Search Results: Americana from Focloir

Americana gaag Grimes, Absalom, 1834-1912. Absalom Grimes, Confederate Mail Runner. Edited from Captain Grimes' Own Story by M. M. Quaife. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1926, xii, 216 pages, frontispiece, three plates. Good to very good copy. There is a small stain, smaller than a dime on top of pages 15 and 16, the stain has bled through, much lighter on to pages 13 and 14. Very interesting life. $20.00 Box 21

Americana 112rra Rose, Robert R. Advocates and Adversaries. The Early Life and Times of Robert R. Rose. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons, 1977, lxiii, 328 pages, illus, map, index. Top edge gilt, spine very, very minor rolling to spine, good, clean copy. $4.00 Box A 112

Americana gtat Gross, Theodore. Albion W. Tourgee. (Series: Twayne's United States Authors Series No. 39). New York: Twayne Publishers, 1963, 176 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good. $9.50 Box 21

Americana bryam Bensell, Royal A. All Quiet on the Yamhill: The Civil War in Oregon. The journal of Corporal Royal A. Bensell. Company D, Fourth California Infantry. Edited by Gunter Barth. Eugene: University of Oregon, 1959, xxi, 226p, folding map. Very good in dust jacket. The journal of Corporal Royal Bensell chronicles the story of a company of volunteers sent to Oregon to guard harmless Indians. Very scarce. $25.00 Box 4118

Americana nwat Nelson, William H. The American Tory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, 194p, index. Blind stamp on title page and exchange stamp on front free endpaper, tear in margin (about an inch) on one leaf, other than these defects a good, clean, tight copy in a decent dust jacket. $8.50 Box 2424

Americana cmac Carroll, Michael P. American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 219 pages, bib, index. Like new in dust jacket. $5.00 Box 2027

Russia zar Zabriskie, Edward Henry. American-Russian rivalry in the Far East, a study in diplomacy and power politics, 1895-1914. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946, vii, 226 p, bib, index, incl. front. (map). A good copy in dust jacket -the dust jacket is fair only but did its job in protecting the book. The pages edges have foxing, the page block is clean and tight with no marks noticed. There is also the signature of a previous owner on front free endpaper. $13.50 Box 818

Reference rasw Rosenbach, A. S. W. An American Jewish bibliography: Being a list of books and pamphlets by Jews, or relating to them, printed in the United States from the establishment of the press in the colonies until 1850. (Philadelphia):American Jewish Historical Society, 1926, xi, 486 pages, bib, illus, index. First Edition. This is a "special edition of The Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society Number 30". First edition (first printing). Good to very good copy, spine is faded. $25.00 Box 4A standard reference.

Americana kmma Kiefer, Monica Mary. American children through their books, 1700-1835. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948, 248p, bib, index, facsimiles. The top paper edge has spotting, the dust jacket is present but very tattered, overall, a good, clean tight copy. First edition. $5.00 Box A123

Americana 89bg45m McWilliams Jr, John P. The American Epic: Transforming A Genre, 1770-1860 (Series:
Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture). Cambridge University Press, 1989, x, 284 pages, notes, index. Hardcover, has some faint dust spotting on side and top paper edges, in good to very good condition else. Dust jacket is also in fine shape, which is further protected by mylar dust jacket. $6.50 Box A 98

Native Americans 001 Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. Artist Was A Young Man The Life Story Of Peter Rindisbacher.
Fort Worth Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1970, vi, 102 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Hardcover, very good to fine in like dust jacket. $8.50 Box A 71
This gifted Swiss immigrant artist chronicled many aspects of Native American life. Sadly, he died at the age of 28 in 1834.

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McIntyre, John Thomas, 1871-1951. Ashton-Kirk criminologist. Illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1919, 332p, illus. Good copy. One in the series featuring this popular detective. $10.00 Box 2022

Irish in America 007 Gibson, Florence Elizabeth. The Attitudes of the New York Irish toward State and National Affairs, 1848-1892. (Series: Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science. Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Number 563); New York:Columbia University Press,1951, 480 pages, notes, bib, index. A fine, bright copy in green cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Signature of previous owner from 1965 on front free endpaper. Would be difficult to find a better copy. $35.00

Americana 112bae Bestor, Arthur Eugene, Jr. Backwoods Utopias. The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663 – 1829. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950, xi, 288 pages, bib, index. A good copy of the hardcover, some of the signatures (gathering of pages) seem to have toned a little differently from the other signatures, at least on the edges. $6.50 Box A 112

Americana 88d Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. A Battle in Greece. Decorated by Valenti Angelo for the Peter Pauper Press. Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, 1936, 30 pages, illus. One of 425 copies. Fine copy of the book in a very good slipcase. $45.00 Box 70 II, 1
Colophon page states: "Four hundred and twenty five copies of this book have been set in Electra and printed on Archer paper at the Walpole Printing Office in Mount Vernon, New York. The text is reprinted from a copy of the newspaper, now in the possession of Mr. Harry Stone, in which the story made its original appearance." It was a great loss to American letters that such a talent died so young.

Civil War 111ecb An English Combatant.
Battle-Fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps. (Series: Collector's Library of the Civil War). New York: Time-Life Books, 1984, xxvii, 517 pages, illus, maps. Full black leather, all edges gilt as well as lettering on spine and front cover panel. The front lining paper, marbled paper, has collector bookplate, in Irish Gaelic in old type face. Fine copy. This is a photographic reprint of the 1864 New York edition. $8.50 Box A 111

Art 1357 (O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986). Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: the early years. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991, 399p, notes, bib, index. illus. Fine in dust jacket. $12.50 Box A 88
A beautifully produced book which examines the early years of the artist from 1915 to 1930.

Ireland 047 Talty, Stephan. Black Irish: a novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2013, 320p. Good copy in dust jacket. Signed by Talty on the title page. $20.00
Murder novel set in the working-class Irish American enclave of South Buffalo.

AH 1000 Nasatir, Abraham Phineas 1904- Borderland in retreat: from Spanish Louisiana to the far Southwest. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976, x, 175p, bib, index, maps. Very good in dust jacket. $8.50

American Lit 1000Hay, John, 1838-1905. The Bread-winners: a Social Study. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1884, 319p. Covers somewhat darkened, wear to edges, gift inscription from 1884 on title page, bookplate of collector on front lining paper. Good condition overall. The author was Lincoln's personal secretary and had a distinguished career in the public sector. This, his fourth book, and only novel, was written anonymously. It was first published in installments in The Century Magazine. It takes a decidedly anti-labor stance, apparently a reaction to bitter strikes that had plagued his various business interests in the 1870s and early 1880s. Hay never acknowledged writing the book, but he was widely suspected of being the author. It was only after his death that the true authorship of the book became common knowledge. BAL 7762. Wright 2608. $14.50