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The Fifties
by David Halberstam
"A sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
Hard Times
by Studs Terkel
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.
Americas Books & Ephemera
Fighting Indians in the 7th United States Cavalry Custer's Favourite Regiment
by Ami Frank Mulford
Corning: Paul Lindsley Mulford, 1930. Paperback. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". None. The second edition of A. F. Mulford's detailed account of the 7th Cavalry Regiment's battles during the Indian Wars. The second edition.A vivid account of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, founded in 1866. The Regiment fought in some of the largest battle of the Indian Wars, including the Battle of Little Bighorn, which are detailed in this work.This work provides a first-hand account of the exploits of the U.S. army in the...
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$88.26
Across Unknown South America
by A. Henry Savage-Landor
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Not Stated. A comprehensive documentation of Savage-Landor's time travelling across South America, with his own illustrations, collated and complete. First edition, in the publisher's original blue cloth binding with a decorative gilt motif to the front board.Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with two maps, eight coloured plates and 260 illustrations from photographs by the author. Collated, complete. Arnold Henry...
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$302.59$272.33
Sunshine and Shadow in New York
by Matthew Hale Smith
Hartford: J. B. Burr and Company, 1869. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The second edition of this thorough descriptive guide to New York, highlighting both the good and the bad of the city. The second edition of the work. First published the year prior. In the original publisher's cloth. With a leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.With a frontispiece and eleven further plates. Collated complete. Written by Matthew Hale Smith, a journalist and author, who often wrote under...
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$94.56
FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO (ESTUDIO BIOGRAFICO)
by JAIME OROSA DIAZ
NEW ~ A slim biography of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, famous Revolutionary Governor in Yucatan, Mexico, (covers 1870-1820s) assasinated in 1924. First edition in Coleccion Voces de Yucatan. 82 pp. Edition of 2,000. Bibliography.
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$25.00
Shanty, Forest and River Life in the Backwoods of Canada
by Joshua Fraser
Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1883. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A publisher's sample of this book on the landscape and nature of Canada, with many unprinted leaves. The publisher's sample, with a title page, frontispiece illustration and contents pages, followed by an excerpt of chapter I, IV, X, XIV and XXIII. The rest of the book consists of blank pages only, with nineteen pages bound at the rear for potential buyers to fill in their name, address and how many copies they would...
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$56.74
Modern Mexico
by R J MacHugh
London: Methuen & Co. , 1914. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . The scarce first edition of this Mexican travelogue by R J MacHugh. The first edition of this work, a scarce volume rarely seen in commerce. A travelogue of Mexico based on the author's visit to the country in 1914. With historical notes as well as account on the politics, characteristics, industries, horticulture, railways, &c. Written by R J MacHugh. With illustrations from photographs, a map, and an...
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$44.13
Interpretive Contexts for Traditional and Current Coast Tsimshian Feasts
by Seguin, Margaret
Canadian Ethnology Service, Paper No. 98. vi,114pp. Wraps.
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$35.00
En Amerique De New-York A La Nouvelle-Orleans
by Jules Huret
Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1906. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A handsomely bound early edition of this French travel work regarding the USA by influential French journalist and author Jules Huret. Thirteen thousand. In French. With the original front wrap bound in at the beginning of the work. Jules Huret was a French journalist who rose to notoriety owing to his infamous interviews with writers, including Emile Zola and the five contributors on his work Soirees de...
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$119.78
THE FIFTIES
by HALBERSTAM, David;
New York: Published by Villard Books, 1993. Royal 8vo.pp.x + 801, photographs in colour.index. original quarter cloth with black boards hardcover. Very good. Sweeping social,cultural economic and political history of the fifties in America which Halberstam regards as seminal in determining the USA today.
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$25.99
Extension of the Registration Area for Births and Deaths. A Practical Example of Cooperative Census Methods as Applied to the State of Pennsylvania.
Bureau of the Census Book. Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 51 pages, no publication date but appears to be 1906. Wrappers split..
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$32.00
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836 describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. Volumes I and II.
by Fitzroy, Capt. Robert; King, Capt. Philip Parker; Darwin, Charles
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first two volumes of the four volume set. Volume I - Proceedings of the First Expedition. 1826-1830 under command of Captain P. Parker King. xxviii, 2 l., 597pp; Vol. II. - Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-1836 under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy. xiv, 1 l., 694p, addenda, 41 plates including 2 frontispieces, lacking the four loose folding maps (2 maps in each volume)...
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$3,000.00
To Make My Name Good
by Drucker, Philip & Robert F. Heizer
160pp. Bib., Index. Cloth, lightly soiled, price-clipped d.j. o/w a very good copy.
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$45.00
The Bella Coola Indians, 2 vols.
by T. McIlwraith
Ottawa, Canada: University of Toronto Press. With a New Introduction by John Barker. Stout 8vo. xlviii,763pp.,672pp., 22 plates. Appendixes, Index. Wraps. Neat blue ink notations in the Introduction and Preface, otherwise in Fine condition.This 2-volume set requires additional freight and insurance. Please inquire.
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$165.00
Through the United States of America and Canada
by John Kerr Campbell
London: S. W. Partridge & Co, 1886. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A very scarce signed first edition travel work following the author through North America, the author's presentation copy. A very scarce work, last sold at auction in 1911.The first edition.Signed by the author to the half-title, 'With the author's compliments'. The travel record of John Kerr Campbell, recounting his explorations of the United States and Canada in the autumn of 1885, told through a series of...
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$1,248.19$1,123.37
A Musical View of the Universe; Kalapalo Myth & Ritual Performances
by Basso, Ellen B
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. 8vo. xv, 343(1), 18 illus., 9 tables, Appendixes, Notes, Bib., Indexes. Cloth, d.j. Fine/Fine
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$38.00
Antiquities of the Southern Indians Particularly of the Georgia Tribes
by Charles C Jones
New York: D Appleton and Company, 1873. Cloth. Fair. 9.5" by 6". Not Stated. An interesting illustrated work on the indigenous people of Georgia, America. Written by Charles Colock Jones Jr. a Georgia politician and attorney. He wrote several notable works on the history of Georgia and the native people. Collated, complete with all thirty plates. This work discusses the culture of the 'Indians' such as their marriage, divorce, music, graves, weapons etc. He also describes the locations of...
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$100.86
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England 1580-1631
by Edward Arber [Ed.]; A. G. Bradley [Intro.]
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1910. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 6.5". None. Facsimiles of the writings of John Smith, the first English colonial governor in North America The writings of English solider and explorer John Smith. Smith played an important role in the establishment the first permanent English settlement in North American in a colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in the early 17th century. Following A.G. Bradley's critical and biographical introduction to John Smith, and another introduction by...
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$123.56
A Frenchman in America (The Anglo-Saxon Race Revisited)
by Max O'Rell
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1891. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". E. W. Kemble. A charming edition of this travel work by Max O'Rell, copiously illustrated with 'upwards of 130 illustrations' by E.W. Kemble. Max O'Rell, the pseudonym of Leon Paul Blouet, was a French author and journalist best known for his works which provided observations and comparisons of Anglo-American and French culture. This text details the incredibly successful author's lecturing tour around the United States, where he was...
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$88.26
A Guide to the Civil War Maps in the National Archives
by National Archives
The National Archives, 1986. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xv, 139 pages, b/w illustrations. Clean ex-library copy.
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$20.00
New America
by William Hepworth Dixon
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & CO, 1867 . Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A scarce, early edition of this study of America, by English historian, William Hepworth Dixon. Third edition of the work, in the publisher's original brown cloth. First published in the same year. Complete in one volume. Written by English historian and prolific traveller, William Hepworth Dixon. This work follows Dixon's exploration of 'New' America, with chapters on Kansas, Sierra Madre, the Western country and a...
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$94.56
Directory and Soldiers' Register of Wayne County, Indiana
by Power, J.C. (editor)
Richmond, Indiana: W.H. Lanthurn, 1865. Book. Good. Black Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 484 pages, many advertisements by local businesses. Original binding, foxing on some pages, no map, damage to front bottom corner, Japanese tissue paper on rear gutter. .
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$325.00
North American Excursion
by Ernest Young
London: Edward Arnold and Co, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 10" by 6". Various. A first edition copy of Ernest Young's 'North American Excursion', complete with original dustwrapper. This is the first edition of the author's account of his extensive travels through North America and Canada. Copiously illustrated throughout with map endpapers, photographic plates and in text illustrations. Full red cloth binding with gilt titles to the spine. The contents are grouped under four...
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$31.51
McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of & a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal By McLuhan
by Stearn, Gerald Emanuel (editor)
New York: Dial Press, 1967. 2nd printing. Tight, square and unmarked. Quarter cloth binding. 312pp. Contributions by Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Howard Gossage, Harold Rosenberg, George Steiner, and Tom Wolfe. Jacket is good only, well rubbed and with spine sunned to pale. Now in a new mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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$20.00
Nouveau Voyage d'un Pais plus grand que L'Europe Avec les reflections de enterprises du Sieur de la Salle, fur les Mines de St Barbe &c
by R P Louis Hennepin
Utrecht: Antoine Schouten, 1698. First edition. Leather. Good. 5.5" by 3". None. A first edition of this work by Louis Hennepin. With three engraved plates and one folding map. Lacking one plate and one map as is quite common - may have been bound without it. Printed in original French. Louis Hennepin was a catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollect order and an explorer of the interior of North America. This is a continuation of his work from the previous year, in which Hennepin...
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$4,538.88$4,084.99
Meteorological Stations and Observers of the Smithsonian Institution in North America and Adjacent Islands.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1869. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 42 pages, disbound from a larger volume, lacking rear cover..
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$78.00
