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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. First edition. Presentation edition to Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice US Supreme Court, with his name in gold emboss on cover, Washington Post chief diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. Roberts copy, with his dated signature (1947) on fly leaf. Published Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1932, first printing. Folio, 10" x 11 3/4", 736pp., illustrated with hundreds of b/w plates. Mild foxing along edges and endpapers, several pages with pencil bracketing, one plate removed and reattached with binders tape, spine cloth bit faded, else very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.
Ku Klux Klan -- Exposed. by Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - 1930
by Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan -- Exposed.
by Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
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[Hate][KKK][Texas] Ku Klux Klan -- Exposed. [Albany, N.Y.]: [Ku Klux Klan], 1930. White pictorial wraps. 25 cm. One folded sheet [8 pages] One inch tear to bottom margin, else very good.
OCLC shows three holdings (Indiana Hist. Soc.; Harvard & Mich. St. Univ.) Pro-Klan tract under the guide of an exposure. Cover shows a hooded Klansman on horseback holding a fiery cross.
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Washington The National Capital
by Caemmerer, H. Paul
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Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman
by Willard, Frances E.
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Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. First edition. Leather and cloth Salesman's Sample. Published Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. 8vo., approximately 100pp., contains sample chapters, b/w and full color illustrations, 3 backstrip and 3 binding style samples - 2 leather, 1 cloth, subscription ledger, 8 page brochure "How To Sell Our Glimpses of Fifty Years" laid in. Leather backstrip chipped, missing center portion, edges rubbed, else very good, with text block and samples near fine. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. Salesman's Dummy.
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Domestic Manners of the Americans (Fourth Ediition)
by Trollope Mrs. (Frances)
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London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co [and] Reprinted for the Booksellers Fourth Edition, Complete in One Volume. Published the same year as the first edition. London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 9", 325pp, illustrated with 8 plates. Bound in brown linen cloth, backstirp missing, wear at the tips and along edges, fading to the cloth, name/date on title page, foxing on endpapers, mild toning along edges. Internally very good, paper bright, binding tight, all plates present. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book: Every recipe triple-tested by our Tasting-Test Kitchens staff
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Meredith Publishing Company, 1953. Binder Condition: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Five (5) Ring Binder. Stated First Edition, fifth printing. 416 pp +four bonus pages of recipes clipped from the Better Homes & Gardens magazine with dates of March 1949; January, 1950; November, 1956; and February, 1957. Small tear on page 59 caused by a paperclip that was removed. Text is lightly tanned typical of age and edges are lightly sunned. No written notations within although a few recipes are marked with a small checkmark. 20 numbered pink card stock chapter index tabs including an index. Loose-leaf binder with 5 metal rings in excellent like new condition; all pages are original and are clean and complete. Card stock binder protector after index. This edition has illustrated front and back endpapers, with pink temperature and measurement charts and a full color photograph of a blue and white rolling pin and several pies, which is continued onto the title page. This is a classic, rare copy in Fine…
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“Lines to Be Muttered Through Clenched Teeth and Quite a Lot of Lather, in the Country.”
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Original 3-page typescript poem, signed by Nash. The poem begins, "HarK! Hark! The lark at Heaven's gate sings – / Shut up, lark! / "And Phoebus 'grins arise -" / Sit down, Phoebus, before I knock you down!" Fine.
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Washington The National Capital
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. First edition. Presentation edition to Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice US Supreme Court, with his name in gold emboss on cover, Washington Post chief diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. Roberts copy, with his dated signature (1947) on fly leaf. Published Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1932, first printing. Folio, 10" x 11 3/4", 736pp., illustrated with hundreds of b/w plates. Mild foxing along edges and endpapers, several pages with pencil bracketing, one plate removed and reattached with binders tape, spine cloth bit faded, else very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.
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Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman
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Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. First edition. Leather and cloth Salesman's Sample. Published Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. 8vo., approximately 100pp., contains sample chapters, b/w and full color illustrations, 3 backstrip and 3 binding style samples - 2 leather, 1 cloth, subscription ledger, 8 page brochure "How To Sell Our Glimpses of Fifty Years" laid in. Leather backstrip chipped, missing center portion, edges rubbed, else very good, with text block and samples near fine. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. Salesman's Dummy.
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Domestic Manners of the Americans (Fourth Ediition)
by Trollope Mrs. (Frances)
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London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co [and] Reprinted for the Booksellers Fourth Edition, Complete in One Volume. Published the same year as the first edition. London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 9", 325pp, illustrated with 8 plates. Bound in brown linen cloth, backstirp missing, wear at the tips and along edges, fading to the cloth, name/date on title page, foxing on endpapers, mild toning along edges. Internally very good, paper bright, binding tight, all plates present. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book: Every recipe triple-tested by our Tasting-Test Kitchens staff
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Meredith Publishing Company, 1953. Binder Condition: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Five (5) Ring Binder. Stated First Edition, fifth printing. 416 pp +four bonus pages of recipes clipped from the Better Homes & Gardens magazine with dates of March 1949; January, 1950; November, 1956; and February, 1957. Small tear on page 59 caused by a paperclip that was removed. Text is lightly tanned typical of age and edges are lightly sunned. No written notations within although a few recipes are marked with a small checkmark. 20 numbered pink card stock chapter index tabs including an index. Loose-leaf binder with 5 metal rings in excellent like new condition; all pages are original and are clean and complete. Card stock binder protector after index. This edition has illustrated front and back endpapers, with pink temperature and measurement charts and a full color photograph of a blue and white rolling pin and several pies, which is continued onto the title page. This is a classic, rare copy in Fine…
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“Lines to Be Muttered Through Clenched Teeth and Quite a Lot of Lather, in the Country.”
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Original 3-page typescript poem, signed by Nash. The poem begins, "HarK! Hark! The lark at Heaven's gate sings – / Shut up, lark! / "And Phoebus 'grins arise -" / Sit down, Phoebus, before I knock you down!" Fine.
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Attempt on Roosevelt Life
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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DOLLY MADISON: WOMEN OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, cocked spine, bumping & fraying to spine ends, pencil marking to FFE, owner's name to title page, a couple of small tears to title page else still a bright and solid copy. SA 6/21
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
by Leaf, Munro
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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BOSTON ~ 150 VIEWS: One Hundred and Fifty Glimpses of Boston and Historical Surroundings
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Union News Company , New York and Boston, circa 1910, Very Good Stapled Softcover, 50 pages, 10" x 7", 150 photographs of Boston points of interest, landmarks, buildings, bridges, street views and more.
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