First Edition. Two autobiographical sketches written by Lincoln in 1859 and 1860, edited and with commentary by the historian Ralph G. Newman. Newman was also the founder and long-time owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop (established 1938). Illustrated from drawings by Lloyd Ostendorf. This edition was limited to 70.....
Price: $350
First Edition. An influential and controversial study of John Brown's participation in the violence in Bleeding Kansas in 1856. Malin was critical of Brown and attempted in this book to separate fact from myth. Brown's biographer Stephen Oates wrote, "While I have learned a great deal from Malin about the.....
Price: $150
First Edition. One of the most influential nonfiction works of the 21st century. In this book, Kahneman, a research psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, explores how humans think, drawing on decades of research into intuition and biases. Thinking Fast and Slow is a highly readable but dense.....
Price: $600
1003 pages. Very good. No dust jacket. 16th impression. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown, "J. M. Scudder."
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Later printing. The title continues: "A full and accurate account of the secret journey into the heart of the Confederacy, the capture of a railway train in a Confederate camp, the terrible chase that followed, and the subsequent fortunes of the leader and his party." An expanded and rewritten account.....
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First Edition. The history of a Confederate regiment that "fought through a wide area of western service in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Georgia. Among the actions the regiment participated in were the Tullahoma campaign, Chickamauga, Wheeler's raid, Mossy Creek, the Atlanta campaign, and Franklin and Nashville. The work reflects a......
Price: $300
First Edition. "A comprehensive analysis of rural migration in the United States"—letter of transmittal. Research Monograph XIX. xxi, 192 pages. Illustrated with half-tone photographs, including images by Dorothea Lange and other WPA photographers. First edition (First printing). Very good in gray printed wrappers (probably also issued in cloth). Some pages.....
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First Edition. "This report evaluates the various characteristics of rural families on relief in terms of their effect on the families' need for aid."—letter of transmittal. Research Monograph XVII, xxiv, 161 pages. Illustrated with half-tone photographs, most uncredited but at least two are by Dorothea Lange, one by Ben Shahn.....
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First Edition. A survey and summary of state-level reports on youth unemployment and prospects, with less than optimistic conclusions ("the baffling economic situation" is one heading). (Of course, the solution to widespread unemployment was the coming war). Research Monograph XV. xx, 167 pages. Illustrated with half-tone photographs, most uncredited but.....
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First Edition. A study of public school vocational training programs based on interviews with more than 3,000 students who had received full-time training under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act. Research Monograph XXV. xxxii, 152 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white halftone photographs, mostly by uncredited WPA photographers. First edition (First printing).....
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First Edition. An inscribed copy of the second of L'Engle's "Crosswick" memoirs. In this book, she writes about three generations gathering to care for the author's elderly and declining mother at L'Engle's home, Crosswicks, in rural Connecticut. 245 pages. First edition (first printing stated). The edges of the page block.....
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First Edition. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. viii, 289 pages. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in brown leatherette stamped in gilt. This copy is inscribed by the author: "September 12, 1978. For Rex Carr, the best dog trainer in the world. Lawrence P. Shelton." Carr is considered the.....
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First Edition. Illustrated with many black-and-white halftone photographs. With a few color plates. 160 pages. 10-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket. Minor wear to the corners.
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First Edition. An illustrated memoir by the acclaimed Porsche race driver. Many black-and-white halftone photographs. 288 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100
First Edition. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white halftone photographs, with a number of color images as well. 10-1/8 by 10-1/8 inches. 192 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100
First Edition. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white halftone photographs. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. 264 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100
First Edition. Many photos, mostly in color. 11-1/4 by 11-1/4 inches. 172 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket. Minor wear at the spine ends.
Price: $125
First Edition. Covers world championship rounds, SCCA Nationals, Professional West Coast, Nassau Speedweek, and more. 9-1/2 by 13 inches. Illustrated throughout with halftone photos. 336 pages. First edition (first printing; US issue). A near fine to fine copy in a like dust jacket.
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First Edition. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white halftone photographs and a number of color images. 11 by 11 inches. 305 pages. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted on the copyright page). A very near fine copy in a like dust jacket.
Price: $200
First Edition. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white halftone photographs; some color images. Text in English. 9-3/4 by 12-3/4 inches. 208 pages. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later reprints). A near fine copy in illustrated boards (not issued in a dust jacket). Signed by both authors.
Price: $200
First Edition. Illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs. 714 pages. 8-5/8 by 11-3/8 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good or better copy (shallow dent at spine). A massive book about a small town.
Price: $65
These documents, two manuscript and one printed, concern a dispute over the profit sharing due under a lease of the Skerretts plantation near St. John in Antigua. The lawsuit began in 1809; the last document here, an official handwritten report from the Court at Windsor (10 pages), referring the case.....
Price: $750
First Edition. One of the most important American music books of the nineteenth century, a landmark cross-genre survey that gave equal attention to sacred and secular as well as popular and classical music. "This volume stands as the very first survey of American music published in this country" ("Black Scholars.....
Price: $1,250
First US edition. A collection of essays divided into several sections, books that influenced Russell in his youth, politics and education, personal essays including a couple of his dreams, and peace and war. Russell was one of the most important logicians of the 20th century and won the Nobel Prize.....
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First Edition. Jezreel, James Jershom (ca. 1848–1885), founder of the Jezreelites... He was secretive about his earlier life, cultivating the role of the ‘mysterious stranger’, but there were some suggestions in his speech and spelling that he might have been born in the United States... On 15 October 1875 he.....
Price: $75
