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The Black Infantry in the West, 1869

The Black Infantry in the West, 1869

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars, nearly overshadowing the critical support role of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries. Now Arlen L. Fowler brings to light the story of African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.

Record # 381744

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Mr. Poilu - Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French by: Ward, Herbert

Mr. Poilu - Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French
by: Ward, Herbert

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1916, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Features 46 tipped-in plates. Foxing throughout. Front hinged cracked. Covers worn with areas of staining, darkening to spine cloth.

Record # 613413

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We As Freemen: Plessy v. Fergusonby: Keith Weldon Medley

We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
by: Keith Weldon Medley

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour trip had hardly begun when Plessy was arrested and removed from the train. Though Homer Plessy was born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality while growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers. Plessy's act of civil disobedience was designed to test the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, one of the many Jim Crow laws that threatened the freedoms gained by blacks after the Civil War. This largely forgotten case mandated separate-but-equal treatment and established segregation as the law of the land. It would be fifty-eight years before this ruling was reversed by Brown v. Board of Education. Keith Weldon Medley brings to life the players in this landmark trial, from the crusading black columnist Rodolphe Desdunes and the other members of the Comite des Citoyens to Albion W. Tourgee, the outspoken writer who represented Plessy, to John Ferguson, a reformist carpetbagger who nonetheless felt that he had to judge Plessy guilty. Clean copy.

Record # 381598

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Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West
by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 656 pages. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men. Buffalo roamed, deer and antelope played, and women's voices were never heard. Writing the Range allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community. A valuable introduction to the rapidly changing field of western history, Writing the Range explains clearly how race, class, and culture are constructed and connected. The first section examines issues raised by more than a decade of multicultural western women's histories; following are six chronological sections spanning four centuries. Each section offers a short introduction connecting is essays and placing them in analytic and historical perspective. Clean copy.

Record # 396643

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Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident 1928-1932 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)by: Morley, James William (Editor)

Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident 1928-1932 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
by: Morley, James William (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages with index. Contains selected translations from Taiheiyo senso e no michi: kaisen gaiko shi. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. The first volume in Morley's 4 volume set "Japan's Road to the Pacific War".

Record # 397175

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Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America (3 Vol. Set)by: James D. Kornwolf and Georgiana W. Kornwolf

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America (3 Vol. Set)
by: James D. Kornwolf and Georgiana W. Kornwolf

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this vast terrain, James Kornwolf conjures the outlines of the constructed environment as it emerged in settlements and communities, in structures and sites, and in the flourishes and idiosyncrasies of the families and individuals who erected and inhabited colonial buildings and towns. Here as never before readers can observe the impulses and principles of colonial design and planning as they are implemented in the buildings and streets, harbors and squares, gardens and landscapes of the New World. Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's massive work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities-their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes-as they extended their hold on the land. His work conveys for the first time the full scale, from intimate to grand, of their enduring transformation of the natural landscape of North America. NOTE: DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 362466

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The Constitution of the United States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Prominent Political Acts of George Washington; Electorial Votes for all the Presidents and Vice-Presidents ;. Chron

The Constitution of the United States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Prominent Political Acts of George Washington; Electorial Votes for all the Presidents and Vice-Presidents ;. Chron

Hardcover. Philadelphia, 7th Ed., 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 521 pages. Cloth has peeled back from spine with some missing chips. The book's binding is solid and tight, clean interior. First published in 1854. This is the seventh printing with an illustrated title page dated 1855. Name and address on blank prelim page otherwise clean.

Record # 387917

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HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. I. EIGHTH EDITIONby: Charles Botta; Translated from the Italian by George Alexander Otis

HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. I. EIGHTH EDITION
by: Charles Botta; Translated from the Italian by George Alexander Otis<

Hardcover. New Haven CT, L. Candee, 8th Ed., 1842, Book: Good, Hardcover, brown leather covers with marbled endpapers. Frontis engraving "Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Dec. 22, 1620" with tissue guard. plus seven other engravings, Volume 1 only. Covers worn at edges, leather spine with chipping making title unreadable. Pages 309-337 with dog ear crease to top corners. Small bookplate inside front cover. Despite faults a solid copy.

