History

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.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages plus index. Illustrated with 17 halftone reproductions from various sources and with line drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. A comprehensive history of the slaughter of the buffalo, the battles between the hunters and Indians. Also tells of the buffalo hunting for sport by Washington Irving and the Russian Prince Alexis. Describes Buffalo Bill's killing buffaloes to feed the men who were building a railroad across the plains. Most of the book, however chronicles the hide hunters who swarmed over the ranges in 1871 and reduced the herds of nearly forty million buffaloes to fewer than one-thousand, taking the hides and leaving the meat to rot. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Brownington VT, Orleans County Historical Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Previous owner's name, embossed stamp on title pg. A charming, nostalgic portrait of Vermont through the eyes of Daisy Dopp, a beloved figure in the state's history, this book is a collection of anecdotes, illustrations, and historical details that capture the essence of Vermont's rural life and traditions. B&w drawings by Peter Schumann.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 510 pages. Bibliography, Index. Numerous b&w photographs, drawings, and maps throughout text. A portrayal of the history, geography, architecture, and people of fourteen ancient cities at their height, among them Thebes, Jerusalem, Babylon, Athens, Carthage, and Rome. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. 434 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a full-scale biography of John Brown. "John Brown was a profoundly religious man dedicated to emancipation and Negro rights..." He "tried to overthrow slavery in the South itself by attacking Harpers Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection."Was Brown a vicious fanatic, or the greatest abolitionist hero in history?" This history is based on "contemporary letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, published reports, and recollections of eyewitnesses, this book is especially notable for providing the first really full account ever written of Brown's career before he went to Kansas..." Bold presentation inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 387 pages. These essays originated in a series of lectures and seminars held by the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies and the Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian Society of the University of Reading in 1966-1967. The countries covered include Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

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.

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.

Hardcover. NY, The Free Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth binding with orange and gilt lettering on spine. 394 pages. Prof. Paige's reconstruction and analysis of the U.S. decision to resist Chinese aggression in Korea in 1950. Name on front fly leaf othewise clean. No dust jacket.

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.

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission of Vermont, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible beige cloth covers, 167 pages plus pages of Press Comments. B&w illustrations. Museum bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M University , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. In their own vivid words, the women members of the Soviet air force recount their dramatic efforts against the German forces in World War II. These brave women, the first ever to fly in combat, proved that women could be among the best of warriors, withstanding the rigors of combat and downing the enemy. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 414 pages, blue cloth covers, spine faded. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., Ltd Ed. reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages, red cloth covers, b&w illustrations. Limited to 750 copies, a reprint of the 1934 edition.

Hardcover. Bradford VT, privately printed/Green Mountain Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages, Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations, brown board covers with label on front panel. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Vermont, Consulting Archaeology Program, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown glossy wrappers, slight rubbing and edge wear on fore edge. Front paper wrapper turns up slightly. Black & white photographs and map laid in. Clean and tight internally.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design, 295 pages, frontispiece portrait of author. The Indian War of 1876 in the Big Horn and Yellowstone campaigns. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fraying to bottom of spine otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages. Beautiful copy in clear brodart cover. Like new.

Hardcover. London, H.M. Stationery Off. ; [Palo Alto, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 209 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket faded. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, light edgewear and soil to wrappers. Clean, tight copy. The pictures assembled here show how this artistic culture originated in the aftermath of the First World War and the unsettled early years of the Weimar Republic, uneasily balanced between revolutionary pretensions and the desire for order. The montage of images--photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, books, and film stills--evokes the period with shocking vividness.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and photographs. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dust jacket shows light edgewear. Containing nearly 600 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, and articles by numerous experts, Amelia Peabody's Egypt sparkles with unforgettable glimpses of the exotic and the bizarre, the unusual and the unfamiliar -- a treasure trove that overflows with Egyptological riches, along with wonderful insights into the culture and mores of the Victorian era, including the prevalent attitudes on empire, fashion, feminism, tourists, servants, and much more.

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers in excellent condition. Touch of foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright. The ever-rapacious Nazis looted staggering quantities of great art and antiques from the nations they occupied. Much of it found its way back to Germany, and following the Allied victory, many thousands of rare (and some priceless) pieces were identified, and returned to the countries from which they had been taken. But not all of the paintings, statues, and archaeological treasures were recovered: Some were taken by Soviet troops and disappeared into Russia. Still others slipped into the black market in western Europe, and were snapped up by wealthy (if unprincipled) collectors. A 1995 symposium at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts brought together European and American investigators and historians to discuss both the the Nazi thefts and the current state of knowledge of the whereabouts of the many still missing treasures. Those papers are reprinted here. While the pieces are detailed, dry, and likely to be of most interest to specialists, there are some extraordinary stories, most prominently the description of the recent rediscovery of ``Priam's treasure,'' excavated by Schliemann at Troy and hidden since WW II in a Russian museum. (123 illustrations, 25 in color).

