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Salem MA: Marine Research Society, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 399 pages. B&W portraits of sea captains and ships throughout. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Top edge colored blue. Green pictorial dust jacket with pasted-on color illustration, taping and edgewear. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and stain to front cover. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. The twenty-first volume… Ler mais sobre este item

Washington,DC: U.S. War & Navy Dept., 1944. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Issues for May-Aug. Dec. 1944. A magazine devoted to identifying war planes and ships. Many photos and drawings. 50 pages each. Allied & enemy planes covered. Light wear otherwise solid & clean. Record # 385858

London: Andre Deutsch, 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, black cloth, 192 pages, b&w photos. No dust jacket. Light tanning to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 385927

London: John Murray, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w photos. Orange cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Faint spotting to rear cover, light wear to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 354097

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 281 pages. Gilt decorated front cover. Pencil marking on page 195. Minor soiling and edge wear on cover and spine. Minor spotting on front and rear end papers. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding. Record # 852318

Rockaway NJ: Rockaway Borough Bicentennial Committee, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. Issued without dust jacket. Map endpapers. 156 pages with bibliography, section of genealogical charts of Jackson and Halsey families. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs and reproductions of engravings and manuscripts. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Record # 385943

NY: St Martins Press, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 707 pages, b&w illustrations. Born in poverty, and self-educated while working in a print shop, William Lloyd Garrison was one of the United States' greatest crusading editors, putting out a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, for 35 years, beginning in 1831.… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: Clarkson N. Potter. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Earl Thollander. Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 300 pages, b&w illustrations by Earl Thollander. Willard Espy's memoir is delightful, filled with memorable characters, with no celebrities, from his family trove of people over the centuries, from witches in Salem, Massachusetts, to pioneer oystermen on the Pacific coast… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Macmillian St. Martin's Press, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 553 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket spine has St. Martin's Press sticker on bottom. Internally, clean and tight. Cover boards have light soil to front and fading to bottom edge. Record # 354069

NY: The Overlook Press, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 358 pages, Illustrated with three sections of color plates. b&w maps, illustrations. Clean copy. A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian.In 312 A.D.,… Ler mais sobre este item

University Press of Colorado, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present… Ler mais sobre este item

Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, tan cloth with white lettering, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY RUSSELL on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued. Record # 385795

Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 719 pages. Black & white illustrations. Includes fold-out maps. Clean, tight copy. Record # 608436

New York: Naval History Society, 1915. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/None. 240 pages, b&w illustration. White vellum spine and corners with blue-gray boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Limited to 600 copies, this is #590. Beautiful bright copy. Record # 403686

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Naval History Society, 1814. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 289 pages. Minor cover soiling, corner and edge wear. Minor stains along binding on front and back end paper. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding. Gilt top edge. Record # 852434

New York: Random House, 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Volume 1 - 840 pages. Dust jacket shows light wear, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 988 pages. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - 1106 pages. Clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 608420

Flagstaff AZ: Northland Press, 1985. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel. B&w drawings by Remington. Reprinted from a series of articles published in The Century Magazine in 1888. During the early 1880s, both Remington the artist and Roosevelt the writer were trying their hands at… Ler mais sobre este item

Alexandria: Eyrie Publications, 1983. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover in blue wrappers, 82 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on top right corner of front cover. Minor rubbing to cover edges. SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. A nice, clean copy. Record # 851656

London: J. Hatchard, 1805. 2nd Ed.. Hardcover. Good/None. 252 pages with appendix added in this December printing. (The first edition consisted of 215 pages and was issued in October.) Half black leather binding and marbled boards. Both covers detached, the front missing. The interior and binding are in very nice condition, clean. Record # 403685