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NEW YORK: CARLETON, 1876 GREAT BOOK, PREFACE BY ROE, PAGES OF ADS IN BACK. TIGHT WITH SOME WEAR OUTSIDE. GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN, GOLD PRINT & DESIGN SPINE. Azel Stevens Roe, an American novelist, born in the city of New York in 1798. After serving as clerk in a mercantile house in New York, he engaged in business as a wine merchant, and finally retired and settled at Windsor, Conn., where he has since resided. His works include "James Montjoy, or I've been Thinking" (New York, 1850); "To Love and to be Loved" (1852); "Time and Tide, or Strive and Win" (1852); "A Long Look Ahead" (1855); "The Star and the Cloud " (1856); "True to the Last" (1859); " How Could He Help it?" (1860); "Looking Around" (1865); "Woman our Angel" (1866); "Cloud in the Heart" (1869); and "Resolution, or the Soul of Power" (1871). A.S. ROE'S WORKS PRINTED ON SPINE. VERY NICE. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: THE REUBENI FOUNDATION, 1968 BEAUTIFUL COVER AND JACKET, VERY NICE CONDITION, TIGHT AND CLEAN. FROM ABRAHAM TO EZRA, 1726-444 BCE. THE STORY OF THE BIBLE, SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND UNIQUELY RETOLD- IN THE FORM OF A MODERN DAILY NEWSPAPER. WONDERFUL! PRINTED IN ISREAL. FORMER OWNER WROTE IN BACK, ISRAEL TRIP FEB. 1977. OPENS AND FOLDS OUT. TABLE OF CONTENTS LISTS 26 NEWS ARTICLES. ABRAHAM PROCLAIMS NEW FAITH, RELIGIONS IN ABRAHAMS TIME, SODOM AND GOMORRAH, ISAAC'S SHIFT TO FARMING, JACOB PROTESTS SONS' ARREST, DEATH OF JOSEPH . ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

ASHLAND, KY: JESSE STUART FOUNDATION, 2010 Jesse Hilton Stuart (August 8, 1907 ¿ February 17, 1984) was an American writer who is known for writing short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia. Born and raised in Greenup County, Kentucky, Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of Northeastern Kentucky for his writings.[1] Stuart was named the Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 1954.[2] He died at Jo-Lin nursing home in Ironton, Ohio, which is near his boyhood home. TERRIFIC STORY ABOUT A WONDERFUL MAN AND WRITER. WRITTEN BY JAMES GIFFORD WHO HAS SPENT OVER 25 YEARS MANAGING THE JESSE STUART FOUNDATION. GIFFORD'S KNOWLEDGE ALONG WITH ALL THE WONDERFUL PICTURES MAKE THIS A WONDERFUL READ. Near Fine condition with an inscription signed by Gifford. DARK BLUE BOOK WITH GOLD PRINT ON SPINE. NICE LOOKING DUST JACKET. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

EAST AURORA, NEW YORK: THE ROYCROFTERS, 1934 VERY NICE FIRST EDITION, BROWN TEXTURED LEATHER COVER WITH RAISED GOLD LETTERING FRONT AND SPINE. NICELY DONE BOOK THAT IS TIGHT AND CLEAN. TERRIFIC BOOK ABOUT JESUS AND WHAT HIS SISTER'S WOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT HIM. VERY INTERESTING BOOK ON JESUS AND HIS LIFE. WITH 41 CHAPTERS GREAT DETAIL ABOUT JESUS. A 1938 LETTER FROM GERWIG AND A BROCHURE ON THE BOOK ARE INCLUDED. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

PHILADELPHIA: THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 1897 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 24 CHAPTERS. THE CENTRE OF SOCIAL LIFE, LIFE IN THE SYNAGOGUE, COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION, INSTITUTION OF THE GHETTO, SOCIAL MORALITY, THE SLAVE TRADE, MONOGAMY AND THE HOME, HOME LIFE, LOVE AND COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE CUSTOMS, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS, JEWS AND THEATRE, PURIM PLAY AND DRAMA, COSTUME IN LAW AND FASHION, JEWISH BADGE, PRIVATE AND COMMUNAL CHARITIES, POOR, SICK ANDAPTIVE, MEDIEVAL SCHOOLS, EDUCATION, MEDIEVAL PASTIMES AND INDOOR AMUSEMENTS, CHESS AND CARDS, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS. Israel Abrahams, MA (b. London, 26 November 1858; d. Cambridge, 6 October 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896). ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948 BLACK COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH AN INDEX IN THE BACK.
FRONTISPIECE IS A PICTURE OF AUBREY.NINE ILLUSTRATIONS, EIGHT MAIN CHAPTERS COVERING PERIODS FROM 1626 TO 1697. TWO APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PEDIGREES.
VERY INTERESTING DETAIL OF A FAMOUS ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.
Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.
John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief Lives, his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897 TREMENDOUS PIECE OF HISTORY. PREFACE BY CHURCH. REFERENCING THE PERIOD OF ENGLISH HISTORY IN THE INVASION OF IRELAND BY THE PARLIAMENTARY ARMY IN 1649. THE FEELINGS WHICH CONTROLLED MARMADUKE THE SCOUTMASTER WERE LARGELY THE FEELINGS OF THE ENTIRE ENGLISH ARMY AND NATION. PASSION'S OF IRISH MASSACRES OF ENGLISH SETTLERS OVER 2 YEARS AND ATROCITIES FUELED ACTIONS. REVENGE WAS AN EYE FOR AN EYE- A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH. YET, SAVE FOR THE MIGHTY FIGURE THAT DOMINATES THE LAST CHAPTERS, THIS NOVEL IS WHOLLY A ROMANCE. NICE LOOKING GREEN BOOK. GOLD PRINT FRONT, SWORDS THROUGH HELMET DESIGN, SOME WEAR, TIGHT, STRONG BINDING, 4 VERY NICE ILLUSTRATIONS John Sappington Marmaduke (March 14, 1833 December 28, 1887) was an American politician and soldier. He served as the 25th governor of Missouri from 1885 until his death in 1887. During the American Civil War, he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded cavalry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.… Read More

