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

Hardcover. US, White Star Publishers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 616 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Holographic 3D cover.

Softcover. Milan, Olivetti, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages. Numerous illustrations and color photos. This is a catalogue for an exhibition of the preparatory drawings made by Leonardo for The Last Supper. Professor Carlo Bertelli describes the history of the painting (and of the many copies made over the centuries, which form an important documentary record).

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. In America "the streets were paved with gold." That was the mistaken notion of many an immigrant to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. On Long Island, deluded sojourners from Italy were to find that in fact there were few streets and that they themselves were to be the ones to build them. A pictorial history covering more than a century of history, Long Island Italians depicts the transition of urban Italians as they moved increasingly from the city to the suburbs in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Many photos, clean copy.

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages, b&w illustrations. "Looking at History" examines the history from geologic times to the present of a nine-county region - Perry, Jackson, Orange, Crawford, Dubois, Lawrence, Monroe, Martin, and Brown. It is an area rich in cultural heritage - prehistoric Indians, pioneer settlers, rural family life, folklore. The authors concentrate on the land and the natural culture of the inhabitants to produce a unique portrait of a distinctive area of the state. Included are 105 photographs, drawings, and maps. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Lost Fish is a stunning collection of antique illustrations featuring endangered marine life, published by luxury book publisher Assouline. With over 200 detailed illustrations, this book offers a unique opportunity to appreciate the beauty of life underwater while reflecting on the changing aquatic environment. The illustrations are taken from the nineteenth-century scientific anthology of The Count de Lapecede, a leading authority on aquatic species at the time. Through these intricate prints, readers are reminded of the fragility of our environment and provided with a visual history. The ornate details and lavish colors pay homage to the fleeting species of the ocean and serve as a poignant reminder of the importance of conservation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Revised Ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 428 pages. While most readers know her only from her beloved classic Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys, her journey to become one of American's best known authors was full of twists and turns. Daughter of a prominent educator, her early life was filled with encounters with such notables and Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other prominent intellectuals of the day. But her rise to literary fame marred by poverty and war, and hindered by her unconventional ideas about slavery, women's rights and politics. Author Martha Saxton shows how her transendentalist father, activist mother, and three sisters not only influenced her world view, but became the basis for stories of the March family, beloved the world over. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Vintage, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 468 pages. Traces Klein's theories on childhood development, criminality and childhood psychosis, symbol formation, and the early development of conscience. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 420 pages, b&w illustrations. Offers a fascinating and well-rounded portrait of Gehrig, from his dugout rituals and historic games to his relationships with his mother, wife, coaches, and teammates. His complex friendship with Ruth, who was the polar opposite to Gehrig in nearly every respect, is given particularly vivid attention. Take this revealing description of how the two men began a barnstorming tour together following their 1927 World Series victory: "Ruth tipped the call girls and sent them on their way. Gehrig kissed his mother goodbye." Eig also shares some previously unknown details regarding his consecutive games streak and how he dealt with ALS during the final years of his life. Rich in anecdotes and based on hundreds of interviews and 200 pages of recently discovered letters, the book effectively shows why the Iron Horse remains an American icon to this day. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Tea Table Mills, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover brochure, 80 pages, color illustrations. A cookbook using macaroni as the main ingredients. "The magic of macaroni in its endless combinations with all kinds of food." Discusses soups; meats; fish, seafoods & poultry; sauces; meatless main dishes; vegetable recipes; salads and desserts; cooking for the crowd. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillian & Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Good, 2 volume set, identical beige cloth covers stamped in green and gilt. Volume 1 with a frontis. of the author. Mary Augusta Ward CBE (nee Arnold; 11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. This novel is a Victorian family saga, focused on a family estate, a spurned lover, and a devious villain. Marcella Boyce is young, bright, and taken with socialism. When her parents inherit the family estate in the country Marcella takes up the miserable conditions of the local workforce as her cause. She falls in love with the local favorite son, a Conservative, vying for a seat in Parliament. Socialist Marcella must discover if she can live with a man with different politics, and her feelings on the issue threaten to damage a number of lives. Spines darkened. Previous owner's name on the title pages of both volumes, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages. No price on dj so assumed Book Club edition. With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the firsthand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life - her identity as a female intellectual - and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Peder Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The biography of an immigrant girl from Fubine, a small village in Northern Italy, who makes a life for herself in the Bronx. A rambling account but very interesting with many b&w personal photos. Privately printed. Much on NY city life in the 20s and 30s in the Italian immigrant community. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Another classic title from world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, this illustrated children's book, originally published in French in 1969, tells the story of Martin Pebble, a little boy who has something unusual the matter with him: he keeps blushing all the time for no particular reason.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white, red & blue decorative cloth covers, no dust jacket. Clean copy. The bible of French cooking for the American chef.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white, red & blue decorative cloth covers, no dust jacket. First Edition stated on copyright page. Here, from Julia Child and Simone Beck, is the sequel to the cooking classic that has inspired a whole American generation to new standards of culinary taste and artistry. On the principle that "mastering any art is a continuing process;" they themselves continued, during the years since the publication of the now~celebrated Volume One, to search out and sample new recipes among the classic dishes and regional specialties of France ~ cooking, conferring, tasting, revising, perfecting. Out of their discoveries they have made, for Volume Two, a brilliant selection of precisely those recipes that will not only add to the repertory but will, above all, bring the reader to a yet higher level of mastering the art of French cooking. This second volume enables Americans, working with American ingredients, in American kitchens, to achieve those incomparable flavors and aromas that bring up a rush of memories ~ of lunch at a country inn in Provence, of an evening at a great Paris restaurant, of the essential cooking of France. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Birch Lane Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 407 pages, b&w photos. A biography of Mike Tyson traces the mismanagement of his career, his stormy marriage to actress Robin Givens, and his adventures with Donald Trump in an expose that portrays a man grappling with the burdens of fame and fortune. Illingworth does an exceptional job summarizing the life of Mike Tyson. Almost everything on Tyson is covered. From his troubled youth to his rise to stardom, and ultimately, his downfall; the shocking knock out loss to James "Buster" Douglas and later, his rape conviction of a beauty pageant. Illingworth also exposes the business side of Tyson's career. The contracts, the deals with ABC and HBO, the multi-million dollar figures, the lawsuits, etc... Other subjects include Tyson's self-destructive lifestyle, his marriage and divorce to Givens, and his conflicts with Don King. Clean copy.

