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Cobb Would Have Caught it : The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit

By: Bak, Richard

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Wayne State University Press : 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24195

ISBN-13: 9780814323557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

385 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 385 pages, index, bibliography, over 100 high-quality historical b/w photos in text, with captions. Includes interviews with 17 retired players and support personnel. ; Detroit baseball history. Main focus is on Detroit Tigers; includes chapter on Detroit Stars team of Negro National League and their star player Turkey Stearnes. ; Small amount of wear to heel. Jacket spine slightly faded. No other defects. ; Great Lakes Books Series
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Tykocin Memorial Book, Sefir Tiktin : History of the Jewish Population of Tykocin, Poland, its Destruction and Devastation

By: Bar-Yuda, M., and Z. Ben-Nachum

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York Public Library : 2003

Seller ID: 23390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

606 pages; 4to (11.25") 29 cm; Main text in YIDDISH in the Hebrew alphabet. Front matter in English. Large thick hardcover, black buckram cloth, 606 pages, more than 125 low-quality b/w photos and facsimiles with captions, including portraits of many victims. ; Originally published in Israel by Irgun Yozej Tiktin, 1959. This is a facsimile reprint edition, co-published by National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2003, under auspices Yizkor Book Project, and is also Number 14065 in the Steven Spielberg Digital Library. ; Chronicles the Holocaust as it befell the people of Tykocin (...
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-1963

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21881

ISBN-13: 9780671460976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

1064 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, dark blue cloth, blue boards, 1064 pages, over 100 pages of index and endnotes, 85 glossy b/w photos and facsimiles with captions. ; Unabridged. Pulitzer Prize winner for history. First massive book of author's monumental 3-book series on Martin Luther King and Civil Rights movement. ; Owner name and address penned on front flyleaf and second front flyleaf. Jacket shows minor wear to upper edge. ; America in the King Years Series; Vol. 1
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Education of a Bear Hunter, the : (Signed 1st Edition)

By: Flowers, Ralph

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Winchester Press : 1975

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 19681

ISBN-13: 9780876911693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

277 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, brown boards, [viii] + 277 pages, appendix, 7 b/w illustrations, 44 b/w photos with captions. Front endpaper inscribed and SIGNED by author. ; Foreword by Ralph P. Matthews. Memoirs of hunter and his adventures hunting deer, elk, cougar, and especially bears. ; Bookplate on front endpaper. Book shows light foxing to edges, and a touch to interior. Jacket, which is uncoated, has a few tiny spots. No other defects. Overall looks great.
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Thomas A. Edison Album, the : A Pictorial Biography of Thomas Alva Edison

By: Frost, Lawrence A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Superior Publishing Company : 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20842

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

175 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Tall hardcover, brown boards, 175 glossy pages, chronology, index, bibliography, over 200 high-quality historical b/w photos with captions, many never before published. ; Wonderful pictorial biography of great inventor. ; Book shows only a touch of shelf wear. Main defect, vintage bookplate on front free endpaper. Jacket clean and intact with small amount ot rubbing to spine, small sticker at heel.
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My Name is Million : An Illustrated History of the Poles in America

By: Kuniczak, W. S.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22193

ISBN-13: 9780385122283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

181 pages; 4to (10.5") 27 cm; Hardcover, black cloth, red boards, 181 pages, main text in 2 columns, about 400 b/w photos with detailed captions. ; Bookplate on front endpaper, halftitle page partly sunned. No other defects to book. Jacket sunned with minor edgewear.
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Sild i Boks, om Hermetikkindustrien i Sunnhordland : Boxed Herring, the Canning Industry in Sunnhordland, Norway

By: Vaage, Ivar; Illustrated by Ole Bjarte Rossland

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kvinnheringen : 1992

Seller ID: 23503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

128 pages; 4to (11.5") 30 cm; NORWEGIAN language throughout. Tall hardcover, 128 glossy pages, dark blue-black buckram boards, b/w photo endpapers, bibliography, glossary, map, 10 charts and tables, 160 historical b/w photos and engravings. ; Additional chapter by Herbrand Lavik. Aimed at historians as well as anyone interested in the seafood industry, this unusual book tells everything you might want to know about the early herring (sild, sardine, brisling, mackerel, kippers, crab, etc) canning operations in western coastal Norway. ; Gift note penned on front blank page dated 1992. No other d...
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They Don't Build Cars Like They Used To !

By: Yost, Stanley K.

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Wayside Press : 1963

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 23582

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

206 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, beige cloth, 206 glossy pages, 94 old makes and models profiled, with info on their best (or strangest) features, 202 b/w photos and illustrations reproduced from old sources. Title page SIGNED by author and warmly inscribed to Bud, to whom he says, "Thanks for the great cooperation on some of the cuts [illustrations]. I would have been sunk without them." ; "A book designed to illustrate and describe briefly some of the features of early cars that were fantastically impractical, and yet others that were downright ingenious." Much material contributed b...
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