History

France, Michelin & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Guide book to WW1 battlefield, illust. with black & white photos, maps (color two-page of Verdun). End-pages with ads. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Dust jacket in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boulder CO, self-published, reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red decoration, 544 pages.Comprehensive look at 240 mining camps across the state of Colorado, with black-and-white sketches made from photos & 18 maps drawn by the author. Unfortunately, while the book is in very good condition, it does have a noticeable MUSTY smell.

Hardcover. New York, New York Fire Department, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of individual pamphlets, bulletins, and illustrated instructions all bound between brown wooden boards with a metal binder. All dated 1958 and 1959. 442 pages total plus an index and supplemental directives in rear. Wear, light soil to covers, otherwise a sound, clean copy of this scarce volume of fire regulations.

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth with silver titles and gilt top stain. Previous owner's signature on title page, slight rubbing to boards and light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Burlington VT, self-published, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 7 3/4 X 10 3/4", 32 pages, stapled binding. Photo-essay of flood damages from mainly mid-state North of Rutland- Bellows Falls axis. Mostly urban areas, and very little rural. Floods of 1927 where state suffered $ 25 million in property damage. Paper tanning, soiled and spotted, otherwise solid.

Hardcover. Bristol VT, The Outlook Club of Bristol, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Green textured cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Through the shadowy persona of Deep Throat, FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his leaks helped uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook's portrayal in the film version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men, Felt was regarded for decades as a conscientious but highly secretive whistleblower who shunned the limelight. Yet even after he finally revealed his identity in 2005, questions about his true motivations persisted.Max Holland has found the missing piece of that Deep Throat puzzle--one that's been hidden in plain sight all along. He reveals for the first time in detail what truly motivated the FBI's number-two executive to become the most fabled secret source in American history. In the process, he directly challenges Felt's own explanations while also demolishing the legend fostered by Woodward and Bernstein's bestselling account. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, NYU Press , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued, 272 pages. Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done for veterans of both World War II and Korea. But the Vietnam generation soon discovered that their G.I. Bills fell well short of what many of them believed they had earned. Mark Boulton's groundbreaking study provides the first analysis of the legislative debates surrounding the education benefits offered under the Vietnam-era G.I. Bills. Specifically, the book explores why legislators from both ends of the political spectrum failed to provide Vietnam veterans the same generous compensation offered to veterans of previous wars. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages, b&w illustrations. Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together-even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart-but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.

Hardcover. Cambridge MD, Cornell Maritime Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photographs. The story of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's "Old Bay Line"that maintained faithful and uninterrupted service on the Chesapeake Bay from its founding in 1840 until operations suspended in 1962. The line line offered transportation of passengers and frieght between Norfolk and Baltimore. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 120 pages illustrated in color. Since the first report of cave art (at Altamira in 1879), attempts have been made to explain the purpose of the mysterious drawings. Art for art's sake; totemism; hunting, destructive, or fertility magic; and modern structuralist theories have all been proposed. Clottes and Lewis-Williams propose a new theory emphasizing the shamanic aspects of Paleolithic cave paintings. After an unavoidably technical chapter providing the basics of shamanism, the authors examine Paleolithic paintings from across France and Spain, noting the use of animal figures, composite figures combining both human and animal characteristics, and geometric designs that are all common elements of shamanism. The bulk of the book is both fascinating and thought-provoking, and while it is not likely to be the last word on the subject, it is an important contribution to the field. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, very clean and tight copy. With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history.

Hardcover. New York , George H. Doran, unknown, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 249 pages. Faint foxing to edges, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Amherst MA, White River Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the impact and consequences caused by the use of inflammatory racially-related language during a police investigation conducted by the Vermont State Police. Beginning in 1968 with the Irasburg Affair when a White man fired shotgun blasts into a home occupied by a Black family, the story describes in detail the course of the investigation. Adverse publicity about the Vermont State Police's work alleging racism within its ranks ensued resulting in its managers withdrawing from public view and refusing to work with the legislature in the next years causing significant internal problems.They finally came to the forefront in 1979 when a despondent trooper committed suicide at the state house in Montpelier in an event called the Router Bit Affair that led to significant reforms beginning in1980. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers, unknown, 1620, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rebound, black covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Soiling, ragged edges to front fly leaf and title page. Some foxing, staining to pages. Fore-edge soiled. This copy lacks year XXVII of Henry VIII. Else a nice, tight copy. Photos available.

