ADVENTURES OF AMERICA 1857 * 1900 de KOUWENHOVEN JOHN A - 1938: A PICTORIAL REVIEW FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1938. Dj is chipped, torn & scuffed. Boards have only light wear. Pages are clean with no markings, lightly tanning in margins. This book will require extra charges for Priority or International shipping.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

NY: Harper. VG. 1938. Beige buckram binding, paste down pictorial title label on ft cover & rectangular label on spine, binding sl tanned on edges & . spine, book plate partially removed ft endpaper. .

New York: Harper, 1938. hardcover. very good. 255 illustrations. 4to, pictorial boards. New York: Harper, 1938. Very good.<br/><br/>

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full unsized oatmeal cloth, titles & decoration on paper labels, dec. endpapers, not paginated, about 3 cm thick, 255 numbered illustrations with index. Paper & spine browning. Selection of representative illustrations from Harper's Weekly with captions written by Kouwenhoven. Before 1893, the illustrations are mostly wood engravings. partway through 1893 half-tone illustrations rapidly take over. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 31 X 23½ cm.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 1st Ed. Discarded Library Book. Edges worn, 3in tape on spine to front and back boards. Content excellent. Pocket removed from front. Hardbound. Folio. No Pg Count.. Good. Adventures of America 1857-1900 by John A Kouwenhoven. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardbound. No DJ. Folio (up to 15'' tall). Condition: Good. Discarded Library Book. Edges worn, 3in tape on spine to front and back boards. Content excellent. Pocket removed from front. No Pg Count. A Pictorial Record from Harper's Weekly. Drawings numbered to 255, no page numbers. Description text copyright 2002 BooksForComfort. Item ID 5206.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 1st Ed. Slight edge wear, content excellent. Hardbound. 4to. 176 Pgs.. Nr Fine. Adventures of America 1857-1900 by John A Kouwenhoven. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardbound. No DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine. Slight edge wear, content excellent. No Pg Count. A Pictorial Record from Harper's Weekly. Drawings numbered to 255, no page numbers. Description text copyright 2015 BooksForComfort. Item ID 30534.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12x9x1. Chips and tears to jacket. Front board lightly foxed. 1938 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A visual history of 19th century America with hundreds of illustrated reproduced from images that originally appeared in Harper's Weekly.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. Hardcover. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes : Good harcover with clean pages, fray to head and heel of spine, tips bumped. 4to.

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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, cocked spine, bumping & fraying to spine ends, pencil marking to FFE, owner's name to title page, a couple of small tears to title page else still a bright and solid copy. SA 6/21

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.

Union News Company , New York and Boston, circa 1910, Very Good Stapled Softcover, 50 pages, 10" x 7", 150 photographs of Boston points of interest, landmarks, buildings, bridges, street views and more.