West Chester, Pa. printed for the author, by S. Siegfried, 1837. Hardcover. "For Sale by Kimber and Sharpless, Philadelphia." xxiii, [1], 640 p., frontispiece (engraved, hand-colored map of Chester County); 20 cm. Contemporary tree calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on leather label in second... More about Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumberate and Describe the Flowering and Filicoid Plants of...

Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1987. Paperback. 167 p.: tables; 23 cm. Paperback. First Edition. Gift inscription by the author on the half title page, in German. In Very Good Condition: front cover and first two leaves creased; clean and tight. More about Der Aufstieg des ersten Britischen Weltreiches: England und seine nordamrikanischen Kolonien...

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Paperback. First Paperback Printing. xviii, 319 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. Former owner's name on preliminary blank leaf. In Very Good Condition: front cover slightly creased; two page corners creased; a few marginal marks; otherwise, clean and tight. More about Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America

Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1818. Hardcover. 2 volumes: [8], 251, [1] p.; [3], 6-234 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled volume numbers in 4th compartment. Remains of old hand-written paper labels at head of each spine. Each volume contains an... More about Compendium Florae Philadelphicae: Containing a Description of the Indigenous and Naturalized...

New York: Dell, 1971. Paperback. First Dell printing Oct. 1971. [8], 215, [1] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Page edges green. Cover title: Slaughter-house Five. First paperback printing of Vonnegut's anti-war novel, following Billy Pilgrim through World War II. In Near Fine Condition: spine slightly faded; page edges browning; clean and tight. More about Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

New York: St. Martin's, 1992. Paperback. St. Martin's Paperback edition Nov. 1992. [10], 292, [2] p., [8] p. of photographs; 17 cm. Paperback with illustrated and embossed cover. In Good Condition: slightly cocked; occasional ink underlining; a few page corners creased; otherwise, clean and tight. More about Marianne Williamson: Her Life Her Message Her Miracles

London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. Hardcover. Revised Edition. vii, [1], 504 p.; 19 cm. Half polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled dark green leather labels in second and third compartments. Gilt-tooled spine title: Homer's Iliad. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on raised bands. Dark green... More about The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Amdrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers [bound...

Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 322 p.: illustrations, tables, maps; 24 cm. Dark blue cloth with copper spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Louise M. Jones. Brown endpapers. Book is in Condition: Near Fine Condition: former owner's name on front free endpaper; one... More about The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South...

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Hardcover. Second printing. viii, [2], 277 p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine title and publisher's emblem on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Rosemarie Wierima. Includes index. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly faded along upper edge; former owner's name... More about The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Hardcover. [10], 325 p.; 21 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and blind-stamped illustration of the Supreme Court on the front cover. No dust jacket. The authors of this examination of the Supreme Court of the 1930s were Washington, D.C., journalists who... More about The Nine Old Men by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Paperback. xii, 648 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Includes index. The author, American historian Peter Novick (1934-2012), was Professor of History at the University of Chicago. In this work he examines the the idea of objectivity in the study of 20th-century history, tracing the concept of... More about That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

Upper Saddle River, N.J. Pearson Education, 2009. Paperback. Third Edition. xxv, [1], 3-637, [1], E2, G10, B30, C4, I32, [4] p.: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. With 2 cds inside back cover (Exploring African-American History). In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; cover is not lying flat; clean and tight. More about African Americans: A Concise History; Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, Stanley Harrold

Washington, D.C. Common Cause, 1983. Paperback. 48 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Stapled paperback. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight. More about The Watergate Reforms: Ten Years Later