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Alsace in Rust and Gold by: O'Shaughnessy, Edith
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Alsace in Rust and Gold by: O'Shaughnessy, Edith

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 183 pages. Light rubbing to corners and spine. Dust jacket with soiling, heavy chipping, darkened spine. a Vivid portrayal of life in the Alsace region during the final days of World War I. O'Shaughnessy's firsthand accounts, about war-touched landscapes and resilient spirit of the people. Record # 507886
Price: $50.00 

Love On The Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America by: Rotskoff, Lori
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Love On The Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America by: Rotskoff, Lori

Softcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages, soft cover. Covers have two 'used' stickers, one on the rear and one on the spine, and light bumping to the corners, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. Clean copy. Record # 34232
Price: $12.00 

 

"What So Proudly We Hail'd" An Exhibition in the William L. Clements Library Marking the Sesquicentennial of the War of 1812


N/A

Softcover. Michigan, Michigan U.S. Daughters of 1812 and the University of Michigan, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers. 50 pages. Bulletin 71: 2000 copies. Contains some black & white illustrations. Fading to covers. Glue starting to loosen at spine.

Record # 508308


Price: $10.00 

Anti-intellectualism in American Life by: Hofstader, Richard
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Anti-intellectualism in American Life by: Hofstader, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books, 6th Pr., 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 434 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several closed tears, but is still in good condition overall. Blue cloth covers have some minor discoloration on the rear. Interior pages with deckled edges are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book offers groundbreaking and urgent analyses of deep undercurrents in American life: a stubborn, irrepressible opposition to rationality, expertise, and higher learning, and the destabilizing pull exercised by conspiratorial movements on the right and left. Clean copy. Record # 34330
Price: $25.00 

 

Western Panorama - 1849-1875


Goodman, David Michael

Hardcover. Glendale, Arthur H. Clark, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages with 39 illustrations in black & white. Red cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509587


Price: $21.00 

The Mills at Winooski Falls: Winooski and Burlington, Vermont: Illustrated Essays and Oral Histories by: Editor: Krawitt, Laura
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The Mills at Winooski Falls: Winooski and Burlington, Vermont: Illustrated Essays and Oral Histories by: Editor: Krawitt, Laura

Softcover. Winooski, VT, Onion River Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a short volume of essays which provide a multi-century view of the impact of the industrial revolution on this region of Vermont. Clean copy. Record # 34453
Price: $18.00 

 

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886


N/A

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 878 pages. Rubbing and soiling to covers. Corners bumped. Spotting to top edge.

Record # 601078


Price: $40.00 

Visit'n: A Treasury of Vermont Stories and Storytellers, Volume X by: Editor: Beck, Jane C. Editor: Parr, Leslie
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Visit'n: A Treasury of Vermont Stories and Storytellers, Volume X by: Editor: Beck, Jane C. Editor: Parr, Leslie

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. Visit'n is a collection of people's voices, their conversations, reminiscences, and oral testimonies. It is an oversize trade paperback, with an accompanying CD. Clean copy. Record # 34517
Price: $18.00 

 

Savannah Revisited - History, Architecture, Restoration


Lane, Mills

Hardcover. Savannah, Beehive Press, 3rd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions relating to the architecture and history of Savannah, Georgia. Clean, Tight copy.

Record # 603639


Price: $38.00 

Goshen Connecticut: A Town Above All Others by: Quadrimillennium Editorial Committee
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Goshen Connecticut: A Town Above All Others by: Quadrimillennium Editorial Committee

Hardcover. West Kennebunk, ME, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light edge wear, which has been repaired with clear tape to the best of our ability. Orange cloth covers with a quarter black spine and a gilt eagle logo are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Minor foxing is visible on the external page edges, but this does not affect the legibility of any text blocks within. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book traces the historical and geographic narrative of Goshen, Connecticut, a town which earned its nickname because its commercial center sits at a higher altitude than any other in Connecticut, acting as the watershed for eight surrounding towns. The book covers the town's biblical naming origins, its 1739 founding, agricultural boom, and early settler genealogies. This scarcely available local history volume is one of only 1,000 first edition copies printed. Clean copy. Record # 34583
Price: $35.00 

 

A Goodly Heritage: Earliest Wills on an American Frontier


Chalfant, Ella

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pp. Very good. Lacks dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 604843


Price: $13.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1862


n.a.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Spotting and browning to page edges, water stain at bottom edge on last 100 pages of book. Dark blue/brown texturized cloth, toned, especially on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Edgewear, bottom of spine and bottom right corner of front cover are nibbled. Top corners bumped.

Record # 40259


Price: $26.00 

 

Beautiful Burlington


Smith, Margaret L. H.

Softcover. Burlington, Margaret L. H. Smith, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Illustrated with 13 black & white photographs. Body of book loose from covers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers. Paper wraps cover worn and missing paper at top and bottom of spine.

Record # 606714


Price: $25.00 

Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, The: A Lakota Odyssey by: Starita, Joe
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Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, The: A Lakota Odyssey by: Starita, Joe

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-/edge-wear to pictorial dust jacket. A very neat, tight copy. Record # 607650
Price: $12.00 

 

Divine Politician, The


Akers, Charles W.

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern Univ., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Samuel Cooper & the American Revolution in Boston

Record # 51406


Price: $20.00 

 

History of Piracy, The


Gosse, Philip

Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing, Reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 349 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping and small pieces missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608735


Price: $25.00 

 

Opposition Press of the Federalist Period, The


Stewart, Donald H.

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, n.d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 52800


Price: $28.00 

 

Life of William McKinley, The


NA

Hardcover. New York, P.F. Collier, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and four full color plates. Front hinge tender at title page. Pages bright and unmarked. Light fading to purple spine cloth. Overall a nice copy.

