Softcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 272 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. 226 men with ties to College Point, New York took part in the Civil War. They served in 82 different Army units, and in the Navy, both on land and on sea. They were infantry men, engineers and artillerists, and one was a musician in the Marine Band. The majority claimed Germany as their country of birth, and 24 died in the service of their adopted homeland. This Gunner at His Piece tells their stories, before, during and after the American Civil War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 402 pages, index, notes. A historical study of the development of the West and how, from the earliest days of development, elites of wealth and technological power have controlled the West's most precious resource: water. An analysis of the opening of the American West views the ecological reality of the area's aridity as the source of political control. Name on front fly leaf, light remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 3rd pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 564 pages. From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. As Kershaw shows, the structure of Hitler's "charismatic rule" created a powerful negative bond between him and the Nazi leadership- they had no future without him, and so their fates were inextricably tied. Terror also helped the Third Reich maintain its grip on power as the regime began to wage war not only on its ideologically defined enemies but also on the German people themselves. Yet even as each month brought fresh horrors for civilians, popular support for the regime remained linked to a patriotic support of Germany and a terrible fear of the enemy closing in. Based on prodigious new research, Kershaw's The End is a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with portraits. Top edge gilt. 412 pages + ads. INSCRIBED BY RANKIN to Livingston C. Lord, President of Eastern Illinois University in 1917. Rankin, who died at 90 in 1927, was an early colleague and friend of Lincoln's from his Springfield days. Small ink number on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Following the American Civil War, many former Confederates fled their southern homeland. Some left the United States, some moved to the western territories. Still others moved north to northeastern and midwestern towns and cities, believing that northern economic and educational opportunities offered the quickest means of rebuilding shattered fortunes and lives. Sutherland provides a detailed and illuminating account of the contributions these displaced southerners made to the financial, literary, artistic, and political life of the nation. Very nice copy.
Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century. Light marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages. Black & white maps, plans and illustrations. Documents the experiences of late-Renaissance Venetian nuns, many of whom were upper-class women immured against their will, exploring how convents of the period were often political hotbeds and the sites of illicit love affairs in their resident's efforts to find fulfillment. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Richmind VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and marks. No dust jacket. Tan cloth covers with gilt stamping.Primarily covers the era of the early American fur trader, as typified by the white trader and the Indian beaver hunter. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel. B&w drawings by Remington. Reprinted from a series of articles published in The Century Magazine in 1888. During the early 1880s, both Remington the artist and Roosevelt the writer were trying their hands at ranching, Remington in Kansas and Roosevelt in Dakota territory. Their respective records of the experience as perhaps the most important to survive of ranching in that era. Contains specific material on the severe winter of 1886-87 which put an end to ranching for many. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 291 pages with index. A social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, political, diplomatic military, colonial-expansionist. Crisply and succinctly written, it describes Europe not through a history of individual countries, but in a common context during the three quarters of a century between the death of Louis XIV and the industrial revolution in England and the social and political revolution in France. It presents the development of government, institutions, cities, economies, wars, and the circulation of ideas in terms of social pressures and needs, and stresses growth, interrelationships, and conflict of social classes as agents of historical change, paying particular attention to the role of popular, as well as upper- and middle-class, protest as a factor in that change. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 346 pages. VOLUME 3 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume XII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 445 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, light paper residue to front covers, lacks dust jacket, dj flaps pasted onto front endpapers, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Genealogical Publishing Company, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 351 pages. Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New-York, published in four volumes between 1849 and 1851, is one of the key source-books for genealogical and historical research in New York State. Interspersed throughout its more than 4,350 pages are copies of important genealogical records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, among which are census records, rate lists, lists of early settlers, and rolls of militia companies. This present volume is an extract of all the important genealogical records in the O'Callaghan work, brought together in just under 300 pages, contains a complete index of names, and overcomes, for individuals unfamiliar with Dutch or German nomenclature, the confusion caused by variant spellings of family names. The records are arranged in this work in the same sequence in which they appear in the Documentary History. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 67 pages, Introduction by H.T. Dickinson. A facsimile reprint of Lord Hervey's 1734 political pamphlet. Name on front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. The GI War Against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theater to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Schrijvers brings to life the GIs' struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Amidst the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage that presaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 635 pages. The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific. "What Iris Chang did for our understanding of the Rape of Nanking, James M. Scott has now done for the Battle of Manila. Here is a sweeping tale of frenzied fighting and heartbreaking devastation, written by a meticulous historian who has unflinchingly probed the truth of this largely forgotten episode from the Pacific." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 276 pages. Annotated, bibliography, index. This book is described as the only comprehensive work available on Vermont local government and the first such state study in New England since the 1930's. Publisher's correction to page 232 laid in. Bookmarks on front endpaper, owner's small stamp to half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, International Publishers, 7th pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 409 pages. Years ago, the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage 'was one of passivity and docility'. That opinion, so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation, is shown to be false in this book and in the material accumulated since its initial appearance has further substantiated this thesis; namely, that the African-American people, in slavery, forged a record of discontent and of resistance comparable to that marking the history of any other oppressed people. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Study of late eighteenth-century Virginia and its "often hot-tempered local politics." Name on front fly leaf, residue to inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Brownington VT, Orleans County Historical Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Previous owner's name, embossed stamp on title pg. A charming, nostalgic portrait of Vermont through the eyes of Daisy Dopp, a beloved figure in the state's history, this book is a collection of anecdotes, illustrations, and historical details that capture the essence of Vermont's rural life and traditions. B&w drawings by Peter Schumann.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 510 pages. Bibliography, Index. Numerous b&w photographs, drawings, and maps throughout text. A portrayal of the history, geography, architecture, and people of fourteen ancient cities at their height, among them Thebes, Jerusalem, Babylon, Athens, Carthage, and Rome. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. 434 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a full-scale biography of John Brown. "John Brown was a profoundly religious man dedicated to emancipation and Negro rights..." He "tried to overthrow slavery in the South itself by attacking Harpers Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection."Was Brown a vicious fanatic, or the greatest abolitionist hero in history?" This history is based on "contemporary letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, published reports, and recollections of eyewitnesses, this book is especially notable for providing the first really full account ever written of Brown's career before he went to Kansas..." Bold presentation inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 387 pages. These essays originated in a series of lectures and seminars held by the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies and the Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian Society of the University of Reading in 1966-1967. The countries covered include Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont State Division of the American Association of University Women, 2nd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, b&w illustrations. Related newspaper clipping laid in. Mild soil to wraps, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 369 pages. Evans "tells of his grandparents' debate to leave Lithuania for America, the first few years in the Baltimore slums, and their decision to gamble on the South. He writes about the family store, and describes his boyhood in Durham, in the North Carolina tobacco belt, where his father was mayor from 1950 to 1962 during the stormiest years of the Civil Rights era. " Also a history of earlier German & Sephardic Jewish communities in the South & the role of Southern Jews in the Civil War & Reconstruction. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 268 pages. Collects speeches made by Roosevelt in August and September 1910 on his tour of the United States, in which he espoused his political platform of social welfare and opposition to corporate political power. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 315 pages. The documents, speeches, letters and debates that were the genesis and evolution of American nationalism: Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Cooper, Clay, Breckinridge and others. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering, 608 pages. After the Revolutionary War, the federal government awarded bounty lands to citizens and soldiers for services rendered. In its simplest form, this involved the exchange of free land for military service. Federal records of these Revolutionary War bounty land awards are well known and readily accessible to genealogists. But the federal government was not alone in rewarding its citizens and soldiers with bounty lands. Nine state governments adopted similar policies, generating even more records. Unlike the federal bounty land records, however, these state records are not centralized; instead, they are found in the various states in the form of manuscript records and printed books and are all but inaccessible to the researcher. Until now, that is! Because with this work by Lloyd Bockstruck we now have a master index to state bounty land records, a Revolutionary War resource unparalleled for freshness, originality, and research potential. The nine states that awarded bounty lands in their western reserves or on their western borders (directly affecting the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee) are Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. (The basis for the Connecticut and Georgia awards, by the way, differ from the norm.) Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. A picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church. Since all of the inhabitants of England at that time were countrymen, except for a few large towns, this book is really an introduction to life in Medieval England as a whole. Clean and unmarked wraps in reddish-brown with a woodcut illustration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 167 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Includes table of contents, bibliography, index, maps and b&w photographs and illustrations. The 11 exiles were: John Howe, Printer; Francis Green; Joseph Durfee, Shelburne Pioneer; Molly Brant, Mohawk Heroine; Ward Chipman, founding father of New Brunswick; William Schurman of Prince Edward Island; Sir John Johnson; Ranna Cossit; Sarah Sherwood; Boston King and William Jarvis.
