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History of United States Navel Operations in World War II: Operations in North African Waters October 1942-June 1943: Vol. IIby: Morison, Samuel Eliot

History of United States Navel Operations in World War II: Operations in North African Waters October 1942-June 1943: Vol. II
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping, creases, wear to top/bottom spine. Internally clean and tight. Fold out maps.

Record # 368178

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Tudor Puritanism: A Chapter in the History of Idealismby: Knappen, M.M.

Tudor Puritanism: A Chapter in the History of Idealism
by: Knappen, M.M.

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 555 pages. Traces the political fortunes of the Puritans from 1524, the year in which William Tyndale left London for Germany, to the Stuart Settlement at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The author then examines the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Puritanism which, he believes, represented a more genuine idealism than any rival religious movement during the Tudor period. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397465

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An Answer to War In Disguise, or, Remarks Upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Tradeby: King)(Rufus

An Answer to War In Disguise, or, Remarks Upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Trade
by: King)(Rufus

Softcover. New York, I. Riley & Co./Hopkins and Seymour, 1st, 1806, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages, original marbled paper wrappers with blue title label on cover. Second signature is bound upside-down (pages 9-16), but all there. Marbled pattern on outer wraps faded in spots. Mild foxing to pages, edgewear with light loss of paper to bottom corner.

Record # 403673

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The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790by: Ferguson, E. James

The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790
by: Ferguson, E. James

Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages with index. In The Power of the Purse, E. James Ferguson examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal question whose solution would largely determine the country's progress toward national union. Ultimately, says Ferguson, the Revolutionary debt fulfilled an important purpose as a "bond of union." Ferguson's masterful analysis has become a classic among the literature on the American Revolution. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397538

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I Write As I Pleaseby: Walter Duranty

I Write As I Please
by: Walter Duranty

NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 347 pages. The author was the Moscow correspondent for the New York Times starting in 1920 through the rise of Stalin. A first hand account of Russian history. Clean copy.

Record # 381487

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The Legend of Indian Mary and Umpqua Joe by: Percy T. Booth

The Legend of Indian Mary and Umpqua Joe
by: Percy T. Booth

Softcover. Coos Bay OR, B&B Publishing, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, illustrated in b&w. Originally published by the Josephine County Historical Society in Grants Pass, Oregon. Clean copy.

Record # 397679

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British Submarine, Theby: Lipscomb, Commander F.W.

British Submarine, The
by: Lipscomb, Commander F.W.

Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charles Black, Reprint with corrections, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image), covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Some light tanning to edges and pages, otherwise unmarked. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, white title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. in great shape. A comprehensive and authoritative book on the British submarine and its place in the Royal Navy.

Record # 32391

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Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine by: Bruce J. Bourque

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
by: Bruce J. Bourque

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.

Record # 397852

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Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third  Battalion Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender...by: Williamson, James J.

Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender...
by: Williamson, James J.

Hardcover. New York, Ralph Kenyan, 1st Edition, 1896, 511 pages. Hardcover. Over 200 b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in gray cloth, beveled at edges, gilt title/decoration on spine, gilt title and decoration on front cover board, designed engraved on back cover board. cover boards have some rubbing and light soil, a touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front preliminary page. Binding tight. Spine slightly cocked. "...From the Diary of a Private, Supplemented and Verified with Official Reports of Federal Officers and Also of Mosby; With Personal Reminiscences, Sketches of Skirmishes, Battles and Bivouacs, Dashing Raids and Daring Adventures, Scenes and Incidents in the History of Mosby's Command."

Record # 367821

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Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education by: N/A

Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education
by: N/A

Softcover. Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia Library, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w photos throughout. This is a history of African-American public school education in Henrico County, Virginia. Introductory essay by William A. Link. Author documented his work (as a field agent for the General Education Board) being an amateur photographer. Davis' photographs are organized by subject (Events, People, Demonstration Farming, etc.). Limited to 3.000 copies. Clean.

Record # 398006

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Classical Economists, Theby: O'Brien, D. P.

