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The Development of Central and Western New York: From the Arrival of the White Man to the Eve of the Civil War by: Mau, Clayton

The Development of Central and Western New York: From the Arrival of the White Man to the Eve of the Civil War
by: Mau, Clayton

Hardcover. Rochester NY, Du Bois Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules, 444 pages. Written with numerous extracts from period sources. This is a social and economic history of the settlement of the lands west of the Mohawk River. Well done. Includes notes, appendices & index. A nice copy. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398283

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Prisoners of War (British and American) 1778by: Ford, Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941 (Creator)

Prisoners of War (British and American) 1778
by: Ford, Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941 (Creator)

Softcover. Philadelphia, privately printed, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet, 26 pages. Not a reprint. Pages uncut along top edge. Bright copy.

Record # 353627

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Revolution of 1905 - Authority Restored, Theby: Ascher, Abraham

Revolution of 1905 - Authority Restored, The
by: Ascher, Abraham

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 443 pages. This book contains UNDERLINING which is mainly confined to chapter 7. Otherwise a bright, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 607853

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Playing Cards: History of the Pack and Explanations of Its Many Secretsby: Benham, W. Gurney

Playing Cards: History of the Pack and Explanations of Its Many Secrets
by: Benham, W. Gurney

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped decoration with gilt lettering on front. Green cover boards with light rubbing ton edges. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 354190

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In the Wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers: Fights and Flights of Frigates and Fore-'n'-afters in the War of 1812-1815 on the Great Lakesby: Snider, C. H. J.

In the Wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers: Fights and Flights of Frigates and Fore-'n'-afters in the War of 1812-1815 on the Great Lakes
by: Snider, C. H. J.

Hardcover. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Minor spine edge wear. Gilt title on front cover and spine. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 852350

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Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: the Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War IIby: Roger R. Reese

Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: the Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II
by: Roger R. Reese

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 386 pages, b&w illustrations. Inept leadership, inefficient campaigning, and enormous losses would seem to spell military disaster. Yet despite these factors, the Soviet Union won its war against Nazi Germany thanks to what Roger Reese calls its military effectiveness: its ability to put troops in the field even after previous forces had been decimated. Reese probes the human dimension of the Red Army in World War II through a close analysis of soldiers' experiences and attitudes concerning mobilization, motivation, and morale. In doing so, he illuminates the Soviets' remarkable ability to recruit and retain soldiers, revealing why so many were willing to fight in the service of a repressive regime--and how that service was crucial to the army's military effectiveness. He examines the various forms of voluntarism and motivations to serve-including the influences of patriotism and Soviet ideology-and shows that many fought simply out of loyalty to the idea of historic Russia and hatred for the invading Germans. He also considers the role of political officers within the ranks, the importance of commanders who could inspire their troops, the bonds of allegiance forged within small units, and persistent fears of Stalin's secret police. Clean copy.

Record # 378849

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Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, Theby: Zaehner , R. C.

Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, The
by: Zaehner , R. C.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 371 pages. Grey cloth with gilt decoration & gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's pen marks in small writing to back top title page, table of contents & bibliography. Signature to front endpaper. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with toning & edgewear, small chips, now protected with a plastic cover. Light marginal foxing to top edge & front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 372839

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Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by: Bordewich, Fergus

Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America
by: Bordewich, Fergus

Hardcover. NY, Amistad/HarperCollins, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 540 pages, b&w illustrations, index. An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change-The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines, and everyday folk For most, the mention of the Underground Railroad evokes images of hidden tunnels, midnight rides, and hairsbreadth escapes. Yet the Underground Railroad's epic story is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion,which brought together Easterners who had engaged in slavery primarily in the abstract alongside slaveholding Southerners and their slaves, arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and pious whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only subverted federal law but also went against prevailing mores.

Record # 381746

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The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japanby: Sam Kleiner

The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
by: Sam Kleiner

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 294 pages, b&w photos. Sam Kleiner's The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma. In the wake of the disaster at Pearl Harbor this motley crew was the first group of Americans to take on the Japanese in combat, shooting down hundreds of Japanese aircraft in the skies over Burma, Thailand, and China. At a time when the Allies were being defeated across the globe, the Flying Tigers' exploits gave hope to Americans and Chinese alike. Clean copy.

Record # 381221

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution by: Wood, Gordon S.

