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Garland Series: On the Freedom of Printing and of Speech - Charles Blount - A Just Vindication of Learning - Daniel Defoe - An Essay on the Regulation of the Press - Jeremy Bentham - On the Liberty of the Press.
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Garland Series: On the Freedom of Printing and of Speech - Charles Blount - A Just Vindication of Learning - Daniel Defoe - An Essay on the Regulation of the Press - Jeremy Bentham - On the Liberty of the Press.

Hardcover. New York, Garland Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Historical reprint series. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 608314

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Life and Death in the Northeast Kingdom: Archaeology and History at the Old Burial Ground in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. by: Kenny, Kathleen M.; James B. Peterson, Phd; J
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Life and Death in the Northeast Kingdom: Archaeology and History at the Old Burial Ground in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
by: Kenny, Kathleen M.; James B. Peterson, Phd; J

Softcover. Burlington VT, Consulting Archaeology Program, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown glossy wrappers, slight rubbing and edge wear on fore edge. Front paper wrapper turns up slightly. Black & white photographs and map laid in. Clean and tight internally.

Record # 353637

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Victorian Attitudes to Raceby: Bolt, Christine

Victorian Attitudes to Race
by: Bolt, Christine

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609613

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Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life Marches, and Battles of the 23rd Regiment, NY During the term of two years on the Service of the United States...by:
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Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life Marches, and Battles of the 23rd Regiment, NY During the term of two years on the Service of the United States...
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Hardcover. New York, Davies and Kent, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine heavily speckled. Blind stamped on front and rear covers. Previous owner's markings on a few pages, and front fly leaf. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 354207

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Kiowa Voices (2 Vol Set); Vol. 1: Ceremonial Dance, Ritual and Song; Vol. 2: Myths, Legends and Folktales,by: Boyd, Maurice/Linn Pauahty
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Kiowa Voices (2 Vol Set); Vol. 1: Ceremonial Dance, Ritual and Song; Vol. 2: Myths, Legends and Folktales,
by: Boyd, Maurice/Linn Pauahty

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TCU Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes,. Volume 1 - 164 pages. Ceremonial Dance, Ritual and Song. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear plastic protective cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 323 pages. Myths, Legends and Folktales. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611822

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League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Millikenby: Bancroft, George and James Milliken
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League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Milliken
by: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

Softcover. Philadelphia, William S. & Alfred Martien, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, blue wrappers. Two black lines on front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 359793

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Mr. Poilu - Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French by: Ward, Herbert
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Mr. Poilu - Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French
by: Ward, Herbert

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1916, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Features 46 tipped-in plates. Foxing throughout. Front hinged cracked. Covers worn with areas of staining, darkening to spine cloth.

Record # 613413

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Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third  Battalion Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender...by: Williamson, James J.
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Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third  Battalion Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender...by: Williamson, James J.Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third  Battalion Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender...by: Williamson, James J.

Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender...
by: Williamson, James J.

Hardcover. New York, Ralph Kenyan, 1st Edition, 1896, 511 pages. Hardcover. Over 200 b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in gray cloth, beveled at edges, gilt title/decoration on spine, gilt title and decoration on front cover board, designed engraved on back cover board. cover boards have some rubbing and light soil, a touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front preliminary page. Binding tight. Spine slightly cocked. "...From the Diary of a Private, Supplemented and Verified with Official Reports of Federal Officers and Also of Mosby; With Personal Reminiscences, Sketches of Skirmishes, Battles and Bivouacs, Dashing Raids and Daring Adventures, Scenes and Incidents in the History of Mosby's Command."

Record # 367821

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1942 Vermont Year Bookby: Robinson, L.W.
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1942 Vermont Year Book
by: Robinson, L.W.

Softcover. Chester, VT, National Survey, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to paper wrappers. Light soiling. Maps and ads inside. Tight copy.

