Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 500 pages, b&w maps, index. Clean copy. Nathanael Greene, Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, known for his effective leadership in the Southern Campaign against British forces. He was born on August 7, 1742, in Rhode Island and died on June 19, 1786, in Georgia, leaving a legacy as one of George Washington's most trusted officers.
Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title to front and spine. 1486 pages. VOL. 3 ONLY. Includes maps, illustrations, and facsimiles of contemporary documents. Edited by William Bell Clark. Forewords by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Illustrations and charts by Commander Dermott V. Hickey and W. Bart Greenwood. Maps on endpapers. Primary documents, letters from the Revolutionary War as it was being fought day by day at sea and in Congress. Letters from Ezra Stiles on the Cannons at Ticonderoga. George Washington to John Hancock on forming the Marines, Master's log of H.M. Nautilus. Philip Schuyler letters Maps. Painting of Ezra Hopkins. Original sketch of the American ship Privateer Washington. Ex-Library copy with tape on spine and embossed stamp on title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1486 pages. B&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Introduction by President Nixon. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Light wear to cover edges. Pages clean and tight.
Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Burrows Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 549 pages plus 19 page publisher's catalog in rear. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. Albany, J.B. Lyon Co., 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcover volumes. Vol. 1: 534 pages w/ index. Brown cloth w/ color decorative soldier design on front cover. Front and rear interior hinges cracked, but holding. Spine cloth chipped and missing 1/2" at top and bottom of spine. Cloth along spine with tears and some separations. Beginning of Separation at 2nd signature. Cover corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Gilt top edge. Interior clean,and unmarked. Vol. 2: 336 pages w/ index. Brown cloth w/ gilt lettering. Front interior hinge cracked, but holding. Rear interior hinge loose, but holding. Spine cloth chipped and missing 1/2" at top and bottom of spine. Cloth along spine with tears and some separations and narrow strips of cloth missing. Cover corners rubbed and bumped. Interior clean, and unmarked.
Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages. This collection of articles from thirty-four different newspapers begins with the "alarming intelligence" of the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, followed by the Battle of Bunker Hill and other skirmishes, military affairs and the siege of St. John's. The source of these articles include letters smuggled out of Boston by terrified colonists, proclamations, speeches, affidavts as well as unconfirmed reports and fabrications. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Picador, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages. Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his generation." So it seemed natural to make Rauschenberg the focus of Off the Wall, which deals with the radical changes that have made advanced visual art such a powerful force in the world.Off the Wall chronicles the astonishingly creative period of the 1950s and 1960s, a high point in American art. In his in his collaborations with Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and as a pivotal figure linking abstract expressionism and pop art, Rauschenberg was part of a revolution during which artists moved art off the walls of museums and galleries and into the center of the social scene. Clean, bright copy.
1940, Book: Very Good, Color art of actor dressed as Revolutionary soldier resting on movie set, painting by John Sheridan. 8 X 11 1/2", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. US, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press/Harvard, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 417 pages. As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing amount of correspondence. The majority of his letters were written to secure the facts that would enable this duty-ridden man to decide and act effectively on the issues being debated. Military affairs, a source of never-ending concern, provide some of the most fascinating subjects, including several accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, assessments of various high-ranking officers, and complaints about the behavior of the riflemen sent from three states southward to aid the Massachusetts troops. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial black wrappers, 191 pages. Issued in conjunction with a 1988-1989 exhibition featuring the silver work of Paul Revere (1735-1818). With illustrated essays by Patrick M. Leehey, Janine E. Skerry, Deborah A. Federhen, Edgard Moreno, and Edith J. Steblecki. Includes a bibliography and many views of Revere's silversmithing capabilities. 236 b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Albany NY, J. Munsell, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in brick red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 272 pages. Brown endpapers. Front hinge lightly cracked. Several early pages have foxing. A previous owner numbered in the margin, in light pencil, each sketch, ending with 429, and also noted with small light pencil lines, several men listed in "Names of Soldiers". Still a very nice copy of a first printing, 1867. A fascinating account of the first century of Pawlet, Vermont, a small farming community in southwestern Vermont. Memories of the Civil War were still fresh when this bountiful history was written. The first half of the book contains material on early settlement, the American Revolution (including some military correspondence, accounts of Burgoyne's defeat at Bennington, and a list of Revolutionary soldiers who settled in Pawlet), the War of 1812 (with a list of Pawlet soldiers), an extensive list of men who fought in the Civil War and brief histories of the local militia and Civil War regiments. Chapters are included on local government and politics (including lists of names of officials), emigration, customs and observances, names of merchants, physicians and lawyers, census figures, anti-slavery sentiment, railroads, church histories and other subjects, replete with names and dates. The second half of the book consists of family histories, presented as an alphabetical series of biographical sketches. These short narratives often note date and place of birth, occupation, spouse, children, military service, age and cause of death.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.
