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 337    Abbott, Shirley Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South Tickner & Fields 1983 0899191568 Hardcover First Printing Unread, as new in like DJ. 210 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 3538    Agee, James The Morning Watch and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Walker Evans Ballantine 1966 Mass Market Paperback First Edition First pb printing. Boxed paperback set. Agee's novel, The Morning Watch and his documentary study of the Depression with photos by Walker Evans. Both books have waterstains at spine; "Let Us Now..." also stained at bottom corner, back. "Morning Watch" bumped at top corner, front & back. Nevertheless, books appear clean and unread. Box is quite rubbed, split 1" at top open corner. Evidently quite rare. $100 Add to Cart

 2996    Alvarez, Eugene Travel on Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828-1860 Univ. Alabama Pr. 1974 0817352137 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Full cloth binding. Book near fine, unread with some spots to top edge. DJ very good minus with small stain to back panel, shelfwear, mark on front from sticker removal and two 1/2" tears at top edge. 221 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 1530    Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Simon & Schuster 2001 0743203178 Soft Cover 1st Edition First pb printing. Unread, as new with paper starting to age. 431 pp. $12 Add to Cart

 569    Bamberger, Bill and Cathy N. Davidson Closing: The Life & Death of an American Factory W.W. Norton 1998 0393045684 Hardcover First Ediiton First edition, first printing. Blue cloth spine, brown boards. On coated paper with many B&W and color photos. Very small tear to DJ at head of spine, else unread, as new. 223 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 6223    Beals, Carleton American Earth: The Biography of a Nation Lippincott 1939 Hardcover First Ediiton No printing statement on CR page. Red cloth with blue stamping, red topstain. Book near fine. DJ very good minus with the usual wear to head & heel of spine, other edgewear, wear to folds. 43.00 price intact. 500 pp. $65 Add to Cart

 8176    Beer, Thomas The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century Vintage Books 1961 Soft Cover First Edition First Vintage printing, V-151. Near fine unread copy with shelfwear, aging to cover but not text block. 193 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 7453    Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience History Book Club 2002 0965369307 Hardcover Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Francis Parkman Prize Edition (book club reissue). Unread, as new in like DJ with slight shelfwear. 517 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 9312    Boorstin, Daniel J. The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Experience British Broadcasting Corporation 1976 0563170964 Hardcover First Edition The Reith Lectures 1975. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Book unread, near fine in very good plus DJ with slight shelfwear. 102 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 9403    Bowen, Catherine Drinker Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787, Library Edition Little Brown & Co 1986 0316103985 Soft Cover Second Edition Nineteenth printing. Near new copy. 346 pp. $10 Add to Cart

 1500    Bowen, Croswell They Went Wrong Bantam Books 1955 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition Bantam A1375, .35 cover price. First Bantam printing. Six young Americans reveal their involvement in criminal activities. Aging to paper, cover creased at spine, other edge creases, 1/2" tear at heel of spine. All else very good. 196 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 8058    Browder, Earl Marx and America: Why Communism Failed in the US, A Study of the Doctrine of Impoverishment Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1958 Hardcover First Edition Black cloth, gilt titles. Stated first edition. Bookvery good minus with spotting and stains to edges and end matter. Owner signed and dated title page. DJ also very good with soil and stains to flaps. Price of $3.00 intact. 146 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 10210    Burns, Eric All the News Unfit to Pring: How Things Were... And how They were Reported John Wiley & Sons 2009 9780470405239 Soft Cover 1st Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. The author of Infamous Scribblers takes on the media throughout American hsitory, from Ben Franklin to the present. Includes Notes and Bibliography. Unread, as new. 271 pp. $10 Add to Cart

