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NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, 1899 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN BOOK. BLACK AND ORANGE DECORATION FRONT COVER. BLACK DESIGN SPINE. WEAR AROUND EDGES OF BOOK AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS STICKER INSIDE, BOOKSTORE SOLD AT STICKER. CLEAN AND TIGHT OTHERWISE. 25 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL FICTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY. Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 ¿ 2 January 1924) was an English Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NAKLAD, POLAND: CZYTELNIK, 1954 VERY NICE LOOKING POCKET SIZE BOOK, LIGHT BROWN, GOLD PRINT FRONT. GOOD CONDITION, SLIGHT WEAR ON EDGES, YELLOW TASSLE TO MARK SPOT, CLEAN- NO MARKINGS INSIDE. WONDERFUL POEM IN THE ORIGINAL POLISH DONE BY THE MOST FAMOUS POLISH POET. Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (December 24, 1798 ¿ November 26, 1855) was a Polish (Polish-Lithuanian) poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic language or European poets. He has been described as a Slavonic bard. He was a prominent creator of Romantic drama in Poland and has been compared both at home and in Western Europe to Byron and Goethe. He is known primarily as the author of the poetic novel Dziady and national epic Pan Tadeusz, which is considered the last great epic of… Read More

WARSZAWA, POLAND: CZYTELNIK, POLISH LAGUAGE, 1968 VERY NICE LOOKING POCKET SIZE BOOK WITH ENGRAVED DESIGN ON FRONT AND GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. DARK BROWN, VERY GOOD CONDITION, ONLY MARKING IS PREVIOUS OWNER NAME AND DATE IN FRONT. WONDERFUL POEM IN THE ORIGINAL POLISH DONE BY THE MOST FAMOUS POLISH POET. Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (December 24, 1798 ¿ November 26, 1855) was a Polish (Polish-Lithuanian) poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic language or European poets. He has been described as a Slavonic bard. He was a prominent creator of Romantic drama in Poland and has been compared both at home and in Western Europe to Byron and Goethe. He is known primarily as the author of the poetic novel Dziady and national epic Pan Tadeusz, which is… Read More

UNITED STATES: SYNDICATE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1913 NICE LOOKING RED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT, PICTURE OF CANAL, LIGHT WEAR COVER, FOLD OUT MAP IN FRONT OF CANAL AND CANAL ZONE. OVER 600 UNIQUE AND ATTRACTIVE PHOTOGRAPHS AND WATER COLORS BY E,J. READ AND GORDON GRANT.
TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 20 CHAPTERS CONTAINING GREAT DETAIL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE CANAL.
A LARGE BOOK WITH GREAT DETAIL.
PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF PANAMA'S WORLD FAMOUS CANAL, THE MOST GIGANTIC ENGINEERING UNDERSTAKING SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME.
Willis John Abbot (March 16, 1863 – May 19, 1934) was an American journalist, editor, and a prolific historical and biographical author. Many of his works focused on war, army, navy, marine corps, and merchant marines.
The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade. Locks at each end lift ships… Read More

CHICAGO: SHREWESBURY PUBLISHING CO., 1916 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN BOOK, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 18 CHAPTERS. JOLLY PASTIMES, ST. VALENTINE, MARCH MERRYMAKING, THREE NEW BIRTHDAY PARTIES, HOME PARTIES FOR GROWNUPS, WAYS THAT INSURE GOOD TIMES, CHILDRENS MERRY FROLICS, PLAYGROUND, VACATION, OLD GAMES CHILDREN, LITTLE GIRLS, CANDY PULL, SURPRISE PARTY, KIDDIES, RAINY DAY, VARIED, HALLOWEEN AND CHRISTMAS. THE INTRODUCTION STATES THAT THESE WERE PUBLISHED IN THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL AND WOMANS HOME COMPANION. GREAT BOOK FOR A LOT OF IDEAS AND FUN. A parlour or parlor game is a group game played indoors. They were often played in a parlour. These games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes in Great Britain and in the United States during the Victorian era. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

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.

