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Fones Record, The


Arnold, James N.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Clearfield Company Inc. , reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, hardcover. The records of the proprietors of the Narragansett, otherwise called the Fones Record. Spotting to endpapers and flyleaf. Mild spotting to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951889


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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


Dwyer, William M.

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

Record # 951892


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Frontier Parish


Ritchie, Carson I.A.

Hardcover. NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Anglican Church in America, drawn from the records of the Bishop of London. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight fading to dust jacket as well. Minor spotting to top text block edge. Previous owner's labeling to front endpapers. Price-clipped. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951896


Price: $13.00 

 

Communistic Societies of the United States, The


Nordhoff, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1875, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 439 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to boards intact. Including detailed accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, The Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian, and other communistic societies. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to boards. Heavy fraying and chipping to spine as well. Front hinge fairly weak. Heavy age-toning to text block edges. Bumping to boards. Light chipping to front flyleaf. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A scarce copy.

Record # 951909


Price: $75.00 

 

Gardiners of Massachusetts, The: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career


Milford, T.A.

Hardcover. Lebanon NH, University of New Hampshire Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, hardcover. The account of three generations of the Gardiner family during the Revolutionary era. Light rubbing to boards. Light pencil marking to rear endpapers. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951916


Price: $19.00 

 

Long Harpoon, The: A Collection of Whaling Anecdotes


Watson, Arthur C. , Illust. by: Arthur C. Watson

Hardcover. New Bedford MA, George H. Reynolds, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 165 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories about whaling. Illustrations by the author. Heavy edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild soiling to dust jacket as well. Minor edgewear to boards, slight bow to rear panel. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Price-clipped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951917


Price: $31.00 

 

New York Mid-Century: Post-War Capital of Culture, 1945-1965


Cohen-Solal, Annie and Paul Goldberger and Robert Gottlieb

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st UK, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. How New York City became the cultural capital of the post-war world in all fields of creative endeavor. With 447 illustrations, 159 in color. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951921


Price: $63.00 

 

History of Connecticut College, A (SIGNED)


Noyes, Gertrude E.

Hardcover. New London CT, Summer Hill Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. A photo-illustrated history of Connecticut college. Minor rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951932


Price: $50.00 

 

Port of Gloucester, The


Connolly, James B., Illust. by: Max Kuehne

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards. With etchings by Max Kuehne. A history of the famous Massachusetts port. Mild bowing to front panel. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Rough cut fore edge. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951955


Price: $25.00 

 

Old North Country Bridges Upstate New York


Allen, Richard Sanders

Hardcover. Utica NY, North Country Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An album of historic spans of wood, iron and wire in northern New York as well as Vermont. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight spotting to prelim pages. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952048


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

Princess of Siberia, The: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles


Sutherland, Christine

Hardcover. New York, FSG, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Story of exiled Russian royalty. Light rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Record # 952166


Price: $13.00 

 

King Dies in Marseilles, A: The Crime and its Background


Milicevic, Vladeta

Hardcover. Germany, Howacht, 1st English, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, hardcover. Investigation regarding the death of a Yugoslavian King. Fading to spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Mild age toning to text block edges. Slight yellowing to prelim pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952172


Price: $23.00 

 

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


Hazard, Thomas Robinson, Illust. by: Rudolph Hazard

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

Record # 952217


Price: $75.00 

 

Aspirations & Anxieties: New England Workers & the Mechanized Factory System 1815-1850


Zonderman, David A.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild soiling to front dust jacket panel and fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952241


Price: $31.00 

 

Fairy Tale Railroad: The Mohawk and the Malone, From the Mohawk, Through the Adirondacks to the St. Lawrence


Harter, Henry A.

Paperback. Utica NY, North Country Books, 1st paperback, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages, paperback. A detailed look at "The Golden Chariot Route" that ran through the Adirondack park. Many black-and-white photographs throughout. Mild bumping to corners. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952242


Price: $19.00 

 

Hartford, New York: A Pictorial History


N/A

Paperback. New York, Hartford Bicentennial Commitee, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages, paperback. History of Hartford, New York. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. Faint age toning to prelim pages. Mild rubbing, slight soiling and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952550


Price: $29.00 

 

Under the Golden Cod: A Shared History of the Old North Church and the Town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1635-1985


N/A

Hardcover. Canaan NH, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A shared history of the Old North Church and the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, which is housed in a plastic protective sleeve. Mild age toning to fore edge. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952557


Price: $31.00 

 

Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England


Potts, David B.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Readable history of nineteenth-century New England colleges. Mild fading to spine. Slight bowing to front panel. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952568


Price: $24.00 

 

American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century


Stansell, Christine

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitian Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Beautifully written evocation of bohemian Greenwich Village. Mild rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952590


Price: $16.00 

 

Operation Bernhard


Pirie, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Agewear and chipping to dust jacket edges. An otherwise clean copy. Black & white photographs throughout. Binding slightly loose.

Record # 2230062


Price: $13.00 

 

Berlin 1910-1933


Roters, Eberhard

Hardcover. New York, William S. Konecky Associates, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2230069


Price: $25.00 

 

Shamans of Prehistory, The


Clottes, Jean

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams , 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230208


Price: $19.00 

 

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


Sebba, Anne

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

Record # 2230280


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Key Essays


Liebman, Stuart

Softcover. Oxford, UK , Oxford University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Softcover. A very clean copy. Some light pencil markings throughout.

