History from Lippincott Books

Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xix, 485pp. Green cloth, spine and title gilt. Signed by the author. Presents local and state history in the framework of national history with particular reference to the part Maine natives had in the building of the West and South. Includes historic… Read more

Tullamore, Co. Offaly: Esker Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. xxiv, 415 pp. Blue cloth, spine title gilt. Facsimile of first edition with a new introduction by Margaret Hogan. With 20 appendixes. One of the most important historical studies of the Irish Midlands in the 19th century. Slight foxing on top edge. … Read more

London: Lutterworth Press, 1971. Third Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sorrell, Alan. 48 pp. Blue cloth, title gilt. 11x 8". Wonderfully detailed illustrations by Alan Sorrell on almost every page. Previous owner's name and address written neatly on ffep. Near Fine in VG dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by the author, dated, May 30, 1953. Orange cloth; the front board has a line drawing of the Capitol building. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. How George Wahington, Thomas Jefferson and Pierre L'Enfant began the capital city. With stories… Read more

Washington. D.C: Memorial Temple Committee of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 1913. 6th Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto viii, 380 pp. Blue cloth, spine gilt, coat of arms gilt on front board. Color frontispiece portrait, numerous plates, facsimiles of letters, documents, maps. Near Fine

Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 260 pp. grey-black cloth. Number one in the series The Montague History of Oil. A vivid social history of the early Texas oil industry and its tremendous impact on Texas and its people. With 328 black and white photographs. With index. Fine… Read more

New York: Oceana Publications, 1957. Pictorial Card Wrappers. GVG. xii, 227 pp. Prepared under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Includes index.The UN created a United Nations Emergency Force to secure and supervise the cease-fire during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. Based on this experience and the Soviet invasion of Hungary… Read more

London: Merrell, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Photography by Donald Woodman. 308 pp. With index of names. Red cloth, title gilt, printed endpapers. Richly illustrated with b&w and color photographs, one folding. Includes the Heritage Panels. Signed by the author and the photographer on the title page. Laid-in are: Through… Read more

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1973. Tercera [Third] Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiv, 838, [2] pp. With indices. Includes 3 folding plates and 3 color plates with more than 600 black and white illustrations. Dark green cloth, titles embossed gilt. Spanish language text. Light edge wear to book and dustjacket. Oversize book: … Read more

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1976. Cuarta [Fourth] Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. La Conquista, el emirato, y el califato; xliv, 524 pp. Includes numerous black and white illustrations, several color plates, folding time-line and indices. Dark green cloth, titles embossed gilt. Spanish language text. Light edge wear; dustjacket has heavier wear along top edge. … Read more

Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 216 pp. including miscellaneous notes and references. Green cloth, title gilt. With 3 maps, one folding; 15 b&w plates; 1 illustration. Spine slant and cupped front board with just a touch of wear at spine edges; still a clean, tight copy.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Poortvliet, Rien. 250 pp. Tan cloth with titles stamped in red and black, illustrated endpapers. Oblong. Light wear to edges of boards. Poortvliet is well-known for his illustrations of Gnomes. Hand-written text, delightful pen & ink and color illustrations of life… Read more

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World,, 1969. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. viii, 234 pp. With 8 illustrations and a map. Includes appendix, bibliography and index. Slight spine slant, dustjacket spine faded.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition, Signed . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 344 pp. Chronicles Cohen's freshman year in the US Senate, from January to December of 1979. Inscribed on ffep, "For Albert Schiro with best wishes on your birthday Bill Cohen 2/14/81." Cohen was Secretary of Defense during the Clinton administration, the… Read more

Cape Town: Howard B Timmins, 1952. Second Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Good. Charles D'Oyly. 272 pp, with index. Red paper-covered boards, titles stamped in black, illustrated endpapers (by Edith Stocker), 13 illustrations, color frontispiece by Dorelle. Previous owners' names on half-title, verso frontis. Wear at spine edges and along bottom edges. Dustjacket has edge wear… Read more

New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xx, 672 pages, with index. Book would be near fine but for red pencil underlining to several chapters. A touch of thumb soiling, name stamped on front pastedown and on tail edge. Dustjacket has edge wear particularly at spine head. "All the basic principles, current… Read more

Loanhead, Midlothian: The Water of Leith Project Group, 1987. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. C. A. Hope. 196 pp. Gray cloth, spine title gilt, map endpapers. With appendix, tables, maps. Illustrations by C. A. Hope, Ian Temple, James Steele. Price-clipped dustjacket has wear and toning along top edge. Contents include geology, hydrology,… Read more

Hamburg: Junius, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 201, [3] Foreword by Joist Grolle, bibliography. Text in GERMAN. Illustrated with photographs and facsimilie documents.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vi, 448, pp. Includes index. Written between July 1942 and Easter, 1943. The Western allies were just beginning to turn the tide of the war, and Borgese was exploring the shape of a post war world. An anti-Fascist, Borgese had… Read more

'S-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co, 1962. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. 248 pp. Blue cloth, spine titles gilt. With index of names. Bookplate on front pastedown. Crinkled dustjacket repaired with tape on the inside.