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

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

 

Rural Vermont: A Program for the Future


200 Vermonters

Hardcover. Burlington, Vermont Commission on Country Life, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering on front of green covers. Light wear to covers, light soil. Previous owner's bookplate and writing on front end paper.

Record # 2233514


Price: $50.00 

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

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

 

Vanished World, A


Sneller, Anne Gertrude

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

Record # 1981


Price: $15.00 

 

Report of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Vermont Dairymen's Association, and Third Annual Meeting of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association


Pierce (Editor), G.W.

Softcover. Brattleboro, Phoenix Job Printing Office, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover with moderate soil to paper wrappers. Spine faded, water stains on rear wrapper. Pages darkened. Tight copy.

Record # 2233728


Price: $23.00 

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

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

 

Stage Coach North


Lee, W. Storrs

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

Record # 5782


Price: $18.00 

 

Hail, University! A Century of University School Life (INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Hawley, Richard A.

Hardcover. Hunting Valley, OH, University School, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half title page. Wine cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Faint sunfade to top & heel edge of front & rear boards. Profusely illustrated, black & white photographs throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670001


Price: $31.00 

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

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

 

Drawing the Line - The Korean War 1950 - 1953


Whelan, Richard

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

Record # 19942


Price: $18.00 

 

Maple Sugar Trees and Red Oldsmobiles


Silloway, Bette/Jessica Wright

Softcover. Chelsea, VT, Acorn Press, First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover non-paginated. Black & white illustrations throughout. Wonderful design, with text on one side with accompanied photographs, suggestive of distinctive scrap book on peach colored paper. Oral histories from native Vermonters. representing a variety of towns, Randolph, Brookfield, Northfield, Chelsea among others. Light wear to illustrated wraps, tear to top inch of spine. Clean inside

Record # 6670160


Price: $23.00 

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

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

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


O'Connor, Thomas H.

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

Record # 30389


Price: $25.00 

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


Grass, Sean

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

Record # 469951


Price: $50.00 

 

Singing Rails


Pease, Herbert L.

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

Record # 30593


Price: $25.00 

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


Isby, David (EDITOR)

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

Record # 470441


Price: $23.00 

 

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


Muir, John, Michael P. Branch

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

Record # 31567


Price: $25.00 

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


Campbell, Alastair

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

Record # 470761


Price: $19.00 

 

River Runs to War, A


Drummond, John D.

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

Record # 31911


Price: $19.00 

Japanese TheatreBowers, Faudion
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Japanese Theatre


Bowers, Faudion

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

Record # 470921


Price: $25.00 

 

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal


Karabell, Zachary

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

Record # 32180


Price: $19.00 

 

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine


Scull, Andrew

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

Record # 471090


Price: $15.00 

 

Cruise of the Raider HK-33


Brennecke, H.J.

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

Record # 32884


Price: $23.00 

 

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


Halpern, Rick (Editor)

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

Record # 471167


Price: $19.00 

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

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

 

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


Morgan, Michael H.

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

Record # 471205


Price: $15.00 

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

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

 

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


Macey, David A.J.

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

Record # 471571


Price: $38.00 

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

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

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


Hussey, Andrew

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

Record # 471698


Price: $19.00 

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

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

 

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


Headley, P. C.

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

Record # 502901


Price: $80.00 

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

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

 

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


Cerny (compiler), Johni

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

Record # 506193


Price: $38.00 

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

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

 

Britton: An English Translation and Notes


Nichols (translator), Francis Morgan

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

Record # 506967


Price: $66.00 

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

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

 

Religion and Society in England, 1790-1850


Ward, W.R.

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

Record # 507762


Price: $21.00 

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

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

 

From Cedar Mountain to Antietam: August-September 1862


Stackpole, Edward J.

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

Record # 508179


Price: $20.00 

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

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

 

In My Father's Bakery - A Bronx Memoir


Korman, Marvin

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

Record # 509204


Price: $15.00 

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

Early Days of Washington by: Mackall, Somervell S.

