Search Results: American History & Travel from Capricorn Books

5 pamphlets by Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947). Mr. Butler was president of Columbia University for 43 years, was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and twice sought to be the Republican nominee for the presidency (unsuccessfully). 1. Save America: An Address. Delivered at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Copley-Plaze Hotel, Boston, October 23, 1919. 20 pp, 7 1/4" H. / 2. The Republican Party: Its Present Duty and Opportunity. An Address Delivered before the Union League of Philadelphia, November 22, 1919. 26 pp, 9" H. / 3. Colossal Debts and Heavy Taxes. An address delivered on the invitation of the National Economy League at the Commodore Hotel, New York, and broadcast from the National Broadcasting Company's Station WEAF, New York, Wednesday, November 16, 1932. [12 pp], 9" H. / 4. A Call to Action. An address delivered at the invitation of the League of Nations Association… Read More

London: Bernard Quartich, 1935. 222 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). Top edge gilt. **VOLUME I ONLY.** B&w maps, photographs, reproductions - collated. Errata slip tipped in. Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Bibliography; Introduction (Extracting fiction from history - Range of inquiry - Ancient bounds of Acadie - Influence of geographical discovery - Loss of documents - Age of Louis XIV and his colonial policy: missions and fisheries; Authenticity and history of the documents - Watermarks - Social conditions); Chapter I (Minute of Condition between Sir William Alexander and Duncan Forbes, 1625, and Document of Council for New England, 1634-5, with Biographical details and other observations); Chapter II (Account of the Voyage of Monsieur de Meulles to Acadie, 1685-1686); Chapter III (Original and unpublished Census of Acadie by Gargas, 1687-1688); Chapter IV (Sojourn of Gargas in Acadie, 1687-1688); Chapter V (Letter of Vincent de Saccardy relating to Acadie, from Rochelles, 12th January 1690).… Read More

N.P.: Doubleday, Page / Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 1919. 298 pp, 8vo (8" H) - maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To G.W.E. Atkins with every good wish John Lee Mahin". (G.W.E. Atkins was Vice President of Western Union Telegraph Company.) Chapter headings: Advertising Can Only Appeal to Free Dollars; How Markets Benefit Both Consumer and Producer; Salesmanship is Service; How the Salesman Becomes a Producer; Advertising is Selling the Group; What the Manufacturer Owes the Consumer; What the Consumer Owes the Manufacturer; The Tools of Advertising; Advertising Mediums; Advertising Mediums (Continued); Building and Testing an Advertisement; Application of the Five Tests; Advertising and Selling Through the Ordinary Channels of Trade; How the Middleman Serves the Consumer; Retail Advertising - Preparation; Retail Advertising - Methods and Mediums; Retail Advertising - Making Good; Price Maintenance; Cooperation… Read More

Montgomery, Alabama: Air Force Historical Foundation, 1960. The 4 quarterly issues of 'The Airpower Historian' for 1962, 9" H, consecutively paged from 1 - 260. B&w photographs, maps, etc. Articles include: Ploesti: German Defenses and Allied Intelligence; Fourth but First: History of the Fourth Fighter Wing; Army and the Airmail - 1934; The National Significance of the Augmented Program of Space Exploration; The Maxim Gorky: Soviet Colossus; Aspects of Airpower in the Spanish Civil War; The Army Airmail Pilots Report!; Huk Hunting in the Philippines, 1946-1953; The Monroe Leaflet Bomb; Target - Hiroshima; The Economics of Strategic Bombing in WWII; Notes on Velvet, General Adler's Mission to Moscow, 1942; A History of the 148th Aero Squadron; Jet Aircraft of World War II; The Birth of Italian Aviation - The Libyan War; A Tribute to Dutch Kindelberger: The Mustang - A Great Warhorse; "Aces and Hawks" History of The First Fighter Wing, Part One, 1918-1939; The Space… Read More

Ketchikan, Alaska: The Alaska Sportsman, 1941. Folded map in card covers. Cover dimensions - 5 1/8" H x 7" W, map dimensions - stated as 17" H x 24" W, but actually 19" x 26" including borders. Printed in blue and black on white with inset showing the Aleutian Islands. "United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey: Map of Alaska. Compiled by Alaskan Branch from all available authoritative sources, chiefly from maps of the Geological Survey." Interior - some creasing/wrinkling at some folds in map, browning to inside of card covers, one or two very light tiny foxing marks. Exterior - some areas of light to heavy browning, some edge wrinkling/creasing, light soiling, light edge wear - mainly on spine, tiny perforation on front cover near spine.. First Editions.. Card. Good.