Record # 609038


Price: $50.00 

 

'Ware Sherman - A Journal of Three Months Personal Experience in the Last Days of the Confederacy


LeConte, Joseph

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Intro by his daughter Caroline LeConte. Black & white illust. Spine with light fade otherwise

Record # 57045


Price: $75.00 

 

Return to These Hills - The Vermont Years of Calvin Coolidge


Curtis, Jane/Will Curtis/Frank Lieberman

Hardcover. Woodstock, Curtis - Lieberman Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609185


Price: $20.00 

 

War and Colonel Warden, The


Pawle, Gerold

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Based on the Recollections of Commander C.R. Thompson, personal assistant to the Prime Minister 1940-1945. Dj worn, chipped, spine faded.

Record # 59269


Price: $13.00 

 

Official Report of the Reunion of the Desendants of Governor Thomas Dudley


Dudley, Sanford H./Dudley R. Child/Albion M. Dudley

Hardcover. Salem, GTDFA, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609702


Price: $20.00 

 

Long Time Passing, Vietnam & the Haunted Generation


MacPherson, Myra

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 663 pages.

Record # 61122


Price: $9.00 

 

Atlas of Rutland County Vermont


Beers, F. W.

Hardcover. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle, Co., Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white maps. Some small flecks of spotting to back over. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610240


Price: $250.00 

 

Rome and the Renaissance - The Pontificate of Julius II


Klaczko, Julian

Hardcover. NY, Putnams, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 black & white illust. 386 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Tight, bright copy.

Record # 61362


Price: $40.00 

 

Russia Through Women's Eyes - Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia


Clyman, Toby W./Judith Vowles

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. dust jacket with fading to spine, and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610670


Price: $13.00 

 

Cultural History of the American Revolution, A


Silverman, Kenneth

Hardcover. N Y, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Painting, music, literature & the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from 1763-1789. Black & white illust. 699 pages.

Record # 63498


Price: $38.00 

 

Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time


Rice (Editor), Allen Thorndike

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, Revised Edition, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611994


Price: $38.00 

 

Annals of Iowa, The - Volume One 1893


Petersen, William J.

hardcover. Iowa City, State Historical Society, Rep, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of the 1st 4 quarterly issues. 192 pages + index. Dust jacket edgewear, chips.

Record # 64997


Price: $18.00 

 

Ireland - A Social and Cultural History - 1922 to the Present


Brown, Terence

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st Thus, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of title page. Book has damp odor. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612357


Price: $15.00 

 

Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1875


N/A

NY, NY Historical Society, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Contains the official correspondence of Maj. Gen. James Pattison (British Commandant in NY City) during Revolutionarty War. 553 pages. Pebbled green cloth. Most pages unopened, excellent condition.

Record # 67064


Price: $51.00 

 

Jonathan Edwards, Paster - Religion and Society in Eighteenth-Century Northampton


Tracy, Patricia J.

Paperback. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st wraps, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Paperback.

Record # 68066


Price: $15.00 

 

Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II


Butler, Daniel Allen

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613681


Price: $13.00 

 

Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, The


Skelton, R.A., Thomas E. Marston, & George D. Painter

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 5th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 68681


Price: $18.00 

 

Quarter Century of Progress in Manufacturing Pharmacy


Maltbie, Birdsey L.

Hardcover. New York, American Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Fading to spine with light soiling. Previous owner's light pencil marking on front end paper, otherwise clean.

Record # 613996


Price: $44.00 

 

Barbarian Conversion, The - From Paganism to Christianity


Fletcher, Richard

NY, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 69265


Price: $15.00 

 

American Iliad, The


N/A

Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs Merrill Co. Inc., Unknown, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 720 pages including index and black & white illustrations. The epic story of the war as narrated by eyewitnesses and contemporaries. Red cloth covered boards.

Record # 700282


Price: $12.00 

 

Held in Trust - The National Trust for Scotland


Crawford, Iain

Hardcover. Manchester NH, Salem House, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Photos in color, b&w, 182 pgs.

Record # 100877


Price: $38.00 

 

First Blood


Swanberg, W.A.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages including index. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on cover page. Good dust jacket shows minor edgewear and lightly faded spine. Previous owner nameplate in front endpages.

Record # 700664


Price: $40.00 

 

Political Partisanship in the American Middle Colonies 1700-1776


Newcomb, Benjamin H.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really nice, clean condition. Dust jacket, hardbound, 258 pgs.

Record # 109153


Price: $25.00 

 

Donovan - America's Master Spy


Dunlop, Richard

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Company, 2nd Printing, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket with toning to edges. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750222


Price: $15.00 

 

Winter - Notes from Montana


Bass, Rick

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 178028


Price: $40.00 

Battle of Ball's Bluff, ThePatch, Joseph Dorst
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Battle of Ball's Bluff, The


Patch, Joseph Dorst

Hardcover. Leesburg, Potomac Press, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Grey cloth covers with gilt titles & decoration to covers & spine. Toning to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with faint foxing, light wear small tear to edges. Light foxing to top edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750485


Price: $15.00 

 

Off At Sunrise - The Overland Journal Of Charles Glass Gray


Gray, Charles Glass

Hardcover. San Marino, CA, Huntington, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light shelf wear to covers. Black & white illustrations. illustrated end papers.

Record # 202404


Price: $20.00 

 

Birth of the World's First Air Force, The - RAF


Overy, Richard

Hardcover. New York, W. W, Norton & Company, First US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. 16 pages of illustrations in bw & additional maps. Dust jacket with light marginal wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750866


Price: $15.00 

 

Green Mountain Boys - A Historical Tale Of The Early Settlement Of Vermont


Thompson, D.Pau.

NY, American Publishers Corporation, unknown , n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers.

Record # 203632


Price: $12.00 

 

Churchill and America


Gilbert, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages. Hardcover. 30 pages of illustrations in black & white. Dust jacket price clipped & in very good condition. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750979


Price: $15.00 

 

Utah - The Land of Blossoming Valleys


Wharton James, George

Boston, Page, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Black & white photography. Folding color map. Top edge gilt. Ex-library with usual markings. COver has light edgewear.

