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Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speechesby: Catherine Ellis , Stephen Drury Smith (Editors)

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
by: Catherine Ellis , Stephen Drury Smith (Editors)

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Ellis and Smith provide a unique anthology of African American voices over the past 100 years. In doing so, they give voice to the voiceless with transcribed speeches of leading African American speakers of the twentieth century. Included are 2 80-minute CDs. Includes speeches by: Mary McLeod Bethune,Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Booker T. Washington, Walter White, others, Clean copy.

Record # 381741

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Paris Under the Occupationby: Gilles Perrault

Paris Under the Occupation
by: Gilles Perrault

Hardcover. NY, Vendome Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages. Best-selling French author Perrault provides moving personal reminiscences of his childhood in occupied Paris. The brief but eloquent narrative is accompanied by hundreds of previously unpublished photos from French and German archives, collected and cataloged by Parisian art historian Azema. Together, text and photos present a graphic portrait of everyday life, recording daily human struggles to find food and fuel, the psychological warfare waged by the occupiers, and the methods of German economic exploitation. As artists, the authors place special emphasis on the arts under the occupation and document the heroism of the writers' resistance. In sum, they show how Paris "kept alive a sense of the enemy."

Record # 374220

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Andersonville: Story of Rebel Military Prisons: Fifteen Months a Guest of the So Called Southern Confederacyby: McElroy, John Co. (L/16th Ill. Cav..)

Andersonville: Story of Rebel Military Prisons: Fifteen Months a Guest of the So Called Southern Confederacy
by: McElroy, John Co. (L/16th Ill. Cav..)

Hardcover. Toledo OH, D.R. Locke, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 655 pages. 'Andersonville' is a rare, post-Civil War work that describes the horrors of prison life during the Civil War. McElroy describes prison conditions, battles and prolonged military struggles, accounts of prisoner struggles, plantation slaves, and soldier depression. Also included are depictions of various jails including those in Atlanta, Richmond, Savannah, Blackshear, and Florence. Illustrated with over 150 views of trial scenes, prisons, portraits, and battle scenes! According to Nevins,"Well written, gripping, and very detailed; but reliance on memory and bitterness." Mild wear to top and bottom of spine, Name on first blank white page, otherwise clean.

Record # 381365

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Lights and Shadows of African History (Parley's Cabinet Library #10)by: Goodrich, Samuel G.

Lights and Shadows of African History (Parley's Cabinet Library #10)
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, several other full page engraved plates as well as text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, faint water stain to top corners of some pages, not affecting text or images. Covers show mottling, discoloration to foredges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.

Record # 411476

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Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval Englandby: Hemmeon, Morley de Wolf

Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England
by: Hemmeon, Morley de Wolf

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 234 pages. Spine slightly faded.

Record # 506948

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100 Years Ago Today: Niagara County in the Civil War As Reported in the Pages of the Niagara Falls Gazetteby: Reed, Richard

100 Years Ago Today: Niagara County in the Civil War As Reported in the Pages of the Niagara Falls Gazette
by: Reed, Richard

Softcover. Lockport NY, Niagara County Historical Society, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 377 pages, black & white line drawings. Minor wear to covers, clean copy.

Record # 378339

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Atlas of Lake Champlain 1779-1780by: Chambers, R. N., Capt. William/J. Kevin Graffagnino

Atlas of Lake Champlain 1779-1780
by: Chambers, R. N., Capt. William/J. Kevin Graffagnino

Hardcover. Bennington, Vermont Heritage Press Inc./Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. One of a limited edition of 250 copies - does not include the additional map portfolio. Measures: 15.75"L X 12.25"W. Blue cloth covers with titles and decoration in silver. Features black & white illustrations, maps - including 3 fold-out maps. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612638

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History of Guildhall, VT., - Containing Some Account of the Place - of its First Settlement in 1764, and the Principle Improvements Made, and Events which have Occurred Down to 1886 - A Period of One Hundred and Twenty Two Years - Wi

History of Guildhall, VT., - Containing Some Account of the Place - of its First Settlement in 1764, and the Principle Improvements Made, and Events which have Occurred Down to 1886 - A Period of One Hundred and Twenty Two Years - Wi

Hardcover. Waverly, Everett C. Benton, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages plus section of ads. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Black & white illustrations. Four leaf clovers laid-in. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612498

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From Alexander to Constantine: Passages and Documents Illustrating the History of Social and Political Ideas 336 B.C.-A.D. 337by: Barker, Ernest

From Alexander to Constantine: Passages and Documents Illustrating the History of Social and Political Ideas 336 B.C.-A.D. 337
by: Barker, Ernest

Hardcover. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, England, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 505 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Navy blue cloth boards, some chipping at top and bottom of spine, gilt title on spine, faded. Some light tanning to pages and edges. Spine straight. Binding good.

Record # 99163

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The Slave States (Before the Civil War)by: Frederick Law Olmsted

The Slave States (Before the Civil War)
by: Frederick Law Olmsted

Hardcover. NY, Capricorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $2.50 on flap, 255 pages. Edited by Harvey Wish. Originally written by Olmsted in the 1850s as a series of articles in the New York Times, these essays became "the most important source of information about the life & customs of the slaveholding states of the South." Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 397172

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: McCarthy, Carlton

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: McCarthy, Carlton

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 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. This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, etc.

Record # 372355

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Recollections of a Private - A Study of the Army of the Potomac (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Goss, Warren Lee

Recollections of a Private - A Study of the Army of the Potomac (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Goss, Warren Lee

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Embossed decoration to front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372371

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Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (SIGNED COPY)by: Stoler, Mark A.

Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stoler, Mark A.

Hardcover. University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 380 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy. Clean copy.

Record # 378938

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Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Franks, Norman

Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Franks, Norman

Hardcover. London, Grub Street, First Edition , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. 50th Anniversary Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket, bright & in very good condition. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 750680

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Glorious "Shannon's" Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame, Theby: Snider, C. H. J.

Glorious "Shannon's" Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame, The
by: Snider, C. H. J.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 430 pages, with illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and decorated cover on blue cloth. Minor corner and spine edge wear, cracked binding at front and rear end paper. Yellowing on pages 104 and 105, otherwise, clean and tight overall. A book about the sea battles of the War of 1812 by a noted Canadian naval historian.

Record # 852968

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The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace by: Jeffrey Brace; Editor Kari J. Winter; Contributor Benjamin F. Prentiss

The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
by: Jeffrey Brace; Editor Kari J. Winter; Contributor Benjamin F. Prentiss

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin, reprint., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 244 pages. The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times. Clean copy.

Record # 381572

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Ventures and Voyagesby: Chatterton, E. Keble

Ventures and Voyages
by: Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 217 pages, b&w plates. Edgewear, chipping, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852122

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Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumesby: Piton, E. C.

Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumes
by: Piton, E. C.

Hardcover. Paris, Corbet Aine Libraire, 1st Thus, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 leather bound volumes. FRENCH TEXT. Black & white illustrations, each volume with fold-out map in rear. Volume 1 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. 1" piece of leather missing at bottom of spine. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Volume 2 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. Marbled endpapers. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Both volumes with clean, unmarked texts.

Record # 611802

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The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 642 pages. Hailed in 1849 as "a new department in the literature of civilization," the slave narrative forms the foundation of the African American literary tradition. From the late-eighteenth-century narratives by Africans who endured the harrowing Middle Passage, through the classic American fugitive slave narratives of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives have provided some of the most graphic and damning documentary evidence of the horrors of slavery. Riveting, passionate, and politically charged, the slave narrative blends personal memory and rhetorical attacks on slavery to create powerful literature and propaganda.The Civitas Anthology presents the seven classic antislavery narratives of the antebellum period in their entirety: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave , the first slave narrative published by a woman in the Americas; The Confessions of Nat Turner , written when Turner was asked to record his motivation for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history; The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an international bestseller and the first narrative to fashion the male fugitive slave into an African American cultural hero; The Narrative of William W. Brown , an account that explored with unprecedented realism the slave's survival ethic and the art of the slave trickster; The Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb , the story of the struggles of the most memorable family man among the classic slave narrators; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom , a gripping chronicle of one of the most daring and celebrated slave escapes ever recorded; and Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl , a dramatic text that exposed the sexual abuse of female slaves and pioneered the image of the fugitive slave woman as an articulate resister and survivor.Born out of lives of unparalleled suffering, the slave narrative captures all the bravery, drama, and hope that characterized the African American struggle against slavery. From these beginnings came some of the most influential novels in American literature, for the works of writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Toni Morrison owe much of their power and social resonance to the slave narrative tradition. The Civitas Anthology gathers the most important narratives in this tradition into one volume for the first time, an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and general readers. Clean copy.

Record # 381599

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Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of Civil Warby: Smith, Kristen M.

Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of Civil War
by: Smith, Kristen M.

Hardcover. Athens, Ga., Hill Street Press, LLC, 1st, January 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Light spotting to top edge. Rubbing and light soiling to dust jacket. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 454960

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Foundersby: Bernard Bailyn

To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
by: Bernard Bailyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 185 pages, color and b&w illustrations. With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements. Using visual documentation--portraits, architecture, allegorical engravings--as well as written sources, Bailyn, one of our most esteemed historians, paints a complex picture of that distant but still remarkably relevant world. He explores the powerfully creative effects of the Founders' provincialism and lays out in fine detail the mingling of gleaming utopianism and tough political pragmatism in Thomas Jefferson's public career, and the effect that ambiguity had on his politics, political thought, and present reputation. And Benjamin Franklin emerges as a figure as cunning in his management of foreign affairs and of his visual image as he was amiable, relaxed, and amusing in his social life. Bailyn shows, too, why it is that the Federalist papers--polemical documents thrown together frantically, helter-skelter, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in a fierce political battle two hundred years ago--have attained canonical status, not only as a penetrating analysis of the American Constitution but as a timeless commentary on the nature of politics and constitutionalism.