Oxford: Osprey, 2003. 328 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans. Combines four previously published Osprey Essential Histories of the American Civil War: The War in the East 1861-May 1863; The War in the West 1861-July 1863; The War in the East 1863-1865; The War in the West 1863-1865. "Undoubtedly the most cataclysmic military struggle of the late nineteenth century, the American Civil War spanned four bloody years of fighting, in which over 620,000 American soldiers and sailors lost their lives. From its outbreak at Fort Sumter, North Carolina in April 1861 until its conclusion at the Appomattox Court House, more than 10,000 battles, engagements and skirmishes were recorded across the length and breadth of America. This book explores the political, historical, strategic and cultural significance of the American Civil War, examining its impact on the civilians and military personnel caught up in it."… Read More

Alexandria Bay / Bloomfield: Museum Restoration Service, 1983. 100 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings. "The author opens the book with a discussion of the origins of the knives and the problems they provide for today's student. A carefully worked out typology is complemented by a comphrehensive study of the materials and techniques involved in the manufacture, along with considerable additional background information on the development of knives. The heart of the book consists of photographs of over 60 outstanding specimens of American primitive knives. Each photo is accompanied by a fully descriptive text, with dimensions, pertinent structural details and notes on dating and provenance where appropriate. A third section is devoted to the study of this class of knife from the collector's point of view. Topics covered include possible sources of specimens, hints on conservation and restoration, an entirely new condition guide, and a chapter on fakes and foolers that will… Read More

Santa Ana, California: G. Robert Lawrence, Santa Ana Gunroom, 1960. 184 pp + Errata and Addenda page, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "More than 425 cartridges are photographed full scale and individually studied. Over 75 different rimfire calibres are identified, with bullet weights and powder charges where known. 36 manufacturers of rimfire cartridges in the United States are named and located. 45 U.S. rimfire headstamps are identified, and more than 80 foreign headstamps are listed. A 350-item checklist of less-common U.S. headstamps is cross-referenced by manufacturer and calibre. 125 rimfire cartridge boxes are pictures, including Ethan Allen, Brown & Bros., New York Metallic Ammunition Comparny, William Irving, and other rare labels. Comment and historic data on arms using the rimfire cartridge, and suggestions on care, cleaning, and display of a cartridge collection complete this long-awaited study." Book has cigarette odour, previous owner's signature at the top of the… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006. 464 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "While the media has continued to toast the world's most famous Hells Angel, Sonny Barger, as an American legend, the facts tell another story - the Hells Angels are America's major crime export. (The authors) investigate how - with an estimated 2,500 full-patch members in twenty-five countries, including the UK, Australia and Holland - the Hells Angels have inspired a global sub-culture of biker gangs that are among the most feared and violent underworld players. 'Angels of Death' takes readers to Arizona, Nevada and California, inside the biggest American police undercover operation to infiltrate the bikers; to British Columbia, where wealthy bikers dominate the organized crime pyramid; to Australia, where the 'bikies' shoot it out with police; to Curacao, where terrorist organizations funnel drugs to Dutch bikers; and to the streets of Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki, where a murderous… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 291 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "(E)xamines the formulation of British and American policy between 1945 and 1955 towards one of the most hated regimes of this century. The Franco question, though apparently not of the first importance in the evolution of Cold War policy, nevertheless haunted British and American governments during this period. It posed a problem which epitomizes the difficulty of dealing with pariah regimes. As such it highlights for historians the attempts of these two governments to straddle the contradictions inherent in the emerging dual system of the United Nations, or internationalism, on the one hand, and the older system of balance of power, played out by the superpowers as the Cold War. Set as it is in the domestic and international context, it also exemplifies problems faced today by individual governments and by the United Nations in dealing with questions of intervention or non-intervention in distasteful regimes." Light bump to top… Read More

