Search Results: History/Politics from Monkey House Books

New York: NAL Caliber [New American Library], 2007. Trade paperback. Fine. 201 pages, index. Photo section. Light edgewear.

New York et al.: A Touchstone Book; Simon & Schuster, 2005. Softcover. Fine. History of Britain in the time of King John and the signing of the Magna Carta, giving context to the document at the root of Britain's modern freedoms. 312 pages, index.

Springfield, Ohio: The New Era Company, 1893. Maroon cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Reading copy. Third Edition. Frontispiece portrait. Page 223-4 torn in half, text okay. Cracking at center, front hinge ditto. Ends and corners worn & frayed, covers rubbed. Pages tanned/browned.

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Softcover. Fine. Images of America series. 128 pages. Adirondack Mountains vacation resorts from circa 1850-1950, development of the railroads and post-Civil War travelers made the area a popular tourist destination. Illustrated with old photos and postcards.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Black cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Examines mid-century issues such as deterrence, imperialism, developing societies, etc. Light wear to ends and corners. Pages clean and unmarked. 329 pages, index, notes.

Chicago: Columbia Educational Books, Inc., 1942. Blue boards, red & gilt decorated cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. American Theatre Wing War Service, Inc. Special Edition. Contains FDR messages, declaration of war, official documents, statement of American principles at the beginning of World War II. Endpapers with world map showing ranges of U.S. Army planes and command bases. Light wear and bumping to corners.

American Heritage Publishing Company, 1959. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good. The Magazine of History. Bound single periodical volume. 112 pages, volume X, number 4. Raleigh, battle of Fayal, covered bridges, NYC draft riots.

American Heritage Publishing Company, 1958. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good Plus.. The Magazine of History. Bound single periodical volume. 128 pages, volume X, number 1. Hudson River, Victorian Christmas, the Constitution, Cooperstown.

Harrisburg: Cowles Magazines, 1990. Softcover, magazine. Fine. America in the Battle of Britain, Benjamin Franklin, Jose Marti, Railroad Circus. Vol. XXV, Number 3. 74 pages.

Buffalo: Corlis Company, Publishers, 1907. Red cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine, black spine label. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Standard Library. Guide to the national and state governments. 555 pages, revised and abridged edition for use in high schools and colleges. Originally published 1897. Light wear.

New York & Los Angeles: Oxford Book Company, 1972. Trade paperback. Good. Oxford Spectrum Series, Aspects of Contemporary Life. 111 pages, index, survey of labor history, the evolution, function & purpose of unions, their challenges and problems. B/w illustrations, pages toned, chapter questions and discussions.

American Heritage Publishing Company, 1958. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good. The Magazine of History. Bound single periodical volume. 112 pages, volume IX, number 5. Blondin, Antietam, the yacht America, 19th century California, Irish immigration, 1920s.

1959. Hardcover, bound periodical. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. The Magazine of History. Bound single periodical volume. Volume X, number 2. Peter Cooper, Washington & Lincoln, Shenandoah dirigible, Marine Corps, woman pioneers, Stanley Steamer, Pre-Columbian Art, Colonel House, Edwin Drake & the oil boom.

Buffalo: Corlis Company, Publishers, 1907. Red cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine, black spine label. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Standard Library. Guide to the national and state governments. 555 pages, revised and abridged edition for use in high schools and colleges. Originally published 1897. Light wear.

New York, 1995. Glued Softcover magazine. Very Good. The Editors of Time magazine present� 60 pages special publication explores our immigrant past. Special Sections include A Nation of Immigrants, Marching to Equality, Threads in the Banner, Stars and Spangles.

2007. Softcover, magazine. Near Fine.. Official Commemorative publication celebrating 400 years of America's exploration, cultural diversity, representative government and free enterprise. Jamestown Virginia 1607-2007. 130 pages. Light wear & creasing.

Larchmont, New York: Published by the author., 1942. Decorative patriotic covers, blue with red & white stripes and stars, white titling.. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. April 1942 printing. Rare, hard-to-find. Economic and political information regarding the ""the present plight,"" written for the working classes. Expounds on the pioneering American spirit as applied to labor, capital, education, law, politics, religion, etc., particularly the coming war and its demands. 214 pages. Interesting piece of American political history. Slight spine cock. Waterstain along outside margin of first 12pp and fep, some red smeared on cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Light blue cloth boards, silver-stamped spine and small pictorial cover.. Good/No Dust Jacket. Second printing, July 1944. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Fictionalized account of the French Resistance in World War II. This is a true account fictionalized for security, accurate but unrecognizable. From the preface, ""There is no propaganda in this book and there is no fiction."" Cover depicts a soldier with rifle looking at the Eiffel Tower in the distance. 159 pages, clean and unmarked. Wartime publication restrictions. Dampstain along edge fep and areas of the front cover. Top edge red. Owner's name neatly inked ffep. Spine darkened.

Philadelphia & New York: Keystone Western Americana, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. Softcover. Good. The 1836 edition unabridged in 2 volumes - VOLUME 1 ONLY. Introduction by William H. Goetzmann. Story of John Jacob Astor's early 19th century commercial adventures in the Pacific Northwest fur trade. Wear & darkening to covers, brief pencil marginalia. 228 pages.

Boston, New York, Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1915. Red boards, gilt spine. Good-Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Second impression, February 1915. Small spine label inked ""614""; ink fep ""Lenox Dale Library No 614."" 192 pages. Hinge cracked at the title page. Includes Bartholomew F. Griffin's poem ""IF!"" Analyzes, for the American reader, the causes and day-to-day actions of ""This Audacious War"" -- World War I as it was happening. Covers the financial and political causes in Germany, France, Belgium, Russia, and England. 5 x 7-1/4. Some small tears and nicks to a few pages, clean, unmarked. An intriguing read.