Category: History

'Old Bruin'; Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Atlantic Monthy / Little Brown : 1967

Seller ID: 23097

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 482 pages, dark blue quarter cloth with gilt title on spine and front cover; frontispiece b&w painting of Perry. With maps and b&w illustrations. A very good, clean hard cover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white; but a slight cant to the spine. In a good, clean, moderately worn dust jacket with several short edge tears (one tear on front shows old tape marks), with a one-inch chip at top backstrip, and price clipped.
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History

By: Garraty, John A.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Doubleday : 1992-09-27

Seller ID: 60748

ISBN-13: 9780385244329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Small quarto, 10 1/4" tall, ix + 207 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, silver titles on black and blue boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper white with slight foxing to the top fore-edge. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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1815: The Armies at Waterloo

By: Ugo Pericoli; with Michael Glover; introduction by Elizabeth Longford

Price: $16.50

Publisher: London, England, Sphere : 1973

Seller ID: 37286

ISBN-13: 9780312244477

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Quarto, 9 2/3" tall, 174 pages + 80 pages of color plate illustration, maps; stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, clean soft cover with light exterior shelf wear; binding solid, paper clean, white, and just slightly yellowing at the margins.
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1886: the Pennsylvania State Almanac and Household Guide

By: Wells, Richardson & Co.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Burlington, Vermont, Wells, Richardson & Co. : 1886

Seller ID: 46248

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

This copy appears to be an advertising premium issued by " T. P. Garber, Greenville, Mercer Co., PA, dealer in drugs and medicines. "Octavo, 8" tall, 30 pages, wire saddle stitch, decorative color printed wraps with a threat tie at top of spine. A good, generally clean, soft cover pamphlet with moderate shelf wear and light exterior soiling ; binding loose, wire stitch rusting and staining surrounding paper at gutter, paper moderately yellowed but one leaf partially (about 1/2 pages 29-30) torn away.
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19 ; Nineteenth Century [magazine; Victorian Society of America ] Vol. 6, No, 1; Spring, 1980 / Vol. 6, No. 2: Summer; 1980 / Volume 6, No. 3; Autumn 1980/ vol. 6, No 4; Winter, 1980; [Four original issues sold together]; Who was Pierre-Auguste Cot; The forgotten Napoleon; John Henry Belter, Rococo revival; Cast Iron Stoves, Tiffanu Stained Glass; The Czar's Colts; Haircloth Upholstery; J. W. Waterhouse; etc.

By: William Seale (editor); John Maass, Winslow Ames, Richard Guy Wilson, Barnett Shepherd, Katherine Boyd Menz, Elizabeth G. De Ver, Arthur Channing Downs, jr, Vern G. Swanson, Lois Fink

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Victorian Society of America--Forbes Inc. : 1977

Seller ID: 43632

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine to very good

Four original individual issues. Quarto, 11" tall, with color and black and white illustration throughout. 1: 64 pages. A very good, clean solid original periodical over all with light exterior soiling and minor staining to the back cover at the spine, but the bottom of the spine bumped. / 2: 64 pages. A near fine, clean solid original periodical over all with light exterior soiling and minor staining to the back cover at the spine. / 3: 64 pages. A near fine, clean solid original periodical over all with light exterior soiling and minor staining to the back cover at the spine. / 4: 64 page...
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19 ; Nineteenth Century [magazine; Victorian Society of America ] Vol. III, No. 2; Summer 1977 / Vol. III, No. 3; Autumn 1977 / Vol. III, No. 4; Winter1977; [three original issues sold together] ; Frederick Law Olmstead; Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee; Frith's Photographic Egypt; Furniture industry in Boston; RoyalPavilion at Brighton; Carl Faberge; The Myth of Victorian Prudery; The Cinemascope West of Albert Bierstadt; Collecting 19th Century Photographs; American Architecture; Decorating for the Vanderbilts; The Ten Cent Breakfast; Stain Glass in American Architecture; Alma-Tadema, etc

By: William Seale (editor); Charles E. Beveridge, Denys Peter Meyers, Jan Seidler, Jeffrey L. Lant, William Morris Hunt, Margaret Supplee Smith, John Maass, Winslow Ames, Richard Guy Wilson, Barnett Shepherd, Katherine Boyd Menz, Elizabeth G. De Ver, Arthur

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Victorian Society of America--Forbes Inc. : 1977

Seller ID: 43631

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: all Near Fine

Three original individual issues Quarto, 11" tall, with color and black and white illustration throughout. 1: 112 pages A near fine, clean solid original periodical over all with light exterior soiling and minor staining to the back cover at the spine. / 2: 88 pages. A near fine, clean solid original periodical over all with light exterior soiling and minor staining to the back cover at the spine. / 3: 84 pages A near fine, clean solid original periodical over all with light exterior soiling and minor foxing to the fore-edges.
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A Bibliography of the works by Allen Ginsberg, October, 1943 to July 1, 1967

