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Port Washington, NY: Ira J. Friedman., 1963. 432pp, index, bw ills, maps. Brown cloth, no jacket. Ex-National Library of Australia with several stamps/blindstamps, small rectangle cut from rear free endpaper. New York before 1800.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Ex-Library.

New York: Scribner, 2010. viii, 468pp, index, sources, notes, bw ills. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket, prev owner bookplate on front pastdown. Explores the prohibition era from 1920-1933 when the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution restricted the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. xii, 196pp, index, notes, num bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers. A celebration of a distinctly American form of commercial architecture focussing on the architectural achievements of the Kress Company which supported an architectural division of more than 100 architects and draftsmen. They designed over 200 stores between… Read more about this item

New York: Arno Press, 1969. 592pp, bw ills. Cloth boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Originally published in 1891. Significant documents in the history of political violence evoking the emotional and political context in which territorial conquest took place in the American West.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Bonanza, 1968. HEAVY. 585pp, index, num bw ills. Cloth backed boards in jacket. Moderate edgewear to jacket, offset toning to endpapers, minor foxing. American colonial furniture, utensils and hardware.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd, 1875. xiv, 319, [16]pp, frontis, map. Green cloth titled in gilt to spine, decorated in black and blind. Minor foxing, mainly to edges and prelims, very small faint stain to fore-edge of frontis and title page. One of the preliminary gatherings unopened. A lovely fresh copy of this 19th century account of a trek through… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii, 239pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills. or boards in jacket. Prev owners name on front free endpaper. When Barbary pirates captured a Yankee brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President Madison tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. These efforts having failed he sent the… Read more about this item

New York: Three Rivers Press., 2009. xii, 419pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Pictorial card. Minor edge wear to cover, sticker remnant to front, light even toning to page edges. The midcentury struggle between the LAPD and gangsters for the control of LA.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xi, 285pp, index, notes, appendix, tables, map. Green cloth in jacket. Tiny spot on front free endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2005. xii, 188pp, index, contributors, references, col ills, map. Pictorial card. Near new. SIGNED by Richard Halsey and 3 other contributors on title page. . Signed by Author & 3 Others. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

El Cajon, Ca.: Eldonna P. Lay & Associates, 1987. ix, 157pp, bibliography, num sepia ills, feww col ills, pioneer businesses on front endpapers/1987 businesses on rear endpapers. Maroon faux(?) leather with onlaid scenic vignette, titled in gilt. Limited edition of unspecified limitation of which this #206. Light foxing to prelims, slightly musty, prev owner details at top of front pastedown.… Read more about this item

New York: Indian Head Books, 1991. 322pp. Black papered boards with brown cloth spine in jacket. As new. Originally published in 1868 this book indicates the attitudes of the time and gives an insight into the life and treatment of the Apache Nation. Includes chapters on Mexican treatment of the Apaches, Apache language, religious ceremonies, raids, wars and much more..… Read more about this item

Boston: Wright & Potetr (printers), 1896. xii, 495pp + 100pp appendices, index, bw & col ills. Black cloth, no jacket. Ex-museum library with their stamps etc (inc Cancelled stamps), bookplate inside front cover, short tears to margins of some appendix pages, light even toning to page edges. Late 19th century entomology dealing with the Gypsy moth, a pest introduced from… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1881. HEAVY. title continues: Daring Exploits; Wonderful Escapes; Life in Camp; Fiel;d and Hospital; Adventures of Blockade Life etc. containing Carefully Prepared Biographies of the Leading Generals and Naval Commanders. iv, 976pp, index, num steel engravings. Pictorial cloth. Cloth rubbed and dulled, corners worn, front hinge tender, page edges evenly toned. Extensive accounts of the American… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton, 1982. HEAVY. x, 842pp, index, notes, bw ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket. Traces 300 years of the political, artistic, physical and social evolution of the city of Philadelphia in the first comprehensive history in over 75 years.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Rutland, Vt: Charles E Tuttle Co, 1971. title continues: and customs of several of the Indian Nations of North and South America.HEAVY. xxiv, 602pp, Algonquin vocabulary, folding plates, folding map. Red cloth in jacket. Generally light edge wear to jacket BUT there is a 14cm strip holed along the rear flap fold by silverfish with a couple of tiny depredations… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014. 322pp. Green boards in jacket. Near new. SIGNED and inscribed (To Toni) by author on title page. John Waters, best known for his cult films (and later more mainstream films such as Hairspray), as well as movie and TV acting, hitchhikes across America.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

Brisbane: ABC Books, 2001. ix, 242pp, sources, loosely inserted news clipping. Or card covers. Near new. From the rear cover, 'For two days in November 1942, Brisbane became a war zone. A year earlier the US soldiers had been warmly welcomed but as thousands more Americans flooded into the city, brawls broke out. The culmination was the Battle of Brisbane… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset / Putnam, 1996. 373pp, index, epilogue, bibliographic notes, bw ills. Brown papered boards, in jacket. Top edge dusted, 2 small dark spots on fore-edge. A town of middle-class, hard-working black men and women Rosewood, Florida was the scene, more than seventy years ago of a horrific atrocity. Attacked by rampaging whites in the winter of 1923, the… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Starwood Publishing, 1992. 160pp, index, bibliography, num col & bw ills. Green cloth in jacket with place marker ribbon. Library of Congress Classics label to front. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.