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Sharp Printing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 111 pages SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title-page. Wear to top rear edge. Translucent dust wrapper with some chipping.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st thus Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped, in very good condition with some tanning from age. Dj wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, black title on spine, boards very good, clean. Edges and pages clean, with a touch of tanning from age. Young Union officer and great American writer, De Forest wrote about what he saw with quiet precision and humor, without favor or prejudice or any concessions to the cherished beliefs of the orthodox in the North or the South.

Hardcover. London, Wolff, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 471 pages. Dust jacket worn, with rubbing and small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st , 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dustjacket. Ground plans of the Indian villages of New Mexico and Arizona with aerial photos & scale drawings.

Hardcover. Vergennes, J. Shedd, 1st, 1831, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown leather covers with title in gilt on spine. Ex- library copy with numbered stamp at bottom of spine. Bookplate on inside front cover, and remains of card pocket on inside of back cover. Moderate rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Rhiinebeck, N.Y., Frank D. Blanchard, 1st Edition, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Hardcover. Scarce. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Pages and edges have some tanning from age, unmarked. Spine straight. Binding good. History of the church, from the eighteenth century through 1931. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Peninsula Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Spiral bound reprint edition privately printed by Peninsula Press in 1994. Previous owners name stamped at top of title page. Black & white illustrations. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, AMS Press, Inc. , Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1936 edition. B/w illustrations (maps/diagrams). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Very good condition throughout. This volume is not only an admirable study in social and economic history, but a unique and valuable contribution to the history of American agriculture as well.

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.

NY, Scribners, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Black & white Illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated end papers. Light edgewear and soil to covers.

Hardcover. Stowe. VT, Walter J. Bigelow, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Moderate fading to green cover boards, Gilt lettering on front and spine. Light scratches on rear cover board. Internally, Previous owner's writings on front fly leaf, otherwise bright, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In his popular Strange Days, Dangerous Nights, Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns in this new volume with a focus on the "dangerous"murder cases from the forties and fifties, memorialized in intimate and telling photographs. There is Arthur DeZeler, accused of bludgeoning his wife, Grace, and sinking her body in a northern lake. Laura Miller, single and pregnant, ran for help after gunshots killed her married lover. Arnold Axilrod, a mild-mannered dentist with a penchant for over-sedating his female patients, was arrested when the lifeless body of one of those patients was discovered in a Minneapolis alley. And, finally, there is Arnold Larson, the personable salesman with a winning smile and a bad temper.Millett traces these four sensational crimes from the moment the victim was found, through the search for the killer, to the court trial and resulting imprisonment or acquittal--there are two of each. All are copiously illustrated with shots from the bulky Speed Graphic camera, which yielded rich, textured views in an era when photographers enjoyed unrestricted access to police matters ranging from found bodies to jail cells. The images dramatically evoke these crimes of passion now more than a half-century old, offering a thrilling immersion into Minnesota noir.

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.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Consulting Archaeology Program, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown glossy wrappers, slight rubbing and edge wear on fore edge. Front paper wrapper turns up slightly. Black & white photographs and map laid in. Clean and tight internally.

Hardcover. Albany, J.B. Lyon Co., 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcover volumes. Vol. 1: 534 pages w/ index. Brown cloth w/ color decorative soldier design on front cover. Front and rear interior hinges cracked, but holding. Spine cloth chipped and missing 1/2" at top and bottom of spine. Cloth along spine with tears and some separations. Beginning of Separation at 2nd signature. Cover corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Gilt top edge. Interior clean,and unmarked. Vol. 2: 336 pages w/ index. Brown cloth w/ gilt lettering. Front interior hinge cracked, but holding. Rear interior hinge loose, but holding. Spine cloth chipped and missing 1/2" at top and bottom of spine. Cloth along spine with tears and some separations and narrow strips of cloth missing. Cover corners rubbed and bumped. Interior clean, and unmarked.

Hardcover. Denver, CO, Fred and Jo Mazzulla, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 56 pages, b&w photographs. Light foxing to top edge. Very minor soiling to boards; covered by plastic dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, William S. & Alfred Martien, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, blue wrappers. Two black lines on front cover otherwise clean.