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Medieval Childrenby: Nicholas Orme

Medieval Children
by: Nicholas Orme

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 387 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. Leading medieval historian Nicholas Orme draws together a vast range of sources and disciplines-history, literature, religion, and art-to create a picture of medieval childhood more comprehensive than ever before. Beginning with pregnancy and childbirth, Orme explores the succeeding stages of a child's growth to adulthood. He discusses baptism, the significance of birthdays and ages, and family life, including upbringing, food, clothes, sleep, and the plight of the poor. He also chronicles the misfortunes of childhood, from disablement, abuse, and accidents to illness and death. In a fascinating review of the special culture of children, the author describes their rhymes, toys, and games; their religion and relationship to the Church; and their learning to read the literature for children. The final chapter of the book explains how adolescents grew up and entered the adult world. Mild fade to spine, front fly leaf with two small scars to black paper, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 382078

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History of Vermont: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Theby: Carpenter, W. H./T. S. Arthur

History of Vermont: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The
by: Carpenter, W. H./T. S. Arthur

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages plus 36 pages of ads. Hardcover. Front endpaper removed. Foxing to pages throughout. Area of soiling to foredge. Cloth covers with fading along edges and spine. Firm binding.

Record # 612492

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This Gunner at His Piece: College Point, New York & the Civil War, with Biographies of the Men Who Served (SIGNED COPY)by: James E Haas

This Gunner at His Piece: College Point, New York & the Civil War, with Biographies of the Men Who Served (SIGNED COPY)
by: James E Haas

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.

Record # 382511

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The Last Dinosaur Book: the Life and Times of a Cultural Icon by: Mitchell, W. J. T.

The Last Dinosaur Book: the Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
by: Mitchell, W. J. T.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages profusely illustrated in color and b&w. For animals that have been dead millions of years, dinosaurs are extraordinarily pervasive in our everyday lives. Appearing in ads, books, movies, museums, television, toy stores, and novels, they continually fascinate both adults and children. How did they move from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection? What is the source of their powerful appeal? Until now, no one has addressed this question in a comprehensive way. In this lively and engrossing exploration of the animal's place in our lives, W.J.T. Mitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards." Mitchell aims to trace the cultural family tree of the dinosaur, and what he discovers is a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians. Clean copy.

Record # 382146

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Gladstone's House of Commons (SIGNED COPY)by: T. P.  O'Connor

Gladstone's House of Commons (SIGNED COPY)
by: T. P. O'Connor

Hardcover. London, Ward & Downey, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 567 pages. Expertly rebound in a plain black buckram with the gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY O'CONNOR on the half-title page and dated March 2 1895. O'Connor was a famous Irish politician and journalist. Very clean.

Record # 372091

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

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

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

Record # 381981

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A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 by: Fabend, Firth

A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800
by: Fabend, Firth

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 326 pages. Firth Haring Fabend has studied a large colonial American family over five generations. The Haring family settled in the Hackensack Valley (on the New York/New Jersey border), where they lived, prospered, and remained throughout the eighteenth century. Fabend looks at how this ordinary family of independent, middle-class farmers coped with immigration, established themselves in a community, acquired land and capital, and took part in the social, political, economic, and religious changes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As she traces the lives of the Harings and their neighbors, Fabend focuses on their marriage and childbearing patterns, living conditions, agricultural methods, and relative economic position. She investigates inheritance patterns, concluding that the position of women deteriorated under English law. She is equally interested in the political and religious life of the family. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil checks in margins to several pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 386384

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Steamboating on the Upper Mississippiby: Petersen, William J.

Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi
by: Petersen, William J.

Hardcover. Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 575 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some numbered Stickers on front endpaper. Foxing along edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608299

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From the Coalfields to the Hudson: A History of the Delaware & Hudson Canalby: Lowenthal, Larry

From the Coalfields to the Hudson: A History of the Delaware & Hudson Canal
by: Lowenthal, Larry

Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, Revised Ed., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages, b&w illustrations. Second Edition with supplement. Small ink name on title page. Otherwise, like new.

