(B-026710) Illick, Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 359 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Small rubber stamped ink name on front endpaper. DJ price clipped. ISBN: 0684145650 (Pennsylvania)
Price: 35.00
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(B-026707) Pomfret, John E. Colonial New Jersey: A History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 327 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Small rubber stamped name on front endpaper. DJ price clipped. ISBN: 0684133717 (New Jersey)
Price: 35.00
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(B-026670) Behnke, Leo, editor. Impromptu Magic From The Magic Castle. Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 235 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Magic Castle Library Series. The first volume in the Magic Castle Library Series.. ISBN: 0874771358 (Conjuring)
Price: 20.00
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An American Genius: The Life or Ernest Orlando Lawrence
(B-026655) Childs, Herbert. An American Genius: The Life or Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Father of the Cyclotron. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 576 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Name rubber stamped on front endpaper, on the last page of the book and on the bottom edges . Lawrence ( 1901-1958) earned a Ph.D. at Yale University and taught physics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1929, where he built anddirected (from 1936) its radiation laboratory. In 1929 he developed the cyclotron, with which he accelerated protons to speeds high enough to cause nuclear disintegration. He later produced radioactive isotopes for medical use, instituted the useof neutron beams to treat cancer, and invented a colour- television picture tube. He worked with the Manhattan Project, converting the Berkeley cyclotron to separate uranium-235 by mass spectrometry. For his invention of the cyclotron, he was awarded a 1939 Nobel Prize, (Lawrence, Ernest O., Physicists, Cyclotron)
Price: 30.00
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(B-026653) Grant, Nellie. Nellie's Story. New York: William Morrow And Company, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 326 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. With a memoir by her daughter Elspeth Huxley. Biography of Elspeth Huxley's mother Nellie who lived in the East African Protectorate (Kenya) and was a farmer and gardener. With her husband, Jos, she emigrated in 1912. In the 1950s whe witness the terrifying events of the Mau Mau revolt. ISBN: 068800475X (Grant, Nellie, Kenya)
Price: 15.00
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(B-026616) Bland, Bill. Yourowquains, A Wyandot Indian Queen: The Story of Caty Sage. Elk Creek, VA: Published By The Author, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 266 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Biography of Caty Sage, a white woman born in 1787 into a pioneer family who lived on Cripple Creek in Southwestern Virginia. Caty lived to be sixty-six, and all but the first five of those years she lived as a Wyandot Indian. As the wife of the head chief of the Wyandot nation she became a Wyandot Indian Queen. ISBN: 0963413309 (Sage, Caty, Wyandot Indians, Virginia)
Price: 75.00
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The Classical Theory Of Composition From its Origins to the
(B-026856) Scaglione, Aldo. The Classical Theory Of Composition From its Origins to the Present: a Historical Survey. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. Of North Carolina, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 447 pages. Very Good with no DJ. Maroon cloth with gold lettering. Endpapers, front and rear, have a brown stain from inside flaps of a possibly manila or homemade DJ from an acid paper . University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature, No.53. (Composition Theory)
Price: 75.00
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Helldiver Squadron: The Story of Carrier Bombing Squadron 17
(B-027171) Olds, Robert. Helldiver Squadron: The Story of Carrier Bombing Squadron 17 with Task Force 58. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 225 pages. Near Fine in Fair DJ. B&W Photographs. Inscribed by the author to his old friend Earl Lovell on front endpaper. DJ spine faded and foxed, edgeworn with small chips and has some large tears repaired with archival tape on the front panel . The story of famed Task Force 58's pile-driver assaults on Japanese strongholds in the Central Pacific. Dramatic and detailed account of life aboard a famous combat carrier.
