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Morris, Charles Decisive Events in the History of the Great Republic; or, Half-Hours with American History
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Publishing Company 1892 Hard Cover Poor
Very rough copy of this hard-to-find title by this author, who also compiled and edited other "half-hours" books highlighting various categories of authors or historical events. This book includes self-contained true stories of American history, including the expected (i.e. Discovery of the Pacific by Balboa; The Jamestown Colony; The Missouri Compromise; The Monitor and the Merrimack; Pickett's Charge, etc.); and the less expected (The Indian Massacre in Virginia; The 'Grand Model' Government; The Bacon Rebellion; The Bon Home Richard; The Cowpens; The Constitution and Guirriere; The Ordinance of Nullification, etc.); much more. Illustrated with 32 full page engravings and four color plates. Maroon bonded leather covers, all edges gilt, 569 pages. Covers badly chipped, worn and detached, spine covering absent, preliminaries up to page iv attached to front cover, remaining text block sound with no loosened pages, pages clean and unmarked. Externally poor, pages good to very good. Reading copy.
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75.00 USD
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Selected and Arranged By Charles Morris Half-Hours with the Best American Authors. Four Volume Set [Complete]
Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company 1887 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good
First edition of this four-volume anthology of short works - fiction, non-fiction and poetry - by American authors, each designed to read in about a half hour. Includes such luminaries as: Washington Irving; Edgar Allen Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Louisa May Alcott; Ben Franklin; Bayard Taylor; Thomas Jefferson; Daniel Webster; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Mark Twain; Longfellow; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Francis Parkman; Bret Harte; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; John Quincy Adams; Lydia H. Sigourney; Alexander Hamilton; and dozens of others, both better and lesser known. Attractive set in brown cloth lettered in gilt, gilt tops, floral patterned endpapers, frontis portrait of a different author in each volume. Light shelfwear, mainly edge rubbing with some additional light scuffing to the lower spine ends, good hinges, firm text blocks, minor scattering of foxing to frontis portraits, two pages in volume IV unevenly darkened from an old daisy-shaped wicker bookmark (which we'll leave in place), pages otherwise very clean and free from names or other markings.
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95.00 USD
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Morris, Charles Historical Tales : The Romance of Reality - American
Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company 1897 Hard Cover Very Good
A collection of historical tales based in fact but transformed over the years into romanticized accounts of what actually happened - a bit of folklore and local legend. The book is one in a series of historical tales from different regions, this one focusing on American stories. Examples include: Frobisher and the Northwest Passage, How the Charter was Saved, How Franklin Came to Philadelphia, Daniel Boone - the Pioneer of Kentucky, Paul Revere's Ride, The Green Mountain Boys, A Quakeress Patriot, The Monitor and the Merrimac, Stealing a Locomotive, The sinking of the Albemarle, many more. Illustrated. Dark green cloth, 319 pages. Some light cover wear, mainly rubbing to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound binding, clean pages free from names or other markings. A few pages have the top corner bent in. A clean and sound copy.
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14.00 USD
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Morris, Gouverneur. Illustrated By Charles S. Chapman If You Touch Them They Vanish
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1913 First Edition Hard Cover Good
Lightly worn but attractive copy of the first edition, illustrated with color plates. Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and in green, uncut edges, 146 pages. Some light external wear, mainly to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm binding, clean pages with a name on the front free endpaper, no other markings.
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16.00 USD
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