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A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol

By: Luebke, Frederick C., Editor

Price: $17.75

Publisher: Lincoln, NE, Univ of Nebraska Press: 1990

Seller ID: 004655

ISBN: 0803279310

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

122 pp., index. From the Great Plains Photography Series. Bottom corner slightly bumped. A beautiful, attractive copy.

A literary, historic and photographic analysis of the art and architecture of the Nebraska state capitol.; 9¾" - 12" Tall
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A Profile of the Negro American

By: Pettigrew, Thomas F.

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 004355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

vii-xiv, 250 pp., 12 figures, references, index. Spine slightly slanted, a little bumping along bottom edge. DJ sunned around spine and edges. Text is unmarked and not yellowing. A solid copy.

From the dust jacket: "In this significant book, Thomas Pettigrew presents a lucid report on the Negro American at mid [20th] century. He provides a many-sided view of him - his personality, his genetic composition, his mental and physical health, his intelligence, his crime rate, and his current protest. This volume offers new insights, both social and psychological."; 8vo - over 7¾&#...
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A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago

By: Tarr, Joel A.

Price: $19.75

Publisher: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press: 1971

Seller ID: 005318

ISBN: 0252001397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

xi + 376 pp, Black cloth with gold lettering, index, bibliography, a number of tables and charts, 16 pp. of b/w photos. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, a little foxing to top and leading edges, top corner of front end paper (1/3") torn off. Jacket shows a little edge wear, some rubbing and soiling. A nice copy.

"Government was meant to be exploited, to advance the individual and aid the machine. The machine offered its followers material success without insisting upon middle-class morality. It accepted the immigrant as he was, asking only that in return ...
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America in Crisis: Making Things Right in a Nation Gone Wrong

By: Bohannon, Jim

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New Orleans, LA, Paper Chase Press: 2000

Seller ID: 004558

ISBN: 1879706938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Some edgewear/bumping, Spots on top edge. DJ has very slight shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy.

"With a characteristic logic, reasonableness - and a good dose of humor - that have made him one of the most respected news-talk radio hosts in the nation, Jim Bohannon challenges us to think 'outside the lines' and offers practical solutions we can use now that can guide us back toward our true greatness as a nation 'of the people, for the people, by the people.'"; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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American Historical Documents 1000 - 1904 (The Harvard Classics Volume #43)

By: Eliot, Charles W., LLD, Editor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1956

Seller ID: 8759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Brown cloth with gold lettering. Corners a bit chipped, minor chipping and edge wear. ; Frontispiece. Selected documents regarding great events in the history of the United States through 1904.

"The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." William Allan Nielson states: " The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides ...
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An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park

By: Roosevelt, Elliott; Brough, James

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1973

Seller ID: 007476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Orange cloth with black lettering, x + 338 pp, index, 8 pp of b/w photos. Spine a bit cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket has minor edge wear, mostly at top and base of spine, and a little rubbing. A nice copy.

"An Untold Story" follows the lives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt through their fascinating disparate lives. Written by their third son Elliott, there are familial insights and comments that put new light on these two people who have such a prominent place in our country's history.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Bertie County: a Brief History

By: Watson, Alan D.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: 1982

Seller ID: 9328

ISBN: 0865261946

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stiff red pictorial wraps, 91 pp. An attractive copy. ;
Includes a number of b/w illustrations and photos. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 91 pages;

A history of Bertie County, North Carolina. Located in northeastern North Carolina near the coast, this volume basically starts with Sir Walter Raleigh's explorations in the late 16th century, and covers history, inhabitants, economy, and politics.
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Boats Against the Current: American Culture Between Revolution and Modernity, 1820-1860

By: Perry, Lewis

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 005863

ISBN: 0195060911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fine dust jacket

332 pp., notes, index. Teal blue boards with navy spine. Some light pencil underlining. A bright, tight, attractive copy.

"In this highly original look at American culture in the decades between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, Lewis Perry paints a vivid portrait of our tumultuous society as it veered toward modernity."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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British Royalty in North America 1860

By: Penrose, Charles

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Newcomen Society in North America: 1951

Seller ID: 007158

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Cream wraps, 40 pp, center stapled, numerous illustrations. A little edge wear and soiling, interior clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

From July to October, 1860, the 18-year-old Prince of Wales engaged in a royal progress, visiting a number of towns and cities in Canada and the United States. This pamphlet highlights this journey -- the first visit to North America by a British Royal. It also gives the author's address to the Newcomen Society, presented at the 1947 Canadian Dinner, October, 1947.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Capitalism and Its Culture

By: Davis, Jerome

Price: $42.75

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: 1941

Seller ID: 005019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

xxviii + 556 pp, index, bibliography, 10 charts including 3 fold-out, numerous tables. Black cloth with gold lettering, a little rubbed on spine. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear esp. at top and base of spine. Owner's name on front end paper, title page has 'died Oct 19, 1979' under author's name. Darkening to half-title and facing page caused by newspaper clipping (NY Times Feb 15, 1948) laid in. The clipping is a book review of "One Thousand Americans" by George Seldes entitled 'Behind the Facade of Democracy'. Jacket has 2" chunk missing from top of spi...
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Carteret County, N. C. Folklore, Facts and Fiction

By: Paul, Mary; Paul, Grayden

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Beaufort, NC, Beaufort Historical Association: 1975

Seller ID: 8830

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled blue wraps, sunned and a bit soiled. Signed by both authors on title page. ;
4 pages of b/w photographs, partial bibliography after chapter 9, lyrics to several old folk songs. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 83 pages;

From the Foreword: "The purpose of this book is not to recall facts or dates of history (though some names and dates are correct) ; rather it is to preserve for future generations, certain folklore tales and songs which were handed down to me by my parents and grandparents. These stories are actual happenings in the lives of the sea-faring, God fearing people ...
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Chronicles of Old Salem

By: Robotti, Frances Diane

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: 1948

Seller ID: 004103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

129 pp., index, black and white photographs. Spine slightly slanted, some foxing along edge, gift inscription inside. DJ has some edgewear, sunned along edges, 2 1/2" tear along bottom back edge of spine.