Record # 382577

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Christian Identity: Jews & Israel in Seventeenth-Century Englandby: Guibbory, Achsah

Christian Identity: Jews & Israel in Seventeenth-Century England
by: Guibbory, Achsah

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked, bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, glossy. Assesses the comexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English Revolution, and into the Restoration, which the English Church and monarchy were restored.

Record # 99062

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Famous Speechesby: Herbert, Paul [Ed.]

Famous Speeches
by: Herbert, Paul [Ed.]

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, 456 pages. Preface, editorial notes accompanying each speech from Cromwell, delivered September 17, 1665 to Gladstone, May 7, 1877. Some light foxing to first 12 pages, otherwise clean, no markings.

Record # 374147

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Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Pittenger, William

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Pittenger, William

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 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. Light scuffing to fore edge gilt. Otherwise, clean, tight copy. A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862, Embracing a Full and Accurate Account of the Secret Journey to the Heart of the Confederacy, the Capture of a Railway Train in a Confederate Camp, the Terrible Chase that Followed, and the Subsequent Fortunes of the Leader and His Party. Reprint of the 1877 edition.

Record # 372357

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Three Months in the Southern States - April-June, 1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Fremantle, Arthur J. L.

Three Months in the Southern States - April-June, 1863 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Fremantle, Arthur J. L.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover & spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Fremantle paints a reasonable picture of the conditions and loyalties in both Southern and Northern territories. His ability to interview so many of the major Southern commanders, with little issue, indicates how lax security was in the Civil War period. His observations, of the life of Southern civilians during the war is also very enlightening.

Record # 372373

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Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages by: Guen

Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
by: Guen

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Detailed study of the lives of four French bishops, who, because of their office were intellectuals & politicians. The book shows how these men rose in the hierachy that was medieval society by way of ambition & talent, not birth. The four are Bernard Gui 1261 - 1331 ( of 'Name of the Rose' fame ), Gilles Le Muisit 1272 - 1353 , Pierre d'Ailly 1351 - 1420 & Thomas Basin 1412 - 1490. Clean copy.

Record # 378944

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Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Beers, Fannie A.

Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Beers, Fannie A.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 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.

Record # 372348

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The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs: The History of the Order of the Eastern Star Among Colored Peopleby: S. Joe, Mrs. Brown/Davis, Elizabet

The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs: The History of the Order of the Eastern Star Among Colored People
by: S. Joe, Mrs. Brown/Davis, Elizabet

Hardcover. New York, G. K. Hall & Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456821

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Black Ivory; A History of British Slaveryby: Walvin, James

Black Ivory; A History of British Slavery
by: Walvin, James

Softcover. Washington DC, Howard University Press, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. A comparative social overview of slavery in Britain, America, and the Caribbean during the colonial period. Walvin carefully examines the external pressures exerted on coastal communities in Africa for slaves, the gradual development of a slave trading system within Africa, and the transport of over twelve million Africans across the seas. Clean copy. Several pages with dog-ear creases.

Record # 381575

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Fourth World of the Hopis, Theby: Courlander, Harold

Fourth World of the Hopis, The
by: Courlander, Harold

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st Thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in protective clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614464

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History of Pittsfield, MA (2 vols)by: Smith, J.

History of Pittsfield, MA (2 vols)
by: Smith, J.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, G.W. Bryan, 1st, 1869/1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol #1 1734-1800: spine frayed, corners worn G+/ Vol 2: 1800-1876 VG w/fold-out map, hinges cracked, tear to top of spine, chipping to top & bottom, internally VG, original black cloth covers.

Record # 803

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Gods of Greece, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Stassinopoulos, Arianna; Beny, Roloff

Gods of Greece, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stassinopoulos, Arianna; Beny, Roloff

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354013

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Slavery in New York by: Ira Berlin; Leslie Harris (Editors)

Slavery in New York
by: Ira Berlin; Leslie Harris (Editors)

Softcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages. Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Many Thousands Gone, and Leslie Harris, Slavery in New York brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery and African American life in New York. Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New York Historical Society, the book demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how, as a way of doing business, it propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today. Powerfully illustrated with images from the New York Historical Society exhibit, Slavery and the Making of New York will be the definitive account of New York's slave past.

