Category: U. S. History

Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat

By: Dees, Morris; Corcoran, James

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins : 1996

Seller ID: 003748

ISBN-13: 9780060174033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

DJ shows very minor shelfwear. Inscribed by the author. A bright, attractive copy.

"This book goes behind the scenes, beyond the friendly-looking militia leaders seen on TV talk shows, to explore secret paramilitary cells training deep in mountainous back country. Similar fanatics, with close ties and fueled by the same antigovernment zeal, have lived in our midst for more than a decade. These 'super patriots,' Dees shows, see themselves in a life-and-death struggle to reclaim the country."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
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Handbook for Conscientious Objectors

By: Tatum, Arlo (Editor)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors : 1966

Seller ID: 006156

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A little chipping along cover edges, corners a bit bumped, some underlining. Pink slip laid in inviting the reader to subscribe to their bi-monthly publication "News Notes."

Published in 1966 by the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors as a "how to" guide for conscientious objectors in five parts: (1) C.O.s Under Selective Service; (2) C.O.s in Court and Prison; (3) C.O.s in the Armed Forces, (4) Thinking Through the Basis of Conscientious Objection; and (5) Bibliography of Conscientious Objection to War.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Harpers Ferry: A Place in History

By: Eastern National Park and Monument Association

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Eastern National Park and Monument Association : 1959

Seller ID: 003926

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

18 pp., Minor scuffing/edgewear, top corner creased.

A history in pictures and text of Harpers Ferry -a link between the East of Washington and Baltimore and the West of Ohio. Includes a street map of Harpers Ferry, many sketches depicting the life and times of Harpers Ferry, a photograph of Stonewall Jackson, and two depictions of John Brown.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948

By: Kofsky, Frank

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1993

Seller ID: 002729

ISBN-13: 9780312094829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ has some edgewear and minor chipping along top. Signed and inscribed by the author. ix + 420 pp, Appendices, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. The author "reveals how during the first half of 1948, Truman and the two most important members of his cabinet, Marshall and Forrestal, systematically deceived Congress and the public into thinking that the USSR was about to launch World War II with an invasion of Western Europe. As Professor Kofsky demonstrates, however, virtually every intelligence report coming into Washington-from military and civilian sources alike-asserted the exact...
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Health and Demography in Kentucky

By: Ford, Thomas R.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: University of Kentucky Press : 1964

Seller ID: 006710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

150 pp., 39 figures, index. Blue cloth boards with white lettering. Spine slightly slanted, foxing along edge, some light pencil underlining. DJ has a few tiny chips and a 1/2" tear on back. A nice copy.

In his analysis of the data from the 1960 United States Census, the author profiles the health of the Kentucky population vis-à-vis the country at large and its implications for education and planning.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Historic Buildings and Landmarks of Chapel Hill, North Carolina

By: Chapel Hill Historical Society

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Creative Printers : 1973

Seller ID: 003890

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

36pp, index, photographs, fold-out map, pictoral cover. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little darkening to back cover and last page. A nice copy. "Founded in 1966, The Chapel Hill Historical Society has endeavored to record and disseminate the history and character of this University town and the surrounding area in Southern Orange County. In face of the major growth and changes of the last decade, as well as predictions for the future, members of the Society, among others, have envisioned ways to preserve some of the character of old Chapel Hill. A significant first step is the de...
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Historic Buildings and Landmarks of Chapel Hill, North Carolina

By: Chapel Hill Historical Society

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Creative Printers : 1975

Seller ID: 006662

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

40pp, index, photographs, pictoral cover. Corners slightly bumped, tiny chipping at bottom edge of p.5. . A bright, attractive copy. "Founded in 1966, The Chapel Hill Historical Society has endeavored to record and disseminate the history and character of this University town and the surrounding area in Southern Orange County. In face of the major growth and changes of the last decade, as well as predictions for the future, members of the Society, among others, have envisioned ways to preserve some of the character of old Chapel Hill. A significant first step is the designation of part ...
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In Praise of Practical Fertilizer: Thoughts from Near New Burlington

By: Baskin, John

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc : 1982

Seller ID: 004476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

0393015637 Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear/bumping, PO names inside. DJ has some edgewear and three 1/2" tears. Text is bright and attractive. "When New Burlington, Ohio, a farming village a century old, was flooded by the Corps of Engineers to make way for a recreational lake, and its people moved out of the village to the surrounding towns and countryside, John Baskin was the last to leave. He wrote of the life and death of New Burlington in a book that Newsweek called 'marvelous . . . .as rich and various as life itself.' Now John Baskin makes his home in a farmhouse set...
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Lexington and Concord

By: Tourtellot, Arthur B.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated : 1963

Seller ID: 002958

ISBN-13: 9780393001945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

311 pp., notes, bibliography, index, 16 ilustrations, 6 maps.Publication date not apparent, but probably mid-1970's. Spine very slightly slanted, minor bumping, faint creasing, PO's name on free endpaper, some highlightinh & underlining. A bright and clean copy.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the war of the American Revolution. Originall published under the title 'William Diamond's Drum," Tourtellot documents and analyzes the events that led up to and followed from April 19, 1775.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Liberty and Property

By: Coleman, R. V.

Price: $18.75

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1951

Seller ID: 007344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Red cloth with gold lettering, xiii + 606 pp, index, chapter notes, 28 full page maps, 62 b/w illustrations from original paintings and engravings. Spine cocked and a bit faded, corners bumped, a little edge wear, some spotting to bottom and leading edge, owner's name on front end paper. Pages appear clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear and small tears especially at top and base of spine, a little rubbing and darkening. A nice copy. "Here in a single volume is a straightforward, authoritative, fascinating account of the dramatic ghrowth, and the commercial and politic...
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Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850

By: Handlin, Lilian; Handlin, Oscar

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited : 1989

Seller ID: 002969

ISBN-13: 9780060390921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

xiv + 481 pp., notes, index. Ex-library w/ usual marks. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards, very minor shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. This second volume of 'Liberty in Expansion' encompases "the ground-breaking decades between 1760 and 1850, a time when the expanding new nation began probing its relationship to liberty. Such momentous events as the American Revolution and the formation of republican governments, economic growth and humanitarian reform, and changes in family life and personal character are viewed in the context of their time, rather than how they appear in re...
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Lincoln for the Ages

By: Newman, Ralph G. (Editor)

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1960

Seller ID: 006079

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

512 pp., references, sources, "A Basic Lincoln Library," index. Corners bumped, PO names inside, some underlining. DJ sunned on spine, with large tear repaired with tape, a 1 1/2" tear and some very small chips at spine and flap ends. In Lincoln for the Ages, 78 of our finest writers and most distinguished Americans and most distinguished Americans reveal Lincoln's tremendous impact upon the world in a brilliantly conceived collection of original papers." Contributors include Carl Sandburg, Allan Nevins, Senator Paul H. Douglas, Henry S. Commager, Mark Van Doren, Adlai Ste...
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Louis R. Wilson: A Biographical Sketch Presented to the Friends of Louis Round Wilson at a Centennial Celebration in His Honor

By: Tauber, Maurice F.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, : 1956

Seller ID: 006103

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

18 pp. Grey paper wraps. This note from George London, Chairman of the Friends of the Library, dated December 2, 1976, is tipped on the first page: "The first part of this biographical sketch, by Maurice F. Tauber, was a preview of Professor Tauber's full-scale biography, Louis Round Wilson: Librarian and Administrator, published in 1967 by Columbia University Press. Tauber's sketch covered L.R. Wilson's life and career up to the mid-1950's and was presented on the occasion of Dr. Wilson's retirement as Chairman of the Friends of the University of North Carolina Library. Like Louis Ro...
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Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill With Novak

By: O'Neill, Thomas P. Jr.; Novak, William

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House Inc : 1987

Seller ID: 005661

ISBN-13: 9780394552019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

387 pp., 16 pp. black and white photographs, index. Red boards with black cloth spine with gold and red lettering. Bottom of spine has 2" waterstain that has affected DJ and a few back pages. Otherwise this book is in excellent shape. Tip O'Neill, one of America's most colorful figures, is a master politician and a master storyteller, a man of wit and wisdom. The narrative stretches from O'Neill's humble background in Cambridge (where the closest he got to Harvard was a summer job mowing the lawn) to his tenure as the nation's top ranking Democrat. Never one to hold back, O'Neill is ...
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Marshall Plan Goals and Gains As Reported by Otto Zausmer in the Boston Daily Globe

