History - Americas

[6164] Appleyard, John, Agency. The 14th Colony: British West Florida 1763-1781. Pensacola FL: Pensacola Home & Saving Association , 1976. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 44pp., illus. $3.00 [2767] Bellah, Robert N. (et. Al.). Habits of the Heart : Individualism and Commitment in American Life. NY: Harper & Row, 1985. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0060970278. Cover corner crease, 355pp. $3.00 [3980] Bennett, E. D. (ed.). American Journeys: An Anthology of Travel in the United States. Convent Station, NJ: Travel Vision, 1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 192pp. Forty-six excerpts from travel adventures in American history. $4.00 [4884] Bjork, Kenneth O. (ed.). Norwegian-American Studies, Volume 24. Northfield MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1970. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good / No Jacket. Minimal library stamps,300pp. $6.00 [2845] Blay, John S.. After the Civil War : A Pictorial Profile of America from 1865 to 1900. NY: Bonanza Books, 1960. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 312pp., illus. Photographs, illustrations and essay on reconstruction era in U.S. history following Civil War. $10.00 [4362] Botkin, B. A.. A Treasury of American Folklore. NY: Crown Publishers, 1944. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Edge wear, end papers yellowed, water spots on spine, name inside rear cover, intact, 932pp. $8.00 [4108] Brau, Maria M.. Island in the Crossroads: The History of Puerto Rico. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1968. Trade Paperback. Very Good 116pp. $7.00 [1610] Brill, Steven. The Teamsters. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1978. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 402pp. Inside the Teamsters Union. $5.00 [4941] Carse, Robert. The Seafarers: A History of Maritime America, 1620-1820. NY: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1199346497. Dust jacket closed tears, name on end paper, 306pp. $9.00 [2750] Carter, Stephen L.. The Culture of Disbelief. NY: Basic Books, 1993. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-465-02647-8. Dust jacket closed tears, name inside cover, 328pp. Subtitle : How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. $7.00 [3674] Chernoff, George and Sarbin, Hershel. Photography and the Law, 4/e. Garden City NY: Amphoto, 1971. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good / No Jacket. Library markings blacked out, pocket, 158pp. Overview of legal aspects of photography - copyright, libel, privacy, ownership and obscenity. $2.00 [5269] Curry, Richard O. (ed.). The Abolitionists: Reformers or Fanatics? (American Problem Studies Series). NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good Paragraph brackets, name inside cover, 122pp. $4.00 [5782] Demos, John Putnam. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0394557824. 318pp. Later printing. $9.00 [6165] Dibble, Ernest F.. William H. Chase: Gulf Coast Fort Builder. Wilmington DE: Gulf Coast Collection, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 12pp., illus. West Point graduate, William Chase, builder of Ft. Pickens at entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida and other Gulf coast fortifications. $4.00 [6586] Dorschner, John; Fabricio, Robert. The Winds of December. New York, NY: Putnam Publishing, 1980. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0698109937. Dust jacket edge wear, clean text, no marks, 552pp., end maps. "Cuba: 1958. The dramatic behind-the-scens story of Castro's revolution." $8.00 [2449] Freidel, Frank. Our Country's Presidents. Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1981. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Closed tears & chips to jacket, 288pp., illus. Reprint 1981. Sketches and pictures of the presidents through Ronald Reagan. $3.00 [6439] Fry, Ronald W.. 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions, 3rd Ed.. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 1564142000. Clean, non marks, 220pp. Q & A format. Good advice to prepare for the hard questions asked by the steely eyed HR people. $6.00 [4301] Goetzmann, William H.. New Lands, New Men : America and the Second Great Age of Discovery. NY: Viking, 1986. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0-670-81068-1. Remainder mark bottom page edges, 528pp., illus. end maps. Pulitzer Prize winning author of Exploration and Empire tells of Americas age of discovery 17th - 19th century. $7.00 [6495] Gorowitz, Bernard. A Century of Progress, The General Electric Story 1876-1978. Schenectady NY: Schenectady Hall of History , 1981. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Clean, tight binding, illus. with b/w photographs. Photo history. Four volumes complete in one book. Vol 1 "The Edisen Era, 1876-1892"; vol. 2 "The Steinmetz Era, 1892-1923"; vol 3 "On the Shoulders of Giants, 1924-1946"; and vol 4 "Pathways of Progress, 1947-1978." $9.00 [1695] Grover, Ron. The Disney Touch : How a daring management team revived an entertainment Empire. Homewood IL: Business One Irwin, 1991. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 1-55623-385-X. 315pp.,illus. How Eisner and Wells saved Disney from the nasty corporate raiders. $4.00 [7056] Heckscher, August. The Politics of Woodrow Wilson : Selections from his Speeches and Writings. New York NY: Harper & Brothers, 1956. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. No marking to text, no names or stamps, 389pp. Reprint of 1971. $10.00 [5206] Hunt, William R.. To Stand at the Pole : The Dr. Cook-Admiral Peary North Pole Controversy. Lanham, MD, U.S.A.: Madison Books, Incorporated, 1982. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0812827732. Solid clean book sans jacket, 288pp., illus. $7.00 [3414] Jacobstein, J. Myron. Legal Research Illustrated, 5th Edition. Westbury NY: Foundation Press, 1990. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0882778056. Rear cover corner crease, 412pp., illus. Abridgement of Fundamentals of Legal Research, 5th Ed., $6.00 [5031] Klotter, John C.; Edwards, Terry D.. Criminal Law, 5th Edition. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company, 1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0870845276. 809pp., illus. Fifth edition. $8.00 [1596] Kusche, Lawrence David. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved. NY: Harper & Row, 1974. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Dust jacket with minor rubs and closed tears, 302pp. $3.00 [2088] LaPierre, Wayne. Guns, Crime, and Freedom. Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 1994. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0895264773. 263pp. Forward by Tom Clancy. $2.00 [7278] Manchester, William. The Death of a President, November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York NY: Harper & Row, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0060551364. No marks or names. 710pp. $3.00 [4890] McClintick, David. Swordfish : A Story of Ambition, Savagery & Betrayal. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1993. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-679-42019-3. Remainder mark, ffep glued down to cover, 606pp., illus. True story of DEA operation to stem flow of illegal drugs into the US in the early 1980s. $6.00 [6011] McClintick, David. Swordfish : A Story of Ambition, Savagery & Betrayal. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1993. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0-679-42019-3. Small dot remainder mark, dust jacket rear top crease, 606pp., illus. Signed by author on half title page. True story of DEA operation to stem flow of illegal drugs into the US in the early 1980s. $14.00 [6886] McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1977. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0671244094. 697pp., illus. $8.00 [4810] Miller, John C.. The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1966. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0-8181-4977-2. Limited highlighting, 283pp. $5.00 [6124] Morison, Samuel Eliot. Builders of the Bay Colony. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0395083818. 405pp., illus. Study of the Puritan mind. $8.00 [4426] Morison, Samuel Eliot. The European Discovery of America : The Northern Voyages. NY: Oxford University Press, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0195013778. Name inside covers, 728pp., illus. Dean of American historians on the early explorers of North America. $7.00 [2531] Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. NY: Scholastic , 1995. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0590472674. 144pp., illus. Juvenile literature. Fascinating account of the Chicago fire of 1871. Illustrations from period literature. $9.00 [3629] Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union, Volumes I & II. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Library stamps and pockets; Volume I : Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852, 593pp.; Volume II : A House Dividing 1852-1857, 590pp. Vols 1 & 2 of 8. $22.00 [4554] Newfarmer, Richard (editor). From Gunboats to Diplomacy : New U. S. Policies for Latin America. Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0801830257. 254pp. U.S. Latin American Policies. $9.00 [4109] Parry, J. H. And Sherlock, Philip. A Short History of the West Indies, 3/e. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1971. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good 337pp., illus. Third edition. $9.00 [5960] Perry, Lewis (editor); Fellman, Michael (editor). Antislavery Reconsidered : New Perspectives on the Abolitionists. Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0807108898. Cover crease, 348pp. $8.00 [5779] Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2000. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0670891576. 302pp., illus. Later printing. $9.00 [2050] Pursell, Carroll W. (ed.). Technology in America : A History of Individuals and Ideas, 2nd Ed.. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1981. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good 319pp., illus. $4.00 [2209] Pursell, Carroll W. (ed.). Technology in America : A History of Individuals and Ideas, 2nd Ed.. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1981. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good 319pp., illus. Edison, Eastman, Bell, Ford, and a host of other American technical wizards. $4.00 [5541] Pusey, Merlo J.. The Way We Go To War. Boston MA: Houghton Miffilin , 1969. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Shelf wear, 202pp. $5.00 [6029] Quinn, Arthur. The Rivals : William Gwin, David Broderick and the Birth of California (Library of the American West). New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, 1994. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0517595737. 320pp., appears unread. California state political history 1850's. $6.00 [4727] Robins, Natalie. Alien Ink : The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression. New York, NY: Morrow/Avon, 1992. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0688068855. 495pp., illus. Hoover's war on freedom of expression. $5.00 [4424] Savage, Henry Jr.. Discovering America 1700-1875. NY: Harper, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0060907401. Name inside front cover, 394pp. Adventures and explorers of America with emphasis on the chroniclers of the natural sciences. $6.00 [3713] Scherman, David E.. The Best of Life. NY: Time-Life Books, 1973. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. 304pp., illus. Photographs from the pages of Life Magazine. $9.00 [2896] Shackleton, Ernest. South : A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage. NY: Carroll & Graf, 1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0786705973. 380pp., illus. $9.00 [2444] Snell, Tee Loftin. The Wild Shores : America's Beginnings. Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1974. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Closed tears & chips to jacket, 203pp., illus. $4.00 [3360] Stampp, Kenneth M. (ed.). Reconstruction : An Anthology of Revisionist Writings. Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good Some underlining, 531pp. Twenty-three articles on reconstruction W.E.B Du Bois, Horace Mann, and others. $6.00 [5697] Starkey, Marion L.. The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials. New York: Reader's Digest, 1964. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good 344pp. $5.00 [5927] Stephens, John L.. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Vol. 2). NY: Dover, 1963. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 048620927x. 336pp., illus. Reprint. Volume II. $7.00 [6968] Taylor, Robert M. Jr. (ed.). The Northwest Ordinance, 1787: A Bicentennial Handbook. Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: Indiana Historical Society, 1987. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0871950081. No marks or names, map inside rear cover, 136pp., maps. $6.00 [3896] Thomas, Gordon and Witts, Max Morgan. The San Francisco Earthquake. NY: Stein & Day, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Dust jacket chip, 316pp., illus., end maps. San Franciso earthquake of April 18, 1906. $5.00 [1807] Trimble Vance H.. Sam Walton : Founder of Wal-Mart. NY: Dutton, 1990. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0525249842. 319pp., illus. Down home account of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and organization. $2.00 [5130] Whipple, A. B. C.. Fighting Sail (The Seafarers Series). Alexandria, VA, U.S.A.: Time-Life, Incorporated, 1978. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / No Jacket - As Issued. ISBN: 0-8094-2656-0. Padded navy leatherette cover, 184pp., illus. The age of Nelson. $7.00 [1493] Wyden, Peter. Bay of Pigs : The Untold Story. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0671240064. Dustjacket lightly chipped edge, 352pp., illus., end maps. Kennedy/CIA ill fated invasion of Cuba in 1961. $4.00

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