Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light sunfade to bottom edge. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to campaign for the presidency in 1952 was a pivotal even in America's cold war years-- it influenced almost a decade of foreign and domestic policy. Based on recently discovered letters and diaries, William Pickett provides the first complete account of Eisenhower's decision to run, with surprising new conclusions. Clean, unread 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. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib copy with only one sticker on board spine and one sticker on rear cover board. Dust jacket has no evidence of ex-lib. Tight, clean copy, otherwise.
NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 288 pages. Two-color frontispiece with B&w illustrations by Vera Bock.Turquoise stain to top edge. Minor wear and rubbing to cover edges. Price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edges No markings.
Softcover. Williston VT, privately printed, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wraps, 74 pages, b&w illustrations. Due to cheap binding several pages in rear loose. Book bright and clean.
Softcover. Logan UT, Utah State University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Two fold-out maps in a rear pocket. Three pages with yellow highlighting, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures.
Hardcover. London, England, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volumes, Hardcovers. 1636-1691. Volume 1: 521 pages. Two bumps to front cover board edge.Volume 2: 674 pages. front cover board top right corner bump.Volume 3: 445 pages.Volume 4: 528 pages.Volume 5: 474 pages.Volume 6: 616 pages. Some b/w illustrations. Blue cover boards, gilt title on black with decoration on spines. Previous owner's name and information on flyleaf of volumes 1, 2, and 6. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spines straight. Beautiful set right out of a professor's library. Domestic Shipping Only.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages. Beautiful copy in clear brodart cover. Like new.
Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Chauncey Goodrich, Early reprint with appendix added, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 716 pages. Hardcover. "...With a New (fold-out) Map of the State, and 200 (b/w) Engravings." Significant foxing and tanning to volume from age, as well as some moisture damage to bottom of fore-edge. Leather bound with bands and gilt title on spine. Fading to covers. Binding surprisingly tight. Cover boards slightly warped. In fair condition.
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, Century Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering and decoration on spine and front board. The author's reminiscences of time in the trenches during World War I. An American serving at the time with British 'Tommies', he also wrote 'Over the Top' and other books about his experiences. Front fly leaf missing, book opens to half title page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The history, description, and the writings of four very different Fair visitors, each of whom had made multiple visits to the Fair. Their diaries, memoirs, and letters reveal the wealth of sensation and emotion that overwhelmed visitors to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. 346 pages. Frontis. portrait, illustrated with b&w plates and folding facsimile documents. "Authoritative information as to how the soldiers of the Allies are transported, housed and trained, how a battle is prepared for in advance, etc. " Author observed British Postal Censorship and war, including trench-fighting, during WWI. Eric Fisher Wood, Sr. (1889 1962) was an American civil engineer, architect, author, and officer in the United States Army, retiring with the rank of Brigadier General. Book shows mild shelf wear, name and stamp to front endpapers, otherwise clean. Good plus.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 225 pages. A history of old Nantucket before the island was discovered by "the summer boarders", as the author explains in his Preface. Gutter partially cracked at title page, owner's small embossed stamp on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Henry Press, 3rd Ed., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and white. 330 pages, top edge gilt. frontis., b/w plates, text illustrations appendix, index. A highly regarded social history of Nantucket treats the purchase and settlement of the island, the early proprietors, and various events in Nantucket history, such as Nantucket's role in the Revolution. The balance of the work consists of histories of some thirty founding families. Genealogists should also consult the appendices for a list of Quakers who visited Nantucket between 1664 and 1847. Small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Vermont Printing Co., 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Related ephemera laid in. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a super clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 418 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. "If he had lived among the Greeks, he would now be numbered among the stars." So wrote Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his epitaph for Francis Mercury van Helmont. Leibniz was not the only contemporary to admire and respect van Helmont, but although famous in his own day, he has been virtually ignored by modern historians. Yet his views influenced Leibniz, contributed to the development of modern science, and fostered the kind of ecumenicalism that made the concept of toleration conceivable. The progressive nature of van Helmont's thought was based on his deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah. With his friend Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited the Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians up to that time. Because the subject matter of this work appears so difficult and arcane, it has never been appreciated as a significant text for understanding the emergence of modern thought. However, one can find in it the basis for the faith in science, the belief in progress, and the pluralism characteristic of later western thought. The Lurianic Kabbalah thus deserves a place it has never received in histories of western scientific and cultural developments. Although van Helmont's efforts contributed to the development of religious toleration, his experience as a prisoner of the Inquisition accused of "Judaising" reveals the problematic relations between Christians and Jews during the early-modern period. New Inquisitional documents relating to van Helmont's imprisonment will be discussed to illustrate the difficulties faced by anyone advocating philo-semitism and toleration at the time.
Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, Second Edition, 1853, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, revised edition to the original published work by the author of "May Martin or The Money Diggers;" "Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster." Green cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Scuffed edges to boards, frayed edge to spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages, with illustrations and gilt titles. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillian St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket spine has St. Martin's Press sticker on bottom. Internally, clean and tight. Cover boards have light soil to front and fading to bottom edge.
Hardcover. Montpelier, Vt., Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 190 pages. Green cloth with gilt titles, no dust jacket. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press,, 1st pbk., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages, b&w illustrations. This volume is a study of Mesopotamian literature from the beginnings of the Bronze Age to the fall of Babylon as an independent state in the 6th century BCE. Part I of this volume deals with the history and culture of the region from the Sumerians to the Persian conquests. Part II treats the development of poetic forms and the mythology and religion upon which much of the poetry is based. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 220 pages, a Jewish Chaplain's memoir of service in France during WWI. Foreword by Cyrus Adler. Frontis photo of Jewish welfare workers. Bookplate from private library on inside front cover, faded lettering on spine otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel. B&w drawings by Remington. Reprinted from a series of articles published in The Century Magazine in 1888. During the early 1880s, both Remington the artist and Roosevelt the writer were trying their hands at ranching, Remington in Kansas and Roosevelt in Dakota territory. Their respective records of the experience as perhaps the most important to survive of ranching in that era. Contains specific material on the severe winter of 1886-87 which put an end to ranching for many. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Routledge, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages with index, b&w illustrations. An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge.Though the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, The Body Emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Discusses dance as an integral part of the work of the Greek lyric poet Pindar. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped with black lettering, 486 pages. A reprint, with new introductory essay, of the D. Reidel edition of 1973. This reissue of Charles Kahn's classic work includes a substantial new introductory essay, which presents a reformulation of the theory of syntactic and semantic unity for the system of uses of the verb be in Greek (conceived primarily as a verb of predication), and hence a defense of the conceptual unity for the notion of Being in Greek philosophy.The book offers a systematic description of the use and grammar of the verb to be in Ancient Greek, before the philosophers took it over to express the central concepts in Greek logic and metaphysics. Evidence is taken primarily from Homer but supplemented by specimens from classical Attic prose. Topics discussed include the original status of the verb in Indo-European, as well as the logical and syntactic relations among copula, existential, and veridical uses. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. New Jersey, Bergen County Board, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. Volume five of a seven volume set on the history and heritage of Bergen County. Clean, like new..
Softcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st pbk, 1993, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 484 pages, b&w illustrations. "In eighteenth-century London the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. Most of the London hanged were executed for property crimes, and the chief lesson that the gallows had to teach was: 'Respect private property'. The executions took place amid a London populace that knew the same poverty and hunger as the condemned. Indeed, in this stimulating account Peter Linebaugh shows how there was little distinction between a 'criminal' population and the poor population of London as a whole. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the laws of a privileged ruling class." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume IX in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 413 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 2nd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 291 pages, b&w illustrations. Records the findings and methodology of archaeologists concerned with the civilizations of ancient Italy. Clean copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 370 pages. Focuses on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia. In this study the author provides a detailed analysis of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 594 pages. In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion"--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand--and be motivated to avoid--nuclear war. This compassionate treatment is a significant contribution to the atomic age. Small notation on dj flap otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Rand Avery Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering, 92 pages, 7 b&w plates. A collection of folklore from in and around the "Crystal Hills" of New Hampshire gathered from tales of old settlers and records in historical societies and town libraries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hampton NH, Peter E. Randall, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering, two reprinted publications in one volume. B&w illustrations. Perry's work originally published in 1913; and Bell's in 1876. Fold-out map of Exeter of the past with a facsimile of 1776 newspaper page on rear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 666 pages. Name on front fly leaf, title-page. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, Book Club Ed., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 695 pages. Journal/diary kept by cabinet member Ickes during the beginning of the outbreak of WWII. He wrote of quiet changes that shifted the United States and the American people from a position of neutrality bordering on isolationism to one of deep and committed involvement with the foreign world. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Montipelier, VT, Norbert J. Towne/H.J. Dodge, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece and foldout map. Black cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Previous owner's inscribed bookplate on front endpaper and ID stamp on front flyleaf.
Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 822 pages, b&w illustrations, several color plates. Olive green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine, gilt design of Native American bust on front cover. Clear plastic dust jacket. Light wear to edges and corners; rubbing to rear cover. Rear hinge cracked and separating. Foxing to edges. Else pages clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Early reprint. Red cloth with title plate on spine and front board, 287 pages. A look at America's international political scene as of 1920, and the second in a series of three books, begun with the Pentecost of Calamity, and ending with Neighbors Henceforth. Clean copy.
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. NY, Alliance Book Corporation, 14th pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light putty cloth with red lettering on spine, 300 pages. Anti-Nazi book written by ex-Nazi. Translated from German by E.W. Dickes. Front fly leaf with top inch cut out, other wise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st,, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages. This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hyde Park VT, Town of Hyde Park , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt. 196 pages, b/w plates, maps. Clean copy, like new.