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Rumrunners & Revenues: Prohibition in Vermont, The Stories of Fourteen Vermonters who Participated in the Great Experiment with Photographs and Memorabilia From the Period


Wheeler, Scott

Softcover. Shelburne, VT, The New England Press, Inc., First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, black & white illustrations throughout. Faint small spots soiling to right edge, but pages are clean inside. An interesting compilation of oral Vermont histories given by first-hand participants in Prohibition.

Record # 751507


Price: $13.00 

 

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation


Franklin, John Hope

Hardcover. US, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999-04-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 455 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466183


Price: $13.00 

Running With Reindeer: Encounters In Russian LaplandTook, Roger
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Running With Reindeer: Encounters In Russian Lapland


Took, Roger

Hardcover. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471396


Price: $19.00 

Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and TransformationBrown, David L
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Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation


Brown, David L

Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Polity, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471544


Price: $19.00 

 

Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism: The Search for New Political, Economic, and Security Systems


Kraus, Michael (Editor)

Hardcover. Boulder, Colo, 1st, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 349 pages. Black cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with some soiling, slight wear and small tear to back cover. Top edge foxed, remaindermark to bottom edge. Internally very clean. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 450331


Price: $50.00 

 

Russia of the Russians


Williams, Harold Whitmore

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge. 30+ black-and-white illustrations, including frontispiece. Color fold-out map. Gilt lettering has mostly faded. Minor soiling on front cover. Some tanning and edge wear along spine. Light damp stain along bottom edge of pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856348


Price: $31.00 

 

Russia Under the Old Regime


Pipes, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 361 pages.

Record # 64164


Price: $25.00 

 

Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales


Maxym, Lucy

Hardcover. Manhasset, Siamese Imports Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. THIS LIMITED EDITION (HAND NUMBERED #163 OF 500) SIGNED BY AUTHOR LUCY MAXYM. Illustrated with full color photographs. Black leather covers with title in gilt on cover and spine. Slipcase with light rubbing/wear to edges. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610751


Price: $63.00 

 

Russian Life in Town and Country


Palmer, Francis H. E.

Hardcover. London, George Newnes, Limited, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages plus 33 pages of ads. Hardcover. 3 pages within ad section have extensive handwritten notes. Library bookplate on inside front cover - otherwise, no library marking. Illustrated with 15 black & white photographs. Separation of spine cloth along most of rear cover outside hinge. Rubbing to cover cloth along foredges.

Record # 611039


Price: $25.00 

 

Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism, The


Haimson, Leopold H.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Black & white illust.

Record # 55645


Price: $18.00 

Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900Pearson, Thomas S.
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Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900


Pearson, Thomas S.

Hardcover. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Light edgewear and a few small black dots on front cover of dust jacket. Tight, neat copy.

Record # 453364


Price: $40.00 

 

Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet - War and Politics, February 1917-April 1918, The


Mawdsley, Evan

Hardcover. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket spine faded with rubbing along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 607867


Price: $60.00 

Russian Revolution, The : The Essential ReadingsMiller, Martin A. (Editor)
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Russian Revolution, The : The Essential Readings


Miller, Martin A. (Editor)

Softcover. Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Slight dent in front cover. Underlining in ink to a handful pages. clean, tight copy.

Record # 459439


Price: $15.00 

Russian Soviet Theater 1905-1932Rudnitskii, Konstantin
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Russian Soviet Theater 1905-1932


Rudnitskii, Konstantin

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear to dust jacket. Slight curling to inside front dust jacket flap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470852


Price: $38.00 

 

Sable Arm, The - Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865


Cornish, Dudley T.

Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Originally published in 1956. Foreward by Herman Hattaway. Dust jacket with slight fade otherwise very good.

Record # 700197


Price: $20.00 

 

Saga of Cape Ann, The


Copleland, Melvin T. and Elliott c. Rogers

Freeport, ME, Bond Wheelwright, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust., maps. 254 pages. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 69253


Price: $20.00 

Sahara: A Natural HistoryVilliers, Marq de
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Sahara: A Natural History


Villiers, Marq de

Hardcover. New York, Walker Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some shelfwear to dust jacket back. Soiling to textblock edges. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471346


Price: $13.00 

 

Sahara: Desert of Destiny


Gerster, Georg

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann Inc., First US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Original dust jacket with small tears to edges. Black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers. Pages are clean & unmarked throughout, two pages to rear have strong crease marks to corners. Tight binding.

Record # 6670128


Price: $23.00 

Sail, Steam, and Splendour: A Picture History of Life Aboard the Transatlantic LinersS., Miller Byron
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Sail, Steam, and Splendour: A Picture History of Life Aboard the Transatlantic Liners


S., Miller Byron

Hardcover. New York, Times Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Oversized Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf

Record # 469843


Price: $38.00 

 

Sailing-Ship - Six Thousand Years of History, The


Anderson, Romola/R.C. Anderson

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza, 2nd, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear with sticker residue at top right corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608706


Price: $12.00 

 

Sam Lovel's Camps and Other Stories - Including In the Green Wood


Robinson, Rowland E.

Rutland, VT, Tuttle Co., 1st Centennial Ed., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Edited by Leewellyn R. Perkins. INSCRIBED BY DUANE ROBINSON and foreword by him. Introduction by Arthur Wallace Peach. Black & white photo of Robinson on frontispiece. Illustrated with black & white drawings. Green raised embossed covers with gold design and lettering. Light spine fade.

Record # 502438


Price: $30.00 

 

Samuel de Champlain - Father of New France


Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket spine with light fading, standard wear otherwise. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608661


Price: $12.00 

 

Samuel De Champlain: Father of New France


Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown Co, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 469826


Price: $15.00 

 

Samuel Morey - The Edison of His Day


Carter, George Calvin

Hardcover. Manchester, George Calvin Carter, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Black & white photographs. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Homemade dust jacket.

Record # 609149


Price: $20.00