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Fighting Indians of the West


Schmitt, Martin F. and Dee Brown

Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books , 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages. 270 b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated title pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Foxing to top edge and half title page. Chipping to dust jacket spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857322


Price: $15.00 

 

Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century


Dowling, Harry F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, Second Printing, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 339 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine, faint tanning to top edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, light wear to edges, small tear to rear of jacket. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560158


Price: $19.00 

 

Fighting Ships of the Revolution on Long Island Sound, 1775-1783


Pool, J. Lawrence

Softcover. West Cornwall, CT, J. Lawrence Pool, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 119 pages, b&w maps and illustrations. Small stain on front wrapper, light soiling on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851333


Price: $30.00 

Fine Arts in America, TheTaylor, Joshua C.
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Fine Arts in America, The


Taylor, Joshua C.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Part of the Chicago History of American Civilization series, edited by Daniel J. Boorstin. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, laminated dust jacket with color illustration, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, chronology. Light rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 401464


Price: $40.00 

 

Finishing Becca: A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold


Rinaldi, Ann

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, illustrated glazed boards with a matching unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 403750


Price: $18.00 

 

Fire at Sea - The Story of the Morro Castle


Gallagher, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Related magazine clippings glued to preliminary pages. Price clipped dust jacket with foxing, wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613678


Price: $23.00 

 

Fire of Liberty, The


Wright (Ed.), Esmond

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of accounts and incidents of the Revolutionary War from many sources. Black & white, color illust. 256 pages. Slipcase good, a little worn, paper chipped.

Record # 66982


Price: $13.00 

 

First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter


Swanberg, W.A.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY SWANBERG on a tipped-in page preceding the title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 403336


Price: $40.00 

 

First Fifty Years of The Rhodes Trust and The Rhodes Scholarships, The: 1903-1953


Elton (Editor), Lord

Hardcover. England, Basil Blackwell, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An outline history of the Rhodes Trust and its various activities. Many black-and-white illustrations throughout. Heavy fading to dust jacket, mostly to spine and rear wraps. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Mild bumping to boards. Fading to top edge text block. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951650


Price: $16.00 

 

First Film Makers, The (American Movies: The First Thirty Years)


MacCann, Richard Dyer

Softcover. US, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1995-05-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463039


Price: $13.00 

 

First Fleet - The Story of the U. S. Coast Guard at War


Ingraham, Reg

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 310 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket price clipped with tears and rubbing along edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608969


Price: $15.00 

 

First Hurrah, The - A Biography of Alfred E. Smith


O'Connor, Richard

NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 318 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, big chip on rear panel, price clipped.

Record # 66730


Price: $18.00 

 

First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.


Farmer, Gene

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 434 pages, b&w photos. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Remainder marks on all three edges. Internally very good.

Record # 856901


Price: $25.00 

 

First Resort of Kings, The: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century


Arndt, Richard T.

Softcover. Nebraska, Potomac Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages. Softcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER ON TITLE PAGE. Front wrapper has slight warp to bottom fore edge, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 30966


Price: $23.00 

 

First Saratoga - Being the Saga of John Young and His Sloop-of-War, The


Clark, William Bell

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 199 pages. Dust jacket with small tears and small chunks missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608666


Price: $12.00 

 

First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay, The, 1775. The Original Narrative, Hitherto Unpublished, and Further Details by Participants of the First Explorations


Galvin, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, John Howell-Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Limited to 5000 copies. 130 pages. 6 color illustrations. Color frontispiece. Blue dust jacket with wear. Sun-fading to spine. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and front. Previous owner sticker on front flyleaf. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850584


Price: $40.00 

 

First Spring - A Martha's Vineyard Journal


Meras, Phyllis

Hardcover. Riverside, CT, Chatham Press, 2nd, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings by Mary Lee Herbster

Record # 60842


Price: $19.00 

 

First Summit, The: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay 1941


Wilson, Theodore A.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, dust jacket with light edgewear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 403344


Price: $15.00 

 

First With the Most Forrest


Henry, Robert Selph

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 558 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Light wear to spine, top & bottom otherwise VG

Record # 61246


Price: $20.00 

 

Fitz Hugh Lane


Wilmerding, John

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 203 pages. 101 black-and-white illustrations and 10 color plates. Some edge wear on dust jacket. Front flap price-clipped. A little tanning along top edge of flaps. Jacket now protected by clear, plastic cover. Tiny spot on top edge. Small pen markings on rear flap and bottom edge. Spotting on pages 48-49. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856441


Price: $31.00 

 

Five Fires - Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California


Wyatt, David

Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 207927


Price: $18.00 

 

Five Sea Captains


Teller, Walter (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. 431 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Edgewear, chipping to price-clipped dust jacket; spine slightly yellowed. Light foxing to bottom and fore-edge edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851888


Price: $18.00 

 

Five Sea Captains


Teller, Walter (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 431 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Edgewear, chipping, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket; spine yellowed. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851887


Price: $15.00 

 

Flattop - The Action-Packed Story of U. S. Aircraft Carriers, Past and Present


Gallagher, Barrett

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name and information at top of title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping, short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612450


Price: $13.00