Price: 75.00
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Americans As Proconsuls: United States Military Government i
(B-027167) Wolfe, Robert, ed. Americans As Proconsuls: United States Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1944-1952. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Pres, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 563 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ lightly soiled and edgeworn. Very scarce book. ISBN: 0809311151 (Germany, Japan, Military Government)
Price: 75.00
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(B-027030) Legerton, Clifford L, compiler. Historic Churches Of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston, SC: John Huguley Company, 1976. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 171 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. (South Carolina, Churches)
Price: 50.00
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(B-027050) Henley, A. M. H. Round The Campfire. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1989. Limited Ed.. Hardcover. 8vo. 187 pages. Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Bound in black, decorated leather with a silk bookmark bound in, and housed in a Slipcase in fine condition. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, this copy is number 782. Signed on limitation page by the author, Tony Henley, and Jim Rickoff, President of the National Sporting Fraternity Limited. This is the 25th book in the African Hunting Heritage Collection published by the National Sporting Fraternity Limited. The African hunting experiences of author Michael Hoste Henley who was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1928. (Africa)
Price: 175.00
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(B-026882) Hunter, Dard. My Life With Paper: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 327, vii pages. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Two handmade paper samples bound in . Corners very slightly bumped. . Dard Hunter (1883–1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior. Hunter produced two hundred copies of his book Old Papermaking, preparing every aspect of the book himself: he wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book. A display at the Smithsonian Institution that appeared with his work read, " In the entire history of printing, these are the first books to have been made in their entirety by the labors of one man. ". (Paper Making)
Price: 125.00
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Western North Carolina: Its Mountains And Its People To 1880
(B-027184) Blackmun, Ora, Van Noppen, Ina W, and Van Noppen John J. Western North Carolina: Its Mountains And Its People To 1880 [with] Western North Carolina Since The Civil War. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium, 1980, 1973. Softcover. 8vos. 458, 437 pages. Very Good with no DJ. B&W Illustrations. This is a Softcover set of 2 separate volumes. The first book is Near Fine and appears unread. The second book is Very Good with the spine lightly creased . This 2 volume set is regarded as the best history of the Western NC region.
Price: 50.00
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The Land Of The Living: The Danish Folk High Schools and Den
(B-027180) Borish, Steven M. The Land Of The Living: The Danish Folk High Schools and Denmark's Non-Violent Path to Modernization. Nevada City, CA: Blue Dolphin Publishing, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 487 pages. Near Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. ISBN: 0931892627 (Folk High Schools, Denmark)
Price: 30.00
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The Life Of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen: Discoverer of the X-Ray
(B-027176) Nitske, W. Robert. The Life Of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen: Discoverer of the X-Ray. Tucson: Univ. Of Arizona Press, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 355 pages. Fine in Near Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. ISBN: 0816502595 (Rontgen, Wilhelm Co, X-rays)
Price: 20.00
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(B-027172) Henderson, David. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. 514 pages. Very Good in Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Bottom front corner lightly bumped. DJ is edgeworn and worn at spine ends. ISBN: 0385073577 (Hendrix, Jimi, Rock Musicians)
Price: 35
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Thomas Edward Shields: Biologist, Phychologist, Educator
(B-027173) Ward, Justine. Thomas Edward Shields: Biologist, Phychologist, Educator. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 309 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. DJ lightly edgeworn. Scarce book. The true story of a man who started out as a child incapable of learning. A victim of misunderstanding, of unsound psychology and prehistoric teaching methods, he was relegated to manual work on a farm. There, he rescued himself by the force of his innate genius, won for himself a tardy education, became a priest, a scientist and an educator. Shields was the outstanding Catholic educational leader of his time. (Shields, Thomas E.)
Price: 30.00
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship [with] The Ordeal
(B-027221) Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship [with] The Ordeal [with] The Triumph [with] Launching The New Deal. Boston, MA: Little, Brown And Company, 1952-1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vos. Very Good set in Very Good DJs. Four volume set, complete. 456, 320, 433, 574 pp. First three volumes are in a small octavo format while volume 4 is a larger size . Ink owner's name on front endpapers. Bottom front corner of v. 2 is bumped. DJ's have some light edgewear and small tears. (Roosevelt, Franklin, Presidents)
Price: 100.00
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Louis Veuillot: French Ultramontane Catholic Journalist and
(B-027190) Brown, Marvin L. Louis Veuillot: French Ultramontane Catholic Journalist and Layman, 1813-1883. Durham, NC: Moore Publishing Co., 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 497 pages. Very Good in Fine DJ. Some silverfish damage to spine and protruding bottom edges . The first full biography in English of the most striking lay supporter of Pope Pius XI. This study of Louis Veuillot (1813- 1883) , French journalist, literary man, and ultramontane leader, not only traces the life of a controversial figur, but reflects the struggle of church and state, of established religion and revolutionary secularism, as the key to French politics of the 19th century and to many of the developments of the Western world as a whole. Scarce book. ISBN: 0877160708 (Veuillot, Louis, Journalists)
Price: 75.00
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They Married Confederate Officers: The Intimate Story of Ann
(B-027226) Herran, Kathy Neill. They Married Confederate Officers: The Intimate Story of Anna Morrison, Wife of Stonewall Jackson and Her Five Sisters. Davidson, NC: Warren Publishing, 1997. 1st Edition?. Softcover. Large 8vo. 175 pages. Fine in No DJ. ISBN: 1886057249 Morrison, Anna, Jackson, Stonewall, Confederacy)
Price: 50.00
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