Record # 2230288


Price: $31.00 

 

Boxmaker's Revenge, The: 'Orthodoxy,' 'Heterodoxy,' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London


Lake, Peter

Softcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover. Foxing to top edge of textblock and random spotting on edges of textblock. Inside clean and unmarked.

Record # 2230351


Price: $19.00 

 

World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 (Toronto Italian Studies)


Coletta, Cristina Della

Hardcover. Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230360


Price: $38.00 

 

Gestetner Collection of Maritime Atlases & Voyages, The


Daniel Crouch (Editor)

Softcover. Oxford, Daniel Crouch Rare Books LLP, 1st, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 2230361


Price: $25.00 

 

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Twentieth-Century British Fiction


Suh, Judy

Hardcover. New York, Palgrave Macmillan US, 1st, 2009, 211 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor bumps to corners of spine. A very clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 2230366


Price: $63.00 

 

Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility (The CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)


Delpech, Therese

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 2230372


Price: $15.00 

 

Unmapping the Renaissance


Stepken, Angelika

Softcover. Vienna, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230382


Price: $19.00 

 

Urban Wilderness, The: A History of the American City (Classics in Urban History)


Warner, Sam Bass

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st paperback, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230426


Price: $19.00 

 

Early Tahiti as The Explorers Saw it, 1767-1797


Ferdon, Edwin N.

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

Record # 2230438


Price: $19.00 

 

Black White & Gold


Nelson, Hank

Softcover. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover without dust jacket, some wear on cover

Record # 2230446


Price: $31.00 

 

Technical Training and Development in Papua, 1894-1941


Austin, Tony

Softcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University, 1977, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. Some fading and wear on cover. Small price stickers on front cover. Unidentified signature on front cover.

Record # 2230449


Price: $25.00 

 

Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix


Daum, Werner

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

Record # 2230467


Price: $88.00 

 

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 

 

The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 663 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and staining on jacket. Inscription on front end papers, 1989. Intro by Leon Edel.

Record # 2230492


Price: $19.00 

 

The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims


Basham, A.L.

Softcover. New York, Grove Press, Reprint, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Softcover. Some wear, staining and foxing on text block and cover and spine. Previous crease in back cover and final 50 pages. "With More Than 200 Half-Tone Illustrations".

Record # 2230502


Price: $23.00 

 

Connecticut River, The: New England's Historic Waterway (INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


DeLaney, Edmund

Softcover. Chester, CT, Globe Pequot Press, First Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Softcover. Only minor wear to edges. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Page 163 has small wrinkle on top edge. Light sunfade to spine. Clean inside and out - a nice copy.

Record # 2233092


Price: $19.00 

 

Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now


Hales, Peter Bacon

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 471 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Like new condition.

Record # 2233282


Price: $23.00 

 

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


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

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

Record # 2233319


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians


Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder dot on bottom of book. Tight copy.

Record # 2233321


Price: $19.00 

Hannibal by: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

Hannibal by: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

Softcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 4th, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 682 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Spine askew and cocked. Rear wrapper warped slightly. Record # 2233322
Price: $12.00 

 

Realms of Silver: One Hundred Years of Banking in the East


Mackenzie, Compton

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, rep, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with gilt lettering to brown front cover and spine. Light foxing to top page block.

Record # 2233336


Price: $23.00 

 

To-Day on the Nile


Dunning, H.W.

Hardcover. New York, James Pott & Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gutter cracked in multiple pages. Previous owner's bookplate and name on front end paper and front fly leaf. Map in rear partially disconnected. Covers show moderate wear and spine is loose.

Record # 2233342


Price: $25.00 

 

From Merciless Invaders: An Eye-witness Account of the Spanish Armada


McKee, Alexander

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate chipping and creasing to dust jacket. Clean interior. Illustrated with black and white illustrations.

Record # 2233346


Price: $19.00 

 

On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - And Future


House, Karen Elliot

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233348


Price: $19.00 

 

Beyond the Capes: Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger (1776-1877)


Dodge, Ernest S.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Illustrated in black and white.

Record # 2233359


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

History of the County of Huntington and the Seigniories of Chateaugay & Beauharnois from their first settlement to the year 1838 and revised to the 1900s


Sellar, Robert

Hardcover. Huntingon, Quebec, Canadian Gleaner, reprint, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine cocked. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf and title page, otherwise clean copy with light wear to edges.

Record # 2233403


Price: $75.00 

 

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


Robinson, Philip G.

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

Record # 2233506


Price: $44.00 

 

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


Robinson, Philip G.

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

Record # 2233507


Price: $44.00 

 

Thetford Academy's First Century 1819-1919


Slade, Mary B.

Hardcover. Thetford, VT, Thetford Academy Historical Committee, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and inscription on front fly leaves and notes on rear end paper. Black and white pictures in rear.

Record # 2233512


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

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


Hayward, John

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

Record # 2233515


Price: $75.00 

 

How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians


Bell, Rudolph M.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's light pencil markings throughout. Tight copy with minior wear to covers. A few black and white illustrations.

Record # 2233539


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Missing Peace, The: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (SIGNED)


Ross, Dennis

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 840 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Tight copy with minor rubbing to edges.

Record # 2233543


Price: $31.00 

 

City of Florence, The: Historical Vistas & Personal Sightings


Lewis, R.W.B.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 4th, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Balcka nd white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233546


Price: $19.00 

 

Retreat from China


Clifford, Nicholas

Hardcover. London, Longmans Green and Co, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcvoer with price-clipped and worn dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers.

