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Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The Cock-Lane Ghost - The Rochester - The Stratford Mysteries - Oracles - Astrology - Dreams - Demons - Ghosts - Specters, etc.

Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The Cock-Lane Ghost - The Rochester - The Stratford Mysteries - Oracles - Astrology - Dreams - Demons - Ghosts - Specters, etc.
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Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original embossed brown cloth, 274 pages, plus 14 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Several pages have tears to edges, limited to margins and not affecting text. Mild foxing. some residue to front and rear pastEdowns. Overall very good.

Record # 353636

Price: $300.00 
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Stalingrad: City on Fireby: Isaev, Alexey

Stalingrad: City on Fire
by: Isaev, Alexey

Hardcover. Yorkshire UK, Pen and Sword Military, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. So much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad - the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War - that we should know everything about it. But the history of the war, and the battle, is evolving and is being written anew, and Alexey Isaev's engrossing account is a striking example of this fresh approach. B&w photos, color maps. Clean copy.

Record # 378850

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Admirals of the Caribbeanby: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Admirals of the Caribbean
by: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852453

Price: $18.00 
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Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazonby: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazon
by: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution/Bureau of American Ethnology, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 664 pages plus 112 b&w plates in rear. Extensive folding maps, plates. text illustrations. The mounds of Marajo & other sites. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 167. Clean copy.

Record # 381656

Price: $50.00 
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League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Millikenby: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Milliken
by: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

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.

Record # 359793

Price: $20.00 
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History of Jericho Vermont, The: Volume Twoby: Merle (Editor), Mrs. Elinor I.

History of Jericho Vermont, The: Volume Two
by: Merle (Editor), Mrs. Elinor I.

Hardcover. Vermont, Town of Jericho, Vermont, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 301 pages, with b&w photographs and fold-out Brown family tree. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853219

Price: $20.00 
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Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic by: Rosenstein, Nathan S.

Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic
by: Rosenstein, Nathan S.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 224 pages. Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended on aristocratic competition, since no professional bureaucracy directed public affairs and no salary was attached to any public office. But as Rosenstein adeptly shows, competition appears to have been surprisingly limited, in ways that curtailed the possible destructive effects of all-out contests between individuals. Imperatores Victi examines one particularly striking case of such checks on competition. Military success at all times represented an abundant source of prestige and political strength at Rome. Generals who led armies to victory enjoyed a better-than-average chance of securing higher office upon their return from the field. Yet this study demonstrates that defeated generals were not barred from public office and in fact went on to win the Republic's most highly coveted and hotly contested offices in numbers virtually identical with those of their undefeated peers.

Record # 379165

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Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia Delphi Isthmia Nemea Athens by: Valavanis, Panos

Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia Delphi Isthmia Nemea Athens
by: Valavanis, Panos

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages, many b&w and color plates. This book celebrates the athletes, the games the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 353593

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Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830 by: David W. Noble

Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830
by: David W. Noble

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 197 pages. Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel J. Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anti-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature. Clean copy.

Record # 397493

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Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Partyby: Remini, Robert V.

Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party
by: Remini, Robert V.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 3rd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.271 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397176

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Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Tradesby: Manning, Patrick

Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades
by: Manning, Patrick

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Softcover. Binding tight. Some underlining in pencil on a few pages, otherwise clean inside. A touch of foxing to top edge. Wrapper in great shape. Looks great.

Record # 5560083

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Frederic Remington - A Biographyby: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Frederic Remington - A Biography
by: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Hardcover. Garden City, Duobleday & Company Inc., First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with white titles to spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751118

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Entscheidung Stalingrad-Das Buch zur TV Reihe Der verdammte Krieg by: Guido Knopp

Entscheidung Stalingrad-Das Buch zur TV Reihe Der verdammte Krieg
by: Guido Knopp

Hardcover. Munchen GR%, C. Bertelsmann, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, text illustrations., maps, bibliog., Foreword by Lew Kopelew. GERMAN TEXT. Highly pictorial account of the disastrous German campaign 1942-43. Cllean copy.

