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Down the Great River

by Willard Glazier

Raging River Lonely Trail

by Vaughn Short

The American

by Margaret Sanborn

Missouri

by Stanley Vestal

The Susquehanna

by Carl Carmer

The Salinas

by Anne B Fisher

The Ohio

by R E Banta

The Charles

by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot

The Allegheny

by Frederick Jr Way

Suwannee River

by Cecile Hulse Matschat

The Colorado

by Frank Waters

Rivers Books & Ephemera

River Journeys

by Braddon, Russell and Others

Great Rivers Of the World

The Amazing Mississippi

by Price, Willard

The Hudson, Illustrated Rivers Of America

by Carmer, Carl

The Fraser

by Hutchison, Bruce

Migrants, Credit and Climate; The Gambian Groundnut Trade, 1834-1934

by Swindell, Kenneth and Alieu Jeng

Leiden: Brill, 2006. Paperback. xxv, 261p., supplied with maps and tables, softbound in 9.5x6 inch colorphoto wraps; former owner has bent some twenty upper-corner tips as place-keeps, otherwise sound with just a little edgewear to covers, a clean copy with no writing in it.

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£9.75

The Missouri

by Vestal, Stanley

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Getler Smith. 368pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on a lavender ink stamped panel on the backstrip. Illustrated endsheets. Good only. Mildly bumped and darkened at the extremities. The spine is a bit slanted, the front hinge is weak, and the text block is cracked at the beginning. The dust jacket is in good condition only as well. The edges have a handful of closed tears and losses. The longest closed tear is 3" long.... Read more about this item

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£36.58

SONGS OF THE RIVERS OF AMERICA

by edited by Carl Carmer

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good +. 9 x 12 in. Red cloth boards. Scores with lyrics. 1st printing with 'FR' device on copyright page. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers has a pale stain, spine end edges toned, wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight. Endpapers have foxing/toning, text is clean and bright, unmarked. Mus. Stax.

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£48.77

Letter from The Secretary of War, Transmitting, With a Letter From the Chief of Engineers

by Secretary of War

Washington, 1914. Card Covers. Very Good. 63d Congress, 2d Session, Document No. 762. 120 p. 23 cm. 19 fold-out diagrams and a few others within text. Grey card covers with blue labels. Spine label starting to come off. Former owner's label attached to front endpaper. Ink stamps on first few pages and dark marks on p. 10.

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£81.29

Man against flood

by Alley, Rewi

Peking: New World Press, 1956. Hardcover. 109p. hardcover, boards worn and foxed, a reading copy only. The New Zealand-born Maoist narrates "A story of the 1954 flood on the Yangtse and of the reconstruction that followed it.

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£9.75

American Falls. Dewatered June 12, 1969

Buffalo, NY: US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, 1969. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8 inches, some foxing at upper left on front panel. Explanation of the diversion of water from the American Falls portion of Niagara Falls, due to the accumulation of broken rock at the bottom of the falls. The cover image shows the rock bed of the falls after the water was diverted.

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£20.32

THE WABASH - [RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES]

by William E. Wilson, illustrated by John de Martelly

New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. xi, 339 pages. Book is first printing of first edition with Farrar & Rinehart 'FR' on copyright page. Condition of the book is Very Good; triangle faded at base of spine, circular blindstamp of private library on half-title and title page, front hinge is cracking with muslin showing, gift message on half-title page, text and illustrations are very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is... Read more about this item

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£20.32

The Story of the Mississippi Flood of 1993. (Cornerstones of Freedom)

by Badt, Karin Luisa

Chicago: Children's Press, n.d.. First edition. Illustrated paper-covered boards. A fine copy.. 31 pp. Illus. with color photos. Sm. 4to.

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£8.13

THE YUKON [RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES]

by Richard Mathews, illustrated by Bryan Forsyth, designed by Ernst Reichl

New York, Chicago & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good +/good +. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 313 pages. First edition stated on copyright page. Condition of the book is Good+; ex-library with the usual treatments, text and illustrations are very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is Good+; library label on spine, in a mylar wrapper, leading edges of flaps glued to pastedowns, not price-clipped ($7.50). STK

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£24.39

THE JAMES [RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES]

by Blair Niles, illustrated by Edward Shenton

New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. x, 359 pages. Blue Cloth. Index ends on p. 359 followed by 'Rivers and American Folk' by Constance Lindsay Skinner, which is unpaginated. 'FR' device printed on copyright page (1st printing). Condition of the book is Very Good; spine very lightly faded, circular blindstamp of private library on half-title and title pages ,previous owner's name on half-title page, text and illustrations... Read more about this item

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£20.32

The Allegheny

by Way, Frederick, Jr

Farrar and Rinehart, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. A VG+ tight copy with a VG to VG+ litely edgeworn dj. Rivers of America Series.

