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A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920


Angus, James

Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 455 pages. B/W photographs. Very clean.

Record # 801993


Price: $11.00 

 

Aaron Burr (2 volumes): The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756 - 1805, and The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805 - 1836


Lomask, Milton

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st Volume: 443 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 10 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean tight copy. 2nd Volume: 475 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 12 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket - book in great condition.

Record # 804557


Price: $26.00 

 

Addresses Upon the American Road 1933-1938


Hoover, Herbert

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. A collection of Hoover's political speeches. Gilt lettering on spine partially gone otherwise very good. Hardcover, no dust jacket.

Record # 501065


Price: $23.00 

 

Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhoodin America 1873-1935


Wheeler, Leigh Ann

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Half cloth boards. Black and white photographs, clean tight copy.

Record # 511244


Price: $15.00 

 

American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and Politics


Bates, William W.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, reprint, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Spine and corner edge wear. Ex-library usual stamping and residue. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852356


Price: $28.00 

 

American Presidency in Political Cartoons: 1776-1976, The


Blaisdell, Thomas & Peter Selz

Paperback. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, several color but mostly b&w plates. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Paper covers w/light scuff, spine faded.

Record # 10814


Price: $10.00 

 

An Honorable Profession - A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy


Salinger (ed.), Pierre and others

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

Record # 68659


Price: $400.00 

 

ANALYSIS OF THE LATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OUR U. S. ADMINISTRATION AND GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, WITH AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW WHAT ARE THE REAL CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS.


Lowell, John

Softcover. Boston, Russell & Cutler, 1st, 1808, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 219822


Price: $54.00 

 

Apartheid - A History


Lapping, Brian

NY, George Braziller, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 197 pages.

Record # 65120


Price: $25.00 

Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century GermanyParet, Peter

Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany


Paret, Peter

Hardcover. US, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1989-03-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear to dust jacket, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 466513


Price: $15.00 

 

Bankers and Cattlemen - The Stocks and Bonds, Havana Cigar, Mahogany and Leather side of the Cowboy Era. Politics investors, and operators from 1870 to 1900


Gressley, Gene M.

NY, Knopf , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201318


Price: $30.00 

Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and SocietyMacDonogh, Giles

Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society


MacDonogh, Giles

Softcover. 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages, b&w photographs. Minor wear to covers, else like new.

Record # 450340


Price: $10.00 

 

Big Vote, The: Gender, Consumer Culture, and Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s


Gidlow, Liette

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. Black cover with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 511230


Price: $10.00 

 

Castro's Revolution - Myths and Realities


Draper, Theodore

Paperback. New York, Praeger, 1st wraps, 1962, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages. Clean, tight copy. Paperback.

Record # 302472


Price: $12.00 

 

Compiled Statutes of the State of Vermont Being Such of the Revised Statutes, and of the Public Acts and Laws Passed Since, as are Now in Force: To Which are Prefixed the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Vermont


Hardcover. Burlington, Chauncy Goodrich, 1st, 1851, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front hinge weak, previous owner's inscription, signatures on end papers, worn calf covers, internally VG w/ light foxing

Record # 20839


Price: $100.00 

 

Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises


Kissinger, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 564 pages. Includes previously unpublished transcripts of phone conversations. Related ephemera folded in. Blue boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine. White, blue speckled dust jacket with red and blue lettering. Very light edgewear.

Record # 803181


Price: $10.00 

 

Deadlock of Democracy, The - Four-Party Politics in America


Burns, James MacGregor

Paperback. NJ, Pren tice Hall, Revised Ed. Wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages.

Record # 60838


Price: $15.00 

 

DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT, THE. A COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN WRITINGS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY


Smith, Bernard, editor

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 219831


Price: $16.00 

 

Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, & Politics


Rosenberg, Harold

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor tear to lower edge of back cover). 336 pp. index included. "The book's five sections deal with illusions arising from various intellectual disciplines; the socio-political dynamics of the contemporary art world; problems of identity in American culture; the situation of the Jew in the contemporary world; and the role of myth in modern politics.

Record # 805114


Price: $22.00 

 

Establishment of Spanish Rule in America - An Introduction to the History and Politics of Spanish America


Moses, Bernard

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st , 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Ex-lib with spine repair, lettering to spine, end paper marking, residue, still anice reading copy.

Record # 65969


Price: $15.00 

 

First Hurrah, The - A Biography of Alfred E. Smith


O'Connor, Richard

NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 318 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, big chip on rear panel, price clipped.

Record # 66730


Price: $18.00 

 

Getting Elected - From Radio and Roosevelt to Television and Reagan


Reinsch, J. Leonard

Hardcover. NY, Hippocrene, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 54020


Price: $8.00 

 

Henry Adams - and the American Experiment


Contosta, David R.

Hard Back . Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil to back cover of dust jacket.

Record # 200951


Price: $12.00 

 

Last Campaign, The - How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election


Karabell, Zachary

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604172


Price: $10.00 

 

Life and Speeches of Henry Clay - Vol. II


Clay, Henry

NY, Creeley & McElrath, Unknown, 1843, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. II only. Black & white frontis. 597 pages. Light foxing.

Record # 62064


Price: $35.00 

 

Life and Times of Eamon De Valera, The


Fitzgibbon, Constantine

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 150 pages. Oversize.

Record # 63011


Price: $20.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Local Government and Politics in Uganda


Burke, Fred B.

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse Univ., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Light edgewear to dj.

Record # 60071


Price: $25.00 

 

Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson 1952


Stevenson, Adlai E.

NY, Random House , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages.

Record # 200369


Price: $10.00 

 

MAJOR CAMPAIGN SPEECHES


Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 220677


Price: $8.00 

 

Maxim Litvinoff


Pope, Arthur Upham

Hardcover. NY, L.B. Fischer, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front fly leaf gone. Slight slant to spine

Record # 57735


Price: $18.00 

 

Nancy Reagan / The Unauthorized Biography


Kelley, Kitty

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 4th print, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108433


Price: $18.00 

 

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion 1620-1860 (SIGNED)


McWilliams, John

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. The development of New England's influential cultural identity. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450076


Price: $31.00 

 

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion 1620-1860


McWilliams, John

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. College bookstore price tag on dust jacket back cover. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket back cover: "John McWilliams winnows through the history and myth of New England to recover the past on its own terms while simultaneously tracing its later refractions. The combination, across nine pivotal events in colonial and early republican history, gives us the changing face of New England through as never before."

Record # 30366


Price: $38.00 

 

New Victorians, The - Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages


Pimpare, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, The New Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511242


Price: $13.00 

 

Papers of Adlai E.Stevenson, The - Vol I: Beginnings of Education 1900-1941


Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, proof, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Walter Johnson and Carol Evans. Light wear. 588 pages + black & white illust.

Record # 57719


Price: $23.00 

 

Politics of Architecture, The: A Perspective on Nelson A. Rockefeller


Bleecker, Samuel E., Illust. by: Ezra Stoller

Hardcover. New York, The Rutledge Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The relationship between architecture and politics in the life and projects of Nelson A. Rockefeller. 255 pages, illustrated with photographs and drawings (both color and black/white). Very good condition; only wear appears on the dust jacket as light rubbing.

Record # 804816


Price: $16.00 

Portrait of a Forest (History and Politics)Kraus, Richard

Portrait of a Forest (History and Politics)


Kraus, Richard

Softcover. London, CONSTABLE, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Extensive, vibrant, full-color photographs on every page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466589


Price: $19.00 

 

Prayer for the City, A


Bissinger, Buzz

NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 408 pages.

Record # 62089


Price: $18.00 

 

President Makers, The: From Mark Hanna to Joseph P. Kennedy


Russell, Francis

Boston , Little Brown , 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 407 pages. Rubbing to corners and spine. Dust jacket with soiling, edgewear.

Record # 508573


Price: $13.00 

 

Proceedings on the Death of Hon. Solomon Foot - Including Addresses Delievered in the Senate and House


N/A

Hardcover. Wash, D.C., GPO, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foot was a Vermont Senator. Limp cloth covers

Record # 19949


Price: $40.00 

 

Quebec Hydropolitics: The Peribonka Concessions of the Second World War (Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes D'histoire Du Quebec)


Massell, David

Softcover. US, Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 1st, 2011-01-27, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466169


Price: $25.00 

 

Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran


Brumberg, Daniel

Paperback. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Corner slightly bent.

Record # 803694


Price: $8.00 

 

Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".

Record # 30479


Price: $31.00 

 

Shining Path - Terror and Revolution in Peru


Strong, Simon

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 54323


Price: $18.00 

 

Shouting at the Crocodile - Popo Molefe, Patrick Lekota, and the Freeing of South Africa


Moss, Rose

Boston, Beacon Press, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Frontis map. 200 pages. Remainder stamp bottom edge.

Record # 65131


Price: $19.00 

 

Strategic Psychological Operations and American Foreign Policy


Holt, Robert T. and Robert W. Van de Velde

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1960, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages including index. SIGNED BY VAN DE VELDE on front fly leaf. Bound in red half-leather with gilt rules, lettering in spine, raised bands on spine.

Record # 512452


Price: $64.00 

 

The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times


Born, Max, Werner Heisenberg (Introduction), Bertrand Russell (Foreword), Diana Buchwald and Kip Thorne (New Preface)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Previous owner's address label on front endpaper. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Dark gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A new edition of the correspondence between Max and Hedwig Born and Albert Einstein between 1916 and 1955, where everything from physics to politics, to music and their families was discussed. New Edition

Record # 32892


Price: $31.00 

 

Too Close To Call - The Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election


Toobin, Jeffrey

NY, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages.

Record # 69502


Price: $15.00 

 

Tudor Age, The (History and Politics)


Ridley, Jasper

Hardcover. US, Constable, rep, 1988-10-24, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462183


Price: $13.00 

 

United States of Ambition, The - Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office


Ehrenhalt, Alan

NY, Times/Random House, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages.

Record # 68061


Price: $15.00 

 

Utopia Unarmed - The Latin American Left After the Cold War


Castaneda, Jorge G.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54324


Price: $20.00 

 

What's Right - The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America


Frum, David

New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.

Record # 204855


Price: $15.00 

 

Worst Years of Our Lives, The - Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed


Ehrenreich, Barbara

New York, Pantheon, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. The politics and culture of the 80's in America.

Record # 305265


Price: $18.00 

 

Writing in the New Nation - Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States


Ziff, Larzer

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages.

Record # 65967


Price: $25.00 

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