Record # 374152

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Hard Tack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Billings, John D./Charles W. Reed

Hard Tack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Billings, John D./Charles W. Reed

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 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. Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every dayaEUR"in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. The authenticity of his book is heightened by the many drawings that a comrade, Charles W. Reed, made in the field. This is the story of how the Civil War soldier was recruited, provisioned, and disciplined. Described here are the types of men found in any outfit; their not very uniform uniforms; crowded tents and makeshift shelters; difficulties in keeping clean, warm, and dry; their pleasure in a cup of coffee; food rations, dominated by salt pork and the versatile cracker or hardtack; their brave pastimes in the face of death; punishments for various offenses; treatment in sick bay; firearms and signals and modes of transportation. Comprehensive and anecdotal, Hardtack and Coffee is striking for the pulse of life that runs through it.

Record # 372359

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Soldier's Recollection, A - Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate; With an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by:

Soldier's Recollection, A - Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate; With an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by:

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 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. The account of the battles give incisive information, the writer speaks in such a way that one feels he is present, and telling you his experience and account of each battle discussed. McKim was a Maryland Confederate officer and one can feel his position in many of the comments he makes. This book is "the real deal". If you seek the true Confederate view of the Civil War, McKim will supply you with accurate information, both the good and the bad, concerning his experience in battles.

Record # 372375

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In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process the Colonial Period (SIGNED COPY)by: Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.

In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process the Colonial Period (SIGNED COPY)
by: Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket with a bar code sticker on rear panel. INSCRIBED TO TV TALK SHOW HOST DICK CAVETT BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf: "To Dick Cavett with appreciation for your steady excellence and thoughtful commentary -with regards and highest esteem - A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr./June 30, 1978". Focusing on the actions and attitudes of the courts, legislatures, and public servants in six colonies, Judge Higginbotham shows ways in which the law has contributed to injustices suffered by Black Americans Judge Higginbotham chronicles in unrelenting detail the role of the law in the enslavement and subjugation of black Americans during the colonial period. 512 pages, b&w illustrations. No markings.

Record # 379117

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Whallonsburg, New York Agricultural Heritage Area (SIGNED COPY)by: LaForest, Shirley

Whallonsburg, New York Agricultural Heritage Area (SIGNED COPY)
by: LaForest, Shirley

Softcover. Essex New York , Eyrie Publications , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Spiral bound softcover. Black & white photographs and maps throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Map of Whallonsburg, New York laid-in. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 613601

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Voyages and Adventures of la Perouse. From the Fourteenth Edition of the F. Valentin Abridgement, Tours, 1875by: Gassner Julius S. /translated by

Voyages and Adventures of la Perouse. From the Fourteenth Edition of the F. Valentin Abridgement, Tours, 1875
by: Gassner Julius S. /translated by

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Yellow cloth back & white cloth boards with arrangement of shells on front cover. 161 pages, index, b&w illustrations. Double-page map of voyages, portrait of La Perouise, 13 illustrations (many double-page). This translation includes a supplement of notes from the ship surgeon's journal regarding natives of Easter Island and Maui, and an appendix describing to efforts made to solve the mysterious disappearance of the expedition.

Record # 381637

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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipationby: Ira Berlin/Marc Favreau/Steven Miller

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
by: Ira Berlin/Marc Favreau/Steven Miller

Hardcover. NY, The New Press , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover book with a bright dust jacket in a slipcase that also includes interview tapes. A startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, the astonishing audiotapes made available the only known recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement-recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were rendered audible for the first time specifically for this set. Two sixty-minute audiotapes: the first is original recordings of former slaves recorded in the 1930s, the second features dramatic readings by Esther Rolle, James Earl Jones and other black artists. Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.

Record # 381581

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Connecticut and the Foundation of Vermont by: Creighton, Robert C.

Connecticut and the Foundation of Vermont
by: Creighton, Robert C.

Paperback. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, Reprint wraps , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 145 pages. A dissertation submitted to Yale University in 1953. Clean.

