Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and darkened dust jacket, 421 pages with frontispiece map, illustrations and 16 photographic plates. Important economic, religious, and social study of the ancient Jewish settlement on the island of Elephantine. During the 5th century B.C., the southern frontier of ancient Egypt was guarded by an Aramean garrison at Syene (modern Aswan) and a Jewish garrison on the adjacent island of Elephantine. This study is an interpretation of the well-known group of Aramaic papyrus texts found on the site at the beginning of the 20th century. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. Metuchen NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with white lettering, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY RUSSELL on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued.
Softcover. Monaco, Archives du Palais Princier, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Scholarly essays on the history of Monaco. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Edmonton CA, Hurtig , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 346 pages. VOLUME 4 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 297 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. This volume covers the operations of the United States Navy in North African waters, both on the Atlantic coast and in the Mediterranean, from the beginning of World War II through the capture of Pantelleria in June 1943. More than half the volume is devoted to the capture of bases in French Morocco, which was an all-American operation and in many respects one of the most remarkable of the war. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 31 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1650 pamphlet by Dury, laying out a plan for the organization of books and libraries. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Richmond VT, Richmond Historical Society, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 506 pages. Many b&w illustrations, like new condition.
Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Softcover, 222 pages. From 1942 to 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Betty Bandel (retired) served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC, the Women's Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt (code named Rover), to a seasoned officer and leader. Bandel was one of the Corps' most influential senior officers. Her letters are rich with detail about the WAC's contribution to the war effort and the inner workings of the first large, non-nurse contingent of American military women. In addition, her letters offer a revealing look at the wartime emergence of professional women. Perhaps for the first time, women oversaw and directed hundreds of thousands of personnel, acquired professional and personal experiences, and built networks that would guide and influence them well past their war years.
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.
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.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 125 pages, endpapers map, 'The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 12'. A look at radicalism from colonial days forward. Mild soil to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 446 pages with index, b&w photos. Name on half-title page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 260 pages. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 546 pages. This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires, processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas. Color illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 413 pages plus index. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, The Infantry Journal, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small softcover, 335 pages. "The primary purpose of this book is to provide a guide to the main forces, institutional and ideological, in the Nazi system." Published for the American servicemen. Name on front cover,mild wear to covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Rockwell & Churchill, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark olive-green cloth with gilt lettering, 415 pages. Preface by William Whitmore. Vol. I ONLY. Name on front fly leaf, rear cover with light soil, otherwise internally clean.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 119 pages, maps, index. As WWII ground to a close, whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages with index. At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business and publishers were soon reeling off as many copies as Americans could be convinced to buy. Newspapers quickly saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen daily papers apiece. Using New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago as case studies, Julia Guarneri shows how city dailies became active agents in creating metropolitan spaces and distinctive urban cultures. Newsprint Metropolis offers a vivid tour of these papers, from the front to the back pages. Paying attention to much-loved features, including comic strips, sports pages, advice columns, and Sunday magazines, she tells the linked histories of newspapers and the cities they served. Themed sections for women, businessmen, sports fans, and suburbanites illustrated entire ways of life built around consumer products. Guarneri also argues that while papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. Clean, like new.
Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 302 pages. This book presents the historical setting of the industrial revolution in a form suitable for the general reader. It seeks to explain why 18th-century England was the theatre of the great series of mechanical inventions that caused the revolution, and what were the great social changes that preceded, accompanied and followed it. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that shows fading, 360 pages, b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command a force designated to capture Albany and end the rebellion, Burgoyne advanced from Canada but soon found himself surrounded and outnumbered. He fought two battles at Saratoga, but was forced to open negotiations with Horatio Gates. Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners. Burgoyne faced criticism when he returned to Britain, and never held another active command. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 396 pages including index. By focusing on the Howe brothers, their political connections, their relationships with the British ministry, their attitude toward the Revolution, and their military activities in America, Gruber answers the frequently asked question of why the British failed to end the American Revolution in its early years. This book supersedes earlier studies because of its broader research and because it elucidates the complex personal interplay between Whitehall and its commanders. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. A moving account of Theodore Roosevelt's post-presidential years. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, 292 pages, b&w plates. ISBN number on copyright page denotes a reprint. Clean, bright copy, lacks dust jacket.
Softcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 343 pages, b&w illustrations. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 429 pages. Brown cloth with embossed red image of Seale gagged and bound in the courtroom during the Chicago 8 Trial. A gorgeous copy of Bobby Seale's narration of the Black Panther Party's origins and his relationship with Huey P Newton. Written as Seale was on trial as part of the Panther 14 in New Haven and during the Chicago 8/7 Conspiracy trial. Dust jacket is bright with original $6.95 price intact and unclipped. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt stamping, 333 pages with index. Front and rear hinges cracked, ownership signature on front fly leaf, b&w illustrations, 2 related postcards laid in. Interior clean.
