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By: Ayres, Thomas
Price: $9.14
Publisher: New York, NY, Bantam Dell: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 051354
ISBN: 0553804405
Condition: Near Fine
198 pp, quarterbound w/blue papercovered boards and blue cloth covered spine w/silver lettering on the spine. The book is a collection of fascinating and littlel-know facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America's rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories overlooked by historians. View more info
By: B. Heller & Co.
Price: $40.38
Publisher: Chicago, IL, B. Heller & Co.: 1918
Edition: 6th Edition
Seller ID: 050315
Condition: Good+
154 pp, dark blue cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering on the front panel & spine. pages 134-154 color illustrated advertising pages for various products produced by B. Heller & Co. pages 10-24 black-and-white photos of company officers and various machines and offices of B. Heller & co. This book is a reference book to be used by the beginner and also the assistant to the expert and experienced ice-cream maker. The book contains numerous recipes for different flavors of ice cream and sherberts. Contains an article "The use of vegetable gum in Ice Cream" and "Bacteriolo... View more info
By: Baber, D. F. as told by Walker, Bill
Price: $102.00
Publisher: Caldwell, ID, Caxton Printers Ltd: 1947
Seller ID: 051378
Condition: Good+
320 pp, light brown clothcovered boards w/gilt illustration on the front panel and spine, light-dark brown endpaper illustrations of map the portray the scene of the Johnson County War in Wyoming. The story of William Walker, cowpoke, trapper, scout, guide, and freighter, who knew his Western trails. It is the story of the Johnson County Cattle War - the conflict which marks the dividing line betweem the old West , under the rule of the big cattle kings and the new West of the pioneer homesteader. Bill Walker was the only surviving witness to the battle between the cattlemen and the homest... View more info
By: Bacque, James
Price: $74.80
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 036089
ISBN: 0773722696
Condition: Near Fine
xxi, 248 pp, blu boards w/gilt lettering, glossy dark blue-light blu dj w/wht-red lettering. An investigation into the mass deaths of German Prisoners at the hands of the French and Americans after World War II. The author attributes the deaths of these German POW's at the hands of the French and the hands of the Americans to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. View more info
Price: $84.79
Publisher: Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press: 2001
Seller ID: 036688
ISBN: 1574411357
Condition: Near Fine
xii, 821 pp, brown cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering, dj brown-wht-black w/pictorial front, spine, & rear panels. The book examines water transportation and natural and socioeconomic factors that affected it in Northwest Louisiana, East Texas and the Red River. The author explains how a natural logjam formed a continous waterbody west of Shreveport. View more info
By: Bahti, Tom
Price: $6.76
Publisher: Las Vegas, NV, KC Publications: 1974
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 022501
Condition: Very Good
74 pp, wht SC wraps w/wraparound color pictorial. Book describes some of the ceremonials of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Papago, and Yaqui Indians. View more info
Price: $35.70
Publisher: New York, NY, The Wise-Parslow Company: 1928
Seller ID: 021729
Condition: Very Good-
96 pp, light yellow cloth covered boards w/black lettering on the spine & w/black illustration & lettering on the front cover, color illustrated endpapers, color illustrations throughout the text. The adventures of a young Hawaiian boy. prev owner address label on FPD, slight corner wear. View more info
Price: $28.05
Publisher: New York, NY, The Wise-Parslow Company: 1928
Seller ID: 021730
Condition: Good+
96 pp, red cloth covered boards w/black lettering on the spine & w/black illustration & lettering on the front cover, color illustrated endpapers, color illustrations throughout the text. The adventures of a young Hawaiian boy. worn & finish chipped on the edges. View more info
Price: $24.65
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman and Company: 1959
Edition: Revised
Seller ID: 025173
Condition: Very Good
unpaginated, green cloth covered boards w/color pastedown illustration on front board, black lettering on the spine, dj light blu-dark blu-green-brown w/color wraparound illustration, color illustrated endpaper pastedowns. Book about the Volunteer State, one of the Deep South's progressive commonwealths. prev owner's name on title page, dj small chips at corners. View more info
Price: $9.35
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman and Company: 1950
Seller ID: 040170
Condition: Very Good
unpaginated, green cloth covered boards w/color pastedown illustration on front board, black lettering on the spine, color illustrated endpaper pastedowns of the state flower. Book about the Lone Star State, sometimes called an inland empire becasue of its enormous size and great wealth. It has every kind of climate from almost tropical heat of the Rio Grane Valley in the south to the bracing cold on the plateaus of the northwest. prev owner's name on title page, rubbed on the spine. View more info
Price: $51.00
Publisher: Sarah Grace Bakarich: 1947
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 032741
Condition: Good+
153 pp, red SC wraps w/black lettering & illustration on the front cover, SIGNED by the author on the title page. The booklet is about the gunmen and outlaws of Tombstone, Arizona, the Earps and the Clantons. "It is crudely printed and full of typographical errors." Burrs - 16. " the author misspells the names of many of her characters." Six-Guns - 118. covers have water stain on back, remnants of bookplate on recto of rear cover. The front cover has 4-1/2" tear. View more info
By: Bakeless, John
Price: $29.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Wm. Morrow & Company: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 035919
