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Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty by: Stuart E. Jenness
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Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty
by: Stuart E. Jenness

Softcover. Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. This book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, led by the ethnologist/ explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders.' Illustrated with 64 photos and 20 maps. Clean copy.

Record # 385696

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The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essaysby: James Anthony Froude
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The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays
by: James Anthony Froude

Hardcover. Londo, Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 328 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. A collection of historical essays from English historian, James Anthony Froude. Titles include: The Spanish Story of the Armada, Antonio Perez: An Unsolved Historical Riddle, Saint Teresa, The Templars, The Norway Fjords, and Norway Once More. Written by James Anthony Froude, an English historian, biographer, novelist, and editor of Fraser's Magazine, a general and literary journal published from 1830 to 1882. Repair to cloth on spine which shows edgewear, fading. Owner's stamp om front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386009

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Procopius and the Sixth Centuryby: Cameron, Averil
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Procopius and the Sixth Century
by: Cameron, Averil

Hardcover. London, Duckworth, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, still dominates current scholarship. 297 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 386279

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The Papers of John C. Calhoun:A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Vol. XXVIII)by: John C. Calhoun
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The Papers of John C. Calhoun:A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Vol. XXVIII)
by: John C. Calhoun

Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth wth gilt lettering on spine, gilt silhouette of Calhoun on cover. 244 pages with index. The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Volume XXVIII is the final volume in a distinguished documentary edition, the first volume of which was published more than fifty years ago. While identical to others in the series in terms of typeface, binding, and letterpress printing, this volume does not contain any of John C. Calhoun's personal papers, rather it features Calhoun's only formal, scholarly writings on political science and political philosophy. A Disquisition on Government is an examination of the first principles of political science, much in the model of Aristotle's Politics or Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. It examines basic principles of politics, including concepts of sovereignty and personal liberty and the relationships between states and nations. A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States is a focused study of American political thought and constitutional history since the ratification of the Constitution. It pays particular attention to antifederalist views of the Constitution, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of the 1790s, and the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Clean copy.

Record # 386466

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Time Stood Still: My Internment in England: 1914-1918by: Paul Cohen-Portheim
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Time Stood Still: My Internment in England: 1914-1918
by: Paul Cohen-Portheim

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red, 235 pages. A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman's camp' near Wakefield, as Cohen-Portheim shows with grace, humor, and deep compassion, even under the best conditions, the simple act of being confined and placed in a sort of limbo is a form of torture: 'Where there is no aim, no object, no sense, there is no time.' Time Stood Still is a passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects. Paul Cohen-Portheim (1880-1932) was an Austrian artist, travel writer and linquist. When WWI broke out, he was painting in Devonshire, England and found himself interned for the length of the war. Flap copy pasted to front fly leaf, stamp to endpapers (Harvard Club of Boston), some light notations as well to endpapers.

Record # 386580

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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Centuryby: Linebaugh, Peter
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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
by: Linebaugh, Peter

Softcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st pbk, 1993, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 484 pages, b&w illustrations. "In eighteenth-century London the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. Most of the London hanged were executed for property crimes, and the chief lesson that the gallows had to teach was: 'Respect private property'. The executions took place amid a London populace that knew the same poverty and hunger as the condemned. Indeed, in this stimulating account Peter Linebaugh shows how there was little distinction between a 'criminal' population and the poor population of London as a whole. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the laws of a privileged ruling class." Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386651

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Revised History of Harlem (City Of New York): Its Origin And Early Annals - Volume 2by: Riker, James
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Revised History of Harlem (City Of New York): Its Origin And Early Annals - Volume 2
by: Riker, James

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pages 426-908 . A facsimile reprint of the 1904 edition. Volume 2 ONLY. The present-day New York City neighborhood of Harlem was founded in the mid-17th century by Dutch Protestants, whose numbers included Huguenots (or their descendants) who had fled the counter-Reformation in France and the Walloon provinces of Artois, Cambresis, and Hainalt. Riker's Harlem is an extremely detailed historical and genealogical account of Harlem from its establishment by Kuyter and Stuyvesant between 1656 and 1660 to the end of the 17th century. Following several preliminary chapters on the Dutch and French context for the settlement of "New Haerlem," the author treats us to what seem like minute-by-minute accounts of its colonial development, including early efforts to settle the territory that became Harlem, the original land patents and their subsequent rearrangement, Indian wars, displacement of Dutch rule by the British in 1663 (and the brief reoccupation by Dutch forces in 1673), 17th-century village life, migrations to New Jersey, influx of Swedes, difficulties in assimilating English ways, and much, much more.

