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AA Illustrated Guide to Britain. Basingstoke: Drive Publications Ltd for Automobile Assoc. (1982) 4th. edition 2nd revised printing. (hardback) 543pp. index, photo illustrations, maps. Ribbon bookmark. Fine condition. No dust jacket. [Not only a travel guide, but a history lesson as well] HIST10559 $25.00
Admiral Togo, A Memoir. [Cover title: Admiral Togo the Hero of the world] 347 pp. 22 color plates, 15 black and white plates. t.e.g.. 12 inches tall. The Togo Gernsui Hensankai, Tokyo. 1934 (Hardback, Marbled boards with gilt decoration and lettering) Very good condition with medium wear at spine ends and gilt dulled. Sturdy. No dust jacket. (Togo Heihachiro, 1847 - 1934. Studied in England. Important Japanese naval officer in the late 19th. century and early 20th century) HIST10507 $495.00
Jonathan Potter's Selection of Antique Maps. London: Jonathan Potter. 1992. (Softcover) 176 pp. index. Wonderfully illustrated. Very minor bend lower right corner else like new (Profiles of some map-makers and terrific descriptions of maps) HIST10560 $10.00
L'Heritage Francais dans la Vallee du Mississippi. 23 pp. Indiana Historical Society. Indianapolis. 1954 ( Softcover ) Good condition. (Reprinted by the Historical society.) HIST10321 $20.00
Le Centenaire des Assurances Generales de Trieste et Venise 1831 - 1931 129 pp. 12 - 3/4 by 9 - 3/4 inches. Edite par la Companie. Trieste. (1933) Softcover. Very good condition inside, cover edges frayed and faded. ( Fourteen full page plates. ) HIST10127 $40.00
Moses Brown School. Providence, Rhode Island. 38 pp. 6 Illustrations, one a fold-out. (softcover ) Good condition, 2 inch crease in cover. (Calendar for school years 1923 -1924. ) ( A Quaker school ) HIST10335 $20.00
Souvenir of Detroit. 32 pp. 9 by 6 inches. Almost all pages have one or more pictures. Latest date appearing in the book is 1928. ( Softcover ) Very good condition, but for 2 inch crease on cover and some pages. ( Picture of Penobscot Building on front cover. Rear cover has a picture of Chrysler Corporation Plant. ) HIST10337 $30.00
Abramson, Jeffrey B., F. Christopher Arterton & Gary R. Orren. The Electronic Commonwealth. The Impact of New Media Technologies on Democratic Politics. Basic Books, NY, (1988) 1st ed. Cloth, 331pp. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Groundbreaking study of the way the new media influence American politics.)(0-465-01878-5) HIST10167 $15.00
Adams, E. C. L. Congaree Sketches. Scenes From Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip of Heaven and Hell with other Miscellany. 116 pp. University of north Carolina Press. 1927 (1927 ) ( Hardback ) Very good condition. ExLibrary, no external library markings. Good dustjacket with light soil and some edge wear. ( Signed by the author on front flyleaf. ) HIST10323 $65.00
Adelman, Kenneth. The Great Universal Embrace. A Skeptic's Guide to the Politics of Disarmament. Simon & Schuster, NY, (1989) 1st ed. Softcover, 366pp. Very good condition. (Adelman-Pres. Reagan's colorful arms adviser-tells a lively take of the turning point in American-Soviet relations, indeed in world affairs.)(0-671-72510-6) HIST10133 $6.00
Agnew, Spiro T. Go Quietly...or Else. William Morrow & Co0, NY, 1980 (1980) 1st ed. Cloth & boards, 288pp., index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Vice President Agnew's own story of the events leading to his resignation)(0-688-03668-6) HIST10182 $15.00
Aislin. Did the Earth Move? Another 180 Caricatures. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. (1980) (Softcover) no pagination. Minor corner curl else very good condition. (Aislin is the pen name of Montreal-based political cartoonist Terry Mosher. ) HIST10515 $6.00
Aitken, Neil. Island Time. Gabriola 1874-1879. Gabriola, BC: Reflections. (1993) (Softcover) 90 pp. Illustrated by Paul Grignon. Like New condition. (Rewritten news stories taken from the Nanaimo Free Press giving the history, social life and customs of the island) HIST10516 $6.00
