Hardcover. NY, Liveright, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy-one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of federal power that would revolutionize Southern society. In The Long Road to Antietam, Richard Slotkin, a renowned cultural historian, reexamines the challenges that Lincoln encountered during that anguished summer 150 years ago. In an original and incisive study of character, Slotkin re-creates the showdown between Lincoln and General George McClellan, the "Young Napoleon" whose opposition to Lincoln included obsessive fantasies of dictatorship and a military coup. He brings to three-dimensional life their ruinous conflict, demonstrating how their political struggle provided Confederate General Robert E. Lee with his best opportunity to win the war, in the grand offensive that ended in September of 1862 at the bloody Battle of Antietam. 10 illustrations; 8 maps.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 6th pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 615 pages. WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. * Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. "Masterly . An astonishing achievement." --The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st England Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 632 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, black title on spine and front cover board. Top edge dyed red, slightly faded toward spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Some slight tanning to edges and pages from age, otherwise clean. No dust jacket. This brilliant informal history of the Third Reich traces the path which led from the flaming Reichstag to Germany in cinders.
Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Snowy Owl Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author's tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in tan cloth stamped in red and brown. Foreword by the author. Schlesinger's scarce third book, in which he argues for a balanced political middle ground between the views of conservatives and progressives and off the road to totalitarianism. Ex- lib, dj flap copy pasted to blank prelim page. Some light soil and pencil marking to endpapers, Clean internally.
Hardcover. Boston, Farrand Mallory and Co., 1st, 1810, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, contemporary calf with a red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Library bookplate on inside front cover, two small spine labels otherwise no other markings or stamping. There is a general tanning to the pages and moderate foxing. Sound throughout. Title page states three volumes but research says this was the only volume printed.
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. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, b&w photographs and maps. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Original advertising leaflet for book laid-in. Moderate rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Softcover. Greensburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, octavo, 25 pages, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild general shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Includes a b/w sketch by John Trumbull.
Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1486 pages. B&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Introduction by President Nixon. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Light wear to cover edges. Pages clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, John Day , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front preliminary page, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, inch chunk missing from top edge, price clipped. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, sun-fading. Clean, tight copy. The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. THe county courts have been considered courts of custom dominated by local knights unskilled in the law. By analyzing county peronnel and their role of the courts, Robert C. Palmer shows that these courts were, on the contrary, clearly professional and controlled by the magnates through their lawyers. Nevertheless, as the author demonstrates by his study of the process of jurisdictional change, the county courts were increasingly relegated to lesser roles by changes meant to assure justice to county litigants, while the king's court became the normal court of original jurisdiction for most important cases.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , John Wanamaker, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt.
Hardcover. New York , Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, many b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York , Neale Publishing, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbled brown cloth with maroon lettering (bearly readable), 163 pages. A history of coastal Georgia taken from oral reminiscences of Wylly's distinguished family and their friends and acquaintances. Hinges cracked, light fraying to top and bottom of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Softcover. Binding tight. Some underlining in pencil on a few pages, otherwise clean inside. A touch of foxing to top edge. Wrapper in great shape. Looks great.
Hardcover. Delhi, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 426 pages. Light wear to dust jacket with small closed tear to upper edge of rear cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 382 pages. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own.Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterers ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Jacobitism, or support for the exiled Stuarts after the revolution of 1688, has become a topic of great interest in recent years. Historians have debated its influence on Parliamentary politics, but none has yet attempted to explore its broader implications in English society. This study offers a wide-ranging analysis of every aspect of Jacobite activity, from pamphlets and newspapers to songs, cartoons, riots, seditious words, clubs, and armed insurrection. Previous owner's inscription on first page, light marginal notes to about 20 pages. In a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, A two-volume set, taupe-colored cloth boards with gilt decorated illustration of Rome on front cover. Top edge gilt. Vol I: Fold-out map of Rome as frontis., 332 pages, 14 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Vol II: Photo of St. Peters Square as frontis., 344 pages, 13 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Light soil to covers, both volumes with mild residue to inside covers where bookplate may have been removed. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions in Hong Kong. This intriguing account of Canadian intelligence gathering and strategic planning on the eve of the crisis dispels the assumption that the Allies were totally unprepared for war. Canadians worked closely with their US and Allied counterparts to uncover Japan's intentions and to develop a strategic plan for defence. By highlighting Canada's role as a Pacific power, this book sheds new light both on the Pacific War and on events that led to the creation of the Grand Alliance. Clean copy.
Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovet, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern history and culture and readers with an interest in memory, mnemonics, and the synergy of text and image. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power. ^ pages with dog earred crease, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Easton Valley Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 417 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket chipped. rubbed. An encyclopedia of programs, their dates, casts, networks and producers, with many photo plates.
Paperback. NY, Random House, 1st wraps, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pgs. A collection of political speeches with a four page intro by Steinbeck. Fading to color on wraps with some shallow creases.
Hardcover. Bennington, Vermont Heritage Press Inc./Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. One of a limited edition of 250 copies - does not include the additional map portfolio. Measures: 15.75"L X 12.25"W. Blue cloth covers with titles and decoration in silver. Features black & white illustrations, maps - including 3 fold-out maps. Clean, tight copy.
Concord NH, Edward Pearson, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 678 pages. Volume 29 (XXIX) of a collection of early state and provincial records, includes fold-out plans and maps, appendix and index. documents relating to town boundaries. Spine indicates Volume VI of Town Charters. This is the original printing not a reprint. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, mild shelf wear, a clean, solid copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. "The Great Epidemic" by A. A. Hoehling is a dramatic documentary about the worst plague in history, the flu epidemic of 1918. Between March and December five hundred thousand Americans perished, and nearly twenty million sickened.
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1949/1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. 667, 743 and 823 pages, index, folding color maps. The most comprehensive and reliable history in English. The major single resource which covers it all from the beginning down to the Meiji Restoration. A classic, based on Japanese historical works. Volumes 1 and 2 dated 1949, Volume 3 is dated 1926 and is a little darker green. All clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large paper edition, dark blue cloth with moire pattern, leather label on spine with gilt lettering. One of 84 numbered large paper copies with additional print of William Burges' view of Boston harbor on fine paper as a second frontispiece. 394 pages with approximately 50 b&w plates and maps. Contains accounts of the beginnings of English piracy and the famed pirates Dixey Bull, John Rhodes, Thomas Pound, William Kidd, John Quelch, Samuel Bellamy, John Phillips, and Henry Morgan, among others. Minor wear to corners, top of spine. Light scatch to front cover. No markings.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 517 pages. With Preface, Introduction, four maps, eleven tables, Epilogue, Bibliographical Note, Notes, and Index. Features six chapters divided into two parts titled as "The Masters and Their Bondsmen" and "The Bondsmen and Their Masters." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Detailed study of the lives of four French bishops, who, because of their office were intellectuals & politicians. The book shows how these men rose in the hierachy that was medieval society by way of ambition & talent, not birth. The four are Bernard Gui 1261 - 1331 ( of 'Name of the Rose' fame ), Gilles Le Muisit 1272 - 1353 , Pierre d'Ailly 1351 - 1420 & Thomas Basin 1412 - 1490. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Utah Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages. Brown cloth cover, slightly oversized, gilt lettering, very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Grub Street, First Edition , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. 50th Anniversary Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket, bright & in very good condition. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. unknown, private publishing, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. INSCRIBED BY PHINEAS SPAULDING. Includes Life and Selected Poetry of Caroline A. Spaulding. Brown cloth covers, beveled edges, black stamped boarders and pictorial, gilt titles to spine, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece of author's portrait, decorated endpapers. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. An interesting history of Greenbelt, Maryland including the origins of Greenbelt, the ideology of its founders, and their struggle to create a cooperative planned community in the United States. Built in the 1930s on worn-out tobacco land between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, was designed to provide homes for low-income families as well as jobs for its builders. In keeping with the spirit of the New Deal, the physical design of the town contributed to cooperation among its residents, and the government further encouraged cooperation by helping residents form business cooperatives and social organizations.Part of the *Creating the North American Landscape* series. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Fifth Avenue Association, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages of text and full color and black & white illustrations followed by large section of advertisements. Book measures: 12.25" X 9.25". Light rubbing to cover corners. Clean, unmarked pages.
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.
London, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. 121 pages including index. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 184 pages, coloe illustrations. From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes to the African jungles. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce slavery, how do we account for its--and especially Islam's--image of racial harmony? How did these long years of slavery affect racial relations? In Race and Slavery in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis explores these questions and others, examining the history of slavery in law, social thought, and practice over the last two millennia. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni, 3rd pr, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 376 pages with illustrations, endpapers, and cover design by Miguel Covarrubias. Frontispiece loose, otherwise a clean copy.