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The Panama Canal Controversy: US. Diplomacy and Defense Interests by: Ryan, Paul B.
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The Panama Canal Controversy: US. Diplomacy and Defense Interests
by: Ryan, Paul B.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. History, politics, economics, and diplomacy surrounding the Panama Canal controversy in the 1970s. Illustrations., maps, appendix, bibliographic note, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396622

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Nazi State by: William Ebenstein
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The Nazi State
by: William Ebenstein

Softcover. Washington DC, The Infantry Journal, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small softcover, 335 pages. "The primary purpose of this book is to provide a guide to the main forces, institutional and ideological, in the Nazi system." Published for the American servicemen. Name on front cover,mild wear to covers.

Record # 396623

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30 1945 by: Hachiya, Michihiko
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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30 1945
by: Hachiya, Michihiko

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Endpaper maps. Day-by-day eye witness account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the seven weeks that followed. Dr. Hachiya, himself wounded in the blast, was director of a major Hiroshima hospital. Translated and edited by Warner Wells, M.D. One of the best first hand accounts; much on the the gradual "discovery" of radiation sickness. The dust jacket's rear panel has photo of the author's surviving family. Bookplate opposite half-title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396626

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

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

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

Record # 396639

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)
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Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West
by: Jameson, Elizabeth & Armitage, Susan (editors)

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 656 pages. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men. Buffalo roamed, deer and antelope played, and women's voices were never heard. Writing the Range allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community. A valuable introduction to the rapidly changing field of western history, Writing the Range explains clearly how race, class, and culture are constructed and connected. The first section examines issues raised by more than a decade of multicultural western women's histories; following are six chronological sections spanning four centuries. Each section offers a short introduction connecting is essays and placing them in analytic and historical perspective. Clean copy.

Record # 396643

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Yankee Doodle Days Exploring the American Revolution by: Diamant, Lincoln
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Yankee Doodle Days Exploring the American Revolution
by: Diamant, Lincoln

Hardcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 178 pages.Award-winning biographer and historian Lincoln Diamant introduces a diverse group of men and women who contributed in unique ways to the eight-year American Revolution. . . . Among them are soldiers and civilians, veteran generals and three-week militiamen, patriots and spies, a host of Native American and African-American volunteers, and more than a few courageous women. Clean copy.

Record # 396659

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Gassed in the Gulf: The Insider Story of the Pentagon CIA Cover Up of Gulf War Syndrome by: Patrick G. Eddington
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Gassed in the Gulf: The Insider Story of the Pentagon CIA Cover Up of Gulf War Syndrome
by: Patrick G. Eddington

Hardcover. Washington DC, Insignia Publishing Company, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 347 pages. The first book about Gulf War Syndrome. An intensely personal account of the struggle of two dedicated public servants to expose one of the largest government cover-ups of modern history. A former CIA analyst exposes the officially sanctioned deceptions that have made Gulf War veterans the walking wounded of Desert Storm. NOTE: The first blank page has been torn out but does not affect the rest of the book, in clean condition.

Record # 396661

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against The Confederate Navy And Arctic Disaster by: Songini, Marc
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The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against The Confederate Navy And Arctic Disaster
by: Songini, Marc

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. Despite having to contend with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, disease, the scarcity of whales, the increasing dangers of going farther into the Arctic, and the roving Confederate privateers, Captain Thomas William Williams of Wethersfield, Connecticut wemt out voyage after voyage, even taking on board with him his tiny wife, Eliza, and his infant son and daughter. This thrilling narrative recounts Williams' remarkable career, including a daring rescue and salvage of lost ships off Alaska's coast. Songini has crafted a historical masterpiece in recording a family saga, a true narrative of adventure and death on the high seas, and a detailed and well-researched look at the demise of Yankee whaling. Clean copy.

Record # 396662

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Perfect Heresy:The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars. by: O'Shea, Stephen
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The Perfect Heresy:The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars.
by: O'Shea, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's crusade against--and ultimate annihilation of--the Albigenses, or Cathars, a group of heretical Christians who thrived in what is now the Languedoc region of Southern France. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the church. The world, they maintained, was not created by a benevolent God. Rather, it was the creation of a force of darkness, immanent in all things. They considered worldly authority a fraud, and authority based on some divine sanction, such as claimed by the church, outright hypocrisy. Innocent III, resolved to eradicate the Cathar threat to church authority, recruited the military powers of France, eager to expand their territory to the south. Together, they systematically exterminated the Cathars and their supporters in a series of crusades between 1209 and 1229. The Dominican-led Inquisition that ensued built upon this momentum of intolerance and tormented Europe for centuries to come. 333 pages, endpapers map.

