Boston - London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Illustrations and Dust Jacket by Lynn Ward. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A series of short stories exploring vignettes of American history. '..adventuring into America, historically, geographically, biographically. It is fragmentary, but it blends into a whole. George Washington, and.....
Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and use of drugs. This book places jazz in its rich.....
Washington, DC: The American Ordnance Association, Robert L. Miller. Soft cover.
Washington, DC: Henry Holt & Company, 1961. Illustrated by Robert L. Miller. Stapled Wraps.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought.....
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In 1838, the U.S. government launched the largest discovery voyage the Western world had ever seen-6 sailing vessels and 346 men bound for the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Four years later, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, or Ex.....
Gainesville, Florida: Matheson Historical Center Inc, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Alachua County is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University.....
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New York: Horace Thayer, 1858. Hardcover. William Pidgeon was an antiquarian and archaeologist his most famous work, Traditions of Dee-Coo-Dah, a history about lost tribes of the Upper Mississippi and the mounds they left behind. The book was eventually revealed to be partly a hoax, and partly embellishment of actual.....
Cambridge,MA: Candlewick, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. Trace the history of people's fascination with the moon and the scientific developments that led to a ground-breaking mission in an out-of-this-world novelty book marking the first moon landing. Acclaimed author Richard Platt focuses on humankind's dreams of traveling to.....
Miami, Florida: E A Seemann, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The name of Gargantua was a household word throughout this country, and his picture was spread around the world. Millions stood in line through rain, wind, cold, and heat to pay admission to see this ugliest.....
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[Daytona, Fla:]: Maria M. Clifton, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A historically significant biography beginning shortly after the US Civil War through the 1880's.
Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books Publishers, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A pre-statehood narrative history of Hawaii an eloquent and hauntingly evocative story of Hawaii, a true classic and is an essential read for any enthusiast of Hawaiian culture and history. Decorated cloth.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. First Edition, First Printing. Contents:Powell's Report*** Zuni Fetiches, by Frank Hamilton Cushing; *** Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith; *** Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi valley, by Henry W. Henshaw; *** Navajo Silversmiths, by Dr. Washington Matthews; *** Art in.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1882. Hardcover. All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.Background Information:William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.
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Pasadena, CA: Trails End Publishing Co., Inc., 1947. Illustrated by Charles Russell. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Memories of Old Cowboy Days and of Charles Russell.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. As an example of the efficient administration of a vast public enterprise, the T.V.A. furnished a basis for renewed faith in democratic institutions and for hope in the reconstruction.....
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New Smyrna Beach, Florida: Tomoka Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Soft cover. The idea of an airport on an ocean beach seems totally impractical. Airplanes, cars, bathers, strollers all used the same piece of real estate, and sometimes with very odd results! This book is a......
USA: Savas Beatie, 2018. Soft cover. Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865).
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1944. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A true story of misplaced trust. John Henry Wrenn,(1841-1911), was a Chicago book collector who wished to believe and was succulently duped. - Fannie Ratchford was Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of.....
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Assembled here are a distinctive collection of writings--fiction, poetry, essays, travelers' tales, reportage, journals--to analyze the California mystique. Most of the material covers the last 50 years, though a few pieces reach back into the 19th.....
New York: Pantheon, 1955. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time", British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend on the eve of the United Kingdom's entry into the First World War. First.....
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A dramatic, fascinating and revisionist narrative detailing how America's first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author.
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded.Here, Grant is not a callous butcher, and Lee does not.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Fourth Printing. Half Leather to Green Cloth. A seminal work in American historiography. Published in 1893, it remains a crucial resource for understanding the tumultuous post-Civil War era. Rhodes' detailed analysis and nuanced portrayal of Reconstruction and the South's redemption offer valuable insights into.....