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Antarctic Night -by Jack Bursey ( Polar Exploration / Antarctica )

By: Bursey, Jack ( Commander )

Price: $14.13

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Longmans, 1958, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1958

Seller ID: 157769

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy, ink name and address on verso of front board, in an attractive Good price clipped dustjacket, some shallow chips and tears, 256 pages, b&w photos, his account of 3 forays into the polar region between 1928 and 1957, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Rides Round Britain -by John Byng / Folio Society Edition ( Around )

By: Byng, John, Viscount Torrington. Edited by Donald Adamson, Maps By Denys (Val) Baker ) / Folio society Edition

Price: $18.39

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Folio Society, 1996, 1st Folio Edition, First Printing: 1996

Seller ID: 162573

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, about 5.5w x 8h inches, a Fine example, no dustjacket as issued, in a Near Fine lightly rubbed slipcase, 505 pages, b&w illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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Image for Elmira Prison Camp ( Elmira's Civil War Prison Camp, 1864 - 1865 ) / The Chemung Historical Journal, Volume 10, # 1 / Chemung County Historical Society

Elmira Prison Camp ( Elmira's Civil War Prison Camp, 1864 - 1865 ) / The Chemung Historical Journal, Volume 10, # 1 / Chemung County Historical Society

By: Byrne, Thomas E / The Chemung Historical Journal / Chemung County Historical Society

Price: $25.49

Publisher: USA, Elmira, NY: The Chemung Historical Journal / Chemung County Historical Society, 1989, 1st Edition, Later Printing: 1989

Seller ID: 162186

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

----------softcover, about 6w x 9h inches, a Very Good+ example, a bit of light rubbing, unpaginated (about 20 pages), b&w photos, illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED///
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Notes on Swords from the Battle-Field of Culloden, with Four Autotype Illustrations -by Lord Archibald Campbell ( Scottish Weapons History )( Ian Hay [ John Hay Beith ] related -Signed By Ian Hay, with notes)( Battlefield )

By: Campbell, Lord Archibald ( Ian Hay related -Signed By Ian Hay [ John Hay Beith ] )

Price: $141.93

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Chas. J Clark, 1894, 1st edition, First Printing: 1894

Seller ID: 153384

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

---------limp hardcover, red cloth, about 5.5 8.5 inches, a solid Good to Very Good copy, externally this is quite nice although there is some light soiling to the red covers, browning to the verso of the blank free endpapers, front free endpaper is completely detached but present, 23 pages, b&w photos, this copy has been signed and dated in pencil on the loose front blank endpaper " Ian Hay 2.1.45 ", as well there are a number of pencil noattaions by Ian Hay on the blank facing the dedication page, quite scarce and a nice association copy as Hay was a well known and respected author ...
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ENDLESS STREET: A History of Salisbury and Its People -by John Chandler ( English Local History )

By: Chandler, John

Price: $21.23

Publisher: England, Salisbury, UK: The Hobnob Press, 1983, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1983

Seller ID: 154623

ISBN: 0946418004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dustjacket, a wee bit of rubbing to the jacket, a wee bit of foxing to the outer edges of the text block, 342 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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A History of the English Speaking Peoples --- Volume II, The New World -by Winston Churchill ( Book 2 ) ( UK 1st Edition )

By: Churchill, Winston S ( Spencer )

Price: $35.43

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Cassell, 1956, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1956

Seller ID: 156534

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

---------hardcover, a Very Good+ copy, tight square copy, no offsetting to endpapers, no foxing, lower spine tip is slightly bumped, a wee bit of very light age toning to paper, pencil gift inscription and 1956 date on front blank endpaper, in a Good to Very Good price clipped dustjacket with a bit of very light rubbing, light chipping to tips, browning to the spine of the jacket, 344 pages, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo.///NOT SIGNED --GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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WINSTON CHURCHILL: History of the English Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies --- Book 4 ( IV )

By: Churchill, Winston S ( Spencer )

Price: $32.59

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart ( M&S ), 1958, 1st Canadian Edition: 1958

Seller ID: 163972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, about 5.75w x 8.5h inches, a Near Fine example in dark blue boards, in an attractive Good dustjacket, some small nicks and short tears, sunning to the spine, a tidy copy, 403 pages, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo.///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for 4 Volumes: Winston S Churchill: History of the English Speaking Peoples: Birth of Britain ---with The New World ---with The Age of Revolution ---with The Great Democracies ---Book 1, 2, 3 & 4 ( I, II, III, IV )( Spencer )

4 Volumes: Winston S Churchill: History of the English Speaking Peoples: Birth of Britain ---with The New World ---with The Age of Revolution ---with The Great Democracies ---Book 1, 2, 3 & 4 ( I, II, III, IV )( Spencer )

By: Churchill, Winston S ( Spencer ) ( 4 VOLUME SET )

