Category: American History and Biography

In the Wake of the Hurricane 1938: Amherst, Massachusetts

By: 1938 New England Hurricane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Amherst, MA, Carpeneter and Morehouse : 1938

Seller ID: 043946

Condition: Very Good

Amherst, MA: Carpeneter and Morehouse, 1938. Published 1938. Views of flooding and storm damage from the 1938 New England Hurricane to Amherst, Pelham and Hadley, Massachusetts. Softcover, oblong format 5.5 inches tall, 20 pages. Very good condition, pages clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 12mo. First Edition.
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The New England Hurricane: The Effect of Wind, Tidal Wave, and Floods on Factory Mutual Plants. Factory Mutual Record Vol. XV No 10, October 1938

By: 1938 New England Hurricane. Mutual Fire Insurance Companies

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, U.S.A., Factory Mutual Insurance Companies : 1938

Seller ID: 031446

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Factory Mutual Insurance Companies, 1938. Oct. 1938 issue of Factory Mutual Record (Vol. XV, No. 10), detailing damage to Factory Mutual Insurance Co. Member companies during the 1938 hurricane. Illustrated in black and white, with statistics, information about hurricane routes, river floods, and with an insert showing the affected insured companies along with estimated loss per location. Softcover, 16 pages. Covers have a bit of light shelf soil, contents clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.
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Wigwam and War-Path; or the Royal Chief in Chains

By: A. B. Meacham

Price: $265.00

Publisher: Boston, John P. Dale and Company : 1875

Seller ID: 044641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Boston: John P. Dale and Company, 1875. First edition, title page dated 1875. Fair to good condition. Illustrated with portraits and "spirited and life-like engravings of actual scenes from Modoc Indian life" in Oregon. Three quarter brown morocco leather over pebbled brown cloth, slightly raised spine bands with gilt lettering and compartments decorated in blind, marbled edges and endpapers, 700 pages plus publisher's ad. Covers has some edgewear, cloth spotted, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block sound, pages uniformly age-toned with an unobtrusive old transparent stain to the u...
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Yanks. Originally Published in The Stars and Stripes

By: A. E. F. Verse

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1919

Seller ID: 041479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. First American edition. World War I poetry by service members of the American Expeditionary Forces. Blue cloth printed in gilt, color frontis plate. Some light edgewear, minor fabric flaw to the very top edge of the rear cover (looks like a small wrinkle from the binding process), good hinges, sound text block, some foxing to outer edges of frontis plate, clean pages with poem handwritten on the preliminary blank with the name Ira Featherstone (?) at the end, no other names or markings.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First ...
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History and Description of New England: New Hampshire

By: A. J. Coolidge and J. B. Mansfield

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Boston, Austin, J. Coolidge : 1860

Seller ID: 041191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Boston: Austin, J. Coolidge, 1860. First edition, 1860. Includes a large folding hand colored map of New Hampshire. Text is arranged by city or town, with engravings, with a list of Natives of New Hampshire Resident in Boston and Vicinity at the end. Black blind-stamped cloth, 179 pages plus the list of names. The map has a 4.5 inch closed tear but no paper loss (repairable). Covers edgeworn with some chipping to the spine, front hinge internally reglued and secure, text block sound, pages clean with a very small transparent stain to the far lower corners of the first and last few pages, names...
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Battle Fields and Camp Fires: A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War, from the Removal of McClellan to the Accession of Grant (1862-1863)

By: Abbot, Willis J. Illustrated By W. C. Jackson

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1890

Seller ID: 045159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890. First edition, 1890. Civil War history illustrated with full page black and white plates plus smaller illustrations thorughout the text. Attractive copy in blue pictorial cloth printed in gilt, red and darker blue, 356 pages. Very good condition with light edge rubbing, good hinges, firm text block, pages clean, no names or other markings. Written for older juveniles and adults.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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Battle-Fields of '61: A Narrative of the Military Operations of the War for the Union Up to the End of the Peninsular Campaign

By: Abbot, Willis J. Illustrated By W. C. Jackson

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1889

Seller ID: 045158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889. First edition, 1889. Civil War history illustrated with full page black and white plates plus smaller maps thorughout the text. Attractive copy in blue pictorial cloth printed in gilt, red and darker blue, 356 pages. Very good condition with light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, tiny chip to far outer margin of one page, pages clean, no names or other markings. Written for older juveniles and adults.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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Old Paths and Legends of the New England Border: Connecticut, Deerfield, Berkshire

By: Abbott, Katharine M.

