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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857Denton, Sally

American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857


Denton, Sally

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471661


Price: $19.00 

 

American Masters of Sculpture


Caffin, Charles H.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume on American sculptors and American artistic movements pertaining to sculpture. 234 pages, illustrated with black/white plates interspersed throughout the text. Book is in very good condition, some edge wear and a few scratches on the back cover.

Record # 805129


Price: $19.00 

 

American Memory - Being a Mirror of the Stirring and Picturesque Past of Americans and the American Nation


Beston, Henry (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages. Hardcover. Collected writings from various sources, mostly diaries and letters. Rubbing to edges, some fraying.

Record # 304483


Price: $18.00 

 

American Military History


Matloff, Maurice (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 701 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w. Top edge foxed. Edge and bottom edge lightly soiled.

Record # 509999


Price: $10.00 

 

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 Narrow Gauge Railroads


Hilton, George

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some dust jacket wear, yellowing and minor tears to dust jacket edges. Yellowing to edges of inner textblock. Otherwise a clean copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471253


Price: $50.00 

 

American Navy: Being an Authentic History of the United States Navy, and Biographical Sketches of American Naval Heroes, from the Formation of the Navy to the Close of the Mexican War, The


Peterson, C. J.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jas. B. Smith, 1st thus, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Black & white illustrations. Marbled endpapers and edges. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Brown leather cover worn, with pieces of leather missing along front cover hinge and spine. Cover corners rubbed. Front cover hinge weak. Text clean and unmarked.

Record # 608936


Price: $60.00 

 

American Neptune, The: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History 1980 (Volume XL) (4 Volume Set)


Carter (Editor), John S.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 75 pages followed by 5 pages of ads, featuring writings by George Comtois, Harold D. Langley, Fred Hopkins, W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, Allan E. Smith. Vol. 2 - 155 pages followed by 6 pages of ads. Writers incllude Dwight R. Messimer, George E. Paulsen, John R. Richardson, Cooper Busch, Paolo E. Coletta. Vol. 3 - 236 pages and 4 pages of ads and writers, William Joe Webb, Rober O. Tatge, James M. Merrill. Insect damage to front lower right corner wrap. Small soil spot top cover edge. Otherwise clean. Vol. 4 - 351 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by John W. Tyler, Keith A. Parker, James A. Bellarosa, Ralph W. Donnelly. Light tanning to spine & margin of wraps. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.

Record # 751537


Price: $31.00 

 

American Neptune, The: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History 1981 (Volume XLL) (4 Volume Set)


Carter (Editor), John S.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 76 pages followed by 4 pages of ads, features writing by James G. Neal, Merrill L. Bartlett, Charles Dana Gibson. Vol. 2 - 151 pages followed by 9 pages of ads. Writers incllude Charles R. Fisher, William J. Hourihan, Thomas T. Spencer & William Appleman Williams. Some small spots & light tanning to wrap margin. Vol. 3 - 235 pages and 4 pages of ads and writers, Allan A. Arnold, William N. Still, Gary E. Wilson, WIlfried Schuhmacher. Clean, crisp edges. Vol. 4 - 323 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by James F. Vivian, Jeffrey J. Safford & Rhys Richards. Two tiny spots soil to front wrap. Faint tone to edges. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.

Record # 751538


Price: $38.00 

 

American Neptune, The: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History 1983 (Volume XLIII) (4 Volume Set)


Carter (Editor), John S.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 71 pages followed by 9 pages of ads, features writing by Shomette, Hopkins, Alan G. Jamieson, Timothy P. Maga, Harvey Strum & Peter J. Guthorn. Half inch blemish to spine edge. Light soil line to rear wrap. Vol. 2 - 151 pages followed by 9 pages of ads. Writers incllude E. K. Haviland, Ralph W. Donnelly, Spencer C. Tucker. Vol. 3 - 231 pages and 9 pages of ads and writers, Francis X. Holbrook,, John Nikol, John Quentin Feller & E. K. Haviland. Clean, crisp edges. Vol. 4 - 324 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by Frederick G. Leiner, William G. Wing & E. K. Haviland. Faint spots of soil to rear wrap. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.

Record # 751539


Price: $38.00 

 

American Neptune, The: The Quarterly Journal of Maritime History - Volume 2 (3 Issues)


N/A

Softcover. Salem MA, The Ameican Neptune, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, Nos. 2, 3 & 4. B&w illustrations, clean. Missing No. 1. Light wear, still very good.

Record # 411695


Price: $19.00 

 

American Neptune, The: The Quarterly Journal of Maritime History - Volume XI (3 Issues)


N/A

Softcover. Salem MA, The Ameican Neptune, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, Nos. 1, 3 & 4. B&w illustrations, clean. Missing No. 2. Light wear, still very good.

Record # 411696


Price: $19.00 

American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History  Volume 19 No. 1-4 1959 (4 Issues)Dodge (Ed.), Ernest S.

American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History Volume 19 No. 1-4 1959 (4 Issues)


Dodge (Ed.), Ernest S.

Softcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover journals, 317 pages total, b&w illustrations. Clean set. Scholarly essays covering a wide spectrum of maritime history.

Record # 411563


Price: $31.00 

 

American Painters: with Eighty-three Examples of Their Work Engraved on Wood


Sheldon, G. W.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, small tear to spine, worn, gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Edges gilt. Endpapers in back have cosmetic split, not affecting binding. Previous owner's inscription in front. In very good shape for its age.

Record # 605488


Price: $51.00 

 

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 

 

American Painting of the Nineteenth Century


Novak, Barbara

Softcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 2nd, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. B/W reproductions of works by Copley, Allston, Harnett, Eakins, etc. Some stains on end papers otherwise clean.

Record # 802479


Price: $10.00 

 

American Painting, 1760-1960


Milwaukee Art Center

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages with colored frontis and numerous b&w illustrations. Tan cloth with black titles, no dust jacket. Slight edge wear, else a nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605651


Price: $16.00 

 

American Painting, from the Armory Show to the Depression


Brown, Milton W.

Softcover. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased from bending; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401011


Price: $15.00 

American Painting: History and Interpretation Barker, Virgil

American Painting: History and Interpretation


Barker, Virgil

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 717 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some fading and wear on dust jacket. Slight staining on text block, otherwise clean and tight. Inscription on front end paper, 1973.

