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Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 (INSCRIBED BY ROCKWELL)by: Saunders, Richard

Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 (INSCRIBED BY ROCKWELL)
by: Saunders, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Heritage Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Inscribed by Normal Rockwell. Brown/tan cloth boards decorated with animal designs with gilt lettering along spine. B&w and color illustrations. Comes in slipcase. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855798

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TWO HUNDRED DAYS AS PRISONERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS. (SIGNED COPY)by: Koether Luella G. and T. Janet Surdan

TWO HUNDRED DAYS AS PRISONERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS. (SIGNED COPY)
by: Koether Luella G. and T. Janet Surdan

Softcover. Mason City, IA, Arrow Printing , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. 12mo. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on title page. Yellow wrappers wih red titles in English and Chinese. Age soil. The glue used by the printing company to attach the wrappers to the text was of poor quality; this has toned the wrappers spine to a darker yellow. Wear to top and bottom of spine.

Record # 220676

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Floodtide of 1927: A Gathering of Reports and Pictures which Tell Their Story Graphically of the Great November Flood in Vermont State by: Author: Johnson, Luther B.

Floodtide of 1927: A Gathering of Reports and Pictures which Tell Their Story Graphically of the Great November Flood in Vermont State
by: Author: Johnson, Luther B.

Softcover. Randolph VT, Roy L. Johnson Company, 2nd Ed., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Printed paper wraps, iv, 181 pages. illustrated, portrait frontis. 41 full page b & w illustrations from photographs, small spots on wraps, "The torrential rains began on November 3, 1927. It had already been a wet October and rivers were swollen and the ground saturated. Nine inches of rain fell in a thirty-six hour period and horrendous flooding began. Though all of New England was affected, Vermont was devastated. The state flooded from Newport to Bennington, with the Winooski River Valley the hardest hit. Eighty-five people died and 9,000 were left homeless." Clean copy.

Record # 370366

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Quaint Corners in Philadelphia by: N.A.

Quaint Corners in Philadelphia
by: N.A.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , John Wanamaker, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt.

Record # 202081

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Uniforms of the American Revolution in Colorby: McGregor, Malcolm

Uniforms of the American Revolution in Color
by: McGregor, Malcolm

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Pub Co, 1st US, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear, creasing and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460138

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Victorian News And Newspapersby: Brown, Lucy

Victorian News And Newspapers
by: Brown, Lucy

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 394 pages includes index. This is a study of the gathering and presentation of news in late 19th-century England, a time when the vote was given to a large section of the working class, when public interest in the British Empire was on the rise, and when technology enabled newspapers to be produced more cheaply, distributed more quickly, and read more widely than ever before. Using manuscript collections and newspaper archives, the author describes the production and readership of newspapers, and the journalists within the industry--how they were recruited, the organization of their work, the ways in which they acquired their information, and their access to people in positions of power. The book moves on to review changes in news presentation in the last decades of Victorian England until the appearance of such papers as the Daily Mail in the 1890s. Clean copy, like new.

Record # 371290

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The Era Of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War, 1865-1877by: Kenneth M. Stampp

The Era Of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War, 1865-1877
by: Kenneth M. Stampp

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with pieces gone, 229 pages plus index. A study of the controversial period in America which followed the Civil War examining the political situation in the South.

Record # 397496

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American Navy, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Chadwick, French E.

American Navy, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Chadwick, French E.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to a Mrs. Thomas (the levelest head I know among women) with sincere affection and regard. Dated Newport. 27 May, 1915. The dust jacket is fragile with large missing chips and a few tape repairs on the inside, but with both flaps intact and the front and back being essentially there to be able to read the extensive copy on both sides. Internally very clean.

Record # 809858

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How We Drafted Adlai Stevenson by: Johnson, Walter

How We Drafted Adlai Stevenson
by: Johnson, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 172 pages plus index. "The exciting story of the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1952; a record of what occurred, how it occurred, and why; Told by a leader of the draft movement, who is also a prominent American historian." Clean copy.

