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Caning, The: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War (SIGNED)Puleo, Stephen
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Caning, The: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War (SIGNED)


Puleo, Stephen

Hardcover. Yardley PA, Westholme Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 374 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, clean. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 415169


Price: $19.00 

 

Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s


Weales, Gerald

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Softcover. Bright wraps with light wear to edges, creases to front lower right corner. Previous owner's name to front half title page. Frontis illustration, The Final Close Up, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light (erasable) pencil to first chapter. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 751604


Price: $15.00 

 

Canyon County: Prehistoric Rock Art


Barnes, F.A.

Softcover. Salt Lake City, Wasatch Publishers, 2nd printing, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466027


Price: $10.00 

 

Cape Ann Through the Seasons - A Photographic Sketchbook


Chamberlain, Samuel

NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 36 black & white photos in gravure by Chamberlain. Pencil sketch on rear end papers. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 69256


Price: $15.00 

 

Cape Cod Idyl, A


Bickford, Faith

Hardcover. Brewster-on-the-Cape, MA, Pr. Printed, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY BICKFORD on front fly leaf. 74 pages

Record # 60384


Price: $25.00 

 

Capital Elites - High Society in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War


Jacob, Kathryn Allamong

Hardcover. Wash. D.C., Smithsonian, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white illust.

Record # 51322


Price: $20.00 

Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing MachineBrandon, Ruth
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Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing Machine


Brandon, Ruth

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Purple cover boards, light fading along the top and bottom, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear. Pages clean and unmarked. Some slight tanning to edges. Looks great for its age. Biography and social history tells of the rags-to-riches story of a self-made man who epitomized the great American dream while rambunctiously flouting its conventions.

Record # 32909


Price: $15.00 

 

Captain & the Cannibal, The: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage.


Fairhead, James

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In nearly new condition. The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend.

Record # 32195


Price: $25.00 

 

Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War, The : An Operational History of the American-Built Destroyer Escorts Serving Under the White Ensign from 1943-46


Collingwood, Donald

Hardcover. US, US Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1999-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463367


Price: $44.00 

 

CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT: The Last of the New England Highwaymen


Waldo, Frederick W.

Hardcover. Topsfield, MA, Wayside Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages. A narrative of his life and adventures, with some account of the notorious captain thunderbolt. First book published by The Wayside Press. Illustrated with 13 b/w plates, including frontisportrait. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on front flyleaf. 8vo. Red and black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing on back. Minor edgewear. Red/black pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear, water marks along left front edge, chips at top and bottom of spine, spine and top edge toned.

Record # 220608


Price: $19.00 

 

Captain Sam Grant


Lewis, Lloyd

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The early years of Ulysses S.Grant. ex-lib. copy with normal stamping, residue to rear end paper but hardly read. a tight clean reading copy. 512 pgs.

Record # 100919


Price: $12.00 

 

Capture of Fort William and Mary, The


Parsons, Charles L.

Softcover. New Hampshire , New Hampshire American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of paper delivered at the 77th Annual Meeting of the New Hampshire Historical Society. White stapled covers with small monotone illustration and black titles, introductory notes by Joseph P. Copley, illustrated with b&w plates throughout. Mild rubbing to covers, light water mark to bottom right corner of catalogue.

Record # 806666


Price: $18.00 

 

Capture of Ticonderoga, in 1775., The - A Paper Read Before the Vermont Historical Society, at Montpelier, Tuesday, October 19th, 1869.


Hall, Hiland

Softcover. Montpelier, Vermont State Historical Society, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Paperback. Lower right corner of cover missing-approx. 1" deep. Stains and chipping to cover do not effect text.

Record # 511726


Price: $21.00 

 

Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture 1810 - 1940


Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries. , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black pictorial wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, sharp copy.

Record # 805617


Price: $11.00 

 

Cash Nexus, The : Economics And Politics From The Age Of Warfare Through The Age Of Welfare, 1700-2000


Ferguson, Niall

Hardcover. US, Basic Books, 1st, 2001-03-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 552 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464243


Price: $15.00 

 

Cat from Hue, The - A Vietnam War Story


Laurence, John

Hardcover. New York, Public Affairs, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 850 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 304541


Price: $10.00 

 

Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum


Fredericksen, Burton B.

Softcover. First, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First of three volumes to document the entire collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This book documents the museum's acquisitions as of October 1971. 160 paintings are reproduced in b/w with a brief history. Slight edgewear and back cover slightly scratched otherwise, tight, clean copy.

Record # 806693


Price: $15.00 

 

Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Caras of Open Court


Henderson, Harold

Hardcover. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 205 pages. Gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy, like new.

Record # 606633


Price: $25.00 

 

Catholic Colonization on the Western Frontier


Shannon, James P.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 302 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JAMES P. SHANNON TO CATHERINE O'MEARA ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top rear edge. Some brief pencil notes in margins.

Record # 610316


Price: $38.00 

 

Cattle Raising on the Plains 1900-1961


Schlebecker, John T.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 323 pages, b&w illustrations. Light bump to top outside corner, otherwise very good in a very good dust jacket.

Record # 900064


Price: $16.00 

 

Cattle-Raising on the Plains of North America


von Richthofen, Walter Baron

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850993


Price: $15.00 

 

Cavalry at Appomattox: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Climactic Campaign, March 27-April 9, 1865, The


Longacre, Edward G.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. 10+ pages of black-and-white illustrations in middle of book. Very light shelf-wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856417


Price: $13.00 

 

Celebrate Cincinnati Art: In Honor of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1881-1981


Trapp, ed., Kenneth R.

Softcover. Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Selected works from the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. 89 pages. Includes 4 critical essays accompanied by 50 black/white illustrations. Near fine condition, very slight wear to the bottom corners of the covers.

Record # 805555


Price: $8.00 

 

Celebrating Vermont: Myths and Realities


Graff (Ed.), Nancy Price

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Published to accompany traveling exhibition July 9, 1991-April 5, 1992. In excellent condition, just a touch of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out.

Record # 30895


Price: $31.00