History from Gargoyle Books

University Books, 1958. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Now considered a foundational work in the filed, the noted British occultist Summers offered this work as a complementary volume to his "History of Witchcraft and Demonology" (1926). Here, he surveys witchcraft around the world from early Greece & Rome to contemporary Europe. Orig. published in 1927 by… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA/Baltimore, MD: Charles DeSilver/Cushings & Bailey, 1861. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. As the stirrings of the Civil War (which began 12 April 1861) rumbled in the background, this manual was created to educate the "citizen soldiery" who might suddenly find themselves called into service. Also written for "the student of military art or science & the… Read more about this item

Atlanta, Georgia: H. C. Hudgins & Co., 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Collection of glowing essays on the leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War that includes a history of the Lee family, a military biography, & "splendid tributes by the most distinguished military critics in American and Europe..." Dedicated to the… Read more about this item

San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1949. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG-/No Jacket. Official records from the Pinkerton detective agency & other documentary sources are drawn on to present the story of "a plot and counterplot, stranger than fiction" involving a plan to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln while en route to his inauguration in Washington in 1861,… Read more about this item

1906. First Thus . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Designed to be the most comprehensive work ever produced on this event, the publishers hired the best historical writers & photographers to document the devastating effects of the April 18th, 1906, earthquake that virtually leveled the city of San Francisco, "having no parallel outside of Dante's Inferno." Countless first-person accounts… Read more about this item

Routledge, 2003. First Trade Paperback Edition 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+. A university professor/journalists explores the forgotten history of people of African descent as Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany. The portrayal of Blacks in Nazi propaganda, the Afro-German resistance movement, & the treatment of blacks in concentration camps are examined, drawing implications for present-day race… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Peter Fenelon Collier. First, Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+. Stunning three-volume set of this biography of the first American president, a work that Irving considered his "masterpiece." Orig. published in 5 volumes, 1855-1859, this is a slightly later edition (c. late 1800s, no dates in books) now in 3 volumes, retaining all of the… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Widely regarded as still the best work on the sinking of the Titanic, in 209 pages with Index, schematic of the ship endpapers + 32 pages of black-and-white vintage photos in two sections throughout text. With half cream-colored/half navy blue… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1928. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. VG+/No Jacket. True story of the magical monk who was the favorite of the royal family (Nicholas & Alexandra) in Tzarist Russia. His assassination in 1916 helped ignite the Russian Revolution.Translated from the original German (1927) by F. S. Flint & D. F. Tait,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1991. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Describes the resurgence of historical sociology after WWII following its near-demise by the forces of fascism & Stalinism, documenting the growth of the discipline through three distinct phases through the end of the Cold War era. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1991,… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: : U.S. Treasury Department Bureau of Prohibition, , 1930. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Includes 1) "State Cooperation in the Enforcement of National Prohibition Laws: A Factual Outline of Federal and State Responsibility," & 2) "Public Cooperation in Prohibition Law Enforcement: Business, Civic, and Industrial Groups Aid in Promoting Better Observance and… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. VG-/No DJ. Well-researched & thoroughly documented portrait of Adolf Hitler's downfall, capturing his inner & outer turmoil in the days leading up to his suicide in his Berlin bunker in April 1945. In 254 pages with Index, Notes, Appendix, map endpapers, illustrations of bunker… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Details the "network of secret police installations, camps, prisons, transit centers, communications facilities, transportation systems & espionage organizations" across the former Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR after writing this book & remained in exile until 1994, after the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Criterion Books, 1957. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Written by an insider in the political department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "the one man with access to all witnesses & secret documents related to the infamous Dreyfus case,'' this is a perspective on the case that you've never… Read more about this item

London, England: Harper & Row, 1962. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. In this companion volume to "The White Nile,' Moorehead traces the course of the Nile & its exploration from the 18th century through 1869, focusing on the roles of four men: James Bruce from Scotland, Napoleon from France, Muhammad Ali from Turkey, &… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928. Reprint . Hardcover. VG/No Jacket. True story of the magical monk who was the favorite of the royal family (Nicholas & Alexandra) in Tzarist Russia. His assassination in 1916 helped ignite the Russian Revolution.Translated from the original German (1927) by F. S. Flint & D. F. Tait.… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Gorey, Edward; Rombola, John. A Scotsman traces the history of American politics from the days of Jefferson through the contemporary (Eisenhower) administration. Orig. published in 1954, this is the First Mass Market Paperback edition from 1960, and another Anchor paperback… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First Edition (stated) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. The definitive account of the days leading up to, during, & following the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, November 20th-25th, 1963. Front endpapers are a chronology of events, while rear ones show a map of the motorcade route in… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Signet/New American Library, 1963. First Paperback 5th or later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. VG-. A college professor & news writer, the author explored the "Negro Revolt" that began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on Dec. 1, 1955. He examines the burgeoning civil rights movement… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Riveting true story of Etta Shiber, the widow of an American newspaperman who was living quietly in Paris when the Nazis invaded, & who organized & operated the "underground railway" by which British soldiers were able to escape. Together with her friend,… Read more about this item