American History

Contains a Christmas greeting by Strom Thurmond.
A bookplate-type inscription was inserted into this book: Typed, "Nancy and the children and I feel this book is informative and entertaining. We hope you will enjoy it. With kindest regards and Greetings of the Season. (Signed) Strom Thurmond".

William C. Scarff, Dallas, TX, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Endpapers are tattered, and frontispiece is detached. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 851 pp. One volume of the 2-volume set. Pages are yellowed, but are clean. Spine caps are fraying. Front hinge is cracked. Bumped and rubbed. Corners are rounded. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 6 pounds. Category: History; History::Texas History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001313. . Additional shipping charges may apply.

Freehold, New Jersey: Morea Brothers, 1932. This is the original 1932 HARDCOVER first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Very Good+ condition. SEE PHOTOS. A clean, square copy. Corners are NOT bumped. Inner hinges are sound. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are creamy white, clean and unmarked -- probably never read. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Contains local history, genealogy, tradition, biography and anecdotes relating to Monmouth, New Jersey. Complete with errata page. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in gold on the spine.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/No jacket. 8vo. 444pp.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown pebble-grain cloth with heavy black and gilt pictorial stamping. xvi, 615pp. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Ownership signature on inner flyleaf; inner hinges a tad delicate but expertly, archivally strengthened. A handsome first edition, with front cover pictorial stamping bright and attractive. A difficult volume to find in such nice condition.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. First edition. Presentation edition to Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice US Supreme Court, with his name in gold emboss on cover, Washington Post chief diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. Roberts copy, with his dated signature (1947) on fly leaf. Published Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1932, first printing. Folio, 10" x 11 3/4", 736pp., illustrated with hundreds of b/w plates. Mild foxing along edges and endpapers, several pages with pencil bracketing, one plate removed and reattached with binders tape, spine cloth bit faded, else very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.

St. Joseph, MO: National Historical Company, 1883. Probable 1st edition. Hardcover. Fair. St. Joseph, MO: National Historical Company, 1883. Probable 1st edition. Fair. Leather covers are worn with some residue from some type of plastic used to protect the cover. The spine cover is missing a large chip but it is present. It is detached on one side but is 90% or so present. Binding is intact but loose, there are pencil notations on the FFEP but otherwise text is clean and text block is reasonably tight.

Nice condition complete 2-volume set of the "History of Concord New Hampshire" - From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. The set comes with its original, oversized color map (35" tall x 31" wide) titled "Commissioners Map of Concord New Hampshire" dated 1902. Both volumes are illustrated with maps and engravings of notable homes and sites. 1903; The Rumford Press; Concord. "Prepared under the supervision of the City History Commission." Here is a sample of the chapter contents:* Aboriginal Occupation* King George's War and its Indian Hostilities* Colonization by Concord Settlers* Last French and Indian War* Period of the American Revolution* Revised State Constitution* Early Events of the New Century* War of 1812* The State House Erected* Toleration Act* Temperance Reform* Religious, Social, Intellectual, and Material Progress* Catholic-Irish Immigration* Public Library* The Prohibition Law* Period of the Civil War* Weather Record from 1856… Read More

1886 hardcover by Fishkill Times, New York. Reprint of the 1828 first edition with an "Additional Appendix." I have compared this with the 1828 original and the text is the same while the plates are different. Condition is a mixed bag. At some point this volume was recased using original boards and it was expertly done. Boards show more than the usual stains. Interior is much better: has gift inscription dated 1929 and no other writing. Publisher was newspaper and the materials used are consistent with that. Paper is thin and now slightly brittle. Title page and table of contents both show small closed edge tears. Endpapers and plates are published on a delightful variety of colored papers: endpapers are salmon, plates are on yellow, pink and blue paper. Text is printed in columns like a newspaper article. Binding is tight and was probably resewn. Paginates: blank, (i)-xi, (12)-152, blank, includes frontis and 3 unpaginated plates. Numerous other plates inserted in text. All original, nothing added or… Read More

Decatur Georgia: The Genealogy Company, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. VG+/1st ed. A clean bright copy, with a firm sewn binding, and bright white pages that are unmarked. Maroon cloth over boards with gold lettering on front panel and spine. 628pp., the land lottery process, how to use the text, abbrevations, list of persons entitled to draws, etc. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow.

New unread book inscribed on title page: For Dan Moll Very best wishes, Ben BradleeClean text. Unclipped ($27.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. This is the third and final book by Bradlee following, "That Special Grace" and "Conversations with Kennedy."

Inscribed on front end paper by one of the true Giants of the United States Senate, William Fulbright. Inscribed: To Beverley Githens with appreciation and esteem Bill Fulbright Dec 1964Book in very good condition. Dust jacket also in very good with a few very small chips in bottom of spine, shows some shelf wear. Text clean. Unclipped price ($5.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2022, Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is best known for his strong multilateralist positions on international issues, opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the creation of the international fellowship program bearing his name, the Fulbright Program.

Inscribed on first page: With best wishes to an unforgettable woman Evelyn Y. Davis (see picture). Book in fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition with two small chips on right front top and one at bottom of spine. Clean text. Price unclipped ($15.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Evelyn Davis was a corporate gadfly. Often causing chaos at shareholder annual meetings. She berated Lee Iacocca by saying he needed to lose weight.After Carter's 1976 election as president, Powell was described as a member of the "Georgia Mafia", a group of close aides from Georgia who moved to high positions in the Carter administration, but who were inexperienced in national politics. Powell and Carter's chief of staff Hamilton Jordan appeared in 1977 as caricatures on the cover of Time in 1977 and were pictured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, where they were dubbed Carter's "whiz kids". Powell served as White House press secretary for Carter's entire term as president.
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Inscribed on half title page: For Dan Moll Cordially Garry WillsClean text. Price unclipped (19.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.

Hardcover revised edition, signed by the author. Excellent condition. Dust jacket in good condition, with some fading and scuffing. Pages bright and unmarked. B & W photos throughout. Comes with 1990 Inventory & Addendum sheet. Proceeds from the sale of this book support public library programming and services.

NY: Wiley and Putnam. Good. 1846. Hardcover. Original binding, some of the covering on the spine has chipped off but the title is still there and readable. Previous owners sticker on the front paste down has caused an dark spot to bleed through the first couple of pages. Light foxing to the pages. Most of the pages are still uncut. The binding is still holding tightly. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages .