Hardcover. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a dust jacket with large chunk of rear panel gone. 525 pages. In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at inscriptional evidence to complement the reading of the great literary texts: from Paul's Letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Montanus, and Valentinus. Thoroughly reworked and updated by the author for this English-language edition, this study is a groundbreaking work, broad in scope and closely detailed. Lampe deals with the shape of leadership and the Christians' relation to the Judeans living in Rome. In six parts, comprised of fifty-one chapters and four appendices, Lampe greatly advances our knowledge of the shape of leadership and the Christians' relation to the Judeans living in Rome. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with front and spine printed in black and gilt, 417 pages. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. Light spotting to covers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume I in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 432 pages, illustrated with maps and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages, b&w illustrations. Deals with activity during the American Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley which lies in north-eastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York. The area, populated mainly by settlers of Dutch descent, lay between the British and the American lines, and suffered from marauders and plundering expeditions from both sides. Very light pencil marking to about 30 pages.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages with a fold-out plan, 2 other b&w plates. A facsimile reproduction of the 1745 publication. Introduction by Morris R. Brownell. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 242 pages. The history of a Catholic mission to Uganda and how in 1886 its native converts were executed. No dustjacket. Front fly leaf clipped otherwise very good, clean copy.
Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. "Not of woman born," "the Fortunate," "the Unborn" - the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. In antiquity, children fortunate enough to have survived a Caesarean birth were believed to be marked for a special destiny. Vividly tracing the evolution of Caesarean birth from the early 1300s (when the operation was performed almost exclusively by midwives) through the Renaissance period (when midwives were considered witches and male surgeons took control), Blumenfeld-Kosinski . . . does more than provide [an] engrossingly accessible, historical account of the now-commonplace procedure--she unveils the roots of a medical misogyny that still prevails today. A richly cross-disciplined study utilizing depictions of Caesarean delivery in art, literature, and medical texts and illuminations (illustrations), [this book] is a captivating and revealing work that will be relished by readers of medical and cultural history, as well as by those who are interested in the subject of male dominance over women. Clean copy.
Softcover. Barre VT, Potash Brook Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 170 pages, b&w photography. A great overview of Vermont's diverse and often quirky libraries. With photos and descriptive text, the 201 libraries that existed in the Green Mountain State in 1996. Small chip to top of spine otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 283 pages. "During the Age of Jackson, New Hampshire was one New England state that was consistently and firmly Democratic. The only study of the state's politics during the first half of the 19th century, the author's book points out the significant, though often overlooked, influence of New Hampshire Democrats on the national Jacksonian movement- and influence far out of proportion to the size of the state." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 125 pages, endpapers map, 'The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 12'. A look at radicalism from colonial days forward. Mild soil to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated nation rebuild itself and pay substantial reparations to its conquerors. Our Friends the Enemies provides the first comprehensive history of the post-Napoleonic occupation of France and its innovative approach to peacemaking. From 1815 to 1818, a multinational force of 150,000 men under the command of the Duke of Wellington occupied northeastern France. From military, political, and cultural perspectives, Christine Haynes reconstructs the experience of the occupiers and the occupied in Paris and across the French countryside. The occupation involved some violence, but it also promoted considerable exchange and reconciliation between the French and their former enemies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Board of Publications of the Reformed Protestant Ditch Church, 3rd Edition, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations with tissue guards for most. Red cloth cover boards with blindstamped design and gilt title on spine (faded), agewear to covers. Foxing throughout. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Binding good. Spine straight.
Hardcover. New York, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States ands Canada, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages, hardcover. A study of the Appalachian Mountain dwellers. Gilt title on spine. Black-and white frontispiece photo intact. Mild soiling to boards, light bumping to corners as well. Mild age spotting to pages throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Softcover. Bangor ME, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Published by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, this wonderfully evocative magazine brings the unspoiled Maine woods of pre-World War II back to life. The magazine has articles on a variety of topics, including camping, canoeing, Indian relics, Maine guides, Moosehead Lake and climbing Mt. Katahdin. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos designed to make you drop everything and head North. With canoeing map, list of big game records for 1940, Sportsman's Directory of camps, hotels and fishing waters reached by the railroad and 39 pages of vintage advertisements. 128 pages. Light edgewear, small name on first page, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Freetown MA, Freetown Historical Society, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 327 pages. John Milton Deane (January 8, 1840 - September 2, 1914), was an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and a major in the United States Army. Deane was born in Assonet, Massachusetts to John and Lydia (Andros) Deane. The diary he kept is here type-written out in chronological order. B&w photo of Deane as a Lieutenant in 1863. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 268 pages. Focusing mainly on the nine months from November 1964 to July 1965 VanDeMark describes how the Johnson administration progressed along a seemingly inevitable path to double the number of ground troops in Vietnam, polarize the American people, and destroy Johnson's presidency in the short term. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 454 pages plus index. A study of the British Empire before the American Revolution. Remainder stamp to bottom edge otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers, 286 pages, map endpapers, b&w illustrations. Lionel Casson, the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring, has done what no other author has: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious voyages to a network that reached from Spain to India. In the process he corrects cherished but erroneous beliefs. Ancient warships, he shows, were never manned with slave rowers; ancient merchant-men did not stick timidly to the shore; and ancient craft were well able to sail against the wind. Embossed stamp to dedication page, otherwise clean, No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Montpelier, Vermont General Assembly, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1665 pages, black leatherette binding with gilt lettering. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, reprint, 2001, Softcover, clean, unmarked pages. 415 pages, followed by a short Index. Fanny Kemble offers a gripping, first-hand account of life on a Southern plantation before the Civil War. Combining a keen observational style with a candid narrative voice, Kemble lays bare the complexities of plantation life, including the stark realities of slavery and the socio-economic hierarchies of antebellum Georgia. The journal entries provide an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of both the enslaved and the plantation owners, reflecting her deep moral convictions and growing abolitionist sentiments against a backdrop of genteel Southern culture. Fanny Kemble, a British actress and writer, was thrust into the world of the Southern elite through her marriage to a plantation owner, which provided her with unprecedented access to the intricacies of plantation management and its social fabric.
