Search Results: AMERICAN HISTORY from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

New York: Citadel Press 1964. (Trade paperback) 48pp. Very good plus. Illustrated inside covers. There is a previous owner's inscription. Book about John F. Kennedy. Time Period. (History--United States, Presidents--United States, Trivia).

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: Harcourt, Brace and World [1954]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 762pp. Illustrated endpapers, photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Biography of Abraham Lincoln. Locale: United States. (History--United States, American Civil War, Biography, Politics--United States, Presidents--United States).

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 978-0-8018-8993-6 [978-0-8018-8993-6] 2008. (Hardcover boxed set) 942,. Near fine, no dust jacket. Two volumes in dark green cloth in a fine black slipcase. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. The last blank page of the first volume has a few minor punctures. "This remarkable work incorporates the field notes of earlier biographers and decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers to offer a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents". Biography of Abraham Lincoln. (History--United States, American Civil War, Biography, History--United States, Presidents--United States, Slavery).

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1968, Limited edition of 1400 copies. (Hardcover) 55pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the cover in a plain, grey dust jacket. Frontispiece, folding map laid in, illustrations, bibliography. "Her full name may be given as Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe Reed Murphy - the first two from baptism, the third from her father, dead in her infancy, the fourth from her beloved stepfather, the last from her husband. In the accounts of the Donner party she appears as Virginia Reed. Book about Donner Party. Time Period 19th Century. Foreword by George Stewart. (Western America, Pioneer Life, Travel and Adventure, Wagon Trains, Western America).

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, Pennsylvania schoolmaster turned traveler. With the addition of old maps and illustrations to his Adventures, the reader glimpses America's great frontiersman as he first appeared to the world and views the western wilderness as it looked to Daniel Boon" - from the Introduction. Book about Daniel Boon & Wars of Kentucky. Time Period 18th Century. Locale: Kentucky; Western America. (Western America, Adventure and Adventurers, Colonization, Indians of North America, Land Claims, Settlement--United States).

Harrisburg: Stackpole Books [1975]. (Oversize paperback) Good to very good. 96pp. Color plates, index. Large creases to rear cover. Illustrations by George Wunder. Locale: ; United States. (History--United States, American Revolution, Art).

Washington DC: American Historical Association 1968. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 367pp. Index. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Reference).

Garden City: A & W Visual Library [0-89104-037-4] [1973]. (4to paperback) Very good. 196pp. Illustrations, color plates, photographs, map, notes, index. (Western America, Art-Cowboy, Cowboys).

New York: American Heritage [1971]. (4to in slipcase) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 383pp. Decorated endpapers, color frontispiece, black and white and color photographs, index. (History--United States, Houses).

New York: Philosophical Library [1953]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 244pp. Notes, bibliography, index. There is a small faded spot on the top outside edge of the front of the dust jacket where a price sticker has been removed, the dust jacket spine is darkened. Foreword by James T. Shotwell. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Constitution).

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. [1965], 2nd edition. (4to) Very good to fine in very good dust jacket. 376pp. Black and white and color photographs, illustrations, maps, index. The dust jacket has minor edgewear. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Description and Travel).

New York: Bookman Associates [1954], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 329pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. The dust jacket has minor shelfwear. Locale: United States. (History--United States, American Legion, Foreign Policy--United States).

New York: American Heritage [1974]. (4to in slipcase) Very good, no dust jacket. 344pp. Embossed cloth cover, frontispiece, black and white and color photographs, black and white and color illustrations, map, diagrams, index. Previous owner's label. Edited by Joseph J. Thorndike. (History--United States, Navigation, Seafaring Life).

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [0-399-11906-X] 1980. (Hardcover) 539pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Notes, index. A remainder mark on the bottom edge and a previous owner's name in pencil inside. "Lizzie Borden and Charles Manson are legendary American criminals, but they are not the important ones. In looking at crime in America, the most interesting question is not 'Whodunit?' but 'Who defines it?' - who decides what is legal and what is not". (History--United States, Crime, Criminals, History--United States, Law).

Garden City: Doubleday Anchor Books 1958, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 576pp. There is a previous owner's stamp on the front endpaper. "A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal". Time Period Jazz Age. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Great Depression, Jazz, New Deal).

Bloomington: Indiana University Press [0-253-30649-3] 1985. (Hardcover) 304pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Tables, photographs, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. The spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom and the dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. "Gerald D. Nash sees World War II as one of the major turning points in the history of the American West. Like the coming of Europeans to the New World and the land and mining booms of the nineteenth century, the changs wrought by the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the American West". Locale: Western America. (Western America, Economic Conditions, History--United States, Post-War Years, Social Conditions, World War II).

New York: John Wiley 1964. (Hardcover) 375pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, tables, appendices, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Agriculture, Agriculture Industry, Business and Economics--United States, Farming, Politics).

Boston: Little, Brown [0-316-84887-5] [1978], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Photographs, index. Biography of J. Frank Dobie. Locale: Texas. (Western America).

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1969, book club edition. (Hardcover) 1015pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, notes, sources, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn. "Taking as his guideline G.M. Trevelyan's definition of social history - 'history with the politics left out' - J.C. Furnas has created a monumental work that brilliantly recounts America's past and its bearing on how and why we live and think as we do today". Time Period 1587-1914. Locale: United States. (History--United States, History--United States, Social Behavior, Social History).