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1 Porter, Horace. Campaigning with Grant.
New York Mallard Press 1991 0792456041 / 9780792456049 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 
546 pages, 16 plates, maps, cloth, DJ, very good. From the dust jacket: "From April 1864 until the end of the war, Porter served as lieutenant colonel attached to Ulysses S. Grant's staff. He accompanied Grant into battle in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor & Petersburg campaigns and was there at the final surrender at McLean's house. During this time he kept extensive notes of Grant's conversations, as well as of his own observations of military life. Porter brings to his recollections not only a soldier's practiced eye, but also a writer's intelligence. His portrait of Grant is the most incisive and readable first-hand account that we have. " B12-4 ; 546 pages 
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2 PORTER, HORACE. Campaigning with Grant. Time-Life Collector's Library of the Civil War.
New York Time-Life 1981 0809442027 / 9780809442027 Very Good with no dust jacket 
Xviii, [2], 546, [ 2] pages, plates, maps, full leather. Facsimile reprint of the original 1897 edition. Porter served as an aide to Grant. ; 546 pages 
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3 COON, HORACE Columbia. Colossus on the Hudson.
New York, E. P. Dutton, 1947 Hard Cover 
388 pages, 8 plates, cloth, 1st edition, ex-library otherwise v.g. 
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4 Brock, Horace Flying the Oceans. a Pilot's Story of Pan Am.
Lunenberg, VT Stinehour Press 1979 Second Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket 
[8], 323 pages, plates, map endpapers, cloth, DJ, very good. Second edition. From the DJ: "This book is the story of the days of the great flying boats, the China Clippers, and of the opening of the air routes across the Pacific and the North Atlantic. " 
Price: 50.00 USD
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5 Massachusetts. Bureau of Labor. [Wadlin, Horace G., Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor] Labor and Industrial Chronology of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1899.
Boston Wright & Potter Printing Co. 1901 Hard Cover Very Good 
From the Thirtieth annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, pp. 71-248, and the Fourteenth annual report on the statistics of manufactures, pp 1-72. 247 and 71 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Divided into five sections: hours of labor, wages, trade unions, conditions of workingmen, and labor legislation. 
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6 Massachusetts. Bureau of Labor. [Wadlin, Horace G., Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor] Labor and Industrial Chronology of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1900
Boston Wright & Potter Printing Co. 1901 Hard Cover Very Good 
From the Thirty-second annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, pp. 1-130, and the Fifteenth annual report on the statistics of manufactures, pp 1-60. 91 and 60 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Divided into six sections: hours of labor, wages, trade unions, strikes and lockouts, social and industrial benefits, and labor legislation - 1900. 
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7 Brock, Horace More about Pan Am. a Pilot's Story Continued.
Lunenberg, VT Stinehour Press 1980 First Edition Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket 
[6], 101, [2] pages, plates, stiff wrappers, very good. Stated first edition. From the introduction: "This book is a supplement to my book FLYING THE OCEANS: A PILOT's STORY OF PAN AM and fills in parts of the Pan Am story which were left out." 
Price: 40.00 USD
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8 GREELEY, HORACE Recollections of a Busy Life: Including Reminiscences of American Politics and Politicians, from the opening of the Missouri Contest to the Downfall of Slavery...
New York, J. B. Ford & Co. , 1869 Cloth 
xvi,(2),624 pages, 4 plates, text illustrations, cloth. 1st edition, ex-library but v.g. Greeley (1871-1872), American journalist and political leader, founded the New York Tribune (1841), antislavery supporter, supported administration in prosecution of Civil War, after war advocated universal amnesty and universal suffrage. 
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9 King, H. F. [Horace Frederick] Sopwith Aircraft 1912-1920.
London Putnam 1981 0370300505 / 9780370300504 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 
[8], 323 pages, very many illustrations, cloth, DJ, very good. 1st edition. From the dust jacket: "All types and all classes of Sopwith aircraft, and not merely the fighters of the First World War, find their places in this book; and thus the volume serves not merely as a record of technical achievement but as a means of placing in perspective - and sometimes surprisingly in prominence - the less familiar designs that were realized under the leadership of Thomas Sopwith. The work is an important contribution to the early history of British aviation. ; 323 pages 
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10 WYNDHAM, HORACE Speranza. A biography of Lady Wilde.
London T. V. Boardman & Co. 1951 Hard Cover Very Good in Poor dust jacket 
247 pages, 8 plates, cloth, dust jacket badly frayed otherwise very good. From the dust jacket: "In the considerable output of 'Wildeana' no separate volume has yet appeared dealing with an important member of the family, Jane Francesca Elgee, who later became Lady Wilde. Although the main facts of her life are easy to trace, details are comparatively scanty, but Horace Wyndham, using new material, contemporary accounts and Lady Wilde's own writings, gives a full-length and lifelike portrait of one of the most remarkable women of the Victorian era." 
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11 JAYNE, HORACE H[OWARD] F[URNESS] The Chinese collections of the University museum.
Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1941 Soft Cover Very Good 
University museum bulletin Vol. 9 Nos. 2-3, June 1941. 63 pages, well illustrated, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the introduction: "The Chinese Collections owe their growth to gifts and purchases rather than to excavations or expeditions such as have increased most of the other sections of the Museum. In 1915-16, however, a reconnaissance expedition undertaken by Carl W. Bishop discovered several important early Buddhist sites and thoroughly explored others previously reported. The Expedition covered many of the northern provinces, spent fifteen months in the field, and brought back a representative collection of objects valuable for study purposes." 
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12 Bruckshaw, Horace (edited by Martin Middlebrook) The Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw 1915-1916
Hamden, CT Archon Books 1980 0208018794 / 9780208018793 Hardcover Good+ in Good dust jacket 
Xxiv, 229 pages, illustrations, map, cloth, DJ, publisher's file copy otherwise very good. From the dust jacket: "Private Horace Bruckshaw of the Royal Marine Light Infantry fought at Gallipoli and died on the western front. His diaries consist of a terse reporting of what he felt and what he saw, illustrated with sketch-plans of trench positions and cartoons. Martin Middlebrook's introduction provides background information about Bruckshaw and the campaigns he fought, and he has added a commentary to explain and amplify specific points in the text." ; 229 pages 
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13 JUDSON, HORACE FREE The search for solutions.
New York Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980 0030437717 / 9780030437717 Hard Cover Very Good in Good dust jacket 
Introduction by Lewis Thomas, M.D. 211 pages, well illustrated (many in color), cloth, dj, oblong, 11 by 9 inches. From the dj: Here then is a multifaceted book. Even as it unravels the complexities of modern science, telling us where we are now and how we got here, it demonstrates the ways in which the human mind grasps problems - scientific or otherwise - and arrives at solutions. 
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14 McFARLAND, J. HORACE editor What every rose-grower should know. Prepared for The American Rose Society by its editors. Second edition - completely revised. Third edition.
Harrisburg, Pa., American Rose Society 1940 Hard Cover 
80 pages, 4 color plates, well illustrated, cloth, very good. 
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