AN ACCOMPANIMENT TO MITCHELL'S REFERENCE AND DISTANCE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES Containing an Index of all the Countries, Districts, Townships, Town, & C. in the Union; Together with an Index of the Rivers; by Which Any County, District, Township, &c, or River, May be Found on the Map, Without Difficulty: Also, a General View...

By: Anonymous

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Mitchell and Hinman: 1834

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 3212

Condition: Very Good-

1/2 leather boards with some rubbing to extremities. Pages occasionally a bit browned. Last (blank) page a bit torn and corner missing ; 8vo; 324 pages View more info

ZANESVILLE AND 36 OTHER AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Study of Markets and of the Telephone As a Market Index

By: Anonymous

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Literary Digest: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 9424

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo; 188 pages View more info

THE GREAT ILLUSION An Informal History of Prohibition

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company: 1950

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 9856

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

White DJ a bit darkened (as usual) and price clipped; 8vo; 344 pages View more info

THE LIFE OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN Founder of Texas, 1793-1836

By: Barker, Eugene C.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Nashville, Cokesbury Press: 1925

Order Number: 17537

Condition: Very Good+

INSCRIBED by the author on front free endpaper. Several letters, both handwritten and typed laid in ; 8vo; 551 pages View more info

O AMERICA When You and I Were Young

By: Barzini, Luigi

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 14586

ISBN: 0060102268

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light wear to DJ. Slight spotting to boards ; There are two voices in this story: that of the young author who writes of his years in the US between 1925 and 1930, and the older author who reflects back on the years. stated first edition; 8vo; 329 pages View more info

THE GREAT REVOLT AND ITS LEADERS The History of Popular American Uprisings in the 1890's

By: Beals, Carleton

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Abelard-Schuman: 1968

Order Number: 12071

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Small open tears and slight staining to DJ. Bookplate. Front free endpaper top corner missing ; Various ferments of revolt in the midwest and southern areas of the US in the 1890s; '; 8vo; 367 pages View more info

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MAKING 1932-1940 A Study in Responsibilities

By: Beard, Charles A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1946

Order Number: 17535

Condition: Very Good+

8vo; 335 pages View more info

HISTORIC SILVER OF THE COLONIES AND ITS MAKERS

By: Bigelow, Frances Hill

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1941

Order Number: 8311

Condition: Very Good+

Browning to endpapers. Binding slightly loose in a couple of spots ; Originally published in 1917, this is the fourth reprinting of the standard reference to colonial silver; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 476 pages View more info

TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS [TWO VOLUME SET] From Lincoln to Garfield with a Review of the Events Which Led Up to the Revolution of 1860

By: Blaine, James G.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Norwich, CT, The Henry Bill Publishing Company: 1884,1886

Order Number: 16152

Condition: Very Good+

Wear to extremities. Spine ends chipped with small parts missing. Paper guards for illustrations browned and brittle, with the guard to the volume 2 frontispiece detached but present. Volume two binding not tight and hinges started; Memoir of the former Speaker of the House, Senator, and by two-time Secretary of State Blaine, who also narrowly missed the Presidency, being defeated by Chester Arthur in a very close election in 1884. Focusing on the run-up to the Civil War... View more info

BELLE BRITTAN ON A TOUR, AT NEWPORT, AND HERE AND THERE

By: Brittan, Belle

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Derby & Jackson: 1858

Order Number: 15513

Condition: Very Good+

Likely rebound. Wear to extremities. Spine faded. Bookplate to front pastedown; Travels around the USA and discussions of the burning issues of the day, in epistolary form ; 8vo; 359 pages View more info

THE AMERICAN CHARACTER

By: Brogan, D. W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1944

Order Number: 17521

Condition: Very Good

Boards very lightly sunned along top edge. ; Blue boards with decorative blindstamped shield; 8vo; 169 pages View more info

MIRROR FOR AMERICANS Likeness of the Eastern Seaboard 1810

By: Brown, Ralph H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, American Geographical Society: 1943

Order Number: 9431

Condition: Very Good+

Boards a bit darkened and lightly soiled; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 312 pages View more info

SAY, IS THIS THE U.S.A.