Record # 381231

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Sack of Shakings, Aby: Bullen, Frank T.

Sack of Shakings, A
by: Bullen, Frank T.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated blue cloth, 389 pages. A collection of essays about maritime life. "Shakings are odds and ends of rope and canvas,accumulated during a voyage. They were formerly the perquisites of the Chief Mate". Spine decoration faded, front end papers foxed, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 372645

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The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes by: Walter Havighurst

The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes
by: Walter Havighurst

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 291 pages illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.

Record # 397355

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Scriptural Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century Addressed to The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter by:

Scriptural Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century Addressed to The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter
by:

Hardcover. NY, W. I. Pooley & Co., 1st., 1864, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on spine, 376 pages. Hopkins was the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Writing after the Emancipation Proclamation had turned the sectional conflict into a war against slavery, he argues in detail that slavery is not forbidden by scripture and hence is not a sin. Deals with the history of slavery, beginning with the Biblical view and slavery of circumstances, and its comparison to the Southern system at this time during the Civil War. Chapter XXX deals with Man-stealing, of which, the author asserts, the Southern States had nothing to do, with the title of the Southern masters shown to be as good as the titles of the North to their lands taken from the Indians. Following chapters also deal specifically with the Golden Rule, the treatment of slaves, testimonies of the Southern clergy, and ultimately a view from the author in favor of the practice of slaveholding. Crease to front board hardly noticeable from the outside but visible inside front cover. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 380613

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Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategyby: Pickett, William B.

Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy
by: Pickett, William B.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to campaign for the presidency in 1952 was a pivotal even in America's cold war years-- it influenced almost a decade of foreign and domestic policy. Based on recently discovered letters and diaries, William Pickett provides the first complete account of Eisenhower's decision to run, with surprising new conclusions. Clean, unread copy.

Record # 378781

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Hoysalas - A Medieval Indian Royal Family, Theby: Derrett, J. Duncan M.

Hoysalas - A Medieval Indian Royal Family, The
by: Derrett, J. Duncan M.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 257 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Inside front hinge cracked. Minor dust jacket edge wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 855331

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Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collectionby: Anderson, John

Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection
by: Anderson, John

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib copy with only one sticker on board spine and one sticker on rear cover board. Dust jacket has no evidence of ex-lib. Tight, clean copy, otherwise.

Record # 750335

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)by: Jennet Conant

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jennet Conant

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 382807

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Jewels and Gemsby: McDonald, Lucile Saunders

Jewels and Gems
by: McDonald, Lucile Saunders

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 288 pages. Two-color frontispiece with B&w illustrations by Vera Bock.Turquoise stain to top edge. Minor wear and rubbing to cover edges. Price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edges No markings.

Record # 851633

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The Brownell Family in Vermontby: Lincoln C. Brownell

The Brownell Family in Vermont
by: Lincoln C. Brownell

Softcover. Williston VT, privately printed, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wraps, 74 pages, b&w illustrations. Due to cheap binding several pages in rear loose. Book bright and clean.

Record # 387660

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West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850 by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850
by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

Softcover. Logan UT, Utah State University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Two fold-out maps in a rear pocket. Three pages with yellow highlighting, otherwise clean.

Record # 382142

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Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, Theby: Lossing, Benson J.

Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, The
by: Lossing, Benson J.

Hardcover. NY, Interstate M'f'g Company, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrated with many b&w engravings. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. First half of book covers the great cities and features many detailed illustrations of buildings and cityscapes. The second half covers the West with many personalities sketched in line cuts. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Solid copy. Cover gilt partially faded.

Record # 602505

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Carlisle, Composite Community: Historical Facts Concerning the Settlers in Present Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the Colonial Period by: Lapham, Donald A

Carlisle, Composite Community: Historical Facts Concerning the Settlers in Present Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the Colonial Period
by: Lapham, Donald A

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Folded map laid in, index. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 397525

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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945by: Bosworth, R. J. B.

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
by: Bosworth, R. J. B.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 692 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new. An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.

Record # 450319

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With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Dieby: Jones, Fortier

With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Die
by: Jones, Fortier

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Tan cloth stamped in red and dark green on front and spine. No D.J.

