American History & Culture

PUBLISHERDoubleday & Company Inc, N.Y.
BINDINGRed and black cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general wear to edges, a little scuffing and scratching, slight fading to spine. A little foxing affecting endpapers, but text and images remain largely clear and little marked. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover.

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PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Company, boston.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards. Pattered endpapers.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn, with scuffing, fading and bumping to corners. Binding secure. Some foxing...

PUBLISHERThe Hakluyt Society, London.
BINDINGLight blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and ship emblem.
BOOK CONDITIONGood, boards have a little general shelf wear to edges. Water stain at bottom of front cover, but no further damage from this. Text and images remain clear with few marks.
DUST...

Originally written in 1605, an account of the doomed attempt of the conquest of North America by Hernando de Soto; as told to the author by a member of that expedition.

PUBLISHERStackpole Books.
BINDINGBrown boards with gilt lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONA little general shelf wear to edges of boards. Printed pages and images remain clear with few noticeable marks. 
DUST JACKETSome wear and slight fading to edges. Faint scratching and a few scuff marks to gloss surface and a...

PUBLISHERThe Great Western Railway.
BINDINGCard covered pamphlet bound with cord.
BOOK CONDITIONIntact but covers are in worn condition and foxed. The printed pages, images, fold out plan and map remain very well preserved for age, clear and little marked. Name written on back cover.
DUST JACKETNo.
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Written by a Professor of Mathematics of the US Navy. Subtitled "A Study of the Principles and Practice of Exterior Ballistics, as Applied to Naval Gunnery, and of the Computation and Use of Ballistic and Range Tables."

PUBLISHERThe Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (privately printed)
BINDINGRoyal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Gilt block edges. Endpapers have a pattern of crests. 
BOOK CONDITIONIn generally worn condition commensurate with age. Scuffing around edges, corners bumped and some fraying at ends of spine....

PUBLISHERDavid and Charles, Newton Abbot.
BINDINGBlue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONA little wear and slight fading to edges of boards. Printed pages and images remain clear with few noticeable marks. 
DUST JACKETSome creasing at edges, a small patch of delamination at top of spine. A little faint scratching...

Spanning America and Europe in the carefree years before 1914. Phoebe Sprague is torn between her childhood sweetheart and English Captain Oliver Campion, until the advent of war tears them apart.

PUBLISHERScott, Foresman and Company, U.S.A.
BINDINGBlue cloth boards with red design and gilt lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some wear and fading especially around spine, a few marks and scratches. Hinges slightly weakened but binding secure. Browning and foxing affecting endpapers and block edges, but text and images remain...

A beautifully illustrated account of the life and work of the legendary Native American potter.

A history of the "Pilgrim Fathers," with chapters on the origins of their religious dissent in England and Holland, the voyage of The Mayflower and the settlement in New England.

The true story of how three airmen of the US Navy survived in a raft for 34 days after their scout bomber crashed in to the Pacific.

PUBLISHERGeorge Routledge and Sons, London.
BINDINGQuarter bound marbled paper covered boards, red cloth over spine. black title patch with gilt lettering
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and scuffed at edges, corners bumped. Small patch of marbled paper torn away on front. Spine faded. Hinges a little weakened, but...

PUBLISHERDoubleday, New York.
BINDINGCream cloth boards with gilt and embossed lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, slight wear to very edges of boards. Text and images remain clear with no noticeable marks.
DUST JACKETA little creasing to top of spine and one tiny 0.5 cm tear. Preserved in removable...

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PUBLISHERThe Locomotive Publishing Company, Limited.
BINDINGQuarter bound cloth spine and brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering and design. 
BOOK CONDITIONGood for age. Boards have some scuff...