american history

Search Results
Search found 2949 matching products.
 

Talkies, The: American Cinema's Transition to Sound 1926-1931 (History of the American Cinema, Volume 4)


Crafton, Donald, Charles Harpole (Ed.)

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st paperback, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 639 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. A little bit of spotting (soil) to edges, pages clean. Binding tight. No rips or tears. In great shape. In-depth look at sound design in selected films, filmmaking practices, censorship, issues of race, and the furious debate over cinema aestetics that erupted once the movies began to speak.

Record # 31671


Price: $38.00 

 

Tammany Hall


Werner, M. R.

Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 586 pages. Black cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, stamped border to front cover, over 30 b&w plates. Light edgewear to covers, otherwise clean, inside of front hinge partially cracked, mild foxing to front prelim pages, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808710


Price: $25.00 

 

Target Archery, With a History of the Sport in America


Elmer, Robert P.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages plus index, b&w photographs and illustrations. Maroon covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Dark maroon top edge. Light rubbing to cover corners; crease to spine. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850984


Price: $75.00 

 

Taylors Gut: In the Delaware State


Lunt, Dudley Cammett

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, b&w illustrations. Green cloth, top edge cosmetic stain. Light wear to dust jacket with tanned spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607948


Price: $12.00 

Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South VietnamEnglemann, Larry
Click Image To View Larger

Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam


Englemann, Larry

Hardcover. New York, Oxford, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 375 pages, b&w photos. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 6950


Price: $8.00 

 

Ten Grandmothers, The


Marriott, Alice

Hardcover. Norman, OK, Univ. of Oklahoma, 8th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, price clipped. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 63056


Price: $15.00 

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North (SIGNED COPY)Manegold, C.S.
Click Image To View Larger

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North (SIGNED COPY)


Manegold, C.S.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 2nd pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 411255


Price: $38.00 

 

Ten-Cent Plague, The: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America


Hajdu, David

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 434 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A history of American comics and the threat of censorship in the 1950's. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate soiling to rear dust jacket. Mild age toning to top edge text block. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951700


Price: $25.00 

 

Tennessee Frontiers - Three Regions in Transition


Finger, John R.

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Black & white illustrations and maps. Binding slightly slanted.

Record # 207364


Price: $20.00 

 

Tenth Vermont


Haynes, E. M.

Hardcover. Vermont, Tenth Vermont Regimental Association, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, green cover, small gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, light wear to cover, small date stamp to corner of rear endpaper; otherwise book in great condition.

Record # 803300


Price: $109.00 

 

Terrain of Freedom : American Art and the Civil War


Art Institute of Chicago

Softcover. Chicago , Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 401338


Price: $12.00 

 

Testament to Union - Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.


Jacob, Kathryn Allamong, Illust. by: Edwin Harlan Remsberg

Baltimore, John Hopkins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos by Edwin Harlan Remsberg. 192 pages.

Record # 68432


Price: $25.00 

 

Texan Jazz


Oliphant, Dave

Paperback. Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1st pbk., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 481 pages.

Record # 61517


Price: $20.00 

 

That Jefferson Boy


Miers, Earl Schenck, Illust. by: Kurt Werth

NY, World Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated in b&w by Kurt Werth. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Small chunk gone from top spine of the dust jacket otherwise very good.

Record # 600941


Price: $12.00 

 

The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science: Vol. 357 January 1965 - The Negro Protest


Sellin (Ed.), Thorsten

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, a journal normally in softcover, here bound in red cloth covers with gilt lettering. Clean.

Record # 406907


Price: $15.00 

 

The Blue-China Book - Early American Scenes and History Pictured in the Pottery of the Time


Walker Camehl, Ada

Paperback. New York, Dover, 1st wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Black & white photographs. Paperback. Cover has some corner wear.

Record # 204222


Price: $12.00 

 

The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding


Miller, William Lee

Hardcover. Charlottesville, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Dust jacket in protective mylar. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450812


Price: $20.00 

 

The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865


McClellan, George B.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 651 pages. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 450504


Price: $25.00 

 

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 Fortunate Island of Monhegan: A Historical Monograph


Jenney, Charles Francis

Paperback. Worcester, Mass., Davis Press, 1st wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. From Vol. 31 of the American Antiquarian Society. Fold-out map in rear. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Light chipping to green paper covers. Paperback. Recognized as a most reliable history of this ocean outpost of New England.

Record # 190860


Price: $60.00 

 

The Frontier - A Frontier Town Three Months Old


Platt, Ward

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Baptist Society, Reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white photographs and 2 fold-out maps. Previous owners signature on cover. Minor chipping to edges.

Record # 509725


Price: $19.00 

The Houses We live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic ArchitectureHowe (ed.), Jeffrey
Click Image To View Larger

The Houses We live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture


Howe (ed.), Jeffrey

Hardcover. California, Thunder Bay Press, 3rd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket lightly yelowed. Very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap, "...a comprehensive guide to the ways we have designed our living spaces."

Record # 30204


Price: $38.00 

 

The Mohawk Valley and Lake Ontario - The Great Lakes Series


Morton, Edward Payson

Hardcover. Chicago, Ainsworth & Co., 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages, brown cloth covers, illustrated. clean, tight copy.

Record # 406857


Price: $13.00 

 

The Nixon Recession Caper


Maloney, Ralph

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st ?, 1972, spine shows very light wear, otherwise good, clean, hardbound edition. 192 pgs.

Record # 108676


Price: $9.00