Anderson, Emma M. Elizabeth Nourse; A Sketch. 24pp. Emma Aderson. Cincinnati 1922 (Softcover) Very good condition. (Highly regarded American Artist. 1860 - 1938. This item appears to be a facsimile reprint, but there is no date. Elizabeth Nourse apparently lived in Paris during WWI. Several letters are transcribed here.) HIST10376 $15.00
Anderson, Emma M. Elizabeth Nourse; A Sketch. 24pp. Emma Aderson. Cincinnati 1922 (Softcover) Very good condition. (Highly regarded American Artist. 1860 - 1938. This item appears to be a facsimile reprint, but there is no date. Elizabeth Nourse apparently lived in Paris during WWI. Several letters are transcribed here.) HIST10377 $15.00
Arbenz, Jacobo. Exposition Del Presidente de la Republica, Ciudadano, Jacobo Arbenz, Ante La Opinion Publica Nacional y El Consejo Nacional De Economia Sobre su Programa de Gobierno. 38 pp. Guatemala, C. A. 1951(Softcover) Good condition. (Arbenz was a social and goverenment reformer whos government met its downfall when the USA suspected it of communist tendencies) HIST10444 $25.00
Baedeker, Karl. Northern Germany Excluding the Rhineland. Handbook for travellers. Seventeenth edition. 406 pp. 165 maps and plans. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1925 (Red flexible cloth covers) Very good condition. Very little wear to covers. Maps folded, pages clean. HIST10518 $65.00
Bararich, Sarah Grace; Kathelen M. Bennett. There's Treasure in Our Hills. early reprint. 16 pp. No place. 1947 (White pebbled paper covers. Stapled. 8 by 3.46 inches) Good condition with light soil to cover edges. (Signed by both authors.) (Six Guns and Saddle Leather bibliography No. 119.) HIST10570 $25.00
Bararich, Sarah Grace; Kathelen M. Bennett. There's Treasure in Our Hills. First edition. 15 pp. No place. 1947 (Blue paper covers. Stapled. 7.7 by 3.4 inches) Good condition with some soil to cover edges. Lower staple about 1/8 inch off spine center. (Signed by both authors.) (Six Guns and Saddle Leather bibliography No. 119.) HIST10571 $37.00
Barber, Benjamin & Patrick Watson. The Struggle for Democracy. Little Brown & Co, Boston, (1988) 1st. 4to, Boards, 298pp, index, fully illustrated. Very good condition in dust jacket. (The companion volume to the acclaimed television series)(0-316-08058-6) HIST10146 $15.00
Barnes, Clare Jr. Political Zoo. Doubleday 7 Co, NY, 1952(1952) 1st. Softcover. 77pp, Some edge wear. Minor crease back cover. good condition. (Photos of animals with humorours political captions though some references are dated)(LC 52-5964) HIST10171 $7.00
Benialns, E. A. A Journal by Thos: Hughes for His Amusement, and Designed only for his Persual by the Time he Attains The Age of 50 if He Lives so long (1778-1789) 188 pp. Map. Cambridge 1947 (Hardback, small format) Very good condition, dustjacket worn on edges. HIST10435 $12.00
Bernstein, Carl. Loyalties. A Son's Memoir. Simon & Schuster, NY, (1989) 1st trade edition. Cloth & boards, 262pp. Paper browning else very good in dust jacket. (Traces the roots of McCarthyism)(0-671-64942-6) HIST10207 $8.00
Bernstein, Carl. Loyalties. A Son's Memoir. Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Book, (1989) 1st pbk. ed. Softcover, 262pp. Very good. (Bernstein grew up in a family of leftist sympathizers that endured humiliation and zealous persecution in the name of patriotism. Powerfully re-creates the McCarthy era, a time of deep suspicions and routine betrayals, when disloyalty was the most danger HIST10222 $6.00
Bernstein, Merton C. and Joan Brodshaug Bernstein. Social Security. The System That Works. Basic Books, NY, (1988) 1st ed. Cloth, 321pp. index. Paper yellowing else very good in dust jacket. (Everyone interested in Social Security and private pensions will want to tread this book. It is a strong antidote to the spate of gloom-and-doom books, and articles on Social Security and euphoria about "Privatization") HIST10229 $10.00
