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The Great Betrayal (SIGNED BY WISE)by: Wise, Rabbi Stephen S. & De Haas, Jacob

The Great Betrayal (SIGNED BY WISE)
by: Wise, Rabbi Stephen S. & De Haas, Jacob

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from Stephen Wise on front fly leaf. 294 pages. A critique of the White Paper of Lord Passfield and the charges of betrayal hurled at the British Labor Government by Jews regarding British-Zionist relations. Mild shelf wear, clean copy. Remnants of dj laid in.

Record # 375019

Price: $60.00 
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The Nazi Stateby: William Ebenstein

The Nazi State
by: William Ebenstein

Softcover. Washington DC, The Infantry Journal, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small softcover, 335 pages. "The primary purpose of this book is to provide a guide to the main forces, institutional and ideological, in the Nazi system." Published for the American servicemen. Name on front cover,mild wear to covers.

Record # 396623

Price: $15.00 
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Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777 (Two Volumes in a slipcase)by:

Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777 (Two Volumes in a slipcase)
by:

Hardcover. Barre MA, Imprint Society, Ltd. Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2-volume set with the original slipcase, this is number "CJB" in Limited Edition of 1950 copies and is signed by R. A. J. Van Lier who provides the Notes and Introduction to this edition. The expedition took place from 1772 to 1777 and describes the history, flora and fauna, and people of this land, Illustrated with folding map and numerous plates. Title page printed in red and black. Clean, bright set.

Record # 356415

Price: $70.00 
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A History of the Great War (SIGNED)by: Buchan, John

A History of the Great War (SIGNED)
by: Buchan, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Domestic shipping only. 8 Volumes. Hardcovers. Autograph edition is limited to five hundred signed and numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Number 187. SIGNED BY BUCHAN in volume 1, reverse of title page. 2268 total pages within 8 volumes: Color frontispieces in each volume and b/w illustrations throughout with tissue page guards and fold-out maps. Blue cover boards, navy blue quarter cloths with gilt title on blue paste downs on spines. Covers show very light shelf wear with some slight tanning and a touch of rubbing to bottom of spines (Vol. 3 has small spot on front cover board). Pages offset, some tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Spines straight. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. Beautiful, historical set perfect for the WWI enthusiast.

Record # 99226

Price: $600.00 
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Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War in Peace (SIGNED)by: Bellico, Russell P.

Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War in Peace (SIGNED)
by: Bellico, Russell P.

Hardcover. Fleischmanns, NY, Purple Mountain Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on front and back covers. Black and white illustrations throughout. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE, numbered 10/60.

Record # 369291

Price: $70.00 
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Genealogies of Long Island Families, From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Two Volumes)by: Hoff, Henry B. (Ed.)

Genealogies of Long Island Families, From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Two Volumes)
by: Hoff, Henry B. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, 797 and 812 pages. Volume I: Albertson - Polhemius Volume II: Praa - Youngs. Black cloth with gilt stamping. Clean bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397378

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The French and Indian Wars: The Story of Battles and Forts in the Wilderness by: Hamilton, Edward P.

The French and Indian Wars: The Story of Battles and Forts in the Wilderness
by: Hamilton, Edward P.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A volume in the Mainstream of Americas Series, edited by Lewis Gannett. Between the period of settlements in colonial America and the time of the Revolutionary War, English and French interests clashed in a struggle to determine who would rule the New World. It was a time from which a great deal of fiction draws inspiration, an exciting and dramatic period well~salted with the Washingtons, Johnsons, Frontenacs, Amhersts, Wolfes, and Montcalms who so greatly influenced the early growth of our land. Edward Hamilton has reconstructed this absorbing story of wilderness, forts, and weapons with a scholarly respect for minute detail. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 387785

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The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765 - 1803 by: Brasseaux, Carl A

The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765 - 1803
by: Brasseaux, Carl A

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state, and closely examines the relations of Louisiana's Acadians with their black, Spanish, Indian, and Creole neighbors. In adapting to subtropical Louisiana, with its turmoil of alternating French and Spanish regimes, the Acadians exhibited industry, pragmatism, individualism, and the ability to close ranks in the face of a general threat. As Brasseaux reveals, Acadians' cohesiveness and insularity preserved the core elements of their culture and helped them adjust to new physical and social demands. Names, inscription to front fly leaf, interior clean and bright.