Record # 206346


Price: $50.00 

 

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Phillips, Sampson and Company, First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Hardcover. Brown embossed boards with gilt titles to spine. Crack & fraying to crown & heel of spine, soiling to the first several pages including tissue paper of frontis illustration. Engravings in bw throughout, each protected with a tissue guard. Light foxing throughout. Insect marking pp. 11-70. Otherwise clean with striking illustrations.

Record # 751249


Price: $75.00 

 

Voyages of Brian Seaworthy, The: An Historical Adventure on Lake Champlain


Hill, Ralph Nading , Illust. by: Robert A. Boyajian

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Life Magazine / Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Blue cloth covers, pale blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, illustrated by Robert A. Boyajian. Slight rubbing to covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 208043


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

GREAT RECONNAISSANCE, THE: SOLDIERS, ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS ON THE FRONTIER 1848 - 1861


Wallace, Edward S.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages who, what, where, when of Western USA exploration. Illustrated with 10 captioned historical plates of people and places on the Western Frontier. 8vo. Black cloth with spots front cover. Binding Good. Text and plates Fine.

Record # 220658


Price: $14.00 

 

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 

 

Trusty Knaves, The


Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, Illust. by: W. H. D. Koerner

Hardcover. Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st new, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. #49 in Western Frontier Library series. Red marbled boards. Black title label, gilt. Color pictorial mylar protected dust jacket. Illustations by W. H. D. Koerner.

Record # 220880


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Spirit of 'Seventy-Six, The - The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants


Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris

NY, Harper & Row, Book Club, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1348 pages. Huge, comprehensive volume. B&W illust. Dust jacket spine faded, some wrinkling to dust jacket lamination, once owned by a smoker.

Record # 301003


Price: $28.00 

 

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 

 

George Washington: The First Presidential Portrait


Washington, George, Illust. by: Illustrated

New York, Christies, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 50 pages. Color plates. Auction catalog for the sale of the John Ramage miniature portrait of Washington, painted in 1789.

Record # 302807


Price: $20.00 

 

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 Tenth Year Ending May 13, 1908


no author

Paperback. no place, DAR, 1st , 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. Clean.

Record # 303365


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 

 

Way, Way Down East


Fuller, Leah Ramsdell

Boston , John W. Luce, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 115 pages, B&W illustrations by Frederica Jackson.

Record # 304187


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 

 

Among the Indians - Eight Years in the Far West 1858-1866


Boller, Henry A.

Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , 451 pages. Edited by Milo Milter Quaite. Top edge gilt. Folding map, B&W illustrations.

Record # 304614


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Illustrated History of the First World War, An


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st illustrated thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 435 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Very good in bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 400962


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

History of Prostitution, The: It's Extent, Causes and Effects Throughout the World


Sanger, M.D., William W.

Hardcover. New York, Eugenics Publishing Company, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 708 pages. Light edge wear, soiling to dust jacket. Light foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401951


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

National Grange Drill Manual: Drills, Tableaux and Special Features


N/A

Softcover. Columbus OH, National Grange , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and diagrams illustrating the ritual entertainments and marches that were part of their gatherings. INSCRIBED BY L.J. TABER who was National Master of the Grange.

Record # 403714


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

History of Ethan Allen Engine Company No. 4 of Burlington, Vermont and of the Ethan Allen Club 1857-1982


Abell, Wesley and Joseph Heald

Softcover. Burlington VT, privately printed/Queen City Printers, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Stapled wrappers.

Record # 405114


Price: $23.00 

 

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 114 - 1984 by: Zetzel, James E.G.
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Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 114 - 1984 by: Zetzel, James E.G.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages, maroon cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture. Record # 406509
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 

 

Air Service Medical Manual


War Department/Air Service Division of Military Aeronautics

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 38 pages of text, another 60 pages of b&w illustrations, photographs. Dark blue cloth with gilt design, lettering. Small number notation inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 406611


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 Man Behind the Myths by: Oates, Stephen B.
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Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths by: Oates, Stephen B.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean. Record # 408302
Price: $12.00 

 

School for Statesmen, The: Or the Public Man's Manual; Being a complete guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill


M. P., An Old

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Corner and spine edge wear. Small chunk missing from top of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf . Very minor spotting throughout. Raised band leather spine. Faded marbled edges.

Record # 852324


Price: $25.00 

Polar Whaling: A Sea-Letter Narrative of a Cruise in the Okhotsk Sea in 1849Holmes, William Henry
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Polar Whaling: A Sea-Letter Narrative of a Cruise in the Okhotsk Sea in 1849


Holmes, William Henry

Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, reprint, 1953, Softcover, pastel green wraps stapled, 16 pages. Author was first mate of the Bark Sheperdess of Mystic, Connecticut. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411919


Price: $16.00 

 

Post-Captain, The: Or the Wooden Walls Well Manned Comprehending a View of Naval Society and Manners


Davis, John

Hardcover. London, The Scholartis Press, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 247 pages. Minor dust jacket rubbing, cover and spine edge wear and tear. Small closed tear on rear of dust jacket. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852383


Price: $40.00 

 

Spies and Traitors of World War II (SIGNED COPY)


Singer, Kurt

Hardcover. New York , Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 295 pages. INSCRIBED BY SINGER on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 411976


Price: $19.00 

 

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner Commander R. N. (1775-1814).


Hamilton, G.C.B. (ed.), Sir. R. Vesey, John Knox Laughton, M.A., D.Litt.,

Hardcover. London, Spottiswoode and Co., Ltd., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Tan and blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and emblem. Some wear on edges and spine. Faint smudges on cloth cover. Some foxing throughout. Pages and untrimmed and some unopened. Printed for the Navy Records Society. Bright and clean inside.

Record # 852452


Price: $35.00 

 

History of Prussia


Koch, H. W.

Hardcover. Reprint, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450430


Price: $12.00 

 

Hartford County Medical Association, 1792-1992


Crombie, M.D., H. David, Robert U. Massey M.D.,

Softcover. Hartford, CONNECTICUT, Hartford County Medical Association, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages. Off-white cover with emblem design and very little wear. Printed on 200th anniversary of the Hartford County Medical Association. Inside is bright and clean. Many b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Includes list of members and list of past Presidents of the Association.

