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Canada's Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisisby: Wilford, Timothy

Canada's Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
by: Wilford, Timothy

Softcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions in Hong Kong. This intriguing account of Canadian intelligence gathering and strategic planning on the eve of the crisis dispels the assumption that the Allies were totally unprepared for war. Canadians worked closely with their US and Allied counterparts to uncover Japan's intentions and to develop a strategic plan for defence. By highlighting Canada's role as a Pacific power, this book sheds new light both on the Pacific War and on events that led to the creation of the Grand Alliance. Clean copy.

Record # 379719

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Two Centuries of Cornwall Life (SIGNED COPY)by: Sanford, Beulah M.

Two Centuries of Cornwall Life (SIGNED COPY)
by: Sanford, Beulah M.

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.

Record # 508929

Price: $120.00 
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Roman Trier and the Treveriby: Wightman, Edith  Mary

Roman Trier and the Treveri
by: Wightman, Edith Mary

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. 49 plates & illustrations + 8 maps. The story of the Treveri, a Gaulish tribe encountered in the pages of Julius Caesar (to whom they caused considerable trouble), tracing from historical and archaeological sources the many changes caused by the process of Romanization. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 415166

Price: $30.00 
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Troja: Results of the Latest Researched and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy, 1882 by: Schliemann, Heinrich

Troja: Results of the Latest Researched and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy, 1882
by: Schliemann, Heinrich

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. 433 pages + plates, Facsimile reprint of the original 1884 edition. (issued without dust jacket). Includes notes, appendices & index. The German archaeologist's great discovery of Homer's Troy. Clean copy.

Record # 374652

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Nevada Ghost Town and Mining Camps: Illustrated Atlasby: Paher. Stanley

Nevada Ghost Town and Mining Camps: Illustrated Atlas
by: Paher. Stanley

Hardcover. Nevada Publications, 1st, June 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 208 pages, b&w photographs and maps throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452708

Price: $70.00 
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Log of a Forty-Niner, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Russ, Carolyn Hale

Log of a Forty-Niner, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Russ, Carolyn Hale

Hardcover. Boston, B. J. Brimmer Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Rare, limited edition, one of 155 copies signed. 183 pages, b&w illustrations. Green covers w/ light wear to corners, top of spine. Top edge gilt. Soiling to title sticker on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850767

Price: $150.00 
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Fifth Avenue - Old and New 1824-1924by: Brown, Henry Collins

Fifth Avenue - Old and New 1824-1924
by: Brown, Henry Collins

Hardcover. New York, Fifth Avenue Association, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages of text and illustrations followed by 66 pages of ads. Hinges tender. Green cloth covers with full color pastedown on front. Light rubbing to cover corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612186

Price: $60.00 
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Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermontby: Chase (Ed.), Francis

Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont
by: Chase (Ed.), Francis

Hardcover. Claremont NH, Tracy Kenney & Co., 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations, original embossed green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Pages have some foxing, bottom edges with light scuffing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 407038

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The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia 1812by: Cate, Curtis

The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia 1812
by: Cate, Curtis

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 487 pages, b&w illustrations. Napoleon's colorful but disastrous Russian campaign has been strangely neglected by American publishers. Bridging the gap between popular and scholarly history, historian Cate has written a thoroughly detailed and researched account that should also appeal to the lay reader. His writing is deliberately paced but dramatic and does far more justice to the extremely complex political and military situation of 1812 than Philippe de Segur's Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1965), the only other work available in the United States. Clean copy.

Record # 387530

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The Slave States (Before the Civil War)by: Frederick Law Olmsted

The Slave States (Before the Civil War)
by: Frederick Law Olmsted

Hardcover. NY, Capricorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 255 pages. Edited by Harvey Wish. Originally written by Olmsted in the 1850s as a series of articles in the New York Times, these essays became "the most important source of information about the life & customs of the slaveholding states of the South." Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 397172

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: McCarthy, Carlton

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: McCarthy, Carlton

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 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. This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, etc.

Record # 372355

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Recollections of a Private - A Study of the Army of the Potomac (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Goss, Warren Lee

Recollections of a Private - A Study of the Army of the Potomac (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Goss, Warren Lee

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Embossed decoration to front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372371

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Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (SIGNED COPY)by: Stoler, Mark A.

Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stoler, Mark A.

Hardcover. University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 380 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy. Clean copy.

Record # 378938

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Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Franks, Norman

Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Franks, Norman

Hardcover. London, Grub Street, First Edition , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. 50th Anniversary Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket, bright & in very good condition. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 750680

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Glorious "Shannon's" Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame, Theby: Snider, C. H. J.

Glorious "Shannon's" Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame, The
by: Snider, C. H. J.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 430 pages, with illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and decorated cover on blue cloth. Minor corner and spine edge wear, cracked binding at front and rear end paper. Yellowing on pages 104 and 105, otherwise, clean and tight overall. A book about the sea battles of the War of 1812 by a noted Canadian naval historian.

Record # 852968

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The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace by: Jeffrey Brace; Editor Kari J. Winter; Contributor Benjamin F. Prentiss

The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
by: Jeffrey Brace; Editor Kari J. Winter; Contributor Benjamin F. Prentiss

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin, reprint., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 244 pages. The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times. Clean copy.

Record # 381572

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Ventures and Voyagesby: Chatterton, E. Keble

Ventures and Voyages
by: Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 217 pages, b&w plates. Edgewear, chipping, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852122

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Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumesby: Piton, E. C.

Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumes
by: Piton, E. C.

Hardcover. Paris, Corbet Aine Libraire, 1st Thus, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 leather bound volumes. FRENCH TEXT. Black & white illustrations, each volume with fold-out map in rear. Volume 1 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. 1" piece of leather missing at bottom of spine. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Volume 2 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. Marbled endpapers. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Both volumes with clean, unmarked texts.

Record # 611802

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The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 642 pages. Hailed in 1849 as "a new department in the literature of civilization," the slave narrative forms the foundation of the African American literary tradition. From the late-eighteenth-century narratives by Africans who endured the harrowing Middle Passage, through the classic American fugitive slave narratives of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives have provided some of the most graphic and damning documentary evidence of the horrors of slavery. Riveting, passionate, and politically charged, the slave narrative blends personal memory and rhetorical attacks on slavery to create powerful literature and propaganda.The Civitas Anthology presents the seven classic antislavery narratives of the antebellum period in their entirety: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave , the first slave narrative published by a woman in the Americas; The Confessions of Nat Turner , written when Turner was asked to record his motivation for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history; The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an international bestseller and the first narrative to fashion the male fugitive slave into an African American cultural hero; The Narrative of William W. Brown , an account that explored with unprecedented realism the slave's survival ethic and the art of the slave trickster; The Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb , the story of the struggles of the most memorable family man among the classic slave narrators; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom , a gripping chronicle of one of the most daring and celebrated slave escapes ever recorded; and Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl , a dramatic text that exposed the sexual abuse of female slaves and pioneered the image of the fugitive slave woman as an articulate resister and survivor.Born out of lives of unparalleled suffering, the slave narrative captures all the bravery, drama, and hope that characterized the African American struggle against slavery. From these beginnings came some of the most influential novels in American literature, for the works of writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Toni Morrison owe much of their power and social resonance to the slave narrative tradition. The Civitas Anthology gathers the most important narratives in this tradition into one volume for the first time, an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and general readers. Clean copy.

Record # 381599

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Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of Civil Warby: Smith, Kristen M.

Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of Civil War
by: Smith, Kristen M.

Hardcover. Athens, Ga., Hill Street Press, LLC, 1st, January 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Light spotting to top edge. Rubbing and light soiling to dust jacket. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 454960

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Foundersby: Bernard Bailyn

To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
by: Bernard Bailyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 185 pages, color and b&w illustrations. With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements. Using visual documentation--portraits, architecture, allegorical engravings--as well as written sources, Bailyn, one of our most esteemed historians, paints a complex picture of that distant but still remarkably relevant world. He explores the powerfully creative effects of the Founders' provincialism and lays out in fine detail the mingling of gleaming utopianism and tough political pragmatism in Thomas Jefferson's public career, and the effect that ambiguity had on his politics, political thought, and present reputation. And Benjamin Franklin emerges as a figure as cunning in his management of foreign affairs and of his visual image as he was amiable, relaxed, and amusing in his social life. Bailyn shows, too, why it is that the Federalist papers--polemical documents thrown together frantically, helter-skelter, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in a fierce political battle two hundred years ago--have attained canonical status, not only as a penetrating analysis of the American Constitution but as a timeless commentary on the nature of politics and constitutionalism.

