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After handling books nearly daily for decades in either bookstores or libraries across academic, public, and private sectors, becoming an online seller was a logical next step. Hopefully you will find some item(s) of interest to you within my eclectic offerings. Note: Covers of my copies of certain books may not match stock photographs on file here. ***Thanks for returning to browse.***

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Eyewitness to the American West: 500 Years of Firsthand History used book

Eyewitness to the American West: 500 Years of Firsthand History

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Penguin Books, NY Date published: 1999 ISBN-13: 9780140280548 ISBN: 0140280545

Description: Good. Ex-library. Turtleback lamination (ex-school library but very clean copy--close to "Very Good" condition); property stamp inside front cover with an accession number are the only marks. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. Audience: General/trade. Includes Index. Read More

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Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe used book

Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York Date published: 1991 ISBN-13: 9780801497452 ISBN: 0801497450

Description: Fair. Cover is shelf-worn and textblock is slightly warped with some minor stain atop page edges, but text is free of markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 328 p. Cornell Paperbacks. Audience: General/trade. Includes: Introduction by Bridgette Cazelles and Index. Read More

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The Literature of the United States; an Anthology and a History

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company, Chicago, Illinois Date published: 1946

Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Cover is shelf-worn; has previous owner's name inked in block letters on edges of side page and is missing part of front flyleaf. illus. Contents: Volume 1. From the Colonial Period through the American Renaissance (1829-1860) Includes: Index of First Lines; General Index. Read More

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The New Testament: Proclamation and Parenesis, Myth and History used book

The New Testament: Proclamation and Parenesis, Myth and History

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Edition: 3rd edition Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Forth Worth Date published: 1994 ISBN-13: 9780155003781 ISBN: 015500378X

Description: Good. Cover is slightly shelf-worn. Previous owner name appears in ink on front inner cover and inside a page page, otherwise the text is free of markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 627 p. Audience: General/trade. Includes: "Abbreviations & Explanations" section; a lengthy regular Bibliography plus a "Bibliography for Research Papers"; Glossary; and Index. Read More

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Formation of the United States: A Wilderness Becomes A Great Nation

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Publisher: Political Research, Inc. Date published: 1989

Description: Fair. 30 p. Includes maps. Staple-bound flat Series of progressive historical maps. Read More

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Book: Fair

 

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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art used book

Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY Date published: 1950 ISBN-13: 9780486202761 ISBN: 0486202763

Description: Poor. Highlighting/underlining. Cover plastic torn; pencil underlining throughout; slightly loose pages 14-15. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dover Fine Art, History of Art. "This Dover edition, first published in 1950, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the Hottinger translation of Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe originally published in 1932 by G. Bell and Sons, Ltd."--T.p. verso. Read More

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Unity and Culture: The United States 1877-1900

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Binding: Mass-market paperback Publisher: Penguin Books Date published: 1971 ISBN-13: 9780140212433 ISBN: 0140212434

Description: Poor. Shows sale stamp inside front cover; cover is very shelf-worn, but text is clean. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 175 p. Contains: Illustrations. History of the U.S. Audience: General/trade. Pelican History of the U.S., Volume 4 Read More

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The Road to Kitty Hawk used book

The Road to Kitty Hawk

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Time Life Books Date published: 1980 ISBN-13: 9780809432592 ISBN: 0809432595

Description: 176 p. Epic of Flight Series. Removed audience note & made d.j. = No. 6.24.2020 Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Rousseau and Revolution: a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789 used book

Rousseau and Revolution: a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York Date published: 1967

Description: Good. No dust jacket. No dust jacket. Front hinge of binding at title page is intact, but loose. xx, 1091 p., [32] leaves of plates: ill., maps; 25 cm. The story of civilization; pt.10. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Plates. Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical guide (p. 967-981), endnotes and index. Read More

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The Last Two Million Years: Reader's Digest History of Man

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, London Date published: 1974 ISBN-13: 9780276000683 ISBN: 0276000684

Description: Good. 488p. : ill. (chiefly col. ), facsims., maps(some col), ports. (some col); 31 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits, Facsimiles. Gazetteer; Index Read More

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History of the Future: A Chronology

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Edition: In the USA edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Doubleday, New York Date published: 1989 ISBN-13: 9780385261326 ISBN: 0385261322

Description: Good in good dust jacket. Mylar-covered dust Jacket is shelf-worn, but text is free of markings. Residual glue marks inside back cover where bookplates were removed. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Includes: Introduction & Epilog. Read More

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Book: Good

 

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Impressionism and post-impressionism, 1874-1904; sources and documents.