Record # 852598


Price: $18.00 

Town That Started the Civil War, TheBrandt, Nat
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Town That Started the Civil War, The


Brandt, Nat

Softcover. New York, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages, b&w photographs. Very good.

Record # 451415


Price: $8.00 

 

Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 53.


Smith (ed), Melvin T.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Utah Historical Society, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 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 # 852885


Price: $20.00 

 

Indian Canoe Routes of Maine


No Author

Softcover. reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Color-illustrated laminate wrappers, perfect binding, b&w illustrations throughout, large fold-out map in rear. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, previous owner's signature to title page, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 451791


Price: $30.00 

 

Midget Raiders, The: The Wartime Story of Human Torpedoes and Midget Submarines


Warren, C. E. T., James Benson

Hardcover. New York, William Sloane Associates, Publishers, 2nd printing, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edge wear, rubbing and clipped flaps. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852996


Price: $12.00 

 

People From the Horizon, The: An Illustrated History


Snow, Philip

Hardcover. 1st, January 1, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w and color photographs and illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452925


Price: $20.00 

 

Lincoln: History of a Mountain Town from First Settlements to the Present.


Reed, Richard V.

Paperback. Barre, VT, Modern Printing Co., Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Cover has minor wear. Previous owner's inscription on front cover. Published on occasion of the Bicentennial, 1780-1980. Contributing writers are Adair McKean, Margaret Rood and Christie Sumner. Photography by Donald Brown. Edited by Linda Norton and Travis Harris. Many b&w photographs throughout.

Record # 853184


Price: $30.00 

A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It CollapsedShlapentokh, Vladimir
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A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed


Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Softcover. M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Light edgewear and slight crease to front cover, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 453331


Price: $50.00 

 

Short History of the Arabs, A


Gabrieli, Francesco

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, translated by Salvator Attanasio, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853763


Price: $12.00 

 

Unmaking of Soviet Life, The : Everyday Economies After Socialism


Humphrey, Caroline

Softcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453419


Price: $12.00 

 

Treat 'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20


Wilson, Dale E.

Hardcover. Novato, California, Presidio, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 243 pages, with maps and illustrated dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854135


Price: $12.00 

 

Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. Boston, Faber & Faber, 1st Am, March 18, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages. Very good.

Record # 453517


Price: $15.00 

 

From the Jaws of Victory: A History of the Character, Causes and Consequences of Military Stupidity, From Crassus to Johnson and Westmoreland


Fair, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 445 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, previous owner's signature on title page and rear fly leaf, light dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, neat and tight copy.

Record # 854563


Price: $20.00 

 

Discovering History in China


Cohen, Paul A.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, November 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Foxing to top edge. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454732


Price: $50.00 

 

Irish Civil War, The


Coogan, Tim Pat & George Morrison

Hardcover. Boulder, CO, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and scuffing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 854806


Price: $40.00 

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 # 454854


Price: $12.00 

Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental RailroadBain, David Haward
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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad


Bain, David Haward

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 797 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to upper edge of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855190


Price: $38.00 

 

Final Invasion, The


Fitz-Enz, Colonel David G.

Hardcover. New York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1st thus, January 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. Light stain on fore-edge. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 455040


Price: $12.00 

 

Studies in Genevan Government 1536 - 1605


Monter, E. William

Hardcover. Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, light edge wear and corner bump, light yellowing to pages, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 855360


Price: $25.00 

Landscape And Memory Schama, Simon
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Landscape And Memory


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, Book Club, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 652 pages. Many color and b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Yellow cloth cover, minor wear. Dust jacket has some light wear to edges. A beautiful, clean copy.

Record # 455555


Price: $18.00 

 

French Society and Revolution


Johnson, Douglas

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 321 pages. Foxing to dust jacket, both sides. Fading to dust jacket spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855459


Price: $25.00 

 

Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey


Hume, Ivor Noel

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, Book Club, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages, with 164 illustrations. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455990


Price: $10.00 

Deviants and the Abandoned inn French Society: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations by: Forster, Robert & Ranum, Orest
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Deviants and the Abandoned inn French Society: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations by: Forster, Robert & Ranum, Orest

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Foxing to edges. Some fading to spine and cover. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855544
Price: $12.00 

 

Unforgettable Journey: A World War II Memoir


Huff, Stanley

Hardcover. Fort Wayne, Ind., Bridgeford Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages, with photographs. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456779


Price: $12.00 

 

Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810


Bohstedt, John

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st ed., 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 310 pages. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Light pencil underlining throughout. Fading/discoloring to dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855694


Price: $19.00 

 

Politics and Religion during the English Revolution: The Scots and the Long Parliament 1643-1645


Kaplan, Lawrence

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457204


Price: $20.00 

 

Life and Death of Soviet Trade Unionism: 1917-1928, The


Sorenson, Jay B.

Hardcover. New York, Atherton Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 283 pages. Some chipping and closed tears on dust jacket. A little creasing on dust jacket flaps. Dust jacket now protected by clear, plastic cover. Foxing on top edge and a bit on fore edge. Minor pen mark on fore edge. 8 pages underlined in ink in last chapter. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856341


Price: $25.00 

 

UNITED STATES FIREARMS, THE FIRST CENTURY 1776-1875


Butler, David F.

Hardcover. 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 249 pages, with illustrations by the author and black & white photographs throughout. Light dust jacket edge wear and rub, faint foxing on top and bottom edges, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 457619


Price: $25.00 

 

Ghost Towns of British Columbia


Ramsey, Bruce

Hardcover. Vancouver, Canada, Mitchell Press Limited, 4th printing, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 226 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light edge- and shelf-wear on dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856651


Price: $13.00 

 

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 24


Hay, Professor Carla (Editor)

Hardcover. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages, gilt title on dark red cloth board, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457830


Price: $13.00 

 

First Battle of Britain 1917-1918 and the Birth of the Royal Air Force, The


Fredette, U.S.A.F., Major Raymond H.

