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	Visual History Wall Maps (set of 10 in Folder with Teacher's Guide) Washington, D.C., Civic Education Service, 1966. Soft Cover, Like New/VG Folder, Beautiful, colorful collection of pictorial wall maps designed for classroom use. Appear to have never been used and all fit snugly in specially designed blue accordian folder with silver printing to face. Includes teacher guide. Maps include: Exploration and Discovery, which covers early explorers such as Pizarro, Columbus, de Soto etc.; Colonization which covers the original 13 colonies, fur trading, and Native Americans; the American Revolution; the Western Frontier; American Indians; Immigration; A House Divided, which covers the period leading up to the Civil War; the Civil War; Literary America which focuses on authors such as Benet, Alcott, Iriving, Melville, Whitman, Twain, Faulkner, Ferber, etc.; and 20th Century America which covers the high points up to the Civil Rights era. Maps measure 28"x37" USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 15407 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ABDILL, GEORGE B. Rails West , Bonanza Books, 1960. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. No Edition Stated, Likely First. 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. Nice, super-clean copy. DJ displays only a bit of edgewear top and bottom as well as a few tiny tears to same areas, all of which have been neatly reenforced from inside to prevent major damage. One small chip at upper rear near spine and a bit of soiling to rear white cover, but overall very nice for age. Filled with page after page of black and white photos of vintage trains. As it says on the front, "A collector's album of a vanishing era in railroadiana." Includes wonderful incidents and biographies in addition to the marvellous pictures. Volume three of a train trilogy, but works as a stand-alone as well. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3446 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ALBERT, ALPHAEUS H. Record of American Uniform & Historical Buttons: Bicentennial Edition Fairfax, Virginia, SCS Publications, 1976, Bicentennial Edition. (ISBN: 0961358173) Hard Cover, New/No DJ, as Issued, Crisp, beautiful, BRAND NEW copy still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Navy boards sport much gilt to face and spine. Text printed on high quality paper and lavishly illustrated. "A definitive listing of the buttons depicting the insignia of the armed forces and famous regiments, governmental, service and veteran organizations, educational and military trainign institutions, the State seals, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate armed forces, the caricatures and slogans of political campaigns including those of Washington's Inauguration, with illustrations and relative values." 511 pages. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 12,048A Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ALDER, HENRY CLAY Jonathan Alders Indian Captivity and His Narrative Pataskala, Ohio, Brockston Publishing, 1994, First Edition Thus. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall, Fine/Wraps, Near Fine, Very scarce, modestly printed book in pristine condition with no spine crease. 56 pages as told by the son of Jonathan Alders. The original manuscript was thought lost, but surfaced in 1930 and came into the collection of the Ohio Historical Society. Here it has been reprinted in its entirety to tell the story of a man born in Virginia in the late 1700's, taken captive by Indians and transported to the area that is now Madison County, Ohio. 57 pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 12,975 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ANDERSON, JANET ALM Bounty, A Harvest Of Food Lore And Country Memories From Utah's Past, , Pruett Publishing, Boulder, Colorado, 1990. /, ISBN:0871088029. First edition. Fine book with attractive deep green boards in VG DJ exhibiting only one crease at front endflap. Has not been price-clipped. Illustrated with both photos and drawings. An oral history that shines with anecdotes, recipes and old time remedies. Two things which struck us were the recipe for fudge using Velveeta cheese (maybe you have to try it!) and the instructions for canning baked potatoes! Wonderful, quirky book. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 1488 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ARNOLD, SAMUEL P., ARNOLD, CARRIE F. (ILLUSTRATOR) Eating up the Santa Fe Trail , Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: University Press of Colorado, 1990. /, Soft Cover. Fine/Wraps, Fine. Later Printing. 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. Crsip BRAND NEW book. A renowned food historian guides the reader along the Santa Fe Trail during the heydey of the Old West to see what folks were eating. In their own words, the trailblazers give the skinny on cooking such culinary pleasures as elk, buffalo, crane, and jerked meat stew. You'll also learn about the role of alcohol and even how to make your own Injun Whiskey which requires black gunpowder, red pepper and tobacco juice! A fun read. 130 pages. Indexed. We own four like copies. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 10,949DA Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ARNOLD, ELEANOR (EDITOR) Girlhood Days; Fourth in the Series Memories of Hoosier Homemakers , The Indiana Extension Homemakers Association, 1987, No Edition Stated. Soft Cover, Fine/Wraps, Near Fine, Crisp, clearly new copy with just a tiny crease to lower front corner. Part of an oral history project in which eldlerly Indiana women shared their experiences of growing up in rural areas. Photo illustrated, including some of the contributors during childhood. Covers, family life, school, health and community life. Done in Q&A format. 202 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 800] Book number: 13215 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	AUTHELET, JACK; FOXBOROUGH HISTORICAL COMMISSION Foxborough, MA : Gem of Norfolk County (Making of America Ser.) Mount Pleasant, SC, U.S.A., Arcadia Publishing, 2001, No Edition Stated. (ISBN: 0738523607) Soft Cover, Fine/Wraps, Fine, Crisp, beautiful copy. Pristine pages with no writing. NOT a remainder. Illustrated throughout with vintage photos. Part of a series called "The Making of America." A highly readable account of one village's growth from its settlement in the 1600's to the present. 160 pages. Indexed. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 12,678 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	NO AUTHOR American Antiquarian Society, A Statement by the Council, 1926 , Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1926. /, Soft Cover. Very Good/Wraps, Very Good. No Edition Stated. The American Antiquarian Society, founded in 1812, remains a national research library covering American history, literature, and culture through 1876. This wonderful offering is actually two pieces in one. The larger brochure, bound with green thread, measures 8x10" and includes a photo of the library on the front cover and an exceptionally nice 5x7" photograph of the interior of the building tipped in on reverse side. Text consists of "the state of the union" based on the Annual Meeting held October 15, 1924 and provides interesting data about the library's budget, acqusitions, needs and directors, one of whom was William Howard Taft. Printed on high quality paper with rough cut edges. The second offering, entitled "American Antiquarian Scoeity Circular of Information," a four page brochure with additional information, is laid in. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 9391 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	NO AUTHOR An Englishman's Home; Chartwell Princeton, New Jersey, Films for the Humanities, Inc., 1987. As New/Case, As New, Very gently used video in case -- no defect of note. Part of a series of ten videos dedicated to the beautiful manor houses of England with stories told by their present owners and/or descendents of those who built the historic treasures. This video is narrated by Mary Churchill, whose father, the great Winston Churchill, purchased the home in 1922, the year of her birth. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 13479 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	NO AUTHOR National Geographic Video Classics: Secrets of the Titanic Washington D.C., National Geographic, 1993. (ISBN: 0792226038) , New/, Brand new copy, still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film offers amazing footage of the wreck of the Titanic, discovered by Dr. Robert Ballard and his team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Running time is 60 minutes. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1245] Book number: 13965 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORD The Journal of Interdisciplinary History , Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995. /, Soft Cover. Fine/Wraps, Fine. Autumn 1995, Volume XXVI, Number 2. As new copy. Articles include Meeting Needs and Suppressing Desires: Consumer Choice Models and Historical Data by Anne McCants; A Culture of Poverty? The St. Martin in the Fields Workhouse, 1817 by Lynn MacKay; "To Die in the Term" The Mortality of English Barristers by R.A, Houston and W.A. Priest; and Russian Social History: A New Lease On Life? by Don K. Rowney. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 622] Book number: 8922 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORS Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XCII, 1896 New York, Harper's Monthly, 1896. Full-Leather, Good/No DJ, as Issued, The date on the spine says 1896, but book actually begins with the Christmas issue of 1895 -- and what an issue it is with sketches by the incomparable artist, Howard Pyle, perhaps best known for his pirate book.This is a massive volume, leatherbound, with wonderful decorative edges all around. In its pages you will find a little bit of everything -- history, humor, fiction, even the occasional play or poem. Kate Douglas Wiggin can be found, as can a piece on George Washington by Woodrow Wilson, an article by Theodore Roosevelt on military history and a really great long piece continued over several issues entitled "On Snow Shoes To The Barren Grounds," by Caspar Whitney which has superb illustrations and takes the reader on a first person journey through the land of the Cree, Blackfoot and Sarcee Indians. Book is remarkably clean with a reneforced binding and great book feel. A few early pages have loosened at top and there is one section of four at center that came loose altogether, but we have very nicely tipped it inl. A whopping 976 pages with lots of illustration and a special section featuring holiday books by Harper & Brothers. Fascinating primary source for the historian and just fun for everybody else USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 8906 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORS A Schoolchildren's History of the Firelands New London, Ohio, New London Area Historical Society, 1989, No Edition Stated, Likely First. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall, Very Good/No DJ, Likely as Issued, Very clean copy. Handsome blue boards with gilt to spine -- no visible wear. Pages clean. A compendium of stories for children about early Ohio historical events in the towns of New London, Calrksfield, Fitchville, Rochester, and Ruggles, all of which make up the southeast corner of the Firelands. Illustrated with drawings. 82 pages, plus index. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 12,903 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORS Western Reserve Studies Symposium; Time's Passage, The Social and Cultural Seasons of Western Reserve Life Cleveland, Ohio, The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1989, No Edition Stated, Likely First. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall, Very Good/Wraps, Very Good, Very nice, clean, tightly bound copy. Spiral bound to lie flat. A few errant marks to rear cover and highlighting to a few pages of first article. Published in conjunction with a conference held in November, 1989. A compilation of speeches given throughout the day by speakers covering various aspects of Western Reserve history. Topics include, but are not limited to, Central European immigrants, welfare institutions and organized charities, the Trumbull County wooden clock industry, the 19th century glass industry in NE Ohio, the Commerical Bank of Lake Erie in the 1830's, commerical photographers in Akron between 1850-1900, family planning, the arts, children's literature, Justin Holland, Marcus Alonzo Hanna and much more. A thick, meaty volume. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 13153 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BALCHIN, W.G.V. The Country Life Book of the Living History of Britain , Country Life Books, 1981. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Beautiful copy in mylar. No chips or tears and has not been price-clipped. Only defect is light browning to top and bottom edges of DJ. Lavishly illustrated in full color with photos, drawings and maps. Over 700 images. A complete history covering Great Britain before man to the post-industrial era following WWII. 256 pages. Indexed. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 8599 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BASHKINA, NINA N. ET AL (EDITORS) The United States and Russia ; The Beginning of Relations 1765-1815 Washington D.C., U.S. Department of State, No Edition Stated, Likely First. Hard Cover with dust jacket, Very Good/Good, Very nice copy. Very clean text and page edges white as snow. Dustjacket shows a small bit of corner wear and a few tiny edge tears, but is most handsome in brand new protective mylar. Small repaired surface tear to paper at front pastedown. Illustrated with photos, sketches, facsimiles and maps. The first joint Soviet-American publication of its kind containing archival material from both countries. A mounumental work of 1184 pages. Indexed. Reprinted in 1980 by the Government Printing Office. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 \| £UK 21 \| JP¥ 3112] Book number: 12,472 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BETCHERMAN, LITA-ROSE Court Lady And Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters In Seventeenth-century England New York, William Morrow & Co, 2005, First Printing. (ISBN: 0060762888) Hard Cover, Fine/Near Fine, Criso, as new copy. Pages and page edges pristine. Dustjacket is likewise cleana nd attractive and has not been price-clipped. Only defect is small wrinkle to upper rear corner, nearly invisivile in brand new mylar cover. Information about book from publisher laid-in. The author explores the world of upper class women in 17th century Britain through the lives of two real-life sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy. 384 pages. Indexed. Illustrated in color at center of book with beautiful portraits of some of those figured in the book. USD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1152] Book number: 14746 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN "The Rest of Us," The Rise of America's Eastern Jews , Little Brown, 1984. /, Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Third Edition. ISBN:0-316-09647-4. Beautiful copy which has not been price-clipped. Only defect to book itself is a stamp on title page showing previous ownership by the literacy program, Project Learn. DJ has no tears or chips and is clean and bright. The third volume in Birmingham's Jewish trptych, this one centering on the story of the Eastern European Jews who thonged New York Harbor from 1882-1915 to escape the pogroms. 