 568    Carlson, Laurie Winn Seduced by the West: Jefferson's America and the lure of the Land Beyond the Mississippi Ivan R. Dee 2003 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing. Signed first edition w/publicity materials & letter from author. As new. 226 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 1844    Catton, Bruce American Heritage Vol VII No 6 American Heritage 1956 Hardcover October 1956. Minor shelfwear to cover, else near new. 119 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 7811    Catton, Bruce, Ed. American Heritage Vol 8 No 2 American Heritage Publishing Co. 1957 Hardcover First Edition February 1957. In this issue: The Man Who Killed Custer by Stanley Vestal, War makes Thieves, Peace Hangs Them by Roger Burlingame, How Rails Saved a Seaport by William B. Catton, The Needless War with Spain by William E. Leuchtenburg, The Slave Ship Rebellion by Fred J. Cook, and Rebels and Redcoats by George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin. Near fine with slight soil to boards. 112 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 1517    Charmley, John Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1940-57 Harcourt 1995 0151275815 Hardcover First Edition Black cloth binding, black boards. Unread, as new in like DJ. 427 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 6998    Clary, David A. Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution Bantam Books 2007 9780553804355 Soft Cover First Edition Advance reading copy. Unread, as new. Includes notes, chronology & bibliography. Index TK. 564 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 6645    Coffin, Tristram Poetter and Hennig Cohen, Eds. Folklore from the Working Folk of America Doubleday Anchor 1974 038503881X Mass Market Paperback First Edition Includes tales, songs, verse, riddles, games, folk expressions, superstitions and other information. Near fine copy with pub's remainder spray to bottom edge, red mark. Paper crisp, bright. 468 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 3476    Conant, James B. The American High School Today: A First Report to Interested Citizens McGraw Hill 1959 Soft Cover Tenth Printing aka The Conant Report. Trade paperback. Cover soiled, creased at front edge, spine. Some edge soil but interior clean and bright. 140 pp. $12 Add to Cart

 9351    Corbett, Christopher Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express Broadway Books 2003 0767906926 Soft Cover First Edition Bound softcover galley. The history of the Pony Express. Unread, as new. 268 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 6902    Cullen, Robert; Lisle, Bonnie Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1992 0312052596 Soft Cover Second Edition Second Edition, second printing. Examination copy. Unread, as new. 790 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 7382    Dash, Mike Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Corruption and New York's Trial of the Century Crown Pub 2007 9781400054718 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected proof. Unread, as new with slight bump at top foreedge. 431 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 5110    Davis, Kenneth C. DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY BUT NEVER LEARNED Crown Pub 1990 0517577062 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected Proof. Unread and near fine with some slight soiling to front cover. 451 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 9993    Demos, John P. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft And The Culture Of Early New England Oxford Univ Pr 1983 0195033787 Soft Cover First Edition Fifteenth printing. Winner of the 1983 Bancroft Prize. Unread copy with remainder mark to bottom edge, paper beginning to age. 543 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 7148    Fabend, Firth Haring Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals Rutgers Univ Pr 2000 0813527716 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Inscribed "with best wishes" on title page. Book and DJ fine. 284 pp. $75 Add to Cart

 6489    Ferling, John Adams versus Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 Oxford Univ. Press 2005 019518906X Soft Cover First Edition First printing. Very good with shelfwear to cover at edges. 260 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 437    Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss Justice Crucified: The Story of Sacco and Vanzetti McGraw Hill 1977 0070206384 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Red cloth binding, gilt titles, blindstamping to boards. Slight bump to top corner. DJ has edgewear, sunning but book unread, near fine. With photo sections. 480 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 6230    Forbes, Esther Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Lynd Ward Houghton Mifflin 1942 Hardcover Second Edition No edition statement. Red cloth, black titles and decoration, dark topstain. Map endpapers. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Photoplates on coated paper. Book very good with dampstaining to top edge causing faint discoloration to tops of some plates, and a scratch to topstain. Other very mild edge spotting. DJ has wear to head & heel of spine, two wrinkle-tears but $3.75 price intact. 510 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 7373    Friedrich, Otto Decline and Fall: The Death Struggle of the Saturday Evening Post Ballantine Books 1971 Mass Market Paperback First Edition First pb printing. Contains photo supplement at center. The history of Curtis Publishing. Very good plus unread copy with slight shelfwear to cover. 535 pp. $12 Add to Cart

