Category: History

Big Steel : Black Politics and Corporate Power in Gary, Indiana

By: Greer, Edward

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Monthly Review Press : 1979

Seller ID: 23746

ISBN-13: 9780853455622

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

287 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Black softcover, 287 pages, index, extensive endnotes, 9 lists and tables. ; Focuses on US Steel and its exploitation of African American and immigrant workers, and Richard Hatcher as the reform black Mayor. "The main aim of this book is to show how political power actually works in the city of Gary, Indiana. It is a tale of high drama. Briefly, the position I have come to hold is that the pluralist theory of American society is incorrect; the power elite theory is similarly inadequate; and the Marxist theory in the tradition of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci come...
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Cottonport Centennial : (Louisiana History) 1888-1988

By: Gremillion, Sadie C. ; Illustrated by Stewart Ducote

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Centennial Commission : 1988

Seller ID: 18574

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

80 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Tall softcover, 80 pages, many local ads, historical text, list of events, 176 b/w photos, mostly historical, with captions. ; Additional contributions by Lena Roth, Lillie Y. Armand, Ryan 'Sonny' Gauthier and others. Program (for November 5-6, 1988) and history book combined. ; Covers lightly sunned, small crease to rear cover. Gift note neatly penned on front page. One name penciled on rear cover.
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Piasts of Poland, The

By: Gronowicz, Antoni, translated by Joseph Vetter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons : 1945

Seller ID: 22189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

199 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, red cloth, 199 pages, index, 60 b/w photos, illustrations, small maps, etc. ; 1st English Edition. A on copyright page. ; Cloth on spine very slightly faded. No other defects. Lacks jacket.
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Il Pane Duro, Elementi Fotografici per una Storia dell'Emigrazione Italiana di Massa 1861-1915 : Hard Bread: Photographic Elements for a History of Italian Mass Emigration

By: Grossi, Oreste, and Gianfausto Rosoli

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Savelli : 1978

Seller ID: 22198

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

48 pages; 4to (11.5") 30 cm; ITALIAN text throughout. Tall softcover, 48 pages, 104 historical b/w photos with captions. ; Foreword by Paolo Cinanni. Chapter headings include: Il paese che si abbandona. La partenza genova. La tonnellata umana. La porto d'oro ellis island. Il giorno del giudizio. Hell's kitchen manhattan. Much more. ; Light edgewear. Small thumbcreases to covers. Old pristicker inked out on rear cover. Scarce.
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National Geographic Magazine, April, 1927 : Domestic Fowl ; Fowl of Old and New World ; Debt to the Hen ; Chinese Farmers Since Noah

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1927

Seller ID: 23508

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

200 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Softcover, 38 + 122 pages numbered 379 to 500 + 40 pages, total 200 pages, 175 b/w photos and illustrations, 29 color illustrations from life, plus all the usual display ads. ; Volume 51, Number 4, April 1927. Contents: 1) Races of Domestic Fowl, by M. A. Jull, 120 b/w photos and illustrations. 2) Fowl of the Old and New World, by Hashime Murayama, 29 full-color paintings. 3) America's Debt to the Hen, by Harry R. Lewis, 18 b/w photos and illustrations. 4) Chinese Farmers Since the Days of Noah, by Adam Warwick, 37 b/w photos. ; Covers show light wear and pale smudg...
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National Geographic Magazine, August 1927 : Canals of Southern France, Smiling Alsace, Flying Dirigible Norge over North Pole, Island of Komodo, Growth of Aviation

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert

Price: $18.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1927

Seller ID: 23642

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

152 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Yellow and white softcover, 14 pages of ads + 116 pages numbered 126 to 242 + 22 pages of ads, total 152 glossy pages, over 100 b/w photos, 11 color photos of Alsace, a region of France. ; Volume 52, Number 2, August 1927. Contents: Canoeing Canals of Southern France, by Melville Chater. Smiling Alsace, by Gervais Courtellemont. Flying Dirigible Norge over North Pole, by General Umberto Nobile. Stalking Dragon Lizard on Island of Komodo, by W. Douglas Burden. Air Conquest: Growth of Aviation, by Grosvenor. ; Covers show very light wear, some darkening of color, but ...
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National Geographic Magazine, December, 1924 : Puerto Rico ; Cornwall ; Arctic Siberia

