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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon (SIGNED COPY)by: Claudio Lomnitz

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon (SIGNED COPY)
by: Claudio Lomnitz

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Zone Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 594 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. In this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon. Based on extensive research in American and Mexican archives, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Magon and his comrades devoted to the "Mexican Cause." This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience and meaning of these dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: "La revolucion es la revolucion." For Lomnitz, their experiences reveal the meaning of this phrase.

Record # 381516

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Adams and Jefferson: The Story of a Friendshipby: Allison, John Murray

Adams and Jefferson: The Story of a Friendship
by: Allison, John Murray

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

Record # 397547

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Letters From the Asiatic Station 1881-1883by: Bunts, Frank Emory

Letters From the Asiatic Station 1881-1883
by: Bunts, Frank Emory

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Alexander T. Bunts, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Limited first edition copy. Minor fading on blue cloth cover. Faded sticker mark on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852334

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Naval Documents of the American Revolution 1775-1776 Volume 3 by: William Bell Clark, Editor

Naval Documents of the American Revolution 1775-1776 Volume 3
by: William Bell Clark, Editor

Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title to front and spine. 1486 pages. VOL. 3 ONLY. Includes maps, illustrations, and facsimiles of contemporary documents. Edited by William Bell Clark. Forewords by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Illustrations and charts by Commander Dermott V. Hickey and W. Bart Greenwood. Maps on endpapers. Primary documents, letters from the Revolutionary War as it was being fought day by day at sea and in Congress. Letters from Ezra Stiles on the Cannons at Ticonderoga. George Washington to John Hancock on forming the Marines, Master's log of H.M. Nautilus. Philip Schuyler letters Maps. Painting of Ezra Hopkins. Original sketch of the American ship Privateer Washington. Ex-Library copy with tape on spine and embossed stamp on title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 397753

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War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley, The by: Everest, Allan Seymour

War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley, The
by: Everest, Allan Seymour

Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, b&w photographs and maps. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 455041

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Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story by: Martin Clemens

Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story
by: Martin Clemens

Softcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 343 pages, b&w illustrations. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397907

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The Atlantic Slave Tradeby: Postma, Johannes

The Atlantic Slave Trade
by: Postma, Johannes

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 177 pages. Postma draws on primary sources and current historical scholarship to offer secondary readers and researchers a comprehensive and well-written history. He covers the entire Atlantic slave trade era, from the 1400s to the final abolition of chattel slavery in the New World in 1888. The focus is on Africa and the entire New World. While he describes the many horrors of the Middle Passage, he also examines how the slave trade contributed to the development of the modern international economy. The last chapters discuss the efforts to abolish the slave trade and its legacy. Throughout, Postma documents the sources that support his discussion and conclusions. Chapter notes are supplemented by an extensive annotated bibliography that includes books, articles, films, and electronic resources. The volume concludes with biographical sketches of important people and excerpts from primary documents written by enslaved Africans and white officials. The black-and-white reproductions of period illustrations add little to the text. Clean copy.

Record # 381603

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On the Paris Commune by: Marx, Karl/ Engels, Friedrich

On the Paris Commune
by: Marx, Karl/ Engels, Friedrich

Hardcover. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 357 pages. "On March 18, 1871, the workers of Paris expelled the bourgeois rulers of the city and took power into their own hands , a shining achievement never to be forgotten. Ten days later, on March 28, they set up the Paris Commune, the world's first proletarian state. It was of an entirely new type, being governed by the people and for the people, with all its social and political measures taken in the interest of the working people, the working class above all." -from the Preface. First printing of this selection, published for the centenary of the Commune. With ribbon bookmark. Clean copy.

Record # 398073

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The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South West Pacific 1944-45by: Charlton, Peter

The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South West Pacific 1944-45
by: Charlton, Peter

Hardcover. Melbourne AUS, Macmillan, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w illustrations. The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war.

Record # 378357

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History of Niagara by: Janet Carnochan

History of Niagara
by: Janet Carnochan

Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt stamping, 333 pages with index. Front and rear hinges cracked, ownership signature on front fly leaf, b&w illustrations, 2 related postcards laid in. Interior clean.

Record # 398262

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Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World beyond Asia (Cold War International History Project)by: Priscilla Roberts (Ed.)

Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World beyond Asia (Cold War International History Project)
by: Priscilla Roberts (Ed.)