Record # 371179

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History of New Haven in Vermont 1761-1983, Aby: Farnsworth, Harold and others

History of New Haven in Vermont 1761-1983, A
by: Farnsworth, Harold and others

Hardcover. New Haven VT, Town of New Haven, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. No dust jacket.

Record # 371422

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Last Gold Rush - A Pictorial History of the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining District, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Grimstad, Bill/Raymond L. Drake

Last Gold Rush - A Pictorial History of the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining District, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Grimstad, Bill/Raymond L. Drake

Hardcover. Victor, Pollux Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS beneath hand numbered #338 of a limited edition of 500. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611547

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Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation by: Sklar, Kathryn Kish/ Stewart, James Brewer

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
by: Sklar, Kathryn Kish/ Stewart, James Brewer

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870-the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery. The contributors to this volume, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, investigate the intertwining histories of abolitionism and feminism on both sides of the Atlantic during this dynamic century of change. They illuminate the many ways that the two movements developed together and influenced one another. Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the authors ask how conceptions of slavery and gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, and Britain; how women's activism reached across national boundaries; how racial identities affected the boundaries of women's activism; and what was distinctive about African-American women's participation as activists. Their thought-provoking answers provide rich insights into the history of struggles for social justice across the Atlantic world. Sine faded. Clean copy.

Record # 397506

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The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by: Hersh, Burton

The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
by: Hersh, Burton

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1992, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A group biography of the founders and leaders of the CIA shows how the agency became a secret government that goes against the American constitutional system and fosters extra-legal scandals. Hers has performed a prodigious job of research, conducting more than 100 interviews and burrowing through mounds of archives and declassified documents. His narrative runs from the 1919 Versailles conference, where the young Dulles brothers observed uncle Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state, to the Bay of Pigs operation and the frustrating retirement years of its principals. Six men occupy the foreground here: sanctimonious John Foster Dulles and his hedonistic younger brother Allen, who before their heyday as Eisenhower cold warriors were well-heeled corporate lawyers who ran interference for German firms instrumental in the Nazis' prewar rearmament; legendary OSS chief ``Wild Bill'' Donovan; Frank Wisner, ultimately CIA operations chief; New Deal diplomat William C. Bullitt; and Carmel Offie, the dandyish assistant to Bullitt and Wisner and a master of diplomatic sleight-of-hand. Hersh hopes to show how these latter-day Wilsonian ``global salvationists,'' aching to roll back the Communist menace, forged an intelligence apparatus intoxicated with the black arts of covert activities- -loosely supervised, often amateurish, sometimes harebrained. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Record # 383228

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State of New York Report on the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York for the Year 1873by: Colvin, Vanplanck

State of New York Report on the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York for the Year 1873
by: Colvin, Vanplanck

Hardcover. Albany, Weed Parsons and Co., 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 305 pages, 9 folding maps, b&w plates. Rust color cloth with soil, spotting. Light scuffing to some parts of cloth edges. The top 1/2" of spine cloth is missing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Interior is very good, sound with all maps present and in very good condition.

Record # 383524

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History of Bigotry in the United Statesby: Myers, Gustavus

History of Bigotry in the United States
by: Myers, Gustavus

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 504 pages including index. Bright, square copy, no marking. important work. Concerns the Nativist Movements, the Klan, the Protocols, the Nazis, et al circa 1943. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 383637

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German Social Democracyby: Russell, Bertrand

German Social Democracy
by: Russell, Bertrand

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 184 pages, clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 383729

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New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Ageby: Mellins, Thomas

New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age
by: Mellins, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., The Monacelli Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1164 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Over 1,200 b/w archival photographs. The book lists buildings by type and by location and is rather a wonderful survey of nineteenth century New York and Brooklyn. Large heavy volume. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 458857

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

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

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

Record # 383971

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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil Warby: Hunter, Tera W.

