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

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

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

Record # 803

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Captain and "the Cannibal", The: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stageby: Fairhead, James

Captain and "the Cannibal", The: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage
by: Fairhead, James

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.

Record # 470892

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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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Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975by: Hunt, William R.

Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975
by: Hunt, William R.

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.

Record # 606876

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Idler in Old France, Anby: Hopkins, Tighe

Idler in Old France, An
by: Hopkins, Tighe

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.

Record # 32855

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Historic Doubts Relative to Napolean Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of Americaby: Whately, Richard

Historic Doubts Relative to Napolean Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of America
by: Whately, Richard

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.

Record # 608896

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Later Stuarts, The: 1660-1714by: Clark, Sir George

Later Stuarts, The: 1660-1714
by: Clark, Sir George

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.

Record # 99028

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British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print - Part 1 - From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the First World War - Series A - Russia, 1859-1914 - Volume 4 - Russia, 1906-1907

British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print - Part 1 - From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the First World War - Series A - Russia, 1859-1914 - Volume 4 - Russia, 1906-1907

Hardcover. Frederick, University Publications of America, Inc., 1st Thus, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 397 pages. Hardcover. Minimal wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611036

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Early History of Berlin, Vermont: 1763-1820by: Nye, Mary Greene

Early History of Berlin, Vermont: 1763-1820
by: Nye, Mary Greene

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.

Record # 99192

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Arnold's Expedition to Quebec - Special Editionby: Codman, 2nd, John/William Abbatt (Editor)

Arnold's Expedition to Quebec - Special Edition
by: Codman, 2nd, John/William Abbatt (Editor)

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.

Record # 612743

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London 800-1216: The Shaping of a Cityby: Brooke, Christopher, Gillian Kerr (assisted)

London 800-1216: The Shaping of a City
by: Brooke, Christopher, Gillian Kerr (assisted)

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.

Record # 99249

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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont (Volume II Only) - A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation - Volume II  by:

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont (Volume II Only) - A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation - Volume II
by:

Hardcover. New York, Lewis Publishing Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 754 pages. Hardcover. Volume II Only. History of Vermont told through biographies of leading Vermont citizens. Illustrated with black and white portraits. Leather spine and corners over cloth, title in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 614207

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I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)by: Thompson, Scott M.

I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
by: Thompson, Scott M.

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.

Record # 350303

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Peoples of Ireland, The - From Prehistory to Modern Timesby: de Paor, Liam

Peoples of Ireland, The - From Prehistory to Modern Times
by: de Paor, Liam

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.

Record # 750501

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Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944by: Gensburger, Sarah

Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944
by: Gensburger, Sarah

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.

Record # 353322

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Best the Country Affords, The - Vermont Furniture - 1765 - 1850by: Zogry, Kenneth Joel

Best the Country Affords, The - Vermont Furniture - 1765 - 1850
by: Zogry, Kenneth Joel

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.

Record # 750736

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Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom (Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck Instituts)by: Carlebach, Juli

Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom (Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck Instituts)
by: Carlebach, Juli

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.

Record # 354109

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Black Man in White America, Theby: Van Drusen, John O.

Black Man in White America, The
by: Van Drusen, John O.

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.

Record # 850404

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Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The: 1795-1798 (2 Volumes)by: Benjamin Henry Latrobe; Editor-Edward Carter II; Editor-Angeline Polites

Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The: 1795-1798 (2 Volumes)
by: Benjamin Henry Latrobe; Editor-Edward Carter II; Editor-Angeline Polites

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.

Record # 356733

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Naval Documents of the American Revolution VOLUME 5: American Theatre: May 9, 1776 -July 31, 1776by: Morgan (Ed.), William James

Naval Documents of the American Revolution VOLUME 5: American Theatre: May 9, 1776 -July 31, 1776
by: Morgan (Ed.), William James

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.

Record # 851891

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Verbrannt bis zur Unkenntlichkeit - die Zerstorung Dresdens 1945 (German Edition)by: N/A

Verbrannt bis zur Unkenntlichkeit - die Zerstorung Dresdens 1945 (German Edition)
by: N/A

Hardcover. GR, DZA Verlag fur Kultur und Wissenschaft, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 161 pages, no dust jacket, pictorial boards. A collection of essays and photographs on the city of Dresden, ending in it's destruction at the end of WWII. Foreward by Herbert Wagner.

