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NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1923 VERY NICE LOOKINGGREEN COVER, BLACK AND WHITE DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. 26 CHAPTERS, ILLUSTRATED WITH 171 UNUSUAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR WITH A MAP SHOWING HIS ROUTE. WONDERFUL DETAIL AND INSIGHT INTO THE HISTORY OF CHINA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES. FOR THE PERSON THAT LOVES HISTORY AND IS INTERESTED IN AN AREA OF THE WORLD THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT IN TODAYS WORLD. Harry Alverson Franck (29 June 1881 – 18 April 1962) was an American travel writer during the first half of the 20th century. In Wandering in Northern China (1923), he visited Korea, which had been a Japanese colony since 1910. The first thing he noted was that Korea was virtually devoid of trees. The aristocracy had been stripped of their duties but were allowed to wear the unique attire of their rank, although many were living in poverty. Franck reported that the women "displayed to the public gaze exactly that portion of the torso which the women of most nations take pains to conceal." In the same book he… Read More

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1952 A VERY NICE SET OF TWO BOOKS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 989 PAGES IN TOTAL WITH 475 PAGES IN VOLUME 1. DARK BLUE COVERS, RED AND GOLD ON SPINE. NICE MAPS. SLIP COVER IN FAIR CONDITION, TAPED TOGETHER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400. Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the period of Swiss involvement in the Burgundian Wars, the main action ending with the Burgundian defeat at the Battle of Nancy at the beginning of 1477. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. The Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, the first being The Betrothed, it is set during the Third Crusade and centres on the relationship between Richard I of England and Saladin. Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE… Read More

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. He is the eponymous character and for all practical purposes the hero, though the characters of Lovel and Isabella Wardour provide the conventional love interest. The Antiquary was Scott's own favourite of his novels, and is one of his most critically well-regarded works; H. J. C. Grierson, for example, wrote that "Not many, apart from Shakespeare, could write scenes in which truth and poetry, realism and romance, are more wonderfully presented.". Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in London in either 1623 or 1624, it centres on the Scottish community there after the Union of the Crowns and features James VI and I . Quentin Durward is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1823. The story concerns a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI (14231483) who plays a prominent part in the narrative. Saint Ronan's Well[1] is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in a fashionable spa in the Scottish Borders, it is the only novel he wrote with a 19th-century setting. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since; is a historical novel by Walter Scott (17711832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish it anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fiction. It is often regarded as one of the first historical novels in the Western tradition. Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer is the second of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting. The book was a huge success, the first edition selling out on the first day of publication. Edward Waverley, an English gentleman of honour, chooses an occupation in the army at the time just before the Jacobite uprising of 1745 on advice of… Read More

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to that event are an important element in the novel, though it is not treated directly. The depiction of Rob Roy bears little relation to the historical figure: 'there are two Rob Roys. A Legend of Montrose is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It forms, along with The Bride of Lammermoor, the 3rd series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1819. The Monastery: a Romance (1820) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve of the… Read More

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot. Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels." It describes a plot to start a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes "Wandering Willie's Tale", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies. The Betrothed (1825) is one of… Read More

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to that event are an important element in the novel, though it is not treated directly. The depiction of Rob Roy bears little relation to the historical figure: 'there are two Rob Roys. A Legend of Montrose is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It forms, along with The Bride of Lammermoor, the 3rd series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1819. The Monastery: a Romance (1820) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve of the… Read More

AKRON, OHIO: SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1913 LIGHT BROWN COVER, GREEN DESIGN FRONT, FRONT COVER LOOSE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. PROSE AND VERSE FROM FAMOUS AND INTERESTING PEOPLE THAT BRIGHTEN THE DAY AND UPLIFT SPIRITS. WONDERFUL BOOK OF CHEERFUL THOUGHTS. ELIOT, LONGFELLOW, WHITMAN, WHITTIER, BEECHER, BROWNING, DRUMMOND, WALTON, MOORE, THOREAU AND OTHERS. ANTIQUE BOOKD DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, CASTLE DESIGN FRONT, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT WEAR COVER, VERY POPULAR HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL. ARTWORK GOOD, SECTION IN THE BACK WITH PICTURES ABOUT AUTHOR AND BOOK BY SATURDAY EVENING POST. REWRITTEN AND RENDERED INTO MODERN ENGLISH FROM SIR EDWIN CASKODEN'S MEMOIR. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. When Knighthood Was in Flower is the debut novel of American author Charles Major written under the pseudonym, Edwin Caskoden. It was first published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company (then the Bowen-Merrill Company) in 1898 and proved an enormous success. Charles Major (July 25, 1856 – February 13, 1913) was an American lawyer and novelist. According to the New York Times, in its third year on the market the book was still selling so well that it was #9 on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1900. Born to an upper-middle class… Read More

UNITED STATES: THE PEOPLES PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1869 LEATHER BOUND HARD COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN SPINE, LOWER 5TH OF SPINE COVER MISSING OUTSIDE, CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE.FRONT AND BACK COVER HAVE BEEN REATTACHED NEATLY. LIGHT FOXING INSIDE VERY FRONT AND BACK COVERS. NICE FOLD OUT MAP OF THE UNITED STATES IN FRONT. NUMEROUS MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
DETAILS OF CLIMATE, SCENERY, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS RAILROADS, MINING INTERESTS, GENERAL RESOURCES, COST OF FARM LANDS, HOW TO OBTAIN TITLES, HOMESTEAD AND OTHER LAND LAWS AND RATES AND WAGES.
TERRIFIC BOOK PUBLISHED 1969. VERY EDUCATIONAL.
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanently move to a country). A migrant emigrates from their old country, and immigrates to their new country. Thus, both emigration and immigration describe migration, but from… Read More

INDIANAPOLIS: THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, 1924 VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK, ORANGE COVER, ARTWORK FRONT WITH CHURCH WOMAN AND CHILD, SNOW AND STARS. BLACK PRINT SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT AND DATE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, 10 OTHER STORIES. ALDEN IS A WONDERFUL WRITER AND STORY TELLER. KNIGHTS OF THE SILVER SHIELD, BOY WHO DISCOVERED THE SPRING, BROOK IN THE KINGS GARDEN, HUNT FOR THE BEAUTIFUL AND OTHERS. NICE ARTWORK. Raymond Macdonald Alden (1873 September 27, 1924) was an American scholar and educator. Why the Chimes Rang is the story of a grand old church with beautiful chimes which mysteriously ring out every Christmas Eve whenever someone places an especially pleasing gift on the altar as an offering, and how a miracle occurs after the chimes have fallen silent for years. The story is a sort of variation on the Jongleur de Notre Dame and Little Drummer Boy themes. Katharine Sturges or Katherine Sturges Knight (August 13, 1890 January 12, 1979) was an American writer and illustrator.… Read More

NEW YORK: STREET AND SMITH PUBLICATIONS, 1937 TERRIFIC PIECE OF HISTORY. TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, WEAR AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE COVER, PAGES INSIDE LIGHTLY BROWNED WITH AGE. PULP MAGAZINE, 10 CENTS, TERRIFIC OLD ADVERTISING, SOME STORIES ARE KID WOLF'S PESO TRAIL, BITTEROOT GUN HAWKS, CRAZY Q RATTLESNAKE TRAIL AND OTHERS. TERRIFIC PUBLICATION WITH NICE ART INSIDE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

MISSOULA, MONTANA: MOUNTAIN PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1976 BEAUTIFUL LIMITED EDITION BOOK AND SLIP COVER. NOTE WRITTEN AND SIGNED INSIDE BY RON JENKINS. VERY NICE DRAWING ACROSS ON PAGE OF MALLARD DUCKS IN INK AND SIGNED BY JENKINS; THIS IS DONE IN BOOK. JENKINS DREW A DIFFERENT SCENE IN EACH OF THE 200 LIMITED EDITIONS. JON CATES ALSO SIGNED BEST WISHES. BOOK IS A BEAUTIFUL DARK BROWN COVER, GOLD DUCKS ON FRONT WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE.WONDERFUL WILDLIFE ART THROUGHOUT. SLIP CASE IS NEAR FINE AND A VANILLA COLOR. Ron Jenkins was born on August 18, 1932 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and then was raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art throughout the academic year of 1954-1955, but increasing family responsibilities prompted him to drop his art education temporarily to go to work for a savings and loan association. He has illustrated a number of stories for the Pennsylvania Game News and the Pennsylvania Angler. His work has also appeared in the National… Read More

NEW YORK: AMERICAN HERITAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1973 THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, LEATHER ON THE SPINE, RED COVER, NICE DESIGN, RED WHITE BLACK SILVER DESIGN. WILL ROGERS PRINTED SIGNATURE INSIDE. FILLED WITH PICTURES THROUGHOUT. GREAT BOOK. Rogers, Will (William Penn Adair Rogers), 1879-1935, American humorist, b. Oolagah, Indian Territory (now in Oklahoma). In his youth he worked as a cowboy in Oklahoma, and after traveling over the world, he returned to the United States and worked in vaudeville as a cowboy rope-twirler, joking casually with the audience. He was an immediate success when he joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1915. Rogers gained a wide audience, starring in more than 70 motion pictures, writing six books, appearing on dozens of radio broadcasts, and writing a popular syndicated newspaper column. His salty comments on the political and social scene made the "cowboy philosopher" widely known. A constant booster of airplane travel, Rogers made several long… Read More

NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1927 VERY NICE LOOKING COVER, BROWN TEXTURED, ORANGE DESIGN FRONT, BLACK PRINT, BLACK SPINE, SLIGHT TEAR TOP OF SPINE. GIFT TO A BROTHER PARAGRAPH WRITTEN INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. WISDOM, SOUL, NATURE, CONDUCT, CHARACTER, FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY, KNOWLEDGEJUSTICE, PENALTIES, POLITICS, EUROPEANS. A GREAT BOOK WITH A VERY INTERESTING MESSAGE OF GUIDANCE. Sir Thomas Barclay (20 February 1853 20 January 1941) was a distinguished authority on International Law, a writer on economic subjects and a British Liberal politician. Barclay was born at Dunfermline in 1853, the eldest son of George Barclay of Cupar. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE. .

NEW YORK: WORTHINGTON COMPANY, 1892 BLACK TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 15 CHAPTERS, ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. EXCELLENT DETAIL OF CORTES LIFE, ACTIONS AND MOVEMENT IN MEXICO. FOR THE LOVER OF HISTORY AND MEXICO. EXPLORATION DETAILED. HernĂĄn CortĂ©s de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (/kɔːrˈtɛs/; Spanish: December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the king of Castile in the early 16th century. CortĂ©s was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908 BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN VERY GOOD SHAPE. LIGHT BROWN WITH BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, NICE DESIGNS FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS LABEL IN FRONT, SMALL STICKER FRONT FROM JC PENNEY CO. WONDERFUL ART, FRONTISPIECE TIGER AND MAN FIGHTING. 7 OTHER ART PICTURES THROUGHOUT. George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 ¿ 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century.The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1898 and 1900. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.