Category: History

This Far by Faith : Twenty Years At Cass Community (Detroit History) (Signed)

By: Fowler, Faith

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cass Community Publishing House : 2014

Seller ID: 21558

ISBN-13: 9781939880703

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

224 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Gray softcover, [xvi] + 224 pages, 2 small photos including front cover, small b/w map of Detroit. ; Memoirs of tireless United Methodist pastor, activist for positive change for over 20 years in notorious Cass Corridor, until recently one of the worst neighborhoods in Detroit. ; No defects of any kind. Title page SIGNED by author.
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Album of Niagara Falls

By: Frey, Charles; Illustrated by Charles Frey

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Chisolm Brothers & Charles Frey : 1890

Seller ID: 16217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

16 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Oblong hardcover (11 x 7.75 inches) 28 x 20 cm, full brown cloth, gilt lettering; front board decorated in gilt, black, gray and green; 16 large unnumbered accordion-folded pages, 54 beautiful high-quality high-gloss b/w illustrations of Niagara Falls and its sights, of which 6 are full-page, all with brief captions. ; Topics include: Horseshoe falls. American falls. Cave of the winds. Suspension bridge. Cantilever bridge. Prospect park. Ferry stairway. Tightrope walkers. Hotels. More. ; Exterior shows very light wear and a touch of sunning. Boards slightly bowed....
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Strategy of Change for Business Success, the : (Signed)

By: Furst, Sidney, and Milton Sherman

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter : 1969

Seller ID: 23404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

186 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, tan cloth, black endpapers, [vi] + 186 pages, Halftitle page inscribed and dated 1969 and SIGNED by author Milton Sherman. ; True stories of technical and service innovations that brought success to major American business in 1960s, including: Ford Mustang, first muscle car. Xerox, a product nobody wanted. Radio Corporation of America (RCA) creation of the color television industry. Winston & Salem change to filter cigarettes. More. ; Only a touch of wear to jacket. Scarce. ; Laid in: typed letter also SIGNED by Milton Sherman, on Sullivan, Stauffer, Col...
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Pennsylvania Manual, The, Volume 87, 1945 : Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

By: Gardener, Braton R, and Alice Allen

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : 1945

Seller ID: 20751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

1156 pages; 8vo (9.25") 20 cm; Thick hardcover, green cloth, fold-out map of PA counties and county seats, fold-out map of US states and state capitals, fold-out organizational chart, 2 indexes, over 100 b/w photos, 4 illustrations in color on glossy plates. ; Editor in chief C. M. Woolworth. Contents include: Annotated US Constitution and Pennsylvania Constitution. History and chronology of Pennsylvania. State government departments. Biographical sketches of and portrait photos of elected officials. Statistics on education, state forests, population, elections, more. ; Light wear to extremiti...
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For Freedom and Prosperity : Philip M. McKenna and the Gold Standard League

By: Gary M. Quinlivan

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Education : 1999

Seller ID: 24200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

128 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, blue slick boards, [xvi] + 108 + 4 glossy pages, index, appendix, footnotes, 37 historical b/w photos with captions. ; Written by Gary M. Quinlivan with Brian Surkan. Foreword by T. William Boxx. Published by Center for Economic and Policy Education and the Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies. ; An homage to Philip Mowry McKenna (1897-1969) founder of Kennametal Inc, inventor of Kentanium (tungsten titanium carbide) and vociferous advocate of putting US back on gold standard, who loudly and repeatedly compared gold standard to ...
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Detroit : Then and Now

By: Gay, Cheri Y.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Thunder Bay Press : 2001

Seller ID: 22071

ISBN-13: 9781571456892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

144 pages; 4to (10") 26 cm; Large oblong hardcover, pictorial boards, brown endpapers, 144 pages, index. ; Historic b/w (or sepia-toned) photos from 1860-1930 side by side with full-color contemporary photos of same building or location, with extensive captions for each. Fascinating, one of best books on Detroit history in recent years. ; Book shows no defects. Jacket shows only a touch of edgewear. ; Then & Now Series
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McKay's Guide to the Far East and the Middle East

By: Gellhorn, Eleanor Cowles; Illustrated by James MacDonald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: David McKay Company : 1960

Seller ID: 24347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

352 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Hardcover, red cloth, [xvi] + 352 pages, table of currencies, appendix of embassies, 10 maps including endpaper map. ; This excellent guidebook covers main tourist destinations in ASIA: Burma (Myanmar), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Pakistan, Penang (Malaysia), Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand; and, MIDDLE EAST: Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria. ; Maps by James MacDonald. Copyright 1953. This is 2nd Revised Edition, 1959, 2nd printing, 1960. ; A classic in its day: for every major city (listed by co...
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Madams of San Francisco, the : An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate

By: Gentry, Curt

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Signet/New American Library : 1965

Seller ID: 23916

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

304 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Paperback, 304 pages, all edges inked red, bibliography. Includes 100 years of history (1849-1949) and chapters on 11 famous madams. ; Signet T2608. Copyright 1964. This is 1st Paperback Edition, 1965. Blurb: "A vivid picture of a bawdy, glittering era, the story of the women who put Frisco on the map as the wildest town in the West." ; Covers show light creases, as usual. No marks. Pages starting to yellow from age. Binding tight and square. Scarce. ; Signet T Series; Vol. 2608
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Constitution and By-Laws of the German American Political and Social Club : Dearborn, Michigan, 1934

By: German Club

Price: $8.00

Publisher: German American Club : 1934

Seller ID: 17852

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

20 pages; 24mo (5.5") 13 cm; Small softcover booklet (3.6 x 5.5 inches) (92 x 138 mm) tan leatherette covers, 20 pages, with 9 pages in German in old Fraktur script, the same text in English over 7 pages, and 4 calendar pages. ; Published by the German American Political and Social Club of Dearborn, Michigan, 1934. ; Very light edgewear. Front page marked with member name. (Image shows front cover and one spread)
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La Pologne Millenaire : A Thousand Years of Poland

By: Gieysztor, Aleksander, with Stanislaw Herbst and Boguslaw Lesnodorski

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Editions Interpress : 1973

Seller ID: 22192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

259 pages; 4to (10.75") 28 cm; FRENCH text throughout. Tall hardcover, red cloth, red endpapers, 4 small maps, about 150 b/w photos and illustrations, 20 color plates. ; Written by Aleksander Gieysztor with additional chapters by Stanislaw Herbst and Boguslaw Lesnodorski. ; Boards slightly bowed. Small mark on rear endpaper. No other defects to book. Jacket lightly rubbed, with three small chips and small old pricesticker on rear panel, but all readable. Quite scarce.
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Thousand Years of Poland, A

By: Gieysztor, Aleksander, with Stanislaw Herbst and Boguslaw Lesnodorski

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Interpress Publishers : 1973

Seller ID: 22191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

259 pages; 4to (10.75") 28 cm; Tall hardcover, red cloth, red endpapers, 4 small maps, about 150 b/w photos and illustrations, 20 color plates. English text. ; Written by Aleksander Gieysztor with additional chapters by Stanislaw Herbst and Boguslaw Lesnodorski. ; Bookplate on rear endpaper. Fore-edge faintly spotted. Light bump to lower front tip. Jacket chipped, torn, spotted, but all readable.
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Lectures and Essays on Irish and Other Subjects

By: Giles, Henry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: D. & J. Sadlier & Company : 1869

Seller ID: 14179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

394 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Hardcover bound in beautiful dark purple-blue pebbled cloth, gilt lettering and decor, black rules, pale yellow endpapers. ; Topics include: Irish history. Irish emigration. Irish character. Daniel O'Connell. John Philpot Curran. Gerald Griffin. Bishop James Warren Doyle. The Christian idea in Catholic art and Protestant culture. Scottish wit and humor. More. ; The Rev. Henry Giles was a popular lecturer and Unitarian defender in the 19th century. This is the first collection of his Irish lectures published in book form. Published in NY by D. & J. Sadlier & Compa...
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Slovenian Heritage, Volume 1

By: Gobetz, Edward

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Slovenian Research Center of America : 1981

Seller ID: 24025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

642 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, [xx] + 642 glossy pages, pronunciation guide, index, footnotes, 4 small maps, over 600 b/w photos and illustrations with captions. ; Topics include: Slovenia. Slovenian Americans. Men at the top. Slovenian-American physicians, painters, writers, poets, composers, musicians. Slovenian-American priests, postal reformers, coal miners, beer distributors, cattle ranchers. Photo gallery. More. ; Copyright 1980. This is 3rd printing, September, 1981. Additional chapters by Milena Gobetz, Ruth Lakner, Bogdan Novak, Samuel Putman, Anthony Zupancic, Viola Malakar...
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Southfield : Yesterday and Today (Michigan History)