By: Caldwell, Erskine; Bourke-White, Margaret

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1941

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 14252

Condition: Very Good-

Wear to extremities. Spine ends frayed; A coffee table book that looks like it could be part of the WPA series. A slice of life of a vanished America just before entry into WWII, perhaps the last vestige of innocence. Photos by the noted Margaret Bourke-White; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 182 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House: 1942

Order Number: 15821

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ worn and tattered. Boards spotted. Occasional foxing; Photogravures; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 252 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1942

Edition: Book Club Edition

Order Number: 17256

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities ; Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1942

Edition: Book Club Edition

Order Number: 17257

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities ; Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1942

Edition: Book Club Edition

Order Number: 17191

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

DJ browned and with chips ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages View more info

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES [VOLUME 1] The Birth of Britain

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1957

Order Number: 17533

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ spine sunned and with one small chip ; Book Club Edition; 8vo; 521 pages View more info

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES [VOLUME 3] The Age of Revolution

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1957

Order Number: 17532

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light rubbing to DJ; Book Club Edition; 8vo View more info

THE CENTENNIAL UNIVERSAL HISTORY A Clear and Concise History of all Nations, with a Full History of the United States, to the Close of the First 100 Years of Our National Independence

By: Clare, Israel Smith

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. C. Mccurdy & Co: 1876

Order Number: 6854

Condition: Very Good

Boards with moderate wear to extremities, especially to corners. Front hinge started. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Inclusive history of the world, starting with creationist theory and finishing with the stolen US election of 1876. Profusely illustrated and quite detailed ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 626,13 pages View more info

THE AMERICAN FESTIVAL GUIDE A Handbook of More Than 200 Colonial, Homesteading, Western, Spanish, Folk, Rodeo, Sports, Cultural and Other Annual Festivals and Celebrations in the United States and Canada, with a Calendar and a Gazetteer of Festivals for Ready Reference

By: Coates, Helen R.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press: 1956

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 9430

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ faded and lightly chipped ; Nicely SIGNED by the author in green ink on front free endpaper. Typed letter SIGNED laid-in. This is a thank you letter by the author to the Ramona Pageant Association, dated June 15, 1956; 8vo; 299 pages View more info

PASSAGE TO AMERICA A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: Coleman, Terry

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Easton Press: 1988

Order Number: 4294

Condition: Near Fine

All edges gilt. Including Easton Press slip laid-in; 8vo; 317 pages View more info

FREEDOM LOYALTY DISSENT

By: Commager, Henry Steele

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1954

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 17523

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Shelf wear to spine ends. DJ chipped along edges. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 155 pages View more info

THINK BACK ON US... A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930's

By: Cowley, Malcolm

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press: 1967

Order Number: 4186

ISBN: 0809302322

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ a bit yellowed; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 400 pages View more info

MY NATIVE LAND The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People, with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young

By: Cox, James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blair Publishing Company: 1903

Order Number: 3395

Condition: Very Good+

Binding not tight ; Descriptive passages regarding various events and places in American history and geography. Twenty-first century readers may be shocked by the chapter entitled, 'the Heathen Chinee. ' ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 400 pages View more info

AN AMERICAN HERITAGE GUIDE TO HISTORIC HOUSES OF AMERICA

By: Da Costa, Beverley

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, American Heritage Publishing Co: 1971

Order Number: 3335

ISBN: 0700113622

Condition: Fine

Comprehensive listing of historic dwellings in all 50 states ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 320 pages View more info

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION Some Inside Political History of Theodore Roosevelt and His Times 1898-1918

By: Davis, Oscar King

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1925

Order Number: 13279

Condition: Very Good+

Slight wear to extremities. Bookplate to front pastedown ; The inside story of major party machinations during TR's time; 8vo; 468 pages View more info

MR. GOLDBERG'S PARTY Or, Leaves from the Travel Diary of a Young French Nobleman in America

By: De Leche, Vicomte Alain

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Louis Carrier & Company: 1930

Order Number: 17522

Condition: Very Good+

Former owner's name on front pastedown; Cartoons by Maurice van Moppes; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 127 pages View more info

LETTERS OF EUGENE V. DEBS [THREE VOLUME SET]

By: Debs, Eugene V.

Price: $102.88

Publisher: Urbana, University of Illinois Press: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 13844

ISBN: 0252017420

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Previous owner's inscription to half-title page of volume one ; The copious letters of the noted labor leader and working class hero ; 8vo; 591,560,642 pages View more info