Classical Economists, The
by: O'Brien, D. P.

Softcover. Oxford, UK, Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Softcover with light wear to wraps. Sunfade to spine. Spine faded. Small black mark on rear wrap, some lines highlighted on four pages. Light toning throughout, illustrated by tables & figures in bw.

Record # 2233106

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A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain's Revolutionary War Heritage by: Lundeberg, Philip / Cohn, Arthur / Jones, Jennifer

A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain's Revolutionary War Heritage
by: Lundeberg, Philip / Cohn, Arthur / Jones, Jennifer

Softcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Documents the legacy of shipwrecks and wartime encounters on Lake Champlain. Also the management of an important underwater archaeological collection. Clean copy.

Record # 398148

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Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, Aby: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, A
by: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.

Record # 412407

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Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779; With Records of Centennial Celebrations by: Cook, Frede

Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779; With Records of Centennial Celebrations
by: Cook, Frede

Hardcover. Auburn NY, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original red cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped double border. 581 pages including Errata leaf. Includes several fold-out maps, plus pockets inside the front and rear boards containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. John Sullivan was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress. Sullivan served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or 'President') of New Hampshire. He is most famous for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the American revolutionaries. This volume contains journals by 27 officers present during the campaign, and has become the authoritative primary source of the event. Both front and rear hinges cracked with spine cloth loose, battlefield map at page 288 has a tear but no loss, front signature with title page loose but whole. All other maps present in envelopes and in very good condition. Covers worn.

Record # 398284

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Horse and History: From Arabia to Ascotby: Curtis, John and Nigel Tallis

Horse and History: From Arabia to Ascot
by: Curtis, John and Nigel Tallis

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Lund Humphries, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout.

Record # 470117

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Derwent; or, Recollections of Young Life in the Countryby: Chester, John

Derwent; or, Recollections of Young Life in the Country
by: Chester, John

Hardcover. New York, Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Original advertising leaflet for book laid-in. Moderate rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613670

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Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard Historical Studies)by: Gregory, Brad S.

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard Historical Studies)
by: Gregory, Brad S.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 528 pages. Clean copy. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction and behaviour in early modern Europe, this text shows the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize and controversialists keen to dispute.

Record # 378686

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Russian Empire and Soviet Union - A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States, Theby: Grant, Steven A./John H. Brown

Russian Empire and Soviet Union - A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States, The
by: Grant, Steven A./John H. Brown

Hardcover. Boston, G. K. Hall & Co., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 632 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth. Minimal wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611035

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Aegis 1912: Junior Annual of Dartmouth College, Volume 39by: Dartmouth College

Aegis 1912: Junior Annual of Dartmouth College, Volume 39
by: Dartmouth College

Hardcover. New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1912 Junior Annual of Dartmouth College. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and front cover, beveled edges. Light edgewear, mild foxing to page block edges, spine slightly cocked, ex-lib with bookplate to front endpaper, otherwise no evidence of ex-lib markings, pages crisp and unmarked; overall a very neat, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 807112

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Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985by: McCourt, James

Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985
by: McCourt, James

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 608 pages. A startling anecdotal history of gay life in twentieth-century New York explores the confluence of historical and social factors that made Manhattan a mecca for homosexuals in the second half of this century.

Record # 374124

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Fishers Island N. Y. 1614-1925by: Ferguson, Henry L.

Fishers Island N. Y. 1614-1925
by: Ferguson, Henry L.

Softcover. New York, Peninsula Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Spiral bound reprint edition privately printed by Peninsula Press in 1994. Previous owners name stamped at top of title page. Black & white illustrations. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612221

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Battles of Saratoga, Theby: Elting, John R.

Battles of Saratoga, The
by: Elting, John R.

Hardcover. Monmouth Beach, Philip Freneau Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white maps and diagrams showing battle strategies. Blue cloth with degree of fading to front and back covers. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Scarce.