Record # 397448

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Hero Tales & Legends of the Rhineby: Spence, Lewis

Hero Tales & Legends of the Rhine
by: Spence, Lewis

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 380 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Frontispiece and tissue guard detached. Gutter crack in multiple pages. Corners bumped and light soil. Illustrated with 16 color and 16 monochrome plates by Louis Weirter. Embossed red cloth with elaborate embossed design and bright dragon design and lettering. Fold-out virgin map in rear appears to have never been unfolded. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Odin and Brunhild.

Record # 354217

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The Rise of Modern Industry by: Hammond, J. L. and Barbara

The Rise of Modern Industry
by: Hammond, J. L. and Barbara

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 302 pages. This book presents the historical setting of the industrial revolution in a form suitable for the general reader. It seeks to explain why 18th-century England was the theatre of the great series of mechanical inventions that caused the revolution, and what were the great social changes that preceded, accompanied and followed it. Clean copy.

Record # 397464

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Inventing the Renaissance Puttoby: Dempsey, Charles

Inventing the Renaissance Putto
by: Dempsey, Charles

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 277 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The "spiritelli" embody a minor species of demon, neither good nor bad. This book discusses the manifestations of the putto-spiritello in 15th-century art and literature. It offers parallel interpretations of two works: Botticelli's "Mars and Venus", a painting in which infant Satyr-putti appear as the panic-inducing spirits of the nightmare, and Politian's "Stanze", a poem in which masked cupids appear to the hero in a deceiving dream. The text concludes with an examination of the functions of such masks in the poetry and public masquerades sponsored by Lorenzo de'Medici and in Michelangelo's scheme for the decoration of the Medici Chapel. Clean copy.

Record # 382186

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Massacre at Wickenburg: Arizona's Greatest Mysteryby: Wilson, R. Michael

Massacre at Wickenburg: Arizona's Greatest Mystery
by: Wilson, R. Michael

Softcover. Guilford CT, TwoDot, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w illustrations. The massacre at Wickenburg was one of the most notorious crimes committed in the Wild West--a story revealed in this book through a criminal investigation. November 5, 1871. A westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg in the early morning hours. At 8:00 a.m., six of the passengers were shot dead. One man and the lone woman, severely wounded, escaped into the desert. Debates raged over the identity of the murderous ambushers -- Indians? Mexican bandits? The two survivors? After a massive investigation, the U.S. Army concluded that a band of local Yavapai Indians were responsible, which led to a policy of "removal and concentration" that altered the fate of nearly every Indian in America's Southwest. Clean copy.

Record # 397647

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New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620??"1860 by: McWilliams, John

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620??"1860
by: McWilliams, John

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. From the dust jacket back cover: "John McWilliams winnows through the history and myth of New England to recover the past on its own terms while simultaneously tracing its later refractions. The combination, across nine pivotal events in colonial and early republican history, gives us the changing face of New England through as never before." Clean copy.

Record # 386684

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Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khanby: Basu, Shrabani

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
by: Basu, Shrabani

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.

Record # 397849

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Asheville: Mountain Majestyby: Harshaw Lou

Asheville: Mountain Majesty
by: Harshaw Lou

Softcover. Bright Mountain Books , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, Sometimes called the Paris of the South, Asheville, North Carolina, is known for its grand mountain views, rich and diverse culture, deep-rooted artistic heritage, historic architecture, and the legendary Biltmore Estate. Asheville: Mountain Majesty is an excellent source for discovering, or rediscovering, these and other facets of the city and its history.A lifelong resident of Asheville and regional historian, author Lou Harshaw offers a firsthand look at the history and development of this magnificent city by drawing upon a host of historical sources as well as an extensive oral tradition. She follows the development of Asheville from village to town to city, always reflecting the feeling of the times. The result is a journey through time, documenting the evolution of one of the most intriguing cities in the United States.Asheville: Mountain Majesty is enhanced by a wealth of period images, complemented by the author's contemporary photography.

