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Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy and Radical Religion by: Garry Wills
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Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy and Radical Religion
by: Garry Wills

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 272 pages. Mr. Wills takes the disarray of the Catholic Church as a model of institutional breakdown, tracing parallel agonies in church and state... He asks whether life can rise again from our institutional ruins, and finds promising signs of this, not only among Catholic "prophets" but Protestant and Jewish ones as well." Name on front leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396390

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step By Step Diplomacy in the Middle East by: Golan, Matti
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The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step By Step Diplomacy in the Middle East
by: Golan, Matti

Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle Books/New York Times, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket. Translated by Ruth Geyra Stern and Sol Stern. The events preceding the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396391

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

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

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Background for Radical Reconstruction Testimony taken from the Hearings of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction the Select Committee on the Memphis Riots and Massacres and the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots 1866 and 1867<
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Background for Radical Reconstruction Testimony taken from the Hearings of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction the Select Committee on the Memphis Riots and Massacres and the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots 1866 and 1867<

Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 182 pages. Name, old price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396417

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Fragment AM 315 E of the older Gulathing law : from an old Norwegian codex of the XIIIth century, with facsimile and introduction by: George Tobias Flom
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Fragment AM 315 E of the older Gulathing law : from an old Norwegian codex of the XIIIth century, with facsimile and introduction
by: George Tobias Flom

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray card covers, 42 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 396457

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by: Elliott, J. H.
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
by: Elliott, J. H.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 546 pages. This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires, processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas. Color illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 396458

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861 by: Cuthbert, Norma B. (Editor)
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Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861
by: Cuthbert, Norma B. (Editor)

Hardcover. San Marino,CA, The Huntington Library, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 161 pages. Official records from the Pinkerton detective agency & other documentary sources are drawn on to present the story of "a plot and counterplot, stranger than fiction" involving a plan to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln while en route to his inauguration in Washington in 1861, over 4 years before he was killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396459

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown by: Oates, Stephen B.
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To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
by: Oates, Stephen B.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. 434 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a full-scale biography of John Brown. "John Brown was a profoundly religious man dedicated to emancipation and Negro rights..." He "tried to overthrow slavery in the South itself by attacking Harpers Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection."Was Brown a vicious fanatic, or the greatest abolitionist hero in history?" This history is based on "contemporary letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, published reports, and recollections of eyewitnesses, this book is especially notable for providing the first really full account ever written of Brown's career before he went to Kansas..." Bold presentation inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396460

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845: Volume III by: Remini, Robert V.
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Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845: Volume III
by: Remini, Robert V.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Three only, index, bibliography, chapter notes, maps, b&w illustrations. Award sticker on front cover. Clean copy

Record # 396461

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864 by: Parkhurst, Henry M.
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Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864
by: Parkhurst, Henry M.

Hardcover. NY, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 175 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering. Originally published in 1864 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Introduction by William Lloyd Garrison, President. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396462

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

In the Maine Woods 1941 by: N/A
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In the Maine Woods 1941
by: N/A

Softcover. Bangor ME, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Published by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, this wonderfully evocative magazine brings the unspoiled Maine woods of pre-World War II back to life. The magazine has articles on a variety of topics, including camping, canoeing, Indian relics, Maine guides, Moosehead Lake and climbing Mt. Katahdin. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos designed to make you drop everything and head North. With canoeing map, list of big game records for 1940, Sportsman's Directory of camps, hotels and fishing waters reached by the railroad and 39 pages of vintage advertisements. 128 pages. Light edgewear, small name on first page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396464

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Lower Penobscot River Region, Maine by: Shaw, Richard D.
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The Lower Penobscot River Region, Maine
by: Shaw, Richard D.

Softcover. Dover NH, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. The Lower Penobscot River region has long lured vacationers and mariners alike, entranced by the natural beauty of the "Rhine of Maine." Early sailors named this nearly 30-mile stretch of the mighty river "Bangor River," since Bangor, the great nineteenth-century lumbering port, was the head of navigation for their schooners, barks, and brigs, laden with dry cargo, rum, and ice. Eleven historic towns line the Lower Penobscot: Searsport, Stockton Springs, Prospect, Verona, Bucksport, Frankfort, Winterport, Hampden, Orrington, Brewer, and Bangor. All are represented here with vivid photographs dating from the 1860s to the present. Clean copy.

