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Stained Glass Tours in Germany, Austria and the Rhine

Books and Publications: Travel: Pre 1930   item# 1089432

Stained Glass Tours in Germany, Austria and the Rhine
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$25 with free Media Mail shipping in USA HOLD 

The author, Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, also wrote books outlining stained glass tours in France, England and Italy. First published in 1927, this is probably a first English edition. Published by The Bodley Head, London, with a price of "Fifteen Shillings Net" on the front of the dust jacket. Eighteen illustrations. The charming jacket is protected in a mylar cover. In very good condition for its age, shows minor wear at top and bottom of spine. Front endpapers have map of German area ...click for details


Beautiful Leather Binding: Lavengro by George Borrow

Books and Publications: Fiction: Pre 1920   item# 998988

Beautiful Leather Binding: Lavengro by George Borrow
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$55 with free mailing 

Beautifully bound in green half-leather with green buckram, ribbed spine, bright gilt titles and spine decorations. This is the 1914 edition published by T. N. Foulis of London, Edinburgh & Boston with 12 tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. You will be very pleased with this copy.


Salem and the Indies, Phillips, 1947, Signed Limited Ed

Books and Publications: Historical: Pre 1950   item# 932901

Salem and the Indies, Phillips, 1947, Signed Limited Ed
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$95 with free shipping in USA 

The Story of the Great Commercial Era of the City by James Duncan Phillips. Number 194 of 225 large paper copies signed and numbered in original slipcase. Blue paper boards backed in white buckram cloth (some foxing) and paper label on spine. Partially unopened. A very nice copy. Free Media Mail shipping on this item.


Imperial Defence and Capture at Sea in War, Rare Book

Books and Publications: Historical: Pre 1940   item# 926299


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$100 

By Sir Herbert Richmond, commandant of the Imperial Defence College from 1927-28, the book "explains in non-technical language and broad principles which underlie the problem of what is called Imperial Defence -- the defence of the interests, the territories and the persons of all the individuals comprising the British Empire." Scarce book, 21 illustrations. Some foxing on edges and on pages in first half of book, diagonal crease on a dozen or so pages at front, none of which constitut ...click for details


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.


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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207-563-1964



$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.

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