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J. B. Lippincott First Edition
1966 Fair Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Previous owner's library stamp and very small area of written numbers on front endpapers. Large chip and two small closed tears of one early page. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with slight tanning; in a clear protective cover. A near contemporaneous account of the Cuban Missile Crisis by a veteran NBC newsman. Illustrated with Defense Department photos that brought on the crisis. Maps on endpapers. JOHN F. KENNEDY,NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV,COLD WAR,SOVIET UNION,CUBA,U.S. NAVY,MISSILES Book #4445 |
US$8.50 |
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National Geographic Society First
Edition 1966 ISBN: 0912308451 Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Pictorial boards; decorated endpapers. Some warping of front board. Mild edge and corner wear. Book is tight and bright. Foreword by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson. Introduction by Bruce Catton. Many Photos and Drawings. POLITICS,GOVERNMENT,WASHINGTON Book #1476 |
US$6.50 |
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HarperCollins 2000
ISBN: 0060956658 Near Fine Trade Paperback. The very slightest creasing of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise of post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against a colorful background of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. TWENTIETH CENTURY,PROHIBITION,SPEAKEASIES,RADIO,AL CAPONE,GREAT DEPRESSION Book #6967 |
US$8.75 |
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Pocket Books 1982
ISBN: 0671458914 Very Good Mass Market Paperback. Slight edge wear of wraps and gentle creasing of spine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "Celebrating the centenary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth, political journalist Joseph Alsop, a member of the Roosevelt family, has created a startling and intimate memoir of one of the greatest presidents of this century." Illustrated. GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,DEMOCRATS,U.S. PRESIDENCY,U.S. PRESIDENTS,WHITE HOUSE,NEW DEAL,WORLD WAR II Book #5227 |
US$4.95 |
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Tom Doherty First Edition
1999 ISBN: 0312856024 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. For more than fifty years Jack Anderson has been seen as a crusader against corruption. His columns exposing fraud, waste, and abuse have shocked the world, and he has become one of the most respected reporters of all time. In Peace, War, and Politics, Anderson gives us a through-the-keyhole look at the personal side of many of our country's most controversial figures. Illustrated. U.S.HISTORY,WASHINGTON,GOVERNMENT,TWENTIETH CENTURY,AMERICAN SOCIETY,U.S. PRESIDENTS Book #3880, 3881 |
US$18.00 |
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American Heritage/Bonanza
1987 ISBN: 0517631679 Fine Tall (4to) Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a few small stains; in a clear protective cover. Richly illustrated. U.S. HISTORY,UNITED STATES Book #1796 |
US$22.50 |
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Barnes & Noble
1992 ISBN: 1566190436 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Living Lincoln is based on the famous nine-volume edition of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a work which has been called the cornerstone of any library of American history. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,CIVIL WAR,POLITICS Book #6800 |
US$14.00 |
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Castle 2007 ISBN: 0785821910 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Excitingly told and meticulously researched, Jeff Davis’s Own is an intriguing and colorful saga of the commanders who united to fight an enemy on its native ground, then divided again to fight each other across the battlefields of their own homeland. Illustrated. TEXAS,U.S.ARMY,CAVALRY,CIVIL WAR,COMANCHES,INDIANS,NATIVE AMERICANS Book #7733 |
US$15.00 |
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Viking Penguin First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0670889040 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Our twenty-eighth president was, says Louis Auchincloss, "the greatest idealist who ever occupied the White House." BIOGRAPHY,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,PRESIDENTS,TWENTIETH CENTURY,LEAGUE OF NATIONS,WORLD WAR I Book #6758 |
US$10.00 |
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Dodd,Mead First Edition
1982 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ price clipped-else As New; in a clear protective cover. A history of travel on America's rivers, the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal focusing on steamboats and the other types of boats used. Illustrated with photos, old prints and maps. STEAMBOATS,MARK TWAIN,MISSISSIPPI,OHIO RIVER,GREAT LAKES,ERIE CANAL,MARITIME,MARITIME DISASTERS,BOATS Book #2463,2788 |
US$18.50 |
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Reader's Digest First Edition
1977 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear, scuffs and tears; in a clear protective cover. "Here, in one superb volume, is the story of America's greatest adventure - the new country, the Indians, the people, the wars, the trails, and the great bonanzas of silver and gold." PIONEERS,AMERICAN INDIANS,COWBOYS,EXPLORATION Book #2200 |
US$14.50 |
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Crown Forum Third Printing
2004 ISBN: 1400053064 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A peculiar feature of our country today, says Michael Barone, is that we seem to produce incompetent eighteen-year-olds but remarkably competent thirty-year-olds. AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN CULTURE,SOCIAL HISTORY,SOCIAL VALUES Book #6513 |
US$12.00 |
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Oxford University Press First
Edition 2003 ISBN: 0195168267 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Robert H. Jackson was Attorney General, a Supreme Court Justice and the American Chief Prosecutor at the Nurnberg Trial. This is his newly discovered memoir of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written before Jackson's death in the early 1950s. Illustrated. FDR,GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION,AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,AMERICAN PRESIDENTS,SUPREME COURT JUSTICES Book #6295 |
US$16.75 |
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Vintage 1979 ISBN: 0394727940 New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "Columbus called them 'Indians' because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an ideological weapon in their subjugation." AMERICAN INDIANS,NATIVE AMERICANS,ABORIGINALS Book #4574 |
US$9.75 |
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Atlantic Monthly/Little,Brown
1986 ISBN: Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight wear of wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Catherine Drinker Bowen's classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents - the Constitution of the United States. AMERICAN REVOLUTION,CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,U.S.CONSTITUTION,FOUNDING FATHERS,THOMAS JEFFERSON,JOHN ADAMS,GEORGE WASHINGTON Book #3725 |
US$8.50 |
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Random House 1998
ISBN: 0375502025 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America - men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." WORLD WAR II,GREAT DEPRESSION,U. S. HISTORY,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #2880 |
US$14.00 |
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Simon & Schuster
1997 ISBN: 0684831422 New Unread Trade Paperback. Small, blue, bottom edge stain. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Challeging the modern perceptions of Washington as either a political figurehead of little actual importance or a folk legend rather than a real man, Brookhiser traces the president's amazing accomplishments as a statesman, soldier, and founder of a great nation in a quarter century of activity that remains unmatched by any modern leader. Brookhiser goes on to examine Washington's education, ideals, and intellectual curiosity, illuminating how Washington's character and values shaped the beginnings of American politics. COLONIAL AMERICA,AMERICAN COLONIES,U.S. HISTORY,AMERICAN REVOLUTION,REVOLUTIONARY WAR,U.S. PRESIDENCY,MOUNT VERNON Book #4627 |
US$11.75 |
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Harper & Row First
Edition 1966 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge and corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Illustrated. TWENTIETH CENTURY,U.S. HISTORY Book #1291 |
US$13.50 |
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Barnes & Noble
2000 ISBN: 076072296X Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The story of those who entered the New World through Ellis Island - in their own words. Illustrated. ELLIS ISLAND,IMMIGRANTS,EMIGRANTS,IMMIGRATION,EMIGRATION, TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #7270 |
US$12.00 |
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Penguin 1997 ISBN: 0140046941 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. The unbelievable true story of the Amistad - a nineteenth-century slave ship taken over by its captives. SLAVERY,SLAVES,SLAVE SHIPS,NINETEENTH CENTURY,JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,NAUTICAL Book #5455 |
US$8.95 |