Record # 304853

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Newspaper Row : Journalism in the Pre-Television Era (SIGNED COPY)by: Kenny, Herbert A.

Newspaper Row : Journalism in the Pre-Television Era (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kenny, Herbert A.

Globe Pequot Press , 1ST, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In a series of colorful vignettes, a veteran newspaperman recreates a madcap era during which more than a dozen newspapers lived and died in 'the Row' on Boston's Washington Street. This is a story of fierce circulation competition and the often-outrageous journalism it inspired. Clean copy.

Record # 381474

Price: $12.00 
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Narrative of Andersonville, Aby: Spence, Ambrose

Narrative of Andersonville, A
by: Spence, Ambrose

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Light edge wear, soiling to covers. Previous owner's inscription on front and rear fly leaf. Light smudging to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850890

Price: $100.00 
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Sagebrush Casinos: The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada by: Lewis, Oscar

Sagebrush Casinos: The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada
by: Lewis, Oscar

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and faded dust jacket. An early profile of Sin City. Legalized gambling in Nevada was 23 years old when this book examined what the move meant to the state and the nation in, in social, political, and economic terms. Much has changed in the intervening years.

Record # 381337

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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independenceby: Unger, Harlow Giles

Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
by: Unger, Harlow Giles

NY, Da Capo Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication, Paine's aroused men to action like no one else. The most widely read political writer of his generation, he proved to be more than a century ahead of his time, conceiving and demanding unheard-of social reforms that are now integral elements of modern republican societies. Among them were government subsidies for the poor, universal housing and education, pre- and post-natal care for women, and universal social security. An Englishman who emigrated to the American colonies, he formed close friendships with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and his ideas helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

Record # 381237

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American Military History; Army Historical Seriesby: Matloff, Maurice (edited)

American Military History; Army Historical Series
by: Matloff, Maurice (edited)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt eagle seal at top front, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with selections from the Department Of Defense files . Forty-seven maps by B. C. Mossman . This is a team effort by a number of the nation's leading scholars including Matloff , Kent Greenfield , Richard Leighton , and other leaders of the Army Historical Series. The volume covers through the Vietnam war. Small name blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397529

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Cradle of Violence - How Boston's Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolutionby: Bourne, Russell

Cradle of Violence - How Boston's Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution
by: Bourne, Russell

Hardcover. Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with red printed titles to spine. Dust jacket in very good condition. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751107

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Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Countryby: Lampe, John R.

Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country
by: Lampe, John R.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, no rips or tears. B/w illustrations. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good shape. The first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history and that of its ethnic mosaic.

Record # 32385

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Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal by: Cathy D. Knepper

Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal
by: Cathy D. Knepper

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. An interesting history of Greenbelt, Maryland including the origins of Greenbelt, the ideology of its founders, and their struggle to create a cooperative planned community in the United States. Built in the 1930s on worn-out tobacco land between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, was designed to provide homes for low-income families as well as jobs for its builders. In keeping with the spirit of the New Deal, the physical design of the town contributed to cooperation among its residents, and the government further encouraged cooperation by helping residents form business cooperatives and social organizations.Part of the *Creating the North American Landscape* series. Clean copy.

Record # 378790

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Three Years Travels throughout the Interior Parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles...by: Carver, Captain Jonathan

Three Years Travels throughout the Interior Parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles...
by: Carver, Captain Jonathan

Hardcover. Boston, Isaiah Thomas & Company, 1st, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Hardcover leather binding. Moderate shelf wear, Front hinge starting to separate. Pages heavily foxed and tanned. Previous owner's name and markings throughout.

Record # 354182

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Victorian England as Seen By Punchby: Huggett, Frank E.

Victorian England as Seen By Punch
by: Huggett, Frank E.

Hardcover. London, Book Club Associates, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 415212

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Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotelby: Wilson, Sondra Kathryn

Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel
by: Wilson, Sondra Kathryn

Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801529

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Dean Acheson: The State Department Yearsby: McLellan, David S.

