Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976. Hardcover. ix, [1], 301 p.: tables; 22 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Dust jacket. "For good or ill, the Philadelphia Quakers found themselves caught up in the burning political and moral issues of the industrial age." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very..... More
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Library, 1962. Hardcover. xii, 74 p., [8] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; decorated paper over boards. Original glassine dust jacket. Grey endpapers. Contains 6 essays reprinted from The Princeton University Library Chronicle, with a foreword by William S...... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xii, [2], 334 p.: illustrations, music; 24 cm. Beige cloth spine with red stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by John William Costa. "Edward A. Berlin's King of Ragtime redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Author of the widely acclaimed Ragtime: A Musical..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. [2], xiv, 314, [2] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Beige cover with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. Stated First Edition. Callie House (1861-1928), born into slavery, sought reparations for African-Americans for their time as slaves. She founded the..... More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988. Paperback. First Midland Book Edition. ix, [3], 147, [1] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series Everywoman: Studies in History, Literature, and Culture. The author examines the history of attempts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the context of previous successful amendments..... More
Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Title continued: "To Which are added Statistics of the Principal Manufacturing Centres, and Descriptions of Remarkable Manufactories at the Present Time." Imprint includes London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. Vol. 2 only. [2], 11-826 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece: portraits, tables; 24 cm. Rebacked with..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. 261 p., frontispiece; 29 cm. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-ruled border on both boards. Bulletin 26, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, J.W. Powell, director. Contains the texts and translations of 17 myths and 16 tales collected in 1890 and..... More
Albany, N.Y. G.J. Loomis & Co., 1819. Hardcover. 300 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary tree calf; gilt-tooled spine title "Bradley on Revivals" and decoration. Early American Imprints, ser. 2 (Shaw & Shoemaker), 47417. The author, Joshua Bradley (1799-1855), was ordained in 1801; he served as the the minister of the First..... More
Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Paperback. xviii, 322 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. The author looks at mass media and the women's movement in the United States from the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to the tennis match between Billie Jean King..... More
Rutherford, N.J. Associated University Presses; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 266 p.: illustrations, tables; 29 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. A "comprehensive survey of all the known potteries in central and southern New Jersey" from the 17th to the 19th centuries -- dust jacket..... More
Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1866. Hardcover. 512, [2] p., double frontispiece and 32 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Modern binding in bonded leather with gilt-tooled spine label. Original marbled endpapers with modern hinge repair. Advertisement by the National Publishing Co. on page following text for agents to sell the company's..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. Hardcover. Imprint also includes Applegate & Co., Cincinnati. 458, [8] p.: frontispiece portrait and 12 additional leaves of plates; 19 cm. Publisher's dark green wave-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Parson Brownlow's book." Blind-ruled borders on both boards. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author engraved..... More
Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2003. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A well-illustrated look at the Palazzo Margherita, which has been the site of the American Embassy to Italy for over 60 years. The Introduction is by the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Mel Sembler, who..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866. Hardcover. x, [1], 10-296, 3-8 p.; 24 cm. Publisher's dark green pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Buchanan's Administration." Blind-ruled border on each board. Pale yellow endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on 6 pages following text. In pencil on front free endpaper: Patterson. Bookplate on..... More
Norristown, Pa. E.L. Acker, 1859. Hardcover. "with an account of the Indians, the Swedes, and other early settlers, and the local events of the Revolution; besides notices of the Progress in Population, Improvements, and Manufactures; prepared chiefly from original materials." 124, iii, [1] p.; 25 cm. Original dark brown bead-grain..... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1986. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 258 p.: tables; 24 cm. Grey cloth with blue spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the Douglass Series on Women's Lives and the Meaning of Gender. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near..... More
Allentown, Pa. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1955. Hardcover. [8], 178, [2] p., 1 leaf with a portrait: in-text and full-page illustrations, map; 23 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine and cover titles, and red cover illustration. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Contents: Henry Meyer..... More
Washington, D.C. Society for American Archaeology, 1959. Paperback. 229-318 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Light brown paper cover, stapled. The author, Douglas S. Byers (1903-1978), was director of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology from 1938 to 1968. In this paper he discusses the remains of Archaic cultures in the..... More
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Philadelphia: James B. Longacre, 1839. Paperback. 19, [1] p.; 22 cm. Without the portrait of the subject. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "9" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. This is from vol. 4 of The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. The biographical..... More
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Hardcover. 167, [1], 6 p.: frontispiece and 17 full-page illustrations included in pagination, and many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; dark green and gilt-stamped cover illustration. Blind-rolled border on back board with blind-stamped publisher's emblem in center..... More
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
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 322 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Blue cloth spine with silver spine title; black paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Contributors: William M. Gardner, James Oliver Horton, Margaret H. McAleer, Lois E. Horton, Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Mona E. Dingle, Hasia..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. White, Geo. G. Hardcover. Illustrated by Geo. G. White. [4], 456 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Brown cloth gilt, black, and grey spine title and illustration; black and grey cover title and illustration. Black endpapers. Castlemon's War Series--at..... More
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