Tight, age-tanned pages and cover, clean interior, soiled exterior, square. Penciled notes in margin on 1 page. Faint owners name on front cover in pencil. 23 page (+ 5 advertising pages), staple-bound pamphlet. Contents: The Ordinances of 1645, 1646, 1649, 1651; The Fisrt, Second, Third and Colonial Navigation Acts; The Confirmatory Act and The Explanatory Act. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Tight, age-tanned pages and cover, clean interior, soiled exterior, square. Penciled notes in margin on 2 pages. Faint owners name on front cover in pencil. 23 page (+ 1 advertising pages), staple-bound pamphlet. Includes plans by: Penn, Livingston, Coxe, Peters, the Lords of Trade, Galloway and The Albany Plan. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Ex library with all expected markings and page where pocket would have been has been removed. Pristine dust jacket, in protective cover, except for Dewey Decimal stickers on spine. 214 indexed pages of clean, unmarked text. Solid, clean covers, faintest softening of spine ends. 6.25x9.25x1" "comprehensive and extremely readable account of plant discoveries...17th century herbalists Parkinson and Gerard...to the present...mostly British, American and French: their purpose was to add to the list of plants useful for food and drugs or simply as botanical specimens...appeal for the average gardene... View More...
Brown paper covers with several short creases on them. Light shelfwear to edges and corners. Small bump to bottom corner of front cover. Bright, clean interior pages. Unmarked text. 58 pages. 6" X 9" X 0.2" Nairobi was founded in 1899 by the colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda Railway. This is the history of the Stanley Hotel and New Stanley Hotel, which went through 3 incarnations. It is the oldest hotel in Nairobi and was the jumping off point for many safaris in Kenya by politicians, diplomats, and stars. Full of photos, illustrations, and reproductio... View More...
Exceptionally neat highlighting to text and tiny bump to cover corners. "the years between the Civil War and World War I were marked by heightened consumption of imports and strenuous efforts to appear cosmopolitan. Hoganson finds evidence of international connections in quintessentially domestic places--American households...a new perspective on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
As new except for faint edgewear and page yellowing." Like nobody else in the heavens or on earth, they live on the edge. They're the men and women of the United States Air Force?These are the sightings, the legends, and the mysterious, unexplained, and unauthorized reports" of the paranormal. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in store pickup View More...
Tight, bright, clean except for faint stain on front cover, faint curl. "outlines the development of Eskimo carving and shows the variations in form and subject of carving and other Eskimo crafts...characterized by simplicity and strength..."40 pages, staple-bound, loaded with illustrations and photos, 10.5x8.25" (26.7x21cm) NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men is an exciting narrative history offering fresh insights into many aspects of the Civil War. "This is a lucid, edifying account of the Civil War era. Mr. Hummel has an impressive command of the relevant contemporary literature. His interpretations are thoughtful, often provocative, always well worth considering, Civil War buffs will want this book on their shelves". -- Kenneth M. Stampp University of California, Berkeley "Hummel presents some uncomfortable truths for both sides of the Civil War. For the South, Hummel builds a case that the war was indeed... View More...
Paul Hutton's study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from Mexico to Canada, and all the Indian Wars of the Great Plains fell under his direction. Hutton ably narrates and interprets Sheridan's western career from the perspective of the top command rather than the battlefield leader. His book is good history and good reading.-Robert M. Utley... View More...
As new except hours and phone numbers for Ellis Island and ferry written in pencil on title page, small chip on back cover. Includes black and white photos and maps. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
As new - gift quality! 514 pages. "The classic account of our government's mistreatement of Native Americans." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
'I am not a historian. In fact, I wrote this poem in order to teach myself some history. I thought that sorting facts into verse form would concentrate my mind wonderfully. Which it did.' Brought up with the iambic pentameters of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses ringing in his ears, James Muirden's rhyming history is a long poem in an equally simple and jolly form. Charmingly irreverent, magically humorous, delightfully illustrated by David Eccles - recently acclaimed for his line drawings for Now We Are Sixty - this is the perfect gift for historians and non-historians alike. This cheerful ... View More...
For the first time, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont. The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West Coast. The Washington State Attorney General's office thinks this investigation is too big for a small-town female law officer to handle, so they're sending Sheriff Joanna Brady some unwanted help--a seasoned detective named Beaumont. Sheriff Brady resents his intrusion, and Bisbee... View More...
From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the New York Times-bestselling story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays--with characteristic wit and passion--a man of contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by t... View More...
Tight, bright, clean interior, age soiled exterior, curled. Chip on surface of front cover. 296 pages, Index (8x5-3/8", 23x13.4cm). "the period in 1947 when the United States stepped out irrevocably and whole-heartedly as leader upon the world stage..." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the testimony... View More...
Tight, bright, clean and square but has slightly softened and faded spine ends. Clipped dust jacket is present but age-soiled, scratched and with small chips on spine ends. Biography of the former Secretary General of the United Nations. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
