We Pointed Them North Recollections of a Cowpuncher
by Abbott, E, C.; Smith, Helena Huntington
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Third printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xvi, 248 pages. Brief notations on the rear end paper. Previous owner name on the right front flyleaf. Price clipped dust jacket has light shelf wear and edge chips. Hardcover in very good condition.
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The Florence Stories Excursion to the Orkney Islands
by Abbott, Jacob
New York: Sheldon & company, 1860. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 252 pages, [1]. Illustrated half title page and 6 illustrations in text. Green pebble cloth hardcover with gilt decorated title on the spine. 1864 Christmas gift inscription written on right the front flyleaf. Light edge wear to the cloth spine and corners. Hinges have are slightly cracked. Text block is uniform. Interior contents clean with occasional light toning.
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History of Julius Caesar
by Abbott, Jacob
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1856. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. xii, 13-278 pages. Illustrations. Restored. Red cloth hardcover. Spine was missing and replaced with a red mulberry paper spine. Boards were cleaned of soil and dyed. The yellow right front flyleaf was removed. Front hinge repaired. Interior contents are foxed with light damp stains. Fair only. "Sallie Burks La Grange" written on the yellow front paste down. Her inscription is written on the front blank end paper... Read More
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Civil War era signed letter from John S. C. Abbott (1805-1877) American Clergyman and Author
by Abbott, John S. C.
n.p.: n.p., 1862. Letter. Very good. Letter. Approx. 8" x 5" folded letter. 1 page of content. Signed on rear fold in another hand. Letter regards an invitation for Professor A. C. Twining; "We are expecting to see a few friends to meet Capt. E. B. Hunt, from Key West, on Wed Eve at 8 O' Clock. If you can favor us with your company it will be much of a gratification. ..With Much Esteem, I am Truly... Read More
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A Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, in Worcester, Vermont From October 21, 1813, to June 18, 1858. Alphabetically Arranged
by Abbott, Simon C. [Genealogy] [Vermont]
Montpelier: E. P. Walton, Printer, 1858. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Stitched wraps. Approx. 6.25" x 4.25". 31 pages. Green printed paper covers are worn and lightly stained. Small chips on the thin spine. Small edge tears to a few of the pages. A fair copy.
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![The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy [and] The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War [and] The American Indian under Reconstruction](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/369/065/1611065369.0.l.jpg)
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy [and] The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War [and] The American Indian under Reconstruction
by Abel, Annie Heloise (Ph.D.)
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quartos. 3 volumes: [1], 394 pages, [1]; 403 pages; 419 pages. All volumes illustrated. Red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on the spines. Gilt top edges. Untrimmed foredges. Volume 1 has a thin, light dried water stain on the front cover and a small dried water stain at the top edge of the text block. A few pages in front of volume 1, including the title page,... Read More
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Tabeau's Narrative of Loisel's Expedition to the Upper Missouri
by Abel, Annie Heloise (editor)
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. xiv, 272 pages, [1]. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one plate and a folding genealogical chart. Light green cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket with price of 3.50 on the front inner flap.
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Pathological and Practical Researchers on Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Chord
by Abercrombie, John M.D.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836. Second American, From he Third Edinburgh Edition, Enlarged. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. [1], xvi, 383 pages, [1]. Brown leather binding with title label on the spine. Unfortunately this book has been "shellacked" on the covers and spine. Front joint cracked. Front and rear hinges taped. Light scattered foxing and toning to the contents. Interior contents mostly cleaned. Previous owner 1838 inscription on the front paste down.
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From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee A Study in Frontier Democracy
by Abernethy, Thomas Perkins
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/good. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover with green title label on the spine. Light green dust jacket with printed title and blurb on the front cover. Front hinge is cracked and cover is loose. Rear hinge has a small crack. Several news clippings regarding the book and author, some folded, are pasted down on the front and rear end sheets and the half title page. The right front... Read More
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A Memorial of Abraham Van Nest, Esq., of the City of New York, Who Was Born May 8th, 1777, and Died September 14th, 1864
by [Abraham Van Nest, Esq] [Genealogy]
New York: Printed by Sanford, Harroun & Co, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [7], 76 pages. Illustrated with 3 albumen photographs. Glossy paper covered boards with name of Abraham Van Nest on the front cover. Spine is chipped in several places. Corners bumped. Shelf wear to the covers. Interior contents clean and unmarked. Some ephemera relating to Van Nest laid inside the front cover.
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Presenting His Early Political Career, and Speeches In and Out of Congress; Also A General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with the Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented Demise
by [Abraham Lincoln] Barrett, Joseph (Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.)
New York: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865. Hardcover. Fair. Thick octavo. [1], 842 pages, [6] pages of advertisements, [1]. Frontispiece engraving of Lincoln. Illustrations in text. Brown cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the covers with title on the spine. Cloth binding edge worn with chips head and base of the spine. Cracked hinges. Interior contents clean. Previous owners illustrated bookplate on the right front flyleaf. Another owner inscription on the front blank end sheet. First copyrighted ion... Read More
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Abraham Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois
by [Abraham Lincoln] Bryner, R. C.
