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Guide to Early American Homes North & South, 2 Volumes

Books and Publications: Historical: Pre 1960   item# 830756

Guide to Early American Homes North & South, 2 Volumes
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$15 with free shipping 

Original McGraw-Hill hardcover editions of these interesting books complete with dustwrappers. Many photographs (160 in each volume). Handsomely decorated boards. Books are in very good condition with minor wear on wrappers. Former owner's name on front pastedowns. Price includes free media mail shipping in the USA.


Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: England - 14 Tours

Books and Publications: Travel: Pre 1990   item# 830738

Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: England - 14 Tours
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$10 with free shipping 

"14 FASCINATING WALKS THAT FOLLOW THE PATHS OF THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY WRITERS, THEIR SLEUTHS AND CHARACTERS." -- from the cover. Authors are Alzina Stone Dall and Barbara Sloane Hendershott. Walks are: Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Dorchester/Charmouth, Ely, Greenwich/Blackheath, Newmarket, Oxford, Salisbury, Shrewsbuy, Stratford-on-Avon, Thames River trip, and Windsor/Eton/Ascot. Includes maps. Endpapers are maps of England. Like new condition with small bit of residue ...click for details


The Hitchcock Chair with 400 B&W Illus. + Color Plates

Books and Publications: Antiques: Pre 1980   item# 819314

The Hitchcock Chair with 400 B&W Illus. + Color Plates
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$16 with free shipping SOLD 

The definitive book on Hitchcock chairs and furniture. Large softcover book in very good condition. Almost like new but with the very slightest curl to cover. First edition, second printing 1977.


Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Rare 1949 Catalog, Foldout

Books and Publications: Historical: Civil War: Pre 1950   item# 819310

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Rare 1949 Catalog, Foldout
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$40 

Rare Lincoln item -- sale of the only signed, titled and dated version of the Gettysburg Address manuscript in existence. "The Unique and Final Holograph Manuscript Known as the Bliss Copy Together with An Album of Other Manuscripts and Autograph Letters all Written and Brought Together for Benefit of the Sanitary Commission Fair Baltimore - 1864." This catalog was for a sale on April 27, 1949, at Parke-Bernet Galleries (predecessor to Sotheby's) in New York City. Includes actual s ...click for details


An American Aristocracy The Livingstons by Clare Brandt

Books and Publications: Historical: Pre 1990   item# 816898

An American Aristocracy The Livingstons by Clare Brandt
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$12.50 with Free Shipping 

"A vivid chronicle of a great American family whose members prove to have been every bit as entertaining — and almost as important — as they thought they were," Geoffrey C. Ward, former editor of American Heritage magazine and author of Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt -- quoted on the inner flap of the dust wrapper. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1986. 297 pp., 27 illustrations. Price includes free shipping by media mail.


Lower Mississippi Valley Photo Book by Elemore Morgan

Books and Publications: Art: Pre 1970   item# 807990

Lower Mississippi Valley Photo Book by Elemore  Morgan
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$35 including free Media Mail shipping 

Large quarto book (12 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches) by Elemore Morgan, a professional photographer and father of the well-known landscape painter Elemore Morgan, Jr. Described on the dust wrapper as "A Study in Photographs and Words" by Elemore Morgan and Ed Kerr. Printed on high quality paper, it contains 101 duo-tone photos. each one occupying a page. Published in 1962 by Claitor Book Store, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


American Silver from the Kossack Collection:A Checklist

Silver: Coin Silver: Pre 1990   item# 800094

American Silver from the Kossack Collection:A Checklist
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$35 

Checklist for 1988 exhibit celebrating the gift to Yale by the Kossack family of American silver encompassing at the time almost 4,400 objects dating from about 1720 to 1890. It included 1,965 tea, 774 table, 207 dessert, 199 salt and 49 mustard and other small spoons; 467 sugar shells and tongs; 269 ladles; 151 pieces of holloware; 126 forks; 46 knives; 43 spectacles; 36 serving pieces, and 35 pieces of jewelry representing the work of approximately 1,100 silversmiths. Listed authors are David ...click for details


"New York Modern: Arts and the City" by Scott & Rutkoff

Books and Publications: Art: Pre 1970   item# 799010

"New York Modern: Arts and the City" by Scott & Rutkoff
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$10 

Condition is like new. The book is crisp and clean with fine dust jacket. There is a small area on upper right of front free endpaper where a small label, probably identifying previous owner, has been removed. Publisher's Note: Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, "New York Modern" documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience over the past five decades. 61 illustrations. 448 pp. New Y ...click for details


America's Quilts and Coverlets by Safford and Bishop

Books and Publications: Antiques: Pre 1980   item# 791719

America's Quilts and Coverlets by Safford and Bishop
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$14 

Classic book on subject, HARDCOVER, quarto volume, America's Quilts and Coverlets by Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop, published by Weathervane Books, New York, 1974. Profusely illustrated. Very good condition with some fraying and minor tears to dust jacket. Price includes free Media Mail shipping within the USA.


Gold Box Collection of Elizabeth Firestone: Christie's

Books and Publications: Antiques: Pre 1990   item# 791686

Gold Box Collection of Elizabeth Firestone: Christie's
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$25 

Beautiful catalog of "The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Gold Boxes and Objects of Vertu," held November 19, 1982 at Christie's in New York. All 57 lots are illustrated in color. Prices ranged up to $308,000. Catalog is unmarked and in very good condition. Includes list of prices realized.

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