Category: History

Old Oaken Bucket, the : Promotional Item for Leonard Benjamins, the Old Reliable Clothier, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Benjamin Leonards : 1881

Seller ID: 16126

Condition: Good

12 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Lot of 3 items, uniform shape and color. 1) The Old Oaken Bucket, umber-brown softcover booklet, two-tone illustration on front, 12 unnumbered pages, 12 b/w illustrations reproduced from engravings. ; 2) Elegy Written in a Country Chuchyard, by Thomas Gray, same style, same advertiser. ; 3) The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, same style, but this item has ads for Spring & Company, dry goods, Grand Rapids. ; Items 1) and 2) carry ad for Leonard Benjamins, the Old Reliable Clothier, Grand Rapids, Michigan. All items worn but intact. ; Co-published ...
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Image for One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry : His Experience and What He Saw During the War, 1861-1865, Including a History of "F Company," 21st Regiment of Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division

One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry : His Experience and What He Saw During the War, 1861-1865, Including a History of "F Company," 21st Regiment of Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division

By: Worsham, John H.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books : 1982

Seller ID: 21916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

353 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark blue-black leather, marching soldiers embossed on front, gilt lettering, all edges gilt, red silk page-marker ribbon, marbled endpapers, 353 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. ; Top-quality reprint of a first-hand account of the American Civil War, originally published 1912. This edition 1982. ; No marks or defects. ; Laid in: 1) publisher's introduction sheet, as issued. 2) publisher's advertisement for soon-to-be-published Matthew Brady and his World. ; Time Life Collector's Library of the Civil War Series; Vol. 6
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Images from the Inside Passage : An Alaskan Portrait by Winter and Pond

By: Wyatt, Victoria

Price: $12.00

Publisher: University of Washington Press : 1989

Seller ID: 22367

ISBN-13: 9780295968353

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

144 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Large oblong softcover, 144 glossy pages, red endpapers, index, bibliography, 2 appendixes, b/w map, about 20 explanatory b/w photos in front matter, main section has 88 stunning full-page b/w photos with detailed captions, including some studio portraits and some showing people in front of houses, shops, post offices, etc. ; Photos by Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond, Alaska photographers, 1893-1910. Foreword by Margaret B. Blackman. This book accompanies an exhibition of prints made from original glass plate and nitrate negatives depicting Tlingit and Haida (Native Ame...
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Bradley Polytechnic Institute : The First Decade, 1897-1907

By: Wyckoff, Charles T.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Bradley Polytechnic Institute : 1908

Seller ID: 20177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

180 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, dark blue cloth, orange lettering, 180 pages + over 20 b/w photos on glossy unnumbered plates. ; Written by publication committee, Charles T. Wyckoff, chair, with Clarence E. Comstock, Wales H. Packard, Theodore C. Burgess. ; Epic true story of founding and first ten years of coed high-school-college Bradley Polytechnic Institute, now Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, founded by Lydia Moss Bradley (1816-1908) philanthropist, land developer, banker, Universalist, and staunch anti-slavery activist. ; Minor edgewear only. No marks, no defects. Scarce. ;...
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Poles in American History and Tradition

By: Wytrwal, Joseph Anthony

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Endurance Press : 1969

Seller ID: 22195

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

485 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, yellow cloth, [x] + 485 pages, bibliography, footnotes, extensive index, small b/w map showing major border changes of Poland 1940s. ; Boards slightly bowed. Cloth shows small spots and smudges. Owner name on front endpaper in old ink. Lacks jacket. Sold as is.
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Imprisoned Scientists : Political Prisoners in the USSR

By: Yasen, Bohdan

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Smoloskyp : 1975

Seller ID: 23890

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Softcover, pale yellow covers, 6 panels, 3 small b/w portrait photos, list of 5 Ukrainian scientists who became political prisoners in Soviet Union, with their stories. English throughout. ; Published by Smoloskyp: Organization for Defense of Human Rights in Ukraine. ; No defects. Crisp and clean. ; With this item you will also get, all from same publisher, same series: 2) Nina Strokata, microbiologist, 6 panels. 3) Yuriy Shukhevych, son of a Ukrainian general, 6 panels. 4) Leonid Plyushch, cyberneticist, 8 panels. 5) Svyatoslav Karavanska, Ukrainian writer, 10 panels. 6) Iry...
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Trials in Ukraine 1972 : Political Prisoners in the USSR

