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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
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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 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
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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
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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 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.
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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 

 

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
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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 

Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of SteelScott, John
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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel


Scott, John

Softcover. Bloomington, [Ind.], Indiana University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to pictorial wrappers, minor crease to spine not affecting binding. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453556


Price: $12.00 

 

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


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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