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Aaron Burr; a biography compiled from rare, and in many cases unpublished, sources, by Samuel H. Wandell and Meade Minnigerode ... with sixty-four illustrations v.1

Published
1925
Author
Wandell, Samuel H. 1860-1943.
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Aaron Burr; a biography written, in large part, from original and hitherto unused material, by Samuel H. Wandell and Meade Minnigerode; with sixty-four illustrations v.2

Published
1927
Author
Wandell, Samuel H. 1860-1943.
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Abe Lincoln grows up, by Carl Sandburg ... with illustrations by James Daugherty

Published
1928
Author
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
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Abigail Adams and her times, by Laura E. Richards ...

Published
1928
Author
Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943.
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Abraham Lincoln, the prairie years. Volume two / by Carl Sandburg ; with 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters

Published
1926
Author
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
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Abraham Lincoln, the prairie years, by Carl Sandburg, with 34 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps and letters

Published
1927
Author
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
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Abraham Lincoln, the prairie years, by Carl Sandburg, with 34 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps and letters v.2

Published
1927
Author
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
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The admiral and the Empress: John Paul Jones and Catherine the Great

Published
1954
Author
Lorenz, Lincoln, 1895-
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Albert Einstein, maker of universes, by H. Gordon Garbedian ...

Published
1939
Author
Garbedian, H. Gordon 1905-
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Alexander Graham Bell, the man who contracted space, by Catherine Mackenzie ...

Published
1928
Author
Mackenzie, Catherine Dunlop.
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Alexander Hamilton, an essay on American union by Frederick Scott Oliver. With frontispiece and a map

Published
1912
Author
Oliver, Frederick Scott, 1864-1934.
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Alice Foote MacDougall; the autobiography of a business woman ...

Published
1928
Author
MacDougall, Alice Foote, 1867-1945.
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An amazing journey; Isadora Duncan in South America, by Maurice Dumesnil ...

Published
1932
Author
Dumesnil, Maurice, 1886-1974.
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Andrew Jackson, an epic in homespun [by] Gerald W. Johnson ...

Published
1927
Author
Johnson, Gerald W. 1890-1980.
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The art of Whistler / by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with Joseph Pennell

Published
1928
Author
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936.
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The authentic life of Billy, the Kid : the noted desperado of the Southwest, whose deeds of daring and blood made his name a terror in New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico / by Pat. F. Garrett ... by whom he was finally hunted down and captured by killing him, a faithful and interesting narrative

Published
1953
Author
Garrett, Pat F. 1850-1908.
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Autobiography and selected letters; edited by Francis Darwin

Published
1958
Author
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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The autobiography of David Crockett, with an introduction by Hamlin Garland (copy 1)

Published
1923
Author
Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836.
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Beethoven, by Romain Rolland; translated by B. Constance Hull, with a brief analysis of the sonatas, the symphonies, and the quartets by A. Eaglefield Hull...with 24 musical illustrations and four plates and an introduction by Edward Carpenter

Published
1927
Author
Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944
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Benjamin Franklin, the first civilized American [by] Phillips Russell ...

Published
1926
Author
Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974.
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"Boss" Tweed : the story of a grim generation / by Denis Tilden Lynch

Published
1927
Author
Lynch, Denis Tilden.
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The boys life of the Wright brothers / by Mitchell V. Charnley

Published
1928
Author
Charnley, Mitchell Vaughn, 1895-
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The boys' life of Alexander Hamilton / by Helen Nicolay ; illustrated

Published
1927
Author
Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954.
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The Brontë sisters, by Ernest Dimnet ... Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill

Published
1927
Author
Dimnet, Ernest, 1866-1954.
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The Brontës and their stars, by Maud Margesson ... Illustrated with astrological charts

Published
1928
Author
Margesson, Maud
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Buffalo Bill: king of the Old West. Biography of William F. Cody - pony express rider, buffalo hunter, plains scout & guide, master showman, by Elizabeth Jane Leonard and Julia Cody Goodman; ed. by James Williams Hoffman

Published
1955
Author
Leonard, Elizabeth Jane.
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C. W. Post: the hour and the man; a biography with genealogical supplement

Published
1963
Author
Major, Nettie Leitch.
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The cap of youth : being the love romance of Robert Louis Stevenson / by John A. Steuart

Published
1927
Author
Steuart, John A. 1861-1932.
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Charles Dickens as a legal historian / by William S. Holdsworth

Published
1928
Author
Holdsworth, William Searle, Sir, 1871-1944.
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Charles Dickens; a critical study, by G.K. Chesterton ...

Published
1906
Author
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936.
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Clara Butt : her life-story / by Winifred Ponder ... ; with a foreword by Dame Clara Butt

Published
1928
Author
Ponder, H. W.
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Columbus / by Marius André ; translated from the French by Elöise Parkhurst Huguenin

Published
1928
Author
André, Marius, 1868-1927.
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Commodore Vanderbilt, by Arthur D. Howden Smith ...

Published
1928
Author
Smith, Arthur D. Howden 1887-1945.
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Commodore Vanderbilt; an epic of American achievement, by Arthur D. Howden Smith

Published
1927
Author
Smith, Arthur D. Howden 1887-1945.
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The courtships of Catherine the Great / by Philip W. Sergeant

Published
1925
Author
Sergeant, Philip W. 1872-1952.
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Custer, the last of the cavaliers, by Frazier Hunt; illustrated by Captain John W. Thomason

Published
1928
Author
Hunt, Frazier, b. 1885.
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Dickens, the story of the life of the world's favourite author, by Walter Dexter

Published
1927
Author
Dexter, Walter, 1877-1944.
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Doctor Franklin, postmaster general, by Ruth Lapham Butler

Published
1928
Author
Butler, Ruth Lapham, b. 1896.
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Down the fairway; the golf life and play of Robert T. Jones, Jr., by Robert T. Jones, Jr. and O.B. Keeler

Published
1927
Author
Jones, Bobby, 1902-1971.
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The Earp brothers of Tombstone : the story of Mrs. Virgil Earp / by Frank Waters

Published
1960
Author
Waters, Frank, 1902-1995.
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Emile Berliner, maker of the microphone, by Frederic William Wile ...

Published
1926
Author
Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941.
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Emily Dickinson, a revelation / by Millicent Todd Bingham

Published
1954
Author
Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968.
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The fourth musketeer : the life of Alexander Duma / translated from the French of J. Lucas-Dubreton by Maida Castelhun Darnton

Published
1928
Author
Lucas-Dubreton, J. 1883-1972.
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Franz Liszt (L'homme d'amour) Translated from the French by Eleanor Stimson Brooks

Published
1926
Author
Pourtalès, Guy de, comte, 1881-1941
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Franz Schubert, man and composer (Franz Peter Schubert, born January 31, 1797, died November 19, 1828)--The story of a man who never wasted time-- by C. Whitaker-Wilson. Portraits and illustrations drawn by Ruby Margaret Whittemore

Published
1928
Author
Whitaker-Wilson, Cecil.
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