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Golden Age of Piracy, The


Rankin, Hugh F.

Hardcover. New York, Colonial Williamsburg/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board, excellent. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image). Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great condition. The 7th in a series of popular histories of Williamsburg and Tidewater, Virginia in the eighteenth century.

Record # 32452


Price: $15.00 

 

Green Mountain Boys, The - A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont


Thompson, Daniel P.

Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, Second Edition, 1853, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, revised edition to the original published work by the author of "May Martin or The Money Diggers;" "Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster." Green cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Scuffed edges to boards, frayed edge to spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750434


Price: $100.00 

 

Guardian, The - The Men Who Ruled India


Woodruff, Philip

London, Jonathan Cape, 3rd, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages, B&W illustrations, maps. Bottom corner bumped, previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 302941


Price: $12.00 

 

Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


Williams, Gregory L. (Ed.), L. Eileen Parris (Ed.)

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Binding tight. Covers excellent. Clean and bright inside. In great shape.

Record # 31418


Price: $25.00 

 

Henry Lloyd's Salt Box Manor House


Osann, Jean B.

Softcover. New York, Lloyd Harbor Historical Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, paperback. The history and restoration of the Henry Lloyd Manor House in Long Island, New York. With b&w photographs throughout. Light rubbing to wraps. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951516


Price: $19.00 

Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour (SIGNED)Carrier, Thomas J.
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Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour (SIGNED)


Carrier, Thomas J.

softcover. Mount Pleasant, SC, Arcadia Publishing, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469964


Price: $19.00 

 

Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers


Bigelow, Francis Hill

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Historical volume on silver in the American colonial period. 476 pages illustrated with 325 black/white photographic reproductions. Very good condition despite some fading and wear to spine and slight bumping to corner. Previous owner's name and date written in ink inside the cover.

Record # 805177


Price: $13.00 

 

History of America Pewter, A


Montgomery, Charles F.

Hardcover. New York, Weathervane Books, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 246 pp. Quarto. All forms of pewter, including Pewterers, Britannia Makers, Marks, public Collections, Winterturn Collections, Composition, Cleaning, etc. Filled with b/w illustrations. Dust jacket torn on edges, spine slightly slanted.

Record # 804788


Price: $13.00 

 

History of Southern Rhodesia: Early Days to 1934


Gann, L. H.

Hardcover. New York , Humanities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Blue cloth, top edge cosmetic stain, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 810058


Price: $20.00 

 

History of the Town of Plymouth


Thacher, James

Hardcover. Boston, Marsh Capen & Lyon, 1st, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, From it's first settlement in 1620 to the present time. Fold-out map present. Light foxing, small worm hole in last 12 pages. Spine extrem. worn, cloth worn at front hinge

Record # 55548


Price: $60.00 

 

Images of Imperial Rule


Ridley, Hugh

Hardcover. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 181 pages. Light edgewear, creasing to dust jacket. Faint underlining in pencil on a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453850


Price: $12.00 

 

Indian Captive: The Experiences of Zadock Steele Described in the Narrative Written by Himself


French, Mary M. Billings

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Elm Tree Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 46 pages, black cloth spine and salmon boards. Paper label on front and spine, spine label chipped. Illustrated map on endpapers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 900243


Price: $38.00 

Inventing IraqDodge, Toby
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Inventing Iraq


Dodge, Toby

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, October 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454793


Price: $15.00 

 

Iroquois Restoration - Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701-1754


Aquila, Richard

Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 285 pages. 7 pages of black & white illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket worn. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610179


Price: $15.00 

 

Jesuit Ranches and the Agarian Development of Colonial Argentina 1650-1767


Cushner, Nicholas P.

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, No dj issued

Record # 53893


Price: $18.00 

 

Journal of Madam Knight, The


Knight, Sarah Kemble

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages. Includes an introductory note by Malcolm Freiberg and INSCRIBED BY FREIBERG on front fly leaf. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Mild, musty odor, otherwise very good with dust jacket.

Record # 302035


Price: $30.00 

 

Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, The: An Historical Study


Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 900010


Price: $48.00 

 

Leap in the Dark, A: The Struggle to Create the American Republic


Ferling, John

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, Book Club, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 558 pages. Blue cloth cover, some wear to edges. Dust jacket is bumped on edges of spine. Inside is very bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 455716


Price: $12.00 

Little Brown BrotherWolff, Leon
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Little Brown Brother


Wolff, Leon

Hardcover. HISTORY BOOK CLUB, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages, b&w photos. Minor wear to dust jacket, else in excellent condition.

Record # 453832


Price: $12.00 

 

Loss of Mastery, A - Puritan Historians in Colonial America


Gay, Peter

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with light staining, soil

Record # 57722


Price: $25.00 

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New NationPrice, David A.
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation


Price, David A.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471697


Price: $15.00 

Making of New England, The. 1580-1643.Drake, Samual Adams
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Making of New England, The. 1580-1643.


Drake, Samual Adams

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 psges. Brown cloth, illustrated stamped covers with red lettering. Gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, black & white illustrations. Light spine cock, bumped corners, binding crack. Edgewear.

Record # 408346


Price: $38.00 

 

Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island


Potter, Elisha R.

Hardcover. Providence, Sidney S. Rider, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages plus additional pages of family information. Many unopened pages. Folio style fold out cover with book enveloped within. Sun fading to spine and along top edge of front cover - approx. 1/2".

Record # 604861


Price: $32.00 

 

Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston 1692-93


Farber, Norma

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. Minor soil.

Record # 403228


Price: $12.00