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Crimea - The War With Russia from Contemporary Photographs 1854-56by: James, Lawrence

Crimea - The War With Russia from Contemporary Photographs 1854-56
by: James, Lawrence

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages. Black & white photography. Reveals the war with Russia, the first war to be extensively recorded by photography. Here are 85 photos and commentary. Many of the photos were taken by two Englishmen, Roger Fenton and William Robertson.

Record # 205615

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Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, Theby: Davis, Richard Harding

Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, The
by: Davis, Richard Harding

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue and red, 360 pages. 116 b&w photos throughout, color maps in rear. In 1898 America intervened in the Cuban War of Independence, leading to conflict with Spain. This is a detailed account of this campaign, together with American military sea and land operations on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. Cloth spine darkened otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412080

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Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States by: Kautz, August V.

Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States
by: Kautz, August V.<

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd Ed., 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 4" x 6 1/4", 303 pages including index. A detailed instructional guide for the Civil War era soldier. Copyright page states 1964, title page says 1865. Probably a second edition. Still scarce in this nice condition. A few pages with dog ears, previous owner's pencil signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412231

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Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Pittenger, William

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Pittenger, William

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Light scuffing to fore edge gilt. Otherwise, clean, tight copy. A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862, Embracing a Full and Accurate Account of the Secret Journey to the Heart of the Confederacy, the Capture of a Railway Train in a Confederate Camp, the Terrible Chase that Followed, and the Subsequent Fortunes of the Leader and His Party. Reprint of the 1877 edition.

Record # 372357

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Dear Wife: The Civil War Letters of Chester K. Leachby: Feidner, Edward (Ed.)

Dear Wife: The Civil War Letters of Chester K. Leach
by: Feidner, Edward (Ed.)

Softcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages plus 9 pages of photos from the Leach family album. These 200+ letters were written during the Civil War to Leach's wife, Ann Leach, from June 1861 - June 1864. Leach's hometown was Fletcher, Vermont and many members of Fletcher, as well as surrounding towns of Fairfax and Fairfield, enlisted in what would become Company H of the 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It has been reported that during the Civil War, at least one out of every five military aged Vermont males served at some time. Leach gives his (and his Regiment's) opinion on the war as well as details history about developments, strategies, and occurrences. The close of the book also features 30+ pages titled "Who is Who." This is a large listing of Vermont Civil War soldiers, their rank, and details with dates (enlisted, commissioned, discharged, wounded, died, mustered, taken prisoner, etc.) INSCRIBED BY FEIDNER on the title page. Some sun fading to front cover, otherwise very good, clean. Newspaper review laid in.

Record # 387384

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Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Taylor, Richard

Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Taylor, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This memoir by Confederate General Richard Taylor is usually considered one of the best and least biased by a general officer. The work is full of considered analysis on both the strategy of the war and the personalities of his fellow officers. Taylor is always fair in his criticism and seems to have no real scores to settle. While he makes little mention of his own talents, his tactical brilliance and strategic insight does shine through. Many contemporaries said Richard Taylor was one of the best soldiers of the war, but he is comparatively little known due to his posting to peripheral theaters. While he was a man of his time, the work (with the exception of some of his Reconstruction writings) is much less tainted by Lost Cause polemics than most Confederate memoirs.

Record # 372374

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: McCarthy, Carlton

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: McCarthy, Carlton

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, etc.

Record # 372355

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Devil's Own Work, The: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct Americaby: Schecter, Barnet

Devil's Own Work, The: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
by: Schecter, Barnet

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 434 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has just a touch of shelf wear to very top of spine. In excellent shape. Binding tight, seems barely read. Clean and unmarked inside and out.

Record # 31130

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Dewey and Other Naval Commandersby: Ellis, Edward S.

Dewey and Other Naval Commanders
by: Ellis, Edward S.

Hardcover. New York, Hovendon & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Blue cloth covers with bright gilt and 3-color design. Illustrated with black & white engravings and color plates. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 354245

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Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal by: Ewald, Johann Von

Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal
by: Ewald, Johann Von

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 467 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from the German and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. Johann Ewald was acknowledged by the British for whom and with whom he fought in the American Revolution as one of the best light infantry officers (termed outpost officers) in their service. A dedicated, trained professional from Hesse-Cassel, who was 'hired out' by his sovereign for the American War, he knew his job 'from muzzle to butt plate' and was an excellent leader of men, as well as a shrewd observer of what he saw. Fortunately for us, he also wrote all of it down. This book is one of the most valuable memoirs of the period. The petite guerre (little war), also called partisan warfare, of the period is of great importance in understanding the picture of the whole for the War of the Revolution. The jagers that Ewald commanded were also some of the most deadly light infantry in the world at the time, and they were greatly feared by their American opponents. Armed with short German hunting rifles and dressed in green and brown, they not only blended in with their surroundings, but they served in almost every action and battle of the war. Ewald's direct, observant prose paints a vivid picture of the war, his British comrades, and his American opponents. He respected the Americans, especially their officers' attempt at becoming more professional as the war progressed, exemplified by the military books and treatises they read, which Ewald saw from time to time as he came across captured officers' baggage. he was amazed at the American attempts, which he noted were sadly lacking in his brother British officers. He noted this with care. Ewald ended up in the surrender at Yorktown and was eventually sent home to Germany. Light fading to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 397482

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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil Warby: Clinton, Catherine /Silber, Nina [Editors]

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
by: Clinton, Catherine /Silber, Nina [Editors]

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 418 pages. The first book to show how the Civil War transformed gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality among Americans. This unique volume brings together a wide spectrum of critical viewpoints by newly emerging scholars as well as distinguished authors in the field to show how gender became a prism through which the political tensions of antebellum America were filtered and focused. Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, from new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers, to women's roles in the guerrilla fighting, to the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. In addition, an incisive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson helps place these various subjects within an overall historical context. Copyright page states first edition, but no price on dj says Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397501

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Echoes of Distant Thunder: Life in the United states 1914-1918by: Ellis, Edward Robb

Echoes of Distant Thunder: Life in the United states 1914-1918
by: Ellis, Edward Robb

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 510 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Red cover boards, white quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers. Dust jacket has edgewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. A historical narrative about WWI in the United States.

Record # 99238

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Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel "Conqueror"by: Brown, Norman D.

Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel "Conqueror"
by: Brown, Norman D.

Hardcover. Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover. Southern Historical Publications No.18. Dust cover front flap price clipped. Just a bit of age wear to dust cover, but completely whole, no rips or tears (covered in plastic). Vary clean inside. "Edward Stanley was light of frame but fearless, and his aggressive electioneering and, in Congress, his temper and sarcasm brought him more than once to the verge of duels, won him the nickname "Little Conqueror," and led John Quincy Adams to call him "the terror of the Lucifer party"."

Record # 30393

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Empire or Independence 1760 1776: A British American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution by: Christie, Ian R., Laraber, Benjamin W.

Empire or Independence 1760 1776: A British American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution
by: Christie, Ian R., Laraber, Benjamin W.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385545

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Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heros of '76by: De Puy, Henry W.

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heros of '76
by: De Puy, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, Dayton and Wentworth, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Hardcover with heavy wear and soil on cover boards. Gutter cracked in several areas. Loose hinge and loose pages. Foxing on pages.

Record # 354251

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Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of '76by: De Puy, Henry W.

Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of '76
by: De Puy, Henry W.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Horace Wentworth, 1st edition, 1853,

Record # 32865

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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction by: Allen C. Guelzo

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction
by: Allen C. Guelzo

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 592 pages. Two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. And unlike other surveys of the Civil War era, it extends the reader's vista to include the postwar Reconstruction period and discusses the modern-day legacy of the Civil War in American literature and popular culture. Guelzo also puts the conflict in a global perspective, underscoring Americans' acute sense of the vulnerability of their republic in a world of monarchies. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and especially the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South. Clean copy.

Record # 386001

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Fear Thisby: Suau, Anthony

Fear This
by: Suau, Anthony

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, b&w photo wraps, 84 pages. The photographs illustrate what war has done to the America's soul as it waged war in Iraq, both at home and on the front via television images. Contains a chronology of the history of the war from May 1, 2003, to January 1, 2004. Clean, bright copy

Record # 412434

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Flight Into Oblivion (SIGNED COPY)by: Hanna, A. J.

Flight Into Oblivion (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hanna, A. J.

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Johnson Publishing Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated cloth, 306 pages with index. B&w illustrations by John Rae, several maps including endpapers. INSCRIBED BY HANNA on the front fly leaf. "The major, detailed study of the exodus of the Confederate government from Richmond; thoroughly researched and well-written." [Martin Abbott]. minor bumps to cloth covers, name tipped-in on dedication page, otherwise clean.

Record # 383927

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Flying Tigers, The: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japanby: Kleiner, Sam

Flying Tigers, The: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
by: Kleiner, Sam

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Publishing Group, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230234

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Four Years in Rebel Capitals (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: DeLeon, Thomas Cooper

Four Years in Rebel Capitals (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: DeLeon, Thomas Cooper

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372366

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From the Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Alpheus S. Williamsby: Quaife (Ed.), Milo M.

