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American Indian As a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times, The (SIGNED)Beck, Horace P.
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American Indian As a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times, The (SIGNED)


Beck, Horace P.

Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Softcover, light tan paper wrappers, 92 pages with b&w illustrations. Light soil to wrappers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR BECK TO FELLOW WRITER JOHN CLAGETT. Also with Clagett's ownership signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 411857


Price: $29.00 

 

American Indian Wars, The


Tebbel, John and Keith Jennison

NY, Bonanza Books, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 312 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 65874


Price: $15.00 

 

American Indians - First Families of the Southwest


Huckel, J.F.

Softcover. Kansas City, Fred Harvey, 2nd, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Illustrated with full color plates. Light wear to covers with small chips missing at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606838


Price: $50.00 

 

American Indians - First Families of the Southwest


Huckel, J.F.

Softcover. Kansas City, Fred Harvey, 4th , 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Illustrated with full color plates. Approximately half of the books pages show signs of being fused to the other pages at bottom. This does not effect the plates or text. Final page has stain on right side margin-does not effect plate. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606839


Price: $40.00 

 

American Irish, The - A Political and Social Portrait


Shannon, William V.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 458 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, soil. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf half-title page.

Record # 63054


Price: $18.00 

 

American Landscape Tradition, The: A Study and Gallery of Paintings


Czestochowski, Joseph S.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Illustrated throughout in full color. Full in-depth look at the evolution of American landscape paintings. Includes gallery of paintings, notes, chonology, and selected bibliography. A few pages numbers written in red pen at the top right corner of the half title page. Some pages of text have some underlining in pencil. Overall, a very good clean copy.

Record # 805205


Price: $19.00 

 

American Leonardo, The: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse


Mabee, Carleton

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages plus index, illustrated throughout in b&w. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket, top edge cosmetic stain. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606345


Price: $50.00 

 

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House


Meacham, Jon

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled foreedges. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Remainder mark (red dot) on bottom edge. In great condition. Andrew Jackson, his close group of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency.

Record # 31802


Price: $15.00 

 

American Literature


Abernethy, Julian W.

Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Merrill Co, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. SIGNED BY ABERNETHY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Green cloth covers, gilt stamped titles to spine, stamped borders, b&w illustrations throughout. Slight edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; a very clean, neat copy in great condition.

Record # 808278


Price: $35.00 

 

American Locomotives: A Pictorial Record of Steam Power, 1900-1950


Alexander, Edwin P.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton and Co., 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 254 pages, b&w photographs throughout, photographic end paper. Red top edge. Edge wear, tears to price-clipped dust jacket; piece missing from top of spine on both dust jacket and book. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850790


Price: $20.00 

 

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 Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857Denton, Sally
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857


Denton, Sally

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471661


Price: $19.00 

 

American Masters of Sculpture


Caffin, Charles H.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume on American sculptors and American artistic movements pertaining to sculpture. 234 pages, illustrated with black/white plates interspersed throughout the text. Book is in very good condition, some edge wear and a few scratches on the back cover.

Record # 805129


Price: $19.00 

 

American Memory - Being a Mirror of the Stirring and Picturesque Past of Americans and the American Nation


Beston, Henry (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages. Hardcover. Collected writings from various sources, mostly diaries and letters. Rubbing to edges, some fraying.

Record # 304483


Price: $18.00 

 

American Military History


Matloff, Maurice (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 701 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w. Top edge foxed. Edge and bottom edge lightly soiled.

Record # 509999


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

American Narrative Painting


Hoopes, Donelson F.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of American paintings from the Colonial era. 192 pages with b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, a clean copy. Evidence of rubbing/scratching on front and back covers.

Record # 805368


Price: $19.00 

 

American Narrow Gauge Railroads


Hilton, George

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some dust jacket wear, yellowing and minor tears to dust jacket edges. Yellowing to edges of inner textblock. Otherwise a clean copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471253


Price: $50.00 

 

American Navy: Being an Authentic History of the United States Navy, and Biographical Sketches of American Naval Heroes, from the Formation of the Navy to the Close of the Mexican War, The


Peterson, C. J.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jas. B. Smith, 1st thus, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Black & white illustrations. Marbled endpapers and edges. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Brown leather cover worn, with pieces of leather missing along front cover hinge and spine. Cover corners rubbed. Front cover hinge weak. Text clean and unmarked.

Record # 608936


Price: $60.00 

 

American Neptune, The: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History 1980 (Volume XL) (4 Volume Set)


Carter (Editor), John S.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 75 pages followed by 5 pages of ads, featuring writings by George Comtois, Harold D. Langley, Fred Hopkins, W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, Allan E. Smith. Vol. 2 - 155 pages followed by 6 pages of ads. Writers incllude Dwight R. Messimer, George E. Paulsen, John R. Richardson, Cooper Busch, Paolo E. Coletta. Vol. 3 - 236 pages and 4 pages of ads and writers, William Joe Webb, Rober O. Tatge, James M. Merrill. Insect damage to front lower right corner wrap. Small soil spot top cover edge. Otherwise clean. Vol. 4 - 351 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by John W. Tyler, Keith A. Parker, James A. Bellarosa, Ralph W. Donnelly. Light tanning to spine & margin of wraps. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.

Record # 751537


Price: $31.00 

 

American Neptune, The: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History 1981 (Volume XLL) (4 Volume Set)


Carter (Editor), John S.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 76 pages followed by 4 pages of ads, features writing by James G. Neal, Merrill L. Bartlett, Charles Dana Gibson. Vol. 2 - 151 pages followed by 9 pages of ads. Writers incllude Charles R. Fisher, William J. Hourihan, Thomas T. Spencer & William Appleman Williams. Some small spots & light tanning to wrap margin. Vol. 3 - 235 pages and 4 pages of ads and writers, Allan A. Arnold, William N. Still, Gary E. Wilson, WIlfried Schuhmacher. Clean, crisp edges. Vol. 4 - 323 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by James F. Vivian, Jeffrey J. Safford & Rhys Richards. Two tiny spots soil to front wrap. Faint tone to edges. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.

Record # 751538


Price: $38.00 

 

American Neptune, The: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History 1983 (Volume XLIII) (4 Volume Set)


Carter (Editor), John S.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 71 pages followed by 9 pages of ads, features writing by Shomette, Hopkins, Alan G. Jamieson, Timothy P. Maga, Harvey Strum & Peter J. Guthorn. Half inch blemish to spine edge. Light soil line to rear wrap. Vol. 2 - 151 pages followed by 9 pages of ads. Writers incllude E. K. Haviland, Ralph W. Donnelly, Spencer C. Tucker. Vol. 3 - 231 pages and 9 pages of ads and writers, Francis X. Holbrook,, John Nikol, John Quentin Feller & E. K. Haviland. Clean, crisp edges. Vol. 4 - 324 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by Frederick G. Leiner, William G. Wing & E. K. Haviland. Faint spots of soil to rear wrap. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.

Record # 751539


Price: $38.00 

 

American Neptune, The: The Quarterly Journal of Maritime History - Volume 2 (3 Issues)


N/A

Softcover. Salem MA, The Ameican Neptune, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, Nos. 2, 3 & 4. B&w illustrations, clean. Missing No. 1. Light wear, still very good.

Record # 411695


Price: $19.00 

 

American Neptune, The: The Quarterly Journal of Maritime History - Volume XI (3 Issues)


N/A

Softcover. Salem MA, The Ameican Neptune, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, Nos. 1, 3 & 4. B&w illustrations, clean. Missing No. 2. Light wear, still very good.

Record # 411696


Price: $19.00