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Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions (Springer-Praxis Series in Space Science and Technology)


Harland, David M.

Softcover. US, Springer, rep, 1999-05-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 463399


Price: $15.00 

 

Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume VII: Human Spaceflight, Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (Nasa History)


Administration, National Aeronautics and Space

Hardcover. US, Scientific and Technical Information Off, 1st, 2008-12-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 857 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463374


Price: $38.00 

 

Extended Travels in Romantic America


Jobe, Joseph

Hardcover. Loussanne, Edita, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Accounts of 19th Century travel in North America by foreigners, tipped in color plts, illust by watercolor drawings & engravings of the period. Slipcased

Record # 11049


Price: $21.00 

 

Extended Travels in Romantic America


Jobe, Joseph

Hardcover. Lausanne, Switzerland, Edita, 1st, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. "Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America, Reconstructed from Accounts by European Visitors." Red leather cover with decorative gilt border and US Department of State's seal of bald eagle to from cover, gilt lettering and decorative border to spine, green and white decorated endpapers, b&w frontispiece, 24 color plates from paintings tipped in on extra stock, illustrated map of America, numerous b&w figures throughout, green slip case. Evidence of rubbing to slipcase, book in excellent condition.

Record # 805263


Price: $64.00 

 

Eyes Behind the Lines - L Company Rangers in Vietnam, 1969


Linderer, Gary A.

NY, Ivy Books, BC Ed., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages.

Record # 68934


Price: $8.00 

 

Eyewitnesses to the Great War: American Writers, Reporters, Volunteers and Soldiers in France, 1914-1918


Klekowski, Ed and Libby

Softcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Company , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, paperback. The wartime experiences of American idealists. Mild rubbing to wraps. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450056


Price: $25.00 

 

F.D.R. His Personal Letters: Early Years


Roosevelt (Ed.), Elliott

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 543 pages, Foreward by Eleanor Roosevelt. Covers Franklin Roosevelt's letter's from the age of 5 to his graduation from Harvard. B&W illustrations. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn. Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.

Record # 402899


Price: $15.00 

Fabulous fabrics of the 50s: (and other terrific textiles of the 20s, 30s, and 40s)Bosker, Gideon
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Fabulous fabrics of the 50s: (and other terrific textiles of the 20s, 30s, and 40s)


Bosker, Gideon

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, Reprint, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers. Some shelf wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469196


Price: $23.00 

 

Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company, The - A Story of George Washington's Times.


Royster, Charles

NY, Knopf , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 622 pages.

Record # 200210


Price: $25.00 

Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company, The: A Story of George Washington's TimesRoyster, Charles
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Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company, The: A Story of George Washington's Times


Royster, Charles

Hardcover. New York, 2nd pr, October 3, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 622 pages, several b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452976


Price: $18.00 

Face of Our Past, The: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the PresentMacAustin, Hilary (Editor)
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Face of Our Past, The: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present


MacAustin, Hilary (Editor)

Hardcover. Bloomington IL, Indiana University Press, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Small stain to top of dust jacket spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468282


Price: $13.00 

 

Face of Robert E. Lee in Life and in Legend, The


Meredith, Roy

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of photographs, paintings, drawings & sculptures of the Conferate General, all in black & white. Small smudge marks to end papers. Light foxing to last 4 pages otherwise VG

Record # 61243


Price: $40.00 

 

Facing the Light - Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes


Pfister, Harold Francis

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Coffee table sized softcover with light wear to edges & light sunfade to spine. Profusely illustrated in black & white daguerreotypes throughout. Tight bindng & clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750949


Price: $25.00 

 

Factories in the Valley: Neenah-Menasha, 1870-1915


Glaab, Charles N. & Lawrence H. Larsen

Hardcover. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint musty smell. Edgewear, rubbing and light sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket.

Record # 856960


Price: $15.00 

Failure of the Founding Fathers, The : Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential DemocracyAckerman, Bruce
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Failure of the Founding Fathers, The : Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy


Ackerman, Bruce

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. A very nice copy. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 452789


Price: $20.00 

 

Fairfield: Ancient and Modern A Hand Book of Local History


Child, Frank Samuel

Softcover. Connecticut, Fairfield Historical Society, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. illustrated with black and white photos. Some discoloration of pages due to age/shelfwear, otherwise tight, clean copy. Offers a detailed history of Fairfield, Ct. from 1639 to 1909.

Record # 401144


Price: $50.00 

 

Faith of Our Fathers - The Pilgrims


Wallace, Jr., Dewey D.

Wilmington, NC, Consortium/McGrath, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages.

Record # 305404


Price: $15.00 

Fall of the House of Walworth, The: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age AmericaO'Brien, Geoffrey
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Fall of the House of Walworth, The: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America


O'Brien, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471666


Price: $19.00 

Falling behind: explaining the development gap between Latin America and the United StatesFukuyama, Francis
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Falling behind: explaining the development gap between Latin America and the United States


Fukuyama, Francis

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469248


Price: $19.00 

 

False Dawn: Paul Rosenfeld and Art in America 1916-1946


Potter, Hugh M.

Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Published for U. New Hampshire by University Microfilms International, na, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Biographical history of Paul Rosenfeld, his artistic, musical, and literary criticisms and his contemporaries. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise a tight and clean copy.

Record # 806805


Price: $40.00 

 

Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick


Ozick, Cynthia

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition. Dust jacket in protective brodart.

Record # 30785


Price: $13.00 

 

Families & Freedom - A Documentary - History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era


Berlin, Iva and Leslie S. Rowland

Hardcover. NY, New Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Black & white illus.

Record # 60486


Price: $20.00 

 

Family of Islands, A - A History of the West Indies


Waugh, Alec

hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A history from 1492 to 1898 with an epilogue covering the Spanish-American War to the 1960's. 348 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 64571


Price: $18.00 

 

Family


Frazier, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on spine. Chapter headings illustrated with b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 56372


Price: $15.00