Record # 396683

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec by: Quinn, Arthur
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A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec
by: Quinn, Arthur

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, pages. "I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. Clean copy.

Record # 396684

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by: Giles Milton
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
by: Giles Milton

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages. A riveting historical mystery of Colonial America. In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and by her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattoed face and otter-skin cloak had caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1857, Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, along with more than 100 English men, women and children.In 1590, a supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished. For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain, Powhatan, father of Pocahontas, who vowed to drive the English out of America. Only when it was too late did the settlers discover the incredible news that Ralegh's colonists had survived in the forests for almost two decades before being slaughtered in cold blood by Powhatan's henchmen. Clean copy.

Record # 396691

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by: Kemble, Frances Anne
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
by: Kemble, Frances Anne

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, reprint, 2001, Softcover, clean, unmarked pages. 415 pages, followed by a short Index. Fanny Kemble offers a gripping, first-hand account of life on a Southern plantation before the Civil War. Combining a keen observational style with a candid narrative voice, Kemble lays bare the complexities of plantation life, including the stark realities of slavery and the socio-economic hierarchies of antebellum Georgia. The journal entries provide an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of both the enslaved and the plantation owners, reflecting her deep moral convictions and growing abolitionist sentiments against a backdrop of genteel Southern culture. Fanny Kemble, a British actress and writer, was thrust into the world of the Southern elite through her marriage to a plantation owner, which provided her with unprecedented access to the intricacies of plantation management and its social fabric.

Record # 396745

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan by: Frederick S. Dunn
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Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan
by: Frederick S. Dunn

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 210 pages. Professor Dunn presents an account of the making of the Japanese peace treaty. He discusses the international environment from the outbreak of World War II to 1950, the San Francisco conference of September 1951 and the security arrangements which the United States helped to create in the Pacific and Asian area. Originally published in 1963 by Princeton. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396756

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines With an Army Nurse in Vietnam by: Smith, Winnie
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American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines With an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by: Smith, Winnie

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , BC Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages with b&w photos. Winnie Smith's story of being a 21-year-old student nurse joining the Army "to see the world" and being sent to Vietnam. American Daughter Gone to War is the extraordinary story of how she was transformed from a romantic young nurse into a thoughtful, battle-scarred adult. It is a mirror for how our country dealt with the shattering experience and aftermath of the war. Copyright page states First Edition but no price on dj flap, so assumed book club. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 396757

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum April 19 June 5 1977. by:
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Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum April 19 June 5 1977.
by:

Softcover. Worcester MA, American Antiquarian Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 141 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Tan stiff wrappers. Covers and spine slightly sunned, small stain to for-edge, dog-ears to upper page-corners. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 396797

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The Dominican Intervention by: Lowenthal, Abraham F.
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The Dominican Intervention
by: Lowenthal, Abraham F.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Preface, Introduction, Chapters on: The United States and the Dominican Republic to 1965: Background to Intervention; The Origins of the 1965 Dominican Crisis: Setting the Stage; The Decision to Intervene; Deploying the Troops; and Explaining the Dominican Intervention. Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the Dominican Republic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis, Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official, liberal, and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead, he explains it as the product of fundamental premises, of decision-making procedures, and of bureaucratic politics. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396900

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Inaugural Addresses of the Mayors of Boston. VOLUME I. from 1822 to 1851 by: City Registrar Of Boston
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The Inaugural Addresses of the Mayors of Boston. VOLUME I. from 1822 to 1851
by: City Registrar Of Boston

Hardcover. Boston, Rockwell & Churchill, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark olive-green cloth with gilt lettering, 415 pages. Preface by William Whitmore. Vol. I ONLY. Name on front fly leaf, rear cover with light soil, otherwise internally clean.

Record # 396902

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

The Korean Decision: June 24-30 1950 by: Glenn D. Paige
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The Korean Decision: June 24-30 1950
by: Glenn D. Paige

Hardcover. NY, The Free Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth binding with orange and gilt lettering on spine. 394 pages. Prof. Paige's reconstruction and analysis of the U.S. decision to resist Chinese aggression in Korea in 1950. Name on front fly leaf othewise clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 396903

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The New Nationalism by: Theodore Roosevelt /Introduction by Ernest Hamlin Abbott
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The New Nationalism
by: Theodore Roosevelt /Introduction by Ernest Hamlin Abbott

Hardcover. NY, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 268 pages. Collects speeches made by Roosevelt in August and September 1910 on his tour of the United States, in which he espoused his political platform of social welfare and opposition to corporate political power. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, sharp copy.

Record # 396906

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace by: Hodding Carter
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Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace
by: Hodding Carter

Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 78 pages. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 12. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396907

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by: Theodore Roosevelt
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The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by: Theodore RooseveltThe Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by: Theodore Roosevelt

The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
by: Theodore Roosevelt

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on leather spine label, 332 pages, b&w frontis portrait of Roosevelt. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396908

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

The Boston Massacre: An Episode of Dissent and Violence by: Hansen, Harry
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The Boston Massacre: An Episode of Dissent and Violence
by: Hansen, Harry

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 191 pages, b&w illustrations. An unsparing account of the famous massacre of March 5, 1770, when a squad of British soldiers, called out to protect a sentry from a Boston mob, fired on civilians, killing 4, fatally wounding a fifth, and injuring 6 others. Was it a massacre, as Boston called it, or "the first battle of the American Revolution," as some writers styled it, or merely a street brawl, as the testimonies of witnesses seem to indicate? Whatever its character, it had great influence in consolidating colonial opposition to the British Government. This is the story of one of the most famous and controversial murder trials in American history, in which John Adams and Josiah Quince, Jr., confirmed patriots, toiled to get the soldiers acquitted to save Boston from retaliation, against the violent opposition of Samuel Adams, who wanted the soldiers convicted as murderers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396910

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Boston Massacre by: Hiller B. Zobel
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The Boston Massacre
by: Hiller B. Zobel

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 372 pages. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an event on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. The British soldiers were put on trial, found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an 'M' for murder as punishment. This book covers the action and the subsequent trial. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396912

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Visit and Observation by: Charles Nordhoff
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Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Visit and Observation
by: Charles Nordhoff

Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 439 pages. Reprint of a work first published in 1875, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. An historical account written during the late 19th century. The book explores various communistic communities in the United States, documenting their origins, practices, and social structures. Nordhoff's investigation is based on personal visits and observations, aiming to provide insights into how these societies operate and their contributions to the labor question.

Record # 396913

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by: Hinton Rowan Helper
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by: Hinton Rowan HelperThe Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by: Hinton Rowan Helper

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
by: Hinton Rowan Helper

Hardcover. NY, Burdick Brothers, reprint, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ninth thousand. The Impending Crisis is often considered the only popular antislavery work by a southern author prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Helper (1829-1909)'s argument that "slavery was economically unsound" caused this work to be "officially banned in the South"; in the North, it "vied in popularity and influence with Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Howes). The book stoked fears among southern slaveholders that the "North would promote a class conflict among southern whites," and helped drive many towards secessionism. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Otherwise a clean copy in exceptionally nice condition.

Record # 397170

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

A Texan in Search of a Fight. Being the Diary and Letters of a Private Soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade by: John C. West
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A Texan in Search of a Fight. Being the Diary and Letters of a Private Soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade by: John C. WestA Texan in Search of a Fight. Being the Diary and Letters of a Private Soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade by: John C. West

A Texan in Search of a Fight. Being the Diary and Letters of a Private Soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade
by: John C. West

Softcover. Waco TX, J. S. Hill & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brown paper wraps, stapled binding, 189 pages. Covers worn and chipped, last 50 pages with top corner chipped or chewed away, not affecting text. West served in Company E., 4th Texas Regiment. "A diary kept by West from April 12 to June 13, 1863, and February 28 to April 20, 1864." Subtitled on cover: A trip of a private soldier from Texas to Gettysburg and Chickamauga in 1863. Paper tanned and fragile.

Record # 397171

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident 1928-1932 (Studies of the East Asian Institute) by: Morley, James William (Editor)
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Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident 1928-1932 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
by: Morley, James William (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages with index. Contains selected translations from Taiheiyo senso e no michi: kaisen gaiko shi. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. The first volume in Morley's 4 volume set "Japan's Road to the Pacific War".

Record # 397175

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia by: McColley, Robert
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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

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Eisenhower and Berlin 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe by: Stephen E. Ambrose
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Eisenhower and Berlin 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe
by: Stephen E. Ambrose

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 119 pages, maps, index. As WWII ground to a close, whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397204

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the 29th Regiment by: John Doggett
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A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the 29th Regiment
by: John Doggett

Hardcover. Williamstown MA, Corner House, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 122 pages. An Official account of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. This is an exact reprint from an original in the library of the New York Historical Society, containing the full appendix, certificates, and circular of the Committee. It also contains events of the few days preceding the massacre drawn up by the Hon. Alden Bradford; and the Report made by John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren and other, presented at the meeting of the citizens on the 12th of March plus explanatory notes by the author.