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert

Price: $13.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1924

Seller ID: 23520

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

180 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Softcover, pale yellow covers, 32 pages of ads + 120 pages numbered 599 to 718 + 28 pages of ads, total 180 glossy pages, tons of b/w photos and illustrations, 12 full-page full-color photos. ; Volume 46, number 6, December 1924. Contents: Puerto Rico, Gate of Riches, by John Oliver La Gorce, 47 b/w photos and 12 color photos by Charles Martin. A Char-a Bancs in Cornwall, England, by Herber Corey (travels in Cornwall) with 45 b/w photos. With an Exile in Arctic Siberia, by Vladimir M. Zenzinov, 31 b/w photos (Russkoe Ustye, Yakut, Tungu, etc); Very light wear, small...
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National Geographic Magazine, February, 1927 : Maryland Pilgimage ; Aymara Land, Bolivia and Peru ; Peruvian and Bolivian Andes

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1927

Seller ID: 23504

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

194 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; 28 + 124 pages numbered 133 to 256 + 42 pages, total of 194 glossy pages, 112 b/w and 18 color photos, tons of full-page b/w display ads. Laid in, as issued: large folding map of Maryland, Delaware and DC, printed in three colors, dated 1925. ; Volume 50, Number 2, February, 1927. Contents: 1) Maryland Pilgimage: Visits to Hallowed Shrines of Development of American Government, by Gilbert Grosvenor, 88 b/w illustrations. 2) The Heart of Aymara Land: a Visit to Tiahuanacu, Bolivia, Oldest City of the New World, by Stewart E. McMillin, 24 illustrations. 3) High Lights...
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National Geographic Magazine, Volume 52, Number 4, October 1927 : Caravan Across Central Asia ; Italian Island of Sicily ; Latin America from the Air

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert

Price: $14.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1927

Seller ID: 23697

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

208 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Yellow and white softcover, 32 pages of ads + 134 pages numbered 369 to 502 + 42 pages of ads, total 208 glossy pages. ; Topics: By Coolie and Caravan across Central Asia, from Indian Ocean to Yellow Sea, by William J. Morden, 74 b/w photos. Sicily, Italy: Island of Vivid Beauty and Crumbling Glory, by Luigi Pellerano, 22 color photos. How Latin America Looks from the Air, by Major Herbert A. Dargue, 51 b/w photos and map of his route. ; Covers show very light wear. Interior clean, binding tight. Remarkable condition, far better than usual.
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National Geographic Magazine : Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1916 ; Roumania ; Saloniki ; Monasteries of Mount Athos

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert, with John Oliver La Gorce and Harrison Griswold Dwight; Illustrated by Franklin Price Knott

Price: $15.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1916

Seller ID: 22641

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

88 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Softcover, magazine format, 88 glossy pages numbered from 185 to 272, 60 b/w photos, 16 full-color Autochrome photos (mostly Algerian and Tunisian individuals) by Franklin Price Knott. ; Contents: Roumania and its Rubicon, by John Oliver La Gorce, 18 pgs, 11 b/w photos. ; Saloniki (Thessalonica) Greece, by Harrison Griswold Dwight, 30 pgs, 28 b/w photos. ; Monasteries of Mount Athos, Greece, by Dwight, 24 pgs, 25 b/w photos, 1 small map. ; Interior all intact and readable but covers show spots, small chips at heel and crown.
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Battlefields of the Civil War, with Descriptive Notes : National Geographic Map, Atlas Plate 14, April 1961

By: Grosvenor, Melville Bell; Illustrated by James M. Darley

Price: $8.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1961

Seller ID: 22297

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Near Fine

Large folding color map. Reverse has several color maps of specific battles. ; Atlas plate 14, April 1961, stated.
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German Ace Tells Why, a : (Signed) from Kaiserism to Hitlerism

By: Guenther, Leonhard

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Sci-Art Publishers : 1941

Seller ID: 22718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

78 pages; 8vo (8.75") 23 cm; Hardcover, blue moire cloth, 78 pages, a few footnotes. English throughout, with a few words in German and English. ; "Why was Hitler able to obtain and hold the dictatorship fo Germany? In answer to this question the author presents the following document which is the collective expression of typical Germans but especially of one man who has been a high ranking officer in the German Air Force." Foreword by Frederick May Eliot, president, American Unitarian Association. This is a diary of sorts, recording startling changes in Germany's political and economic landsc...
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D-Day : Inside the First Great Invasion of Hilter's Europe, Sicily ! Complete and Unabridged