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

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

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

 

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


Weinberg, Gerhard L.

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

Record # 601682


Price: $18.00 

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

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

 

Tarry at Home Travels


Hale, Edward Everett

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

Record # 604678


Price: $19.00 

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

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

 

New England Life in the 18th Century


Shipton, Clifford K.

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

Record # 606675


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Rogers, Jr., William Warren

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

Record # 51043


Price: $18.00 

 

Mirrors


Galeano, Eduardo

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

Record # 608477


Price: $30.00 

 

Richard Taylor - Saldier Prince of Dixie


Parrish, T. Michael

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

Record # 51408


Price: $28.00 

 

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


Miller, William Lee

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

Record # 608764


Price: $12.00 

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


Berry, Mary Clay

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

Record # 52804


Price: $28.00 

 

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


Noel, Gerard

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

Record # 609050


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Bryan, Howard

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

Record # 57046


Price: $20.00 

 

Western Regions, New Hampshire: A Visual History, The


Morley, Linda

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

Record # 609191


Price: $40.00 

 

William Henry Letters, The


Diaz, Abby Morton

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

Record # 59886


Price: $26.00 

 

Foreign Policy in the Sixties - The Issues and the Instruments


Hilsman, Roger/Robert C. Good

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

Record # 609835


Price: $12.00 

 

Witness to War - An American Doctor in El Salvador


Clements, M.D., Charles

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

Record # 61124


Price: $15.00 

 

Natural History and the Topography of Groton, Massachusetts, The


Green, Samuel Abbott

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

Record # 610246


Price: $63.00 

 

Ancient Greece - The Triumph of a Culture


Payne, Robert

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

Record # 61370


Price: $25.00 

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

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

 

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


N/A

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

Record # 63500


Price: $25.00 

 

Mighty Stonewall


Vandiver, Frank E.

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

Record # 611995


Price: $63.00 

 

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


Wallis, Michael

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

Record # 65150


Price: $13.00 

 

Ku Klux Klan in American Politics, The


Rice, Arnold S.

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

Record # 612362


Price: $31.00 

 

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


N/A

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

Record # 67065


Price: $15.00 

 

Army Life On The Western Frontier


Croghan, George

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

Record # 613496


Price: $25.00 

 

Pennsylvania 1776


Secor (Ed.), Robert

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

Record # 68068


Price: $25.00 

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


Jenkins, John S.

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

Record # 613801


Price: $75.00 

 

My Pamet - Cape Cod Chronicle


Kane, Tom

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

Record # 68748


Price: $20.00 

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


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

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

Record # 614022


Price: $150.00 

 

Introduction to Ancient Egypt, An


James, T.G.H.

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

Record # 69266


Price: $20.00 

 

Campaigns of the American Civil War


Fiebeger G. J.

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

Record # 700290


Price: $40.00 

 

Captain Sam Grant


Lewis, Lloyd

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

Record # 100919


Price: $12.00 

 

Their Tattered Flags


Vandiver, Frank E.

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

Record # 700693


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Rohrbough, Malcolm J.

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

Record # 109165


Price: $28.00 

 

Ghost Mountain Boys, The


Campbell, James

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

Record # 750228


Price: $15.00 

 

From Alexander to Cleopatra - The Hellenistic World


Grant, Michael

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

Record # 178213


Price: $15.00 

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


Hartman, Douglas R.

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

Record # 750486


Price: $63.00 

 

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


Victor, Orville J.

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

Record # 202432


Price: $80.00 

 

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


Coffin, Howard

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

Record # 750867


Price: $25.00 

 

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


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

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

Record # 203634


Price: $20.00 

 

Medieval Warfare - A History


Keen (Editor), Maurice

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

Record # 750980


Price: $19.00 

 

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


Roe, Patrick C.