Record # 361013

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Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty: August, 1776 - September, 1780, Volume Iby: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty: August, 1776 - September, 1780, Volume I
by: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1814, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Minor cover soiling, corner and edge wear. Minor stains along binding on front and back end paper. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding. Gilt top edge.

Record # 852434

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Dedication of the Statue to Brevet Major-General William Wells and the Officers and Men of the First Regimanet Vermont Cavalryby: N/A

Dedication of the Statue to Brevet Major-General William Wells and the Officers and Men of the First Regimanet Vermont Cavalry
by: N/A

Hardcover. np, Privately printed, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Light edgewear to covers.

Record # 368314

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History of Jericho Vermont, The: Volume Twoby: Merle (Editor), Mrs. Elinor I.

History of Jericho Vermont, The: Volume Two
by: Merle (Editor), Mrs. Elinor I.

Hardcover. Vermont, Town of Jericho, Vermont, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 301 pages, with b&w photographs and fold-out Brown family tree. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853219

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Fifty Years on the Mississippi: Gould's History of River Navigationby: Gould, E.W.

Fifty Years on the Mississippi: Gould's History of River Navigation
by: Gould, E.W.

Hardcover. Columbus, OH, Lion's College Book, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner bookplate on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 369293

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Middletown Springs, Vermont: A Gem in the Hillsby: Krouse, Frances B.

Middletown Springs, Vermont: A Gem in the Hills
by: Krouse, Frances B.

Softcover. Vermont, Privately Published, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 404 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854345

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

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

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

Record # 371152

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Ira Allen: Founder of Vermont by: Wilbur , James Benjamin

Ira Allen: Founder of Vermont
by: Wilbur , James Benjamin

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co , 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Set of two hardcover volumes. 1113 pages total. Illustrated frontispiece. B&w illustrations throughout. Includes extensive appendix. With worn, decorative slipcase. Light edge wear to dust jacket otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857273

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Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of the House of Commons During the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, Commonly Called the Unreported Parliament to Which Are Appended History of the Reign of George the Third - Vol. 1: 1768-1771

Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of the House of Commons During the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, Commonly Called the Unreported Parliament to Which Are Appended History of the Reign of George the Third - Vol. 1: 1768-1771

Hardcover. London, Longman, Orme, Green & Longmans, 1st, 1841, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, two volumes in one: 631 plus 480 pages. All edges gilt, ribbon marker, spine has black calf label with gilt lettering, raised bands with gilt decoration. Both covers with gilt design around edges, elaborate bookplate on inside front cover. A small notation dated 1854 on last page states the publication of the work was discontinued. So never a Volume 2. Covers with light scars, some discoloration to rear board, otherwise a spectacular copy of a very scarce book.

Record # 371302

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Floating West: The Erie and Other American Canalsby: Bourne, Russell

Floating West: The Erie and Other American Canals
by: Bourne, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Discusses the history and technology of the Erie Canal, examines some of the famous and infamous people involved with its construction, describes how other canals were built as a result of its success, and discusses how "Great Western" opened up the west.

Record # 2230235

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Right or Wrong God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth (SIGNED COPY)by: John Wilkes Booth; Editor John Rhodehamel; Editor Louise Taper

Right or Wrong God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth (SIGNED COPY)
by: John Wilkes Booth; Editor John Rhodehamel; Editor Louise Taper

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 171 pages. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY CO-EDITOR TAPER. Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination.

Record # 372335

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Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, A (Volume 2) (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Jones, John B.

Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, A (Volume 2) (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Jones, John B.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, 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.

Record # 372363

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The Black Panthersby: Marine, Gene

The Black Panthers
by: Marine, Gene

Softcover. NY, New American Library Signet,, 5th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Softcover, mass market paperback, 224 pages, b&w photos. Light shelfwear, clean.

