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Voyagers to the West: Emigration from Britain to America on the Eve of the Revolution

By: Bailyn, Bernard (With the Assistance of Barbara DeWolfe)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, IB Tauris & Co Ltd: 1987

Seller ID: 016817

ISBN: 1850430381

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxvii + 668pp, index, maps, illustrations, tables, 36pp 'Voyagers in Flight: A Sketchbook of Runaway Servants 1774-1775' colour booklet bound in. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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American Swords And Sword Makers, Volume II (Two, 2)

By: Bezdek, Richard H.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: USA, Paladin Press: 1999

Seller ID: 021986

ISBN: 158160016X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 370pp, illustrations and photographs, including close to 50 photographs of Tiffany & Co's best high-grade presentation swords made for the Civil War, Mexican War, Indian Wars and WW1; extremely rare Tiffany & Co silversmith sketches of pre-production designs; many photos of rare Civil War swords for enlisted men and officers, both Union and Confederate. Blue boards, small loss to top edge of rear endpaper which is attached to rear board (production flaw), overall a VG copy in a Fair-to-Good dustwrapper (possibly a production issue but rear panel is attached to the spine at the rear by sco...
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American Swords And Sword Makers

By: Bezdek, Richard H.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: USA, Paladin Press: 1994

Seller ID: 022402

ISBN: 0873647653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvii + 627pp, over 200 photographs of U.S. and Confederate swords. Includes data on other edged weapons including knives, dirks, naval and infantry pikes, cavalry lances, halberds, tomahawks and bayonets. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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Outre-Mer: Impressions of America

By: Bourget, Paul (Member of the French Academy with Frontispiece Portrait)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, T Fisher Unwin: 1895

Seller ID: 016555

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

425pp, frontispiece. Gilt on green boards, top edge gilt, foxing to endpapers and early pages, light foxing otherwise, rough cut edges to fore- and bottom edges. No dustwrapper. No inscription, overall a VG copy. Scarce.
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Images of the Old West: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler, the Text of Dee Brown

By: Brown, Dee / Kunstler, Mort

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Park Lane Press: 1996

Seller ID: 032731

ISBN: 0517200120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192pp, index, illustrated throughout. Brown boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Deco Delights. Preserving the Beauty and Joy of Miami Beach Architecture

By: Capitman, Barbara Baer

Price: £12.00

Publisher: New York, EP Dutton: 1988

Seller ID: 021499

ISBN: 0525483810

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

116pp, bibliography, colour photographs throughout. Large format softback, light reading wear only, a VG copy.
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Image for Lights and Shadows of Sailor Life As Exemplified in Fifteen Years' Experience Including The More Thrilling Events of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, and Reminiscences of An Eventful Life on the 'Mountain Wave'

Lights and Shadows of Sailor Life As Exemplified in Fifteen Years' Experience Including The More Thrilling Events of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, and Reminiscences of An Eventful Life on the 'Mountain Wave'

By: Clark, Joseph G

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, Books for Libraries Press: 1971

Seller ID: 030220

ISBN: 0836959744

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

324pp, index, illustrations. Brown boards, light wear, general light ageing, a VG copy without dustwrapper, probably as issued. A reprint of the 1847 1st edition.
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Image for A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles

A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles

By: Coke, The Hon. Henry J

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1852

Seller ID: 019719

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

x + 390pp, frontispiece. Black half-leather over grey boards, 5 raised bands, gilt titling, some edge rubbing. Owner's details to front pastedown dated 1919, general browning to pages, foxing mainly to endpapers and frontispiece, a few marks commensurate with age, occasional short edge tear, edge loss to frontispiece, the binding is very solid indeed. The contents 2pp have been duplicated between pages 286/7. Top edges gilt. Scarce.
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The Log of Christopher Columbus: His Own Account of the Voyage That Changed the World

By: Colon, Cristobal / Fuson, Robert H.(Translator)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Southampton, Ashford Press Publishing: 1987

Seller ID: 031229

ISBN: 185253043X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 252pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. Landscape format, red boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Street Graphics Cuba

By: Dawson, Barry

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson Ltd: 2001

Seller ID: 032181

ISBN: 0500282692

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

112pp, 214 illustrations, 210 in colour. Softback, sunning to spine, light wear, a VG copy.
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Thoughts on the American Flintlock Pistol

By: Dyke, S. E.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Geo Shumway Publisher: 1974

