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

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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Narrative of Andersonville, Aby: Spence, Ambrose

Narrative of Andersonville, A
by: Spence, Ambrose

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Light edge wear, soiling to covers. Previous owner's inscription on front and rear fly leaf. Light smudging to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850890

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Sagebrush Casinos: The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada by: Lewis, Oscar

Sagebrush Casinos: The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada
by: Lewis, Oscar

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and faded dust jacket. An early profile of Sin City. Legalized gambling in Nevada was 23 years old when this book examined what the move meant to the state and the nation in, in social, political, and economic terms. Much has changed in the intervening years.

Record # 381337

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History of Irasburg, Vermont, Aby: Orcutt, Marjorie A.; Alexader, Edward S.

History of Irasburg, Vermont, A
by: Orcutt, Marjorie A.; Alexader, Edward S.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 162 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Photo copies of newsclippings laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 368906

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Bugbee's Minstrel Plays: The Honey Boy Minstrelsby: Giles, Billy

Bugbee's Minstrel Plays: The Honey Boy Minstrels
by: Giles, Billy

Softcover. Syracuse, NY, Willis N Bugbee Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet. Green paper wrappers with softened edges. Light soil to paper wrappers. tight copy. Lightly faded on rear.

Record # 368191

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The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines by: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines
by: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edge wear and chipping. 305 pages, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. This is a unique and fascinating account of how a World War II resistance movement become communist and its violent struggle against the Philippine government and USA backing. The Huk Rebellion is fundamental to the understanding of Philippines politics and its evolution. This account is written from the rebel's point of view and contains many interviews with combatants from both sides. It provides many lessons for both guerillas and counter-insurgent forces. Clean copy.

Record # 380942

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The Dusky Afternoon: An Oregon Childhood by: Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

The Dusky Afternoon: An Oregon Childhood
by: Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

Softcover. Luminare Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 138 pages. This memoir immerses the reader in post-World War II rural Oregon where logging trucks laden with timber rumbled along gravel roads and moonshine was secreted in nearby shadows. Here a man's measure was taken not by his wealth or success but by his toil, and a woman was assessed not by her virtues but by her virtue. Rivers and reputations rose and fell swiftly. Electricity came to this rural area almost to the day the girl and her family arrived at the farm. Lowell and Fall Creek were charged for change. Even though families of pioneers and newcomers together celebrated in 1948 the centennial of the Oregon Territory, the landscape flush with virgin forests and rivers in very short time changed exponentially. Clean copy.

Record # 382118

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Hero of Vincennes, The: The Story of George Rogers Clarkby: Thomas, Lowell

Hero of Vincennes, The: The Story of George Rogers Clark
by: Thomas, Lowell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrations by F.C. Yohn. Color frontispiece. illustrated end papers. Book store stamp on rear paste-down. light edgewear, otherwise clean.

Record # 200544

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Ronald Reagan's Weekly Radio Addresses: The President Speaks to America; Volume 1: The First Termby: Ronald Reagan; Fred L. Israel [Compiler]; Sen. William V. Roth Jr

Ronald Reagan's Weekly Radio Addresses: The President Speaks to America; Volume 1: The First Term
by: Ronald Reagan; Fred L. Israel [Compiler]; Sen. William V. Roth Jr

Hardcover. Wilmington DE, Scholarly Resources Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The transcripts of Reagan.s five-minute broadcasts he made starting April 3rd, 1982. Clean copy.

Record # 378815

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

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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Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West by: Donald Worster

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West
by: Donald Worster

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.

Record # 382806

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

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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Stories of the Kanestio (Canisteo) Valleyby: William M. Stuart

Stories of the Kanestio (Canisteo) Valley
by: William M. Stuart

Hardcover. Canisteo NY, First Presbyterian Church, 3rd Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 261 pages. A reprint of a town history first published in 1935

Record # 382331

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Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reasonby: Gunnar Olsson

Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason
by: Gunnar Olsson

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 553 pages, b&w illustrations. A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and mythology that draws on early maps and atlases, Plato, Kant, and Wittgenstein, Thomas Pynchon, Gilgamesh, and Marcel Duchamp, Abysmal is itself a minimalist guide to the terrain of Western culture. Olsson roams widely but always returns to the problems inherent in reason, to question the outdated assumptions and fixed ideas that thinking cartographically entails. A work of ambition, scope, and sharp wit, Abysmal will appeal to an eclectic audience--to geographers and cartographers, but also to anyone interested in the history of ideas, culture, and art. Name written on front fore-edge of book, otherwise clean.