Record # 2233549


Price: $19.00 

 

Ovary of Eve, The: Egg and Sperm and Preformation


Pinto-Correia, Clara

Hardcover. Chicago, Unversity of Chicago Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light pencil markings, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 2233555


Price: $23.00 

 

Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment


Laursen, John Christian

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean,tight copy with little to no wear to wrappers.

Record # 2233627


Price: $15.00 

 

Spiked Boots: From New England's North Country, True Stories of Yesteryear, When Men Were Rugged and Rivers Wild


Pike, Robert E.

Hardcover. Dublin, NH, Yankee Books, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to edges, light soil to dust jacket and rear end paper. Some black and white pictures.

Record # 2233628


Price: $25.00 

 

Californian Trails, Intimate Guide to the Old Missions: The Story of the California Missions


Hall, Trowbridge

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with moderate wear. stamped lettering on front. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Black and white pictures throughout. Light soil on text block.

Record # 2233638


Price: $31.00 

 

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 to Vermont: from Her Civil War Soldier Correspondents to the Home Press Volume One: (INSCRIBED)


Wickman, Donald H.

Hardcover. Bennington, VT, Images from the Past, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with little to no wear to covers.

Record # 2233645


Price: $23.00 

 

Murder of William of Norwich, The: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe


Rose, E.M.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear to top dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures scattered throughout.

Record # 2233651


Price: $15.00 

 

Gender and Fascism in Modern France


Hawthrone (Editors), Melanie

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

Record # 2233707


Price: $19.00 

 

Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism


Thomas, Dominic

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to wrappers.

Record # 2233708


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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


Collier, Peter

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

Record # 2233729


Price: $50.00 

 

Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology


Clastres, Pierre

Softcover. New York, Zone Books, 5th, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Tight copy.

Record # 2233769


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Burning Tigris, The: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. A History of the International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes


Balakian, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233784


Price: $19.00 

 

Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance


Fest, Joachim

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1st us, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233788


Price: $19.00 

 

Road to Verdun, The: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism


Ousby, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket plastic sleeve, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233789


Price: $19.00 

 

Closing of the Western Mind, The: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason


Freeman, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil throughout with spot on rear pages and dust jacket rear flap. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2233790


Price: $19.00 

 

Eaton Family of Nova Scotia, The - 1760 - 1929


Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton

Hardcover. Cambridge, Privately Printed, First Edition, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Green cloth boards, mottled. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Pages untrimmed, unopened. Frontis illustration, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, with tissue guard. Illustrations throughout in sepia tones, including family crest, all protected with tissue guards. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Toning throughout. Otherwise clean, unmarked.

Record # 3340115


Price: $100.00 

 

Islands in Danger: The Story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands


Wood, Alan and Mary

Hardcover. London UK, Evans Brothers Limited, 1st UK, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. Bumping to corners and spine. Light rubbing to boards. unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450060


Price: $15.00 

 

Other Side of the River, The


Kotlowitz, Alex

Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Decorated endpapers. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Dust jacket has a touch of age yellow. Some light foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean inside and out.

Record # 5560123


Price: $15.00 

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 

 

In Search of Penicillin


Wilson, David

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., First Edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover. Taupe boards with gilt titles to ivory cloth spine. Green top edge. Dust jacket with faint marginal toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Very clean inside. Tight binding, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 5560150


Price: $19.00 

 

Deadly Feasts - Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague


Rhodes, Richard

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. Laminate florescent colored boards. Transparent dust jacket with black titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Tight binding, sharp corners, very clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 5560151


Price: $13.00 

 

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


Desowitz, Robert S.

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

Record # 5560152


Price: $31.00 

 

Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century


Dowling, Harry F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, Second Printing, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 339 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine, faint tanning to top edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, light wear to edges, small tear to rear of jacket. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560158


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Irish People, The: An Illustrated History


Neill, Kenneth

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

Record # 6670005


Price: $15.00 

 

Monmouthshire Medley Vol. 4: Some Rare Antiquarian Views in the County


Nichols, Reginald

Softcover. South Wales, Village Publishing, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 pages. Softcover profusely illustrated in black & white including maps and drawings throughout. Age toning to wraps & light wear to edges, creases to corners. Few small spots to front flyleaf & light toning throughout. Top right corner gently bowed to several pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked

Record # 6670006


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 

 

Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara


Castaneda, Jorge G.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Hardcover. Taupe boards with gilt titles to green cloth spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Borzoi book edition. Tight binding, illustrations in bw, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670025


Price: $19.00 

 

Family in History, The


Rosenberg (Editor), Charles E.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2nd Printing, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt titles to spine. Tight binding. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670026


Price: $15.00 

 

Ars Medica, Art, Medicine, and the Human Condition: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art


Karp (Editor), Diane R.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Softcover. Full color illustrated wraps with light sunfade to spine & light wear to edges. 116 plates in bw & full color. Beautifully designed and published to accompany the collection held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Clean and unmarked copy.

Price: $15.00 

 

Peloponnesian War, The


Kagan, Donald

Softcover. New York, NY, Viking, Uncorrected Proof, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 498 pages. Softcover, advance uncorrected proof with illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670044


Price: $13.00 

 

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670049


Price: $23.00 

 

Quentin Durward (Standard English Classics)


Scott, Walter/R. W. Bruere (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ginn & Company, Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning to edges. Small spots to a few pages. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf in pencil, else clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670059


Price: $19.00 

 

A Brook of Our Own: A Few Notes From the Files of a Mountain Real Estate Office


Harkness, Marjory Gane

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt titles to spine & embossed tree to cover. Light marginal toning throughout. Light sunfade to spine & board edges. Otherwise clean copy.

