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Indiscreet Letters from Pekingby: Weale, B. L. Putnam

Indiscreet Letters from Peking
by: Weale, B. L. Putnam

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead and Company, reprint, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket issued. Light sunning and small tears to edges of spine. Slight stain to front cover. Faint foxing to end papers and title page.

Record # 855922

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The British War Blue Book, Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939): Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939by:

The British War Blue Book, Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939): Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939
by:

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st US, 1939, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering, 251 pages. Endpapers tanned and soiled at edges. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396481

Price: $15.00 
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Travels into North Americaby: Kalm, Peter

Travels into North America
by: Kalm, Peter

Hardcover. Barre, Mass., The Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 514 pages, with 25 illustrations, translated by John Reinhold Foster, introduced by Ralph M. Sargent, number 380 of a limited 1500 copies, decorated cover and slipcase, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854429

Price: $50.00 
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The Selected Writings of John Quincy Adams by: Koch, Adrienne & William Peden (Ed.)

The Selected Writings of John Quincy Adams
by: Koch, Adrienne & William Peden (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 413 pages plus index. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 396508

Price: $18.00 
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expeditionby: Bown, Stephen R.

Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
by: Bown, Stephen R.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Binding tight, looks barely read.

Record # 31131

Price: $12.00 
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The Nazi Stateby: William Ebenstein

The Nazi State
by: William Ebenstein

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

Record # 396623

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The Great Epidemic: When the Spanish Influenza Struckby: Hoehling, A. A.

The Great Epidemic: When the Spanish Influenza Struck
by: Hoehling, A. A.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. "The Great Epidemic" by A. A. Hoehling is a dramatic documentary about the worst plague in history, the flu epidemic of 1918. Between March and December five hundred thousand Americans perished, and nearly twenty million sickened.

Record # 374081

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

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

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

Record # 99226

Price: $600.00 
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General Catalogue of Middlebury College Bicentennial Edition (SIGNED)by: Jacobs, Travis Beal

General Catalogue of Middlebury College Bicentennial Edition (SIGNED)
by: Jacobs, Travis Beal

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1182 pages. Hardcover. Author and President of signed, as well as inscribed to Board of Trustees. Alumni record. Super clean inside and out.

Record # 30382

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

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

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

Record # 397378

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Zanzibar in Contemporary Times: A Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Centuryby: Lyne, Robert Nunez

Zanzibar in Contemporary Times: A Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century
by: Lyne, Robert Nunez

Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Light edgewear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856923

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

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

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

Record # 397448

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

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

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612743

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

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

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

Record # 397464

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

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

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

Record # 369293

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

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

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

Record # 397647

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Religious Revolt in the XVIIth Century: The Schism of the Russian Churchby: Lupinin, Nickolas

Religious Revolt in the XVIIth Century: The Schism of the Russian Church
by: Lupinin, Nickolas

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Kingston Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, bibliography and index. A scarce scholarly history. Slight sunning to dust jacket spine, otherwise like new, clean and tight.

Record # 402961

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Australian Commandos: Their Secret War Against the Japanese in WWII by: Feuer A. B. /foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure

Australian Commandos: Their Secret War Against the Japanese in WWII
by: Feuer A. B. /foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure

Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 194 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a fascinating account of Australia's M/Z commando unit and the part it played in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. M Unit personnel were secretly landed to set up coast-watching posts and radio stations to monitor Japanese shipping movements and bombing flights. Members of the Z Unit carried out raids in enemy-controlled areas and also attacked targets of opportunity. Many commandos were delivered on their missions by U.S. Navy submarines that sneaked into dangerously shallow waters to put the men ashore. Other operatives were inserted by PT boats, Catalina aircraft, parachute, and snake boats. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397851

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Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century by: Ruth Milkman

Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
by: Ruth Milkman

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages. Behind all of the statistics on downsizing, the shrinking of our industrial base, and the folly of short-sighted management is the human drama of working women and men and their unions, struggling for dignity, fairness, and security. In Farewell to the Factory, Ruth Milkman tells us the stories of workers in a New Jersey auto plant. Milkman's scholarship makes a valuable contribution to the national conversation on restoring the American Dream for working families. Clean copy.