To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by: Hunter, Tera W.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta-the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south-in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Clean copy.

Record # 384281

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The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay 1775by: Galvin, John (ed)

The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay 1775
by: Galvin, John (ed)

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, John Howell-Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Limited to 5000 copies. 130 pages. 6 color illustrations. Color frontispiece. The original narrative, hitherto unpublished by Father Vicente Maria and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters. Illustrations by Louis Choris in brush and pencil who was at San Francisco in 1816. Blue dust jacket with wear. Sun-fading to spine. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and front. Previous owner sticker on front flyleaf. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 385038

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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War 1945-1947 by: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War 1945-1947
by: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Hardcover. NY, WW Norton & Co,, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission-this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of "who lost China" roiled American politics. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 385364

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Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, Theby: Davis, Richard Harding

Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, The
by: Davis, Richard Harding

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue and red, 360 pages. 116 b&w photos throughout, color maps in rear. In 1898 America intervened in the Cuban War of Independence, leading to conflict with Spain. This is a detailed account of this campaign, together with American military sea and land operations on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. Cloth spine darkened otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412080

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Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Centuryby: Joseph A. Conforti

Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century
by: Joseph A. Conforti

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with silver lettering, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 385666

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Creoles of Louisiana, Theby: Cable, George W.

Creoles of Louisiana, The
by: Cable, George W.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in red and gilt, 320 pages. Frontispiece, b&w plates and illustrations. Folding map. Spine sunned, light wear to extremities, previous owner's name, inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 412192

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Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victorby: Paul Stephenson

Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
by: Paul Stephenson

Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 358 pages, Illustrated with three sections of color plates. b&w maps, illustrations. Clean copy. A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian. In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire. He founded a new capital city, Constantinople. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes.

Record # 385815

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Origins of the New South: 1877-1913 by: Vann Woodward, C.

Origins of the New South: 1877-1913
by: Vann Woodward, C.

Softcover. Louisiana State University, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages with index. After more than half a century, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way: "The pyramid still stands. Origins of the New South has survived relatively untarnished through twenty years of productive scholarship, including the eras of consensus and of the new radicalism. . . . Woodward recognizes both the likelihood of failure and the necessity of struggle. It is this profound ambiguity which makes his work so interesting. Like the myth of Sisyphus, Origins of the New South still speaks to our condition." Light rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.

Record # 386059

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Primary History of the United States: For Intermediate Classes (Barnes History Series)by: Donnelly, T.F.

Primary History of the United States: For Intermediate Classes (Barnes History Series)
by: Donnelly, T.F.

Hardcover. New York, American Book Company, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover. Color (maps) and b/w illustrations throughout. Brown leather boards, black designs and gilt on spine and front cover board. Decorated edges.

Record # 99027

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Andover in the American Revolution: A New England Town in a Period of Crisis, 1763-1790by: Harris, Edward Mosely

Andover in the American Revolution: A New England Town in a Period of Crisis, 1763-1790
by: Harris, Edward Mosely

Hardcover. Marceline, MO, Walsworth Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece and illustrations throughout including several fold-out maps. Spine straight. Binding tight. Foxing to edges, preliminary and back pages. Light blue cloth cover boards, some agewear, gilt title on spine. History of Andover, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War.

Record # 99170

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The Land and Its People - Volume Iby: Selina Tetzlaff Johnson

The Land and Its People - Volume I
by: Selina Tetzlaff Johnson

Softcover. New Jersey, Bergen County Board, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages. Volume one of a seven volume set on the history and heritage of Bergen County. Clean, like new..

Record # 386501

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Ancestral Records and Portraits; A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I, The Colonial Dames of America (2 Volumes)by: Colonial Dames of America

Ancestral Records and Portraits; A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I, The Colonial Dames of America (2 Volumes)
by: Colonial Dames of America

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Two softcover volumes, Vol. 1 and 2 complete, 835 total pages, b&w illustrations. Facsimile reprints of the 1910 Grafton Press original edition. Clean copies.