Seller ID: 019015

ISBN: 0873870700

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

62pp, illustrated throughout. Large format softback, scuffs with small surface loss to front, corner creases to rear and later pages, contents VG, overall a Good tight copy. Updated version of the 1959 original edition.
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Pequot Handybook No.1: New England Colonial Gardens. What They Were and How to Have One

By: Favretti, Rudy J

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, The Pequot Press: 1964

Seller ID: 017666

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

32pp, appendix (plant material 1620-1800), illustrated with plans and prints. Green illustrated card covers, browning to edges, a few marks to rear, general light edge wear, contents clean and tight, overall a Good copy.
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

By: Furtado, Peter (editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson: 2012

Seller ID: 032335

ISBN: 0500251819

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

320pp, illustrated. Hardback, a new copy, still shrink-wrapped. Covers:- Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Chana, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, USA.
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Challenge to Civilisation. A History of the 20th Century: 1952 - 1999

By: Gilbert, Martin

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, HarperCollins: 1999

Seller ID: 032317

ISBN: 0002158698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 1072pp, index, bibliography, 36 maps, 52 black and white photographs. Black boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas may require extra shipping.
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Great Battles of the Civil War

By: Graham, Martin / Skoch, George / Davis, William C

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Publications International Ltd: 1989

Seller ID: 032070

ISBN: 0881766410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, index, colour plates, maps. Large landscape format hardback, a VG copy in dustwrapper. 36 key battles featured, with chromolithographs of Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI

By: Grann, David

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Simon & Schuster UK: 2017

Seller ID: 031899

ISBN: 0857209027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 339pp, bibliography, notes, sources, illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Commerce of the Prairies

By: Gregg, Josiah / Edited By Max L Moorhead

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, University of Oklahoma Press: 1958

Seller ID: 021570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxxviii + 469pp, index, sources, bibliography, illustrations, folding map. Black boards, slight foxing mainly to edges, occasional creases edge nick to pages, overall a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped, rubbed with small loss, slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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The Air National Guard and the American Military Tradition: Militiaman, Volunteer and Professional

By: Gross, Charles Joseph

Price: £15.00

Publisher: U.S.A., National Guard Bureau: 1995

Seller ID: 017647

ISBN: 0160483026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvii + 234pp, index, bibliography, glossary, 11 appendices, chapter notes, illustrated endpapers, illustrations throughout, Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in a Good+ (slight edge rubbed, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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John C Brain: Confederate Privateer

By: Hay, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sussex, Book Guild Publishing Ltd: 1989

Seller ID: 032510

ISBN: 0863323782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

178pp. Blue boards, general light browning to pages, a VG copy in (spine colour faded) dustwrapper. Historical novel based on letters and contemporary newspapers.
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The Art of Tom Lovell: An Invitation to History

By: Hedgpeth, Don / Lovell, Tom / Reed, Walt

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1993

Seller ID: 032732

ISBN: 0688126456

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, list of plates, illustrations, mainly colour. Gilt on blue cloth, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Journey to Shiloh

By: Henry, Will

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hammond, Hammond & Company: 1963

Seller ID: 019537

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

224pp. Yellow boards, light foxing mainly to edges, a VG clean tight copy in a Good (edge loss mainly to top edge of rear, small internal repair to base, colour fading to spine, not price-clipped, to be supplied in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. A novel of the American Civil War.
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Spotted Tail's Folk: A History of the Brulé Sioux

By: Hyde, George E

Price: £20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., University of Oklahoma Press: 1961

Seller ID: 021571

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 329pp, index, bibliography, 9 illustrations. Green boards, light wear only, foxing mainly to endpapers and edges, overall a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped/rubbed, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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Historical Arms Series No.40: Dr. Josephus Requa, Civil War Dentist and the Billinghurst-Requa Volley Gun

By: Hyson, John M / DeFrancisco, Margaret Requa

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Museum Restoration Service: 1998

Seller ID: 022330

ISBN: 0919316409

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

36pp, bibliography, notes, 33 illustrations. Booklet, a VG copy.
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Sonoma County California Volume 2

By: Janover, Robert

Price: £12.00

Publisher: California, True Images Photography: 2011

Seller ID: 020590

ISBN: 1890443522

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

104pp, colour photographs throughout, some fold-out. Black boards, illustrated panel to front, slight bumping to corners, a Vg copy in (slight edge rubbing with minor loss) dustwrapper. This is Volume 2. A personal interpretation of Sonoma County, California.
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'The Art That Is Life': The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875 - 1920

By: Kaplan, Wendy

Price: £16.00

Publisher: USA, Little Brown & Co: 1987

Seller ID: 032554

ISBN: 0878462783

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 410pp, index, 55 colour and 316 black and white illustrations. Published for exhibitions 1987-88, Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit and New York. Grey flecked boards, illustration to front, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in (small crease to spine base) dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address.
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The Art Of Howard Terpning

By: Kelton, Elmer / Introduction By Darrell R Kipp / Terpning, Howard

Price: £18.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1992

Seller ID: 032945

ISBN: 0553081136

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, colour illustrations throughout. Brown cloth boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (edge creasing) dustwrapper.
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Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States and the Modern Historical Experience

By: Kolko, Gabriel

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Phoenix Press: 2001

Seller ID: 032247

ISBN: 184212286X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

xiv + 674pp, index, glossary, chronology, notes, map. Thick softback, slight corner creasing to a few pages, reading creases to spine, minor mark to rear, general light browning to contents, a near VG copy.
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Memoirs of Robert E Lee: His Military and Personal History Embracing a Large Amount of Information Hitherto Unpublished Together with Incidents Relating to His Private Life Subsequent to the War

By: Long, AL / Collected and Edited with the Assistance of Marcus J Wright / Lee, Robert E

Price: £12.50

Publisher: USA, The Blue and Grey Press: 1983

Seller ID: 032848

ISBN: 0890096945

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

707pp, index, appendix, illustrations. Quarter silver buckram over grey boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War

By: Major George B Davis, US Army / Leslie J Perry / Joseph W Kirkley / Compiled By Capt Calvin D Cowles, 23d US Infantry / Introduction By Richard Sommers

Price: £50.00

Publisher: New York, Gramercy Books: 1983

Seller ID: 032073

ISBN: 0405111983

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

29pp + 821 maps, 106 engravings, 209 drawings, index. Red buckram boards, very large format hardback, minor nicks/bumps to bottom edge, small owner's label to front pastedown (under wrapper flyleaf), a VG copy in (slight colour fading to spine and adjacent edges, slight edge rubbing) dustwrapper. UK at standard rate, overseas may require extra shipping.
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Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light

By: Makepeace, Anne

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, National Geographic Books: 2001

Seller ID: 030753

ISBN: 0792264045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216pp, index, photographs, many in colour. Bronze coloured boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Photographs of the native American cultures taken from the late 19th century to the 1920s.
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Rifles Of The U.S. Army, 1861 - 1906

By: McAulay, John D.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: USA, Andrew Mowbray Publishers: 2003

Seller ID: 030750

ISBN: 1931464081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

280pp, index, bibliography, footnotes, illustrations, photographs. Laminated pictorial boards, bump to top edge of rear board, slight colour fading to spine, contents excellent, overall a near VG copy.
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The History of Mohave County to 1912

By: Messersmith, Dan W

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Mohave County Historical Soc: 1991

Seller ID: 017028

ISBN: 0963012509

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

230pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. Large softback, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy.
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Early American Ships

By: Millar, John Fitzhugh

Price: £14.00

Publisher: USA, Thirteen Colonies Press: 1986

Seller ID: 017212

ISBN: 0934943028

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii +248pp, indexes, bibliography, 64 flags in colour, appendix, extensively illustrated with line drawings. An excellent reference for the ship modeller. Large format softback, slight creasing to tips of front cover and early pages, otherwise an excellent clean tight copy.
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Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-American Immigration Through Song

By: Moloney, Mick

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cork, The Collins Press: 2002

Seller ID: 032878

ISBN: 1903464137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

40pp, cd in pocket at rear featuring 16 songs sung by the author, illustrations throughout. Pictorial boards, light wear only, a VG copy.
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My Father's House. An Oneida Boyhood. An Autobiography

By: Noyes, Pierrepoint

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1937

Seller ID: 021681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

x + 312pp, 8 illustrations from contemporary photographs. Red boards, slight spine fading, foxing to contents, mainly to endpapers and later pages, overall a Good copy in similar (spine browned, general browning, a few marks, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20, 000 Year History of American Indians

By: Page, Jake

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2003

Seller ID: 030702

ISBN: 0684855763

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 465pp, index, bibliography, 16pp plates, drawings. Quarter-bound in brown buckram over brown boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. 3rd impression of first edition.
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Gettysburg--The First Day

By: Pfanz, Harry W

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, The University of North Carolina Press: 2001

Seller ID: 031095

ISBN: 0807826243

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 472pp, index, bibliography, notes, 4 appendices, maps, illustrations. Black boards, a few marks to top edge of pages, dated owner's name to front pastedown, overall a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Battlefields of Honor (Honour): American Civil War Reenactors