Record # 2230516


Price: $19.00 

 

American Paintings & Historical Prints From the Middendorf Collection


The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Softcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 111 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine else a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 805618


Price: $13.00 

 

American Paintings 1750-1900: From the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art


Johnston, Sona K.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue of various American paintings from 1750-1900 in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. 187 pages, includes reproductions (mostly black/white, few color) of 165 different paintings with informational notes on each. Very good condition; some wear on the spine and edges of the cover.

Record # 804832


Price: $13.00 

 

American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century Part 1 & 2, National Gallery of Art, Washington


Kelly, Franklin & Nicolai Cikovsky, jr & Deborah Chotner

Hardcover. New York and Oxford, Oxford University press, unknown, 1996/1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 2 volumes. 467+363 pages. Volume 1 lists artists A-L, 207 illustrations including 72 plates in full color. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, small scratch to back cover. Pictorial dust jacket, white title to light green spine. Wrinkle to front cover and closed tear to back cover. Volume 2 lists artists M-Z. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket, white title to pink spine. Never been opened, in original shrinkwrap. Overall a very nice, clean and attractive set.

Record # 605538


Price: $230.00 

American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert StormBuckley, Gail Lumet

American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm


Buckley, Gail Lumet

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 534 pages. Hardcover. 32 pages of b&w photographs. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468259


Price: $13.00 

 

American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Department of American Decorative Arts & Sculpture

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1974, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, 119 pages, catalogue of black and white photographic illustrations arranged by state. Includes introduction, bibliography, and checklist of American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Book binding in fair condition, small white stains on upper left-hand corner of front cover. Dust jacket shows wear and is ripped at the top of the binding.

Record # 804980


Price: $13.00 

American Photographs: The First Century, from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American ArtForesta, Merry A.

American Photographs: The First Century, from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art


Foresta, Merry A.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Softcover catalogue published on occasion of the exhibition, American Photographs: The First Century, from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art, November 22, 1996 to April 20, 1997. Full color, full page & black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750090


Price: $19.00 

American Photographs: The First CenturyForesta, Merry A.

American Photographs: The First Century


Foresta, Merry A.

Softcover. Washington D.C. , National Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 171 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w, including two fold-outs. French folded pictorial stiff wrappers. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 401382


Price: $20.00 

 

American Pioneer Arts and Artists


Drepperd, Carl W.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, The Pond Ekberg Conpany, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages. B&w illustrations. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pastedown title patch on front cover. Original pictorial dust jacket with some patches missing to upper and lower spine and lower right corner of front cover, in protective mylar cover.

Record # 605229


Price: $19.00 

 

American Place-Names: A Concise and Selective Dictionary for The Continental United States Of America


Stewart, George R.

hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, NY, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 550 pages, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket edge wear and creases, minor spots on fore edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 202041


Price: $8.00 

 

American Poet at the Movies, The - A Critical History


Goldstein, Laurence

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 4th Printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510456


Price: $6.00 

 

American Politician, The


Salter, J. T. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages, b&w photographs. Gray cloth covers, spine browning. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850776


Price: $20.00 

 

American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993


Kismaric, Susan

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, 197 b&w photos. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 404432


Price: $20.00 

 

American Portrait, The: From the Death of Stuart to the Rise of Sargent


Hennessey, William J.

Softcover. Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Off-white wrappers, perfect binding, 45 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, catalogue of exhibition. Mild rubbing to wrappers, pages very crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807709


Price: $10.00 

 

American Posters of World War One


Coffey II, John W.

Softcover. Williamstown, MA, Williams College Museum of Art, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43-page, staple-bound pamphlet. Exhibition catalog. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear/soiling to covers. Minor tanning to spine. A little edge-wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856587


Price: $38.00 

 

American Presidency in Political Cartoons: 1776-1976, The


Blaisdell, Thomas & Peter Selz

Paperback. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, several color but mostly b&w plates. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Paper covers w/light scuff, spine faded.

Record # 10814


Price: $10.00 

 

American Presidency, The


Laski, Harold J.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , Book Club, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 51101


Price: $8.00 

 

American President, The


Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B., Philip B. Kunhardt III and Peter W. Kunhardt

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, rep., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A pictorial record of the Presidency. Color, black & white illust. Large format. 481 pages

Record # 57040


Price: $45.00 

 

American Printer, The 1787-1825


Silver, Rollo G.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear to edges.

Record # 2233246


Price: $23.00 

American Railroad Freight Car - From the Wood-Car Era the Coming of SteelWhite, Jr., John H.

American Railroad Freight Car - From the Wood-Car Era the Coming of Steel


White, Jr., John H.

Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins, 2nd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 644 pages. Hardcover. Hundreds of photographs and detailed drawings. Large oversize volume. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 177840


Price: $80.00 

 

American Railroad Passenger Car, Parts I and II, The


White Jr., John H.

Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume set. 690 pages total with illustrations in b&w. Clean, unmarked set with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458873


Price: $63.00 

 

American Realists: Homer to Hopper


Young, Mahonri Sharp

Hardcover. New York, NY, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Beautiful fully illustrated glossy dust jacket with almost no wear. Pages are in excellent condition, very clean, with many full page reproductions of artists' work. Binding is tight. 208 pages.

Record # 806920


Price: $45.00 

 

American Sail - A Pictorial History


Laing, Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, INSCRIBED BY LAING on title-page. Dust jacket battered with 2" chunk gone from front bottom.

Record # 57414


Price: $30.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, some tanning to back cover, very good. Tan cover boards, brown quarter cloth, brown title on spine. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have a touch of foxing. Provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to our entry into World War I.

Record # 33506


Price: $15.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert M.

Hardcover. US, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1993-01-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462242


Price: $10.00 

 

American Scene Painting and Sculpture: Dominant Style of the 1930's and 1940's


D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.

Softcover. New York, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Minor shelf-wear. Light creasing on bottom corner of pages and covers. Some creasing, closed tears, and tanning along spine. A little soiling on bottom edge. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856465


Price: $25.00 

 

American Sculpture at Yale University


Freedman, Paul B. and Robert Jaffee Frank

Softcover. New Have, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black covers with red and blue titles, photographic illustration of sculpture to front, preface by Mary Garder Neill, 466 b&w and color plates. Very slight rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806253


Price: $20.00 

 

American Sculpture of the Sixties


Tuchman, ed., Maurice

Softcover. Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition featuring American sculpture of the 1960s. 258 pages with 10 critical essays, also includes bibliography and glossary of terms. 36 color plates and numerous other black/white plates. Very good condition, some edge wear and rubbing to the covers. Previous owner's name, date, and location written in pencil inside the cover.

Record # 805559


Price: $26.00 

American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular CultureStreeby, Shelley

American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture


Streeby, Shelley

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Softcover. Clean and tight copy, very minor fading to back cover and foxing to text block.

Record # 2230962


Price: $19.00 

 

American Ships


Laing, Alexander

Hardcover. New York , American Heritage Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 533 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket worn, torn and slightly soiled. Book itself is very good.

Record # 854836


Price: $12.00 

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to RevolutionBorneman, Walter R.

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution


Borneman, Walter R.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470287


Price: $19.00 

 

American Still-Life Painting


Gerdts, William H. & Russell Burke

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Traces the history of still life painting up to the present day. Throughout the book, each genre is placed within the context of American painting as a whole. Includes bibliography. 264 pages, includes 220 b&w illustrations and 28 full color plates. There is a review of the book from the American Art Review from Sep/Oct 1973 inside the front cover. Previous owner's name and information on the front of the first blank page. Book tightly bound and clean. Dust jacket shows scratching and is worn around edges.

Record # 805161


Price: $51.00 

 

American Theatrical Arts - A Guide to Manuscripts and Special Collections in the United States and Canada


Young, William C.

Chicago, American Library Assoc., 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages.

Record # 65753


Price: $18.00 

American Tradition in PaintingMcCoubrey, John

American Tradition in Painting


McCoubrey, John

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 2nd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear on jacket, and faded strips along spine and jacket edges.

Record # 2230800


Price: $31.00 

 

American Views: Prospects and Vistas


Deak, Gloria-Gilda

Hardcover. New York, NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages, with full-color plates of engravings of both urban and natural landscapes from the 16th through the 19th centuries, along with essays. These engravings, from collections at the New York Library, illustrate the growth of the American nation during this time period. Well-bound, a clean copy. The edges of the dust jacket are slightly worn and there is a small nick on the back side.

Record # 805006


Price: $16.00 

 

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America


Hughes, Robert

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1997-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 635 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464150


Price: $31.00 

 

American West in the Twentieth Century, The: A Bibliography


Etulain, Richard, W. (Editor), Pat Devejian, Jon Hunner, Jacqueline Etulain Partch

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in brown leather, gilt title on spine and front cover board. A touch of chipping to cover corners. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition.

Record # 32012


Price: $23.00 

American West, The: People, Places, and IdeasCampbell, Suzan

American West, The: People, Places, and Ideas


Campbell, Suzan

Softcover. Santa Fe , Western Edge Pr, reprint , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Illustrated title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469614


Price: $15.00 

 

American Wood Engraving: A Victorian History


Linton, William J

Hardcover. Watkins Glen, NY, American Life Foundation & Study Institute, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xvi, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, small tear to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606323


Price: $40.00 

 

American Work


Jones, Jacqueline

Hardcover. New York, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., February 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 543 pages. Minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 455301


Price: $15.00 

 

American Workers, American Unions,. 1920-1985


Zieger, Robert H.

Paperback. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ., 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages.

Record # 63487


Price: $19.00 

 

American Yesterday


Sloane, Eric, Illust. by: Eric Sloane

New York, Funk , 3rd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by Eric Sloane. Related article laid in. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Record # 208123


Price: $20.00 

Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914Abel, Richard

Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914


Abel, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st pb, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460470


Price: $15.00 

 

Americans From Africa: Old Memories, New Moods


Rose, Peter

Hardcover. New York , Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to edges and dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857221


Price: $10.00 

 

Americans From Africa: Slavery and Its Aftermath


Rose, Peter I.

Hardcover. New York, Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to dust jacket and top and side edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857241


Price: $10.00 

 

Americans in Paris 1860-1900 (National Gallery London)


Hirshler, Erica E.

Hardcover. US, National Gallery London, 1st, 2006-03-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464657


Price: $38.00 

 

Amherst College, Record of the Class of 1831


n/a

Softcover. Hartford, Lockwood and Company, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Brown cover with gilt title to front. Fraying of spine and spotting to cover. Soiling to edges. Pencil markings to front flyleaf. Slight foxing to pages. Overall, a tight copy.

Record # 850568


Price: $35.00 

 

Amistad


Pesci, David

Hardcover. New York, Marlowe & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Cover and dust jacket have very little wear. Inside is clean. A nice, bright copy.

Record # 455876


Price: $12.00 

 

Amon Carter Museum: An Introduction


Amon Carter Museum

Softcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial, stapled wrappers. 63 pp. Illustrated with 38 b/w photos. History of the museum's collections including Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Artists of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries & The Photography Collection. Slight rubbing to covers, otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805899


Price: $10.00 

 

Among the Indians - Eight Years in the Far West 1858-1866


Boller, Henry A.

Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , 451 pages. Edited by Milo Milter Quaite. Top edge gilt. Folding map, B&W illustrations.

Record # 304614


Price: $30.00 

 

An Honorable Profession - A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy


Salinger (ed.), Pierre and others

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Ltd Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of tributes to the slain presidential candidate. #4 of 1000 SIGNED BY SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY. Bound in polished black leather, gilt on spine. In a matching slipcase.

Record # 68659


Price: $400.00 

 

ANALYSIS OF THE LATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OUR U. S. ADMINISTRATION AND GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, WITH AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW WHAT ARE THE REAL CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS.


Lowell, John

Softcover. Boston, Russell & Cutler, 1st, 1808, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 219822


Price: $54.00 

Anatomy of a Mutiny Ship: Sharon, 1842Purrington, Philip F.

Anatomy of a Mutiny Ship: Sharon, 1842


Purrington, Philip F.

Softcover. New Bedford MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, b&w illustrations. Essay reprinted from The American Neptune. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411948


Price: $16.00 

 

Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans


Chatters, James C.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 402883


Price: $18.00 

 

Ancient Mexico: An Introduction to the Pre-Hispanic Cultures


Peterson, Frederick, Jos

Hardcover. New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st U.S.A., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning, covered in protective plastic, no rips. Some tanning from age to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age. Books presents a coherent picture of ancient Mexico from the days of the early elephant hunters to the Spanish Conquest, and deals with all the major groups: Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Olmecs, Toltecs, Tarascans, Mixtecs and Zapotecs.

Record # 32162


Price: $23.00 

 

Andersonville: The Last Depot


Marvel, William

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, October 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages, b&w photographs. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454524


Price: $8.00 

 

Andrew Jackson - Frontier Statesman


Judson, Clara Ingram, Illust. by: Lorence F. Bjorklund

Chicago, Follett Publishing, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrations by Lorence F. Bjorklund. 224 pages. Color illustrated covers. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 600189


Price: $12.00 

 

Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars


Remini, Robert V.