Softcover. Charleston WV, Morrison Department Store, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled tan wrappers, 72 pages. A brochure featuring the history of a line of department stores in West Virginia. The founder's philosophy laid out in boring detail. Interesting, great photos of his storefronts, store managers. Unusual.

Softcover. Johnstown NY, Charles B. Knox Gelatine Company, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Color wrapper with an illustration on the front cover that shows a woman with a concerned look on her face as she looks at her reading on a scale while a Scottish terrier looks up at her with its forepaws also the scale. Back cover has an illustration of a Knox Sparkling Gelatine box with a cow on it. 4 1/2" x 6." Twenty-two pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Some of the recipes come with illustrations. Inside of front cover has a table showing the "proper" weight for men and women based on age and height. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. This is a recipe book for desserts that use Knox Gelatine. Clean copy.

Softcover. Johnstown NY, Charles B. Knox Gelatine Company, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover brochure, 32 pages. Illustrations, many color, gelatin dishes, laboratory, packages. 7 x 9.5", stapled, folding to 7 x 4.75". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 336 pages. This single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller affords a unique opportunity for renewed acquaintance with a great American thinker of the Transcendentalist circle. The letters represent Fuller at all stages of her life and career, and show her engaged as literary critic, as translator and as champion of German literature and thought, as teacher, as travel writer, as literary editor, as journalist, as feminist, as revolutionary, as wife and mother. My Heart Is a Large Kingdom, unlike previous collections, includes only letters transcribed from Fuller's manuscripts and does not reproduce correspondence known only from printed sources and copies in hands other than Fuller's. Among the recipients of the letters in this generous selection are such literary and cultural figures as Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli (Fuller's husband), George Ripley, and Henry David Thoreau. Taken together, the letters serve as a chronicle of Fuller's lifetime and provide glimpses into her thoughts and feelings during the years of the "Conversations," Dial, and the revolution in Rome. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam"s Sons, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, pictorial label, top edge gilt, 377 pages. Tissued frontis, b&w plates plus text illustrations. Folding map. Sound and square. All very good, clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six bound editions from the first 6 months of 1913. Nice folding map of Central America/ Caribbean (pg. 166), fold-out b&w photo of Machu Picchu (pg. 434), poster-size fold-out of Titkana Peak (pg. 600, Color porfolio of 50 birds of Farm and Orchard (pgs. 669-697) with paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Interior pages and fold-outs pristine, rear upper spine label rubbed, faded. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.