History

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

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

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

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

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

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 506 pages, illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Gilt titles and decorations on black cloth board, minor edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, A two-volume set, taupe-colored cloth boards with gilt decorated illustration of Rome on front cover. Top edge gilt. Vol I: Fold-out map of Rome as frontis., 332 pages, 14 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Vol II: Photo of St. Peters Square as frontis., 344 pages, 13 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Light soil to covers, both volumes with mild residue to inside covers where bookplate may have been removed. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 277 pages. Starting in the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse shifted away from the "color" of immigrants to their religion and culture. It focused in particular on newcomers from Muslim countries--people feared both as terrorists and as products of tribal societies with values opposed to those of secular Western Europe. Leo Lucassen tackles the question of whether the integration process of these recent immigrants will fundamentally differ in the long run (over multiple generations) from the experiences of similar immigrant groups in the past. For comparison, Lucassen focuses on "large and problematic groups" from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Lucassen emphasizes that the geographic sources of the "threat" have changed and that contemporaries tend to overemphasize the threat of each successive wave of immigrants, in part because the successfully incorporated immigrants of the past have become invisible in national histories. Clean copy.

Softcover. West Lafayette IN, Purdue University Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 529 pages, b&w illustrations. Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans-Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic-who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing-directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation-also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.

Softcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House years longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic policies and the war's ongoing cost. Despite gravely deteriorating health, FDR and his feisty running mate, the unexpected Harry Truman, campaigned vigorously against young governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and old-line Ohio governor John Bricker. Roosevelt's charm and wit, as well as the military successes in Europe and the Pacific, contributed to his sweeping electoral victory. But the hard-fought campaign would soon take its toll on America's only four-term president. Preeminent historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub recaptures FDR's striking "last campaign" and the year's momentous events, from the rainy city streets where Roosevelt, his legs paralyzed by polio since 1922, rode in an open car, to the battlefronts where the commander-in-chief's forces were closing in on Hitler and Hirohito.

Hardcover. Hildesheim GR, Edition Olms, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the "St. Paul Pioneer Press. "

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.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Seaforth Publications, 3rd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations throughout. What began as a scrapbook and a photo album now emerges as a coherent narrative, which one Edistonian has rightly said "will educate those who should know Edisto's history." The Sea Islands are unique, and some are yet unspoiled--Edisto least of all, perhaps. Opening this new door into the past may also open a more informed path into the future. Ninety two pages from eariest history to the 1970's, when the barrier island were mostly ignored. Lots of information about hurricanes, Colonial Times, Plantation days, and after the Civil War. Mrs. Puckette became a well known South Carolina writer. Inscroption on inside cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Vintage, 1st pbk, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship--rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection--and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Journal Office, 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 612 pages. Maroon cloth covers, gilt decoration and lettering on spine and cover with stamped decorations. Corner and edge wear, fading to spine. Decorative stain on all page edges. Tissue guarded illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Binding cracked in multiple places.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, A.H. Copeland, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, embossed green cloth covers. B&w illustrations. Front spine edge with 2 inch cloth tear, previous owner's stamp on prelim page, small label on spine, numbers on title page. Internally very good, clean.

Nafziger Collection , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Large size 28cm x 21cm in soft card covers. Clean and sound. History of the Polish Revolution of 1830 by Joseph Hordynski - Major of the Late Tenth Regiment of Lithuanian Lancers (Originally pub. in 1833) .

