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Monument to Major-General Arthur St. Clairby: N/A

Monument to Major-General Arthur St. Clair
by: N/A

Softcover. Greensburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, octavo, 25 pages, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild general shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Includes a b/w sketch by John Trumbull.

Record # 353628

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Congressional Globe, The: 36th Congress 2nd Session, Dec. 3, to Feb. 18, 1860-1861by: Rives, John C.

Congressional Globe, The: 36th Congress 2nd Session, Dec. 3, to Feb. 18, 1860-1861
by: Rives, John C.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Congressional Globe Office, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 992 pages, hardcover. Half leather over marbled boards. A bound copy of 55 issues of The Congressional Globe from the weeks and months leading up to the Civil War. Extensively indexed. Edgewear to boards, mostly along top edge. Bumping to corners. Water staining to front and rear panels, lower fore edge. Staining to interior copy is minimal; damage ends at half title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951391

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Antiquarian Researches Comprising A History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts Adjacent and Other Interesting Events.by: Hoyt, E.

Antiquarian Researches Comprising A History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts Adjacent and Other Interesting Events.
by: Hoyt, E.

Hardcover. Greenfield, MA, Ansel Phelps, 1st, 1824, Book: Fair, 312 pages. Hardcover with detached front cover to title page. All pages present. Moderate foxing to internal pages, light soil. Good candidate for rebinding.

Record # 354193

Price: $250.00 
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Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The Cock-Lane Ghost - The Rochester - The Stratford Mysteries - Oracles - Astrology - Dreams - Demons - Ghosts - Specters, etc.

Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The Cock-Lane Ghost - The Rochester - The Stratford Mysteries - Oracles - Astrology - Dreams - Demons - Ghosts - Specters, etc.
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Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original embossed brown cloth, 274 pages, plus 14 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Several pages have tears to edges, limited to margins and not affecting text. Mild foxing. some residue to front and rear pastEdowns. Overall very good.

Record # 353636

Price: $300.00 
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Stalingrad: City on Fireby: Isaev, Alexey

Stalingrad: City on Fire
by: Isaev, Alexey

Hardcover. Yorkshire UK, Pen and Sword Military, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. So much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad - the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War - that we should know everything about it. But the history of the war, and the battle, is evolving and is being written anew, and Alexey Isaev's engrossing account is a striking example of this fresh approach. B&w photos, color maps. Clean copy.

Record # 378850

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Admirals of the Caribbeanby: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Admirals of the Caribbean
by: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852453

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Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazonby: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazon
by: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution/Bureau of American Ethnology, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 664 pages plus 112 b&w plates in rear. Extensive folding maps, plates. text illustrations. The mounds of Marajo & other sites. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 167. Clean copy.

Record # 381656

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League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Millikenby: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Milliken
by: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

Softcover. Philadelphia, William S. & Alfred Martien, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, blue wrappers. Two black lines on front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 359793

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Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty: August, 1776 - September, 1780, Volume Iby: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty: August, 1776 - September, 1780, Volume I
by: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1814, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Minor cover soiling, corner and edge wear. Minor stains along binding on front and back end paper. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding. Gilt top edge.

Record # 852434

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This Was My Newport (SIGNED COPY)by: Elliott, Maud Howe

This Was My Newport (SIGNED COPY)
by: Elliott, Maud Howe

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Mythology Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark maroon cloth covers stamped in black, 279 pages. B&w plates, a little damp-staining limited to title page and frontispiece. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. A history of the ritzy Newport area in it's heyday. Not a common title.

Record # 378489

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At War With War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacksby: Chwast, Seymour

At War With War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks
by: Chwast, Seymour

Softcover. New York, Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 353516

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Hinesburg, Vermont from 1762by: Leonard E. Carpenter

Hinesburg, Vermont from 1762
by: Leonard E. Carpenter

Softcover. Hinesburg VT, privately prined, 3rd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 36 pages. b&w illustrations. Maps on inside covers. First published in 1961, a hard-to find local town history. Clean and bright.

Record # 379126

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John Goffe's Legacyby: Woodbury, George

John Goffe's Legacy
by: Woodbury, George

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket that has a few tape repairs. B&w drawings by Arthur Conrad. Sequel to "John Goffe's Mill". This volume speaks of the "human history" changes to the mill site over the 200 years and 8 generations of his family who owned the property. Since the mid-18th century, author George Woodbury's family had owned a Bedford NH mill. His childhood home, he returned there to restore his great, great, great, great grandfather's saw and grist mill. He had set aside his Harvard Peabody Museum archaeologist career to restore, rebuild and work the mill. "What he couldn't swap or buy he invented and built himself".

Record # 378511

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New England's Victory at Louisburg in 1745 by: Rev. Samuel Niles

New England's Victory at Louisburg in 1745
by: Rev. Samuel Niles

Softcover. East Greenwich RI, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red card stock with black lettering on the front cover. Book is clean, tight and bright. With Introductory Notes and a Biographical Index By Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, Editor and Historian of the Society. 70 pages with 36 pages reproduced in facsimile. Clean.

Record # 382427

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Christian Identity: Jews & Israel in Seventeenth-Century Englandby: Guibbory, Achsah

Christian Identity: Jews & Israel in Seventeenth-Century England
by: Guibbory, Achsah

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked, bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, glossy. Assesses the comexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English Revolution, and into the Restoration, which the English Church and monarchy were restored.

Record # 99062

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LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS The Story of the Veto Battle 1832-1911by: Harry Jones

LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS The Story of the Veto Battle 1832-1911
by: Harry Jones

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles, 351 pages. Preliminary pages with foxing, stamp on title page otherwise good plus. Complete with 27 pages of publisher's ads in rear.

Record # 374148

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Story of a Common Soldier, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Stillwell, Leander

Story of a Common Soldier, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Stillwell, Leander

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 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. Leander Stillwell (1843-1934) was an American lawyer, judge and a pioneer attorney who co-created the first bar of Erie. From 1861 to 1865 he was with the Union army joining as a private of Company D, Sixty-first Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers. He was appointed Corporal, then Sergeant and later First Sergeant in 1863, and re-enlisted in 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and several minor engagements. His experiences were published as The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1917/20). In 1876 he was elected a member of the lower house of the Kansas Legislature. He was a republican and held various township offices, both in Illinois and Kansas, and was quite active in civic affairs. In 1883 he was elected judge of the Seventh Judicial District. He was re-elected judge of the same district in 1887, 1891, 1895 and 1899, and resigned in 1907.

Record # 372358

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Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Taylor, Richard

Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Taylor, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 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. This memoir by Confederate General Richard Taylor is usually considered one of the best and least biased by a general officer. The work is full of considered analysis on both the strategy of the war and the personalities of his fellow officers. Taylor is always fair in his criticism and seems to have no real scores to settle. While he makes little mention of his own talents, his tactical brilliance and strategic insight does shine through. Many contemporaries said Richard Taylor was one of the best soldiers of the war, but he is comparatively little known due to his posting to peripheral theaters. While he was a man of his time, the work (with the exception of some of his Reconstruction writings) is much less tainted by Lost Cause polemics than most Confederate memoirs.

Record # 372374

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Citadel to City-State: The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 BCEby: Thomas, Carol G.; Conant, Craig;

Citadel to City-State: The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 BCE
by: Thomas, Carol G.; Conant, Craig;

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 199 pages, scattered maps & drawings & figures. The authors selected five reasonably well excavated settlements in southern and central Greece to stand as the exemplars for the contemporary situation and the ongoing transformations of Greek society between 1200 and 700 B.C. (?) Thus, for the late-thirteenth to twelfth centuries there is Mycenae; Nichoria for the eleventh; Athens for the tenth; Lefkandi for the ninth; Corinth for the eight; and Ascra for the early seventh. Each settlement?s particular situation provides them with an opportunity to expand on how this is similar or not to the situations of other, contemporary settlements as well as to the larger picture and trends of cultural transformation. Clean copy.