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Date published: 1966

Description: Good. ix, 222 p. Includes Index. Read More

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Book: Good

 

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Michelangelo: Sculpture

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Edition: New Grosset Art Library Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., NY Date published: 1969

Description: Good. One small spot of residual glue discoloration from a price sticker on the front cover and one slightly bent top corner of the back cover, otherwise in good shape. 80 p. illus., Audience: General/trade; College/higher education. Translated from the Italian. Read More

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Essays and Monographs in Colorado History: 1983-Number 2

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Colorado Date published: 1984

Description: Fair. Cover is scuffed with one creased back corner; binding is intact; pages are free of markings. 288 p. Includes index. Includes Book Reviews. ISSN = 0731-2474 Contents: "Thomas M. Patterson: Counsel for the Defense" by Robert E. Smith / "The Small-town Klan in Colorado" by John Creighton / "Fort Sedgwick: Guardian of the Railroad" / "Mesa Verde National Park: A History of Its Archeology" / "Three Years in the Cripple Creek Gold Mines" by Jess H. Lombard Read More

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Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from Our Lively and Splendid Past

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date published: 1982 ISBN-13: 9780671248956 ISBN: 0671248952

Description: Fair. Cover and edges show signs of shelf wear. Text is free of stray markings. 591 p. Audience: General/trade. Includes Index and Picture Credits for b&w illustrations/photographs. Read More

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Book: Fair

 

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Use and Abuse of History

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Edition: 1957, Second (2nd) Revised Binding: Paperback Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana Date published: 1980 ISBN-13: 9780672601729 ISBN: 0672601729

Description: Good. Flat, stapled binding. 73 p. Library of Liberal Arts, 11. Introduction by Julius Kraft. Has colorful imagery cover-not the bland one. Read More

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Book: Good

 

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Medieval History: the Life and Death of A Civilization

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Edition: Second Edition, c1969; Third Printing Binding: Hardcover Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York Date published: 1971

Description: Good in poor dust jacket. Binding is tight and pages free of markings. Some rubbed corners. NOTE: Dust Jacket is present but is very torn and in two pieces. xxiii, 584 p. illus. Includes Maps. Includes: "Prologue: The Uses of History"; "Introduction: The Scope of Medieval History (with Historiographical Outline"; "A Reading Program in Medieval History"; "Chronological Lists of Popes, Emperors and Kings" Read More

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Book: Good

 

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My History Is America's History: 15 Things You Can Do to Save America's Stories used book

My History Is America's History: 15 Things You Can Do to Save America's Stories

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Binding: Spiralbound Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Date published: 2003 ISBN-13: 9780160502125 ISBN: 0160502128

Description: Good. ex-library; Some residual glue marks on back cover; library over-stampings inside. 98 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Includes: Resource guide listing representative items. Read More

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Book: Good

 

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The American West: History, Myth, and Legacy

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Edition: Great Courses [Series] No Publisher: The Teaching Company Date published: 2017 ISBN-13: 9781629974347 ISBN: 162997434X

Description: New in new dust jacket. Still sealed in original shrink-wrapping. Companion text (trade paperback) plus two snap cases holding 24 lectures on 4 DVDs Read More

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Lessons from Ventura County's Backcountry

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Edition: Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly (v.44, #4 & v.45, #1 Publisher: Ventura County Historical Society, Ventura, California Date published: 2001

Description: Good. 43 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Flat staple-bound Contents: "Lexington: Ventura County's Forgotten Mining Camp" by Jason Marmor; "John Fletcher Cuddy: One of Eastern Ventura County's First Pioneers" by Bonnie Ketterl Kane; "The School Register: A 'Rediscovery' of Note" by the Editor. "One Graduate's Story" by David S. Snedden (and a checklist of books by David S. Snedden [1868-1951]). Includes Endnotes. Read More

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Book: Good

 

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The Pittsburgh Pirates: A Pictorial History: A Century Old Baseball Tradition

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Edition: Illustrated Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Jordan & Company, Publishers, Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia Date published: 1977 ISBN-13: 9780918908025 ISBN: 0918908027

Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected by tight mylar cover. 152 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. "With Recollections and Anecdotes by Les Biederman AND An Introduction by Harold "Bing" Crosby." Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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