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and tearing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856954


Price: $25.00 

 

Salon at Larkmead, A : A Charmed Life in the Napa Valley


Hitchcock, Martha

Softcover. Berkeley, Calif., Ten Speed Press, 1st, May 2000, Dust Jacket: illustrated , 144 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457940


Price: $15.00 

Rome Fell Today  by: Adleman, Robert H. and Colonel George Wilson
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Rome Fell Today by: Adleman, Robert H. and Colonel George Wilson

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company , 1st, 1968 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and fly leafs. Some tearing and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857467
Price: $12.00 

 

Revolution of 1905, The : Russia in Disarray,


Ascher, Abraham

Softcover. Stanford University Press, 1st, July 1, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Light underlining throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458275


Price: $19.00 

 

Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, The


Lambert, Frank

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A survey on religion and the state in early America. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Ink stamp on title page. Previous owner's name in ink on the back of half title page. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951137


Price: $31.00 

 

Lewis & Clark on the Upper Missouri


Clary, Jean

Softcover. Stoneydale Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light crease to upper corner, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458563


Price: $13.00 

 

East of the Sun


Bobrick, Benson

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The conquest and settlement of Siberia. With black-and-white photographs. Age toning, light fading to text block. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951525


Price: $29.00 

Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of CaliforniaHolliday, J. S.
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Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California


Holliday, J. S.

Hardcover. University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Light edgewear to dust jacket with slight creasing to upper corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459900


Price: $38.00 

 

Cloak & Cipher


Moore, Dan Tyler and Martha Waller

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A history of secret writing; the analysis of famous codes and ciphers and the role of cryptanalysis in great events. Mild spotting to dust jacket flaps and rear panel. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Blue toning to top text block edge. With black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Record # 951893


Price: $19.00 

Glory Days Of LoggingAndrews, Ralph W
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Glory Days Of Logging


Andrews, Ralph W

Hardcover. Random House Value Publishing, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459998


Price: $15.00 

Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers (SIGNED)Bagley, Will
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Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers (SIGNED)


Bagley, Will

Paperback. Logan UT, Utah State University, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 pages, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. through letters and other documents by Samuel Brannan and his contemporaries, Will Bagley offers the first honest and accurate portrait of one of the most colorful and important figures in California and Mormon history. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight creasing to front lower fore edge. Sticker denoting autograph attached to front cover. Mild age toning to text block edges. A tight copy.

Record # 952509


Price: $63.00 

Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period by: Worobec, Christine D.
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Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period by: Worobec, Christine D.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. US, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1995-10-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages, b&w photos. Light sun-fade and creasing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461980
Price: $12.00 

 

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 (The Penguin History of Britain)


Cannadine, David

Hardcover. US, Viking, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 601 pages. Hardcover. Crisp, clean & unmarked with illustrated dust jacket, also in very good condition. 16 pages of illustrations & photographs in full color. Tight binding. A very nice copy.

Record # 2230281


Price: $23.00 

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by: Goldstone, Nancy
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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by: Goldstone, Nancy

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 2007-04-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462357
Price: $12.00 

 

Lord of All the Dead: A Nonfiction Novel


Cercas, Javier

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wear on the edges of dust jacket, otherwise tight and clean copy.

Record # 2230477


Price: $23.00 

 

Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War


Corns, Cathryn

Hardcover. US, Cassell, 1st, 2001-12-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 543 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462808


Price: $25.00 

The Voynich Manuscript: The Mysterious Code That Has Defied Interpretation for CenturiesKennedy, Gerry
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The Voynich Manuscript: The Mysterious Code That Has Defied Interpretation for Centuries


Kennedy, Gerry

Softcover. Rochester, VT, Inner Traditions, 2nd, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 392 pages. Softcover. Very minor wear, foxing to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230724


Price: $16.00 

Neptune File, The : A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting by: Standage, Tom
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Neptune File, The : A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting by: Standage, Tom

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Walker & Company, 1st, 2000-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 463404
Price: $12.00 

Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, Volume IICayton, Mary Kupiec (ed.)
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Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, Volume II


Cayton, Mary Kupiec (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 830 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light normal scuffing to covers and wear to corners, but otherwise very clean and tight copy. Volume 2 only. Domestic shipping only.

Record # 2230982


Price: $75.00 

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend by: Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend by: Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Amistad, 1st, 2008-01-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Includes 21 b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466096
Price: $12.00 

 

Holy Roman Empire, The


Heer, Friedrich

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st us, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Top front of dust jacket chipped, torn and wrinkled. Wear on spine, tape repair on rear dust jacket.

Record # 2233320


Price: $25.00 

Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats by: Kuenster, John
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Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats by: Kuenster, John

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Chicago, Il, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Chicago, Il, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. 274 pages. Record # 467274 Record # 467274
Price: $12.00 

 

Theories of Instinct, The


Wilm, E.C.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped. Chunks missing a nd small tears/chipping to dust jacket. Spine cracks throughout, but intact. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper.

Record # 2233541


Price: $31.00 

Guarding New Jersey's Shore: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations  by: Veasey, David
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Guarding New Jersey's Shore: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations by: Veasey, David

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. Mount Pleasant, SC, Arcadia Publishing, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 468103
Price: $12.00 

 

Men and the Mountain, The; Fremont's 4th Expedition


Brandon, William

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 337 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light soiling to front board, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with heavy wear and chipping, some tape repair to brodart-covered dust jacket.

Record # 2019


Price: $18.00 

 

Live Yankees: The Seawalls and their Ships


Bunting, W.H.

Hardcover. Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House Publishers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear on edges.

Record # 2233779


Price: $25.00 

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by: Franklin, John Hope
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by: Franklin, John Hope

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 455 pages. Hardcover. Foxing to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468290
Price: $12.00 

 

Triumph of Freedom 1776-1783


Miller, John C.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , rep, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 5864


Price: $15.00 

 

Dictionary of Celtic Mythology


MacKillop, James

Hardcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 6670023


Price: $19.00 

Age of Exuberance, 1550-1700, The by: Reed, Michael A.
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Age of Exuberance, 1550-1700, The by: Reed, Michael A.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.hardcover. London ; Boston, Routledge & K. Paul, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469185
Price: $12.00 

 

Art, Science and History in the Renaissance


Singleton, Charles S.

Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins Press, 2nd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub in 1967, 13 essays by scholars in the field, b&w Illustrations

Record # 19952


Price: $40.00 

Ireland a Terrible Beauty by: Uris, Jill
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Ireland a Terrible Beauty by: Uris, Jill

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. Toronto , Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w and color photographs throughout. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 469396
Price: $12.00 

 

Economic & Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island 1780-1850, The


Jones, Daniel P.

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. covered in light blue fabric with gilt title on spine. Dust cover lightly age worn, but clean inside.

Record # 30396


Price: $15.00 

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After DeathBlum, Deborah
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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death


Blum, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press HC, The, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469947


Price: $19.00 

 

City of Haines: Survey of Historic Structures: Building History


Choate (Project Manager), Glenda

Softcover. Haines, AK, City of Haines, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. White cover slightly yellowed with age. Clean inside. In great shape.

Record # 30610


Price: $38.00 

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 # 470432


Price: $31.00 

 

Old Churches & Meeting Houses In and Around Philadelphia


Faris, John T.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Color frontispiece with tissue guard, 73 b/w illustrations. Tan cloth, lettered and illustrated in dark green, periwinkle and black, deckled edges. Gilt top edge. Tanning from age throughout. Some splitting at gutters, but binding remains strong and no pages detached. A small amount of foxing within. In great shape for its age. Beautiful illustrations of churches and meeting houses in the Philadelphia area and the stories behind them.

Record # 31652


Price: $25.00 

 

Memories of a Hundred Years ( 2 Vols. )


Hale, Edward Everett

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 318, 326 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Black and white images throughout. Clean, unmarked set.

Record # 470740


Price: $31.00 

 

Tyler-Browns of Brattleboro: A Fascinating History of a Vermont Family and its Part in the Civil War


Melville, Dorothy Sutherland

Hardcover. New York, Exposition Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front flyleaf and bookplate on front endpaper. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, has a touch of tanning, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover. Binding tight, spine straight. Story of two early New England families, who merged during the Civil War days to become one clan: the Tylers of Brattleboro, Vermont.

Record # 31915


Price: $25.00 

 

Looking for Jackie: American Fashion Icons


Craughwell-Varda, Kathleen

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor scratch across front cover. Some sun fading and minor curling to top of dust jacket on front and back. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white images throughout.

Record # 470883


Price: $31.00 

 

Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House-sites in North America


ingstad, Helge

Hardcover. London, England, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Westward to Vinland is not only the invaluable record of a major contemporary archaeological discovery, it is a fascinating travel book which describes the life and character of the Eskimoes and Indians of North America.

Record # 32208


Price: $38.00 

 

Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed


Marks, Kathy

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark and slight foxing on top text block edge. Tight copy.

Record # 471089


Price: $13.00 

 

Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945


Bukey, Evan Burr

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st Book Club Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (maps). Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Bukey offers a detailed examination of popular opinion in Hitler's native country after the Anschluss of 1938.

Record # 32894


Price: $19.00 

 

Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times (Social History of Africa)


Akyeampong, Emmanuel

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471165


Price: $31.00 

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Fleisher, Kass
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The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Fleisher, Kass

Softcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages, soft cover. Covers are very clean and bright, as are the interior pages. Binding is tight. Kass Fleisher chronicles the oft-ignored massacre of Shoshoni natives by Union troops in 1863, including commentary and some speculation. This book has been signed by the author on the title page. Overall nice clean copy. Record # 33653
Price: $22.00 

 

Korean War, The: Pusan to Chosin : An Oral History


Knox, Donald

Hardcover. Orlando, FL, Harcourt, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 697 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small tear to dust jacket front on bottom edge. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy with edgewear with dust jacket. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471202


Price: $15.00 

Tales About the Mythology of Greece and Rome by: Parley, Peter
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Tales About the Mythology of Greece and Rome by: Parley, Peter

Hardcover. London, Tegg & Co., 1st, 1839, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages, hardcover. A very rare 1839 1st edition. Engraved green cloth cover boards are in good shape. The exterior of the spine is falling apart, and the front interior hinge is cracked; as a result the binding is very loose, delicate, and in need of repair. Interior pages are all legible. Some water staining is present on the outside edge of the last few pages, which does not interfere with any text blocks. This timeless classic brings to life the mythological figures of Greece and Rome that have shaped Western culture. B&W illustrations of various figures separate each section, these illustrations have been artfully colored in with watercolor on the first 44 pages. The names of two previous owners are inscribed on the front end page, and various other minor markings are present throughout. Record # 33740
Price: $60.00 

La Vie en Rose: French Popular Songs in the 20th CenturyDelanoe, Pierre
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La Vie en Rose: French Popular Songs in the 20th Century


Delanoe, Pierre

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of textblock. Othewise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 280 black and white photographs. Includes a CD.

Record # 471569


Price: $25.00 

War & Politics by: Brodie, Bernard
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War & Politics by: Brodie, Bernard

Softcover. NY, MacMillan Publishing Co., 6th Print, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages, soft cover. Covers are generally in very good condition despite some minor wear to the spine and corners. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book draws connections between military affairs and state craft, by the dean of American civilian strategists. A thought-provoking and original look at WHY humans fight. The author puts war in its international political context as he examines the history of World Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam, and looks at the changing attitudes toward war, theories on its causes, "vital interests," trade, nuclear weapons, and the true nature of strategy. Clean copy. Record # 33833
Price: $18.00 

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New NationPrice, David A.
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation


Price, David A.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, 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 # 471697


Price: $15.00 

Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, A Political System Almost Laughed Out Of Existence by: Lewis, Ben
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Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, A Political System Almost Laughed Out Of Existence by: Lewis, Ben

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era. 25+ B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33934
Price: $15.00 

 

Report and collecations of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin - For the Years 1869. 1870. 1871. amd 1872 - Vol. VI


State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Illust. by: Capt. Johathan Carver

Madison, WI, Democrat Printing Co., 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawing of Capt. Johathan Carver with tissue-guard, charts. Margin pencil marking on page 248. Ex-lib with library bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, stamp on title-page. spine label, pocket on back paste-down endpaper. Faded purple binding with raised decoration on front cover. Heavy fading to spine . Spine edges worn.

