• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Facebook Twitter Google-plus

USED

OUT-OF-PRINT

Browsing is Arousing ™ words surrounding shape of eye around books on shelves.

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS 

  • books@browsingisarousing.com
  • Your Cart
  • Home
  • *Book Beat Archives
  • About Us
  • Glossary
  • Policies
    • How to Pay
    • Returns
    • Shipping
  • Subscribe to Browser’s Book Beat
You are here: Home / Shop Online

Edit My Account  |  View Shopping Cart  
  1. Book Categories >
  2. History

Sort By:  
This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest by: Robert Glass Cleland

This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest
by: Robert Glass Cleland

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 361 pages, color frontis, preface, list of b&w illustrations and maps, prologue, 1. Beaver and Mountain Men; 2. Jedediah Strong Smith: From the Big Lake to the Sea; 3. Kedediah Strong Smith: The End of the Long Trail; 4. To Santa Fe and Beyond; 5. Perils of the Wilderness: The Wanderings of James Ohio Pattie; 6. "Joaquin Yong" and the Men of Taos; 7. From Santa Fe to California; 8. Joseph Reddeford Walker: To the "Extreme End of the Great West; 9. Partisans versus Mountain Men; epilogue, bibliographical notes, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 387869

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century - 3 Volumesby: Fairbanks, Jonathan L./Robert F. Trent/MFAB

New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century - 3 Volumes
by: Fairbanks, Jonathan L./Robert F. Trent/MFAB

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston , 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Softcover Volumes. Volume 1 - 94 pages. Features:Introduction/Migration and Settlement. Many illustrations in black & white and 8 pages in full color. Covers show light/moderate wear with some soiling to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 260 pages. Features: Mentality and Environment. Many illustrations in black & white and 8 pages in full color. Light/moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - 209 pages. Features: Style. Many illustrations in black & white and 16 pages in full color. Light/moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. All 3 Volumes: Good+ condition.

Record # 611277

Price: $200.00 
Quantity:

Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, The (6 volume set)by: Wharton, Francis (Editor)

Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, The (6 volume set)
by: Wharton, Francis (Editor)

Hardcover. Washington D.C., United States Government, 1st Edition, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1: 666 pages. Volume 2: 875 pages. Volume 3: 883 pages. Volume 4: 869 pages. Volume 5: 881 pages. Volume 6: 1002 pages. Domestic shipping only. Hardcovers. Complete set. Light brown leather cover boards with decorative details, red, black, gilt, raised bands and title on spine, all still bright and without fading. Some agewear to covers, rubbing, light scratches, all usual shelfwear. Pages unmarked, tanning throughout from age. Binding excellent. Spines straight. Beautiful collector's set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99200

Price: $1,000.00 
Quantity:

Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Townshipby: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman

Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Township
by: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman

Softcover. Roxbury NJ, Roxbury Township Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613456

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864by: Parkhurst, Henry M.

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864
by: Parkhurst, Henry M.

Hardcover. NY, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 175 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering. Originally published in 1864 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Introduction by William Lloyd Garrison, President. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396462

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Pictorial Life of General Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washingtonby:

Pictorial Life of General Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washington
by: <

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.

Record # 803716

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

The Cardinal and the Secretary: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell by: Neville Williams

The Cardinal and the Secretary: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell
by: Neville Williams

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396482

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York: 1774-1776by: Percy, Hugh Earl

Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York: 1774-1776
by: Percy, Hugh Earl

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages, hardcover. Edited by Charles Knowles Bolton. Correspondence during the American revolutionary war. Mild fading to spine and top edge. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards as well. Rough cut top edge. Minor bumping to corners. Frontispiece intact. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951831

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Cultures of United States Imperialism by: Kaplan, Amy and Donald E Pease (Editors)

Cultures of United States Imperialism
by: Kaplan, Amy and Donald E Pease (Editors)

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 672 pages. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. Clean copy.

Record # 396521

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Yearby: Flood, Charles Bracelen

Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
by: Flood, Charles Bracelen

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, binding tight, clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read.

