History War

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 740 pages. Historian Musicant offers a detailed examination of the American war that catapulted the nation to imperial status. Musicant offers a portrait of a nation increasingly torn between the desire for isolation and the yearning for a place on the international stage. That conflict was at first fought out in the nation's newspapers, which managed to gradually sway public opinion toward involvements abroad. The sinking of the American warship Maine in the harbor of Havana pushed America over the edge, and McKinley was compelled to declare war on Spain. The war itself lasted less than a year and featured only a few large-scale battles, but Musicant is able to wring considerable drama from this thorough narrative of events. Clean copy.

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.

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.

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

Softcover. Hardwick VT, The Vermont Civil War Hemlocks, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 78 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with 3-color pictorial cover, 286 pages. An historical book written by Charles Carleton Coffin and originally published in 1865. The book is a detailed account of Coffin's experiences as a war correspondent during the American Civil War, specifically with the Union Army of the Potomac. Coffin provides a firsthand account of the battles and events that took place during the period of August 1861 to November 1862. He describes the conditions and hardships faced by the soldiers, the tactics and strategies employed by the Union army, and the personalities of the commanders and soldiers he encountered. Clean copy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Shelton CT, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Illustrated with 69 full color reproductions of the art of Mort Kunstler, some double page. First edition, first printing - stated and with full number line. America's premier Civil War artist, Mort Kunstler, is joined by the nation's leading Civil War historian, Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr., in this extraordinary visual history of the Civil War's dramatic first two years. A companion history to the motion picture of the same name, Gods and Generals is based on the best-selling Jeff Shaara novel, and surveys a crucial period in the War Between the States through incomparable art-work and a matchless narrative. Clean copy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.