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At Andersonville - A Narrative of Personal Adventure at Andersonville, Florence and Charleston Rebel Prisons


Brownell, Josiah C.

Paperback. Glen Cove Public Library, Rep.wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the original 1867 ed. 40 pages.

Record # 60831


Price: $28.00 

 

Argonauts of 'Forty-Nine, The


Leeper, David Rohrer

Hardcover. Indiana, David Rohrer Leeper, 2nd printing, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. Black & white illustrations by O. Marion Elbel. Some spots of soiling to front cover. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609929


Price: $80.00 

 

Whirlwind of War, The - Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865


Oates, Stephen B.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 846 pags.

Record # 61127


Price: $30.00 

 

Historic Origin of the Constitution of the United States - A Compilation with Marginal Notes and Illustrative Charts, The


American Principle, Inc.

Softcover. San Francisco, American Principle, Inc., 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Spiral bound with heavy flexible covers. Ex-museum library copy. Stamp embossed at top right corner of title page. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 610352


Price: $31.00 

 

Pictorial History of Jazz, A - People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz


Keepnews, Orrin and Bill Graves, Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 5th pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 625 black & white illust. 282 pages. Dj edgeworn, spine faded.

Record # 61530


Price: $18.00 

 

Last Grand Adventure - The Story of the Klondike Gold Rush & the Opening of Alaska, The


Bronson, William/Richard Reinhardt

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with 2 tape repaired tears at top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611383


Price: $13.00 

 

Gods and Mortals in Classical Mythology


Grant, Michael & John Hazel

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Merriam Co., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white illust. 447 pages.

Record # 63635


Price: $38.00 

 

ARAN - Islands of Legend


Siochain, P. A. O.

Hardcover. Dublin, FOILSIUCHAIN EIREANN, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, and fold-out map in rear. Fold-out map with tape repaired tear. Dust jacket worn, darkening to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612174


Price: $38.00 

 

Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel


Chittenden, L. E., Illust. by: Howard Pyle

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis by Howard Pyle. 4 photography plates (2 loose) otherwise VG with previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 65872


Price: $15.00 

 

Jacques Coeur - Merchant Prince of the Middle Ages


Kerr, Albert Boardman

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 317 pages plus index. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket with wear to edges, areas of soiling. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612402


Price: $15.00 

 

Eighteenth Century, The - Europe in the Age of Enlightenment


Cobban (Ed.), Alfred

NY, McGraw Hill, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 589 illustrations., 173 in color. Text pages browning as usual. Large book, shipping extra

Record # 67083


Price: $30.00 

 

Puritan Republic, The


Howe, Daniel Wait

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover and name on front endpaper. Crease to top corner of page 211-212. Small area of sticker residue at bottom of spine. Minor rubbing to cover edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613519


Price: $50.00 

 

United States Coast Pilot - Alaska Part l - Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay


N/A

Washingdon, DC, GPO, 9th ed., 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 466 pages. 4-page supplement (1944) tipped into front. Fold-out map in nice contition. Shelf worn.

Record # 68365


Price: $15.00 

 

My Mama Rolled Out of the Sleigh: A Sampler of: Individual and Family Memories Recorded at the Vermont Women's State Fair


Lane (Editor), Karen/MaryKasamatsu/Eleanor Ott

Softcover. Montpelier, State of Vermont, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library copy with stamp on endpapers. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613933


Price: $24.00 

 

Freedom's Triumph - The Why, When and Where of the European Conflict


N/A

Hardcover. Chicago, Woman's Weekly, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white photos. 148 pages. Cardboard covers, cloth spine with light wear.

Record # 68877


Price: $13.00 

 

Lectures on the American Civil War


Rhodes, James Ford

Hardcover. New York, Macmillian Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages including index. Fold-out color map in back. Clean insides except for small flower pressed between pages 84 and 85. In blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Previous owner inscription on front endpager.

Record # 700045


Price: $25.00 

 

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915


Myres, Sandra L.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico, 2nd, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ex-lib with light stamping residue b&w Illustrations 365 pgs dust-jacket with mild edgewear, chiping

Record # 70690


Price: $18.00 

 

Glorious Contentment - The Grand Army of the Republic 1865-1900


McConnell, Stuart

Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in dust jacket.

Record # 700459


Price: $10.00 

Manners and Morals in the Age of Optimism - 1848-1914 by: Laver, James

Manners and Morals in the Age of Optimism - 1848-1914 by: Laver, James

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ex-lib with usual markings, stamping, but hardly read, black & white Illustrations, 272 pgs. Record # 100980
Price: $12.00 

 

Kearny the Magnificent


Werstein, Irving

New York, John Day Company, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. The life of General Philip Kearny, 1815-1862. Book review pasted to front end papers.

Record # 700712


Price: $18.00 

 

E.J Marey and Cardiology - Physiologist and Pioneer of Technology 1830-1904


Shellen, H.A.

Hardcover. Rotterdam, Kooyker Scientific Pub, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Selected writings in facsimile with comments and brief biography. 264 pages.

Record # 109935


Price: $18.00 

America and the Winter War - 1939 - 1940 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)Jacobs, Travis Beal/Frank Freidel (Editor)
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America and the Winter War - 1939 - 1940 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Jacobs, Travis Beal/Frank Freidel (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Garland Publishing Inc., 1st Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR, printed as part of Modern American History, A Garland Series, edited by Frank Freidel, Harvard University. Red cloth boards with black printed titles to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750232


Price: $225.00 

 

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the U.S. - The Lansig Papers 1914-1920. (2 vols.)


GPO

Washington D.C., GPO, 1st, 1939,1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature on both Vols. Otherwise clean, crisp set. 801, 576 pages.

Record # 200276


Price: $45.00 

 

Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition - Studies in Western Esotericism


Faivre, Antoine

Softcover. Albany, State University of New York Press, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Softcover with full color illustration to cover. Only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked text. A nice copy.

Record # 750772


Price: $25.00 

 

Father Abraham's Children - Michegan Episodes In The Civil War


Woodford, Frank B.

hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations and photos. Previous owner's bookplate. Illustrated end papers. Light soil to cloth. No dust jacket. 305 pages.