Dean Acheson: The State Department Years
by: McLellan, David S.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 466 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, minor wear to dj. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387900

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To Honor Fallen Heroes: How a Small German American Village in New York City Experienced the Great War (SIGNED COPY)by: Haas, James E.

To Honor Fallen Heroes: How a Small German American Village in New York City Experienced the Great War (SIGNED COPY)
by: Haas, James E.

Softcover. self-published, 1st, 2017, Softcover, 238 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. An historical and biographical study of the men from College Point, Queens, New York who rendered valuable service to their country in World War One. More than six hundred fifty served in the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Merchant Marine. Twenty-eight died. What gives the book its relatively unique character is that the hamlet was basically German in origin, primarily industrial, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a destination place for large numbers of entertainment-seeking New Yorkers. The book includes an overview of these elements, illustrating how each played its role before, during and, to a limited extent, after the war. These subjects are woven into a detailed analysis of how College Point, and its people weathered movements and events; labor strife, anti-German sentiment, espionage, the influenza epidemic, and a host of other forces that impacted American culture in general, and their lives in particular. Also told in chronological order, and brief vignettes are the stories of the twenty-eight men who went willingly to war, and died. Clean copy.

Record # 382512

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Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hartford Publishing Co., 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering and design, embossed rules to covers. 524 pages. Detailed records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast on the newly completed transcontinental railroad. Includes much information on the Mormons, Salt Lake City, Indians, gold mining, etc. 12 engraved plates and one map. Bookplate on inside front cover, light fading to spine gilt. Solid, clean copy.

Record # 382021

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantationby: Franklin, John Hope & Schweninger, Loren

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
by: Franklin, John Hope & Schweninger, Loren

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 455 pages, b&w illustrations. From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Clean copy.

Record # 381602

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Medieval Germany and its Neighbours: 900-1250by: Leyser, K. J.

Medieval Germany and its Neighbours: 900-1250
by: Leyser, K. J.

Softcover. London, The Hambledon Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages. The inner workings of early medieval societies cannot be understood without also studying their links - religious, cultural, economic and political - with their neighbours. In this collection Karl Leyser shows how Ottonian and Salian Germany both influenced and was influenced by the societies with which it came into contact. While the author's central interest is in Germany, his work is of value for the study of medieval European society as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 382031

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American Ferryboatsby: Perry, John

American Ferryboats
by: Perry, John

Hardcover. New York , Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, many b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 408243

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Society at Tunbridge Wells - In the Eighteenth Century and Afterby: Melville, Lewis

Society at Tunbridge Wells - In the Eighteenth Century and After
by: Melville, Lewis

Hardcover. London, Eveleigh Nash, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt design, 315 pages plus ads. Black & white illustrations. Minor foxing to some pages. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley. Frontispiece plate of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of Bristol with tissue facing. Illustrated with 24 more plates in text.

Record # 608341

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History of New Haven in Vermont 1761-1983, Aby: Farnsworth, Harold and others

History of New Haven in Vermont 1761-1983, A
by: Farnsworth, Harold and others

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 edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 371181

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Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I (SIGNED COPY)by: Stephen L. Harris

Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stephen L. Harris

Hardcover. Washington DC, Brassey's , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations, 293 pages. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS on the title page.

Record # 371443

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Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errorsby: Dahlberg, Laurie

Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors
by: Dahlberg, Laurie

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This lavishly illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regnault (1810-1878) in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regnault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Societe Francaise de Photographie (S.F.P.) and as the maker of more than two hundred calotype (paper negative) portraits and landscapes. His photographic and scientific careers intersected a third field with his appointment in 1852 as director of the Sevres porcelain works. Readers are treated to Regnault's own beguiling pastoral, garden, and forest scenes; striking portraits of the scientists and artists in his circle of friends; quirky images of acoustic experiments; and an insider's view of the Sevres porcelain works. Regnault's richly varied photographs also encompass perhaps the most extensive group of family portraits in early photography, and his romanticized landscapes reflect a moment when the rural outskirts of Paris were being aggressively suburbanized and industrialized.