Record # 31132

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30 1945 by: Hachiya, Michihiko

Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30 1945
by: Hachiya, Michihiko

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Endpaper maps. Day-by-day eye witness account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the seven weeks that followed. Dr. Hachiya, himself wounded in the blast, was director of a major Hiroshima hospital. Translated and edited by Warner Wells, M.D. One of the best first hand accounts; much on the the gradual "discovery" of radiation sickness. The dust jacket's rear panel has photo of the author's surviving family. Bookplate opposite half-title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396626

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Beginsby: J. E. Lendon

Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins
by: J. E. Lendon

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 566 pages. Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431-421 BC) against grim Sparta -- the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids, and deeds of cruelty and guile -- along with courageous acts of mercy, surprising charity, austere restraint, and arrogant resistance. Recounting the rise of democratic Athens to great-power status, and the resulting fury of authoritarian Sparta, Greece's traditional leader, Lendon portrays the causes and strategy of the war as a duel over national honor, a series of acts of revenge. A story of new pride challenging old, Song of Wrath is the first work of Ancient Greek history for the post-cold-war generation. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378318

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

The Bloody Massacre: Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regimentby: n/a

The Bloody Massacre: Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment
by: n/a

Hardcover. Barre, Ma, Imprint Society, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration by Paul Revere. Gray cloth cover boards with title paste on. Small bump on spine. Together with a print of the event taken from the plate engraved by Paul Revere, the report from the Boston Gazette, and a note by Dr. Richard Hale. "Nineteen hundred & fifty copies of this presentation book have been printed for the members of Imprint Society. The engraving of the Boston Massacre was pulled by hand from Paul Revere's original copperplate by Anderson-Lamb of Brooklyn. This is copy number 1822."

Record # 99235

Price: $60.00 
Quantity:

Memorial of the American Patriots Who Fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, A by: City of Boston

Memorial of the American Patriots Who Fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, A
by: City of Boston

Hardcover. Boston, City of Boston, 1st, 1889, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages, b&w plates and illustrations. Brown end papers. Brown cloth coverings w/ gilt seal and lettering on spine. Wear and rubbing to covers, corners. Binding weak, several pages loose. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401798

Price: $150.00 
Quantity:

Genealogies of New Jersey Families From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (TWO VOLUMES)by: Joseph R. Klett (Ed.)

Genealogies of New Jersey Families From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (TWO VOLUMES)
by: Joseph R. Klett (Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, matching black cloth covers with gilt stamping. Vol. 1, 1139 pages, Families A-Z, Pre-American Notes on Old New Netherland Families. Vol. II, 1087 pages, A Genealogical History of New Jersey/Bible Records of New Jersey. Clean, bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397379

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The: 1795-1798 (2 Volumes)by: Benjamin Henry Latrobe; Editor-Edward Carter II; Editor-Angeline Polites

Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The: 1795-1798 (2 Volumes)
by: Benjamin Henry Latrobe; Editor-Edward Carter II; Editor-Angeline Polites

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. 575 pages, 63 b&w illustrations. Latrobe (1764-1820), English-born architect of the United States Capitol under Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, set the course for a vast amount of nineteenth-century American architecture with such works as the Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore Cathedral. A pioneering engineer as well, he designed the nation"s first comprehensive steam-powered waterworks in Philadelphia. Latrobe combined his professional concerns with an astonishing range of other interests and an acutely ob- servant eye. His papers form one of the finest existing literary and pictorial descriptions of the young republic.

Record # 356733

Price: $60.00 
Quantity:

Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]

Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's
by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]

Softcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 452 pages. This book covers the Massachusetts Convention of 1820-21; New York State Convention of 1821; and the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, along with numerous tables. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397449

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life Marches, and Battles of the 23rd Regiment, NY During the term of two years on the Service of the United States...by:

Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life Marches, and Battles of the 23rd Regiment, NY During the term of two years on the Service of the United States...
by:

Hardcover. New York, Davies and Kent, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine heavily speckled. Blind stamped on front and rear covers. Previous owner's markings on a few pages, and front fly leaf. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 354207

Price: $250.00 
Quantity:

The Character of John Adamsby: Shaw, Peter

The Character of John Adams
by: Shaw, Peter

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages, b&w illustrations. Published for the Williamsburg, VA Institute of Early American History & Culture. Instead of recounting, in detail, the public events of John Adams's extraordinary career, Peter Shaw views as a whole Adams's character, thought, and acts, personalizing for the reader the most remote of our Founding Fathers. This compact but comprehensive biography brilliantly portrays the poignant revelations of John Adams's inner life implicit in the recently released Adams family manuscripts. The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by the author's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Adams's behavior appears less eccentric when viewed in the context of its origin in the village life of eighteenth~century Massachusetts; and his politics and ideas appear less abstractly motivated when viewed in the light of the evolution of his character. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397537

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Ancient Iraqby: Roux, Georges

Ancient Iraq
by: Roux, Georges

Softcover. London, Penguin Books, 2rd Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 547 pages, b&w illustrations. Newly revised and containing information from recent excavations and discovered artifacts, Ancient Iraq covers the political, cultural, and socio-economic history from Mesopotamia days of prehistory to the Christian era. Clean copy.

Record # 386078

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

The Dusky Afternoon: An Oregon Childhood by: Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

The Dusky Afternoon: An Oregon Childhood
by: Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

Softcover. Luminare Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 138 pages. This memoir immerses the reader in post-World War II rural Oregon where logging trucks laden with timber rumbled along gravel roads and moonshine was secreted in nearby shadows. Here a man's measure was taken not by his wealth or success but by his toil, and a woman was assessed not by her virtues but by her virtue. Rivers and reputations rose and fell swiftly. Electricity came to this rural area almost to the day the girl and her family arrived at the farm. Lowell and Fall Creek were charged for change. Even though families of pioneers and newcomers together celebrated in 1948 the centennial of the Oregon Territory, the landscape flush with virgin forests and rivers in very short time changed exponentially. Clean copy.

Record # 397651

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Bells and Manby: Price, Percival

Bells and Man
by: Price, Percival

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Traces the history of bells and their use by different civilizations, examines their connection with Christian churches, and discusses the use of bells to make music, mark time, and signal events

Record # 363062

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine by: Bruce J. Bourque

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
by: Bruce J. Bourque

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.

Record # 397852

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760

The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760

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.

Record # 374297

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education by: N/A

Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education
by: N/A

Softcover. Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia Library, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w photos throughout. This is a history of African-American public school education in Henrico County, Virginia. Introductory essay by William A. Link. Author documented his work (as a field agent for the General Education Board) being an amateur photographer. Davis' photographs are organized by subject (Events, People, Demonstration Farming, etc.). Limited to 3.000 copies. Clean.

Record # 398006

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXIII & Volume XXIVby: Journal of Hellenic Studies

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXIII & Volume XXIV
by: Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1903 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1903 and 1904) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1903: 373 pages plus 13 full-page b&w and color plates. Part two for 1904: 354 pages plus 14 b&w (including 2 fold-outs). Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.

Record # 405369

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

Short Cut To Tokyo: The Battle for the Aleutians by: Corey Ford

Short Cut To Tokyo: The Battle for the Aleutians
by: Corey Ford

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 398153

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

OKEMO OUTLOOK/ 1936 CCC newsletter/ Ludlow, Vermontby: N/A

OKEMO OUTLOOK/ 1936 CCC newsletter/ Ludlow, Vermont
by: N/A

Softcover. Ludlow VT, privately printed, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Local newsletter, 12 pages, printed by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Okemo Mountain Park. Dated September 10, 1936 it covers national news, camp news and what's playing that week at the Royal Movie Theater. ("Green Pastures", among others.) Center fold otherwise very good.

Record # 359828

Price: $10.00 
Quantity:

Thomas Chittenden's Town: A Story of Williston, Vermont (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Willard Sterne Randall & Nancy Nahra

Thomas Chittenden's Town: A Story of Williston, Vermont (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Willard Sterne Randall & Nancy Nahra

Hardcover. Williston VT, Williston Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 383 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the half-title page. A meticulous town history with many photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 398346

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

The Alaska Diaries of Dr. James Taylor White 1889, 1890, 1894, 1900??"1901: "I Wish You Could Come Too"by: Gary C. Stein (Ed.)

The Alaska Diaries of Dr. James Taylor White 1889, 1890, 1894, 1900??"1901: "I Wish You Could Come Too"
by: Gary C. Stein (Ed.)

Softcover. Nurthern Light Media, 1sy, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. A first-hand look at life aboard a revenue cutter during Alaska's formative early years. The ships of the U.S. Treasury Department's Revenue-Cutter Service patrolled the waters of the Bering Sea, the coast of Alaska, and the Yukon River, and for several of those voyages a bright and engaging young physician, Dr. James Taylor White, served aboard and recorded his adventurous work in personal correspondence and journals. The revenue cutters on which Dr. White served played a crucial role in the history of the north, beginning with the legendary USRC Bear, under the command of Capt. Michael A. "Hell Roaring Mike" Healy. On board the Bear Dr. White took part in patrolling for seal poachers, smugglers, and illegal traders; assisted in the capture of Siberian reindeer and ferrying them to Alaska; and witnessed the Bear's duties as a floating hospital, courthouse, and rescuer of shipwrecked sailors. Clean copy.

Record # 398852

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

The War to End All Warsby: N/A

The War to End All Wars
by: N/A

Softcover. Austin TX, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 40 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Amazingly, no date for this exhibition catalog on WW1 that includes posters, photographs, letters and other ephemera and artifacts from the period. Clean copy.

Record # 398994

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970by: Wills, David

Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970
by: Wills, David

Hardcover. New York, Dey Street Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with laminated cover boards. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear and rubbing to covers.

Record # 354047

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Viva Mexico!by: Flandrau, Charles Macomb

Viva Mexico!
by: Flandrau, Charles Macomb

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth with silver titles and gilt top stain. Previous owner's signature on title page, slight rubbing to boards and light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857020

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Stories and Pictures of the Vermont Flood, November 1927 by: Atwood, R.E.

Stories and Pictures of the Vermont Flood, November 1927
by: Atwood, R.E.

Softcover. Burlington VT, self-published, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 7 3/4 X 10 3/4", 32 pages, stapled binding. Photo-essay of flood damages from mainly mid-state North of Rutland- Bellows Falls axis. Mostly urban areas, and very little rural. Floods of 1927 where state suffered $ 25 million in property damage. Paper tanning, soiled and spotted, otherwise solid.

Record # 360088

Price: $15.00 
used 
1130232:+:0
Quantity:

History of Bristol, Vermont - 1762-1940by: Harvey (Editors), Carrie K./Clara M. Kellogg

History of Bristol, Vermont - 1762-1940
by: Harvey (Editors), Carrie K./Clara M. Kellogg

Hardcover. Bristol VT, The Outlook Club of Bristol, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Green textured cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609592

Price: $60.00 
Quantity:

Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throatby: Holland, Max

Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
by: Holland, Max

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Through the shadowy persona of Deep Throat, FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his leaks helped uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook's portrayal in the film version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men, Felt was regarded for decades as a conscientious but highly secretive whistleblower who shunned the limelight. Yet even after he finally revealed his identity in 2005, questions about his true motivations persisted. Max Holland has found the missing piece of that Deep Throat puzzle--one that's been hidden in plain sight all along. He reveals for the first time in detail what truly motivated the FBI's number-two executive to become the most fabled secret source in American history. In the process, he directly challenges Felt's own explanations while also demolishing the legend fostered by Woodward and Bernstein's bestselling account. Clean copy.

Record # 378841

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generationby: Mark Boulton

Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation
by: Mark Boulton

Hardcover. NY, NYU Press , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued, 272 pages. Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done for veterans of both World War II and Korea. But the Vietnam generation soon discovered that their G.I. Bills fell well short of what many of them believed they had earned. Mark Boulton's groundbreaking study provides the first analysis of the legislative debates surrounding the education benefits offered under the Vietnam-era G.I. Bills. Specifically, the book explores why legislators from both ends of the political spectrum failed to provide Vietnam veterans the same generous compensation offered to veterans of previous wars. Clean copy.

Record # 378823

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sailby: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
by: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages, b&w illustrations. Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together-even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart-but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.

Record # 381743

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Steam Packets Ships on the Chesapeake Bay: A History of the Old Bay Line Since 1840 by: Brown, Alexander Crosby

Steam Packets Ships on the Chesapeake Bay: A History of the Old Bay Line Since 1840
by: Brown, Alexander Crosby

Hardcover. Cambridge MD, Cornell Maritime Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photographs. The story of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's "Old Bay Line"that maintained faithful and uninterrupted service on the Chesapeake Bay from its founding in 1840 until operations suspended in 1962. The line line offered transportation of passengers and frieght between Norfolk and Baltimore. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387634

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves by: Jean Clottes; David Lewis Williams

The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves
by: Jean Clottes; David Lewis Williams

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 120 pages illustrated in color. Since the first report of cave art (at Altamira in 1879), attempts have been made to explain the purpose of the mysterious drawings. Art for art's sake; totemism; hunting, destructive, or fertility magic; and modern structuralist theories have all been proposed. Clottes and Lewis-Williams propose a new theory emphasizing the shamanic aspects of Paleolithic cave paintings. After an unavoidably technical chapter providing the basics of shamanism, the authors examine Paleolithic paintings from across France and Spain, noting the use of animal figures, composite figures combining both human and animal characteristics, and geometric designs that are all common elements of shamanism. The bulk of the book is both fascinating and thought-provoking, and while it is not likely to be the last word on the subject, it is an important contribution to the field. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387886

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Dreaming Up Americaby: Banks, Russell

Dreaming Up America
by: Banks, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, very clean and tight copy. With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history.

Record # 455914

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

German Fury in Belgium, Theby: Mokveld, L.

German Fury in Belgium, The
by: Mokveld, L.

Hardcover. New York , George H. Doran, unknown, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 249 pages. Faint foxing to edges, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857004

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Night-Rider Legacy: Weaponizing Race in the Irasburg Affair of 1968 by: Gary G Shattuck

Night-Rider Legacy: Weaponizing Race in the Irasburg Affair of 1968
by: Gary G Shattuck

Softcover. Amherst MA, White River Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the impact and consequences caused by the use of inflammatory racially-related language during a police investigation conducted by the Vermont State Police. Beginning in 1968 with the Irasburg Affair when a White man fired shotgun blasts into a home occupied by a Black family, the story describes in detail the course of the investigation. Adverse publicity about the Vermont State Police's work alleging racism within its ranks ensued resulting in its managers withdrawing from public view and refusing to work with the legislature in the next years causing significant internal problems. They finally came to the forefront in 1979 when a despondent trooper committed suicide at the state house in Montpelier in an event called the Router Bit Affair that led to significant reforms beginning in1980. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Clean copy.

Record # 380217

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Anni Regum Edvvardi Quinti, Richardi Tertii, Henrici Septimi, et Henrici Octavi, Omnes qui antea impressi fuerunt. Ore novelment imprimee et corrigee, ouesq; plusors bones notes, letters, et figures en le margent per tout le liuer, q

Anni Regum Edvvardi Quinti, Richardi Tertii, Henrici Septimi, et Henrici Octavi, Omnes qui antea impressi fuerunt. Ore novelment imprimee et corrigee, ouesq; plusors bones notes, letters, et figures en le margent per tout le liuer, q

Hardcover. London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers, unknown, 1620, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rebound, black covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Soiling, ragged edges to front fly leaf and title page. Some foxing, staining to pages. Fore-edge soiled. This copy lacks year XXVII of Henry VIII. Else a nice, tight copy. Photos available.

Record # 851553

Price: $700.00 
Quantity:

Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln:The Story of a Pictureby: F. B. Carpenter

Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln:The Story of a Picture
by: F. B. Carpenter

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 359 pages including index. Burgundy cloth with embossed rules front and back, with faded gilt lettering on spine. Name on front fly leaf (dated 1866) and title page. A clean, tight copy. Carpenter's memoir of Lincoln's tenure was written out of great admiration for Lincoln and his political platforms, in particular the Emancipation Proclamation.

Record # 382576

Price: $80.00 
Quantity:

Christian Identity: Jews & Israel in Seventeenth-Century Englandby: Guibbory, Achsah

Christian Identity: Jews & Israel in Seventeenth-Century England
by: Guibbory, Achsah

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked, bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, glossy. Assesses the comexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English Revolution, and into the Restoration, which the English Church and monarchy were restored.

Record # 99062

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Famous Speechesby: Herbert, Paul [Ed.]

Famous Speeches
by: Herbert, Paul [Ed.]

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.

Record # 374147

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Pittenger, William

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Pittenger, William

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 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. Light scuffing to fore edge gilt. Otherwise, clean, tight copy. A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862, Embracing a Full and Accurate Account of the Secret Journey to the Heart of the Confederacy, the Capture of a Railway Train in a Confederate Camp, the Terrible Chase that Followed, and the Subsequent Fortunes of the Leader and His Party. Reprint of the 1877 edition.

Record # 372357

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Three Months in the Southern States - April-June, 1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Fremantle, Arthur J. L.

Three Months in the Southern States - April-June, 1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Fremantle, Arthur J. L.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover & spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Fremantle paints a reasonable picture of the conditions and loyalties in both Southern and Northern territories. His ability to interview so many of the major Southern commanders, with little issue, indicates how lax security was in the Civil War period. His observations, of the life of Southern civilians during the war is also very enlightening.

Record # 372373

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages by: Guen

Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
by: Guen

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.

Record # 378944

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:


Page [ 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  ]
  
Sitemap

Primary Sidebar

Browsing is Arousing Online Bookstore: Used Books, Rare Books, Out of Print Books, Antiquarian Books, Arts, Photography, Children's, Illustrated Books, on-line, web, internet shopping

Search by Title, Author, or Keywords


See our INDEXED CATALOGS

Popular Search Catalogs

  • Agriculture
  • American History
  • Animals & Nature
  • Antiques & Collectibles
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biography*
  • Black Studies
  • Building, Constuction, Engineering
  • Children's
  • Cooking & Food
  • Countries (World History)
  • Crafts
  • Economics
  • Fiction*
  • Film & Movies
  • Gardening
  • Graphic Arts
  • Health & Medicine
  • Illustrated
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math & Physics
  • Mid-East
  • Military
  • Music
  • Mysteries*
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry *
  • Religion
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy*
  • Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Sports
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • * Inventory in the thousands. Please search by author, title or subject.

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in