Bilson, Geoffrey. A Darkened House. Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press (1980) (Hardcover - Illustrated Boards) 222 pp. index. Bibliography. As new condition (The social & public health history of those epidemics) HIST10519 $12.00
Bingham, John A. Special Judge Advocate. Argument of John A., Bingham. Special Judge Advocate; before Military Commission. Washington DC June 27 and 28, 1865. [Trial of the Conspirators for the Assassination of President Lincoln] 122 pp. Washington GPO 1865. (Softcover) Covers missing. Page edges brown. Piece torn out of last page but present. All text complete. HIST10520 $40.00
Bishop, Arthur. Thomas Jefferson 1843-1826. Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. 122 pp. Oceana Publications Inc. 1971 (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10405 $9.00
Bishop, Carl Whiting. The Beginnings of Civilization in Eastern Asia. From the Smithsonian Report for 1940. pp 431-446. 10 plates. Pub. 5625. Washington 1941. (Softcover) Good condition, stapled pamphlet, loose in covers. HIST10002 $7.00
Black, Gilbert J. William Howard Taft 1857-1930. Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. 89 pp. Oceana Publications Inc. 1970 (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10406 $10.00
Block, Marc. Les Rois Thaumaturges. Etude Sur le Caractere Surnaturel Attribue a La Puissance Royale Particulierement en France et en Angleterre. [A study on the Divine Right of Kiings] vii, 542 pp. Libraire Estra. 1924 (Binding hardback. one Fourth Leather and boards.) Good condition, some wear on all edges but the binding is sturdy. (One of 1000 copies.) HIST10378 $85.00
Bourinot, Sir J. G. How Canada Is Governed. Toronto: The Crop., Clark Co. Ltd. (1909) 10th ed. revised & edited by Arnold W. Duclos.350 pp. Illustrated with drawings. Paper browning else very good condition. (A short account of the executive, legislative, judicial and municipal institutions with an historical outline of their origin and development) HIST10522 $7.00
Bowen Francis. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1847. 351 pp. James Munroe & Co. Boston 1846 (Softcover) Very good condition with some light rubbing and soil to covers. Clean inside. (American Almanac 1847, Vol. XVIII. New Series VIII. ) HIST10003 $35.00
Bowen Francis. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1849. 369 pp. Charles Little & James Brown. Boston 1848 (Softcover) Very good condition with some light rubbing and soil to covers. Clean inside. (American Almanac Vol. XX, Second Series vol. X. ) (Catalog of 24 pages of the publications of Little & Brown bound in the back. ) HIST10004 $40.00
Boyce, Ben S. Illustrated Dear Dad letters From New Guinea. 124 pp. Endpaper map. photographic illustrations. W. D. Boyce Company. Chicago (1928) Good condition, no dust jacket. HIST10565 $20.00
Bremer, Howard F. George Washington 1732-1799. Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. 90 pp. Oceana Publications Inc. 1967 (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10408 $12.00
Brock, R. A. Introduction and notes. The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Virginia 1751-1758. Now First Printed from the Manuscript. 2 volumes. 768, 528 pp. With Map. Virginia Historical Society. Richmond 1883, 1884 (Hardbacks) Cloth worn thru on cover corners. Volume 1. Spine label unreadable. some fraying at spine ends. Inner front hinge starting with some separation of hinge cloth and book at top.Text clean. Volume 2. sturdy and the text is clean. Covers lightly soiled, spine soiled and with label missing. Hinge repair to front cover at top. The set is usable as is, but is also a good candidate for a nice rebinding. (A 40 page index included at the end of volume two)(A 40 page index included at the end of volume two) HIST10404 $120.00
Broder, David S. Changing of the Guard. Power and Leadership in America. Simon & Schuster, NY., (1980) 1st ed. Cloth & boards, 512pp. index. Dust jacket spine sunned else very good in dust jacket. (0-671-24566-x) HIST10214 $10.00