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 2001-07-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages, b&w illustrations. Light dent to upper board edges, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462170


Price: $10.00 

 

Andrew Jackson: His Life and TImes


Brands, H.W.

Softcover. New York, Anchor Books, 1st paperback , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 620 pages, paperback. A portrait of Andrew Jackson. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. With black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951663


Price: $19.00 

 

Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain


James, Marquis

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. End paper map. Clean, bright copy with no dust jacket.

Record # 407332


Price: $10.00 

 

Anglo-America Relations during the Spanish-American War


Reuter, Bertha Ann

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Dark red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine. Clean covers, through spine slightly faded, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 606707


Price: $25.00 

 

Annals of Iowa, The - Volume One 1893


Petersen, William J.

hardcover. Iowa City, State Historical Society, Rep, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of the 1st 4 quarterly issues. 192 pages + index. Dust jacket edgewear, chips.

Record # 64997


Price: $18.00 

 

Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1905


N/A

Washington, DC, GPO , 2nd, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1,374 pages. Vol. 2 only (of 2). Front hinge wear, front fly leaf half loose, binding solid. Very good internally.

Record # 302841


Price: $100.00 

 

Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1914 (Vol. II)


Matteson, David Maydole (Ed.)

Washington, DC, GPO, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 793 pages. Vol. 2 only (of 2)

Record # 302842


Price: $80.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Managers Buffalo Historical Society


NA

Paperback. Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Historical Soc., 1st wraps, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Annual report. Black & white plates. 64 pages. Light soil, wear to covers.

Record # 130171


Price: $30.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Managers Buffalo Historical Society


NA

Paperback. Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Historical Soc., 1st wraps, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Annual report. Black & white plates. 86 pages. Light soil, wear to covers. All pages clean and legible.

Record # 130170


Price: $24.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Managers Buffalo Historical Society


NA

Paperback. Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Historical Soc., 1st wraps, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Annual report. Black & white plates. 66 pages. Light soil, wear to covers. All pages clean and legible.

Record # 65991


Price: $30.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Managers Buffalo Historical Society


NA

Paperback. Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Historical Soc., 1st wraps, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Annual report. Black & white plates. 101 pages. Light soil, wear to covers. All pages clean and legible.

Record # 130169


Price: $24.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1862


n.a.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Foxing to endpapers, title page, and several other pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Page , especially edges are browned. Dark blue texturized cloth, toned on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Bottom of the spine is nibbled, along with bottom right corners of front and back boards and bottom right corners of textblock.

Record # 40258


Price: $16.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1862


n.a.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Spotting and browning to page edges, water stain at bottom edge on last 100 pages of book. Dark blue/brown texturized cloth, toned, especially on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Edgewear, bottom of spine and bottom right corner of front cover are nibbled. Top corners bumped.

Record # 40259


Price: $26.00 

 

Annual Reports of the Inspectors of Prison and Jails of Maine, and of the Warden & Subordinate Officers of the State Prison - 1886


Porter, Joseph W./Dearborn G. Bean/Henry S. Osgood

Hardcover. Augusta, State of Maine, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Notes by previous owner in pencil along with plant clippings sewn to 3 pages. Appears to have been used as a keepsake book. Cover shows standard wear for a book of this age.

Record # 603687


Price: $26.00 

 

Anpao - An American Indian Odyssey


Highwater, Jamake

NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white illustrations by Fritz Scholder.

Record # 202547


Price: $25.00 

 

Anthony Burns: A History


Stevens, Charles Emery

Hardcover. Williamstown, Corner House, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages, b&w illustrations and frontispiece. Minor wear to price-clipped dust jacket; in brodart. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 851574


Price: $12.00 

Anti-Semitism in AmericaQuinley, Harold E.

Anti-Semitism in America


Quinley, Harold E.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has some wear, chipping and fading. Remainder mark. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231049


Price: $19.00 

 

Anti-Slavery Crusade, The: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm


Macy, Jesse

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, reprint, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Minor cover corner wear. Gilt decorated cover, top edge and spine. A very handsome book with clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852558


Price: $10.00 

 

Anybody's Gold - The Story of California's Mining Towns


Jackson, Joseph Henry, Illust. by: E.H. Suydam

New York, Appleton-Century, 2nd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY JACKSON on half-title page. Previous owner's signature on same page. Black & white illust. by E.H. Suydam.

Record # 65147


Price: $35.00 

 

Anything Can Happen in Vermont


Wolf, Marguerite Hurrey

Hardcover. unknow, Wake-Brook House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 151 pages. INSCRIBED BY MARGUERITE WOLF with Walter Hard quote, dated 1965. Green and white cloth covers, blue and white dust jacket with b&w illustration, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs of Vermont by Lewis A. Harlow. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808055


Price: $50.00 

 

Apache Princess, An


King, General Charles, Illust. by: Frederic Remington & Edwin Deming

Hardcover. New York, The Hobart Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Illustrated with 8 plates by Frederic Remington & Edwin Deming. Red cloth with white, black, red pictorials and titles on cover. Some soiling on front endpapers and title page. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper.

Record # 809144


Price: $35.00 

 

Aperture 139 - Strong Hearts - Native American Visions and Voices


Hoffman, Michael E./Melissa Harris & Michael Sand (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Aperture Foundation Inc., 1st Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color & b/w. Cover illustration by Monty Roessel (Navajo), Memories of the Long Walk, Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, 1992. Featuring works by 34 photographers. Accompanied text by Paul Chaat Smith, N. Scott Momaday, Theresa Harlan, Zig Jackson, James Luna among others. Bright, unmarked copy.

Record # 750395


Price: $30.00 

 

Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now


Allday, Jonathan

Softcover. US, CRC Press, 1st, 1999-01-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 463482


Price: $19.00 

ARC Light OneHarten, Don

ARC Light One


Harten, Don

Hardcover. US, Turner Publishing Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal wear to jacket, name of former owner in pen in front end papers. Clean and tight copy, black and white images.

Record # 2231045


Price: $15.00 

 

Architectural Album, An - Compiled by the Junior League of Lincoln, Nebraska


Gibbs, Dale L./Linda Jones

Softcover. Lincoln, Junior League of Lincoln Nebraska, First Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Softcover. Full page, black & white illustrations throughout. Light marginal shelf wear to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750424


Price: $25.00 

 

Architectural Treasures of Early America: Survey of Early American Design


Whitehead & Brown, Ed., Russell F. & Frank Chouteau

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, Inc., 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Historical account of architecture in early America. 224 pages, very fully illustrated with black/white drawings, plans, and photographs. Near fine condition; very slight wear on the spine.

