History

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 393 pages. Part of the monumental series comprised of all of the papers and correspondence of America's first President, George Washington (1732-1799). This stand-alone volume is "an executive daybook, a day-by-day account of many of the matters that engaged the attention of the executive departments during Washington's administration. The entries cover Washington's decisions on government contracts, appointments of office, and individual departmental problems. They throw considerable light on presidential and cabinet participation in decision-making during Washington's administration. Entries relating to the War Department are of particular value because of the destruction of most of the War Department's records by fire in 1800. ... Kept primariy by Washington's secretaries Tobias Lear and Bartholomew Dandridge, the Journal is written in th first person as if Washington were penning the entries himself." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 553 pages. "The complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover's four years in Washington." Written by Myers, a history scholar whose academic field was the GOP, and Newton, a former member of Congress who was for many years Hoover's personal secretary or roughly his Chief of Staff.This is about as good a defense of Hoover's actions just before and during the Great Depression as anything that has come out since. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY , Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor dust jacket with chipping, fading, especially to spine. Wheeler-Bennett worked as the director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs' information department. In particular, Wheeler-Bennett lived in Germany in 1927-1934 and witnessed firsthand the rise of Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Wheeler-Bennett was a critic of Appeasement, and 10 years after the Munich Agreement wrote a book condemning it. Footnotes. Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography. Index. 507 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Atheneum, 1st pbk, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and faded dust jacket, 366 pages. A collection of speeches by the Right Hon. Anthony Eden in the House of Commons and elsewhere through 1938, which offers a criticism on British foreign policy. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 204 pages. "A valuable well-researched study of brinkmanship and of people under pressure presented fully for the first time." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history. Endpaper maps. First published in 1958, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. "I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 439 pages. Reprint of a work first published in 1875, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. An historical account written during the late 19th century. The book explores various communistic communities in the United States, documenting their origins, practices, and social structures. Nordhoff's investigation is based on personal visits and observations, aiming to provide insights into how these societies operate and their contributions to the labor question.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Examines the critical questions of race and slavery in 19th century American politics. A reshaping of Nichols' narrative drawing on recent scholarship and reinterpretations of the era. The Making of America Series. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon-color pictorial boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated by author with color frontis. and many b&w plates and text drawings, Thomason's semi-fictionalized first book, based on his own experiences as a career officer in the Marines as part of the AEF. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY/London, Macmillan / Collier Macmillan, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 517 pages, b&w illustrations. Life of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, first US Attorney General, and second Secretary of State. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages with index. In this major contribution to cultural history Kammen focuses on the American Revolution and it's impact on literature and art. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Folded map laid in, index. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 349 pages. Dual biography of two authors of the Declaration of Indepenence, their subsequent feud, and reconciliation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New Lebanon NY, Omega Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages, b&w photos. Everything about Noor Inayat Khan was extraordinary. A great-great-great granddaughter of Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, she was born in Moscow to an American mother and an Indian Sufi Muslim father. Due to the unrest in Russia the family moved to London and from there to France where she spent the happiest years of her life studying music, child psychology and writing children's books. In 1940, her father having deserted the family and died in India years before, the family moved once again to England where Noor was trained as a wireless operator with the aim of sending her to German-occupied France to join up with the resistance. Noor was small and delicate, emotional, imaginative, shy, easily flustered and distracted. On the other hand there was her steely determination to serve her country, the desperate need for wireless operators and her perfect French. She was sent on her mission in June 1943. Her biography contains all the elements of an exciting spy novel but it was horrific and deadly reality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 391 pages, b&w illustrations. An excellent study of a military commander who transformed the American Frontier and the West. Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army. Nelson A. Miles was probably the best Indian fighter produced by the U.S. Army between 1865 and 1890, figuring prominently in some of the most famous and significant conflicts between whites and Native Americans. This carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 439 pages, b&w illustrations with fold-out map of Polo's travels in rear. First published in 1931, this is the 1950 third printing. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. * An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871). * The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Erie PA, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt lettering. Frontis. Illustrated w/ b/w photos. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A memoir of Commodore Perry's victory of the battle of Lake Erie against a British squadron, September 1813. Includes period correspondence and memoranda of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins. Second edition of this history first published in 1876. Standard account by this captain (1800-76) whose "father. was a pioneer in the construction of the squadron, and served actively upon the upper lakes during the war" -- which inspired and informed this chronicle of the pivotal War of 1812 battle off the coast of Ohio in which the American fleet gained control and turned the tides against the British.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Co., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 83 pages, b&w illustrations. This copy has an actual photo of Peck taped to the page opposite the title page (taken in March 1929, 3 years after this book was published). The author was the town clerk for 40 years, the first 58 pages devoted to Ira's history. The second part is Peck's recollections of his experiences in the Great West 1866-67. Some of the white lettering on the book's cover has been chipped off but the volume is in very good, tight shape.

