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Who's Cobb and Why? And Other Personal Pictures of America's Genial Philosopher, Humorist and Romancer

By: Ade, George, James Land Allen, Ellis Parker Butler, et al.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New York, George H. Doran Company:

Seller ID: 13923

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1920s. 32 pages; portrait; stiff paper wrapper (5 x 7 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Library stamp on the cover and 'Discarded' stamp on the inside. Quotations from reviews and letters about Irvin S, Cobb, the American humorist and author of the Judge Priest books. Very good clean copy.
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The American Museum Congo Expedition Collection of Insectivora

By: Allen J.A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: American Museum of Natural History: 1922

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8468

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural history, Vol. XLVII, Art 1, pp. 1-38, New York, Issued July 20, 1922.: Original wrappers. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology stamp and ink withdrawal notation on front cover. Illustrated with one text figure and four photos, one in color.
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Autograph Letter Signed - Adrianne Allen

By: Allen, Adrianne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 0

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 3887

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1960's. Two-page letter on personal size stationery with an imprinted return address in Switzerland. From Adrianne Allen (b. 1907), English actress, to Godfrey Winn (b. 1908), English writer, congratulating him on his book.
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Jonathan Edwards

By: Allen, Alexander V. G.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1890

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 019954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 5" x 7 1/4." 401 pages, complete. Four pages of advertisements in the back for other books. Bibliography and index in the back. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A biography on the American revivalist preacher, philosopher and Congregationalist Protestant theologian, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).
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Typed Letter Signed - "Ann Andrews Allen"

By: Allen, Ann Andrews

Price: $25.00

Publisher: South Miami, Florida, 0

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 11173

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Circa 1950s. One page typed signed letter on Allen's stationary dated November 17. Ann Andrews Allen was the wife of Hervey Allen whom she married in 1927. Hervey Allen (1889-1949) was a popular American novelist, biographer, and poet in the 1930s/40s. His best known work is ANTHONY ADVERSE (1933). He is also the author of a respected biography of Edgar Allen Poe ISRAFEL (1926) 2 volumes. In this brief letter, Ann Andrews Allen writes about Hervey Allen's unexpected death, saying that the period after his death was one of "shock and readjustment" for her. About her husband she writes &...
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American Birds: Winged World; Sights and Sounds of the Winged World, Study of Birds to Make National Geographic Color Photographs Yields Rich Scientific Knowledge of Their Habits and Behavior. Volume 87, Pages 721-744. June 1945. An Article from the National Geographic Magazine.

By: Allen, Arthur A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1945

Seller ID: 021268

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original publisher's brown wrappers backed with black cloth. Red and blue decorative stripes on front cover. Bound by the Angwin Book Bindery in Angwin, California. 6 5/8" x 9 5/8." Pages 721-744, complete. Sixteen color plates, one black and white plate, and two black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. In the upper-left corner of the front cover are numbers handwritten in red pencil. "South Sacramento School" stamp in the lower-left corner of the front cover. Very slight rippling near the top edge. Back c...
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Original Duck Stamp Print with Stamp - "Gadwall"

By: Allen, Charles

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Voyageur Art: 1983

Seller ID: 015699

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

No. 1077 of 1990 signed by artist. Includes 1983 Nevada Department of Wildlife Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Gadwall ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, Colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions.
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Original Duck Stamp Print with Stamp - "Green-Winged Teall"

By: Allen, Charles

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Voyageur Art: 1983

Seller ID: 015700

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

No. 579 of 750 signed by artist. Includes 1983 California Duck Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Green-Winged Teal ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions.
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Apple Growing in California.

By: Allen, F.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, Agricultural Experiment Station.: 1937

Seller ID: 9897

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Bulletin 425, revised. 95 pages pamphlet; illustrations, tables; wraps. Goes into all the areas of cultivation of apples along with the results of studies carried out by the university. Deals also with the wide varities from Winter Bananas to Tompkins King, where to plant them and best ways of marketing them localy and nationally. Good overview of the state of apple production in California during the 1930s and what technology was envolved.
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The French Revolution; Four Volumes

By: Allen, George H.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, George Barrie's Sons: 1922

Seller ID: 5121

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

(1922). Gilt decoration and lettering front covers and spines. Gilt page tops. Numerous illustrations, some in color; most illustrations are copies of paintings, some maps, and some photographs of older buildings. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. 319 to 366 pages. Vol. II has an 8 x 10 3/4 fold out color map of the Plan of Versailles showing the palace, the Trianons, the gardens, and a portion of the town. Vol. III has an 8 x 10 3/4 color map of Paris and environs. Contents include: Vol. I -- Growth of the French Nation, Splendor of the Bourbon Monarchy in France, The Degrada...
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List of Mammals and Birds Collected in Northeastern Sonora and Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, on the Lumholtz Archaeological Expedition, 1890-1892

By: Allen, J. A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Museum of Natural History: 1893

Seller ID: 016713

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Paper wrapper, moderate chipping, stamp and pencil notes on front, not affecting text. Fold line in back cover. Paginated 27 - 42. Reprint of an article first published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol V, Article III. Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer who conducted several expeditions to Mexico from 1890-1910 for the American Museum of Natural History. This booklet lists the birds and mammals collected on one of these expeditions.
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A Preliminary Study of the North American Opossums of the Genus Didelphis.

By: Allen, J.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, New York, The Knickerbocker Press: 1901

Seller ID: 11431

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Pages 149-188; tables, plates; paper wrapper with title on the cover. Author's Edition, extracted from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, XV, article XI (June 15, 1901). unopened copy with very slight discoloration along the edges.
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List of Mammals Collected By Mr. J.H. Batty in New Mexico and Durango, with Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies.

By: Allen, J.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, New York, The Knickerbocker Press: 1903

Seller ID: 11432

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Pages 587-612; bound in paper wrapper with title on the cover (6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inch). Author's Edition, extracted from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIX, article XXIV (November 12, 1903). Unopened copy. Very slight discoloration along the edges, otherwise a clean copy. Concerned with a collection of mammals collected in New Mexico with descriptions.
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A New Bear from the Alaska Peninsula.

By: Allen, J.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, New York, The Knickerbocker Press: 1902

Seller ID: 11433

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Pages 141-143; plates; paper wrapper with title on the cover (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inch). Author's Edition, extracted from Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XVI, article XIII (April 12, 1902). Unopened copy with stamp of J. Grinnell, the noted ornithologist and Director of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, on the top of the cover with a UC-Museum of Vertebrate Zoology stamp and the word 'dup' in pencil. The bear is Ursus merriami, named after Dr. C. Hart Merriam.
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Nomenclaturial Notes on American Mammals.

By: Allen, J.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New York, The Knickerbocker Press: 1902

Seller ID: 11739

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

"Author's Edition, extracted from BULLETIN of the American Museum of Natural History, XVI (July 1902)". Pages 159-168; gray paper wrapper (6 x 10 inch) with title on the cover. Discussion of various latin names for mammals in North America in an attempt to settle on proper names. Fine clean copy.
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd.: 1901

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Limited to 250 copies. Numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth with decorative front cover. 286 pages. Book measures 7 1/4 x 10 1/2. Uncut page edges. Browning to end papers. In the Introduction, the author acquaints the reader with some events of his childhood and in particular his family's move to a farm. He uses those memories as background for this fictional story.
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1900

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 4501

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Limited to 100 copies, signed by the author. New edition revised with a new Preface. Spine label. Uncut page edges. Some unopened pages. 276 pages. Ink notation rear end paper. Chipping to spine top and bottom, small tear spine top. Some sun fading rear cover. Front end papers small tears at spine. The author describes his childhood and youth living on a farm.
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The Heroine in Bronze, or a Portrait of a Girl. A Pastoral of the City.

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1912

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

281 pages, green cloth with gilt stamping including oval vignette of the heroine on front cover, gilt top edge, 7.5 x 5.25", dust wrapper. Fine copy, jacket with light edge wear and a scratch in rear panel, protected with a mylar jacket.
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The Kentucky Warbler.

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1918

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

195 pages, color frontispiece, original cloth, dust jacket, 7.5 x 5". Light wear, a couple of etched spots on lower spine, quite worn jacket. "A tale of the Blue Grass Country, and of a young hero who wanders off after a bird's note to find romance and the key to his own locked nature."
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The Bride of Mistletoe.

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1909

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

viii, 190 pages, original cloth, gilt top edge, 7 x 5". Attractive copy. A story set in Kentucky.
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