Record # 608191

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Hampton and Its Students by Two of Its Teachers with 50 Cabin and Plantation Songsby: Armstrong, Mrs. M.I. and Helen W. Ludlow

Hampton and Its Students by Two of Its Teachers with 50 Cabin and Plantation Songs
by: Armstrong, Mrs. M.I. and Helen W. Ludlow

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Fold-out frontis, b&w Illustrations, very nice, clean copy. Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music.

Record # 25349

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Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia - The False Tsars of the Time of Troublesby: Perrie, Maureen

Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia - The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles
by: Perrie, Maureen

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 269 pages. Clean, bright copy. This is the first scholarly account by a Western historian of the Time of Troubles, the period of civil war and foreign invasion in early-seventeenth-century Russia. The author focuses on the various pretenders or royal imposters who appeared at this time; she traces their careers and offers explanations for their success. Her analysis of the phenomenon of pretense illuminates popular perceptions of the monarchy in early modern Russia, and demonstrates how social protest could take the form of support for imposters claiming to be the "true tsar".

Record # 610671

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Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans. The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871, 72, 73, 74, 78, 79. Including an Autobiography of the Author.

Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans. The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871, 72, 73, 74, 78, 79. Including an Autobiography of the Author.

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. Clean copy. Illustrated with maps (some fold-out), plans, and more than 1700 other illustrations. Includes Index and Appendices. Preface by Prof. Rudolf Virchow. First published in 1881, this is Schliemann's narrative of his excavations in the Troad. 800 pages plus 38 plates. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 374654

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Ritualised Friendship & The Greek Cityby: Herman, Gabriel

Ritualised Friendship & The Greek City
by: Herman, Gabriel

Hardcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, dust jacket with light fading to spine, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. In this book, Gabriel Herman offers a new interpretation of Greek xenia, a term traditionally rendered as 'guest-friendship'. Drawing on contemporary literary sources and inscriptions as well as anthropology, sociology, and comparative evidence from other times, he shows that xenia was a bond of fictitious kinship akin to godparenthood, rather than a tie of hospitality or ordinary 'friendship'. Starting off from this proposition, he develops a dynamic model of the formation of elite relationships and values. He explores the concepts of obligation and loyalty, gift and bribe, treason and patriotism, and places the Greek city within a new context of power relations. Clean copy.

Record # 378297

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Kissinger Transcripts, The: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing & Moscowby: Burr, William (Ed.)

Kissinger Transcripts, The: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing & Moscow
by: Burr, William (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, The New Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. In nice shape, Dust jacket unclipped, has just a touch of age yellow. Edges show a little soil (shelfwear). Binding very tight, clean inside. Very good condition.

Record # 31145

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Ancient Society Or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilizationby: Morgan, Lewis Henry

Ancient Society Or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization
by: Morgan, Lewis Henry

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 569 pages. Two decades after Darwin, intellectuals were writing about the evolution of everything. In England Edward Taylor focused on material culture such as fire making, cooking, or tool making. In America, Lewis Henry Morgan, concentrated on social evolution combined with subsistence techniques. His thinking was influenced by his Iroquois neighbors in New York. Like many others he posited three stages of evolution: savagery, barbarism and civilization, but he refined the three periods with three subperiods. In Lower savagery, for example, he saw humans subsisting on fruits and roots in tropical climes, using gesture language and marrying siblings in a consanguine family. Middle savagery saw fish subsistence, monosyllabic language, and marriage of cousins. Bows and arrows appeared in Upper Savagery along with syllabic language, clans, and tribal organization. Obviously Morgan was speculating on most of the developments, but he had found arguments for his positions from the reports of explorers and missionaries around the world. As a result, Morgan inspired an era of inquisitive thought that led to the development of American anthropology. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 380319

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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolutionby: Bailyn, Bernard

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
by: Bailyn, Bernard

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 668 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Front cover board slightly splayed. Dust jacket has a touch of agewear. In good shape for its age.

Record # 31097

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American Revolution, The (2 Vols.)by: Fiske, John

American Revolution, The (2 Vols.)
by: Fiske, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, bound in matching 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Spines with raised bands, gilt decorations and lettering, top edge gilt, ribbon markers. Marbled end papers, previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Illustrated with b&w portraits and maps. A handsome production in bright, clean condition.