Price: $99.33

Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966, 1967, 1st Book Club Editions: 1966

Seller ID: 164290

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------4 volumes (ONE SHIPPING CHARGE -extra shipping may be required depending upon destination --if an issue please inquire before ordering ), hardcovers, all are Near Fine examples, all in Good Very Good dustjackets, sunning to the spines, all in uniform format, tight square copies, an attractive set especially with all jackets in mylar protectors, 521, 433, 402 and 403 pages, a monumental work, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: Gold Rush Banker. The Civil War General's Pre- War Career as a Banker in San Francisco / California Historical Society, Series Publication # 45 ( Californian History / Banking )

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: Gold Rush Banker. The Civil War General's Pre- War Career as a Banker in San Francisco / California Historical Society, Series Publication # 45 ( Californian History / Banking )

By: Clarke, Dwight L / California Historical Society, Series Publication # 45 ( William Tecumseh Sherman related)

Price: $14.13

Publisher: San Francisco, California / Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, CA.: California Historical Society, 1969, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1969

Seller ID: 155585

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy with a bit of rubbing to the edges of the boards, in a lightly rubbed Veryu Good+ dustjacket, 446 pages, b&w photos, SF map endpapers, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Conflicted Mission: Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier by Linda M Clemmons / Minnesota Historical Society Press

By: Clemmons, Linda M / Minnesota Historical Society Press

Price: $14.13

Publisher: St Paul, Minnesota, St Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2014, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2014

Seller ID: 158742

ISBN: 0873519213

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

------------softcover, about 6 x 9 inches, a Near Fine copy, 274 pages, b&w photos, ---"From the mid-1830s to the 1860s, the missionaries sent to Minnesota by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) wrote thousands of letters to their supervisors and supporters claiming success in converting the Dakota people. But author Linda M. Clemmons reveals that the reality of the situation was far more conflicted than what those written records would suggest. In fact, in the rough Minnesota territory, missionaries often found themselves looking to the Dakota for support. Th...
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A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland, Historical and Biographical, Volume II -by William R Coates ( Book 2 / Two )

By: Coates, William R

Price: $56.73

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois / New York, Chicago, IL / NY / New York: The American Historical Society, 1924, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1924

Seller ID: 154714

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------hardcover, about 7 x 10.5 inches, a solid Very Good copy, black pebbled cloth, a bit of light wear, rubbing to tips, a solid copy, a bit of foxing, marbled endpapers, marbled text block edges, tight and square copy, 320 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for A KLONDIKE Centennial Scrapbook: The Great Klondike Gold Rush - Movies, Music, Guides, Photographs, Artifacts & Personalities ( Alaska / British Columbia / Yukon / Miners, Prospectors, etc )

A KLONDIKE Centennial Scrapbook: The Great Klondike Gold Rush - Movies, Music, Guides, Photographs, Artifacts & Personalities ( Alaska / British Columbia / Yukon / Miners, Prospectors, etc )

By: Cohen, Stan with Candy Waugaman

Price: $12.71

Publisher: Montana, Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1997, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1997

Seller ID: 161810

ISBN: 1575100142

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------softcover, about 8.5w x 11h inches, a Near Fine example, 176 pages, colour and b&w images and photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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Breaks Balls & Chains: The Story of Nevada's Fabulous Mustang Ranch -by Joe Conforte and David W Toll (signed) ( Bordello )

By: Conforte, Joe and David W Toll (signed)

Price: $127.73

Publisher: Nevada, Virginia City, NV: Gold Hill Publishing, 2011, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2011

Seller ID: 165104

ISBN: 0940936208

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good (see description)

-----------hardcover, about 7wx 10.25h inches, a Good example only as the pages are VERY rippled and wavy, book itself is in nice condition but pages are very rippled, in a Near Fine dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, 470 pages, b&w photos, signed and inscribed by Toll " For Brian The girls were always glad to see you drive up David W Toll", the author inscription is penned around a facsimile signature of Conforte (the TOLL inscription is genuine ), ---"The Mustang Ranch was the biggest, brightest Whorehouse in America, maybe all the world - and then they mad...
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Lucknow: A Veritable Goldmine - Local History Series # 2 ( Australia / Australian History ) ( Gold Mine )( Includes Shadforth ) ( Orange city related)

By: Cook, Kerrin ( Allan Roberts too!)