Record # 202452


Price: $25.00 

 

Apxn - Notes and Papers on Archaic Studies No. 4 and 5


Sheehan (Editors), Donald and Carol

Softcover. Franconia, Center for Archaic Studies, First Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover. Red covers with gilt printed decoration & titles to cover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750899


Price: $25.00 

Trials of Intimacy - Love and loss in the Beecher-Tilton ScandalWightman Fox, Richard
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Trials of Intimacy - Love and loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal


Wightman Fox, Richard

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white sketches and photographs.

Record # 203846


Price: $20.00 

 

Battle of Cassino, The


Majdalany, Fred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with age toning, tears to edges & chipping to spine. Toning to edges throughout. Black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751174


Price: $15.00 

 

A Memorial of Rufus Spaulding Cushman, D.D., Late Pastor of the Congregational Church in Manchester, Vermont


Manchester, Vermont

Andover, Draper, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 66 pages. All edges gilt. Cover has edgewear. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206886


Price: $18.00 

 

Early American Book Bindings From the Collection of Michael Papantonio


Papantonio, Michael/Marcus A. McCorison

Softcover. New York, American Antiquarian Society, Second Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover wraps with blue printed decoration to cover & black printed titles. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 751293


Price: $15.00 

 

Handbook of Old Burial Hill Plymouth Massachusetts - Its History, Its Famous Dead and Its Quaint Epitaphs


Perkins, Frank H.

Paperback. Plymouth, MA, Rogers, 1st wraps, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages. Paperback. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 208078


Price: $35.00 

 

LIFE, TIMES AND TREACHEROUS DEATH OF JESSE JAMES, THE


Triplett, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Promontory Press, Reprint , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Said to be an authentic reprint of the long surppressed 1882 edition. 344 pages. Illustrated plates of Jesse James' Family and original painting plates by Jerry Valdez. Royal 8vo. Tan boards. Very good color pictorial dj.

Record # 220614


Price: $13.00 

 

All Sorts of Good Sufficient Cloth: Linen-Making in New England 1640 - 1860


Beebe, Lucius/Charles Clegg

Softcover. North Andover, MA, Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, First Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Softcover, one of 3,000 limited editions, profusely illustrated in black & white. Quarter-sized stain to front cover, light wear to edges. Else clean & unmarked.

Record # 751503


Price: $38.00 

 

Hudson Crossroads


Sears, Mary Hun

Hardcover. New York, Exposition Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 568 pages. Map end papers. 12mo. Dark blue boards. Dust jacket water stain on spine, some wear to edges.

Record # 220863


Price: $16.00 

 

Brearley Book, The - Volume X, Class of 1929


Houston (Editor), Helen

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Brearley School, First Edition, 2029, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover with classmate autographs covering one of the final pages. Frontis illustration of Elizabeth D. Littell, in black & white to whom the yearbook is dedicated. Minor tone to edges throughout and a couple small spots of soiling to endpapers. Blue boards with gilt stamped coat of arms & gilt numbers to front cover board. Else clean & unmarked.

Record # 751565


Price: $31.00 

 

Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times (2 Vols.)


Rogers, Rev. Charles

Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I: 416 pages. Vol II: 418 pages. No Dust jacket issued.

Record # 300893


Price: $40.00 

 

Tenth Vermont


Haynes, E. M.

Hardcover. Vermont, Tenth Vermont Regimental Association, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, green cover, small gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, light wear to cover, small date stamp to corner of rear endpaper; otherwise book in great condition.

Record # 803300


Price: $109.00 

 

Norwegian-American Studies - Volume 21


N/A

Northfield, MN , Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. A collection of writings on the Norwegian immigrant experience.

Record # 302380


Price: $20.00 

From Workshop to Warfare: The Lives of Medieval Women  by: Adams, Carol, Partley, Paula, Bourdillon, Hilary, & Loxton, Cathy

From Workshop to Warfare: The Lives of Medieval Women by: Adams, Carol, Partley, Paula, Bourdillon, Hilary, & Loxton, Cathy

Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Record # 804050
Price: $12.00 

Village Life in America 1852-1872 by: Richards, Caroline Cowles (Margaret E. Sangster)
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Village Life in America 1852-1872 by: Richards, Caroline Cowles (Margaret E. Sangster)

New York, Henry Holt, Rep., 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages, B&W illustrations. Introduction by Margaret E. Sangster, includes the Civil War period told through the diary of a school girl. Record # 303295
Price: $12.00 

 

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: 1953-1957


Massachusetts Historical Society

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 557 pages. Volume LXXI. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine, full page b&w frontispiece, 19 b&w plates. A very clean, tight copy; copy in excellent condition.

Record # 806113


Price: $40.00 

 

Our Island Lighthouse


Richmond, Bernice

New York , Random House , 1st, 1947, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages. Memoir of living in a Maine lighthouse. Ex-lib with library bookplate, letters on spine, cocked spine. scarce.

Record # 304184


Price: $100.00 

 

Berkshire Lost


Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Softcover. Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Historical catalog. White stapled wrappers, profusely illustrated with large b&w plates of historical buildings, acknowledgments by Paul Ivory, introduction by Cornelia Brooke Gilder, roster of historical architecture lost since 1900 within 100-mile radius of Chesterwood. Small light brown markings to front, pages very crisp; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807927


Price: $12.00 

 

Cat from Hue, The - A Vietnam War Story


Laurence, John

Hardcover. New York, Public Affairs, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 850 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 304541


Price: $10.00 

 

Vive la France!


Powell, E. Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Powell was news correspondent with the Allied armies during WWI. Dark blue cloth covers, tissue-protected endpaper, over 60 b&w photographic illustrations. Faded spine, light rubbing and edgewear to covers, tight binding, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808642


Price: $18.00 

 

Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South


Ray, Celeste

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University Press of North Carolina, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new condition in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 400947


Price: $30.00 

 

Cambridge


Grant, Michael

Hardcover. London, Reynal & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial end papers. 192 pages. Illustrated color and black & white plates. 4to. Beige buckram. Price clipped, color pictorial dust jacket with minor edge wear.