Record # 405505

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The Phoney War --A None-To-Reverent Account of Britain's Home Front 1939-1940by: Turner, E. S.

The Phoney War --A None-To-Reverent Account of Britain's Home Front 1939-1940
by: Turner, E. S.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A look at Britain in the period before the Battle of Britain - a world of gas masks, blackouts, rationing, evacuations and warnings about what to do if a German parachutist lands on your doorstep - a time when it was an offence to leave a car parked without disabling it and when signpost were torn down to confuse the enemy.

Record # 374177

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Battle Fields of the South - From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by:

Battle Fields of the South - From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by:

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 517 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372362

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History of Stowe, Vermont (From 1763-1934)by: Bigelow, W. J.

History of Stowe, Vermont (From 1763-1934)
by: Bigelow, W. J.

Hardcover. Stowe. VT, Walter J. Bigelow, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Moderate fading to green cover boards, Gilt lettering on front and spine. Light scratches on rear cover board. Internally, Previous owner's writings on front fly leaf, otherwise bright, tight copy.

Record # 750317

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The Great Fire of London in 1666by: Bell, Walter George

The Great Fire of London in 1666
by: Bell, Walter George

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 261 pages indexed, with black slipcase. Striking Folio Society edition of Bell's revised 1952 account of the Great Fire of London, describing the state of the city prior to the inferno; the cause of the blaze and accounts of its spread throughout London, as well the immediate and long term aftermath. With color images and maps to end-papers.

Record # 387666

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Scritti Varii - (1879-1900) (Italian Text)by: Fortunato, Giustino

Scritti Varii - (1879-1900) (Italian Text)
by: Fortunato, Giustino

Hardcover. Roma, CalicEditori, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover in Italian text. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Bright navy dust jacket with photograph & red printed titles. Clean, unmarked & crisp copy.

Record # 750673

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Men of Color, to Arms!: Vermont African-Americans in the Civil Warby: Fuller, James

Men of Color, to Arms!: Vermont African-Americans in the Civil War
by: Fuller, James

Softcover. Lincoln NE, iUniverse, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages. "Forward! Double-Quick!" and away we all rushed toward the fort... capturing two brass field pieces, one of which the rebels left loaded." A true account of Vermont men of color in battle during the Civil War. A barely known fact is that the tiny state of Vermont provided over one hundred and fifty African American soldiers to fight for the Union and by doing so, free millions of their own race. This is their story. Derived from historical archives and through their own words. Clean copy. Hastily signed by the author on the half-title page.

Record # 381614

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To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americansby: Kelley, Robin D. G./ Lewis, Earl (Editor)

To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans
by: Kelley, Robin D. G./ Lewis, Earl (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 4th pr., 2000, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 670 pages, b&w illustrations. Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans experienced it. We begin in Africa, with the growth of the slave trade, and follow the forced migration of what is estimated to be between ten and twenty million people, witnessing the terrible human cost of slavery in the colonies of England and Spain. We read of the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and of slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are vivid accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of notorious "Jim Crow" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions. The contributors also trace the migration of blacks to the major cities, the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression and the service of African Americans in World War II, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and '60s, and the emergence of today's black middle class. From Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Louis Farrakhan, To Make Our World Anew is an unforgettable portrait of a people. Clean copy.

Record # 381567

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Shotgunning: The Art and the Scienceby: Brister, Bob

Shotgunning: The Art and the Science
by: Brister, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Skyhorse, 2nd, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230220

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Theatre through the Ages by: Molinari Cesare

Theatre through the Ages
by: Molinari Cesare

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, color and black and white illustrations throughout. A masterly survey of the world's stages brings to the contemporary reader the entire panorama of the theatre, including its formative stages among primitive peoples and the richly stylized traditions of the East.

