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New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2005.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in fine dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, otherwise appears unread).. First printing. A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2005.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York:: Ballantine,, (2003). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book which "brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the womens movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe." A year in which everything was disrupted. A year in which the world watched the first live telecast from outer space .. In many… Read More

Boston:: Little Brown,, 1945.. VG. Trade paperback.

Convent Station,NJ: : Travel Vision, , 1976. Hardcover first edition -. Very good, ex-library copy but overall tight and clean, no dust jacket as issued.. Collection of brief essays published by Exxon Travel Club.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1957.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only dust jacket with overall edgewear, toning to interior. . First printing. From a search for religious freedom, to independence, slavery, abolition, the frontier and prohibition, the end of the American dream and more, this is a "panorama of three centuries of American behavior, seen through the moral judgments of the people upon themselves." Bibliography, index. 420, xv p.

New York:: Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin,, (2003). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. A book for older children which "describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on Philadephia's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. . . [He] spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia's free blacks in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis that President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the cityand all his paperswhile escaping the deadly contagion. A Newbery Honor Book and nominated National Book Award Illustrated with fascinating archival prints. Map, sources, index. Slightly over-sized format. 165 pp.

New York:: Time Incorporated,, 1962.. VG. Trade paperback.

New York:: The Free Press,, 1965.. Very good.. Trade paperback. Originally published as 'Gentlemen Freeholders.' Index, bibliographical notes, 160 pages.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ:: Prentice-Hall,, 1951.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in light green cloth in a very good dust jacket (some tidemarks visible on the verso of the dj).. First edition. An account of the American experiment in imperialism, from the Louisiana purchase to the annexation of Hawaii and the occupation of Japan and Korea and the islands of the South Pacific and the Philippines after World War II. Maps. Sources, notes, index. ix, 460 pp.

Norwalk, Ohio: : The Lanning Printing Company, State Printers,, 1893.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine - library bookplate on front pastedown, spine beginning to split along side, usual significant toning to the pages. . First thus. Consists almost entirely of charts and tables. Index. 430 pp.

New York:: Harper & Row,, 1967.. Very good.. Trade paperback. A selection of papers, by authors including Martin Duberman, Lee Benson, John Thomas, Davis, and others, looking at different aspects of the topic. A title in the 'Interpretations of American History' series.

New York & London:: New York University Press & University of London Press,, (1969.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj.) . First printing. A 'discursive, entertaining, and highly readable book' which takes a new look at the frontier myth and argues that the American experience has been most decisively molded by transatlantic influences. Published posthumously, in the same year as the author's untimely death at the age of 43. Notes, bibliography, index. 348 pp.

New York:: Liveright / Norton, , (2016). First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of back cover). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "The most comprehensive history of American lighthouses ever written. . ; Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, [it] traces the evolution of Americas lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nations hardscrabble coastlines." Illustrated with photographs throughout. Includes lists of lighthouse organizations, museums, endnotes and a select bibliography. xv, 514 pp.

New York:: Broadway Books,, (2001.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Fascinating account of the events of the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the NJ shore - and even a mile from the coast in a creek - killing three adults and one boy, and leaving another badly injured, triggering mass hysteria & launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. While modern science now tells us that shark attacks are exceedingly rare and limited to just a few species, and it is still undecided on whether or not the concept of a "rogue shark" is accurate, these events helped inspire Peter Benchley's classic novel (and movie),"Jaws" . The story of the shark's attacks is juxtaposed against a picture of America in the late Edwardian age, at the beginning of a period of rapid change, both culturally and technologically, an America not yet committed to participating in the war in Europe, but on the… Read More

New Brunswick, NJ: : Rutgers University Press,, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Publisher's material laid in. . First printing. A book which traces the history of the United States as a military power from the end of World War II to today by a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. It "is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between Americas foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements." SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, notes, index. 313 pp

New York:: Scribner,, (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An account of a pivotal time in US history - a war of only six months' time that dramatically altered the United States' standing in the world. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men - in desperation the Rough Riders were formed. A diverse group of volunteers, led by Theodore Roosevelt, they helped secure victory in Cuba - and the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. Roosevelt called their charge in the Battle of San Juan Hill his 'crowded hour' - a turning point in his life, that led him to the White House. Based on diaries, letters, and memoirs. Maps, photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xii, 355 pp.

Niwot, CO:: University Press of Colorado,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Franklin Folsom, executive secretary to the League of American Writers for five of its seven years of often controversial activity, brings to life a time when writers became aware of the threats of fascism, and recalls vigorous efforts of many great U.S. writers to rescue from European concentration camps their anti-Nazi colleagues. Founded during the tense, pre-war period of the 1930s, the League sought to promote intellectual and political freedom worldwide. With photos of League members, bibliography and index. 376 pgs.

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1983.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). A study of the private world of John Adams - patriot and second President of the United States - and his descendants, based in large part on letters and diaries. Photographs, sources, index. 400 pp.

New York:: Time Incorporated,, 1963.. Good only (tape on cover.). Trade paperback.