Record # 750311

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The Worst of While you were Sleepingby: Gastman, Roger
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The Worst of While you were Sleeping
by: Gastman, Roger

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 489 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color photo throughout. While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are some of the greatest stories the magazine ever published-and many that are not so good. From stories on admirable serial killers and interviews with child stars to photos of graffiti and people's naked sisters, this book takes you into the dirty minds of Gastman and his team of juvenile delinquents. You've been warned.

Record # 369124

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Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Franks, Norman
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Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Franks, NormanBattle 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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Floodtide of 1927: A Gathering of Reports and Pictures which Tell Their Story Graphically of the Great November Flood in Vermont State by: Author: Johnson, Luther B.

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

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

Record # 370366

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Comic History of Rome, Theby: Abbott a Beckett , Gilbert

Comic History of Rome, The
by: Abbott a Beckett , Gilbert

Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Leech plus 10 hand-colored plates by him. Raised bands on spine. Marbled covers and end papers. Previous owner's signatures on front flyleaf. Foxing to flyleaves. Wear to spine and corners, edges. Heavy rubbing to covers. Marbled edges.

Record # 801778

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Victorian News And Newspapersby: Brown, Lucy
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Victorian News And Newspapers
by: Brown, Lucy

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

Record # 371290

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Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers, Theby: Addison, Albert Christopher
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Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers, The
by: Addison, Albert Christopher

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page & Co., 1st impression, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, b&w illustrations, illustrated end paper. Gray covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Gilt top edge. Rough-cut pages. Light edge wear to covers. Sticker inside front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850946

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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture by: Bernard Lewis (Ed.)
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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
by: Bernard Lewis (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 360 pages. Published in association with the American Heritage Publishing Co. Text by Bernard Lewis, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Fritz Meier, Charles Pellat, A. Shiloah, A.I. Sabra, Edmund Bosworth, Emilio Garcia Gomex, Roger M. Savory, Norman Itzkowitz, S.A.A. Rizvi, Elie Kedourie. Illustrated with 495 reproductions, photographs, drawings, and maps, 160 of them in full color.

Record # 372044

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Letters from Lord Nelsonby: Rawson, Geoffrey (compiler)
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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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Story of a Common Soldier, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Stillwell, Leander
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Story of a Common Soldier, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Stillwell, Leander

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 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. Leander Stillwell (1843-1934) was an American lawyer, judge and a pioneer attorney who co-created the first bar of Erie. From 1861 to 1865 he was with the Union army joining as a private of Company D, Sixty-first Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers. He was appointed Corporal, then Sergeant and later First Sergeant in 1863, and re-enlisted in 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and several minor engagements. His experiences were published as The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1917/20). In 1876 he was elected a member of the lower house of the Kansas Legislature. He was a republican and held various township offices, both in Illinois and Kansas, and was quite active in civic affairs. In 1883 he was elected judge of the Seventh Judicial District. He was re-elected judge of the same district in 1887, 1891, 1895 and 1899, and resigned in 1907.

Record # 372358

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In Peril on the Sea: War Exploits of Allied Seamen.by: Masters, David
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In Peril on the Sea: War Exploits of Allied Seamen.
by: Masters, David

Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852696

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Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Taylor, Richard
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Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Taylor, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 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 memoir by Confederate General Richard Taylor is usually considered one of the best and least biased by a general officer. The work is full of considered analysis on both the strategy of the war and the personalities of his fellow officers. Taylor is always fair in his criticism and seems to have no real scores to settle. While he makes little mention of his own talents, his tactical brilliance and strategic insight does shine through. Many contemporaries said Richard Taylor was one of the best soldiers of the war, but he is comparatively little known due to his posting to peripheral theaters. While he was a man of his time, the work (with the exception of some of his Reconstruction writings) is much less tainted by Lost Cause polemics than most Confederate memoirs.