PENNSYLVANIA: CLARENCE M. BUSCH, STATE PRINTER OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1897 NICE LOOKING LEATHER COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, FORMER LIBRARY BOOK UNIVERSITY (BUCKNELL) WITH NORMAL LIBRARY MARKINGS. MARBLE PAGE INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. GOOD NUMBER OF PICTURES INSIDE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL OF MEMBERS, PICTURES AND HISTORY. PART OF HISTORY. DESIGNED TO FOSTER TRADE IN U.S. AND ABROAD. The Cotton States and International Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1895. The exposition was designed "to foster trade between southern states and South American nations as well as to show the products and facilities of the region to the rest of the nation and Europe." Daniel Hartman Hastings (February 26, 1849 – January 9, 1903) was the 21st governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1895 to 1899. Daniel H. Hastings was born in Salona, Clinton County, Pennsylvania on February 26, 1849. He was educated locally, and worked on his father's farm. He tried several times to run away… Read More

BUFFALO, N.Y.: H. H. OTIS, 1891 VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK, GREENISH BROWN COVER WITH BLACK DESIGN FRONT, SILVER BOAT, GOLD WORN PRINT SIDE, TIGHT AND VERY GOOD CONDITION, ONLY MARKINGS ARE LIBRARY STAMPED FRONT-TITLE PAGE AND BACK PAGES. ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT 1891. HUGHSON ALSO WROTE READERS MANUAL AND OUTLINE MEMORABILIA. FIRST SENTENCE IS "THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED ONLY TEN YEARS, HAVING CELEBRATED THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR MARRIAGE JUST SIX MONTHS PREVIOUS TO THE INCIDENTS HEREIN RELATED." INTERESTING PIECE OF FICTION. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

UNITED STATES: T. N. JAMES & CO., 1884 RARE, VERY NICE THREE BOOK SET, LIGHT TAN HARD LEATHER COVERS. WEAR EDGES AND ON SPINE, FIRST BLANK PAGE INSIDE VOLUME I AND III LOOSE, OTHERWISE TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TERRIFIC ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. GOLD PRINT, BLACK AND RED COLOR IN SPINE DESIGN. LARGE, HEAVY BOOKS WITH SET WEIGHING 13.4 POUNDS. GREAT DETAIL ON ALL NATIONS. VOLUME I GREEK, ROMAN AND GERMAN HISTORY. VOLUME II GERMAN, FRENCH AND ENGLISH HISTORY. VOLUME III ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND APPENDIX. Charlotte Mary Yonge (18231901) was an English novelist, who wrote in the service of the church. Her abundant books helped to spread the influence of the Oxford Movement and show her keen interest in matters of public health and sanitation. Her work is mostly out of print. Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the 19th century. Among her admirers were Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Kingsley, Christina Rossetti, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Anthony… Read More

NEW YORK: MCCLURE, PHILLIPS AND CO., 1907 TAN COVER WITH WHITE AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT. FRONTISPIECE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE. REST OF BOOK TIGHT AND CLEAN. 6 ILLUSTRATIONS. GOOD ARTWORK. AN ENTERTAINING, FUNNY BOOK. POPULAR IN ITS TIME. Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. "Pigs Is Pigs" is a story by American writer Ellis Parker Butler. First published as a short story in American Illustrated Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs Is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: A.L. BURT COMPANY, 1890 RARE BOOK, RED TEXTURED COVER AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT ON SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. NO DATE, ESTIMATED CIRCA 1890. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious, theological fiction in English literature. It has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. It has also been cited as the first novel written in English John Bunyan ( November 30, 1628 August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE

HARTFORD, CONN.: SILAS ANDRUS & SON, 1854 RARE BOOK. DARK BROWN COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE. LIGHT WEAR COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, LIGHT WEAR INSIDE. FRONTISPIECE A PICTURE JOHN BUNYAN, ART WORK THROUGHOUT. ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WORKS OF THEOLOGICAL FICTION. FOR THE LOVER OF RELIGION AND CHRISTIAN HISTORY. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a progenitor of the narrative aspect of Christian media. It has been translated into more than 200 languages and never been out of print. It appeared in Dutch in 1681, in German in 1703 and in Swedish in 1727. The first North American edition was issued in 1681. It has also been cited as the first novel written in English. According to literary editor Robert McCrum, The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient… Read More