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by: Wood, Gordon S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. Title page states 1992, copyright page says First Edition. 447 pages. Notes, Index. 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner for History. In a grand and immensely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. Clean copy.

Record # 397534

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Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West
by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 656 pages. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men. Buffalo roamed, deer and antelope played, and women's voices were never heard. Writing the Range allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community. A valuable introduction to the rapidly changing field of western history, Writing the Range explains clearly how race, class, and culture are constructed and connected. The first section examines issues raised by more than a decade of multicultural western women's histories; following are six chronological sections spanning four centuries. Each section offers a short introduction connecting is essays and placing them in analytic and historical perspective. Clean copy.

Record # 396643

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Allison - Power of Excellence - 1915 - 1990 - Allison Transmission Division - General Motors Corporationby: Sonnenberg, Paul/William A. Schoneberger

Allison - Power of Excellence - 1915 - 1990 - Allison Transmission Division - General Motors Corporation
by: Sonnenberg, Paul/William A. Schoneberger

Hardcover. Malibu, Coastline Publishers, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Full color photograph to cover boards with marginal wear. Faint foxing to endpapers. Light toning to edges. Bright black & white illustrations throughout. Otherwise very clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750724

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The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft Parkman and Adamsby: Vitzthum, Richard C.

The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft Parkman and Adams
by: Vitzthum, Richard C.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 397494

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Rambles in Old Londonby: Gordon, George Byron

Rambles in Old London
by: Gordon, George Byron

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 334 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate, stamp, and pencil markings on front endpapers. Some pages untrimmed. Blue leather cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with two color decoration. Boards are excellent. Dust jacket has agewear, but present. binding very good. Pages and edges have some tanning. Top edge dyed. Dr. Gordon brings an artist's eye as well as the knowledge of a historian to the beautiful city of London and her historic landmarks.

Record # 99185

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North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 by: Litwack, Leon F.

North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860
by: Litwack, Leon F.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 6th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 318 pages. The treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. Uncommon in hardcover. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397174

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Book of Weirdos, The: A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthologyby: Cooke, Jon B.

Book of Weirdos, The: A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthology
by: Cooke, Jon B.

Hardcover. US, Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy. The Book of Weirdo is the definitive - and hugely entertaining- examination of Weirdo magazine, renowned underground comix cartoonist Robert Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology, which was originally published throughout the 1980s. A "low-brow" counterpoint to Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouley's rather high-faluttin' RAW comix publication, Weirdo influenced an entire generation of alternative and neo-underground artists, as well as creative refuge for the underground comix veterans, and this book features the complete story of the well-recalled comics magazine, along with testimonials from over 130 of the publication's contributors, including interviews with Weirdo's three editors - R. "Keep on Truckin'" Crumb, Peter "Hate" Bagge, and Aline "The Bunch" Kominsky-Crumb - and publisher "Baba Ron" Turner. 288 pages.

Record # 369123

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Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60'sby: Wills, David

Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60's
by: Wills, David

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Weldonowen, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Switched On takes you back to a time of looming social and cultural upheaval, when a cadre of energetic, creative, forward-thinking women explored undiscovered fashion terrain, and painted the backdrop for a transformative ten years. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs from the likes of David Bailey, Bert Stern, Milton H. Greene, Patrick Lichfield, Gianni Penati, Sam Levin, Arthur Evans, Loomis Dean, Susan Wood, Veronique Bucossi, David Hurn, Alan Pappe, Bud Fraker, and Malcolm Bulloch.

Record # 353034

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Reminiscences of the Civil War (Collector's library of the Civil War)by: Gordon, John B.

Reminiscences of the Civil War (Collector's library of the Civil War)
by: Gordon, John B.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 474 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. Fascinating reminiscences of our Civil War by an important participating leader on the Southern side with wide experience. Covers wartime highlights, anecdotes, and other recollections drafted some 3 decades after the conclusion of hostilities.

Record # 372352

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Army Memoirs (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Barber, Lucius W.

Army Memoirs (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Barber, Lucius W.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 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.

Record # 372368

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Hartland (Vermont) - The Way It Was 1761-1976by: N?A

Hartland (Vermont) - The Way It Was 1761-1976
by: N?A

Softcover. Hartland VT, Hartland Historical Society, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8 1/2 X 11", stapled wraps with photo of grazing sheep on front. 73 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, maps on inside covers. Clean copy. Scarce.