Record # 804813


Price: $22.00 

 

Architecture in New York: A Photographic History


Andrews, Wayne

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606245


Price: $12.00 

 

Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide


Tolles, Jr. & Tolles, Bryant F. & Carolyn K.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide to historical architecture in Salem, Massachusetts, with reviews of over 350 buildings. 311 pages, fully illustrated with black/white photographs and maps. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket has wear at the corners and on the ends of the spine, two rips along the top edge.

Record # 804857


Price: $51.00 

Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of AmericaMurphy , Cullen

Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America


Murphy , Cullen

Hardcover. Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 262 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Black pictorial dust jacket. Slight shelf-wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 606626


Price: $18.00 

 

Argonauts of 'Forty-Nine, The


Leeper, David Rohrer

Hardcover. Indiana, David Rohrer Leeper, 2nd printing, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. Black & white illustrations by O. Marion Elbel. Some spots of soiling to front cover. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609929


Price: $80.00 

Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam TragedyMcNamara, Robert S.

Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy


McNamara, Robert S.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, slight stain to fore edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450667


Price: $12.00 

 

Armies of the American Revolution


Hogg, Ian V. and John H. Batchelor

Hardcover. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1st U.S., 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 158 pages. Edited by S. L. Mayer. Color and B&W illustrations. Dust jacket with heavy edgewear, chipping and soil. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 303011


Price: $30.00 

 

Armies of the American Wars 1753-1815


Katcher, Philip

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, clean and bright.

Record # 457731


Price: $15.00 

 

Armoral Combat in Vietnam


Starry, General Donn A.

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ex-lib with stamping to end papers otherwise VG. Dj with light rubbing

Record # 58122


Price: $15.00 

 

Army Life in Dakota


de Trobriand, Philippe Regis Dennis de Keredern

Hardcover. Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages. Illustrated with with black & white plates. Minor foxing to endpapers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606861


Price: $35.00 

 

Army Life On The Western Frontier


Croghan, George

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes appendix of author's travel schedule. Decorative stain to top edge. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 613496


Price: $25.00 

 

Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood


Shachtman, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Yellow boards, cloth spine. Eight page pictorial section.

Record # 803423


Price: $10.00 

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms RaceRhodes, Richard

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race


Rhodes, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 24 pages of b&w photographs. Silver guilt titles on spine. Small stains to top edge. Rubbing to dust jacket. Slight creasing to some pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy. . 386 pages. Record # 467523

Record # 467523


Price: $13.00 

 

Art Across America - Two Centuries of Regional Painting


Gerdts, William H.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Three slipcased volumes. Volume One - New England, New York, Mid Atlantic - 422 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Volume Two - The South, Near Midwest - 396 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Volume Three - The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific - 396 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Red Cloth slipcase with 3/4" of light fading to cloth along mouth. Light wear overall. Additional shipping required.

Record # 610393


Price: $375.00 

 

Art Dealers, The


Taylor, John Russell & Brian Brooke

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Purple cloth with silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606258


Price: $15.00 

 

Art Idea, The


Jarves, James Jackson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Reprint of the 1864 original. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. previous owner's inscription in front. A very crisp, clean and well preserved copy

Record # 804941


Price: $13.00 

 

Art in South Carolina 1670-1970


Bilodeau, Francis W.

Softcover. Charleston, SC, The South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White covers with illustration on the front. Embossed print on cover wrapping around the illustration. Rubbing and some marking on covers. Pages are clean and crisp with reproductions of artists' work throughout, mostly in black and white with a few in color. Binding is creased, with some wear at the bottom, but still in good condition. 229 pages.

Record # 806921


Price: $25.00 

Art in the White House: a nation's prideKloss, William

Art in the White House: a nation's pride


Kloss, William

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., White House Historical Association, reprint, 2008, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 407 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469235


Price: $31.00 

 

Art of Gone With the Wind, The : The Making of a Legend


Cameron, Judy

Hardcover. US, Prentice Hall Trade, 1st, 1989-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463986


Price: $19.00 

 

Art of Music: American Paintings & Musical Instruments, 1770-1910, The


N/A

Softcover. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations with occasional color illustration. Light shelf-wear and edge-wear. Top corner of rear cover slightly faded. A little foxing on top edge. Minor soiling to fore and bottom edges. Bottom corner of last few pages and rear cover lightly creased. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856432


Price: $25.00 

Art of the Cigar Label, TheDavidson, Joe

Art of the Cigar Label, The


Davidson, Joe

Hardcover. New Jersey, Wellfleet Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Full page, full color photographs & illustrations throughout. Dust jacket design by Carmela Pereira, with only minor wear. Clean unmarked, tight copy.

Record # 750120


Price: $38.00 

 

Art-Makers of Nineteenth Century America, The


Lynes, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 514 pages, b&w illustrations. Bibliography. INSCRIBED BY LYNES TO JOHN WILMERDING, fellow art historian and author. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 401419


Price: $50.00 

 

Artful Toil: Artistic Innovation in an Age of Enterprise


Seidler, Jan

Softcover. North Brookfield, MA, Brockton Art Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pink covers with rubbing and minor indentations. Bottom edge is sunned and bent. Staple binding and edges in good condition, binding tight. Pages in good condition with minor rubbing. 6 b/w plates and much accompanying text on items in the exhibition. 31 pages.

Record # 807023


Price: $8.00 

 

Artist In America, The


Goodrich, Lloyd.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine. White pictorial dust jacket, Light wear to covers and spine, slight stain to front cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606243


Price: $15.00 

 

Artists of America, The: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists; with Portraits and Designs on Steel


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations on steel (by artist only mentioned in Preface as Mr. Burt) with tissue guards throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown leather, gilt title on spine, raised bands and embossed design on covers and spine. Some chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as corners of covers. Tanning from age and foxing to pages and edges, but doesn't affect legibility of text or illustrations. Beautiful old volume. Biographical sketches of eight American painters.

