Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 236 pages. This foremost history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. Unlike the South, which used slaves primarily for agricultural labor, the North trained and diversified its slave force to meet the needs of a complicated economy. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Includes table of contents, bibliography, index, maps and b&w photographs and illustrations. The 11 exiles were: John Howe, Printer; Francis Green; Joseph Durfee, Shelburne Pioneer; Molly Brant, Mohawk Heroine; Ward Chipman, founding father of New Brunswick; William Schurman of Prince Edward Island; Sir John Johnson; Ranna Cossit; Sarah Sherwood; Boston King and William Jarvis.
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. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Original owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light pencil (erasable) underlining in a couple of places. Teal cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some light fading to edges of dj, otherwise in very good condition. Very light tanning to edges.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W plates and maps; Large 8vo 9' - 10' tall; 686 pages; 'Allen's work deals primarily with the human elements of the forgotten war waged between the doomed empires of Great Britain and Japan in Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945. The author's familiarity with Japanese sources enables him to strike a balance unusual in Western accounts. Allen's Japanese are as much prisoners of their culture as the British are of theirs. They are victims of incompetent command and inadequate logistics. They do not want to die, but their ready acceptance of death lends a special horror to Allen's descriptions of some of the century's most vicious fighting.' Clean bright copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. New Jersey, Bergen County Board, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages. Volume six of a seven volume set on the history and heritage of Bergen County. Clean, like new..
Softcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st pbk, 1993, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 484 pages, b&w illustrations. "In eighteenth-century London the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. Most of the London hanged were executed for property crimes, and the chief lesson that the gallows had to teach was: 'Respect private property'. The executions took place amid a London populace that knew the same poverty and hunger as the condemned. Indeed, in this stimulating account Peter Linebaugh shows how there was little distinction between a 'criminal' population and the poor population of London as a whole. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the laws of a privileged ruling class." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume IX in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 413 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Newark, New Jersey Historical Society, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 346 pages, portrait frontispiece. Appears to be rebound from an earlier undated printing published by The New Jersey Historical Society, Volume X. Clean copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 370 pages. Focuses on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia. In this study the author provides a detailed analysis of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 594 pages. In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion"--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand--and be motivated to avoid--nuclear war. This compassionate treatment is a significant contribution to the atomic age. Small notation on dj flap otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Rand Avery Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering, 92 pages, 7 b&w plates. A collection of folklore from in and around the "Crystal Hills" of New Hampshire gathered from tales of old settlers and records in historical societies and town libraries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hampton NH, Peter E. Randall, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering, two reprinted publications in one volume. B&w illustrations. Perry's work originally published in 1913; and Bell's in 1876. Fold-out map of Exeter of the past with a facsimile of 1776 newspaper page on rear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 666 pages. Name on front fly leaf, title-page. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 553 pages. "The complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover's four years in Washington." Written by Myers, a history scholar whose academic field was the GOP, and Newton, a former member of Congress who was for many years Hoover's personal secretary or roughly his Chief of Staff.This is about as good a defense of Hoover's actions just before and during the Great Depression as anything that has come out since. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Easton Valley Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 417 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket chipped. rubbed. An encyclopedia of programs, their dates, casts, networks and producers, with many photo plates.
Hardcover. Montpeiler, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners ID stamp on front flyleaf. Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Dark red cloth cover boards (light moisture damage to bottom right corner of front cover, and bottom left corner of back cover), gilt title on spine and front cover board. Light tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean. Binding good. Spine straight. A touch of moisture damage (very minimal-see image) to bottom corner of edge. History of Medical College in Woodstock, VT.
Hardcover. Norwich, Norwich University, First Edition, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Hardcover. Red pebbled cloth covers with gilt titles to cover. Toning throughout. Pages untrimmed, and many unopened. Frontis illustration, Captain Alden Partridge, Founder. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 272 pages. Mr. Wills takes the disarray of the Catholic Church as a model of institutional breakdown, tracing parallel agonies in church and state... He asks whether life can rise again from our institutional ruins, and finds promising signs of this, not only among Catholic "prophets" but Protestant and Jewish ones as well." Name on front leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Boston, City Registrar's Office of Boston, MA, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Sixteenth Report of the Record Commissioners, 344 pages. Minor wear, chipping to spine cloth, gilt decorated binding. Special topics considered during this time period included "Schools, Inns, Faneuil-Hall Market, the Fire of 1760, Inoculation, Long Wharf, and Beacon Hill", plus the approval of Hancock's Hospital, etc. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise tight and clean.