Condition: Very Good
xii, 498 pp, grey cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering, dj black-green-blu-brown w/color illustrated front panel & spine. Biography of two great explorers, who explorer the lands beyond the headwaters of the Mississippi in 1803. Most of the members of "The Corps of Discovery" kept diaries. They recorded not only the bold outlines of the trip with its Indian fights and other perils, bu also details, such as the number of buffaloes eaten, grizzly bears fought, variety of plants and seeds collected, and customs, loves, and lore of the Indian tribes. Prev owner wrote name on ffep,... View more info
By: Baker, Paula
Price: $12.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 034939
ISBN: 0195064526
Condition: Near Fine
xviii, 251 pp, grey cloth covered boards w/glossy brown dj w/black-and-white pictorial front panel. The book explores the changes between gender and public life, as well as the role of government in shaping the connections. She examines the public and private lives of men and women in rual New York State and provides an account of the ways in which gender, politics, and government shaped one anothers' future. spine sunned to grey w/black-wht lettering. View more info
By: Baker, Pearl
Price: $16.58
Publisher: New York, NY, Abelard-Schuman: 1971
Edition: Revised
Seller ID: 039530
Condition: Very Good
224 pp, tan cloth covered boards w/green lettering on the spine, white-black endpaper maps, dj tan w/pictorial front & rear panels w/black lettering. The Wild Bunch was a hazard to be reckoned with, as they were cattle rustlers, horse thieves, bank and train robbers, who hid out in the nearly impenetrable wilds of Utah in an area called the Robbers Roost. reprint of Six-Guns #121 - the author has killing of Pike Landusky incorrect and also that Black Jack Ketchum was with a gang when his arm was "shot off." More Burs #8. some rubbing to top edge & front panel of the dj . View more info
By: Baker, Pearl
Price: $13.18
Publisher: New York, NY, Abelard-Schuman: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 050669
Condition: Very Good-
224 pp, tan clothcovered boards w/green lettering on the spine, black-and-white endpaper maps. This vollume is a completely revised edition with new material added by the author. It is the story of the members of the Wild Bunch: Jack Moore, Butch Cassidy, Matt Warner, Joe Walker, Tom Dilly, Flat Nose George and the Curry Boys, Gunplay Maxwell and others. It has information on the Telluride Bank Robbery and The Delta Bank Robbery along with the Castle Gate Payroll Holdup. some soiling to the boards. View more info
Price: $23.38
Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: 1986
Edition: 5th Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 050004
ISBN: 0806121890
Condition: Very Good-
xii, 196 pp, glossy white-brown SC wraps w/color pictorial front panel w/black spine w/white lettering. SIGNED by author on the half title page. In preparation of the book, the author identitifed over one thousand abandoned towns in Texas. He selected approximatelyy three hundred for actual site documentation. He used three criteria for selecting the ghost towns for this book. The first requirement was the site had to offer something for visitors to see. The second requriement was sites would have to have public access. The third was to give the entire state of Texas equal treatme... View more info
By: Baker, T. Lindsay w/foreword by Holland, F. Ross
Price: $46.71
Publisher: College Station, TX, Texas A & M University Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 050763
ISBN: 0890964815
Condition: Very Good+
xv, 128 pp, green clothcovered boards w/bright blu lettering on the spine, SIGNED by author on the half title page, w/date 23 Oct 2011. glossy green dj w/color illustrated front panel w/white-black lettering on front panel & spine. The author presents the comprehensive story of the lighthouses and lightships of Texas. It focuses on the ten surviving light stations as well as the two lightships that formerly served the Texas coast. Prev owner wrote on the ffep as a gift. View more info
Price: $21.21
Publisher: New York, NY, Four Winds Press: 1978
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 023449
ISBN: 0590073214
Condition: Near Fine
xiv, 221 pp, yellow cloth covered boards w/black lettering on the spine, dj brown w/orange-wht-blu-black border on top & bottom, pictorial front panel. Author, an anthropologist & archaeologist presents a more balanced & true-to-life portrait of the Apaches. Their ancestors were Asiatics who migrated to Northern Alaska around 1,000 B.C. The tribes finally reaches the American Southwest sometime during the fifteenth or sixteenth century. dj slight fading to spine, dj slight rubbing to front & back panels. View more info
Price: $21.25
Publisher: New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1970
Seller ID: 034843
Condition: Very Good+
192 pp, rust cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering on the spine. The author tells the story of these first Americans who have retained the essences of their native cultures. The book contains information on the Pueblo Cornplanters, the Desert Dwellers, the Colorado River Farmers, Northern hunters and gatherers, Apache & Navaho raiders, the arts and crafts of the Southwestern Indians. prev owner's address label on FPD. View more info
Price: $21.21
Publisher: Tucson, AZ, Dale Stuart King, Publisher: 1965
Seller ID: 039955
Condition: Very Good+
144 pp, blu-white cloth covered boards w/black lettering on the spine, w/red-white-black-blu color illustrated front panel, map FPD and text about author on rfep. The author, an anthropologist & archaeologist, portrays the ancient tribal life of these famous Indians. He narrates an account of the desperate war these fierce fighters waged in defending their homelands in the last of the U.S. Army-Indian campaigns. It covers two groups - the Chiricahua and the Western Apache, whose leaders became famous: Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Geronimo, etc. Includes a loose brochure for the b... View more info