Hardcover. New York, G. K. Hall & Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with two small holes to front cover, 227 pages with index. "Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine the domestic and foreign policy of the "agrarian" party in our early history. For the agrarian politics of Jefferson, while possibly benefiting the small freeholder, very closely served the interests of the plantation system, at least as the planters conceived their interests." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket. The personal memoirs of a participant in the Albany Georgia civil rights movement. 185 pages + photographic plates at end. No markings.
Softcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Greenville NC, James S. Jenkins Jr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover bound in green cloth boards, 87 pages printed on one side only. A privately printed compilation of news excerpts from local newspapers in the Greenville area from 1892 to 1909. An interesting portrait of small town Southern life during the period. Unique, scarce.
Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. A picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church. Since all of the inhabitants of England at that time were countrymen, except for a few large towns, this book is really an introduction to life in Medieval England as a whole. Clean and unmarked wraps in reddish-brown with a woodcut illustration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Poughkeepsie, New York, Abraham Tomlinson, 1st, 1855, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, gilt title on cover and frontispiece illustration, with numerous illustrative notes throughout and a supplement containing official papers on the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord. Ex-library residue, front cover loose and binding needs new back strip. Internal pages are clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. A moving account of Theodore Roosevelt's post-presidential years. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
NY, Nation Books, 1st US, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of Hedges essays originally published by Truthdig, the Webby award-winning progressive news website. Hedges lyrically and fearlessly dissects the most controversial issues of the day: America's wars of self-destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, the decay of American empire (at home and abroad), Israel's ghettoization of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the failure of American liberalism. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 510 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Red cover boards, white quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers. Dust jacket has edgewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. A historical narrative about WWI in the United States.
Softcover. London, Frank Cass, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 526 pages, b&w illustrations. An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944. Maps, appends., sources, index, Updated edition of the HMSO Official History Volume. Originally withdrawn shortly after publication due to threats of legal action by Peter Churchill, then re-released with emendations, Clean copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 377 pages. SIGNED BY MOWAT on the title page. Blue endpaper maps, b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. After years of research, sparked by his discovery of roofless ruins in Hudson Bay, Farley Mowat presents a speculative history of the first Europeans in North America and a challenge to the presently held notion that the Vikings were the first to inhabit northern Canada. Carbon dating placed these ruins hundreds of years before the Vikings landed in Newfoundland, but the conventional accepted historical theory could offer no explanation for them. Mowat`s search led him to Scotland and the Northern Isles where he discovered ruins that resembled those he had seen on the other side of the Atlantic. He painstakingly researched early historical accounts from Roman and pre-Roman times for answers and was able to reconstruct the story of a forgotten people.
Hardcover. New Haven VT, Town of New Haven, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, corners. oOtherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Clean copy. mell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.
Hardcover. Burlington VT, Queen City Printers , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, 324 pages. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Salisbury, Keewaydin Camp, 1st Thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 67 pages plus section of black & white group camp photographs from 1912 to 1958. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ABBOTT FENN ON DEDICATION PAGE. Updated and corrected edition of the original 1959 'The Story of Keewaydin'. Dust jacket with wear to edges, tape repaired closed tears - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal?
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 pages, b&w illustrations. Contents: The Prince of Wales and the Shadow of St Paul's, Joseph Wright and the spectacle of power; Humphrey Repton and the improvement of the estate; J. M. W. Turner and the circulation of the state; Thomas Cole and the course of empire; Frances Palmer and the incorporation of the continent; John Constable and the making of Constable country. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Newport VT, Vermont Civil War Enterprises, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Reprint from early 2000's. Volume 1 - 455 pages. Hardcover. Imitation red leather covers. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Related article laid in. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front end paper has been erased. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 408 pages. Hardcover. Imitation red leather covers. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front end paper has been erased. Some pencil markings throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. unknown, private publishing, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. INSCRIBED BY PHINEAS SPAULDING. Includes Life and Selected Poetry of Caroline A. Spaulding. Brown cloth covers, beveled edges, black stamped boarders and pictorial, gilt titles to spine, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece of author's portrait, decorated endpapers. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. The photos are breathtaking not necessarily for their quality - many are washed out and most of the subject matter is routine day to day military stuff - but for their rarity. While the Germans seem to have been at least as far advanced in the use of color photography as the Americans, there is still a paucity of color photography in the public record. That is being addressed by the various nations who took large amounts of color film in an official capacity, including the US, UK, Germany and Canada. The book's captions are adequate to the task, and there are good historical sections, as well as an introduction by Max Hastings as well as commentary by an actual German war correspondent. The strength of the book is in its ability to bring the participants of the subject campaign - the German invasion of Russia up to and including Stalingrad - to life. The use of a large format allows one to note small details of the photos, and relate to the subject matter on a personal level. Despite the lack of "action" shots, there is much to see in facial expressions, uniform details, and especially geography as the Russian steppe is shown in summer and winter, as well as the famous Russian mud (Rasputitsa) about which so much has been written.
Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover edges. Dust jacket has crease and small closed tear on rear.
hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY JOOST (AUTHOR) Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.
Hardcover. The Hague, Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 273 pages. Slight wear and fading to dust jacket spine. Tape mark on front of dust jacket. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 312 pages. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. Edited by Philip Smith. Reprinted from the 1875 edition. Illustrated with 52 full-page plates, 498 figures, 5 maps, plans and tables. 392 pages. Bright, clean copy.
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