Record # 383167

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A History of the United States of America; From The Discovery of the Continent by Christopher Columbus, To The Persent Timeby: Goodrich, Charles A.

A History of the United States of America; From The Discovery of the Continent by Christopher Columbus, To The Persent Time
by: Goodrich, Charles A.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, J. Seymour Brown, reprint, 1842, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a worn leather binding, spine stamped in gilt with title and decorations fairly bright. 654 pages with 60 engravings. Front fly leaf missing so book opens to title page. History of the US from Columbus through the beginning of the Harrison/Tyler administration (including the death of Harrison). Marbled edge pages. Endpapers tanning, interior clean with minor foxing, binding tight.

Record # 383312

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Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815 (Three Volumes)by: Meneval, Baron Claude-Francois De; Meneval, Napoleon Joseph De (edited by)

Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815 (Three Volumes)
by: Meneval, Baron Claude-Francois De; Meneval, Napoleon Joseph De (edited by)

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Company, 1st US, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, Three volumes complete, blue cloth hardcovers with gilt titles and oval decorations on the front covers. Gilt titles and decorations on the spines. Top edges gilt. Volume I: 421 pages, [4] pages advertisements, Volume II: 484 pages, [8] pages advertisements, Volume III: 541 pages, [2] pages advertisements. Illustrated with frontispieces in the three volumes. Illustrations and folding facsimile autographs and manuscripts. Previous owner's inscriptions written on inside front cover of Vol. 1, Otherwise a bright, clean set. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 383439

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Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Rankin, Henry B./ Newton Joseph Fort (Introduction);

Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Rankin, Henry B./ Newton Joseph Fort (Introduction);

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with portraits. Top edge gilt. 412 pages + ads. INSCRIBED BY RANKIN to Livingston C. Lord, President of Eastern Illinois University in 1917. Rankin, who died at 90 in 1927, was an early colleague and friend of Lincoln's from his Springfield days. Small ink number on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383746

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The Confederate Carpetbaggersby: Sutherland, Daniel E

The Confederate Carpetbaggers
by: Sutherland, Daniel E

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Following the American Civil War, many former Confederates fled their southern homeland. Some left the United States, some moved to the western territories. Still others moved north to northeastern and midwestern towns and cities, believing that northern economic and educational opportunities offered the quickest means of rebuilding shattered fortunes and lives. Sutherland provides a detailed and illuminating account of the contributions these displaced southerners made to the financial, literary, artistic, and political life of the nation. Very nice copy.

Record # 383893

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

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

Hardcover. Hartford, F. A. Brown, 2nd, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages of main text plus Appendix and 12 pages of Press reviews. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing throughout. Light wear to cloth covers with fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609255

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The Admission of Vermont into the Union by: Leon W. Dean

The Admission of Vermont into the Union
by: Leon W. Dean

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gold lettering, design on front cover, 62 pages. Dean was a Professor at the University of Vermont who taught ceative writing. He was the author of many works of historical fiction, including stories about Vermont heroes John Stark and Ethan Allen, and was the founder of the Green Mountain Folkore Society. Two small notations on prelim pages, bookplate on front fly leaf.

Record # 387239

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Under God's Spell: Frontier Evangelists 1772-1915by: Luchetti, Cathy

Under God's Spell: Frontier Evangelists 1772-1915
by: Luchetti, Cathy

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Illustrated with over 100 archival photos of religion on the American frontier. Three quarter brown paper over boards with rust cloth around spine and gilt text on spine; no defects. Illustrated dust jacket with maroon and black text on upper and mint green and maroon text on spine; no chips, tears or edge wear; no price clipped. Interior pages clean, remainder line on top edge, otherwise clean. Binding is tight.