Record # 374296

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Coaching Roads of Old New England: Their Inns and Taverns and Their Stories by: George Francis Marlowe

Coaching Roads of Old New England: Their Inns and Taverns and Their Stories
by: George Francis Marlowe

Hardcover. NY, The MacMillan Co., 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 200 pages. Endpaper maps, b&w illustrations by the author. Inns and colorful personalities of Groton, Hanover and Old Boston Post Road. Five of the principal routes of New England's earlier days are the focus of this book. With these routes, the writer recalls much of the romance of these ancient highways over which our ancestors jogged on horseback with saddlebags, in jolting stage-wagons, or in the later Concord coach. Clean copy.

Record # 397998

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Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXV & Volume XXVIby: Journal of Hellenic Studies

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXV & Volume XXVI
by: Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1905 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1905 and 1906) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1905: 382 pages plus 13 full-page b&w plates and 1 color fold-out. Part two for 1906: 303 pages plus 16 b&w and 2 color plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.

Record # 405368

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A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain's Revolutionary War Heritage by: Lundeberg, Philip / Cohn, Arthur / Jones, Jennifer

A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain's Revolutionary War Heritage
by: Lundeberg, Philip / Cohn, Arthur / Jones, Jennifer

Softcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Documents the legacy of shipwrecks and wartime encounters on Lake Champlain. Also the management of an important underwater archaeological collection. Clean copy.

Record # 398148

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ORIGINAL PHOTO/BW/ Vermont flood/1938/ East Middleburyby: N/A

ORIGINAL PHOTO/BW/ Vermont flood/1938/ East Middlebury
by: N/A

1938, Book: Very Good, Glossy b&w photo, 7 X 4 1/2", a view of water flowing through street of East Middlebury, dated 9/22/38. Very good.

Record # 359827

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Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779; With Records of Centennial Celebrations by: Cook, Frede

Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779; With Records of Centennial Celebrations
by: Cook, Frede

Hardcover. Auburn NY, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original red cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped double border. 581 pages including Errata leaf. Includes several fold-out maps, plus pockets inside the front and rear boards containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. John Sullivan was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress. Sullivan served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or 'President') of New Hampshire. He is most famous for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the American revolutionaries. This volume contains journals by 27 officers present during the campaign, and has become the authoritative primary source of the event. Both front and rear hinges cracked with spine cloth loose, battlefield map at page 288 has a tear but no loss, front signature with title page loose but whole. All other maps present in envelopes and in very good condition. Covers worn.

Record # 398284

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The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England by: Robert Tarule

The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England
by: Robert Tarule

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages. Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America. Robert Tarule, historian and accomplished craftsman, brilliantly recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he created a single oak chest. Writing as a woodworker himself, Tarule vividly portrays Dennis walking through the woods looking for the right trees; sawing and splitting the wood on site; and working in his shop on the chest-planing, joining, and carving. Dennis inherited a knowledge of wood and woodworking that dated back centuries before he was born, and Tarule traces this tradition from Old World to New. He also depicts the natural and social landscape in which Dennis operated, from the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Ipswich and its surrounding countryside to the laws that governed his use of trees and his network of personal and professional relationships. Clean copy.

Record # 382105

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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915by: Myres, Sandra L

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915
by: Myres, Sandra L

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women ( letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections ) to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity. Clean copy.

Record # 398984

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Kinta Years, The - An Oklahoma Childhoodby: Giles, Janice Holt

Kinta Years, The - An Oklahoma Childhood
by: Giles, Janice Holt

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. 337 pages. Dj price clipped

Record # 58115

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Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europeby: Joseph E. Garland

Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe
by: Joseph E. Garland

Hardcover. Rockport MA, Protean Pree, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations. In 1943, the author was on track to become a doctor like his parents when he flunked organic chemistry at Harvard and enlisted in the army, finding himself heading off to fight in Europe with the 45th Infantry Division (in which famed editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin also served). Garland chronicles the division's journey from the landing at Sicily through the liberation of Dachau and then, some 60 years later, also seeks to come to terms with his experiences and those of his comrades. Part personal and collective memoir and part history, Garland's book is loaded with recollections compiled from interviews, diaries, drawings, and photographs that he neatly fits into the historical framework. His writing is highly engaging and shares the story of the 45th and its 511 days in combat and four amphibious landings, providing an excellent narrative history of the division during World War II, as well as a personal reckoning.

