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Books published by publisher Charles L. Webster and Company

  • Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant -- 2 Vols.

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Hardcover (Charles L. Webster & Coompany, July 5, 1885)
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  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

    Mark Twain

    Hardcover (Charles L. Webster and Company, July 6, 1885)
    Book in over all good condition. NO marking on inside pages. Cover is a deep rich green with black and gold embossing. It has MANY of the points present noting it is a first edition. See Photo's for some condition issues.
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  • Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

    U.S. Grant

    Hardcover (Charles L. Webster & Company, Jan. 1, 1885)
    Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1885 –Volume I; 1886 – Volume II. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes in dark brown three-quarter leather with dark brown cloth (silk), Gilt insignia on each volume showing Grant and date of his appointment by joint resolution of Congress in December written on the embossed insignia.Title in gilt on spine with volume number and five raised bands volumes Volume 1, 584 pp and volume 2, 647 pp. Marbled endpapers little use. Scarce, original publisher's deluxe set.
  • Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Hardcover (Charles L. Webster, July 5, 1885)
    Hard Cover; Very Good; No Dust Jacket; First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in publisher's green, gilt stamped cloth binding. 2 volume set; volume 1 has loose hinges and text. All pages are there, but some repairs with tape. Volume 2 is tight and in very good condition. Ex-library copies with typical markings and remnants of card pockets. Mylar protected.
  • Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume II

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Leather Bound (Charles L. Webster and Company, Jan. 1, 1885)
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  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    Mark Twain

    Hardcover (Charles L. Webster and Company, March 15, 1889)
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  • Leah Tames the Tigers

    Harlan Platt, Libby Ramage

    language (Charles L Webster, May 14, 2011)
    A young girls accepts an assignment from her Queen to solve a problem between tigers and the people in one of her lands. She travels to a distant land in a hot air balloon and peacefully resolves the problem making friends between the tigers and the people.
  • Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

    U. S. Grant

    Hardcover (Charles L. Webtser & Company, March 15, 1885)
    The autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War General and President of the United States, published in two volumes, in 1885 and 1886. Hardcover, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and medallions, illustrated with numerous maps and engravings.
  • The Hole in the Universe

    Harlan Platt

    language (Charles L Webster, May 14, 2011)
    Three children discover a portal in their attic that brings them to any time period, backwards or forwards. On their adventure, they encounter an amazing melange of characters including Sherlock Holmes, Karl Marx, their own long dead grandmother and a talking rabbit. Can they solve the mystery? Can they stop evil? Will they return home?
  • One Plus One

    Harlan Platt, Libby Ramage

    language (Charles L Webster, May 1, 2001)
    One Plus One as suggested by its title combines a short, illustratedchildren’s story with a novella about time travel. The children in both stories are fearless when facing the unknownand cautious when confronting danger. Families that read stories aloud may find these two to be perfect nighttime material.
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain, Illus. by Edward Kemble

    (Charles L. Webster & Co., July 6, 1891)
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  • Tenting on the plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas,

    Elizabeth Bacon Custer

    Hardcover (C.L. Webster and Company, March 15, 1887)
    Newly and expertly rebound. Original cloth from front board has been retained and attached to front. Bound in heavy weave green cloth with gold title on spine. Original decoration of crossed flags and cutlasses on front. New endpapers, heavy weight cream paper. Tissued frontispiece of General Custer. Pages are toning. Twenty eight black and white illustrations, several by Frederick Remington. One small map. Elizabeth Custer followed her husband on his campaigns and writes of their life and of the lives of his men. It is revealing of that time period. 702p.