Record # 396465

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America 1764-1775 by: Almon, John (Ed.)
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A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America 1764-1775
by: Almon, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, front cover. 280 pages plus index. Facsimile reprint from 1777. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396466

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Foreign Affairs by: Eden, Anthony
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Foreign Affairs
by: Eden, Anthony

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and faded dust jacket, 366 pages. A collection of speeches by the Right Hon. Anthony Eden in the House of Commons and elsewhere through 1938, which offers a criticism on British foreign policy. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396467

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Making of the President 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography by: Kitman, Marvin
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The Making of the President 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography
by: Kitman, Marvin

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 358 pages. Satirical analysis of the election of the first president running unopposed. A well researched commentary on the politics of the early republic. Includes notes, bibliography & index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396471

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Puritan Revolution: A Documentary History by: Prall, Stuart E. (editor)
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The Puritan Revolution: A Documentary History
by: Prall, Stuart E. (editor)

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers, black lettering on spine, 337 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 396473

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing the Boston Town Records 1758 to 1769 by: N/A
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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing the Boston Town Records 1758 to 1769
by: N/A

Hardcover. Boston, City Registrar's Office of Boston, MA, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Sixteenth Report of the Record Commissioners, 344 pages. Minor wear, chipping to spine cloth, gilt decorated binding. Special topics considered during this time period included "Schools, Inns, Faneuil-Hall Market, the Fire of 1760, Inoculation, Long Wharf, and Beacon Hill", plus the approval of Hancock's Hospital, etc. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 396474

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Thoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe, and Its Probable Consequences to the United States by: Francis J. Grund
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Thoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe, and Its Probable Consequences to the United States by: Francis J. GrundThoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe, and Its Probable Consequences to the United States by: Francis J. Grund

Thoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe, and Its Probable Consequences to the United States
by: Francis J. Grund

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson , 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, 245 pages plus publishers ads. Gilt on spine faded. A fascinating work of history by Francis J. Grund, exploring the link between Europe and the United States of America. Very scarce. An interesting work of world history, explore the current state of Europe in the mid-19th century and the subsequent impact on the United States of America. This work of global history is written by Francis J. Grund, the noted journalist who published numerous works in relation to the socio-politcal climate of America. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 396475

Price: $180.00
Price: $180.00 

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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Shadow War: European Resistance, 1939-1945 by: Henri Michel
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The Shadow War: European Resistance, 1939-1945
by: Henri Michel

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket, 416 pages including index, bibliography and abbreviations. "The first adequately comprehensive history of the Resistance in Europe during Hitler's war to be published in any language." Name on frontfly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396477

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society, At its Second Decade, Held in the City of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th and 5th, 1853 by: N/A
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Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society, At its Second Decade, Held in the City of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th and 5th, 1853
by: N/A

Hardcover. Westport CT, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 176 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396478

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Jacksonian Aristocracy; Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860 by: Miller, Douglas T.
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Jacksonian Aristocracy; Class and Democracy in New York, 1830-1860
by: Miller, Douglas T.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. "The period from Andrew Jackson's presidency to the Civil War has traditionally been considered the age of democracy triumphant in the United States. This book sharply contradicts that assumption, contending that while democracy advanced substantially in the political sense, social and economic distinctions became, if anything, more marked. Powerful forces, especially in the economic field, were working toward the stratification of society." Name on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396479

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

European Fascism by: Woolf S. J. (Editor)
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European Fascism
by: Woolf S. J. (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 387 pages. These essays originated in a series of lectures and seminars held by the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies and the Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian Society of the University of Reading in 1966-1967. The countries covered include Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396480

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The British War Blue Book, Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939): Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 by:
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The British War Blue Book, Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939): Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939
by:

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st US, 1939, Book: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering, 251 pages. Endpapers tanned and soiled at edges. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396481

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Cardinal and the Secretary: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell by: Neville Williams
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The Cardinal and the Secretary: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell
by: Neville Williams

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396482

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

European Diplomacy Between Two Wars 1919 1939: Modern Scholarship on European History by: Hans Wilhelm Gatzke
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European Diplomacy Between Two Wars 1919 1939: Modern Scholarship on European History
by: Hans Wilhelm Gatzke

Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a rubbed, worn dust jacket, 277 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396484

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by: Brian VanDeMark
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Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
by: Brian VanDeMark

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 268 pages. Focusing mainly on the nine months from November 1964 to July 1965 VanDeMark describes how the Johnson administration progressed along a seemingly inevitable path to double the number of ground troops in Vietnam, polarize the American people, and destroy Johnson's presidency in the short term. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396485

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Brink: Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962 by: Detzer, David
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The Brink: Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962
by: Detzer, David

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 299 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396486

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Intervention by: Gleijeses, Piero
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The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Intervention
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 460 pages. Translated by Lawrence Lipson. A vivid historical narrative of the US military intervention in Central America. Uncommon. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396487

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by: Abel, Elie
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The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
by: Abel, Elie

Hardcover. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 204 pages. "A valuable well-researched study of brinkmanship and of people under pressure presented fully for the first time." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396488

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Origins of Political Stability: England 1675-1725 by: Plumb, J. H.
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The Origins of Political Stability: England 1675-1725
by: Plumb, J. H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 206 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396489

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Thermidorians and the Directory: Two Phases of the French Revolution by: Lefebvre, Georges
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The Thermidorians and the Directory: Two Phases of the French Revolution
by: Lefebvre, Georges

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with some fading, 461 pages. History of the six-year period between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 396491

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The New Nationalism by: Snyder, Louis L.
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The New Nationalism
by: Snyder, Louis L.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 387 pages. A study of nationalisms of the modern world on all continents. Includes Black Nationalism in Africa. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396494

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by: Davis, David Brion
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Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
by: Davis, David Brion

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket, 576 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396505

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902: Volume 2 by: William L. Langer
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The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902: Volume 2
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, pages 415-797, plus index. Volume 2 ONLY. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396507

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

The Selected Writings of John Quincy Adams by: Koch, Adrienne & William Peden (Ed.)
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The Selected Writings of John Quincy Adams
by: Koch, Adrienne & William Peden (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 413 pages plus index. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 396508

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Cultures of United States Imperialism by: Kaplan, Amy and Donald E Pease (Editors)
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Cultures of United States Imperialism
by: Kaplan, Amy and Donald E Pease (Editors)

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 672 pages. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. Clean copy.

Record # 396521

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Those Intriguing Indomitable Vermont Women by: N/A
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Those Intriguing Indomitable Vermont Women
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont State Division of the American Association of University Women, 2nd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, b&w illustrations. Related newspaper clipping laid in. Mild soil to wraps, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 396537

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886 by: James G. Blaine
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Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886
by: James G. Blaine

Hardcover. Norwich CT, The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown buckram covers with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait, 525 pages. James Gillespie Blaine (1830 -1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881 He twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889-1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884 In the general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. The original edition, here nicely rebound, previous owner's signature otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396541

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times by: Casson, Lionel
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The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times
by: Casson, Lionel

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers, 286 pages, map endpapers, b&w illustrations. Lionel Casson, the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring, has done what no other author has: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious voyages to a network that reached from Spain to India. In the process he corrects cherished but erroneous beliefs. Ancient warships, he shows, were never manned with slave rowers; ancient merchant-men did not stick timidly to the shore; and ancient craft were well able to sail against the wind. Embossed stamp to dedication page, otherwise clean, No dust jacket.