Record # 374316

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Portraits of America: Coney Island: The Museum of the City of New Yorkby: John S. Berman

Portraits of America: Coney Island: The Museum of the City of New York
by: John S. Berman

Softcover. NY, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. More than simply an escape from New York's sweltering summer streets, the strip of Brooklyn's south shore known as Coney Island embodied a new American attitude toward entertainment. Here, you'll experience the decadent delights of this magical land of ritzy hotels and penny arcades, where dance pavilions and freak shows shared space with sizzling burlesque and cooling ocean breezes. You'll meet George Tilyou, whose Steeplechase Park featured the Blowhole Theater, the Insanitarium and the Human Pool Table, and Nathan Handwerker, whose Nathan's Famous hot dogs became synonymous with summertime food. You'll ride the legendary Cyclone roller coaster and stroll through Dreamland and Luna Park, where generations of New Yorkers met and mingled in a place that came to define American fun. Clean copy.

Record # 397995

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Reluctant Republic, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Van de Water, Frederic F.

Reluctant Republic, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Van de Water, Frederic F.

Hardcover. New York, John Day , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front preliminary page, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, inch chunk missing from top edge, price clipped. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853952

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The Impact of World War II on Italian Americans 1935-Present by: Mormino, Gary R. (Ed.)

The Impact of World War II on Italian Americans 1935-Present
by: Mormino, Gary R. (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, American Italian Historical Association, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages, 35th Conference of the American Italian Historical Association . "'Italian Americans and World War II, ' explores many facets of the dynamic period of the 1940s and the consequences of war and peace. Scholars within AIHA and outside the academy have been slow to recognize the significance of World War II, now recognized as a seminal event in Italian-American life and culture. . . . "This volume is dedicated to all Italian Americans who lived and died, fought and prayed during World War II." Clean copy.

Record # 398114

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THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the Westby: Leckie William H. & Leckie Shirley A.

THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West
by: Leckie William H. & Leckie Shirley A.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Revised Ed., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. B&w illustrations. A well-researched and authoritative study of 'negro' soldiers who wished to remain in the United States Army following the Civil War. They were eventually organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments their service in controlling Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unpraised. With Bibliography and Index. Clean copy.

Record # 381591

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Steele's Book of Niagara Falls by: Steele, G. Oliver

Steele's Book of Niagara Falls
by: Steele, G. Oliver

Hardcover. Buffalo , Oliver G. Steele, Revised Ed., 1847, Book: Good, Hardcover, embossed dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, Tenth Edition with a new series of maps and plates. 96 pages. Folding frontispiece with two maps, Niagara River and Parts Adjacent; and Niagara Falls and Vicinity. another folding plate with a view of Niagara Falls. Both in excellent condition. Six b&w plates. Spine cloth peeling away from spine, top third gone. Binding is still solid, clean inside.

Record # 398282

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Kasteelen Buitenplaatsen Tuinen en Parken van Nederland (Dutch Text)by: Jongsma, H.

Kasteelen Buitenplaatsen Tuinen en Parken van Nederland (Dutch Text)
by: Jongsma, H.

Softcover. Amsterdam, Amsterdam Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel, First Edition, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio size, in Dutch text. 40 pages text followed by 470 plates in black & white. Brown cloth covered boards with embossed illustration in black & gilt. Moderate rubbing, scuff marks to covers. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Tender front board with crack to top quarter hinge. Toning to edges throughout. Striking, full page black & white illustrations detailing castles, gardens, mansions, intricate woodwork throughout. Previous owner's signature & stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751117

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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steamby: Richard DeLuca

Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by: Richard DeLuca

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 398828

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Lex Mercatoria: Or, a Complete Code of Commercial Law; Being a General Guide to All Men in Business...With an Account of Our Mercantile Companies; (2 Volumes) 6th Editionby:

Lex Mercatoria: Or, a Complete Code of Commercial Law; Being a General Guide to All Men in Business...With an Account of Our Mercantile Companies; (2 Volumes) 6th Edition
by:

Hardcover. London, Rivington and Sons, et al., 6th Ed., 1813, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes complete: 757, 446 pages, plus an appendix and fold-out charts in volume two. This is the 1813 Sixth Edition, updated and enlarged by Joseph Chitty. Both books rebound in red library buckram with gilt titles on spines. Mild foxing but pages are bright and unmarked.