Record # 382141

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Faces of the Frontierby: Bjorklund, Lorence T.

Faces of the Frontier
by: Bjorklund, Lorence T.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Black & white Illustrations by author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips, otherwise very good. A noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American frontier West in pencil drawings: the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboat captain, vaquero, peddler, gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook, missionary, etc.

Record # 101506

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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by: Packer, George

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by: Packer, George

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. Clean copy.

Record # 381976

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History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, from its settlement to the year 1875 with family and biographical sketches and incidentsby: Joslin, J. B. Frisbie & F. Ruggl

History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, from its settlement to the year 1875 with family and biographical sketches and incidents
by: Joslin, J. B. Frisbie & F. Ruggl

Hardcover. Poultney, VT, Privately printed, 1st, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 369 pages. Original brown embossed covers. Spine faded. Overall very good.

Record # 384918

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County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350, Theby: Palmer, Robert C.

County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350, The
by: Palmer, Robert C.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, sun-fading. Clean, tight copy. The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. THe county courts have been considered courts of custom dominated by local knights unskilled in the law. By analyzing county peronnel and their role of the courts, Robert C. Palmer shows that these courts were, on the contrary, clearly professional and controlled by the magnates through their lawyers. Nevertheless, as the author demonstrates by his study of the process of jurisdictional change, the county courts were increasingly relegated to lesser roles by changes meant to assure justice to county litigants, while the king's court became the normal court of original jurisdiction for most important cases.

Record # 506987

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The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Voyages and Explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857- 1882 by: Charnay Desire; J. Gonino and Helen Conant (trans

The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Voyages and Explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857- 1882
by: Charnay Desire; J. Gonino and Helen Conant (trans

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blue cloth with embossed decorative vignette and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of author with tissue guard. Folding map indicating the Toltec Migrations, with four routes marked in blue, green, red and yellow by hand. Charnay, a French traveler and archaeologist, is known for pioneering photography to document his discoveries. Profusely illustrated with some 150 engravings, many of them full page, documenting the findings and views encountered on Charnay's journey, including maps and plans. Like many 1887 printings, lacks last plate of a mask found at Mitla on page 512. Sliver of blue cloth gone from top of spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Corner wear to covers, rear fly leaf missing.

Record # 371145

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Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Governmentby: Urbinati, Nadia

Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government
by: Urbinati, Nadia

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 293 pages. Despite John Stuart Mill's widely respected contributions to philosophy and political economy, his work on political philosophy has received a much more mixed response. Some critics have even charged that Mill's liberalism was part of a political project to restrain, rather than foster, democracy. Redirecting attention to Mill as a political thinker, Nadia Urbinati argues that this claim misrepresents Mill's thinking. Although he did not elaborate a theory of democracy, Mill did devise new avenues of democratic participation in government that could absorb the transformation of politics engendered by the institution of representation. More generally, Urbinati assesses Mill's contribution to modern democratic theory by critiquing the dominant "two liberties" narrative that has shaped Mill scholarship over the last several decades. As Urbinati shows, neither Isaiah Berlin's theory of negative and positive freedom nor Quentin Skinner's theory of liberty as freedom from domination adequately captures Mill's notion of political theory. Drawing on Mill's often overlooked writings on ancient Greece, Urbinati shows that Mill saw the ideal representative government as a "polis of the moderns," a metamorphosis of the unique features of the Athenian polis: the deliberative character of its institutions and politics; the Socratic ethos; and the cooperative implications of political agonism and dissent. The ancient Greeks, Urbinati shows, and Athenians in particular, are the key to understanding Mill's contribution to modern democratic theory and the theory of political liberty.

