Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xvi+ 424 pp. with index. Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton County notorious but even as that episode faded from national memory, the county could not.....
Rochester, MN: Lone Oak Press, 1994. Softcover. Firts printing softcover original. Fine, unused copy. 515 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. The behind the scenes story of the 1968 presidential run of Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy.
Random House, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. with index, glossary of sea terms. Illustrated. A unique take on maritime history, an illuminating and readable book that reveals the vibrant history of women and the sea. The book's structure takes the form.....
Gloucestershire, UK: History Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. 223 with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photos. In autumn, 1942, British Special Operational Executive Ronals Sydney Seth was parachuted into German-occupies Europe. His mission was supposedly to carry out acts.....
Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 536 pp. with index. Illustrated with charts.
London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 320 pp. Illustrations. Fine in very good dust jacket. An examination of Scottish life during the reign of Charles I, a clear pciture of the social and economic life of the period region by region.
Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, Hardcover, as new condition with an as new dustjacket, 224 pgs, has multiple black and white pages, index and glossary, 2.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1941. Hardcover. Hardcover in black cloth. LENGTHY INSCRIPTION ONTHE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: " To David E. Lilienthal/ a great builder as well as a dreamer--who is contributing magnificently to solidifying & in addressing our form of government--the last best hope of earth. With the admiration.....
New York: New York Times, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in olive green cloth lettered in gilt. 434 pp.with index, roser of personnel. Illustrated with full page photogravure plates and with line drawings, double page reproductions of front pages of famous historical issues. LAID IN IS A TYPEWRITTEN.....
New York: John Lane, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in tan cloth. SIGNED BY DAWSON ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER and wil typed letter signed from Dawson to the book's owner acknowledging that he has signed the page and mailed it back to her (it is, therefore, reinserted.....
Boston: Dayton and Wentworth, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo hardcover in blindstamped brown cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Frontispiece engraving of Kinney's statue of Allen; 428 pp. , map at page 360. Lacking the rear endpaper. About very good, shallow chipping to the spine ends.....
London: Muller, 1976. First edition. Book. First edition. Hardcover. 198 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Published in the 500th anniversary year of the introduction of printing to England, an examination of the kingdom's first printer William Caxton and his editorial conributions to publishing and the language. Fine in very good.....
Owl Books, 1998. Paperback. Softcover. Fine except for some foxing about the edges of the text block. 425 pp. with index. Voices of officers and seamen are presented in this collection of first hand accounts of the French Revolutionary War (1793-1802), the Napoleanic War (1803-1815), and the War of 1812.....
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 374 pp. with index. Illustrated. Work devoted to the workings of the government of Pennsylvania--executive, legislative and judicial--at the close of the 1950s. The basic organization of each branch is outlined and explained. Fine in near fine.....
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (txt), 1997. Paperback. Softcovers. Fine, unused copy. xxi+ 289 pp. with index.
Rose Publishing Company, 1982. Paperback. Oversized in illustrated softcovers. As new, fresh example. 96 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with vintage photographs and reproductions. Anecdotal history of one of America's favorite playgroungs, Hot Springs, Arkansas. This lively jaunt leads the reader from the days of De Soto and other early.....
Harbour Books, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Scarce. New, unread copy in dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. x+ 292 pp. with index. Illustrations. George Washinton's largely unknown and unexamined role as the entrepreneurial owner of one of the largest whisky distilleries in 18th century America forms the core of this detailed.....
Knopf, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Hardcover. xiv+ 429 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Well regarded biography of Benito Mussolini, the Facsist dictator of Italy in the 1930s and during WWII. Both a personal and political history, the work.....
Privately Printed, 1953. Hardcover. Hardcover in royal blue cloth; 422 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Very good, slightly cocked.
reu. Hardcover. Overszied hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. 426 pp. with index. Reropduction doule page map. Facsimile reprint of the 1908 edition printed by the Government Printing Office. Fine (previous owner's name and date 199 on front free endpaper. Issued without dust jacket.
Albany: James B. Lyon, 1894. First edition. hardcover. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE TREASURER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK A.B. COLVIN, SO INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Thick quarto in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt New York State Seal.....
Taplinger Pub Co, 1976. First edition. Unknown. First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. A bit of wear to top of spine and previous price sticker on front panel. 184 pages with index.
Moscow: University of Idaho, 1971. Softcover. Softcover. In fine condition. "Anthropological Monographs of the University of Idaho, No. 2". 290 pages with numerous illustrations. Small ownership signatureon the front.
New York: Dutton, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in navy blue cloth. 151 pp. with index. Scarce work about the role of the United States in the establishment of the League of Nations, the post WWI dream of Woodrow Wilson, which ironically the U.S. did not join as.....
New York: Stokes, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth hardcover with lettering and red, white and blue drawing of Uncle Sam tipped onto the front cover. xiv+ 162 pp. Illustrated with small line drawings at the head of each chapter. Humorous though poiunted look at American Revolutionary history.....