Record # 31725


Price: $63.00 

 

Artists of America, The


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Includes biographical sketches of Thomas Crawford, Rembrandt Peale, James DeVeaux, John Trumball, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Benjamin West, Henry Inman, Washington Allston. Brown cloth covers with embossed decorative borders, gilt titles decorative illustration to spine and cover, green patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 9 b&w tissue-protected engravings. Previous owner's pencil inscription to blank preview page, wear and rubbing to cover edges and spines, cloth covering partially detached from lower portion of spine, noticeable foxing to most pages. A rare book in good condition.

Record # 806049


Price: $80.00 

 

Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe, the Early Years


Robertson, Edna & Sarah Nestor

Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc, 2nd, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Yellow pictorial wrappers with light wear to edges, else like new.

Record # 605827


Price: $10.00 

 

Arts at Black Mountain College, The


Harris, Mary Emma

Softcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 314 pages, illustrated throughout. Light water damage to last 30 pages on bottom edge, minor edge and corner wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853719


Price: $35.00 

 

Arts in America, The: the Colonial Period


N/A

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 

 

Arts in Early American History, The: Needs and Opportunities for Study


Whitehill, Walter M. & Wendell Garrett & Jane Garrett

Hardcover. Williamsburg, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No dust jacket. Light wear and some rubbing to edges, otherwise a very nice. tight copy.

Record # 605513


Price: $11.00 

 

Aspects of the 70's


various authors

Softcover. Massachusetts, multiple publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six art catalogs published together in a white slip case. "A collaboration among six museums in the Boston area, consists of six separately conceived exhibitions...". Sizes of catalogs differ so that edges stagger to reveal all six titles from front of slip case. Text by James Sheldon. Catalog titles: "Directions in Realisms," "Mavericks," "Painterly Abstraction," "Sitework," "Spiral: Afro-American Art of the 70's," and "Photography: Recent Directions." Light wear to slip cover edges, discoloration to revealed edges of catalogs; otherwise a very clean, tight copy of a unique set of exhibition catalogs.

Record # 806055


Price: $80.00 

 

Aspects of the 70's


various authors

Softcover. Massachusetts, multiple publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six art catalogs published together in a white slip case. "A collaboration among six museums in the Boston area, consists of six separately conceived exhibitions...". Sizes of catalogs differ so that edges stagger to reveal all six titles from front of slip case. Text by James Sheldon. Catalog titles: "Directions in Realisms," "Mavericks," "Painterly Abstraction," "Sitework," "Spiral: Afro-American Art of the 70's," and "Photography: Recent Directions." Light wear to slip cover edges, discoloration to revealed edges of catalogs; otherwise a very clean, tight copy of a unique set of exhibition catalogs.

Record # 806053


Price: $80.00 

 

Association of American Geographers, The: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1904-1979


James, Preston Everett

Hardcover. Assn of Amer Geographers, 1st, December 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages, b&w photographs. Edge wear, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Record # 452905


Price: $15.00 

 

Astonished Traveler, The - William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters


Kennedy, J. Gerald

Hardcover. Baton Rough, Louisiana State Univ., 1st, n .d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 55526


Price: $20.00 

 

At Andersonville - A Narrative of Personal Adventure at Andersonville, Florence and Charleston Rebel Prisons


Brownell, Josiah C.

Paperback. Glen Cove Public Library, Rep.wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the original 1867 ed. 40 pages.

Record # 60831


Price: $28.00 

 

At the Supreme War Council


Wright, Captain Peter E.

Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st?, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages, with a handful of b&w illustrations and fold-out maps. Covers the Supreme War Council, the campaign of 1918, and the Battle of St. Quentin. Burgundy hardcovers, showing some edge-wear. Pages unmarked, although slightly yellowed. Library stamps on front endpaper, as well as a name of previous owner. Overall, a tight, clean copy.

Record # 808042


Price: $15.00 

 

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy


Richard M. McMurry

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2000, 229 pages. Hardcover. Great Campaigns of the Civil War series. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Looks nearly new and barely read. In great shape. McMurry examines the Atlanta campaign as a political and military unity in the context of the greater struggle of the war itself.

Record # 31795


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Atlas of American Military History


Bradford (Editor), James C.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Following a loose categorical framework, the atlas examines every significant U.S. military campaign and war. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Many color and black-and-white photos throughout. Profusely illustrated with maps and line drawings as well. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951688


Price: $29.00 

 

Aubuchon Hardware


Aubuchon Jr., Bernard W.

Softcover. Charleston, SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page, black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 458083


Price: $19.00 

 

Audubon to Xantus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names


Mearns, Barbara

Hardcover. US, Academic Press, 1st, 1992-11-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 588 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463563


Price: $75.00 

 

Audubon, Homer, Whistler and 19th Century America


Wilmerding, John

Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 91 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial cloth boards, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight rubbing to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606347


Price: $15.00 

Authentic Voices: Arkansas Culture, 1541-1860Sarah, M. Fountain (editor)

Authentic Voices: Arkansas Culture, 1541-1860


Sarah, M. Fountain (editor)

Hardcover. Conway, AR, University of Central Arkansas Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469570


Price: $13.00 

 

Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army


Ballentine, George

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Lakeside Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Edited by William H. Goetzman, a Lakeside Classic, brown cloth cover with gilt seal to cover and lettering to spine, b&w frontispiece, 40 b&w illustrations. Very light mildew marks to cover; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 804550


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Phillips, Sampson and Company, First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Hardcover. Brown embossed boards with gilt titles to spine. Crack & fraying to crown & heel of spine, soiling to the first several pages including tissue paper of frontis illustration. Engravings in bw throughout, each protected with a tissue guard. Light foxing throughout. Insect marking pp. 11-70. Otherwise clean with striking illustrations.

Record # 751249


Price: $75.00 

 

Back Home in Oneida - Hermon Clarke and His Letters


Jackson, Harry F./Thomas F. O'Donnell

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613477


Price: $15.00 

 

Badge of Gallantry, The - Recollections of Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Winners


Mitchell, Joseph B.

Hardcover. Shippensburg, PA, White Mane, Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 194 pages. Orig. pub. in 1968. Damp wrinkle to rear dj panel - not affecting book.

Record # 61125


Price: $20.00 

Baedeker's United States with an Excursion Into Mexico, TheBaedeker, Karl

Baedeker's United States with an Excursion Into Mexico, The


Baedeker, Karl

Hardcover. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 3rd Revised Ed., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 660 pages, gilt-stamped flexible red cloth. Illustrated with twenty-five maps and thirty-five plans. Frontispiece fold-out map intact and whole as are other maps. Several with crimping to edges as they extend slightly from copy block. No marking.

