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Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists


Morgan, Michael H.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, National Geographic, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471205


Price: $15.00 

Alamein by: Latimer, Jon
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Alamein by: Latimer, Jon

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a minor dent on the front cover, and is folded inwards on the rear flap. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book vividly describes the experiences of the gunners, sappers, cavalrymen, and airmen--Britons, Canadians, Australians, Indians, Germans, Italians, and others--who struggled in the heat, sand, and dust of the brutal battle of Alamein. Clean copy. Record # 33730
Price: $15.00 

 

Government and Peasant in Russia 1891 - 1906: The Prehistory of the Stolypin Reforms


Macey, David A.J.

Hardcover. Dekalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471571


Price: $38.00 

Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: Volume 2 by: Campbell, JohnEditor: Mallory, John Allan
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Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: Volume 2 by: Campbell, JohnEditor: Mallory, John AllanLives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: Volume 2 by: Campbell, JohnEditor: Mallory, John Allan

Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: Volume 2 by: Campbell, John Editor: Mallory, John Allan

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, New Edition, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages, hardcover. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering are in good condition, some minor rubbing and light fraying at the head and tail of the spine backs. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations throughout. This book is volume 2 of a comprehensive account of the lives and works of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. Previous owner's notes are present on the end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33819
Price: $30.00 

Paris: The Secret HistoryHussey, Andrew
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Paris: The Secret History


Hussey, Andrew

Hardcover. Canada, Bloomsbury Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471698


Price: $19.00 

1630-1897 A Brief History of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Roseboom (1739-1805) and of Jesse Johnson (1745-1832) by: Roseboom, CatharineRoseboom, Dr. J. LivingstonSwinnerton, Rev. Henry U.White, Joseph H.
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1630-1897 A Brief History of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Roseboom (1739-1805) and of Jesse Johnson (1745-1832) by: Roseboom, Catharine Roseboom, Dr. J. Livingston Swinnerton, Rev. Henry U. White, Joseph H.

Softcover. Cherry Valley, NY, The Co-operative Press, Reprint, Circa 1900s, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite a tear at the bottom of the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. John Roseboom (1739-1805) was born in Albany, New York, the son of son of Hendrick Myndert Roseboom (1707-1803) and the great grandson of Henderick Roosenboom (d. 1703). He settled early on in Schenectady as a merchant. He was a member of the Committee of Safety, and a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution. Most descendants listed here lived in New York. Clean copy. Record # 33929
Price: $25.00 

 

Massachusetts In the Rebellion - A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth . . . in the Civil War of 1861-65


Headley, P. C.

Boston, Walker, Fuller, and Co., 1st , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 688 pages + ads in front of title-page. Black & white photos with tissue guards. Tissue guard on frontispiece removed. Heavy foxing to pages. Hinge separated from binding at front endpaper. Gold embossed decoration, lettering on front of cloth cover and spine. Spotting, fade to spine. Small hole to spine binding. Edgewear to bottom edges.

Record # 502901


Price: $80.00 

Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by: Chamberlain, Lesley
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Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by: Chamberlain, Lesley

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. This book details how, in 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists, and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague and Paris. Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles. Clean copy. Record # 33984
Price: $12.00 

 

Guide to German Parish Registers, A: vol. I: Baden, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg


Cerny (compiler), Johni

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 420 pages. Volume one only.

Record # 506193


Price: $38.00 

Behind the Spitfires by: RAFF
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Behind the Spitfires by: RAFF

Hardcover. London, England, Methuen & Co. LTD., 2nd, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 106 pages, hardcover. Orange cloth covers are in generally good condition, though the spine has been sunned and is no longer square. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is slightly loose, but the pages still turn well. Contains many B&W illustrations throughout. This humorous volume introduces a commoner to the lives of the aircraft men who were responsible for servicing and flying the machines of aerial war in Britain during WWII. Clean copy. Record # 34058
Price: $12.00 

 

Britton: An English Translation and Notes


Nichols (translator), Francis Morgan

Hardcover. Washington D.C., John Byrne & Co., 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 649 pages. Introduction by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Corners bumped. Wear to corners and spine.

Record # 506967


Price: $66.00 

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi by: Leopold, Les
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi by: Leopold, Les

Softcover. White River Junction, VT, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 525 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book is the life story and struggles of Tony Mazzocchi, a great trade unionist, an agitator, a political leader, a protagonist of worker safety and health, and an inspiration to working people all over. Clean copy. Record # 34143
Price: $18.00 

 

Religion and Society in England, 1790-1850


Ward, W.R.

New York, Schocken Books, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 339 pages. Blue top edge. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 507762


Price: $21.00 

The History and Narrative Reader (Routledge Readers in History) by: Roberts, Geoffrey
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The History and Narrative Reader (Routledge Readers in History) by: Roberts, Geoffrey

Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 452 pages, soft cover. Covers have one small ding on the front, but are still in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book draws together seminal texts from philosophers and historians, presenting the great debate over the narrative character of history from the 1960s onwards. Clean copy. Record # 34195
Price: $20.00 

 

From Cedar Mountain to Antietam: August-September 1862


Stackpole, Edward J.

Harrisburg PA, Stackpole Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 466 pages. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Marker on back of front end paper.

Record # 508179


Price: $20.00 

My Name is America [4 Volume Box Set in Slipcase] (The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, The Journal of James Edmond Pease) by: Myers, Walter Dean Denenberg, Barry Rinaldi,
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My Name is America [4 Volume Box Set in Slipcase] (The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, The Journal of James Edmond Pease) by: Myers, Walter Dean Denenberg, Barry Rinaldi,

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages volume 1, 152 pages volume 2, 155 pages volume 3, and 173 pages volume 4, hardcovers. Slipcase is in very good condition with minor edge wear. Pictorial boards and interior pages are clean and bright in all 4 volumes. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This set of historical fiction targeted towards a younger audience uses fictional characters to approximate diary entries of people who might have lived during these major historical events. Due to the weight of the package, this set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34285
Price: $14.00 

 

In My Father's Bakery - A Bronx Memoir


Korman, Marvin

NY, Red Rock Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 204 pages.

Record # 509204


Price: $15.00 

Early Days of Washington by: Mackall, Somervell S.
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Early Days of Washington by: Mackall, Somervell S.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., The Neale Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages, hardcover. Dark burgundy cloth cover boards with an armorial illustrated seal on the front are in fair condition due to significant edge wear, bumping at the top and bottom of the spine, as well as abrasions on the rear. Top edge gilt. A blackout mark is present under Washington at the bottom of the title page. Pages 51 and 61 have closed tears which do not affect the legibility of any text blocks. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is one of the first histories of Washington, D.C. to show careful preparation. It is largely biographical, containing many incidents of interest which might otherwise have been lost. Contains author's paste-in on the inside front cover, with a short inscription that reads "With the compliments of Miss Mackall the Authoress-," otherwise clean copy. Record # 34389
Price: $25.00 

Khrushchev and the Development of Soviet Agriculture: The Virgin  Land Programme 1953-1964 by: McCauley, Martin
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Khrushchev and the Development of Soviet Agriculture: The Virgin Land Programme 1953-1964 by: McCauley, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 232 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a repaired cut, bumped corners, and worn edges. Black cloth covers are in good condition with only minor wear to the corners and edges. Interior pages are clean and bright, with the top edge colored blue. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps and tables throughout. Contains a laid-in review slip. In this study, McCauley has examined the economic and political record of the virgin lands from 1953-1964. The decision to expand eastward is put into the historical perspective of earlier excursions into the steppe. The impact of Khrushchev's venture on subsequent Soviet agricultural policy is explored. Previous owner underlined some text in brown pen on the last few pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34493
Price: $30.00 

 

World at Arms, A - A Global History of World War II


Weinberg, Gerhard L.

London, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1178 pages. Huge volume in like new condition.

Record # 601682


Price: $18.00 

History of the Town of Middlebury in the County of Addison, Vermont: To Which Is Prefixed a Statistical and Historical Account of the County, Written at the Request of the Historical Society of Middlebury  by: Swift, Samuel
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History of the Town of Middlebury in the County of Addison, Vermont: To Which Is Prefixed a Statistical and Historical Account of the County, Written at the Request of the Historical Society of Middlebury by: Swift, Samuel

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 454 pages, hardcover in original cardboard slipcase. Dust jacket has been price-clipped and has some light wrinkling with one closed tear at the top of the spine, but is otherwise in good condition. Green cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages with pale green end papers. Binding is solid. This hand-numbered copy is #280, out of 700 total copies of this edition. This is the first Tuttle edition, being a facsimile reprint of A. H. Copeland's 1859 original. It offers an in-depth, definitive, invaluable resource chronicling the town history of Middlebury, Vermont. Clean copy. Record # 34561
Price: $62.00 

 

Tarry at Home Travels


Hale, Edward Everett

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, Reprint, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Green cloth, light rippling, gilt design and lettering. Minor spotting. Illustrated in black & white. Bottom corners bumped, rear board scuffed.

Record # 604678


Price: $19.00 

Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments by: Rogowski, Ronald
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Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments by: Rogowski, Ronald

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some sticker residue at the bottom of the spine, but is still in very good condition overall. Red cloth covers with gilt text on the spine and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps and tables throughout. In this book, Rogowski applies the economic Stolper-Samuelson theorem to political science. The theorem states that international trade benefits owners of a country's abundant production factors and harms owners of scarce factors. Rogowski argues that as trade expands or contracts, these economic shifts predictably alter domestic political power. Clean copy. Record # 34616
Price: $14.00 

 

New England Life in the 18th Century


Shipton, Clifford K.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 626 pages, b&w photos. Foreword by Samuel Eliot Morison. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket with Color pencil marking to front cover, rubbing, wear, soiling. Overall a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606675


Price: $20.00 

 

Black Belt Scalawag - Charles Hays and the Southern Republicans in the Era of Reconstruction


Rogers, Jr., William Warren

Hardcover. Athens. Ga., Univ. of Georgis, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51043


Price: $18.00 

 

Mirrors


Galeano, Eduardo

Hardcover. New York, Nation Books, 2nd printing, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 391 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 608477


Price: $30.00 

 

Richard Taylor - Saldier Prince of Dixie


Parrish, T. Michael

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Univ. of N.C., 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 51408


Price: $28.00 

 

Business of May Next - James Madison and the Founding, The


Miller, William Lee

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608764


Price: $12.00 

Voices from the Century Before - The Odyssey of a 19th Century Kentucky FamilyBerry, Mary Clay
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Voices from the Century Before - The Odyssey of a 19th Century Kentucky Family


Berry, Mary Clay

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 522 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white photos.

Record # 52804


Price: $28.00 

 

Renaissance Popes - Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia Myth, The


Noel, Gerard

Hardcover. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. 8 pages of Illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609050


Price: $15.00 

 

Wildest of the Wild Weat - True Tales of a Frontier Town on the Santa Fe Trail


Bryan, Howard

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Clear Light, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of early journalistic accounts of the New Mexican town of Las Vegas, 1835-1915. illust. 269 pages. Dj with edgewear, sunning to spine

Record # 57046


Price: $20.00 

 

Western Regions, New Hampshire: A Visual History, The


Morley, Linda

Hardcover. Norfolk, Donning Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Illustrated with mostly black & white photographs. Light fading to spine of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609191


Price: $40.00 

 

William Henry Letters, The


Diaz, Abby Morton

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, Rep, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of a young boy's letters to his grandmother with commentary. Whether fictionalized or not, an interesting account of growing up in the early to mid 1800's 1st pub. in 1870 with crude drawing supposedly by the boy. Hinge cracked. 275 bapes VF, internally. Original green cloth with gilt decoration on spine

Record # 59886


Price: $26.00 

 

Foreign Policy in the Sixties - The Issues and the Instruments


Hilsman, Roger/Robert C. Good

Hardcover. Baltimore , Johns Hopkins, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 299 pages. Dust jacket worn with chipping and rubbing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609835


Price: $12.00 

 

Witness to War - An American Doctor in El Salvador


Clements, M.D., Charles

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 268 pages.

Record # 61124


Price: $15.00 

 

Natural History and the Topography of Groton, Massachusetts, The


Green, Samuel Abbott

Hardcover. Groton, Town of Groton, Massachusetts, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Pamphlet and ephemeral items laid-in. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610246


Price: $63.00 

 

Ancient Greece - The Triumph of a Culture


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illust. 449 pages. Previous owner's signature half-title page.

Record # 61370


Price: $25.00 

Sources of Indian Tradition - Volume II by: de Bary (Editor), Wm. Theodore
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Sources of Indian Tradition - Volume II by: de Bary (Editor), Wm. Theodore

Softcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Volume II only. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610744
Price: $12.00 

 

Presidential Tapes, The - The Complete Transcripts of the Nixon Tapes


N/A

Hardcover. N Y, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 693 pages.

Record # 63500


Price: $25.00 

 

Mighty Stonewall


Vandiver, Frank E.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 547 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR 0N PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Related article laid-in. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611995


Price: $63.00 

 

Real Wild West, The - The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West


Wallis, Michael

NY, St Martins, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 652 pages. Like new except for bottom corner bump.

Record # 65150


Price: $13.00 

 

Ku Klux Klan in American Politics, The


Rice, Arnold S.

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., Public Affairs Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612362


Price: $31.00 

 

Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association - The Nineteenth Annual Meeting


N/A

NY, NY Historical Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 480 pages.

Record # 67065


Price: $15.00 

 

Army Life On The Western Frontier


Croghan, George

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes appendix of author's travel schedule. Decorative stain to top edge. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 613496


Price: $25.00 

 

Pennsylvania 1776


Secor (Ed.), Robert

University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State Univ., 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages. Black & white, 2-color illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 68068


Price: $25.00 

Daring Deeds of American GeneralsJenkins, John S.
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Daring Deeds of American Generals


Jenkins, John S.