Record # 809187


Price: $12.00 

 

Westminster


Besant, Sir Walter, Illust. by: William Patten et. al.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st thus, 1895, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, 130 b&w illustrations by William Patten and others. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and black and gilt design. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Edge wear to covers. Rear hinge and binding cracked. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401949


Price: $40.00 

 

Out of the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics


Pakenham, Valerie

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial end papers. Small closed tear to upper edge of dust jacket's front cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810182


Price: $10.00 

 

Gentlemen Rovers


Powell, E. Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. Maroon covers with bright gilt lettering.

Record # 403688


Price: $18.00 

 

Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier 1754-1774


Van Every, Dale

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, b&w maps. Edge wear, chipping to price-clipped dust jacket. Light smudging to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850763


Price: $18.00 

 

Northampton: The Meadow City


N/A

Hardcover. Northampton MA, F.N. Kneeland and L.P. Bryant, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages, over 250 b&w illustrations. Two tone cloth (white and beige) with gilt design and lettering. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 405086


Price: $100.00 

 

Hadrian


Perowne, Stewart

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. LIght spotting to edges. MInor wear, soiling to dust jacket.

Record # 851849


Price: $15.00 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 120 - 1990 by: Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 120 - 1990 by: Scodel (Ed.), Ruth

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture. Record # 406508
Price: $12.00 

Spithead: An Informal History by: Lewis, Michael

Spithead: An Informal History by: Lewis, Michael

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. B&w photographs and illustrations. Light wear to cover edges. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Price sticker on front flyleaf. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 851921
Price: $12.00 

 

Pfalz: The First Detailed Story of the Company and Its Famous Plane


Grosz, Peter and Egon Kruger

Softcover. West Roxbury MA, World War I Aero Publishers, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, b&w illustrations, illustrated stapled wrappers. Clean.

Record # 406551


Price: $13.00 

 

March of Time, The, 1935-1951


Fielding, Raymond

Hardcover. New York, Oxford UP, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. 359 pages. B&w illustrations. Previous owner's sticker on front flyleaf. Light chipping and rubbing to dust jacket. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 852012


Price: $40.00 

 

Vermont: The Land of Green Mountains


N/A

Softcover. Essex Junction VT, Bureau of Publicity, 1913, Book: Very Good, 202 pages plus 6 page index. Many b&w photographs of country landscapes throughout Vermont. Paper wrappers with light spotting, otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Record # 407004


Price: $25.00 

 

Cruise of the Conrad


Villiers, Alan

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., new, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 368 pages, b&w maps and photographs. Edgewear, soiling to dust jacket, pieces missing; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 852167


Price: $18.00 

 

"Charles W. Morgan", The: The Story of the Last of the Old Whalers


Dickerman, Marion

Softcover. Old Mystic CT, Marine Museum, N/A, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, stapled binding, 28 pages with b&w illustrations. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 411918


Price: $13.00 

 

Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas, The: United States Navy Correspondence and Journal 1837-1859.


Allen (ed), Gardener W.

Hardcover. New York , De Vinne Press, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Light blue and white cover. Printed for the Naval History Society. Number 112 of 700 copies. Pages untrimmed. B&w illustration with tissue guard. Worn slipcase. Inside nice and clean. Contains one page insert addressed to Naval History Society members.

Record # 852374


Price: $40.00 

 

Central Intelligence Agency, The: A Photographic History


Quirk, John Patrick and others

Hardcover. New York , Stein & Day, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A history of American intelligence including OSS. Also includes a section on who watches over the CIA. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411974


Price: $19.00 

 

Brotherhood of the Sea, The


Chatterson, E. Keble

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Gilt titles on spine, tissue guard on frontispiece. Illustrated throughout, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852422


Price: $10.00 

First World War, The [ROUGHCUT]Keegan, John
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First World War, The [ROUGHCUT]


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages, b&w photographs. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Slight bump to upper edge, dust jacket with light wear and small stain to rear cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450341


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Lake Erie, The: And Reminiscences of the Flagships "Lawrence" and "Niagara"


Dobbins, Captain W. W.

Hardcover. Erie, Pennsylvania, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages, with preface and biographical sketch of the life of Oliver Hazard Perry by John Elmer Reed. Minor spine edge and cover corner wear. Gilt title on cover and spine. Very clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852544


Price: $40.00 

 

The Andrews Collection: Personal Treasures


Smith, Anne D.

Hardcover. 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 104 pages, b&w and color photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450892


Price: $25.00 

 

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. II of V.


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852815


Price: $18.00 

The Search for the North West PassageSavours, Ann
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The Search for the North West Passage


Savours, Ann

Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles, color-illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 451786


Price: $15.00 

Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism by: Curriden, Mark, Leroy Phillips, Jr.

Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism by: Curriden, Mark, Leroy Phillips, Jr.

Hardcover. New York, Faber and Faber, Inc., Book Club, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages. Minor smoke odor, otherwise, very clean and tight. Record # 852964
Price: $12.00 

 

Shakespeare's Second Globe


Hodges, C.Walter

Hardcover. London, 1st, October 11, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 99 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light edge wear, creases to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 452922


Price: $18.00 

 

History of Piracy, The.


Gosse, Philip

Hardcover. New York , Burt Franklin, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, minor wear to edges. Bright and clean inside, b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 853140


Price: $18.00 

 

Russian Version of the Second World War, The : The History of the War As Taught to Soviet Schoolchildren


Lyons, Graham (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Facts on File, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear, rubbing to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453326


Price: $12.00 

 

Picture History of New England Passenger Vessels


Cram, W. Bartlett

Hardcover. Maine, Burntcoat Corporation, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853380


Price: $35.00 

Russia, America and the Cold War: 1949-1991 (Revised 2nd Edition) (2nd Edition)McCauley, Martin
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Russia, America and the Cold War: 1949-1991 (Revised 2nd Edition) (2nd Edition)


McCauley, Martin

Softcover. Harlow, England ; New York, Longman, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Slight bump to lower edge of spine, small tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453418


Price: $20.00 

 

General History of Connecticut


McCormick, Samuel Jarvis

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st thus, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages, first published in 1781 authored by Reverend Samuel Peters, appended and edited by McCormick. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, corner chip on title on spine, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853971


Price: $30.00 

Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism, 1762-1796Ledonne, John P.
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Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism, 1762-1796


Ledonne, John P.

