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Indianapolis: THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, 1926 DARK BLUE COVER, WHITE LABEL WITH PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SMALL PRESSED MARK RUNNING DOWN FRONT RIGHT. TIGHT, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT WITH DATE, COUPLE OTHER VERY SMALL STAINS AT EDGE. 16 CHAPTERS, GREAT DETAIL, 1777 FORWARD. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
George Washington (February 22, 1732[b] – December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created and ratified the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of his Country" for his manifold leadership in the nation's founding.

NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, INC., 1941 RARE, VERY NICE LOOKING FULL SET OF 4 BOOKS ON HOME STUDY OF ELECTRICITY, RAETH WAS PRESIDENT OF THE CANADIAN SCHOOL OF ELECTRICITY. BEAUTIFUL SET IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND CLEAN. BLACK AND SILVER DESIGN ON GRAY COVERS. PICTURES DIAGRAMS GRAPHS AND TABLES THROUGHOUT. EACH BOOK HAS A NICE INDEX. BOOK 1 COVERS SIMPLE WIRING, ELECTRICAL TERMS, ELECTROLYSIS, CELLS AND STORAGE BATTERIES, BELL RINGING & CIRCUITS, TELEGRAPH TELEPHONE, ELECTRIC LIGHTING. BOOK 2 ELECTRICAL CALCULATIONS, CALCULATION CIRCUITS, ELECTRIC METER CONNECTIONS, RESISTANCE VOLTAGE WIRE SIZE, MEASURING RESISTANCE, HEATING & THERMOMETERS, APPLIANCES, MAGNETS MAGNETISM, THEORY, ELECTROMAGNETS, MAGNETIC MATERIALS. BOOK 3 INDUCTION, COILS CONDENSERS XRAYS, GALVONOMETERS, METERS, GENERATOR, ARMATURE WINDING, TESTS, DIRECT CURRENT GENERATORS, OPERATION, MOTOR, D.C. MOTORS, MOTOR APPLICATIONS, DIESEL POWER, HOME LIGHTING PLANTS. BOOK 4 ALTERNATING CURRENTS,… Read More

NEW YORK: PANTHEON BOOKS INC., 1944 LIGHT TAN COVER, RED AND GOLD DESIGN SPINE. FORMER OWNERS LABEL INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BY ALLAN ROSS MACDOUGALL, INTRODUCTION BY DENIS DE ROUGEMONT. Denys Louis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906 December 6, 1985), known as Denis de Rougemont, was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. The End of All Men describes the imminent end of the earth as it plunges toward the sun through an accident to the law of gravity. Nature is the main character, with mostly anonymous humans acting in bit parts and scarcely more important than ants on an anthill. As the apocalypse approaches, our civilization is put into perspective and is mostly found wanting. Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September 1878 23 May 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer. He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and was educated… Read More

USA: VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO., 1877 BROWN COVER SHOWING WEAR FROM USE, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT WITH INSCRIPTION. COUPLE NAMES IN BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN PRINTED PAGES WITH LIGHT BROWNING FROM AGE SHOWING.PREFACE AND PAGE FOR TEACHERS IN FRONT.
79 LESSONS, SOME OF THE AREAS OF LESSONS INCLUDE: NUMERATION, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, REVIEW, PERCENTAGE AND PROBLEMS.
A QUITE INTERESTING AND CHALLENGING BOOK FOR KIDS LATE 1800'S.
FOR THE MATH LOVER OR TEACHER.
Arithmetic (from Ancient Greek) is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th century, Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano formalized arithmetic with his Peano axioms,[disputed – discuss] which are highly important to the field of mathematical logic today.
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LONDON & GLASGOW: COLLINS CLEAR TYPE PRESS, 1880 BEAUTIFUL RED LEATHER COVER, SPINE IS LIGHTER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, FORMER OWNERS LABEL INSIDE FRONT COVER. WONDERFUL ARTWORK BY PAUL HARDY THROUGHOUT. CLEAN AND TIGHT. NO DATE, CIRCA 1880. Charles Reade (8 June 1814 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. It Is Never Too Late to Mend (sometimes written as It's Never Too Late to Mend) is an 1856 novel by the British writer Charles Reade. It was later turned into a play. A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires to have her lover framed and sent to jail. aul Hardy (baptised David Paul Frederick Hardy) (2 August 1862 near Bath, Somerset - 2 January 1942 Storrington), was an English illustrator, well known for his regular illustrations in The Strand Magazine and his painting of Canterbury Pilgrims (1903), and his drawings were associated with the serials of the writer Samuel Walkey (1871-1953). ANTIQUE… Read More

