Category: U. S. History

The Look of the Old West

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books : 1960

Seller ID: 003917

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

316 pp, bibliography, index. Minor edgewear/bumping, PO name inside. Orange boards have pictures on front of steer, pistol, sword, and cowboy. A clean, attractive copy. "Here is a book of Western ingredients, the little things which the historians, darn them, generally leave out. This book tries to cover the real glory years of the Old West, from the Civil War to the Spanish-American conflict and the turn of the century. It tries both to tell you and to show you what the details looked like, what they were named, how they worked, what you did with them-from pistols to pants buttons, fr...
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The Lost Colony

By: Green, Paul

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press : 1937

Seller ID: 006440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Red cloth with gold lettering, xi + 138 pp, music references, playbill, b/w photographs. Ex-library with the usual stamps and markings, tape residue on end papers, slight edge wear, owner's name on front pastedown, price inked on front end paper, binding fairly tight, pages bright and clean with a touch of tanning. Signed by author on half title page. Jacket in protective wraps taped to boards, some edge wear and chipping along edges especially at top and base of spine, crease across upper corner, small tear and longer crease to bottom edge of back cover. Overall a solid copy. Includes the li...
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The Making of the President 1960

By: White, Theodore H.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1962

Seller ID: 004788

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

ix + 400 pp, blue cloth with gold lettering, index, appendices. Corners bumped, a little edge wear including a small dent to back bottom edge. Spine just a bit slanted, binding fairly tight. An attractive copy. "The making of the President is one of the world's most mysterious and complicated transactions in power. No troops mass on election day, no bands play, no clandestine conspiracies gather to strike violence at the political jugular. It is an adventure for which men have planned, plotted and calculated years before their country wakes to their ambitions. It is a pageant re-enacte...
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The March of the Mormon Battalion From Council Bluffs to California: Taken from the Journal of Henry Standage

By: Golder, Frank Alfred; Bailey, Thomas A.; Smith, J. Lyman

Price: $110.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co. : 1928

Seller ID: 007411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Dark blue cloth with gold lettering, xiii + 295 pp, index, bibliography, list of the members of the battalion, 8 full page b/w photos tipped in. Two tone map end papers showing the routes of the Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake City and the Mormon battalion to Los Angeles. Ex-library with typical markings stamps and stickers. Spine a bit cocked and sunned, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, small stain to front board that is likely a dampstain. Boards starting to separate from text block along the hinges, exposing some of the webbing. Pages slightly browned but text is clean and unmar...
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The Oregon Trail

By: Parkman, Francis

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, The New American Library : 1955

Seller ID: 003619

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine slightly curved, protective plastic loose at top back corner, corners somewhat bumped. Text is slightly yellowed, but clean and unmarked. "An absorbing true-to-life narrative packed with a fascinating variety of pioneers and adventurers, Mormons and outlaws, trappers and half-breeds. As related by a young American who set out to discover for himself the thrills and dangers of the Westward Trek, here are recreated the strange species of humanity found [150] years ago in that lawless, uncivilized region; where buffalo still ran wild and dangerous, and marauding bands of Indians made vig...
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The University of Kansas: A History

By: Griffin, Clifford S.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas : 1974

Seller ID: 005861

ISBN-13: 9780700601066

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

808pp., 36 illustrations, notes, notes on the sources, index. Dark blue cloth boards with embossed Seal of the University of Kansas on front board. Very slight edgewear along bottom. DJ has two tiny tears at bottom of spine. A bright, attractive copy.

"This volume presents a realistic appraisal of a university's struggle, throughout its first century, to reach a level of eminence."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Urbane View: Life and Politics in Metropolitan America

By: Greer, Scott

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1972

Seller ID: 002960

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

x + 355 pp., name index, subject index, footnotes, tables. PO's name on free endpaper & edge.DJ shows slight edgewear/scuffing. A bright, attractive copy.

