fiction history

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt and orange, 13 b&w plates. A dozen tales of incidents in American wars. Light pencil note on front fly leaf dated in 1887. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages, tissue guard frontis, and b/w plates by A. B. Shute. Red cloth, gilt title front and spine, pictorial front cover with flag and man on horse. #4 in Old Glory Series. Front and rear hinges cracked, inscription on front

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. This fascinating book examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the nature of war and conflict. Daniel Pick compares philosophical and historical models of conflict with fictions of invasion and biological speculation about the nature and value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators on war as Clausewitz, Engels, and von Bernhardi, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others. He explores nineteenth-century English fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel and the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he analyzes the history of the widely-shared European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Parker McAllister. A general survey of the history of the region told through the exciting anecdotal history of those who published primary accounts of their early reconnaissance in the region, starting with Barkley and thence to Gray, Ebey, Hancock, Sylvester, et al. No markings.

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. A ten-year-old Danish boy goes on a whaling hunt. Drawn from the author's life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Carlton & Porter, 1st, 1859, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, 268 pages with 8 b&w plates. A fictional travel account aimed at young people. Worn copy, light stains, tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Liveright, Inc./Junior Literary Guild, Book Club Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, black cloth, yellow lettering, Decorative endpapers. B&w illustrations By Raphael Doktor. An illustrated history of Jesuit missions in North America starting in 1632. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages illustrated in color. For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, "chasing fabulous sound." The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 . . . and counting. Whether writing about household names such as Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Dobro or about marques revered by aficionados-D'Angelico, Hauser, Stromberg, and Torres-Kellerman brings to bear the same sure storytelling instincts and keen attention to detail that characterize his bestselling fiction, making each entry a sparkling mini-essay as much to be savored as the sensual photographs that follow.

Hardcover. London, Ward Lock and Co., 8th Ed., Circa 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with color label on cover, 256 pages. illustrated with 8 color, 250 b&w illustrations. Light soil to covers, previous owner inscription in pencil dated 1944. No date on copyright.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages, illustrated with many b&w line engravings by various artists. Light tan cloth covers with bright gilt and dark brown design. Copyright page states 1888, so assumed a reprint. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, b&w line illustrations, some two-color by Robert Fawcett. Maroon cloth with paper labels on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with wear, chipping. Previous owner's signature crossed out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. Illustrated with halftone drawings by Carse. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, R. H. Woodward Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and with color lithographs that are bright & clean. Edges lightly foxed. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An intricately woven tapestry of friendship and love follows Zazoo, who lives with her adoptive grandfather in his village in France, as she learns about the history of World War II and Vietnam through her Grand-Pierre and, with the help of Marius, the bicycle boy, and the local pharmacist, makes a startling discovery that forces her to face the past. Clean copy.