Peoria, Illinois: Edward J. Jacob, Printer Peoria, Illinois, 1924. First Edition. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [2], 127 pages., [4]. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of Lincoln, illustrations, and folding facsimiles. Half leather binding with tan cloth covered boards. Tooled leather spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Marbled end papers. Leather spine rubbed. Front hinge is broken exposing the spine. Board is secure to the binding. Rear hinge cracked. Inscribed and signed by the printer on the... Read More
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Singing the Master The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South
by Abrahams, Roger D.
New York: Pantheon, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xxvi, 342 pages. Illustrated. Light soil on the dust jacket edge and remains of a price sticker on the back cover. Previous owner name on the right front flyleaf. Light toning to the top text edge.
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The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin
by Abrams, Ann Uhry
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xxii, 378 pages. Illustrated.
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The 1902 Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy. Bulletin Number 2
by [United States Military Academy]
West Point: United States Military Academy, 1902. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Wraps. 93 pages, [1]. Gray paper covers with title bordered in black. Small blue name label of "Chas Edgeworth Jones Augusta Ga" pasted down at the bottom of the front cover. The paper covers and spine have been repaired with archival paper. The front cover is detached, split vertically down the left border. Old glue stains on the verso of the front cover. Brown stains where letters... Read More
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An Index to the 1860 Georgia Federal Census
by Acord, Arlis; Anderson, Martha S. (compilers)
La Grange, Georgia: Family Tree, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Tall thick quarto. x, 1024 pages. Green hardcover binding with gold title on front cover and on spine.
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Ancestoring. Augusta Genealogical Society. Volumes II, VI, VII, VIII, IX
by Adamson, Carrie M. (editor) [Georgia]
Augusta: Augusta Genealogical society, 1984. Soft cover. Very good. Tall soft covers. 5 misc volumes: Vol. II 97 pages; Vol. VI 98 pages; Vol. VII 98 pages; Vol. VIII 104 pages; Vol. IX 106 pages. Illustrations. Illustrated covers.
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Lee at Appomattox and Other Papers
by Adams, Charles Francis
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [4], 388 pages, [1]. Burgundy cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Gilt top edge. Light edge wear to the cloth head and base of spine. Occasional pencil marks in the margins throughout the text. Previous owner's illustrated bookplate on the front paste down (Charles H. Ferry). A fair copy.
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Yawcob's Dribulations; Der Oak und der Vine; Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Yawcob Strauss
by Adams, Charles Follen
Boston: L. Prang & Co, 1894. Soft covers. Good. Three oblong soft covers. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Louis Prang & Co. Color illustrated covers with titles on the front. Each soft cover has a black and white frontispiece portrait of the author. Light damp stains to covers of Yawcob's Dribulations. Corner edge chip located on front cover of Der Oak und der Vine.
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Congaree Sketches: Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip of Heaven and Hell with Other Miscellany
by Adams, Edward C. L.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo. xvii, [1], 116 pages. Orange cloth covers with title on black cloth spine. Illustrated dust jacket is present. Top edge shaded red. Dust jacket price clipped. Two very small edge chips to the dust jacket. Period African American dialect.
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Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Embracing the Fifth and Sixth Biennial Reports, 1886-1888. Volume IV
by Adams, F. G. Secretary (compiled by)
Topeka: Kansas Publishing House: Clifford C Baker, State Printer, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 819 pages. Blue-green cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Cloth is rubbed and spotted. Light occasional foxing and toning to the contents. Much of the material covers the period of "Bleeding Kansas" when pro and anti slavery forces clashed over the Kansas territory to allow or prohibit slavery. Several page listings for Captain John Brown (Harper's Ferry fame) found in the index.... Read More
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Soulcraft Sketches on Negro-White Relations designed to encourage friendship
by Adams, Frankie V.
Philadelphia: Oglrsby & Anderson, 1970. Fourth printing. Wraps. Good. Stapled blue paper covers with title on front. Front cover scuffed. Interior contents clean.
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Genealogy of the Adams Family of Kingston, Mass
by Adams, George (collected and compiled by)
Boston: Descendants of Francis Adams, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [3], 64 pages, [11]. Brown pebble cloth hardcover ruled in blind with gilt stamp title on the front cover. Cloth is chipped on the spine and split on the front joint. Pages 27 and 28 have an approx. 2" closed tear. Laid inside the book are 20 additional sheets of paper relating to genealogy of the Adams family. Interior contents clean.
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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in Its Present State of Improvement. Describing in a Familiar and Easy Manner The Principal Phenomena of Nature; and Showing That They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God. In Four Volumes
by Adams, George (Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty)
Whitehall (Philadelphia): Printed for William Woodward, 1807. Leather bound. Fair. Octavos. Four volumes. Marbled brown calf leather bindings illustrated with 43 folding plates in the back of the volumes. Gilt lines and red leather title labels on the spines. Condition varies. Fair set. Volume 1: [1], xviii, 562 pages, [1]. Illustrated with 7 folding plates. The first plate edge is creased and not uniform with the text block. Leather joints are cracked. The back cover is loose... Read More
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Columbus and His Discovery of America
by Adams, Herbert B. Ph.D.; Wood, Henry Ph.D.
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press. John Murphy & Co, Printers, Baltimore, 1892. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Bound wraps. 88 pages, [12] pages of advertisements. Brown paper covers with title on the front cover and list of works on the back cover. Pages are uncut and unopened. No markings inside. Light edge wear and chips to the covers and a small tear to the paper spine. Very clean interior.
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