Record # 397206

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

American Nationalism, 1783-1830: A Self-Portrait by: Rebecca Brooks Gruver

American Nationalism, 1783-1830: A Self-Portrait
by: Rebecca Brooks Gruver

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 315 pages. The documents, speeches, letters and debates that were the genesis and evolution of American nationalism: Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Cooper, Clay, Breckinridge and others. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397215

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy by: Raymond Bonner
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Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy
by: Raymond Bonner

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 533 pages. Traces the history of the Marcos regime, examines U.S. policy towards the Philippines, and argues that U.S. support of dictators is counterproductive. Bookplate on inside front cover, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397220

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

One Hundred Years in Canyonville: 1858-1958, Then to Now by: Clough, Bess A.
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One Hundred Years in Canyonville: 1858-1958, Then to Now
by: Clough, Bess A.

Softcover. Canyonville OR, self-published, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 page stapled booklet, b&w historical photos. A pictorial history of a small Oregon town. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page.

Record # 397256

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Moffat Papers; Selections From the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 1919-1943 by: Moffat, Jay Pierrepont; Nancy Harvison Hooker (Ed.)
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The Moffat Papers; Selections From the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 1919-1943
by: Moffat, Jay Pierrepont; Nancy Harvison Hooker (Ed.)

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 408 pages, index. Black and white frontis photo portrait of author. "Moffat served for a protracted period and with notable distinction in the key position of what was then termed Chief of the Division of European affairs; he accompanied me as my chief assistant when FDR sent me to Europe as his personal representative in the spring of 1940; and I was in the closest touch with him during the time he served as American Minister to Canada, a service so tragically terminated by his untimely death in 1943. I know of no man who came up through the ranks of the Foreign Service with whose work I am personally familiar who impressed me as having in his latter years greater knowledge, a wiser and more balanced judgement, or a greater devotion to the highest interests of this country." - Sumner Welles.

Record # 397266

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak by: Louchheim, Katie
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The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak
by: Louchheim, Katie

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket with sunning to spine, 368 pages. There has never been a phenomenon in American life to equal the invasion of Washington by the young New Dealers, hundreds of men and women still in their twenties and thirties, brilliant and dedicated, trained in the law, economics, public administration, technology, pouring into public life to do nothing less than restructure American society. They proposed new programs, drafted legislation, staffed the new agencies. They were active in the Administration, the Congress, the courts, the news media. They fanned out all over America to discover the facts, plan ways of easing the pain of their foundering country, and report on the results. Many of them went on to be rich, famous, and powerful, but their early experience in Washington was perhaps the most inspiriting of their lives. Katie Louchheim was among those who arrived in Washington in the 1930s, and being a keen writer as well as the wife of a member of the SEC, she had a front-row seat for the spectacle of social progress. Now, a half-century later, she has gathered reminiscences from her old friends and colleagues, interviewed others, and woven them together into a lively, informal word-picture of that exciting time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397267

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Stakes of Power, 1845-1877 by: Nichols, Roy F.
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The Stakes of Power, 1845-1877
by: Nichols, Roy F.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Examines the critical questions of race and slavery in 19th century American politics. A reshaping of Nichols' narrative drawing on recent scholarship and reinterpretations of the era. The Making of America Series. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397273

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

From Rebellion to Revolution. Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World by: Genovese, Eugene D.
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From Rebellion to Revolution. Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
by: Genovese, Eugene D.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 173 pages. This work is a brief look at worldwide slave revolts in the 17th through 19th centuries, emphasizing their interrelations with European power struggles, which gave rebels hope of finding weak spots in the defenses of the slave powers. The French Revolution also had an influence on slave revolts, but the canny European powers used indigenous peoples to suppress slave revolts (e.g., native Americans) and took advantage of African ethnic divisions as well. American slaves stood little chance of revolt and were under constant surveillance from Southerners, who coward in fear after the successful rebellions in the Caribbean, particularly in Hispaniola, and after Nat Turner and John Brown's efforts. Genovese also brings up religion's double-edged sword: one side used to pacify slaves and the other side to inspire them to break their chains. In short, this scholarly treatise is thought-provoking as well as informative and ends with an inspirational quote from one of Frederick Douglass's lectures. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397274

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932-1945 by: Dallek, Robert
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932-1945
by: Dallek, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 657 pages. Robert Dallek vigorously and convincingly defends Roosevelt's foreign policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals. Name on half-title page otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397275

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Jim Farley's Story: The Roosevelt Years (SIGNED COPY) by: Farley, James A.
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Jim Farley's Story: The Roosevelt Years (SIGNED COPY) by: Farley, James A.Jim Farley's Story: The Roosevelt Years (SIGNED COPY) by: Farley, James A.

