Documents of the USSR-USA Summit Talks (June, 1973)
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1973. Soft cover. 5" x 7.75" Orig. teal wraps. 62 pp. Wraps are age toned, slight wear to joint, else fine. More
American History
The Good Things of "Life". Fifth Series.
New York: Frederick A. Strokes, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. 10" x 8.25" Original blue pictorial cloth and white cloth onlay at head with gilt illustration of dancing shepherds. .64 p.p. A collection of humorous comic sketches and caricatures from Life Magazine, originally founded in 1883, co-founded by John Ames Mitchell..... More
The History of Troop "A" New York Cavalry U.S.V. from May 2 to November 28, 1898 in the Spanish-American War
New York: R.H. Russell, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. red cloth. T.E.G. 341 pp. [81] B&W plates plus fold-out colour map of Porto Rico [sic]. Deckled edges. Rear hinge starting. Light wear to lower rear corner, else about fine. More
Ostrich Farming in the United States: Reports from the Consuls of the United States at Algiers, Cape Town, and Buenos Ayres, on Ostrich Raising and Ostrich Farming in Africa, in the Argentine Republic, and in The United States
Washintong, D.C. Department of State, 1882. Soft cover. Commercial Relations of the United States No. 24 1/2--OCtober, 1882. Orig. printed paper wrappers. 620 pp. Creasing to covers and corners, wear to spine, a few small stains. More
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography
New York: Harper and Row, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition stated. Full black cloth. xvii, 638 pp., [16] pp. B&W photos. Wear to front pastedown from removed sticker. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Fine overall. The intensely moving and beautifully written autobiography of one of the..... More
Armenia, Vision of a Republic: The Independence Lobby in America 1918-1927
Boston: Charles River Books, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. 79 p.p. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Bumping to corners. Illustrated dust jacket has some bumping to corners, a few creases, a few damp spots. Gregory Aftandilian follows the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia's increasingly desperate and finally..... More
Narratives of Barbary Captivity: Recollections of James Leander Cathcart, Jonathan Cowdery, and William Ray
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2007. Hardcover. 16mo. The Lakeside classics. Full green cloth. Geometric endpapers. T.E.G. lxiii, 322 pp., [2]. Colour illustrations in text. Fine condition. A collection of three captivity narratives from sailors who faced imprisonment at the hands of the pirates from the Barbary states (the African..... More
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition, full number line. Quarter black cloth with black paper boards, gold lettering to spine. xviii, 458 p.p. [14] p.p. B&W photographs. Dust jacket has some bumping to extremities, else fine. In this book, Jonathan Alter, one of the..... More
Comanche: The Horse that Surived the Custer Massacre
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, decorative horses in blind on front cover, gilt on spine, 86pp, [4] B&W plates. Fine in Near Fine d/w, clipped at upper front inner cover, small tears at jacket spine ends with very light wear on covers. A Special..... More
Political and Economic Democracy
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 336 p.p. Original red cloth. Sunning to spine and head of rear cover. Bumping to spine ends. Light rubbing to corners. Foreward by Alvin Johnson. Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Text clean. More
Tales of Manhattan
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. 304 pp. Spine cocked, rubbing to spine ends and corners, else fine. More
The Price of Power
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. B&W map endpapers. xii, 361 pp. Chafing to extremities. Ink stamp to head of ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to extremities (with some minor loss to spine head and..... More
The Ohio
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1949. Shenton, Edward. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Rivers of America series. Full grey cloth. Top edge grey. 592 pp. B&W illustrations and maps in text. Spine and top edges sunned. Gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped..... More
The Pentagon and the Making of US Foreign Policy: A Case Study of Vietnam, 1960-1968
New Delhi: Radiant Publishers, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. burgundy cloth. ix, 333 pp. Some light soiling to boards. A few instances of highlighting throughout. Dust jacket is bumped to extremities. This scholarly study breaks new ground in its analysis of US decision-making on military and foreign policy. It..... More
Holding the Line: The Third Tennessee Infantry, 1861-1864
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black cloth. viii, 281 pp. B&W photos in text. Some slight sunning and bumping to edges of flas, else fine overall. Flavel C. Barber's memoir of his service with the Third Tennessee provides a rare contemporary history of a Confederate..... More
The History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Fevers of the United States
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1856. Hardcover. 8vo. 4th edition, revised. Brown blind stamped cloth. xxii, 23-610, 32 pp. ads. Spine tilted and sunned, lightly worn at ends. Light wear to corners and rubbing to bards. Some foxing to interior. Bookplate of Edgar T. Peer. More
The World from Jackson Square: a New Orlean's Reader
Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. black quarter-cloth over red boards, xvii, 405pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown, newsprint illustrations laid-on verso of pp. xvii, and rear free endpaper. Yellow tape marking on ff/ endpaper. Spine bumped but o/w very good in d/w. Jacket..... More
The Damned Missouri Valley: One Sixth of Our Nation
New York: Alfred A. Knopff, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (crown). Green cloth, top edge red, xi, 291pp, vi, [8] double-sided, B&W plates, collector stamp on rear pastedown, yellow staining on front pastedown, wear and fraying on spine ends, tips, bumping on head and tail of spine. Very Good in..... More
Pride of the Inland Seas: An Illustrated History of the Port of Duluth-Superior
Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full navy cloth. 288 pp. Numerous photographs in text, many in full colour. Sunned panel to front cover of dust jacket, else fine. Pride of the Inland Seas is far more than the story of the building of docks..... More
America's Fabrics: Origin and History, Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth. xv, 688 pp. B&W photos in text, colour frontis. Fabric photographs by Nat Messik. Spine tilted and darkened, rubbing to extremities, age toning to interior. More
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America: The Last Best Hope [2 vols]
New York: Thomas Nelson, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes in custom slipcase + audio CD "Remembering Ronald Regan. As new in shrink wrap. xviii, 573 pp.; xvi, 592 pp. More
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
New York: Random House, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 388 pp. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Fine overall. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the..... More
Shards of America
New York: The Quantuck Lane Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 10" x 9.5" Full black cloth. 135 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. The slightest bumps to extremities of dust jacket, fine overall. A shard is a fragment of broken glass or pottery. Archaeologists often use them to reconstruct objects from..... More
Murder of a Landscape: The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897-1916
Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clarke Company, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Western Lands and Waters Series XIV. Orig. brown cloth. 233 pp. B&W photos and maps in text. Fine. Between 1896 and 1919, air pollution from large-scale copper smelting in northern California's Shasta County severely damaged crops and timber..... More
Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. Soft cover. Softcover. Slight sticker ghost on back cover,otherwise as new. More