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Detroit Perspectives : Crossroads and Turning Points

By: Henrickson, Wilma Wood

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Wayne State University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 21740

ISBN: 0814320147

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

593 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Softcover, red-brown covers, 593 pages, index, bibliography, about 70 chapters by various authors, chapter endnotes, numerous b/w figures, tables, photos, etc. ; Anthology of writings tracing major developments and moments of Detroit history. ; Light wear to tips. Three leaves have small marks from removed paperclips. Beginning on pg 193 many pages have pencil underlining or margin brackets, not excessive. Binding tight and square. Sold as is. ; Great Lakes Books Series
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Wills of Early New York Jews, 1704-1799

By: Hershkowitz, Leo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: American Jewish Historical Society: 1967

Seller ID: 21960

ISBN: 0911934170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

229 pages; 4to (10.25") 26 cm; Hardcover, dark blue-black cloth, dark gray endpapers, [xviii] + 229 pages, index, bibliography, 2 appendixes, 41 wills translated and/or transcribed with copious footnotes, 52 b/w photos of seals and facsimile documents. ; Foreword by Isadore S. Meyer. ; A touch of shelfwear. Boards very slightly bowed. No jacket, as issued. Scarce. ; Studies in American Jewish History Series; Vol. 4
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Film Unfinished, a : Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust DVD Documentary Movie Region 1 R1

By: Hersonski, Yael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oscilloscope Pictures: 2010

Seller ID: 21317

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Near Fine

DVD; DVD in original paperboard slipcase, complete film in b/w and color, 1 hour 30 minutes, plus extras: historical essay by Annette Insdorf, interview with film researcher Adrian Wood, interview with scholar Michael Berenbaum, 25-minute US film including first footage of liberation of camps, CD-ROM study guide. ; This mutli-award-winning documentary masterpiece combines truly horrific footage of Warsaw Ghetto with footage from an unfinished Nazi propaganda film staged to show "wealthy" Jews exploiting ghetto poor, combined with memories and recollections of actual survivors and a cam...
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Billion to One, a : The Story of Herzog, Heine, Geduld, Inc

By: Herzog, John E.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Museum of American Finance: 2017

Seller ID: 20506

ISBN: 0964263025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

214 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark red cloth, [xvi] + 214 pages, index, appendix, 45 b/w photos on glossy plates. ; Fascinating history of Herzog Heine Geduld, Inc, from its founding in 1926 to when, as the third largest investment firm on Wall Street, it was acquired by Merrill Lynch. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. Appears unread.
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Army Life in a Black Regiment

By: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1982

Seller ID: 20164

ISBN: 080944237X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

296 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, dark blue bonded leather over embossed boards, [iv] + 296 pages, faux marbled endpapers, all edges gold, red page-marker ribbon, index, appendix, footnotes. ; Originally published 1870. This is a facsimile reprint, 1982. ; Amazing true history of 1st South Carolina Infantry (first "colored" regiment in Civil War, later named 33rd US Colored Troops) by its radical Colonel, a Unitarian minister and staunch abolitionist, who faithfully recorded speech, poems, songs, habits, tradiitons, etc, of the African American men under his command, along w...
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Army Life in a Black Regiment

By: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1982

Seller ID: 21919

ISBN: 080944237X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

296 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, dark blue leather over embossed boards, faux marbled endpapers, all edges gold, red page-marker ribbon, index, appendix, footnotes, [iv] + 296 pages. ; Originally published 1870. This is a facsimile reprint, 1982. ; Amazing true history of 1st South Carolina Infantry (first "colored" regiment in Civil War, later named 33rd US Colored Troops) by its radical Colonel, a Unitarian minister and staunch abolitionist, who faithfully recorded speech, poems, songs, habits, tradiitons, etc, of the African American men under his command, along with giv...
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Time Life Collector's Library of the Civil War, 25 Volume Set : Embossed Leather

By: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, et al.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1981

Seller ID: 21675

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Set of 25 volumes (of 30) bound in dark blue-black leather. Each vol has illustration of marching soldiers embossed on front, gilt lettering, all edges gilt, red silk page-marker ribbon, marbled endpapers, about 300-500 pages. ; Each vol is top-quality reprint of first-hand account of Civil War. Various authors. All titles were originally published between 1863 and 1910. ; This lot includes: Army Life in a Black Regiment. Battle-Fields of the South. Campaigning with Grant. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant. Citizen-Soldier. Confederate Operations in Canada and New York. Daring...
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Filson Club History Quarterly : Volume 43, Number 2, April 1969

