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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. Marshall, Ken (illustrator). First Edition, thus. Riverside, CT / Indian Orchard, MA: 7 C'S Press, Inc. / Titanic Historical Society, Inc. , 1984. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. NO chips. NO tears. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with endpaper maps & 25 photos. Foreword by Walter Lord. This book is "an informative guide to the gallant men and women who comprised the crew of the White Star liner TITANIC. It is also a chronicle of the important role in the disaster's aftermath played by Halifax, Nova Scotia." Includes an update to the annotated Titanic crew list that was first published in a 44-page pamphlet in 1974. It lists name, address, and rating (rank) of each crew member, tells if interred at sea, or identifies a grave plot number. Names of the survivors are listed in capital letters. Front endpapers show a grave plot map identifying locations of the Titanic victims. Rear endpapers reproduce a detailed map of Halifax. The painting of the Titanic, "On to Oblivion" by Ken Marshall, is reproduced on the Dust Jacket. Bound in the original navy blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Marshall, Ken. 8vo. xiv, 97pp.

Seller Inventory # 014918

Hardcover. Condition: Gray cloth spine / blue boards. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (24.95). First Printing of the First Edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Fine condition in Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Bibliography of sources. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "Here at last is an authoritative, up-to-date, full-scale history of that most ambivalent of American political relationships: the interaction between the White House and the news media. Combining fascinating detail with trenchant commentary, Tebbel and Watts illuminate the influence of the press on presidential conduct and explain how presidents have come to manipulate the media, especially television, in ways never envisioned by the framers of the First Amendment.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth spine / blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (24.95). 8vo. viii, 583pp.

Seller Inventory # 002041

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1987. Very Good condition. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NO underlining. NO highlighting. Illustrated with maps as well as 8 pages of old photos on glossy stock. Endpapers feature a bird's eye view drawing of early Helena, Montana. Includes appendices with 22 tables, and maps showing "Property Owned by Helena Prostitutes." List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original red cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. xix, 207pp.

Seller Inventory # 015242

Paperback. Condition: Original pictorial wraps. First Paperback Edition, expanded. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994. Appears unread. Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Trade Paperback. 6" wide by 9" tall. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Maps. Portrait. Bibliography. Index. This paperback edition has a new, 3-page "Afterword" by the author that is not in the hardcover edition. The Afterword assesses scholarship on the subject since the book's original publication in 1967, including new questions about Van Dorn's murder, the gun that killed him, his leadership of the Second Cavalry in attacks that killed women and children in a frontier Indian village, etc. "An excellent biography of the enigmatic Southern general; the author made maximum use of the sparsity of source material on Van Dorn." - CWB II, p.61. First Paperback Edition, expanded. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps/No dust jacket, as issued. xiii, 363pp.

Seller Inventory # 001548

Hardcover. Condition: Original green cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (3.50). First Edition. Rindge, New Hampshire: Richard R. Smith Publisher, Inc, 1956. EX-LIBRARY, with usual library markings. Still a good reading / reference copy of a relatively scarce book. A history of the Middle Atlantic States: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Dr. Thompson was Northam Professor of History, Trinity College, Hartford. Illustrated with document facsimile and 3 maps, one in full-color. Complete with Errata slip affixed to front free endpaper. Bibliography. Index. . First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (3.50). 8vo. 274pp.

Seller Inventory # 001791

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. First Printing of the Revised Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Very Good condition but for three-line gift note. 5.5" wide by 11.25" tall. Illustrated with hundreds of small, full-color photos (generally 2" by 2"). A 400-year chronological guide to New York City history and architecture. Begins with the purchase of Manhattan Island in the 17th century. Includes photos and background info on the major skyscrapers as well as private and small-scale buildings such as the Flatiron, Chrysler and Empire State buildings, etc. Also takes a look at the structures that have been razed, such as the Woolworth Building. Book has two conflicting ISBNs. 0393020061 (on rear cover); & 0393038831 (on copyright page). Original glossy, pictorial laminated boards. First Printing of the Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 113pp.

Seller Inventory # 013555

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. Stanford University, California: Hoover Institution Press, 1969. Very Good condition. A clean, tight copy. Sharp corners. The spine is lightly sun-faded but is square and flat. NO creases. Trade Paperback. 7" wide by 10" tall. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Translated by Charles Price Ridley. Introduction by Yuan-li Wu. Map. Tables. Glossary. NOT price clipped ($4.50). NO remainder mark. From the rear cover: "This remarkable and unique collection of documents reveals, in intimate and unvarnished detail, one stage in the Communist Chinese government's struggle to recover from the Great Depression of 1959-61.". First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Very Good condition. xi, 243pp.

