History

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to edges.

Softcover. Kearney NE, Morris Publishing, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. The Tin Box captures the life of George Varney, Brevet Brigadier General and Colonel of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment from Bangor during the Civil War. The book is based on a collection of letters, newspaper clippings, and military documents found in a metal box when Varney's only grandson died. Varney wrote to his mother from June 1861 to March 1863; from the first battle of Bull Run to Chancellorsville; from his capture at Gaines Mill to his head injury at Fredericksburg. From letters to General Varney from friends he made on the battlefield -- Generals Joshua Chamberlain, Thomas Hyde, Fitz John Porter, and others -- the book reveals the life-long impact on Varney of the war that consumed the nation. Newspaper clippings recount the glorious homecoming of the 2nd Maine, the Bangor reception of President Grant, and the first reunion of the veterans of the regiment, held nearly forty years after mustering out.From information meticulously recorded in a tattered notebook found in the box, the author, Varney's great grandson, traced the genealogy of the Varney family back to the 1630s. Among Varney's ancestors was his great uncle and military role model, General Isaac Hodsdon, who figured prominently in early Maine history as the commander of the militia in the Aroostook War of 1839. The book discusses in detail this little-known but important chapter in U. S. history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st US, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, TWO VOLUMES. Volume I, 621 pages. Volume II, 581 pages. In depth history of WWI. In very good condition, some wear to maroon boards and soiled edges of pages. Otherwise clean and well-bound. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, Blurb, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Some slight shelfwear to dust jacket. Otherwise tight copy. Publishers note lain within. The never before told biographical and industrial history of Louis Marx & Co. as told by the men who lived it, through the creation of the world's largest toy company.

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. 360 pages. Originally published in 1902. The author looks at the formation of the Tory or Loyalist party in the American Revolution, its persecution, the banishment (or death) of over 100,000 of these most conservative and respectable Americans, and the consequences of their banishment. In numbers, historically it is only comparable to the fates of the Moors of Spain and the Huguenots of France. This was the first book by the famous historian Claude Halstead van Tyne (1869-1930), who was a Michigan and Pennsylvania professor and author who wrote extensively on the American Revolution. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 5th Ed., 1770, Hardcover set. quarter brown calf antique, marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Covers worn, rubbed , leather spines worn with chipping, volume 2 has label missing, also front cover detached. HOWES B-974. "Best contemporary account. Actually written by William Burke, but usually ascribed to his more famous kinsman who gave substantial help." While the covers and spine are battered and worn, the interiors are very good. Both folding maps are clean and bright. Ownership name "L. Pillars/1857" on fly leaves and title pages, otherwise clean. Ideal candidates for rebinding.

Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.

Softcover. NY, Mahlon Day, 1824, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 page booklet with string binding. A report proposing building a institution to house and reform juvenile delinquents. Laid in is a tattered cover note signed by C.D. Colden/President and R.F. Mott/ Secretary. Overall fair with chipped edges, paper tanned but complete.

Hardcover. Malibu, Coastline Publishers, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Full color photograph to cover boards with marginal wear. Faint foxing to endpapers. Light toning to edges. Bright black & white illustrations throughout. Otherwise very clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 334 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate, stamp, and pencil markings on front endpapers. Some pages untrimmed. Blue leather cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with two color decoration. Boards are excellent. Dust jacket has agewear, but present. binding very good. Pages and edges have some tanning. Top edge dyed. Dr. Gordon brings an artist's eye as well as the knowledge of a historian to the beautiful city of London and her historic landmarks.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 6th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 318 pages. The treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. Uncommon in hardcover. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 489 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color photo throughout. While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are some of the greatest stories the magazine ever published-and many that are not so good. From stories on admirable serial killers and interviews with child stars to photos of graffiti and people's naked sisters, this book takes you into the dirty minds of Gastman and his team of juvenile delinquents. You've been warned.

Hardcover. Weymouth, MA, George H. Ellis Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH HANDWRITTEN POEMS AID IN. Light foxing and age discoloration on pages. Light soil to covers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 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. A well written and well thought out story of the Confederate Secret Service. Headley tells the little known and forgotten story of Confederate operations in Canada.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 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.

Hardcover. Washington DC, F. Taylor and Wm. Morrison, 1st, 1840, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages in original tan cloth covers with paper spine label. A collection of letters by a college professor written during his travels from 1837-38. They're divided into two parts: Letters from the Valley of the Connecticut River and Letters from the West addressed to the author's wife, then in Baltimore. ( the "West" he visited include Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky). Three-page preface by author. Covers with light soil, bottom of spine frayed, front endpaper gone so volume opens to title page. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, First Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 845 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Brown cloth covers with orange titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with only marginal wear. Clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 441 pages, edited and introduced by Richard Barber, a selection from "The History of the Worthies of England" by Thomas Fuller. Gilt title and decorations on dark blue cloth board with slipcase, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 500 pages, with illustrations. Corner and edge wear and fade, scuff mark on spine, some red spots on back cover, two small watermarks on front cover and black ink stains on bottom edge. Overall in good condition with clean pages and tight binding.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. From 1965 to 1975, an array of journals, magazines, fanzines, and underground presses were the voice of a dramatic sexual revolution. In Europe and the United States, this "sex press" consisted of publications such as Other Scenes, Yellow Dog, Actuel, Suck, The Body, and Screw--some of which were fully dedicated to sex, while others also engaged with the time's most riveting topical issues, including politics, human rights, war, women's rights, and gay and lesbian rights. Showcasing art from the most revolutionary publications of the era, the book traces the exuberant sexual liberation of the 1960s and then moves into the mid-1970s, with its more codified form of pornography. Illustrated by a vivid collection of full-page facsimiles, Sex Press offers a compelling visual tour through an extraordinary period of experimentation, creativity, and sexual freedom.