By: George Dowden, editor; Allen Ginsberg (foreword); index by Laurence McGilvery

Price: $11.60

Publisher: San Francisco, California, City Lights Books : 1971

Seller ID: 25790

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library with markings to the spine, endpapers, fore-edges and title page. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xvi + 343 pages, gray cloth. A very good , clean hard cover with minor wear over all, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed and slightly foxing at the fore-edges and endpapers. Without dust jacket
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A Billion Bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty [signed]

By: Phil Smith, Eric Thurman

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, McGraw-Hill : 2007

Seller ID: 46102

ISBN-13: 9780071489973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by Smith on the front endpaper. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xiii + 224 pages, black and orange boards. A near fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket withthe original price present
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A Bridging of Faiths; Religion and Politics in a New England City {Springfield}

By: N. J. Demerath III and Rhys H. Williams

Price: $4.80

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 12550

ISBN-13: 9780691074139

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 358 pages, purple cloth. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket.
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A Brief History of the Normans

By: Neveux, Francois

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Robinson Publishing : 2008-05-29

Seller ID: 60756

ISBN-13: 9781845295233

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 7 2/4" tall, 280 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white.
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A Brief History of the Vikings

By: Clements, Jonathan

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Robinson Publishing : 2005-09-15

Seller ID: 60755

ISBN-13: 9781845290764

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 7 2/4" tall, xiv + 273 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white.
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A Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania (Sabin's Reprints No. IV)

By: William Smith

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Joseph Sabin / H. O. Houghton : 1865

Seller ID: 38828

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

250 copy limited edition reprint of original second edition originally published in London in 1755. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, as issued originally in wraps, 44 pages, original yellow wraps. A very good, clean, neat soft cover, back stripo over spine slightly chipped, interior very good, hinges binding solid, paper lightly yellowed.
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A Capital, Capital City 1790 - 1814 [capitol].

By: Suzanne Hilton

Price: $3.60

Publisher: New York, New York, Atheneum : 1992

Seller ID: 18805

ISBN-13: 9780689316418

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 156 pages, red quarter cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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A Century of Montana Journalism

By: Warren J. Brier and Nathan B. Blumberg, Editors; Dorothy M. Johnson, et al

Price: $7.60

Publisher: Missoula, Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company : 1971

Seller ID: 35341

ISBN-13: 9780878420230

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 352 pages, brick-red cloth. A near fine, clean, solid hard cover with light shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, but slight soiling to the top fore-edge. In a very good, clean, lightly edgeworn dust jacket, with original price. Articles from Montanan newspapers over the years, starting with 'Montana Post', first newspaper published in Montana.
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A Colorado History (Third Edition)

By: Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson, Duane A. Smith

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, Pruett Publishing : 1972

Seller ID: 36152

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 380 pages, beige cloth. A very good, clean hard cover with minor shelf wear, a slight cant to the spine, light soiling to the exterior fore-edges; hinges and binding solid, paper clean and just slighty yellowed. In a good+ moderately worn dust jacket, slightly soiled with some minor chipping at the folds; price clipped. With b&w photographs.
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A Compend of History from the earliest times; (two volumes in one) comprehending a general view of the present state of the world with respect to civilization, religion, and government; and a brief dissertation on the importance of historical knowledge

By: Samuel Whelpley; with corrections by Rev. Joseph Emerson

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Richardson & Lord: Boston : 1822

Seller ID: 60925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

12mo, 7 1/4" tall, xi + 237 + 232 pages, gilt spine titles on calf. A good, original hard cover with moderate shelf wear, rubbing to the leather at the top and bottom of the back strip, one fore-corner tip through to boards, front free-endpaper removed, hinges and binding solid, paper mostly lightly yellowed but about 60 pages more yellowed (likely because of the quality of the paper for those signatures), and with scattered foxing throughout.
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Harper : 2005-10-04

Seller ID: 57960

ISBN-13: 9780060571993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 462 pages, black boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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A Day's March Nearer Home: The War History from Alamein to VE Day based on the War Cabinet Papers of 1942 to 1945

By: Roger Parkinson

Price: $3.80

Publisher: New York, New York, D. McKay Co : 1974

Seller ID: 11155

ISBN-13: 9780679504719

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xxiv + 551 pages, black cloth. A very good (minus), clean hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, pages cream white but light foxing to fore-edges. In a good+, moderately edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket with a few short edge tears. "This third and final volume of the author's history of World War II takes the story from the North African desert to the final defeat of Hitler.
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A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature

By: Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 34419

ISBN-13: 9780253204929

Binding: Paperback--trade

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 210 pages, stiff wraps. A very good, clean, likely unread paperback with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper cream white, but with guge mark to the back cover that affects last few pages (does not affect text).
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A Fool and His Money; Life In A Partitioned Town In Fourteenth Century France.