Record # 386888

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Lost Black Sheep: The Search for WWII Ace Chris Magee by: Reed, Robert T.
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Lost Black Sheep: The Search for WWII Ace Chris Magee
by: Reed, Robert T.

Hardcover. Central Point OR, Hellgate Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages, b&w illustrations. Lost Black Sheep tells two amazing stories. The first chronicles the wartime exploits of Marine Corps Ace Chris Magee, former member of the famous Black Sheep Squadron, his improbable postwar odyssey, and the surprising developments of his later years. The second describes the author's personal quest to find a man who seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth and the startling revelations that follow when he finds him. Clean copy.

Record # 387257

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Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen by: Tucker, Sherrie

Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
by: Tucker, Sherrie

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages. Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window to give her welcome speech, the storied dance floor where movie stars danced with soldiers has been the subject of much U.S. nostalgia about the 'Greatest Generation.' Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the wartime nightclub, Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees' varied experiences and recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub's dance floor and in Los Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the 'Good War' in popular culture narratives. Clean copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 387408

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The Killing of Crazy Horse by: Thomas Powers

The Killing of Crazy Horse
by: Thomas Powers

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a crime. A rich cast of characters, whites and Indians alike, passes through this story, including Red Cloud, the chief who dominated Oglala history for fifty years but saw in Crazy Horse a dangerous rival; No Water and Woman Dress, both of whom hated Crazy Horse and schemed against him; the young interpreter Billy Garnett, son of a fifteen-year-old Oglala woman and a Confederate general killed at Gettysburg; General George Crook, who bitterly resented newspaper reports that he had been whipped by Crazy Horse in battle; Little Big Man, who betrayed Crazy Horse; Lieutenant William Philo Clark, the smart West Point graduate who thought he could "work" Indians to do the Army's bidding; and Fast Thunder, who called Crazy Horse cousin, held him the moment he was stabbed, and then told his grandson thirty years later, "They tricked me! They tricked me!" With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Thomas Powers recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horse's life not to lay blame but to establish what happened.

Record # 387603

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Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years by: Willard B. Gatewood Jr.
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years
by: Willard B. Gatewood Jr.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 294 pages. Essays that examine seven disputes which Roosevelt created, fell into or searched out during his White House years. Clean copy.

Record # 387761

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An Additional Number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican by: Lee, Richard Henry
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An Additional Number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican
by: Lee, Richard Henry

Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books., reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181+19 pages. Originally published in 1788. Dust jacket lightly toned. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387783

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Ideological Origins of the American Revolutionby: Bernard Bailyn
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Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by: Bernard Bailyn

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 335 pages. Awarded both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes, Bailyn's work is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution published during the 20th century and was hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild discoloration to dj spine.

Record # 387810

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Wedemeyer Reports! by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.
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Wedemeyer Reports!
by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. 497 pages with index. An objective, dispassionate examination of World War II, postwar policies, and Grand Strategy. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897 - 1989) was a United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he was an important member of the War Planning Board which formulated plans for the Invasion of Normandy. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 387898

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The Politicos 1865-1896 A History of the Parties and the Great Party leaders Who Dominated American Politics During the Turbulent Years of the Robber Barons by: Josep
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The Politicos 1865-1896 A History of the Parties and the Great Party leaders Who Dominated American Politics During the Turbulent Years of the Robber Barons
by: Josep

Softcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 760 pages. This is a frank and insightful analysis of the political and economic influences in the United States during the Reconstruction Era, covering the years immediately after the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln, and ending shortly before the Spanish-American War. Originally published in 1938. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396285

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A Straight Deal; Or the Ancient Grudge by: Wister, Owen
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A Straight Deal; Or the Ancient Grudge
by: Wister, Owen

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Early reprint. Red cloth with title plate on spine and front board, 287 pages. A look at America's international political scene as of 1920, and the second in a series of three books, begun with the Pentecost of Calamity, and ending with Neighbors Henceforth. Clean copy.

Record # 396397

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The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West by: Rauschning, Hermann
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The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West
by: Rauschning, Hermann

Hardcover. NY, Alliance Book Corporation, 14th pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light putty cloth with red lettering on spine, 300 pages. Anti-Nazi book written by ex-Nazi. Translated from German by E.W. Dickes. Front fly leaf with top inch cut out, other wise clean, tight copy.

