Category: History

Yearbook of Agriculture 1935

By: United States Department of Agriculture

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Washington DC, United States Government Printing Office : 1935

Seller ID: 9-0H004

Condition: GOOD

READING COPY Stamp inside front cover "From Wm. M. Citron, Member of Congress At-Large, Conn. End paper cracked and stitching showing at "Foreword page. Foxing to endpapers.. Printed on two different grade of paper( Some pages light brown on the outside edges; other parts appear the normal color) Has some foxing to pages. Green cloth with black lettering. No dustjacket(as issued). 762 indexed pages. 6x9x1.3" Includes vital agricultural statistics from 1934 as well as an extensive presentation on the extended drought and its effects on agricultural production. Includes detailed information on...
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Earth in Upheaval

By: Velikovsky, Immanuel

Price: $7.95

Publisher: NY, Laurel (#2203) / Dell : 1968

Seller ID: 89P011

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

Tight, faint age tanning of pages, clean interior, light soil to exterior, square. Slight shelfwear to edges and light cover creases. "documentation of global catastrophes in prehistorical and in historical times - the clear, unequivocal testimony of bones and stones. significantly, this evidence from the natural sciences indicates that these great disturbances which rocked our globe were caused by forces outside the earth itself..." 288 indexed pages.
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Her Gold and Her Body

By: Verghese, Jamila

Price: $16.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Vikas : 1980

Seller ID: 7-5H018

ISBN-13: 9780706909319

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD

Tight, bright, clean and square. Age tanning of pages and light age soil to exterior page edges. Unclipped dust jacket spine is slightly faded and worn at top and a crease across the center of the front cover. "a bold and vividly documented examination of the tyranny of this tradition (dowry in India) and an imaginative attempt at shaking society into a consciousness of the continuing evils of this system..." 228 annotated pages
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Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious

By: Washington, George

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, Library

Seller ID: 9780931917165

ISBN-13: 9780931917165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Key to the Constitution of the United States

By: Watson, Henry B. (John B. Minnick(Revised and edited)

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Rockville, MD, Patriotic Education Incorporated : 1998

Seller ID: 4-4T006

ISBN-13: 9780912530208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

Faintest signs of shelfwear to exterior. Text of Constitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments through 1992 (layout has original text with modern language quick reference notes in red in margin), Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Washington's Farewell Address. Historical background and commentaries. 66 staple-bound pages. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (Pivotal Moments in American History)

By: West, Elliott

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Seller ID: 9780195136753

ISBN-13: 9780195136753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom. To tell the story, West begins with the early history of the Nez Perce and their years of friendly relations with white settlers. In an initial treaty, the Nez Perce were promised a large part of their ancestral homeland, but the discovery of gold ...
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The Great Pathfinder: The Story of Jedediah Smith

By: Weston, May Forth (Louis Lundean, illus.)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: NY, Robert M. McBride & Company : 1944

Seller ID: 0-5T004

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

Solid READING COPY. No dust jacket. Tight, light age soil to tan cloth covers, clean text with a bunch of folded corners, binding tight and square.212 pages. 5.75x8.3x1". "Jedediah Smith, was an American clerk, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the North American West, and the Southwest during the early 19th century." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Colonial Days & Dames

By: Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (E.S.Holloway, illus.)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company; De Luxe Limited edition (January 1, 1894)

Seller ID: B23-T012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD+

Hardcover over 125 years old. Tight, bright, unmarked pages, slight tilt to spine. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations, and gilt top edge. Exterior is faded and lightly age soiled with clear titles and trim. 248 pages, (Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott, 1895) "By talking with men and women who lived in the first quarter of this century (1800-1825), we not only learn how our great cities appeared before the advent of the railroad, the steamboat, and the telegraph, but, also reaching back through their family tradition, are placed in touch with the scenes of the Revo...
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New York State Yesterday and Today

By: Wheeler, Mary A.

Price: $42.95

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1949

Seller ID: 4-9T010

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD- / No dj

Tight, faintest of age toning of pages, clean interior, light age soil to exterior, square. Black cloth with orange lettering. Frayed spine ends with 1/2" rip to cloth at top of back hinge. Cover corners worn through to boards. No dust jacket. A History of New York State from the Indians who lived there to the 1946 authorization of funds to build the U.N. Headquarters in Manhattan. 444 indexed pages,129 illustrations and Bibliography. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History

By: White, J. E. Manchip

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Dover Publications

Seller ID: 9780486225487

ISBN-13: 9780486225487

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

For 30 centuries, before Greece's glory or Rome's grandeur came into being, mankind played out a drama along the banks of the Nile which for sheer splendor, mighty works, and significance to civilization, is unique. The lure of Egyptology is as old as the Pyramids themselves; what is new is the modern work done in the field. Few books make so up-to-date and thorough a survey of what is known, in a form suited for the general reader, as this fine work, first published as recently as 1952, and now with a new Introduction for this edition by the author.Central to all facts about ancient Egypt is ...
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Ohio Tales of the Titanic: The Buckeye State's Fascinating Connections to the World's Most Famous Shipwreck

By: White, Janet A.,Whitley, Mary Ann

Price: $10.00

Publisher: W & W Publishing

Seller ID: 9780578101538

ISBN-13: 9780578101538

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Siegfried: The Nazis' Last Stand

By: Whiting, Charles

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Jove

Seller ID: 9780515073935

ISBN-13: 9780515073935

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Til Fots I Norge for hundre år siden (Original title: Through Norway with a Knapsack)

By: Williams, W. Mattieu

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Oslo, Norway, J.W. Cappelens Forlag : 1967

Seller ID: 20T030

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD+

Tight, bright, faint age soil to exterior, creased and tilted spine. No dust jacket. Parchment finish on covers with gilt designs and lettering. Faint wear to spine ends. Owners bookplate and 2 written names on first free page. Norwegian translation of 1859 book - On Foot in Norway, a hundred years ago. 202 illustrated pages. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

By: Wilson, George

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Seller ID: 9780804100038

ISBN-13: 9780804100038

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building. Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only o...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Seller ID: 9780060572006

ISBN-13: 9780060572006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shock...
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

By: Worster, Donald

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Seller ID: 9780195032123

ISBN-13: 9780195032123

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A History of the Breast

By: Yalom, Marilyn

Price: $14.95

Publisher: NY, Ballantine / Random : 1998

Seller ID: 18H005

ISBN-13: 9780345388940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for faintest of shelfwear to edges. "cultural history?explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast - in religion, psychology, politics, society and the arts?" 331 indexed, annotated, illustrated pages including Bibliography. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Rocket Fighter

By: Ziegler, Mano

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bantam

Seller ID: 9780553273489

ISBN-13: 9780553273489

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

By: Zuckoff, Mitchell

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Twelve

Seller ID: 9781455538447

ISBN-13: 9781455538447

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale. This is ...
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