History

Hardcover. NY, Hill & Wang , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 251 pages. Completed in 1825 and enlarged between 1836 and 1862 at the initial cost of $7 million, the Erie Canal not only created an economic revolution in the region but fostered new and unique communities made up of entrepreneurs, canal workers, and farmers. Utilizing a variety of primary resources, but especially the Canal Board Papers, Sheriff (history relates the social history of those who lived, worked, and traveled the Erie Canal before the Civil War. This previously untold story is laced with accounts by businessmen who saw the canal as opportunity, immigrant laborers looking for steady work, and farmers who transported their produce by canal boat. Although all of these groups relayed their complaints, claims, and concerns to the Canal Board, we do not know the responses they received. Still, the issues raised tell a great deal about the local impact of the Erie Canal, and herein lies the strength of the book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Evergreen Press, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 105 pages, b&w illustrations. This pictorial history chronicles the rise and fall of the White River Valley railroad. Like new condition.

Softcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, Revised Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Fresno CA, Mariposa County Historical Society, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 118 pages, b&w illustrations. Horace C. Snow, the writer of the "Dear Charlie" letters, was one of many young men who came to California to make their fortune in the gold fields. Laid in is a 8-page supplement containing a lost letter not included in the first edition. Signed on title page by a member of the historical society. Spine faded. Clean copy.

Softcover. Helena MT, FarCountry Press, 2nd pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages, b&w illustrations. In this remarkable and important book, Sarah Carter introduces us to some of Montana's first women homesteaders through their journals and other writings. By shedding light on these determined nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pioneers, Carter reveals inspiring stories filled with joy, tragedy, and redemption.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 5th Ed., 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, illustrated with b&w photographs and maps (some fold-out). Navy blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, gilt battleship on front covers, top edge gilt. Vol. 1 with frontispiece and title page loose (easily repairable), rear hinges cracked, Vol. 2 opened roughly at page 80-81, otherwise a clean, sharp set.

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1915 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1915 and 1916) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1915: 290 pages plus 9 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1916: 417 pages plus 9 b&w plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine. Chip to calf at top of spine.

Hardcover. Claremont NH, Tracy Kenney & Co., 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations, original embossed green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Pages have some foxing, bottom edges with light scuffing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Disabled Veterans of the World War, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 496 pages total. INSCRIBED BY MACKEY on title page. Matching hardcover volumes in blue striped moire cloth boards with silvered title and ornament on front; silvered ornament on spine. No dust jackets, as issued. Both books are crisp and clean and almost as new, with barely any wear at all. Interior pages are in fine condition, with page after page of photos and maps documenting the First World War and its aftermath. Produced by the Disabled Veterans of the World War, Department of Rehabilitation. Folio. The two volumes are numbers sequentially. Volume 2 concludes with a Pronouncing Dictionary of War Names and a bibliography. Very heavy-- about 12 pounds; will require substantial additional postage if shipped outside the U.S.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in red and gilt, 320 pages. Frontispiece, b&w plates and illustrations. Folding map. Spine sunned, light wear to extremities, previous owner's name, inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press (, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket, creases to front flap. Light soiling to edges. Else a clean, tight copy. The first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day northwest Kansas. In this stirring account, William Y. Chalfant recreates the human dimensions of what was probably the only large-unit sabre charge against the Plains tribes, in a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as of cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.

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."

Hardcover. London, H.M. Stationery Off. ; [Palo Alto, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 209 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket faded. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Richmond, Croscup & Co., 1st Edition, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Tan, textured cover boards, Blue title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers (see image). Gilt top edge. Tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight. In great shape for its age.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2023, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 695 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Color and b/w illustrations throughout, including maps. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent condition. Yellow cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine.

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Times Argus, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Montpelier, VT, Times Argus, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Illustrated title page. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467675

Hardcover. Bellows Falls, VT, P.H. Gobie Press, 1st Edition, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 700 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece. Hinge cracked on front and back endpapers, but binding good. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked. History of leaders of the Vermont Baptist church.

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. Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd, Revised, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, ex-lib with light marking. B&W illustrations, 530 pages. Folding color maps present, top edge gilt, blue cloth covers with light edgewear, light water stain to margin of frontispiece.

