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A New History of the United States. The Greater Republic


Morris, Charles, LL.D.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 711 pages. Embraces "the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year. Showing how from thirteen colonies with a scattered population along the Atlantic Coast, a great republic has been formed, embracing forty-five states with 75,000,000 inhabitants and vast colonial possessions in two hemispheres." Green cloth w/ gilt lettering on front cover and embossed lettering on spine. Large compass design on front cover. Water damage (discolored) on bottom right corner on front and back covers. Floral white/green print end pages. Great color map of the U.S. on frontispiece. Pages 69 and 71 ripped out at edge of text, but pages are still there and text still legible. Plate between pages 346, 347 starting to come out.

Record # 803724


Price: $22.00 

 

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 

 

Alexander H. Ladd's garden book, 1888-1895: A 19th century view of Portsmouth


Ladd, Alexander H

Softcover. US, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Hampshire [distributor], 1st, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462716


Price: $13.00 

 

American Furniture from the First Colonies to World War I


Butler, Joseph T.

Hardcover. London, England, Triune Books, rep, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide for American furniture design from the colonial period up until World War I. 144 pages, illustrated with 240 photographs, 40 of which are in full-color. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, old price sticker attached inside the cover. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shows edge wear and has small rip near the top of the spine.

Record # 805077


Price: $13.00 

American Indian As a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times, The (SIGNED)Beck, Horace P.
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American Indian As a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times, The (SIGNED)


Beck, Horace P.

Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Softcover, light tan paper wrappers, 92 pages with b&w illustrations. Light soil to wrappers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR BECK TO FELLOW WRITER JOHN CLAGETT. Also with Clagett's ownership signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 411857


Price: $29.00 

 

American Narrative Painting


Hoopes, Donelson F.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of American paintings from the Colonial era. 192 pages with b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, a clean copy. Evidence of rubbing/scratching on front and back covers.

Record # 805368


Price: $19.00 

 

American Painting - First Flowers of Our Wilderness


Flexner, James Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping, closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613124


Price: $23.00 

 

American Painting - From the Colonial Period to the Present


Prown, Jules David/Barbara Rose/John Walker

New York, Skira/Rizzoli, Revised, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611713


Price: $31.00 

 

Arts in America, The: the Colonial Period


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Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605191


Price: $19.00 

 

Atlantic Frontier, The - Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763


Wright, Louis B.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust.

Record # 54032


Price: $15.00 

 

Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; or, Pioneer Life in the West


Strickland (Editor), W. P.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, Jennings and Graham, First Edition, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Blue embossed boards with some soiling, scuffing & wear to edges. Gilt titles to spine. Fraying to crown & heel. of spine Heavy foxing to preliminary pages, spotting throughout. Frontis illustration, James B. Finley, & engravings in b/w. Tight binding.

Record # 751367


Price: $63.00 

 

Beppy Marlowe of Charles Town


Gray, Elizabeth Janet

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 5th , 1944, Dust Jacket: Good, 281 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Loren Barton. Dust jacket worn, chipped at the top, bottom of spine. Front fly leaf missing.

Record # 512385


Price: $15.00 

 

Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism


Thomas, Dominic

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to wrappers.

Record # 2233708


Price: $19.00 

 

Bread, or Bullets! - Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898


Casanovas, Joan

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 203810


Price: $20.00 

 

British Atlantic, American Frontier - Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America


Hornsby, Stephen J.

Hardcover. Lebanon, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Single black line on each edge - similar to remainder marks. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.

Record # 611792


Price: $75.00 

 

Chambersburg, Frontier Town 1730-1794: A Bicentennial Narrative of the Origin and Growth of Chambersburg and Franklin County in Pennsylvania


Havens, Paul Swain

Hardcover. Chambersburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustration. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 407230


Price: $31.00 

 

Chapters of Brazils Colonial History 1500 -1800


de abreu, Joao Capistrano

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56156


Price: $20.00 

Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial MexicoLara, Jaime
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Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico


Lara, Jaime

Softcover. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Spiral bound softcover. Color illustrations throughout. Covers show a little use/shelf wear: creases, a bit of soil, small rip at bottom of front cover. In very good condition, clean and bright inside.

Record # 30943


Price: $50.00 

 

Colonial and Federal House, The: How to Build an Authentic Colonial House


Newcomb, Rexford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Beige illustrated cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Light edgewear and bumps to edges of slightly faded spine. The front end paper has been cut diagonally across the upper corner, previous owner's signature blotted out on front paste-down.

Record # 810158


Price: $50.00 

 

Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, The


Cousins, Frank/Phil M. Riley

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Hardcover. Handstamped #909 of 975 copies. Some light foxing to preliminary pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Damp staining to spine label. Top edge gilt. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612933


Price: $50.00 

Colonial Architecture of Salem, TheCousins, Frank
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Colonial Architecture of Salem, The


Cousins, Frank

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 282 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very light wear to edges and corners, protected by slip case. Edges and corners of slip case show some wear and staining, but case seems solid.

Record # 2230877


Price: $38.00 

 

Colonial Fights and Fighters


Brady, Cyrus Townsend

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, Reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Illustrated with original drawings by Gibbs, Schoonover and others, and reproductions from rare old prints, maps, and diagrams. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Minor cover and spine edge wear and stains. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852328


Price: $28.00 

 

Colonial Folkways: A Chronicle of American Life in the Reign of the Georges


Andrews, Charles M.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Contains 16 plate illustrations. Gilt top edge. Volume 9 of the Chronicles of America Series, Allen Johnson Editor. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Small stain to first few pages. Light browning to top edges of pages. Paper on front hinge starting to crack. Hole to rear endpaper. Corners bumped. Light markings to rear cover. Small bump in edge of front cover.

Record # 504152


Price: $30.00 

 

Colonial Furniture of West New Jersey


Hopkins, Thomas Smith/Walter Scott Cox

Hardcover. Haddonfield, Historical Society of Haddenfield, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 114 pages. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies - this being #1. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine cloth. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610343


Price: $188.00