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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious ManKurlansky, Mark
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man


Kurlansky, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468105


Price: $13.00 

Birth of Bebop, The: A Social and Musical HistoryDeVeaux, Scott
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Birth of Bebop, The: A Social and Musical History


DeVeaux, Scott

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 572 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Upper spine cocked, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230938


Price: $19.00 

Black America, A Photographic Journey: Past to PresentSmith, Marcia A.
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Black America, A Photographic Journey: Past to Present


Smith, Marcia A.

Hardcover. San Diego, Calif., Thunder Bay Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight wear on edges of cover but very tight and clean copy.

Record # 2230552


Price: $38.00 

 

Black Belt Scalawag - Charles Hays and the Southern Republicans in the Era of Reconstruction


Rogers, Jr., William Warren

Hardcover. Athens. Ga., Univ. of Georgis, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51043


Price: $18.00 

 

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia


Jordan, Jr., Ervin L.

Softcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609199


Price: $12.00 

 

Black Hats and White Hats - Heroes and Villains of the West


Rabinowitz, Harold

New York, Metro Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Many B&W, color illustrations. Small bump to fore-edge of cover, otherwise very good / very good.

Record # 305727


Price: $18.00 

 

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail


Bolster, W. Jeffrey

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Previous owners inscription on front fly leaf. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471192


Price: $13.00 

 

Black Odyssey - The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery


Huggins, Nathan Irvin

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON DEDICATION PAGE. Foxing to top edge, with spots to foredge. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612479


Price: $75.00 

Black Saga: The African American ExperienceChristian, Charles M.
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Black Saga: The African American Experience


Christian, Charles M.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Slight fading to spine. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468236


Price: $23.00 

 

Blacksmiths' and Farriers' Tools at Shelburne Museum - A History of their Development from Forge to Factory - Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 7


Smith, H. R. Bradley

Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, Inc., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages plus 10 page supplement. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings relating to the blacksmith/farrier trade. Slight sun fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603665


Price: $45.00 

Blessed Assurance - At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, TexasMajtabai, A.G.
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Blessed Assurance - At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas


Majtabai, A.G.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 57699


Price: $19.00 

Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors Bliss, Chas. H.
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Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors


Bliss, Chas. H.

Softcover. Pensacola, Chas. H. Bliss, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Small format magazine measures: 6.5" H X 5" W. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Scarce.

Record # 614176


Price: $188.00 

 

Blue and the Gray, The: The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants


Commager, Henry Steele

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, reprint, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1201 pages, with illustrations, complete one volume edition. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853588


Price: $20.00 

 

Blue Jackets of '76


Abbot, Willis J.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers. Rear hinge cracked and back cover is holding with binders twine. Spine cloth faded with fraying at top and bottom. Text and illustrations clean and unmarked.

Record # 608833


Price: $30.00 

Bob Dylan In AmericaWilentz, Sean
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Bob Dylan In America


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 390 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Some stains to front and back dust jacket cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466859


Price: $15.00 

 

Bonus Army, The: An American Epic


Dickson, Paul; Allen, Thomas B.

Hardcover. New York, Walker , 1st us, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor to no wear to dust jacket and cover.

Record # 2233378


Price: $15.00 

 

Book Of Indian Crafts And Indian Lore, The


Salomon, Julian Harris

NY, Harper and Bros. , rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by author and others. Illustrated end papers. Black & white photo frontispiece. Light edgewear to covers.

Record # 202551


Price: $30.00 

 

BOOK OF THE AMERICAN WEST


Monaghan, Jay, editor.

Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. 4to. Gray cloth. Red color illustration of Indian buffalo hunt on front and back covers. Red spine title label with gilt titles. Gilt line decorations. Color pictorial spine panels. Neat name (pen) on front endpaper. Light wear to spine edges. Very Good. Color pictorial dust jacket. Some wear and tear along edges. Good.

Record # 219859


Price: $16.00 

 

Book of the Artists


Tuckerman, Henry T.

Softcover. New York, James Fr. Carr, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 639 pages. "Comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists: preceded by an historical account of the rise & progress of art in America." Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to covers, mild wear to cover edges; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806114


Price: $80.00 

 

Book of the White Mountains, The


Anderson, John and Stearns Morse

NY, Minton, Balch & Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MORSE front flyleaf. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. Black & white photos. 300 pages. Maps front and back pastedown and flyleaf. Small water stain top edge. Browning to pages.

Record # 500236


Price: $60.00 

 

Border Wars of the American Revolution, in Two Volumes


Stone, William L.

Hardcover. New York, A. L. Fowle, 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete two volume set, maroon cloth board with green embossed four-leaf clover on front. Light edge wear and fray, minor foxing on edges, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854541


Price: $50.00 

 

Born for Liberty - A History of Women in America


Evans, Sara M.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, BON C, 19889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. B&W photos. Book Club Edition.

Record # 304684


Price: $12.00 

 

Boston - A Brief Description of the Principal Facts About the City


Walsh, Richard J.

Boston, Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1st , 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white photos of Boston circa 1910. 78 pages. Fold-out map of city in rear. Marbled end papers, previous owner's gilt name on cover.

Record # 66494


Price: $31.00 

 

Boston and the Parker House


Spring, James W.

Softcover. Boston, J.R. Whipple Corp., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A chronicle of those who have lived on that historic spot where the new Parker House now stands in Boston. A hotel history. Black & white photos. 230 pages. Cardboard spine detached, laid-in book.

Record # 58878


Price: $15.00