Hardcover. London, Eveleigh Nash, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt design, 315 pages plus ads. Black & white illustrations. Minor foxing to some pages. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley. Frontispiece plate of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of Bristol with tissue facing. Illustrated with 24 more plates in text.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages, many b&w and color plates. This book celebrates the athletes, the games the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Fifth Avenue Association, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages of text and illustrations followed by 66 pages of ads. Hinges tender. Green cloth covers with full color pastedown on front. Light rubbing to cover corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.H.C. Whiting, 1st, 1857, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover with stamping, heavy wear on edges. spine torn on bottom and top with missing fabric. Heavy pencil markings on end papers and fly leaves and some internal pages by previous owner. Heavy foxing throughout. Gutter cracked on page 217. Moderate soiling for age.

Hardcover. Salisbury, Keewaydin Camp, 1st Thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 67 pages plus section of black & white group camp photographs from 1912 to 1958. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ABBOTT FENN ON DEDICATION PAGE. Updated and corrected edition of the original 1959 'The Story of Keewaydin'. Dust jacket with wear to edges, tape repaired closed tears - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Sol Lewis & Liveright, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth boards and spine with silver letters over a red background on spine. 288 pages, b&w illustrations. The author has provided a new interpretation of General Custer's tenure in Texas following the Civil War where he comes to life as a wise and successful military leader during Reconstruction. This is the first work that focuses entirely on Custer's tenure in the Lone Star State the first to detail his successful stay in Austin. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Chester, VT, National Survey, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to paper wrappers. Light soiling. Maps and ads inside. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this vast terrain, James Kornwolf conjures the outlines of the constructed environment as it emerged in settlements and communities, in structures and sites, and in the flourishes and idiosyncrasies of the families and individuals who erected and inhabited colonial buildings and towns. Here as never before readers can observe the impulses and principles of colonial design and planning as they are implemented in the buildings and streets, harbors and squares, gardens and landscapes of the New World. Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's massive work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities-their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes-as they extended their hold on the land. His work conveys for the first time the full scale, from intimate to grand, of their enduring transformation of the natural landscape of North America. NOTE: DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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. Weymouth, MA, George H. Ellis Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH HANDWRITTEN POEMS AID IN. Light foxing and age discoloration on pages. Light soil to covers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Leech plus 10 hand-colored plates by him. Raised bands on spine. Marbled covers and end papers. Previous owner's signatures on front flyleaf. Foxing to flyleaves. Wear to spine and corners, edges. Heavy rubbing to covers. Marbled edges.

Softcover. Wellesley MA, Branden Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, several b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY POTVIN on title page. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, Revised Ed., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages, b&w illustrations. Second Edition with supplement. Small ink name on title page. Otherwise, like new.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal?

Hardcover. New Haven VT, Town of New Haven, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice 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. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated with 50 early photographs and sketches. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and 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. 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, Macmillan, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 329 pages, frontispiece, 31 b&w plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to corners. Front hinge weak. Light bump to top corner of cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States ands Canada, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages, hardcover. A study of the Appalachian Mountain dwellers. Gilt title on spine. Black-and white frontispiece photo intact. Mild soiling to boards, light bumping to corners as well. Mild age spotting to pages throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. Belfast, Appletree Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages. Hardcover. Dark green cloth boards & gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vendome Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages. Best-selling French author Perrault provides moving personal reminiscences of his childhood in occupied Paris. The brief but eloquent narrative is accompanied by hundreds of previously unpublished photos from French and German archives, collected and cataloged by Parisian art historian Azema. Together, text and photos present a graphic portrait of everyday life, recording daily human struggles to find food and fuel, the psychological warfare waged by the occupiers, and the methods of German economic exploitation. As artists, the authors place special emphasis on the arts under the occupation and document the heroism of the writers' resistance. In sum, they show how Paris "kept alive a sense of the enemy."

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. 404 pages plus plates at back. 27 pages of plates and illustrations; Preface by W.E. Gladstone, M.P. Reprint of author's 1880 edition. Issued without a dust jacket. Schliemann's account of his excavations at the Greek Bronze Age citadel site of Mycenae. He carried out these excavations from 1876 to 1878, and were less damaging than those of his first excavations at Troy from 1871 to 1874. Clean copy.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 239 pages. In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the significance of work-as a source of community, a way to reframe the conditions of legal status, an assertion of activity against upper-class passivity, and a standard of assessment based on economic achievement rather than birth. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and women's history, this thoroughly documented volume illuminates the dynamics of work and slavery at Rome. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean, unread.