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£52.84

The Amazing Mississippi

by Price Willard

New York: The John Day Company, 1963. Willard Price explores the Mississippi River from source to mouth. Here in word and 48 photographs is the story of America's watery backbone, past and present told in the most interesting way. It provides a wealth of history that we should all understand and appreciate. The photographs are by the author and Mary Virginia Price. An index is also supplied. A sound, clean book in a photo illustrated, price-intact dust jacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover.... Read more about this item

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£19.92

THE NIAGARA [RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES]

by Donald Braider, Designed by Ernst Reichl

New York, Chicago & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. x, 368 pages. Stated 'First edition' on copyright page. Condition of the book is Very Good; exterior excellent, text is very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is Very Good; Very clean, no fading, not price-clipped ($8.95). STK

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£20.32

Topografia Archiepiscopatuum Moguntinensis Treuirensis et Coloniensis [&c &c, facsimile volume]

by Merian, Matth

no city, Germany: not shown, 1920. Hardcover. Contents entirely maps in facsimile with explanitory text in blackletter, most maps (there are many) are doublespreads, we see no damage to these, to the singletons, or to the text leaves. Hinges of item have been strengthened neatly (indeed expertly) with document tape. Book itself is a 12x8.5 inch hardbound in brown papered boards under a Japanese-vellum backstrip which has a red label gilt-lettered and -ruled. General good shape: top rim has tiny tears,... Read more about this item

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£48.77

The New York State barge canal

by Williams, Frank M., State Engineer and Surveyor

no place: State Engineer and Surveyor, 1915. Pamphlet. 8p., 5.75x9 inches, illustrated with 4 b&w photographic plates, a table, and a 16x15.5 inch color folded map tipped-in at rear, staples rusted, lightly handled, else very good in original stapled wraps. History and description of the progress of the canal system including the Erie Canal.

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£36.58

Sacramento River and Tributaries, California; Debris Control. Letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, transmitting Report [&c &c] with five illustrations [maps]

by [mining, hydraulic]; E.M. Markham, chief of engineers

34p., five large folded b&w line maps, in side-stapled 9x6 inch self-wraps. Cover (i.e., p.1) bears a faint rubberstamp (rec'd 1938) and some red-pencil librarianese. Good copy, and the maps appear entirely clean. Markham recommends against federal involvement in the clean-up. Affects Yuba, Bear, and American Rivers, and various reservoirs.

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£32.52

The Charles

by Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon

New York: National Travel Club, 1941. First edition. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket.. 356 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings and maps. 8vo. The Rivers of America. Limited Boston edition # 404, signed by author.

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£24.39

A Sportsman's Guide to Improving Deer Habitat in California

by Kucera, Thomas E., Kenneth E. Mayer

Sacramento: State of California Department of Fish and Game, 1999. Paperback. 95p., color site and animal photography throughout, with line maps (spot-color enhanced) and pleasant vignette sketches. Softbound in glossy 9x6 inch colorphoto wraps, absolutely clean, sound, and unmarked, a very good copy.

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£9.75

Vistula - The Story of a River

by Styczynski, Jan

Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1973. n.ed. Illustrated gray cloth with silvered illustrated endpapers. Very good+ with small snag to spine and inscription of half-title. No dust jacket.. xxxiii, 308 pp. + insert [6]. 300+ b/w photos. 4to. Trans. Krystyna Bidwell. Detailed photographic record of the most important of Poland's rivers.

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£60.97

Spokane story; a colorful early history of the capital of the inland empire

by Fargo, Lucile F

Minneapolis: Northwestern Press, 1957. Hardcover. viii, 176p., cover slightly shelf worn else very good condition lacking the jacket,

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£9.75

National Estuary Study. Seven Volumes

by Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service

Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1970. First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers bound in blue library cloth-covered boards. Original reports in decorated wraps are, except for a single stamp, in fine condition bound in tight; clean ex-lib cloth covered boards with call numbers and interior markings.. V.1:95 pp.;V.2: 303 pp.; V.3: 330 pp.; V.4: [270 pp.]; V.5: [220 pp.]; V.6: [250 pp.]; V.7: [200 pp.]. Illus. with 100+ b/w photos, 90+ maps (20 large color foldouts, 20... Read more about this item

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£60.97

THE OHIO; By R. E. Banta / Illustrated by Edward Shenton

by Banta, R. E

New York Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1949. Rivers of America series [#39]. Cloth. Fine/Fine. B&W maps & drawings. Thick 8vo, gray cloth with black label with gold lettering plus black lettering on spine, illustrated with two double-spread B&W maps, pictorial chapter-heads, and a few full-page illustrative drawings, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an Indian in canoe, frontiersman in his, raftsman, and paddle-wheel steamer on the Ohio, 592... Read more about this item

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£36.58

The Struggle for Baltic Markets; Powers in Conflict 1558-1618

by Attman, Arthur

Goteborg: Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhallet, 1979. Paperback. 232p., illustrated with one line map (very last leaf), text entirely in English, softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed (but rubricated) grey wraps (laid lines, nice stock), continental-style paperback with overlapping covers (a bit worn) and closed signatures (a former owner read all the way through and opened neatly, without a wrong tear), casing is just a touch cocked and a touch handling-soiled, otherwise totally sound, clean and... Read more about this item

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£40.64

Suwannee river: Strange green land (The rivers of America)

by Matschat, Cecile Hulse

Literary Guild of America, 1938. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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£15.43

THE ILLINOIS [RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES]

by James Gray, illustrated by Aaron Bohrod

New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. x, 355 pages. Dark red Cloth. 'Second large printing' on front flap of DJ, no 'FR' device on copyright page. Condition of the book is Very Good; small spot on rear cover, gift message on ffep, light stain at top of spine, text and illustrations are very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is Fair; edge wear, pieces missing at top and bottom of spine, water stain and tape repair on rear cover,... Read more about this item