Brody, Reed. Editor. Attacks on JUstice: The Harassment and Presecution of Judges and Lawyers. July 1989 - June 1990. 107 pp. 4to. Centre for The Independece of Judges and lawyers of the Intenational Commission of Jurists. (Nodate) (Softcover) Very good condition. (Surveys the situation in several different countries) HIST10380 $15.00
Bromwell, William J. History of Immigration to the United States. Exhibiting the Number, Sex, Age, Occupation, and Country of Birth of Passengers Arriving froim Foreign Countries by Sea 1819 to 1855. 225 pp. Augustus M. Kelley. New York 1969 (1969) (Hardback) Very good condition. (Reprint of a book originally published in 1856) HIST10411 $30.00
Browne, Arthur, Dan Collins, & Michael Goodwin. I, Koch. A Decidedly Unauthorized Biography of the Mayor of New York City, Edward I. Koch. Dodd, Mead & Co., NY, (1985) 1st ed. Cloth & boards, 30499. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Koch has emerged as one of America's most colorful, controversial, and successful politicians.)(0-396-08647-0) HIST10204 $7.00
Bugbee, Willis N. Echoes from the North. Syracuse: Willis N. Bugbee Co. (1946) (hardback - cloth) 168 pp. photo illustrations. Slight soiling of covers. Binding error caused inside rear upper corner paste down missing else very good condition. No dust jacket. (The legends, yarns and sagas included in this volume have been gathered from various sources. Some have come from French-Canadian habitants and the Newfoundland fisherfolk, from Eskimo huts and Indian teepees; others are tales woven around historic incidents and about the lives of the champions and heroes of the great North.) HIST10524 $7.00
Buhler, Winfried. Zur Handschriftlichen Uberlieferung der Spruche der Sieben Weisen. 36 pp. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Gottingen (1989) ( Softcover ) Very good condition. ( Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen I. Philologistch-Historische Klasse. Jahrgang 1989, No. 1. ) HIST10306 $12.00
Burkholder, Mabel. The Story of Hamilton. Canada: Pub. by the author. 1938 (1939) 2nd printing. (Softcover) 183 pp. photo illustrations. Some general light edge wear. Clean, tight & bright condition. (Includes not only a history of the city, but biographies of many of the important personages of Hamilton) HIST10525 $17.00
Caddy, Douglas. How They Rig Our Elections. The Coming Dictatorship of Big Labor and The Radicals. Arlington House Pub, New Rochelle, (1975) Boards, 280pp. Very good condition in rubbed, edge worn dust jacket. (0-87000-319-4) HIST10199 $8.00
Caddy, Douglas. The Hundred Million Dollar Payoff. How Big Labor Buys Its Democrats. Arlington House Pub. New Rochelle, NY, (1974) Boards, 448pp, index. Very good in slightly edge worn dust jacket. (Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven, presents a mountain of evidence to prove that the AFL-CIO and its political are, COPE, are "flagrantly violating: the Fed. Elect. Campaign Act. The beneficiaries of their illegal campaign practices are al HIST10224 $7.00
Cardwell, Edward. Synodalia. A Collection of Articles of Religion, Canons and Proceedings of Convocations In the Province of Canterbury, From the Year 1547 to the Year 1717. Two Volumes. xxxv, 857 pp. Oxford at the University Press. 1842 (Hardback) Generally good to very good condition, hinges tight. Leather covered boards. Spines neatly replaced with cloth. Leather labels retained. Cover edges scuffed. Four page corners in volume one turned down 1/4 inch. Title page tear of volume one neately repaired. ExLibrary with numbers on lower spine. Library stamp inside covers and on title page. Text of both volumes clean. HIST10453 $160.00
Carretta, Vincent. The Snarling Muse. Verbal and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Phila., (1983) 2nd printing 1985. Cloth, 290pp. index. Several illustrations. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. Dust jacket has small tear on back. (First study to look at the 'golden age' of English political satire)(0-8122-7885-2) HIST10134 $18.00