RACINE, WISCONSIN: WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1916 LIGHT GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE. PROTECTIVE COVER HAS PINOCCHIO ON FRONT, NICE COLOR DESIGN, WORN BUT STILL INTACT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, FIRST BLANK PAGE LOOSE. LAST PAGE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE WITH ARTWORK. ARTWORK THROUGHOUT VERY NICE. TERRIFIC BOOK THAT HAS BEEN A STORY FOR YOUNG AND OLD THROUGH TIME. Pinocchio, Italian: is an Italian fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village. He was created as a wooden puppet but he dreams of becoming a real boy. He is known for his long nose, which (on only one occasion in the novel, but more frequently in most adaptations) grows when he lies. Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for… Read More

NEW YORK: BARSE & HOPKINS, 1900 VERY NICE LOOKING BROWN LEATHER COVER, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT, TASSEL PAGE MARKER ATTACHED AND GOOD SHAPE. A DRAMA ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1841. NO DATE IS IN THIS BOOK. ESTIMATE 1900. Browning, Robert, 1812-89, English poet. His remarkably broad and sound education was primarily the work of his artistic and scholarly parents-in particular his father, a London bank clerk of independent means. Pauline, his first poem, was published anonymously in 1833. In 1834 he visited Italy, which eventually became his second homeland. He won some recognition with Paracelsus (1835) and Sordello (1840). Pippa Passes is a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series, in a very inexpensive two-column edition for sixpence, and next republished in Poems in 1848, when it received much more critical attention. It was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the… Read More

LONDON: SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, 1908 NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. VERY GOOD CONDITION, TIGHT INSIDE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. ENGLISH WITH ITALIAN TRANSLATION. THERE ARE 39 ADVERTISING PAGES IN THE BACK FOR PITMAN PRODUCTS. ALSO LEFT ISIDE BOOK IS A PAMPHLET THAT WAS IN BOOK ADVERTISING ISAAC PITMAN SHORTHAND COURSE AND ALSO FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS. A COLLECTION OF ACTUAL LETTERS, ARRANGED IN GROUPS, ILLUSTRATING MODERN MERCANTILE METHODS AND FORMING MODELS FOR THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 ¿ 12 January 1897), an Englishman knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman founded a company called Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, which became a one of the world's leading educational publishers and training businesses. The publishing division was bought by rival Pearson Plc in 1985. The training business evolved into… Read More

NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1961 BLACK COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. ARTICLE ON CAMUS INSIDE VERY FRONT. ABOUT CAMUS WHO WON A NOBEL PRIZE AND THE HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL ON THE PLAGUE.
THE PLAGUE STARTED WITH RATS AND IT IS ABOUT HOW A DOCTOR TRIES TO STEM THE PLAGUE.
EX LIBRAY BOOK, U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL. LIBRARY STAMP INSIDE AND CARD IN BACK.
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus. Published in 1947, it tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. Oran is a major coastal city located in the north-west of Algeria.
Albert Camus ( French; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the… Read More

UNITED STATES: RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY, 1895 DARK GREEN TEXTURED COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, LIGHT WEAR FRONT AND SPINE EDGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME MARKED THROUGH BY BLACK MARKER IN FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA 1895. TERRIFIC COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORS OF TIME. Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simlathe "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. Not all of the… Read More

PITTSBURGH: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, 1939 LIGHT GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, LIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. 21 CHAPTERS AND GREAT NUMBER ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOS AND MAPS.
A FEW OF THE CHAPTERS INCLUDE ENVIRONMENT, INDIAN REGIME, WHITE OCCUPATION, FRENCH, INDIAN RESERVATION, PIONEERS SETTLERS, POLITICS, REVOLUTION, AND MANY OTHER DETAILED CHAPTERS.
NICE INDEX AND MAPS IN BACK.
WONDERFUL BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF WEATERN PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY.
Solon Justus Buck (August 16, 1884 – May 25, 1962) was the Second Archivist of the United States.
In 1931, Buck was appointed professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, and when the U. S. National Archives were established in 1935 he was tapped to be Assistant Director, then in 1941 the second Archivist of the United States. In 1948, he joined the Library of Congress as chief of the Manuscript Division, then as Assistant Librarian until his retirement in 1954.
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NEW YORK: DELISSER & PROCTER, 1859 NICE LOOKING BROWN TEXTURED COVER, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SECTIONS INCLUDE POEMS IN THE MANNER OF THE ANTIQUE, BALLADS AND LEGENDS, POEMS, SONGS AND LYRICS, NOTES. INTERESTING, ENTERTAINING HISTORY. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

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.