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West Haven CT.: Pendulum Press., 1976. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine sun fade. Light edge wear, spine.. Carrillo, Fred (Illustrated by).. 1 61 p. B&W illustrations. Color illustrated cover; B&W drawings inside, graphic novel style, boxed sequence. Youth oriented. Contents: Immigration; Corporations, stock trading; Railroads; Opening of the West; Indian unrest in West, Blacks in South (Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T Washington); Factories; Unions.

A Bantam Book, 1979. First edition. First bantam, March 1979. No print line.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing. Clean cover front and back.. 0 246 p. First in series: The details of Vesuvius, the air mission on which the invasion of Europe depended, was kept secret even from those who would fly it in their Mosquitoes.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1940. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 2 'wash your hands before you read me...' library stickers. Clean. Tight. Easy to read.. Daugherty, James. 0 222 p. : 24 cm. Bold B&W drawings. Sturdy library binding. Rebound in orange cloth covered boards. Reprinted from the author's "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, " the first 27 chapters of that 2-volume series. Includes: babyhood & boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek; games & chores; what he handles & uses; life at Gentryville and on the Mississippi; util he goes to New Salem as a young man. Skillfully drawn illustrations.

New York.: Ballantine by arr. w/ St. Martin's Press., 1988. First edition. 1st Ballantine printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Spine creasing with slight concaveness to thick spine. Tight, unmarked inside. Light wear.. 1 Large trade paperback, 6x9.25in. 575 p. Audience: General/trade. Biography of an American woman of 18th century Boston, Abigail Smith Adams (1844-1818). Wed to John Adams, theirs was a partnership apart from the stereotypes of marriage over the centuries as history has presented. Researcher-author Phyllis Lee Levin finds wit and intelligence and influence in Abigail's letters and journals, written as she and John joined with other bright, determined minds among revolutionaries to forge a new nation from a diverse, colonized peoples.

New York.: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1954. Renewal of 1926 Harcourt. Author Preface: 1954.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light rubs to spine titles. Tightly bound. Clean.. 1 Red cloth over boards; lighter red spine title box. Gold spine titles, front facsimile A.L. signature. xiv, 762 p. 25 cm. B&W photos, portraits, maps. Sources. Index. Carl Sandburg's literary biography of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, compiled history from Wilderness Beginnings through Shock--The Assassin--A Stricken People. End papers designed by photographer and artist Edward Steichen, Sandburg's brother-in-law.

A Yearling Book / Dell Publishing, 1984. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. Moyers, William. 0 Illustrated cover. Grayscale pencil or charcoal type drawings. 3 pgs publisher ads. Did you know Abe Lincoln, the boy, once made footprints on his mother's ceiling? Did you know he was a fast reader?

New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor top edge soiling/foxing. Lower page corner edges 'thumbing' discoloration. Minor cover scratching, seen at light angle.. 0 vi p., 3 l., [3]-364 p. Frontispiece and 7 other B&W photo / art plates (family portraits), 24 cm. Blue cloth covered boards. First published, Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1930. "The chief purpose of the book is...not at all genealogical, and only in a minor degree individually biographical, " author preface. Contents: Preface. Prologue. The first generation: John Adams. The second generation: John Quincy Adams. The third generation: Charles Francis Adams. The fourth generation: John Quincy, Charles Francis, Henry, and Brooks Adams. Epilogue.

American Heritage Publishing Companies / McGraw-Hill Co, 1976. Fine in fine dust jacket. 2 volume set in slip case.. 2 With slipcase. 374 & 310 p. plus Bibliography, Index for each. Red cloth covered boards, gold cover profile; spine title in black title box. Box: Paste on B&W sculpted profiles, both with gold titles. A fine set, in its 2-vol. slipcase, of biographies of, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (et al Adamses) each with numerous B&W illustrations.

Garden City NY.: Doubleday Books., 1977. First edition. Stated First Edition, no print line.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Prior owner had inked margin comments on at least 3 pages. Otherwise, clean, well-bound, crisp text pages.. 1 Red woven cloth over spine, tan cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Deckled outside page block. 946 p. 24 cm. B&W photo plate sections. Sources. Index. Audience: General/trade. Statesman Adlai Ewing Stevenson, b.1900-d.1965, of Libertyville, Illinois, toward the end of his life, had been Governor in 1948 after involvement in his state's politics since 1930. In 1952, his bid for the Presidency failed. Many lauded him as a campaigner of high intellect and class. Other election bids also failed. Touring internationally, writing and speaking followed. He continued to be a national personality, building his base, while becoming more involved in foreign affairs. His leadership was strong in the developing eras of John F Kennedy's… Read More

New York.: Konecky & Konecky., 1998. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of his post Civil War autobiography.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. With prior owner tidy address label.. 1 358 p. Blue paper over boards. Portrait jacket illustration. Frontispiece: different portrait; 3rd portrait after Contents. Autobiography of West Point graduate and career soldier who served the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and in 1864 was assigned authority over the Army of Tennessee when commander Joseph E Johnston was stalled by the Union's Sherman close to Atlanta. The Confederates failed, and Hood was accused of recklessness. His memoir tell of a courageous soldier, and of gallantry in a noble cause. Appendix offers series of Official Reports.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin., 1957. First edition. Stated 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Reading wear, moderate exterior soiling. Light interior end paper foxing, Slight wiggle to otherwise well-constructed volume with better quality materials. Pretty clean interior.. 1 Dark grey cloth over boards. Red title box, spine. Gold titles. Front, gold date range only. 557 p. 22 cm. U.S. History from the end of World War I, and into the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidency in this first volume of a trilogy. 1. The crisis of the old order, 1919-1933. -2. The coming of the New Deal. -3. The politics of upheaval. Biography; Political Science; pre-World War II events.

New York / Philadelphia.: M. Evans in assn. w/ Lippincott., 1971. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Jacket had been protected. Short lower tear at jacket spine fold. Rear end paper has been removed.. Levine, David (Jacket art by).. 1 Dark blue cloth and light blue paper over boards. ix, 182 p.; 22 cm. Index. Biography, focusing on Vice President Spiro Agnew as a politician. He served with President Richard Nixon, having joined his campaign after a few years in Maryland where he had been Baltimore County Executive and ran for Governor in 1966. Author and public affairs consultant Robert Marsh had met him in Maryland and served as his executive assistant during his gubernatorial campaign. This volume was published before Nixon's Presidency deteriorated toward resignation following the Watergate scandal.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 436 p. Audience: General/trade. US History / Women's studies: This Quaker white woman, before the Civil War, became the chief money-raiser and organizer for the abolitionist movement. She was a pioneer for women embarking on the lecture circuit, thought by the public press at the time as unsuitable for women. This biography is based on letters, diaries and newspaper accounts as well as the informed background of its author, for many years a researcher and writer about the African-American experience.

Signet Books / New American Library., 1960. 1st Signet printing. S1776. McGraw-Hill 1958. Unabridged.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Near fine with age-toning; slight spine title; small spine smudge. Production error: spine titles off-center.. 1 First edition. Mass-market (rack) paperback. 176p., Cover illustrated front and back w/ movie scenes. Red page block edges. Subtitle: "The dramatic, colorful, true story of that great and terrible chapter in American History--the Fall of the Alamo". B&W photo section. Pen&Ink diagram of fort. Chapter Notes and historic Timeline, 1835-36, at back. Under siege, 182 Texas volunteers held back more than 5000 Mexican soldiers for 13 days before being overrun. 35c 1960 cover price.