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ Pr, 1st, October 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 410 pages, several b&w illustrations and maps. Rubbing, light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453513


Price: $20.00 

 

Wisdom of the Seneca


n/a

Softcover. Albany, University of the State of New York, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854442


Price: $30.00 

Last of the African Kings, The  by: Hewitt, Leah D. (Afterword)

Last of the African Kings, The by: Hewitt, Leah D. (Afterword)

Softcover. University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 454690
Price: $12.00 

 

Political Theories of the Middle Age


Gierke, Otto

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, translated with an introduction by Frederic William Maitland, gilt title on spine on blue cover. Minor corner bump and edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854727


Price: $20.00 

Finding the Walls of TroyAllen, Susan Heuck
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Finding the Walls of Troy


Allen, Susan Heuck

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, February 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good.

Record # 454853


Price: $12.00 

 

Pawlet for One Hundred Years: Bicentennial Edition


Hollister, Hiel

Hardcover. Pawlet, Vermont, Pawlett Historical Society, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages, with frontispiece portrait of author and gilt title on spine. Light stains on top edge, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855127


Price: $31.00 

 

Parading Through History


Hoxie, Frederick E.

Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, August 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 395 pages, b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Smudges on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 455035


Price: $12.00 

 

Great Air War, The: The Men, the Planes, the Saga of Military Aviation: 1914-1918


Norman, Aaron

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 558 pages, with photographs and illustrations. Light dust jacket edge wear and chip, minor spotting on fore edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 855332


Price: $19.00 

 

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny


Morrison, Michael A.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 396 pages. Tan cloth cover, some light wear, very minor foxing. Dust jacket has some edgewear. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455537


Price: $19.00 

 

Russia: More different than most


Kangaspuro, Markku

Softcover. Gummerus Kirjapino Oy, Kikimora Publications, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855437


Price: $13.00 

 

Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico [ILLUSTRATED]


Knaut, Andrew L.

Hardcover. Norman, Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages, slight dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455987


Price: $15.00 

Rulers & Subjects: Government and People in Russia 1801-1991Gooding, John
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Rulers & Subjects: Government and People in Russia 1801-1991


Gooding, John

Softcover. London, Arnold, 1st ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages. Fading to spine. Pictorial covers. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 855526


Price: $13.00 

 

Desert Eagles


Wynn, Humphrey

Hardcover. Osceola, WI, USA, Motorbooks International, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 140 pages, with maps and photographs. Small pen mark on front fly leaf, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456776


Price: $12.00 

 

French Historical Method: The Annales Paradigm


Stoianovich, Traian

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st ed., 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine have foxing along spine and end papers. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket spine is faded and has general shelf wear. Pen underlining throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 855673


Price: $23.00 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 18611889Bartley, Theodore D.
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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 18611889


Bartley, Theodore D.

Softcover. Fleischmanns, N.Y., Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. SIGNED by descendant Barbara B. Bartley. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457124


Price: $25.00 

 

Centennial Exposition, Described and Illustrated, The


Ingram, J. S.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Hubbard Bros., 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 770 pages + ads and fold-out map in rear. Brown cloth with gilt decor and raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers and edges. May have been rebound. Light wear and rubbing to covers and slight 1/2 inch crack between upper edge of spine and rear cover not affecting the integrity of the binding. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 855962


Price: $88.00 

 

Introduction to Islamic Arms, An


North, Anthony

Hardcover. 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, with pictorial cover and illustrations throughout. Light edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457617


Price: $15.00 

 

Mining Camp Days: Bodie, Aurora, Bridgeport, Hawthorne, Tonopah, Lundy, Masonic, Benton, Thorne, Mono Mills, Mammoth, Sodaville, Goldfield


Billeb, Emil W.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Howell-North Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 229 pages. 203 black-and-white illustrations. Chipping, edge-wear, soiling, and tanning to dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Very light foxing to all edges. A few pages with stains. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856645


Price: $25.00 

 

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 14


Brack, O. M.

Hardcover. Colleagues Pr / University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages, gilt title on dark red cloth board, minor edge wear and faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457829


Price: $13.00 

 

Lafayette Escadrille, The


Mason, Jr, Herbert Mollot

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 340 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and sun-fade to dust jacket with light tearing to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856947


Price: $25.00 

 

Bridge Across the Atlantic: The Story of Hapag Lloyd's North American Liner Services


Seiler, Otto J.

Hardcover. Herford, John Kallmann Publishers, January 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457935


Price: $44.00 

Americans From Africa: Slavery and Its Aftermath by: Rose, Peter I.

Americans From Africa: Slavery and Its Aftermath by: Rose, Peter I.

Hardcover. New York, Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to dust jacket and top and side edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857241
Price: $12.00 

 

Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914


Engel, Barbara Alpern

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st PB, March 29, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458256


Price: $15.00 

 

Rise of the Lone Star


Reichstein, Andreas V.

Hardcover. College Station TX, Texas A&M University Press, 1st U.S., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Translated from German by Jeanne R. Willson. Mild rubbing and slightly faded dust jacket spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951112


Price: $24.00 

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North AmericaFreeman, Victoria
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Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America


Freeman, Victoria

Hardcover. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1st, October 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 535 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with minor sunning to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458524


Price: $15.00 

 

Boston and the Boston Legend


Beebe, Lucius, Illust. by: E.H. Suydam

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton - Century Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages, hardcover. Pastedown illustration & gilt titles. Illustrated, with color frontis by E.H. Suydam. Fading, bumping and edgewear to spine. Mild age toning to text block. Light edgewear and soiling to boards. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951431


Price: $31.00 

Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899Berton, Pierre
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Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899


Berton, Pierre

Hardcover. Boston, TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459870


Price: $44.00 

 

Sandwich, New Hampshire: 1763-1990 "A Little World By Itself"


Heard (Editors), Patricia and Shirley Elder Lyons

Hardcover. Portsmouth NH, The Sandwich Historical Society, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of a small town in central New Hampshire. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Gentle bumping to spine. Mild age toning to text block. With many black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951881


Price: $25.00 

 

Gold Dust


Jackson, Donald Dale

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Light sunning to rear cover, else clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459992


Price: $13.00 

 