Record # 363447

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De Wereld Waar ik Buiten Sta: Oorlogsdagboek 1940-1945 (Dutch Edition)by: Michaelis, Hanny

De Wereld Waar ik Buiten Sta: Oorlogsdagboek 1940-1945 (Dutch Edition)
by: Michaelis, Hanny

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Van Oorschot , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1060 pages, DUTCH LANGUAGE. Bright copy in a similar dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 369675

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History of Nantucket: County Island and Town Including Genealogies of the First Settlers by: Starbuck, Alexander

History of Nantucket: County Island and Town Including Genealogies of the First Settlers
by: Starbuck, Alexander

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E Tuttle Co., reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, off-white cloth stamped in red and black, 871 pages with index, four fold-out maps, b&w illustrations. The 4th Tuttle printing, originally printed in 1924 in Boston. No dust jacket, small embossed stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Record # 383671

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Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontierby: Oberg, James E. and Alcestis R.

Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontier
by: Oberg, James E. and Alcestis R.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2nd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and the psychological hazards they face, from crewmate incompatibility to depression and homesickness for Earth. Photos.

Record # 470085

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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by: Eli N. Evans

The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South
by: Eli N. Evans

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 369 pages. Evans "tells of his grandparents' debate to leave Lithuania for America, the first few years in the Baltimore slums, and their decision to gamble on the South. He writes about the family store, and describes his boyhood in Durham, in the North Carolina tobacco belt, where his father was mayor from 1950 to 1962 during the stormiest years of the Civil Rights era. " Also a history of earlier German & Sephardic Jewish communities in the South & the role of Southern Jews in the Civil War & Reconstruction. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396639

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The End: Hamburg 1943by: Nossack, Hans Erich; Andres, Erich [Photographer]; Agee, Joel [Translator]

The End: Hamburg 1943
by: Nossack, Hans Erich; Andres, Erich [Photographer]; Agee, Joel [Translator]

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 87 pages. Foreword, black and white photographs, and colophon. A description of the Allied bombing campaign from the perspective of the German survivors.

Record # 372848

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E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776 to 1790 by: Forrest McDonald

E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776 to 1790
by: Forrest McDonald

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 326 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387784

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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957by: Boyle, Peter G (Editor)

The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957
by: Boyle, Peter G (Editor)

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office tells the dramatic story of a relationship that began with great promise but ended in division and estrangement. Many of the letters have only recently been declassified, making it possible for the first time to publish this unique historic collection in its entirety. Peter G. Boyle's introduction, annotations, and conclusion provide context for the letters--details about the personalities and careers of Eden and Eisenhower and major issues that influenced the Anglo-American relationship up to 1955, such as relations with the Soviet Union, nuclear concerns, colonialism, the Middle and Far East, economic issues, and intelligence matters. The letters themselves offer an intimate look into the special connection between Britain and the United States through the often eloquent words of their leaders. Clean copy.

Record # 378797

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I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)by: Thompson, Scott M.

I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
by: Thompson, Scott M.

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s. It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture. The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective. The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.

Record # 350303

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Down On The T Wharf:  The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisherby: German, Andrew W

Down On The T Wharf: The Boston Fisheries as Seen Through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisher
by: German, Andrew W

Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 117 photographs are grouped by chapter, depicting T Wharf and its successor the South Boston Fish Pier; schooner construction at Essex, Massachusetts; outfitting for voyages; departures and arrivals; discharging dish; the passing of the fishing schooner; the emerging steam trawler fleet; and the Italian boat fishermen. Published here for the first times, these photographs are now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum.

Record # 352317

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Chinese Ideas of Life and Deathby: Loewe, Michael

Chinese Ideas of Life and Death
by: Loewe, Michael

Hardcover. London ; Boston, Unwin Hyman, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's signature in front, faint foxing to top edge, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 453652

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Collector's Luck: A Thousand Years at Lewis Bay, Cape Codby: Betty Bugbee Cusack

Collector's Luck: A Thousand Years at Lewis Bay, Cape Cod
by: Betty Bugbee Cusack

Hardcover. Stonham MA, G.R. Barnstead, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 235 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. The history and folklore of the Cape Cod region. Many b&w illustrations, photos. Clean copy.

Record # 382309

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