Hardcover. New York, A. A. Kelley, Reprint, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covers with embossed design front and back. Title and decoration in gilt on spine. "With Illustrations" appears on title page, but book has no illustrations. Some pages with small areas of foxing. Moderate rubbing to corners of covers, top and bottom of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613801


Price: $75.00 

 

My Pamet - Cape Cod Chronicle


Kane, Tom

Mt. Kisco, NY, Moyer Bell Ltd., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages.

Record # 68748


Price: $20.00 

Report of the Committee and Engineer, on the Subject of a Canal from Enfield Falls to Hartford, to furnish the city with water and water powerAnderson, Philander/John Chase/Stephen Spencer/Leonard Kennedy/Denison Morgan
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Report of the Committee and Engineer, on the Subject of a Canal from Enfield Falls to Hartford, to furnish the city with water and water power


Anderson, Philander/John Chase/Stephen Spencer/Leonard Kennedy/Denison Morgan

Softcover. Hartford, Press of Case, Tiffany & Burnham, 1st, 1847, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Softcover. Features intact fold-out map in rear: "Map of the Survey for a Canal Route for Manufacturing Purposes from the Head of Enfield Falls to Hartford". Yellow covers with some tape repairs to closed tears. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614022


Price: $150.00 

 

Introduction to Ancient Egypt, An


James, T.G.H.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, Rep., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white illust. 286 pages. A guide to the antiquities in the British Museum

Record # 69266


Price: $20.00 

 

Campaigns of the American Civil War


Fiebeger G. J.

Hardcover. West Point, U.S.M.A Printing Office, Unknown, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages including index. U.S.M.A textbook on the battles of the Civil War. Slightly age-toned paper, otherwise clean. Tan cloth boards show light water damage to spine.

Record # 700290


Price: $40.00 

 

Captain Sam Grant


Lewis, Lloyd

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The early years of Ulysses S.Grant. ex-lib. copy with normal stamping, residue to rear end paper but hardly read. a tight clean reading copy. 512 pgs.

Record # 100919


Price: $12.00 

 

Their Tattered Flags


Vandiver, Frank E.

New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 362 pages including index. Slightly faded dust jacket with taped crease and tear to top front cover, library sticker on bottom spine. Book review taped neatly into front endpages.

Record # 700693


Price: $15.00 

 

Days of Gold - The California Gold Rush and the American Nation


Rohrbough, Malcolm J.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice condition, clean, new-looking. Black & white sketches. Hardbound, dust jacket, 353 pgs.

Record # 109165


Price: $28.00 

 

Ghost Mountain Boys, The


Campbell, James

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st Edition, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt letters to spine. Illustrations in b/w. Dust jacket in very good condition. Bright, clean copy & unmarked.

Record # 750228


Price: $15.00 

 

From Alexander to Cleopatra - The Hellenistic World


Grant, Michael

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages.B&w photos, illustrations and maps. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 178213


Price: $15.00 

Nebraska's Militia - The History of the Army and Air National Guard - 1854 - 1991Hartman, Douglas R.
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Nebraska's Militia - The History of the Army and Air National Guard - 1854 - 1991


Hartman, Douglas R.

Hardcover. Virginia Beach, Donning Company, First Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to cover, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with toning to edges, wrinkled spine edge, otherwise bright. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Light toning to edges. Marker to top edge of preliminary page. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 750486


Price: $63.00 

 

History Of Civil, Political, and Military of the History Of The Southern Revolution. (Vol. 1)


Victor, Orville J.

hardcover. NY, J.D. Torrey, 1st, 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Light Fading to spine and covers. Gilt and embossed decorated cover. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guard. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 202432


Price: $80.00 

 

Battered Stars, The - One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Coffin, Howard

Hardcover. Woodstock, The Countryman Press, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to half title page, with related ephemera. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with small tear top edge. Very clean, unmarked.

Record # 750867


Price: $25.00 

 

Burnell, The Green Mountain Boy - A Narrative Piece For Young People


Sylvester, A.M., Rev. J. B.

Albany, NY, Weed, Parsons and Company, 2nd, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Embossed covers with gilt spine. Spine is very faded. Light foxing through-out. Otherwise solid and clean. Inspiring tale of a young boy in northern Vermont who attends an academy in Georgia, Vermont and has a spiritual awakening

Record # 203634


Price: $20.00 

 

Medieval Warfare - A History


Keen (Editor), Maurice

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, Carving of the Battle Scenes from the Courtrai Chest, 14th Century, in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in full color & in very good condition. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750980


Price: $19.00 

 

The Dragon Strikes - China and the Korean War: June-December 1950


Roe, Patrick C.

Novato, CA, Presidio, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages. Black & white maps.

Record # 206732


Price: $20.00 

 

Hundred Years of Methodism, A


Simpson, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Phillips & Hunt, First Edition, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt decoration & titles to spine. Light wear to crown & heel of spine. Previous owners' signature & stamp to front endpaper. Light toning throughout.A very nice copy, clean & unmarked with a lovely binding.

Record # 751279


Price: $19.00 

 

The Black River's Rampage 1927 Springfield, Vermont


Lyndes, E. J. and Theo Menard

Paperback. Springfield, VT, Springfield Printing, unknown wraps, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 35 pages. Paperback. Black & white photography.

Record # 208049


Price: $50.00 

 

Music Lover's Handbook, The


Siegmeister, Elie

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Morrow and Company, Reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 817 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Toning to edges, black & white musical scores throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751417


Price: $13.00 

 

NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL: The Lowdown On The Big Town


Churcher, Sharon

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages. Illustrated. 8vo. Black boards, black cloth spine. Price clipped, color pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's signature.

Record # 220683


Price: $13.00 

 

Voices of History - 1945- 1946: Speeches and Papers of Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Attlee, Stalin, De Gaulle, Chiang and Other Leaders Delivered during 1944


Ausubel (Editor), Nathan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Gramercy Publishing Company, First Edition, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 660 pages. Hardcover. Light toning to edges throughout. Fold to p. 5 - 11. Foxing to top & right edge. Black boards with gilt titles to spine, some soilig to cover boards. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751512


Price: $19.00 

 

Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875


MacGregor, David R.

Hardcover. London, Naval Institute Press, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket edges. Slight yellowing to text block edges. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 224402


Price: $31.00 

 

Things That Have Interested Me (Second Series)


Bennett, Arnold

Hardcover. New York, NY, George H. Doran Company, First Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Hardcover. Red boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Light soiling to boards. Light toning throughout. Deckled side edge. Clean, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751571


Price: $19.00 

 

Early History of Weathersfield, Vermont, The - An address delivered August 16, 1921 at the Centennial Exercises of the First Congregational Church, Weathersfield, Vermont


Butterfield, Ernest W.

Softcover. no imprint , 1st pamphlet, 1921, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 26 pages and wraps. A hand written additional note regarding Rev. James Treadway and a correction of his name on pg 18. Some soil and a small area of scaring on the wraps, otherwise very good. Secured in archival binder.