Softcover. Lincoln VT, Lincoln Bi-Centennial Committee, reprint, 2007, Softcover. Fold-out map in rear of book. Many b&w photographs, made by new negatives and reprinted old photographs by David Brown. Section A "Memories of a Mountain Town," published 1976 / Section B: "Lincoln Vermont, 1780-1980 published 1980 / Section C: "Lincoln Entering the 21st Century," published 2007.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Casemate Publishers, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages, b&w illustrations. With his parting words "I shall return", General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur?s HQ in Australia and directed Allied forces to key enemy positions. When General Yamashita finally surrendered, he made his initial overtures not to MacArthur, but to Volckmann. This book establishes how Volckmann's leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 357 pages. "On March 18, 1871, the workers of Paris expelled the bourgeois rulers of the city and took power into their own hands , a shining achievement never to be forgotten. Ten days later, on March 28, they set up the Paris Commune, the world's first proletarian state. It was of an entirely new type, being governed by the people and for the people, with all its social and political measures taken in the interest of the working people, the working class above all." -from the Preface. First printing of this selection, published for the centenary of the Commune. With ribbon bookmark. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, A. T. Goodrich, 1st, 1839, Book: Good, Hardcover, publisher's ribbed dark green cloth, gilt-lettered at the spine. Cloth tight and sound. 12mo, With four views and nine (of 10) maps, all in very good condition. The map opposite page 78 pertaining to the Niagara Falls area has been excised. Previous owner's 1840 ownership signature on reverse on copyright page bleeds through to title page. Water stain to front endpapers, affects first 10 pages, otherwise tight and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Derby & Miller, 1st, 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover embossed brown cloth with bright gilt title and decoration on spine. 808 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Beautiful steel engraving frontispiece of Lincoln engraved by A. H. Ritchie. Illustrated with 15 additional engravings. The book is tight and square. Raymond was the Editor of the New York Times and he brought this volume out with amazing dispatch after the assassination of Lincoln. Frank B. Carpenter, who had lived in the White House for an extended period , added a section , "Anecdotes And Personal Reminiscences Of President Lincoln." Mild wear to rear cover, clean copy.
Softcover. Evanston IL, Evanston Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 221 pages, b&w illustrations. This biography chronicles the experiences of White-Man-Runs-Him, Crow Indian warrior, chief, and scout for General Custer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Brill, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 559 pages. This volume covers the history of the Dutch colony New Netherland on the North American continent. Based on extensive research of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, much of which has not been previously used, this work provides the most complete overview yet of a colony that has been generally neglected by historians. The chapters deal with themes such as patterns of immigration, government and justice, economy, religion, social structure, material culture, and mentality of the colonists. This book will be very useful not just for students of Dutch colonial history, but also for scholars in early American history. Light pencil marking to about 30 pages. Otherwise like new.
Softcover. West Lafayette IN, Bordighera Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 124 pages. Philip Cannistraro is the leading American historian of Italian Fascism. He uses his profound knowledge of Italian and American archival sources to examine the ways Mussolini and the Fascist movement used and were used by Italian-American sympathizers during the 1920's and how these connections reached new levels of complexity at the beginning of the 1930's. Clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, privately printed, 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Black and white photos, map, and acknowledgments. A biography of the author's mother and a record of life in central Vermont during the turn of the century. SIGNED BY FARNSWORTH on the front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature also on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. London/NY, Verso, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages. Edward Thompson, perhaps the greatest post-war historian in the English-speaking world, died in 1993. In this readable and unabashedly appreciative survey of Thompson's histories and politics, Byran D. Palmer reviews include a passionate biographical account of the late-nineteenth-century Romantic William Morris, the hugely acclaimed The Making of the English Working Class, and a series of eighteenth-century studies that reach from customary culture to the antinomian poetics of William Blake. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 140 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. In this volume there have been gathered the personal experiences of some ten individuals who passed through the great Chicago Fire of 1871. The total area burned over was 2,124 acres, the number of buildings destroyed was about 17,450 and the persons rendered homeless nearly 100,000; out of a population of about 300,000. This work has two large fold-outs the first of which is opposite the title page and is entitled: "Chicago After the Great Fire of 1871". It is in two pieces with the last section separated along fold, minor tape repair. The second fold out (after page 36) is a map showing the course of the Chicago Fire of 1871 and is in excellent condition. No markings.
Hardcover. New Haven VT, Town of New Haven, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, corners. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Briggs and Co., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Otherwise clean, solid.
Hardcover. Salisbury, VT, Privately Published, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 189 pages with appendix and index. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. Light sun fade on rear cover. Foxing on first few pages, otherwise tight, clean copy.
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