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1909 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, FLOWERS AND VASE FRONT. LIGHTLY WORN FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ENTERTAINING BOOK BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERIOD. 24 CHAPTERS WITH A FEW OF THE CHAPTERS NAMES: A FALLING STAR, WELCOME HOME, THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN, KEEPING THE FAITH, WHITE GLOVES, RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND THE HOUSE WHERE LOVE LIVED. Myrtle Reed (September 27, 1874 – August 17, 1911) was an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist. She wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, 1883 BROWN COVER WORN ON EDGES AND FADED SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. VERY INTERESTING BOOK THAT DESCRIBES AND DISCUSSES THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH GOD'S HAND IS EVIDENT ON EARTH. UPON READING THE PREFACE I WAS INTRIGUED BY BURR'S UNDERTAKING AND READ THE BOOK. HE USES HISTORY, FACTS, EXAMPLES AND HIS OWN BELIEF AND UNDERSTANDING TO PRESENT A VERY INTERESTING BOOK. FOR ONE THAT LOVES RELIGION, QUESTIONING OR JUST WANTS TO HEAR SOMEONES IDEAS FROM OVER 140 YEARS AGO WILL ENJOY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, FRANKLIN SQUARE, 1881 DARK BROWN COVER WITH FADING ON SPINE, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. 32 SERMONS DATING FROM 1846 TO 1852. VARIOUS TOPICS. HUMAN RACE, CHARACTER, GLORY, HEAVEN, SCHOOL, CHRIST, WORSHIP, MINISTRY, WISDOM, REVELATION AND MANY OTHER TOPICS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BOSTON: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., 1902 NICE LOOKING PROTECTIVE COVER, ORANGE WITH BLACK PRINT AND DESIGN. BOOK ITSELF IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, ORANGE WITH BLACK AND WHITE FRONT AND SPINE, 2 GIRLS ON COVER. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 14 CHAPTERS, 8 ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. A FUN, UPBEAT, POSITIVE BOOK. "A delightful story of true and genuine friendship between an impulsive little girl in a fine New York home and a little blind girl in an apartment next door. The little girl's determination to cultivate the acquaintance, begun out of the window during a rainy day, triumphs over the barriers of caste, and the little blind girl proves to be in every way a worthy companion." ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

USA: A CHARIOT BOOK, 1960 NICE LOOKING COVER WITH SENSUOUS ART. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE, NO INYERNAL MARKINGS. A RECKLESS LOVER- A BOLD ADVENTURER- CAUGHT IN THE INTRIGUES OF THE WICKEDEST COURT IN HISTORY. PIETRO LUSTED FOR THE QUEEN. TERRIFIC VINTAGE EROTIC BOOK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS; THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, 1905 GREEN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. LIGHTLY WORN OUTSIDE . INSCRIPTION INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE.REVISED EDITION. RARE. 18 SECTIONS INCLUDING MOTIVE OF READING, READING HABIT, WHAT BOOKS TO READ, BEST TIME TO READ, NOTE BOOKS, CULTIVATION TASTE, POETRY, ART SKIPPING, USE TRANSLATIONS, PERIODICALS, BOOKS TO OWN, LIBRARIES, INDEX AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME LIBRARIES. RICHARDSON WAS A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a… Read More

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1924 NICE LOOKING RED COVER WITH BLACK INK FRONT AND SPINE, TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 ¿ 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. ONE OF THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF ALL TIME. A WONDERFUL COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY, 1879 DARK RED COVER, BLACK DESIGN FRONT, GOLD IN DESIGN FRONT AND GOLD PRINT SPINE. WORN OVER TIME. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. PAGES LIGHT BROWN WITH AGING. TITLE PAGE MISSING SMALL PIECE LOWER RIGHT CORNER.
PREFATORY NOTE WRITTEN BY FRANCES SISTER MARIA EXPLAINING THAT FRANCES HAD REVISED PROOFS FOR THE BOOK SHORTLY BEFORE HER DEATH IN 1879. PUBLICATION WAS IN AUTUMN 1879.
IT WAS WRITTEN FOR THE GLORY OF CHRIST AS A MEMOIR OF HER LIFE AND TO GIVE UNDERSTANDING AND GUIDANCE.
THERE ARE THIRTEEN CHAPTERS ALL IN REFERENCE TO JESUS AND LIFE.
A WONDERFUL BOOK FOR ALL WHO LOVE CHRIST AND RELIGION.
Frances Ridley Havergal (14 December 1836 – 3 June 1879) was an English religious poet and hymnwriter. Take My Life and Let it Be and Thy Life for Me (also known as I Gave My Life for Thee) are two of her best known hymns. She also wrote hymn melodies, religious tracts, and works for children. She did not occupy, and did not claim for herself, a prominent place as a… Read More

