• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Facebook Twitter Google-plus

USED

OUT-OF-PRINT

Browsing is Arousing ™ words surrounding shape of eye around books on shelves.

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS 

  • books@browsingisarousing.com
  • Your Cart
  • Home
  • *Book Beat Archives
  • About Us
  • Glossary
  • Policies
    • How to Pay
    • Returns
    • Shipping
  • Subscribe to Browser’s Book Beat
You are here: Home / Shop Online

Edit My Account  |  View Shopping Cart  
  1. Book Categories >
  2. History

Sort By:  
30 Miles for Ice Cream (SIGNED COPY)by: Hoyt, Murray

30 Miles for Ice Cream (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hoyt, Murray

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover edges. Dust jacket has crease and small closed tear on rear.

Record # 750316

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Poisonous Affair, A: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (SIGNED COPY)by: Hiltermann, Joost R.

Poisonous Affair, A: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hiltermann, Joost R.

hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY JOOST (AUTHOR) Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.

Record # 469487

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Tsereteli - A Democrat in the Russian Revolutionby: Roobol, W. H.

Tsereteli - A Democrat in the Russian Revolution
by: Roobol, W. H.

Hardcover. The Hague, Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 273 pages. Slight wear and fading to dust jacket spine. Tape mark on front of dust jacket. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 855392

Price: $90.00 
Quantity:

Petrashevtsy, The: - A Study of the Russian Revolutionaries of 1848by: Seddon, J. H.

Petrashevtsy, The: - A Study of the Russian Revolutionaries of 1848
by: Seddon, J. H.

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 312 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610672

Price: $60.00 
Quantity:

Troy and its remains: A narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain by: Schliemann, Heinrich

Troy and its remains: A narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain
by: Schliemann, Heinrich

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. Edited by Philip Smith. Reprinted from the 1875 edition. Illustrated with 52 full-page plates, 498 figures, 5 maps, plans and tables. 392 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 374655

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Etruscan Placesby: Lawrence, D. H.

Etruscan Places
by: Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover. London, Olive Press, Reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages. Softcover. Illustrated in sepia tones, copious illustrations throughout. Light foxing top edge. Toning to covers & spine. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 750716

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Images From the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Stormby: Sneden, Private Robert Knox (Author/Illustrator), Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James c. Kel

Images From the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm
by: Sneden, Private Robert Knox (Author/Illustrator), Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James c. Kel

Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. A touch of foxing on spine, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight, in great shape.

Record # 31148

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925by: Margaret Hindle and Robert M Hazen

Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925
by: Margaret Hindle and Robert M Hazen

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 281 pages, b&w illustrations. "For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest lapse of attention could convert a fire from friendly ally to ravaging destroyer. To examine the cultural context of fire in "combustible America," Margaret Hazen and Robert Hazen gather more than a hundred illustrations, most never before published, together with anecdotes and information from hundreds of original sources, including newspapers, diaries, company records, popular fiction, art, and music. What results is an immensely entertaining and encyclopedic history that ranges from stories of the tragic "great fires" of the century to fire imagery in folktales and popular literature. Dealing more with technology than with fire in nature, the book provides a vast amount of information on fire manipulation and prevention in urban life. Hazen and Hazen discuss the people who worked with fire--or against it. Founders, gaffers, blacksmiths, boilers at saltworks, and housewives knew how to "read" a fire and employ it for their purposes. A few dedicated investigators inquired about the scientific nature of heat and flame. And firefighters gradually progressed from "bucket brigades" to "using fire to fight fire" with the newly invented steam engine. The colorful stories of these Americans--the risks they took and the rewards they received--will fascinate not only social historians but also a broad audience of general readers. Clean copy.

Record # 374324

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heros of '76by: De Puy, Henry W.

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heros of '76
by: De Puy, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, Dayton and Wentworth, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Hardcover with heavy wear and soil on cover boards. Gutter cracked in several areas. Loose hinge and loose pages. Foxing on pages.

Record # 354251

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York: Excerpted from the Documentary History of the State of New York by: O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey

Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York: Excerpted from the Documentary History of the State of New York
by: O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Genealogical Publishing Company, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 351 pages. Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New-York, published in four volumes between 1849 and 1851, is one of the key source-books for genealogical and historical research in New York State. Interspersed throughout its more than 4,350 pages are copies of important genealogical records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, among which are census records, rate lists, lists of early settlers, and rolls of militia companies. This present volume is an extract of all the important genealogical records in the O'Callaghan work, brought together in just under 300 pages, contains a complete index of names, and overcomes, for individuals unfamiliar with Dutch or German nomenclature, the confusion caused by variant spellings of family names. The records are arranged in this work in the same sequence in which they appear in the Documentary History. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386801

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Wolfpack: U-Boats at War 1939-1945by: Kaplan, Philip; Currie, Jack

Wolfpack: U-Boats at War 1939-1945
by: Kaplan, Philip; Currie, Jack

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Navel Institute Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with faded spine dust jacket. Black and white photographs/illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy with only light wear to dust jacket and light rubbing to cover boards.

Record # 750646

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Our Whiting: Facts and Fablesby: Webster, Harold and Elizabeth

Our Whiting: Facts and Fables
by: Webster, Harold and Elizabeth

Softcover. Burlington, VT, Russell Farnsworth, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Folder in rear with a maps included. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750319

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Story of American Toys, Theby: O'Brien, Richard

Story of American Toys, The
by: O'Brien, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Artabras, 2nd Printing, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black printed rocking horse decoration to cover, black printed titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully interspersed throughout text. Bright dust jacket with sunfading to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750735

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

History of Lake Champlain 1609-1814by: Palmer, Peter S.

History of Lake Champlain 1609-1814
by: Palmer, Peter S.

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

Record # 456626

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Farewell to Salonica: City of the Crossroads by: Leon Sciaky

Farewell to Salonica: City of the Crossroads
by: Leon Sciaky

Softcover. Philadelphia, Paul Dry Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 299 pages. At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy of Leon Sciaky's son Peter, who has also written a short biographical sketch of his father's life in America. "This picture of a Jewish childhood among rich merchants in Salonica has a glow, the radiant sunshine of a protected childhood."--Chicago Sun. Clean copy.

Record # 381616

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by: Geoffrey Irwin

The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
by: Geoffrey Irwin

Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages, b&w illustrations, diagrams. The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself. Clean copy.

Record # 381526

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Countdown! 35 Daylight Missions Against Nazi Germanyby: Koger, Fred

Countdown! 35 Daylight Missions Against Nazi Germany
by: Koger, Fred

Hardcover. New York, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230202

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Theatre through the Ages by: Molinari Cesare

Theatre through the Ages
by: Molinari Cesare

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, color and black and white illustrations throughout. A masterly survey of the world's stages brings to the contemporary reader the entire panorama of the theatre, including its formative stages among primitive peoples and the richly stylized traditions of the East.

Record # 363448

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Lenteloos Voorjaar: Oorlogsdagboek 1940-1941 (Dutch Edition)by: Michaelis, Hanny

Lenteloos Voorjaar: Oorlogsdagboek 1940-1941 (Dutch Edition)
by: Michaelis, Hanny

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Van Oorschot , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 942 pages, DUTCH LANGUAGE. Bright copy in a similar dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 369676

Price: $0.00 
Quantity:

An Anthologyby: Reed, John

An Anthology
by: Reed, John

Hardcover. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with faded spine. Anthology of writings by American journalist, poet and Communist activist. Includes portions of "Insurgent Mexico" and "Ten Days That Shook the World,"as well as stories, articles, documents, poetry and drama. Illustrated with photos. Text in English with introductory section in Russian. 299 pages, b&w illustrations. No date but indicates "2.6.66" Clean copy.