Record # 411156


Price: $225.00 

Ball's Bluff-an Episode and Its Consequences to Some of UsPeirson, Charles Lawrence

Ball's Bluff-an Episode and Its Consequences to Some of Us


Peirson, Charles Lawrence

Hardcover. Salem MA, Salem Press Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 54 pages, b&w frontispiece "Field and Staff of Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861". Previous owner's sticker with name on front fly leaf, rear fly leaf removed. Otherwise clean.

Record # 415263


Price: $63.00 

 

Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky


Thomas, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610963


Price: $38.00 

 

BALLAD OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH, A: The Songs and Music sung and played by Union and Confederate Soldiers during and after the Civil War.


Angle, Paul M. and Miers, Earl Schenck.

Hardcover. Kingsport, TN, Privately Printed at Kingsport Press, 1st, February, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First Edition. Limited to 1250 copies for presentation. Laid inside front cover a presentation letter signed by Frank S. Sheahan of Kingsport Press. Colophon reads in part, printed by Kingsport Press, Inc., in an edition of twelve hundred fifty copies, solely for distribution among its friends. The plates have been destroyed, there will be no reprint. 78 pages. Illustrated throughout with musical instruments. 8vo. Blue and gray cloth. Gilt pictorial of banjo and guitar with song book centered front cover. Scarce. As New in original plastic dust jacket. Slipcase with browning at edges.

Record # 220706


Price: $29.00 

 

Baltimore Furniture: The Work of Baltimore and Annapolis Cabinetmakers from 1760 to 1810


Breeskin, et. al., Adelyn D.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition featuring Baltimore furniture dating from the eighteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. 193 pages with 125 catalogue entries, each illustrated with multiple black/white photographs. Very slight bumping to the ends of the spine.

Record # 605566


Price: $96.00 

 

Bankers and Cattlemen - The Stocks and Bonds, Havana Cigar, Mahogany and Leather side of the Cowboy Era. Politics investors, and operators from 1870 to 1900


Gressley, Gene M.

NY, Knopf , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201318


Price: $30.00 

 

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco


Burrough, Bryan & John Helyar

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 528 pages, b&w photographs. Some foxing to edges, dust jacket with light wear and sunning to edges and spine. Overall a nice, tight copy.

Record # 808426


Price: $12.00 

 

Bargaining For Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876 - 1938


Bates, Barbara

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, Second Printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Softcover with illustration to cover & light, marginal wear to edges. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560145


Price: $19.00 

 

Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America, The United States National Museum Bulletin 230


Adney (Curator of Transportation), Edward Tappan, Howard I. Chapelle

Hardcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Historical overview of Native American water transportation. Some soil to front cover, Endpapers, edges, and pages lightly yellowed with age,

Record # 30214


Price: $38.00 

 

Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915


Fink, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, James Brunner, 2nd printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 526 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Photographer and historian Daniel Fink illuminates the social, economic and architectural history of New York's Genesee country barns using contemporary records and original photographs. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Heavy age toning to top text block edge. Mild age toning to front endpapers and front flyleaf top edge. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951737


Price: $63.00 

 

Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915


Fink, Daniel

Hardcover. Geneseo, James Brunner, 2nd Printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. 1st edition/2nd printing. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610262


Price: $63.00 

 

Baseball History: An Annual of Original Baseball Research


Levine, Peter

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Meckler Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages, b&w photos, publisher's card laid in, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801182


Price: $10.00 

 

Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game


Wallace, Joseph

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w and color photos from photo archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801190


Price: $6.00 

 

Bastiles of the Confederacy: A Reply to Jefferson Davis


Moran, Frank E., Illust. by: Frank Moran

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Moran Family, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Hardcover. Privately printed original publication, printed by Moran's family. Text and illustrations by Author. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and with decoration on front cover. Some fraying to bottom of spine, a touch of chipping and rubbing to covers. B/w frontispiece plate (portrait of author). Edges and pages have tanning from age but doesn't affect text or illustrations. From title page: "Being a Narrative of the Treatment of the Union Prisoners in the Military Prisons of the South During the War of the Rebellion. From Official Records of the United states War Department, Reports by Committees of Congress, Captured Confederate Archives, and From Evidence Taken at the Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, in 1865, and From the Personal Experiences of the Author During Twenty Months Captivity in Six Military Prisons of the South. With a Review of the exchange Controversy."

Record # 31720


Price: $100.00 

 

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of Virginia (INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Coffin, Howard

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Deckled foreedge. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. looks barely read and nearly new. Coffin tells the story of the people at home, of the granite-like resolve; as well as the wartime scenes as they appear today.

Record # 31806


Price: $25.00 

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign, From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of VirginiaCoffin, Howrad

Battered Stars, The: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaign, From the Home Front in Vermont to the Battlefields of Virginia


Coffin, Howrad

Hardcover. Woodstock, Vermont, Countryman Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. SIGNED BY COFFIN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, illustrated throughout with b&w plates. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808058


Price: $40.00 

 

Battle for Korea - The Associated Press History of the Korean Conflict


Dvorchak, Robert J.

Hardcover. PA, Combined Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. 317 pages. Personal accounts by the writers and photographers of the AP.

Record # 63074


Price: $8.00 

 

Battle from the Start, A: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest


Wills, Brian Steel

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Tan cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Decorated endpapers. In great shape. The biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Record # 31796


Price: $15.00 

Battle of Ball's Bluff, ThePatch, Joseph Dorst

Battle of Ball's Bluff, The


Patch, Joseph Dorst

Hardcover. Leesburg, Potomac Press, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Grey cloth covers with gilt titles & decoration to covers & spine. Toning to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with faint foxing, light wear small tear to edges. Light foxing to top edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750485


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Belmont, The : Grant Strikes South (Civil War America)


Jr., Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes

Hardcover. US, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1991-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463673


Price: $19.00 

 

Battle of Fort Donelson, The


Hamilton, James

Hardcover. New Jersey, Thomas Yoseloff, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 378 pages, with maps. Dust jacket price clipped and minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853953


Price: $12.00 

 

Battle of Lake Erie, The: And Reminiscences of the Flagships "Lawrence" and "Niagara"


Dobbins, Captain W. W.

Hardcover. Erie, Pennsylvania, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages, with preface and biographical sketch of the life of Oliver Hazard Perry by John Elmer Reed. Minor spine edge and cover corner wear. Gilt title on cover and spine. Very clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852544


Price: $40.00 

Battle of Plattsburgh, The: What Historians Say About It - The centennial of this great naval contest the last fought between English speaking nations which effectually checked the British advance into New York and hastened the consummation

Battle of Plattsburgh, The: What Historians Say About It - The centennial of this great naval contest the last fought between English speaking nations which effectually checked the British advance into New York and hastened the consummation

Softcover. Albany NY, J.B. Lyon Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, tan wrappers, 72 pages illustrated in b&w, fold-out map present in excellent condition.

