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Shadetree
Rare Books focuses on American and Virginia history,
biography, the American Civil War and classical literature.
It has a wide
variety of books for children and young readers, as well as
books
on art, architecture & design, gardening, poetry and an extensive
offering
of entertainment books. It has a strong selection of
hard-to-find cookbooks, as well as extensive listings
pertaining to
the African-American experience.
In addition to its collection of fine leather-bound volumes,
Shadetree also offers modern First Editions, many of them signed.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN |
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CIVIL
WAR
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Black Genesis
- Stoney & Shelby
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Robert
E. Lee - Douglas Freeman -
SOLD
American
Bastile |
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History of Slavery & Slave Trade -
SOLD
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57th
Virginia Infantry -
SOLD
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History of the Education of Black Citizens
in Halifax Co. (Virginia): 1866--1969 |
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Robert
E. Lee (4 Vols.) - Freeman
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Quest for Enslaved Ancestors:
Extended Family of Griffin Fountain of
Halifax Co. Va & NC |
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A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
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The Status, Role, and Lifestyle of Union Officers in the Civil War
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The
Industrial History of the Negro Race
of the United States |
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GARDENING
/ FARMING
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Case of Odell Waller and Virginia
Justice |
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Iris:
Flower of the Rainbow -
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The
Art of Landscape Architecture |
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AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT |
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America's
Garden Book
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Folk
Songs - John Palmer
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The
Garden at Home - H.H. Thomas
The American Swine Breeder
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Lyrics
- Carly Simon
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HORSES
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AMERICAN HISTORY |
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Gentlemen
Up -
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Writings
of Thomas Paine - SOLD |
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The Badminton Library of Sports and
Pastimes: Hunting
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Retrospect Of Western Travel
(2 vols. in 1) |
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The Grand National,
1839-1930
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History
of the Bank of the U. S. - SOLD |
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A Treasury of Horse Stories
- Self -
SOLD
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The Life of George Washington |
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Life
& Sport in Aiken - Harry Smith -
SOLD
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American
Eloquence (2 vols.) |
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Washington's Farewell Address, |
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LAW
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Webster's
First Bunker Hill Oration,
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
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Commentaries
on Equity Pleadings |
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Three
Thousand Receipts |
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The Biography
American Military Heroes |
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LITERATURE
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Town
Officer - Laws of Mass. |
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The
Adventures of Gil Blas |
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Sketches
of Life & Character -
Patrick Henry |
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Ovid's
Metamorphoses
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Public
Laws of North Carolina (1871) |
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Secret
Journals -
SOLD
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The Antiquarian |
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The
Posthumous Pickwick Papers-
SOLD
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Along the Border
(Virginia & North Carolina) |
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An
Anthology - John Gibson
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Index To Kentucky Wills to
1851 |
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The
End of Elfintown -
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ART |
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Tristram
Shandy
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Engravings
- The Royal Collection |
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Nights
with Uncle Remus: Myths &
Legends
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London
Scenes & London People-
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The
Tower of London, A Historical
Romance
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Windsor
Castle, A Historical Romance
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ART OF LIVING |
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The Marble Faun
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The
Pleasures of Contemplation |
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Life
and Times of James B. Taylor
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Fancy's Frolicks |
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The Baptist Encyclopedia
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The Physiology of Marriage |
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A Companion for the Festivals and
Fasts of the Protestan Episcopal Church
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The
Connecticut Evangelical Magazine
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BIOGRAPHY |
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The
Life & Times of Henry Clay -
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POETRY
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Looking
for Gatsby - Faye Dunaway |
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Household
Poems - Longfellow
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Richard
Nixon - In the Arena -
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Walton's
Lives |
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Religion
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Jesse
James, My Father -
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The Independent Wig: or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity
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SCIENCE
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS |
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The
American New Dispensatory
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Book
of Games - Kate Greenaway
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The Pathological Anatomy of The Human Body
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Peter
Pan in Kensington Gardens |
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The Hawatha Primer |
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TRAVEL
& EXPLORATION
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Topsy, Toby and Tot |
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The Romance of Early Exploration
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Excursions in the County of Cornwall
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EDUCATION |
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VIRGINIA
HISTORY
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A
Spelling Book |
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The
History of Pittsylvania County,
Virginia
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Edison's Handy Encyclopedia |
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A
Richmond Album - Pictorial Chronicle
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The
History of Campbell County,
Virginia
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My
100 Children - Bernard Bain
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FICTION |
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Lives
of Virginia Baptist Ministers - Taylor
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Northern
Lights - Tim O'Brien |
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Liquor and Anti-liquor in Virginia
1619-1919 |
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Bar-20 - Clarence
Mulford
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Addresses and Historical Papers |
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
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Bedford Goes to War
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Promised Land -
Robert Parker
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Officers of the Senate of Virginia 1776-1956 |
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The
Cabin in the Cotton - Harry H. Kroll |
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The Dark Island -
Sackville-West |
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World
History
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Who
Fears the Devil? - Wellman |
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Cram's
Unrivaled Atlas of the World
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To
Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
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The Greville Memoirs
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The
Sheltered Life - Ellen Glasgow
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Hyde Park and The House of the Grosvenors
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Not
Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge |
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Onkel Toms Hütte
(Uncle Tom's Cabin - German)
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SIGNED,
FIRST EDITION BOOKS
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Biography |
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FISHING |
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Fiction
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Some Silent Places Still |
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