Price: $42.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1907

Seller ID: 038664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. First edition, 1907. Tour of historical sites throughout Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, illustrated with black and white plates from photographs, title page printed in black and sepia. Maroon cloth with small illustration mounted on the front cover, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed,408 pages plus publisher's ads. Some rubbing to teh extremities, chip to upper left corner of front cover illustration, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, name neatly written on front free endpaper, no other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cove...
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Silhouettes of My Contemporaries

By: Abbott, Lyman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Co. : 1921

Seller ID: 030241

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Stated first edition [1921]. Biographies of diverse American personalities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from P. T. Barnum to John G. Whittier; from John Fiske to The Smiley Brothers; from Booker T. Washington to Theodore Roosevelt; many others. Blue-gray cloth, frontis portrait of the author, no dustjacket. Covers rubbed and unevenly faded, upper corners a bit bent, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block sound with no loosened pages, light dampstains to upper corners of several pages toward the end of the book (not affecting ...
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Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places

By: Adams, Ansel; Nash, Eric Peter

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Todtri Book Pub : 1998

Seller ID: 017098

ISBN-13: 9781880908372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Todtri Book Pub, 1998. Published 1998. Large format book (13" tall) celebrating the landscape photography of noted photographer Ansel Adams. Blue cloth, 144 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in near fine condition, looks and feels about new with a minor rub to the lower edge, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is also in near fine condition with light bit of shelf soil to the rear panel.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Dust jacket present.
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Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places

By: Adams, Ansel; Nash, Eric Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Todtri Book Pub : 1998

Seller ID: 017097

ISBN-13: 9781880908372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Todtri Book Pub, 1998. Published 1998. Large format book (13" tall) celebrating the landscape photography of noted photographer Ansel Adams. Blue cloth, 144 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in near fine condition, looks and feels about new with some very minor rubs to the spine ends, tiny light blue remainder dot on lower edge, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is also in near fine condition with a minor rub to the upper spine end.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - o...
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History of the United States of American During the Administrations of James Madison. Library of America Series

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Library of America : 1986

Seller ID: 045712

ISBN-13: 9780940450356

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New York: The Library of America, 1986. Stated first printing of the Library of America edition. Blue cloth with attached blue ribbon bookmark, illustrated dustjacket. Near fine condition with minor rubbing to front joint, otherwise looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings, mylar protected dustjacket not priceclipped [27.50] and about fine with some light scuffing to background of rear panel, no chips or tears.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Letters of Henry Adams (1892-1918). Limited Edition

By: Adams, Henry. Edited By Worthington Chauncey Ford

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1938

Seller ID: 036540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition, no. 129 of the total 205 copies in this limited edition. Bright red cloth with paper spine label, matching red slipcase. The book is near fine with firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The slipcase has some shelf rubbing and edgewear, no breaks or tears.. First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Pilgrims, Indians and Patriots : The Pictorial History of America from the Colonial Age to the Revolution

By: Adams, Randolph G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company : 1928

Seller ID: 022348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. First edition. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. Bright navy cloth with eggshell cover lettering and publisher's blindstamp, frontispiece, 207 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, very lightly worn with only gently rubbed extreme spine ends, a tiny pinhole pierced through rear cover (not obstructing inside text block), a narrow three-inch moisture shadow running vertically midcenter along crevice between frontis and title page, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or othe...
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Strawberry Point

By: Adams, Remelle

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Lunenburg, Vermont, The Stinehour Press : 1984

Seller ID: 001611

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press, 1984. Limited to 250 copies, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Memoirs of Strawberry Point, now called the Glades, off Cohasset, Massachusetts. Gray softcover, 59 pages. Very good with an old price sticker mark on the front cover, internally about fine.. Signed by Author. First, Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers and Their Fuonding of New Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony...

By: Addison, Albert C.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company : 1912

Seller ID: 043211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1912. Stated first impression, 1912. Light blue pictorial cloth printed in gilt, blue and gilt, top edge gilt, no dustjacket, likely as issued. Light rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with a personal bookplate on verso of the front free endpaper, no other names or markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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Innovation in American Government: Challenges, Opportunities, and Dilemmas

By: Alan A. Altshuler and Robert D. Behn

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Brookings Inst Press : 1997

Seller ID: 018519

ISBN-13: 9780815703570

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Brookings Inst Press, 1997. First printing, 1997. Softcover, 394 pages. Some minimal edge rubbing, otherwise effectively new condition, internally fine with no names or other markings.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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To Keep Us Aware... [Information for Bering Straits Region on Offshore Oil Development]

By: Alaska OCS Review; Kawerak, Inc.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Anchorage, AK, Kawerak, Inc. : 1977

Seller ID: 040269

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Anchorage, AK: Kawerak, Inc., 1977. Report from a 1977 panel discussions to inform native populations in the Bering Straits Region of planned oil drilling to Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf. Includes maps, photos, charts. Oblong softcover, 16 pages. Light shelfwear, contents clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Oblong 4to. First Edition.
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The Story of Worcester, Massachusetts (Geared for the Younger Reader)

By: Albert Farnsworth and George B. O'Flynn

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Worcester, Massachusetts, The Davis Press : 1934

Seller ID: 004278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Worcester, Massachusetts: The Davis Press, 1934. First edition [1934]. A history of Worcester geared for the secondary school reader, illustrated in black and white, rewritten from the book of the same title issued in 1910. Green cloth printed in gilt, 214 pages. Printing nearly worn off covers entirely with some light cover soil, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages with a name on the front free endpaper, no other markings, two pages yellowed from an old newspaper clipping, internally near fine. A sound and internally clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾"...
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Pre-Columbian Art

By: Alcina Franch, Jose. Translated By I. Mark Paris

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1983

Seller ID: 031086

ISBN-13: 9780810906457

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. First American edition [1983]. Massive, well-illustrated work, with 177 plates in full color. Light tan cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, illustrated endpapers, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in fine condition with firm binding, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is near fine with a tiny scratch to the outer edge of the front panel.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Category: American History and Biography