Record # 371038

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The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940sby: N/A

The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940s
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, St. Michael's High School, 1940-1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nine stapled softcover booklets, 44-60 pages each, b&w photos. A history of this Vermont high school during WW2 and the post-war years. A few with ink name on cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 371176

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American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government by: Charles Marion Thomas

American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government
by: Charles Marion Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, 294 pages. There is some light pencil underlining to pages. The author began his study trying to determine Thomas Jefferson's contribution to the proclamation of neutrality in the conflict between France and England. It developed into a detailed analysis of America's first cabinet under Washington.

Record # 387788

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Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolutionby: Berger, Carl

Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolution
by: Berger, Carl

Hardcover. San Rafael CA, Presidio Press, Revised Ed., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 226 pages, An updated edition of the 1961 printing. B&w illustrations. "The author relates the fascinating story of the propaganda and subversion activities of both factions during the American Revolutionary War."

Record # 371709

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For Sale - American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Floridaby: Willie Drye

For Sale - American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida
by: Willie Drye

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Rowman & Littlefield, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans' twentieth-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. For Sale -- American Paradise concentrates on the experiences of American icon William Jennings Bryan, journalist Edwin Menninger, and others who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America's paradise. The cast also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, a pack of backwoods bandits known as the Ashley Gang, and the visionaries and businessmen who poured their dreams and their cash into Florida in the roaring, raucous 1920s.

Record # 387738

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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia by: McFaul, Michael

From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by: McFaul, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries And then, as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president From the first days of McFaul's ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family. 506 pages, illustrations, clean copy.

Record # 383225

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The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesarby: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesar
by: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

Hardcover. Dublin, Brett Smith, 1st thus, 1788, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound. 553 pages plus Index of Proper Names. Uncommon translation from Ireland. Hawkey was a Reverend and Master of the Free-School in Dundalk. "The Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest. The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present-day France and Belgium). "His Commentaries of the Civil War" is an account written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate. It covers the events of 49-48 BC, from shortly before Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus and flight to Egypt with Caesar in pursuit. It closes with Pompey assassinated, Caesar attempting to mediate rival claims to the Egyptian throne, and the beginning of the Alexandrian War. Prelim pages gone so the book opens on the title page. Interior pages bright with no foxing, firm binding. Light wear to covers, front cover with partial split along spine, Otherwise clean.

Record # 383404

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Wedemeyer Reports! by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Wedemeyer Reports!
by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. 497 pages with index. An objective, dispassionate examination of World War II, postwar policies, and Grand Strategy. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897 - 1989) was a United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he was an important member of the War Planning Board which formulated plans for the Invasion of Normandy. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 387898

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Greeters' Guide to Washingtonby: N/A

Greeters' Guide to Washington
by: N/A

Softcover. Washington DC, Greeters of America, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled tan wrappers. Compliments of the Arlington Hotel. Giving Location and description of principal points of interest, public buildings, etc., etc., illustrated with reproductions of latest photographs. 72 pages with a foldout map. in rear. In addition there is second, different street map of Washington's streets laid in. Folds out to approx, 20 X 23". All in very good condition.

Record # 383828

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Pilgrims and their History, Theby: Usher, Roland G.

Pilgrims and their History, The
by: Usher, Roland G.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99169

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Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden by: Rosenblatt, Jason P.

Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden
by: Rosenblatt, Jason P.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages including index. In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation" (Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals, including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden's uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384006

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Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampmentby: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment
by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Softcover. Harrisburg PA, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 145 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397486

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Ghost Boats on the Mississippi: Discovering Our Working Pastby: Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

Ghost Boats on the Mississippi: Discovering Our Working Past
by: Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

Softcover. Fayettevill, AR, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1st Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, 237 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, just a touch of tanning and small crease on front cover. Pages clean. Binding tight. Study of recovered Mississippi riverboat wrecks discovered by archaeologists.

Record # 369286

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California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress Mapping the States through Historyby: Vincent Virga and Ray J

California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress Mapping the States through History
by: Vincent Virga and Ray J

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Globe Pequot Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps and narrative captions. 9 x 10, 447 pages, color maps & illustrations, notes, maroon endpapers. Hardcover in color pictorial boards, in translucent jacket.

Record # 385365

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New England Blockaded 1814: The Journal of Henry Edward Napier, Lieutenant in H.M.S. Nympheby: Whitehill, Walter Muir

New England Blockaded 1814: The Journal of Henry Edward Napier, Lieutenant in H.M.S. Nymphe
by: Whitehill, Walter Muir

Hardcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, 8 b&w illustration, fold-out chart. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, dust jacket edgewear, small clear tape repair to top of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 403538

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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by: MacMillan, Margaret

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
by: MacMillan, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 739 pages, index, b&w illustrations. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned headsacross Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. Clean copy.

Record # 385674

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