By: Hill, Richard H.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Filson Club: 1969

Seller ID: 21093

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

76 pages; 8vo (9.75") 25 cm; Pale gray softcover, [iv] + 76 pages numbered 125-200, lists of officers and donors, 5 articles with extensive endnotes. ; Contents: Milton Hannibal Smith, President of Louisville & Nashville Railroad, by Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau. John Randolph versus Henry Clay, by Paul R. Corts. The Other Ballard (Proctor Ballard) by Roger H. Futrell. Kentucky Monuments of Robert E. Launitz, by Thomas B. Brumbaugh. Beginnings of Universalism in Louisville, by David A. Johnson. Plus departments. ; Minor edgewear. Covers tanned at edges and on spine, which is still quite readabl...
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Farewell to the Bloody Shirt : Northern Republicans and the Southern Negro, 1877-1893

By: Hirshson, Stanley P.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press: 1962

Seller ID: 21641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

334 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Ex-Library; Hardcover, gray cloth, white title band on spine, 334 pages, index, bibliography, extensive endnotes. ; Written by longtime professor of history and award-winning biographer of Gen. George Patton. Introduction by David Donald. ; A fine, scholarly study of how and why the Republican Party, which set up numerous programs and organizations to aid former slaves after the Civil War, had abandoned them by the 1890s. ; Exterior shows almost no wear. Library sticker at heel. Interior shows only minor library marks otherwise appears unused. Lacks jacket. Sc...
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Cadillac and the Dawn of Detroit : (Signed)

By: Hivert-Carthew, Annick

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Wilderness Adventure Books: 1994

Seller ID: 21628

ISBN: 0923568387

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

275 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Softcover, [xii] + 275 pages, index, bibliography, footnotes, glossary, 3 appendixes, 13 b/w maps, photos and illustrations. Dedication page inscribed and SIGNED by author. ; From blurb: 'Discover the colorful and ambitious Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac as he builds Detroit, the city whose strategic location many would covet.' History retold with some imagined dialogue and embellished details. ; Covers show a touch of shelfwear. No other defects. No marks apart from autograph.
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History of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, a : 1916-1980

By: Holliday, Murray

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Indiana Pioneers: 1980

Seller ID: 20803

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

102 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; White softcover, 102 pages, several appendixes, 28 b/w photos and facsimiles; Printed by Mitchell-Fleming Printing, Greenfield, Illinois. Authored by descandant of founder John Hampden Holliday. ; Owner name embossed on title page. Otherwise appears unused.
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Hands on the Freedom Plow : Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (Signed)

By: Holsaert, Faith S., et al.

Price: $64.00

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: 2010

Seller ID: 21838

ISBN: 0252035577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

616 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, dark gray cloth, [xvi] + 616 pages, index, brief bios of contributors, 27 historical b/w photos. Title page SIGNED and inscribed by editor Martha P. Noonan and contributors Marilyn Lowen, Gloria House, and former Tuskegee student body president Gwen Patton. ; Edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, Dorothy M. Zellner. Contributions by more than 30 veterans of civil rights movement. ; A broad-ranging history of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its work for civil ...
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Grace Hooper's Pioneer Notes : By Trek and Sail to Grand Traverse Bay

By: Hooper, Grace, and Beulah Hooper King; Illustrated by Betty Beeby

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Fen's Rim Publications: 1993

Seller ID: 16725

ISBN: 0496271113

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

395 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; White softcover, 395 pages, b/w photo of author and family, extensive index. Laid in: bookmark with index of Great Lakes ships, as published with book. ; Tons of local history regarding Antrim County and the Grand Traverse Bay region of northwestern Michigan, collected by Grace Hooper, longtime correspondent for the Central Lake Torch and lay preacher at the Baptist church. Edited by Beulah Hooper King. ; Light edgewear. A touch of discoloration. One page of text has margin marks, also, last page (blank) has ballpoint notes regarding one Merrit Hodges of Torch La...
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Long Day's Journey Into Light, a : School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland

By: Hope, John III

Price: $48.00

Publisher: US Commission on Civil Rights: 1976

Seller ID: 15240

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

464 pages; 4to (10.25") 26 cm; Ex-Library; Large softcover, 464 pages, extensive footnotes, chronology, 30 tables, 2 appendixes, 6 small maps. ; Written under auspices, United States Commission on Civil Rights. Clearinghouse Publication 52, March, 1976. Report edited by John Hope III, Office of Program and Policy Review. ; In Prince George's County, Maryland, bordering on Washington DC, schools were segregated by law, and neighborhoods were segregated by secret real estate practices, until legal action occurred in 1972.; All the usual library marks. Clear book tape over spine. Interior cle...
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Afro American Jeremiad, the : Appeals for Justice in America

By: Howard-Pitney, David

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Temple University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 21455

ISBN: 1566390869

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

237 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Brown softcover, [viii] + 237 pages, index, copious endnotes. ; From blurb: 'The American jeremiad [an epic of laments, social criticism and prophecies of destruction] is a rhetoric of indignation expressing deep dissatisfaction and challenging the nation to reform.' Includes analysis of speeches and writing styles of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther king Jr. ; No marks or defects. Appears unused.
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Canadians in the Civil War

By: Hoy, Claire

Price: $12.00

Publisher: McArthur & Company: 2004

Seller ID: 20940

ISBN: 1552784509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

413 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, steel-blue cloth, [x] + 413 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes. ; More than 50 000 Canadians fought and more than 5 000 Canadians died in the US Civil War. ; Small address label on front endpaper. Otherwise no defects to book or jacket.
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Historic Old Fort Niagara : The Story of an Ancient Gateway to the West

By: Hultzen, Claud H. Sr.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Old Fort Niagara Association: 1938

Seller ID: 17797

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

64 pages; 8vo (9.25") 24 cm; Softcover booklet, gray-blue covers, silver lettering, 64 semi-glossy pages, 40 b/w photos and illustrations. In rear pocket are: 1) large folding two-toned map of Historic Fort Niagara. 2) eight full-color photo postcards of Niagara Falls and nearby sights, postally unused, circa 1960.; Map dated 1938. Booklet dated 1939.; Book is sunned around edges, with minor edgewear. No other defects. Map is pristine.
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Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, The, Complete in 2 Volumes : Agapida Edition, Author's Revised Edition, 1893

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $54.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1893

Seller ID: 21815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

829 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Two hardcover volumes, faux vellum cloth decorated in pale green and a generous amount of gilt, beveled edges, [xxx] + 380 + [xiv] + 405 pages, 829 total pages, gilt stamped spines, top edge gilt, monochrome illustrated endpapers, appendix, monochrome decor throughout, 30 b/w photographic plates (by Richard Lawrence and others) with captioned tissue guards. All text pages bordered in attractive red decor. ; Copyright 1850. Second edition, with new preface, also 1850. This is an illustrated reprint of second edition, 1892-1893. Partly based on manuscript by Fray A...
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Stolen Legacy : Greek Philosophy Was the Offspring of the Egyptian Mystery System

By: James, George G. M. with Indus Khamit Kush

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Eworld Inc: 2012

Seller ID: 19085

ISBN: 1617590746

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

190 pages; Oblong 4to (10.25") 26 cm; Softcover, [x] + 190 pages, index, endnotes, one small b/w diagram. ; Copyright 1954. This new edition, with new foreword by Indus Khamit Kush, 2012. ; Subtitle on front: 'Greek Philosophy was the Offspring of the Egyptian Mystery System.' Subtitle on title page: 'Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy.' ; Bookstore name stamped inside rear cover. Otherwise only a touch of wear. ; Laid in: 1) bookmark promoting Fear Of The Black Man, book by G. M. Merritt. 2) two real photos of the Most Rev. Moses B. Anderson, who was an African American Roman ...
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Newport : A Concise History, Revised Edition

By: Jefferys, C. P. B.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Newport Historical Society: 2008

Seller ID: 21065

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

112 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Tan pictorial softcover, 112 glossy pages, index, 72 b/w photos, diagrams and illustrations with captions. ; Originally published 1976. This is Revised Edition, 2008.; A touch of wear to upper tip. No other defects.
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