Record # 6670068


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Men and Meridians: The History of Mapping and Surveying in Canada (Volume 1, Prior to 1867)


Thomson, Don W.

Hardcover. Ottawa, Canada, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, First Edition, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in black & white, with a few images in full color. Frontis photograph, Monument of Champlain by Hamilton MacCarthy at Ottawa. Seven fold out maps. Dust jacket with quarter inch tear to top edge, light toning to edge of flaps. Clean copy.

Record # 6670079


Price: $31.00 

 

Buffalo Public Library, The: Commemorating Its First Century of Service to the Citizens of Buffalo, 1836 - 1936


Goldberg, Arthur

Hardcover. Buffalo, NY, Privately Printed, First Edition, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with light wear to edges. Limited first edition, total of 1800 copies printed. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Black & white illustrations, tight binding clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670086


Price: $25.00 

 

Sahara: Desert of Destiny


Gerster, Georg

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

Record # 6670128


Price: $23.00 

 

Undiscovered France: An Eight-Week Automobile Trip in the Provinces With Special Reference to the Architecture, Archaeology, History, and Scenery


Williams, Emile Frances

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Frontis illustration, Chateau of Beynac, on the Dordogne, in black & white, over 190 photographs throughout, beautifully presented to accompany text. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt illustration & gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt is faded to spine edge. Tight copy, clean & unmarked with light, natural toning to edges as would be expected for its age. A nice copy.

Record # 6670146


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

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


Taylor, Maureen/David Allen Lambert (Contributor)

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

Record # 6670173


Price: $25.00 

 

Prairy Erth


Heat-Moon, William Least

Hardcover. Boston, HM, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED on half-title.

Record # 5691


Price: $35.00 

 

Holland's House: A Nation Building a Home


Bricklayor, Peter, Illust. by: Jo Spier

Hardcover. Haarlem, Holland, Joh Enschede en Zonen, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages; a short, entertaining history of Holland, color drawings by Jo Spier. Edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 16032


Price: $12.00 

 

Jefferson In Power: The Death Struggle of the Federalists


Bowers, Claude G.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, b&w Illustrations, 536 pgs, light wear to spine extremities otherwise

Record # 25357


Price: $18.00 

 

Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush, The


Morse, Kathryn

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Multiple pages have previous owner's notes, underlining, etc. in pencil and some in pen. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 30007


Price: $19.00 

 

Memory of the Modern, The


Matsuda, Matt

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. A few black and white illustrations included. Previous owner's signature in red ink opposite title page.

Record # 30019


Price: $13.00 

 

Turks in World History, The


Vaughn Findley, Carter

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 30034


Price: $15.00 

 

Lost Villages of the Eastern Aleutians: Biorka

Softcover. Washington D.C., National Park Service, United states Dept. of the Interior, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Softcover. (SIGNED) Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Includes insert letter from U.S. Dept. of Interior. Clean inside and out. From the back cover: "When WWII encircled the Aleutian Islands, the lives of the Unangax inhabitants and the communities they lived in were forever changed."

Record # 30216


Price: $38.00 

 

Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany and World War II


Payne, Stanley G.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out.From the dust jacket front flap: "Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter WWII? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? To what extent did Spain assist Jewish refugees?"

Record # 30307


Price: $23.00 

 

Darkest Year, The: Britain Alone June 1940-June 1941


Agar, Herbert

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1st USA, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckle edge. Some light age wear to dust jacket. Clean inside. From the dust jacket front flap: "From June 22, 1940, when France surrendered to the Germans, until June 22, 1941, when Hitler invaded Russia, Britain alone stood against the German conquest of Europe. Her Agar's theme is that this period of hardly credible survival saved the Western world..."

Record # 30311


Price: $15.00 

 

Washington in Maps: 1606-2000


Miller, Iris

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations. Gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. In great shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "Washington in Maps features, in full color, over 100 glorious maps, dating from the seventeenth century to the present, featuring the most splendid antique maps of Washington--to hte extraordinary, otherworldly staellite imagery of today. Included are maps by Thomas Jefferson and pierre Charles L'Enfant, the man upon whose design modern Washington now stands; a map by Captain John Smith from 1608; and maps by the Senate Park (McMillan) Commission, among many others."

Record # 30448


Price: $50.00 

 

Volunteer's Adventures, A.: A Union Captain's Record of the Civil War


De Forest, John William, James. H. Croushore (Editor)

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. No dust jacket. Cover boards yellowed somewhat, but in good shape considering age. Pages and edges yellowed with age, otherwise clean inside. Previous owner bookplate on front endpaper.

Record # 30553


Price: $15.00 

 

Growing up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History


Hanawalt, Barbara A.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent shape, clean and bright inside and out.

Record # 30709


Price: $13.00 

 

Thames, The


Schneer, Jonathan

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30726


Price: $13.00 

 

Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Ketchum, Richard M.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, other than some slight foxing on top edge, clean inside and out.

Record # 30727


Price: $15.00 

 

Great Silence, The: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age


Nicolson, Juliet

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st American, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30781


Price: $15.00 

 

Peterborough Chronicle, The


Rositzke (Translator/Introduction), Harry A.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Hardcover. covers bound in dark green, top edge dyed. Gilt title on spine, still quite bright. Spine has a touch of fraying/fading at top and bottom. Very tight binding, edges and pages have some age-yellowing, but otherwise very clean inside.

Record # 30812


Price: $25.00 

 

New Lives in the Valley: Slate Quarries and Quarry Villages in North Wales, New York, and Vermont, 1850-1920 (SIGNED)


Roberts, Gwilyn R.

