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Abraham Lincoln: The Year of His Election


Shaw, Albert

Hardcover. New York, Review of Reviews Corporation, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages, b&w photographs and cartoons. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear, rubbing to corners. Front hinge weak. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850952


Price: $45.00 

 

Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914


Pachter, Marc and Frances S. Wein

Paperback. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st wraps, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Published in conjunction with an exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery. Many black & white illustrations with visitors accounts of their American experience.

Record # 101550


Price: $25.00 

 

Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Beige pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear to borders, else like new. Newspaper clippings laid in. Collection of the stories, impressions and observations of 33 illustrious visitors to America, who were subjects of the National Portrait Gallery"s Bicentennial Exhibition. Text augmented by historic paintings, prints and photographs.

Record # 605625


Price: $16.00 

 

Account of the Treasurer of the Colony of Rhode Island for the Port Royall Expedition 1710, An


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Hardcover. Providence RI, Society of Colonial Wars, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 11 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering, spine label. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 405938


Price: $13.00 

 

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World


Chace, James

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1998, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. The first complete biography of Dean Acheson. Selected bibliography. Unclipped. Nice copy.

Record # 803021


Price: $13.00 

 

Across the Onion - A History of East Montpelier, Vermont - 1781 - 1981


Hill, Ellen C./Marilyn S. Blackwell

Hardcover. East Montpelier Historical Society, First Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages. Hardcover with lot maps to endpapers, 1793. Previous owner's bookplate to preliminary page. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750435


Price: $188.00 

 

Address Delivered at Hartford, Vermont July 4th 1876


Pingree, Samuel E.

Softcover. Plainfield, NJ, Privately Printed by Porter Steele, 1st, Date unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Binding (staple) tight. B/w illustrated frontispiece (see image). A touch of tanning from age throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Published date unclear, early twentieth century. Wrapper excellent. A speech delivered by Samuel Pingree at the July 4th centennial celebration in Hartford, VT.

Record # 32284


Price: $25.00 

 

Address of The President of the United States - Delivered at a Joint Session of The Two Houses of Congress - April 2, 1917


Wilson, Woodrow

Hardcover. New York, Edward J. Clode/Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610597


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Administered Prices: Steel / Administered Prices: Automobiles ( 2 Senate Reports bound in 1 volume


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Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two complete studies prepared by the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly on pricing in the steel and automotive sector. 203 and 314 pages, originally softcovers here in blue cloth hardcover, gilt lettering on spine. Clean.

Record # 404096


Price: $25.00 

Admission of Vermont into the Union, TheDean, Leon W.
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Admission of Vermont into the Union, The


Dean, Leon W.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Dark green cloth covers, gilt lettering on front. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, light foxing, aging. Tight binding.

Record # 408345


Price: $75.00 

 

Advance and Retreat to Saratoga in the American Revolution


Bennitt, C.E.

Schenectady, Robson & Adee, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First appeared as articles in Schenectady newspaper. Black & white illust. 80 pages.

Record # 67068


Price: $13.00 

 

Adventures of America - 1857-1900 - A Pictoral Record from Harper's Weekly


Kouwenhoven, John

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cover slightly soiled. hardbound. Black & white illustrations from Harper's Weekly. Wonderful b&w engravings

Record # 108587


Price: $18.00 

 

Adventures of Amos 'n Andy, The - A Social History of an American Phenomenon


Ely, Melvin Patrick

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51021


Price: $25.00 

 

Affectionately F.D.R. - A Son's Story of a Lonely Man


Roosevelt, James and Sidney Shallet

NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. End papers with black & white photos. light edgewear. 394 pages.

Record # 200717


Price: $15.00 

 

Africa in America - Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean 1736-1831


Mullin, Michael

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609201


Price: $12.00 

 

African American History in the Press 1851-1899: From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow as Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time (2 volumes)


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Hardcover. New York, Gale, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Part of the Schneider Collection.

Record # 801807


Price: $51.00 

 

African American History in the Press, 1851-1899 : From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow As Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time. VOLUME 1: 1851-1869 and Volume 2: 1870-1899)


Schneider, Rich

Hardcover. New York, Gale Group, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes/1325 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated covers.

Record # 468241


Price: $50.00 

 

After The Buffalo Were Gone - The Louis Warren Hill, Sr., Collection of Indian Art


Walton, Ann T./John C. Ewers/Royal B. Hassrick

Softcover. St. Paul, Northwest Area Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. 1" closed tear on bottom edge of back cover. Light wear overall. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610558


Price: $69.00 

 

After the Hunt - William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900


Frankenstein, Alfred

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, Revised 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with moderate wear. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611844


Price: $63.00 

 

After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900


Frankenstein, Alfred

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Green cloth, no dust jacket. Light wear to covers, slight glue-stain to frontis, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 855157


Price: $63.00 

 

After the Photo-Secession - American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955


Peterson, Christian A.

New York, MIA Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Black & white photographs.

Record # 204116


Price: $40.00 

 

After the Storm - Lessons From the Gulf War


Nye, Jr., Joseph S. and Roger K. Smith

Lanham, MD, Aspen Institute/Madison Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 415 pages. Spine faded.

Record # 62086


Price: $8.00 

 

Afternoons in Mid-America


Caldwell, Erskine, Illust. by: Virginia M. Caldwell

New York , Dodd, Mead, & Co., 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. With black & white sketches by Virginia M. Caldwell. Dust jacket edgeworn, back has closed tear.

Record # 176644


Price: $15.00