Record # 381230

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The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification Part Two: January to August 1788 by:

The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification Part Two: January to August 1788
by:

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1175 pages. Part Two of a two-volume set. Assembled here in chronological order are hundreds of newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, and private letters written or delivered in the aftermath of the Constitutional Convention. Along with familiar figures like Franklin, Madison, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, and Washington, scores of less famous citizens are represented, all speaking clearly and passionately about government. The most famous writings of the ratification struggle - the Federalist essays of Hamilton and Madison - are placed in their original context, alongside the arguments of able antagonists, such as "Brutus" and the "Federal Farmer." Part Two gathers collected press polemics and private commentaries from January to August 1788, including all the amendments proposed by state ratifying conventions as well as dozens of speeches from the South Carolina, Virginia, New York, and North Carolina conventions. Included are dramatic confrontations from Virginia, where Patrick Henry pitted his legendary oratorical skills against the persuasive logic of Madison, and from New York, where Alexander Hamilton faced the brilliant Antifederalist Melancton Smith. Like new.

Record # 379206

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Cambridge Ancient History,Third Edition, Volume II, Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region 1800-1380 BCby: Edwards, I.E.S., C.J. Gadd, H.G.L. Hammon

Cambridge Ancient History,Third Edition, Volume II, Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region 1800-1380 BC
by: Edwards, I.E.S., C.J. Gadd, H.G.L. Hammon

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 868 pages, terra-cotta cloth covers, b&w illustrations, maps tables. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 403124

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Ike's Letters to a Friend 1941-1958by: Griffith, Robert W. [Editor]

Ike's Letters to a Friend 1941-1958
by: Griffith, Robert W. [Editor]

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 211 pages. Small in notations to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 378839

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The G.I. Billby: Frydl, Kathleen J.

The G.I. Bill
by: Frydl, Kathleen J.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 379 pages. Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects. Clean copy.

Record # 378820

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Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I by: Stephen L. Harris

Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
by: Stephen L. Harris

Hardcover. Washington DC, Brassey's , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations, 293 pages. The 369th became one of the few U.S. units that American commanding general John J. Pershing agreed to let serve under French command. Donning French uniforms and taking up French rifles, the men of the 369th fought valiantly alongside French Moroccans and held one of the widest sectors on the Western Front. The entire regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French government's highest military honor. Clean copy.

Record # 381742

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Cabinet of Freedom, The: Volume 1by: Jay, William and others

Cabinet of Freedom, The: Volume 1
by: Jay, William and others

New York, John S. Taylor, 1st, 1836, Book: Good, Hardcover, 296 pages plus 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Original black boards with embossed design, gilt lettering and design with number ! on spine. Folding chart/map tipped in at page 196 with short tears. Illustrated title page. The first of three anti-slavery books published by John Taylor, a staunch abolitionist. A few brief notations on prlim pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 416612

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The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against The Confederate Navy And Arctic Disaster by: Songini, Marc

The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against The Confederate Navy And Arctic Disaster
by: Songini, Marc

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. Despite having to contend with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, disease, the scarcity of whales, the increasing dangers of going farther into the Arctic, and the roving Confederate privateers, Captain Thomas William Williams of Wethersfield, Connecticut wemt out voyage after voyage, even taking on board with him his tiny wife, Eliza, and his infant son and daughter. This thrilling narrative recounts Williams' remarkable career, including a daring rescue and salvage of lost ships off Alaska's coast. Songini has crafted a historical masterpiece in recording a family saga, a true narrative of adventure and death on the high seas, and a detailed and well-researched look at the demise of Yankee whaling. Clean copy.

Record # 396662

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The manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South America (Parley's Cabinet Library)by: Goodrich, Samuel G.

The manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South America (Parley's Cabinet Library)
by: Goodrich, Samuel G.

Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, many b&w text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, light water stain to bottom corners of most pages, affecting text and images, but not horrible. Covers show mottling, discoloration to foredges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.

