Category: U. S. History

Oregon Trail (Tales of the Wild West, Vol. I)

By: Steber, Rick

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Prineville, OR, Bonanza Publishing : 1986

Seller ID: 003410

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very minor shelfwear, small spot on p. 25. A bright, attractive copy.

A book of vignettes depicting the pioneers' travels across the Pacific Northwest. Inscribed by the author.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
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Party Leadership in the States

By: Huckshorn, Robert J.

Price: $13.75

Publisher: Amherst, Mass., University of Massachusetts Press : 1976

Seller ID: 007598

ISBN-13: 9780870232015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Red cloth with black lettering, xvi + 300 pp, index, chapter notes, tables and charts. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's name on front end paper. Jacket shows moderate edge wear and rubbing, a couple small edge tears along top edge, spine sunned. A nice copy. "The first full-scale study of state party leadership and organization in this country. Interviews with eighty incumbent state party chairmen and over a hundred other leaders chronicle the history of state parties, the legal basis for powers exercised by party officers, and the social characteristics an...
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Pinstripes and Reds: An American Ambassador Caught Between the State Department and the Romanian Communists, 1981-1985 (revised)

By: Funderburk, David B.

Price: $18.25

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Selous Foundation Press : 1987

Seller ID: 003723

ISBN-13: 9780944273012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

xiii-226 pp., Foreword by Congressman Philip M. Crane, appendices, index, 3 charts, 2 groups of black and white photographs. Very minor shelfwear. DJ has a few shallow tears, small chips at top of spine. A little underlining on 3 pages, but text is not obscured. Inscribed by the author. A bright, attractive copy. "Pinstripes and Reds is the first account by an American ambassador to a Soviet Bloc country, that documents the collaboration between the leadership elite of the State Department and the Communists. Former US Ambassador to Romania David Funderburk stepped down from his post...
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Postscript to Yesterday: America: The Last Fifty Years

By: Morris, Lloyd

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1947

Seller ID: 004339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Corners faintly bumped. DJ has some chipping/tearing along edges. Text is clean and unmarked.

The story of the evolution of America over the first fifty years of the 20th century, including the parallel developments of unexampled progress and deepening disillusion. "The social scene, and tides of thought and feeling in American life from the days of the bicycle built for two to the age of the atom bomb."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Publications on the American Scene; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; the Political Scene

By: Oceana Library

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dobbs Ferry, NY, Oceana Publications, Inc. : 1962

Seller ID: 9495

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

This pamplet specially prepare for the membership of the American Civil Liberties Union. Printing date not specified, but early 1960s. ; 4" - 5" tall; Prepared about 1962, this pamphlet lists a number of books printed in conjunction with a number of educational and advocacy organizations, such as the ACLU, National Council on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, Council of National Organizations for Adult Education and more. It lists books such as 'Constitutions of the United States,' 'The Alien and the Immigration Law, ' 'Leadership in Voluntary Enterprise,' 'Laws Concerning Religion in the United...
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Reconstruction Bonds & Twentieth-Century Politics - South Dakota v. North Carolina (1904)

By: Durden, Robert F.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Durham, NC, Duke University Press : 1962

Seller ID: 007657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth with gold lettering, xi + 274 pp, index. Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket has a little edge wear, spine a bit sunned, price clipped. An attractive copy. "An old trunk harbored for nearly half a century the intimate details of one of the most fantastic chapters in the history of any state, revealed here for the first time. At the center of this story is an ingenious plan engineered by a man whose dedication to self-enrichment and political revenge caused him to pit one state against another in legal and personal conflicts which made constitutional history and riled Nort...
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Scapegoat [Signed] Prejudice / Politics / Prison

By: Payton, Boyd E.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Whitmore Publishing Company : 1970

Seller ID: 8881

ISBN-13: 9780874260229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Black cloth with gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, a little speckling on leading edge. Jacket in new Brodart, Sunning to spine, along top edge, and down leading edge. Minor edge wear and chipping, primarily at top and base of spine and along leading edge. A nice copy. ; Inscribed by author on front free end paper. ; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 334 pages; " Henderson, North Carolina was in 1959 the scene of one of the country's ugliest and most protracted labor strikes, brought about by the attempt of the Harriett-Henderson Cotton Mills to break the back of the Textile ...
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Searching for Virginia Dare : A Fool's Errand

By: Hudson, Marjorie

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Wilmington, NC, Coastal Carolina Press : 2002

Seller ID: 002636

ISBN-13: 9781928556343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket shows minor edge wear, a little soiling. Signed by author on title page. An attractive copy. "The disappearance of the infant Virginia Dare, the first English child born on American soil, has dogged historians for more than four centuries. All we know is that she was born, baptized, and abandoned, within a two-week perioed, on the shores of the Outer Banks. Fiction writers, poets, politicians, and archeologists have all taken stabs at solving the mystery. What became of Virginia Dare and the Lost Colong? Inspired by legends, hoa...
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Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore

By: Applegate, Shannon

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Beech Tree Books : 1988

Seller ID: 005085

ISBN-13: 9780688053505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear, binding fairly tight. Jacket shows moderate edge wear, a little rubbing and chipping, a 1" tear to back at ase of spine, A nice copy. Skookum is the startlingly original narrative rendering of the experiences of a prominent westering family, from 1843 to the present. The remarkable story of the Applegate family encompasses many of the predominant themes of the early American West; The overland crossing via the old Oregon Trail in 1843, the quirky restlessness of Applegate men who, after reaching the 'promised land,' permitted their travel-worn families ...
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Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s

By: Rupp, Leila J. & Taylor, Verta

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1987

Seller ID: 006589

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

274 pp., notes, appendix, bibliography. Spine sunned, some soiling and edgewear. A clean, unmarked copy. "The first book to explore the persistence of the American women's rights movement in a period generally considered devoid of feminist activism and to show the ways in which the more radical movement of the 1960s was influenced by the successes and failures of the 1950s activities. Focusing on women who saw themselves as heirs of the suffrage movement and who were, in many cases, actual participants in that original campaign, the authors have conducted extensive interviews and searc...
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The Congressional Experience: A View from the Hill

By: Price, David E.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Boulder, CO, Westview Press : 1992

Seller ID: 005887

ISBN-13: 9780813311562

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Some edgewear. Inscribed by Congressman Price. A bright, attractive copy. "The Congressional Experience combines an engaging, enlightening narrative with photos, figures, maps, and tables to tell the story of congressman David Price's odyssey from ivory tower of Duke University to the citadel of Capital Hill. Along the way, we get a clear sense of the challenge, disappointment, elation and deep concern implicit in serving as a member of Congress - especially the kind of member Representative Price has chosen to be. In an election year filled with name-calling, teeth-gnashing, and Congr...
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The Constitution and What it Means Today

By: Corwin, Edward S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press : 1958

Seller ID: 003425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

v-xvi, 344 pp., index, table of cases, text of the Constitution. A presentation copy inscribed by the author in 1958. Spine slightly slanted. A clean, attractive copy. Decisions of the Supreme Court constitute the primary substance of this volume, using cases through the 1953 term. The author states: "I have endeavored, especially in connection with such important subjects as judicial review, the commerce clause, executive power, the war power, national supremacy, freedom of speech, press and religion, etc., to accompany explanation of currently prevailing doctrine and practice with ...
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The Death of Lincoln: A Picture History of the Assassination

By: Hayman, Leroy

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, Scholastic : 1968

Seller ID: 004566

ISBN-13: 9780590429696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners slightly bumped. Black and white photographs throughout. Text is clean and unmarked.

A Scholastic Biography. "Here, illustrated with more than 50 photos, drawings, and paintings of the time, is the tragic true story of Lincoln's death - and what happened after."
Age Level: Grades 4-7; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Fourth Division Its Services and Achievements in the World War

By: Bach, Christian A. ; Hall, Henry Noble

Price: $28.50

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Country Life Press : 1920

Seller ID: 8799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Dark green cloth, gold lettering. Spine a bit cocked, sunned, corners bent, some edge wear and rubbing. Boards starting to detach with webbing visible at front and back. Owner's name and company (L) on front free end paper, some highlighting for the battles owner took part in. ; Xvi + 368 pp. Numerous b/w photos, five paintings by Captain Leon Dabo. Bibliography, references, index, appendices. The five maps listed are not present, however there is what appears to be a map of the Sergy battlefield (marked Secret). ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 368 pages; "This book is not a tactical study of th...
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The Futile Crusade: Anti-Communism as American Credo

By: Lens, Sidney

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Chicago, Quadrangle Books : 1964

Seller ID: 004175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

256 pp, index, notes, tan boards with red spine, gold lettering. Slight edge wear, owner's name inside cover, jacket in protective wraps with a little edge wear, a 2" tear along bottom edge, a little rubbing. A nice copy. Introduction by Linus Pauling. "In the political desolation and spiritual uncertainty that followed World War I, the 'spectre' of communism rose to confront troubled governments throughout the world. Since 1917, communism has been the 'great fear' in American life; and since 1946, Anti-Communism has been the great purpose of our national existence and a basic tenet ...
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The Growth of Southern Civilization: 1790-1860

By: Eaton, Clement

Price: $5.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1963

Seller ID: 003670

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good+

viii-357 pp., 41 black & white photographs, bibliography, index. Spine slightly slanted/creased/soiled, very slight edgewear, some underlining, PO's name on half-title page.

George Callcott says: "The finest summary to date about life in the Old South. Here, now, is the basic, accepted story to which all future scholars must add or from which their new theses must vary."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Influence of Federal Grants Public Assistance in Massachusetts

By: Derthick, Martha

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University : 1970

Seller ID: 8887

ISBN-13: 9780674454255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Gray cloth with black lettering. Spine cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, owner's name on front end paper. Neat underlining on a few pages, but text is not obscured. Jacket is price clipped, spine and top edge sunned, a little edge wear. ; x + 285 pp, index, notes. ; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 285 pages; "While debate goes on over how governmental functions in the federal system ought to be divided, legislatures and bureaucracies do their daily work and thereby decide, often without anyone's realizing it, how such functions will be divided in fact. This book examines the pro...
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The King Makers

By: Lurie, Leonard

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, Inc. : 1971

Seller ID: 005518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

271 pp., index, 16 pages of black and white photographs. Boards are orange with an ivory spine and gold lettering. Faint dampstain at bottom of spine has affected pastedowns but not textblock, which is clean and unmarked. DJ has minor edgewear and one tiny nick. A bright, attractive copy. Contains an introduction by Murray Kempton. "The inside story of the political convention that nominated Eisenhower and Nixon and determined the direction of Republican politics for the next twenty years. . . . In this absorbing evocation of that milestone convention. . . Leonard Lurie brings to lif...
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The Labor Movement in the United States 1860 - 1890 A Study in Democracy

By: Ware, Norman J.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books : 1964

Seller ID: 8888

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, light edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; xviii + 409 pp. Bibliography, index. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 409 pages; "This classic in the field of American labor history traces the rise to power, the heyday, and the decline of the Knights of Labor and the emergence of the American Federation. Professor Ware's impartial account vividly and concretely describes and analyzes the struggles of the Knights of Labor in a period in which craft distinctions were disappearing while the owners of capital were consolidating their power to a point where they could be challenged ...
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The Living Past of America: A Pictorial Treasury of Our Historic Houses and Villages That Have Been Preserved and Restored

By: Vanderbilt, Cornelius Jr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1955

Seller ID: 004856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

234 pp. Very slight edgewear. DJ price-clipped, some edgewear including small tears at spine and flap ends. Text is clean and unmarked and extensively illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. "Here is a fascinating new kind of history, a de luxe, useful volume on the American way of life. It presents a clear view of the American past, as seen through its many landmarks that symbolize our heritage from bygone days, and are identified with our history. There are several thousand such places, and from the most important o...
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Category: U. S. History