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

Record # 206732


Price: $20.00 

 

Hundred Years of Methodism, A


Simpson, Matthew

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

Record # 751279


Price: $19.00 

 

The Black River's Rampage 1927 Springfield, Vermont


Lyndes, E. J. and Theo Menard

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

Record # 208049


Price: $50.00 

 

Music Lover's Handbook, The


Siegmeister, Elie

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

Record # 751417


Price: $13.00 

 

NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL: The Lowdown On The Big Town


Churcher, Sharon

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

Record # 220683


Price: $13.00 

 

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


Ausubel (Editor), Nathan

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

Record # 751512


Price: $19.00 

 

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


MacGregor, David R.

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

Record # 224402


Price: $31.00 

 

Things That Have Interested Me (Second Series)


Bennett, Arnold

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

Record # 751571


Price: $19.00 

 

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


Butterfield, Ernest W.

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

Record # 301013


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Glennon, Robert

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

Record # 803491


Price: $10.00 

 

Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1905


N/A

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

Record # 302841


Price: $100.00 

 

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


n/a

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

Record # 804341


Price: $51.00 

 

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


no author

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

Record # 303366


Price: $8.00 

 

American Sculpture at Yale University


Freedman, Paul B. and Robert Jaffee Frank

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

Record # 806253


Price: $20.00 

 

Country Neighborhood


Coatsworth, Elizabeth

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

Record # 304204


Price: $15.00 

 

Early History of Bristol, Vermont, Formerly Known as Pocock


Munsill, Harvey

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

Record # 807993


Price: $80.00 

 

Born for Liberty - A History of Women in America


Evans, Sara M.

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

Record # 304684


Price: $12.00 

 

Indian Legends Retold


Eastman, Elaine Goodale, Illust. by: George Varian

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

Record # 808713


Price: $45.00 

 

Northeast Historical Archaeology Vol 15


Beaudry, Mary (Ed.)

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

Record # 400963


Price: $15.00 

 

Wakefield: Birthplace of George Washington


Moore, Charles

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

Record # 809213


Price: $12.00 

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


n/a

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

Record # 402010


Price: $250.00 

 

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


Walett (Ed.), Francis G.

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

Record # 850026


Price: $60.00 

 

Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James 1752-1828


Laughton, John Knox and James Young Sullivan

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

Record # 403950


Price: $35.00 

 

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


Wolle, Muriel Sibell

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

Record # 850788


Price: $30.00 

 

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


Stone, Arthur F.

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

Record # 405117


Price: $250.00 

 

Fight for a Free Sea, The


Paine, Ralph D.

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

Record # 851861


Price: $12.00 

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

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

 

Wooden Walls in Action


Bowen, Frank C.

Hardcover. London, Halton & Co, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket in brodart; Chipping along bottom edge. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851941


Price: $15.00 

 

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


De Puy, Henry W.

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

Record # 406632


Price: $75.00 

 

Makers of Naval Tradition


Alden, Carroll Storrs

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co, reprint, 1942, 378 pages. B&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Light rubbing and edgewear to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 852023


Price: $15.00 

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

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

 

Queens of the Western Ocean: The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines


Cutler, Carl C.

Annapolis, MD, U.S. Naval Institute, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 672 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tear. Price clipped. Photos and illustrations. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852212


Price: $20.00 

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


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

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

Record # 411920


Price: $13.00 

 

History of American Privateers, A.


Maclay, A.M., Edgar Stanton

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.

Record # 852376


Price: $60.00 

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


Clark, Thomas D. and Albert D. Kirwan

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

Record # 412033


Price: $16.00 

 

History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain: Compromising a Military Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations.


Brackenridge, H. M.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, James Kay, Jun. and Brother, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Reprint of the 1844 edition. Maroon cloth cover with gilt lettering in nice condition. 11 b&w illustrations, including frontispiece. Inside is nice and clean.

Record # 852444


Price: $18.00 

 

The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness


Schneider, Paul

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

Record # 450447


Price: $20.00 

 

Studies in Naval History: Biographies


Laughton, John Knox

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 469 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, tear and fade. Price clipped. Decorative red stained edges. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852557


Price: $18.00 

 

Enigma of General Blaskowitz, The


Giziowski, Richard

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

Record # 451444


Price: $18.00 

 

Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 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, minor wear to corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 852881


Price: $20.00 

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


Ogle, Maureen

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

Record # 451794


Price: $20.00 

 

Last Sail Down East, The


Tod, Giles M. S.

Hardcover. Barre, Mass., Barre Publishers, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 281 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and small tear on top spine edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852992


Price: $15.00 

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

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

 

Jenny Was No Lady: The Story of the JN-4D


Lincke, Jack R.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edge wear, fade and minor foxing, inside flap clipped. Minor foxing on book top edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853169


Price: $18.00 

Punished PeoplesAleksandr, Nekrich
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Punished Peoples


Aleksandr, Nekrich

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

Record # 453341


Price: $12.00 

Works of Daniel Webster, The: Complete 6 VolumesWebster, Daniel
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Works of Daniel Webster, The: Complete 6 Volumes


Webster, Daniel

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 15th, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete six volume set with gilt tiles on spine and green cloth cover. Three frontispiece portraits of Webster with tissue guard and additional frontispiece illustration of Green Harbor Marshfield. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's bookplate on endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 853698


Price: $100.00 

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


Waldron, Peter

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

Record # 453420


Price: $30.00 

 

Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, The


Hall, Florence Howe

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages, with gilt title on cover. Minor edgewear and fade, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853979


Price: $50.00 

 

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution


Schama, Simon

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

Record # 453525


Price: $25.00 

 

Border Wars of the American Revolution, in Two Volumes


Stone, William L.

Hardcover. New York, A. L. Fowle, 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete two volume set, maroon cloth board with green embossed four-leaf clover on front. Light edge wear and fray, minor foxing on edges, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854541


Price: $50.00 

 

Great Battle Fleets


Warner, Oliver

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

Record # 454757


Price: $12.00 

 

Celtic Realms, The


Dillon, Myles

Hardcover. New York , The New American Library, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages, b&w photos. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Minor wear, scratching to covers, binding slightly shaken. A neat, clean copy.

Record # 854799


Price: $15.00 

 

History of the Confederate States Navy


Sharf, J. Thomas

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

Record # 454855


Price: $12.00 

 

Privateers in Charleston 1793-1796


Jackson, Melvin H.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, b&w illustrations. Ex-library copy with spine-tape and embossed stamp on title page. Light rubbing to top edge of front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855160


Price: $15.00 

 

Eagle, The


Crisman, Kevin James

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

Record # 455053


Price: $50.00 

L'Empire des Tsars et les RussesLeroy-Beaulieu, Anatole
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L'Empire des Tsars et les Russes


Leroy-Beaulieu, Anatole

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 594 pages, gilt title on leather spine with marbled cover and endpapers, FRENCH TEXT. Light corner and edge wear with rub, light ex-library residue, loose front preliminary pages, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 855348


Price: $88.00 

 

Medieval Panorama


Bartlett, Robert (editor)

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

Record # 455561


Price: $25.00 

 

Crisis of the Old Order in Russia, The: Gentry and Government


Manning, Roberta Thompson

Softcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 555 pages. Sticker residue on front fly leaf. Fading to spine and minor shelf wear. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855441


Price: $28.00 

 

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


Cervantes, Dr. Fernando

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

Record # 455991


Price: $15.00 

 

Genesis of German Conservatism, The


Epstein, Klaus

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 733 pages. Light foxing to side and bottom edge; heavy foxing to top edge. Shelf wear to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855532


Price: $38.00 

 

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


Wilkes, Laura E.