Softcover. Nurthern Light Media, 1sy, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. A first-hand look at life aboard a revenue cutter during Alaska's formative early years. The ships of the U.S. Treasury Department's Revenue-Cutter Service patrolled the waters of the Bering Sea, the coast of Alaska, and the Yukon River, and for several of those voyages a bright and engaging young physician, Dr. James Taylor White, served aboard and recorded his adventurous work in personal correspondence and journals. The revenue cutters on which Dr. White served played a crucial role in the history of the north, beginning with the legendary USRC Bear, under the command of Capt. Michael A. "Hell Roaring Mike" Healy. On board the Bear Dr. White took part in patrolling for seal poachers, smugglers, and illegal traders; assisted in the capture of Siberian reindeer and ferrying them to Alaska; and witnessed the Bear's duties as a floating hospital, courthouse, and rescuer of shipwrecked sailors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 471 pages, Walker Evans photos up front. In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives today stands as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. The time is the mid-1930s, in the depths of the Great Depression. Tenant farmers down South are struggling with deepening debt, chronic illnesses in their families (NO health care), land suffering from drought and the hopeless, grinding poverty much of America suffered through in that era. Clean copy. Lacks the dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1914, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 289 and 329 pages, each with a frontispiece. Limited to 500 copies, this is #376. White vellum spine and corners with blue-gray boards, top edge gilt. Pristine set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Wright & Potter/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 202 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth binding with gilt decoration. Some rubbing, light residue to covers, back hinge partially cracked. Interior very good.

Softcover. London, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This is 64 page extract from a larger volume (pages 443 - 506), possibly London Magazine. This is the original printing and features 4 fold-out plans and illustrations, all in excellent condition. Bound in a clear acetate folder.

Softcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover journals, 307 pages total, b&w illustrations. Light cover wear, some dog-earred pages. Clean set. Scholarly essays covering a wide spectrum of maritime history.

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.

Hardcover. London ; Boston, Unwin Hyman, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's signature in front, faint foxing to top edge, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Harrison, N.Y., Harbor Hill Books, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, with illustrations. Light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Caldwell ID, Caxton Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 466 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book considers the gold rushes, life in the camps, crime and justice, and the special situations and unique events that came out of this period. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Endnotes, illustrations, indexed.

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.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. San Rafael, CA, Presidio Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. A touch of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out. In great shape.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, b&w illustrations, Green cloth, silver title to spine. Tan, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear and foxing to edges and spine. Overall a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth bound cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with design. Some age wear to covers (see image). Some fingerprint smudges (see image) and tanning throughout. Original author's name written on title page (see image). In very good shape for its age, no pages missing. True and fictional shortstories about French culture.

Hardcover. New York, Robert Carter & Brothers, Reprint, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Foxing to pages. Cloth covers rubbed along edges and corners. Chipping to cloth at top and bottom of spine.

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages plus maps and fold-out family tree/timeline. Hardcover. Paste down presentation label on front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). A touch of tanning to pages. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Montipelier, VT, Norbert J. Towne/H.J. Dodge, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece and foldout map. Black cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Previous owner's inscribed bookplate on front endpaper and ID stamp on front flyleaf.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on black on spine. Light tanning to pages. Spine straight. Binding tight. Takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but it is a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the history of the City and of the urban renaissance.

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s. It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture. The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective. The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.

Softcover. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, First Thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout including maps, photographs. Bright front cover, sunfade to rear cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout. The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews-mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe-were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz. Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation between greed and mass destruction.

Hardcover. Bennington, The Bennington Museum, First Edition, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages. Hardcover with facsimile of early ads to endpapers. Published to accompany the exhibition by the same title, held at the Bennington Museum, Bennington VT, May 6 - July 30, 1995 and Shelburne Museum, Shelburne VT. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout detailing antiques, collectibles, furniture, related maps & historical documentation. Dust jacket with only light, marginal wear. Unmarked & bright copy.

Hardcover. Mohr Siebeck, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Associated Publishers, Revised Ed., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 381 pages. Dark green cover with slight wear and white spotting to back. Slight soiling to edges. Binding cracked at page 45. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. 575 pages, 63 b&w illustrations. Latrobe (1764-1820), English-born architect of the United States Capitol under Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, set the course for a vast amount of nineteenth-century American architecture with such works as the Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore Cathedral. A pioneering engineer as well, he designed the nation"s first comprehensive steam-powered waterworks in Philadelphia. Latrobe combined his professional concerns with an astonishing range of other interests and an acutely ob- servant eye. His papers form one of the finest existing literary and pictorial descriptions of the young republic.

Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1486 pages. B&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Introduction by President Nixon. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Light wear to cover edges. Pages clean and tight.