Record # 386531

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Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages by: Tomasch, Sylvia; Gilles, Sealy (Editors)

Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages
by: Tomasch, Sylvia; Gilles, Sealy (Editors)

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 330 pages. Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography, and Mandeville's Travels, the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality. Clean copy.

Record # 386739

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The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) (Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 220)by: Dury, John with Introduction By Richard H. Popkin and Thomas F. Wright

The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) (Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 220)
by: Dury, John with Introduction By Richard H. Popkin and Thomas F. Wright

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 31 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1650 pamphlet by Dury, laying out a plan for the organization of books and libraries. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386955

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Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62 by: Neil MacMaster

Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62
by: Neil MacMaster

Softcover. Manchester University Press , 1st pbk, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Clean copy.

Record # 374705

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Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County 1850 - 1900by: Stanley Stein

Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County 1850 - 1900
by: Stanley Stein

Softcover. NY, Atheneum, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages. The roles of planter and slave in a changing plantation society in Brazil. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387372

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Hamburg Cove: Past and Present by: Stanley Schuler (Ed.)

Hamburg Cove: Past and Present
by: Stanley Schuler (Ed.)

Softcover. Old Lyme CT, Lyme Historical Society, 1995, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 162 pages. Part of the Lyme Heritage Series: a series of essays about Hamburg Cove, Lyme, Connecticut, accompanied by photographs/paintings in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Record # 387562

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Hayes: The Diary of a President 1875-1881-Covering the Disputed Election, the End of Reconstruction, and the Beginning of Civil Service by: Hayes, Rutherford / Willia

Hayes: The Diary of a President 1875-1881-Covering the Disputed Election, the End of Reconstruction, and the Beginning of Civil Service
by: Hayes, Rutherford / Willia

Hardcover. NY, David Mckay, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 329 pages. "This volume puts together as a continuous narrative the diary of Rutherford B. Hayes from March, 1875 to March 1881 - covering his nomination as the Republican candidate, the campaign of 1876, the disputed election and its compromise, and his Presidency. It is based on a typed copy of the original manuscript supplied by The Rutherford B. Hayes Library of Fremont, Ohio, and its director, Watt P. Marchman. Hayes was an inveterate diary keeper from his youth to his old age. In this record of the presidential years the diary is reproduced virtually in facsimile form. All misspellings, errors in punctuation, and other eccentricities have been retained, as have the deletions and gaps in the original copy." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387768

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The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784by: Edited and with an Introduction by L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender and Mary-Jo K

The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
by: Edited and with an Introduction by L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender and Mary-Jo K

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 411 pages; index; 24 illustrations, including color frontispiece of Abigail and John; from the Introduction: " 'The Book of Abigail and John' is a Bicentennial updating of Charles Francis Adams' contribution ('Familiar Letters') to the nation's Centennial. It contains what the present editors consider the best letters of John and Abigail Adams, written from their courtship beginning late in 1762 to their reunion in Europe in August 1784.To these letters have been added a number of letters to "third parties" and selected diary and autobiographical passages that reveal the two as man and woman, husband and wife, father and mother." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387805

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The War Conspiracy; The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War by: Peter Dale Scott

The War Conspiracy; The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War
by: Peter Dale Scott

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All about the motivation and planning for the Wars in Laos (1959-62), Vietnam (from 1954) and Cambodia. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by "accidents" and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. Name on front fly leaf, light rubbing to dj, otherwise clean.

Record # 396255

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New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century - 3 Volumesby: Fairbanks, Jonathan L./Robert F. Trent/MFAB

New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century - 3 Volumes
by: Fairbanks, Jonathan L./Robert F. Trent/MFAB

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston , 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Softcover Volumes. Volume 1 - 94 pages. Features:Introduction/Migration and Settlement. Many illustrations in black & white and 8 pages in full color. Covers show light/moderate wear with some soiling to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 260 pages. Features: Mentality and Environment. Many illustrations in black & white and 8 pages in full color. Light/moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - 209 pages. Features: Style. Many illustrations in black & white and 16 pages in full color. Light/moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. All 3 Volumes: Good+ condition.