By: Ann Wroe

Price: $3.60

Publisher: New York, New York, Hill and Wang : 1995

Seller ID: 17573

ISBN-13: 9780809045952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 243 pages. A fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with the previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper. In a fine, lightly edge worn dust jacket with original price clipped.
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A Furnace Afloat: The wreck of the Hornet and the harrowing 4,300-mile voyage of its survivors.

By: Joe Jackson

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Free Press : 2003

Seller ID: 39017

ISBN-13: 9780743230377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xiv + 269 pages, red and gray boards. With map and b&w illustrations. Remainder mark at top fore-edge and slight yellowing to the fore-edges. A near fine, clean, hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price.
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A Godchild of Washington : a picture of the past

By: Katharine Schuyler Baxter

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London / New York, F. Tennyson Neely : 1897

Seller ID: 40527

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

An ex-library copy with markings to the endpapers and title page. Quarto, 11 3/4" tall, 651 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, gilt cover and spine titles decorative brown cloth. A good copy only, relatively clean, internally very good with binding solid BUT both hinges are broken, with front cover and frontmatter loose, back strip cloth over spine split, frayed and chipped with sinificant pieces missing, fore-corner tips worn through to the boards and fore-edge of the title page chipping from having been loose; however frontispiece is present and the copy appears complete--...
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A History of American History

By: Michael Kraus

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar & Rinehart: NY : 1937

Seller ID: 20009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 607 pages with index, red cloth. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper moderately yellowed, with previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good minus, edgeworn dust jacket with several small edge tears, darkening along the backstrip.
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A History of Brazil

By: E. Bradford Burns

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Columbia University Press : 1980-08-01

Seller ID: 61387

ISBN-13: 9780231047494

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good minus

Octavo, 9" tall, x + 579 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, generally clean, soft cover reprint with minor shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white but with soiling too the fore-edges.
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A History of Britain, 1885-1939 (British Studies)

By: Davis, John

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : 1999-05-01

Seller ID: 59851

ISBN-13: 9780312220341

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, x + 300 pages, illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, soft cover edition with little shelf wear; binding tight, paper white.
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A History of Crime in England illustrating the changes of the laws in the progress of civilization; written from the public records and other contemporary evidence. Vol. II: From the accession of Henry VII to the Present Time (volume two only)

By: Luke Owen Pike

Price: $22.80

Publisher: London, England, Smith, Elder & Co. : 1876

Seller ID: 32192

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Rebound. Single volume (vol. 2) of original two volume set. Ex-library with only embossed mark to the title page. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall: ix + 719 pages, red cloth with gilt titles on spine, decorative endpapers. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper clean and moderately yellowed.
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A History of England (Things to know series)

By: David Somervell

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Harper & Brothers : 1927

Seller ID: 46769

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

A small little book with an amazingly brief history12mo, 7" tall, 80 pages decorative boards. A very good, clean, neat copy with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper moderately yellowed with foxing to the fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket with the original price.
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A History of Europe

By: Roberts, J. M.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Viking Adult : 1997-12-01

Seller ID: 59992

ISBN-13: 9780713992045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xii + 628 pages with intertextual illustration, black and gray boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper white, but a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper and slight foxing to the top fore-edge. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with price present.
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A History of Our Own Times (A new edition with copious index and an introduction to American readers; four volumes in two)

By: Justin McCarthy ; Elmo

Price: $13.20

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, Belford, Clarke : 1887

Seller ID: 34922

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, complete. Octavo, 8" tall, vol. 1: 314 pages; vol. 2: 447 pages + index, gilt titles on decorative green cloth. A very good, clean hardcovers with minor shelf wear and rubbing to the extremeties, hinges and binding tight, BUT moderate yellowing to the paper which is becoming fragile.
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A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance

By: Chartier, Roger [Editor]; Goldhammer, Arthur [Translator]; Ariès, Phillippe [Series Editor]; Duby, Georges [Series Editor];

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Belknap Press : 1989-03-15

Seller ID: 51317

ISBN-13: 9780674399778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This is the regular publisher's edition issued for the Book-of-the-Month Club, but otherwise the same. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 645 pages. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear and with original price. No additional charge for extra weight if using media rate postage.
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Category: History