From the Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Alpheus S. Williams
by: Quaife (Ed.), Milo M.

Hardcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 405 pages, b&w illustrations. Gray cloth covers with blue decoration and lettering. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.

Record # 405825

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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

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

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German Fury in Belgium, Theby: Mokveld, L.

German Fury in Belgium, The
by: Mokveld, L.

Hardcover. New York , George H. Doran, unknown, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 249 pages. Faint foxing to edges, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857004

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Gettysburg - The Last Invasionby: Guelzo, Allen C.

Gettysburg - The Last Invasion
by: Guelzo, Allen C.

Hardcover. 2013, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 632 pages. Hardcover. Grey & navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in bw throughout. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750672

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Glorious "Shannon's" Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame, Theby: Snider, C. H. J.

Glorious "Shannon's" Old Blue Duster and Other Faded Flags of Fadeless Fame, The
by: Snider, C. H. J.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 430 pages, with illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and decorated cover on blue cloth. Minor corner and spine edge wear, cracked binding at front and rear end paper. Yellowing on pages 104 and 105, otherwise, clean and tight overall. A book about the sea battles of the War of 1812 by a noted Canadian naval historian.

Record # 852968

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Grant as a Soldier and Statesman: Being a Succinct History of His Military and Civil Career by: Howland, Edward

Grant as a Soldier and Statesman: Being a Succinct History of His Military and Civil Career
by: Howland, Edward

Hardcover. Hartford CT, J. B. Burr & Company, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in polished calf, black spine label with gilt lettering. Frontis portrait of Grant, additional full page engravings, 631 pages plus publisher's ads. Both cover hinges cracked but holding, and text block is solid. No foxing in text.

Record # 398431

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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Yearby: Flood, Charles Bracelen

Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
by: Flood, Charles Bracelen

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, binding tight, clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read.

Record # 31132

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Green Mountain Boys, The - A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont by: Thompson, Daniel P.

Green Mountain Boys, The - A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont
by: Thompson, Daniel P.

Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, Second Edition, 1853, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, revised edition to the original published work by the author of "May Martin or The Money Diggers;" "Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster." Green cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Scuffed edges to boards, frayed edge to spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750434

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Hard Tack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Billings, John D./Charles W. Reed

Hard Tack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Billings, John D./Charles W. Reed

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every dayaEUR"in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded. The authenticity of his book is heightened by the many drawings that a comrade, Charles W. Reed, made in the field. This is the story of how the Civil War soldier was recruited, provisioned, and disciplined. Described here are the types of men found in any outfit; their not very uniform uniforms; crowded tents and makeshift shelters; difficulties in keeping clean, warm, and dry; their pleasure in a cup of coffee; food rations, dominated by salt pork and the versatile cracker or hardtack; their brave pastimes in the face of death; punishments for various offenses; treatment in sick bay; firearms and signals and modes of transportation. Comprehensive and anecdotal, Hardtack and Coffee is striking for the pulse of life that runs through it.

Record # 372359

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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol. VII For the Year 1863by: N/A

Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization Vol. VII For the Year 1863
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound volume of every issue for 1863. Profusely illustrated, Exceptional condition. Clean. Extra shipping charges may apply. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 369888

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Hero of Vincennes, The: The Story of George Rogers Clarkby: Thomas, Lowell

Hero of Vincennes, The: The Story of George Rogers Clark
by: Thomas, Lowell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrations by F.C. Yohn. Color frontispiece. illustrated end papers. Book store stamp on rear paste-down. light edgewear, otherwise clean.

Record # 200544

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History of Lake Champlain, A: The Record of Three Centuriesby: Crocket, Walter Hill

History of Lake Champlain, A: The Record of Three Centuries
by: Crocket, Walter Hill

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Hobart J. Shanley & Co., 1st Edition, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 page. Hardcover. Blue cloth bound cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board, some agewear to covers. Tanning throughout from age. Binding split at gutter in one place, still connected and no pages missing. Pages unmarked. Clean copy.

Record # 32868

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History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. I of V.by: Spears, John R.

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. I of V.
by: Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852814

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History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. II of V.by: Spears, John R.

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. II of V.
by: Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852815

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History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers with Biographical Sketchesby: Haynes, Chaplain E. M.

History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers with Biographical Sketches
by: Haynes, Chaplain E. M.