Record # 396476

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

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

Record # 396506

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

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

Record # 396617

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Addresses Upon The American Road 1933-1938 by: Herbert Hoover
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Addresses Upon The American Road 1933-1938
by: Herbert Hoover

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 390 pages. With 30-page booklet outlining speeches laid-in, containing a number of press blurbs supporting Hoover's ideas. Scribner's colophon on copyeight page but no A, so assumed 2nd printing. Clean copy.

Record # 396899

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Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia by: McColley, Robert

Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
by: McColley, Robert

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.

Record # 397182

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Genealogies of New Jersey Families From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (TWO VOLUMES)by: Joseph R. Klett (Ed.)
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Genealogies of New Jersey Families From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (TWO VOLUMES)
by: Joseph R. Klett (Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, matching black cloth covers with gilt stamping. Vol. 1, 1139 pages, Families A-Z, Pre-American Notes on Old New Netherland Families. Vol. II, 1087 pages, A Genealogical History of New Jersey/Bible Records of New Jersey. Clean, bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397379

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History of the Town of Carlisle, Massachusets, 1754-1920 With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Personsby: Bull, Sidney A.
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History of the Town of Carlisle, Massachusets, 1754-1920 With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons
by: Bull, Sidney A.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Murray Printing Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Illustrated with b&w photos, map illustration. Name on front fly, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397462

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Black Bondage in the Northby: McManus, Edgar J.

Black Bondage in the North
by: McManus, Edgar J.

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 236 pages. This foremost history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. Unlike the South, which used slaves primarily for agricultural labor, the North trained and diversified its slave force to meet the needs of a complicated economy. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397481

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

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

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

Record # 397506

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The 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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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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The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America by: Scott F Wolter

The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America
by: Scott F Wolter

Softcover. St. Cloud MN, North Star Press Of St. Cloud, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. The Hooked X is a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine documents indicative of secret trips to North America long before Columbus. The trail of evidence led to a deep plunge into the shadowy areas of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar that most brethren of these orders are unaware of. This incredible true story reveals untold secrets of North America that weave from medieval times through today, forever changing history as we know it. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397905

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The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographiesby: Ilaria Serra

The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies
by: Ilaria Serra

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. The writer Giuseppe Prezzolini said that Italian immigrants left behind tears and sweat but not "words," making their lives in America mostly in silence, their memories private and stories untold. In this innovative portrait of the Italian-American experience, these lives are no longer hidden. Ilaria Serra offers the first comprehensive study of a largely ignored legacy-the autobiographies written by immigrants. Here she looks closely at fifty-eight representative works written during the high tide of Italian migration. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, Serra recovers the voices of the first generation-bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses-compelled to tell their stories. Mostly unpublished, often thickly accented, these tales of ordinary men and women are explored in nuanced detail, organized to reflect how they illuminate the realities of work, survival, identity, and change.

Record # 398031

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The Pitot House: A Landmark on Bayou St. Johnby: Wade, James & Robert Brantley & Jan Brantley & Eugene Cizek
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The Pitot House: A Landmark on Bayou St. John
by: Wade, James & Robert Brantley & Jan Brantley & Eugene Cizek

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, color illustrations. A study of early Creole architecture and history in New Orleans. Clean, like new.

Record # 398256

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History of the United States: 1850-1877 (Two Volumes)by: Rhodes, James Ford

History of the United States: 1850-1877 (Two Volumes)
by: Rhodes, James Ford

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprints, 1913/1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spines, top edge gilt. Vol. 1: 1850-1854, 506 pages, title page dated 1913. Vol. 2: 1854-1860, 541 pages, title page dated 1914. NOTE: These are the first two volumes of what became an 8-volume set. Name on front fly leaf in both copies, otherwise lean bright copies.

Record # 398438

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The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermontby: N/A

The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermont
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission of Vermont, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible beige cloth covers, 167 pages plus pages of Press Comments. B&w illustrations. Museum bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 398711

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Fort Maurepas: The Birth of Louisiana 1699-1702 (SIGNED COPY)by: Jay Higginbotham

Fort Maurepas: The Birth of Louisiana 1699-1702 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jay Higginbotham

Hardcover. Mobile AL, Colonial Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 93 pages plus bibliography and index. Gilt lettering on the spine. SIGNED BY HIGGINBOTHAM on the half-title page. A clean, bright copy.

Record # 399109

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King Philip's War : The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflictby: Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias
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King Philip's War : The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
by: Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Countryman Press, 4th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Now largely forgotten, the massacres of 1675 to 1676, known as King Philip's War, ended the harmonious relations that had existed between native Americans and the colonists since their arrival at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Tensions had been rising as the number of settlers grew, and the pillaging of an outlying farm by affronted young braves escalated into open hostilities. Pitched battles were fought from Rhode Island to Maine. Hundreds of English died as farmers fled and cowered behind stockades or in the few port towns. Thousands of natives were slaughtered and the rest dispersed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. The savagery resulted in the clearing of the native populations from southern New England and the unopposed expansion of the New England colonies. It also became the brutal model on which the United States came to deal with its native peoples. King Philip's War tells the story with such close attention to detail that each ambush, each burned-out farm, becomes a vivid image. The authors make abundant use of maps and photographs of old sites to enable the reader to follow the course of the war: the book forms an exhaustive guide for the armchair historian or anyone wishing to visit the monuments and battlefields today. Clean copy.

Record # 399367

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History Of Grafton, Vermont 1754-1985 And Sidelights On Grafton History by: Pettengill, Helen M.

History Of Grafton, Vermont 1754-1985 And Sidelights On Grafton History
by: Pettengill, Helen M.

Softcover. Grafton VT, Grafton Historical Society, 3rd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages, b&w illustrations. Related ephemera, postcards laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 399649

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The Life of a Vermont Farmer and Lumberman: The Diaries of Henry A. Thompson of Grafton and Saxtons River by: Stuart F. Heinritz (Ed.)

The Life of a Vermont Farmer and Lumberman: The Diaries of Henry A. Thompson of Grafton and Saxtons River
by: Stuart F. Heinritz (Ed.)

Softcover. self-published, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green stapled wrappers. 52 pages. Originally published in 1974 by the Vermont Historical Society. Thompson began his diary as a lad of 17 and continued to be a diary-keeper for 69 years. His jottings provide a telling portrait of himself and the world he lived in. Clean copy.

Record # 399715

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Life of Black Hawk: Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiakby: Black Hawk [Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak]; edited by Milo Milton Quaife from Antoine LeClair's interpretation

Life of Black Hawk: Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak
by: Black Hawk [Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak]; edited by Milo Milton Quaife from Antoine LeClair's interpretation

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk from a portrait painted by Robert M. Sully at Fort Monroe in 1833. This book was originally published in 1833 (dictated by Chief Black Hawk to his translator, Antoine Leclair) and was an immediate best seller. A no holds barred and unflinching narrative of the great Sauk leader. It includes an account of the cause and general history of the Black Hawk War. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 399885

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Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean by: Fawaz, Leila Tarazi & Bayly, C. A.

Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
by: Fawaz, Leila Tarazi & Bayly, C. A.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 410 pages. Collection of essays on the impact of global modernity in the region. Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way to colonial and national states, there was a sense that a particular liberalism of culture and economy had been irretrievably lost to a more intolerant age. The book provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. The book examines not only the "high" culture of scholars and the literati, but also popular music, the visual arts, and journalism. Clean.

Record # 399993

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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer Warby: Deneys Reitz

Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
by: Deneys Reitz

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 331 pages. This is an eyewitness account of the The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. In 1899 Reitz then 17 years old, enlisted in the Boer army to fight the British. After the Boer loss of Pretoria General Jan Smuts, who wrote the forward, decided to conduct guerrilla operations. The book is about Reitz's experiences in the guerrilla war. After the Boers lost the war, Reitz fought with the British in a South African unit in WWI. He later studied law and became a politician and ultimately the South African Deputy Prime Minister. Originally published in Britain in 1929. Clean copy.

Record # 400830

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Memorial of the American Patriots Who Fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, A by: City of Boston
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Memorial of the American Patriots Who Fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, A
by: City of Boston

Hardcover. Boston, City of Boston, 1st, 1889, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages, b&w plates and illustrations. Brown end papers. Brown cloth coverings w/ gilt seal and lettering on spine. Wear and rubbing to covers, corners. Binding weak, several pages loose. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401798

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Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams (2 Volumes)by: Adams, Abigail and Charles Francis Ad

Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams (2 Volumes)
by: Adams, Abigail and Charles Francis Ad

Hardcover. Boston, Charles Little and James Brown, 2nd Ed., 1840, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes (199 and 278 pages) bound in brown polished calf with raised bands and gilt design on spine, covers with gilt rules. Minor wear to spine edges. Vol. 1 with engraved portrait frontispiece, Vol. 2 with facsimile of Abigail's handwriting. Library bookplate on first blank page (verso of front fly leaf). Some foxing to preliminary pages, otherwise a clean, bright set.

