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A Maine Heritage: the history of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Jackson, George Stuyvesant, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Portland, ME, Union Mutual Life Ins Co, 1964. VG. Glue remains from bookplate removal, edge wear.

Sears Roebuck Catalogue no. 117, 1908: a treasured replica from the archives of history.

Schroeder, Joseph J. Jr., edited bySears Roebuck, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Northfield, IL, Digest Books Inc., (1971). VG PB. Pages tanning at edges, nick at middle of back cover.

Fire & Roses: the burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834.

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Free Press, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by author. During a deadly heat wave in the summer of 1834 a woman clawed her way over a wall of the Roman Catholic. convent near Bosston, MA, and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. Rumors swirled...

My Folks: back to the basics: a treasury of outhouse stories.

Webb, Michael, editor, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Topeka, KS, Capper Press, (1994). VG PB. The little house out back is not only a part of our architectural heritage but was a vital component of the working. household of its era. Memories of the necessary house evoke not only laughter and humorous tales but also feelings of a...

From Many Lands.

Eiseman, Alberta, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Atheneum, 1970. 1st ed. VG in G DJ ex-library. History of America's immigrants from the early colonists to the later waves of Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, Jews of. Middle and Eastern Europe, Orientals, and others. Library markings.

Portrait of Newport.

Panaggio, Leonard J., · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Providence, Savaings Bank of Newport, (1969). VG in G DJ. Panaggio, a native Newporter, is the former editor and publisher of the Newport Historical Society and war Director of. Public Relations for Old Sturbridge Village, then became Chief of Tourist Promotion for the Rhode I...

Battleship Cruiser Destroyer.

Haines, Gregory & Cdr B. R. Coward, R.N., · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Leicester, PRC, (1994). VG in VG DJ. Combined volume of three titles in the "At War" series, authors evoke the atmosphere of life on board for captain & crew. DJ edge wear.

Sergeants' Year Book 1965-66.

Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts 1638-1966, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

np, np, nd (ca 1966). G PB. Velvet-like cover with red/gold chevron and title block. Faded at edges.

South of Freedom.

Rowan, Carl T., · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Knopf, 1952. VG in G DJ. Stirring personal report of an ace black journalist who returned to his native south to make a 6000-mile tour and ask. dangerous questions. Few small tears to DJ edges.

Dictionary of English Costume 900-1900.

Cunnington, C. W. & P. E. and Charles Beard, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

London, Adam & Charles Black, (1965). Reprint. VG in G DJ. Concise descriptions of all items of English costume worn between 900 and 1900 Dramatic color frontis of Queen Elizabeth. DJ edge wear and silver flaking from DJ onto endpapers.

America in Legend: folklore from the colonial period to the present.

Dorson, Richard M., · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Pantheon, (1973). VG lg sz PB. An uncovering of the American psyche, what people were really thinking when all those famous men were making history.

Arms and Armor.

New York, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY, Odyssey Press, (1964). VG. One of the world's foremost authorities on the history of arms and armor introduces the reader to his specialty. Edge wear. near spine.

The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World.

Smith, Lacey Baldwin, Horizon, · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, American Heritage, (1967). VG in G DJ. A brilliant synthesis of English and European history. An enormous selection of pictures and writing from the period. combined with a superbly-written history in one handsome and authoritative volume. DJ edge wear.

The Age of God-Kings: timeframe 3000-1500 BC.

Time-Life, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Alexandria, VA, Time-Life Books, (1987). VG.

The Mysteries of Sex: women who posed as men and men who impersonated women.

Thompson, C. J. W., · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Causeqay Books, (1974). VG in G DJ. Stranger than any fantasy fiction are these true stories of impersonation, some of the most extraordinary men and women of. history. Women who fought as soldiers, pirates and highwaymen, men who dressed and lived as women. DJ edge wear ,...

Five Centuries of American Costume.

Wilcox, R. Turner, · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,352)

NY, Scribner, (1963). VG in G DJ. One of the most comprehensive surveys of dress including aboriginal dwellers on both American continents as well as more. familiar explorers, conquerors and early settlers and their descendants. DJ edge wear.

Harper's Bazaar: 100 years of the American female.

Trahey, Jane, edited by, · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

NY, Random, (1967). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. What she saw, wrote, dreamed, devoured, dieted on, feasted on, lived in, fought for and wore. Laid in article by James Laver. "One Hundred Years of Fashion." Laver won the Neiman-Marcus award for distinguished service as a historian of ...

National Costumes of Serbia in the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade.

Vlahovic, Mitar S., Director, and Bosilika Radovic, Curator, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,705)

Belgrade, Jugoslavija, 1954. VG lg sz PB. Pictorial cover on gray binding, white/black lettering. Corner creases, some tanning to binding edges.

American Heritage: August 1965 volume XVI no. 5.

Various, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Marion, OH, American Heritage Pub, (1965). VG PB. Essandess paperback edition of the much-acclaimed special issue of American Heritage. Bruce Catton calls the twenties decade. "the gaudiest, the saddest, and the most misinterpreted era in modern American history." Tanning on b...

People Celebrates the 70s.

People Weekly, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Des Moines, IA, Time Inc., (2000). VG PB. Angels, mood rings, disco and streaking.