Burlington, Ontario: Apogee, 2002. 312 pp, + CD ROM in pouch at rear, 10" H. B&w and colour photographs, b&w maps, drawings/diagrams. "The landing site selected for the crew of Apollo 16 was in the lunar highland area of Descartes. NASA chose to send John Young to command the fifth lunar landing mission. Young had as much or more flight experience than any other member of the astronaut corps. He had circumnavigated the moon on Apollo 10 and he had flown two Gemini missions. Young would later go on to be the first commander of the Space Shuttle. The Descartes landing site was chosen because it appeared to be of volcanic origin. If it was, it might reveal secrets about the origins of the Earth. For three days, Young and Duke embarked on their rover, away from the Lunar Module 'Orion', through rugged landscapes, in search of the origins of our world. Meanwhile Ken Mattingly shot hundreds of photographs and probed the moon's magnetic field from the Command Module… Read More

Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge Press, 2000. 200 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H). B&w photographs, drawings. "Stretching more than 2,150 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is the nation's premier hiking trail. (This book) is the essential guide for anyone preparing for a hike of any length along this trail. Through anecdotes, (it) prepares hikers for what to expect from animals, weather, other hikers, and more. With the help of dozens of A.T. hikers, the authors have gathered over 100,000 miles of experience on the nation's oldest trail system into this commonsense guide. (It) offers essential information on: Tents; Sleeping Gear; Clothing; Water Purifiers; Backpacks; Boots; Stoves." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor rubbing, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.. 2nd Edition, 7th Printing.. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

London: Arms and Armour, 1994. 320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w plates. "Compared with many other great military leaders, who invariably commanded larger numbers of troops and often in several theatres, Robert E. Lee - as respected as any master battlefield general one could name - fought with relatively limited forces in one corner of one continent. This in no way diminishes the quality of his leadership or his control of the logistical and strategic deployment of military men; that his Army of Northern Virginia enjoyed so much success for so long and against such odds is testament to this. This book is not another biography of Lee. Here Philip Katcher describes his Army, its structure, its qualities, its uniqueness, its high morale. He discusses in detail each level of the Army and then all its component parts - infantry, artillery, cavalry and the myriad support arms including engineers, medics and signallers - and even bands, chaplains and others. A comprehensive study of the unit… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Archaeological Institute of America, 1921. 268 pp + 284 pp, 10 7/8" H. Volumes XI (January-June 1921) and XII (July-December 1921), bound in one volume with brown leather spine and corners, teale blue cloth boards. Spine has five raised bands, gilt lettering/decorations (including college crest). Floral endpapers, red 'splatter' effect to text block edges. ** Ex-college library** Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings. Articles include: The Chaco Canyon and Its Ancient Monuments; What the Potsherds Tell; The Excavation of Chettro Kettle; What the War Cost France in Art Treasures; Playing Cards: Their History and Symbolism; The Memorials of Rome in the Italian Colonies; The Angel in American Sculpture; The Arts of Czechoslovakia (Folk Art / Architecture / Sculpture / Painting); Sir Moses Ezekiel, American Sculptor; Some Literary Bookplates; William Rush, The Earliest Native Born American Sculptor; The Investigation at Assos; The… Read More

Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, 1914, first edition. 392 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), hard cover (maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. B&w frontispiece. Title continues: "Documents Published for the First Time, From the Original Spanish and French Manuscripts, Chiefly in the Archives of Mexico and Spain; Translated into English; Edited and Annotated". Section Headings: Indian Troubles in Texas, and the Attack on De Mezieres and the Baron de Ripperda; Frontier Problems, 1774-1777; Plan for Joint Campaigns Against the Osages and Apaches by the Nations of the North and the Forces of Texas and Louisiana, 1777-1778; The Expedition of 1778 from Bexar to the Nations of the Upper Trinity, Brazos, and Red Rivers; The Expedition of 1779 to the Nations between Natchitoches and the Middle Brazos; Recommendations for Reforms in the Province of Texas - The Death of De Mezieres, 1779; Errata; Index. Very light browning to pages, light waterstain at top of pages… Read More