Record # 381231

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Sack of Shakings, Aby: Bullen, Frank T.

Sack of Shakings, A
by: Bullen, Frank T.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated blue cloth, 389 pages. A collection of essays about maritime life. "Shakings are odds and ends of rope and canvas,accumulated during a voyage. They were formerly the perquisites of the Chief Mate". Spine decoration faded, front end papers foxed, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 372645

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The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes by: Walter Havighurst

The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes
by: Walter Havighurst

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 291 pages illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.

Record # 397355

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Scriptural Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century Addressed to The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter by:

Scriptural Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century Addressed to The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter
by:

Hardcover. NY, W. I. Pooley & Co., 1st., 1864, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on spine, 376 pages. Hopkins was the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Writing after the Emancipation Proclamation had turned the sectional conflict into a war against slavery, he argues in detail that slavery is not forbidden by scripture and hence is not a sin. Deals with the history of slavery, beginning with the Biblical view and slavery of circumstances, and its comparison to the Southern system at this time during the Civil War. Chapter XXX deals with Man-stealing, of which, the author asserts, the Southern States had nothing to do, with the title of the Southern masters shown to be as good as the titles of the North to their lands taken from the Indians. Following chapters also deal specifically with the Golden Rule, the treatment of slaves, testimonies of the Southern clergy, and ultimately a view from the author in favor of the practice of slaveholding. Crease to front board hardly noticeable from the outside but visible inside front cover. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 380613

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Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategyby: Pickett, William B.

Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy
by: Pickett, William B.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to campaign for the presidency in 1952 was a pivotal even in America's cold war years-- it influenced almost a decade of foreign and domestic policy. Based on recently discovered letters and diaries, William Pickett provides the first complete account of Eisenhower's decision to run, with surprising new conclusions. Clean, unread copy.

Record # 378781

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Hoysalas - A Medieval Indian Royal Family, Theby: Derrett, J. Duncan M.

Hoysalas - A Medieval Indian Royal Family, The
by: Derrett, J. Duncan M.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 257 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Inside front hinge cracked. Minor dust jacket edge wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 855331

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Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collectionby: Anderson, John

Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection
by: Anderson, John

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib copy with only one sticker on board spine and one sticker on rear cover board. Dust jacket has no evidence of ex-lib. Tight, clean copy, otherwise.

Record # 750335

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)by: Jennet Conant

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jennet Conant

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 382807

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Jewels and Gemsby: McDonald, Lucile Saunders

Jewels and Gems
by: McDonald, Lucile Saunders

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 288 pages. Two-color frontispiece with B&w illustrations by Vera Bock.Turquoise stain to top edge. Minor wear and rubbing to cover edges. Price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edges No markings.

Record # 851633

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The Brownell Family in Vermontby: Lincoln C. Brownell

The Brownell Family in Vermont
by: Lincoln C. Brownell

Softcover. Williston VT, privately printed, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wraps, 74 pages, b&w illustrations. Due to cheap binding several pages in rear loose. Book bright and clean.

Record # 387660

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West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850 by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850
by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

Softcover. Logan UT, Utah State University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Two fold-out maps in a rear pocket. Three pages with yellow highlighting, otherwise clean.

Record # 382142

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Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Science, 1920-1960by: Doel, Ronald E.

Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Science, 1920-1960
by: Doel, Ronald E.

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures.