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The American Revolution in the South by: Henry Lee (aka Light Horse Harry Lee), Editor: Robert E. Lee

The American Revolution in the South
by: Henry Lee (aka Light Horse Harry Lee), Editor: Robert E. Lee

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 620 pages. History of the American Army in the Southern states during the Revolutionary war. Written by Henry (Light Horse) Lee, father of Robert E Lee. This is a reprint of the 1869 edition, with a biography of Henry Lee by Robert E Lee. Clean copy.

Record # 397489

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Captain Bligh & Mr. Christian: The Men and the Mutinyby: Hough, Richard

Captain Bligh & Mr. Christian: The Men and the Mutiny
by: Hough, Richard

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 320 pages with chronology, notes & index, B&W photographic & other illustrations. "The mutiny that involved 25 officers and men led by the Bounty's handsome, privileged and gifted second in command, Fletcher Christian". Endpapers chart of the track of His Majesty's Armoured Ship Bounty in the South Seas 1788 to 1790. Clean copy.

Record # 383231

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Battle Field and Prison Pen, or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeonsby: Urban, John W.

Battle Field and Prison Pen, or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeons
by: Urban, John W.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Hubbard Brothers, 1st Edition, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard--see image). Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's stamp of ownership on two preliminary pages. Cover boards bound in brown mustard cloth, gilt title and decorations on spine and front cover board (see image). Cover boards have a touch of age wear. Pages and edges have some tanning from age. Loose gutter at top of title page (see image), otherwise binding tight. "A graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the whole period of the late war for the Union--during which the author was actively engaged in 25 Battles and Skirmishes, was three times taken prisoner..."

Record # 367815

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Nantucket In Printby: Crosby, Everett U.

Nantucket In Print
by: Crosby, Everett U.

Hardcover. Nantucket MA, Tetaukimmo Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards stamped in black with black cloth spine that has gilt title. 225 pages, 2 fold-out maps. A detailed study of writings. maps and other material concerning Nantucket Island. Still the essential resource for books about Nantucket and its history. It reprints selections of rare texts and provides a bibliography of printed materials.Clean copy, no dust jacket.

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Papers of John Adams - Series III - General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen - Volume 3 - May 1775-January 1776by: Robert Taylor (Editor) Gregg

Papers of John Adams - Series III - General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen - Volume 3 - May 1775-January 1776
by: Robert Taylor (Editor) Gregg

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press/Harvard, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 417 pages. As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing amount of correspondence. The majority of his letters were written to secure the facts that would enable this duty-ridden man to decide and act effectively on the issues being debated. Military affairs, a source of never-ending concern, provide some of the most fascinating subjects, including several accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, assessments of various high-ranking officers, and complaints about the behavior of the riflemen sent from three states southward to aid the Massachusetts troops. Clean, tight copy.

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Flight Into Oblivion (SIGNED COPY)by: Hanna, A. J.

Flight Into Oblivion (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hanna, A. J.

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Johnson Publishing Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated cloth, 306 pages with index. B&w illustrations by John Rae, several maps including endpapers. INSCRIBED BY HANNA on the front fly leaf. "The major, detailed study of the exodus of the Confederate government from Richmond; thoroughly researched and well-written." [Martin Abbott]. minor bumps to cloth covers, name tipped-in on dedication page, otherwise clean.

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Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden by: Rosenblatt, Jason P.

Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden
by: Rosenblatt, Jason P.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages including index. In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation" (Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals, including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden's uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampmentby: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment
by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Softcover. Harrisburg PA, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 145 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397486

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Ghost Boats on the Mississippi: Discovering Our Working Pastby: Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

Ghost Boats on the Mississippi: Discovering Our Working Past
by: Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

Softcover. Fayettevill, AR, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1st Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, 237 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, just a touch of tanning and small crease on front cover. Pages clean. Binding tight. Study of recovered Mississippi riverboat wrecks discovered by archaeologists.

Record # 369286

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