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197926368City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press 1979. 103 pages. Solid copy with color fading on and allong spine and on top of back cover corner creases on bottom corners of covers and book has usual library markings. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Smithsonian Institution Press paperback
19573500059New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1957. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sixth Printing. One label on ffep is the only evidence of exlibrary status. Very lightly circulated. Signed and inscribed on half title page. Binding and hinges sound pages clean and bright. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ in mylar is clean with some fading at spine. Biography of Stonewall Jackson. Ex-Library; 8.75" 21.5 cm tall; 470 pages; Signed by Author. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
195446294New York and Toronto ON: Rinehart & Company Inc. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. First edition/third printing in Very Good condition with age-toned pages and both hinges starting but still strong in Good dust-jacket with tears scratches and many large chips. Illustrated with 6 maps and 8 pages of photographs; General 'Stonewall' Jackson was quite possibly the Civil War's most brilliant strategists and enigmatic figures if not one of the most brilliant strategists and enigmatic figures of all of military history. He is also a tragic figure having been felled by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Davis's writing employs all of the color and vivid characterization of the best fiction to bring this most unusual and exceptional individual to life ; B & W Photographs; 8vo; 470 pages . Rinehart & Company, Inc. hardcover
1976011805Baton Rouge Louisiana: Claitor's Publishing Division 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Tan cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine. The author's bookplate is affixed inside the front cover and hidden behind the dust jacket's front flap. Pictorial tan paper jacket. v vi-xi 2 3-413 pages with Bibliography. Contents: PART ONE: An Introduction to Louisiana History; PART TWO: French Colonial Louisiana; PART THREE: Spanish Colonial Louisiana; PART FOUR: Early Years of the American Regime; PART FIVE: Ante Bellum Louisiana; PART SIX: Civil War and Military Occupation; PART SEVEN: Reconstruction and Slow Progress 1877-1920; and PART EIGHT: Modern Louisiana. The author Edwin Adams Davis 1904-1994 was Professor Emeritus of History at Louisiana State University and head of the Louisiana State University Department of Archives. This book was his copy and he made some corrections to the page about him and the list of books he authored follows the front endpapers. A typewritten slip of paper affixed to the bottom of that page has come unglued and is laid in at the gutter. Claitor's Publishing Division Hardcover
B95783-1Albuquerque The University of New Mexico Press 1981. xii 212pp. 64 plates 60 figs. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Albuquerque (The University of New Mexico Press), 1981. hardcover
198251460New York: Hearst Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0878511512 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with bumped corners in an alike dust-jacket with minor soiling and chipping near the corners. There is a Library of Aaron Berkowitz stamp on the front free endpaper; This book is about sport aviation and its history. It provides a comprehensive overview of the sport aviation industry from the earliest days of aviation to the most recent developments. The book also discusses the various aircraft and equipment used in sport aviation as well as the pilots crews and fans who participate in these activities.; Color Photographs; 4to ; 242 pages . Hearst Books hardcover
1973HIS1495Sherbrooke Quebec: Page-Sangster. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 171 pp. Spine corners bumped. Jacket has edgewear small tear at bottom front and upper right edge. Gift note on front endpaper. A facsimile reprint of the 1863 original printed by John Lovell Montreal. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Page-Sangster hardcover
196024273La Grande Oregon: Eastern Oregon College. Near Fine. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Duplicared typescript. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 133 pages . Eastern Oregon College hardcover
194012250Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1940. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt medallion and borders on cover t.e.g. fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece and fold-out map. When the War of 1812 erupted Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville 1784-1857 served as a volunteer on the Detroit frontier and saw action under Major-General Isaac Brock. For his service at the capture of Detroit he was awarded a medal and clasp. Meanwhile his business had been badly disrupted by his absence and the hostilities. After a visit to Boucherville in early 1813 he rashly made his way back to Amherstburg carrying £1348 worth of general merchandise in four canoes. The only merchant to have brought in new stock he succeeded in selling most of what he had in a very short time and at high prices; during the first three days alone he recorded sales of £4800. However the defeat of Commander Robert Heriot Barclay by an American naval force on Lake Erie in September 1813 forced the abandonment of Amherstburg. Boucher de Boucherville later claimed for losses of £1271 on his stock of which £500 was recognized. Fleeing with his money he was near the site of the battle of Moraviantown when the British under Major-General Henry Procter were defeated and he hastened on to Montreal. There as he notes in his journal he gave a report on the battle to the commander-in-chief of the British forces Sir George Prevost. After a short rest at the family home in Boucherville he joined his regular militia unit the Boucherville battalion of militia then at Châteauguay serving as adjutant with the rank of captain. He was not however involved in the battle of Châteauguay and returned to Boucherville for the winter of 181415. James Foster's "The capitulation or A history of the expedition conducted by William Hull Brigadier-general of the northwestern army. By an Ohio volunteer" was first published in 1812. It is a first person account of a member of the first army of Ohio. It describes enthusiastic volunteer soldiers soon faced with challenges. They marched to Dayton where no preparations have been made to host the troops and experienced problems with travel and forage for pack animals; and describe's Hulls surrender. The United States was ill-prepared to begin the war especially lacking in numbers of ground troops so the fall of 1812 began slowly with a less than successful multi-pronged attack on British North America. Brigadier General William Hull led a force of regulars and militia across the wilderness of the Old Northwest cutting a road as they travelled intending to use Detroit as a base of operations in the region. As Hull settled in to Detroit British forces in Canada moved to seize Fort Mackinac also known as Fort Michilimackinac located at the strategic straits between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. They took possession of the important fur trading post on July 17 1812 without much resistance. British and Native American raids along the road captured some of Hulls papers and threatened his supply lines. News of the fall of Fort Mackinac further alarmed General Hull causing him to abandon his offensive plans and remain in place at Detroit. Though British and Native American troops were far fewer and farther away than he feared Hull waited at Detroit until Brigadier General Isaac Brock began to mount a siege. Craftily Brock let it be known that he was not sure he could control the native warriors in the heat of battle. The prospect of a massacre tipped the already fearful Hull over the edge. On August 16 1812 he surrendered Detroit with barely a shot fired and was court-martialed for treason and cowardice in 1813. . Spine and top edge mildly faded slight wear at head and heel of spine else fine; unmarked unread tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 38. Frontispiece and maps. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xxvi 347 pp . The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons hardcover
1950004494Buenos Aires: Editorial Difusion 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 220pp. Stiff card stock cover. Text in Spanish. Cover very lightly worn text is tanned dampstain to top edges and foredges text is unharmed. Inscribed and signed illegibly on half-title page possibly by author. Dust jacket is also dampstained and spine is faded. Laid-in is a promotional brochure of the book by the publisher. <br/> <br/> Editorial Difusion hardcover
BOOKS030596IWernigerode am Harz: Missionsverl.-Licht im osten. Top of spine worn end-papers foxed else Good unmarked. ISBN: Hardback; no DJ. 236 pp. Catalogs: THEOLOGY. Keywords: THEOLOGY ESCHATOLOGY ARMAGEDDON BIBLICAL PROPHECY PAROUSIA. Missionsverl.-Licht im osten hardcover
192912469New York: Harcourt Brace. 1929. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Moderate wear and small open tears to price clipped DJ. ; About the Merritt family who prospected for iron. Very nicely INSCRIBED by the author on title page with black fountain pen dated 1931. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages . Harcourt Brace hardcover
1996031053Roma: De Luca / Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to.303 pages. Soft cover bound in tan and brown wrappers. A fresh clean copy. Text is in Italian <br/> <br/> De Luca / Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo paperback
2010020771New Haven CT: Yale University Press 2010. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover red cloth lettered in gold on spine in publisher's colorful pictorial dust-jacket. 288 pages. Includes: Glossary of Venetian Terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white images. First edition with no additional printings on copyright page. No previous ownership marks. A clean fresh unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. A large heavy book Priority and International orders will require additional postage calculated as close to actual cost as possible. . Yale University Press Hardcover