Chafe, William H. Never Stop Running. Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism. Basic Books, NY, (1993) 1st ed. Cloth & boards, 556pp. index. photo illustrations. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Invaluable and intimate look at a complicated man who helped shape American liberal politics for nearly four decades.)(0-465-00103-3) HIST10206 $15.00
Chanin Jubilee Committee. N. Chanin. 434 pp. Some photo illustrations., New York ( Hardbound in dull red cloth ) Good Condition. ( Yiddish text. Jewish labor leader. ) HIST10352 $25.00
Chevalier, Haakon. Oppenheimer. The Story of a Friendship. George Braziller, NY, (1965) 1st. Cloth, 219pp.index. Very good condition in edge worn, rubbed dust jacket. (For 20 years a deep mystery has surrounded the so-called "Chevalier Incident" connected with to Oppenheimer Case. The facts are now available in this story of a long and deep friendship to which history was to give a fateful twist.) HIST10144 $15.00
Childlaw, Rev. B. W. The American Which contains: Notes of a Journey from the Ohio Valley to Wales. A View of the State of Ohio. A History of Welsh Settlements in America. Instructions to Enquirers: Before The Journey, on the Journey, and in the Country. Second edition. Reprinted in: Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Vol. VI, 1911, No. 1. ( Softcover ) Good condition. ( Originally printed in 1840. ) HIST10353 $25.00
Chin, Ann-Ping. Children of China. Voices From Recent Years. 309 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. 1988 (1988, first edition) Hardcover. Very Good Condition , with dustjacket. HIST10239 $10.00
China International Travel Service (Editor). Tourist Guide to China. 194 pp. Foreign Languages Press. 1974. Softcover. Very good condition. HIST10240 $8.00
Chittenden, Newton H. Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Vancouver: Gordon Soules Book Pub. (1984) Reprint. originally pub. 1884 in Victoria, BC (Softcover) 92 pp. index. few photo illustrations. Couple of pages have some neat underlines or margin notes. Minor corner wear else very good condition. HIST10526 $10.00
Cincinnati Law School. 1912 - 1913 Announcement of the Cincinnati Law School. Beginning of the Eightieth Year, Sept. 21, 1912. 31 pp. Cincinnati 1912 (Softcover) Good condition but with considerable soil to covers. Light vertical crease. ( Includes school history, Faculty, and outline of courses. ) HIST10039 $15.00
Civic Union of St. Louis. Who's Who Committee. Who's Who in Saint Louis. 1930-1931 edition. 105 pp. Civic Union of Saint Louis. (1928, 1930) (Hardback) Good condition very minor wear. Front flyleaf torn out. ExLibrary with rubber stamp inside covers and packet in back. Text clean but for a few check marks by various names. (The book gives family name, Parents, Spouse and children and also employment history) HIST10505 $165.00
Clough, Ralph N. Embattled Korea: The Rivalry for International Support. 401 pp. Westview Press ( 1987, First printing) Hardcover. Very Good Condition, with tiny tears at dustjacket corners. HIST10243 $17.00
Clubb, O. Edmund. Twentieth Century China. 470 pp. Columbia University Press. (1964, 1965, 1966 ) Softcover. Good Condition. HIST10245 $5.00
Conkling, Alfred R. Appletons' Guide to Mexico Including a Chapter on Guatemala and an English-Mexican Vocabulary. With a Railway Map and Illustrations. Second edition. Revised. xv, 378 pp. 6 pages advertising in back. Folding map. Illustrations. D. Appleton and Company. New York 1884 (1883) (Hardback, Red cloth with black and gold titles and decorations.) Good plus condition. Spine and cover edges darkened. Interior clean with slight toning to page edges. (Also included are four multiple page railroad time tables with advertising. Three are quite colorful.) HIST10569 $40.00
Cook, Don. Forging the Alliance. The Birth of the NATO Treaty and the Dramatic Transformation of US Foreign Policy Between 1945 and 1950. William Morrow, Arbor House, NY, (1989) 1st ed. Softcover, 306pp, photo index. Very good condition. (Stirring account of some of the most important events of this century)(0-688-10000-7) HIST10169 $6.00