Jonny-Cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of Narragansett Schools of Former Days


Hazard, Thomas Robinson, Illust. by: Rudolph Hazard

Hardcover. Boston MA, The Merrymount Press, 1st , 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages, hardcover. With biographical sketch and notes by Rowland Gibson Hazard. Illustrated by Rudolph Hazard. Gilted titling to spine and gilt top text block edge. Rough-cut fore and bottom edge. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Bumping to corners. Fading to prelim pages. Unmarked. Scarce, limited edition. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952217


Price: $75.00 

Cultural Gradient, The : The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991Dickey, Lawrence
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Cultural Gradient, The : The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991


Dickey, Lawrence

Softcover. US, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1st, 2002-11-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Light sun-fade to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461975


Price: $38.00 

Traumfabriken made in Germany: Die Geschichte des deutschen Nachkriegsfilms, 1945-1960 (German Edition)Jary, Micaela
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Traumfabriken made in Germany: Die Geschichte des deutschen Nachkriegsfilms, 1945-1960 (German Edition)


Jary, Micaela

Hardcover. Berlin, Edition Q, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230082


Price: $38.00 

 

Durham, New Hampshire: A History 1900-1985


Association, Committee of Volunteers for the Durham Historic

Hardcover. US, Phoenix Pub, 1st, 1985-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 361 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462355


Price: $23.00 

 

Early Tahiti as The Explorers Saw it, 1767-1797


Ferdon, Edwin N.

Softcover. Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover, creasing on cover and spine, some fading and foxing on cover and text block.

Record # 2230438


Price: $19.00 

 

Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The : Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana


Clarke, Peter

Hardcover. New York , Bloomsbury Press, 1st US, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 559 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462800


Price: $19.00 

Our Vichy GambleLanger, William L.
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Our Vichy Gamble


Langer, William L.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 412 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear, chipping, creasing and repaired tear to jacket, now in brodart cover. Stamp of former owner on front end papers. Staining on top of text block, otherwise clean copy. "Never before so soon after the end of a great war have documentary materials such as those on which this brilliantly written and fascinating book is based been made available to the historians. Here is the whole complex story of our relations with France from the date of its collapse and the setting up of the Vichy regime to the climactic invasion of North Africa."

Record # 2230646


Price: $150.00 

 

Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)


Norris, Pat

Softcover. US, Praxis, 1st, 2007-08-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463387


Price: $25.00 

James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story (SIGNED)Gallagher, Henry T.
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James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story (SIGNED)


Gallagher, Henry T.

Hardcover. Jackson, MS, University of Mississippi Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has minor wear to edges, creasing on upper spine. Clean and tight inscribed copy, signed by author.

Record # 2230936


Price: $31.00 

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine by: Casper, Scott E.

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine by: Casper, Scott E.

Hardcover. US, Hill and Wang, reprint, 2008-01-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466094
Price: $12.00 

Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific RevolutionNewman, William R.
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Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution


Newman, William R.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Softcover. Light normal age wear, significant fading to spine and edges of front cover. Very light pencil marking in text.

Record # 2231101


Price: $25.00 

Glass Source Book by: Marshall, Jo

Glass Source Book by: Marshall, Jo

Hardcover. London, Collins and Brown, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, London, Collins and Brown, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Silver gilt lettering on spine. Some soiling to dust jacket interior, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Antiques & Collectibles pages. Record # 467200 Record # 467200
Price: $12.00 

 

Town Under the Cliff, The: A History of Fairlee, Vermont


Robinson, Philip G.

Hardcover. Farilee VT, Philip Robinson, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green covers with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 2233507


Price: $44.00 

To Bear Any Burden by: Santoli, Al

To Bear Any Burden by: Santoli, Al

Hardcover. Boston , E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468089
Price: $12.00 

 

Gender and Fascism in Modern France


Hawthrone (Editors), Melanie

Softcover. Hanover, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. Softcover with little to no wear to paper wrappers. Previous owner's name on inside front wrapper. Tight copy.

Record # 2233707


Price: $19.00 

Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America by: Wexler, Laura

Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America by: Wexler, Laura

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2003, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Small stain to fore edge. Price sticker residue to front cover. Creasing to some pages, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468287
Price: $12.00 

 

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People and Politics (SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Desowitz, Robert S.

Hardcover. New York, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to half title page. Red boards with red metallic titles to black cloth spine. Dust jacket with only faint, marginal wear to edges.Tight binding, sharp corners, very clean & unmarked throughout.

Record # 5560152


Price: $31.00 

Words to outlive us: voices from the Warsaw ghetto by: Grynberg, Michael (editor)

Words to outlive us: voices from the Warsaw ghetto by: Grynberg, Michael (editor)

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Books, reprint, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine. Spine cocked. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468980
Price: $12.00 

 

Old Franciscan Missions of California, The


James, George Wharton

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Soiling to some pages, foxing. Rubbing to covers and fraying to spine. Scuffing on rear board.

Record # 3603


Price: $26.00 

 

Sahara: Desert of Destiny


Gerster, Georg

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann Inc., First US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Original dust jacket with small tears to edges. Black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers. Pages are clean & unmarked throughout, two pages to rear have strong crease marks to corners. Tight binding.

Record # 6670128


Price: $23.00 

Blood and roses: one family's struggle and triumph during England's tumultuous civil war by: Castor, Helen

Blood and roses: one family's struggle and triumph during England's tumultuous civil war by: Castor, Helen

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 426 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of color photographs. Gilt titles on spine. New York Times review included. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469390
Price: $12.00 

 

Jefferson & the Ordeal of Liberty


Malone, Dumas

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 7629


Price: $20.00 

Shipwreck of Their Hopes, The: The Battles for ChattanoogaCozzens, Peter
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Shipwreck of Their Hopes, The: The Battles for Chattanooga


Cozzens, Peter

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature o front-fly leaf, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Souvenir pamphlet paid in.

Record # 469910


Price: $13.00 

 

East European Revolution


Seton-Watson, Hugh

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 3rd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Hardcover. b/w illustrations. Gilt title on spine. Cover shows just a bit of wear, otherwise in great shape considering age. Pages only slightly yellowed, but clean inside.

Record # 30175


Price: $19.00 

Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946, A: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored DivisonMcAvoy, George E.
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Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946, A: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Divison


McAvoy, George E.

Hardcover. Littleton, NH, Crawford Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470431


Price: $31.00 

Great Civil War, A: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865Weigley, Russell F.
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Great Civil War, A: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865


Weigley, Russell F.

Hardcover. Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 612 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. From the dust jacket front flap: "No one knows more about warfare, ancient and modern, than Russell Weigley. A lifelong student of both strategy and tactics, he also brings to his account a deep understanding of the importance of individuals, from generals to captains to privates. He can put the reader on the battlefield as well as anyone who has ever written about war, and he does it countless times in A Great Civil War."

Record # 30529


Price: $15.00 

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the PiratesCordingly, David
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates


Cordingly, David

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470705


Price: $15.00 

Reformation in England, TheHughes, Philip
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Reformation in England, The


Hughes, Philip

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 5th, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408, 366, 460 pages. Hardcover. Three volumes in one. Bound in red, gilt title on spine. B/w plates/illustrations throughout. Some fading to spine, and some slight scrapings to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Pages yellowed with age, but plates still clean and bright.

Record # 30663


Price: $63.00 

 

Roman Foreign Policy in the East, 168 B.C. to A.D. 1


Sherwin-White, A. N.

Softcover. Oklahoma, Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, 352 pages. Softcover with only minor edgewear. Red wrapper with black lettering on spine. Small corner fold on bottom right of front wrapper. Former library sticker on back wrapper. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 470843


Price: $25.00 

 

Royal Photograph Gallery


Ridpath, John Clark (Introduction)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Manufacturers Book Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations/plates throughout. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front (slightly faded). A faint moisture stain to front cover but no warping. A bump or two to edges of covers and a touch of fraying to corners. Binding tight, spine straight. Some tanning from age to edges and pages. Incredible old photographs of the royalty of the world in the mid 1800's. In amazing shape for its age.

Record # 31726


Price: $50.00 

 

Strange Engine of War, A: The "Winans" Steam Gun and the Civil War in Maryland


Lamb, John W.

Softcover. Baltimore, Maryland, Chesapeake Book Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Gray spine with red lettering. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471084


Price: $15.00 

 

American West in the Twentieth Century, The: A Bibliography


Etulain, Richard, W. (Editor), Pat Devejian, Jon Hunner, Jacqueline Etulain Partch

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in brown leather, gilt title on spine and front cover board. A touch of chipping to cover corners. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition.

Record # 32012


Price: $23.00 

 

Victorian Nursery Book, The


Miall, Antony

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Pen marking to dust jacket front. Otherwise tight copy. Elegantly illustrated with hundreds of period engravings, photographs, and advertisements, this album recreates the genteel spirit of the Victorian nursery and includes excerpts from contemporary accounts and children's books.

Record # 471162


Price: $23.00 

 

Making of the Modern Greek Family, The: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)


Cassia, Paul Sant, Constantina Bada

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light (erasable) pencil throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travelers' accounts memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century.

Record # 32241


Price: $38.00 

 

Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect


Farris, Scott

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 471200


Price: $15.00 

 

Who's Who in the Middle Ages (2 Vol.)


Emmerson, Richard K. (Editor), Sandra Clayton-Emmerson (Asso. Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Routledge, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 1037 pages (two volume set). Hardcovers. Books are in beautiful like-new condition. Red cover boards, silver gilt title on spines. Dust jackets unclipped. Pages bright and clean. Spines straight, bindings tight. From Emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Who's Who in the Middle Ages brings together the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500 AD.

Record # 33432


Price: $63.00 

Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and TransformationBrown, David L
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Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation


Brown, David L

Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Polity, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471544


Price: $19.00 

Two Journeyman Painters [Benjamin Franklin Mason and Abraham G.D. Tuthill] by: Frankenstein, AlfredHealy, Arthur K. D.

Two Journeyman Painters [Benjamin Franklin Mason and Abraham G.D. Tuthill] by: Frankenstein, Alfred Healy, Arthur K. D.

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Sheldon Museum, 1st, 1950, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover. Cheap cover boards are in fair condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Moderate stain damage along the top edge of the cover. Soiling to corners. Binding is solid. This book includes a list of all known works by each of the two featured artists. B&W photographs throughout. Inscribed by author in first front end page. Clean copy. Record # 33671
Price: $20.00 

Love and Death in Renaissance ItalyCohen, Thomas V.
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Love and Death in Renaissance Italy


Cohen, Thomas V.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL , University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471696


Price: $19.00 

The Satyricon by: Arbiter, Gaius PetroniusTransl. Wilde, Oscar
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The Satyricon by: Arbiter, Gaius Petronius Transl. Wilde, Oscar

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages, hardcover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This limited edition volume was privately produced with a run of only 1,200 copies. Pages have a deckled edge. Satyricon is the second most fully preserved Roman novel, and is a mixture of both prose and verse. Contains serious and comedic elements, narrated by its central figure, Encolpius. Clean copy. Record # 33771
Price: $25.00 

 

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Vol. XIII


Thwaites (ed.), Reuben G.

Madison, WI, Democrat Printing Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 515 pages. Illustrated with black & white maps, charts. Ex-lib with library bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, stamp on title-page, spine label, pocket on back paste-down endpaper, date stamp on contents page. Margin edges discolored Corners bumped. Gutter separated on front endpapers. Tape repaired closed tear to spine of binding.

Record # 502761


Price: $55.00 

The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by: Zeihan, Peter

The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by: Zeihan, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Harper Business, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition despite some minor staining on the rear. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Includes B&W tables and maps throughout. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we've reached the point where almost anything you can ever want can be sent to your home within days of when you decided you wanted it. Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence. Clean copy. Record # 33876
Price: $20.00 

 

American Commonwealth, The: vol. I


Bryce, James

London, Macmillan and Co., 2nd ed rev, 1891, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 724 pages. Volume one: The National Government-The State Government. Second edition revised. Contains fold-out map. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Browning to endpapers. Soiling to covers. Slight warping to covers. Rubbing to spine and corners. Previous owner's signature on back of front end paper.

