Search Results: History from Book Happy Booksellers

New York: The John Day Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 312pp; No DJ, black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, previous owner's name to front pastedown, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. History of the people and nation of Hungary. Illustrated with map.

Privately Printed. First Edition. Softcover. Good+. 55pp; Slight handling wear to covers with tiny tear to fore-edge of front cover, marginalia & underlining to one page, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Relevant news clipping laid in. History of Jefferson County, Idaho. Illustrated with photos. Published circa 1970.

Privately Printed, 2011. Softcover. Fine. 217pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. First-hand accounts of the deadliest tornado to strike in the United States in 50 years, in Joplin, Missouri, May 22, 2011. Illustrated with photos.

Seattle: The Shorey Book Store, 1967. Facsimile Reprint. Softcover. Very Good-. Wraps; 14pp; Covers slightly edgeworn,small label shadow to front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Facsimile reprint of Tribune Tracts No. 3, containing a speech on the admission of Kansas, delivered in the U.S. Senate on February 29, 1860.

Washington, DC: Committee on Public Information, 1917. Softcover. Good+. Wraps; 24pp; Slight vertical crease to booklet, covers slightly age-toned with a few tiny stains, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Artifact of the First World War. Report by the Committee on Public Information established by President Woodrow Wilson discussing the loyalty of German-Americans during World War One. Contents: A Tribute to the Foreign Born by Woodrow Wilson; German-American Loyalty by C. Kotzenabe; Americans of German Origin and the War by Otto Kahn; National Service Knows No Hyphen by F. W. Lehmann; more.

New York: Carlton Press, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 144pp; DJ slightly rubbed & protected by mylar cover, clean, tight copy, VG+/VG- condition. Laid in author signed postcard. Play based on the life of and historical events surrounding Amerigo Vespucci. Illustrated.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1931. Softcover. Good. Wraps; 64pp; Covers worn at spine with a few small marks & stains, pages age-toned, a few marks in text, short tear to back cover, Good condition. One Hundred Men Who Moved the World: Character Sketches of the Greatest Creative Forces of History, Volume I. Covers Hammurabi, Confucius, Buddha, Cyrus, Mencius & Asoka.

Taipei, Taiwan: Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co., 1970. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7-1/2" x 10-1/2" Cloth; 531pp; Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, boards slightly bumped & scuffed, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Reprint of volume originally published in 1914. Contents: Alphabetical List of the Principal Persons Hereinafter Names; Introduction; Part II: The Ming Dynasty; Part II: The Manchu Dynasty.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 124pp; DJ clipped (though price still visible), clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Explores the minds, emotions, and motives of the men who led England and the world down the disastrous road of appeasement to World War II. Illustrated with photos.

New Delhi: Manohar, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Hardcover in DJ; 322pp; Extremely clean, tight, bright copy, Fine/VG+ condition. Detailed study of the nature of Sultanate polity and its impact on medieval Indian society.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 613pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, illustration to front, boards slightly edgeworn, top edge gilt, hinges weak, partial bookplate to front pastedown, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Antique single-volume edition of classic history and travelogue of Rome with commentary and anecdotes by Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909), American author noted for his novels set in Italy. Illustrated with line drawings.

New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1971. Paperback. Good+. Dell #0421. 128pp; Covers lightly soiled, pages slightly age-toned but clean & tight, Good+ condition. History of the "social bandit" from Robin Hood to Spanish anarchists. Illustrated.

Lynne Fereday Scholarship Memorial. Softcover. Very Good. 60pp; Small surface tear to back cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Research paper on the preservation of Basque culture in Roman times, written in 1971, and published posthumously. The author was killed in an accident only one day after moving in with a Basque family in Spain, at age 22. Also includes section on the Basques of Boise, Idaho illustrated with photos, as well as a History of the Basques.

Chicago: Douglas S. Benson, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 260pp; Illustrated, laminated boards, small bump to bottom edge of rear board, extremely clean, tight copy, as new, Fine condition. Historical study of the Black Hills War, 1876 through 1877. Illustrated with photos & maps.

Minneapolis, MN: Kirk House Publishers. Softcover. Very Good. 356pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. History of the 17th and 18th century Jesuit missions in Paraguay. Illustrated with maps & color photos. Published circa 2008.

Privately Printed. Softcover. Very Good-. 96pp; Covers slightly curled & edgeworn, one page creased, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Collection of photos of locomotives either built or operated in the Altoona, Pennsylvania area.

Bobcaygeon, ON, Canada: W. D. Thomas, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Hardcover in DJ; 160pp; DJ slightly edgeworn & protected by mylar sleeve, boards slightly edgeworn, endpapers illustrated with map, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. History of the village of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada and its surroundings. Illustrated with photos & maps.

Booker Bay, Australia: Brisbane Water Historical Society, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 144pp; Stiff illustrated card covers, red cloth spine, covers slightly age-toned, title page age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Part Four of the history of the Brisbane Water District in Australia.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 349pp; Maroon bevelled boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square & clean, original black endpapers, deckle edges, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Details the history behind British place names.

New York: Stewart Gordon Publications, 1967. Softcover. Good+. 191pp; Previous owner's name inside cover, slight chipping & creasing to rear cover, pages clean & tight, Good+ condition. Experiments in flagellation. Instruments of Punishment, Torture, Self-Beatings, Erotic Stimulation, Notorious Techniques of Mutilation, and the Psychopathological Element in Brutality and Other Physical Cruelties. A scientific study into the atrocities among different nations fully documented.