Cooke, Alistair. America Observed. From the 1940s to the 1980s. Alfred a. Knopf, NY, 1988 (1988) 1st. Cloth & boards, 232pp.notes. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Selected and intro. by Ronald A. Wells. Out of a quarter century of reporting by Cooke, chief American correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Wells has selected 59 pieces representing the best of Cooke's view of his times and our)(0-394-57342-0) HIST10187 $10.00
Cotterell, Arthur. The First Emperor of China. The story behind the terra-cotta army of Mount Li. 208 pp. Penguin Books. ( 1981, 1989 ) Softcover. Very Good condition. HIST10246 $8.00
Cox, Isaac Joslin. Editor. Selections from the Torrence Papers. Eight Parts. Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Vol. I 1906, NO. 3. Vol. II, 1907, No. 1. Vol. II, 1907, No. 3. Vol. III, 1908, No. 3. Vol. IV, 1909, No. 3. Vol. VI, 1911, No. 2. Vol. VI, 1911, No. 3. Vol. XIII, 1918, No. 3. ( Parts 1 through 8, softcover ) Generally good condition, some cover edges frayed and a few covers detached. (George P. Torrence was a two term President Judge of the Ninth circuit of Ohio. He was active in Ohio and National Politics. In addition part 8 of this selection consists mostly of papers of a military matter dating from before 1812. Torrence was not the recipient or writer of many of these papers but was a player in the situations discussed. The papers generally date from between 1787 and 1836. ) HIST10354 $95.00
Crossman, R. H. S. (ed.) The God That Failed. 1st ed. v, 273 pp. Harper & Bros., (1949), Hardcover. Good Condition. Spine fated at top. Dustjacket faded on spine, piece missing at top of spine and with edge tears. Dustjacket now in plastic protector. (Contains essays by: Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Louis Fischer, Stephen Spender.) (Publishers code M-Y, December 1949. Stated first edition) HIST10041 $27.00
Czarnomska, Elizabeth. Editor. The authentic Literature of Israel: Freed From the Disarrangements, Expansions and Comments of Early Native Editors. 2 Vol. 422, 553 pp. Macmillan 1924, 1928. ( 1924, 1928, thus first editions.) Hardback. Good condition with some dulling and light wear to covers. Extensive handwritten notes in appendix D and on the endpapers, little to no writing in the text. Page edges lightly browned. Rear hinge of volume one with inside repair. Both volumes sturdy. ( Part one: From the Exodus to the Exile. Part two: From the Exile to the Recovery of Israel's Independence. ) HIST10042 $20.00
Davis, Shelley L. Foreword by Mary Matalin. Unbridled Power. Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS. HarperBusiness, NY, (1997) 1st. ed. Cloth & boards, 284pp. index. Remainder mark on bottom edge else Very good condition in dust jacket. (One woman's struggle to overcome an unchecked bureaucracy's fear of its own checker past. )(0-88730-829-5) HIST10202 $20.00
Dawes, Rufus C.; Allen D. Albert. Official View Book. A Century of Progress Exposition. Unpaged, about 3/8 inch thick. Reuben Donnelley ( 1933 ) ( Hardback ) Very good condition with some soil to cover edges and very minor rubbing. Interior pages with very light toning to edges. ( The book consist mostly of brilliant color illustrations of various buildings and venues at the exposition. HIST10356 $45.00
Dayton, Ruth Woods. Lewisburg Landmarks. 62 pp. Education Foundation. Charleston 1957 (1957) (Hardback) Good condition. No Dustjacket. Corner of front flyleaf clipped. (Signed by the author. Drawings by Naomi S. Hosterman.) HIST10402 $15.00
Dayton, Ruth Woods. Lewisburg Landmarks. 62 pp. Education Foundation. Charleston 1957 (1957, Reprinted 1978) (Hardback) Very good condition. With dustjacket. (Illustrations by Naomi S. Hosterman) HIST10403 $12.00
DeMott, Benjamin. The Imperial Middle. Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class. Wm. Morrow & Co., NY, (1990) 1st ed. Cloth & boards, 264pp, index, Very good condition in dust jacket. (Powerful and sparkling moral tract against the American myth that we live in a classless society. Demonstrates the great social and political costs of believing in the myth)(1-55710-023-3) HIST10197 $9.00
