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Frigate Constitution, The - The Central Figure of the Navy Under Sail


Hollis, Ira N.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Black & white illustrations. Ex-lib with bookplates, light stamping, residue. Red cloth with gilt decoration, lettering, top edge gilt. Light lettering to spine, internally VG.

Record # 69503


Price: $15.00 

From Behind the Veil: A STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN NARRATIVEStepto, Robert B.
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From Behind the Veil: A STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN NARRATIVE


Stepto, Robert B.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 2nd , 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Softcover. Some rubbing to corners. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 468292


Price: $10.00 

 

From Boston to the Berkshires: A Pictorial Review of Electric Transportation in Massachusetts


Carlson, Stephen P. , Thomas w. Harding

Softcover. Boston, MA, Boston Street Railway Association, inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. With fold out map attached at back endpapers. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight. Pages clean. In great shape.

Record # 31931


Price: $19.00 

 

From Cedar Mountain to Antietam: August-September 1862


Stackpole, Edward J.

Harrisburg PA, Stackpole Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 466 pages. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Marker on back of front end paper.

Record # 508179


Price: $20.00 

 

From Dublin to Chicago - American Impressions


Birmingham, G.A.

Hardcover. NY, G.H. Doran, rep., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. A famous Irish humorist's observations in the American mid-west. Excellent condition. Donation stamp on front paste-down.

Record # 58879


Price: $20.00 

 

FROM GOD, COUNTRY AND COCA-COLA. The Unauthorized History (1916-1985) of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It.


Pendergrast, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons., 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 809155


Price: $20.00 

 

From Lenape Territory to Royal Province: New Jersey 1600-1750


New Jersey State Museum

Softcover. Trenton, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Museum catalog. Stapled covers with b&w illustrated map to cover, illustrated with b&w plates throughout, errata slip. Light rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805917


Price: $16.00 

 

From One Room School To Union High School: The History of The Windsor Central Supervisory Union


Wendling , Kathy

Softcover. Barre VT , Windsor Central Supervisory Union , 1st , 1989 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 146 pages. Pink dust jacket. Photos of students and schoolhouses interspersed throughout. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Record # 857182


Price: $25.00 

 

From Prague After Munich - Diplomatic Papers 1938-1940


Kennan, George F.

NJ, Princeton Uniov., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages.

Record # 62105


Price: $20.00 

 

From St. Louis To Sutter's Fort, 1846


Lienhard, Heinrich

hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oaklahoma, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil and chipping. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. 204 pages.

Record # 202453


Price: $30.00 

From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United StatesHounshell, David A.
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From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States


Hounshell, David A.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages. Softcover. Some wear and curling to edges of covers, large crease to front outer lower corner. Lower edge of spine shows mild chipping. Initials whited out in front end papers, otherwise clean copy. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 2230971


Price: $23.00 

 

From the Green Mountains to the Prairies


Barker, Frances Long

Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.

Record # 32281


Price: $25.00 

 

From Versailles to the New Deal: A Chronicle of the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover Era


Faulkner, Harold U.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Chronicles of America Vol. 51. 388 pages, b&w illustrations. Red Gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket as issued. A very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.

Record # 607662


Price: $20.00 

 

Frontier Army Surgeon - Life in Colorado in the Eighties, A


Byrne, Bernard James

Hardcover. New York, Exposition Press, 2nd Revised, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608567


Price: $20.00 

 

Frontier Days


Swan (ed.), Oliver G.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Light brown cloth covers, dark brown stamped titles, larger color illustration pasted to front cover, decorated endpapers, 6 full-page color plates, b&w illustrations throughout, top edge stain. Very slight wear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, neat binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850865


Price: $20.00 

 

Frontier Newspaper The El Paso Times


Middagh, John

Hardcover. El Past, Texas Western Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MIDDAGH. Top of spine with short tear

Record # 51505


Price: $18.00 

 

Frontier of Freedom: The Portrait of an Extraordinary Village, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts


Chamberlain, Samuel and Henry N. Flynt

New York, Hastings House, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 170 pages. Contains numerous black & white photography of inside and outside of houses in Old Deerfield. Some pages signed by current occupants (1958) of historic houses. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 508681


Price: $20.00 

 

Frozen Music: A History of Portland Architecture


Bosker, Gideon and Lena Lencek

Hardcover. 1st, November 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 331 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket w/ edge wear, tears, 1/2 inch piece missing from top back edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451348


Price: $25.00 

Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil WarCoffin, Howard
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Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War


Coffin, Howard

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages. SIGNED BY COFFIN ON TITLE PAGE. Black boards with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, foreword by Edwin Bearss. Light rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 807991


Price: $60.00 

Future of the Past, The Woodward, C. Vann
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Future of the Past, The


Woodward, C. Vann

Hardcover. New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press US, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 370 pages, minor dust jacket edgewear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456065


Price: $12.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping, in protective mylar cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605495


Price: $29.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping to front cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605494


Price: $29.00 

 

Gallant Hood, The


Dyer, John P.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A biography of Confederate General John B. Hood. 383 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Rear hinge cracked, front hinge weak. Light wear, soil to red cloth covers.

Record # 601354


Price: $24.00 

 

Gallery Collects Peales, A


Schwarz, Robert Devlin

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Frank S. Schwarz & Son, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black-and-white and color illustrations throughout. Light sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856446


Price: $13.00