New York: Harper Perennial, 2015. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Light edgewear.
xv, 516 pp. After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. Reissue. Full-Leather.
1922 deluxe leather-bound reissue of the 1919 original. No jacket. Leather edges rubbed, ink name on half-title page.
xviii, 315 pp. Red leather. The purpose of the present volume is to record some personal impressions which this great American.....
. [American Historical Association], 1908. Hard Cover.
Base of boards faintly stained, free endpapers removed.
233-450 pp. 8vo. A separately bound edition of the Justin Winsor Prize winning essay originally published by the American Historical Association in 1906. The author, a Ph.D., was a Bulkley Fellow in History at Yale.....
Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1967. Hard Cover.
Jacket lightly rubbed, front jacket flap price clipped.
xi, 392 pp. 8vo. Includes new preface by the author. Originally published in 1932. A political and sociological study of the early United States. Includes commentary on Andrew Jackson as a land speculator, Andrew.....
. Abraham's Lady, LLC, 2011. Soft Cover.
A very nice copy.
143 pp. "This book is a unique record of magnified photos showcasing what "real" people wore in this hugely popular time period."
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual markings. Rebound. Minor pencil underlining.
xviii, 522 pp. Leather spine over cloth boards, new printed marbled endpapers. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film.....
Boston: The Old South Association. Stapled Binding.
No publisher date. Wrappers lightly toned.
20 pp. From the "History of New Sweden" by Israel Acrelius. Beginning in 1749, Acrelius took a post in Wilmington, Delaware, site of a Swedish Lutheran congregation which dated to the time of the New Sweden colony.....
London: Quercus, 2008. Adams, Ansel. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top edge of rear jacket panel bumped.
224 pp. 14.25 x 1.25 x 17.25 inches. A stunning collection of 120 visionary photographs of the American West and its wild places showcases Adams's manipulation of light and shadow to reflect.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co, 1869. First Edition. Small Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink name on second blank, title page and copyright page.
iv, 152 pp. Green boards with gilt title on spine and front board. A brief history of the Erie Railway.
Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Reissue. Hard Cover.
No jacket.
v, 424 pp. 8vo. 1971 reissue of 1911 original. Charles Francis Adams II (May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the.....
New York: The Library of America, 1986. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Highlighting.
1308 pp. Henry Adams' History of the United States During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson is a complete and detailed account of political life in the U.S. from 1801 to 1809. With access to previously unavailable records from.....
New York: Random House, 1951. Ames, Lee J. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. Spine head rubbed, ink name on front free endpaper.
181 pp. The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in.....
Washington Square: New York University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Small tear on jacket spine, jacket lightly rubbed. Board edges rubbed, top page ridge lightly foxed, front free endpaper clipped.
260 pp. ...extricates the real Franklin from the myths, misconceptions, legends with which French adoration surrounded him
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Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. First state (no ads for other New World series titles). Ink name on second blank, rear hinge starting.
iv, 352, 12 pp. A historical tale based on the California Gold Rush, with black-and-white illustrations.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co., Publishers, 1877. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition. Boards rubbed with some loss along edges, joints weak, cup ring stain on rear board, top corner of front flyleaf removed.
767 pp. 8vo. Original full calf, black leather spine label, gilt titles & rules, marbled endpapers.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1943. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Front jacket joint heavily rubbed, jacket edges rubbed, jacket stained. Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper, newspaper clipping mounted on front free endpaper, page edges stained.
viii, 344 pp. Color frontispiece mirrors jacket art. Number 1 in.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Fenn, Harry; Earl, J.C. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, front free endppaer missing, mull exposed at front hinge, ink note on page three.
vii, 385, [5] pp. 8vo. A novel by an important Kentucky author known for incorporating local vernacular into his.....
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene Press, 1957. Hard Cover.
Related articles laid in. Jacket rubbed.
Historical information and black-and-white photos of the covered bridges of New England.
Washington, D.C. National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1987. Trade Paperback.
Minor sticker adhesive on rear wrapper.
xvi, 504 pp. "The Real Benjamin Franklin: The True Story of America's Greatest Diplomat. There are many Benjamin Franklins -- or at least he has taken on many different forms in the history books.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine head bumped. Remainder mark.
xiv, 847 pp. Stating that the United States did not have to use the atomic bomb in order to win the war, a detailed study profiles a defeated Japan while citing the.....
New York: Touchstone, 1996. Trade Paperback.
Spine edge lightly faded.
521 pp. From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803.....
New York: Touchstone, 1996. Trade Paperback.
Wrapper lightly sunned.
521 pp. From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President.....
New York: Simon & Schuester, 1996. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Faint foxing to top ridge.
511 pp. From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories.....
Philadelphia: American Art Marble Co., 1909. Soft Cover.
Light stain to wrappers, light water damage to pages.
60 pp. Includes color frontispiece, two-page color image of Blair County Court House, and numerous black-and-white photographs showing the uses and advantages of American Art Marble, with examples from throughout the United States
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. American Association for State and Local History. Stapled Binding.
No publisher date, half-inch tear along top edge of front wrapper near spine.
Unpaginated. Reprinted from American Heritage, Volume 5, Number 3. "Wheatland, or the James Buchanan House, is a brick, Federal style house outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster.....