Devereux, Marion. Ohioans of To Day. Variously paged as follows: 88, 24, 40, 14, 7, 5, 4. Williams Co. Cincinnati (1928 ) ( Small hardback ) Good condition. Sturdy, but covers dull and lettering partially chipped off. ( The cities covered are: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, Lima, Defiance and Findlay ) (From the Preface: Ohians of Today is published for the purpose of affording a convenient means of identifying Prominent families of the state ... ) ( Book bound in two sections back to back and inverse to each other. ) ( The information given in the book is name and address with no further commentary ) HIST10326 $125.00
Dickinson, John N. Andrew Johnson 1808-1875. Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. 84 pp. Oceana Publications Inc. 1970 (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10412 $9.00
Diggins, John Patrick. The Proud Decades. American in War and Peace, 1941-1960. W. W. Norton & Co. NY, (1988) 1st. Cloth & boards, 381pp., index, photo illustrations. Very good in dust jacket. (Unusually thoughtful history of the recent past. Diggins really tries to assess the unequal significance of the events in the 40s and 50s for the present)(0-393-03548-9) HIST10227 $10.00
Disclson, David. The New Politics of Science. Pantheon Books, NY, (1984) 1st Amer. Ed. Cloth & boards, 404pp. index. Occasional highlighting and marginal notations in the introduction and chapter 1. Some corner wear else good + to very good in edge worn dust jacket. ( Postwar era advanced technology has become the key to power-both economic and military. )(0-394-52404-X) HIST10219 $12.00
Douglas, William O. Beyond The High Himalayas. 352 pp. Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1952 (1952) Hardcover. Good Condition, slight tone to page edges, dustjacket chipped and creased. HIST10249 $10.00
Drake, Daniel. Dr. Notices concerning Cincinnati. Reprinted in: Quarterly Publication of The Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Vol. III, 1908, Nos. 1 & 2. ( Two softcover pamphlets ) Good condition, Library label on front cover and title page, no other markings. Some fraying to cover edges. (These are page for page reprints of the 1810 original work except it is in two parts ) (The 1810 edition was printed for private distribution. An expanded version was printed in 1815 under the title of: Picture of the Miami Country. Both the 1810 and 1815 editions are rare. ) ( There are five parts, Topography, Geology, Climate, Condition of the Town, and Diseases. Part Five on Diseases takes up 32 of the 60 pages of the work and is the first comprehensive account of disease in this part of the country. ) HIST10357 $95.00
Drake, Dr. Daniel. Editor, Beverley W. Bond, Jr. A Memoir of the Miami Country, 1779- 1794. Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Vol. XVIII, 1923, Nos. 2 & 3. ( Softcover) Good condition but for covers frayed and edges torn. Library label on cover, no other library markings. ( Memoir written by Dr. Drake for a Celebration that was planned at Cincinnati for Dec. 26, 1838 in honor of the semi-centennial of the first permanent settlement on the present site of the city. ) ( Memoir manuscript in the state Historical Society of Wisconsin. ) (contains considerable historical information regarding the early history of Cincinnati and the surrounding area ) HIST10358 $75.00
Drake, Samuel G. Preface Introduction and Notes. Cotton Mather; Robert Calef. The Witchcraft Delusion in New England; its Rise, Progress, and Termination, as exhibited by Dr. Cotton Mather, in The Wonders of the Invisible world and by Mr. Robert Calef, in his More Wonders of the Invisible World. 3 Volumes. xcvii, 247, xxiv, 212, 244 pp. Printed for W. Elliot Woodward. Roxbury, Mass. 1866. (1865) (Hardbacks. Reddish brown buckram with leather spine labels) Good condition. ExLibrary. Library stamps on outside covers and number on title page. (Woodward historical series volumes 5, 6, 7) (Limitation statement of 280, but these not numbered) HIST10468 $750.00
