The Faber Book of America
Faber & Faber, 1992. Hardcover. 467 pages. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Faber & Faber, 1992. Hardcover. 467 pages. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Jones Brothers and Company, 1876. Hardcover. 625 pages. Illustrated, including color maps. 'Embracing an account of the aborigines; the Norsemen in the New world; the discoveries by the Spaniards, English, and French; the planting of settlements; the growth of the colonies; the struggle for liberty in the revolution; the establishment.....
W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1997. Hardcover. An atlas for our times that makes sense of the fast-paced transformation of the American West. The West. Americans hold dearly to old ideas of it as a unique, wild place of majestic space, ranching and mining, small-town life, and opportunity.....
Werner Pubns, 1982. Trade Paperback. 26 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations.
Congressional Globe Office, 1848. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages. A pro-Mexican war speech, perhaps most notable for its criticism of Abraham Lincoln for indecisiveness. First edition (first printing). Old folds, else very good. A single sheet, folded twice to make 8 pages, as issued. Not trimmed or bound.
Liveright, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood.....
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 162 pages. The first published collection of tributes to the late U. S. President. With contributions from E. B. White, Herb Caen, Norman Mailer and others. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket. In the publisher's slipcase with toned.....
Harcourt, Brace & Company. Trade Paperback. A very good copy with no dust jacket.
University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Covering more than two centuries, "The Beaver Men" ranges from the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in.....
Horizon Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 285 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with light toning to spine.
Oxford University Press, 2001. Trade Paperback. 298 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
TarcherPerigee, October 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks. There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more.....
Associated Press, 1965. Photograph. A near fine copy. Stamp in ink on rear: 'Bob Scott Associated Press, Staff Photographer, P. O. Box 1013, Denver, Colorado'. Typed at top: 'Clark, Jim Sheriff 11-2065u'.
Wesanne Publications, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Discover the fascinating yet grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the world's oldest profession. Illustrated throughout with rare historical photos of women like Molly b' Dam, Lil' Lovell, and Mattic Silks. This strong book provides a......
Doubleday, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
1928. Ephemera. Shortridge (1861-1952) was a Republican Senator from California from 1920-1932. He was a prominent voice for racist anti-Japanese forces in California. He also served as special attorney for the Justice Department in Washington from 1939-1943. One sheet, folded for mailing, on United State Senate Committee on Privileges and.....
Scribner, April 1993. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1956. Hardcover. 123 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. A near fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket.
Pony Express History & Art Gallery, 1964. Hardcover.
Bloomsbury Press, October 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders.....
Congressional Globe Office, 1848. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages. 'Posterity will look back upon [the Mexican American War] as reflecting glory upon the present Administration , and as constituting one of the brightest periods in the life of our beloved country.' First edition (first printing). Old folds, else very good.....
Basic Books, July 2014. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. A New York Times Best Seller Enough with the dead white men! Forget what you learned in school! Ever since Columbus--who was probably a converted Jew--"discovered" the New World, the powerful and privileged have.....
Harper Paperbacks, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. New York Times Bestseller "Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas." -- Wall Street Journal Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so.....
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2015. Hardcover. Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross--who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood.....