Record # 372664

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Life of Captain Nathan Hale: The Martyr Spy of the American Revolutionby: I.W. Stuart

Life of Captain Nathan Hale: The Martyr Spy of the American Revolution
by: I.W. Stuart

Hardcover. Hartford CT, F.A. Brown, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, covers embossed with floral designs in blind-stamp. Gilt medallion front cover, gilt lettering and Hale Monument on spine, 230 pages, errata page at conclusion. Gutter crack at page 60, but not bad, binding solid. Eight b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's signature (dated 1856) on blank pelim page. A biography of the soldier in the Continental Army and member of Knowlton's Rangers, the first organized intelligence service organization of the United States of America. Hale spied on the British, and was captured and executed during a mission in New York City. His service earned him the title of state hero of Connecticut.

Record # 373727

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Das Ende 1945 Der verdammte Kriegby: Guido Knopp

Das Ende 1945 Der verdammte Krieg
by: Guido Knopp

Hardcover. Munchen GR%, C. Bertelsmann, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. GERMAN TEXT.

Record # 374153

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The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in Americaby: Burke, Martin J

The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America
by: Burke, Martin J

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. Martin Burke traces the surprisingly complicated history of the idea of class in America from the forming of a new nation to the heart of the Gilded Age. Surveying American political, social, and intellectual life from the late 17th to the end of the 19th century, Burke examines in detail the contested discourse about equality--the way Americans thought and wrote about class, class relations, and their meaning in society.Burke explores a remarkable range of thought to establish the boundaries of class and the language used to describe it in the works of leading political figures, social reformers, and moral philosophers. He traces a shift from class as a legal category of ranks and orders to socio-economic divisions based on occupations and income. Throughout the century, he finds no permanent consensus about the meaning of class in America and instead describes a culture of conflicting ideas and opinions. Some fading to covers, otherwise like new.

Record # 374341

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Race Problems in the New Africa A Study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu Africa Which Are under British Controlby: Willoughby, Rev. W. C.

Race Problems in the New Africa A Study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu Africa Which Are under British Control
by: Willoughby, Rev. W. C.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth, 296 pages. Gilt title on spine. Folding maps in rear. Contents: Relation of Bantu to other African races: Africa & Africans - Study of Bantu life & thought: Spirits of things; Spirits of people; Tribal law & politics; Woman & marriage; Training of Bantu youths - Europeanization of Bantu Africa: Discovery of Bantu; White man's burden & how he got it; Some problems of government in Bantu areas; Native labour; Colour bar; Task of Church. Newsp. clippings re author laid in, leaving tan mark.

Record # 374707

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The Myth of Hiawatha: And other oral legends, mythologic and allegoric, of the North American Indianby: Schoolcraft, Henry

The Myth of Hiawatha: And other oral legends, mythologic and allegoric, of the North American Indian
by: Schoolcraft, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Kraus Reprint, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, 341 pages. A reprint of a book first published in 1856. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 378012

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A History of Waterbury (Vermont)by: Ward Knapp

A History of Waterbury (Vermont)
by: Ward Knapp

Hardcover. NP, Privately Printed, 1st, 1987, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt. 84 pages illustrated with 25 b&w photos and a town map. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378482

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British and American Anticommunism Before the Cold War (SIGNED COPY)by: Markku Ruotsila

British and American Anticommunism Before the Cold War (SIGNED COPY)
by: Markku Ruotsila

Hardcover. London/Portand OR, Fank Cass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions. Clean copy.

Record # 378796

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Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: the Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War IIby: Roger R. Reese

Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: the Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II
by: Roger R. Reese

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 386 pages, b&w illustrations. Inept leadership, inefficient campaigning, and enormous losses would seem to spell military disaster. Yet despite these factors, the Soviet Union won its war against Nazi Germany thanks to what Roger Reese calls its military effectiveness: its ability to put troops in the field even after previous forces had been decimated. Reese probes the human dimension of the Red Army in World War II through a close analysis of soldiers' experiences and attitudes concerning mobilization, motivation, and morale. In doing so, he illuminates the Soviets' remarkable ability to recruit and retain soldiers, revealing why so many were willing to fight in the service of a repressive regime--and how that service was crucial to the army's military effectiveness. He examines the various forms of voluntarism and motivations to serve-including the influences of patriotism and Soviet ideology-and shows that many fought simply out of loyalty to the idea of historic Russia and hatred for the invading Germans. He also considers the role of political officers within the ranks, the importance of commanders who could inspire their troops, the bonds of allegiance forged within small units, and persistent fears of Stalin's secret police. Clean copy.