392 pages. Indexed. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 6037 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BLOODWORTH, DENNIS The Chinese Looking Glass , Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1967. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Nice, clean, attractive copy which has not been price-clipped. Only defect to book itself is minor bumping to rear corners. DJ is without tears or chips, but does display light stain to bottom rear edge. Looks great in protective mylar. Contains laid-in magazine article from Look magazine dated July 11, 1967 entitled "Why Vietnam Worries The Russians."The book's author was the Far East correspondent for the London Observer and writes with clarity not only China's history, but what made the country tick at the time, what motivated Mao, how the Chinese felt about the West and what inspired Chinese youth. 432 pages. Indexed. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 5520 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BLUNT, WILFRID The Dream King, Ludwig of Bavaria , The Viking Press, 1970. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Clean, lovely copy in protective mylar. Just a touch of edgwear. Has not been price-clipped. Quality printed on slick paper and lavishly illustrated throughout, including many color plates and some color spreads. The author illuminates a man once called "the only true king of our century" -- his extravagant, romantic life and tragic death, his passion for music, architecture and the arts. 264 pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 6487 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BOLES, JOHN B., MANAGING EDITOR The Journal of Southern History (August 1997) , The Southern Historical Association, 1997, Volume LXIII, No. 3. Soft Cover, Very Good/Wraps, Very Good, Crisp,clean copy with pristine pages and no spine crease. Only defect is flat crease to one page corner. Issue's theme appears to be slavery. Major articles include: "The Limits of Antislavery Thought in the Revolutionary Lower South: John Laurens and Henry Laurens" by Gregory D. Massey; "Saint Domingue in Virginia: Ideology, Local Meanings and Resistance to Slavery 1790-1800" by James Sidbury; "Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South: Manners and Massacres in Danville, Virginia" by Jane Dailey; and "Bogalusa Burning: The War Against Biracial Unionism in the Deep South 1919" by Stephen H. Norwood. Numerous issues available. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 13963 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BOLES, JOHN B., MANAGING EDITOR The Journal of Southern History (May, 1997) , The Southern Historical Association, 1997, Volume LXIII, No. 2. Soft Cover, Very Good/Wraps, Very Good, Crisp,clean copy with no spine crease. Major articles include: "Autonomy and the Female Planter in Colonial South Carolina"; Fatherhood in the Confederacy: Southern Soldiers and Their Children"; and "We Have found A Moses, Theodore Bilbo, Black Nationalism, and the Greater Liberia Bill of 1939". Numerous issues available. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 13964 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BONDS, RAY, EDITOR The Illustrated Directory of Modern Weapons , New York: Crescent Books, 1985. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Nice copy -- very clean. Only real defect is gift inscription on front endpaper. Over 600 weapons -- warplanes, tanks, missiles, warships, artillery and small arms --are described in great detail. Also includes over 600 illustrations, most in full color. Book was originally published in London by Salamander Books Ltd. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 5922 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BORN, JOHN D., EDITOR, The American Spectrum, A Documentary History To 1865, , Davis Publishing, Waco, Texas, 1968. /, No edition stated, probable first. Hardbound in VG clean condition. No DJ. Brown boards with gold lettering and eagle design. Minor wear at crown and tail of spine and a bit of scuffing to boards. Otherwise good. Early American History. The book is divided into six sections: The age of exploration and discovery; life in colonial America; revolution, confederation and consolidation; the age of the Virginians; democracy, expansion and reform and sectionalism, slavery and Civil War. 310 pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2245 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.

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	Visual History Wall Maps (set of 10 in Folder with Teacher's Guide) Washington, D.C., Civic Education Service, 1966. Soft Cover, Like New/VG Folder, Beautiful, colorful collection of pictorial wall maps designed for classroom use. Appear to have never been used and all fit snugly in specially designed blue accordian folder with silver printing to face. Includes teacher guide. Maps include: Exploration and Discovery, which covers early explorers such as Pizarro, Columbus, de Soto etc.; Colonization which covers the original 13 colonies, fur trading, and Native Americans; the American Revolution; the Western Frontier; American Indians; Immigration; A House Divided, which covers the period leading up to the Civil War; the Civil War; Literary America which focuses on authors such as Benet, Alcott, Iriving, Melville, Whitman, Twain, Faulkner, Ferber, etc.; and 20th Century America which covers the high points up to the Civil Rights era. Maps measure 28"x37" USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 15407 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ABDILL, GEORGE B. Rails West , Bonanza Books, 1960. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. No Edition Stated, Likely First. 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. Nice, super-clean copy. DJ displays only a bit of edgewear top and bottom as well as a few tiny tears to same areas, all of which have been neatly reenforced from inside to prevent major damage. One small chip at upper rear near spine and a bit of soiling to rear white cover, but overall very nice for age. Filled with page after page of black and white photos of vintage trains. As it says on the front, "A collector's album of a vanishing era in railroadiana." Includes wonderful incidents and biographies in addition to the marvellous pictures. Volume three of a train trilogy, but works as a stand-alone as well. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3446 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ALBERT, ALPHAEUS H. Record of American Uniform & Historical Buttons: Bicentennial Edition Fairfax, Virginia, SCS Publications, 1976, Bicentennial Edition. (ISBN: 0961358173) Hard Cover, New/No DJ, as Issued, Crisp, beautiful, BRAND NEW copy still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Navy boards sport much gilt to face and spine. Text printed on high quality paper and lavishly illustrated. "A definitive listing of the buttons depicting the insignia of the armed forces and famous regiments, governmental, service and veteran organizations, educational and military trainign institutions, the State seals, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate armed forces, the caricatures and slogans of political campaigns including those of Washington's Inauguration, with illustrations and relative values." 511 pages. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 12,048A Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ALDER, HENRY CLAY Jonathan Alders Indian Captivity and His Narrative Pataskala, Ohio, Brockston Publishing, 1994, First Edition Thus. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall, Fine/Wraps, Near Fine, Very scarce, modestly printed book in pristine condition with no spine crease. 56 pages as told by the son of Jonathan Alders. The original manuscript was thought lost, but surfaced in 1930 and came into the collection of the Ohio Historical Society. Here it has been reprinted in its entirety to tell the story of a man born in Virginia in the late 1700's, taken captive by Indians and transported to the area that is now Madison County, Ohio. 57 pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 12,975 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ANDERSON, JANET ALM Bounty, A Harvest Of Food Lore And Country Memories From Utah's Past, , Pruett Publishing, Boulder, Colorado, 1990. /, ISBN:0871088029. First edition. Fine book with attractive deep green boards in VG DJ exhibiting only one crease at front endflap. Has not been price-clipped. Illustrated with both photos and drawings. An oral history that shines with anecdotes, recipes and old time remedies. Two things which struck us were the recipe for fudge using Velveeta cheese (maybe you have to try it!) and the instructions for canning baked potatoes! Wonderful, quirky book. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 1488 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ARNOLD, SAMUEL P., ARNOLD, CARRIE F. (ILLUSTRATOR) Eating up the Santa Fe Trail , Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: University Press of Colorado, 1990. /, Soft Cover. Fine/Wraps, Fine. Later Printing. 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. Crsip BRAND NEW book. A renowned food historian guides the reader along the Santa Fe Trail during the heydey of the Old West to see what folks were eating. In their own words, the trailblazers give the skinny on cooking such culinary pleasures as elk, buffalo, crane, and jerked meat stew. You'll also learn about the role of alcohol and even how to make your own Injun Whiskey which requires black gunpowder, red pepper and tobacco juice! A fun read. 130 pages. Indexed. We own four like copies. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 10,949DA Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	ARNOLD, ELEANOR (EDITOR) Girlhood Days; Fourth in the Series Memories of Hoosier Homemakers , The Indiana Extension Homemakers Association, 1987, No Edition Stated. Soft Cover, Fine/Wraps, Near Fine, Crisp, clearly new copy with just a tiny crease to lower front corner. Part of an oral history project in which eldlerly Indiana women shared their experiences of growing up in rural areas. Photo illustrated, including some of the contributors during childhood. Covers, family life, school, health and community life. Done in Q&A format. 202 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 800] Book number: 13215 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	AUTHELET, JACK; FOXBOROUGH HISTORICAL COMMISSION Foxborough, MA : Gem of Norfolk County (Making of America Ser.) Mount Pleasant, SC, U.S.A., Arcadia Publishing, 2001, No Edition Stated. (ISBN: 0738523607) Soft Cover, Fine/Wraps, Fine, Crisp, beautiful copy. Pristine pages with no writing. NOT a remainder. Illustrated throughout with vintage photos. Part of a series called "The Making of America." A highly readable account of one village's growth from its settlement in the 1600's to the present. 160 pages. Indexed. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 12,678 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	NO AUTHOR American Antiquarian Society, A Statement by the Council, 1926 , Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1926. /, Soft Cover. Very Good/Wraps, Very Good. No Edition Stated. The American Antiquarian Society, founded in 1812, remains a national research library covering American history, literature, and culture through 1876. This wonderful offering is actually two pieces in one. The larger brochure, bound with green thread, measures 8x10" and includes a photo of the library on the front cover and an exceptionally nice 5x7" photograph of the interior of the building tipped in on reverse side. Text consists of "the state of the union" based on the Annual Meeting held October 15, 1924 and provides interesting data about the library's budget, acqusitions, needs and directors, one of whom was William Howard Taft. Printed on high quality paper with rough cut edges. The second offering, entitled "American Antiquarian Scoeity Circular of Information," a four page brochure with additional information, is laid in. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 9391 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	NO AUTHOR An Englishman's Home; Chartwell Princeton, New Jersey, Films for the Humanities, Inc., 1987. As New/Case, As New, Very gently used video in case -- no defect of note. Part of a series of ten videos dedicated to the beautiful manor houses of England with stories told by their present owners and/or descendents of those who built the historic treasures. This video is narrated by Mary Churchill, whose father, the great Winston Churchill, purchased the home in 1922, the year of her birth. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 13479 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	NO AUTHOR National Geographic Video Classics: Secrets of the Titanic Washington D.C., National Geographic, 1993. (ISBN: 0792226038) , New/, Brand new copy, still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film offers amazing footage of the wreck of the Titanic, discovered by Dr. Robert Ballard and his team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Running time is 60 minutes. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1245] Book number: 13965 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORD The Journal of Interdisciplinary History , Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995. /, Soft Cover. Fine/Wraps, Fine. Autumn 1995, Volume XXVI, Number 2. As new copy. Articles include Meeting Needs and Suppressing Desires: Consumer Choice Models and Historical Data by Anne McCants; A Culture of Poverty? The St. Martin in the Fields Workhouse, 1817 by Lynn MacKay; "To Die in the Term" The Mortality of English Barristers by R.A, Houston and W.A. Priest; and Russian Social History: A New Lease On Life? by Don K. Rowney. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 622] Book number: 8922 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORS Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XCII, 1896 New York, Harper's Monthly, 1896. Full-Leather, Good/No DJ, as Issued, The date on the spine says 1896, but book actually begins with the Christmas issue of 1895 -- and what an issue it is with sketches by the incomparable artist, Howard Pyle, perhaps best known for his pirate book.This is a massive volume, leatherbound, with wonderful decorative edges all around. In its pages you will find a little bit of everything -- history, humor, fiction, even the occasional play or poem. Kate Douglas Wiggin can be found, as can a piece on George Washington by Woodrow Wilson, an article by Theodore Roosevelt on military history and a really great long piece continued over several issues entitled "On Snow Shoes To The Barren Grounds," by Caspar Whitney which has superb illustrations and takes the reader on a first person journey through the land of the Cree, Blackfoot and Sarcee Indians. Book is remarkably clean with a reneforced binding and great book feel. A few early pages have loosened at top and there is one section of four at center that came loose altogether, but we have very nicely tipped it inl. A whopping 976 pages with lots of illustration and a special section featuring holiday books by Harper & Brothers. Fascinating primary source for the historian and just fun for everybody else USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 8906 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORS A Schoolchildren's History of the Firelands New London, Ohio, New London Area Historical Society, 1989, No Edition Stated, Likely First. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall, Very Good/No DJ, Likely as Issued, Very clean copy. Handsome blue boards with gilt to spine -- no visible wear. Pages clean. A compendium of stories for children about early Ohio historical events in the towns of New London, Calrksfield, Fitchville, Rochester, and Ruggles, all of which make up the southeast corner of the Firelands. Illustrated with drawings. 82 pages, plus index. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 12,903 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	MULTIPLE AUTHORS Western Reserve Studies Symposium; Time's Passage, The Social and Cultural Seasons of Western Reserve Life Cleveland, Ohio, The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1989, No Edition Stated, Likely First. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall, Very Good/Wraps, Very Good, Very nice, clean, tightly bound copy. Spiral bound to lie flat. A few errant marks to rear cover and highlighting to a few pages of first article. Published in conjunction with a conference held in November, 1989. A compilation of speeches given throughout the day by speakers covering various aspects of Western Reserve history. Topics include, but are not limited to, Central European immigrants, welfare institutions and organized charities, the Trumbull County wooden clock industry, the 19th century glass industry in NE Ohio, the Commerical Bank of Lake Erie in the 1830's, commerical photographers in Akron between 1850-1900, family planning, the arts, children's literature, Justin Holland, Marcus Alonzo Hanna and much more. A thick, meaty volume. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 13153 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BALCHIN, W.G.V. The Country Life Book of the Living History of Britain , Country Life Books, 1981. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Beautiful copy in mylar. No chips or tears and has not been price-clipped. Only defect is light browning to top and bottom edges of DJ. Lavishly illustrated in full color with photos, drawings and maps. Over 700 images. A complete history covering Great Britain before man to the post-industrial era following WWII. 256 pages. Indexed. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 8599 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BASHKINA, NINA N. ET AL (EDITORS) The United States and Russia ; The Beginning of Relations 1765-1815 Washington D.C., U.S. Department of State, No Edition Stated, Likely First. Hard Cover with dust jacket, Very Good/Good, Very nice copy. Very clean text and page edges white as snow. Dustjacket shows a small bit of corner wear and a few tiny edge tears, but is most handsome in brand new protective mylar. Small repaired surface tear to paper at front pastedown. Illustrated with photos, sketches, facsimiles and maps. The first joint Soviet-American publication of its kind containing archival material from both countries. A mounumental work of 1184 pages. Indexed. Reprinted in 1980 by the Government Printing Office. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 \| £UK 21 \| JP¥ 3112] Book number: 12,472 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BETCHERMAN, LITA-ROSE Court Lady And Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters In Seventeenth-century England New York, William Morrow & Co, 2005, First Printing. (ISBN: 0060762888) Hard Cover, Fine/Near Fine, Criso, as new copy. Pages and page edges pristine. Dustjacket is likewise cleana nd attractive and has not been price-clipped. Only defect is small wrinkle to upper rear corner, nearly invisivile in brand new mylar cover. Information about book from publisher laid-in. The author explores the world of upper class women in 17th century Britain through the lives of two real-life sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy. 384 pages. Indexed. Illustrated in color at center of book with beautiful portraits of some of those figured in the book. USD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1152] Book number: 14746 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN "The Rest of Us," The Rise of America's Eastern Jews , Little Brown, 1984. /, Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Third Edition. ISBN:0-316-09647-4. Beautiful copy which has not been price-clipped. Only defect to book itself is a stamp on title page showing previous ownership by the literacy program, Project Learn. DJ has no tears or chips and is clean and bright. The third volume in Birmingham's Jewish trptych, this one centering on the story of the Eastern European Jews who thonged New York Harbor from 1882-1915 to escape the pogroms. 