That Palace in Washington: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1800-1850
by the author, 2004. Stapled Wraps. Background information, recipes which have been modernized and historical research.
The Civil War has its own Category
by the author, 2004. Stapled Wraps. Background information, recipes which have been modernized and historical research.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The acclaimed encyclopedic survey of black musical creation that marked the countdown to the explosion of ragtime.Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of.....
New York: The Christian Herald, 1902. Louis Albert Banks was an American author and pastor. He was the Progressive nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in 1893.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.:, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
New York: Dutton, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The third volume in the series on the history of literary life in America, covering roughly 1840-1890.
Kalamazoo, MI: Moore & Quale, 1874. First Edition, First Printing. Subjects: Michigan History; Michigan Politics and government.
Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A Definitive History.
First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "Conway, a college prof and ex-newspaper man, covers this ancient tale in a way that makes it feel like a hot news story." [New York Post]“Engrossing . . . Conway skillfully paints a backdrop of fierce and flamboyant personalities who paraded across.....
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1887. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Elizabeth Clift Bacon Custer, an American author and public speaker, led a remarkable life as the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, a prominent figure in the United States Army. Despite her husband's extensive military.....
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A brilliant man but eccentric, John Randolph strutted around the House of Representatives with a whip in his hand. Historian Russell Kirk described him as "a radical man yet a political conservative" with "alternating ferocity and compassion, his duels, his.....
Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln offers a new perspective on the private life of the Civil War president through an examination of his few friendships and close associations; which were marked by estrangements in the face of.....
Macon, GA: Press of the J.W. Burke Company, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. A companion piece to The Negro of the Old South."Life on a Florida plantation, as described in memoirs and a diary; the latter paints a vivid picture of social and economic conditions" Nevins II, p.189.The Pine Hill.....
New York: New York Wanderer Press in association with The Green-Wood Cemetery Historic Fund, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. The murder of an upper-middle class professional in the sanctity of his own home, coupled with the accused murderess' unceasing efforts to wreak.....
Live Oak, Florida: Democrat Book and Job Print, 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Half-Leather. A listing of the soldiers and from Florida, along with their units, who served in the Seminole, Civil and Spanish-American wars with some bibliographic information of major officers and Regimental histories.
Los Angeles: Gem Publishing, 1926. Second Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 'Each story is a gem, both for its quaint pretty tale and for the unusually sweet rhythmic style in which it is written'. - Oregon Journal.
New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. With Background Information:Ernest Furgurson the author of the widely acclaimed Chancellorsville 1863, Ashes of Glory, and Not War but Murder tells the story through the men and women who brought the city to rambunctious life.He.....
Dulles, VA: Brassey's, Inc., 2000. Soft cover. The authors have combined rare photographs with authoritative text and maps to present a comprehensive documentary portrait of this major clash of arms. The Spanish-American War is the definitive pictorial record of the war that brought the United States onto the world's stage.....
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. It had no name and gave no warning but crept stealthily into the Gulf and then roared ashore, killing six thousand people; the worst natural disaster in U.S. history; with many never-before-published accounts, from primary sources. More than.....
Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1978. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This reprint is of the first comprehensive history of Selma, Alabama, containing a new introduction to the work and its author and a new index. The history traces the development of the community "from one or two loghouses in 1815.....
Hartford Conn: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897. James Lee Humfreville relates his hair-raising experiences among the numerous tribes which he came in contact with as a cavalryman in his 20 years of life among the Indians, beginning in the late 1850s, embracing the entire territory from the Saskatchewan River in.....
Chicago: Forbes and Company, 1908. James, George Wharton. A Good Hardcover. People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those of the western U.S. as they existed.....
Caldwell, Idaho: The Claxton Publishers Ltd., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1891. Cloth Hardcover. A Collection of five of Captain Charles King's frontline stories, and offers a glimpse of American army life in the mid- to late 19th century. It follows his campaigns in the American-Indian wars in a number of battles. It offers valuable insights.....
New York: Basic Books, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. A bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling.....