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 359 pages including index. Burgundy cloth with embossed rules front and back, with faded gilt lettering on spine. Name on front fly leaf (dated 1866) and title page. A clean, tight copy. Carpenter's memoir of Lincoln's tenure was written out of great admiration for Lincoln and his political platforms, in particular the Emancipation Proclamation.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. From 1807 to 1851, two ordinary women, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake lived openly together as a married couple in Weybridge, Vermont. The story of these two women reveals that early America was both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society imagines. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket, 271 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 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. Facsimilie reprint of the 1866 edition.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 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.

Hardcover. NY/London, Verso, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interference, Algeria's tragedy has been reduced to a clash of stereotypes: Islamists vs.a secular state, terrorists vs. innocent civilians, or generals vs. a defenseless society. The prevalence of such simplistic representations has disabled public opinion inside as well as outside the country and contributed to the intractability of the conflict. This collection of essays offers a radical corrective to Western misconceptions. Rejecting essentialist and determinist approaches, Hugh Roberts explores the outlook and evolution of the various internal forces as they emerged--the Islamists, the Berberists, the factions within the army, and the regime in general--and he looks at external interests and actors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 171 pages. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY CO-EDITOR TAPER. Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination.

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

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

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

New York , Putnams, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece by Thomas Moran. Many B&W photos. 399 pages + ads. previous owner's bookplate front end paper.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, Ltd Ed, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in full black leather with gilt title and elaborate design. Moire end papers and silk ribbon. All edges gilt. SIGNED by White on a front end paper, with tissue guard. Frontispiece: great caricature of author by Sandy Huffaker. The life of an astounding reporter and writer, but also providing an inside view into the U.S. from his birth in 1915 to the publishing of the book in 1963.

Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages. Fascinating stories behind the naming of New Hampshire's towns and cities. Front fly leaf with 3/4" bottom corner gone, otherwise clean, tight copy. Review slip laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1248 pages, illustations. The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics--local, state, and federal--in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-twoyears that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written--a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion.In Michael Holt's hands, the history of the Whig Party becomes a political history of the United States during the tumultuous Antebellum period. He offers a panoramic account of a time when a welter of parties (Whig, Democratic, Anti-Mason, Know Nothing, Free Soil, Republican) and manyextraordinary political statesmen (including Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, William Seward, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay) struggled to control the national agenda as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, whenlocal concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events rocked the country, including the Nullification Controversy, the Panic of 1837, the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Holt captures all of this as he shows that, amid this contentiouspolitical activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, repeatedly trying to find a compromise position. Indeed, the Whig Party emerges as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession and civil war.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 329 pages, frontispiece, 31 b&w plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to corners. Front hinge weak. Light bump to top corner of cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Manchester, VT, Friends of Hildene, Inc., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Softcover. "Vermont and the North Shire in the Civil War". B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the back cover: "This is the story of the Equinox Guards, who joined to fight for the Union cause in the fall of 1861."

Hardcover. New York, Edita Lausanne/Universe Books, 1st U.S.A. Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover in cardboard slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Dust jacket price clipped, excellent otherwise, no rips or tears, glossy. Leather bound cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Thanks to slipcase in beautiful condition. A passport to our common heritage, which will illuminate and reveal the colorful pageantry of existence in medieval time. A book that links today with the past.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and groups from across the political spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W. E. B. Du Bois and Jane Addams to Randolph Bourne, William Borah, and Emily Balch, Nichols shows how reformers, thinkers, and politicians confronted the challenges of modern society--and then grappled with urgent pressures to balance domestic priorities and foreign commitments.

Softcover. Vermont, Privately Published, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 404 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 480 pages. In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing--if occasionally entertaining--poor white trash. "When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win," says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg.The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.