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 559 pages. "Behind the Bamboo Curtain is an important collection of essays on Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War An excellent contribution from a Vietnamese historian and well-documented chapters on Soviet and French policy further augment the importance of the volume. The contributors make extensive use of primary documents from the United States, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, and Russia and offer authoritative analyses." -- The Journal of Cold War Studies. Claen, unread copy.

Record # 378773

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Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess 0f Eighteenth-Century Koreaby: Jahyun Kim Haboush (Editor), Hyegyonggung

Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess 0f Eighteenth-Century Korea
by: Jahyun Kim Haboush (Editor), Hyegyonggung

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 372 pages. Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean proportions. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily pre-occupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and of how the genre of autobiography fared in pre-modern times. Clean copy.

Record # 398505

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Mesmerized - Powers of Mind in Victorian Britainby: Winter, Alison

Mesmerized - Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
by: Winter, Alison

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & light grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with ligh wrinkles. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750527

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Law Church and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan Kuttner (The Middle Ages Series)by: Somerville Robert; Pennington Kenneth/Editors

Law Church and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan Kuttner (The Middle Ages Series)
by: Somerville Robert; Pennington Kenneth/Editors

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover ina worn, rubbed dust jacket. 340 pages. Essays exploring the impact of Church law on medieval legal theory. Clean copy.

Record # 382032

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Equestrian Statue of Major-General Joseph Hooker, Theby: N/A

Equestrian Statue of Major-General Joseph Hooker, The
by: N/A

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

Record # 405470

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History of the Navy of the United States of Americaby: Cooper, J. Fenimore

History of the Navy of the United States of America
by: Cooper, J. Fenimore

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam & Co, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in one. 267, 248, and 100 pages respectively. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Heavy spotting to endpapers, title page, and spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature and stamp on front flyleaf, bookplate on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Markings on top edge. Damp stains, wear, rubbing, and soiling to cover.

Record # 852135

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The Trail of the Fox: The Search for the True Field Marshal Rommel by: David Irving

The Trail of the Fox: The Search for the True Field Marshal Rommel
by: David Irving

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. David Irving's The Trail of the Fox is the best work on Rommel ever written. The circumstances around Rommel's involvement with the attempt on Hitler's life, which is the most speculated aspect of Rommel's life, and how the Gestapo came to believe Rommel was involved, have not been made clear in most of the historiography on Rommel. Irving pieces together what really happened most effectively. There are so many strengths of this book, of which the greatest is probably the fact Irving had access to Rommel's dairy and many of his letters, which he got permission from the family to view. Other items he found in collections in the United States, England, and Germany. Since he worked on this in the 1970's he also was able to interview a number of German officers who were still alive that knew and served with Rommel. The whole work is the way historical research should be done; totally reliant on primary source material, and ignores secondary sources that often use conjecture or just repeat incorrect narratives from earlier books. Every source is from people who fought the war; Germans, Italians, British, French and American officers who were in these campaigns and had either first hand observation of Rommel or were major participants like Eisenhower, Churchill, Goebbels, etc. Clean copy.

Record # 374156

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Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar Americaby: Stephen E. Kercher

Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America
by: Stephen E. Kercher

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket. 575 pages, b&w illustrations. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy--not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such as Second City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was--Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period's satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. Clean copy.

Record # 381692

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Target Dresdenby: Cooper, Alan W.

Target Dresden
by: Cooper, Alan W.

London, Independent Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. Target Dresden chronicles the development of bombing from the earliest days through the Zeppelin and Gotha raids of the First World War to the development of strategic bombing of WWII and examines how it affected post war thinking. Packed with facts Target Dresden gives the story behind the raids which were the most controversial conventional bombing attacks of World War Two.

Record # 601765

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Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest by: Alan K. Bowman

Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest
by: Alan K. Bowman

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, photographs throughout. Egypt After the Pharoahs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, cultural, and intellectual ferment of this period comes alive in Alan Bowman's narrative. Clean copy.

Record # 386075

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Gold Hunters Adventures, The : Or Life in Australia by: Thomes, William Henry

Gold Hunters Adventures, The : Or Life in Australia
by: Thomes, William Henry

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green pebbled cloth, gilt design on spine, 564 pages, b&w illustrations by Champney. Extra illustrated title page. Paper tanning, spine slanted, front hinge cracked. Top of spine cloth frayed with a inch tear. Good reading copy. First published in 1864.