Record # 381597

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The Civilization of the Old South: Writings of Clement Eaton by: Eaton, Clement, Editor: Kirwan, Albert D.

The Civilization of the Old South: Writings of Clement Eaton
by: Eaton, Clement, Editor: Kirwan, Albert D.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University of Kentucky Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth, 307 pages. This volume of Eaton's selected writings forms a rich and provocative mosaic of southern life from the years of Thomas Jefferson to the close of the Civil War. These selections, perceptively edited by Albert D. Kinvan, show the wide range of Eaton's interests, including the impact of slavery, the influence of religion, and the art of politics, and they demonstrate the depth of his insight into the civilization of the Old South. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397526

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Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Tradeby: N/A  Bryan Stevenson (Introduction)

Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Trade
by: N/A Bryan Stevenson (Introduction)

Softcover. Montgomery AL, Equal Justice Initiative, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages. Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Trade documents American slavery and Montgomery's prominent role in the domestic slave trade. The report is part of a project focused on developing a more informed understanding of America's racial history and how it relates to contemporary challenges.

Record # 372818

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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889 (SIGNED COPY)by: Bartley Theodore D and Bellico Russell P Edited by and Cohn Arthur B Preface and

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bartley Theodore D and Bellico Russell P Edited by and Cohn Arthur B Preface and

Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press Ltd, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages illustrated in b&w. INSCRIBED on half-title page by Bellico and by Barbara Bartley on the title page. During the latter 19th century, inland waterways were a primary means of commercial and public transportation in the northeast. Captain Theodore D Bartley owned 3 Lake Champlain (NY-VT) canal boats and kept a daily descriptive journal of his life over 30 years. His routes included the Canadian Waterways north of the St Lawrence River along the Rideau Canal; the Northern Waterway from Quebec Province to New York Harbor; the Western Route via the Erie Canal from Troy NY to Lake Erie. He and his canal boat family witnessed many landmark historical events, as well as ordinary life alongside the canals. His original diaries of 1500 pages were transcribed by Bartley, Barbara B., great-grand-daughter-in-law of Theodore.

Record # 378098

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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil Warby: Clinton, Catherine /Silber, Nina [Editors]

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
by: Clinton, Catherine /Silber, Nina [Editors]

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 418 pages. The first book to show how the Civil War transformed gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality among Americans. This unique volume brings together a wide spectrum of critical viewpoints by newly emerging scholars as well as distinguished authors in the field to show how gender became a prism through which the political tensions of antebellum America were filtered and focused. Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, from new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers, to women's roles in the guerrilla fighting, to the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. In addition, an incisive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson helps place these various subjects within an overall historical context. Copyright page states first edition, but no price on dj says Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397501

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War And Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943

War And Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the famous account of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. Seventy-five years after the D-day landings we finally get to see, close-up and in dramatic detail, who was responsible for rescuing, and insisting upon, the great American-led invasion of France in June 1944, and why the invasion was led by Eisenhower. As FDR's D-day triumph turns to personal tragedy, we watch with heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease, and how, in the months left him as US commander in chief, the dying president attempted at Hawaii, Quebec, and Yalta to prepare the United Nations for an American-backed postwar world order. Now we know: even on his deathbed, FDR was the war's great visionary.

Record # 378786

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Life and Death in the Northeast Kingdom: Archaeology and History at the Old Burial Ground in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. by: Kenny, Kathleen M.; James B. Peterson, Phd; J

Life and Death in the Northeast Kingdom: Archaeology and History at the Old Burial Ground in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
by: Kenny, Kathleen M.; James B. Peterson, Phd; J

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.

Record # 408659

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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America by: Harding, Vincent

There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
by: Harding, Vincent

Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, 416 pages. Presents Black history in America as a force of strong resistance to racism and slavery rather than accommodation and discusses the people and events of this struggle. Clean copy.

Record # 381594

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Combat Uniforms of the Civil Warby: Lloyd, Mark

Combat Uniforms of the Civil War
by: Lloyd, Mark

Hardcover. NY, Mallard Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 220 pages, color illustrations by Michael Codd.