Record # 301013


Price: $20.00 

 

Water Follies Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters


Glennon, Robert

Hardcover. Washington, Island Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Blue boards, gray cloth spine, gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 803491


Price: $10.00 

 

Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1905


N/A

Washington, DC, GPO , 2nd, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1,374 pages. Vol. 2 only (of 2). Front hinge wear, front fly leaf half loose, binding solid. Very good internally.

Record # 302841


Price: $100.00 

 

Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1875


n/a

Hardcover. New York, New York Historical Society , 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 553 pages. Green cloth, gilt. Uncut.

Record # 804341


Price: $51.00 

 

History of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America for the Seventeenth Year Ending May 13, 1915


no author

Paperback. no place, DAR, 1st wraps, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 57 pages. Clean.

Record # 303366


Price: $8.00 

 

American Sculpture at Yale University


Freedman, Paul B. and Robert Jaffee Frank

Softcover. New Have, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black covers with red and blue titles, photographic illustration of sculpture to front, preface by Mary Garder Neill, 466 b&w and color plates. Very slight rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806253


Price: $20.00 

 

Country Neighborhood


Coatsworth, Elizabeth

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Decorations by Hildegard Woodward. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn, but bright.

Record # 304204


Price: $15.00 

 

Early History of Bristol, Vermont, Formerly Known as Pocock


Munsill, Harvey

Hardcover. Bristol, VT, Bristol Historical Society, 1st, 1970s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Dark green cloth covers, gilt titles, index prepared by Rev. John R. Burbank dated 2002 laid-in, diagram of land plot divisions printed on fold-out panel. Slight rubbing to cover edges, otherwise very clean, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 807993


Price: $80.00 

 

Born for Liberty - A History of Women in America


Evans, Sara M.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, BON C, 19889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. B&W photos. Book Club Edition.

Record # 304684


Price: $12.00 

 

Indian Legends Retold


Eastman, Elaine Goodale, Illust. by: George Varian

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Brown cloth covers, red and black stamped titles and illustration to covers, 6 b&w illustrated plates by George Varian, introduction by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa). Light smudges to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808713


Price: $45.00 

 

Northeast Historical Archaeology Vol 15


Beaudry, Mary (Ed.)

Paperback. Boston, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Stiff wraps. This volume marks 20th anniversary of founding of this regional group to promote study of Northeast United States and Eastern Canadian Historical Archaeology and looks back upon it's history as well as includes as 80 page bibliography of Northeast Historical Archaeology making this issue a particularly good reference.

Record # 400963


Price: $15.00 

 

Wakefield: Birthplace of George Washington


Moore, Charles

Softcover. Washington, Wakefield National Memorial Asssocistion, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. B&W photographs throughout. Heavy paper covers. Minor wear. Internally clean.

Record # 809213


Price: $12.00 

Conversations Principally on The Aborigines of North American/a
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Conversations Principally on The Aborigines of North America


n/a

Softcover. Salem MA, W.& E.B. Ives, 1st, 1828, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover. A study of the native tribes of America told through a dialogue of questions and answers, aimed at a young audience. Covers with moderate soil and some chipping to paper at bottom of spine. Scarce.

Record # 402010


Price: $250.00 

 

Diary of Ebenezer Parkman 1703-1782: First Part- Three Volumes in One 1719-1755


Walett (Ed.), Francis G.

Hardcover. Worcester MA, American Antquarian Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850026


Price: $60.00 

 

Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James 1752-1828


Laughton, John Knox and James Young Sullivan

Hardcover. London, Naval Records Society, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages,b&w plates, white cloth covers with blue cloth spine. Front gutter cracked with tear to cloth along spine. Chunk of cloth gone from top of spine. Internally very good.

Record # 403950


Price: $35.00 

 

Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado


Wolle, Muriel Sibell

Hardcover. Boulder, CO, Muriel Sibell Wolle, 7th pr, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 544 pages, b&w illustrations by the author, map end papers. Light wear to cover corners. Water stains to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850788


Price: $30.00 

 

Vermont of Today, The: With It's Historic Background, Attractions and People (4 Vols.)


Stone, Arthur F.

Hardcover. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four volumes complete, 1,921 pages total. Illustrated with b&w and sepia toned photographs throughout. Three-quarters black leather and dark green cloth. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf in Vol. 1. Light rubbing to covers, otherwise very good.

Record # 405117


Price: $250.00 

 

Fight for a Free Sea, The


Paine, Ralph D.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, b&w plates. Light blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Ex-lib w/ number on spine and stamps inside covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851861


Price: $12.00 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 116 - 1986 by: Zetzel, James E.G.
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Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 116 - 1986 by: Zetzel, James E.G.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture. Record # 406510
Price: $12.00 

 

Indians, Privateers, and High Society


Lippincott, Bertram

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 301 pages. Decorative stain to top edge.Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket; spine slightly faded.

Record # 851943


Price: $30.00 

 

Ethan Allen and The Green Mountain Heroes of '76: with a sketch of the Early History of Vermont


De Puy, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, Horace Wentworth, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages, original green cloth covers with embossed rules and textured design. Frontispiece of Allen, several b&w plates. Light foxing, covers rubbed, light fraying to top of spine, gilt faded on spine, still readable.

Record # 406632


Price: $75.00 

 

Time and the Terraced Land


Fink, Augusta

Hardcover. Berkely, CA, Howell-North Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 136 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Light wear to cover edges. Slight musty odor. Chipping and rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean copy.

Record # 852045


Price: $20.00 

Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality by: Anderson, Dwight G.
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Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality by: Anderson, Dwight G.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 408304
Price: $12.00 

 

Travelling by Sea in the Nineteenth Century: Interior Design in Victorian Passenger Ships


Greenhill, Basil, Ann Giffard

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Small bump in cloth of front cover. Minor scratches on back cover. Very minor edge wear. Many black and white pictures and illustrations throughout. A very nice and clean copy.

Record # 852238


Price: $15.00 

Ride Down Memory Lane: The Story of the Branford Trolly MuseumStevens, John R. and others (Ed.), John R. Stevens an
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Ride Down Memory Lane: The Story of the Branford Trolly Museum


Stevens, John R. and others (Ed.), John R. Stevens an

Softcover. Short Beach CT, Branford Electric Railway Assoc., reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled color wraps, 58 pages with b&w illustrations. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411920


Price: $13.00 

 

From the Lower Deck: The Royal Navy 1780-1840


Baynham, Henry

Hardcover. Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Publishers, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Minor dust jacket spine and corner edge wear and rubbing. Price clipped. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy with b&w illustrations and photographs.

Record # 852381


Price: $12.00 

South Since Appomattox, The: A Century of Regional ChangeClark, Thomas D. and Albert D. Kirwan
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South Since Appomattox, The: A Century of Regional Change


Clark, Thomas D. and Albert D. Kirwan

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 438 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soil.