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

Record # 456814


Price: $15.00 

 

Thomas Garrigue Masaryk: The Spirit of Russia


Gibian, George

Hardcover. London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1st ed., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Dust jacket has sticker on front flap. Dust jacket is also faded along spine with over all shelf wear. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855679


Price: $63.00 

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

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

 

Family in Soviet Russia, The


Geiger, H. Kent

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd printing, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 381 pages. Light shelf wear and rubbing on dust jacket covers. Minor foxing on dust jacket rear cover and flaps. Some foxing on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856339


Price: $15.00 

 

Who's Who in Late Medieval England 1272-1485


Hicks, Michael A.

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

Record # 457644


Price: $13.00 

 

God's Loaded Dice: Alaska, 1897-1930


Morgan, Edward E. P.

Hardcover. Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers, Ltd. , 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 298 pages. 27 black-and-white photos. Some chipping and edge-wear to dust jacket. Sun-fading to jacket spine. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856647


Price: $19.00 

 

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Volume 13


Brack, O. M. (Editor)

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

Record # 457831


Price: $13.00 

 

Winged Mars Volume 1: The German Air Weapon 1870-1914


Cuneo, John R.

Hardcover. Harrisburg, PA, The Military Service Publishing Co., 2nd printing, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 338 pages, b&w illustrations by the author. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with a few small tears along the edges. Internally very good.

Record # 856950


Price: $50.00 

Medieval Slavery and LiberationDockes, Pierre
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Medieval Slavery and Liberation


Dockes, Pierre

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

Record # 457944


Price: $19.00 

Founder by: Elon, Amos
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Founder by: Elon, Amos

Hardcover. London, Viking , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 857455
Price: $12.00 

 

Russian Futurism Through Its Manifestoes, 1912-1928


Lawton, Anna

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

Record # 458276


Price: $50.00 

 

History Comes to Life


Rendell, Kenneth W.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look at collecting historical letters and documents. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951130


Price: $19.00 

 

Lewis & Clark in the Bitterroot


Oneill, Jeanne

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

Record # 458564


Price: $13.00 

 

Puritan Revolution, The: A Documentary History (SIGNED COPY))


Prall (Editor), Stuart E.

Hardcover. Gloucester, MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf, with an inscription to previous owner. A documented history of the Puritan revolution. Faint edgewear and bumping to boards. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951479


Price: $39.00 

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


Larkin, David & Peter H. Spectre

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

Record # 459901


Price: $38.00 

 

Journal of Madam Knight, The


Knight, Madam

Hardcover. Boston MA, David R. Godine, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 39 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Diary of a New England woman from 1704. From a limited print run of 1900 copies. Including an introductory note by Malcolm Freiberg and wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951891


Price: $23.00 

 

Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas J. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others


Gosnell, Harold F.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 370 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. A study and history of the New York political machine under Thomas J. Platt. Light underlining to pages 350-351. Faint rubbing and soiling to front panel. Age toning to top text block. Light bumping to corners. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952138


Price: $50.00 

Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York by: Dunlop, M. H.
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Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York by: Dunlop, M. H.

Hardcover. US, William Morrow, 1st, 2000-11-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Previous owner's inscription on dedication page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461791
Price: $12.00 

The Week France FellBarber, Noel
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The Week France Fell


Barber, Noel

Hardcover. New York, Stein & Day, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black & white photos throughout.

Record # 2230064


Price: $15.00 

 

Accidental Guerrilla, The : Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One


Kilcullen, David

Hardcover. US, Oxford University Press, USA, 3rd printing, 2009-03-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Light edgewear to dust jacket with small closed tear to rear flap. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462223


Price: $44.00 

Great Belzoni, The: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient TreasureMayes, Stanley
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Great Belzoni, The: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasure


Mayes, Stanley

Softcover. London, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages. Softcover. Minor foxing to textblock edges. A very clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 2230399


Price: $19.00 

 

Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks


Weber, Sandra

Softcover. US, Purple Mountain Press, Ltd., 2nd printing, 2004-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to wrappers with light staining to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462685


Price: $23.00 

Conway's History of the Ship: The Advent of Steam, The Merchant Steamship before 1900Greenhill, Dr. Basil
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Conway's History of the Ship: The Advent of Steam, The Merchant Steamship before 1900


Greenhill, Dr. Basil

Hardcover. London, Naval Institute Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal wear on jacket and cover. Jacket has minor repairs with tape to edge. Clean and tight copy, illustrated throughout. Stamp from previous owner's library on end papers.