Hardcover. Somersworth, NH, New Hampshire Printers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Covers bound in green fabric. In excellent condition. Clean and bright inside and out.

Record # 30829


Price: $44.00 

 

Village of Salem, The


Tomasi, Katharine

Hardcover. Salem, NY, Salem Woman's Club, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Map of Salem, NY 1889 enclosed/laid within back pocket. Dust jacket unclipped. Very slight touch of foxing to edges, bottom edge has light abrasions, but doesn't affect text. In very good condition, clean inside. Dust jacket has a touch of agewear, but still shiny, with no rips or tears.

Record # 30830


Price: $88.00 

 

Celebrating Vermont: Myths and Realities


Graff (Ed.), Nancy Price

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Published to accompany traveling exhibition July 9, 1991-April 5, 1992. In excellent condition, just a touch of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out.

Record # 30895


Price: $31.00 

 

Chronicle of Youth: Vera Brittain: The War Diary 1913-1917


Bishop (Ed.), Alan

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket shows a touch of age wear, otherwise clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30901


Price: $19.00 

 

Willard's of Washington: The Epic of a Capital Caravansary


Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw, B.P. Adams

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Some agewear yellowing to covers, edges and pages. In good condition for its age, binding still quite tight.

Record # 30903


Price: $19.00 

 

La Ghigliottina Del Terrore (ITALIAN TEXT)


Rousseau-Lagarde, Val

Hardcover. Italy, Instituto Francese de Firenze, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Soft cover. ITALIAN TEXT. B/w illustrations throughout. A touch of foxing on endpapers and edges. Clean inside. In very good condition.

Record # 30958


Price: $38.00 

 

Spoils of War, The: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property


Simpson (Ed.), Elizabeth

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers in excellent condition. Touch of foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright.

Record # 30963


Price: $25.00 

 

First Resort of Kings, The: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century


Arndt, Richard T.

Softcover. Nebraska, Potomac Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages. Softcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER ON TITLE PAGE. Front wrapper has slight warp to bottom fore edge, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 30966


Price: $23.00 

 

Thief, the Cross and the Wheel, The: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe


Merback, Mitchell B.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Spine askew. Several closed tears to dust jacket. Corners bumped. Internally clean.

Record # 30968


Price: $25.00 

 

Stories of the Months and Days, The


Couzens, Reginald C.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st American, c. 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. First American after Blackie ed(?), undated. "With Illustrations from Famous Paintings and Statuary". B/w illustrations throughout. Dark blue dec. cloth. Bright yellow title printing; embossed decorated cover. Binding loose in some areas, but all pages still attached. Tanning to edges and pages. In decent shape for its age.

Record # 31209


Price: $23.00 

 

War Against War: British and German Radical Movements in the First World War


Carsten, F.L.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, covered in protective plastic brodart, looks new. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent condition.

Record # 31412


Price: $19.00 

 

Campaign of 1776: The Road to Trenton


Edgar, Gregory T.

Softcover. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, just a touch of chipping at spine. Slight foxing to preliminary pages and edges, but otherwise clean inside. Binding tight. In great shape. "Through 1776's roller-coast pattern of events, this book traces the development of the Revolutionary War."

Record # 31417


Price: $19.00 

 

England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942


Smith, Colin

Softcover. London, Phoenix, Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 490 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Has previous bookstore price tag on back cover. In great shape, like new. "Fills one of the few remaining gaps in Second World War historiography, an excellent account of the almost forgotten struggle between British and Vichy Forces."

Record # 31430


Price: $15.00 

 

Hitler's Propaganda Machine


Rutherford, Ward

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, pages clean. In great shape. Perfect for any WWII collector or enthusiast. "Hitler's Propaganda Machine is portrayed vividly and dramatically through the use of hundreds of photographs and posters as well as original magazines and newspapers of the Nazi era. It is a unique collection which brilliantly illustrates the fascination and horror of the Nazi years."

Record # 31435


Price: $23.00 

 

Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence


Barnouw, Dagmar

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, clean inside and out. In great shape. "Packed with carefully chosen photos of the concentration camps, German exiles, the war-injured, children, and bombed-out cities... a moving reminder of the material and moral devastation left behind by Nazi Germany."

Record # 31440


Price: $25.00 

 

Lost History of 1914, The: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began


Beatty, Jack

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Co., 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Red cover boards. Decorated endpapers. A couple of small spots of soil on front cover, did not transfer to cover boards.

Record # 31455


Price: $15.00 

 

Lincoln's Last Months


Harris, William C.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Teal cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Teal endpapers. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In beautiful condition. "Beginning with the electoral campaign of 1864 and ending with the assassination, Harris reveals that Lincoln's mastery of the daunting affairs of state during the last nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the Union."

Record # 31459


Price: $19.00 

 

Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy


Current, Richard Nelson

Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated endpapers. Tan covers, gilt title on spine and front cover. Binding tight, pages bright, clean inside and out. Looks barely read. "With this path-breaking book, Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War."

Record # 31523


Price: $15.00 

 

Royalton Vermont


Nash, Hope

Hardcover. Royalton, VT, Town of Royalton, South Raylton Woman's Club, Royalton Historical Society, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 299 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear: tanning, chipping, small tears along the edges (patched with tape). Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine and decorations stamped on front cover. Some foxing to top edge, and light tanning from age to pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age.