Record # 372374

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Rise of New York Port, Theby: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh

Rise of New York Port, The
by: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages, with illustrations and gilt titles. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853911

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Shock at the Frontby: Porter, William Townsend
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Shock at the Front
by: Porter, William Townsend

Hardcover. Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Green boards,gilt title box and title on front cover and spine. 151 pages plus ads, rough cut foredges. The effects and treatment of traumatic shock after World War I written by s physician who was there. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 373654

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Not-Quite Puritans, The: Some Genial Follies and Peculiar Frailties of Our Revered New England Ancestors (SIGNED COPY)by: Lawrence, Henry W.
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Not-Quite Puritans, The: Some Genial Follies and Peculiar Frailties of Our Revered New England Ancestors (SIGNED COPY)
by: Lawrence, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with red lettering, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim-page. Slight wear and soil to covers, internally very good

Record # 855227

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The Onslaught: The German Drive to Stalingrad : Documented in 150 Unpublished Colour Photographs by: Heinrich Von Einsiedel
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The Onslaught: The German Drive to Stalingrad : Documented in 150 Unpublished Colour Photographs
by: Heinrich Von Einsiedel

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. The photos are breathtaking not necessarily for their quality - many are washed out and most of the subject matter is routine day to day military stuff - but for their rarity. While the Germans seem to have been at least as far advanced in the use of color photography as the Americans, there is still a paucity of color photography in the public record. That is being addressed by the various nations who took large amounts of color film in an official capacity, including the US, UK, Germany and Canada. The book's captions are adequate to the task, and there are good historical sections, as well as an introduction by Max Hastings as well as commentary by an actual German war correspondent. The strength of the book is in its ability to bring the participants of the subject campaign - the German invasion of Russia up to and including Stalingrad - to life. The use of a large format allows one to note small details of the photos, and relate to the subject matter on a personal level. Despite the lack of "action" shots, there is much to see in facial expressions, uniform details, and especially geography as the Russian steppe is shown in summer and winter, as well as the famous Russian mud (Rasputitsa) about which so much has been written.

Record # 374150

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Indian Names of Places etc., and on the borders of Connecticut with interpretations of some of themby: Trumbull, J. Hammond
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Indian Names of Places etc., and on the borders of Connecticut with interpretations of some of them
by: Trumbull, J. Hammond

Hardcover. Hartfort CT, privately printed, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 11 page introduction plus 93 pages, green cloth with black rules, lettering. One of only 250 copies. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 900251

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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
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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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Vermont General: The Unusual Way Experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley (1862-1865)by: Eisenschiml, Otto (Editor)
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Vermont General: The Unusual Way Experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley (1862-1865)
by: Eisenschiml, Otto (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 340 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket priceclipped, has a touch of age-wear. Gilt title on spine. Covers bound in blue cloth. Pages and edges have just a touch of age-yellowing. Book is in beautiful condition for its age.

Record # 5560095

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Revolution For The Hell Of Itby: Abbie Hoffman
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Revolution For The Hell Of It
by: Abbie Hoffman

Softcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humour, theatre, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Party,or Yippies!, to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Clean. bright copy.

Record # 374701

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Holy Cross Quarterly Volume 4 Number 1 - The Burden of the Berrigans by: William Van Etten Casey, SJ, (Editor)
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Holy Cross Quarterly Volume 4 Number 1 - The Burden of the Berrigans
by: William Van Etten Casey, SJ, (Editor)

Softcover. Worcester MA, Holy Cross Quarterly, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. The entire 80 page booklet is devoted to the Brothers Berrigan, Phil, a Josephite and Daniel, a Jesuit. B&W photos throughout, includes Noam Chomsky famous article "On the Limits of Civil Disobedience. "Who will rid me of these troublesome priests," said J. Edgar Hoover. Cover drawing by David Levine. Phil Berrigan graduated from Holy Cross in 1950. Clean copy, light wear to wrappers.

Record # 377876

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Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economyby: Karl Polanyi
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Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economy
by: Karl Polanyi

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 204 pages. Dust jacket with partial fading, edgewear. Clean copy. The author's last work, a study of the Dahomean Kingdom, it's history and the part gold, colonialism and the slave trade played in it's fortunes. Scarce title.

Record # 378373

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British and American Anticommunism Before the Cold War (SIGNED COPY)by: Markku Ruotsila
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British and American Anticommunism Before the Cold War (SIGNED COPY)
by: Markku Ruotsila

Hardcover. London/Portand OR, Fank Cass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions. Clean copy.