Softcover. Maryville MO, Maryville Tribune, 1s6t, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated but about 100 pages."A Photographic Reproduction of Public Buildings, Prominent People, Picturesque Scenes, Pretty Homes". A souvenir booklet published by the local paper. Nice condition, Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 206 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Farrand Mallory and Co., 1st, 1810, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, contemporary calf with a red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Library bookplate on inside front cover, two small spine labels otherwise no other markings or stamping. There is a general tanning to the pages and moderate foxing. Sound throughout. Title page states three volumes but research says this was the only volume printed.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative. In the third -- and last -- volume of this vivid history, Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation. "Red River to Appomattox" opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in North Georgia. While the Virginia-Georgia fighting is in progress, Kearsarge sinks the Alabama and Forrest gains new laurels at Brice's Crossroads.With Grant and Lee deadlocked at Petersburg, Sherman takes Atlanta -- assuring Lincoln's reelection, together with the certainty that the war will be fought (not negotiated) to a finish. These events are followed by Hood's bold northward strike through middle Tennessee while Sherman sets out on his march to the sea, to be opposed at its end by the ghost of the Army of Tennessee. Endpaper maps. First published in 1974, this appears to be a reprint (no price on dust jacket). Newspaper obituary of Foote laid in. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 246 pages plus an 11 page index. Illustrated with 2-color maps. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Volume 5 of the series Growth of Vermont.
Hardcover. NY, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 268 pages. Collects speeches made by Roosevelt in August and September 1910 on his tour of the United States, in which he espoused his political platform of social welfare and opposition to corporate political power. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket. The personal memoirs of a participant in the Albany Georgia civil rights movement. 185 pages + photographic plates at end. No markings.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 408 pages, index. Black and white frontis photo portrait of author. "Moffat served for a protracted period and with notable distinction in the key position of what was then termed Chief of the Division of European affairs; he accompanied me as my chief assistant when FDR sent me to Europe as his personal representative in the spring of 1940; and I was in the closest touch with him during the time he served as American Minister to Canada, a service so tragically terminated by his untimely death in 1943. I know of no man who came up through the ranks of the Foreign Service with whose work I am personally familiar who impressed me as having in his latter years greater knowledge, a wiser and more balanced judgement, or a greater devotion to the highest interests of this country." - Sumner Welles.
Hardcover. Greenville NC, James S. Jenkins Jr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover bound in green cloth boards, 87 pages printed on one side only. A privately printed compilation of news excerpts from local newspapers in the Greenville area from 1892 to 1909. An interesting portrait of small town Southern life during the period. Unique, scarce.
Hardcover. Poughkeepsie, New York, Abraham Tomlinson, 1st, 1855, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, gilt title on cover and frontispiece illustration, with numerous illustrative notes throughout and a supplement containing official papers on the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord. Ex-library residue, front cover loose and binding needs new back strip. Internal pages are clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY/London, Macmillan / Collier Macmillan, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 517 pages, b&w illustrations. Life of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, first US Attorney General, and second Secretary of State. Clean copy.
NY, Nation Books, 1st US, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of Hedges essays originally published by Truthdig, the Webby award-winning progressive news website. Hedges lyrically and fearlessly dissects the most controversial issues of the day: America's wars of self-destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, the decay of American empire (at home and abroad), Israel's ghettoization of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the failure of American liberalism. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton and Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 346 pages. John Randolph of Roanoke, the notorious Virginian congressman and senator, was as renowned for his eccentric behavior as for his unusual political positions. Frontispiece portrait. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on black on spine. Light tanning to pages. Spine straight. Binding tight. Takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but it is a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the history of the City and of the urban renaissance.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. The Chronicles of America Vol. 54. 364 pages, b&w illustrations. Red gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket as issued. Details the campaigns of the U.S. Armed Forces in all theaters of World War II, including Tunisia, France, Italy, the Philippines, and Guadalcanal. A very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New Haven VT, Town of New Haven, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, corners. oOtherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Enigma Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 323 pages, b&w illustrations. A memoir by Mussolini's longtime lover. It reveals Il Duce as riddled with disease, sexually manic, boastful, vindictive and cunning, yet deeply insecure. About a dozen pages with light pencil marking. Surprisingly scarce.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Clean copy. mell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.
Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, color illustrations. A study of early Creole architecture and history in New Orleans. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Salisbury, Keewaydin Camp, 1st Thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 67 pages plus section of black & white group camp photographs from 1912 to 1958. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ABBOTT FENN ON DEDICATION PAGE. Updated and corrected edition of the original 1959 'The Story of Keewaydin'. Dust jacket with wear to edges, tape repaired closed tears - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boonville NY, Black River Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 158 pages. B&w photo section. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal?
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 pages, b&w illustrations. Contents: The Prince of Wales and the Shadow of St Paul's, Joseph Wright and the spectacle of power; Humphrey Repton and the improvement of the estate; J. M. W. Turner and the circulation of the state; Thomas Cole and the course of empire; Frances Palmer and the incorporation of the continent; John Constable and the making of Constable country. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Newport VT, Vermont Civil War Enterprises, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Reprint from early 2000's. Volume 1 - 455 pages. Hardcover. Imitation red leather covers. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Related article laid in. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front end paper has been erased. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 408 pages. Hardcover. Imitation red leather covers. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front end paper has been erased. Some pencil markings throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. unknown, private publishing, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. INSCRIBED BY PHINEAS SPAULDING. Includes Life and Selected Poetry of Caroline A. Spaulding. Brown cloth covers, beveled edges, black stamped boarders and pictorial, gilt titles to spine, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece of author's portrait, decorated endpapers. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.