Record # 412420

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The War as I Saw It: 1918 Letters of a Tank Corps Lieutenant by: Harvey L. Harris

The War as I Saw It: 1918 Letters of a Tank Corps Lieutenant
by: Harvey L. Harris

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Pogo Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 158 pages, b&w illustrations. During World War I, soldiers in the American Expeditionary Force rarely fought in the newly developed tank, and those who did manned British and French tanks since American models did not become available until after the war. Harris joined the Tank Corps because it was considered the elite unit of the ground forces and had a certain amount of romance connected with it. Initially assigned as a driving instructor, he later saw action at the St. Mihiel salient and on the Meuse-Argonne front. This book, which offers an extensive preface, summarizing Harris's life before, during, and after the war, along with some penetrating insights into his character, collects 46 letters he wrote home while in service. As they show, Harris saw war as a game not unlike the football games he played in his youth. Although he spent only 18 months in Europe, he looked upon it as a bold adventure, surviving the bad periods and enjoying the better moments. He returned from war apparently unscathed in both body and mind. The letters provide an entertaining if hardly probing portrayal of World War I from a tank officer's point of view. Clean copy.

Record # 387735

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Archives From Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony by: Porten, Bezalel

Archives From Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony
by: Porten, Bezalel

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and darkened dust jacket, 421 pages with frontispiece map, illustrations and 16 photographic plates. Important economic, religious, and social study of the ancient Jewish settlement on the island of Elephantine. During the 5th century B.C., the southern frontier of ancient Egypt was guarded by an Aramean garrison at Syene (modern Aswan) and a Jewish garrison on the adjacent island of Elephantine. This study is an interpretation of the well-known group of Aramaic papyrus texts found on the site at the beginning of the 20th century. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385379

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Balaclava: Gentlemen's Battle by: John Selby

Balaclava: Gentlemen's Battle
by: John Selby

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 245 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Decorated endpapers. Decorative pink stain to top edge. Private library stamp on front endpaper. Otherwise clean. Entertaining recount of the pivotal battle of the Crimean War. Includes bibliography & index. Excellent collection of period photographs and artwork.

Record # 385518

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History of Chesterfield, Cheshire County NH from the Incorporation of Township Number one, By Massachusetts in 1736 to the Year 1881, Together with Family Histories and Genealogies by:

History of Chesterfield, Cheshire County NH from the Incorporation of Township Number one, By Massachusetts in 1736 to the Year 1881, Together with Family Histories and Genealogies
by:

Hardcover. Chesterfield NH, Chesterfield Historical Society, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 525 pages. published by the Chesterfield Historical Society in an edition of 500 copies (this is copy number 437). The book was originally published in 1882. Chesterfield is a rural hill town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Chesterfield was first settled in 1760 and was officially incorporated in 1762. It was named after the Earl of Chesterfield. The town center, established after the Revolution, has well-preserved Federal period houses along Main Road. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385694

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War in Disguise: Or the Frauds of the Neutral Flagsby: Stephen)(James

War in Disguise: Or the Frauds of the Neutral Flags
by: Stephen)(James

Hardcover. London, J. Hatchard, 2nd Ed., 1805, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages with appendix added in this December printing. (The first edition consisted of 215 pages and was issued in October.) Half black leather binding and marbled boards. Both covers detached, the front missing. The interior and binding are in very nice condition, clean.

Record # 403685

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Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812by: Barnes, James

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812
by: Barnes, James

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, Reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages. Gilt decorated front cover. Pencil marking on page 195. Minor soiling and edge wear on cover and spine. Minor spotting on front and rear end papers. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852318

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Scourge of the Indies, The: Buccaneers, Corsairs & Filibustersby: Besson, Maurice

Scourge of the Indies, The: Buccaneers, Corsairs & Filibusters
by: Besson, Maurice

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Engravings and illustrations throughout, some in color. Minor cover and corner edge wear and soiling. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Minor stain on bottom corner from page 305 to rear endpaper. Otherwise, all pages clean and binding tight.

