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Guns at Gettysburg, The


Downey, Fairfax

New York, David McKay, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 290 pages. Spine faded. Light rubbing to corners.

Record # 508268


Price: $13.00 

 

Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War


Gosnell, H. Allen

Softcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages, paperback. A full and accurate treatment of the important gunboat operations in the western theater of the Civil War. Previous owner's name label on front endpaper. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Otherwise unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951708


Price: $15.00 

 

Gypsy Fires In America


Brown, Irving

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers , 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. B&w photographs throughout. Black and red decoration on cover. Decorative stain to top edge. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Rubbing to corners. Spine slightly cocked. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857508


Price: $25.00 

 

H. H. Richardson - Architectural Forms for an American Society


O'Gorman, James F.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609072


Price: $12.00 

 

H. P. Hall's Observations - Being More or Less a History of Political Contests in Minnesota from 1849 to 1904


Hall, H. P.

Hardcover. St. Paul, MN, privately published, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth, 384 pages. Harlan Page Hall (1838-1907) was the founder of the St. Paul Dispatch in 1868 and devoted most of his life to journalism. This book is based on personal reminiscences, and relates many of the political contests from the beginning of the state through the early twentieth century. Spine sunned otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 205838


Price: $12.00 

 

Hamilton's Blessing - The Extraordinary Life & Times of Our National Debt


Gordon, John Steele

Hardcover. New York, Walker, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 50877


Price: $18.00 

 

Hammonds of Redcliffe, The


Bleser (Ed.), Carol

NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of letters of a distinguished South Carolina family from Pre Civil War to 1938. B&W photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped.

Record # 602601


Price: $15.00 

 

Hand Book of the American Republics 2: Second Edition, Enlarged and Revised


Bureau of the American Republics

Softcover. Washington, Bureau of the American Republics, 2nd Ed., 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 486 pages. two-color paper covers, sewn binding with about half the paper covering gone from spine. Still a solid copy. Illustrated with b&w drawings, color maps. This is Bulletin No. 11, dated February 1891. Chock-full of information for producers, merchants and manufacturers on tariffs, shipping rates, consular fees, postal rates, etc. to and of South American countries. Paper wrappers a little soiled, previous owner's signature on front.

Record # 404621


Price: $30.00 

 

Handbook of Old Burial Hill Plymouth Massachusetts - Its History, Its Famous Dead and Its Quaint Epitaphs


Perkins, Frank H.

Paperback. Plymouth, MA, Rogers, 1st wraps, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages. Paperback. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 208078


Price: $35.00 

 

Handwrought Ancestors


Rawson, Marion Nicholl

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st Edition, 1936, Dust Jacket: Poor, 366 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated by the author, b/w illustrations throughout. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Deckled foreedge. Some light underlining (pencil) in a few places. Binding good, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has definite agewear (see image). This book deals with the old farm tinkerin' shops and those other tiny shops along village streets in which our cherished antiques came into existence. Pen drawings (150) by the author.

Record # 33434


Price: $23.00 

 

Hanover, New Hampshire - A Bicentennial Book - Essays in Celebration of the Town's 200th Anniversary


Childs (editor), Francis Lane

Hardcover. Hanover, Hanover Bicentennial Committe, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Spine and upper areas of front and back covers sun faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606866


Price: $30.00 

 

Harpers Ferry: Prize of War


Wellman, Manly Wade

Charlotte, NC?, McNally of Charlotte, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 183 pages. Related newspaper clipping laid in. Edgewear and rubbing to corners and spine. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping.

Record # 508532


Price: $33.00 

 

Harrison Gray Otis 1765-1848 The Urbane Federalist


Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 561 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of important American political figure. Age toning and mild spotting to text block edge. Light edgewear to dust jacket, slight chipping to dust jacket as well. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951569


Price: $31.00 

 

Hartford in History - A Series of Papers by Resident Authors


Twitchell (Editor), Willis I.

Hardcover. Hartford, W. I. Twitchell, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and fold-out map. Folding map of Hartford laid-in. green cloth covers with bright gilt titles on spine and covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609256


Price: $50.00 

 

Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons: The Correspondence, 1922-1945


Auxier, Randall E. (Editor)

Hardcover. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, March 1, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458213


Price: $15.00 

 

Harvard Memorial Biographies - 2 Vol.


N/A

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Sever and Francis, 2nd, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of biographies of Harvard graduates who died in the Civil War. 445, 483 pages. Nice clean set. No photos tipped-in.

Record # 66926


Price: $80.00 

Haunted Wood. The: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin EraVassiliev, Alexander
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Haunted Wood. The: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era


Vassiliev, Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 4th, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470008


Price: $15.00 

 

Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder


Hawk, Tony, Sean Mortimer

Hardcover. New York, ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In excellent condition. With brutal honesty, Tony recalls the stories of love, loss and determination that have shaped his life, he takes a look back at his experiences with the skateboarding legends of the 70's, 80's and 90's, and tells the real history of skateboarding.

Record # 32446


Price: $15.00 

 

Headquarters in the Brush: Blazer's Independent Union Scouts


Stephenson, Darl L.

Hardcover. Athens, OH, Ohio University Press , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages, b&w illustrations. Light sunning to jacket spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 855282


Price: $23.00 

 

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States taken in the year 1790 - Vermont


United States Government

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, Reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top edge of front endpaper. One sentence underlined in ink on page 5. Moderate foxing to cloth covers. Solid reference copy.

Record # 611974


Price: $31.00 

Heart & soul: a celebration of Black music style in America, 1930-1975Merlis, Bob
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Heart & soul: a celebration of Black music style in America, 1930-1975


Merlis, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Blind stamp on front cover. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469061


Price: $19.00 

Heart of the BeastWeatherford, Joyce
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Heart of the Beast


Weatherford, Joyce

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Pictorial dust jacket. Brown boards with red spine. Silver gilt title to spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850811


Price: $15.00 

 

Hearths and Homes of Old Lynn


Hawkes, Nathan Mortimer

Hardcover. Lynn, Thomas P. Nichols & Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover with title and decorations in gilt. Top edge gilt. Limited edition of 500 copies - this being #357. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Some light rubbing to cloth along front spine hinge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611978


Price: $125.00 

 

Heartland: An Exhibition from the Collection of the Heritage Center of Clark County


Kummerow, Burton K.

Hardcover. Springfield, Ohio, Clark County Historical Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, color and b&w photos and illustrations, exhibition catalog, poem laid in, exhibition catalog slip laid in, book was a gift, inscriptions from about 11 friends on blank endpapers, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801320


Price: $30.00