Record # 31644


Price: $88.00 

 

Night of Purnama, The


Mathews, Anna

Softcover. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Wrapper has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Edges also have some tanning, pages clean. Binding tight. The tale of the six months of eruption of Gunung Agung, Bali's long-extinct volcano, in 1963. Authors give first-hand account.

Record # 31665


Price: $31.00 

 

Bastiles of the Confederacy: A Reply to Jefferson Davis


Moran, Frank E., Illust. by: Frank Moran

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Moran Family, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Hardcover. Privately printed original publication, printed by Moran's family. Text and illustrations by Author. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and with decoration on front cover. Some fraying to bottom of spine, a touch of chipping and rubbing to covers. B/w frontispiece plate (portrait of author). Edges and pages have tanning from age but doesn't affect text or illustrations. From title page: "Being a Narrative of the Treatment of the Union Prisoners in the Military Prisons of the South During the War of the Rebellion. From Official Records of the United states War Department, Reports by Committees of Congress, Captured Confederate Archives, and From Evidence Taken at the Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, in 1865, and From the Personal Experiences of the Author During Twenty Months Captivity in Six Military Prisons of the South. With a Review of the exchange Controversy."

Record # 31720


Price: $100.00 

 

Genealogy of The Descendants of Nicholas Hodsdon-Hodgdon of Hingham, Mass and Kitter, Maine. 1635-1904


White, Almira Larkin

Hardcover. Haverhill, MA, Andrew Jackson Hodgdon, 1st, 1904, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 31721


Price: $125.00 

 

Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb


Powers, Thomas

Softcover. New York, NY, Da Capo Press, 2nd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 608 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good. Pages clean, binding tight. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. The story of the interplay between science and espionage, morality and military necessity, and paranoia and cool logic.

Record # 31770


Price: $19.00 

 

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz


Kennedy, Rick

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape. Gives the first detailed account of the people and events behind this unique record company.

Record # 31772


Price: $19.00 

 

Malaya-Gaya Hidup Antara 1900-1930: Malaya-Lifestyles 1900-1930 (Malasian text)


Ng (Rtd.), Major David , Mazaffar D.J. Tate

Softcover. Malasia, Petaling Jaya, 1st, 1989, 135 pages. Softcover. In Malaysian text with English translations. Sepia and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Some slight tanning to pages and edges, but otherwise very clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Using picture postcards, our authors seek to give us an idea of what life was like in Malaysia between 1900 and 1930.

Record # 31788


Price: $44.00 

 

Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865


Longacre, Edward G.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st (stated on copyright page), 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, no price on flap, dj excellent. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. In great shape, looks barely read and nearly new.

Record # 31804


Price: $25.00 

 

Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front


Sutherland, Daniel E. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Fayetteville, AR, University of Arkansas Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, pages clean, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Sutherland helps to broaden our view of the complexity of the American Civil War and provides us with a clear picture of war's consequences and its impact on communities, homes, and families.

Record # 31817


Price: $25.00 

 

Mask of Treachery: The First Documented Dossier on Blunt, MI5, and Soviet Subversion


Costello, John

Hardcover. London, William Collins & Sons, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 761 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Former library book with embossed stamp on title page and label residue on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Some foxing to top edge, pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. The true history of Soviet subversion in the United Kingdom.

Record # 31818


Price: $25.00 

 

Air-Raid Warden Was A Spy, The: And Other Tales From Home-Front America in World War II


Breuer, William B.

Hardcover. Hoboken, NJ, john Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Burgundy cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Breuer recounts over fifty little-known tales of military actions, espionage, and skullduggery on the American home front.

Record # 31821


Price: $15.00 

 

History of Lake Champlain: From its First Exploration by the French in 1606, to the Close of the Year 1814


Palmer, Peter S.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. Munsell, Reprint, 1866, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Hardcover. Pages untrimmed, deckled edges. Tanning from age throughout. Cover boards bound in brown textured leather, binding has some age issues, coming away at spine, mended. Gilt title on spine. Cover board corners show some wear. Tanning from age throughout. Beautiful old volume that covers over two hundred years of Lake Champlain's history.

Record # 31939


Price: $100.00 

 

Behind the Bolshoi Curtain


Collins, Richard

Hardcover. London, UK, William Kimber, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, Back flap has a small crease, dj in good shape. Pages and edges lightly tanned, doesn't affect text or illustrations. The technical and artistic mastery of the Bolshoi, described by Collins, a dancer with the company for four years.

Record # 32001


Price: $44.00 

 

Gates of November, The: Chronicles of the Slepak Family


Potok, Chaim

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Orange cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Some foxing to edges, pages clean and unmarked. An epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish Father and son whose stories span the entire history of the Soviet Union.

Record # 32010


Price: $15.00 

 

Les Arm

Softcover. France, Stock, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Softcover, French flaps. FRENCH TEXT. B/w illustrations throughout. Some tanning to wrapper, otherwise very good. Clean and unmarked inside. Binding tight. In great shape. Title English translation: The White Armies: The White Odyssey 1917-1920, Kornilov, Les Cosques, Denikine and Koltchak, Czechs and French, Massacres in Siberia, Wrangel

Record # 32020


Price: $19.00 

 

Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano


Parakilas, James

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, very little wear. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks nearly new. Piano Roles is a lively and up-to-date history of the piano that examines both its evolution in classical and popular musical cultures around the world, and its every-changing social roles over the past three centuries.

Record # 32041


Price: $19.00 

 

Patty Cannon Administers Justice or Joe Johnson's Last Kidnapping Exploit: A Tale of the Delmarva Peninsula in its "Dark Ages"


Messenger, R.W.

