Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, title on spine faded, 306 pages. Stated first edition. Signs of former library book but clean internally. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white plates by Frederic Remington. Brown paper covered boards with cover pastedown of Remington drawing. black cloth spine. Copyright page with 1923 date and Harper's G-B code indicating later printing of 1st edition. Light foxing to outer edges of some pages and plates. Fraying to cloth at top of spine. Light darkening of pages close to gutter. Still an attractive copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket with a bar code sticker on rear panel. INSCRIBED TO TV TALK SHOW HOST DICK CAVETT BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf: "To Dick Cavett with appreciation for your steady excellence and thoughtful commentary -with regards and highest esteem - A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr./June 30, 1978". Focusing on the actions and attitudes of the courts, legislatures, and public servants in six colonies, Judge Higginbotham shows ways in which the law has contributed to injustices suffered by Black Americans Judge Higginbotham chronicles in unrelenting detail the role of the law in the enslavement and subjugation of black Americans during the colonial period. 512 pages, b&w illustrations. No markings.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1913 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1913 and 1914) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1913: 410 pages plus 22 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1914: 362 pages plus 20 b&w plates. Plus a 164 page catalogue of lantern slides in the Society's collection. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st American, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, in protective brodart. Gilt title on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows some age wear: yellowing, small rips along the edges (patched discreetly with tape from underside), foxing. Just a touch of foxing to top edge and a bit of age-yellow to pages, otherwise clean inside.
Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 434 pages. Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as "middle class." This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware "middle class" between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the development of the middle class in larger American cities, particularly Philadelphia and New York. He examines the middle class in all its complexity, and in its day-to-day existence--at work, in the home, and in the shops, markets, theaters, and other institutions of the big city. The book places the new language of class---in particular the new term "middle class"--in the context of the concrete, interwoven experiences of specific anonymous Americans who were neither manual workers nor members of urban upper classes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Binding tight, looks barely read.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 997 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals-the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war's end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country's greatest disaster. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Norwich, Norwich University, First Edition, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Hardcover. Red pebbled cloth covers with gilt titles to cover. Toning throughout. Pages untrimmed, and many unopened. Frontis illustration, Captain Alden Partridge, Founder. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Fold-out frontis, b&w Illustrations, very nice, clean copy. Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music.
Softcover. Salisbury VT, Vermont Society of Colonial Dames, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, bound in green card wrappers with gilt lettering, b&w plates. Inscribed by a member of the Vermont Society of Dames, Sarah Clement on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Hildesheim GR, Edition Olms, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1stt, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Three essays (on the Shelterbelt Project, New Deal critics, and FDR's attempt to expand the Supreme Court) make up the second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures; foreword by C. B. Smith; edited by Harold M. Hollingsworth and William F. Holmes. Bound in bright green cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on the front board and spine.
Hardcover. Wichita KS, Pr. Printed, 2nd Ed., n.d. (1930), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white frontispiece of author. Many black & white photo plates. 342 pages. No date. Nice tight copy. Green covers with bright cover decoration, spine lettering faded otherwise very good. One of the classic books on the policing, range-roving, & settlement of the Western plains.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic-Little, Brown Company, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MORISON on the front fly leaf. 81 pages, b&w illustrations. Chapters include "The Indians," "The European Discovery," "Mount Desert as a Landmark," "The New England Settlement Begins," "The People of Mount Desert," "The Rusticators," "Yachting," etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 184 pages, clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Washington D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations with tissue guards. Some age wear throughout. Foxing, page and edge yellowing, binding a bit loose in some places. Still in great shape for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Publishing Group, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Overlake Publishing, 1ST, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. The commander of a Georgia regiment through much of the Civil War mused later in his memoirs that the heaviest burden fell not upon the man at the front, but upon the woman who waited and prayed for victory: "While the men were carried away with the drunkenness of the war, she dwelt in the stillness of her desolate home." Sallie Brock Putnam spoke for Southern womanhood. She was a native of Madison County, Virginia, and seems to have come from a family of good social standing. The book contains an unexpectedly full history of the Civil War; the author exhibits a strong grasp of strategy and tactics. But at its heart is an incisive eyewitness account of life in a capital that was swollen to four times its normal population by the exigencies of war. Brock's descriptions of Jefferson Davis' inauguration and the Richmond Bread Riot of 1863 are dramatic, but no more so than her accounts of nameless refugees, race relations, opportunistic merchants and blockade runners. Confederate prisons and family matters. In contrast to other female Southern writers of the period, she was more sober and factual, less gossipy and speculative. She wrote with shrewdness and maturity, and with a remarkable lack of self-pity and exaggeration. Yet the reader cannot miss her courage, sacrifice and suffering. Sallie Brock Putnam died in 1911.