Record # 412250

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Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns by: Schliemann, Heinrich

Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns
by: Schliemann, Heinrich

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. Well illustrated. 385 pages. Reprint of the 1885 edition. 14 pages of b/w plates, 178 b/w text illus. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 374656

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The Hitler File: A Social History of Germany and the Nazis, 1918-45by: Frederic V. Grunfeld

The Hitler File: A Social History of Germany and the Nazis, 1918-45
by: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 373 pages. Color and b&w photographs. Water stain on back cover. Dust jacket has some small tears. A pictorial record, with accompanying text, of German society, culture, and politics, from the Weimar Republic to Hitler's last public appearence, detailing the rise of Nazism and Hitler's public and private lives.

Record # 374236

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Shotgun Encyclopedia, The: A Comprehensive Reference Work on All Aspects of Shotguns and Shotgun Shootingby: Taylor, John

Shotgun Encyclopedia, The: A Comprehensive Reference Work on All Aspects of Shotguns and Shotgun Shooting
by: Taylor, John

Hardcover. Long Beach, CA, Safari Press, Inc., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230231

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History of Weybridge, Vermont (SIGNED COPY)by: Washington, Ida H.

History of Weybridge, Vermont (SIGNED COPY)
by: Washington, Ida H.

Hardcover. Weybridge, Weybridge Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor residue from local historians sticker at bottom edge of covers at spine - not ex-library - no stamping or library marking. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614406

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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

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Unknown Heroine, An: An Historical Episode of the War Between the Statesby: Chittenden, L.E.

Unknown Heroine, An: An Historical Episode of the War Between the States
by: Chittenden, L.E.

Hardcover. New York, Richmond, Croscup & Co., 1st Edition, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Tan, textured cover boards, Blue title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers (see image). Gilt top edge. Tanning to pages and edges. Binding tight. In great shape for its age.

Record # 32863

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Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrificeby: Frank Moore

Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice
by: Frank Moore

Hardcover. Hartford CT, S. S. Scranton & Co., 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed green cloth covers with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Frontispiece, 'Before the Battle, with tissue intact shows a few light spots. Steel engraved portraits throughout with tissues intact. 596 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 382743

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Army Life in a Black Regiment (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Army Life in a Black Regiment (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 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. 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.

Record # 372364

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Affecting Presence, The: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropologyby: Armstrong, Robert Plant

Affecting Presence, The: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology
by: Armstrong, Robert Plant

Hardcover. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 Pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. EX-LIB with usual markings, stamps. Card residue on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 750334

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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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American Military Biography; containing the Lives, Characters, and  Anecdotes of the Officers of the Revolution, who were most Distinguished in Achieving our National Independence. - Also, The Life of Gilbert Motier La Fayette, Major

American Military Biography; containing the Lives, Characters, and Anecdotes of the Officers of the Revolution, who were most Distinguished in Achieving our National Independence. - Also, The Life of Gilbert Motier La Fayette, Major

Hardcover. NA, By Subscription, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Brown leather covers. Spine with chipping and creases to gilt decoration. Black & white illustrations, including 1 fold-out. Previous owners name stamped on preliminary page. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Front cover detached.

Record # 610525

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British Naval Activity on Lake Champlain During the War of 1812.by: Lewis, Dennis M.

British Naval Activity on Lake Champlain During the War of 1812.
by: Lewis, Dennis M.

Softcover. Plattsburgh, NY/ Elizabethtown, NY, Clinton County Historical Association/ Essex County Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Blue cwrappers with some faint smudges, small sticker on back, but otherwise very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852702

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The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalinby: Yuri Krotkov

The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalin
by: Yuri Krotkov

Hardcover. NY , Norton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, 253 pages. This series of sketches captures Stalin with irony, humor and pathos. The author calls his fictionalized version of Stalin "artistic documentation" in the spirit of reality based on research, personal experience and conversations with others. Yuri Krotkov, a Soviet Georgian, as was Stalin, was a prominent dramatist and screenwriter in the Soviet Union before his defection. As a member of the Russian intelligentsia, he was in the confidence of top-ranking Soviet and party officials in Moscow. Review slip laid in. Foxing to top edge otherwise clean copy.

Record # 397949

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Salone Italiano - The True Story of an Italian Immigrant Family's Struggles in Southwestern Coloradoby: Niemann, Kay

Salone Italiano - The True Story of an Italian Immigrant Family's Struggles in Southwestern Colorado
by: Niemann, Kay

Softcover. Montrose, Western Reflections Publishing Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 259 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614457

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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

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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

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History of Nantucket: County Island and Town Including Genealogies of the First Settlers by: Starbuck, Alexander

History of Nantucket: County Island and Town Including Genealogies of the First Settlers
by: Starbuck, Alexander

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E Tuttle Co., reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, off-white cloth stamped in red and black, 871 pages with index, four fold-out maps, b&w illustrations. The 4th Tuttle printing, originally printed in 1924 in Boston. No dust jacket, small embossed stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Record # 383671

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Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontierby: Oberg, James E. and Alcestis R.

Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontier
by: Oberg, James E. and Alcestis R.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2nd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and the psychological hazards they face, from crewmate incompatibility to depression and homesickness for Earth. Photos.

Record # 470085

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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by: Eli N. Evans

The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South
by: Eli N. Evans

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 369 pages. Evans "tells of his grandparents' debate to leave Lithuania for America, the first few years in the Baltimore slums, and their decision to gamble on the South. He writes about the family store, and describes his boyhood in Durham, in the North Carolina tobacco belt, where his father was mayor from 1950 to 1962 during the stormiest years of the Civil Rights era. " Also a history of earlier German & Sephardic Jewish communities in the South & the role of Southern Jews in the Civil War & Reconstruction. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396639

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The End: Hamburg 1943by: Nossack, Hans Erich; Andres, Erich [Photographer]; Agee, Joel [Translator]

The End: Hamburg 1943
by: Nossack, Hans Erich; Andres, Erich [Photographer]; Agee, Joel [Translator]

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 87 pages. Foreword, black and white photographs, and colophon. A description of the Allied bombing campaign from the perspective of the German survivors.

Record # 372848

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E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776 to 1790 by: Forrest McDonald

E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776 to 1790
by: Forrest McDonald

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 326 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387784

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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957by: Boyle, Peter G (Editor)

The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957
by: Boyle, Peter G (Editor)

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office tells the dramatic story of a relationship that began with great promise but ended in division and estrangement. Many of the letters have only recently been declassified, making it possible for the first time to publish this unique historic collection in its entirety. Peter G. Boyle's introduction, annotations, and conclusion provide context for the letters--details about the personalities and careers of Eden and Eisenhower and major issues that influenced the Anglo-American relationship up to 1955, such as relations with the Soviet Union, nuclear concerns, colonialism, the Middle and Far East, economic issues, and intelligence matters. The letters themselves offer an intimate look into the special connection between Britain and the United States through the often eloquent words of their leaders. Clean copy.

Record # 378797

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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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Down On The T Wharf:  The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisherby: German, Andrew W

Down On The T Wharf: The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisher
by: German, Andrew W

Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 117 photographs are grouped by chapter, depicting T Wharf and its successor the South Boston Fish Pier; schooner construction at Essex, Massachusetts; outfitting for voyages; departures and arrivals; discharging dish; the passing of the fishing schooner; the emerging steam trawler fleet; and the Italian boat fishermen. Published here for the first times, these photographs are now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum.

Record # 352317

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Chinese Ideas of Life and Deathby: Loewe, Michael

Chinese Ideas of Life and Death
by: Loewe, Michael

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

Record # 453652

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Collector's Luck: A Thousand Years at Lewis Bay, Cape Codby: Betty Bugbee Cusack

Collector's Luck: A Thousand Years at Lewis Bay, Cape Cod
by: Betty Bugbee Cusack

Hardcover. Stonham MA, G.R. Barnstead, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 235 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. The history and folklore of the Cape Cod region. Many b&w illustrations, photos. Clean copy.

Record # 382309

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The Belles of New England:The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Woveby: Moran, William

The Belles of New England:The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
by: Moran, William

NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's finest families. But the fledgling industry's ever-increasing profits were inextricably bound to the issues of slavery, immigration, and workers' rights. William Moran brings a newsman's eye for the telling detail to this fascinating saga that is equally compelling when dealing with rags and when dealing with riches. Clean copy.

Record # 382126

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First Century of the History of Springfield, The: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736 With an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Foundersby: Burt, H

First Century of the History of Springfield, The: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736 With an Historical Review and Biographical Mention of the Founders
by: Burt, H

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Henry M.Burt, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 473 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and front. Map in front. Light foxing throughout the pages, light corner bumping. Gutter cracked on copyright page, otherwise binding is tight.

Record # 354138

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Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custerby: Van De Water, Frederic F.

Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer
by: Van De Water, Frederic F.

Hardcover. New York, Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., Ltd Ed. reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages, red cloth covers, b&w illustrations. Limited to 750 copies, a reprint of the 1934 edition.

Record # 405140

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