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: 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.
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: 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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Anecdotal tales of the Santa Fe area during the closing years of the Wild West era. Includes tales such as The Sage-Brush Hen, Santa Fe Charley's Kindergarten, Shorty Smith's Hanging" and others. Bertha Stuart, a book.....
Caldwell, Idaho: The Claxton Publishers Ltd., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
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.....
San Antonio. TX: The Naylor Company, First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A story of a cowboy who led a charmed life. A real-life telling of Indians, cattle, thieves, ranchers, gold mining, western justice and more.Ref: Adams/Herd 1312, "Has some information on ranching."
Mansfield: W. Brickerhoff Herald Steam Press Print, 1908. Very Good Hardcover. Although in fictionalized form, M'Gaw's work "provides the most authentic source on one of the most colorful episodes in the frontier history of north-central Ohio namely the Copus massacre in the autumn of 1812.Ref: Howes M-100.
Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer, 1854. Lithographic plates by H. Lawrence. Hardcover. Written by one of the greatest nineteenth-century American explorers, this is one of the most interesting accounts of an original exploration of unknown parts of Texas [Marcy] was the first Anglo-American to discover and explore Palo Duro Canyon.....
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.....
[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.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. Description:Report to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning the respective rights of European nations in the newly discovered territory, foreign policy toward the Indians, Colonial policy toward the Indians and United States policy toward the Indians. The report includes a......
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.....