Record # 2230639


Price: $31.00 

Lampshade, The : A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans by: Jacobson, Mark
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Lampshade, The : A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans by: Jacobson, Mark

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2010-09-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463110
Price: $12.00 

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. FullerBusch, Briton Cooper (ed.)
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Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. Fuller


Busch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Hardcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. American Maritime Library; Vol. 9. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230918


Price: $19.00 

MEN OF PROPERTY: THE VERY WEALTHY IN BRITAIN SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by: RUBINSTEIN, W D
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MEN OF PROPERTY: THE VERY WEALTHY IN BRITAIN SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by: RUBINSTEIN, W D

Hardcover. US, CROOM HELM, 1st, 1981-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464448
Price: $12.00 

The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical EditionMcKivingan, John R.
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The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition


McKivingan, John R.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 645 pages. Softcover. Very wear to cover, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231047


Price: $19.00 

Neighbors to the Birds: A History of Birdwatching in America by: Gibbons, Felton
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Neighbors to the Birds: A History of Birdwatching in America by: Gibbons, Felton

Hardcover. US, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1988-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 364 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466549
Price: $12.00 

 

In the Floating Army: F.C. Mills on Itinerant Life on California, 1914


Woirol, Gregory R.

Hardcover. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Rear dust jacket faded.

Record # 2233389


Price: $15.00 

METHODISM: EMPIRE OF THE SPIRIT by: Hempton, David
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METHODISM: EMPIRE OF THE SPIRIT by: Hempton, David

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 467951
Price: $12.00 

 

Maine Pilgrimage - The Search for an American Way of Life


Saltonstall, Jr., Richard

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Drawings by Polly Warren, 353 pages, light wear to dust jacket

Record # 1078


Price: $18.00 

 

First World Flight, The


Thomas, Lowell

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Hinges cracked and disconnected at rear. Loose binding. Moderate fraying to cover boards. Black and white pictures throughout. Fair copy.

Record # 2233640


Price: $31.00 

Letters of Karl Marx, The by: Padover, Saul K.
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Letters of Karl Marx, The by: Padover, Saul K.

Softcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ , Prentice Hall, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 576 pages. Softcover. B&w photographs throughout. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468263
Price: $12.00 

 

Pilgrims, The


Noble, Frederick A.

Hardcover. Boston, Pilgrim Pr, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages, with b&w illustrations. Gilt titles and top edge. Ex-library residue on rear fly leaf and sticker on spine, light spine edge fray, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 4779


Price: $13.00 

Dangerous Trails: Five Desperadoes of the Old West Coast by: Secrest, William B.

Dangerous Trails: Five Desperadoes of the Old West Coast


by: Secrest, William B.

Hardcover. Stillwater, OK, Barbed Wire Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Boards bound in red cloth. Dust jacket unclipped and excellent. Binding tight. Looks barely read.

Record # 5560125


Price: $15.00 

Shores of refuge: a hundred years of Jewish emigration by: Sanders, Ronald
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Shores of refuge: a hundred years of Jewish emigration by: Sanders, Ronald

Softcover. New York, Schocken, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, 673 pages. Softcover. B&w photographs throughout. Edge wear and foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468918
Price: $12.00 

 

Lamont-Doherty Survey of the World Ocean Underwater Marine Geophysical Data in the


Talwani, M. & Poppe, Hastings & Aitken

Paperback. Palisades, NY, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, wraps, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, North Atlantic June 1961 - Jan 1971, Part A: Navigation and General Information. Spine worn, shelf soil otherwise

Record # 10729


Price: $10.00 

 

Passions and Politics: A Biography of Versailles


Barry, Joseph

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company Inc., Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 538 pages. Hardcover. Ivory canvas covered boards with black titles to spine. Deckled edge, illustrations in black & white, clean inside and out with maps to endpapers. Dust jacket with edgewear, light toning & price-clipped. A nice copy.

