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Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all Countries
Charles Hiatt
Ephemeral printed announcements on city walls transformed into highly prized objects of fine art, changing streetscapes and modern advertising forever.
Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy
Anonymous
A shadow of coming events darkens these pages, where rural idiots, demonic infants, and vengeful outcasts see through the veil of time.
Recollections of a Pioneer
J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson
A lone Missouri farmer rides across thousands of miles of wilderness, drives cattle through hostile territories, survives civil war skirmishes, and returns to the soil with his quiet dignity intact.
Remodeled Farmhouses
Mary Harrod Northend
Weather-worn timbers and low-studded ceilings hold an enduring charm for anyone dreaming of a quiet life in the countryside.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest
Alice B. Emerson
A young film writer and her courageous Indian star navigate wild horses, runaway logging drives, and an vengeful showman in the American West.
Salt and the salt industry
Albert Frederick Calvert
From ancient iron kettles and Medieval monastic grants to collapsed underground mines and modern brine pipelines, this 1912 industry survey reveals the hidden history, science, and ruthless commercial politics of England's salt trade.
Simon Eichelkatz
Ulrich Frank
Faith and lineage collide with modern life in two poignant tales of 19th-century German-Jewish identity.
Sixty Squadron R.A.F.: A History of the Squadron from its Formation
A. J. L. (Alan John Lance) Scott
A band of young aviators takes to the sky, forging the deadly art of aerial combat from the ground up over Western Europe.
Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning
Graham M. Dean
A young cowboy and his red sorrel mare head into a shadow-drenched mountain basin to break up a ruthless cattle-rustling ring.
Sources of the Synoptic Gospels
Carl S. (Carl Safford) Patton
Underneath the familiar surface of the Gospels lies an intricate literary puzzle: how two distinct writers independently combined identical early sources to build their accounts.
T. B. Peterson's List of Publications (1857)
Pa.) T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia
Mid-nineteenth-century American readers hunger for affordable, sensational stories, and a Philadelphia publisher steps forward to organize, package, and deliver popular literature directly to their doorsteps.
Tales from the Arabic
John Payne
A web of nested fables, sovereign whims, and desperate gambits reveals a world where a misplaced word costs a head and a clever ruse buys a kingdom.
Teaching the Child Patriotism
Kate Upson Clark
Civic devotion is not an accident of nature; it is a quiet habit of the heart, carefully built line by line in the routine of everyday life.
The American Missionary
Various
Across late-nineteenth-century America, dedicated reformers fight to build schools, organize congregations, and provide material aid to marginalized communities amidst deep economic strains and systemic racial barriers.
The American Missionary
Various
A collection of reports, letters, and financial receipts reveals how Northern reformers and Southern Freedmen built schools, churches, and civic institutions during Reconstruction.
The Art of English Poetry (1708)
Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712
This technical guide sets out to discipline English poetry by establishing rigid structural rules, metric precision, and systematic standards for syllable counts and rhyme schemes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A perpetual tug-of-war between property and poverty shapes human history, leaving every generation to negotiate its own boundaries between wealth, civil order, and personal freedom.
The Badger: A Monograph
Pease, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward), Sir
Through quiet observation and arduous subterranean sport, a Victorian naturalist mounts a passionate defense of Britain's last remaining wild bear-tribe relative.
The Barrier: A Novel
Allen French
Driven by an unyielding ambition for public power, a financial promoter seeks to dominate both a New England city and the women of its most exclusive social circle.
The Blue Jar Story Book
Charles Lamb
A child's sudden desire turns out to carry a surprisingly heavy price, launching a series of gentle, sobering lessons about choices, self-restraint, and the true cost of impulsive longings.
The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat
Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917
Young American patriots outwit British officers, hostile Tories, and treacherous wilderness roads to secure General Burgoyne's defeat during the pivotal Saratoga Campaign of 1777.
The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
John Henry Goldfrap
A secretive government invention, ocean-bound saboteurs, and a crew of courageous Boy Scouts collide off the Atlantic coast in a high-stakes struggle to protect national interests.
The Broken Gate: A Novel
Emerson Hough
An unwed mother in a small Midwestern town fights to shield her grown son from the shame of his birth, only for a sudden trial and a small-town murder to expose the secrets of her past.
The Chronicles of Rhoda
Florence Tinsley Cox
A small girl’s vivid imagination turns the domestic world into a stage for grand anxieties, quiet victories, and sudden wonders.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 10
Unknown
To build a new nation on paper requires far more than winning battles in the field; it demands the relentless, exhausting art of backroom diplomacy.
The Door into Infinity
Edmond Hamilton
Crossing into another reality is not a matter of theory; it is a hidden legacy that demands fresh blood every year.
The Firebrand
S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
A fiery Scots swordsman and his unlikely companions plunge into the backstabbing mayhem of the Carlist War, discovering that keeping their heads requires far more than a sharp blade.
The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
A young team of scientists races a ticking geological clock on a tropical island while sabotage and political greed threaten their high-stakes effort to save thousands of lives.
The Fourth Generation
Walter Besant
A mysterious crime committed decades ago casts a shadow over three generations of a prosperous English family, forcing a brilliant young man to confront his ancestors' dark history.
The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
John Randolph Spears
A cold wind sweeps through the granite channels and barren pampas of the deep South, where gold prospectors, native hunters, and earnest missionaries all seek a living at the end of the inhabited world.
The golden heart, and other fairy stories
Violet Jacob
Noble hearts, cunning sorcerers, and resourceful animal companions brave hazardous wildernesses to undo cruel curses and claim their rightful fortunes.
The Golden Magnet
George Manville Fenn
In the high Andes and tangled river-forests of nineteenth-century South America, a young English traveler and his fiercely loyal companion fight through swarming crocodiles, ancient ruins, and murderous rivals to win a hidden Inca fortune.
The Good Crow's Happy Shop
Patten Beard
A recovering young girl turns a box of wallpaper samples into a world of craft and kindness under the gentle guidance of an imaginative aunt.
The Haunted Hour: An Anthology
Unknown
Ghostly visitations are rarely about horror; more often, they are the quiet, aching echoes of love, grief, and unfulfilled longing lingering in the shadows of the living world.
The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow: A Tradition of Pennsylavania
Robert Montgomery Bird
An ancient, bloody feud over lost land and ruined lives leaves a shadow over a Pennsylvania valley, where a returning son must choose between revenge and peace.
The illustrated horse management
Edward Mayhew
A sharp critique of Victorian horsekeeping that exposes how routine care, faulty architecture, and human vanity inflict constant, silent suffering on domestic animals.
The Illustration of Books: A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College
Joseph Pennell
An unsparing, practical guide to book and newspaper illustration, this manual strips away romantic illusions to expose the technical craftsmanship and commercial realities of nineteenth-century print media.
The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)
James Augustus St. John
Across deserts, mountain peaks, and storm-tossed seas, early European explorers charted the contours of a rapidly expanding world while testing the absolute limits of human endurance.
The Lord of Misrule, and Other Poems
Alfred Noyes
A choir of English voices—may-dancers, doomed lovers, navy gunners, and ghostly highwaymen—cries out against a world rapidly sliding into war.
The Missionary
George Chetwynd Griffith
A childhood scuffle on the deck of a homeward-bound ocean liner casts a long shadow across three families, hardening over the decades into secret parentage, social ruin, and a desperate test of faith.
The Princess Aline
Richard Harding Davis
A dashing young American painter chases an ideal across Europe, only to find that the real thing was standing beside him all along.
The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
Andrew Lang
A king gives away his unborn child for a baby's laugh, leading a humble prince across enchanted lands to rescue a lost princess.
The Religious Tract Society Catalogue - 1889
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
A single publisher's nineteenth-century catalogue reveals the full scope of Victorian moral instruction, domestic entertainment, and imperial ambition bound in gilt edges and cheap paper.
The Sea Bride
Ben Ames Williams
A young woman marries a formidable whaling captain and takes to the sea, only to watch her husband's strength and sanity collapse under the harsh demands of the voyage.
The Soul Stealer
Guy Thorne
A mad scientist invents a machine that can read and display human thoughts, then secretes his rival in a basement dungeon to harvest his mind.
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Two sharp-witted outsiders battle for dominance in a fiercely sharp marriage of convenience, while a web of elaborate disguises entangles the suitors of Padua.
The Way to God and How to Find It
Dwight Lyman Moody
The love of God is an unreachable height, a fathomless depth, and an ever-present refuge for the weary.
The Wicked Marquis
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A lordly debtor faces the man he wronged decades ago, only to discover that revenge takes form not in blood, but in balance sheets.