Record # 371323

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Gentlemen on the Prairie (SIGNED COPY)by: Harnack, Curtis

Gentlemen on the Prairie (SIGNED COPY)
by: Harnack, Curtis

Hardcover. Ames IA, Iowa State University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. A very clean hardcover edition in dust jacket and INSCRIBED BY HARNACK on the title page. The book 'focuses on the formation in the 1880s of a colony of upper-class British immigrants who viewed Iowa pioneering as a way of perpetuating the Victorian gentleman's code. It covers a broad range of social history of the latter part of the 19th century, from London drawing rooms to Iowa pig farms, and includes a careful scrutiny of Walter and James Cowan, brothers who were typical of Victorian gentlemen in this special venture'.

Record # 371626

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Ships and Ways of Other Daysby: Chatterton, E. Keble

Ships and Ways of Other Days
by: Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white decoration and color label on front, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations with fold-out diagrams in back of book. Covers show minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608643

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From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fairby: Fox, Timothy J. And Duane R. Sneddeker

From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fair
by: Fox, Timothy J. And Duane R. Sneddeker

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Perfect binding is tight. Interior is clean. Recreates, in words and pictures, the visual and emotional impact of the 1904 World's Fair. Using over two hundred images from the Missouri Historical Society's Photographs and Prints Collection, many reproduced from rare glass-plate negatives, From the Palaces to the Pike offers a tour of the St. Louis World's Fair that has been unavailable for nearly a century. Following an introduction that explains how the park was transformed into the World's Fair, the book takes readers inside the big exhibit palaces, brings them face-to-face with "human exhibits," and transports them over the fair grounds in hard-to-find aerial views. Special chapters also provide views of the Fair's entertainment district, known as the Pike, and of the 1904 Olympic Games. After the Fair, "the palaces crumbled, the exhibits dispersed, the Pike gave way to the mansions on Lindell Boulevard, and the fantasy land was reconfigured back into Forest Park," Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383214

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

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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The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europeby: Wells, Peter S.

The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe
by: Wells, Peter S.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 335 pages with b&w illustrations. Re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." Clean copy.

Record # 396334

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Dreyfus: The Prisoner of Devil's Island. A Full Story of the Most Remarkable Military Trial and Scandal of the Age by: William Harding

Dreyfus: The Prisoner of Devil's Island. A Full Story of the Most Remarkable Military Trial and Scandal of the Age
by: William Harding

Hardcover. Associated Publishing Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue pictorial cloth illustrated on upper cover with gilt, red, blue and black illustration and embossed gilt title. Gilt title on spine faded. 406 pages, frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate of Captain Dreyfus. Profusely illustrated with b/w portraits of the principal actors, and photographic reproductions of the places and scenes of Dreyfus trial and exile. Name and embossed stamp on front fly leaf, cover with light edge wear, interior clean.

Record # 383771

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History of the Town of Montpelier, including that of the town of East Montpelier for the first 102 yearsby: A.M. Hemenway

History of the Town of Montpelier, including that of the town of East Montpelier for the first 102 years
by: A.M. Hemenway

Hardcover. Montpelier, Miss A.M. Hemenway, 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 592 pages. Red cloth covers with black stamped decoration and gilt lettering. Edgewear and fraying on spine. age discoloration on pages, black & white illustrations, binding cracked, multiple pages loose and some separated. Previous owner's marking on front end paper.

Record # 408531

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Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer for 1897-98by: N/A

Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer for 1897-98
by: N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Union Publishing Co., 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Hinges cracked otherwise clean, solid.

Record # 383925

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History of Westminsterby: Minard, M. Elizabeth

History of Westminster
by: Minard, M. Elizabeth

Hardcover. Vermont, Town of Westminster, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Red cloth covers with white lettering, blue cloth spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, Binding cracked on page 67. Black & white photographs throughout. Vermont Sesquicentennial souvenir.