Record # 852302

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Hellenism in Jewish Palestine: Studies in the Literary Transmission Beliefs and Manners of Palestine in the I Century B.C.E.-IV Century C.E. by: Lieberman, Saul

Hellenism in Jewish Palestine: Studies in the Literary Transmission Beliefs and Manners of Palestine in the I Century B.C.E.-IV Century C.E.
by: Lieberman, Saul

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2nd Ed., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 231 pages. (Essays in Judaism series) In this book, master Talmudist and scholar of the Greco-Roman world, the late Professor Saul Lieberman, elucidates words, texts, customs, and practices in either rabbinic or classical literature, often by reference to passages in the other. In Greek in Jewish Palestine, he demonstrates that almost every foreign word and phrase have their raison d'etre in rabbinic literature and that all Greek phrases in rabbinic literature are quotations. Hellenism in Greek Palestine is an inquiry into the spirit of many rabbinic observations and investigations of the facts, incidents, opinions, notions and beliefs to which the Rabbis allude in their statements. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386123

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From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries by: Lampe, Peter; Steinhauser, Michael (transl.)

From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries
by: Lampe, Peter; Steinhauser, Michael (transl.)

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a dust jacket with large chunk of rear panel gone. 525 pages. In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at inscriptional evidence to complement the reading of the great literary texts: from Paul's Letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Montanus, and Valentinus. Thoroughly reworked and updated by the author for this English-language edition, this study is a groundbreaking work, broad in scope and closely detailed. Lampe deals with the shape of leadership and the Christians' relation to the Judeans living in Rome. In six parts, comprised of fifty-one chapters and four appendices, Lampe greatly advances our knowledge of the shape of leadership and the Christians' relation to the Judeans living in Rome. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386442

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The Dawn of Liberation War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill CH. MP. C. H. M. P. by: Winston S. Churchill

The Dawn of Liberation War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill CH. MP. C. H. M. P.
by: Winston S. Churchill

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with front and spine printed in black and gilt, 417 pages. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. Light spotting to covers, otherwise clean.

Record # 386573

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The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939 - May 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War Ii, Volume 1)by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939 - May 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War Ii, Volume 1)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume I in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 432 pages, illustrated with maps and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386586

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The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783by: Adrian C. Leiby

The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783
by: Adrian C. Leiby

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages, b&w illustrations. Deals with activity during the American Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley which lies in north-eastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York. The area, populated mainly by settlers of Dutch descent, lay between the British and the American lines, and suffered from marauders and plundering expeditions from both sides. Very light pencil marking to about 30 pages.

Record # 386885

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A Plan of Mr. Pope's Garden (1745)by: Serle, John and Morris R. Brownell (Introduction)

A Plan of Mr. Pope's Garden (1745)
by: Serle, John and Morris R. Brownell (Introduction)

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages with a fold-out plan, 2 other b&w plates. A facsimile reproduction of the 1745 publication. Introduction by Morris R. Brownell. Clean copy.

Record # 386973

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African Holocaust The Story of the Uganda Martyrsby: Faupel, J.F.

African Holocaust The Story of the Uganda Martyrs
by: Faupel, J.F.

Hardcover. NY, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 242 pages. The history of a Catholic mission to Uganda and how in 1886 its native converts were executed. No dustjacket. Front fly leaf clipped otherwise very good, clean copy.

Record # 374684

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Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Cultureby: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
by: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. "Not of woman born," "the Fortunate," "the Unborn" - the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. In antiquity, children fortunate enough to have survived a Caesarean birth were believed to be marked for a special destiny. Vividly tracing the evolution of Caesarean birth from the early 1300s (when the operation was performed almost exclusively by midwives) through the Renaissance period (when midwives were considered witches and male surgeons took control), Blumenfeld-Kosinski . . . does more than provide [an] engrossingly accessible, historical account of the now-commonplace procedure--she unveils the roots of a medical misogyny that still prevails today. A richly cross-disciplined study utilizing depictions of Caesarean delivery in art, literature, and medical texts and illuminations (illustrations), [this book] is a captivating and revealing work that will be relished by readers of medical and cultural history, as well as by those who are interested in the subject of male dominance over women. Clean copy.

Record # 387396

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Where the Books Are: History & Architecture of Vermont's Public Libraries with Photos & Anecdotesby: Belding, Patricia W

Where the Books Are: History & Architecture of Vermont's Public Libraries with Photos & Anecdotes
by: Belding, Patricia W

Softcover. Barre VT, Potash Brook Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages, b&w photography. A great overview of Vermont's diverse and often quirky libraries. With photos and descriptive text, the 201 libraries that existed in the Green Mountain State in 1996. Small chip to top of spine otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 387615

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Jacksonian Democracy In New Hampshire, 1800-1851by: Cole, Donald B.

