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U.S.A: A.S.Barnes and Co, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Hardback Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Black half-cloth binding with gilt titles, turquoise blue cloth boards; clean, with trace edge wear to corners. Top edge foxed. Tight , solid, square. Interior clean and unmarked, lightly toned. Photographs/illustrations of the presidents, of their time in history, events occurring during their time as president, their families, all with accompanying text. From George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Includes a Chronology of the Presidents, Facts About the Presidents, Chart of the Presidential Elections 1789-1952 and an Index. 327 pages. Publisher: A S Barnes and Company, New York, 1955.

USA: Presidio Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Editionn. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. 1994 or 1794? Military Questions are the same! Soldier-scholar Dave Palmer's analyses shows that both the process that the founding fathers used and the solutions they reached are just as relevant today as they were at the birth of America. Bound in navy cloth with silver titles on spine. Clean and bright, solid, tight, square. On the lower edge of the front panel, about three-quarters of an inch from bottom, there is an interrupted stretch of marking on cloth, some shininess, like a residue of some kind. Not very visible. Internals and Jacket As New. 290 pages 6.25 x 9.25. 1994, Presidio Press, Novato, California, U.S.A.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Second Printing. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Minimal lib mks on this clean, tight and solid volume. A memoir of a life and the times of the first part of the 20th century, as the author saw it in America, Europe and parts of Asia, both a biography and a history by one of America's best known journalists and historians. It was a world that changed more in his lifetime than in the previous 2,000 years--from the horse and buggy to the autmobile and air travel, electricity and lights, washing machines, refrigerators, unlocking the secrets of the atom, and on and one, the changes bringing the things and life we have all come to expect as the natural order of things. And to bring it closer to home, he talks about America growing uip in Chicago from 1904-1913; in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 1913-1925; in Paris in the golden years of the 1920s, and in LOndon,… Read More

USA: Thomas Nelson, Inc, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. First Printing Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Jacket. Very clean and unmarked burgundy cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering. Sharp cornerd, tight binding--like new, really. Interior is pristine. Photographic illustrations. Clean and unmarked jacket with antique design is a little wrinkled at spine tail with a tiny closed tear on the corner, otherwise fine. Mylar jacket cover. 576 pages. 2006, Thomas Nelson, Inc., USA

New York: Doubleday and Co, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Jacket. Sixteen pages of b/w photographs. Working with police intelligence reports and making use of private diaries and letters, and his interviews with virtually everyone who had anything to do with this case, Frank Gerold has recreated the events that took Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to Memphis; the horror of the deed; the greatest manhunt in history; and the mysterious, quick trial of James Earl Ray. Clean and unmarked black cloth binding with blue panel on spine, gilt outlined, gilt titles within. Name on paste down, else fine. Tight, solid, square with sharp corners, Rough cut. Interior is fine. Jacket is unclipped, clean, edgeworn. Archival protective jacket cover. 467 pages with Notes and Index. 1.75 x 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Doubldeay and Co, NY 1972.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. A close look at America in the late sixties, and seventies. Ivory linen with silver outlined titles on spine and front; very clean and unmarked. No edgewear. Rough cut. Very small spot on the fore-edge of the text block. Internals in Fine Condition--as new. Jacket with illustration of Alistair Cooke is clean, no marks, slight wear to spine head. This is a book of fifty of Alistair Cooke's best talks, a "Cooke's-eye view" of the last ten years (from printing), from Richard Nixon's arrival in the White House to the case of Michelle Marvin--Cooke on Watergate, on Vietnam, American food, music, Christmas in Vermont, slang, diet mania, the obscenity business, the money game of sports, feminism, presidential tastes in hobbies and women, etc. A close look at America in the late sixties, and seventies. 272 pages.… Read More