Duffy, John. Editor. Parson Clapp of The Strangers' Church of New Orleans. 191 pp. Louisiana State University Press. (1957) (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10509 $52.00
Dunning, Mary Parker. Mrs. Marco Polo Remembers. 203 pp. Houghton Mifflin Co.( 1968, second printing ) Hardcover. Good condition, dustjacket chipped and with small pieces missing. ( Remembrances of a womans travels with her professor husband in Asia and middle east in the early 1900's ) HIST10250 $6.00
Elliot, Ian. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865. Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. 144 pp. Oceana Publications Inc. 1970 (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10414 $12.00
Emmerson, John K. & Harrison M. Holland. The Eagle and the Rising Sun. America and Japan in the Twentieth Century. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, A Portable Stanford Book, (1988) 1st ed. Cloth, 199pp. index. Very good condition in dust jacket. (Authors' observations on the development of relations between Japan and the US before and after W.W.II are enlightening for both Japanese and Americans)(0-201-08891-6) HIST10188 $7.00
Fairbank, John King. The United States and China. Third Edition. 500 pp. Harvard University Press. 1971 ( 1948, 1958, 1971 ) Hardcover. Very good condition. Dustjacket frayed and lightly soiled. HIST10251 $15.00
Farrell, John J. Z. Taylor 1784-1850. M. Fillmore 1800-1874 Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. 118 pp. Oceana Publications Inc. 1971 (Hardback) Very good condition. HIST10420 $12.00
Ferguson, E. A. Founding of he Cincinnati Southern Railway with an Autobiographical sketch. 163 pp. Robert Clarke Co. Cincinnati, 1905 ( Hardback, rebound ) Very good condition, rebound. HIST10344 $90.00
Fisher, Allan G. B. and Humphrey J. Fisher. Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa. The Institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa and the Trans-Saharan Trade. 219 pp. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Doubleday 1971 (1970) ( Hardcover ) Very good condition, ExLibrary with spine label. HIST10309 $23.00
Fisher, M. F. K. A Cordiall Water. A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuagae the Ills of Man or Beast. First edition. 178 pp. Little Brown & Co. (1961, first edition. ) Hardback. Very good condition, spine a bit faded, no dustjacket. HIST10049 $30.00
Ford, Daniel. The Cult of the Atom. The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission. Simon & Schuster, NY, (1982) 1st ed. Cloth & boards, 273pp, index Remainder mark bottom edge. Very good condition in lightly edge worn dust jacket. (Tells the inside story of the most ambitious, expensive, and risky venture ever undertaken by the federal government: the effort to create a commercial nuclear power industry)(0-671-25301-8) HIST10193 $8.00
Fordham, Elias Pym. Edited by Frederic Austin Ogg. Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a Residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817 - 1818. 248 pp. Arthur H. Clark Co. Cleveland. 1906 ( Hardback ) Very good condition but covers a bit dulled. HIST10345 $125.00
Fradkin, Philip L. Fallout. An American Nuclear Tragedy. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. (1989) 1st ed. Cloth, 300pp. index Very good in dust jacket. (the UDS conducted atmospheric nuclear test in southern Nevada during the 1950s and early 1960s. Radioactive fallout drifted downwind onto unsuspecting citizens who were never adequately warned of its approach or told what precautions to take; instead, th HIST10225 $12.00
Fragoso, Heleno Claudio; Aldjandro Artucio. Human Rights in Nicaragua Yesterday and Today. 85 pp. International Commission of Jurists. Preface dated 1980 (Softcover) Good condition. HIST10381 $12.00

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