 8948    Geddes, Donald Porter, ed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial Pocket Books 1946 Mass Market Paperback First Edition First PB printing, PB #300. Includes radio commentary, newspaper columns, Roosevelt speech excerpts, biographical details, funeral details, political philosophy, poems, a few photos. Very good minus with waterstain to lower edge at binding, causing some bleeding of edge dye onto textblock margin. Cover creased, worn at edges. 243 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 5591    Golden, Harry Forgotten Pioneer Leonard Vosburgh World Publishing Company 1963 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. An informal history of peddlers in America. Beige cloth binding, black/brown titles, blue/green topstain. Book near fine with line drawings by Vosburgh. DJ in Mylar also very good but price-clipped and with a small surface tear to front flap. 160 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 4484    Goldman, Eric F. The Crucial Decade: America 1945-1955 Alfred A Knopf 1956 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Blue cloth binding, blue/gilt titles, blue topstain. Stated first edition. Book very good, looks unread with a bump to top foreedge of front board and consequent wrinkle to cloth. Price-clipped DJ in Mylar very good with some rubbing to folds, edgewear, one 1/4" open tear at bottom edge and a 1/2" surface tear to top edge. 298 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 4666    Gunther, John Inside U.S.A. BOMC 1997 Hardcover BOMC Edition 50th Anniversary Edition. Blue cloth binding, blue boards, gilt titles. Unread, as new in like DJ. 978 pp. $30 Add to Cart

 7004    Hacker, Andrew The End of the American Era Atheneum 1970 Hardcover First Edition Second printing. Black cloth, gilt titles, red topstain. Book unread, near fine but for institutional rubber stamps to ffep and second leaf. Slight darkening to endpapers. DJ also very good plus with some aging and minor edgewear, head & heel of spine. 239 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 461    Hamilton, Alexander Writings Library of America 2001 1931082049 Hardcover First Edition First printing of this edition. Green cloth, gilt titles. Unread, as new with slight shelfwear to DJ. 1100 pp. $40 Add to Cart

 9042    Hamilton, Edward P. Fort Ticonderoga: Key to a Continent Fort Ticonderoga/Mass. Historical Society 1995 1567150535 Soft Cover 1st Edition Originally published by Little, Brown in 1964, first printing thus. Contains a few B&W maps, Bibliography & Index. Unread, as new. 241 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 9827    Hanley, Charles J.;Choe, Sang-Hun;Mendoza, Martha The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War Henry Holt & Co 2001 0805066586 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Notes included; additional documents TK. 284 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 2527    Harrington, Michael The Other America: Poverty in the United States Penguin 1969 0140522239 Soft Cover 10th Printing Unread copy with cover rubbed, text block slightly aged, remainder mark to top edge. 186 pp. $8 Add to Cart

 464    Hartmann, John W. American Partisan: Henry Lee and the Struggle for Independence, 1776-1780 Burd Street Press 2000 1572491833 Hardcover First Thus DJ lightly sunned; else unread, as new. 251 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 465    Heilbroner, Robert L. The Future as History: The Historic Currents of Our Time and the Directions They are Taking America Harper & Bros 1960 Hardcover First Edition Grey cloth, green/gilt titles. First printing. Book very good plus with ink stamp to back endsheet.. DJ has edge tears/wear. 216 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 1498    Hill, James L., ed. A Sourcebook for Teachers of Georgia History Brentwood University Press 1987 1556300336 Soft Cover 1st Edition Second printing. A collection of essays by Kenneth Coleman, Roger G. Branch, Wayne Flynt, Delma E. Presley, Charlton Mosley, Gilbert C. Fite and others on various sociological and local history issues. Minor aging to cover, else unread, as new. 266 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 9436    Hodges, Graham Russell Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation Basic Books 2008 0465048145 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected proof, softcover. Unread, as new. Notes included. 304 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 8971    Horwitz, Tony A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America Henry Holt & Co 2008 0805076034 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) First printing. Aqua/brown binding & boards, map endpapers. Illustrated by B&W drawings. Signed by author on title page. Unread, as new in like DJ in Mylar. 445 pp. $75 Add to Cart