Record # 353631

Price: $400.00 
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Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXXV & Volume XXXVIby: Journal of Hellenic Studies

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXXV & Volume XXXVI
by: Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1915 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1915 and 1916) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1915: 290 pages plus 9 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1916: 417 pages plus 9 b&w plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine. Chip to calf at top of spine.

Record # 405366

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Schliemann's Excavationsby: Schuchhardt, Dr. C.

Schliemann's Excavations
by: Schuchhardt, Dr. C.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Plus index. Hardcover with moderate edge wear to cover boards. Many b&w illust, fold-out plates. Previous owner's signature half-title pg. Moderate foxing to pages.

Record # 354196

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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. Burlington VT, 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 # 353637

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Before the Revolution: Russia and Its People Under the Czarby: Kyril Fitzlyon, Tatiana Browning

Before the Revolution: Russia and Its People Under the Czar
by: Kyril Fitzlyon, Tatiana Browning

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 203 pages. A pictorial survey with over 300 rare b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 374122

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

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

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852454

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

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

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

Record # 379719

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

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

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Sharp Printing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 111 pages SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title-page. Wear to top rear edge. Translucent dust wrapper with some chipping.

Record # 508929

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Roman Trier and the Treveriby: Wightman, Edith  Mary

Roman Trier and the Treveri
by: Wightman, Edith Mary

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

Record # 415166

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

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

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

Record # 374652

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

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

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

Record # 452708

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

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

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

Record # 850767

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March to Saratoga: General Burgoyne and the American Campaign, 1777by: Bird, Harrison

March to Saratoga: General Burgoyne and the American Campaign, 1777
by: Bird, Harrison

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages, with illustrations and maps. Dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, minor fading along edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853929

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Stop the Evil: A Civil War History of Desertion and Murderby: Alotta, Robert I.

Stop the Evil: A Civil War History of Desertion and Murder
by: Alotta, Robert I.

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.

Record # 31088

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The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermontby: N/A

The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermont
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission of Vermont, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible beige cloth covers, 167 pages plus pages of Press Comments. B&w illustrations. Museum bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 398711

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Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage, and Final Appraisal by: Wallin, V. Adm. Homer

Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage, and Final Appraisal
by: Wallin, V. Adm. Homer

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and insignia in gilt on front. B&w illustrations, 377 pages. First printing of first edition. Related article pasted to front endpapers, Book covers and interior bright and clean. Foreword by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Homer Norman Wallin (December 6, 1893 - March 6, 1984) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1941, Captain Wallin became material officer for commander, Battle Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and was serving in that position when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was placed in charge of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Salvage Division. Through most of 1942, he directed the Pearl Harbor ship salvage effort, a huge task that enabled the navy to recover the use of three sunken battleships.

Record # 374157

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Rebel War Clerk's Diary, A (Volume 1) (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Jones, John B.

Rebel War Clerk's Diary, A (Volume 1) (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Jones, John B.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 392 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 # 372360

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The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker and of the Building of the Central Pacific Railroad by: Oscar Lewis

The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker and of the Building of the Central Pacific Railroad
by: Oscar Lewis

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A.Knopf, 9th pr., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt design.418 pages plus index, b&w illustrations. Lengthy and insightful history of Stanford, Crocker, Hopkins and Huntington (the "Big Four" of the title) along with the unsung Judah and Colton, along with their wives and families, and how their drive to establish and maintain monopolistic control of transportation to the West shaped California, for better or for worse. Their practices are the pinnacle of free-market capitalism at its best, or the nadir of obstructionist capitalism at its worst. Clean copy.

