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PICTORIAL MEMORIES OF OBERLIN.
Rotary Club of Oberlin, n.p., 1989, 2nd printing.
104 pp, oblong 8vo, soft cover, spiral binding. Profusely illus in b&w with photos, advertisements. A pictorial history of Oberlin, Ohio produced by the Rotary Club. Interior - soft creases to top corner/fore edge of textblock, otherwise clean an d tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - soft creases. VG-
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Anderson, LaVere. Illustrated by Herman Vestal. SADDLES AND SABERS: BLACK MEN IN THE OLD WEST.
Garrard, Champaign, Illinois, (1975).
128 pp, 8vo, hard cover with pictorial front cover - no dust jacket. B&w drawings, photos. Written for the younger reader. Contents: They Helped Build the West; Nat Love - 'Deadwood Dick'; Isaiah Dorman - Custer Guide; Bob Lemmons - Mustanger; C herokee Bill - Outlaw; Willis Peoples - Wolf Hunter; Bill Pickett - Cowhand; The Soldiers; The Cowboys; The Lawmen; The Scouts. Interior - faint pencil erasure marks on free front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight with no previous owner s h i p m a r k s . Exterior - very small bumps to board corners, minor rubbing and soiling, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. VG-
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Angle, Paul M. PRAIRIE STATE: IMPRESSIONS OF ILLINOIS, 1673-1967, BY TRAVELERS AND OTHER OBSERVERS.
U. of Chigaco Press, Chicago, (1968), Ist ed.
624 pp, 8vo, hardcover in slipcase. Paul Angle has collected the impressions of travelers and settlers who saw Illinois at all stages of its history. The material ranges from letters to friends and diaries that were never intended for publication, to formal travel accounts. Pictorial eps. Maps. Very minor edge wear to boards, shallow line indent to bottom of textblock. Slipcase has light to moderate edge wear, light soiling, and rubbing, a few small scuffs, bump to one lower, re a r c o r n e r . VG+/VG-
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Bakalinsky, Adah. Foreword by Nancy Pease. Drawings by Trudie Douglas. Maps by Pat Beebee. STAIRWAY WALKS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Wilderness Press, Berkeley, CA, 1995, 3rd edition, 2nd printing.
173 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. ISBN 0899971849 B&w maps, drawings. "Among San Francisco's little-known treasures are its more than 350 stairways. These stairs traverse the city's hills and offer stunning views, alternative routes, and exhil arating ways to get exercise. Veteran walker Adah Bakalinsky has combined dozens of her favorite stairways into 27 guided neighborhood walks, each with its own unique personality. Beginning with a brief introduction, each stairway walk con t a i n s a step-by-step route description that includes notes on historical background, architecture, and other points of interest. Accompanying every walk is an easy-to-follow map and a corresponding numbered outline, which includes information o n ta ki ng pu b lic tranportation to the beginning of the trip." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light crease down fore-edge of rear cover, slight fading to spine color, small corner cre ase o n f ron t c o ver , small ghost sticker mark on rear cover. Very Good-
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Bolton, Herbert Eugene. ATHANASE DE MEZIERES AND THE LOUISIANA-TEXAS FRONTIER 1768-1780. VOLUME II. (VOL. 2). (SPAIN IN THE WEST: A SERIES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS FROM FOREIGN ARCHIVES - VOLUME II.)
Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, 1914, first edition.
392 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), hard cover (maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. B&w frontispiece. Title continues: "Documents Published for the First Time, From the Original Spanish and French Manuscripts, C hiefly in the Archives of Mexico and Spain; Translated into English; Edited and Annotated". Section Headings: Indian Troubles in Texas, and the Attack on De Mezieres and the Baron de Ripperda; Frontier Problems, 1774-1777; Plan for Joint C a m p a i g n s Against the Osages and Apaches by the Nations of the North and the Forces of Texas and Louisiana, 1777-1778; The Expedition of 1778 from Bexar to the Nations of the Upper Trinity, Brazos, and Red Rivers; The Expedition of 1779 to t he N at io ns b et we en Natchitoches and the Middle Brazos; Recommendations for Reforms in the Province of Texas - The Death of De Mezieres, 1779; Errata; Index. Very light browning to pages, light waterstain at top of pages up to approx. page 4 0 - st ain fa des qu ick ly after the title page but the light waviness continues to page 40, many pages as yet unopened, two heavy water stains on top 2" of rear board causing discoloration and loss of color, light to moderate edge wear to board s an d to p/bo ttom of spin e, a fe w tiny soiling marks and scuffs, heavy browning to fore-edge and bottom of textblock. Scan available of rear board on request. Good
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Bowden, Charles. Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga. THE SONORAN DESERT.
Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997.
167 pp, oblong small 4to (10 1/2" H x 10 7/8" D), soft cover. ISBN 0810926695 Profusely illustrated with color photographs. "The Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico sizzles in the sun. Daytime temperatures common ly soar above 120F. The parched, mineral earth gets less than three inches of rainfall a year on average; some years, none at all. Yet this is one of the most fascinating and beautiful places in North America. A large variety of plants - cre o s o t e bush, the fabled boojum, and numerous other cacti and succulents - flourish here, as do a wealth of birds, insects, and small mammals. Man is an uneasy resident, and, although modern cities such as Phoenix and Tucson survive on its fring es , th e na tural heart of the desert still rejects all but the most intrepid sojourners. Two who know this desert well are (the author and photographer of this book). Interwoven together, the personal visions of these two remarkable observers ev oke t he So nor an Desert with extraordinary power. We may or may not wish to be in the desert as they have been, but in these pages we will come as close as possible to being there." Price includes extra postage due to weight of book. Interior - cl ean an d t ight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing, a few tiny faint liquid marks on front cover, one light crease down spine, very minor corner wear. Very Good
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Bowers, Dorrance. Inscribed. NIXON: ACCLAIM AND SHAME.
Self-published, Kelowna, British Columbia, 2009.
768 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 9781436335065 Promotional postcard laid in. INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE: "WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR DORRANCE BOWERS JUNE 2009 RECOLL (?), UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MEDICAL SCHOOL TRINITY COLLEGE FLEET AIR ARM ENGLAND & THE U.S.A." "The self-destruction of the highest and mightiest among us seems incomprehensible to the average mortal. One can only ask 'How could it happen?' In the case of the 37th President of the U n i t e d States of America, Richard Nixon, January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974, the answer seems clear. His undoubted intelligence, ambition and industry were simply overwhelmed by his deviousness, paranoia and mendacity. 'Nixon: Acclaim and Sh am e' i s a sa d but instructive story. Its message deserves repeated re-telling." Bump at top/bottom of front hinge. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear/creasing - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds and at top edge, two tears archivall y t ape d, li gh t r ubbing and scratches on rear panel,. Very Good/Good-
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Clark, Herma. (Martha Freeman Esmond). Signed by author. "DEAR JULIA - " LETTERS FROM MARTHA FREEMAN ESMOND TO HER FRIEND JULIA BOYD OF NEW YORK IN THE DAYS - "WHEN CHICAGO WAS YOUNG".
W.D. Bauman, Chicago, 1933.
64 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos, reproductions. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE, "HERMA CLARK ("MARTHA FREEMAN ESMOND") JAN. 14, 1940." A collection of letters the author wrote for Chicago Sunday Tribune for a series titled 'When Chicago was Young'. In the letters, which cover the period from October 1954 to August 1879, Martha Freeman (soon to become Mrs. Esmond) writes to her friend Julia Boyd of New York, telling her of the social, political and other events she experiences in early Chicago. Very light browning to board edges and edge of endpapers, area of light foxing to last page and adjacent pages, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small bump to top edge of b o a r d s . D u st jacket has light foxing - mainly on inside, small chips and tears with creases, large chip at top of front panel, all corners of flaps are clipped, darkening to spine and flap-folds, light to moderate rubbing/soiling, protected i n my la r sl ee v e. Good/Fair
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Conconi, Charles and House, Toni. THE WASHINGTON STING.
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York, 1979, second impression.
255 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Here is the dramatic and only inside account of the undercover police-FBI fencing operation - featuring cops in the guise of syndicate soldiers - whose stunning success put the 'Washington Sting' in headlines across the nation. Word was out on the street in Washington, D.C., that one of the best fences in years was working out of a warehouse on 25th Place, NE. PFF Inc., run by 'mob-connected' Italians, was buyin g u p s t o len guns, office equipment, anything with resale value. Thieves all over the Washington area were soon submitting to the hard dealing of the gun-wielding Mafiosi, looking for quick cash and an association with the mighty aristocracy o f c ri me . As t he fence's main man, Pasquale Larocca, critically examined the typewriter or rifle offered across his bulletproof counter, and in one corner Mike Franzino cradled his shotgun in casual warning, there was no suspicion of a weapon d ea dl y i n a d i ffe ren t way: a videotape machine which recorded every transaction from behind an unnoticed one-way mirror. 'Pasquale Larocca' and 'Mike Franzino' were the aliases of two of the undercover team of police and FBI men organized to fi ght Was hing ton 's hig h la rceny statistics down at the underworld source. And five months after the opening of 'Police-FBI Fencing, Incognito' - five months of tense bargaining with suspicious professionals and comic encounters with fawnin g fl unki es an d pro stit ute s - t he fe nce closed around more than 200 criminals invited to meet a New York 'Don' at a party hosted by Larocca. They met, instead, with police. The single account of the caper written with the cooperation of the poli ce an d FBI and wi th fu ll a ccess to the incriminating videotapes, here is a true story of police politics and mayhem, streetwise ingenuity and volatile temperaments, told to authentic narrative effect with complete, uncensored detail." Ve ry lig ht bro wning to edge s of t extbl ock, l ight wr inkling at top of spine, minor rubbing. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, slight fading to spine color, very light browning on flap-folds and edges of rear panel, minor soiling. Very G ood/Ver y Good -
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DeLarm, Alan. Signed. COLEBROOK STORIES.
Colebrook Connecticut Historical Society, Colebrook, CT, 1979.
213 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Contents include: List of Interesting Colebrook Resident's Names; Interesting Colebrook Place Names; Owlout and Paugnut; Mastadon Bones; Ammi Phillips: Native Son Folk Artist; Bun nell Street; Durand Stow, Civil War Soldier; Birch Mill; Tunxis Creamery; Clarence Stotts and the Colebrook Store; etc., etc. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two very light creases and light browning on spin e, tiny/crease tear at top of spine, small crease at top of front cover, small soft corner crease on front cover, small faint liquid mark on top of text block, minor soiling mark on fore-edge of text block and elsewhere, small stain on rear cover. Very Good-
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Floyd, Blanche W. (Inscribed) TALES ALONG THE GRAND STRAND OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Bandit, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (1996).
148 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Illus in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. "...relates stories like the failed Spanish settlement attempt of 1526, Blackbeard's lost treasure, the vast wealth of Southern rice planters, the peculiar Hurl Rocks, the mysterious disappearance of Aaron Burr's daughter, the ghostly apparition that wanders through Murrells Inlet, the wreck of the Freeda A. Wyley, beautiful Brookgreen Gardens, the German POW camp in Myrtle Beach and the awful force of Hurricane Hugo. This is the folklore, unusual history, and culture of the beach..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG+
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Fogelson, Robert M. DOWNTOWN: ITS RISE AND FALL, 1880-1950.
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001, first edition.
492 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 030090625 B&w photographs, reproductions. "(T)he first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown - and the way Americans thought about downtown - changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, (the author) brings downtown to life, first as 'the' business district, then as the central business district. His book vividly recreates the long-forgotten battles over subways an d skyscrapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And it provides a fresh, often startling perspective on elevated highways, parking bans, urban redevelopment, and other controversial issues. This groundbreaking book will be a r e velation to scholars, city planners, policymakers, and general readers interested in American cities and American history." Two pages with tiny corner crease, very light soiling on bottom of text block. Dust jacket has very minor edge wrin k li n g, s mall soft crease on front panel. Near Fine/Near Fine
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Fuller, Samuel. NEW YORK IN THE 1930s
Pocket Archives / Hazan, Paris, 1997.
198 pp, 5 15/16" H, soft cover. ISBN 2850255343 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Contents: Introduction; The New York Waterfront; Downtown; Midtown; Central Park and Uptown; Bibliography. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ow nership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, faint crease on spine, book very slightly cocked. Very Good
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Hartley, Cecil B. Introduction by G. Mercer Adam. THE LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE, THE FOUNDER OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. STORIES OF FAMOUS AMERICAN HEROES SERIES.
Grosset & Dunlap, New York, n.d.
385 pp, 8vo (8 5/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece. "The subject of the following biography, the celebrated Colonel Daniel Boone, is one of the most remarkable men which this country has produced. His cha racter is marked with originality, and his actions were important and influential in one of the most interesting periods of our history - that of the early settlement of Kentucky. Boone is generally acknowledged as the founder of that State. H i s h aving explored it alone to a considerable extent; his leading the earliest bands of settlers; his founding Boonesborough, the nucleus of the future State; his having defended this and other stations successfully against the attacks of the I nd ia ns ; a nd the prominent part which he took in military affairs at this period of distress and peril, certainly render his claims to the distinguished honor of founding Kentucky very strong. But Boone, personally, reaped very little benefi t f rom hi s p at rio tic and disinterested exertions. The lands which he had first cultivated and defended, were taken from him by the chicanery of the law; other lands granted to him by the Spanish government were lost by his inattention to legal f or ms; and in h is old age he was without an acre of land which he could call his own. A few years before his death a small tract, such as any other settler in Missouri was entitled to, was granted him by Congress. But he has left to his numero us pos teri ty a nobl er inhe ritance - that of an imperishable fame in the annals of his country!" Small bump at corners of boards, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight browning at edges, slight fading of color on top of text block. Dust jac ket has been pric e clip ped , has small edge chips and tears - some with creases, heavy fading to spine color, light soiling, water stain on front panel. Good+/Good-
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Hedley, Owen. Foreword by Lord Mancroft. THE MAYFLOWER & THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
Pitkin Pictorials, London, 1970.
32 pp, 9" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, reproductions, maps. "Commemorating the sailing of the Mayflower, 1620." Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover, slight yellowing to inside of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing on rear cover, light wear on spine. Very Good
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Hodgson, Godfrey. THE WORLD TURNED RIGHT SIDE UP: A HISTORY OF THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY IN AMERICA.
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1996.
365 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), soft cover. ISBN 0395822939 "In 1981, as Ronald Reagan swept into the White House and his men prepared to take over the government they had for years viewed with suspicion, the citizens of the United States woke up to dis cover that conservatism, once held in contempt, had become the nation's ruling ideology. This brilliant chronicle of how it all came to be 'is by far the best'. " Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post. Interior - very small bump to bottom co r n e r o f a pprox. pages 110 to 155, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very light rubbing, small publishers label on rear cover, one very small corner crease. Very Good
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Hume, Ivor Noel. ARCHAEOLOGY AND WETHERBURN'S TAVERN. COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG ARCHAEOLGICAL SERIES NO. 3.
Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1969.
47 pp, 9" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs, plan. "The results of the excavations at Wetherburn's Tavern are typical of the kind of information recovered from most archaeologically explored sites in Williamsburg. For that reason this project has been chosen as the first of its kind to be published in Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological series. It is to be hoped that this account of what was found and how the archaeological, architectural, and historical evidence fused t ogether to arrive at final conclusions, will give the reader some idea of the kinds of reasoning that must be applied to the interpretation of any colonial site...." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - l i g h t e d g e wear, one tiny corner crease, light rubbing on rear cover. Very Good
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Hutchison, Bruce. CANADA'S LONELY NEIGHBOUR.
Longmans, Green, Toronto, 1954, first edition in book form.
30 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "This small book first appeared in article form in MacLean's and Life Magazines, under the title of 'A Dangerous European Luxury - Hating America". The author traces the roots of transatlantic misunder standing: the bitter anti-Americanism of Europeans, the exaggeration of the habits and ill manners of American soldiery and tourists in Europe, the ineffectualness of the Eisenhower Government, the contempt shown for Senator McCarthy (who h a s d o n e m ore harm for transatlantic friendship than anyone since George III), the misconception of American life given to the public in Britain's shoddy mass-circulation press, and America's rigid insistence on the American way of life. In t he m i dd le o f t hi s tragedy of errors, privileged but often uncomfortable, Canada stands as interpreter. Mr. Hutchison, as an objective observer, is in an ideal position to analyze the misunderstandings that mar European-U.S. relations and to ev alu at e t he imp or ta nce of Canada to both the New and the Old world." Tiny light foxing mark on free rear endpaper and preceeding page, very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has browning on spine and fl ap-f olds , l ight so ilin g, lig ht w rinkling/tiny chips at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, a few very small watermarks - mainly on front panel, small ghost sticker mark on front panel, several very small closed tears - one with crease. Ver y Goo d/Fai r
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James, Harlean. ROMANCE OF THE NATIONAL PARKS.
Macmillan, New York, 1939, first edition.
240 pp, 10 1/4" H, hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, many b&w illustrations. "Many of the most gorgeous scenic photographs ever taken have been collected by Miss James to illustrate this book in which she discusses, first, the histor y from the days when the Blackfeet, Crow, and Shoshone Indians roamed what is now Montana and Idaho, and secondly, actual routes through the 7,000,000 acres of our National Parks. From Maine to California, from Minnesota to Florida, as well as i n A laska and Hawaii, we find a wealth and diversity of scenery unequaled in any other country." Contents: Foreword; Preface; "National Park" Langford; Ten-ei-ya and Yosemite; John Muir and the Sierra Nevada; Dr. McFarland and the National Park Sy st e m; Stephen T. Mather and His Associates; Prospect - Philosophy of Parks and People; Magnificent Mountains of the Northwest; The Pioneer Western Parks; The Old Southwest; East of the Mississippi; Retrospect; Index. Very light edge wear, light bro wn ing to edges of text block, previous owner's name in ink on verso of front free endpaper, minor wrinkling at top of spine, minor edge wear. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has light wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small chip s at to p of spine - tiny chips at bottom of spine and top/bottom of flap-folds - tape on the inside surface, light rubbing/soiling on rear panel. Very Good/Very Good-
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