Category: History

The Boy Captive of Deerfield

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Deerfield, MA, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association : 1991

Seller ID: 4-4T003

ISBN-13: 9780961287658

Book and Dust jacket - As new - gift quality! "Originally published in 1904." The Deerfield massacre of 1704 as seen through the eyes of a 10 year old captive. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Old furniture: Understanding the craftsman's art

By: Smith, Nancy A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Seller ID: 9780672518942

ISBN-13: 9780672518942

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II

By: Snow, Richard

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Scribner

Seller ID: 9781416591108

ISBN-13: 9781416591108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him--what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign. In that global conflagration, only one battle--the struggle for the Atlantic--lasted from the very first hours of the conflict to its final day. Hitler knew that victory depended on controlling the sea-lanes where American food and fuel and weapons flowed to the Allies. At the start, U-boats patrolled a few miles off the eastern seaboard, savagely attacking scores of defenseless passenger ships and merchant vessels ...
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American Indian Art, Southeby's, New York, 20 May 09, (#N08554)

By: Sotheby's

Price: $24.95

Publisher: NY, Southeby's : 2009

Seller ID: 24M003

Binding: Oversize Paperback

As new - gift quality! Auction catalog of 159 illustrated pages with description and expected price rages of 226 items. 6.5" square (16.5xm) NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in store pickup
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Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite - Hong Kong November 1, 2004 -

By: Sotheby's

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Hong Kong, Sotheby's : 2004

Seller ID: 01Y011

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for light shelfwear to edged. Sale catalog . 252 pages of photos with description and expected price range of spectacular jewelry. 10.5x8.25" (26.7x21cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Promenades Asiatiques: Marques D'Empereurs - Paris - 18 December 2008 (#PF8017)

By: Sotheby's

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Paris, France, Sotheby's : 2008

Seller ID: 11Y024

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: FINE

As new - gift quality! Auction catalog. Commentaries on the collection (text in French & English), color photos with description (French), provenance, and expected price range (in euros and dollars) for each item. Sale # PF8017 "TING". Lots 1-12. 90 pages including Dynasty Chronology. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in store pickup
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The Thyssen Meissonnier Tureen, Sotheby's, New York, Wednesday May 13, 1998

By: Sotheby's

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NY, Sotheby's : 1998

Seller ID: 9DY004

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/Very Good DJ

As new except for rubbing to cover corners. DJ is intact but has faint scratches to glossy cover and wear to edges. Printed endpapers. Sale catalog for single item, tureen with platter. Full of historical background and full page photos for an item that sold for $5.7 million. 98+ page, hardbound with DJ, 12x9.75" (30.5x23.5cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

By: Spence, Jonathan D.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Penguin Books

Seller ID: 9780140080988

ISBN-13: 9780140080988

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary's remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created--four images derived from the events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circ...
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Japanese Art (World of Art)

By: Stanley-Baker, Joan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Seller ID: 9780500203262

ISBN-13: 9780500203262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences from Korea, China, the South Seas, Europe, and the Americas into distinct traditions of its own. Extensively revised, updated, and expanded since its first publication, this authoritative survey of the arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present brings together the results of the most recent research on the subject. Profusely illustrated with examples from all the arts painting, calligraphy, the decorative arts, and architectur...
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Did Monkeys Invent The Monkey Wrench

By: Staten, Vince

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Seller ID: 9780684832746

ISBN-13: 9780684832746

Binding: Trade Paperback

A historical and anecdotal tour of an American institution turns up details about the origins of common tools and gadgets, their past and present uses, and stories connected with them.
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Dinner With Churchill

By: Stelzer, Cita

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Pegasus Books

Seller ID: 9781605985299

ISBN-13: 9781605985299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents, and an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights, and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life.In this riveting, informative and entertaining book, Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diarie...
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Wicked Bugs

By: Stewart, Amy

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Seller ID: 9781565129603

ISBN-13: 9781565129603

Binding: Hardcover

In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes--creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world's most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the "bookworms" that devour libraries, to the Japanese beetles munching on your roses, Wicked Bugs delves into the extraordinary powers of six- and eight-legged creatures. With wit, style, and exacting research, Stewart has uncovered the ...
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

By: Stewart, Amy

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Seller ID: 9781565126831

ISBN-13: 9781565126831

Binding: Hardcover

A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations. It's an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. You'll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother). Menacing botan...
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Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (The Lamar Series in Western History)

By: Talayesva, Don C.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Yale University Press

Seller ID: 9780300002270

ISBN-13: 9780300002270

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The story of Don C. Talayesva, the Sun Chief, who was born and reared until the age of ten as a Hopi Indian, and then trained as a white man until he was twenty. Although torn between two worlds and cultures, he returned to Hopiland and readopted all the tribal customs. This is his autobiography, written for Leo Simmons, a white man who was a clan brother.
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Slave and Citizen: The Classic Comparative Study of Race Relations in the Americas

By: Tannenbaum, Frank

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Beacon Press

Seller ID: 9780807009130

ISBN-13: 9780807009130

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Originally published in 1947, Slave and Citizen is a classic in the field of comparative slave history and race relations.
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The Mayflower Quarterly, vol. 74 No. 4, December 2008: The Robinson Family

By: Teal, Alice C. (Ed.)

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Plymouth, MA, The General Society of Mayflower Descendants : 2008

Seller ID: 03T026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

As new except for faint curl to corner and mailing address on back cover.. Robinson Family article. Quarterly Index, Annual Report, Women of the Mayflower initiative. 414 illustrated pages, 8.5x5.5" ( 21.6x13.6cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I

By: Tuchman, Barbara W.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Presidio Press

Seller ID: 9780345476098

ISBN-13: 9780345476098

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable ...
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Connecticut's Seminary of Sedition: Yale College (Connecticut Bicentennial Series, VIII)

By: Tucker, Louis Leonard

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Chester, CT, Pequot Press : 1974

Seller ID: 5-0T018

ISBN: 871061481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VERY GOOD

Ex-library in library binding. As new except for the library markings from the Mark Twain Library in Redding CT. A Publication of The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut. Tan coated cloth covers with white inking on spine including library indexing information. "Seeks to assess the role of Yale College in the American Revolution.". 78 annotated pages with a few illustrations. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Conquered, Not Defeated: Growing Up in Denmark During the German Occupation of World War II

By: Tveskov, Peter H.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Hellgate Press

Seller ID: 9781555716387

ISBN-13: 9781555716387

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Yearbook of Agriculture 1931

By: United States Department of Agriculture

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Washington DC, United States Government Printing Office : 1931

Seller ID: 9-0H005

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

READING COPY 5th volume in the series. Opening essay on "The Drought of 1930". Pages 3-6 have separated from binding, but are present. Pages yellowed, mostly along edges. Has some foxing to pages. Flyleafs very tanned. green cloth exteriors. No dustjacket. Chip in spine in the word "agriculture". 1113 pages. 6x9x2" Includes vital agricultural statistics from 1930, when severe drought hit much of the US Great Plains in late summer. It was late enough in season to cause losses, but not yet catastrophic losses. Much of the book is concerned with relatively normal agricultural statistics and conce...
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