Pleasantville, Nerw York, USA: Readers Digest Assn, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Quarto Book, over 4 pounds, in Good Condition. No Jacket. Over 150 B/w illustrations and 13 maps throughout. Edges of text block are tan stained, does not extend onto clean and unmarked pages. Pages toned. Burgundy faux lesther over spine with gilt titles, green cloth over boards, also with gilt titles, clean with three small whitish spots, upper corners scuffed, slight wear to other extremities. Solid, tight, squarre, heavy binding. A detailed exposition of Lincoln's years, 19th century, America--from his wilderness beginnings to his time as a lawyer and young congressman to the presidency. the South and slavery, the Civil War, the 13th Amendment. A most interesting book and account of a most important time in American history. 640 pages with index. 8.75 x 1.6 x 11 inches. 1970, Readers Digest Assn, Pleasantville, Nerw York, USA Extra postage may be… Read More

New York, N.Y., U.S.A: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hardback Two Hardcover Volumes bound in red cloth in Near Fine Condition, with a Very Good red bookbox with portrait of Adams and Jefferson on on side, on paper affixed to box. Red cloth is very clean, sparkling red with gilt outlined panel on front, gilt portrait within; black title panel on spine with gilt lettering and design. Very handsome volumes. There is slight rubbing to corners, else Fine. Internals as As New. Many photographs of the times and personages. Bookbox is clean, intact, with one corner minimally scuffed. Paper on which the portraits are has some wear around the edges of the paper, which is the size of the bookbox. 310/374 pages plus index. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. 1976, American Heritage, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Washington DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Blue wraps with white titles is clean, unmarked, near fine. Binding tight. Internals quite clean, no markings of any kind. 20 b/w photographs throughout and 5 maps. viii + 105 pages, indexed. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1996, Office of Air Force History, Washington DC

Washington DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Blue wraps with illustration of a jet and white titles, clean, unmarked, rubbed on front mostly near hinge. Binding tight. Internals quite clean, no markings of any kind. Includes Photographs with portrait and bios of three military leaders: Gen. Carl A. Spatz; Gen. Ira . Eaker; and Rear Adm. Willima A. Moffett. viii +156 pages, indexed. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1996, Office of Air Force History, Washington DC

Washington DC: Office of Air Force History, 1978. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. White wraps with black titles and illustration. Very clean, no markings, tight, solid and square volume. Page edges white and clean. Internals As New. Some topics included are: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Air Forces; Soviet Air Power in WW II; The Perceptions of Three Makers of Air Power History - Curtis LeMay, O.P.Weyland, and William Martin; Air Power LImits in Limited War; and much more. xii + 461 pages, indexed. 6 x 9 inches. 1969, Office of Air Force History, Washington DC

New York: Overture Books/McGraw-Hill, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover clean and unmarked with light edgewear, crease marks on lower corner. Interior is very clean with a few pages with underlining and highlighting. Volume 2 of a series, beginning with page 321 to p 650 inc suggested reading section and index. In 1941 the United States entered the greatest war in the history of mankind and, in the process, accepted its role as the leading international power in the world. As the US society and economy seemed poised and uncertain of its role in the 21st century, this books looks back at how the US has struggled and tried to balance the conflicting demands of meeting its responsibilities as a global power and its social responsibilities at home. A very good overview analysis without extensive detail. For example, some topics are The Cold War, Postwar Prosperity, Racial Justice, Eisenhower Republicanism, Resurgence of… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Fifth Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. A monumental work of life in the United States in the fifties, with the main emphasis on the inner meaning of American civilization and its relation to the world, as seen in the 1950s. Interesting to read to understand where America was as a nation and compare to today's world. Bound in blue half cloth with red panel on spine with gilt titles within, blue-green patterned paper-wrapped boards; clean and unmarked, sunned along edges; slight rubbing of some edges; lower front corner gently bumped. Fore edge of text block has three pale spotted areas. Red endpapers; inner hinge cracked; wobble to the spine. Former owner name on title page. Pages clean and completely unmarked, evenly and lightly toned. Red-blue-white, clean, rubbed jacket has wear to edges with chipping around spine ends, v-shaped (an inch deep and across)… Read More

Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Edition, Hardcover Quarto and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Fine gray cloth with red titles to spine; sewn binding tight, solid and square. Internals also as new. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full color and monotone photos and maps from the Library of Congress. America became a mobile society, using vast open lands to construct turnpikes, canals, railroads, and highways across the country. Russell Bourne traces the history of transportation in America from the colonial years before the American Revolution to the present. A fascinating history. 133 pages with bibliography and index. 9.25 x 11.25 inches. 1995, Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edmund Morgan searches the tragic contradiction at the core of America-- the marriage of slavery and freedom. He finds the key to this paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the Revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. Notes and underlining in pencil on a few pages, otherwise clean and unmarked, light crease to front cover, tight and solidly bound book 454 pages, indexed. 8.5" x 5.5". 1995, W W Norton & Co Inc, New York.

Viking Penguin, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9. Viking/Penguin Group 1988, First Printing of First Edition Hardcover Quarto and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. 628 pages. Over 6 lbs shipping weight. Captions by Julie FensterBlue quarter cloth with gilt titles, ivory parchment cloth over boards-two tiny specks to ivory cloth. Solid, square, tight, sewn binding. Internals as new. B/w and color historical photographs on nearly every page--more than 500 beautiful images and custom maps, from the first primitive maps outlining a new world to faded daguerreotype of young men in uniform, hopeful immigrant families arriving at Ellis Island, to stirring photographs of civil right marchers, and the Oklahoma City bombing. And includes paintings, sketches, etchings and engravings. Professor Brinkley's lucid writing and wit make this an outstanding book for both the history buff and the scholar. A Herculean treatise presenting a detailed, accurate, and fascinating account… Read More

Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Third Printing, 1986. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book with clean and unmarked wraps, slight wear to some edges, no spine creases. Binding tight, solid and square. Former owner name on endpaper. Internals in fine condition. Robert Zieger analyzes the experience of organized labor from 1920 to 1985, focusing on themes that unify and the turning points that punctuate the period. He discusses such issues as revitalization and growth of the unions in the 1930s, their political relationship with the Democratic Party, the role of workers during World War II, the expansion of collective bargaining and political power in the 1950s and early 1960s, and the declining fortunes of labor unions from the 1968 elections through the Reagan administration. He also examines the internal relations between the A, F. L. and the C. I. O. and others that helped shape the fate of the labor… Read More

New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Riverhead Books, 1999, Third Printing. Quarto Hardcover in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket that has just slight wear to some edges, clean and unmarked. Red cloth backed with blue cloth over boards, pristine condition. 300 color and 500 black and white photos and illustrations. A fully illustrated book examining all the U.S. Presidents up to the time of publication, arranged thematically, not chronologically, juxtaposing the careers of four presidents who may have lived in different centuries or held different political beliefs, but held common qualities in what our country looks for in its leaders. An interesting approach. 481 pages. Chronology. Constitutional Passages. Bibliography. Index. 11" x 9.5". 1999, Riverhead Books, New York.

Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First published in Haymarket Books in 2010. First Printing. Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Slight wear to cover edges, else fine green cover, solid and square binding. Three pages before text slightly wavy, otherwise completely clean and unmarked. 223 pages with Notes and Index. 8vo. 2010, Haymarket Books. ISBN10: 1608460711, ISBN13: 9781608460717

Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Edition.. Quarto Hardcover Book As New. No jacket, as issued. 192 pages. Discover the world the Indians knew--in this volume of the series from Time-Life Books: The American Indians. Using the words and images of the Indians themselves and hundreds of illustrations, this series re-creates an America you may not have seen before--with a unique collection of period archival photographs by 19th century photographers; superb reproductions of paintings by George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Charels M Russell, Frederic Remington, and others; native American paintings by artists such as Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Red Horse, Kicking Bear, and Kills Two; rare artifacts; original art and maps to show places and events just as they were. This volume focuses on the time period when the first Europeans came to America and the Indians interaction with them. Binding of burgundy leatherette with embossed… Read More