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Social New York Under the Georges: 1714-1776


Singleton, Esther

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages, b&w illustrations. Hinge cracked at first blank page, previous owner's inscription on same page. Blue cloth with bright gilt decoration on front cover and spine, top edge gilt.

Record # 402352


Price: $35.00 

 

Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont - 1914, The


Peck, Hamilton Sullivan/Heman Woods Allen/Officers and Committees of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont

Softcover. Burlington, Society of Colonial Wars, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Digest format - Measures: 9.5" X 6". Ex-library with minimal stamping. Covers with darkening to paper, chipping along edges. Good reference copy.

Record # 613276


Price: $25.00 

 

Spirit of America in Country Furniture, 1700-1840, The


Jordan, Jerard & Pat

Softcover. Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace - Homestead Book Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w. Orange pictorial paper wrappers with black titles. Light wear to covers and spine and small imprint from original price-sticker to front, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 605672


Price: $8.00 

Spirit of America in Country Furniture, 1700-1840, TheJordan, Jerard & Pat
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Spirit of America in Country Furniture, 1700-1840, The


Jordan, Jerard & Pat

Softcover. Des Moines, IA, Wallace - Homestead Book Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w. Orange pictorial paper wrappers with black titles. Light wear to covers and spine and small imprint from original price-sticker to front, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 2230523


Price: $15.00 

 

St. Mark's Rest - Lectures on Art - The Elements of Perspective


Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Colonial Press Company, NA, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations related to problems of perpective. Small damp wrinkle at top of preliminary pages. Some light staining to spine label and cover cloth. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613217


Price: $19.00 

Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender CloudRamirez, Renya K.
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Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud


Ramirez, Renya K.

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal light wear to jacket edges. Spine somewhat cocked. Light pencil marking.

Record # 2231007


Price: $23.00 

 

Story of Architecture in Mexico, The: Including the Work of the Ancient Indian Civilizations and that of the Spanish Colonial Empire


Sanford, Trent Elwood

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 363 pages, 105 b&w illustrations. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 405455


Price: $25.00 

 

Technical Training and Development in Papua, 1894-1941


Austin, Tony

Softcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University, 1977, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. Some fading and wear on cover. Small price stickers on front cover. Unidentified signature on front cover.

Record # 2230449


Price: $25.00 

 

The Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas 1833-1896


Crocombe, R.G. and Marjorie

Hardcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket. Clean and tight copy. Pacific History Series: No 2

Record # 2230463


Price: $19.00 

This Was America: True Accounts of People and Places, Manners and Customs, As Recorded by European Travelers to the Western Shore in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth CenturiesHandlin, Oscar (ed.)
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This Was America: True Accounts of People and Places, Manners and Customs, As Recorded by European Travelers to the Western Shore in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries


Handlin, Oscar (ed.)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some fading to jacket and light chipping to spine edges. Stamp of former owner of front end papers as well as in pen (blacked out).

Record # 2231000


Price: $23.00 

 

Tristram Bent


Safford, Henry Barnard

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 311 pages. Chipping on dust jacket covers. Slight sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Minor soiling and scratching on rear dust jacket cover. Dust jacket flaps clipped. A little damp-staining on top edge of rear dust jacket cover and flap. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Some finger prints on pages 308-309. Good reading copy.

Record # 856217


Price: $19.00 

 

Virginia's First German Colony


Vann, Elizabeth Chapman Denny/Margaret Collins Denny Dixon

Softcover. Richmond, VA, The Authors, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Softcover. Green wraps with sunfade to edges, stapled pamphlet binding. Black & white illustrations throughout. Pen marks to bottom front wrap, stamped titled page, Shelburn Museum, Vermont. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751379


Price: $19.00 

 

Williamsburg Cabinetmakers: The Archaeological Evidence


Hume, Ivor No'l

Softcover. Williamsburg, VA, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy illustrated covers with rubbing, especially along the edges. Back cover is sunned. Staple binding. Pages are clean and crisp, but a little faded. 46 black and white plates, each with description. 46 listed at back. Clean and tight. 48 pages.

Record # 806929


Price: $12.00 

 

Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times: Margaret Winthrop


Earle, Alice Morse

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, 2-page illustrated plate in front of book. Light foxing to plate. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Rubbing to cover corners. Spine faded. Library bookplate inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851488


Price: $15.00 

Women of the House, The : How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a DynastyZimmerman, Jean
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Women of the House, The : How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty


Zimmerman, Jean

Hardcover. UK, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 1st, 2006-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461377


Price: $13.00 

 

World Turned Upside Down, The - Essex County During America's Turbulent Years, 1763 - 1790 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Tagney, Ronald N.

Hardcover. Wesr Newbury, MA, Essex County History, First Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 504 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles spine. Map illustration of Essex County to endpapers. Inside is clean & unmarked with illustrations in black & white. Dust jacket with sunfade to spine & small tears to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751410


Price: $50.00 

 

Yesterday's Rules - The Making of the British Colonial Service


Heussler, Robert

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st UK, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 260 pages. Dj price clipped Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60097


Price: $25.00 

 

Zanzibar Chest, The: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands


Hartley, Aidan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. The story of the Hartley family in Africa, an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures.

Record # 32164


Price: $15.00 

 

American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods by: N/A

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., rep, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of 88 paintings and drawings by 40 artists. 104 pages with 93 illustrations (37 in color). A very good, clean copy. A few nicks around edges of front and back cover, small dent at the top of back cover. Record # 805365
Price: $12.00 

 

American Family of the 1890s: Paper Dolls in Full Color by: Tierney, Tom

Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean. Record # 802511
Price: $12.00 

Colonial Architecture of Salem, The by: Cousins, Frank
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Colonial Architecture of Salem, The by: Cousins, Frank

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, hardcover. Covers are in very good condition, despite minor bumping to the top and bottom of the spine. Interior pages with deckled edges are clean and bright. Top edge gilt. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book explores the rich history of colonial architecture in Salem, Massachusetts. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the city's architecture. It discusses the economic and political factors that influenced the design of these buildings, and how the architecture reflected the values and aspirations of the people who lived in Salem during the colonial era. Previous owner's paste-in is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34257
Price: $30.00 

 

Empire's End: A History of the Far East From High Colonialism to Hong Kong by: Keay, John

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt lettering. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Very good color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 40244
Price: $12.00 

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s by: Editor: O'Hanlon, Michael Editor: Welsch, Robert L.
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Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s by: Editor: O'Hanlon, Michael Editor: Welsch, Robert L.

Hardcover. NY, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2000, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a part of the Methodology and History in Anthropology series, being volume 6. It is a collection of ethnographically informed papers about ethnology of the Pacific and the culture of museum collectors, with contributions by the two editors. Each contributor presents ethnographic artifacts collected throughout Melanesia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as Germans, English, American, and British colonial powers carved out colonies in Melanesia. Interior pages contain markings by previous owner throughout, mostly in pencil, but some highlighting and blue pen as well. Record # 34166
Price: $18.00 

 

Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast by: Garrett, Edmund H. (pictures), Illust. by: Edmund H. Garrett

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett with 80 b/w drawings (including frontispiece and title page), some in-text and some full page. A vivid journey through picturesque landscapes and historic towns of the North Shore, the heartland of the Puritans. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. B/W frontispiece and illustrated title page. Top edge gilt. Pages lightly age toned. green cloth with gilt decoration, pictorial, and lettering on front and spine. Minor edgewear and wear to top and bottom of spine. Corners very lightly rubbed and bumped. Record # 803243
Price: $50.00