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At Calvary: A History of the First 125 Years of Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, DC 1862-1987 (with glimpses of the years 1988-94) by: Tiller, Carl W. Tiller, Olive M.
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At Calvary: A History of the First 125 Years of Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, DC 1862-1987 (with glimpses of the years 1988-94) by: Tiller, Carl W. Tiller, Olive M.

Softcover. Manassas, VA, Trinity Rivers Publishing, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, soft cover. Covers have some light edge wear, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is an illuminating history of the Calvary Baptist church, located in Washington, DC. Clean copy. Record # 34329
Price: $20.00 

 

Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army by: Ballentine, George

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Lakeside Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Edited by William H. Goetzman, a Lakeside Classic, brown cloth cover with gilt seal to cover and lettering to spine, b&w frontispiece, 40 b&w illustrations. Very light mildew marks to cover; otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 804550
Price: $12.00 

Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest by: Weems, Jason
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Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest by: Weems, Jason

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, soft cover. Paper covers have some minor dents and marks on the exterior, and are slightly bent at the front corners. Interior pages are clean and bright, and the binding is solid. B&W illustrations and aerial photography throughout. This book offers a panoramic vista of the transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that enabled Americans to conceptualize the Midwestern region as something other than isolated and unchanging for the first time. Clean copy. Record # 33722
Price: $25.00 

 

Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game by: Wallace, Joseph

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w and color photos from photo archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 801190
Price: $12.00 

 

Battle for Korea - The Associated Press History of the Korean Conflict by: Dvorchak, Robert J.

Hardcover. PA, Combined Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. 317 pages. Personal accounts by the writers and photographers of the AP. Record # 63074
Price: $12.00 

Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 by: Pratt, Richard Henry Editor: Utley, Robert M.
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Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 by: Pratt, Richard Henry Editor: Utley, Robert M.

Softcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is about how General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt's long and active military career included eight years of service as an army field officer on the western frontier. He directed the Carlisle school, believing that the only way to save Indians from extinction was to remove Indian youth to non reservation settings and there inculcate in them what he considered civilized ways. Previous owner's markings in black pen are present through the first half of the book. Record # 34127
Price: $12.00 

 

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by: Bradford, Ned (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc,, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 626 pages. Blue cloth, gilt on spine. Boards show minor edgewear. Dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn. Tears tape-repaired. Price-clipped. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. B/W photographs throughout. Record # 804426
Price: $12.00 

 

Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510814
Price: $12.00 

Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley
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Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2004-04-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462933
Price: $12.00 

Benjamin Franklin by: Morgan, Edmund S.
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Benjamin Franklin by: Morgan, Edmund S.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462657
Price: $12.00 

Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry by: Rodgers, Andrew Denny III
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Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry by: Rodgers, Andrew Denny III

Hardcover. Durham, NC, Forest History Society, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 623 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with some minor edge wear. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This edition includs a frontispiece photo of Bernhard Fernow. A comprehensive biography of the life and career of Bernhard Eduard Fernow (1851-1923), the first professional forester in North America and an organizer of the forestry movement. Andrew Denny Rodgers reveals the history of forestry in North America through the lens of biography. Clean copy. Record # 33817
Price: $15.00 

Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?: American Elections, 1980-1998 by: McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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Beyond the Politics of Disappointment?: American Elections, 1980-1998 by: McWilliams, Wilson Carey

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. New York, Seven Bridges Press, LLC, 1st, August 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 454400
Price: $12.00 

Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by: Jr., Edward Bliss
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Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by: Jr., Edward Bliss

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2000-12-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462660
Price: $12.00 

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley by: Beard, Patricia
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Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley by: Beard, Patricia

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with gilt lettering, black and white photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block. Record # 468441
Price: $12.00 

Booking passage: we Irish & Americans by: Lynch, Thomas
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Booking passage: we Irish & Americans by: Lynch, Thomas

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 224414
Price: $12.00 

Booking passage: we Irish & Americans by: Lynch, Thomas
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Booking passage: we Irish & Americans by: Lynch, Thomas

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 469391
Price: $12.00 

Boston Irish, The: A Political History by: O'Connor, Thomas H.
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Boston Irish, The: A Political History by: O'Connor, Thomas H.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Boston, Northeastern, May 4, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages, several b&w illustrations. Sticker residue on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 452907
Price: $12.00 

 

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by: Watson, Bruce

Softcover. New York, Penguin Group, Viking , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof, 519 pages, very clean, tight copy, like new, review slip laid in. Record # 800602
Price: $12.00 

 

Breaking the Maya Code by: Coe, Michael D.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, Reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Record # 609004
Price: $12.00 

 

Breeds and Half - Breeds: The Story of the Interpreter-Guides and the Opening of the American Frontier by: Speck, Gordon

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illustrations and maps, 361 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear and spine fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 107484
Price: $12.00 

Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.
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Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.

Briseis by: Black, William, Illust. by: Smedley, W. T.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st American Illustrated, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages, hardcover. Green decorative covers are in good condition, with some discoloration. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations throughout. William Black (1841-1898) was a Scottish novelist whose novels were immensely popular during his lifetime, and he is often compared favorably with Trollope. Briseis is a half-Greek, half-Scotch heroine, who plays a Cinderella figure to her London aunt. Clean copy. Record # 33939
Price: $20.00 

 

British Gentlemen in the Wild West: The Era of the Intensely English Cowboy by: Woods, Lawrence M.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Record # 604833
Price: $12.00 

Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism by: Bogus, Carl T.
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Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism by: Bogus, Carl T.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 405 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book is a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., who was one of the foremost architects of the conservative movement that transformed American politics between the 1960s and the end of the century. Buckley and his allies devised a new-model for conservatism that replaced traditional ideals of Edmund Burke with a passionate belief in the free market; religious faith; and an aggressive stance on foreign policy. Clean copy. Record # 34363
Price: $24.00 

 

Bullentin of Champlain Valley Archaeological Society by: Bailey, John H.

Paperback. Fort Ticonderoga, BY, Archaeological Society, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Small rip on page 29 in middle of page. Laid in "Archeology in Vermont in 1938" June 1939 Volume 1 and Number 2. Black & white photographs. Record # 408559
Price: $12.00