Record # 412243


Price: $44.00 

 

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5--6, 1864, The


Rhea, Gordon C.

Hardcover. US, Lsu Press, 1st, 1994-01-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 465846


Price: $19.00 

 

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War


Bradford, Ned (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc,, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 626 pages. Blue cloth, gilt on spine. Boards show minor edgewear. Dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn. Tears tape-repaired. Price-clipped. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. B/W photographs throughout.

Record # 804426


Price: $11.00 

 

Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877


Greene, Jerome A.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages. Black & white illustrations. Book and jacket show standard wear.

Record # 608767


Price: $12.00 

 

Battles of the United States, by Sea and Land: Embracing Those of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War: With Important Official Documents (vol. 1 & 2)


Dawson, Henry B.

Hardcover. New York, Johnson, Fry and Co., 1st, 1858, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 746 and 530 pages. Green cloth, half leather binding, raised bands, gilt. Heavy wear to spine and edges, pieces of spine missing. Shelf wear to cover. Illustrated with numerous black & white, tissue guarded, steel engravings by Alonzo Chappel. Ex-lib with usual markings.

Record # 220897


Price: $128.00 

 

Beating Back


Jennings, Al & Will Irwin, Illust. by: Charles M. Russell

Softcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. Spine faded and ripped, cardboard showing, back cover faded. Foxing on edges. Ex-library copy with all usual stamping. Previous owner's inscription.

Record # 511090


Price: $102.00 

 

Beattles and the Sixties, The


Assayas, Michka and Claude Meunier

Hardcover. NY, H. Holt, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illust. 96 pages. Small stamp to front fly leaf otherwise VG.

Record # 64082


Price: $19.00 

 

Beautiful Brandon


N/A

Softcover. Brandon, VT, Brandon Improvement Association, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Staple binding. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown construction paper wrapper (agewear), orange title and decoration on front cover. Formerly on exhibit at Shelburne Museum, with stamp of proprietorship on front flyleaf. Just a touch of tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Beautiful photo-illustrated promotional travel book highlighting the sites of downtown Brandon, VT, circa 1910. Collector's delight.

Record # 32280


Price: $44.00 

 

Beautiful Burlington


Smith, Margaret L. H.

Softcover. Burlington, Margaret L. H. Smith, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Illustrated with 13 black & white photographs. Body of book loose from covers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers. Paper wraps cover worn and missing paper at top and bottom of spine.

Record # 606714


Price: $25.00 

 

Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition


Slaughter, Thomas P.

Hardcover. US, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2008-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462669


Price: $13.00 

Beecher Sisters, The White, Barbara A.

Beecher Sisters, The


White, Barbara A.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461328


Price: $19.00 

 

Before Lewis and Clark - The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier


Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510814


Price: $9.00 

 

Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier


Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2004-04-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462933


Price: $11.00 

 

Beginnings of Washington - As Described in Books, Maps and Views, The


Phillips, P. Lee

Hardcover. Washington, P. Lee Phillips, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate removed from inside front cover leaving minor abrasion. Line in ink along 2 paragraphs on page 27, otherwise unmarked text. Light wear to blue cloth covers.

Record # 612390


Price: $50.00 

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters-and One Man's Search to Find ThemCarroll, Andrew

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters-and One Man's Search to Find Them


Carroll, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 471705


Price: $13.00 

 

Beleaguered City, The


Bill, Alfred Hoyt

New York, Alfred Knopf, 2nd, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions and two fold - out maps. Dust jacket has minor chipping to edges - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509710


Price: $10.00 

 

Bellingrath Gardens and the Beltingrath Home


N/A

Hardcover. Alabama, Belling, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A color pictorial of the Charm Spot of the Deep South. 48 pgs. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Record # 70749


Price: $12.00 

 

Belmont Hill School 1923-1998: An Anniversary Album


Prenatt, Harold

Hardcover. Massachusetts, Belmont Hill School, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Some foxing to cover boards. Clean inside. in honor of the 75th anniversary of the celebrated Massachusetts prep school, including a full history.

Record # 30351


Price: $75.00 

 

Beloved Island - Franklin and Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello


Klein, Jonas

Forest Dale, VT, Eriksson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 201323


Price: $20.00 

 

Beloved Island: Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello


Klein, Jonas

Hardcover. Forest Dale, VT, Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801168


Price: $10.00 

 

Benedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior


Sellers, Charles Coleman

Hardcover. New York, Minton, Balch & Co., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, b&w plates. Red cloth covers w/ light rubbing, wear. Top edge red. Foxing to fore-edge and first few pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Else clean and tight.

Record # 851854


Price: $15.00 

 

Benedict Arnold


Boylan, Brian Richard

Hardcover. New York, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1st, July 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 266 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Edgewear, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Staining to fore-edge.

Record # 454807


Price: $12.00 

 

Beneficiary, The: Fortune, Misfortune and the Story of My Father


Scott, Janny

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 2233084


Price: $15.00 

 

Benjamin Franklin - The First Civilized American


Russell, Phillips

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guard. Illustrated end papers.

Record # 202389


Price: $18.00 

 

Benjamin Franklin


Morgan, Edmund S.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462657


Price: $10.00 

 

Benjamin West and the Taste of His Times


Evans, Grose

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages plus 73 b&w plates in rear. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Tight, clean copy in a cardboard slipcase with a pastedown illustration and spine label.

Record # 401369


Price: $40.00 

 

Bering's Search for the Strait - The First Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1730


Kushnarev, Evgenii G. and E.A.P Crownhart-Vaughan (Ed)

Hardcover. Portland, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white maps.

Record # 106119


Price: $15.00 

 

Berkshire Lost


Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Softcover. Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Historical catalog. White stapled wrappers, profusely illustrated with large b&w plates of historical buildings, acknowledgments by Paul Ivory, introduction by Cornelia Brooke Gilder, roster of historical architecture lost since 1900 within 100-mile radius of Chesterwood. Small light brown markings to front, pages very crisp; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807927


Price: $12.00 

 

Best Families - The Town & Country Social Directory 1846-1996, The


Patterson, Jerry E./Anthony T. Mazzola/Frank Zachary

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612784


Price: $19.00 


  

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