New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paperback. [24], 500, [16] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between..... More
Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1977. Paperback. xxii, [2], 754: illustration; p.21 cm. Paperback. "From the Emergence of the N.A.A.C.P. to the Beginning of the New Deal" -- front cover. Contains 154 documents by authors from Booker T. Washington to Francis J. Grimke, and from W.E.B. Du Bois to C. Ruth..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Hardcover. 256 p.: illustrations; 31 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt spine title; blind-stamped title on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Appendices contain lists of orchestra members; world and U.S. premieres; discography and filmography; presidents or chairmen of the board of directors, volunteer commitees, and..... More
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Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884. Hardcover. 274 p.; 26 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; bevelled board edges. Top page edges gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Program from a lecture at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on Jan. 12, 1920, tipped on to front free endpaper. The lecture was..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 316, 20 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary black morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled spine decoration. Black cloth over boards. All page edges marbled. Part of the series Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States. Added engraved..... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1914. Hardcover. ix, [3], 327, [3] p., tissue-guarded frontispiece and 22 leaves of illustrations; 22 cm. Green cloth with black spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. List of other works by the author. Bookseller's label on front free endpaper: "Chas..... More
Harrisburg: Aurand Press, 1940. Paperback. Ninth printing. 24 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Stapled grey wrapper printed in black; front wrapper illustration. Back wrapper contains list of books and pamphlets by the author. Wrapper title. "Historical" is misspelled on title page as "Historial." Former owner's name at head of front wrapper..... More
Boston: Rowe and Hooper, 1816. Hardcover. Title continued: "who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 408-417, [3] p., 2 leaves of engraved plates (containing 7 illustrations); 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article by Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was read before the Society on April 2, 1836. Bache was the great-grandson of Benjamin..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1963. Paperback. 31, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback, stapled; orange cover printed with a map of the city of Philadelphia in white and cover title in black. The executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission was Edmund N. Bacon. Illustrations include: a chart..... More
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1964. Hardcover. 228 p.; 21 cm. Light blue-grey cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket in lined cover. Southern Historical Publications #2. "A biography of alabama's first Senator, this book is also the fascinating story of southern frontier life as portrayed in contemporary letters..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1891. Hardcover. xv, [1], 243 p., frontispiece portrait, 2 folded leaves of maps; 25 cm. Dark green cloth with printed paper spine label. Blue bookplate of Waterloo Library and Historical Society, Waterloo, N.Y., on front fixed endpaper. Thomas Balch (1821-1877) used unpublished records he found in..... More
Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. Hard Cover. 2 volumes: each with a frontispiece and an added engraved title page; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; black spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title Life of Washington. Title page of vol. 1 is dated..... More
New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co., 1900. Paperback. 8, [1], 686-880, 9-12 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Paperback. Contents include: Cabinet Government or Departmentalism? by J. A. R. Marriott -- The Lake-Dwellers by the Rev. Dr. Jessopp -- Extravagance in Dress by Lady Guendolen Ramsden -- Voice Culture by Mrs..... More
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1926. Paperback. 233 p., frontispiece: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Brown paper cover; cover tilte in dark brown. "Art Handbook of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art" -- at head of title page. Former owner's name at upper edge of front..... More
New Haven, Conn. J.W. Barber, 1832. Hardcover. Although the title page gives 1831 as the date of publication, this edition includes material added in 1832. 120 p.: hand-colored frontispiece map and 7 leaves of hand-colored plates; 19 cm. Modern calf with gilt-tooled spine and cover titles; yellow endpapers. Includes in-text..... More
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. xviii, 233, [3] p.: tables; 24 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Jesse Jackson was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 (the second African American, after Shirley Chisholm, to run a national..... More
London / New York: George Virtue, 1856. Hardcover. 3 volumes: vol. 1: 576 p., frontispiece, engraved title page, 1 hand-colored map (folded), 1 facsimile (folded), 19 additional leaves of plates; vol. 2: 577-698, 448 p., 24 leaves of plates; vol. 3: 449-720, 304 p., 20 leaves of plates; 26 cm..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Paperback. xvi, 334 p.: illustrations, tables, maps; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of the Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. The author examines "the impact of race on the physical and institutional development" of Atlanta "from the end of..... More
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1987. Hardcover. 176 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt spine title. Maroon endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Contains essays by David J. Rothman, Kenneth L. Kusmer, Marsha A. Martin, Lisa N. Peters, Kenneth T. Jackson, Elizabeth Wickenden, Kim Hopper, Rick..... More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 185, [3] p.: tables; 21 cm. Dark grey cloth with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Contributions in Women's Studies, number 68. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1965. Paperback. xxx, 98 p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. On Nov. 7, 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy (1802-1837), Presbyterian minister and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the Alton Observer, was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois. This account of the..... More
Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, 2006. Hardcover. xvi, 312 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. The first history of the animal rights movement, from the American Anti-Vivisection Society to the Society for the Prevention of..... More
Philadelphia: Diane L. Beers, 1998. Hardcover. vi, 503 leaves; 29 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt spine title. A social history of animal advocacy "enhances not only our understanding of the movement itself, but also the socio-economic and cultural changes accompanying the shift from an industrial to a post-industrial order."..... More
Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1875. Hardcover. 81 p., 12 leaves of illustrations (1 folded), 1 double leaf of a map (folded): color maps (some double-page), plans; 41 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped cover title: Atlas of Lebanon County Penn. blind-stamped title on back cover. Stamp of former owner on both..... More