By: Zausmer, Otto

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Economic Cooperation Administration : 1951

Seller ID: 8653

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Brown wraps, 85 pp. A little edge wear, some dampstaining to front cover, pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked, a few pages with creases. A nice copy. ; Originally published in 1949 in The Boston Globe, this pamphlet first published in 1950. Includes general articles on Europe and the Marshall Plan as well as articles for each European country, and an inset showing relevent stats for each country. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 85 pages; "This series of articles on the Marshall Plan and the Economic Cooperation Administration has been written by Otto Zausmer, foreign affairs expert of Th...
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Memories of Manteo and Roanoke island, N.C. As Told By Cora Mae Basnight

By: Tate, Suzanne; Basnight, Cora Mae

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Nags Head, NC, Nags Head Art : 1988

Seller ID: 007621

ISBN-13: 9780961634421

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial wraps, 52 pp including 16 pp of b/w photos. Reading crease, corners bumped, a little edge wear. Review copy, inscribed to the reviewer and signed by both authors on title page. Handwritten thank you note from Suzanne Tate laid in, plus clippings of the newspaper review and Cora Mae Basnight's obituary.

A unique copy of this oral history of Manteo, North Carolina and Roanoke Island in the first half of the 20th century.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Signed by Author
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Mr. Lincoln's Wife

By: Colver, Anne

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Popular Library : 1973

Seller ID: 9269

ISBN: 04450048667

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good

Slight edge wear, covers slightly sunned. An attractive copy. ; Inscribed by author on title page. Also a slip laid in that reads 'Autographed by authors - friends of Aunt Elizabeth's in Irvington, N. Y. , (Anne Colver's home). Originally published in 1943, this is the 1965 edition and appears to have been printed in 1973. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 317 pages; "The most gossiped-about woman in Washington was Abraham Lincoln's wife. "Tongues began wagging the moment she stepped into the White House - and they never stopped. As a Southerner, she was accused by the North of being a spy. S...
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Names on the Land A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States

By: Stewart, George R.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1945

Seller ID: 8809

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Gray cloth, ix + 418 pp. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's nameplace inside front end paper. Jacket in new Brodart, sunned, some edge wear and chipping especially at top and base of spine. An attractive copy. ; End papers showing map of the United States, index. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 418 pages; "The author of Storm contributes another book unique in the field of Americana. With a wealth of historical and anecdotal detail, he traces the origins and evolution of the principal place-names in the United States, and every American should find fascination in th...
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Old Oxford Houses and the People Who Lived in Them

By: Smith, Ophia D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oxford, OH, Oxford Historical Press : 1941

Seller ID: 005951

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

vii + 149 pp., stiff blue paper wraps with faded gold lettering and small sketch of house on cover, 8 glossy pages of black and white photographs tipped in. Wraps show a little wear at bottom of spine, browning to some pages where newspaper articles were laid in. A unique copy of this uncommon book. Also laid in are several newspaper articles from the 1940s and 1950s by and about Ophia D. Smith. These articles cover the history of some of the houses and people of Oxford. Subjects include The Temperance Tavern, Captain Joel Collins (hero of the War of 1812), a full double page feature on Lott...
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Opening Up the Suburbs: An Urban Strategy for America

By: Downs, Anthony

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1973

Seller ID: 006159

ISBN-13: 9780300014648

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

219 pp., appendix, notes, index. .Spine slightly slanted. DJ has one small tear and tiny chips at spine and flap ends. As suburbs prospered, central cities declined. "In this fast-paced, fact-filled book, Anthony Downs takes a close look at a national problem of increasing importance: Making the economic benefits of the suburbs available to the inner-city poor. The most practical way of doing this, he finds, is by introducing low- and moderate-income housing to suburban areas. . . After marshaling the arguments in favor of his plan, Mr. Downs presents the suburbanites' case against ...
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Category: U. S. History