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USA: NA, 1901 NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. A GREAT NUMBER OF PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS THROUGHOUT. WONDERFUL DETAIL OF MCKINLEY'S LIFE AND ROOSEVELT THE NEW PRESIDENT. VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE. William McKinley (January 29, 1843 September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. He was president during the SpanishAmerican War of 1898, raised protective tariffs to boost American industry, and rejected the expansionary monetary policy of free silver, keeping the nation on the gold standard. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.: WILLIAMS & ROGERS, 1898 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT, LIGHT WEAR ON LETTERING. INSIDE FRONT AND BACK FORMER OWNER NAME AND COUPLE NOTES. TITLE PAGE AND PREFACE ARE TOGETHER AND LOOSE. TIGHT OTHERWISE AND CLEAN ACCEPT FOR VERY FEW PENCIL MARKS. GOOD DETAIL AND ILLUSTRATIONS. FOR USE IN BUSINESS COLLEGES AND COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENTS, INTRODUCTORY COURSE. SCHWARTZ WAS A TEACHER OF BOOKKEEPING AND EXPERT ACCOUNTANT. IRON CITY COLLEGE, PITTSBURGH, PA. PRINCIPAL CHARLES J. SMITH. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BOSTON: CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 1889 RARE BOOK, DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SMALL TEAR FRONT COVER OUTSIDE, BLACK DESIGN FRONT, BOOK HAS LIGHT WEAR. TIGHT THROUGHOUT. SEVERAL PIECES OF ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. BOOK DEDICATED TO MOTHERS OF AMERICA. BOOK IS ROOTED WITH A RELIGIOUS TINT. VERY ENTERTAINING AND OFFERING GOOD GUIDANCE IN ITS MESSAGE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

READING, PA: THE PILGER BOOKSTORE, 1883 VERY NICE COLLECTOR ITEM. NICE LOOKING BOOK. BROWN COVER, FADED SOME ON SPINE, TIGHT AND STRONG BOUND, DECORATION AROUND FRONT, TITLE ON SPINE. PREVIOUS OWNER NAME IN FRONT SIGNED JUNE 16, 1990. SMALL PIECES OUT OF THE FRONT THREE PAGES AT BOTTOM. FRONTISPIECE IS VERY NICE ARTWORK. VERY NICE ARTWORK AND DESIGN THROUGHOUT (45 ILLUSTRATIONS). Luther, Martin (1483¿1546), German theologian and author. Martin Luther came to be easily the most well-known public figure¿and the most published author¿of his time. DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO LUTHERANS AND FRIENDS OF LUTHER. VERY INTERESTING HISTORY. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

USA: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1900 BEAUTIFUL BOOK. GREEN TEXTURED COVER WITH DARK GREEN DESIGN AND GOLD DESIGN FRONT WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. NO PUBLISHER DATE, COPYRIGHT 1898 AND MUST HAVE BEEN PRINTED SHORTLY AFTER THAT. PICTURE OF LONGFELLOW AS FRONTISPIECE. GLADSTONE EDITION INDICATED ON SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME WAS INSIDE FRONT IN PENCIL STATING XMAS 1906 AND WAS ERASED, STILL VISIBLE. FRONTISPIECE AND NEXT PAGE HAVE A SLIGHT CREASE, STILL IN GOOD SHAPE. CLEAN THROUGHOUT REST OF BOOK. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-82, American poet, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1825. He wrote some of the most popular poems in American literature, in which he created a new body of romantic American legends. The Song of Hiawatha. A narrative poem depicting numerous Indian legends through the adventures of the fictionalized Hiawatha. It is Longfellow's most popular work and would sell more than fifty thousand copies by 1860. The meter of the poem was… Read More

NEW YORK: ILLUSTRATED MODEN LIBRARY, 1944 NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER WITH DESIGNS, SPINE REINFORCED WITH GRREN MATERIAL AND HAS GOLD PRINT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT.NICE ARTWORK BY LEWIS. A WONDERFUL ADDITION TO ONES LIBRARY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, 1876 WONDERFUL BOOK BY A TREMENDOUS POET. DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, LIGHT WEAR EADGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT DATED 1877. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. POPEMS LISTED UNDER CONTENTS WITH NOTES AND INDEX IN THE BACK. VERY NICE COLLECTION. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1899 FROM LITTLE BOOKS BY FAMOUS AUTHORS, NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, SILVER PRINT AND DESIGN, SLIGHT FADING FRONT, FRONTISPIECE IS JAFFA GATE IN JERUSALEM AND IS LOOSE, NO MARKINGS IN BOOK, GREAT SHAPE, TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 ¿ February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author. Wallace served as governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting. Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling book since its publication, and called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." It has been adapted four times for films. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, 1912 VERY WELL KEPT FORMER LIBRARY BOOK, LIBRARY STAMP INSIDE FRONT, CARD HOLDER INSIDE BACK, LIBRARY IMPRINT TITLE PAGE. TIGHT AND VERY GOOD SHAPE. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY AND WELL WRITTEN BOOK. The Gate of the Hills is a historic house at North and Royalton Hill Roads in Bethel, Vermont. Built about 1896, it was until 1918 home to Mary E. Waller, a prolific novelist and essayist of the early 20th century. The house is also a distinctive early example of Dutch Colonial Revival architecture, probably based on designs originating in the Netherlands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THE BOOK LEAGUE OF AMERICA, 1942 NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. THE VERY LAST BLANK PAGE MISSING. A VERY ENTERTAINING TALE FROM Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. A gay man in Britain when that was illegal at the time. The tension builds until the chilling final scene, when the horrifying truth will be revealed about the killer - and the slain. The works of the prolific and phenomenally popular Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) have been neglected since his death, but his "macabre" tales, of which The Killer and the Slain (1942) is the best, deserve rediscovery. ANTIQUUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1967 VERY NICE BOOK WITH IRVING WORKS ONE SIDE AND OTIS WORKS ON THE OTHER FLIPSIDE. BEAUTIFUL COVER WITH ARTWORK. ONLY MARKING IS FORMER OWNER NAME AND DATE SIGNED. GREAT SHAPE, TIGHT. Irving, Washington (1783¿1859), American author of essays, travel books, biographies, and true and legendary histories. He is most famous for two stories included in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819¿20): ¿The Legend of Sleepy Hollow¿ and ¿Rip Van Winkle¿. While the ¿Legend¿ pokes fun at Ichabod Crane's superstitious credulity, ¿Rip Van Winkle¿ is a genuine fairy tale¿the first with a distinctively American flavour. Irving successfully transposed the European motif of the enchanted sleeper to his own Hudson River Valley, substituting for the traditional fairy revellers the explorer Hendrick Hudson and his crew. Toby Tyler is a Disney film released on January 21, 1960 by Buena Vista Distribution… Read More

NEW YORK: CENTURY CO., 1893 RARE BOOK DETAILING HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK, DARK BROWN WORN COVER, TIGHT WITH TERRIFIC ARTWORK. MISSING TITLE PAGE, PUBLISHED 1893, NO DATE SHOWN. FORMER OWNERS INSCRIPTION FRONT AND BACK. STORIES AND ACCOUNTS BY CABLE, WILLIAM PITTENGER, A.E. RICHARDS, BASIL W. DUKE, ORLANDO WILLCOX, FRANK E. MORAN, W. H. SHELTON, JOHN TAYLOR WOOD. GREAT DETAIL, DATES AND ACCOUNTS. TERRIFIC HISTORY. George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 ¿ January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays… Read More

PHILADELPHIA, PA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870 NICE LOOKING TWO BOOKS SET, LIGHT WEAR EDGES AND SPINE, BLUE LEATHER CORNERS AND SPINE. GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, MARBLING FRONT AND BACK, MARBLING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE RECOLLECTIONS OF OLDEN TIME, AND TO EXHIBIT SOCIETY IN ITS CHANGES AND MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND THE CITY AND COUNTRYIN THEIR LOCAL CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY T. H. MUMFORD. VOLUME I 609 PAGES, VOLUME II 641 PAGES. GREAT DETAIL. WONDERFUL BOOKS FOR THE HISTORY LOVER. John Fanning Watson (June 13, 1779 - December 23, 1860) was an Philadelphia antiquarian, a chronicler and an historian who became a professional writer. He is best known as the author of Annals of Philadelphia (1830). A bookseller, then a bank cashier by trade, he worked for the Germantown Bank, and Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad. As a young man he began gathering the reminiscences of elderly people, and collected them in… Read More

CHICAGO: THE MAGAZINE CIRCULATION CO. INC., 1919 NICE LOOKING LARGE BOOK WITH THE COVER IN MILITARY GREEN, BLACK PRINT FRONT WITH A SHIP SHOWING. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. A COLOR MAP IN THE FRONT OF "THE NEW EUROPE". WONDERFUL DETAIL AND GREAT NUMBER OF PICTURES THROUGHOUT. FOREWARD HAS BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK OF AN EAGLE, NEST AND BABIES WITH BAYONETS SUPPORTING NEST. PART OF THE FOREWARD FOLLOWS: THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES THE AFFECTS OF WAR NOW TERMINATED WILL BE FELT BY ALL MANKIND. THEREFORE WE ARE VITALLY INTERESTED IN THE CHIEF EVENTS THAT MARKED THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR; NEW METHODS OF WARFARE PRACTICED; INVENTIONS, MANY OF WHICHCAN BE UTILIZED IN PEACETIME; AND OUR NEW METHODS EVOLVED BY WAR RELIEF AGENCIES MAKING PROGRESS IN THE ALLEVIATION OF SUFFERING. MUCH INFORMATION ON AMERICA INCLUDED WITH TROOPS. AMERICA IN WAR AND PEACE PAGE 5. World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.… Read More

Boston, MA: W. A. WILDE COMPANY, 1912 THIRTY- EIGHTH ANNUAL VOLUME, VERY GOOD CONDITION, THE BASIC FOR TEACHING ALL GRADES IN SUNDAY SCHOOL, LIBRARY REFERENCES TO AID THE TEACHER IN FURTHER RESEARCHES, OTHER AIDS. FOUR FULL-PAGE HALF- TONE PICTURES AND OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. GREAT BOOK-- REV. PELOUBET, PROF. WELLS. GREEN OUTSIDE, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT ALSO ON SPINE. GREEN FLOWER DESIGN INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. ARTWORK PICTURES INSIDE ARE VERY NICE. ONLY MARKINGS ARE A FEW SMALL PENCIL WRITINGS IN TABLE OF CONTENT AREA. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: D.C. HEATH & CO., 1909 VERY NICE DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, TIGHT AND GOOD CONDITION INSIDE, SOME SMALL NOTES IN PENCIL, NOTES IN THE BACK IN ENGLISH AND VOCABULARY. INTRODUCTION IN ENGLISH AND PLAY IN GERMAN SCRIPT. SPECIAL EDITION WITH VOCABULARY. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GERMAN LANGUAGE. The Maid of Orleans (German: Die Jungfrau von Orleans) is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller, premiered on 11 September 1801 in Leipzig. During his lifetime, it was one of Schiller's most frequently-performed pieces. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German; 10 November 1759 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (17881805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THE VIKING PRESS, 1937 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George Wells), 1866-1946, English author. Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker, working assiduously to remove all vestiges of Victorian social, moral, and religious attitudes from 20th-century life. VERY NICE BOOK BY A GREAT AUTHOR. GRAY COVER WITH BLACK DESIGN ON FRONT AND SIDE. ONLY MARK INSIDE IS PRICE WRITTEN INSIDE COVER. WONDERFUL COLLECTOR ITEM. THE DUST COVER HAS A TERRIFIC LOOKING DESIGN. GREAT GHOST STORY AND GRIPPING TALE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, 1946 DARK RED COVER, LIGHT WEAR AND FADING, GOLD PRINT FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE. CHRYSLER PLANT MANUFACTURED BILLIONS OF BULLETS FOR WORLD WAR II. Detroit Arsenal (DTA), formerly Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant (DATP) was the first manufacturing plant ever built for the mass production of tanks in the United States. Established in 1940 under Chrysler, the plant was owned by the U.S. government until 1996. It was designed by architect Albert Kahn. The building was designed originally as a "dual production facility", so that it could make armaments and be turned into peaceful production at war's end. Notwithstanding its name, the 113-acre (0.46 km2) site was located in Warren, Michigan, Detroit's most populous suburb. FORWARD BY Kaufman Thuma Keller, commonly known as K. T. Keller (27 November 1885 – 21 January 1966), was an American corporate executive who served as the president of Chrysler Corporation from 1935 to 1950 and… Read More

NEW YORK: MCCLURE, PHILLIPS AND CO., 1903 NICE LOOKING RED COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND WHITE PRINT ON FRONT. WEAR ON EDGES, PRINT WORN ON SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE WITH INSCRIPTION OF DECEMBER 25, 1903. PAGES TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE INSIDE WITH NO MARKINGS, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. Stanley John Weyman, (7 August 1855 ¿ 10 April 1928) was an English writer of historical romance. His most popular works were written in 1890¿1895 and set in late 16th and early 17th-century France. While very successful at the time, they are now largely forgotten. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

CHICAGO: W.B. CONKEY COMPANY, 1901 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school. A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is¿Is Best", suggesting an echo of Alexander Pope's "Whatever is, is right." Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.NICE LOOKING… Read More