Record # 404101

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Dedication of the Monument to Ann Storyby: (Ann Story)
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Dedication of the Monument to Ann Story
by: (Ann Story)

Softcover. Salisbury VT, Vermont Society of Colonial Dames, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, bound in green card wrappers with gilt lettering, b&w plates. Inscribed by a member of the Vermont Society of Dames, Sarah Clement on the front fly leaf.

Record # 405812

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Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in themby: Leader, Scott
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Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in them
by: Leader, Scott

Hardcover. Florence, Flor & Findel, 3rd, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Tipped in illustrations and photographs. Age discoloration to pages, beveled brown leather over covers with three bands on spine continued on front and back cover ending in flor de lis decoration. Rubbing all edges. front and rear hinge cracked.

Record # 408290

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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1869by: Shannon, Joseph
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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1869
by: Shannon, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Joseph Shannon, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 896 pages, rebound in green cloth with original leather cover affixed to front with a special presentation in gilt to Dr. C. Brailey/ compliments of Matthew T. Brennan (former NY State Assembly member who became city Police Commissioner in 1868). This 1869 edition the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York" was one of the two manuals published by the New York City Common Council to be issued by Joseph Shannon, clerk of the council in 1868 and 1869. The "Manuals of the Corporation" were directories of extensive historical and contemporary records of New York first compiled by D.T. Valentine. These books include detailed information on the meetings of the Aldermen Council, ordinances passed, public officials, the city"s debts, directories of hospitals, alms houses and schools, ferry schedules, lists of public porters, demographics and census information, and descriptions of historic buildings and streets. Folding maps are present. There is a folding color map frontispiece of the plan of the city of New York 1869, also there are color folding illustrations of the city of Harlem, Central Park, the Battery and Merchants Exchange and other fold out plates. The Harlem plate is damaged by paper sticking to the folding plate, resulting in some loss to image. All edges gilt, light foxing, the cover pastedown with light rubbing, Overall clean.

Record # 412041

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Bombing of Germany, Theby: Rumpf, Hans, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
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Bombing of Germany, The
by: Rumpf, Hans, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, shows a little age wear, but in good condition. Covers bound in black, excellent. Pages unmarked and clean. Top edge dyed. In very good condition.

Record # 31010

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Roman Trier and the Treveriby: Wightman, Edith  Mary
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Roman Trier and the Treveri
by: Wightman, Edith Mary

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. 49 plates & illustrations + 8 maps. The story of the Treveri, a Gaulish tribe encountered in the pages of Julius Caesar (to whom they caused considerable trouble), tracing from historical and archaeological sources the many changes caused by the process of Romanization. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 415166

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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building: A Major Investigation of the Historical Link Between American Racism and Expansionism (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by:
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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building: A Major Investigation of the Historical Link Between American Racism and Expansionism (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building: A Major Investigation of the Historical Link Between American Racism and Expansionism (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by:

Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building: A Major Investigation of the Historical Link Between American Racism and Expansionism (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by:

Softcover. New York, New American Library, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 571 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has some slight tanning, very good. Pages clean and unmarked. In very good shape.

Record # 32853

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Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey From Burlington Bay to the Hudson River (SIGNED COPY)by: Cohn, Arthur B.
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Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey From Burlington Bay to the Hudson River (SIGNED COPY)
by: Cohn, Arthur B.

Hardcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED by author Arthur B. Cohn on title page. Dust jacket worn, with light sunning and tearing. Related article laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 454067

Price: $35.00 
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Later Stuarts, The: 1660-1714by: Clark, Sir George
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Later Stuarts, The: 1660-1714
by: Clark, Sir George

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages plus maps and fold-out family tree/timeline. Hardcover. Paste down presentation label on front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). A touch of tanning to pages. In very good condition.

Record # 99028

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Edo Period, The: Early Modern and Modern Japanese Historyby: Masahide, Bito

Edo Period, The: Early Modern and Modern Japanese History
by: Masahide, Bito

Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, Toho Gakkai, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 262 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456721

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