U.S.A.: THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO., 1913 Pages are not numbered. Children's poetry. ILLUSTRATIONS VERY NICE THROUGHOUT. OWNER WROTE NAME AND INITIALS IN PENCIL. PAGES ARE BROWNING WITH AGE. BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. DUST COVER FAIR AND TORN IN SPOTS. ARTWORK DRAWINGS ARE VERY NICE. BEAUTIFUL ART EDGING AROUND SOME PAGES.

NEW YORK: FARRAR AND RINEHART, INC., 1940 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOOD SHAPE INSIDE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. NEW YORK, LOVE, BUSINESS, ROUGH TIMES, WAR, PUSHING THROUGH. BARRETTO WROTE NUMEROUS FICTION BOOKS AND A TRAVEL BOOK TO MEXICO. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK CITY: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1911 BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN VERY NICE CONDITION, SLIGHT WEAR BOTTOM OF SPINE, LIGHT GREEN COVER, WORDS IN ORANGE AND BLACK FRONT COVER, PICTURE OF A CABIN, TREES AND GREEN GRASS. PRETTY DESIGN ON SPINE. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN, ILLUSTRATIONS BY CASSEL ARE NICE WITH 4 THROUGHOUT. GREAT BOOK FOR CHILDREN OR ADULTS. ADVENTURE IN LIVING IN THE WOODS. Harriet Theresa Comstock (18601943) was an American novelist and author of children's books. Comstock was born to Alpheus Smith and Jean A. Downey in Nichols, New York. She received an academic education in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1885, she married Philip Comstock of Brooklyn, New York. She started writing in 1895, mostly short stories for magazines and books principally for children. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 1860 RARE BOOK, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH. BROWN COVER WITH HEAVIER BINDING ON THE SPINE. GOLD PRINT SPINE, OHIO SCHOOL LIBRARY REFERENCED. WEAR ON THE COVER, SPINE SHOWS 2 NICKS MIDWAY AND BOTTOM. MARBLING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK, TIGHT INSIDE, DRAWING OF HEAD IN PENCIL FIRST BLANK PAGE- NO OTHER MARKINGS. FADED MARBLING ON PAGE EDGES. TOWARDS BACK PAGES AND FRONT PAGES SOME LIGHT STAINING DUE TO LIQUID SPILLED. WHITEHEAD DEDICATES THE BOOK TO HIS TRUE FRIEND, CAPTAIN JAMES MC MCINTOSH- UNITED STATES NAVY, A TRUE HUNTER. WONDERFUL BOOK DETAILING INFORMATION ON THE LION, HUNTING AND LIFE OF GERARD. ARTWORK IS GOOD A DETAILED HELP TAKING YOU INTO THE STORIES. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY FOR THE AVID HUNTER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927 NICE LOOKING GREEN BOOK WITH RED DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. A CENTURY VAGABOND BOOK OF TRAVEL, FRONTISPIECE A PICTURE OF AN INDIAN NATIVE AND BABY, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT, A STORY OF MCGOVERN'S EXPEDITION, HISTORY AND THE INCAS. William Montgomery McGovern (September 28, 1897 ¿ December 12, 1964) was an American adventurer, Northwestern University professor, anthropologist and journalist. He was possibly an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones. McGovern's life may be more incredible than the fictional character he spawned. By age 30, he had already explored the Amazon and braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas, survived revolution in Mexico, studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne and become a Buddhist priest in a Japanese monastery. He became a beloved lecturer, war correspondent and military strategist. The Inca society was the society of the Inca civilization in South America. The Inca Empire, which was centred in what is now Peru, Bolivia,… Read More