Clarke's Complete Minstrel Show. Volume 1 and 2
Rialto, 1932-34. Pamphlet.
Rialto, 1932-34. Pamphlet.
Government Printing Office, 1938. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 172 pages. Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas was a former governor (1913) and senator (1913-1937), senate majority leader (1923-1933), and vice presidential nominee in 1928. He was the last senator elected by a state legislature. He replaced Jefferson Davis who had died.....
Judge Company, 1909. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. 4 full-page illustrations in color, one of which is double-paged, showing President-elect Taft arriving at the White House. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated color wrappers (paperback). Splits along spine fold, else near fine with bright color.
Printed by Wm. Greer, 1843. Trade Paperback. Kendall's Expositor, Vol. 3, No. 23, October 31, 1843, pages 354-368. Much on Clay, Jackson and tariffs. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Issue with illustrated banner. Paper tanned and soiled. Former owner name in ink on page 353. Extracted.....
The Dial Press, October 1999. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Letters chronicle a century of life in the United States, from Mark Twain's humorous letter to the head of Western Union to Einstein's warning to Roosevelt about atomic warfare and a young Bill Gates.....
National Labor Committee for the Election of McGovern-Shriver, [1972]. Ephemera. Two versions of this anti-Richard Nixon campaign material, focusing on his labor record. 12 and 4 pages. Roughly 8-1/2 by 11 inches, printed on newsprint. One near fine; 4-page version a bit tattered at the edges.
Penguin Press, March 2016. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land In.....
The Anthoensen Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 70 pages. Preprint from the Proceedings of the 'Massachusetts Historical Society,' Volume 71 (1953-1957). Letters 'tell much about the way Adams worked, something of his attitude toward history and toward publishers and readers in history, and a great deal about his taste in.....
Howell-North Books, 1963. Hardcover. 148 pages. One hundred and twenty covered bridges are described by the author with photographs of each in black-and-white.
Simon & Schuster, November 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional.....
Harvard University Press, March 2012. Hardcover. Writing in "Life" magazine in February 1941, Henry Luce memorably announced the arrival of The American Century. The phrase caught on, as did the belief that America s moment was at hand. Yet as Andrew J. Bacevich makes clear, that century has now ended.....
McFarland & Company, April 2015. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Slight bump to one corner. When newly elected Illinois State Representative Abraham Lincoln first saw 5'4 Stephen A. Douglas, he sized him up as the least man I ever saw. With the introduction of Douglas's first.....
Liveright, April 2016. Hardcover. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure--a riddle--a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people--including his own family--in bondage, Jefferson is variably.....
Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 611 pages. '48 modern American classics of rare enjoyment.' Contributors include Ernest Hemingway ('The Killers') and F. Scott Fitzgerald ('The Guy Who Fixed the World Series'), as well as Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, E. B. White, Ogden Nash, and Robinson Jeffers. A......
The Bancroft Company, 1915. Hardcover. 562 pages. 'An analytical review of the Century. All interested in the opening of the Panama canal, or in the development of California and the countries around the Pacific, or in civic purity and the prosperity of the United States will find this book of.....
(n.p.), 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 372 pages. Autograph Edition. *** A biography of the man who gave Colorado's capital its name -- a land speculator named his settlement after James W. Denver, then governor of the Kansas Territory, which included present-day Colorado. Denver also served as a general during the.....
The US Library Association, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. 87 pages.
The World, 1866. Hardcover. 272 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. A very good copy with wear to the corners and spine ends. Former owner's name stamp on endpapers and title page.
Random House Inc, February 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict. The women.....
Eastern National, 2005. Trade Paperback. 103 pages. Many illustrations in color and B/W. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Simon & Schuster, May 2007. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the author Newsweek called the nations leading presidential historian comes an inspiring narrative chronicling the crucial moments when a courageous president has dramatically changed the future of the United States. of full-color photos.....
Howell-North Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 229 pages. The author lived and worked in Tonopah, Bodie, and other Nevada and California mining camps and knew them well for nearly five decades since then. A very good copy; no dust jacket.
The Huntington Library, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 487 pages. More than half of the six hundred letters that these two exchanged between 1910 and 1932 are included in this volume. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Small card included: Presented by The Zamorano.....
1842. Ephemera. Autograph letter signed, dated New Haven, Dec., 9, 1842. Addressed Mrs. Henry Huggins. Letter sends greeting and best wishes with hopes for Mr. Huggins to 'secure a competence even in these times & independence in better times, for which we see to hope. Several of thy standing in.....