Hardcover. no place , Tenth Vermont Regimental Assoc., 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , Hardcover, 249 pages. Includes a complete roster of the regiment & details of Vermont actions. Light edgewear to covers, slight fading to spine otherwise very good.

Record # 300415

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HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. I. EIGHTH EDITIONby: Charles Botta; Translated from the Italian by George Alexander Otis

HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. I. EIGHTH EDITION
by: Charles Botta; Translated from the Italian by George Alexander Otis<

Hardcover. New Haven CT, L. Candee, 8th Ed., 1842, Book: Good, Hardcover, brown leather covers with marbled endpapers. Frontis engraving "Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Dec. 22, 1620" with tissue guard. plus seven other engravings, Volume 1 only. Covers worn at edges, leather spine with chipping making title unreadable. Pages 309-337 with dog ear crease to top corners. Small bookplate inside front cover. Despite faults a solid copy.

Record # 382577

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History of Turkey and the War in the Eastby: Hammond, R. A.

History of Turkey and the War in the East
by: Hammond, R. A.

Hardcover. Rockland, C. E. Hunt & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Fair, Ends at page 502; MIssing back pages. B&w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Ornately decorated red cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration. Cover separated with soiling, rubbing, and edgewear. Foxing to edges and some light spotting throughout.

Record # 851600

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Hitler's U-Boat War : The Hunters, 1939-1942by: Blair, Clay

Hitler's U-Boat War : The Hunters, 1939-1942
by: Blair, Clay

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 809 pages, b&w photography. Black cloth spine, silver title. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to covers and upper edges, else a very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent shape.

Record # 606486

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I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)by: Thompson, Scott M.

I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
by: Thompson, Scott M.

Softcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350301

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I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)by: Thompson, Scott M.

I Will Tell of My War Story: A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
by: Thompson, Scott M.

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s. It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture. The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective. The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.

Record # 350303

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Images From the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Stormby: Sneden, Private Robert Knox (Author/Illustrator), Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James c. Kel

Images From the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm
by: Sneden, Private Robert Knox (Author/Illustrator), Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James c. Kel

Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. A touch of foxing on spine, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight, in great shape.

Record # 31148

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In and Out of Rebel Prisons (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Cooper, Alonzo

In and Out of Rebel Prisons (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Cooper, Alonzo

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372369

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In Peril on the Sea: War Exploits of Allied Seamen.by: Masters, David

In Peril on the Sea: War Exploits of Allied Seamen.
by: Masters, David

Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852696

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In the Wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers: Fights and Flights of Frigates and Fore-'n'-afters in the War of 1812-1815 on the Great Lakesby: Snider, C. H. J.

In the Wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers: Fights and Flights of Frigates and Fore-'n'-afters in the War of 1812-1815 on the Great Lakes
by: Snider, C. H. J.

Hardcover. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Minor spine edge wear. Gilt title on front cover and spine. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 852350

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Indian Races of North and South America, The: Including the Late Sioux War and Indian Massacre in Minnesotaby: Brownell, Charles de Wolf

Indian Races of North and South America, The: Including the Late Sioux War and Indian Massacre in Minnesota
by: Brownell, Charles de Wolf

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hurlbut, Scranton & Co., 1st, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 763 pages, illustrated with many full-page plates, most hand-colored (including second title page). Leather bound with some splitting along spine edges. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Internally very good, minor foxing.

Record # 900249

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Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam by: George McT. Kahin

Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam
by: George McT. Kahin

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 550 pages. A fascinating historical study using newly-declassified documents from the time the British were in Indochina through the end of the war. A detailed, specific history of the debacle. Clean copy.

Record # 378013

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

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

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Ira Allen: Founder of Vermont by: Wilbur , James Benjamin

Ira Allen: Founder of Vermont
by: Wilbur , James Benjamin

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co , 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Set of two hardcover volumes. 1113 pages total. Illustrated frontispiece. B&w illustrations throughout. Includes extensive appendix. With worn, decorative slipcase. Light edge wear to dust jacket otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857273

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Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War - Two Volumesby: Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer

Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War - Two Volumes
by: Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes in maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spine titles. [1], xi, [1 blank], 658; [2], vi, 590 pages, as issued, with plates and folding maps. Jay Cooke was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. He is generally acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house firm. Over 75 illustrations, including foldouts. NOTE: Unlike most sets offered online, this one does not have blue cloth or top edge gilt. The copyright page states Published October, 1907. No other printings noted. No date on title page, so suspected reprint. Bookplate on inside front covers, otherwise clean and tight set.

Record # 398434

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