Jim Farley's Story: The Roosevelt Years (SIGNED COPY)
by: Farley, James A.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill , 3rd pr., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with a chunk gone from front panel. Full green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Illustrated with several pages of B&W photographs. 388 pages. SIGNED BY FARLEY in green ink on the front fly leaf. The 'unvarnished' facts about the man who put FDR in the White House, and built-up one of the most effective political party organizations in history. A revealing portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Record # 397287

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes by: Walter Havighurst
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The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes
by: Walter Havighurst

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 291 pages illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.

Record # 397355

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Family of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, 1638 by: Richard Brinkerhoff
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The Family of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, 1638
by: Richard Brinkerhoff

Hardcover. NY, Richard Brinkerhoff , 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original 1887 edition, maroon cloth gilt lettering on spine, no jacket, 188 pages, frontis, historical photographs and maps. Scarce genealogy of an early New York and New Jersey Dutch family, Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson Counties and surrounding areas. Title page loose but present. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Program for Dutch church service in 1894 laid-in.

Record # 397377

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

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

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans by: Guarneri, Julia
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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
by: Guarneri, Julia

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages with index. At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business and publishers were soon reeling off as many copies as Americans could be convinced to buy. Newspapers quickly saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen daily papers apiece. Using New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago as case studies, Julia Guarneri shows how city dailies became active agents in creating metropolitan spaces and distinctive urban cultures. Newsprint Metropolis offers a vivid tour of these papers, from the front to the back pages. Paying attention to much-loved features, including comic strips, sports pages, advice columns, and Sunday magazines, she tells the linked histories of newspapers and the cities they served. Themed sections for women, businessmen, sports fans, and suburbanites illustrated entire ways of life built around consumer products. Guarneri also argues that while papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. Clean, like new.

Record # 397406

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Detroit's Coming of Age, 1873-1973 by: Don Lochbiler
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Detroit's Coming of Age, 1873-1973
by: Don Lochbiler

Softcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397413

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Social Ferment in Vermont 1791-1850 by: David M. Ludlum
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Social Ferment in Vermont 1791-1850
by: David M. Ludlum

Hardcover. NY, AMS Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 305 pages. Originally published in 1939. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 397421

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Genealogies of Barbados Families: From Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society by: James C. Branow
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Genealogies of Barbados Families: From Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
by: James C. Branow

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 733 pages. Many of the early settlers of Barbados eventually moved to the mainland of North America and settled in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other colonies. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal "Caribbeana" and "The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society". Unfortunately, back issues of these journals are no longer available, and copies can be found today in only a handful of libraries. With this present work, however, genealogists at last have access to both of these publications, for the book contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals. The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index. Besides the genealogies and family records, this compilation also contains a selection of notes on the connections between Barbados and New England families and four invaluable lists of Barbados Quakers.

Record # 397422

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

New World Immigrants: Volume 1: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature by: Michael Tepper (Ed.)
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New World Immigrants: Volume 1: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature
by: Michael Tepper (Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 3rd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt stamping, 568 pages. Clean, bright copy. VOLUME 1 ONLY.

Record # 397423

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Long Island Genealogies Families of Albbertson, Andrews, Bedell, Birdsall, Bowne, Carman, Carr, Clowes, Cock, Cornelius, Covert, Dean, Doughty,.of Thomas Powell, of Bethpage, L. I.,1688 by:
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Long Island Genealogies Families of Albbertson, Andrews, Bedell, Birdsall, Bowne, Carman, Carr, Clowes, Cock, Cornelius, Covert, Dean, Doughty,.of Thomas Powell, of Bethpage, L. I.,1688
by:

Hardcover. New England Historic Genealogical Society, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine, A photocopy of the 1895 edition. 353 pages.

Record # 397424

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Fix Bayonets! by: Thomason, Jr, John W
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Fix Bayonets!
by: Thomason, Jr, John W

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon-color pictorial boards with green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated by author with color frontis. and many b&w plates and text drawings, Thomason's semi-fictionalized first book, based on his own experiences as a career officer in the Marines as part of the AEF. A clean, bright copy.

Record # 397429

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 


  

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