Hardcover. Hartford, CT, O. D. Case and Company, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages, hardcover. Brown pebble cloth covers are in good condition despite some staining, and edge wear concentrated at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior pages have significant foxing but are otherwise clean and bright. Binding is solid but not perfectly square. Contains a few B&W illustrations throughout. Browne was a war correspondent for the New York Tribune, and this book is a compilation of his articles and reports from the front lines. The book covers a wide range of topics related to the war, including military strategy, battles and skirmishes, political developments, and the experiences of soldiers and civilians. Previous owner's name is present on the front end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34227
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, T. B. Peterson, 1st, 1857, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Pagination restarts at each of the four stories contained within this two volume set: Warwick Woodlands, My Shooting Box, The Quondon Hounds, and The Deerstalkers. Covers have some edge wear and staining. In both volumes the front hinge is cracked, as is the rear hinge of volume 2. Bindings are somewhat loose in both volumes. Interior pages have significant foxing throughout, but all text blocks are legible. In volume 1, the first front end page is in rough shape. Numerous gorgeous B&W illustrations present throughout by Darley. This collection of essays and sketches offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century American hunting and fishing. Herbert's vivid descriptions of the natural landscape, his insights into the behavior of game animals, and his portraits of colorful characters from the sporting world make this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of outdoor recreation. Frank Forester is a pseudonym of Henry William Herbert. Previous owner's signature and paste-in on front end pages of both volumes, otherwise clean copies. Record # 33898
Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Record # 804050
Softcover. Gloucestershire, U.K., The History Press, Reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. Chemistry was not only a destructive instrument of World War I, but also healed the sick and wounded. This book explores both the danger and healing potential, revealing how the arms race was also a race for chemistry, to the extent that Germany's thirst for fertilizer to feed the creation of their shells nearly starved the nation. Clean copy. Record # 34530
Hardcover. El Dorado Hills, CA, Savas Beatie, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book reveals how Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, despite their influence, contain flaws and biases that have distorted our understanding of the Civil War and key participants, including General William S. Rosecrans. Clean copy. Record # 34176
Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor discoloration, but is still in very good condition overall. Black paper cover boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and maps throughout. This book explores the religious history of antebellum and Civil War-era Gettysburg, shedding light on the remarkable diversity of American religion and the intricate ways in which it interacted with the broader culture. Clean copy. Record # 34207
Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 4th printing, 2001-06-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462658
Hardcover. NY, Stein and Day, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some very minor wear on the edges. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. The cultural and religious capital of northern Spain was reduced to rubble on April 26, 1937. Franco said the people of Guernica destroyed the town themselves. Others--in Spain and throughout the world--protested what they believed to be an unprecedented wartime slaughter of innocent civilians. The investigative journalism that resulted in this book proves both views wrong, at last presenting the truth about a tragedy too long misunderstood. Clean copy. Record # 33742
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 4th Print, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along the top edge, but still in very good condition overall. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Set on a troubled Caribbean island, where "everybody wants to fight his own little war," and "everyone is a guerrilla," the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island to help. His English mistress, Jane, is blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her actions. Roche and Jane are drawn into a fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives. Clean copy. Record # 33828
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
Hardcover. Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. As a war correspondent, Wilbur Fisk was an amateur, yet his letters to the Montpelier Green Mountain Freeman comprise one of the finest collections of Civil War letters in existence. He was a rural school teacher from Vermont, primarily self-educated, who enlisted in the Union Army simply because he believed he would regret it later if he didn't. Unlike professional war correspondents, Private Fisk had no access to rank or headquarters. Instead, he wrote of life as a private-as one of the foot soldiers who slept in the mud and obeyed orders no matter how incomprehensible. Clean copy. Record # 34205
Softcover. Columbia, SC, State Printing Company, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are in very good condition, despite some minor staining along the top edge. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a historical account of a South Carolina island which was used as a Union base during the Civil War. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33699
Softcover. New York , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages, including index. Very light edgewear on spine, otherwise very good. Record # 176218
Hardcover. Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. One bump to the bottom edge of the front cover. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. In this book, Megargee exposes the structure, processes, and personalities that governed the Third Reich's military decision making, and shows how Germany's presumed battlefield superiority was undermined by poor strategic and operational planning at the highest levels. Clean copy. Record # 34463
Hardcover. Toronto, Ontario, Random House of Canada, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a detailed account of the Canadian 126 Wing's extraordinary combat record during World War II. Clean copy. Record # 34055
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson and Sons, New Century Library, 1906, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 517 pages, hardcover. Flexible cloth covers are in fair condition, with worn corners and spine. Top edge gilt. Interior pages are clean and bight. Binding is solid. This classic Charlotte Bronte novel contains autobiographical elements, and tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grew up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. Her troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which proves necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr. Rochester. This 1906 New Century Library edition features a B&W illustration opposite the title page. Previous owner's name is signed on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33779
Softcover. USA, Jet Pioneers of America, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations and photography throughout. David M. Carpenter's signature is present on the rear end page, opposite his authorial photo. This scarcely available book presents the specifications and history of America's first cruise missile: the Northrop "Bat Bomb", and the GE B-1 Engine. Very minor water damage is visible on pages 41 and 42, with some additional light markings in brown colored pencil just on those pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34379
Hardcover. London, Routledge Kegan & Paul, reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 468233
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. The final part of Sinclair's Albion Triptych trilogy. The fabric of this remarkable book combines form and content in a masterly fashion, so that history is recalled through a series of brilliant pieces of the protagonist's dissertation, interspersed with powerful descriptions of the countryside and accounts of fantastic visions. Clean copy. Record # 33835
Softcover. NY, Human Rights Watch, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 789 pages, soft cover. Covers have lightly bumped corners and some edge wear, but are still clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps and illustrations throughout. This book is a report documenting the famous 1994 genocide, and is widely recognized as a definitive account. This is a large, heavy volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34519
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. This book details how, in 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists, and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague and Paris. Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles. Clean copy. Record # 33984
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 441 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket shows some wear along the top and bottom edges, but is still in generally good condition. Cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. The compelling true story of a man of conscience at the heart of the Third Reich. A unique historical document, morality tale, and love story all in one. Clean copy. Record # 33697
Hardcover. NY, Skyhorse Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book untangles one of the most fascinating subtexts of the Civil War: Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the men and women coming to America to escape the Irish famine. Lincoln, whose first political actions included intimidating Irish voters at the polls, would eventually hire Irish nannies and donate to the Irish famine fund. The Irish would repay Lincoln's faith-their numbers and courage would help swing the Civil War in his favor. Clean copy. Record # 34175
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