Hardcover. Philadelphia , John Wanamaker, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Pub Co, 1st US, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear, creasing and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with pieces gone, 229 pages plus index. A study of the controversial period in America which followed the Civil War examining the political situation in the South.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to a Mrs. Thomas (the levelest head I know among women) with sincere affection and regard. Dated Newport. 27 May, 1915. The dust jacket is fragile with large missing chips and a few tape repairs on the inside, but with both flaps intact and the front and back being essentially there to be able to read the extensive copy on both sides. Internally very clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 172 pages plus index. "The exciting story of the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1952; a record of what occurred, how it occurred, and why; Told by a leader of the draft movement, who is also a prominent American historian." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, J. Seymour Brown, reprint, 1842, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a worn leather binding, spine stamped in gilt with title and decorations fairly bright. 654 pages with 60 engravings. Front fly leaf missing so book opens to title page. History of the US from Columbus through the beginning of the Harrison/Tyler administration (including the death of Harrison). Marbled edge pages. Endpapers tanning, interior clean with minor foxing, binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Company, 1st US, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, Three volumes complete, blue cloth hardcovers with gilt titles and oval decorations on the front covers. Gilt titles and decorations on the spines. Top edges gilt. Volume I: 421 pages, [4] pages advertisements, Volume II: 484 pages, [8] pages advertisements, Volume III: 541 pages, [2] pages advertisements. Illustrated with frontispieces in the three volumes. Illustrations and folding facsimile autographs and manuscripts. Previous owner's inscriptions written on inside front cover of Vol. 1, Otherwise a bright, clean set. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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.

Hardcover. Hartford, F. A. Brown, 2nd, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages of main text plus Appendix and 12 pages of Press reviews. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing throughout. Light wear to cloth covers with fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gold lettering, design on front cover, 62 pages. Dean was a Professor at the University of Vermont who taught ceative writing. He was the author of many works of historical fiction, including stories about Vermont heroes John Stark and Ethan Allen, and was the founder of the Green Mountain Folkore Society. Two small notations on prelim pages, bookplate on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Vergennes, J. Shedd, 1st, 1831, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown leather covers with title in gilt on spine. Ex- library copy with numbered stamp at bottom of spine. Bookplate on inside front cover, and remains of card pocket on inside of back cover. Moderate rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers in excellent condition. Touch of foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright. The ever-rapacious Nazis looted staggering quantities of great art and antiques from the nations they occupied. Much of it found its way back to Germany, and following the Allied victory, many thousands of rare (and some priceless) pieces were identified, and returned to the countries from which they had been taken. But not all of the paintings, statues, and archaeological treasures were recovered: Some were taken by Soviet troops and disappeared into Russia. Still others slipped into the black market in western Europe, and were snapped up by wealthy (if unprincipled) collectors. A 1995 symposium at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts brought together European and American investigators and historians to discuss both the the Nazi thefts and the current state of knowledge of the whereabouts of the many still missing treasures. Those papers are reprinted here. While the pieces are detailed, dry, and likely to be of most interest to specialists, there are some extraordinary stories, most prominently the description of the recent rediscovery of ``Priam's treasure,'' excavated by Schliemann at Troy and hidden since WW II in a Russian museum. (123 illustrations, 25 in color).

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with gilt design and lettering. 395 pages, frontispiece portrait of Nellie Taft, and complete with 47 illustrated plates. As ambitious as her husband, William Howard Taft, Helen Herron may be the most underrated of all our First Ladies. She encouraged Taft in all his political accomplishments and he may not have become president without her. He preferred the judiciary and eventually became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Helen (Nellie) Taft was the first wife of a president to ride down Pennsylvania Avenue with her husband on inauguration day and the only woman who was wife of both a president and a chief justice. She is best known for working with the wife of the Japanese Ambassador to import and plant more than 3,000 cherry trees around the Washington Tidal Basin. Witty, intelligent, open-minded, and curious about the world, she is even today beloved in the Philippines, where her husband served as head of the civil government in 1900. She and her husband courted criticism for including Filipinos in social affairs. Spine cloth and gilt faded, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 245 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Decorated endpapers. Decorative pink stain to top edge. Private library stamp on front endpaper. Otherwise clean. Entertaining recount of the pivotal battle of the Crimean War. Includes bibliography & index. Excellent collection of period photographs and artwork.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine and front cover. Hardcover. Light overall wear, very good, clean & sound condition without dust jacket. 443 pages with maps and a facsimile reproduction, all excellent condition. Publisher's promotional flyer jaid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rockland, C. E. Hunt & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Fair, Ends at page 502; MIssing back pages. B&w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Ornately decorated red cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration. Cover separated with soiling, rubbing, and edgewear. Foxing to edges and some light spotting throughout.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w photos. Orange cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Faint spotting to rear cover, light wear to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2023, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 695 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Color and b/w illustrations throughout, including maps. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent condition. Yellow cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine.