Record # 470088

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Correspondence of Robert Boyle, The (Six volumes, complete set)by: Hunter, Michael (Editor), Antonio Clericuzio (Editor), Lawrence M. Principe (Editor)

Correspondence of Robert Boyle, The (Six volumes, complete set)
by: Hunter, Michael (Editor), Antonio Clericuzio (Editor), Lawrence M. Principe (Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volumes, Hardcovers. 1636-1691. Volume 1: 521 pages. Two bumps to front cover board edge. Volume 2: 674 pages. front cover board top right corner bump. Volume 3: 445 pages. Volume 4: 528 pages. Volume 5: 474 pages. Volume 6: 616 pages. Some b/w illustrations. Blue cover boards, gilt title on black with decoration on spines. Previous owner's name and information on flyleaf of volumes 1, 2, and 6. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spines straight. Beautiful set right out of a professor's library. Domestic Shipping Only.

Record # 99057

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The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Homeby: Mitchell, Reid

The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
by: Mitchell, Reid

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

Record # 450476

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History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical, In Three Partsby: Thompson, Zadock

History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical, In Three Parts
by: Thompson, Zadock

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Chauncey Goodrich, Early reprint with appendix added, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 716 pages. Hardcover. "...With a New (fold-out) Map of the State, and 200 (b/w) Engravings." Significant foxing and tanning to volume from age, as well as some moisture damage to bottom of fore-edge. Leather bound with bands and gilt title on spine. Fading to covers. Binding surprisingly tight. Cover boards slightly warped. In fair condition.

Record # 370972

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Pittsford's Second Century, 1872-1997 by: Jean S. Davies; Lois Blittersdorf; Margaret Armitage; Jean Harvie

Pittsford's Second Century, 1872-1997
by: Jean S. Davies; Lois Blittersdorf; Margaret Armitage; Jean Harvie

Hardcover. West Kennebunk, Phoenix Publishing , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, gold lettering, no dj, pictorial paste-down on cover. Fold-out maps.

Record # 371152

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West on the 49th Parallel: Red River to the Rockies, 1872-1876by: Parsons, John E.

West on the 49th Parallel: Red River to the Rockies, 1872-1876
by: Parsons, John E.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated with 50 early photographs and sketches. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853916

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Tales From a Dugoutby: Empey, Arthur Guy

Tales From a Dugout
by: Empey, Arthur Guy

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering and decoration on spine and front board. The author's reminiscences of time in the trenches during World War I. An American serving at the time with British 'Tommies', he also wrote 'Over the Top' and other books about his experiences. Front fly leaf missing, book opens to half title page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 385474

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Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science [Anti-Duhring]by: Engels, Frederick

Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science [Anti-Duhring]
by: Engels, Frederick

Hardcover. Moscow, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 364 pages. Dust jacket w/ edge wear, pieces missing; protected by mylar cover. Staining to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850749

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Indescribably Grand: Diaries and Letters from the 1904 World's Fair by: Clevenger, Martha R (Ed.)

Indescribably Grand: Diaries and Letters from the 1904 World's Fair
by: Clevenger, Martha R (Ed.)

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The history, description, and the writings of four very different Fair visitors, each of whom had made multiple visits to the Fair. Their diaries, memoirs, and letters reveal the wealth of sensation and emotion that overwhelmed visitors to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Record # 383215

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The Note-Book of an Intelligence Officerby: Wood, Eric Fisher

The Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer
by: Wood, Eric Fisher

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. 346 pages. Frontis. portrait, illustrated with b&w plates and folding facsimile documents. "Authoritative information as to how the soldiers of the Allies are transported, housed and trained, how a battle is prepared for in advance, etc. " Author observed British Postal Censorship and war, including trench-fighting, during WWI. Eric Fisher Wood, Sr. (1889 1962) was an American civil engineer, architect, author, and officer in the United States Army, retiring with the rank of Brigadier General. Book shows mild shelf wear, name and stamp to front endpapers, otherwise clean. Good plus.

Record # 383428

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Quaint Nantucketby: William Root Bliss

Quaint Nantucket
by: William Root Bliss

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 225 pages. A history of old Nantucket before the island was discovered by "the summer boarders", as the author explains in his Preface. Gutter partially cracked at title page, owner's small embossed stamp on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383646

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The Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendantsby: Hinchman, Lydia S. (comp.)

The Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants
by: Hinchman, Lydia S. (comp.)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Henry Press, 3rd Ed., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and white. 330 pages, top edge gilt. frontis., b/w plates, text illustrations appendix, index. A highly regarded social history of Nantucket treats the purchase and settlement of the island, the early proprietors, and various events in Nantucket history, such as Nantucket's role in the Revolution. The balance of the work consists of histories of some thirty founding families. Genealogists should also consult the appendices for a list of Quakers who visited Nantucket between 1664 and 1847. Small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 383773

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Proctor; the Story of a Marble Town by: David C. Gale

Proctor; the Story of a Marble Town
by: David C. Gale

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Vermont Printing Co., 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Related ephemera laid in. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a super clean, bright copy.

Record # 387655

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The Impact of the Kabbalah in the 17th Century: the Life and Thought of Francis Mercury Van Helmot, 1614-1698 (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 9) (SIGNED COPY)by: C

The Impact of the Kabbalah in the 17th Century: the Life and Thought of Francis Mercury Van Helmot, 1614-1698 (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 9) (SIGNED COPY)
by: C

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 418 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. "If he had lived among the Greeks, he would now be numbered among the stars." So wrote Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his epitaph for Francis Mercury van Helmont. Leibniz was not the only contemporary to admire and respect van Helmont, but although famous in his own day, he has been virtually ignored by modern historians. Yet his views influenced Leibniz, contributed to the development of modern science, and fostered the kind of ecumenicalism that made the concept of toleration conceivable. The progressive nature of van Helmont's thought was based on his deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah. With his friend Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited the Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians up to that time. Because the subject matter of this work appears so difficult and arcane, it has never been appreciated as a significant text for understanding the emergence of modern thought. However, one can find in it the basis for the faith in science, the belief in progress, and the pluralism characteristic of later western thought. The Lurianic Kabbalah thus deserves a place it has never received in histories of western scientific and cultural developments. Although van Helmont's efforts contributed to the development of religious toleration, his experience as a prisoner of the Inquisition accused of "Judaising" reveals the problematic relations between Christians and Jews during the early-modern period. New Inquisitional documents relating to van Helmont's imprisonment will be discussed to illustrate the difficulties faced by anyone advocating philo-semitism and toleration at the time.

Record # 383956

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Green Mountain Boys, The - A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont by: Thompson, Daniel P.

Green Mountain Boys, The - A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont
by: Thompson, Daniel P.

Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, Second Edition, 1853, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, revised edition to the original published work by the author of "May Martin or The Money Diggers;" "Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster." Green cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Scuffed edges to boards, frayed edge to spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750434

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Rise of New York Port, Theby: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh

Rise of New York Port, The
by: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages, with illustrations and gilt titles. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853911

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Knights of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus 1050-1310, The. VOLUME ONE ONLYby: Riley-Smith, Jonathan

Knights of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus 1050-1310, The. VOLUME ONE ONLY
by: Riley-Smith, Jonathan

Hardcover. London, Macmillian St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket spine has St. Martin's Press sticker on bottom. Internally, clean and tight. Cover boards have light soil to front and fading to bottom edge.

Record # 354069

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Agricultural Policies in Vermont, 1860-1945by: Rozwenc, Edwin Charles

Agricultural Policies in Vermont, 1860-1945
by: Rozwenc, Edwin Charles

Hardcover. Montpelier, Vt., Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 190 pages. Green cloth with gilt titles, no dust jacket. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458718

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Voices From the Clay: The Development of Assyro-Babylonian Literature by: Fiore, Silvestro

Voices From the Clay: The Development of Assyro-Babylonian Literature
by: Fiore, Silvestro

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press,, 1st pbk., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages, b&w illustrations. This volume is a study of Mesopotamian literature from the beginnings of the Bronze Age to the fall of Babylon as an independent state in the 6th century BCE. Part I of this volume deals with the history and culture of the region from the Sumerians to the Persian conquests. Part II treats the development of poetic forms and the mythology and religion upon which much of the poetry is based. Clean copy.

Record # 385603

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