Record # 396544

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Burlington District Telephone Directory: July 1933 by: N/A
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Burlington District Telephone Directory: July 1933
by: N/A

Softcover. Burlington VT, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green card covers with dark blue lettering. 60 pages of listed subscriber phone numbers with ads throughout plus a 24 page classified business section. Directory covers Bristol, Burlington, Charlotte, Essex Center, Essex Junction and Richmond. Small perforated hole in upper corner, clean, bright copy of uncommon Vermont ephemera.

Record # 396549

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by: Marilyn Irvin Holt
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Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930
by: Marilyn Irvin Holt

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 250 pages. b&w illustrations. The Progressive Era promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science and progressive reform. The zeal to modernize business, government and social relations extended to farm families and the ways women defined their roles. In this study of the expert advice offered by the domestic economy movement, Holt argues that women were not passive receptors of these views. Seeing their place in agriculture as multi-faceted and important, they eagerly accepted improved education and many modern appliances but often rejected suggestions conflicting with their own views of the rewards and values of farm life. Progressive reform inevitably left a mixed legacy; science and technology did not perfect rural society. But many programs such as 4-H and Master Homemaker still exist and are still shaped by women's desire to preserve and pass on the possibilities of rural life. Clean copy.

Record # 396581

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume I. Fort. Sumter to Perryville by: Foote, Shelby
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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume I. Fort. Sumter to Perryville
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac. The word "narrative" is the key to this extraordinary book's incandescence and its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research. This first volume in Shelby Foote's comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America's history. Endpaper maps. First published in 1958, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.

Record # 396586

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 2. Fredericksburg to Meridian by: Foote, Shelby
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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 2. Fredericksburg to Meridian
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 focuses on the pivotal year of 1863, as Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant's Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. Endpaper maps. First published in 1963, this appears to be a 70s reprint ($40 price on dust jacket). Clean copy.

Record # 396587

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 3. Red River to Appomattox by: Foote, Shelby
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The Civil War: A Narrative. Volume 3. Red River to Appomattox
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Civil War: A Narrative. In the third -- and last -- volume of this vivid history, Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation. "Red River to Appomattox" opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in North Georgia. While the Virginia-Georgia fighting is in progress, Kearsarge sinks the Alabama and Forrest gains new laurels at Brice's Crossroads.With Grant and Lee deadlocked at Petersburg, Sherman takes Atlanta -- assuring Lincoln's reelection, together with the certainty that the war will be fought (not negotiated) to a finish. These events are followed by Hood's bold northward strike through middle Tennessee while Sherman sets out on his march to the sea, to be opposed at its end by the ghost of the Army of Tennessee. Endpaper maps. First published in 1974, this appears to be a reprint (no price on dust jacket). Newspaper obituary of Foote laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 396588

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American West by: Brown, Dee
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American West
by: Brown, Dee

Hardcover. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. The first British edition featuring wrap-around color pictorial artwork by Frederick S. Remington (The Sign of the Buffalo Scout,1907). 487 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos, reproductions, double-page frontis map. Clean copy.

Record # 396589

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Pax Americana by: Ronald Steel
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Pax Americana
by: Ronald Steel

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 371 pages. After WW II the US acquired an empire - one that embraces much of the world in a network of military pacts, economic ties, and political commitments. Steel describes how this empire originated, how it grew, and why is has been incapable of defending America's real interests, or of spreading her humanitarian ideals to other nations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396610

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Salem Possessed. The Social Origin of Witchcraft by: Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum
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Salem Possessed. The Social Origin of Witchcraft
by: Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 231 pages. Frontispiece facsimile manuscript page showing names of the accused at Salem. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources-many previously neglected or unknown-Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396616

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

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

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 


  

Used & Antiquarian History Books

The history section spans American and world history in used, rare and out-of-print editions, from local and regional chronicles to Civil War narratives and primary sources. Titles include Joseph Judge's Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington, Letters of Abraham Lincoln (Heretofore Unpublished) and the two-volume History of Pittsfield, MA.

You will also find exploration and regional accounts such as A Summer in Alaska and Brian L. Knight's No Braver Deeds: The Story of the Equinox Guards. Multi-volume sets, signed copies and antiquarian printings appear here regularly, making the shelves worth checking for scarce and out-of-print references.

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