Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, though there is one small semi-closed tear to the bottom front panel, and a scratch to the top front panel by the title. "The Second Great Awakening began in the late 1700s and continued into the early 19th century. A revival was characterized by large camp meetings, where ministers from various Protestant groups would preach for long periods, with music and dancing o... View More...
This is a trade sized thick booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some very beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This booklet gives the genealogy of the Brant and Overlin families, along with details of their lives, and portions of letters, along with images of important documents. Especially important in this history is the story of Chief Brant of the Mohawk / Canajoharie who was a noted relative. "While not born into a hereditary leadership... View More...
Color Photographs; This is a set of two DISBOUND articles from National Geographic Magazine. These are the actual articles, not photocopies. Text pages are clean, bright and without chips, tears, discoloration or wear. They do, however, have the necessary staple holes where staples were removed. The first article consists of fourteen double sided text pages which include eight black and white photographs, one black & white map, and twenty full color photographs. Photographers are Williard B. Culver and Andrew H. Brown. The article discusses many facets of the swampy area known as the Everglade... View More...
B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page with a short inscription and date. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a bit of beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small semi-closed tears to the spine ends, some rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. ; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author on the half title page. The dust jacket has edge wear, nicking, several small edge tears and noticeable chips missing, especially to the top spine end. "Carl Lamson Carmer (October 16, 1893 - September 11, 1976) was an American author of nonfiction books, memoirs, and novels, many of whi... View More...
B&W Illustrations; First Edition, with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning toning to the spine ends and very edges of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a thin strip of toning to the foredges of both front and rear endpapers. "Stow Wengenroth (1906?1978) was an American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth was once called "America's greatest living artist working in black and... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and medium sized chips missing. "Prior to the arrival of white settlers in present-day Sevier County in the mid-18th century, the area had been inhabited for as many as 20,000 years by nomadic and semi-nomadic Native Americans. In the mid-16th century, Spanish expeditions led by He... View More...
This is a trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a glued and sewn binding. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of an historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Colonial Williamsburg's 301-acre (122 ha) Historic Area includes buildings from the 18th... View More...
B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. This is a large / thick book and is slightly oversized as well. The book covvers have some light rubbing, bumping and edge wwear along with beginning fraying to the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and a few full color Illustrations. Included are "Five Great Journeys" : A Birth-place of Races (including Egyptians, Nubians, Abyssinians, Gallas, East Africans, Mozambique, Zulu Caffres, Bechuanas and Hottentots, Congo Caffres,... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean, but there is toning to the edges of all the text pages and possibly some foxing. "Despite his day-jobs, Dowst was a prolific contributor of short stories and novelettes to magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, People's Favorite Magazine, and Argosy All-Story Weekly. One bibliography has identified 35 Dowst stories publish... View More...
Color Illustrations; c1967. This is a trade sized booklet. the booklet is in very good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. this is a theme park guide for florida's cypress gardens - florida's first theme park / botanical gardens. the booklet is mostly clean and bright, though there are two small staple holes to the top edge of the front panel and there is some beginning wear to the spine ends and corners of the booklet covers. the text pages are clean and bright. "Billed as Florida's first commercial tourist theme park, Cypress Gardens opened on January 2, 1936, as a botanical gard... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Gabaldon was the founding editor of Science Software Quarterly in 1984 while employed at the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University. During the mid-1980s, Gabaldon wrote software reviews and technical articles for computer publications, as well as popular-science articles and Disney comics. She was a professor with an expertise in scientific computation at ASU for 12 years b... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author, on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is also previous owner's gift notation on the title page. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-three books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, industries, and places of worship. Gu... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, small nicks and tiny edge chips, along with some light spots of discoloration and toning. "Founded in 1907 by Frank Sutliff Hackett (1878?1952) and his first wife, Francis Dean (Allen) Hackett, Riverdale Country School is one of the oldest country day schools in the U... View More...
Color Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page in black ink. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good + dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is clean and bright. "Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester were the three Pennsylvania counties initially created by William Penn on August 24, 1682. At that time, Chester County's borders were Philadelphia County to the north, the ill-defined western edge of the colony (approximately the Susquehan... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a larger than trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers in a plastic spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light rubbing and ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed on the introduction page by one of the authors (Sam Hanson). This book contains a series of essays / biographical sketches. ; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Massachusetts site is nationally signi? Cant because it is considered the birthplace of the iron and steel industry in Colonial America, initiating and sustaining an advanced iron making technology in the New World. The subsequent dispersal of former workers... View More...
B&W Photographs; This book is in Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. His book is half leather (spine and corners are leather) The leather is quite dry and brittle. There's an inch long chip to the bottom spine end of the book. The top rear spine joint has cracked about three inches in length. The corners and spine ends have rubbing, bumping and wear. The endpapers hare marbled. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is one small tear to the foredge of the title page. Six copies of this book are listed in OCLC. "Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The cloth cover of the book has some edge wear, rubbing, and several small edge nicks / tears. The corners and cover edges have some light bumping, rubbing and creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. View More...
B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine joints have some light rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author and also by the illustrator on the title page. "Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The cardstock covers have some noticeabl generalized toning, especially to the spine joints and edges of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The book gives examples of pages from school text books dating from 1785 to 1880. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This copy is in Good condition only and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have noticeable edge wear, rubbing, spots of paint on the spine, fraying, and more. The rear cover of the book has a patch of fading / discoloration (but is not mold). The inner hinges to both front and rear have cracking and have been repaired by a previous owner. The front pastedown page has a perpendicular crack to the paper and it appears the cover has been abused a bit. The endpapers have ground-in dirt and toning. The text pages are generally clean, though there are large spots of... View More...
This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have noticeable toning. There is a previous owner's address label adhered to the front pastedown page. The dust jacket has several edge tears, some toning to the edges and spine and some rubbing to the spine. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with illustrated covers with a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name and address on the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort located in the Locust Point neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbo... View More...
This is a small (slightly smaller than trade sized) pamphlet / booklet printed by the committee looking into the death / murder of William Morgan. The booklet is eight and 3/8" by 5" , pagination: 37 & 35p. (Signatures: [A]6, B6, C-F4, G8. - according to Worldcat) With a side stitched spine. The self covers have been encased in plain paper (The booklet is in generally clean condition, though there are occasional spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked name on the top of the title page. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. There is an illustra... View More...
B&W Photographs; Two Volumes in One. This book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear. There is some light fraying to the spine ends and corners. The rear foredge of the book cover material has started to come away from the boards. The text pages are clean and bright. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning rubbing and ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a large trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have noticeable toning. There is some light rubbing, creasing and several edge tears to the covers as well. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. "The Village of Liberty Center is located on State Route 109 two miles north of the Maumee River in Henry County. The population is 1,100 and the village is governed by an elected Mayor and six members of council. Bein... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book is in generally clean solid condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear. The book covers have spots of ground-in dirt and water spotting. The rear cover has several noticeable patches of discoloration. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The is a previous owner's address label on the front pastedown page, which has been gouged by a former owner, to muddy the name and address. There is also a different previous owner's ink stamped name... View More...
