New Brighton, NY: Standard Press, 1896. Paperback. [56] p.; 23 cm. Green wrapper printed in black. Lacking map. Includes Native American names for locations on Staten Island in addition to many English-language names that were disappearing from use by the 1890s. Very scarce. In Good Condition: front wrapper is detached..... More
Washington, D.C. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Hardcover. "With an introduction, embracing the aggregate tables for the United States compared with every previous census since 1790 -- schedules and laws of Congress relating to the census in the same period -- ratio tables of increase and decrease of cities and..... More
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1990. Hardcover. 264 p.; 22 cm. Black and white cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The author shows shy "American fantasies about social class . . . have brought our political institutions to a standstill in the face of contemporary..... More
Oxford, Eng. Oxford University Press, 2000. Paperback. xi, [1], 387 p.: maps, illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "This pioneering new book is the first to analyze women's role in shaping the modern city." -- back cover. In Very Good- Condition: former owner's name on first blank page; occasional..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Musical Americana, 1958. Soft Cover. 12 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Stapled. Includes a description of Dichter's facsimile publication One Hundred Greats in Early American Sheet Music; A Great Stephen Foster Year by Fletcher Hodges, Jr.; Tin-Pan Alley's Sherlock Holmes [about Alex M. Kramer] by Robert w. Minton; and..... More
Brooklyn, N.Y. Charles Andrew Ditmas, 1909. Hardcover. 100 p.; 21 handcolored illustrations, tipped in; 32 cm. Dark blue silk with orange stamped cover title. Top page edges gilt. Orange endpapers. "First Edition Limited to Five Hundred Signed and Numbered Copies, and Illustrated by Twenty Hand-colored Gelatine Photo-gravures and One Cover..... More
Washington, D.C. Blair and Rives, 1846. Pamphlet. 16 p.; 22 cm. Disbound. John Adams Dix (1798-1879) was a U.S. Senator for New York state from 1845 to 1849. He played an important role in preventing Maryland from seceding at the beginning of the Civil War. After the war he served..... More
New York: Livermore & Rudd, 1856. McLenan, John. Hardcover. 264, [10] p.: frontispiece, many in-text illustrations; 19 cm. Publisher's black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and illustration; blind-stamped pattern on both boards. Blue endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on 10 unpaginated pages following text. Q.K. Philander Doesticks was the pen name used..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Hardcover. 5th prinintg, March 1979. x, 403, [1] p.: tables; 24 cm. Blue cloth spine with gilt spine title; white paper over boards. Top page edges blue. Illustrated dust jacket. Stamped on front free endpaper: "St. Mary's General Hospital," Lewiston, Maine. The author "explores..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Paperback. xiii, [1], 413, [2] p.: illustration; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "The horrifying story of men, women, and children detained indefinitely by U. S. immigration officials." In Fine Condition: clean and tight. More
Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1993. Hardcover. xii, 486 p.; 23 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Part of the publisher's series Reference Guides to State History and Research. Contents: Indian Pennsylvania by Daniel K. Richter -- Early Settlement and Peacetime Politics, 1680-1750 by Marianne S. Wokeck --..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Paperback. Modern Library Paperback Edition. 12, [2], 528, [2] p., 8 unpaginated p. of illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback. "This extraordinary account of lynching in America . . . shines a clear, bright light on American history's darkest stain . . . [and] tells the..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Jane Aitken, 1811. Paperback. [2], 125, [1] p.; 21 cm. Disbound from a nonce volume. Former owner's name at head of title page: Jennie W. Baird. Early American Imprints, 2nd series (Shaw & Shoemaker), 22727. Howes, D-516. The author, William J. Duane (1780-1865), was a Philadelphia lawyer who..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Ormrod & Conrad, 1795. Paperback. 34 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: [A]4 B-D4 E2( -E2) (8vo). Disbound from a nonce volume. Early American Imprints, 1st series (Evans), 28594. The author, the Rev. William Duke (1757-1840), was an Episcopal minister and teacher in Maryland. When this work was published he..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1950. Hardcover. "First printing." [8], 274 p.; 22 cm. Black cloth with red spine and cover titles. Dust jacket. Inscription on front free endpaper: "The Americanism Award for 1950 Dale E. Owens in recognition of outstanding citizenship." Printed bookplate of Dale E. Owens on front fixed endpaper..... More
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995. Paperback. Second edition. viii, [2], 236 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. "In this new edition of his acclaimed study, John Dumbrell looks at Carter's years in the White House from a post-cold War perspective. He argues that Carter was neither incompetent nor lacking..... More
Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1981. Hardcover. [4], 119 p.; 29 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Facsimiles on endpapers. First published in 1961. A bibliography of literature written and circulated by those active in the antislavery movement in the United States, including British literature that was widely circulated in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. Based on a documentary film by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan. Stated First Edition. xix, [1], 248, [2] p.: illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Maroon cover with gilt spine title. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Hardcover. [8], 192 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Brown cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Ovie Carter. The author, sociologist Mitchell Duneier, based this book on time spent over four years at a cafeteria on the south side..... More
Westport, Conn. Praeger, 1997. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 233, [1] p.: portrait; 24 cm. Dark blue and white cover with white spine title. Red, white, and blue dust jacket. In 1971, "a Congressional Committee, supported by the Nixon White House, sought to establish control over broadcast news by investigating editorial news..... More
Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1918. Hardcover. 3 volumes: xiv, 391 p., 60 leaves of plates; xi, 403 p., 44 leaves of plates; xi, 417 p., 70 leaves of plates: frontispieces, many portraits; 24 cm. Very dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles. Top page edges gilt. Oval stamp on..... More
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Hardcover. xi, [1], 228 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Pennsylvania's Colonial Records Series is a 16-volume set containing the minutes of Pennsylvania's governing bodies up to 1790: Provincial Council 1682-1775; Committee of Safety 1775-1776; Council of Safety 1776-1777; and..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. Paperback. First American Editon. A Delta Book. 280 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A "perceptive combination of nostalgia, social history and film criticism." -- back cover. In Good+ Condition: cover is rubbed; spine slightly creased; publication information written on first (blank)..... More
Colorado Springs, CO: Center Peace Publishers, 1982. Paperback. Revised and Expanded Edition. [16], 104 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Includes the poem Cain's Children by Peter J. Ediger, and a directory of War Tax Resistance counselors, centers, and alternative funds as of 1981. In Very Good Condition: faint red stain..... More
Hartford, Conn. Hudson and Goodwin, 1800. Paperback. 16 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: [A]4 B4 (8vo). Woodcut title vignette. Disbound from a nonce volume. Evans, 37337. The author, Warren Dutton (1774-1857), was a lawyer from Connecticut who also served in the state legislature. This poem was his Master's oration at his..... More