Category: History

Confederate Operations in Canada and New York

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books : 1984

Seller ID: 23216

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

480 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, blue-black real leather, 480 pages, image of marching soldiers embossed on front, all edges gilt, red silk page-marker ribbon, marbled endpapers, 16 b/w photos and illustrations. ; Originally published 1906. This edition published by Time Life Books, 1984. ; A wide-ranging history of the Civil War with especial attention paid to Confederate espionage and secret service operations. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No marks, no major defects. ; Laid in, as issued with book: 1) publisher's introductory sheet. 2) publisher's original bookplate. 3) Thomas H. Hine...
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Chronik der Stadt Gau-Algesheim : Chronicles of Gau-Algesheim, Germany

By: Helm, Karl Heinz

Price: $54.00

Publisher: Stadt Gau-Algesheim : 1980

Seller ID: 23775

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

126 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; GERMAN text throughout. Pale green patterned softcover, 126 pages, appendix, coat of arms on front, glossy photo of Stadtrat (city council) on rear page. Main text is a chronology of the city's history. ; Foreword by F. J. Bischel. Festschrift zur 1200 Jahrfeier des Bestehens von Gau-Algesheim und zur 625 Jahrfeier der Verleihung der Stadtrechte (Commemorative Publication on the Occasion of the 1200th Anniversary of Gau-Algesheim [Rheinland-Pfalz] and the 625th Anniversary of the Granting of its City Rights) stated. Originally published 1966. This edition 1980. ; ...
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Deliberate Injustice : The Wrongful Conviction of Ken Wyniemko

By: Henige, Bob

Price: $18.00

Publisher: ZGServe : 2017

Seller ID: 23438

ISBN-13: 9781939909404

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

324 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Black softcover, [xvi] + 324 pages, 4 appendixes, endnotes, 30 b/w photos and facsimiles. ; Wrongfully convicted of rape, Ken Wyniemko was exonerated by DNA and by the hard work of the Innocence Project. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. Title page inscribed and SIGNED by both Bob Henige and Ken Wyniemko.
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Detroit Perspectives : Crossroads and Turning Points

By: Henrickson, Wilma Wood

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Wayne State University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 21240

ISBN-13: 9780814320143

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very 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 edgewear. No marks. Binding tight and square. ; Great Lakes Books Series
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Detroit's 250th Birthday Festival : Official Souvenir Program

By: Henry B. Selleck

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Detroit's 250th Birthday Festival : 1951

Seller ID: 24312

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

64 pages; 4to (11.5") 30 cm; Tall wide softcover, white plastic comb binding, color glossy covers, 180 b/w photos and illustrations. Includes brief historical info, lists of festival officials, corporate sponsors, endorsements, education and other committees, riverfront development plans (City County Building, Cobo Hall, Historical Museum, new libraries, etc) and a detailed calendar with descriptions of many special events (music, sports, parades, international days, etc) ; Sub-subtitle: "Presenting the Complete Story of Preparation, Participation and Commemoration in Pictures and Text." ; Pho...
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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-13: 9780911934175

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: $6.00

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 cameraman w...
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Army Life in a Black Regiment

By: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Time Life Books : 1982

Seller ID: 20164

ISBN-13: 9780809442379

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, traditions, etc, of the African American men under his command, along with giving a...
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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-13: 9780809442379

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, traditions, etc, of the African American men under his command, along with giving a fascin...
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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: $190.00

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 and...
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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 readable. N...
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Hill's New Revised Tourist Map and Guide of Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Addition : Street Cars and Bus Lines

By: Hill, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mitock & Sons : 1951

Seller ID: 23470

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Red softcover enclosing large foldoutmap printed in black and red, with info on streetcars and buses, and with many smallmaps showing details of suburbs. ; Vintage 1950 / 1951 tourist guide to the greater Los Angeles area. ; Edges worn, three city names circled in pen.
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Image for Land and Peoples of the Kasai : Being a Narrative of a Two Years Journey Among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo

Land and Peoples of the Kasai : Being a Narrative of a Two Years Journey Among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo

By: Hilton-Simpson, Melville William; Illustrated by Norman H. Hardy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Constable & Company : 1911

Seller ID: 23456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

356 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark green cloth, color-illustrated pastedown on front, [xx] + 356 pages, top edge gilt, index, 75 halftone (b/w) photos and 8 paintings in full color, all on glossy plates. Some panoramic views, some nudes. Large fold-out two-color map of Kasai Basin, Belgian Congo, affixed to rear page, as issued. ; Includes photos, data and images of a few specimens of crafts collected 1907-1909 by British expedition in Belgian Congo. Complete subtitle: "Being a Narrative of a Two Years Journey Among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of t...
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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. Scarce...
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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-13: 9780923568382

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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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-13: 9780252035579

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 righ...
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Long Day's Journey Into Light, a : School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland

By: Hope, John III

Price: $30.00

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 clean, ...
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Afro American Jeremiad, the : Appeals for Justice in America

By: Howard-Pitney, David

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Temple University Press : 1990

Seller ID: 21455

ISBN-13: 9781566390866

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 apart from small old pricesticker on rear. Appears unused. Scarce.
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We Die Alone : (Complete and Unabridged) a World War II Epic of Escape and Endurance

By: Howarth, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ace Books : 1957

Seller ID: 22794

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

224 pages; 16mo (6.5") 17 cm; Softcover, 224 pages, all edges inked yellow, small b/w map of Baalsrud's route from Toftefjord (Rebbenesoya) at the northern extremities of Finland across the mountains to Sweden. ; Ace F-228. "An epic true story of a man's staggering feat of endurance. Jan Baalsrud, lone survivor of a band of Norwegian resistance fighters, was hunted like a beast, starved, buried alive, blinded by snow, lost in uncharted mountains, yet made good his escape." ; Light wear to edges. Light foxing throughout. One leaf creased at tip. No marks. Binding tight.
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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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Category: History