Softcover. Cambridge, MD, Tidewater Publishers, Reprint, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Softcover. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Wrapper has some age wear, moisture staining, and a previous bookstore price tag on back cover (see image). Tanning and slight foxing to edges, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. The tale of one involved incident in the criminal career of this most vicious and cruel of legendary females.

Record # 32133


Price: $31.00 

 

Children's Crusade, The


Christian, J.E., Antonio Jocson, Jorge Vasquez (Illustrator), Illust. by: Jorge Vasquez

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Liberty Bell Production, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt decoration on front cover. Binding tight, spine straight. Based on a true story where thousands of children board ships bound for Jerusalem to liberate the Holy Land.

Record # 32134


Price: $19.00 

 

Roughing It in the Bush


Moodie, Susanna, Illust. by: R.A. Stewart

Softcover. Toronto, Canada, Coles Publishing Company, Reprint facsimile copy, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 567 pages. Softcover. Facsimile copy of original, published in 1852. Wrapper very good. Light tanning to edges and pages. A moisture stain to top edge. Binding tight. In good shape. A woman takes a trip of exploration with her husband from England to Canada, in the first part of the nineteenth century.

Record # 32142


Price: $23.00 

 

Illustrated History of the Knights Templar, The


Wasserman, James

Softcover. Rochester, VT, Destiny Books, 1st paperback, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Nice clean copy. Wasserman provides a fascinating history of the Templars and the many mysteries and legends that still surround it through a unique and lavish assemblage of more than 170 illustrations.

Record # 32153


Price: $19.00 

 

Studio: Asia: A Famous Artist-Correspondent Reports on the Korean War and the Turbulent East.


Groth, John, Illust. by: John Groth

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Sepia illustrations by author throughout. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on blue on spine and gilt title on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, has some tanning from age, covered in protective plastic. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age.

Record # 32156


Price: $19.00 

 

Our Grandmothers' Drums


Hudson, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Blue cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Has a touch of rubbing to dj. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In very good condition. A "travel book" about the inhabitants of the village Dulaba in Gambia, Africa.

Record # 32160


Price: $15.00 

 

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Bissell, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Deckled foreedge. Orange cover boards, purple quarter cloth, orange title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. pages and edges clean and unmarked. "Being a Narrative of a Journey Through Uzbekistan, Including Descriptions of Life Therein, Culminating with an Arrival at the Aral Sea, the World's Worse Man-Made Ecological Catastrophe."

Record # 32166


Price: $25.00 

 

Cuba and Castro


Casuso, Teresa, Elmer Grossberg (Translation)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, two tone title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, very good, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Top edge dyed red. In very good shape. "Teresa Casuso, who resigned her high position in the U.N. and took asylum in the United States after supporting Fidel Castro from the beginning, now reveals for the first time the behind-the-scenes story of the Revolution."

Record # 32168


Price: $19.00 

 

Intimate Pages of Mexican History


O'Shaughnessy, Edith

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover. Untrimmed edges. Cover boards bound in green cloth, title blind stamped on front cover board. Tanning from age to edges and pages. Binding tight. Spine straight. Edith O'Shaughnessy was wife of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Charg

Price: $23.00 

 

Atat

Hardcover. London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a touch of age wear at top of back cover (see image), unclipped, very good. Top edge dyed. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. This important and absorbing biography will fill many gaps in our knowledge of the man who created modern Turkey and changed the course of European history.

Record # 32185


Price: $23.00 

 

Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories


Yimikirli, Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (Ed./Trans), Lee Cataldi (Ed./Trans)

Hardcover. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Yellow cover boards, yellow quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, light fading to spine (see image),excellent. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Light foxing to top edge. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. In great shape. A fascinating journey in the living mythology of the Warlpiri people of Central Australia.

Record # 32193


Price: $19.00 

 

Prehistory of New Zealand, The


Davidson, Janet

Hardcover. Auckland, New Zealand, Longman Paul Limited, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Pink endpapers. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name and a small note on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly faded spine (see image), excellent. Presents an authoritative review of what is known about life in New Zealand before the coming of the European.

Record # 32194


Price: $63.00 

 

Captain & the Cannibal, The: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage.


Fairhead, James

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In nearly new condition. The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend.

Record # 32195


Price: $25.00 

 

Down Among the Wild Men: The Narrative Journal of Fifteen Years Pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert


Greenway, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, LIttle, Brown and Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in dark orange cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. A touch of tanning to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations. In the desert and along the fringe, John Greenway has known the Aborigines for fifteen years; and this book is his account of them.

Record # 32199


Price: $15.00 

 

Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia


Boldrewood, Rolf

Hardcover. 1912, Macmillan and Co., Reprint, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers. Light tanning from age to edges and pages. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on front cover. Some pages untrimmed. The story of Dick Marsdon.

Record # 32217


Price: $19.00 

 

First Night of Twelfth Night, The


Hotson, Leslie

Hardcover. London, England, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 19541st, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear, covered in clear plastic brodart. Top edge dyed brown. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some light tanning from age to edges and pages, otherwise clean. Binding tight, spine straight. A look at the first night performance of Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night".

Record # 32222


Price: $19.00 

 

Mightier Than the Sword: Cartoon, Caricature, Social Comment


Rogers, W.G.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, red title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped and protected in clear, plastic brodart. In very good condition.

Record # 32237


Price: $15.00 

 

Wanderer of Liverpool, The


Masefield, John

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Color frontispiece illustration of the ship, 38 b/w illustrations (plates), plans of the ship. Four sets of plans bound in (3 of them are large and fold-out style: mid-ship section, main deck plan, sail plan). Tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Some fading to covers, especially to spine (see image). History of the ship, long poem by Masefield who was poet laureate.