Oxford: Osprey, 2003. 96 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, technical drawings, colour profiles, nose art. "(C)hronicles the story of a majestic four-engined bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble aeroplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15. A 'very heavy' bomber and a sky giant during World War 2 (at that time the B29 was the world's most advanced combat aircraft), it had been reclassified as a 'medium' bomber by the time North Korea attacked its sourthern neighbour in 1950. Many of its crew members had fought their war and settled down to raise families and begin careers - only to be recalled to fight another war on a distant Asian peninsula. An irreverent bunch, they painted their B-29s in elaborate colour schemes. Historians have long been intrigued by the unique war they fought, pitting their big and vulnerable bomber against a veritable fleet of MiG-15s. Crammed full of first-hand… Read More

Balustrol, New Jersey : Baltusrol Golf Club, 1995. 166 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs, reproductions. "The story of Baltusrol is more than a history of a golf club. It is an integral part of the larger story of the evolution of the greatest game of all. In 1895, during the infancy of golf in America, New York socialite Louis Keller and three other enthusiastic gentlemen founded the club. They didn't know much about golf, but Baltusrol quickly became one of the most celebrated clubs in the world. Then in 1901 the six-year old United States Golf Association (USGA) selected Baltusrol to host the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship. A remarkable tradition of hosting national championships had begun. In nine of ten decades of the 20th century, Baltusrol has been the site of at least one national championship." Very minor wear at bottom edge. Dust jacket has areas of light edge wrinkling, light rubbing - mainly on rear panel. . Hard… Read More

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, 2018. 171 pp, 8 1/2" H. "In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to visit eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the 'Clotilda', the last slaver known to have made the transatlantic journey. Illegally brought to the United States, Cudjo was enslaved fifty years after the slave trade was outlawed. At the time, Cudjo was the only person alive who could recount this integral part of the nation's history. As a cultural anthropologist, Hurston was eager to hear about these experiences firsthand. But the reticent elder didn't always speak when she came to visit. Sometimes he would tend his garden, repair his fence, or appear lost in his thoughts. Hurston persisted, though, and during an intense three-month period, she and Cudjo communed over her gifts of peaches and watermelon, and gradually Cudjo, a poetic storyteller, began to share heartrending memories of his childhood in Africa; the attack by female warriors who… Read More

New York: Sarpedon, 1995. 206 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans. "It is not often realized that in Brooklyn, New York, for a few tense hours in 1776, the fate of the entire United States hung by a thread. An American defeat, the Battle of Brooklyn has been all but neglected in our collective memory for what it earned with the blood of its participants - honored status as one of history's great battles. Besides being the largest clash of the Revolution, in terms of both troops and casualties, the action at Brooklyn (sometimes called 'The Battle of Long Island') brought the fledgling American republic to the brink of disaster. At the height of the fighting, only the valiant sacrifice of one regiment - the Marylanders - staved off a catastrophe. The British army, meanwhile, executed a three-pronged surprise assault with admirable professionalism. The wilds of Brooklyn became a killing ground for the British and Hessian troops who were… Read More

Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1995. 150 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps. "The Connecticut River Valley runs through New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts and offers everything for which New England is famous, including country roads and scenic byways that are just right for bicycle touring. You can pedal to the top of Mount Greylock, Massachusetts' highest peak, on a road bike; ride through the longest covered bridge in Vermont; take your mountain bike on a gondola to the top of the Mount Snow ski resort; or cycle through the spectacular colors of a New England autumn. This book describes 50 trips - 25 for road bikes and 25 for mountain bikes only. The trips range in difficulty from trips of 1-3 miles with little more than 100 feet of elevation gain, to 50 miles with more than 3,000 feet of gain. Most of the trips cover about 20 miles. Each trip description includes a route map, directions to the start of the ride, total ride distance, elevation gain, time needed to… Read More