Record # 382070

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Conquerors of the Skyby: French (Editor), Joseph Lewis

Conquerors of the Sky
by: French (Editor), Joseph Lewis

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, McLoughlin Bros, Inc., reprint, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Introduction by Amelia Earhart. Red cloth cover, edges are worn and bumped. Slight foxing on rear endpage. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Partial spine separation. Inside is clean, b&w photographs throughout.

Record # 853240

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Shoeleather and Printers' Ink: A Half-Century of the Stories Behind the Stories by New York Newspapermen by: Britt, George (editor)

Shoeleather and Printers' Ink: A Half-Century of the Stories Behind the Stories by New York Newspapermen
by: Britt, George (editor)

Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle/The New York Times, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 370 pages. Experiences & Agterthoughts by New York Newspapermen on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Old Timers' Society, selected from issues of SILURIAN NEWS. Clean copy.

Record # 382509

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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent by: Lavender, David

The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
by: Lavender, David

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, BC Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. The dramatic true story of one of the great adventures of our nation's earliest years - the Lewis and Clark expedition 1803-6 to explore the American continent to the Pacific and return. This book includes in-depth profiles of the expedition's members and recounts the varying reactions of the Indians, from helpful to hostile and even violent. It provides compelling accounts of each leg of the journey. An engrossing reexamination of the expedition written by a master of narrative history. 444 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 382144

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Stork Club : America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Societyby: Blumenthal, Ralph

Stork Club : America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society
by: Blumenthal, Ralph

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to upper edge of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460651

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Massachusetts in the Rebellion a Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth, and the Services of the Leading Statesmen, the Military, the and the People, in the Civil War of 1861-65 by:

Massachusetts in the Rebellion a Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth, and the Services of the Leading Statesmen, the Military, the and the People, in the Civil War of 1861-65
by:

Hardcover. Boston, Walker, Fuller, and Company, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt illustrations on front board and spine, 688 pages + ads in front of title-page. Black & white plates with tissue guards. Tissue guard on frontispiece removed. Foxing to pages. Hinge once separated from binding, now reglued at front endpaper. Spotting, fade to spine. Small hole to spine binding. Edgewear to bottom edges. No markings.

Record # 381980

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University of Vermont in the Great War, Theby: N/A

University of Vermont in the Great War, The
by: N/A

Hardcover. Burlington VT , The War Service Committee of the University of Vermont, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles and decoration on spine and cover. three quarter leather raised bands on front and back cover. Binding cracked between front cover and title page. Tape repair on spine, fragile and separating. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 857267

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With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Dieby: Jones, Fortier

With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Die
by: Jones, Fortier

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Tan cloth stamped in red and dark green on front and spine. No D.J.

Record # 371038

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The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940sby: N/A

The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940s
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, St. Michael's High School, 1940-1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nine stapled softcover booklets, 44-60 pages each, b&w photos. A history of this Vermont high school during WW2 and the post-war years. A few with ink name on cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 371176

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American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government by: Charles Marion Thomas

American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government
by: Charles Marion Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, 294 pages. There is some light pencil underlining to pages. The author began his study trying to determine Thomas Jefferson's contribution to the proclamation of neutrality in the conflict between France and England. It developed into a detailed analysis of America's first cabinet under Washington.

Record # 387788

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Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolutionby: Berger, Carl

Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolution
by: Berger, Carl

Hardcover. San Rafael CA, Presidio Press, Revised Ed., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 226 pages, An updated edition of the 1961 printing. B&w illustrations. "The author relates the fascinating story of the propaganda and subversion activities of both factions during the American Revolutionary War."

Record # 371709

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For Sale - American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Floridaby: Willie Drye

For Sale - American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida
by: Willie Drye

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Rowman & Littlefield, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans' twentieth-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. For Sale -- American Paradise concentrates on the experiences of American icon William Jennings Bryan, journalist Edwin Menninger, and others who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America's paradise. The cast also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, a pack of backwoods bandits known as the Ashley Gang, and the visionaries and businessmen who poured their dreams and their cash into Florida in the roaring, raucous 1920s.

Record # 387738

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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia by: McFaul, Michael

From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by: McFaul, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries And then, as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president From the first days of McFaul's ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family. 506 pages, illustrations, clean copy.

