Americana-Regional History from Gargoyle Books

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Thus . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. James, Will. One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers illustrated by famous artists of the day, here, the author himself, already a well-respected artist who painted the American West. Orig. published in 1926, & winner of the Newbury Medal… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Grose, David. A longtime resident & naturalist who directed the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History tells the fascintating history of the Cape's outer coast, named "the Great Beach" by Henry David Thoreau. In 131 pages, illustrated throughout with… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Arno Press, 1975. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Early in his career, when he worked as a journalist in New York City, Wakefield wrote this eye-opening account of East or Spanish Harlem, living among its residents & offering one of the first portrayals of life in an inner-city Puerto Rican community. In 278… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First, Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Much beloved tale -- twice made into a movie-- of the events of Nov. 18, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate those brave men who had given their lives in the just-ended Civil War. According to legend,… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: R. Rl donnelley & Sons Co/Lakeside Press, 1927. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine. First-person account by William L. Manly, a boy from Vermont who joined the Gold Rush to California in the mid-1800s, & kept a diary of his exploits. Orig. appearing in a San Jose newspaper, they were first published in book form as… Read more about this item

Chelsea House, 1969. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A virtual "who's who" of crime in the late 1800s, this is a fascinating look at a wide-array of 400 crimes & criminals prominent in the United States in 1866, a "rogue's gallery of sneaks, embezzlers, murderers, both male & female." In 433 pages with lots of… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Planned as part of a research series on the social geography of the Southern US, this volume focuses on the cotton belt & the evolution of the system in which cotton came to form the economic backbone of the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: MacMillan Company, 1946. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Draws on historical accounts, documentary data, folklore, & previously unexplored files from the Writers Project of the Work Projects Administration held by the Louisiana Library Commission to offer a clear-eyed view of the practice of voodoo in Louisiana as it arose… Read more about this item

Paradise, Pennsylvania: self-published , 1976. Wrappers. Fine. Hess, Jim. Accessible yet through introduction to the hex signs of the Pennsylvania Dutch, with illustrative color photographs & line drawings on every page. Also includes a Foreword, comments, & legends explaining the meaning of various signs by Professor Johnny Ott, hexologist. Orig. published in 1962, this is the 11th printing… Read more about this item

Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Offers a fresh perspective based on scholarship in the sociology of deviance to reexamine the witchcraft trials in colonial Massachusetts in the context of Puritan theology. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1984, in 267 pages with Bibliography, Subject & Name Indexes.… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., 1982. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Following an overview of racism & the struggle against it in the US, & the views of some leading sociologists to racial oppression, the progress made by American Blacks in advancing their status relative to whites is explored empirically, highlighting the… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: The L. W. Walter Company, 1887. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued. By a member of Company D, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry, who describes this book as "a graphic recital of personal experiences through the entire Civil War, in which the author was actually engaged in twenty-five battles and skirmishes, was… Read more about this item

New York/London: Century Company, 1929. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Suydam, E [Edward]. H [Howard]. with decorative endpapers, color frontispiece, & wonderful duotone pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by renowned etcher/lithographer E. H. Suydam (1885-1940). In 388 pages with Index. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1929, this hardcover octavo has decorative red-brown cloth over… Read more about this item

Hitchcock & Walden, 1878. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Comprehensive survey of the zealous men & women who were at the forefront of the late 19th-century temperance movement. An Introduction by Theodore L. Cuyer notes the movement's origins in the 1830s in Saratoga Springs, New York, & the "remarkable" growth of the "women's… Read more about this item

1937. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. Chronicle of the Ohio River Flood of 1937, which began on 18 January with predictions being issued that the river might rise to a 59-foot crest. By Tuesday the 19th, the flood waters had surged to an officially recorded peak of 79.99 feet, shattering all records, before & since. The… Read more about this item

New York/Bufalo/Toronto: W.G. MacFarlane, 1907. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Before acquiring its current nickname, the "Emerald City,'' as a result of a contest in 1982, the city of Seattle had several other sobriquets. In 1869, promotional material aimed at attracting new residents & visitors dubbed it, "The Future Queen City of the Pacific… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition Later Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Long before national attention became focused on segregation & civil rights came this "explosive" exposé of a book by a lifetime Southerner in the 1940s, who had gone underground & inside to "tell the truth about the best-lied-about region in… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lobel, Arnold. Another delightful tale--in verse form--for children, this one about the arrival of Dutchman Peter Stuyvesant & the founding of New York in 1647. Both written & illustrated by Caldecott medal winner Lobel. Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION, first… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Documents the conduct & results of a pioneering study of juvenile delinquency in New York City in 1930, comparing results across neighborhoods, boroughs, gender, race, parental immigrant status, & religion. Vol 12 in the "Studies of the Research Bureau of the… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Signet, 1961. First Paperback 5th or later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. A shocking book" about the white author's quest to experience life as a Black man in the deep South, which he undertook by having his skin temporarily darkened medically & shaving his head so that he presented as "bald,… Read more about this item