392 pages. Indexed. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 6037 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BLOODWORTH, DENNIS The Chinese Looking Glass , Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1967. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Nice, clean, attractive copy which has not been price-clipped. Only defect to book itself is minor bumping to rear corners. DJ is without tears or chips, but does display light stain to bottom rear edge. Looks great in protective mylar. Contains laid-in magazine article from Look magazine dated July 11, 1967 entitled "Why Vietnam Worries The Russians."The book's author was the Far East correspondent for the London Observer and writes with clarity not only China's history, but what made the country tick at the time, what motivated Mao, how the Chinese felt about the West and what inspired Chinese youth. 432 pages. Indexed. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 5520 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BLUNT, WILFRID The Dream King, Ludwig of Bavaria , The Viking Press, 1970. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Clean, lovely copy in protective mylar. Just a touch of edgwear. Has not been price-clipped. Quality printed on slick paper and lavishly illustrated throughout, including many color plates and some color spreads. The author illuminates a man once called "the only true king of our century" -- his extravagant, romantic life and tragic death, his passion for music, architecture and the arts. 264 pages. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1601] Book number: 6487 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BOLES, JOHN B., MANAGING EDITOR The Journal of Southern History (August 1997) , The Southern Historical Association, 1997, Volume LXIII, No. 3. Soft Cover, Very Good/Wraps, Very Good, Crisp,clean copy with pristine pages and no spine crease. Only defect is flat crease to one page corner. Issue's theme appears to be slavery. Major articles include: "The Limits of Antislavery Thought in the Revolutionary Lower South: John Laurens and Henry Laurens" by Gregory D. Massey; "Saint Domingue in Virginia: Ideology, Local Meanings and Resistance to Slavery 1790-1800" by James Sidbury; "Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South: Manners and Massacres in Danville, Virginia" by Jane Dailey; and "Bogalusa Burning: The War Against Biracial Unionism in the Deep South 1919" by Stephen H. Norwood. Numerous issues available. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 13963 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BOLES, JOHN B., MANAGING EDITOR The Journal of Southern History (May, 1997) , The Southern Historical Association, 1997, Volume LXIII, No. 2. Soft Cover, Very Good/Wraps, Very Good, Crisp,clean copy with no spine crease. Major articles include: "Autonomy and the Female Planter in Colonial South Carolina"; Fatherhood in the Confederacy: Southern Soldiers and Their Children"; and "We Have found A Moses, Theodore Bilbo, Black Nationalism, and the Greater Liberia Bill of 1939". Numerous issues available. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: 13964 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BONDS, RAY, EDITOR The Illustrated Directory of Modern Weapons , New York: Crescent Books, 1985. /, Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Nice copy -- very clean. Only real defect is gift inscription on front endpaper. Over 600 weapons -- warplanes, tanks, missiles, warships, artillery and small arms --are described in great detail. Also includes over 600 illustrations, most in full color. Book was originally published in London by Salamander Books Ltd. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 5922 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.
	BORN, JOHN D., EDITOR, The American Spectrum, A Documentary History To 1865, , Davis Publishing, Waco, Texas, 1968. /, No edition stated, probable first. Hardbound in VG clean condition. No DJ. Brown boards with gold lettering and eagle design. Minor wear at crown and tail of spine and a bit of scuffing to boards. Otherwise good. Early American History. The book is divided into six sections: The age of exploration and discovery; life in colonial America; revolution, confederation and consolidation; the age of the Virginians; democracy, expansion and reform and sectionalism, slavery and Civil War. 310 pages. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2245 Click here to order or inquire at Garrison House Books.