Record # 378849

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Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic by: Rosenstein, Nathan S.

Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic
by: Rosenstein, Nathan S.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 224 pages. Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended on aristocratic competition, since no professional bureaucracy directed public affairs and no salary was attached to any public office. But as Rosenstein adeptly shows, competition appears to have been surprisingly limited, in ways that curtailed the possible destructive effects of all-out contests between individuals. Imperatores Victi examines one particularly striking case of such checks on competition. Military success at all times represented an abundant source of prestige and political strength at Rome. Generals who led armies to victory enjoyed a better-than-average chance of securing higher office upon their return from the field. Yet this study demonstrates that defeated generals were not barred from public office and in fact went on to win the Republic's most highly coveted and hotly contested offices in numbers virtually identical with those of their undefeated peers.

Record # 379165

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The Land of Hunger by: Camporesi, Piero

The Land of Hunger
by: Camporesi, Piero

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Polity Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages, In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe. Camporesi brings together a mosaic of images from Italian folklore: phantasmagoric processions of giants, pigs, vagabonds, down-trodden rogues, charlatans and beggars in rags. He reconstructs a world inhabited by the strange forces of peasant culture, and describes the various rituals - carnivals, festivities, competitions and funerals - in which food played a central role. NOTE: light pencil making to many pages.

Record # 379851

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LZ 129 Hindenburgby: Douglas Robinson

LZ 129 Hindenburg
by: Douglas Robinson

Softcover. NY, Arco Publishing , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled booklet, 52 pages. Famous Aircraft Series. "This book contains: - . a history of airships - . a description of a typical "voyage" in the mighty "Hindenburg" - . 51 photographs - . 16 scale drawings - the actual Flight Handbook issued to German airship commanders". Small notation on copyright page, otherwise clean.

Record # 380636

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The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolutionby: Richard Slotkin

The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
by: Richard Slotkin

Hardcover. NY, Liveright, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy-one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of federal power that would revolutionize Southern society. In The Long Road to Antietam, Richard Slotkin, a renowned cultural historian, reexamines the challenges that Lincoln encountered during that anguished summer 150 years ago. In an original and incisive study of character, Slotkin re-creates the showdown between Lincoln and General George McClellan, the "Young Napoleon" whose opposition to Lincoln included obsessive fantasies of dictatorship and a military coup. He brings to three-dimensional life their ruinous conflict, demonstrating how their political struggle provided Confederate General Robert E. Lee with his best opportunity to win the war, in the grand offensive that ended in September of 1862 at the bloody Battle of Antietam. 10 illustrations; 8 maps.

Record # 381229

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The Natural and Civil History of Vermontby: Williams, Samuel

The Natural and Civil History of Vermont
by: Williams, Samuel

Burlington VT, Samuel Mills, 2nd Ed., 1809, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2 volume set. Second Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged, after the first edition of 1794. 487 total pages. Vol. 1 does NOT have the folding map frontis. The handwritten name of Peter Starr (1778-1860) appears on the title page of both volumes. He was the head of a prominent Middlebury family whose name now graces two buildings: Starr Hall and Starr Library (now home to the Axinn Center). Brown calf covers with some rubbing and chipping to edges, red morocco spine labels with gilt lettering. Clean, tight set.

Record # 381489

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Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writingsby: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings
by: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas. Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire, to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands. This edition also features a selection of Higginson's essays, including "Nat Turner's Insurrection" and "Emily Dickinson's Letters." Clean copy.

Record # 381600

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HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 5: The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 5: The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians
by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; 818 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 381717

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Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hartford Publishing Co., 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering and design, embossed rules to covers. 524 pages. Detailed records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast on the newly completed transcontinental railroad. Includes much information on the Mormons, Salt Lake City, Indians, gold mining, etc. 12 engraved plates and one map. Bookplate on inside front cover, light fading to spine gilt. Solid, clean copy.

Record # 382021

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That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationshipby: Tombs, Robert; Tombs, Isabelle

That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
by: Tombs, Robert; Tombs, Isabelle

Softcover. NY, Vintage, 1st pbk, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship--rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection--and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Clean copy.

Record # 382131

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