Hardcover. Jericho, Town of Jericho, 1st, 1868, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Soldiers listed by name, age, unit, dates of service, capture, wounds, deaths. Interspersed throughout text are historical facts to be found in no other Civil War publication. Brown cloth. Title in gilt on front cover. Front and rear endpapers age toned. Small wrinkle in cloth on back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, 287 pages. Light fading to spine. In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to objects that either are produced by skilled artisans and/or come from 'afar.' She argues that fine artisanship and long-distance trade, both of which are more available to powerful elites than to ordinary people, are means of creating or acquiring tangible objects that embody intangible powers and energies from the cosmological realms of gods, ancestors, or heroes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Barre MA, Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase, 248 pages. Many illustrations from manuscript charts and drawings by Ingraham, introduction by Mark D. Kaplanoff, one of 1950 copies. Binding is decorated gray paper over boards, with yellow cloth spine and pasted on label. A record of a voyage for the sea otter trade, with a route that took the ship to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, the Marquesas, and China as well as to the northwest coast of North America.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Edward Smith, 1st, 1833, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original boards rubbed and soiled, tan cloth spine with spine label present but rubbed, chipped. Hinges tender, 252 pages with chronicle index in rear. Crude relief map on page 96. Previous owner's names on inside covers. Foxing throughout. Title page with Burlington misspelled (Bulington).

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 579 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, many BW illus. The third book in a triology, prefaced by The Parade's Gone By ... (1968) and The War, the West and the Wilderness (1979). Offers a full and illustrated "exploration of a vital and now almost forgotten chapter of American moviemaking: the response of early producers and directors to the agonizing social problems of the decades before World War I. ... An essential work of silent-film history, certain to become a standard reference." Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Many b&w photos, some color. The author and S. Oughterson and Shields Warren, as part of the United States Atomic Bomb Causality Commission, were sent immediately (September 1945) to survey Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan after the bombing and surrender of Japan to study the devastation and the subsequent irradiation sickness.

Hardcover. Berlin GR, Nicolai Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. The history of Berlin's grand hotel. The Adlon opened on October 23, 1907, with the Kaiser, his wife, and many other notables in attendance. It quickly became the social center of Berlin. As the rooms in the Stadtschloss were cold and drafty, the Kaiser paid an annual retainer to keep suites available for his guests.[2] Likewise the Foreign Office used the Adlon for accommodation during state visits, with guests including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. Notable guests of the early years included industrialists such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as politicians like Walter Rathenau, Gustav Stresemann and the French prime minister Aristide Briand. Many wealthy Berliners lived for extended periods of time in the hotel, while its ballrooms hosted official government functions and society events. Many photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark brown cloth stamped in black and gilt design, 443 pages plus 53 page appendix, b&w plates with a folding map (in excellent condition). B&w frontispiece portrait of the author, blue floral endpapers. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to corners. Title page says 1888, copyright page states 1887. Still believed to be a first printing. Early exploration through Chippewa country, source of the Mississippi, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis. Saint Paul, La cRosse, Rock Island, Saint Louis, Memphis, Natchez to Baton Rouge, New Orleans.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Dordrecht/Republic of Letters, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards, 281 pages. For the first four decades of the twentieth century Philip Kerr, the Eleventh Marquess of Lothian, hovered on the fringes of power in Britain. As a commentator on public affairs, private secretary to Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George, secretary to the Rhodes Trust, Liberal peer, and ambassador to the United States at the beginning of World War II, Lothian's greatest interest was in preserving and strengthening the British Empire and building close bonds with the United States. This international collection of essays by seven scholars explores Lothian's impact on Anglo-American relations and his role, behind the scenes and as a government official, in forging what would eventually become known as the "special relationship." Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, shows a little age wear, but in good condition. Covers bound in black, excellent. Pages unmarked and clean. Top edge dyed. In very good condition.

Softcover. Jay NY, Graphics North, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 430 pages plus index and photo pages. Two extensive memoirs written by a pioneer farmer and outdoorsman from Keeseville, New York. They cover the years 1831-1904 and his experiences in the Adirondacks as a hunter, farmer, innkeeper, educator, and adventurer. Edited by his son. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt-stamped spine, 325 pages. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover. Dust jacket worn, chipped, spine faded. Internally clean.

Softcover. Hartsville NY, Hartsville Historical Socirty, 1st thus, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers with title and author's picture on cover. A collection of stories about the town of Canisteo, New York that originally ran in the local newspaper in 1949 & 1950. With index of names in front, 160 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 409 pages. VOLUME 6 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Black & white Illustrations by author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips, otherwise very good. A noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American frontier West in pencil drawings: the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboat captain, vaquero, peddler, gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook, missionary, etc.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Poultney, VT, Privately printed, 1st, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 369 pages. Original brown embossed covers. Spine faded. Overall very good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.