Softcover. Salem NY, Hebron Preservation Society, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 276 pages with b&w illustrations. Covers with light curl to corners, mild crease to first 20 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. n the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand veterans of World War I descended on Washington, D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black together, and for two months they protested and rallied for their cause-an action that would have a profound effect on American history. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Mobile AL, Colonial Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 93 pages plus bibliography and index. Gilt lettering on the spine. SIGNED BY HIGGINBOTHAM on the half-title page. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Countryman Press, 4th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Now largely forgotten, the massacres of 1675 to 1676, known as King Philip's War, ended the harmonious relations that had existed between native Americans and the colonists since their arrival at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Tensions had been rising as the number of settlers grew, and the pillaging of an outlying farm by affronted young braves escalated into open hostilities. Pitched battles were fought from Rhode Island to Maine. Hundreds of English died as farmers fled and cowered behind stockades or in the few port towns. Thousands of natives were slaughtered and the rest dispersed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. The savagery resulted in the clearing of the native populations from southern New England and the unopposed expansion of the New England colonies. It also became the brutal model on which the United States came to deal with its native peoples. King Philip's War tells the story with such close attention to detail that each ambush, each burned-out farm, becomes a vivid image. The authors make abundant use of maps and photographs of old sites to enable the reader to follow the course of the war: the book forms an exhaustive guide for the armchair historian or anyone wishing to visit the monuments and battlefields today. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Poultney VT, Historical Pages Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 153 pages. Hundreds of century-old photographs give remarkable insight into the life and times of Londonderry and South Londonderry through the eyes of those who once lived there. This collection covers the time period from 1890 to 1920 in this small, rural Vermont community through pictures of daily life and special events. Businesses, stores, churches, schools, inns, and early homesteads are all featured, as well as baptisms, horse drawn sleighs, families in their Sunday best, and its once booming rail centre. Descriptive text accompanies each photograph to bring the still frames to life and provide its historical context. Clean copy.
Softcover. self-published, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. A collection of random newspaper snippets from the early newspapers in the Sandusky, Ohio area. Not in chronological order, they range from the mid-1800s to late 1920s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Kingston Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, bibliography and index. A scarce scholarly history. Slight sunning to dust jacket spine, otherwise like new, clean and tight.
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.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Sterling and Slade, 1st Revised, 1819, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five volumes complete. Bound in half leather with marbled boards. Spines with raised bands and gilt lettering., Marbled design to all edges. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait. Covers rubbed , worn, moderate foxing (mostly to early pages) otherwise clean, solid copies. Gilt lettering on spine faded, rubbing and wear to ribs and edges. Gutter crack in Vol. 1 at rear in middle of appendix, This is the first revised and corrected edition with a new appendix.
Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Journal Office, 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 612 pages. Maroon cloth covers, gilt decoration and lettering on spine and cover with stamped decorations. Corner and edge wear, fading to spine. Decorative stain on all page edges. Tissue guarded illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Binding cracked in multiple places.
Hardcover. Boston, Gray & Bowen, 1st, 1830, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, leather spine and corners with marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Copyright page states "on the eleventh day of November, A. D. 1830." With frontispiece folding map of the eclipse of Feb 12th, in its passage across the United States. A very good copy with mild wear to leather, map in very good condition. moderate foxing to text. There is some minimal marking, numbers and light residue to endpapers.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st U.S., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Covers bound in red fabric, in great shape. Dust jacket unclipped and excellent. Decorated endpapers. Top edge dyed. Clean and bright inside and out.
Hardcover. Leicester University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 262 pages, b&w photographs. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charles Black, Reprint with corrections, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image), covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Some light tanning to edges and pages, otherwise unmarked. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, white title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. in great shape. A comprehensive and authoritative book on the British submarine and its place in the Royal Navy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Top edge dyed. Some underlining throughout. Deckled edges. Blue cover boards, black title on spine and front cover board.
 "Richmond, Vermont: A History of More Than 200 Yearsby: Harriet Wheatley Riggs & Others")
 "Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century by: John Frederick Martin")
 "Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans by: Guarneri, Julia")
 "History of Niagara by: Janet Carnochan")
 "Backs to the Wall: The Heroic Story of the People of London During World War IIby: Mosley, Leonard")
 "The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warsby: Morriss, Roger")
 "British Submarine, Theby: Lipscomb, Commander F.W.")
 "Spanish Seaborne Empire (The History of Human Society)by: Parry, J.H.")