Record # 378796

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Stalingrad: City on Fireby: Isaev, Alexey
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Stalingrad: City on Fire
by: Isaev, Alexey

Hardcover. Yorkshire UK, Pen and Sword Military, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. So much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad - the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War - that we should know everything about it. But the history of the war, and the battle, is evolving and is being written anew, and Alexey Isaev's engrossing account is a striking example of this fresh approach. B&w photos, color maps. Clean copy.

Record # 378850

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Peterborough Chronicle, 1070-1154 by: Clark, Cecily (Ed.)
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Peterborough Chronicle, 1070-1154
by: Clark, Cecily (Ed.)

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Based on the 1958 edition, this printing has extensive changes and additional material. Fold-out map, 136 pages. No marking.

Record # 379167

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Fire Lookouts: The Early Years by: Kemnow, La Vaughn Vanderburg
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Fire Lookouts: The Early Years
by: Kemnow, La Vaughn Vanderburg

Softcover. MountAinsWest Publishing, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green pictorial wraps, 193 pages with b&w photos. The early years in the development of the fire lookout system were fraught with difficult decisions, hard work, and danger. Roads and trails had to be built, materials had to be transported. Building materials and supplies were carried up steep, treacherous mountainsides on the backs of horses, mules, and men. Primitive conditions were met with courage, grit, and determination. The people who built, and the people who staffed these lookouts were often exposed to extremes in weather: heat, blizzards, wind, and lightning. Occasional accidents and illnesses were to be expected and sometimes had tragic consequences. The earliest lookouts consisted of the top of a tree; an alidade mounted on a crude support or on a tripod; or simply a mountain top where an observer scanned the surrounding countryside with a powerful field glass, always on the alert for the slighted wisp of smoke. The historical information in this volume is the culmination of many years of research of original documents by Ron Kemnow. Also included are many historical photographs. Some of the older photographs and picture postcards are of poor quality, but were included for their historical value. This book is not in narrative form, but is a collection of official reports, letters, and news articles, presented as they were originally written.

Record # 379629

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Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peruby: Sabine MacCormack
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Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru
by: Sabine MacCormack

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 488 pages, b&w illustrations. Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith. Some fading to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 380422

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Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY) by: Watson, Bruce
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Bread and Roses: Mills Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream (SIGNED COPY)
by: Watson, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY WATSON on title page. A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 381190

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Newspaper Row : Journalism in the Pre-Television Era (SIGNED COPY)by: Kenny, Herbert A.
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Newspaper Row : Journalism in the Pre-Television Era (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kenny, Herbert A.

Globe Pequot Press , 1ST, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In a series of colorful vignettes, a veteran newspaperman recreates a madcap era during which more than a dozen newspapers lived and died in 'the Row' on Boston's Washington Street. This is a story of fierce circulation competition and the often-outrageous journalism it inspired. Clean copy.

Record # 381474

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Slavery in New York by: Ira Berlin; Leslie Harris (Editors)
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Slavery in New York
by: Ira Berlin; Leslie Harris (Editors)

Softcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages. Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Many Thousands Gone, and Leslie Harris, Slavery in New York brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery and African American life in New York. Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New York Historical Society, the book demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how, as a way of doing business, it propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today. Powerfully illustrated with images from the New York Historical Society exhibit, Slavery and the Making of New York will be the definitive account of New York's slave past.

Record # 381597

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783by: Joseph J. Ellis
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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
by: Joseph J. Ellis

Hardcover. NY, Liveright, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 375 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War. For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance, and above all, its meaning. These questions have intrigued Ellis-one of our most celebrated scholars of American history-throughout his entire career. With this much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with "surprising relevance" (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. Clean copy.

Record # 381704

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Notes on the History of Waterford Maine by: Thomas Hovey Gage
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Notes on the History of Waterford Maine
by: Thomas Hovey Gage

Softcover. Worcester MA, self-published, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, plain paper wraps with tanning, 87 pages. This is the 1913 first printing, clean. Small tape repair to paper spine otherwise very good.