1930060042New York: Coward-McCann 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth lettered in gilt deckled text block edges. A few light surface marks to cloth short closed tear to cloth midway down spine panel a few mild surface abrasions to spine panel cloth slight binding lean. Firm binding clean interior. 356 pp. Coward-McCann Hardcover
199840503Phoenix Mill UK: Wrens Park Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0905778197 . Very Good condition light scuffing and wear in alike dust-jacket with price sticker to right corner; SS murder and mayhem in wartime Britain; 8vo; 182 pages; FSA . Wrens Park Publishing hardcover
187695814New York: Published for the Society 1876. 1876. Good. - Octavo softcover unbound. Removed in the past from a collection of pamphlets. The title page & last text page are chipped around the edges & bumped and there is a piece out of the bottom inner corner of the last page. 44 pages. 11 black-and-white engraved portraits with tissue guards. The page corners are lightly bumped and the edges of a few front & rear pages are chipped. Good. <p>The English Revolution also known as The Glorious Revolution or the Revolution of 1688 was the deposing of the Catholic King James II and VII of England Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary and the subsequent accession to the throne of Mary and her Dutch husband William III of Orange. James had remained childless for eleven years and the birth of his son in 1688 precipitated the revolution creating as it did the prospect of a Catholic dynasty rather than the succession of his Protestant daughter Mary. De Peyster quotes praise of William of Orange as the man who "rescued the Protestant religion in Europe and saved the Church of England here." In this pamphlet de Peyster writes about a group of of men and women who exerted powerful influence over the development of events during the revolution. Among them each with his or her portrait are William Mary John Locke Isaac Newton Jonathan Swift Edward Stillingfleet Sir William Temple the Duke of Marlborough Queen Anne John Dryden and Edmund Halley. New York: Published for the Society, 1876. paperback
186913700New York: Carlton & Lanahan. Fair with no dust jacket. 1869. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 416 pp . Carlton & Lanahan hardcover
197612362Glorieta NM: The Rio Grande Press Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. The covers are soiled. Usual xlib marks. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages . The Rio Grande Press, Inc. hardcover
1910007963London: Chatto & Windus. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Chatto & Windus 1910. 8vo. viii181pp. illustrated with color and sepia plates by Yoshio Markino. Blue cloth with gilt titles and cover design. Wear at the spine tips and front outer hinge some foxing to preliminaries inscription on flyleaf. Binding tight text clean. Good. . Good. Hard. 1st. 1910. Chatto & Windus unknown
19741125559012Toronto: Longman Canada Limited 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. pp. xii 160 illustrated 160 b & w illustrations end paper maps d.j. has edge tears chips shelf wear prints and illustrations from the earliest known of the seventeenth century to 1878.Biographies of the artists and engravers who worked in Canada are included. Longman Canada Limited, Hardcover
196424274La Grande Oregon: Western Oregon College. Near Fine. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Duplicated typescript. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 158 pages . Western Oregon College hardcover
20051125557693Kentvill Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press 2005. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black embossed paper covers 76 pages Poems.Includes dust jacket and vertical book belly band. Gaspereau Press Paperback
197118364Harry W. Deegan. Fine. 1971. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Owner's name inside the front cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages . Harry W. Deegan hardcover
198552792New York: Harper & Row Publishers. Good. 1985. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 0060153768 . A Revised and Updated edition in Good condition with soiling fading and other general shelfwear to the boards and a previous owner's name inked on the front flyleaf; Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure is the story of two archaeological excavations that changed the course of history. In the first in the late 1970s a team of archaeologists discovered the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum a Roman town that was buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The discovery of the villa and the thousands of scrolls it contained not only revealed the secrets of the Roman world but also demonstrated the power of archaeology to change our understanding of the past.In the second excavation which took place in the early 2000s a team of archaeologists discovered the Villa of the Mysteries a luxurious villa that was also buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The discovery of the villa and the many sculptures and paintings it contained not only revealed the secrets of the Roman world but also demonstrated the power of archaeology to change our understanding of the arts.; 222 pages; TBC . Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