Record # 502764


Price: $100.00 

A Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire, In Three Parts by: Merrill, EliphaletMerrill, Phinehas
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A Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire, In Three Parts by: Merrill, Eliphalet Merrill, Phinehas

Hardcover. Exeter NH, C. Norris & Co., 1st, 1817, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages, followed by an unpaginated section of topographical and statistical tables, hardcover. Leather covers are scuffed, with most wear to hinges and corners. Sticker residue present on bottom of spine. Interior pages have significant foxing throughout, but are free of any markings. Binding is loose, as the front and rear hinges are both cracked. This is the first gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire, and is made up of three parts: a comprehensive geographical and statistical overview of the state, a description of each town, county, and major feature in the state, and a set of tables of distances and town statistics. This volume describes New Hampshire's climate and seasons, canals and turnpikes, monuments, vegetable production and agriculture, domestic and wild animals, government, military strength, religion, customs, institutions, companies, societies, and state prison. This information provides the locations of features which may have since been renamed or disappeared. Title page stamped with ex-library mark, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33990
Price: $75.00 

 

German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate 1648-1871


Walker, Mack

Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 473 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling.

Record # 506190


Price: $33.00 

The Story of the Renaissance by: Hudson, William Henry
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The Story of the Renaissance by: Hudson, William Henry

Hardcover. London, England, George G. Harrap & Company LTD., Reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages, hardcover. Navy covers with gilt are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Minor bumping to the top and bottom of the spine. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a condensed history of the renaissance in Europe, primarily focussing on the stories of Italy, France, Germany, and England. Paste-in with previous owner's name is present on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34074
Price: $12.00 

 

British Borough Charters 1064-1216


Ballard (Ed), Adolphus

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 266 pages. Hinges loose. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Soiling to covers. Light rubbing to extremities.

Record # 506942


Price: $40.00 

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by: Klemperer, Victor Transl. Chalmers, Martin
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by: Klemperer, Victor Transl. Chalmers, Martin

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 556 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Pages have a deckled edge. In this book, Victor Klemperer, a German-Jewish professor, provides a firsthand account of daily life under Nazi rule from 1942-1945, documenting persecution, survival through the Dresden bombing, and Germany's postwar denial of Holocaust atrocities. Clean copy. Record # 34148
Price: $12.00 

Queen Victoria's Other World by: Underwood, Peter
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Queen Victoria's Other World by: Underwood, Peter

London, Harrap, Ltd., 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 210 pages. Tail of spine bumped. Dust jacket with edgewear. Record # 507702
Price: $12.00 

The Fortunate Island of Monhegan by: Jenney, Charles Francis
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The Fortunate Island of Monhegan by: Jenney, Charles Francis

Softcover. Worcester, MA, Davis Press, 1st, 1922, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages, soft cover. Green paper covers are in fair condition, with several chips and open tears. Interior pages are clean and bright with deckled edges. Binding is very loose due to open tears at the top and bottom of the spine. Contains a fold-out B&W map at the end. Monhegan is the most prominent landmark on the central and westerly coast of Maine, and is the western most of the outlying islands off Penobscot Bay. Its rocky shores rise boldly from the sea in two places to the height of 160 feet. Previous owner's name has been written in pen on the front cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34203
Price: $60.00 

 

One Hundred Years Ago: How The War Began: A Series of Sketches from Original Authorities


Hale, Edward E.

Hardcover. Boston, Lockwood, Brooks, and Co, 1875, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 40 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light foxing throughout. Hinge cracked halfway in middle of book. Fading to covers. Chipping, wear to spine.

Record # 508110


Price: $20.00 

The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord by: Donahue, Brian
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The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord by: Donahue, Brian

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 311 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, brown cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color maps. This book is an innovative, accessible, and authoritative history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts, and challenges the long-standing notion that colonial husbandry degraded the land. Clean copy. Record # 34291
Price: $25.00 

Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum Rescued from Oblivion, Recorded and Preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the Old Township of Harvard Massac
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Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum Rescued from Oblivion, Recorded and Preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the Old Township of Harvard Massac

Softcover. Fruitlands and The Wayside Museums, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black & white photography of utopias. Soiling, edgewear to covers. Record # 509006
Price: $12.00 

The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology by: Hansen, Mogens Herman Transl. Crook, J. A.
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The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology by: Hansen, Mogens Herman Transl. Crook, J. A.

Softcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages, soft cover. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book analyzes the Athenian democracy, focusing particularly on the crucial last 30 years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. In this famous direct democracy, Athenians conceived of liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process and as the right to live without oppression from the state or from other citizens. Clean copy. Record # 34399
Price: $18.00 

Sons of the Profits: There's No Business Like Grow Business by: Speidel, William C.
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Sons of the Profits: There's No Business Like Grow Business by: Speidel, William C.

Hardcover. Seattle, Washington , Nettle Creek Publishing, 1st, 1967, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Illustrated end papers. Lively battles erupted as cities and railroads scrambled for wealth on Puget sound. Acknowledgements, sources and bibliography. Nice copy. Record # 512444
Price: $12.00 

The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1: Trucial States and United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980 by: Yates, Athol Lord, Cliff
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The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1: Trucial States and United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980 by: Yates, Athol Lord, Cliff

Softcover. Warwick, England, Helion & Company, Ltd., 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, soft cover. Covers are slightly warped, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This book is a part of the "Middle East @ War" series, itself being volume No. 16. This book presents the history of the military and police forces in the Middle East. Clean copy. Record # 34502
Price: $12.00 

 

Passions of Andrew Jackson, The


Burstein, Andrew

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, b&w illustrations, Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 601561


Price: $15.00 

History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies Based Upon the Records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, 1897 by: Hibbard, Rev.  A. G.
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History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies Based Upon the Records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, 1897 by: Hibbard, Rev.  A. G.History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies Based Upon the Records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, 1897 by: Hibbard, Rev.  A. G.

History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies Based Upon the Records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, 1897 by: Hibbard, Rev. A. G.

Hardcover. Merrick, NY, Richwood Publishing Company, Bicentennial Edition, circa 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, hardcover. Blue faux leather covers and interior pages are clean and bright, despite some very minor edge wear and rubbing. Binding is solid. Contains some B&W photography throughout, plus two laid-in area maps of Goshen. This book is a comprehensive historical account detailing the Litchfield County town's settlement, topography, and local industries. It also serves as a vital genealogical and biographical record of the area's early families. Clean copy. Record # 34569
Price: $40.00 

 

Scratch Ankle, U.S.A. American Place Names and their Derivation


Quimby, Maron J.

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket. black and white illustrations by Gloria Perry.

Record # 604671


Price: $15.00 

Chautauqua: A Center for Education, Religion, and the Arts in America by: Morrison, Theodore, Illust. by: Nelson, Jane E.
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Chautauqua: A Center for Education, Religion, and the Arts in America by: Morrison, Theodore, Illust. by: Nelson, Jane E.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 351 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some chipping and edge wear, but is still in good condition overall. Yellow cloth covers have some staining and wear, but interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations and photography throughout. This book chronicles the history of the Chautauqua Institution, which was founded in 1874 on Chautauqua Lake, in New York. It describes how a modest camp meeting for training Sunday-school teachers grew into a massive adult education and social phenomenon that shaped American culture, combining religion, public lectures, and the arts. This is an ex-library book, and contains all expected markings such as a paste-in on the front end page, and stamps on the edges of the pages. Otherwise clean copy. Record # 34626
Price: $12.00 

 

Armageddon Revisited


Wilder, Amos N.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Illustrated with 6 pages of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606668


Price: $15.00 

 

Montgomery County Story, The


Alderfer, E. Gordon

Hardcover. Norristown, Pa, Comm. of Montgomery County, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. photos

Record # 50945


Price: $30.00 

 

Army Life in Dakota


de Trobriand, Philippe Regis Dennis de Keredern

Hardcover. Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages. Illustrated with with black & white plates. Minor foxing to endpapers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606861


Price: $35.00 

 

Farming the Frontier - The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country 1786-1846


Gibson, James R.

Hardcover. Vancouver, Univ. of British Columbia, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illus.

Record # 51324


Price: $25.00 

 

Star of India - The Log of an Iron Ship


MacMullen, Jerry

Hardcover. Berkeley, Howell-North, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Black & white photographs. Previous owners Illustration adhered to front endpaper and stamp on half-title page. Dust jacket worn with fading to spine. related articles laid-in.

Record # 608658


Price: $15.00 

 

Down by the Riverside - A South Carolina Slave Community


Joyner, Charles

Paperback. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois, rep. wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some yellow marking, underlining in text. Otherwise very good.

Record # 52626


Price: $15.00 

 

Body of Myth - Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and the Sacred Geography of the Body, The


Sansonese, J. Nigro

Softcover. Rochester, Inner Traditions International, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Paperback showing light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608992


Price: $20.00 

 

Historians at Work (2 Vols)


Gay, Peter, Gerald J. Cavanaugh (Ed.) and Victor G. Wexler

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol 1: Heradotus to Froissart, Vol 2: Vaila to Gibbon. Dj with spine fade, light soil, spine slightly cocked

Record # 57006


Price: $30.00 

 

Local History - How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It


Parker, Donald Dean

Softcover. New York, Social Science Research Council, Revised, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages. Revised and edited by Bertha E. Josephson. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Some small spots of soiling to paper covers. A few very minor margin marks in text.

Record # 609169


Price: $12.00 

 

Wartime Washington - The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee


Laas (Ed.), Virginia Jeans

Hardcover. Urbana, IL, Univ. of Illinois, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 552 pabes.

Record # 59244


Price: $30.00 

 

Catalog of Concord, Vt Cemeteries


Colburn, Sr., Richard A.

Softcover. East Charleston, Charleston Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Black & white illustrations. Spiral bound. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609312


Price: $50.00 

 

Nassau County Long Island in Early Photographs 1869-1940


Weidman, Bette S. and Linda B. Martin

Paperback. NY, Dover, 1st Wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 black & white photos, 132 pages. Paperback edition

Record # 60853


Price: $19.00 

 

New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion - Containing Histories of the Several New Hampshire Regiments, and Biographical Notices of Many of the Prominent Actors in the Civil War of 1861-65


Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Hardcover. Newport, Tony O'Connor Civil War Enterprises, Reprint, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 608 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610169


Price: $50.00 

 

New England Girlhood, A


Larcom, Lucy

Hardcover. Glouster, MA, Peter Smith, Rep.rint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of a classic memoir of pre-Civil War days. 274 pages.

Record # 61236


Price: $15.00 

 

War Fact Tests for Every American


Allen, William H.

Softcover. Yonkers-on-Hudson, World Book Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages. Black & white illustrations. Covers with light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610569


Price: $25.00 

 

Year of the Barricades, The - A Journey Through 1968


Caute, David

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 514 pages.

Record # 63485


Price: $11.00 

 

Selected Speeches of Booker T. Washington


Washington, Booker T./E. Davidson Washington (Editor)

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Creases to top right corner of preliminary pages, and to right corners of pages 275-278. Light foxing to a few pages. Rear endpaper removed. Blue cloth covers with some spotting, fading to spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611970


Price: $225.00 


  
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