Record # 381981

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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by: Vickery, Amanda
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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
by: Vickery, Amanda

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical inquiry. "The Gentleman's Daughter" provides an account of the lives of genteel women - the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers and the sisters of gentlemen. Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, "The Gentleman's Daughter" challenges the view that the period witnessed a new division of the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate spheres of home and work. Amanda Vickery invokes the women's own accounts of their lives to argue that in the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish - in fact, quite the reverse. Contrary to orthodoxy, in the 18th century there was neither a loss of female freedoms, nor a novel retreat into the home. In their own writing, genteel women throughout the Georgian era singled out their social and their emotional roles: kinswoman, wife, mother, housekeeper, consumer, hostess and member of polite society. Clean copy.

Record # 382129

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Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America by: Arnson Cynthia J. (Ed.)
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Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America
by: Arnson Cynthia J. (Ed.)

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 493 pages. This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities in the context of agreements that touch on some of the principal political, economic, social, and ethnic imbalances that led to conflict in the first place. The book presents a carefully structured comparative analysis of six Latin American countries--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru--which experienced guerrilla warfare that outlasted the end of the Cold War. The book explores in detail the unique constellation of national and international events that allowed some wars to end in negotiated settlement, one to end in virtual defeat of the insurgents, and the others to rage on. The aim of the book is to identify the variables that contribute to the success or failure of a peace dialogue. Clean copy.

Record # 382335

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FOR PRESIDENT SUSPENDERSby: N/A
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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FOR PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS
by: N/A

Shirley MA, C.A. Edgarton Co., 1909, Book: Very Good, Holiday Boxes featuring "The Bachelor Girl" and two others. 11 X 14". PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 382628

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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by: Ujifusa, Steven
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
by: Ujifusa, Steven

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business--one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one's goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. "With the verse of a natural dramatist" (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano--men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China's expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston's shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York's Hudson Valley estates. Clean, like new copy.

Record # 383205

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There's Only One Bridport in the USA by: N/A
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There's Only One Bridport in the USA
by: N/A

Softcover. Bridport VT, Bridport Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 80 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Includes appendix of tradesmen, map. 1 of 500 copies. Owner's small sticker on first page, otherwise clean.

Record # 383403

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Mystic Built: Ships and Shipyards of the Mystic River, Connecticut, 1784-1919 by: Peterson, William N.

Mystic Built: Ships and Shipyards of the Mystic River, Connecticut, 1784-1919
by: Peterson, William N.

Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. 254 pages, b&w illustrations. Endpapers map. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 383676

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High Sheriff: Being the reminiscences of James Welch, former sheriff of Carroll County, New Hampshireby: Welch, James/ Marjory Gane Harkness, Lilian McGrew (Ed.)

High Sheriff: Being the reminiscences of James Welch, former sheriff of Carroll County, New Hampshire
by: Welch, James/ Marjory Gane Harkness, Lilian McGrew (Ed.)

Softcover. Tamworth NH, Tamworth Historical Society, 3rd pr, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 383815

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The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox by: Hamilton, Phillip

The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox
by: Hamilton, Phillip

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the war's end as Washington's artillery commander. While Henry is well known to historians, his private life and marriage to Lucy remain largely unexplored. Phillip Hamilton tells the fascinating story of the Knoxes' relationship amid the upheavals of war. Like John and Abigail Adams, the Knoxes were often separated by the revolution and spent much of their time writing to one another. They penned nearly 200 letters during the conflict, more than half of which are reproduced and annotated for this volume.This correspondence--one of the few collections of letters between revolutionary-era spouses that spans the entire war--provides a remarkable window into the couple's marriage. Clean copy.

Record # 383971

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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
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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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Empire or Independence 1760 1776: A British American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution by: Christie, Ian R., Laraber, Benjamin W.
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Empire or Independence 1760 1776: A British American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution
by: Christie, Ian R., Laraber, Benjamin W.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385545

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