Record # 412033


Price: $16.00 

 

Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Story of the Square-Rigged Merchant Marine of British North America, the Ships, Their Builders and Owners, and the Men Who Sailed Them.


Wallace, Frederick William

Hardcover. New York , George Sully & Company, 1st U.S., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages. Blue cloth cover, edges and spine with some wear and tearing. Pages untrimmed only on bottom edge. Light foxing on fore edge and inside pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations throughout. Circa 1920, but precise date unknown. Previous owner's inscription dated 1924.

Record # 852449


Price: $30.00 

 

The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness


Schneider, Paul

Hardcover. New York, 3rd printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. remaindermark to top edge, light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450447


Price: $20.00 

Anti-Slavery Crusade, The: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm  by: Macy, Jesse
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Anti-Slavery Crusade, The: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by: Macy, Jesse

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, reprint, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Minor cover corner wear. Gilt decorated cover, top edge and spine. A very handsome book with clean pages and tight binding. Record # 852558
Price: $12.00 

 

Enigma of General Blaskowitz, The


Giziowski, Richard

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages, b&w photographs. Small closed tear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451444


Price: $18.00 

 

Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 51.


Smith (ed), Melvin T.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Utah Historical Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages. Brown cloth cover, slightly oversized, gilt lettering, very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 852882


Price: $20.00 

Ambitious Brew : The Story of American BeerOgle, Maureen
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Ambitious Brew : The Story of American Beer


Ogle, Maureen

Hardcover. Orlando, 1st, October 2, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 422 pages. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely clean, tight copy.

Record # 451794


Price: $20.00 

 

British Seaman 1200-1860, The: A Social Survey


Lloyd, Christopher

Hardcover. Cranbury, New Jersey, Associated University Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear, fade and rub. Price clipped. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852994


Price: $12.00 

A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors by: Jackson, Joe
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A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors by: Jackson, Joe

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 452944
Price: $12.00 

 

Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or, A Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park, Consisting of the Various Changes that Have Occurred in the Court End of London.


Wheatley, Henry B.

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Red cloth cover, light wear to edges. Ex-library copy, rebound. Inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 853182


Price: $35.00 

Punished PeoplesAleksandr, Nekrich
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Punished Peoples


Aleksandr, Nekrich

Softcover. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Minor edgewear to pictorial stiff wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453341


Price: $12.00 

 

Council Fire and Cannon


Vrooman, John J.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing Company, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages, with b&w woodcut illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853711


Price: $18.00 

End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917, TheWaldron, Peter
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End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917, The


Waldron, Peter

Softcover. Macmillan Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Light wear to edges and covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453420


Price: $30.00 

 

Franklin's Bagatelles


Rosengarten, J. G.

Hardcover. American Philosophical Society, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, gilt top edge and title on spine, half leather bound with marbled cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and endpaper, minor edge fade. English and French text, overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853980


Price: $30.00 

 

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 8th pr, December 13, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 948 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453525


Price: $25.00 

 

Morale of the American Revolutionary Army, The


Bowman, Allen

Hardcover. Port Washington, N. Y., Kennikat Press, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, light edge wear and some pencil markings on page margins, otherwise, clean and bright.

Record # 854545


Price: $20.00 

 

Great Battle Fleets


Warner, Oliver

Hardcover. London, New York, Hamlyn, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations throughout, several color plates. Minor wear to dust jacket; in brodart. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454757


Price: $12.00 

 

Story of Grand Rapids, The


Lydens, Z. Z.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids, MI, Kregel Publications, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. 682 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 854800


Price: $40.00 

 

History of the Confederate States Navy


Sharf, J. Thomas

Hardcover. Random House, Incorporated, 1st thus, November 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 824 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454855


Price: $12.00 

 

Eastern Railroad, The: A Historical Account of Early Railroading in Eastern New England


Bradlee, Francis B. C.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, The Essex Institute, 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Ex-library copy with white tape on spine and small stamp on copyright page. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855178


Price: $38.00 

 

Eagle, The


Crisman, Kevin James

Hardcover. Shelburne, Vt., New England Press, Incorporated, The, 1st, July 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 455053


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean Relating to Their American Tours


Carson, William G. B.

Hardcover. St. Louis, Washington University, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages, with illustrations. Light corner bump and edge wear and fade, spine fade with light edge fray, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 855352


Price: $15.00 

 

Medieval Panorama


Bartlett, Robert (editor)

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Oversized. Over 800 illustrations, most in color. Light wear to edges of cover. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455561


Price: $25.00 

 

Threats of Revolution in Britain 1789-1848


Holt, Malcolm I. Thomis & Peter

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st , 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages. Light pencil underlining. Dust jacket has fading to spine and top edge. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855454


Price: $15.00 

 

Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain


Cervantes, Dr. Fernando

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, with illustrations. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455991


Price: $15.00 

 

Peasant Russia Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-1921


Figes, Orlando

Softcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages. Light pencil underlining in introduction. Some fading to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855536


Price: $100.00 

 

A Narrative of the Negro: Missing Pages in American History : Revealing the Services of Negros in the Early Wars in the United States of America 1641-1815


Wilkes, Laura E.

Hardcover. New York, G. K. Hall & Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456814


Price: $15.00 

 

Autopsie du Stalinisme: Avec le Texte Integral du Rapport Khrouchtchev


Rossi, A.

Softcover. Paris, Pierre Horay, 1st ed., 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Inscribed by author on half title page. French text. Tinting to pages. Shelf wear and tinting to covers and spine. Tight copy.

Record # 855691


Price: $38.00 

Those Naughty Ladies of the Old North West by: Meier, Gary
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Those Naughty Ladies of the Old North West by: Meier, Gary

Softcover. Bend, Or., Maverick Distributors, 1st, June 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear, soil to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 457243
Price: $12.00 

 

Lysenko Affair, The


Joravsky, David

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 459 pages. Light foxing and rubbing on dust jacket covers, as well as chipping and closed ears. Creasing on rear dust jacket cover. Some tape on back of dust jacket. Dust jacket now protected by clear, plastic cover. Some foxing on top and fore edges. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856340


Price: $19.00 

 

Who's Who in Late Medieval England 1272-1485


Hicks, Michael A.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, 1st, October 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 358 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457644


Price: $13.00 

 

Ancient Peoples and Places: Medieval Civilization in Germany, 800-1273


Bauml, Franz H.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. 60 photos. 39 line drawings. 14 maps. Light chipping, creasing, and edge-wear to dust jacket. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856650


Price: $13.00 

 

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Volume 13


Brack, O. M. (Editor)

Hardcover. university of wisconson press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages, gilt title on dark red cloth board, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457831


Price: $13.00 

 

Air Weapon 1914-1916, The : Volume 2 of Winged Mars


Cuneo, John R.

Hardcover. Harrisburg, PA, The Military Service Publishing Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 503 pages, illustrated throughout with maps in b&w. Wear, tearing and sun-fade to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Internally very good.

Record # 856951


Price: $75.00 

Medieval Slavery and LiberationDockes, Pierre
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Medieval Slavery and Liberation


Dockes, Pierre

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ of Chicago Pr, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457944


Price: $19.00 

Age of Courts and Kings, The  by: Erlanger, Philippe
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Age of Courts and Kings, The by: Erlanger, Philippe

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise, clean, tight copy. Record # 857462
Price: $12.00 

 

Russian Futurism Through Its Manifestoes, 1912-1928


Lawton, Anna

Softcover. Ithaca, Cornell Univ Pr, 1st, October 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Light sunning to spine, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458276


Price: $50.00 

 

So Few The Brave


Walker, Anthony, Illust. by: Alan Archambault

Paperback. East Greenwich, RI, Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 2nd, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, paperback. Illustrated by Alan Archambault. Regional history of the Rhode Island Continentals starting from 1775 to 1783. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951135


Price: $24.00 

 

Lewis & Clark in the Bitterroot


Oneill, Jeanne

Stoneydale Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458564


Price: $13.00 

 

Mummy in Ancient Egypt, The: Equipping the Dead for Eternity


Ikram, Salima and Aidan Dodson

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Extensively researched, with 485 illustrations, 37 in color. Rubbing and shelf-wear to dust jacket. Light bumping to boards. Mild age-toning and spotting to text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951485


Price: $48.00 

WOODEN SHIP :  The Art, History and Revival of Wooden BoatbuildingLarkin, David & Peter H. Spectre
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WOODEN SHIP : The Art, History and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding


Larkin, David & Peter H. Spectre

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight creasing to lower front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459901


Price: $38.00 

 

Day is Ours!, The: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, November 1776-January 1777


Dwyer, William M.

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 426 pages, . Account of two battles that turned the tide of the American Revolution. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight fade to wraps as well. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951892


Price: $13.00 

WHEELS WEST 1590-1900Dunlop, Richard
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WHEELS WEST 1590-1900


Dunlop, Richard

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460012


Price: $19.00 

Paris Commune, The: With a Full Account of the Bombardment, Capture, and Burning of the CityFetridge, W.P.
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Paris Commune, The: With a Full Account of the Bombardment, Capture, and Burning of the City


Fetridge, W.P.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1871, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 516 pages, hardcover. Orange cloth boards with gilt titling and embellishment to spine and front panel. Embossed and gilt decorations to front panel. Heavy fading to spine with moderate edgewear to top and bottom of the spine. Slight pencil marking to prelim pages. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Front flyleaf slightly loose, binding is tight and intact. Mild age toning and spotting to interior pages, most notably to prelim and rear pages. Fold out map in rear still attached, has moderate wear at top edge as well as some fading. Bumping and slight fraying to board corners. Frontispiece intact. A tight copy.

Record # 952356


Price: $50.00 

Last Battle, The : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam WarWetterhahn, Ralph
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Last Battle, The : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War


Wetterhahn, Ralph

Hardcover. US, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2001-06-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462047


Price: $11.00 

 

Les Parisiennes: Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation


Sebba, Anne

Softcover. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1st US, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Softcover. Minor fraying to edges. An otherwise clean copy. Black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 2230280


Price: $15.00 

Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by: Hickman, Katie
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by: Hickman, Katie

Hardcover. US, William Morrow, 1st, 2003-11-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 462358
Price: $12.00 

 

Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix


Daum, Werner

Softcover. Innsbruck, Pinguin-Verlag, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages. Softcover. Slight wear and creases on cover. Old inscriptions on title page. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2230467


Price: $88.00 

 

Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans


Ellis, Richard

Hardcover. US, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2003-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462814


Price: $23.00 

Will of Zeus, The: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander (SIGNED)Barr, Stringfellow
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Will of Zeus, The: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander (SIGNED)


Barr, Stringfellow

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear, chipping, punctures and fading. Inscribed on title page by author.

Record # 2230675


Price: $31.00 

Discovery of Jeanne Baret, The : A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by: Ridley, Glynis
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Discovery of Jeanne Baret, The : A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by: Ridley, Glynis

Hardcover. US, Crown, 1st, 2010-12-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463796
Price: $12.00 

Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, Volume ICayton, Mary Kupiec (ed.)
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Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, Volume I


Cayton, Mary Kupiec (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 733 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light normal scuffing to covers and wear to corners, very small bump to upper corner of text block, but otherwise very clean and tight copy. Volume 1 only. Domestic shipping only.

Record # 2230981


Price: $75.00 

Mississippi: An American Journey by: Walton, Anthony
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Mississippi: An American Journey by: Walton, Anthony

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1996-02-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. 12 b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466137
Price: $12.00 

 

Carnival: A People's Uprising at Romans 1579-1580


Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy; Feeney, Mary (editor)

Hardcover. London, Scolar Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 426 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipping to dust jacket on top. Light soil.

Record # 2233319


Price: $23.00 

MEN-OF-WAR by: O'Brian, Patrick
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MEN-OF-WAR by: O'Brian, Patrick

HARDCOVER. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, W.W. Norton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. Record # 467284 Record # 467284
Price: $12.00 

 

New England Gazetteer; containing descriptions of all the States Counties and Towns in New England...


Hayward, John

Hardcover. Boston, Israel S. Boyd and William White, 9th, 1839, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with leather covers. Wear is heavy on the covers. Foxing on pages and wear to page edges. Fraying on top spine leather. Spine gracks throughout.

Record # 2233515


Price: $75.00 

In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by: Degler, Carl N.
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In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by: Degler, Carl N.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 400 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some holes in dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 468150
Price: $12.00 

 

Vanished World, A


Sneller, Anne Gertrude

Hardcover. Syracuse , Syracuse Uni. Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, growing up on a farm in upstate NY circa 1900

Record # 1981


Price: $15.00 

 

Second Biennial Report of the Vermont State Board of Agriculture, Manufactures and Mining for the Years 1873-74


Collier, Peter

Hardcover. Montpelier, Freeman Steam Printing House and Bindery, 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 799 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket issue. Moderate soil on covers. Gilt lettering on spine. Water stain on front end papers. Spine cracked.

Record # 2233729


Price: $50.00 

When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by: Jones-Jackson, Patricia
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When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by: Jones-Jackson, Patricia

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, reprint , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Softcover. Illustrated frontispiece. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 468294
Price: $12.00 

 

Stage Coach North


Lee, W. Storrs

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 5782


Price: $18.00 

 

Irish People, The: An Illustrated History


Neill, Kenneth

Hardcover. New York, NY, Mayflower Books Inc., First US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers, light foxing to right edge. Profusely illustrated with over 450 photographs and 8 pages in full color. Dust jacket in full color with light toning to edges & spots of foxing to inside, reverse side of dj. Light toning to pages and in very good condition, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670005


Price: $15.00 

Sons of Mississippi: a story of race and its legacy by: Hendrickson, Paul
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Sons of Mississippi: a story of race and its legacy by: Hendrickson, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 343 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469188
Price: $12.00 

 

Drawing the Line - The Korean War 1950 - 1953


Whelan, Richard

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w Illustrations

Record # 19942


Price: $18.00 

 

Rip, Strip, & Row! A Builder's Guide to the Cosine Wherry


Taylor, Maureen/David Allen Lambert (Contributor)

Softcover. Larkspur, CA, Tamal Vista Publications, Second Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages. Softcover. Full page illustrated wraps with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean inside & out with numerous illustrations in black & white. The Cosine Wherry is "a strong, lightweight, high performance rowboat, well designed for racing yet practical for fishing, a wonderfully shaped boat with a lot of stability." This builder's guide covers the mold, planking, fiberglassing the hull & interior, materials list, design details & more. Clean copy with sharp corners, profusely illustrated. A nice copy.

Record # 6670173


Price: $25.00 

Olympia: Paris in the age of Manet by: Friedrich, Otto
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Olympia: Paris in the age of Manet by: Friedrich, Otto

Hardcover. New York, NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages. Hardcover. Color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469399
Price: $12.00 

Civil War Boston: Homefront & BattlefieldO'Connor, Thomas H.
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Civil War Boston: Homefront & Battlefield


O'Connor, Thomas H.

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Very clean copy, inside and out. From the dust cover front flap: "Thomas H. O'Connor examines the dramatic ways in which the Civil War affected Bostonians on the home front and discusses how they in turn contributed to the Union cause."

Record # 30389


Price: $25.00 

Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing HistoryGrass, Sean
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Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History


Grass, Sean

hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing , reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 469951


Price: $50.00 

 

Singing Rails


Pease, Herbert L.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner signature on front endpaper. Covered in black fabric, has a little age wear, light abrasions and discoloration, but still intact. Pages and edges yellowed with age, slight bit of foxing to edges. Top edge dyed red. From the foreward: The incidents related in this chronicle of railroading as I knew it in the early 1900's are without exception drawn from actual happenings."

Record # 30593


Price: $25.00 

Fighting In Normandy: The German Army from D-Day to Villers-BocageIsby, David (EDITOR)
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Fighting In Normandy: The German Army from D-Day to Villers-Bocage


Isby, David (EDITOR)

Hardcover. London, Greenhill Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470441


Price: $23.00 

 

John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence


Muir, John, Michael P. Branch

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight. Green endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Like new. Michael Branch has elegantly and creatively helped imagine John Muir's "missing years" and his astonishing journey to the tropics.

Record # 31567


Price: $25.00 

Blair Years, The: The Alastair Campbell DiariesCampbell, Alastair
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Blair Years, The: The Alastair Campbell Diaries


Campbell, Alastair

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 816 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Newsletter from publisher lain within. Tight copy.

Record # 470761


Price: $19.00 

 

River Runs to War, A


Drummond, John D.

Hardcover. London, UK, W.H. Allen, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. B/w illustrations throughout. A WWII war memoir full of adventure, danger and romance.

Record # 31911


Price: $19.00 

Japanese TheatreBowers, Faudion
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Japanese Theatre


Bowers, Faudion

Softcover. Rutland, VT, Tuttle Pub, 3rd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Softcover with slight wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy with sun fading to spine. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470921


Price: $25.00 

 

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal


Karabell, Zachary

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, black, textured quarter cloth, orange title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In great condition. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East.

Record # 32180


Price: $19.00 

 

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine


Scull, Andrew

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471090


Price: $15.00 

 

Cruise of the Raider HK-33


Brennecke, H.J.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece. Previous owner's address label on front flyleaf. Light tanning to pages and edges from age. Black cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Some rubbing to boards as well as chipping at edges. THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KRUDER, THE COUNT VON LUCKNER, OF WORLD WAR II. "...written by a leading German naval correspondent with the help of HK-33's survivors. The stories of the Pinguin, a German freighter converted to war use, are unique in the history of naval warfare.

Record # 32884


Price: $23.00 

 

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850 (Critical Histories)


Halpern, Rick (Editor)

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor sun fading to spine. Price sticker on rear wrapper.

Record # 471167


Price: $19.00 

Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation by: VanDevelder, Paul
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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation by: VanDevelder, Paul

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are the interior pages. Binding is solid. This book tells the story of Raymond Cross, the great-great-grandson of the chief who sheltered Lewis and Clark through the bitter cold winter of 1804. Cross is an Ivy League-trained lawyer, this is the story of his fight up through the supreme court to redeem the dignity of his people. Remainder mark on top of book near the spine, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33651
Price: $15.00 

 

Civil War Lexington, Kentucky: Bluegrass Breeding Ground of Power (Civil War Series)


Leet, Joshua H.

Softcover. London, The History Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Browning to front and rear covers by design. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 471195


Price: $15.00 

Hilton Head Island in the Civil War: Department of The South by: Carse, Robert
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Hilton Head Island in the Civil War: Department of The South by: Carse, Robert

Softcover. Columbia, SC, State Printing Company, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are in very good condition, despite some minor staining along the top edge. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a historical account of a South Carolina island which was used as a Union base during the Civil War. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33699
Price: $18.00 

Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry by: Cooper, Andrew M.
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Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry by: Cooper, Andrew M.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with some wear to dust jacket. Otherwise a tight copy. Record # 471405
Price: $12.00 

The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History by: Russel, Jeffrey B.
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The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History by: Russel, Jeffrey B.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Throughout history, Satan the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity through to the present. While recounting how past generations have personified evil, he deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil. Clean copy. Record # 33803
Price: $15.00 

Brilliant Solution, A: Inventing the American ConstitutionBerkin, Carol
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Brilliant Solution, A: Inventing the American Constitution


Berkin, Carol

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471687


Price: $13.00 

The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements by: Viola, Lynne
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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements by: Viola, Lynne

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is mildly bumped. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. Historian Lynne Viola reveals how, in one of the most egregious episodes of Soviet repression, Stalin drove two million peasants into internal exile, to work as forced laborers. The book shows how entire families were callously thrown out of their homes, banished from their villages, and sent to the icy hinterlands of the Soviet Union, where in the course of a decade, almost a half million would die as a result of disease, starvation, or exhaustion. Light pencil underlining present on some pages. Record # 33911
Price: $18.00 

 

Lost Speech of Abraham Lincoln, The


Morrow, Honore Willsie

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes co., 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND DATED BY MORROW on front endpaper. Staining to top of title pages, and 4 and 5. Marbled paper covers overlay on front & back with silliouette of Lincoln on front. Rubbing to corners, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 502552


Price: $24.00 

Peasant Russia Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-1921 by: Figes, Orlando
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Peasant Russia Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-1921 by: Figes, Orlando

Softcover. London, England, Phoenix Press, Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Why and how did the October 1917 revolution occur in Russia? Often overlooked as a crucial factor in the Bolsheviks' victory was the role of the peasantry. Here is an enthralling portrait of this poor but sizable population on the eve of the uprising; of the breakdown of state power in the countryside; and, most important, of the relationship between the serfs and the Bolsheviks during the civil war. An enlightening approach, illustrated with disturbing contemporary images. Record # 33978
Price: $25.00 

 

Colonial Folkways: A Chronicle of American Life in the Reign of the Georges


Andrews, Charles M.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Contains 16 plate illustrations. Gilt top edge. Volume 9 of the Chronicles of America Series, Allen Johnson Editor. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Small stain to first few pages. Light browning to top edges of pages. Paper on front hinge starting to crack. Hole to rear endpaper. Corners bumped. Light markings to rear cover. Small bump in edge of front cover.

Record # 504152


Price: $30.00 

Siberia, Siberia by: Rasputin, ValentinTransl. Mikkelson, GeraldTransl. Winchell, Margaret
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Siberia, Siberia by: Rasputin, Valentin Transl. Mikkelson, Gerald Transl. Winchell, Margaret

Softcover. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st thus, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a sweeping account of and a penetrating reflection on Russia's four hundred years of experience in Siberia. Beginning with Yermak, whose Cossacks crossed into Siberia in the 1580s, through the rapid Russian exploration, conquest, and colonialization, to today, Rasputin reveals the peculiarities of the Siberians, studying the gap between dreams and reality that has plagued Russians in Siberia for centuries. Clean copy. Record # 34031
Price: $12.00 

 

Iuris Graeco Romani Tam Canonici Quam Civilis 1596, vol. I


Leunclavius, Joannes

England, Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 563 pages. Volume one. Top corners bumped. Some markings to covers.

Record # 506875


Price: $36.00 

Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 by: Pratt, Richard Henry Editor: Utley, Robert M.
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Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 by: Pratt, Richard Henry Editor: Utley, Robert M.

Softcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is about how General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt's long and active military career included eight years of service as an army field officer on the western frontier. He directed the Carlisle school, believing that the only way to save Indians from extinction was to remove Indian youth to non reservation settings and there inculcate in them what he considered civilized ways. Previous owner's markings in black pen are present through the first half of the book. Record # 34127
Price: $12.00 

Early Tudor Government, Henry VII by: Pickthorn, Kenneth
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Early Tudor Government, Henry VII by: Pickthorn, Kenneth

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 192 pages. Bookseller's label on rear endpaper. Light rubbing to corners and spine. Record # 507673
Price: $12.00 

General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War by: Varney, Frank P.
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General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War by: Varney, Frank P.

Hardcover. El Dorado Hills, CA, Savas Beatie, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book reveals how Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, despite their influence, contain flaws and biases that have distorted our understanding of the Civil War and key participants, including General William S. Rosecrans. Clean copy. Record # 34176
Price: $20.00 

Victorian and Edwardian Wales from old Photographs by: Jones, E.D.
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Victorian and Edwardian Wales from old Photographs by: Jones, E.D.

London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Contains 154 black & white photos of Wales. English and Welsh text and captions to photos. Dust jacket price clipped, with price sticker on front flap, minor edgewear. Record # 508069
Price: $12.00 

Trafalgar: An Eyewitness Account of a Great Battle by: Legg, Stuart
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Trafalgar: An Eyewitness Account of a Great Battle by: Legg, Stuart

Hardcover. NY, The John Day Company, 1st thus, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 133 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light edge wear, but is still in very good condition, as protected by a plastic Brodart cover. Orange cloth covers are clean and bright, despite one small binding flaw at the front hinge. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a vivid and exciting narrative, breaking down the action of the famous battle of Trafalgar. Clean copy. Record # 34245
Price: $12.00 

 

Christus Judex: A Traveller's Tale


Roth, Edward

Hardcover. Andover, MA, Andover Press, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 95 pages Gilt titles and decoration on spine. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Foxing to spine. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 508597


Price: $15.00 

The Horizon History of Africa by: Editor: Josephy, Alvin M.
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The Horizon History of Africa by: Editor: Josephy, Alvin M.

Hardcover. NY, American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 529 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several chips and closed tears, concentrated at the top and bottom of the spine. Brown cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography and maps throughout. This book is a comprehensive illustrated history of all of Africa. It also presents, in 12 anthologies, a cross-section of Africa's little-known historical literature. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34355
Price: $12.00 

Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley
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Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510814
Price: $12.00 

Sri Ramanujacampu by Ramanujacarya: Commentary by Pandit. V. Krishnamacharya.  by: Editor: Sastriyar, P. P. Subhramanya
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Sri Ramanujacampu by Ramanujacarya: Commentary by Pandit. V. Krishnamacharya. by: Editor: Sastriyar, P. P. Subhramanya

Hardcover. Madras, Tamil Nadu, Superintendent Government Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, hardcover. Paper cover boards with a blue cloth spine have some light discoloration and mild edge wear, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright despite light foxing to the end papers. Binding is solid. This book is a part of the Oriental Manuscript Series, being No. 6. The introduction to this historical biography is in English, but all other text is in Sanskrit. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34459
Price: $170.00 

 

This Hallowed Ground - The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War


Catton, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , Ltd Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Special Presentation Edition, SIGNED BY CATTON on blank prelim page. Blue calf spine with putty colored cloth boards. Map end papers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 601371


Price: $40.00 

The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia by: Hoffman, Danny
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The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia by: Hoffman, Danny

Softcover. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a part of The Cultures and Practice of Violence series. It considers how young men in West Africa are made available for violent labor on the battlefields, in diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries. Based on ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries' recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the paths of young fighters who moved from grassroots community-defense organizations in Sierra Leone during the mid-1990s into a large pool of mercenary labor. Clean copy. Record # 34529
Price: $18.00 

 

Vermont Educational Commission Report 1914


NA

Hardcover. Montpelier, State of Vermont, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Library plate on inside front cover. Spine slightly cocked.

Record # 604577


Price: $13.00 

History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From its Settlement to the Present Time [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Emery, Samuel Hopkins
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History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From its Settlement to the Present Time [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Emery, Samuel HopkinsHistory of Taunton, Massachusetts: From its Settlement to the Present Time [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Emery, Samuel Hopkins

History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From its Settlement to the Present Time [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Emery, Samuel Hopkins

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 878 pages, hardcover. Leather cover boards have minor edge wear, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography, maps, and portraits throughout. Additionally includes a laid-in supplement to the History of Taunton. This is a definitive local history book, which details the city's growth starting from its formal incorporation in 1639. This book catalogs the early days of the Plymouth Colony settlement, the vital influence of the Taunton River, and the rise of local industries like ironworks and textiles. Author's short inscription to the previous owner is present on the front end page. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34598
Price: $150.00 

War of the Two Emperors, The: The Duel Between Napoleon and Alexander, Russia 1812Cate, Curtis
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War of the Two Emperors, The: The Duel Between Napoleon and Alexander, Russia 1812


Cate, Curtis

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 487 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight wear to dust jacket edges, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 606624


Price: $15.00 

 

Slaves in the Family


Ball, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st , 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Winner of National Book Award

Record # 50910


Price: $30.00 

 

True History of the Civil War, The


Lee, Guy Carleton

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and maps. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606864


Price: $45.00 


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