By: Photographs By Mark Elson / Text By Jeannine Stein / Foreword By James Lighthizer

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Merrell Publishers Ltd: 2012

Seller ID: 032622

ISBN: 185894578X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176pp, index, timeline, photographs, illustrated endpapers. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535 - 1846 (A California Legacy Book)

By: Robert M. Senkewicz / Rose Marie Beebe (Editors)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Heyday Books: 2001

Seller ID: 020210

ISBN: 1890771481

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxi + 506pp, index, 6 maps, 2 appendices, glossary, further reading, illustrations including 8pp colour plates. Contents in 4 sections: I Exploration; II Colonization; III Settlements; IV Mexican California. Softback, light reading wear only, a VG copy.
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Cardinal 1942: Published By the Student Body of Santa Cruz High School (California)

By: Rodgers, Shirley (Editor-in-Chief)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Santa Cruz High School: 1942

Seller ID: 019650

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

95pp, black and white photographs throughout plus 5pp adverts at rear. Photographic record of the High School, arranged by Classes, Organizations and Activities, SCHS for Defense, Boys' Sports, Girls' Sports, Features. Buff linen cloth boards, red design to front, general light ageing, a few marks, overall a VG copy of a scarce publication. Useful source for genealogists.
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Memories of the American Frontier

By: Roosevelt, Theodore / Foreword By John C Callihan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Westvaco: 1977

Seller ID: 032696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

190pp, illustrations. Brown buckram with gilt design to front, board, top edge of pages gilt, a VG copy in a VG slipcase. Limited edition of unknown number.
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Top of the City: New York's Hidden Rooftop World

By: Rosen, Laura / Foreword By Brendan Gill

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1982

Seller ID: 031005

ISBN: 0500272697

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

167pp, 168 illustrations, 27 in colour. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Longrifles of Note

By: Shumway, George

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Arms & Armour Press: 1968

Seller ID: 030340

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

74pp, illustrations. Softback, creasing to covers, a few marks, overall a near VG copy.
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The Ultimate Book of Historic Barns: History, Legend, Lore, Form, Function, Symbolism, Romance

By: Sommer, Robin Langley

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, Thunder Bay Press: 2000

Seller ID: 032756

ISBN: 1571452230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256pp, bibliography, glossary, index, illustrated throughout, mainly colour, pictorial endpapers. Black boards, light edgewear, a VG copy in (small corner rubs) dustwrapper. History of barns in North America and Canada.
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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

By: Stiles, TJ

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 2003

Seller ID: 021278

ISBN: 022406925X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 510pp, index, bibliography, notes, 16pp plates, 6 maps. Black boards. general browning to pages, a VG copy in (slightest spine fading) dustwrapper. The first serious biography of Jesse James for 40 years.
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The Historic Henry Rifle: Oliver Winchester's Famous Civil War Repeater

By: Sword, Wiley

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Andrew Mowbray Publishers: 2002

Seller ID: 022252

ISBN: 1931464014

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

104pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, 6 appendices, illustrations, some in colour. Softback, a VG copy.
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The Dorset Pilgrims: The Story of West Country Pilgrims Who Went to New England in the Seventeenth Century

By: Thistlethwaite, Frank

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Barrie & Jenkins: 1989

Seller ID: 031999

ISBN: 0712620125

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 294pp, index, notes on sources, 2 appendices, 8pp illustrations, plus maps and plans. Brown boards, light wear and ageing, gift inscription to front endpaper, gift inscription to 1/2 title from the author and the lady concerned is thanked in the preface, this part sentence is highlighted. Also enclosed is a postcard from the author to the same lady. Overall a VG copy in (slight edge creasing, minor corner losses) dustwrapper.
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The Tenderfoot in New Mexico

By: Townshend, RB

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited: 1923

Seller ID: 015673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 257pp, 16 plates. Red boards, colour fading to spine, general light foxing to contents. Inscription to front pastedown reads: 'Aubrey P Edgcumbe (from the author - 1924)'. RB Townshend died prior to the publication of this book, so presumably dedication refers to his wife, Dorothea, who wrote the Preface.
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Dodge City: Queen of the Cow Towns

By: Vestal, Stanley

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Peter Nevill Ltd: 1955

Seller ID: 021800

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 285pp, bibliography, notes. Blue boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped with small loss, reinforced internally other than small section of brown tape to front base of spine and cover, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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Lost Cowboys: From Patagonia to the Alamo

By: Wangford, Hank

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1995

Seller ID: 032511

ISBN: 0575058498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320pp. Grey boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The story of the lost cowboys of America.
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