NEW YORK, PRINTED AND BOUND IN JAPAN: HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC., 1990 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH 110 PLATES IN FULL COLOR. FROM ARTWORK SHOWING GLASS BEING MADE TO WONDERFULLY DETAILED PICTURES OF GLASS PIECES CREATED IN COLOR FROM AROUND THE WORLD. NEAR FINE PROTECTIVE COVER AND BOOK ITSELF. CLEAN AND TIGHT, WITH THICK PAGES. LARGE HEAVY BOOK. Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was named Corning Glass Works until 1989. The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York dedicated to the art, history and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some over 3,500 years old. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THE RONALD PRESS COMPANY, 1948 DARK BLUE COVER, WORN PRINT ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT INDICATING HARVARD UNIVERSITY. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION. 16 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL INTRO, DEVELOPEMENT, INTEGRATION, FANTASY DREAMS HYPNOTIC, ANXIETY AND DEFENSE, NEUROTIC CONFLICT, NEUROSIS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, DILENQUENT BEHAVIOR, PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS, INJURIES AND BRAIN, PSYCHOSES AND PROBLEM OF SOCIETY. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Robert W. White (19042001) was an American psychologist whose professional interests centered on the study of personality, both normal and abnormal. His book The Abnormal Personality, published in 1948, became the standard textbook on Abnormal Psychology. A historian in perspective, White did not focus entirely on abnormal psychology, but investigated the coping… Read More

BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1916 LIGHT TAN COVER, WHITE PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. ARTWORK TISH FRONT. NINE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. FIVE SECTIONS/ STORIES. ACTION PACKED AND INTERESTING MYTERIES. RINEHART COMPARED TO AGATHA CHRISTIE. Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of "the butler did it" plot device in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, 1961 NICE LOOKING BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT, SOME PEN MARKS AND YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS INSIDE. TIGHT, GLOSSARY AND PROPER NAMES IN THE BACK. EXPLANATORY NOTES. Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400). Chaucer's enduring fame reflects the range and quality of his poetry and prose, but also the accessibility of his midlands-based London English. His impact on the English language through the absorption of French words, ideas, and forms is considerable. Born into a family of prosperous vintners, Chaucer served as page then esquire to various aristocratic households, including that of Richard II. Chaucer's specific assignments included fighting in the Hundred Years War c.1359, undertaking trade and diplomatic missions to Italy and France, and acting as customs controller at the port of London and clerk of works at Westminster. THE CANTERBURY TALES, THE HOUSE OF FAME, SHORT POEMS AND MANY OTHER WRITINGS. GREAT LITERARY… Read More

NEW YORK: The Macmillan Company, 1967 TERRIFIC BOOK WITH ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. WONDERFUL HISTORY AND MUSIC. VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH BLACK SPINE. COWBOY ON HORSE DESIGN FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE. PROTECTIVE COVER HAS NICE PICTURE OF A MAN WITH A GUITAR WITH COWBOY HAT FRONT, BLACK ORANGE BLUE DESIGN. CLEAN NO MARKINGS, TIGHT. SILBER COMPILED AND EDITED, ROBINSON ( MUSIC ANNOTATED, EDITED AND ARRANGED). EIGHT SECTIONS OF GREAT MUSIC OF THE WEST. STORIES TOLD IN SONG. BALLADS, LULLABIES, BATTLE CRIES, LOVE SONGS. SOME SONGS INCLUDE HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. INDEX BY SUBJECT AND TITLES. Irwin Silber prospered as a writer, left-wing organizer, and book editor, but his greatest claim to fame originates from his editorial duties at Sing Out during the 1950s and 1960s. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1885 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH SILVER PRINT AND BOUQUET DESIGN, AND BLACK RIBBON, ALSO ON SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR ON THE COVER EDGES OUTSIDE AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. PAGES TIGHT AND CLEAN. IN THE PREFACE THE STORY REFERENCES THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, DRAFT RIOTS OF 1863, AND THE STORY OF POWER OF A YOUNG GIRL NOT SHOWING BEAUTY OR GOOD BUT ACHIEVED SUCCESSIN THIS VERY CRITICAL PERIOD. ROE CONSULTED POLICE AND PEOPLE WHO OBSERVED THE 1863 RIOT. Edward Payson Roe was born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 He became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S.V., and in 1864 chaplain of Hampton Hospital, in Virginia. In 1866-74 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Highland Falls, New York. His novels were very popular in their day, especially with middle class readers in England and America, and were translated into several European languages. Their strong moral and… Read More

NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, 1921 NICE LOOKING GREEN BOOK, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, BAT WING DESIGN, ONLY MARKING IS FORMER OWNER SIGNED NAME IN FRONT, JOSEPH HORNE CO. BOOK SHOP STICKER IN BACK. MISSING BLANK PAGE VERY BACK. TIGHT, GOOD SHAPE. Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 ¿ 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. He worked as a poet, songwriter, and comedy sketch writer in Music Hall before creating the Sax Rohmer persona and pursuing a career writing weird fiction. A VERY INTERESTING SCIENCE FICTION WRITER. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.