"Here in the most selective form is covered the colonial expansion of England during which Massachsetts was founded. The growth of Salem is traced from 1626 to 1932 against the state and national scene. The author traces the history of witchcraft from 1484, when a Papal decree made it a crime, to Salem's participation in the mass madness. The book covers the Quaker whippings...
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Claude Kitchin: Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States in Memory of Claude Kitchin

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 1925

Seller ID: 001931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library with typical markings and stamps. Boards are fairly well rubbed, with the lettering worn. Significant edge wear and chipping, especially to corners and to bottom edge. Soiling and scuffing to boards, especially along spine. The pastedowns have separated at hinges, leaving webbing exposed. Text is unmarked and bright.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Horwitz. Tony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1999

Seller ID: 005827

ISBN: 067975833x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine somewhat slanted, very minor shelfwear and bumping. A bright, attractive copy.

"A ten-state adventure from Gettysburg to Vicksburg, from Charleston graveyards to Tennessee taverns. Probing both the history of the Civil War and its potent echo in the present, Horwitz crafts an eloquent, fast-paced, and penetrating travelogue that shows us how the Lost Cause still resonates in the memory and rituals of the South."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Crimson Desert: Indian Wars of the American Southwest

By: Faulk, Odie B.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 005931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

237 pp., notes, bibliography, index, black and white photographs and maps. Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear. DJ has shallow chips at top of spine, 3" tear at front flap edge and three 1/2" tears. Text is clean, tight, and bright.

An account of the clash of civilizations between Native Americans and Europeans, focusing on the period from the end of the Mexican War to the 1880s.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Danish Journal: Denmark - USA: 200 years of Close Relations

By: Linvald, Steffen; Bladt, Holger J.; Kjolsen, Klaus; Hvidt, Kristian; Kaarsted, Tage; Ringsted, Henrik V.; Bjol, Erling

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Royal danish Ministry of Forair Affairs: 1976

Seller ID: 007447

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

This is a special edition of the Danish Journal commemorating the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution. Orange wraps, 48 pp, numerous photos and illustrations throughout. The cover is a drawing by Vilhelm Pedersen illustrating the Hans Christian Andersen poem 'Thousands of Years Hence'. Ex-library with typical marks, it has been protected with stiff cardboard covers that are taped to the Journal. Interior is very good with a little edge wear.

Articles included are: 'Copenhagen A. D. 1776' (Linvald); 'The Founder' (Bladt); 'New York's Most Useful Citizen' (Bladt); 'Kingdom and Repub...
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Dare County: a History

By: Stick, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Raleigh, NC, State Department of Archives and History: 1975

Seller ID: 9071

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Orange wraps, sunned. A nice copy. ;
64 pp. Numerous photos and illustrations, selected bibliography. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 64 pages;

"The area known today as Dare County is a land of paradox and contradiction.
"The first English attempt at colonization in this hemisphere was made within its present boundaries in the 1580s - yet Dare County was not formed until 1870.
"Contained within its borders is an area nearly as large as Rhode Island - yet it is one of North Carolina's smallest counties in terms of land area.
"It is the easternmost county in th...
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Day of Glory: The Guns of Lexington and Concord

By: Spencer, Philip

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1962

Seller ID: 005576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

187 pp. Scholastic #TX 322. Light edgewear/bumping, PO name inside, text yellowing but clean and unmarked.

A fictionalized account of April 19, 1775, the day the American Revolution began.
Age Level: Grades 4-8; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Dickinson College: A History

By: Sellers, Charles Coleman

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Middletown, Conn., Wesleyen University Press: 1973

Seller ID: 005320

ISBN: 0819540579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

xvii + 626 pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on red background, index, notes. Appendices include a chronological list of people involved with the college -- trustees, faculty, administration; a selection of various societies and social organizations; and the buildings that comprise the campus. Numerous b/w photos and illustrations. Published on the 200th anniversary of the founding of Dickinson College.
Corners bumped, slight edge wear, just a little rubbing. Jacket shows a little edge wear with a couple small closed tears, some rubbing, spine a bit sunned. An attractive copy.

"F...
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Dreamers of the American Dream

By: Holbrook, Stewart H.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1957

Seller ID: 002970

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

369 pp., bibliography, index. Very minor shelfwear, PO's name on free endpaper. DJ has a few small chips along edges. A bright, attractive copy. "Only a few of their names can be found in our schoolbooks. Fewer still stand in marbler or bronze in our halls and parks. The mass of Americans knows little or nothing of them. . . They dreamed nobly, and they acted. . . They were a daft, honest, and all-but-incredible lot of men and women. These are the persons of whom Stewart H. Holbrook has written in 'Dreamers of the American Dream,' tenth volume in the Mainstream of America Series. S...
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Category: U. S. History