Record # 378947

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Sketches of the Town of Topsham Orange County Vermontby: Craig, Frank H.

Sketches of the Town of Topsham Orange County Vermont
by: Craig, Frank H.

Hardcover. Bradford VT, privately printed/Green Mountain Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages, Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations, brown board covers with label on front panel. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 407036

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English Whiggism and the American Revolution by: G. H. Guttridge

English Whiggism and the American Revolution
by: G. H. Guttridge

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages. Deals with the parliamentary group in England which claimed the Whig tradition during the American Revolution. The Americans asserted rights that were essentially Whig, but at the same time repudiated the authority of parliament, the stronghold of Whig tradition. Fading to spine, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397491

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Fort Huachuca by: Price, Ethel Jackson

Fort Huachuca
by: Price, Ethel Jackson

Softcover. Charleston, SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w photos throughout. At the foot of the Huachuca Mountains, the U.S. Army founded one of the most crucial military posts for American expansion into the southwest frontier. Soldiers had been stationed in the region for decades, but in 1877 Fort Huachuca became the symbolic cornerstone of America's western domain. The Native American word huachuca, meaning "place of thunder," described the sporadic but marvelous electrical storms in the area, but the skies would not be the only thing booming. During the tumultuous campaigns to resolve American and Indian disputes, the U.S. infantry and famed Buffalo Soldiers faced off with Geronimo and his Apache nation in both tense negotiations and bitter combat. As time marched on, the fort developed into a permanent installation with barracks, modern training grounds, and other facilities to accommodate troop rotations and eventually became the innovative Center for Military Intelligence. Clean copy.

Record # 381576

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Pentagon Propaganda Machineby: Fulbright, Senator J.W.

Pentagon Propaganda Machine
by: Fulbright, Senator J.W.

Hardcover. New York, Liveright, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp. Clean copy.

Record # 51081

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History of Pittsfield, MA (2 vols)by: Smith, J.

History of Pittsfield, MA (2 vols)
by: Smith, J.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, G.W. Bryan, 1st, 1869/1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol #1 1734-1800: spine frayed, corners worn G+/ Vol 2: 1800-1876 VG w/fold-out map, hinges cracked, tear to top of spine, chipping to top & bottom, internally VG, original black cloth covers.

Record # 803

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Gods of Greece, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Stassinopoulos, Arianna; Beny, Roloff

Gods of Greece, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stassinopoulos, Arianna; Beny, Roloff

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354013

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New Hampshire Town Names and Whence They Came by: Elmer Munson Hunt

New Hampshire Town Names and Whence They Came
by: Elmer Munson Hunt

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.

Record # 381400

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The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by: Michael F. Holt

The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
by: Michael F. Holt

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-two years 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 many extraordinary 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, when local 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 contentious political 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.

Record # 381232

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Romance of Labrador, Theby: Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

Romance of Labrador, The
by: Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

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.

Record # 372814

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No Braver Deeds: The Story of the Equinox Guardsby: Knight, Brian L.

No Braver Deeds: The Story of the Equinox Guards
by: Knight, Brian L.

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."

Record # 30398

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Life in the Middle Agesby: Delort, Robert, Robert Allen (Translation)

Life in the Middle Ages
by: Delort, Robert, Robert Allen (Translation)

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.

Record # 32415

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Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Ageby: Nichols, Christopher McKnight

Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
by: Nichols, Christopher McKnight

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.

Record # 378782

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Middletown Springs, Vermont: A Gem in the Hillsby: Krouse, Frances B.

Middletown Springs, Vermont: A Gem in the Hills
by: Krouse, Frances B.

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.

Record # 854345

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in Americaby: Isenberg, Nancy

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by: Isenberg, Nancy

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.

Record # 372318

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THE EASTERNER (EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D.C.) Volume XVIII Number 3, February 1915by: Eastern High School

THE EASTERNER (EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D.C.) Volume XVIII Number 3, February 1915
by: Eastern High School

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.

Record # 382065

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Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairsby: Allen, Gardner W.

Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs
by: Allen, Gardner W.

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.

Record # 403689

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Captured Not Conquered: The American POW Experience in the First World Warby: Colonel Greg Eanes

Captured Not Conquered: The American POW Experience in the First World War
by: Colonel Greg Eanes

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.

Record # 382507

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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rushby: Johnson, Susan Lee

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
by: Johnson, Susan Lee

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.

Record # 382143

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Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, Theby: Lossing, Benson J.

Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, The
by: Lossing, Benson J.

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.

Record # 602505

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Correspondence of Robert Boyle, The (Six volumes, complete set)by: Hunter, Michael (Editor), Antonio Clericuzio (Editor), Lawrence M. Principe (Editor)

Correspondence of Robert Boyle, The (Six volumes, complete set)
by: Hunter, Michael (Editor), Antonio Clericuzio (Editor), Lawrence M. Principe (Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volumes, Hardcovers. 1636-1691. Volume 1: 521 pages. Two bumps to front cover board edge. Volume 2: 674 pages. front cover board top right corner bump. Volume 3: 445 pages. Volume 4: 528 pages. Volume 5: 474 pages. Volume 6: 616 pages. Some b/w illustrations. Blue cover boards, gilt title on black with decoration on spines. Previous owner's name and information on flyleaf of volumes 1, 2, and 6. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spines straight. Beautiful set right out of a professor's library. Domestic Shipping Only.

Record # 99057

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The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Homeby: Mitchell, Reid

The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
by: Mitchell, Reid

Hardcover. New York, Oxford, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 201 pages. Beautiful copy in clear brodart cover. Like new.

Record # 450476

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County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350, Theby: Palmer, Robert C.

County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350, The
by: Palmer, Robert C.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, sun-fading. Clean, tight copy. The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. THe county courts have been considered courts of custom dominated by local knights unskilled in the law. By analyzing county peronnel and their role of the courts, Robert C. Palmer shows that these courts were, on the contrary, clearly professional and controlled by the magnates through their lawyers. Nevertheless, as the author demonstrates by his study of the process of jurisdictional change, the county courts were increasingly relegated to lesser roles by changes meant to assure justice to county litigants, while the king's court became the normal court of original jurisdiction for most important cases.

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The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Voyages and Explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857- 1882 by: Charnay Desire; J. Gonino and Helen Conant (trans

The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Voyages and Explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857- 1882
by: Charnay Desire; J. Gonino and Helen Conant (trans

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blue cloth with embossed decorative vignette and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of author with tissue guard. Folding map indicating the Toltec Migrations, with four routes marked in blue, green, red and yellow by hand. Charnay, a French traveler and archaeologist, is known for pioneering photography to document his discoveries. Profusely illustrated with some 150 engravings, many of them full page, documenting the findings and views encountered on Charnay's journey, including maps and plans. Like many 1887 printings, lacks last plate of a mask found at Mitla on page 512. Sliver of blue cloth gone from top of spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Corner wear to covers, rear fly leaf missing.

Record # 371145

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Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Governmentby: Urbinati, Nadia

Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government
by: Urbinati, Nadia

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 293 pages. Despite John Stuart Mill's widely respected contributions to philosophy and political economy, his work on political philosophy has received a much more mixed response. Some critics have even charged that Mill's liberalism was part of a political project to restrain, rather than foster, democracy. Redirecting attention to Mill as a political thinker, Nadia Urbinati argues that this claim misrepresents Mill's thinking. Although he did not elaborate a theory of democracy, Mill did devise new avenues of democratic participation in government that could absorb the transformation of politics engendered by the institution of representation. More generally, Urbinati assesses Mill's contribution to modern democratic theory by critiquing the dominant "two liberties" narrative that has shaped Mill scholarship over the last several decades. As Urbinati shows, neither Isaiah Berlin's theory of negative and positive freedom nor Quentin Skinner's theory of liberty as freedom from domination adequately captures Mill's notion of political theory. Drawing on Mill's often overlooked writings on ancient Greece, Urbinati shows that Mill saw the ideal representative government as a "polis of the moderns," a metamorphosis of the unique features of the Athenian polis: the deliberative character of its institutions and politics; the Socratic ethos; and the cooperative implications of political agonism and dissent. The ancient Greeks, Urbinati shows, and Athenians in particular, are the key to understanding Mill's contribution to modern democratic theory and the theory of political liberty.