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.
Hardcover. New York, State University of New York, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.Here at long last is the study of the life and paintings of Ralph Earl, the colorful eighteenth-century American artist whose pictures hang in the great galleries but about whom relatively little has appeared in print. A pioneer landscapist in a day when portraiture was the vogue, a Tory in Revolutionary New England, he nevertheless captured the stance and spirit of the new nation in the first decades after the Revolution. He portrayed the merchants and civic leaders of the time, often with their families, in their homes, orchards, business establishments--and the result is a record of post-Revolutionary American dress, design, and decoration as well as face and figure. Professor Goodrich has tracked down and assembled forty-one of Earl's paintings for this book, providing the first opportunity of viewing the artist's work as a body. The pictures range from a youthful re-creation of the Battle of Concord, through portraits done in England (whence he fled during the Revolution and which enabled him to absorb the techniques of the great eighteenth-century English portraitists), to his invaluable paintings of General von Steuben, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, and other figures in the young United States.
Hardcover. NY, Juniot Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages. Color frontispiece, 9 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Red cloth with blue lettering. Spine slightly cocked, previous owner's inscription on front paste-down. Still very good.
NY, Jr. Literary Guild, BC Ed, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations, endpapers by Henry Pitz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. 256 pages.
Softcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humour, theatre, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Party,or Yippies!, to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Clean. bright copy.
Hardcover. Washington D.C., United States Government, 1st Edition, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1: 666 pages. Volume 2: 875 pages.Volume 3: 883 pages.Volume 4: 869 pages. Volume 5: 881 pages.Volume 6: 1002 pages.Domestic shipping only.Hardcovers. Complete set. Light brown leather cover boards with decorative details, red, black, gilt, raised bands and title on spine, all still bright and without fading. Some agewear to covers, rubbing, light scratches, all usual shelfwear. Pages unmarked, tanning throughout from age. Binding excellent. Spines straight. Beautiful collector's set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 334 pages, b&w illustrations. Relying on original historical materials, an illustrated biography traces the lives of an influential pair of American socialists--he a wealthy journalist-activist, she an aspiring novelist. When they fell in love amid the tumult of the 1905 Russian revolution, they believed they were destiny's match: William English Walling, a wealthy American journalist-activist from the Midwest, an Anna Strunsky, an aspiring novelist from San Francisco. Vowing to dedicate themselves to socialist ideals, they soon became celebrities who moved in an elite circle of writers, journalist, and reformers. ultimately, both their marriage and their political commitment faltered, but not before they had participated in some of the most urgent social causes of their day. Drawing on archival sources and family materials, James Boylan creates engaging portraits of two striking figures. He reveals the details of Strunsky's intesnse involvement with Jack London and their troubled literary collaboration. He describes the creation of Walling's "revolutionary news bureau" in Russia under scrutiny of the czarist police, and Strunsky's harrowing journey to report on a pogrom. He also recounts the couple's dash to cover a race riot in Illinois, Walling's pivotal role in creating the NAACP and the disasterous schism between Strunksky's pacifism and Walling's bellicosity during World War I. Clean copy.