Record # 408335

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Luigi Castiglioni's Viaggio: Travels in the United States of North America, 1785-1787by: Pace, Antonio (Editor)

Luigi Castiglioni's Viaggio: Travels in the United States of North America, 1785-1787
by: Pace, Antonio (Editor)

Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse Univ Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 487 pages. Slight edgewear and sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457080

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The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950 by: Herken, Gregg

The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950
by: Herken, Gregg

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 425 pages. Based his work primarily on official documents released during the 1970s Yale historian Gregg Herken makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried-but failed- to make the nation's nuclear monopoly an advantage in negotiating with the Soviet Union. And why Truman's advisers wrongly predicted that a Soviet bomb was a generation away. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397515

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Town House, The by: Smith, Gwenda

Town House, The
by: Smith, Gwenda

Softcover. Strafford, Vt., Strafford Historical Society, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458723

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Daily Life in Palestine at the Time of Christby: Daniel-Rops, Henri

Daily Life in Palestine at the Time of Christ
by: Daniel-Rops, Henri

Softcover. London, Phoenix Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 500 pages. The youngest member ever of the esteemed Academie Francaise--and winner of the Legion of Honor--produces a towering, erudite study of the humble men and women who were Christ's very first followers. Historically rich, it captures everything from the occupations, families, and homes to the flowers and birds native to the land. ".wealth of information.about customs, language, habits, clothes, food and all the other features.will make the reading of the New Testament far more real and vivid."--The Times. Clean copy.

Record # 385597

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Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty 1776-1780 (2 Vols.)by: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty 1776-1780 (2 Vols.)
by: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1914, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 289 and 329 pages, each with a frontispiece. Limited to 500 copies, this is #376. White vellum spine and corners with blue-gray boards, top edge gilt. Pristine set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 403678

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American Pilgrim's Way in England, Theby: Huish, Marcus B.

American Pilgrim's Way in England, The
by: Huish, Marcus B.

Hardcover. London, The Fine Arts Society, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages, hardcover. Decorated boards with gilted top text block. Illustrated by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Homes and memorials of the founders of Virginia, the New England states, and Pennsylvania. Also includes the universities of Harvard and Yale, the first president of the United States and other illustrious Americans. Fading and edgewear to spine. Light bumping to corners with mild fraying. Moderate spotting to text block edges. Weak spine at front endpapers. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Record # 951805

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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction by: Allen C. Guelzo

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
by: Allen C. Guelzo

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 592 pages. Two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. And unlike other surveys of the Civil War era, it extends the reader's vista to include the postwar Reconstruction period and discusses the modern-day legacy of the Civil War in American literature and popular culture. Guelzo also puts the conflict in a global perspective, underscoring Americans' acute sense of the vulnerability of their republic in a world of monarchies. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and especially the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South. Clean copy.

Record # 386001

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Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century by: John Frederick Martin

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
by: John Frederick Martin

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Record # 387787

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Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment (SIGNED COPY(by: Monod, Paul Kl?©ber

Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment (SIGNED COPY(
by: Monod, Paul Kl?©ber

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. SIGNED BY MONOD on the tile page, also INSCRIBED on the half-title page. The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Although public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new antiestablishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favor of "reason" but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today. Clean copy.

Record # 386359

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The Papers of John C. Calhoun:A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Vol. XXVIII)by: John C. Calhoun

The Papers of John C. Calhoun:A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Vol. XXVIII)
by: John C. Calhoun

Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth wth gilt lettering on spine, gilt silhouette of Calhoun on cover. 244 pages with index. The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Volume XXVIII is the final volume in a distinguished documentary edition, the first volume of which was published more than fifty years ago. While identical to others in the series in terms of typeface, binding, and letterpress printing, this volume does not contain any of John C. Calhoun's personal papers, rather it features Calhoun's only formal, scholarly writings on political science and political philosophy. A Disquisition on Government is an examination of the first principles of political science, much in the model of Aristotle's Politics or Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. It examines basic principles of politics, including concepts of sovereignty and personal liberty and the relationships between states and nations. A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States is a focused study of American political thought and constitutional history since the ratification of the Constitution. It pays particular attention to antifederalist views of the Constitution, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of the 1790s, and the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Clean copy.

Record # 386466

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The Autumn of the Middle Agesby: Johan Huizinga

The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by: Johan Huizinga

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, bright copy, 467 pages. Illustrated with 36 pages of historic Plates, b/w, on coated paper. One of the most famous works of history, Johan Huizinga presents a brilliant portrait of life, thought, and art in 14th and 15th century France and the Netherlands.