Seller Inventory # 015028

Hardcover. Condition: Original binding. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (25.95). First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996. Fine condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Attractively bound with the publisher's black spine and metallic gold & black paper-covered boards. Historical novel based on the life of the author of DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. A brilliant epic involving war, spies, capture by Barbary pirates, prison, torture, triple-crossing intrigue, scoundrels, ribaldry, poverty, fame, fortune, and breathless adventure. Keywords: Renaissance Europe. Spain. Spanish Inquisition. . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Original binding/DJ Not Price Clipped (25.95). 8vo. ix, 495pp.

Seller Inventory # 002337

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good DJ (lightly chipped). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Front panel of the Dust Jacket has a few words written in ink at the bottom. Otherwise a bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (3.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. "First Printing" is so stated. Shotwell was an Ontario-born scholar and prolific author who spent 50 years as a professor of history at Columbia. He served as a member of the Peace Commission appointed to construct the Treaty of Versailles and continued to work for peace throughout his life. From the Dust Jacket: "Dr. Shotwell brings all his long and intensive experience in international affairs and the cause of peace to this new book, a discussion of how nations are to build a world organization that can and will keep world peace." Has chapters/appendices on The Beginnings of the United Nations; The Moscow Conference; The Enforcement of Peace; The Reduction and Control of Arms; The Political Organization of the United Nations; The Teheran Declaration; Joint Communiqu� on Cairo Conference; etc. Index. Original blue cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good DJ (lightly chipped). 8vo. x, 268pp.

Seller Inventory # 012222

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. A solid reading/reference copy in Very Good condition. EX-LIBRARY with evidence of pocket (now removed) and other usual markings. Spots of tape residue on cover and endpapers. Otherwise clean and square. Dust Jacket is enclosed in a clear plastic Brodart sleeve. Not price clipped ($13.50). No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. From the Dust Jacket: "This is primarily a study of diplomatic sources - both documentary and private - relevant to the First and Second World Wars. Mario Toscano analyzes a wide range of primary literature" Index. Original cloth. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xv, 686pp .

Seller Inventory # 013207

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's blue cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition (so stated). Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Near Fine condition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Gilt on spine and front cover is still bright and shiny. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. With 22 illustrations. Index. . First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. xv, 381pp. + 7 page index. .

Seller Inventory # 002857

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. no place: Prospero Books Fine condition in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. No date of publication indicated, but circa 1990s? Illustrated with 24 pages of superb photos, on glossy paper. Frontispiece. Endpaper maps. A facsimile reprint of Scott's complete journals of the 1910-12 British Antarctic Expedition and the attempt to reach the South Pole ahead of Roald Amundsen. Appendix. Index. Bound in the original blue boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. (xiv), 521pp. + 24 pages of superb photos.

Seller Inventory # 015099

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Geneva: Ferni Publishing House, 1978. Very Fine condition. Bright, shiny, square, and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Text is fresh and unmarked --probably never read. Hardcover. 4.75" wide by 7.5" tall. This is a history of priests, pastors, and other members of religious orders confined to Nazi concentration camps and their persecution by the Third Reich. Includes chapters on the priests held at Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, Neuengamme, Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Ravensbr�ck, etc. Endpaper maps of Europe locate dozens of the Nazi concentration camps, deportee camps, and camp annexes. Illustrated with full-page photographs, portraits, and drawings. Footnotes. Bibliography. Sewn into the headband is a black silk ribbon page marker. Handsomely bound in the original red vinyl-covered boards with a black leather (or imitation leather?) spine, decorated in black and gold and with a Nazi eagle and swastika symbol on both the spine and front cover. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 344pp.

Seller Inventory # 017779

Paperback. Condition: Original pictorial binding. Reprint. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. As New condition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Fresh and crisp. Flat spine. No creases. Illustrated throughout with over 300 maps, prints and photos. Selected bibliography. Index. . Reprint. Oversize Softcover. Original pictorial binding/No Dust Jacket, as issued. x, 229pp.

Seller Inventory # 002055

Hardcover. Condition: Blue cloth-backed red boards. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket not priced or clipped. First Edition (No Additional Printings). Stockholm, Sweden: Teknowledge London Ltd., 1983. 10" wide by 10" tall. Fine condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Photo illustrations throughout, many in full-color. Laid-in is a typed letter, dated December 1983, and signed by Hakan Ledin, Executive Vice President of the telecommunications giant, Ericsson. "To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Nobel, a book describing his life and deeds, as well as the prize that carries his name has been prepared." Includes background on the Nobel process; perspectives on the prize; interviews with winners who, among other things, describe how their life changed after the award; lists of winners, financial statistics, etc. First Edition (No Additional Printings). Hardcover. Blue cloth-backed red boards/Jacket not priced or clipped. 111pp.

Seller Inventory # 002291

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, 1951. Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket. Sharp corners. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($5.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages appear unread -- fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated. Index. Bound in the original gray cloth. From the publisher: "Here, gathered together for the first time in literary history, are 105 stark and realistic accounts of worldly incidents that have fascinated humanity down through the ages. All of these accounts are by persons who were on the spot They range in time from the Battle of Armageddon, fought in Palestine in 1479 B.C., to 1951." . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 445pp. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).

Seller Inventory # 013727

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Reprint, with additions. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Fine condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are creamy white and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Describes with annotations, 4,284 Cromwell studies, portraits and prints. This 1969 edition contains addenda, corrigenda and a separate index of periodicals that are not in the 1929 Harvard University Press edition. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Reprint, with additions. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xxviii, 551pp. [579 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 018425

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Reprint, with additions. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. A pristine copy in perfect condition. Brand New. NO rubbing. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp. Obviously never read. Describes with annotations, 4,284 Cromwell studies, portraits and prints. This 1969 edition contains addenda, corrigenda and a separate index of periodicals that are not in the 1929 Harvard University Press edition. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Reprint, with additions. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xxviii, 551pp. [579 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 017346

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Third printing of the 1984 original. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Very Good condition. 5.75" wide by 9" tall. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, shiny, square, tight copy. Flat, uncreased spine. Light cover wear, with minor curling at the corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 6 maps. Ten tables. Chapter notes. Extensive 51-page Bibliographical Essay. Index. From the rear cover: "McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal First, he describes the formation of the Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700." . Third printing of the 1984 original. Softcover. Very Good condition. xxvi, 585pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 003377

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York:: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. 10" wide by 10" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (37.50). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. A photo-essay with over 200 vintage photographs of New England (taken circa 1945) by many of the best photojournalists of the day -- including Gordon Parks, Esther Bubley, John Vachon, Charlotte Brooks, Todd Webb, Arnold Eagle, Sol Libsohn, and Diane Witlin. These photos were commissioned by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. From the Dust Jacket: "Now Daniel Okrent joins his own essay on that time before television, before suburbanization, to the best photographs of the project. The result is a stunning visual and textual reflection on New England that reveals who we were, who we are, and what the great leap into the modern age has cost us. It is an alluring portrait that is part of our history and captures the essence of New England's heritage.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket. viii, 180pp.

Seller Inventory # 005444

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: VG jacket (spots on front). Reprint of the 1863 original. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1964. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (spots on front). The jacket is NOT price clipped ($5.00). No chips. No creases. A clean, square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This is a facsimile of the first four issues of the Iowa State Historical Society Quarterly, a periodical first published in 1863. Printed wrappers on pale green paper are bound-in for each issue. Illustrated with full-page portraits of Willard Barrows, George L. Davenport, and Antoine Le Claire. Includes an account of a Winnebago chief's scalping knife, much on Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indian tribes, etc. Bound in the original red cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "This offset reprint of volume one of the Annals of Iowa (first series) commemorates the centennial of the printing of the State Historical Society of Iowa first historical quarterly at Iowa City in January, 1863.". Reprint of the 1863 original. Hardcover. Fine condition/VG jacket (spots on front). 8vo. xvi, 192pp. + 16 page index. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 007893

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. Second Edition. Saranac Lake, New York: The Chauncy Press, 1986. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($12.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This is a history of the town of Brighton and the surrounding area in New York State's Franklin County. The author was Brighton's town historian, librarian of Paul Smith's College, and Editor of the Franklin County Historical Review. In this book are the historical facts she gathered over a 30-year period. There are chapters on: Historical Background; Earliest Settlers; Communities of Brighton; Early Homes and Living; Old Time Guides (fishing/hunting in the Adirondacks); Minutes of Town Meeting from 1859 & Jury Lists from 1861; War Records (including service details for citizens who participated in the Civil War); Transportation; Mail Service; Telephone and Telegraph; Education; Churches; Resorts; Sanatoriums; Biographies; Old Time Tales; etc. Illustrated with maps and over 60 old photographs (with captions). Endpapers feature a stagecoach photo from July, 1884. Appendix of Cemetery Headstone Data (for the Mountain View, St. John's in the Wilderness, & McCollom's cemeteries). List of School Teachers (with their salaries). Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Second Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. 8vo. x, 204pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 008015

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's gray cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket not priced or clipped. Third printing. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1987. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. A comprehensive study of Jefferson's legal career from 1767 to 1774. Includes chapters on the Waterson-Madison land patent episode, the Norfolk anti-smallpox inoculation riots, and the Dr. James Blair / Kitty Eustace divorce scandal. From the Dust Jacket: "This is the first book to explore in depth the eight years that Jefferson spent as a trial lawyer. Frank L. Dewey considers how Jefferson prepared for his career, how he acquired a clientele, what kinds of cases he handled, how he fared financially, and why he retired from the law.". Third printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's gray cloth/Jacket not priced or clipped. 8vo. xiv, 184pp.

Seller Inventory # 003102

Paperback. Condition: Original pictorial wraps. First Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979. 5.25" wide by 8.25" tall. Trade paperback. Fine condition. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Flat spine. No creases. Illustrated with photos. Index. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. "Special Seeing Eye Edition" so stated on front wrap. First Edition. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. 230pp. .

Seller Inventory # 002488

Paperback. Condition: As New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Advance Reading Copy [First Edition]. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. As New condition. Review copy. Softcover. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Not a remainder. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Laid-in is a typed letter from the publisher to Tamar Jacoby [justice editor for Newsweek, deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute]. From the rear cover: "A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world. From the author of THE HARVEST OF SORROW and one of the world's most respected humanists comes this long-awaited work of history and philosophy. THE DRAGONS OF EXPECTATION -- in the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's THE CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY and George Orwell's ESSAYS -- brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds, to often-disastrous effects. From the onset of the Enlightenment to the excesses of democracy, Stalinism, and liberalism, Robert Conquest masterfully examines how false nostrums have infected academia, politicians, and the public, showing how their reliance on 'isms' and the destructive concepts of 'People, Nation, and Masses' have resulted in a ruinous cycle of turbulence and war. Including analyses of Russia's October Revolution, World War II, and the Cold War that challenge common historical views, THE DRAGONS OF EXPECTATION is one of the most important contributions to modern thought in recent years." . Advance Reading Copy [First Edition]. Softcover. As New condition/No jacket, as issued. 272pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 004252

Paperback. Condition: Publisher's pictorial wraps. Horst, Mel (photographs) (illustrator). Reprint of the 1961 original. Lebanon, Pennsylvania:: Applied Arts , 1975. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Fine condition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Tight and unmarked. Well-illustrated with about 100 photographs by Mel Horst. Cover photos are in full color. Chapter notes and references. Reprint of the 1961 original. Softcover. Publisher's pictorial wraps. Illus. by Horst, Mel (photographs). 42pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 002311

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's blue boards. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (27.95). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. Appears unread. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. First printing, with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. With 16 pages of illustrations. Appendices. From the Dust Jacket: "For twenty-three years, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles -- both human and natural -- but the results, and the stories behind them, have been dramatic: the raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley in the year 2000 alone made international headlines. 'I'm addicted to the challenge of the search,' says Cussler, 'whether it's for lost shipwrecks, airplanes, steam locomotives, or people.' In their first account, THE SEA HUNTERS, Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo shared some of their stories, and the book became a number-one bestseller. 'Cussler does a great job of making history lively and interesting,' said The Denver Post. 'He entertains and enlightens at the same time, (and) his infectious enthusiasm will have more than one reader wondering if there's any way he can hook up with him on his next adventure.' But there was no way that Cussler and Dirgo could do more than scratch the surface of their experiences in a single book, and in THE SEA HUNTERS II, they provide another extraordinary, even more fascinating narrative of their true seagoing -- and land -- adventures. The famous ghost ship Mary Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1874 with no one on board; the Carpathia, the ship that rescued Titanic survivors and was itself lost to U-boats six years later; L'Oiseau Blanc, the airplane that almost beat The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic before disappearing in the Maine woods -- all these, plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat [i.e. PT 109], and even a dirigible, are tantalizing targets as Cussler proves again that truth can be 'at least as fun as, and sometimes stranger than, fiction' (MEN'S JOURNAL). Dramatic, compelling and personal, Clive Cussler's THE SEA HUNTERS II is as exciting and satisfying as the best of his novels.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (27.95). 8vo. (xvii), 446pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 002970