Record # 381651

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Battle of the Bulge, The - In Luxembourg - The Southern Flank December 1944 - January 1945by: Gaul, Roland

Battle of the Bulge, The - In Luxembourg - The Southern Flank December 1944 - January 1945
by: Gaul, Roland

Hardcover. Atglen, Schiffer Publishing , First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with marble styled endpapers. Grey cloth boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750688

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Historic Doubts Relative to Napolean Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of Americaby: Whately, Richard

Historic Doubts Relative to Napolean Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of America
by: Whately, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Robert Carter & Brothers, Reprint, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Foxing to pages. Cloth covers rubbed along edges and corners. Chipping to cloth at top and bottom of spine.

Record # 608896

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Early Northamptonby: N/A

Early Northampton
by: N/A

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Betty Allen Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, light fading to edges, spine. Previous owner's signature, address on front fly leaf.

Record # 405085

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Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia by: Charles S. Sydnor

Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia
by: Charles S. Sydnor

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Study of late eighteenth-century Virginia and its "often hot-tempered local politics." Name on front fly leaf, residue to inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387791

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Victoria - A Lifeby: Wilson, A. N.

Victoria - A Life
by: Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, First Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 642 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp dust jacket with only minor wear. Very clean & unmarked. Crisp, tight copy.

Record # 750727

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Trade and Empire: The British Custom Service in Colonial America 1660-1775  by: Barrow, Thomas C.

Trade and Empire: The British Custom Service in Colonial America 1660-1775
by: Barrow, Thomas C.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 336 pages. Discusses the British Acts of Trade and Navigation as enforced in colonial America. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387859

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C. A. Gaskell Family and Business Atlas of the World, The -  New and Completeby: Gaskell, C. A.

C. A. Gaskell Family and Business Atlas of the World, The - New and Complete
by: Gaskell, C. A.

Hardcover. Chicago, U.S. Publishing House, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages, containing maps of all the states and territories of the United States, all the continents, empires, kingdoms and republics, together with maps of the leading cities of the United States, and useful and instructive colored diagrams, charts and engravings. With all populations according to 1890 census. Large format, brown pebbled cloth covers, minor wear.

Record # 408278

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The Pirates Of The New England Coast 1630-1730by: Dow, George Francis; Edmonds, John Henry

The Pirates Of The New England Coast 1630-1730
by: Dow, George Francis; Edmonds, John Henry

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.

Record # 375061

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Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY) by: Watson, Bruce

Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY)
by: Watson, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY WATSON on title page. A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 381190

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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Centuryby: Cohen, Andrew Wender

Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
by: Cohen, Andrew Wender

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 402 pages. Remarkable study of smuggling, which illustrates how Americans related to the world from the Founding to World War I. From the beginning, the United States sought to build nationalism by limiting their own ability to trade with foreigners. But at the same time, Americans like Charles L. Lawrence defied customs authorities, insisting that trade be free. The government responded by building a potent army of customs inspectors and treasury agents, who profiled Jews, Asians, and women in the pursuit of tariff revenues. Beautifully written, the author uses the stories of smugglers like Jean Lafitte, Charles L. Lawrence, and Rose Eytinge to illustrate not only the history of Protectionism, but also the rise of American empire and the development of the modern social safety net. He shows that the tariff was far from an unpopular relic, but rather the foundation of the nineteenth century state. Clean copy.

Record # 380920

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We Played Our Cards: How My Generation Met the Call of World War II (SIGNED COPY)by: Corbett, Joseph Edward

We Played Our Cards: How My Generation Met the Call of World War II (SIGNED COPY)
by: Corbett, Joseph Edward

Hardcover. Overlake Publishing, 1ST, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 372510

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Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal by: Bailey, Thomas A.

Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal
by: Bailey, Thomas A.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a very worn, chipped dust jacket, 429 pages. Maroon cloth with light blue lettering on spine. Bailey contends that Wilson's wartime isolationism, as well as his peace proposals at WWl's end were seriously flawed. Highlighting the fact that American delegates encountered staunch opposition to Wilson's proposed League of Nations, Bailey concluded that the president and his diplomatic staff essentially sold out, compromising American ideals to secure mere fragments of Wilson's progressive vision. Bookplate on inside front cover. Book very good, clean. Dust jacket poor.

Record # 387792

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Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroadsby: Fraser J. Harbutt

Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads
by: Fraser J. Harbutt

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This revisionist study of Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946 challenges Americocentric views of the period and highlights Europe's neglected role. Fraser J. Harbutt, drawing on international sources, shows that in planning for the future Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and others self-consciously operated into 1945, not on "East/West" lines but within a "Europe/America" political framework characterized by the plausible prospect of Anglo-Russian collaboration and persisting American detachment. Harbutt then explains the destabilizing transformation around the time of the pivotal Yalta conference of February 1945, when a sudden series of provocative initiatives, manipulations, and miscues interacted with events to produce the breakdown of European solidarity and the Anglo-Soviet nexus, an evolving Anglo-American alignment, and new tensions that led finally to the Cold War. This fresh perspective, stressing structural, geopolitical, and traditional impulses and constraints, raises important new questions about the enduringly controversial transition from World War II to a cold war that no statesman wanted. Clean copy.

Record # 378803

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History of Barton Vermont, A (SIGNED COPY)by: Young, Darlene

History of Barton Vermont, A (SIGNED COPY)
by: Young, Darlene

Softcover. Barton, VT, Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and whit photographs throughout.

Record # 368920

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Don't Scratch Too Deep!: The Profane History of a Vermont Valley (SIGNED COPY)by: Terry Tyler

Don't Scratch Too Deep!: The Profane History of a Vermont Valley (SIGNED COPY)
by: Terry Tyler

Softcover. Dorset VT, Two Damned Yankees, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages, b&w cartoons by Sandy Read. SIGNED BY TYLER on the inside front cover. From the author's Introduction: "Once upon a time there was a group of towns in the North shire of Bennington County in the State of Vermont. these towns, not that many years ago, were peopled for the most part with hardy citizens who were steeped in the work ethic and spoke in the vernacular of men and women that did not mince words when expostulating their opinions, both philosophical and political. These are stories in their own language and graphic descriptions. No expletives have been deleted in the belief that any child that can read, and many that cannot have already heard them if indeed they are not allowed to use them in polite company".and, further on, "Most of the incidents recorded here occurred in the latter half of the 20th century. Many of the principals have gone to their reward, but they should be remembered as the philosophers and movers and shakers during their lives." Clean, bright copy.

Record # 372205

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Papers Relating to the First Settlement and Capture of Fort Oswego 1727-1756 (WITH FOLD-OUTS)by: O'Callaghan, E.B.

Papers Relating to the First Settlement and Capture of Fort Oswego 1727-1756 (WITH FOLD-OUTS)
by: O'Callaghan, E.B.

Softcover. London, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This is 64 page extract from a larger volume (pages 443 - 506), possibly London Magazine. This is the original printing and features 4 fold-out plans and illustrations, all in excellent condition. Bound in a clear acetate folder.

Record # 407419

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State Papers/ New Hampshire: Documents Relating to the Masonian Patent 1630-1846 by: Albert Stillman Batchellor

State Papers/ New Hampshire: Documents Relating to the Masonian Patent 1630-1846
by: Albert Stillman Batchellor

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.

Record # 382546

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An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Pre-Islamic Antiquities of Tripolitania by: Haynes, D.E.L.

An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Pre-Islamic Antiquities of Tripolitania
by: Haynes, D.E.L.

Softcover. Libya, Antiquities, Museums and Archives of Tripoli, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 text pages, three fold-out maps and many b/w plates in second half of the book.

Record # 382133

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Mighty Stonewall (SIGNED COPY)by: Vandiver, Frank E.

Mighty Stonewall (SIGNED COPY)
by: Vandiver, Frank E.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Hardcover. A Special Hall of Fame Edition of 1,000 copies of which this is SIGNED and hand numbered #738/1000 BY THE AUTHOR. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Faint darkening to top right corner, edge of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Unmarked text. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612685

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Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey by: Anthony Brewer

Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey
by: Anthony Brewer

Softcover. NY, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. Offers a unique account of Marxist theories of Imperialism. It has been fully updated and expanded to cover all the developments since its initial publication and will be essential reading for any student of Marxism or Imperialism. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 382599

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New Collection of Thomas Bangs Thorpe's Sketches of the Old Southwestby: Estes, David C. (Ed)

New Collection of Thomas Bangs Thorpe's Sketches of the Old Southwest
by: Estes, David C. (Ed)

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, sticker residue on front of dust jacket. 392 pages. Written in the 1840's these are Thomas Bang Thorpe's sketches of the old Southwest, Edited, with a Critical Introduction and Textual Commentary, by David C. Estes .

Record # 20836

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Trading In Santa Fe - John M. Kingsbury's Correspondence with James Josiah Webb 1853-1861by: Elder, Jane Lenz and David J. Weber

Trading In Santa Fe - John M. Kingsbury's Correspondence with James Josiah Webb 1853-1861
by: Elder, Jane Lenz and David J. Weber

Softcover. Dallas TX, Southern Methodist University, 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations, maps. Bibliography. 327 pages. Paperback.

Record # 204460

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Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier (SIGNED COPY)by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly--and mysteriously--vanished.A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time. 294 pages, clean copy.

Record # 382235

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PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

Hardcover. London, printed by C. & R. Baldwin for Thomas Payne, 1st, 1808, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished brown calf, 253 pages. A clean copy of the First Edition of Samuel Johnson's tract on the Corn Laws written in 1766 for the use of his friend William Gerard Hamilton - an important politician of the period who achieved a brilliant reputation as an orator - despite his nickname of 'Single Speech Hamilton' The volume was edited by Malone, who found the tract among Hamilton's papers and contributed a long preface. 8vo., xlvi, 253, [1]p colophon.; Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, edgewear/rubbing to calf along gilt ruled border on covers, spine with gilt decoration, red morroco label on spine. Front cover hinge tender, but holding.

Record # 371292

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Through the Light Hole: a Saga of Adirondack Mines and Menby: Farrell, Patrick F.

Through the Light Hole: a Saga of Adirondack Mines and Men
by: Farrell, Patrick F.

Hardcover. Utica NY, North Country Books , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 291 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 371184

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Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washingtonby: Judge, Joseph

Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington
by: Judge, Joseph

Hardcover. Berryville, VA, Rockbridge Publishing Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Buff fabric covered with gilt title on spine. From the back cover: "Season of Fire is the most complete and dramatic study to date of Early's invasion of the north and battle of Monocacy--an engagement that may well have saved the Nation's Capitol from capture."

Record # 30397

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Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834 - 1843by: Osborne Russell (Author), Aubrey L. Haines (Editor)

Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834 - 1843
by: Osborne Russell (Author), Aubrey L. Haines (Editor)

Softcover. NY, MJF Books, reprint, 1997, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages plus index. In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper. Clean copy.

Record # 383188

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Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolutionby: Thayer, Theodore

Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution
by: Thayer, Theodore

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 500 pages, b&w maps, index. Clean copy. Nathanael Greene, Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, known for his effective leadership in the Southern Campaign against British forces. He was born on August 7, 1742, in Rhode Island and died on June 19, 1786, in Georgia, leaving a legacy as one of George Washington's most trusted officers.

Record # 397488

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Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcardsby: Salo Aizenberg

Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards
by: Salo Aizenberg

Softcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 238 pages illustrated in color. Today e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter are sometimes used to spread hateful messages and slurs masking as humor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries postcards served this purpose. The images collected in this volume make it painfully clear that anti-Semitic propaganda did not simply begin with the Nazis. Nor was it the sole province of politicians, journalists, and rabble-rousers. One of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism during this time was spread by quite ordinary people through postcards. Of the millions of postcards exchanged during their heyday of 1890 through 1920, a considerable percentage carried the anti-Semitic images that publishers churned out to meet public demand, reflecting deep-seated attitudes of society. Over 250 examples of such postcards, largely from the pre-Holocaust era, are reproduced here for the first time-selected, translated, and historically contextualized by one of the world's foremost postcard collectors. Clean copy.

Record # 398454

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A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Armyby: Kimball, Maria Brace

A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Army
by: Kimball, Maria Brace

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and red, white and blue decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 192 pages including index, frontis. portrait plus b&w pales including onr fold-out. Dr. Kimball was on the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 with Generals Stanley and Custer and became quite a good friend of Custer. It was Dr. Kimball who attended to Lieutenant Charles Braden and may have saved his life, after Braden was shot through the left leg by Indians on August 4, 1873. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is also covered. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 383747

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