Softcover. River Edge NJ, Bergen County Historical Society, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 103 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages. Learn Latin from the Romans is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners. These texts, the 'colloquia', consist of dialogues and narratives about daily life similar to those found in modern-language textbooks today, introducing learners to Roman culture as well as to Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way. Students and instructors will find everything they need in one complete volume, including clear explanations of grammatical concepts and how Latin works, both British and American orders for all noun and adjective paradigms, 5,000 easy practice sentences, and over 150 longer passages (from the colloquia and a diverse range of other sources including inscriptions, graffiti, and Christian texts as well as Catullus, Cicero, and Virgil). Written by a leading Latin linguist with decades of language teaching experience, this textbook is suitable for introductory Latin courses worldwide. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume XIV in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 407 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, dj flap pasted to inside front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages, b&w illustrations. The village of Bergen, established in 1660, was the first permanent settlement in New Jersey. Now known as Hoboken and Jersey City, the marshy land on which Bergen was founded is just across the Hudson River from New York. At the beginning of this century, when this book was written((1902), the Bergen region was still known for an old-fashioned charm. Mr. Van Winkle used sources such as colonial and revolutionary documents, old newspaper articles and individual's reminiscences to compile this pleasant and enjoyable history. Light pencil marking to 10 pages.

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, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages. Alfred Lee Loomis (1887-1975) made his fortune in the 1920s by investing in public utilities, but science was his first love. In 1928, he established a premier research facility in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., that attracted such brilliant minds as Einstein, Bohr and Fermi and became instrumental in the Allies' WWII victory. Conant, a magazine writer, draws on studies, family papers and interviews with Loomis's friends, family and colleagues (she's a relative of two scientists who worked with Loomis) to trace the story of the tycoon's professional and social life (the latter fairly racy). At the Tuxedo Park lab, Loomis attracted top-flight scientists who experimented with sound, time measurement and brain waves. During WWII, he established a laboratory at MIT (the "rad lab") where radar was developed. He also served as a conduit between civilian scientists and Roosevelt's military establishment. Although he lost some of his top people to the Manhattan Project, the "rad lab" was a major contributor to the allies' defense. In his well-publicized personal life, Loomis angered family members by trying to have his emotionally unstable wife institutionalized while he pursued an affair with another woman. Through Conant's spare, unobtrusive prose and well-paced storytelling, Loomis emerges as a contradictory man who craved scientific accomplishment and influence, but rarely took credit for himself.

Softcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages plus 9 pages of photos from the Leach family album. These 200+ letters were written during the Civil War to Leach's wife, Ann Leach, from June 1861 - June 1864. Leach's hometown was Fletcher, Vermont and many members of Fletcher, as well as surrounding towns of Fairfax and Fairfield, enlisted in what would become Company H of the 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It has been reported that during the Civil War, at least one out of every five military aged Vermont males served at some time. Leach gives his (and his Regiment's) opinion on the war as well as details history about developments, strategies, and occurrences. The close of the book also features 30+ pages titled "Who is Who." This is a large listing of Vermont Civil War soldiers, their rank, and details with dates (enlisted, commissioned, discharged, wounded, died, mustered, taken prisoner, etc.) INSCRIBED BY FEIDNER on the title page. Some sun fading to front cover, otherwise very good, clean. Newspaper review laid in.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The American Trails Series, edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. 383 pages, includes a two-page map. This book offers an account of the route between Siberia and Alaska that continues southward along the Rockies all the way to Mexico and beyond. Cushman details the stories of the many groups who have traversed parts of the route from prehistoric peoples to Native Americans, Spanish explorers, fur traders, cowboys, and whiskey runners of the Prohibition era. A clean and pristine copy of the first printing,

Hardcover. NY, Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 634 pages, mild shelf wear. An incredible chronologically arranged, unedited and indexed collection of FDR's Foreign Policy, National Defense Policy, Public Letters & Papers, Messages to Congress, Executive Orders, Proclamations, Fireside Chats & Public Addresses. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.