Record # 411477

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Letters from Lord Nelsonby: Rawson, Geoffrey (compiler)

Letters from Lord Nelson
by: Rawson, Geoffrey (compiler)

Hardcover. London, Staples Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 463 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear, chips & rear cover lightly soiled, now protected with a plastic cover. Light foxing, soiling to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 852164

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Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Centuryby: Steven Cassedy

Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by: Steven Cassedy

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communication networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the American home exotic goods previously affordable to only a few. There was the network of standard time, which bound together all but the most rural Americans. There was the public health movement, which joined individuals to their fellow citizens by making everyone responsible for the health of everyone else. There were social networks that joined individuals to their fellows at the municipal, state, national, and global levels. Previous histories of this era focus on alienation and dislocation that new technologies caused. This book shows that American individuals in this era were more connected to their fellow citizens than ever-but by bonds that were distinctly modern.

Record # 374325

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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: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages of text and illustrations followed by 66 pages of ads. Hinges tender. Green cloth covers with full color pastedown on front. Light rubbing to cover corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612186

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Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermontby: Chase (Ed.), Francis

Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont
by: Chase (Ed.), Francis

Hardcover. Claremont NH, Tracy Kenney & Co., 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages, b&w illustrations, original embossed green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Pages have some foxing, bottom edges with light scuffing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 407038

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The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia 1812by: Cate, Curtis

The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia 1812
by: Cate, Curtis

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 487 pages, b&w illustrations. Napoleon's colorful but disastrous Russian campaign has been strangely neglected by American publishers. Bridging the gap between popular and scholarly history, historian Cate has written a thoroughly detailed and researched account that should also appeal to the lay reader. His writing is deliberately paced but dramatic and does far more justice to the extremely complex political and military situation of 1812 than Philippe de Segur's Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1965), the only other work available in the United States. Clean copy.

Record # 387530

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The Winter of the Bombs The Story of the Blitz of Londonby: Fitzgibbon, Constantine

The Winter of the Bombs The Story of the Blitz of London
by: Fitzgibbon, Constantine

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket, 271 pages.

Record # 374053

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Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Townsend, George Alfred

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Townsend, George Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 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. Facsimilie reprint of the 1866 edition.

Record # 372356

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Narrative of a Blockade-Runner, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Wilkinson, Jon

Narrative of a Blockade-Runner, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Wilkinson, Jon

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 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 # 372372

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The Battlefield: Algeria 1988 2002 Studies in a Broken Polity by: Roberts, Hugh

The Battlefield: Algeria 1988 2002 Studies in a Broken Polity
by: Roberts, Hugh

Hardcover. NY/London, Verso, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interference, Algeria's tragedy has been reduced to a clash of stereotypes: Islamists vs.a secular state, terrorists vs. innocent civilians, or generals vs. a defenseless society. The prevalence of such simplistic representations has disabled public opinion inside as well as outside the country and contributed to the intractability of the conflict. This collection of essays offers a radical corrective to Western misconceptions. Rejecting essentialist and determinist approaches, Hugh Roberts explores the outlook and evolution of the various internal forces as they emerged--the Islamists, the Berberists, the factions within the army, and the regime in general--and he looks at external interests and actors. Clean copy.

Record # 378943

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

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

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

Record # 372335

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Humanists and Jurists: Six Studies in the Renaissance by: Gilmore, Myron

Humanists and Jurists: Six Studies in the Renaissance
by: Gilmore, Myron

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, maroon cloth with a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's signature, pencil notes on front end paper. Otherwise clean. These studies concern the development in the Renaissance of a new perspective on the past, a new method for interpreting the meaning of the documents of the past, and a reformulation of traditional doctrine that history was philosophy teaching by example.

Record # 385473

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Rice and the Making of South Carolina: An Introductory Essay by: Littlefield, Daniel C

Rice and the Making of South Carolina: An Introductory Essay
by: Littlefield, Daniel C

Softcover. Columbia SC, S.C. Department of Archives and History, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 38 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 381574

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Leonardo Da Vinciby: Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci
by: Isaacson, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with gilt titles to spine & illustrated, sepia toned endpapers. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully presented to accompany text. Bright dust jacket with marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750729

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Romance of the Colorado River, Theby: Dellenbaugh, Frederick S.

Romance of the Colorado River, The
by: Dellenbaugh, Frederick S.

New York , Putnams, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece by Thomas Moran. Many B&W photos. 399 pages + ads. previous owner's bookplate front end paper.

Record # 175277

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