Record # 6670078


Price: $23.00 

Mummies Myth And Magic in Ancient Egypt by: El, Mahdy Christine
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Mummies Myth And Magic in Ancient Egypt by: El, Mahdy Christine

softcover . New York, Thames and Hudson, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. B/W and color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 469344
Price: $12.00 

 

Whose Woods these Are: A History of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference 1926-192


Bain, David Howard

Hardcover. New York, The Echo Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30368


Price: $38.00 

Taste for War, ADavis, William C.
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Taste for War, A


Davis, William C.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469891


Price: $31.00 

Abial and Anna: The Life of a Civil War Veteran as Told in Family Letters (SIGNED)Kallgren, Beverly Hayes
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Abial and Anna: The Life of a Civil War Veteran as Told in Family Letters (SIGNED)


Kallgren, Beverly Hayes

Hardcover. Maine, University of Maine Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Includes revised Index insert. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "...a sequel and companion volume to Dear Friend Anna, contains later letters beginning in 1866. ...Abial and Anna's courtship, begun in wartime becomes more turbulent as Abial expresses his frustrations at the political ramifications in seeking employment, explains his postwar obligations to his siblings, and tells of his desire to further his education. ...We learn of the strength, courage, humor and faith which sustains the family despite economic problems, illness, pain and grief."

Record # 30545


Price: $23.00 

Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of IndustrializationMaynes, Mary Jo
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Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization


Maynes, Mary Jo

softcover. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers, otherwise very good copy.

Record # 470137


Price: $15.00 

 

Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


Williams, Gregory L. (Ed.), L. Eileen Parris (Ed.)

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Binding tight. Covers excellent. Clean and bright inside. In great shape.

Record # 31418


Price: $25.00 

Columbia History of American Poetry, TheParini, Jay (editor)
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Columbia History of American Poetry, The


Parini, Jay (editor)

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 894 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470598


Price: $25.00 

 

Campaigns of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and of Forrest's Cavalry, The (New introduction by Albert Castel


Jordan, General Thomas, J.P. Pryor

Softcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st Paperback, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 704 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks barely read and nearly new. "This Da Capo Press paperback edition of (this book) is an unabridged republication of the edition first published in New Orleans and New York in 1868, with the addition of a new introduction by Albert Castel."

Record # 31805


Price: $15.00 

Italians, The: History, Art, and the Genius of a People Norwich, John Julius
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Italians, The: History, Art, and the Genius of a People


Norwich, John Julius

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470838


Price: $25.00 

 

Promoters' City, The: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneauve 1883-1918


Linteau, Paul-Andre, Robert Chodos (Translation)

Softcover. Toronto, Canada, James Lorimer & Company, 1st English, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on the back cover.

Record # 32161


Price: $15.00 

 

Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman


Hamilton, Mary Mann

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, Reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor sun fading to text block edges. Otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 471053


Price: $15.00 

 

Discovery of France, The: Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War


Robb, Graham

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 3rd printing, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 455 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w historical illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, in very good condition. Tan cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape, nice tight copy. Both a history and guidebook. it explains how the modern nation of France came to be, and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France

Price: $15.00 

 

Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature


Lanes, Selma G.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. A critical analysis on children's literature. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471145


Price: $23.00 

 

Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship (Expedition Accounts by David C. Switzer)


Dean, Nicholas

Hardcover. Gariner, Maine, Maine Maritime Museum, 1st Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked.

Record # 33512


Price: $19.00 

 

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


Leet, Joshua H.

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

Record # 471195


Price: $15.00 

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

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

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

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


  
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