AN ACCOMPANIMENT TO MITCHELL'S REFERENCE AND DISTANCE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES Containing an Index of all the Countries, Districts, Townships, Town, & C. in the Union; Together with an Index of the Rivers; by Which Any County, District, Township, &c, or River, May be Found on the Map, Without Difficulty: Also, a General View...

By: Anonymous

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Mitchell and Hinman: 1834

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 3212

1/2 leather boards with some rubbing to extremities. Pages occasionally a bit browned. Last (blank) page a bit torn and corner missing ; 8vo; 324 pages View more info

ZANESVILLE AND 36 OTHER AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Study of Markets and of the Telephone As a Market Index

By: Anonymous

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Literary Digest: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 9424

8vo; 188 pages View more info

THE GREAT ILLUSION An Informal History of Prohibition

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company: 1950

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 9856

White DJ a bit darkened (as usual) and price clipped; 8vo; 344 pages View more info

THE LIFE OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN Founder of Texas, 1793-1836

By: Barker, Eugene C.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Nashville, Cokesbury Press: 1925

Order Number: 17537

INSCRIBED by the author on front free endpaper. Several letters, both handwritten and typed laid in ; 8vo; 551 pages View more info

O AMERICA When You and I Were Young

By: Barzini, Luigi

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 14586

Light wear to DJ. Slight spotting to boards ; There are two voices in this story: that of the young author who writes of his years in the US between 1925 and 1930, and the older author who reflects back on the years. stated first edition; 8vo; 329 pages View more info

THE GREAT REVOLT AND ITS LEADERS The History of Popular American Uprisings in the 1890's

By: Beals, Carleton

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Abelard-Schuman: 1968

Order Number: 12071

Small open tears and slight staining to DJ. Bookplate. Front free endpaper top corner missing ; Various ferments of revolt in the midwest and southern areas of the US in the 1890s; '; 8vo; 367 pages View more info

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MAKING 1932-1940 A Study in Responsibilities

By: Beard, Charles A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1946

Order Number: 17535

8vo; 335 pages View more info

HISTORIC SILVER OF THE COLONIES AND ITS MAKERS

By: Bigelow, Frances Hill

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1941

Order Number: 8311

Browning to endpapers. Binding slightly loose in a couple of spots ; Originally published in 1917, this is the fourth reprinting of the standard reference to colonial silver; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 476 pages View more info

TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS [TWO VOLUME SET] From Lincoln to Garfield with a Review of the Events Which Led Up to the Revolution of 1860

By: Blaine, James G.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Norwich, CT, The Henry Bill Publishing Company: 1884,1886

Order Number: 16152

Wear to extremities. Spine ends chipped with small parts missing. Paper guards for illustrations browned and brittle, with the guard to the volume 2 frontispiece detached but present. Volume two binding not tight and hinges started; Memoir of the former Speaker of the House, Senator, and by two-time Secretary of State Blaine, who also narrowly missed the Presidency, being defeated by Chester Arthur in a very close election in 1884. Focusing on the run-up to the Civil War... View more info

BELLE BRITTAN ON A TOUR, AT NEWPORT, AND HERE AND THERE

By: Brittan, Belle

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Derby & Jackson: 1858

Order Number: 15513

Likely rebound. Wear to extremities. Spine faded. Bookplate to front pastedown; Travels around the USA and discussions of the burning issues of the day, in epistolary form ; 8vo; 359 pages View more info

THE AMERICAN CHARACTER

By: Brogan, D. W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1944

Order Number: 17521

Boards very lightly sunned along top edge. ; Blue boards with decorative blindstamped shield; 8vo; 169 pages View more info

MIRROR FOR AMERICANS Likeness of the Eastern Seaboard 1810

By: Brown, Ralph H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, American Geographical Society: 1943

Order Number: 9431

Boards a bit darkened and lightly soiled; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 312 pages View more info

SAY, IS THIS THE U.S.A.

By: Caldwell, Erskine; Bourke-White, Margaret

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1941

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 14252

Wear to extremities. Spine ends frayed; A coffee table book that looks like it could be part of the WPA series. A slice of life of a vanished America just before entry into WWII, perhaps the last vestige of innocence. Photos by the noted Margaret Bourke-White; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 182 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House: 1942

Order Number: 15821

DJ worn and tattered. Boards spotted. Occasional foxing; Photogravures; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 252 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1942

Edition: Book Club Edition

Order Number: 17256

Boards with light rubbing to extremities ; Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1942

Edition: Book Club Edition

Order Number: 17257

Boards with light rubbing to extremities ; Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages View more info

FAIR IS OUR LAND

By: Chamberlain, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1942

Edition: Book Club Edition

Order Number: 17191

DJ browned and with chips ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages View more info

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES [VOLUME 1] The Birth of Britain

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1957

Order Number: 17533

DJ spine sunned and with one small chip ; Book Club Edition; 8vo; 521 pages View more info

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES [VOLUME 3] The Age of Revolution

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1957

Order Number: 17532

Light rubbing to DJ; Book Club Edition; 8vo View more info

THE CENTENNIAL UNIVERSAL HISTORY A Clear and Concise History of all Nations, with a Full History of the United States, to the Close of the First 100 Years of Our National Independence

By: Clare, Israel Smith

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. C. Mccurdy & Co: 1876

Order Number: 6854

Boards with moderate wear to extremities, especially to corners. Front hinge started. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Inclusive history of the world, starting with creationist theory and finishing with the stolen US election of 1876. Profusely illustrated and quite detailed ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 626,13 pages View more info

THE AMERICAN FESTIVAL GUIDE A Handbook of More Than 200 Colonial, Homesteading, Western, Spanish, Folk, Rodeo, Sports, Cultural and Other Annual Festivals and Celebrations in the United States and Canada, with a Calendar and a Gazetteer of Festivals for Ready Reference

By: Coates, Helen R.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press: 1956

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 9430

DJ faded and lightly chipped ; Nicely SIGNED by the author in green ink on front free endpaper. Typed letter SIGNED laid-in. This is a thank you letter by the author to the Ramona Pageant Association, dated June 15, 1956; 8vo; 299 pages View more info

PASSAGE TO AMERICA A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: Coleman, Terry

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Easton Press: 1988

Order Number: 4294

All edges gilt. Including Easton Press slip laid-in; 8vo; 317 pages View more info

FREEDOM LOYALTY DISSENT

By: Commager, Henry Steele

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1954

Edition: First Edition

Order Number: 17523

Shelf wear to spine ends. DJ chipped along edges. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 155 pages View more info

THINK BACK ON US... A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930's

By: Cowley, Malcolm

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press: 1967

Order Number: 4186

DJ a bit yellowed; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 400 pages View more info