Robert Fulton And The Steamboat by Hill, Ralph Nading - 1954

Random House, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, 1954. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Random House, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth with brown & red titles & decorations, top edge dyed yellow, decorative endpapers, [vii], 181, [2] pp, 26 two-color illustrations, index, two-page list of books in the Landmark & World Landmark series. This is Landmark No. 45. Small tear to bottom margin of one leaf, else very good, spine cocked. Biography for young readers of the American steamboat pioneer. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . G+/No dj. Illus. by Lee J. Ames. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows normal wear. Dust jacket shows normal wear, corners chipped, chipping at ends of spine, obvious chipping to front panel of DJ. ; [Logasa, McKinley Bibliographies Vol 2; Historical Non-Fiction (7th ed) , pg. 143 (United States - Nationalism and Democracy 1789-1829] [Bloom, Who Should We Then Read? , pp. 296-311] [Ward & Marquardt, Authors of Books for Young People, 2nd ed, pg. 238] [Berquist, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum, pg. 84 (5th grade) ]; Landmark Books; Book Club Edition; Vol. 45; B&W Illustrations; ; 181 pages .

New York: Random House (1954) 182+pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ faint discoloration to front cover. Modest rubbing to spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and few short tears to edges. Illust. w/ drawings. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Lee J. Ames. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Random House. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (steamboat) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York:: Random House, 1954.. Young Readers of America edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with title and series device printed on the front cover; the top edge tint is blue-ish; the spine is very slightly slanted, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Index. Landmark endpaper style showing two-color scenes. Description: Illustrated by Lee Ames. This is Number 45 in the Landmark series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. ''One August day in 1807 people who lived along the shores of the Hdson River saw a strange craft making its way slowly upstream. This was the Clermont, the first commerciallly successful steamboat in the world. Aboard her was Robert Fulton, the American who had at last harnassed the power of steam… Read More

New York: Random House, 1954. Hard Cover. BOOK FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD-. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. 181pp. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY. Illustrated throughout by Lee J. Ames. Part of owner's bookplate on front endpaper.

New York: Random House, 1954. First edition of the author's compelling work on the inventor of the world's first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames. Signed by Ronald Reagan on the half-title page. Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. When Reagan left office in 1989, he held an approval rating of 68%, matching those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton, as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era. He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms after the five prior presidents did not. Evaluations of his presidency among historians and the general public place him among the upper tier of American presidents. Near fine in a… Read More