Record # 506158


Price: $10.00 

I Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia by: West, Sally

I Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia by: West, Sally

Hardcover. DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Covers are very lightly bumped at the top corner. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This groundbreaking book is the first to study the cultural history of advertising in imperial Russia. The emergence of Russian advertising and consumer culture played a formative role in unsettling traditional tsarist society by promoting the aspirations of self-fulfillment through consumption. West's original study will appeal to scholars and students of advertising and Russian history, as well as those working in gender studies, folklore, and cultural history. Previous owner underlined some text throughout. Record # 33969
Price: $40.00 

 

Borough and Town: A Study of Urban Origins in England


Stephenson, Carl

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 236 pages. Some pencil underlining. Some soiling to covers. Rubbing to spine and corners. Top corners bumped.

Record # 506939


Price: $13.00 

An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe by: Puffendorf, Samuel
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An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe by: Puffendorf, SamuelAn Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe by: Puffendorf, Samuel

An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe by: Puffendorf, Samuel

Hardcover. London, UK, J. Knapton, 9th, 1728, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, 646 pages plus index, hardcover. Very worn leather cover boards have both completely detached from the spine at the hinges. Interior pages have significant foxing throughout. Binding is solid, pages turn well. This book is divided into sections by region of Europe, each part richly detailing the history of that area. Clean copy. Record # 34001
Price: $50.00 

Matthew Hale by: Heward, Edmund

Matthew Hale by: Heward, Edmund

London, Robert Hale & Company, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 192 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear. Record # 507700
Price: $12.00 

Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943 by: Glantz, David M.
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Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943 by: Glantz, David M.

Hardcover. Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 807 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and tables throughout. In this book, Glantz recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a dazzling display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of the war. Clean copy. Record # 34086
Price: $16.00 

 

Whitaker's Southold: Being a Substantial Reproduction of the History of Southold, L.I.: Its First Century


Whitaker, Rev. Epher

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 194 pages. Edited by the Rev. Charles E. Craven. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 508101


Price: $64.00 

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by: Meyerowitz, Joanne
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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by: Meyerowitz, Joanne

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 363 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with bending to the top edge. Covers are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. Clean copy. Record # 34162
Price: $18.00 

Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lietenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780-1783Shy (Ed), John
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Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lietenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780-1783


Shy (Ed), John

Hardcover. Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light blue cloth covers with gold lettering. Small bump to bottom of spine.

Record # 508766


Price: $13.00 

The Welsh Wars of Edward I: A Contribution to Mediaeval Military History, Based on Original Documents by: Morris, John E.
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The Welsh Wars of Edward I: A Contribution to Mediaeval Military History, Based on Original Documents by: Morris, John E.

Hardcover. London, U.K., Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 327 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear, and chipping is present on the rear. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables and graphs throughout. This book uses historical documents to chronicle Edward I's methodical reduction of Welsh independence, which he achieved through many years of building strategic castles, conducting "scorched earth" sweeps, and establishing loyal local nobles. Clean copy. Record # 34226
Price: $15.00 

Thalassocracies, The by: Miller, Molly

Thalassocracies, The by: Miller, Molly

Hardcover. New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1971, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages with bibliography and list of ancient sources. Very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Record # 512316
Price: $12.00 

Greek Political Thought by: Balot, Ryan K.

Greek Political Thought by: Balot, Ryan K.

Softcover. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought. It shows what ancient political texts might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century. Clean copy. Record # 34307
Price: $30.00 

 

Ike - His Life and Times


Brendon, Piers

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. B&W photos. Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 601510


Price: $15.00 

Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State 1666-1888 by: Delaney, John

Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State 1666-1888 by: Delaney, John

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography, maps, and illustrations throughout. This volume presents proof of what has been forgotten or ignored, yet still endures in the Garden State. It takes a close look at nineteenth-century New Jersey through the intimate visual record of its first wall maps and county atlases, which often include vignettes of public buildings, private farms, and residences. Does NOT contain the portfolio of maps specific to the special edition. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34422
Price: $165.00 

 

Short History of English Literature, A


Phelps, Gilbert

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titled spine. Very good red slipcase. Numerous black and white plates.

Record # 604661


Price: $12.00 

The Horse, The Wheel, And Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by: Anthony, David W.

The Horse, The Wheel, And Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by: Anthony, David W.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an academic work which links archaeology and linguistics to show how Bronze Age Eurasian steppe pastoralists (Yamnaya culture) spread Indo-European languages through domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel. Clean copy. Record # 34515
Price: $25.00 

 

Countering Terrorism: Can We Meet the Threat of Global Violence?


Chandler, Michael & Rohan Gunaratna

Hardcover. London, Reaction Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Slight wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 606646


Price: $20.00 

 

Shaping a National Culture - The Philadelphia Experience 1750-1800


Hutchins (Ed.), Catherine E.

Hardcover. Delaware, Winterthur Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 50940


Price: $25.00 

 

Virginia Beautiful


Nutting, Wallace

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages, frontispiece, illustrated throughout in b&w. Tan cloth, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket. light foxing to title page and frontis, slight rubbing to spine, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 606899


Price: $25.00 

 

No Slacker - A Chronicle of the War at Home 1917-18


Tiemann, Philip W.

Hardcover. NY, Vantage, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51382


Price: $12.00 

 

Lord Northcliffe's War Book


Lord Northcliffe's

Hardcover. New York, A.L. Burt, Revised, 1917, 283 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Bottom edge of front cover lightly bumped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608671


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, Black & white illus.

Record # 52798


Price: $18.00 

 

Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice


Moore, Frank

Hardcover. Hartford, S. S. Scranton, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 596 pages. Illustrated with Steel Engravings. Foxing to front endpapers. Green cloth covers with bright gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609024


Price: $50.00 

 

Statesmen of the Lost Cause - Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet


Hendrick, Burton J.

Hardcover. NY, Lit. Guild, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Black & white illust. Dj chipping worn

Record # 57044


Price: $18.00 

 

Wilderness to Fortress - Exploring the History of a Revolutionary War Site, From


Charles, Sheila/Lynne DeBeer/Pamela Lewis/Pamela Monder

Softcover. Orwell, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1st, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Black & white illustrations. Spiral bound. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609184


Price: $28.00 

 

American Defense of Neutral Rights 1914-1917, The


Morrissey, Alice M.

