Katha Pollitt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pp
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Spotlight on Gary [Cover Title: Did You Ever See a Dream Growing? ]

By: Fowler, Manet (Text) ; Sherman, Russell (Illus. )

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, National Urban League : 1946

Seller ID: 25411

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, title and publisher neatly pencilled at head and foot of front wrap, both somewhat lost in the busy cover art, otherwise close to fine.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; (32) pp
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Category: Americana