 5953    Humes, Edward Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream Harcourt 2006 0151007101 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. The story of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 -- the "GI Bill of Rights." By the author of Mississippi Mud and others. Unread, as new in plain red wrapper. 311 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 4286    Johnson, Haynes and Howard Simons The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism Harcourt 2005 0151010625 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new with a tiny bump to heel of spine. Includes Source & Bibliographical Notes. 582 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 474    Kington, Donald M. Forgotten Summers: The Story of Citizens' Military Training Camps, 1921-1940 Two Decades Publishing 1995 0964578905 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Cover and front pages dented at bottom, cover has minor shelfwear. 238 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 9920    Klinenberg, Eric Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago Univ of Chicago Pr 2002 0226443213 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Tan cloth spine over cream boards, gilt titles. An academic study with charts, graphs and chapter Notes. Book near fine, little wear. DJ also near fine with one flap crease at front. 305 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 8027    Kowalski, Gary Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers BlueBridge Pub. 2008 9781933346090 Soft Cover First Edition Timely study of the religious beliefs of Jefferson, Adams, Paine, Madison, Washington et al. Uncorrected proof. Unread, as new. 210 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 4667    Kyvig, David E. Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995 Univ Pr of Kansas 1996 0700607927 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Unread, as new in like DJ with light shelfwear. 604 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 10214    Laskin, David The Long Way Home: An Immigrant Generation and the Crucible of War HarperCollins 2010 978006123333 Soft Cover 1st Edition Uncorrected sfotcover proof. An account of a dozen European immigrants and their conscription into WWI. By the author of The Chidlren's Blizzard. Unread, as new. Sources included w/o page numbers. 372 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 5858    Lattimore, Owen Ordeal By Slander: Why Senator McCarthy Failed Bantam Books 1950 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition Bantam 843, first Bantam printing. A response to Joe McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade. Very good copy with tight, square binding, some rubbing and soil to cover, aging to paper. 198 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 3142    Lerner, Max America as a Civilization: Life and Thought in the United States Today Simon & Schuster 1957 Hardcover 1st Edition Third printing. Brodart marks to boards & endpapers; else near fine; DJ shows very little wear. 1036 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 2986    Leuchtenburg, William E., ed. American Places: Encounters with History America's Leading Historians Talkabout the Sites Where the Past Comes Alive for Them Oxford Univ. Press 2000 019513026X Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Unread, as new in like DJ. 398 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 1518    Lewontin, Timothy Parsons' Mill Univ Press of New England 1989 0874514797 Hardcover First Edition Black cloth, gilt titles. The writer took a job at a New England manufacturing mill and reports on the work and local culture. Unread, as new in like DJ. 184 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 4859    Lippmann, Walter Isolation and Alliances: An American Speaks to the British Atlantic-Little Brown 1952 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Grey cloth binding, red titles. An extended essay on American foreign policy. Very good with giver's inscription on ffep. DJ also very good with one 3/4" closed tear at top edge, edge & foldwear, aging. $25 Add to Cart

 9434    Madden, Thomas F. Empires of Trust: How Rome Built - And America Is Building - A New World E P Dutton 2008 0525950745 Soft Cover First Edition Advance softcover proof. A comparative study of the US and the Roman Empire. Near new with a crease to front cover at top foreedge. Notes, Bibliography included; Index TK. 319 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 9919    Mattson, Andrew The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York New York Univ Pr, 2005 0814719805 Hardcover First Edition Second printing. Black cloth spine, cream boards, gilt titles. Book near fine with a couple of smudges, one page rippled at foreedge. DJ also near fine. 383 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 2536    Mayer, Martin The Teachers Strike, New York, 1968 Harper & Row 1969 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Near fine with a bit of edge spotting. DJ very good with very small surface tear and some stains on reverse. 122 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 6198    Means, Howard The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days That Changed the Nation Harcourt 2006 0151012121 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected proof. Andrew Johnson taking over the presidency. Book out in November. As new in printed wraps. Endnotes & bibliography included. 266 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 6367    Mellick, Andrew D., Jr. Lesser Crossroads (from The Story of an Old Farm) Rutgers Univ Pr 1948 Hardcover First Edition Edited by Hubert G. Schmidt. An account of everyday life in 18th century America. Floral-patterned blue and yellow cloth binding, red topstain, titles on pasted plate at spine. Book near fine with darkening to pastedowns. DJ in matching pattern of cloth very good with some edgewear at top, small hole at spine, sunning to spine. Price of $5.00 intact. 402 pp. $40 Add to Cart