Record # 382020

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Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by: Goldsworthy, Adrian

Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
by: Goldsworthy, Adrian

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 528 pages, b&w illustrations. A groundbreaking and comprehensive history of the Roman Peace from one of the leading historians of the ancient world, Clean copy

Record # 379111

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History of Vermont: With Descriptions Physical and Topographicalby: Beckley, Rev. Hosea

History of Vermont: With Descriptions Physical and Topographical
by: Beckley, Rev. Hosea

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, George H. Salisbury, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 396 pages, embossed brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. The cloth along the spine has some wear and fraying, some color fade to cloth on spine and edges, previous owner's signature on inside front cover. The title page has a small piece at top cut away, the front fly leaf has the top corner chipped off. Internally the pages are clean and bright.

Record # 405466

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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement (SIGNED COPY)by: Ralph Jr., James R.

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement (SIGNED COPY)
by: Ralph Jr., James R.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 338 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. After the triumphs of Montgomery and Selma, Martin Luther King, Jr., rallied his forces and headed north. The law was on his side, the nation seemed to be behind him, the crusade for civil rights was rapidly gathering momentum--and then, in Chicago, heartland of America, the movement stalled. What happened? This book is the first to give us the full story--a vivid account of how the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965-1967 attempted to combat northern segregation. Northern Protest captures this new kind of campaign for civil rights at a fateful turning point, with effects that pulse through the nation's race relations to the day. James Ralph has written the fullest and most perceptive account yet to appear of the 1966 civil-rights campaign in Chicago, a crucial event in the history of the movement. Clean copy.

Record # 381642

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Coburgs, The: The Story of the Rise of a Great Royal Houseby: D'Auvergne, Edmund B.

Coburgs, The: The Story of the Rise of a Great Royal House
by: D'Auvergne, Edmund B.

Hardcover. New York, James Pott & Co, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles and gilt embossed illustration to front, top edge gilt, tissue-protected b&w frontispiece, 16 b&w plates. Very light edgewear and rubbing to covers, spine lightly faded, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 807630

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A BLOODY BUSINESSby: Dylan Struzan

A BLOODY BUSINESS
by: Dylan Struzan

Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st , 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by the author. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts. But if you think you already know this story...think again, since you've never seen it through the eyes of one the mobsters who lived it. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo's later career included prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute: being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II. Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in retirement in Florida, Dylan Struzan based this book on more than 50 hours of recorded testimony--stories Alo had never shared, and that he forbid her to publish until "after I'm gone." Alo died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And now his stories--bracing and violent, full of intrigue and betrayal, hunger and hubris--can finally be told. With cover art and 24 interior illustrations by Drew Struzan, one of the most acclaimed movie poster painters of all time. Small remainder dot bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 373230

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Vermont Century: Photographs & Essays from the Green Mountain Stateby: N/A

Vermont Century: Photographs & Essays from the Green Mountain State
by: N/A

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Times Argus, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Montpelier, VT, Times Argus, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Illustrated title page. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467675

Record # 467675

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The Scalp Hunters: Abenaki Ambush at Lovewell Pond 1725by: Kayworth Alfred E; Potvin Raymond G

The Scalp Hunters: Abenaki Ambush at Lovewell Pond 1725
by: Kayworth Alfred E; Potvin Raymond G

Softcover. Wellesley MA, Branden Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, several b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY POTVIN on title page. Clean copy.

Record # 369671

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French Revolution of 1789, The: As Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions, In Two Volumesby: Abbott, John S. C.

French Revolution of 1789, The: As Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions, In Two Volumes
by: Abbott, John S. C.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two complete hardcover volumes, with numerous engravings, gilt top edge and title. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light edge fade, otherwise, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 854301

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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogyby: Atkinson, Rick

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
by: Atkinson, Rick

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Illustrations. 18 maps. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of miscalculation and incomparable courage, of calamity and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how central the great drama that unfolded in North Africa was to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers and to America's understanding of itself.Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algiers, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia.

Record # 381238

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A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House by: Roosevelt, Elliott and Brough, James

A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House
by: Roosevelt, Elliott and Brough, James

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 446 pages with index, b&w photos. Name on half-title page otherwise clean.

Record # 387902

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