By: Goldbaum, Vicki; Illustrated by Vicki Goldbaum

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Manufacturers Bank : 1983

Seller ID: 15432

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

50 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Softcover, stiff orange covers, 50 pages, list of city officials, list of Fortune 500 companies located in Southfield, 40 b/w photos and illustrations. ; Copyright 1974. This si 2nd Revised Edition, 1983. Published for 25th anniversairy of the City of Southfield, a northern suburb of Detroit, which went from pioneer farmland in the 1940s to the skyscraper-studded 2nd largest city in Oakland County, known as the Office Capital of the Midwest, in the 1960s. ; No defects. Clean and tight. Scarce.
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Reminiscences of the Civil War

By: Gordon, John B.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books : 1981

Seller ID: 21914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

474 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, 474 pages. ; Top-quality reprint of a first-hand account of the American Civil War, originally published 1903. This edition 1981. ; Gilt edges partly faded. Owner name penned on front flyleaf. No other marks or defects. ; Time Life Collector's Library of the Civil War Series; Vol. 3
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Pere Murray and the Hounds : The Story of Saskatchewan's Notre Dame College

By: Gorman, Jack

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Gray's Publishing : 1977

Seller ID: 22807

ISBN-13: 9780888260697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

164 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, dark red textured boards, 164 pages + 8 glossy plates, index, 16 b/w photos. ; Story of very poor priest and the rural but successful boy's college he founded in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1927. ; Book shows only a touch of shelfwear. Jacket moderately worn, with five very small chips, not affecting any text. Scarce. ; Items laid in: 1) glossy 12-panel brochure about Athol Murray (Pere Murray) College, circa 1978, with brief bios and 26 b/w portrait photos of faculty. 2) typed letter signed by Elmer Strumecki, director of development, on college l...
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Foltamadott a Tenger 1956 : A Magyar Oktober Tortenete, Hungarian Edition, 1990

By: Gosztonyi Peter

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Nepszava : 1990

Seller ID: 24148

ISBN-13: 9789633229507

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

260 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; HUNGARIAN text throughout. Softcover, 238 + 22 pages, appendixes, footnotes, 35 b/w photos with captions. ; Prefaces by Dr. Korom Mihaly and Buzady Tibor. ; History of Hungarian Uprising of 1956 in which citizens of Hungary attempted to oust Soviet rule. ; Faint vertical crease to spine. No other defects. Scarce.
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Lafayette in America, 1777-1783 : Leather Bound, First Bicentennial Edition

By: Gottschalk, Louis

Price: $23.00

Publisher: L'Esprit de Lafayette Society : 1975

Seller ID: 15681

ISBN-13: 9781299105720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

1006 pages; 8vo (9.25") 24 cm; Hardcover, brown buffalo leather, top edge and lettering and decor in 24-karat gold, red moire silk cloth liners, 20 + 184 + 364 + 458 pages, 1006 total pages, red-white-blue page-marker ribbon, footnotes, appendixes, indexes, 6 lithograph plates bound in, with fold-out Revolutionary War maps reproduced from original maps of the period. Author's imprinted aut*graph on title page. ; 1st edition thus. Cover design by Norman Alberts. Binding designed by Richard Roe. Maps lithographed by Jack Suit. Copy number BC476 stamped on title page, as issued. A beautiful limit...
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Hadrian's Wall in the Days of the Romans

By: Graham, Frank; Illustrated by Ronald Embleton

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Frank Graham : 1988

Seller ID: 22206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

320 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, blue boards, 320 glossy pages, index, over 400 illustrations (maps, floorplans, landscapes, tombstones, elevations, etc) including 71 in full color. ; Copyright 1984. This is 3rd printing, 1988. Excellent illustrations by Ronald Embleton. Maps, vignettes and inscriptions by Gill Embleton, Eric Dale and David Thompson. ; When Romans invaded Britain, they defended themselves against the fierce Picts (Scots) in the north by building a wall and a string of fortifications to keep them out. This book traces every fortification along the wall and what remains o...
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National Geographic Society, Battlefields of the Civil War : Printed for the Blue and the Gray

By: Graves, William; Illustrated by John F. Shupe

Price: $9.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1997

Seller ID: 22299

ISBN-13: 9781572621381

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Near Fine

Large glossy color map. Reverse has several color maps of specific battles. ; Approx 30 x 24 inches. ; No defects. Folded, as issued.
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Category: History