from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

Austin: University of Texas Press 1951. (Hardcover) 655pp. Good to very good in good dust jacket. Top edges stained brown, map endpapers, index. A previous owner's stamp on the endpapers and dust jacket front flap, a dampstain to the top edges of the last 100 pages with minimal penetration, and the jacket is worn with… Read more

New York: Summit Books [0-671-44793-9] 1984, book club edition. (Hardcover) 576pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photos, notes and index. The dust jacket and the covers are lightly edgeworn. Biography of John F. Kennedy. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Presidents).

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc [0-15-100559-1] 2003, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 342pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Pink highlighting in the bibliography. Book about Springhill Mine Disaster. (History--United States, Coal Industry, Disasters--Mining, Mining--United States).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [0-374-21514-6] 1996, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 392pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, notes, index. Book about Dwight Eisenhower & Mamie Eisenhower. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Presidents--United States).

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co. 1908. (Hardcover) 61pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Frontispiece. The front inner hinge is partially cracked, the back board is creased, a page tear on p. XV near the gutter, and there is extensive pencil erasure on the endpapers. Includes George Washington (Washington's Farewell Address) & Daniel Webster (Webster's… Read more

Berkeley: University of California Press 978-0-520-25186-1 [978-0-520-25186-1] 2010. (Hardcover) 299pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. "What can the performance of a single play on one night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of MacBeth in Washington, D.C., on October… Read more

New York: Viking [0-670-03430-4] 2005. (Hardcover) 276pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Genealogical tables, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. A green discoloration to the back panel of the dust jacket. "Martha Dandridge Custis was a wealthy, good-looking widow and the mother of two young children when, in 1759, she started a… Read more

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press [0-8195-5083-3] 1983. (Hardcover) 137pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated title page, maps, tables, notes, index. "To most Americans, the terms 'colonial New England town' and 'Puritan village' are nearly synonymous. But not all of New England was founded on Puritan orthodoxy. The exiles from Massachusetts Bay, who… Read more

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [0-316-28606-0] 1975. (Hardcover) 453pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, notes, references, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and edgeworn with a roughened spot and four-inch closed tear to the front panel. "Only a historian of Flexner's caliber could bring such a… Read more

Alexandria: Time-Life Books Inc. [0-8094-3585-3] 1980, reprint. (Leather binding) 491pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering and textured decorations to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, notes, photographs. "There is an old saw in the army which teaches that you can never know a man… Read more

Alexandria: Time-Life Books Inc. [0-8094-3952-2] 1980, reprint. (Leather binding) 472pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering and textured decorations to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, photographs, illustrations. The spine is lightly sunned. "In presenting to the public the story of 'Uncle Dick' Wootton's… Read more

Alexandria: Time-Life Books Inc. [0-8094-3998-0] 1982, reprint. (Leather binding) 443pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering and textured decorations to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker, color frontispiece, illustrations, notes, appendix. "Nothing that I can say here will blind the reader to the deficiency of these… Read more

New York: Broadway Books [0-7679-0413-3] 2001. (Hardcover) 317pp. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, bibliography. "Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching… Read more

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [0-399-11407-6] 1974. (4to) 272pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Green cloth. Frontispiece, maps, black and white and color illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly worn at the bottom edge, the dust jacket is sunned along the spine, there is a tiny roughened spot… Read more

New York: David McKay Company, Inc 1968. (Hardcover) 248pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Index. Lightly edgeworn. "In the riot-filled summer of 1967 and the spring of 1968, when so many other cities burned, Oakland did not. What happened was a remarkable transformation, a dramatic and reasoned resolve by elements of the… Read more

Alexandria: Time-Life Books Inc. [0-8094-3568-3] 1980, reprint. (Leather binding) 316pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering and textured decorations to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker, color frontispieces, illustrations. "My excuse for writing this book is money - and lots of it. I suppose the above… Read more

New York: Viking Press 1951. (Hardcover) 581pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Red and blue cloth with gilt and blue lettering to the spine. Top edge stained red. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly creased, with two small chips to the rear panel top edge. "Here are the private day-to-day notes,… Read more

Xenia: Old Chelicothe Press 1968. (Hardcover) 37pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Tan paper-covered boards over brown cloth spine with paper title labels on the front cover and spine. Folding maps, illustrations. The front cover title label is rubbed. "This is Daniel Boon's story as he told it in 1783 to John Filson,… Read more

Kansas City: Lowell Press 1977, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) 301pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Map endpapers, photographs. Locale: Montana. (Western America, Cowboys, Ranch Life).

New York: W.W.Norton & Company Inc. 1975, book club edition. (Hardcover) 251pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photos, index. Biography of John F. Kennedy. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Presidents).