Record # 32244


Price: $25.00 

 

How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest and Other Essays in Western History


Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Hardcover. Williamstown, MA, Corner House Publishers, Reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Just a touch of tanning to edges from age.

Record # 32245


Price: $23.00 

 

On Wings of Eagles: The Plight, Exodus, and Homecoming of Oriental Jewry


Schechtman, Joseph B.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 429 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). Some agewear to cover boards at edges (see image). Some tanning to edges from age. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape for its age. Starting in 1948 over half a million Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Aden, Syria, Egypt, Libya to their homeland of Israel voluntarily relocated. This history of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East describes in detail their mass exodus, how it was done and the impact on the countries left behind.

Record # 32247


Price: $19.00 

 

Address Delivered at Hartford, Vermont July 4th 1876


Pingree, Samuel E.

Softcover. Plainfield, NJ, Privately Printed by Porter Steele, 1st, Date unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Binding (staple) tight. B/w illustrated frontispiece (see image). A touch of tanning from age throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Published date unclear, early twentieth century. Wrapper excellent. A speech delivered by Samuel Pingree at the July 4th centennial celebration in Hartford, VT.

Record # 32284


Price: $25.00 

 

Travels in North American in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782, Volume 2


Marquis de Chastellux

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st Revised Translation, 1963, Book: Good, 323 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers (see image). Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine, Boards have fading to spine and a scratch to front cover (see image). Binding right, pages clean.

Record # 32329


Price: $15.00 

 

Spy Among Friends, A: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal


MacIntyre, Ben, John Le Carr

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 3rd printing of 1st Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, yellow title on spine. A couple of light spots of soil to edges, otherwise clean. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In very good condition. Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head of Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War

Price: $15.00 

 

Indigenous Quotient Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future


G-mez-Qui–ones, Juan

Softcover. San Antonio, TX, Aztlan Libre Press, 1st Paperback, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. In beautiful condition. Depicts the history of academic discourse on American Indigenous People.

Record # 32430


Price: $19.00 

 

Daily Life in Eighteenth Century Italy


Vaussard, Maurice

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1963, 218 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket priceclipped, has some agewear (see image), but no rips or tears. Binding tight, no pages missing, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Top edge dyed. In great shape for its age. Vaussard has produced an engagingly realistic account of the conditions of life in town and country, from north to south, and in all levels of society. The illustrations are almost all from contemporary paintings.

Record # 32444


Price: $15.00 

 

1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History


Flood, Charles Bracelen

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Colophon, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Tan, marbled cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. A masterly re-creation of the last twelve months of Abraham Lincoln's life.

Record # 32459


Price: $19.00 

 

Long Death, The: The Last Days of the Plains Indian


Andrist, Ralph K.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 371 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning from age, otherwise good, no rips, wrapped in protective, clear, plastic brodart. Deckled foreedge. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. In great condition. This great and sad book tells how the white man came

Price: $31.00 

 

Boston Days


Whiting, Lilian

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 485 pages. Teal cloth, gilt lettering, green & white floral decor. Top edge gilt. Full page b&w photographs, including frontispiece. Original dust jacket with chipped edges.

Record # 40019


Price: $51.00 

 

Frontier Newspaper The El Paso Times


Middagh, John

Hardcover. El Past, Texas Western Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MIDDAGH. Top of spine with short tear

Record # 51505


Price: $18.00 

 

Age of Chivalry - Atlantic Sage


Bryant, Sir Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Rep., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white maps. Dj price clipped, previous owner's inscription on title page otherwise

Record # 53615


Price: $18.00 

 

Rienzo - The Rise and Fall of a Dictator


Fleischer, Victor

Hardcover. London, Aiglon Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj worn, chipped

Record # 53651


Price: $18.00 

 

German's Master Plan - The Story of Industrial Offensive


Borkin, Joseph and Charles A. Welsh

Hardcover. NY, Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1st , 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 53779


Price: $18.00 

 

Bourgeois Experience, The - Victoria to Freud Vol I: Education of the Senses


Gay, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53802


Price: $25.00 

 

Blind Horn's Hate, The


Hough, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis, black & white illus.

Record # 53803


Price: $18.00 

 

Peasant Uprisings - In 17th Century France, Russia and China


Mousnier, Roland

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53818


Price: $18.00 

 

Nuremberg in the Sixteenth Century


Straus, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib. Light marking, residue to end papers otherwise very good.

Record # 53879


Price: $18.00 

 

United Irishmen, United States - Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic


Wilson, David A.

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell Univ., 1st , 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 54016


Price: $18.00 

 

Walking on the Edge of the World - A Memoir of the Sixties and Beyond


Leonard, George

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 54026


Price: $15.00 

 

Atlantic Frontier, The - Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763


Wright, Louis B.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust.

Record # 54032


Price: $15.00 

 

Waterbury Record, The - More Vermont Memories


Duffus, R. L.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 54035


Price: $18.00 

 

Barre, Vermont - An Annotated Bibliography


Beauin et al., Daniel

Paperback. Barre, VT, Aldrich Public Library, 1st wraps, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 items catalogued. 80 Pages. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 54038


Price: $25.00 

 

Distant Magnets - Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience 1840 -1930


Hoerder, Dirk and Horst Rossler

Hardcover. NY, Holmes & Meier, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, An anthology of writings on immigrants to America from many parts of the world

Record # 54226


Price: $20.00