By: Gunther, John

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Avon Books : 1944

Seller ID: 20257

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

221 pages; 16mo (6.5") 17 cm; Paperback, black and red covers, 221 pages, small b/w map, all edges inked yellow. ; Avon T-239. Copyright 1943. This is 1st paperback edition, complete and unabridged, 1944. ; True story of invasion of Sicily, in southern Italy, precursor to Normany Invasion. ; Lower tip bumped. Otherwise appears unread. Scarce. ; Avon Books T Series; Vol. 239
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Collis ' Zouaves : The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War

By: Hagerty, Edward J.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press : 1997

Seller ID: 24075

ISBN-13: 9780807121993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

357 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, black cloth, [xviii] + 357 pages, index, bibliography, appendix, footnotes, 8 maps, 14 tables, 30 historical b/w photos with captions. ; Colonel Charles Collis recruited this famous regiment of colorfully-uniformed soldiers in 1862 mainly from Philadelphia; its members were older and more highly skilled than the average Union soldier; the regiment participated in many major battles including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Petersburg. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No marks, no major defects. Scarce. ; Laid in: List of U/U Civil War Generals...
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Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore

By: Hall, Joseph S.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Cataloochee Press : 1973

Seller ID: 21466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

72 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Dark green softcover, 72 pages, index, 27 b/w photos with captions. ; Copyright 1960. This is 8th printing, 1973. Topics include: Mountain life. Mountain humor. Squirrel hunting. Bear hunting. Mountain folklore remedies. Smokies dialect and vocabulary. More. ; Only a touch of edgewear.
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Handbook to the Fiordland National Park : New Zealand

By: Hall-Jones, Gerard

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Fiordland National Park Board : 1973

Seller ID: 23336

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

82 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Softcover, 82 pages + 16 plates, small monochrome map, 3 b/w drawings, 3 appendixes, 18 b/w and 17 full-color photos on glossy plates, large two-color fold-out map in rear. ; Originally published 1960. This is 3rd edition, 1973. Foreword by J. P. Harty. ; Fascinating guide to one of New Zealand's oldest and most spectacular national parks. (For Lord of the Rings fans, the River Anduin and Fangorn Forest were shot at Fiordland) ; Covers rubbed. Front cover shows a creaseline but is not actually creased. No other defects.
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When Beaver Was King

By: Hamil, Fred C. ; Illustrated by William T. Woodward

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Wayne State University Press : 1951

Seller ID: 24290

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

20 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Pale gray softcover booklet, 20 pages, 4 b/w illustrations. ; Written by Fred C. Hamil. Illustrated by William T. Woodward. Series edited by Joe L. Norris. ; The fur trade and voyageurs (men who traveled by canoe) in and around Detroit, circa 1600-1800. ; A touch of sunning to edges of covers. Four leaves show foxing to upper tips, not affecting any text. Scarce in any condition. ; 250th Anniversary Detroit History Series; Vol. 8
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Turn Backward, O Time : The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton

By: Hanson, Kathleen S.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Edinborough Press : 2006

Seller ID: 24359

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

160 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Green softcover, [xii] + 148 pages, index, bibliography, lots of footnotes, 5 historical b/w photos and illustrations. ; Edited by Kathleen Hanson, professor of nursing and president, American Association for the History of Nursing. Foreword by M. Patricia Donahue. Diary of one of many unsung nurses who worked on and near battlefields of Civil War. ; A whisper of wear to tips. No other defects.
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Searching for Everardo : A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala

By: Harbury, Jennifer K.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Warner Books : 1997

Seller ID: 20126

ISBN-13: 9780446520362

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

328 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, black and gray boards, [xii] + 328 pages. ; An American human rights activist authored this harrowing true story of the illegal arrest, detention, torture and presumed death of her husband, a resistance leader and Mayan Indian, at the hands of military forces in Guatemala backed by the CIA. ; Only a touch of shelfwear.
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In Commemoration of the Twelfth Anniversary of the City of Southfield

By: Harrison, Beverly

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Manufacturer's Bank : 1970

Seller ID: 19877

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

24 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Brown softcover booklet, 24 unnumbered pages, small map of Southfield Village in 1870, centerfold map of Southfield in 1970, 20 historical b/w photos with captions. ; Foreword by Norman W. Feder. Concise history written by Beverly Harrison. An early suburb of Detroit, Southfield was incorporated as a city in 1958.; Small number penned on inside rear cover. No other defects. Scarce.
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Category: History