Record # 611277

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Abbeysby: James, M.R.

Abbeys
by: James, M.R.

Hardcover. London, England, Gret Western Railway, 1st edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrated frontispiece, color and b/w illustrations, including several fold out blueprint diagrams, throughout. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Red cover boards (some fading), black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, some light tanning from age. Binding good, spine straight. With additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A. Professor of Mediaeval History in the University of Leeds. With One Hundred Illustrations by Photographic Reproduction, fifty-six drawings, thirteen plans, seven color plates and map (in pocket on back endpapers).

Record # 99197

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Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Townshipby: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman

Old Homes of Roxbury Township - Third in a Series of Books on the History of Roxbury Township
by: Seraly, Ruthann/Frances Lyman

Softcover. Roxbury NJ, Roxbury Township Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613456

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Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861by: Cuthbert, Norma B. (Editor)

Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861
by: Cuthbert, Norma B. (Editor)

Hardcover. San Marino,CA, The Huntington Library, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 161 pages. Official records from the Pinkerton detective agency & other documentary sources are drawn on to present the story of "a plot and counterplot, stranger than fiction" involving a plan to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln while en route to his inauguration in Washington in 1861, over 4 years before he was killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396459

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Pictorial Life of General Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washingtonby:

Pictorial Life of General Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washington
by: <

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.

Record # 803716

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Jacksonian Aristocracy; Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860 by: Miller, Douglas T.

Jacksonian Aristocracy; Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860
by: Miller, Douglas T.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. "The period from Andrew Jackson's presidency to the Civil War has traditionally been considered the age of democracy triumphant in the United States. This book sharply contradicts that assumption, contending that while democracy advanced substantially in the political sense, social and economic distinctions became, if anything, more marked. Powerful forces, especially in the economic field, were working toward the stratification of society." Name on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396479

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Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York: 1774-1776by: Percy, Hugh Earl

Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York: 1774-1776
by: Percy, Hugh Earl

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages, hardcover. Edited by Charles Knowles Bolton. Correspondence during the American revolutionary war. Mild fading to spine and top edge. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards as well. Rough cut top edge. Minor bumping to corners. Frontispiece intact. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951831

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The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902: Volume I by: William L. Langer

The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902: Volume I
by: William L. Langer

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 414 pages. Volume 1 ONLY. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396506

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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Yearby: Flood, Charles Bracelen

Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
by: Flood, Charles Bracelen

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, binding tight, clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read.

Record # 31132

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Heritage from Hamilton: With a Selection of Personal Letters  by: MItchell, Broadus

Heritage from Hamilton: With a Selection of Personal Letters
by: MItchell, Broadus

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 160 pages. ".based on the Gino Speranza Lectures delivered in Columbia University by Broadus Mitchell as a part of the national celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396617

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Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Beginsby: J. E. Lendon

Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins
by: J. E. Lendon

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 566 pages. Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431-421 BC) against grim Sparta -- the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids, and deeds of cruelty and guile -- along with courageous acts of mercy, surprising charity, austere restraint, and arrogant resistance. Recounting the rise of democratic Athens to great-power status, and the resulting fury of authoritarian Sparta, Greece's traditional leader, Lendon portrays the causes and strategy of the war as a duel over national honor, a series of acts of revenge. A story of new pride challenging old, Song of Wrath is the first work of Ancient Greek history for the post-cold-war generation. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378318

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The Boston Massacreby: Hiller B. Zobel

The Boston Massacre
by: Hiller B. Zobel

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 372 pages. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an event on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. The British soldiers were put on trial, found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an 'M' for murder as punishment. This book covers the action and the subsequent trial. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396912

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