Jacksonian Democracy In New Hampshire, 1800-1851
by: Cole, Donald B.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 283 pages. "During the Age of Jackson, New Hampshire was one New England state that was consistently and firmly Democratic. The only study of the state's politics during the first half of the 19th century, the author's book points out the significant, though often overlooked, influence of New Hampshire Democrats on the national Jacksonian movement- and influence far out of proportion to the size of the state." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387774

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Radicals and Visionaries: A History of Dissent in New Jerseyby: Schonbach, Morris

Radicals and Visionaries: A History of Dissent in New Jersey
by: Schonbach, Morris

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 125 pages, endpapers map, 'The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 12'. A look at radicalism from colonial days forward. Mild soil to dust jacket.

Record # 387848

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Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleonby: Christine Haynes

Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon
by: Christine Haynes

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated nation rebuild itself and pay substantial reparations to its conquerors. Our Friends the Enemies provides the first comprehensive history of the post-Napoleonic occupation of France and its innovative approach to peacemaking. From 1815 to 1818, a multinational force of 150,000 men under the command of the Duke of Wellington occupied northeastern France. From military, political, and cultural perspectives, Christine Haynes reconstructs the experience of the occupiers and the occupied in Paris and across the French countryside. The occupation involved some violence, but it also promoted considerable exchange and reconciliation between the French and their former enemies. Clean copy.

Record # 396279

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Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (SIGNED)by: Lowry, Thomas P.

Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (SIGNED)
by: Lowry, Thomas P.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 2230188

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Annals of the Classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch Church, and of the Churches Under its Care: Including, the Civil History of the Ancient Township of Bergen, in New Jerseyby:

Annals of the Classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch Church, and of the Churches Under its Care: Including, the Civil History of the Ancient Township of Bergen, in New Jersey
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Hardcover. New York, Board of Publications of the Reformed Protestant Ditch Church, 3rd Edition, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations with tissue guards for most. Red cloth cover boards with blindstamped design and gilt title on spine (faded), agewear to covers. Foxing throughout. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Binding good. Spine straight.

Record # 99210

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Land of Saddle-bags, The: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachiaby: Raine, James Watt

Land of Saddle-bags, The: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia
by: Raine, James Watt

Hardcover. New York, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States ands Canada, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages, hardcover. A study of the Appalachian Mountain dwellers. Gilt title on spine. Black-and white frontispiece photo intact. Mild soiling to boards, light bumping to corners as well. Mild age spotting to pages throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951651

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In the Maine Woods 1941by: N/A

In the Maine Woods 1941
by: N/A

Softcover. Bangor ME, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Published by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, this wonderfully evocative magazine brings the unspoiled Maine woods of pre-World War II back to life. The magazine has articles on a variety of topics, including camping, canoeing, Indian relics, Maine guides, Moosehead Lake and climbing Mt. Katahdin. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos designed to make you drop everything and head North. With canoeing map, list of big game records for 1940, Sportsman's Directory of camps, hotels and fishing waters reached by the railroad and 39 pages of vintage advertisements. 128 pages. Light edgewear, small name on first page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396464

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Civil War Diaries of Major John M. Deane: 1861-1865by: John Milton Deane

Civil War Diaries of Major John M. Deane: 1861-1865
by: John Milton Deane

Softcover. Freetown MA, Freetown Historical Society, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 327 pages. John Milton Deane (January 8, 1840 - September 2, 1914), was an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and a major in the United States Army. Deane was born in Assonet, Massachusetts to John and Lydia (Andros) Deane. The diary he kept is here type-written out in chronological order. B&w photo of Deane as a Lieutenant in 1863. Clean, like new.

Record # 374034

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Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam Warby: Brian VanDeMark

Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
by: Brian VanDeMark

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 268 pages. Focusing mainly on the nine months from November 1964 to July 1965 VanDeMark describes how the Johnson administration progressed along a seemingly inevitable path to double the number of ground troops in Vietnam, polarize the American people, and destroy Johnson's presidency in the short term. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396485

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The Triumphant Empire: Part I The Empire Beyond the Storm 1770 1776; Part II Summaryof the Series; Part III Historiography The British Empire Before the American Revolution - Volume XIII by:

The Triumphant Empire: Part I The Empire Beyond the Storm 1770 1776; Part II Summaryof the Series; Part III Historiography The British Empire Before the American Revolution - Volume XIII
by: <

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 454 pages plus index. A study of the British Empire before the American Revolution. Remainder stamp to bottom edge otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 387901

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The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Timesby: Casson, Lionel

The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times
by: Casson, Lionel

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers, 286 pages, map endpapers, b&w illustrations. Lionel Casson, the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring, has done what no other author has: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious voyages to a network that reached from Spain to India. In the process he corrects cherished but erroneous beliefs. Ancient warships, he shows, were never manned with slave rowers; ancient merchant-men did not stick timidly to the shore; and ancient craft were well able to sail against the wind. Embossed stamp to dedication page, otherwise clean, No dust jacket.

Record # 396544

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Roster of Vermont Men and Women in the Military and Naval Service of the United States and Allies in the World War 1917-1919by: Johnson, Herbert T.

Roster of Vermont Men and Women in the Military and Naval Service of the United States and Allies in the World War 1917-1919
by: Johnson, Herbert T.

Hardcover. Montpelier, Vermont General Assembly, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1665 pages, black leatherette binding with gilt lettering. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 407405

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by: Kemble, Frances Anne

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
by: Kemble, Frances Anne

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, reprint, 2001, Softcover, clean, unmarked pages. 415 pages, followed by a short Index. Fanny Kemble offers a gripping, first-hand account of life on a Southern plantation before the Civil War. Combining a keen observational style with a candid narrative voice, Kemble lays bare the complexities of plantation life, including the stark realities of slavery and the socio-economic hierarchies of antebellum Georgia. The journal entries provide an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of both the enslaved and the plantation owners, reflecting her deep moral convictions and growing abolitionist sentiments against a backdrop of genteel Southern culture. Fanny Kemble, a British actress and writer, was thrust into the world of the Southern elite through her marriage to a plantation owner, which provided her with unprecedented access to the intricacies of plantation management and its social fabric.

Record # 396745

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A Narrative of the Negro: Missing Pages in American History : Revealing the Services of Negros in the Early Wars in the United States of America 1641-1815by: Wilkes,

A Narrative of the Negro: Missing Pages in American History : Revealing the Services of Negros in the Early Wars in the United States of America 1641-1815
by: Wilkes,

Hardcover. New York, G. K. Hall & Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456814

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Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia by: McColley, Robert

Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
by: McColley, Robert

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with two small holes to front cover, 227 pages with index. "Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine the domestic and foreign policy of the "agrarian" party in our early history. For the agrarian politics of Jefferson, while possibly benefiting the small freeholder, very closely served the interests of the plantation system, at least as the planters conceived their interests." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397182

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Prison Notes by: Deming, Barbara

Prison Notes
by: Deming, Barbara

Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket. The personal memoirs of a participant in the Albany Georgia civil rights movement. 185 pages + photographic plates at end. No markings.

Record # 379922

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Detroit's Coming of Age, 1873-1973by: Don Lochbiler

Detroit's Coming of Age, 1873-1973
by: Don Lochbiler

Softcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397413

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Viewing Greenviile and Pitt County Near the Turn of the Centuryby: James S. Jenkins, Jr.

Viewing Greenviile and Pitt County Near the Turn of the Century
by: James S. Jenkins, Jr.

Hardcover. Greenville NC, James S. Jenkins Jr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover bound in green cloth boards, 87 pages printed on one side only. A privately printed compilation of news excerpts from local newspapers in the Greenville area from 1892 to 1909. An interesting portrait of small town Southern life during the period. Unique, scarce.

Record # 378915

Price: $100.00 
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