Record # 386642

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The Rising Sun in Pacific, 1931-April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 3 by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

The Rising Sun in Pacific, 1931-April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 3
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume III in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 411 pages, illustrated with maps and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386593

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Annals of Staten Island, From its Discovery to the Present Time by: J. J. Clute

Annals of Staten Island, From its Discovery to the Present Time
by: J. J. Clute

Hardcover. Interlaken NY, Heart of the Lakes Publishing, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 464 pages An early history of New York's Staten Island includes numerous genealogies of "old families". Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386802

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Mungo Park and the Niger: Great Explorersby: Thomson, Joseph

Mungo Park and the Niger: Great Explorers
by: Thomson, Joseph

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt ship stamped on cover in upper left-hand corner, gilt title on spine. 338 pages with 13 full page illustrations, 7 text illustrations, 4 text maps & 7 attractive color maps, some folding. Ex-library with bookplate on front fly leaf, lettered number on spine, otherwise a tight, bright copy.

Record # 374693

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The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War IIby: Peter Schrijvers

The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
by: Peter Schrijvers

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.

Record # 387334

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A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services with Their Names Ages and Places of Residence... Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census by: State U.

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services with Their Names Ages and Places of Residence... Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census
by: State U.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Genealogical Publishing Company, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering. 582 pages - 2 books bound as 1. The body of this consolidated work is a list of 25,000 Revolutionary War pensioners still living in 1840, with their ages and the names of the heads of families with whom they were residing. Based upon the returns of the Sixth Census of the U.S., the arrangement is by state or territory, thereunder by county, and in the case of some counties, by minor subdivision. Thus a good deal about the origins of settlers of each county of the United States, as well as the magnitude of migration into the various areas of the country, can be gleaned from an examination of this work. The Census of Pensioners is here reprinted with the typescript index to the work prepared by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1965. Clean copy.

Record # 387544

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The Founding Of A Nation: A History of the American Revolution 1763-1776 by: Merrill Jensen

The Founding Of A Nation: A History of the American Revolution 1763-1776
by: Merrill Jensen

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 735 pages. light stamp to top edge. Exceptionally nice condition.

Record # 387764

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American Slavery: The Question of Resistance by: John H. Bracey Jr.; August Meier; Elliot Rudwick

American Slavery: The Question of Resistance
by: John H. Bracey Jr.; August Meier; Elliot Rudwick

Softcover. Belmont CA, Wadsworth Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 202 pages. A collection of essays focusing on African American resistance, specifically (from the introduction) "on the nature and extent of the resistance of blacks to slavery in the United States." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387795

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The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrativeby: Wiiliam Starr Myers & Walter H. Newton

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative
by: Wiiliam Starr Myers & Walter H. Newton

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 553 pages. "The complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover's four years in Washington." Written by Myers, a history scholar whose academic field was the GOP, and Newton, a former member of Congress who was for many years Hoover's personal secretary or roughly his Chief of Staff.This is about as good a defense of Hoover's actions just before and during the Great Depression as anything that has come out since. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387892

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Story of a Country Medical College, The: A History of the Clinical School of Medicine and the Vermont Medical College, Woodstock Vermont, 1827-1856by: Waite, Frederic

Story of a Country Medical College, The: A History of the Clinical School of Medicine and the Vermont Medical College, Woodstock Vermont, 1827-1856
by: Waite, Frederic

Hardcover. Montpeiler, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners ID stamp on front flyleaf. Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Dark red cloth cover boards (light moisture damage to bottom right corner of front cover, and bottom left corner of back cover), gilt title on spine and front cover board. Light tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean. Binding good. Spine straight. A touch of moisture damage (very minimal-see image) to bottom corner of edge. History of Medical College in Woodstock, VT.

Record # 99191

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Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780 by: Robert E. Brown

Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780
by: Robert E. Brown

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 458 pages. This book argues that there was a middle-class democracy in Massachusetts even before the Revolution, which only removed British power from the area. Bump to top corner of volume causing a crease, remainder lines to bottom edge. No markings.

Record # 397527

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