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From Canal Boy to President, or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield

By: Alger, Jr., Horatio

Price: $15.00

Publisher: DeWolfe, Boston: 1881

Seller ID: CL004186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

DeWolfe, Boston, 1881, 334 pages, illustrated with 5 b&w plates including tissue-guarded portrait and frontis, 4.75”x 6.75”, hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black stamped titles and decorations, corners and spine ends lightly bumped and worn, slight edge wear, covers and spine scuffed and soiled, text block soiled and has a very small rubbed area on bottom, internal hinges just beginning to crack but still holding very nicely, former owner's ink inscription dated 1893 on front paste-down endpaper, endpapers and some pages soiled, frontis and tissue show slight foxing, otherwise conten...
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Wooden Churches: Columbia County Legacy

By: Baker, Arthur A., with essay by Ruth Piwonka

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook NY: 2003

Seller ID: CL005100

ISBN: 0962958018

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good+

Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook NY, 2003, signed and inscribed by the author, Arthur A. Baker, 95 pages, 63 beautiful b&w photographs by Arthur A. Baker, b&w map, includes essay by Ruth Piwonka, 9.5”x 11.5”, paperbound, tan heavy paper cover with folded flaps and b&w photo on front, author’s signature & inscription on half title page otherwise contents clean and tight, book very good+ {Per reviews on rear cover: “Arthur Baker has produced an historically significant record of the wooden churches of Columbia County.” And “Ruth Piwonka’s lucid essay offers the histor...
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Lies Logs and Loggers

By: Hays, Finley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Loggers World, Chehalis WA: 1961

Seller ID: CL002329

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Good-

Loggers World, Chehalis WA, 1961, 9th printing, 91 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w drawings and photographs, 5.5”x 8.5”, paperbound, heavy textured tan paper covers with green illustrations on both covers and red titles on the front and the spine, covers soiled and stained, light corner and edge wear with a light crease at the front top right corner, back cover very lightly rippled, endpapers lightly soiled, occasional light soil in a few page margins, otherwise contents clean and tight, book good- (G-) 2329 [(s)0819JA]
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General Washington. Great Commanders series

By: Johnson, General Bradley T.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: D. Appleton, NY: 1894

Seller ID: CL005089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Hardcover, Good+ (G+), First Edition, D. Appleton and Company, NY, 1894, same date on copyright & titles pages, 338 pages, appendix, index, b&w frontispiece with tissue guard, 8 b&w maps, 5-1/4”x 7-5/8”, hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles on front and spine, silver medallion on front, top page edges gilt, corners and spine ends bumped and very lightly frayed, spine ends have a few small tears, covers lightly soiled with 5 small water spots on front cover, a light damp stain across the bottom of the back cover, green endpapers, rear endpaper has a narrow 1” long abrasion near the for...
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Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870—1950: I - Methodological Considerations and Reference Tables

By: Lee, Everett S., Ann Ratner Miller and Carol P. Brainerd, Richard A. Easterlin (Prepared Under the Direction of Simon Kuznets and Dorothy Swaine Thomas)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia PA: 1957

Seller ID: CL002345

Binding: Hardcover in dust jacket

Condition: Very Good+

Hardcover, Very Good+ in Good+ Dust Jacket, (VG+/G+), First Edition, Volume One only, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1957, first edition, 759 pages, Introductions, Appendices, Lists of Text Tables, List of Reference Tables, List of Charts, illustrated in b&w with a map frontispiece and several charts, 9-3/8” x 12”, blue cloth with gilt titles, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, good+ price-clipped jacket shows slight bumping and wear to corners and spine ends, a few small pieces of clear tape on reverse of jacket from previous owner, jacket panels and spine slightly...
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A Visible Heritage, Columbia County, New York: A History in Art and Architecture

By: Piwonka, Ruth and Roderic H. Blackburn

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Black Dome Press, Hensonville NY: 1996

Seller ID: CL005096

ISBN: 1883789087

Condition: Fine

Paperbound, Fine, (F), Reprint, Black Dome Press, Hensonville NY, 1977, 1996, 20th anniversary edition, first edition thus, 160 pages, original foreword by Mary Black, new foreword by Ruth Piwonka and Roderic H. Blackburn, preface, appendix, bibliography, profusely illustrated in b&w with photos, illustrations and several maps, 9”x 10”, paperbound, color illustrated stiff covers, contents clean and tight, book fine (F) 5096 [(s)0620NC]
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Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen

By: Prudhomme, Chef Paul, and Tom Jimison, photographer

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Morrow, NY: 1984

Seller ID: CL005118

ISBN: 0688028470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover, Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket, First Edition, Morrow, NY, 1984, 1st edition, 351 pages, index, color photographs by Tom Jimison, 7-1/8”x 9-1/2”, hardcover, light brown clothbound, copper design on front, copper titles on spine, spine ends lightly rounded, 3/8” at bottom of spine faded, good dust jacket with very minor edge wear and a 3/4” piece missing from top of rear panel, dust jacket now protected in a new archival plastic cover and looks very sharp, a small square of glue on front endpaper where a sticker evidently was removed, otherwise contents clan and tight, book ...
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Trail of the Sourdough: Life in Alaska

By: Sullivan, May Kellogg, and C. A. McArthur illustrator

Price: $18.75

Publisher: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston: 1910

Seller ID: CL005123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Hardcover, Good, (G/no dj), Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1910, 258 pages, 3 b&w plates illustrated by C. A. McArthur including the frontispiece, plus 13 unattributed b&w sketches, 5”x 7.5”, hardcover, green cloth with black, white and grey illustration and black title on front, black titles on spine, publisher’s logo blind embossed on back cover, corners bumped, corner and edge wear, covers soiled, spine darkened, spine ends worn, no dust jacket, blank free front endpaper removed, small light damp stain at the top of the first 18 or so pages, light soil in page margins, o...
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Category: American History