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. Second Edition. Saranac Lake, New York: The Chauncy Press, 1986. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($12.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This is a history of the town of Brighton and the surrounding area in New York State's Franklin County. The author was Brighton's town historian, librarian of Paul Smith's College, and Editor of the Franklin County Historical Review. In this book are the historical facts she gathered over a 30-year period. There are chapters on: Historical Background; Earliest Settlers; Communities of Brighton; Early Homes and Living; Old Time Guides (fishing/hunting in the Adirondacks); Minutes of Town Meeting from 1859 & Jury Lists from 1861; War Records (including service details for citizens who participated in the Civil War); Transportation; Mail Service; Telephone and Telegraph; Education; Churches; Resorts; Sanatoriums; Biographies; Old Time Tales; etc. Illustrated with maps and over 60 old photographs (with captions). Endpapers feature a stagecoach photo from July, 1884. Appendix of Cemetery Headstone Data (for the Mountain View, St. John's in the Wilderness, & McCollom's cemeteries). List of School Teachers (with their salaries). Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Second Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. 8vo. x, 204pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 008014

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. First Printing of the First Edition. Phoenix, Arizona: Via Press, 1995. 6" wide by 9" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and unmarked -- clearly never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with numerous photographs, maps, newspaper and document facsimiles. Flat, uncreased spine. Bibliography. Index. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Publisher: "Instead of dwelling solely on destruction during war, FROM HIROSHIMA WITH LOVE reveals one man's adventure in rebuilding a nation and its economy - turning a former bitter enemy into a strong ally. It details the transformation of a tough-minded American businessman, Commander Wallace L. Higgins, who was, like many Americans, shocked and resentful because of the military atrocities of Japan during World War II. When Higgins was given the post of Military Governor of Hiroshima and partial responsibility for the rebuilding of Japan's business and industry after the war, he developed an unforeseen respect for the Japanese people; their culture; and one special woman. Commander Higgins won a wrestling match from the Japanese judo champ five days after landing in Japan with the Occupation Forces. His prize: admiration of his hosts, who kept him a quarter century to rebuild Japan's business and industry.". First Printing of the First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine condition. 319pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 004881

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press, 1999. A clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. NO chips. NO tears. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 13 illustrations. List of chapter notes/sources. Index. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in bright blue on the spine. First printing with complete number row (135798642) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "'YOUNG AMERICA brings to life an unwritten chapter in post-Jacksonian America. Edward L. Widmer explores the fascinating area where politics, literature, and ideology conspire and collide, and he restores to their proper place a striking cast of writers, polemicists, and rogues. This is a book for all aficionados of American history.' -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr� 'YOUNG AMERICA: THE FLOWERING OF DEMOCRACY IN NEW YORK CITY is an indispensable, masterful new contribution to nineteenth-century US historiography. By detailing the controversial role the manic rhetorician John O'Sullivan played in both launching the incomparable DEMOCRATIC REVIEW and promulgating the gospel of Manifest Destiny, Edward L. Widmer has recaptured the halcyon days of the Jackson era with vivid precision.' --Douglas Brinkley, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History, University of New Orleans� 'YOUNG AMERICA is an important, wide-ranging, and fascinating book. With wit, good sense, and lively prose, Edward L. Widmer recovers the social energy and cultural excitement of New York in the 1840s, when a generation of politico-literary intellectuals, as Emerson disdainfully called them, associated themselves with real politics and serious art. Held together by John O'Sullivan, the bigger-than-life editor of the UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW, Young America sustained a robust discussion of political and cultural democracy, at once nationalist and metropolitan, that gave intellectual significance to the Democratic Party even as it provided a sustaining and lively literary community for both canonical and forgotten writers. What Widmer describes is the first instance of a modern social type, the literary intellectual committed to democratic politics.' -- Thomas Bender, Dean for the Humanities and Professor of History, New York University� 'Widmer's book offers the finest account to date of the culture and politics of New York in the explosive 1830s and 1840s. With literary grace and analytical gusto, he guides us through the writings and relationships of the most important intellectuals of the day. Along the way we are compelled to rethink the meanings of democracy, both in that time and our own.' -- Lou Masur, Professor of History, City College of New York.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. viii, 290pp.

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