 3912    Merrill, Boynton Jefferson's Nephews : A Frontier Tragedy Morrow/Avon 1983 0380018373 Mass Market Paperback First Edition First pb printing. Very good with spotting to inside cover & endpapers, some aging to paper but unread. 462 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 4715    Mills, Charles Wright White Collar: The American Middle Classes Oxford Univ Pr 1951 0195006771 Soft Cover 37th Printing Unread, as new. A classic work about social class in America from the economic perspective. 378 pp. $12 Add to Cart

 493    Monkkonen, Eric H., Ed. Walking to Work: Tramps in America, 1790-1935 Univ. Nebraska 1984 0803230877 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Essays by various writers examining this often-romanticized lifestyle. Unread, as new in like DJ. 253 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 1210    Montgomery, M.R. Jefferson and the Gun-men: How the West Was Almost Lost Crown Publishers 2000 0609807102 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. 327 pp, $12 Add to Cart

 8130    Moseley, James G. John Winthrop's World: History As a Story; The Story As History Univ of Wisconsin Pr 1992 0299135349 Soft Cover First Edition Pb original. Scholarly biography and period study. With notes, bibliography. Unread, as new. 192 $25 Add to Cart

 500    Murray, Margaret A. M. Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America MIT 2000 0262133695 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. DJ has small stain to top edge; else unread, as new. 277 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 9401    Norton, Smith Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation Mariner Books 1997 0395855128 Soft Cover First Edition Seventh printing. Near new copy with light shelfwear. Contains Notes, Index. 424 pp. $10 Add to Cart

 6948    O'Malley, Padraig Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa Viking Press 2007 9780670852338 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Unread and as new with light vertical crease to back cover and smudge at foreedge. Index TK. 613 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 1217    Paine, Thomas Rights of Man and Common Sense Knopf/Everyman 1994 0679433147 Hardcover Third Printing Green cloth binding, black/gilt titles & decoration. No DJ. Some ink checkmarks to index; else clean, near fine. 306 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 3739    Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years Harper & Row 1973 0060133317 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth binding, red/blue titles, stated first edition. Near fine in like DJ in Mylar. 424 pp. $30 Add to Cart

