Elizabeth Peters
Atheneum, New York
1988
First Edition, first printing
The fifth Amelia Peabody.
Fine in a Fine dustjacket.
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Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time
Embracing a general survey of the Progress of Mankind in  National and Social Life Civil government, Religion and Literature, Science and Art
Complete in Eight Volumes
Compiled and Arranged
By
Israel Smith Clare
Text
Moses Coit Tyler, A.M. L.H.D.
Professor of American History
in Cornell University
Published by
R.S. Peale and
J.H. Hill
New York
1898
1. Ancient History
2. Ancient Oriental Nations and Greece
3. Alexander’s Empire and Roman Empire
4.Medieval History
5.The Middle Ages
6. English Reformation to Fall of Poland
7. American Revolution to Present
8. Recent Foreign History
Illustrated with Maps
Portraits, and Views
Color Maps
Foldout map of Cuba dated
1897
Eight volume set in very good condition
A few end pages detached but present.
Bound copies of the Mentor. Vol.1 No. 1 through Vol. 1 No. 24
Very Good. First Edition - Original Issue.
 8vo - over 7¾” - 9¾” tall. –
This is a bound volume of the very first 24 issues dating from February 13, 1913 to July 28, 1913 — Vol. 1, Nos. 1 - 24 — This is the publishers binding and as such the boards and contents are tight, slight scuffing on the edges, gold stamping and gold decoration on the spine flaking, good condition
Each issue has 6 photogravure full page pictures or color pictures treating a separate subject in each issue — A total of 144 full page pictures — The issues are: (1) Beautiful Children in Art, (2) Makers of American Poetry, (3) Washington The Capital, (4) Beautiful Women in Art, (5) Romantic Ireland (6) Masters of Music, (7) Natural Wonders of America, (8) Pictures We Love to Live With (9) The Conquest of The Peaks, (10) Scotland, (11) Cherubs in Art (12) Statues With A Story (13) Story Of America In Pictures (14) London, (15) The Story of Panama (16) American Birds of Beauty (17) Dutch Masterpieces, (18) Paris,The Incomparable, (19) Flowers of Decoration , (20) Makers of American Humor, (21) American Sea Painters, (22) The Explorers, (23) Sporting Vacations (24) Switzerland, The Land of Scenic Splendors –
Bound in blue boards with half-leather
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Quicker Than The Eye
Mulholland, John
Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
New York: The Junior Literary Guild/Bobbs-Merrill
1932. Cloth.
Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾” - 9¾” tall.
First edition stated
book is in very good condition
There are two black & white plates, “Alexander Herrmann, ‘Herrmann the Great,’ filling a hat with money he finds in the air” and “Long Tack Sam producing a goldfish bowl”; plus a color frontispiece, “Mohammed Bakhsh performing the boy in the basket trick,”
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By Lucius Beebe nd Charles Clegg
 A Colorful and Spendid Cavalcade or Our Country’s Past
E.P. Button & Co., Inc, New York
 1949
Second Printing-1949
Hardcover in very good condition, in fair jacket, with large chip missing from front, as seen in the photo
Rushing for gold and silver in the West - Overland by Pony and Stagecoach - coming through for the miners, merchants, farmers and ranchers building on the frontier - “Ocean-to-Ocean” by 1888-Wells, Fargo & Co. grew with the nation and is part of American History.
A company that combined a pioneering spirit with financial savvy, Wells Fargo had tremendous influence on the social, cultural, and economic activities of the Old West. It provided banking services and fast, reliable deliveries of mail and essential products to hard-scrabble miners, settlers on the Plains, and the burgeoning populations on the Pacific Coast.
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The Stackpole Co., Harrisburg, Pa. 1954 Printed in the U.S.A. by the Telegraph Press
Hardcover in very good condition, no jacket
 287 pp., illustrated throughout in color and b&w with drawings and paintings by the author. Pictorial endpapers. Bound in dark red cloth with titled front cover with a colored painting by the author pasted on front cover.