Record # 371323

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Gentlemen on the Prairie (SIGNED COPY)by: Harnack, Curtis

Gentlemen on the Prairie (SIGNED COPY)
by: Harnack, Curtis

Hardcover. Ames IA, Iowa State University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. A very clean hardcover edition in dust jacket and INSCRIBED BY HARNACK on the title page. The book 'focuses on the formation in the 1880s of a colony of upper-class British immigrants who viewed Iowa pioneering as a way of perpetuating the Victorian gentleman's code. It covers a broad range of social history of the latter part of the 19th century, from London drawing rooms to Iowa pig farms, and includes a careful scrutiny of Walter and James Cowan, brothers who were typical of Victorian gentlemen in this special venture'.

Record # 371626

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Ships and Ways of Other Daysby: Chatterton, E. Keble

Ships and Ways of Other Days
by: Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white decoration and color label on front, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations with fold-out diagrams in back of book. Covers show minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608643

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From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fairby: Fox, Timothy J. And Duane R. Sneddeker

From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fair
by: Fox, Timothy J. And Duane R. Sneddeker

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Perfect binding is tight. Interior is clean. Recreates, in words and pictures, the visual and emotional impact of the 1904 World's Fair. Using over two hundred images from the Missouri Historical Society's Photographs and Prints Collection, many reproduced from rare glass-plate negatives, From the Palaces to the Pike offers a tour of the St. Louis World's Fair that has been unavailable for nearly a century. Following an introduction that explains how the park was transformed into the World's Fair, the book takes readers inside the big exhibit palaces, brings them face-to-face with "human exhibits," and transports them over the fair grounds in hard-to-find aerial views. Special chapters also provide views of the Fair's entertainment district, known as the Pike, and of the 1904 Olympic Games. After the Fair, "the palaces crumbled, the exhibits dispersed, the Pike gave way to the mansions on Lindell Boulevard, and the fantasy land was reconfigured back into Forest Park," Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383214

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There's Only One Bridport in the USA by: N/A

There's Only One Bridport in the USA
by: N/A

Softcover. Bridport VT, Bridport Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 80 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Includes appendix of tradesmen, map. 1 of 500 copies. Owner's small sticker on first page, otherwise clean.

Record # 383403

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The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europeby: Wells, Peter S.

The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe
by: Wells, Peter S.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 335 pages with b&w illustrations. Re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." Clean copy.

Record # 396334

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Dreyfus: The Prisoner of Devil's Island. A Full Story of the Most Remarkable Military Trial and Scandal of the Age by: William Harding

Dreyfus: The Prisoner of Devil's Island. A Full Story of the Most Remarkable Military Trial and Scandal of the Age
by: William Harding

Hardcover. Associated Publishing Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue pictorial cloth illustrated on upper cover with gilt, red, blue and black illustration and embossed gilt title. Gilt title on spine faded. 406 pages, frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate of Captain Dreyfus. Profusely illustrated with b/w portraits of the principal actors, and photographic reproductions of the places and scenes of Dreyfus trial and exile. Name and embossed stamp on front fly leaf, cover with light edge wear, interior clean.

Record # 383771

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History of the Town of Montpelier, including that of the town of East Montpelier for the first 102 yearsby: A.M. Hemenway

History of the Town of Montpelier, including that of the town of East Montpelier for the first 102 years
by: A.M. Hemenway

Hardcover. Montpelier, Miss A.M. Hemenway, 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 592 pages. Red cloth covers with black stamped decoration and gilt lettering. Edgewear and fraying on spine. age discoloration on pages, black & white illustrations, binding cracked, multiple pages loose and some separated. Previous owner's marking on front end paper.

Record # 408531

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