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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 

 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens(1848-1907) Sculptore Americano dell'Eta D'Oro


Mina, Gianna A.

Softcover. Italy, Museo Vela, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Italian text. 83 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and coor. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 855940


Price: $23.00 

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

Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi GermanyLucas, Richard
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Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany


Lucas, Richard

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Casemate Pub, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230083


Price: $15.00 

 

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
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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
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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. 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 

 

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 

 

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