 3253    Powell, J.H. Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 Time/Life 1965 0812214234 Soft Cover 1st Edition First pb printing. Minor cover soil; else near fine. 326 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 10149    Rhodehamel, John The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic Yale Univ Pr 1998 0300076142 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Blue cloth spine over blue boards, gilt titles and decoration. A handsomely-produced book on coated paper with graphics, including paintings, historical documents, etc. in color. Book near fine; DJ has spot to back panel. 176 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 5821    Rhodes, Richard The Making of the Atomic Bomb Simon & Schuster 1988 0671657194 Soft Cover 1st Edition Seventh printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Price, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. With three B&W photo supplements. Very good unread copy with shelfwear, creases to cover, minor aging to paper. 886 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 7441    Schneir, Walter, Ed. Telling it Like it Was: The Chicago Riots New American Library/Signet 1969 Mass Market Paperback First Edition First printing, 1969. Signet T3856. Center photo supplement in B&W by Richard Fegley. Responses to the riots by William Burroughs, William Styron, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Terry Southern, Jean Genet, Tom Hayden, others. Very good plus unread copy with aging to paper, small stain at back cover. 159 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 7446    Simmons, Marc Ranchers, Ramblers and Renegades: True Tales of Territorial New Mexico Ancient City Pr 1984 0941270173 Soft Cover First Edition Unknown printing. As new, still in shrinkwrap. 128 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 7460    Simmons, William S. (Joseph Fish) Old Light on Separate Ways The Narragansett Diary of Joseph Fish 1765-1776 Univ Pr of New England 1983 0874512395 Hardcover First Edition Illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Edited by William S. and Cheryl L. Simmons. Unread, as new. 149 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 7102    St. George, Robert Blair, Ed. Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America Cornell Univ Pr 2000 0801483921 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture; McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Contributors include Louise M. Burkhart, Peter Hulme, Margaretta M. Lovell, Anne G. Myles, Dana D. Nelson, Carrolll Smith-Rosenberg, others. Unread, as new. 417 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 5294    Terkel, Studs The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream Pantheon Books 1988 0394570537 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected Page Proof. Unread, near fine with numerous editing marks. 450 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 537    Tuchman, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 Macmillan 1971 0026202905 Hardcover BOMC Edition Very good. DJ rubbed, creased. In Mylar. 621 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 8212    Vidal, Gore Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Yale University Press 2003 0300101716 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Blue cloth spine over blue boards, gilt titles. Book near fine with a couple of pages creased at top foreedge. DJ fine. 198 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 9102    Vidal, Gore Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Yale Univ Pr 2004 0300105924 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Unread, near new. 198 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 541    Watters, Pat The South and the Nation Pantheon Books 1969 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Off-white cloth with red/blue/gilt titles and decoration, yellow topstain. The author, a former journalist, has written an informal study of the (then) contemporary South - its flaws and its charms. Mild spotting to cloth, mostly at edges; topstain also spotted. DJ very good plus with two purple ghost-stripes from old-style Brodart. 390 pp. $20 Add to Cart

 543    Weatherford, Doris Foreign & Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1930 Schocken 1986 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Remainder mark on top, minor stain on back of DJ, small tears to top. Unread. 299 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 8311    Weil, Gordon Lee Sears, Roebuck, U.S.A.: The Great American Catalog Store and How It Grew Stein & Day Pub 1977 0812823141 Hardcover First Edition First printing (NAP). Blue cloth spine over orange boards, gilt titles and facsimile signature to front board. Short center photo supplement. Book near fine with slight soil at top edge. DJ very good plus with shelfwear, edgewear. 277 pp. $25 Add to Cart

 7794    Werstein, Irving July, 1863: The Incredible Story of the Bloody New York City Draft Riots Julian Messner 1957 Hardcover First Edition Light blue cloth, black titles. Center supplement of pencil drawings from the New York Historical Society recreating the incident. Book near fine with some aging to cloth at spine. DJ in Mylar very good with wrinkle-tear at top front binding fold, small surface tear at front panel. Price of $3.95 intact. 252 pp. $55 Add to Cart

 1207    Wexley, John The Judgement of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Cameron and Kahn 1955 Hardcover Third Edition Grey cloth binding, maroon titles to spine. Stated third edition, December 1955. DJ design by Rockwell Kent. Book near fine with a couple of soil-spots to top edge. DJ very good plus with one small chip to heel of spine, sunned at spine, price clipped. In Mylar. 672 pp. $40 Add to Cart

 9147    Wills, Garry Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power Mariner Books 2005 0618485376 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Unread, as new. 274 pp. $10 Add to Cart

 8148    Wister, Sally; Wister, Sarah B. Sally Wister's Journal Applewood Press 1995 1557091145 Soft Cover First Edition First Applewood printing. Book originally published in 1902. A true narrative of a young girl's account of her experiences during the Revolutionary War. Very good with diagonal crease to back cover at foreedge. 62 pp $15 Add to Cart

 6119    Young, Jan The Migrant Workers and Cesar Chavez J. Messner 1972 0671325043 Hardcover First Edition Tan cloth, black titles. Photo supplement on coated paper. Book unread, near fine. DJ very good minus with 3 closed tears to front panel at top edge, other edgewear. 189 pp. $40 Add to Cart

 555    Ziff, Larzer Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print & Politics in the Early United States Yale Univ. Press 1991 0300050402 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Black cloth, gilt titles. Unread and as new in like DJ. 209 pp. $25 Add to Cart