Record # 382728

Price: $20.00 
used 
1127441:+:0
Quantity:

Quest for Alien Planets, The: Exploring Worlds Outside the Solar Systemby: Halpern, Paul

Quest for Alien Planets, The: Exploring Worlds Outside the Solar System
by: Halpern, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470086

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Old Louisville: The Victorian Eraby: Samuel W. Thomas; William Morgan

Old Louisville: The Victorian Era
by: Samuel W. Thomas; William Morgan

Hardcover. Louisville KY, Data Courier for the Courier-Journal, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bight, lightly worn dust jacket. 152 pages with many b&w historical photos of Louisville

Record # 381134

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States by: Kautz, August V.

Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States
by: Kautz, August V.<

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd Ed., 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 4" x 6 1/4", 303 pages including index. A detailed instructional guide for the Civil War era soldier. Copyright page states 1964, title page says 1865. Probably a second edition. Still scarce in this nice condition. A few pages with dog ears, previous owner's pencil signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412231

Price: $125.00 
Quantity:

The Diaries of Sally and Pamela Brown 1832-1838/ Hyde Leslie 1887by: Blanche Brown Bryant/Gertrude Elaine Baker

The Diaries of Sally and Pamela Brown 1832-1838/ Hyde Leslie 1887
by: Blanche Brown Bryant/Gertrude Elaine Baker

Softcover. Springfield VT, William Bryant Foundation, 2nd Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, light stamping to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 398710

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Essays on the New Dealby: William E. Leuchtenburg William H. Droze, George Wolfskill

Essays on the New Deal
by: William E. Leuchtenburg William H. Droze, George Wolfskill

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1stt, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Three essays (on the Shelterbelt Project, New Deal critics, and FDR's attempt to expand the Supreme Court) make up the second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures; foreword by C. B. Smith; edited by Harold M. Hollingsworth and William F. Holmes. Bound in bright green cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on the front board and spine.

Record # 378798

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

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 WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350301

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940by: Teal, Harvey S.

Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940
by: Teal, Harvey S.

Hardcover. Colombia SC , Univ of South Carolina Pr, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352398

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Fifth Avenue - Old and New - 1824-1924by: Brown, Henry Collins

Fifth Avenue - Old and New - 1824-1924
by: Brown, Henry Collins

Hardcover. New York, Fifth Avenue Association, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages of text and full color and black & white illustrations followed by large section of advertisements. Book measures: 12.25" X 9.25". Light rubbing to cover corners. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614495

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War by: Joseph, Gilbert M./Grandin, Greg

A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War
by: Joseph, Gilbert M./Grandin, Greg

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st pbk, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 443 pages. Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America's twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 382332

Price: $20.00 
used 
1126296:+:0
Quantity:

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Cultureby: Orlando Figes

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
by: Orlando Figes

Softcover. London, Penguin Books , reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 553 pages. The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and genuinely pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change. This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to exchange ideas and make a living, shuttling back and forth across the whole continent from the British Isles to Imperial Russia, as they exploited a new cosmopolitan age. Clean copy.

Record # 382127

Price: $12.00 
used 
1125660:+:0
Quantity:

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

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $80.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $15.00 
used 
1127759:+:0
Quantity:

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

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $150.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $150.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $12.00 
used 
1129742:+:0
Quantity:

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

Price: $150.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

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

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:


Page [ 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  ]
  
Sitemap

Primary Sidebar

Browsing is Arousing Online Bookstore: Used Books, Rare Books, Out of Print Books, Antiquarian Books, Arts, Photography, Children's, Illustrated Books, on-line, web, internet shopping

Search by Title, Author, or Keywords


See our INDEXED CATALOGS

Popular Search Catalogs

  • Agriculture
  • American History
  • Animals & Nature
  • Antiques & Collectibles
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biography*
  • Black Studies
  • Building, Constuction, Engineering
  • Children's
  • Cooking & Food
  • Countries (World History)
  • Crafts
  • Economics
  • Fiction*
  • Film & Movies
  • Gardening
  • Graphic Arts
  • Health & Medicine
  • Illustrated
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math & Physics
  • Mid-East
  • Military
  • Music
  • Mysteries*
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry *
  • Religion
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy*
  • Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Sports
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • * Inventory in the thousands. Please search by author, title or subject.

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in