"Positive in approach and provocative in viewpoint, this impressive collection of essays by a leading sociologist investigates the human condition as it is being shaped by today's urban environment. I focuses upon many of the salient questions generated by the current 'urban crisis' and deals in depth with the social structure and political process of contemporary American cities."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Voice of America

By: Van Doren, Mark (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company : 1942

Seller ID: 003725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

xiv-737 pp., index. Very slight shelfwear spine, top corners bumped. DJ somewhat scuffed with a few shallow chips & tears. Text is yellowing, but clean and unmarked. "History sounds dry as dust and often is. /but the history behind the history, the story of the people who inspired the events, is as good reading today as it was in 1066, or 1942, or 1776. The year 1606 begins this narrative of the men and women who made America. Mark Van Doren has collected their personal documents, letters, diaries, public statements-tied them together with his own brief comments-and made a book so t...
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Timber Line: A Story of Bonfils and Tammen

By: Fowler, Gene

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Garden City Books : 1951

Seller ID: 006281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dust jacket

480 pp., beige boards with navy lettering. Corners a bit bumped, minor edgewear, gift inscription inside. DJ has shallow tears and chips along edges, some edgewear. Text is clean and bright. "The story of a speculator and a bartender who teamed together to run the Denver Post, one of the most sensational and profitable newspapers in America. For forty years they ruled the Rocky Mountain region, bludgeoning their enemies with incredible promotions and reaping in huge profits from an assortment of enterprises that ranged from owning circuses to uncovering the Teapot Dome scandal. This u...
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Wheels West [Signed] The Story of the Donner Party

By: Croy, Homer

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House : 1955

Seller ID: 8842

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Gray over dusky rose cloth, black lettering. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, some sunning along top and bottom edges. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, some chipping along top and bottom edges and along flap creases. Overall, an attractive copy. ; This is a presentation copy inscribed by the author to Douglas F. Storer on the front end paper. There are a number of personal touches by Mr. Croy, including several tipped in photos and newspaper articles, humorous handwritten notes to and about Douglas Storer. There is a typed note to Storer on the letterh...
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Who Pays for the Cold War? How the Marshall Plan Affects Your Living Standards

By: Blake, George

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, New Century Publishers : 1949

Seller ID: 8654

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Black wraps, 23 pp, a little edge wear, a couple creases to front cover. A nice copy. ; Back cover lists other communist publications from this publisher. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 23 pages; One of a series of publications by this publisher that appear to have a Communist Party orientation. This pamphlet is an attack on the Marshall Plan from the communist perspective, calling it a plan to put America on a war economy and to rearm Western Europe against the Soviets. It makes the claim that the Soviet bloc countries are prospering under socialism and without the Marshall plan whilst the western...
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Who's Gonna Cover 'em Up?!: Chapel Hill Uncovered--1950-1985 Featuring the Newsman's Notepad

By: Giduz, Roland

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Citizen Pub : 1985

Seller ID: 007073

ISBN-13: 9780961586706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Brown boards with gold lettering, xiii + 210 pp, name index, numerous b/w photos. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, binding fairly tight. Jacket in new Brodart with slight edge wear. Inscribed by the author across from title page. An attractive copy. "If you truly care about the fabled 'Souther Part of Heaven,' as kindred spirits who love Chapel Hill do, you'll enjoy this book. If you're new to Chapel Hill, or are puzzled by it (as almost everybody is), you'll understand it better after this self-orientation. "While it's 'all about Chapel Hill,' the author's o...
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Wilderness for Sale: The Story of the First Western Land Rush

By: Havinghurst, Walter

Price: $27.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House, Publishers : 1956

Seller ID: 006322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

372 pp., bibliography, 17 illustrations tipped in, index. Brown cloth board with rubbed gold lettering. Pastedowns have map of "The Old North West" extending from the Hurons and West Virginia to Illinois and Missouri. Minor edgewear, corners slightly bumped, textblock curved at spine. DJ sunned and worn along edges with a few small chips at spine and flap ends. Text is light and clean. Part of the American Procession Series. "In 1795, fifty million acres between the Ohio River, the Great Lakes and the mighty Mississippi were a silent wilderness broken only by open forest mead...
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Category: U. S. History