Price: $70.93

Publisher: Australia, Orange, NSW, Australia: Orange City Council 150th Anniversary Project, 1995, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1995

Seller ID: 153182

ISBN: 0959222782

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------large (quarto) softcover, a Near Fine copy with a bit of light wear, 165 pages, b&w photos throughout, contents include: 2 poems by Roberts about Lucknow; Foreword; Preface; Early Exploration; Early Settlement ( Summer Hill; Chinaman's Bend Cemetery; Agricultural Development ); Discovery of Gold ( History of Gold Discovery; Gold at Frederick's Valley; Wentworth Gold Field Company; Opening up of Lucknow Gold Fields; Early Claims and Mines ); Lucknow Village ( Naming of Lucknow; POst Office; banks; Stores; Hotels; Billiard Rooms; Miners' Hall; School of Arts; Public School; Churches;...
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Image for A Tour of East Antrim: Historic Photographs from the W A Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum ( Northern Ireland )( Vintage Photography / Photographic History )

A Tour of East Antrim: Historic Photographs from the W A Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum ( Northern Ireland )( Vintage Photography / Photographic History )

By: Corcoran, Doreen (from the Collection of W A Green )

Price: $18.39

Publisher: England, Belfast, Northern Ireland: Friar's Bush Press, 1990, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1990

Seller ID: 161353

ISBN: 0946872384

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------softcover, about 8.5w x 7h inches, a very Good+ example with just a wee bit of light rubbing to edges, 92 pages, packed with b&w photographs about all things East Antrim, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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The Age of Conversation -by Benedetta Craveri ( French salon history)

By: Craveri, Benedetta, Translated By Teresa Waugh

Price: $24.07

Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: New York Review Books / NYRB, 2005, 1st US edition, First Printing: 2005

Seller ID: 152882

ISBN: 1590171411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, maybe unread, 488 pages, b&w illustrrations, ---In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, the French nobility of the ancien regime turned their energies to developing the art of sociability, a refined code of manners, and an ideal of gallant, spirited conversation that became a model for social and intellectual life. --Benedetta Craveri’s history of this leisured, worldly society begins in the 1620s with the celebrated Blue Room of the Marquise de Rambouillet, one of the ...
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Paris on the Eve, 1900 - 1914 -by Vincent Cronin

By: Cronin, Vincent ( Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL, 24 May 1924 - 25 January 2011 )

Price: $24.07

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Collins, 1989, 1st edition, First Printing: 1989

Seller ID: 152881

ISBN: 0002176203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dustjacket, 485 pages, b&w photos, ---This portrait of Paris between 1900 and 1914, when it was the artistic centre of Europe, is evoked by a series of character sketches of important figures, such as Proust, Gide, Claudel, Debussy, Sarah Bernhardt, Picasso, Diaghilev and the Curies. By drawing together the threads of their lives the author distinguishes a subtlety and delicacy in artistic and intellectual life not present in the more pleasure-seeking 1890s. But dark political clouds were looming with the German occupation of ...
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History of the South Australian Brewing Company Limited, 1888 to 1988 ( Beer )

By: Cudmore, Michael (compiler), Foreword By J I N Winter / The South Australian Brewing Company Limited

Price: $26.91

Publisher: Australia, Thebarton, SA: The South Australian Brewing Company Limited, 1988, 1st edition, First Printing: 1988

Seller ID: 144382

ISBN: 073164185X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

------------large (quarto) hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine glassine (clear) dustjacket, 164 pages, packed with colour and b&w photos, includes vinatge / historical photos, advertisements, glass bottles from days of yore, etc, a nice book, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation ( Waffen - SS )

By: Davidson, Martin

Price: $14.13

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2010, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2010

Seller ID: 145068

ISBN: 0385662343

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy, in a Very Good+ dustjacket with a crease on rear panel and rear flap, 316 pages, b&w photos, ---"A unique and highly personal history of Nazi Germany, supported throughout by documents and transcripts. In 1993 Martin Davidson discovered that his German grandfather, who seemingly spent the war as an unassuming dentist in Berlin, had been a Nazi. And a thoroughly committed one, too: he had joined the Bund as a child, graduated to the brownshirts, and signed up for the party as soon as it had become legal, seven years before Hitler came to power. Davids...
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Image for Vaugondy Globe (facsimile) Par 1745 --by Robert De Vaugondy / Authentic Models Reproductions Nostalgia from Bygone Days (in Box )( Terrestrial Globe )

Vaugondy Globe (facsimile) Par 1745 --by Robert De Vaugondy / Authentic Models Reproductions Nostalgia from Bygone Days (in Box )( Terrestrial Globe )

By: De Vaugondy, Robert / Facsimile of the 1745 Vaugondy Globe

Price: $63.83

Publisher: Eugene, Oregon, Eugene, OR: Authentic Models, NO DATE (circa 2001 ), 1st Issue / Edition: 2001

Seller ID: 156614

Binding: Terrestrial Globe in Box

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------terrestrial globe, a facsimile of the 1745 globe be Robert de Gauvondy, the globe is FINE, it measures about 6 inches across, done in full colour, housed in a matching tube-shaped box, the globe is very nice and "floats" in the box, the interior of the box is faux marbling as one would see in a book with marbled endpapers, a very nice production that makes a lovely desk or room accent, , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Category: History