Record # 383225

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The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesarby: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesar
by: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

Hardcover. Dublin, Brett Smith, 1st thus, 1788, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound. 553 pages plus Index of Proper Names. Uncommon translation from Ireland. Hawkey was a Reverend and Master of the Free-School in Dundalk. "The Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest. The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present-day France and Belgium). "His Commentaries of the Civil War" is an account written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate. It covers the events of 49-48 BC, from shortly before Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus and flight to Egypt with Caesar in pursuit. It closes with Pompey assassinated, Caesar attempting to mediate rival claims to the Egyptian throne, and the beginning of the Alexandrian War. Prelim pages gone so the book opens on the title page. Interior pages bright with no foxing, firm binding. Light wear to covers, front cover with partial split along spine, Otherwise clean.

Record # 383404

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Wedemeyer Reports! by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Wedemeyer Reports!
by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. 497 pages with index. An objective, dispassionate examination of World War II, postwar policies, and Grand Strategy. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897 - 1989) was a United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he was an important member of the War Planning Board which formulated plans for the Invasion of Normandy. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 387898

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Greeters' Guide to Washingtonby: N/A

Greeters' Guide to Washington
by: N/A

Softcover. Washington DC, Greeters of America, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled tan wrappers. Compliments of the Arlington Hotel. Giving Location and description of principal points of interest, public buildings, etc., etc., illustrated with reproductions of latest photographs. 72 pages with a foldout map. in rear. In addition there is second, different street map of Washington's streets laid in. Folds out to approx, 20 X 23". All in very good condition.

Record # 383828

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Pilgrims and their History, Theby: Usher, Roland G.

Pilgrims and their History, The
by: Usher, Roland G.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99169

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John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)by: Marshall, John

John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
by: Marshall, John

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 767 pages. 'This book is a major new intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyses early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises. This study is a significant contribution to the history of the 'republic of letters' of the 1680s and the development of early Enlightenment culture and will be essential reading for scholars of early modern European history, religion, political science, and philosophy.' Clean copy.

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Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia by: J. Douglas Smith

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
by: J. Douglas Smith

Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century. Light marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 384260

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Lieber's Standard Telegraphic Code by: B. Franklin Lieber

Lieber's Standard Telegraphic Code
by: B. Franklin Lieber

Hardcover. NY, Lieber Publishing Co., reprint, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, pebbled brown cloth, 800 pages plus ads. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of codeworks for use in telegrams, compiled by Benjamin Franklin Lieber. 'Lieber's Standard Telegraphic Code' is a simplified and condensed list of codewords used for telegrams. Lists of codeworks were often compiled from the 1870s to the 1950s as telegrams charged per word. The codewords were created to be able to send longer messages for a lower cost. Some of the codewords included in this work are 'Adeschiamo', meaning 'is it a good time to buy', 'Assipondio', meaning 'according to our view of the matter', 'Atrafago', meaning 'one month', 'Brassement', meaning 'endeavor to settle it in a friendly manner', and more. Both hinges cracked otherwise sound and clean.

Record # 384938

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Dedication of the Restored Old First Church of Bennington As Vermont's Colonial Shrine Sunday August 15 1937 by: Vincent Ravi Booth and Denison Bingham Hull (Architec

Dedication of the Restored Old First Church of Bennington As Vermont's Colonial Shrine Sunday August 15 1937
by: Vincent Ravi Booth and Denison Bingham Hull (Architec

Hardcover. E.L. Hildreth & Co., Inc. (printers), Ltd. Ed., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with bright gilt lettering an cover and spine. Signed by Booth on the limitation page, #193 of 500 copies. No dust jacket if issued. 98 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs. Clean copy.

Record # 385356

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Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Lifeby: King, Captain Charles

Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life
by: King, Captain Charles

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.

Record # 412182

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Black Bondage in the Northby: McManus, Edgar J.

Black Bondage in the North
by: McManus, Edgar J.

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 236 pages. This foremost history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. Unlike the South, which used slaves primarily for agricultural labor, the North trained and diversified its slave force to meet the needs of a complicated economy. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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