By: Yasen, Bohdan

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Smoloskyp : 1973

Seller ID: 23889

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

10 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Softcover, blue covers, 10 panels, 9 small b/w portrait photos, list of 23 Ukrainian intellectuals who became political prisoners in Soviet Union, with brief details of their sham trials. English throughout. ; Smoloskyp PV-1. Published by Smoloskyp: Organization for Defense of Human Rights in Ukraine. ; No defects. Crisp and clean. ; With this item you will also get: Trials in Ukraine 1973, same publisher, 24 glossy pages, 1 b/w artwork, 7 small b/w portrait photos, 14 prisoners and their stories. ; Political Prisoners in the USSR Series
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Ukrainian Women in Soviet Prisons

By: Yasen, Bohdan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Smoloskyp : 1975

Seller ID: 23885

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

28 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Pale gray softcover, 28 pages, 6 b/w photos including 5 photos of prisoners. English throughout. ; Smoloskyp PV-9. Published by Smoloskyp, Organization for Defense of Human Rights in Ukraine. ; Stories of seven women political prisoners: Nina Strokata-Karavanska. Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets. Stefania Shabatura. Iryna Senyk. Nadia Svitlychna-Shumuk. Odarka Husyak. Maria Palchak. (The last two are stated to have been released in 1975) ; No defects apart from a touch of rust to staples. Quite scarce.
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Women's Voices from Soviet Labor Camps

By: Yasen, Bohdan

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Smokoskyp : 1975

Seller ID: 23887

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

12 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Softcover booklet, tan leatherette covers, 12 pages plus covers, brief bios of four prisoners, words of eight prisoners. English throughout. ; Translated by Lesya Jones. Edited by Bohdan Yasen. ; Words of 1) Stefania Mykhaylivna Shabatura 2) Iryna Senyk 3) Nina Strokata-Karavanska 4) Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets 5) Nadia Svitlychna-Shumuk 6) Odarka Husyak, plus an anonymous woman. Volume 1 in series, Documents of Ukrainian Samvydav. ; Covers show light rubbing, small scar to rear cover Staples rusty. Quite scarce. ; With this item you will also get: Vol-2 in same series: A...
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Polish Army, The, 1939-1945

By: Zaloga, Steven J.; Illustrated by Richard Hook

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : 1994

Seller ID: 22182

ISBN-13: 9780850454178

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

48 pages; 8vo (9.75") 25 cm; Tall white softcover, 48 glossy pages, 20 b/w diagrams of insignia, 33 b/w historical photos, 23 uniformed soldiers shown on 8 illustrated full-color plates. ; Copyright 1982. This is 8th printing, 1994. Great for military gamers, history buffs, military collectors, etc. ; Osprey Men at Arms Series; Vol. 117
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Na Swiete Milenium Polski, 966-1966 : On the Holy Polish Millennium, 966-1966

By: Zdzislaw Peszkowski

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Wydawnictwo Stowarzyszenia Kaplanow Dia Spraw Polskich : 1963

Seller ID: 22967

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair

48 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; POLISH text throughout, except copyright page is partly in English. Softcover, 48 pages, bibliography, 2 b/w photos on covers. ; Copyright 1963 by Priests' Conference for Polish Affairs, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan. ; Appears to be a brief history of Poland told from a Roman Catholic point of view. ; We have graded this item Fair. Covers are foxed, tanned, rubbed, and show several very small holes around edges, but everything is readable. Interior clean, pages bright, binding intact.
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Panorama Raclawicka

By: Ziejka, Franciszek

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza : 1984

Seller ID: 24284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

213 pages; Folio (13") 33 cm; POLISH text throughout. Large hardcover, about 10 x 13 inches, about 25 x 33 cm, main text in 2 columns, 108 pages of text + 109 photos and illustrations on 80 glossy plates + 4 magnificent glossy gatefold illustrations. About half the photos and illustrations are in full color. Detailed captions. ; A fascinating book about the Raclawice Panorama, an enormous panoramic cyclorama showing the Battle of Raclawice in 1794, painted in 1894 and installed in Lviv. ; Book shows only light wear, mainly at tips. No jacket. (isbn 8303002066)
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Category: History