Hardcover. Cambaridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages including bibliography and index.

Record # 59261


Price: $15.00 

 

Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, For the Year 1918 - Volume XVI


Wren (Editor), Christopher

Softcover. Wilkes-Barre, WH&GS/Coxe Publication Fund, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Black & white illustrations. Paper covers chipped and missing small pieces of paper at corners. Hinges of paper covers are tender. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609675


Price: $20.00 

 

Early Greeks, The


Hopper, R.J.

Paperback. NY, Barnes and Noble, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 257 pages.

Record # 61066


Price: $18.00 

 

The Chignecto Isthmus - and It's First Settlers


Trueman, Howard

Hardcover. Belleville, Mika Publishing Company, Reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. 4 black & white illustrations. Front cover with minor fading. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610192


Price: $31.00 

 

First With the Most Forrest


Henry, Robert Selph

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 558 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Light wear to spine, top & bottom otherwise VG

Record # 61246


Price: $20.00 

 

History of the Indian Tribes of The United States


Schoolcraft, Henry R.

Hardcover. New York, Historical American Indian Press, Facsimile Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 756 pages. Illustrated with color plates. Facsimile reprint. Imitation leather covers. Dust jacket with tears and chunks of paper missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610640


Price: $63.00 

 

Decoying the Yanks - Jackson's Valley Camlpaign (Civil War Series)


Time-Life Books

Hardcover. Alexandria, VA, Time-Life, Rep., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white illust. 176 pages.

Record # 63495


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809


Broughton, Thomas Duer

Hardcover. New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, Reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover. Reprint. Black & white illustrations. Fold-out map in rear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611991


Price: $23.00 

 

Powers of the President in Foreign Affairs - 1945-1965


Robinson, Edgar E. and others

hardcover. San Francisco, Commonwealth Club of California, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Spine faded.

Record # 64996


Price: $20.00 

 

Ireland since the rising


Coogan, Timothy Patrick

Hardcover. Westport, Greenwood Press, Reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of title page. Book has strong damp odor. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612355


Price: $31.00 

 

Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association - Sixth Annual Meeting


N/A

NY Historical Assoc., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles on New York State and the Revolutionary War. 199 pages.

Record # 67062


Price: $41.00 

 

North for Union - John Appleton's Journal of a Tour to New England made by President Polk in June and July 1847


Cutler (Editor), Wayne

Hardcover. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613484


Price: $15.00 

 

May-Day - Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair


Beschloss, Michael R.

NY, Harper & Row, BC Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 494 pages.

Record # 68065


Price: $15.00 

 

American & British Technology in the 19th Century - The Search for Labour-Saving Inventions


Habakkuk, H. J.

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. Price clipped dust jacket with tape repaired short tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613671


Price: $25.00 

 

An Honorable Profession - A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy


Salinger (ed.), Pierre and others

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Ltd Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of tributes to the slain presidential candidate. #4 of 1000 SIGNED BY SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY. Bound in polished black leather, gilt on spine. In a matching slipcase.

Record # 68659


Price: $400.00 

 

Conquest of Chile, The


Pocock, H.R.S.

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 256 pages. Hardcover with well worn dust jacket. Currently covered in plastic protective sleeve, dust jacket has fading, chipping and light soiling. Water damage drop on dust jacket upper left corner front. Internally good except cover boards lightly warped.

Record # 613995


Price: $13.00 

 

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne


Riche, Pierre

Philadelphia, Univ. of Penn. Press, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Transl. from French by Jo Ann McNamara. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 69263


Price: $20.00 

 

Lee's Last Campaign


Dowdey, Clifford

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages including index. Clean insides, gray cloth boards with gilt title over red on slighted faded spine. Copy of old review taped neatly in front endpages.

Record # 700263


Price: $12.00 

Nuclear Delusion, The - Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age.Kennan, George F.
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Nuclear Delusion, The - Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age.


Kennan, George F.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pgs. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soiling on top page block, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket with top edge and bottom edge spine chipped with small tears, covered in brodart. Newspaper clippings laid in.

Record # 100779


Price: $23.00 

 

Lincoln's Quest for Union


Strozier, Charles B.

New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages including index and black & white photos. Black pictorial dust jacket that shows little to no wear.

Record # 700659


Price: $15.00 

 

Framing American Divorce From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians


Basch, Norma

Hardcover. London, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Beautiful, new-looking condition. Black & white photos. Hardbound, dust jacket, 237 pgs.

Record # 109152


Price: $13.00 

Most Famous Man in America, The - The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by: Applegate, Debby

Most Famous Man in America, The - The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by: Applegate, Debby

Softcover. New York, Three Leaves Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 527 pages. Softcover with light edgewear. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked copy. Record # 750135
Price: $12.00 

 

Afternoons in Mid-America


Caldwell, Erskine, Illust. by: Virginia M. Caldwell

New York , Dodd, Mead, & Co., 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. With black & white sketches by Virginia M. Caldwell. Dust jacket edgeworn, back has closed tear.

Record # 176644


Price: $15.00 

Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers - Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil WarLane, Kit
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Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers - Saugatuck Area Men in the Civil War


Lane, Kit

Softcover. Saugatuck, Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light marginal wear to covers. Faint smudge to bottom edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Record # 750484


Price: $23.00 

 

History Of Civil, Political, and Military of the History Of The Southern Revolution. (Vol. 2)


Victor, Orville J.

Hardcover. NY, J.D. Torrey, 1st, 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cover 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 # 202399


Price: $80.00 

 

George Washington's Journey - The President Forges a New Nation


Breen, T. H.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with deckled edge. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine. 8 pages of illustrations in bw. Dust jacket, crisp, very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750861


Price: $13.00 

 

Riddle Of The Pyramids, The


Mendelssohn, Kurt

NY, Praeger, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos and illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, soil and rubbing.

Record # 203492


Price: $15.00 

 

Winged Serpent, The - American Indian Prose and Poetry


Astrov, Margot

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750977


Price: $15.00 

 

Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake - Architecture and History of a Pioneer Health Resort


Gallos, Philip L.

New York, Historic Saranac Lake, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.186 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has some small tears.

Record # 206345


Price: $60.00 


  
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