Daedalus Fall 1965 (with) Winter 1966: The American Negro parts 1 and 2
richmond: American Academy of Arts and Science, 1966. Hardcover. Two volumes in stiff wrappers. Sequentially paginated 743-1173 and 1-454. Very good.
American History
Delaware History, Volume XVI, Number 3, Spring-Summer, 1975
Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1975. Softcover. Printed stiff wrappers. Sequentially paginated 171-267. Near fine, some fade to the spine. This edition of the semi-annual publication of the Society contains monographs, "Coleman Du Pont and His Road:, "The Diaries of Edmund Canby, A Quaker Miller", and "Phoebe George Bradford.....
A Manual for the Use Of Lodges under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of the State Of New Jersey
Trenton: J.L. Murphy, 1898. Hardcover. 18 mo. (4" x 6") hardcover in royal blue clothwith spine lettered in gilt and masonic symbol in gilt on front board. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. 150 pp. plus contents page at rear. Very good, corners a bit rounded and an ink blot rear.....
Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications Volume IV 1896 (with folding map)
Columbus: published for the Society, 1896. Hardcover. Hardcover in midnight green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Generally fine. Folding map of Fort Ancient 1889 as drawn by Gerard Fowke and Clinton Cowen, Surveyors at front. vii+ 481 pp. Tight, generally fine copy. Among the contents of this volume: "The.....
Our Bucks County
Doylestown, PA: Bucks County School Directors' Association, 1951. Spiral_bound. Spiral bound in red stiff wrappers printed in black. 62 pp. Illustrated with photos, double page map. Fine. A look at the history of Bucks County, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania bordering the Delaware River. It was prepared for students and contains.....
Report of The New York State and Tunnel Commission 1920; Legislative Document No. 60
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon for the Commission, 1920. First edition. Quarto in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. A tight, near fine example, small bump at one tip and a touch of wear at the spine ends. 82 pp + 30 plates at rear (24 of which are folding) maps.....
Square Dancing in the Ice Age: Underground Writings
New York: Putnam, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing (no statements as is correct for Putnam at that time). Fine in crisp dust jacket with short closed tear/ crease bottom rear panel. Hardcover. 242 pp. Collection of pieces, some never before published in complete form or published at.....
Lincoln's Own Stories
New York: Harper & Bros, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. First edition with "Published October, 1912" and correct date code of K-M on copyright page. Hardcover in greenish-tan cloth, gilt lettering and incised photo image of Lincoln sitting on a bench. Oval photogravure frontis of Lincoln, tissue guard. vii+ 223 pp.....
Lost In Austin: The Evolution of an American city
New York: Dey St/ Morrow, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 229 pp. with bibliography. A journalist's exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas--charting shifts in its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid.....
David Sarnoff Research Center: RCA Labs to Sarnoff Corporation (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, 2003. Softcover. Fine, fresh, unread copy, Illustrated softcovers. 128 pp. Pictorial history of the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Technologies that define modern civilization were developed here---color television, liquid-crystal displays, medical electronics, lasers, digital memory, digital video. During World War II, the Sarnoff engineers, physicists.....
Alexander Hamilton: Selections Representing His Life, His Thought, and His Style (American Heritage Series no. 20)
New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957. Hardcover. Hardcover in brick colored linen cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown. A fine, tight example, xxvi including bibliography+ 255 p. with biographical index and topical index. A useful and interesting work in which the editor endeavored, while doing no violence to the.....
The American Labor Year Book 1919-1920 (Vol. Three)
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920. Hardcover. Hardcover in maroon cloth lettered in blacck. Very good or somewhat better, prev. owner name top edge of ffep. 447 pp. with index. The primary sections in this volumes are: Labor In The War, The Labor Movement in The United States.....
Seduced By The Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story (inscribed by the author)
Essex, CT: Lyons Press, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread as-new copy inequally fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper, "6/23 342 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. ___/ I hope this book finds a special place on your book shelf/ A Rimer".....
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey fron Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. hardcover. 317 pp. Illustrated with photos. Inspiring story of Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa who from childhood in the impoverished tiny village of Palaco, Mexico became an internationally known neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting edge.....
Devil's Mile; The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Fine and fresh in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 290 pp (w/ index). The Bowery, nicknamed "Satan's Highway" and "The Mile of Hell", was known by New Yorkers as a slum filled with drunken bums and a place of embarrassment.....
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage In America in The Stalin Era
New York: Random House, 1999. Hardcover. Hardcover. xxviii+ 402 pp. with bibliography, index. Photo illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Old Towpaths: The Story of The American Canal Era
New York: D. Appleton, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, with (1) after the final line of text. Fine. Hardcover in dark brown cloth lettered in gilt. xiii+ 403 pp. plus one page of publisher's ads at rear. With bibliography. Numerous full page plates featuring reproductions of 19th century images.....
The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Leadership
New York: Viking Press, 1965. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine (prev. own, stamp front free endpaper) in near fine dust jacket with a bit fo spine fade. Hardcover. Fourth printing. xiv+ 8 pp "Gallery of Portraits", map + 364 pp. with bibliography, index. The heroic and tragic story of Native American.....
Peace In Vietnam: A New Approach In Southeast Asia (A Report Prepared for the American Friends Service Committee)
Vancouver, BC: Copp Clark, 1966. First edition. Softcover. First edition stated. Illustrated softcovers. x+ 112 pp. with bibliography. Very good. Publication by a Canadian Quaker organization as an effort to end the fighting in Vietnam.
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 605 pp. with bibliographical essay, index. Illustrated with photographs.This fascinating, unique take on New York City history, author Ann Douglas presents a portrait of the soul of a generation, the story.....
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in fine, price clipped dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 309 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. In June, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were led separately from their prison cells on death row and electrocuted moments apart.....
The Nation: its Rulers and Institutions; or, Outlines of the Government
Philadelphia: New World Publishing, 1873. Third printing. Hardcover. Octavo in royal blue blindstamped cloth with oval gilt portrait of George Washington front board, spine lettered in gilt. Very good, all gilt clear. Third printing, with the "Special To The Reader" introduction dated 1871. Striking engraving of an American Eagle hovering.....
The Charles (Rivers of America) in original dust jacket
New York: Farrar & Rinehaert, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, with publisher's seal on copyright page. Hardcover in black cloth with spine stamped in pink and gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 356 pp. Title and facing page illustrated in pink and lettered in black. Illustrations by Ernest J. Donnelly. Fine in.....
The Hudson Through the Years
Lind Graphics, 1983. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xx+ 334 pp. with general index, vessel index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. An absorbing general history of the Hudson River from the earliest days of the Native Americans and the discovery by the Europeans, through the periods of Dutch.....
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings 1917-1950 (signed first edition)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 557 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. In this, the first volume of his long-awaited memoirs, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr......