Washington, D.C. Gales & Seaton, 1822. Paperback. "April 5, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives." 7, [1] p.; 23 cm. Disbound from a volume containing pamphlets relating to government land offices. At head of title: [106]. Last page blank. Shoemaker, 10973. The letter from John Caldwell Calhoun... More about Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Honorable D.P. Cook, upon the subject of the Examination...

Philadelphia, Pa. William W. Woodward, 1797. Paperback. This is the last section of Volume 3, only; text begins with p. 673. (Volume 3 is paginated continuously with volume 2 and begins with page 367.) [4], 673-787, [13] p.; 23 cm. In original plain grey paper wrappers with "Carpenters' Debates" in... More about The American Senator, or A Copious and Impartial Report of the Debates in the Congress of the...

Philadelphia: American Philosphical Society, 1987. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 414 p.: frontispiece; 26 cm. Beige cloth with red spine title. Plain red dust jacket with black spine and cover titles. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 66S. Contents include: Introduction: Assembling the collections, 1743-1985 -- Part I: Manuscript collections, manuscript... More about A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

New York: Ballantine Books, 1959. Paperback. 191, [1] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "In this fascinating book, a prominent psychollgist reports eleven carefully-researched cases when rumor and fear clouded men's minds, and thousands of Americans found themselves swept up in the madness of the crowd." In Very Good... More about Rumor, Fear and the Madness of Crowds

New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1929. Paperback. "First published December, 1929." 188, [2] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with continuous cover design by Rockwell Kent; illustrated endpapers also designed by Kent. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page. This title was the fifth in... More about Prosperity: Fact or Myth

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Paperback. ix, [3], 256 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Constructing and Challenging Myths -- Media Spectables and the Production of Neoliberal Citizen-Subjects. Includes bibliography and index. In Very Good Condition: small scrape at tail of spine; highlighter on one page; otherwise, clean and tight. More about The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

Milwaukee, Wisc. Kalmbach Publishing, 1945. Paperback. Title continued: "together with a Complete Railway Map; Also many principal steamboat and stage lines running in connection with railroads; Charles Cobb, compiler." 160 p., large folded map attached to inside back wrapper: tables, illustrated advertisements; 13 cm. Grey wrappers printed in black. Facsimile... More about Facsimile] American Railway Guide, and Pocket Companion, for the United States; containing...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Paperback. xviii526 p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight. More about Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1985. Hardcover. X, 452, [2] p., 9 leaves of photographs: in-text tables, charts; 25 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. White dust jacket with front cover illustration. The proceedings of the conference Le Società in Transizione, held at the Balch Institute for... More about Atti del Convegno Le Società in Transizione: Italiani e Italoamericani negli Anni Ottanta--Balch...

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. Hardcover. Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. xiv, [1], 86 p.: color frontispiece, 16 black-and-white plates (several folded); 26 cm. Calf spine with blue paper over boards. Printed paper labels on spine and front board. Upper page edges gilt. Lacking dust jacket... More about Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe by Charles Over Cornelius; measured detail drawings by...

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Hardcover. xviii, 411 p.: 42 leaves of plates (1 in color): plan, illustrations, many in-text drawings; 23 cm. Full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled red label in second compartment and black label in fourth. Blind-rolled border on boards. This is... More about Report of the United States Commission to the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid 1892-93;...

Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978. Paperback. Third printing. vii, [1], 16 p.: music; 16 x 22 cm. Paper covers printed with a cover title on a beige rectangle within a decorative border, on a faux green marbled background. Originally for violin; here set for piano or harpsichord by J.S.... More about A Little Keyboard Book: Eight Tunes of Colonial Virginia

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 about The Seventh Census of the United States: 1850; Embracing a Statistical View of Each of the States...