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Fork Union Military Acdemy Catalog

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fork Union, Virginia, Fork Union Miliary Academy:

Seller ID: 20712

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very nice, clean catalog for this Virginia Christian military academy designed to prepare boys for college. Spiral bound to lie flat and brown pebbled boards with gilt to face. Measures 8"x11" and has 117 pages. No names or wriiting and pristine pages -- high quality coated paper. Liberally illustrated with black and white photographs. Curiously, there is no date, but the President of the school at this time was Colonel James Caldwell Wicker who in 1950 as head of Fork Union made a splash in educational circles with a new type of curriculum. Th s appears to be from the 50's also, but l...
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Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg

By: Davis, John D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lebanon, New Hampshire, U.S.A., University Press of New England: 2003

Seller ID: 23611

ISBN: 1584653159

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Crisp, beautiful BRAND NEWbook in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Oversized at 9-1/2" x 11-1/2. This is an illustrated catalogue featuring the vast examples of American pewter objects amassed by Colonial Williamsburg, and featuring the work of fine American pewters. Includes descriptions and photographs of 403 items of both household and personal items. The volume also includes a glossary and a list of marks. 346 pages with lmost 1000 illustrations.
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Border Settlers Of Northwestern Virginia

By: McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Parsons, West Virginia, U.S.A., McClain Printing Company: 2000

Seller ID: 24029B

ISBN: 0870126091

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

Crisp BRAND NEW facsimile reprint of a 1915 classic. Last one -- mild shelfwear. 536 pages. Also covers the life of Jesse Hughes and other noted scouts of the Trans-Allegheny. Includes anecdotes and notes. Illustrated
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The Family of Daniel Miller and Allied Families

By: Robertson, Helen Miller (Compiler)

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio, Helen Miller Robertson: 1986

Seller ID: 25706

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, clean book owned by just one previous owner and gently kept by him. Simply printed with numerous listings tracing the lineage. Also contains photogras, maps mand documents at back of book. Measures 8-1/2"x11" and has 166 pages including index. Hard to find.
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Major General John Pope And the Army of Virginia

By: Schulta, Wallace

Price: $30.00

Publisher: St, Louis Park, MN, Gleason Printing Company: 1986

Seller ID: 25927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, clean, book, likely published without a dustjacket. No bumps to boards, no names ro writing and pristine pages and page edges. An interesting monograph about one of the Civil War's most disparaged officers -- so much so that he has shouldered the entire blame for the Battle of Second Bull Run.Illustrated with photos and maps.
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Allegany County; A Pictorial History (SIGNED)

By: Schwaerz, Lee G.; Feldstein, Albert L.; Baldwin, Joan H.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Virginia Beach, Virginia, The Donning Company:

Seller ID: 25793DH

ISBN: 0898650526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book itself is very handsome with clean pages, no names or writing ,and no bumps to boards. Jacket shows some small probems including a few small chips to top of spine and upper corners, a tiny nick to upper back edge, and a small tear next to spine on front cover. Looks most handsome in mylar. SIGNED by all three authors on specially designed bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs and there is even a modern print of a real historic photo laid-in with all peopole identified in pencil at back. Family name is Stein.Book measures 9"x11-1/2" and has ...
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At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its People

By: Tyler-McGraw, Marie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., University of North Carolina Press: 1994

Seller ID: 27531

ISBN: 0807844764

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Crisp clean book with pristine pages and page edges. No names or writing and no spine crease. This is an excellent history with numerous illustrations and maps and especially the historic photographs. Includes a few color plates. Book measures 8-1/2"x11" with 360 pages including index. Covers 400 years of Richmond's history.
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Peaks of Otter: Life &Times

By: Viemeister, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bedford, Virginia, U.S.A., Hamilton: 1992

Seller ID: 24714

ISBN: 0960859896

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, clean book with pristine blue boards showing no bumps.Pages and page edges snow white. Jacket is likewise clean with no tears or chips and is most handsome in brand new mylar. Very handsome blank bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Book tells the story of the most beloved mountains of Virginia from their Indian days, to early settlement and beyond -- stories of squabbles, Civil War raids, teconstruction, murders and ghosts, a plane crash and more. Illustrated throughout with wonderful black and white photographs and drawings. 278 pages.
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Virginia Fraktur: Penmanship As Folk Art

By: Weustm, Klaus

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Virginia, Shenandoah History: 1972

Seller ID: 28215

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Beautiful booklet with a vast amount of information in 28 pristine pages, plus many examples in both black and white and full color. Frakturs are commonly equated with Pennsylvania which is apt, but not the only place where this venerable art thrived. The difference in Virginia's examples were the result of practising the work as it was rendered in southwest Germany. Booklet measures 7-1/4" x 10-1/2. It's as new except for former owner's bookplate on reverse of front cover.
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Virginia's Northern Neck; A Pictorial History

By: Wilson, John C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Wilson, John C.: 1984

Seller ID: 25339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, beautiful book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Jacket shows no tears or chips and is msot handsome in brand new mtylar. Measures 9"x11-1/2" and is pritned on quality coated paper with many historical black and white photographs -- 350 in all. Brings back the days of farmming, fishing, fire-fighting, building, taverns, inns, steamboats, the John Adams Floating Theatre and Hammack's Mill. 224 pages. Indexed.
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