Camden NJ.: Thomas Nelson and Sons., 1968. 2nd printing. 1966 first.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Spine end, corner wear to jacket. Slight impact to book.. Spring, Bob (Photographs by), and Spring, Ira (Photographs by).. 1 Brown cloth over boards; Yellow stamped titles, brown totem. 224 p. 22 cm. B&W photos. Map.. Alaska became one of the United States in 1959 after a long political struggle. Themes: Aleuts; Russian America; Eskimos; Indian Art; Native Americans; Mt. McKinley; Statehood; Dog Team; Arctic Circle.

New York.: Newsweek., 1973. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor soiling top page block. A few short edge tears to jacket.. Kerr, Joan Paterson (Picture Editing by).. 1 Blue pebbled faux leather over boards; padded. 208 p. 27 cm. Color & B&W archival art, photos. Based on the Columbia University Press edition of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, v. 1-19, edited by Syrett.

New York.: Holt Rinehart and Winston., 1976. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Jacket edge wear, short tears. Bookplate.. 1 Blue cloth, Ivory paper over boards. 485 p. Silver spine titles. Sources, Index. Audience: General/trade. U.S. History. Subtitle: " What the House Un-American Activities Committee, two trial juries, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the American public did not know about the contents of the Whittaker Chambers pumpkin...". The reference is to papers brought forth by Whittaker Chambers, "a self-proclaimed ex-Communist secret agent and spy", from jacket flap. He accused Alger Hiss of being a communist and fellow conspirator. It was 1948 and post-war America was transitioning to the United Nations view of the world but was also in the throws of a growing paranoia about Communism, aided by the ambitious freshman Congressman Richard Nixon. Hiss had impeccable diplomatic credentials; Chambers was a… Read More

New York.: W. W. Williams., 1923. Full leather. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. 1st free end paper: Inscription in back ink, "To Mrs. Rose Marx with my compliments and best wishes, Edwin M. Otterbourg, October 1923". A few random light spots, top.. 1 Black pebbled limp leather w/ edges overlapping text block in rounded corners. Stamped front titles, olive green. 84 p. Blue lightly marbled end papers. 16 cm. Rare original. Subtitle: "Being in book form, the series of articles under the same title as originally published in the New York Credit Men's Association Bulletin". A satire, "sparing no one", its theme is toward improving the Bankruptcy Act, notes the Introduction, adding that attorneys should be chosen carefully. The law had been abused, notes the author, who was a member of the New York Bar. Judge Garvin was of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. "Alice" is ushered toward the Rankbusty Court by, of… Read More

McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1972. First edition. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has spine end chips, a few other short tears. DJ surface sealer beginning to separate.. 1 Ornate tapestry-style decorated jacket w/ author B&W portrait, front. Leather-like ornately decorated spine cover, black cloth over boards. 655 p. B&W center photo section. The second volume of prolific author Keyes autobiography, the completion of which was interrupted by her death in 1970. The first volume, 'Roses in December', was published in 1960. This volumes picks up her memoirs with her marriage in 1904 to Harry Keyes, and its theme is her unrelenting struggle and ambition to write, to establish a career for herself. Her life was a full, active life, traveling and writing for magazines, being a Senator's wife and reporter in Washington, and enjoying her home near the Connecticut River in Vermont. Her list of novels is extensive, Life Magazine once calling her the… Read More

New York.: Scribner Book Company., 1999. First edition. Both volumes, 1st printing. Reflections: 2003.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by previous owner. Near fine book volumes.. 1 Blue and white paper over boards. B&W and color photo illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Two books, one price. United States President (#41) George Bush's life in correspondence beginning at age 18 during his World War II service and into his Presidency, arranged chronologically. The other volume is by Barbara Bush, admittedly "slanted", she writes, in favor of her family and friends. Recently deceased, former First Lady Barbara Bush wrote this as a follow-up to her memoir of her White House years. It begins with the inauguration of her son, George W Bush, as President (#43), offering a chapter for each year to follow, based on her diaries. Together the elder Bushes have enjoyed a wide following.