Softcover. Washington D. C., Eastern High School, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with heavy gray wrappers stamped in blue and black, 40 pages, stapled. Magazine format. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings, local ads. Cover chipped, interior clean, sound.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 354 pages, illustrated with 16 b&w plates. Ex-library copy with bookplate, usual markings. Rebound, hinges reinforced with tape.

Softcover. Crewe VA, E & H Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 465 pages, b&w illustrations. Captured, Not Conquered is a survey history of the American prisoner of war experience in the First World War. It encompasses U.S. forces as well as Americans in foreign service. It contains tables, charts and photographs from official records and documents over 100 escapes from Imperial German captivity. It documents German intelligence interrogation tactics, techniques and procedures, Allied intelligence activities, POW life and treatment and the evolution of POW intelligence. Includes bibliography, notes and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 464 pages, b&w illustrations. Johnson's exquisitely researched and beautifully written book starts with the premise that the Southern mines during the early years of the California Gold Rush (1948-1852) were "a grand field for human interaction and connectedness." They were a kind of experiment in human relations, and Johnson points the spot light on the dynamic and flexible quality of race, gender, and sexuality. She argues that the social world of the gold rush - the organization of domestic labor, the leisure pursuits, and gaming activities (both mining and gambling) - reflected a topsy-turvy world not at all comfortable with itself. Johnson tells a story whereby the gold rush, particularly the relationships that developed in the more diverse and less wealthy Southern mines, created a crisis of racial and gender representation that only sorted itself out with the collusion of Anglo miners and the authority of the state. Johnson notes that Anglo miners, "Conflated their daily lives with a project of national expansion and economic growth infused with notions of progress and 'manifest destiny.'" In this way, Johnson explains the messy and not uncontested work of colonization and racial dominance, and she does so with an eye to the function of gender and sexuality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Interstate M'f'g Company, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrated with many b&w engravings. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. First half of book covers the great cities and features many detailed illustrations of buildings and cityscapes. The second half covers the West with many personalities sketched in line cuts. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Solid copy. Cover gilt partially faded.

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Folded map laid in, index. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 692 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new. An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages, b&w illustrations. Using legends, myth, folklore, the history, politics and commonsense, the author shows that from the late Middle Ages until the time of the Salem trials, men used the threat of witchcraft as a way of keeping women from power and from reaping the rewards of their own labours. To examine the historical association of women and witchcraft is to see most clearly the social focus that through the centuries has condemned women to ignorance and dependency.

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Life on the run as an activist during Vietnam Protests of 1960s America. Clean, bright copy of the first printing.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 246 pages, b&w plates. Very good, clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. Small tears to the edges of several pages. Dust jacket w/rubbing, light edgewear. Else clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 179 pagees, with illustrations by Mudge-Marriatt. Minor corner and spine edge wear, otherwise, in very good condition. The "extraordinary seaman" was Captain Lord Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dondonald; the author of this book was an M.P., and contributor of the Parliamentary Report to the weekly New Statesman. "Captain Cochrane went to sea in the Royal Navy's greatest period. He became one of the finest sea fighters Britain has ever known. His scientific ingenuity and imaginative genius made him a pioneer of combat methods which were only fully developed nearly one hundred and fifty years later in the second world war."

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming spectre of Soviet-sponsored subversion in Britain's dwindling colonial possessions, the imperial intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but top secret role in passing power to newly independent national states across the globe. Walton reveals this `missing link' in Britain's post-war history. He sheds light on everything from violent counter-insurgencies fought by British forces in the jungles of Malaya and Kenya, to urban warfare campaigns conducted in Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula. Draws on (among other sources) records from the Foreign Office's secret archive at Hanslope Park, which contains some of the darkest and most shameful secrets from the last days of Britain's empire. 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 2nd pr., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's black cloth ruled in blind with faded gilt title on the spine. Top edge stained black. Stated second printing, October 1930 on the copyright page. Translated by Alice Riviere. Ownership signature in pencil by Gertrude Franchot Tone, women's rights activist with her pencil marking in text. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in dark blue. 230 pages, color frontis and 20 b&w drawings by Clifford Ashley. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, darkening to cover edges, otherwise clean, very good.