Hardcover. Colombia SC , Univ of South Carolina Pr, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 179 pagees, with illustrations by Mudge-Marriatt. Minor corner and spine edge wear, otherwise, in very good condition. The "extraordinary seaman" was Captain Lord Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dondonald; the author of this book was an M.P., and contributor of the Parliamentary Report to the weekly New Statesman. "Captain Cochrane went to sea in the Royal Navy's greatest period. He became one of the finest sea fighters Britain has ever known. His scientific ingenuity and imaginative genius made him a pioneer of combat methods which were only fully developed nearly one hundred and fifty years later in the second world war."
Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. Small tears to the edges of several pages. Dust jacket w/rubbing, light edgewear. Else clean and tight.
Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 330 pages. A comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Revised Ed., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. B&w illustrations. A well-researched and authoritative study of 'negro' soldiers who wished to remain in the United States Army following the Civil War. They were eventually organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments their service in controlling Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unpraised. With Bibliography and Index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Vergennes VT, J. Shedd, 1st, 1831, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, original leather binding with spine label. Calf rubbed, edgeworn, Prelim page preceeding title page has piece cut out, small number on title page, spotting to edges of text block, otherwise clean, sound copy.
Hardcover. NY, John Day, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket, 372 pages. This book is sub-titled: "A true account, rich in detail about man and nature, of Oklahoma when it was the United States last frontier".
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Many b&w photos, some color. The author and S. Oughterson and Shields Warren, as part of the United States Atomic Bomb Causality Commission, were sent immediately (September 1945) to survey Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan after the bombing and surrender of Japan to study the devastation and the subsequent irradiation sickness.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. A reprint of the 1927 edition published by J.M. Dent in London. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, 456 pages. Preface, editorial notes accompanying each speech from Cromwell, delivered September 17, 1665 to Gladstone, May 7, 1877. Some light foxing to first 12 pages, otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1st, 1885, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages + 32 ads in rear. Original brown endpapers, in the original binding of blue cloth decorated in red, black and gilt, spine titled in gilt. Also published under title: The Society of London. Originally attributed to Mme. Juliette Adam; more recently this and other similar works have been accredited with strong probability to Elie de Cyon." (Trove) Catherine Radziwill was the first to use the pseudonym Count Paul Vasili with a gossipy book called Berlin Society, a pen-name that was then taken up by other anonymous writers. Previous owner's name in ink on title page, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 405 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth covers with blue decoration and lettering. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New Delhi, Calcutta, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 485 pages. Underlining in brown felt tip on pages 129-133. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Dust jacket shows standard wear with sunfaded spine.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd Ed., 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 4" x 6 1/4", 303 pages including index. A detailed instructional guide for the Civil War era soldier. Copyright page states 1964, title page says 1865. Probably a second edition. Still scarce in this nice condition. A few pages with dog ears, previous owner's pencil signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK/NY, Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 241 pages, b&w frontis. Clean copy. Essays include: The Challenge of the Greek, Purpose in Classical Studies, The Greek Farmer, The Gastronomers, Homer and his Readers, Virgil & Erasmus etc.
Hardcover. Salisbury, VT, Privately Published, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 189 pages with appendix and index. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. Light sun fade on rear cover. Foxing on first few pages, otherwise tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Greenfield, MA, Ansel Phelps, 1st, 1824, Book: Fair, 312 pages. Hardcover with detached front cover to title page. All pages present. Moderate foxing to internal pages, light soil. Good candidate for rebinding.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket that has a few tape repairs. B&w drawings by Arthur Conrad. Sequel to "John Goffe's Mill". This volume speaks of the "human history" changes to the mill site over the 200 years and 8 generations of his family who owned the property. Since the mid-18th century, author George Woodbury's family had owned a Bedford NH mill. His childhood home, he returned there to restore his great, great, great, great grandfather's saw and grist mill. He had set aside his Harvard Peabody Museum archaeologist career to restore, rebuild and work the mill. "What he couldn't swap or buy he invented and built himself".
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 257 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Inside front hinge cracked. Minor dust jacket edge wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Tan cloth stamped in red and dark green on front and spine. No D.J.
Hardcover. Frankfort, KY, Robert's Printing Co., 1st, n.d., Book: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Top front corner heavily damaged. Signed and inscribed by Lydia Bond on front fly leaf. Front hinge tear at top. Soil to front cover.
Softcover. Worcester MA, Holy Cross Quarterly, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. The entire 80 page booklet is devoted to the Brothers Berrigan, Phil, a Josephite and Daniel, a Jesuit. B&W photos throughout, includes Noam Chomsky famous article "On the Limits of Civil Disobedience. "Who will rid me of these troublesome priests," said J. Edgar Hoover. Cover drawing by David Levine. Phil Berrigan graduated from Holy Cross in 1950. Clean copy, light wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Newport, VT, Civil War Enterprises, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. Hardcover. Reprint, original publishing date 1868. In excellent shape, clean inside and out. Binding tight. From title page: "The Memorial Record of the Soldiers Who Enlisted from Greensboro, Vermont, to Aid in Subduing the Great Rebellion of 1861-5, Accompanied by a brief History of Each Regiment that Left the state."