Structure, Verses, Agency Books: American History
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine work of accessible social history from the author and Founding Brothers and His Excellency, the author being winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. "From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation.' The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their autonomy as states. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible - George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madision," from the publisher's blurb. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [2], 3-283 [4] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,
-- Boeknummer: 355636
USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Founding Fathers U.S. history American history U.S. Constitution
Casket of Reminiscences
Washington, D.C., Chronicle Publishing Company, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dark blue embossed cloth decorated with gilt lettering and trim, with fraying and rubbing to spine ends and edges. Forward cock to spine. Remnant of institution bookplate to inside flap, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, but no other stampings; some underlining mainly first chapter only with some age-toning and smudging to text. Foote was a lawyer and Senator from Mississippi who helped pass the Compromise of 1850. Comprised of the memoirs of a lawyer, chiefly of dealings with important legal and political figures from the 1820s to 1860. 498 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair
Boeknummer: 330982
USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 64.5]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Henry S. Foote|Memoirs Americana Southern History|Lawyer|Mississippi|Congress|Politics
The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War
New York, Charles Fox, 1847. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Particularly lovely condition exemplar of an early reprint of the 1837 true First Edition. Beautifully rebound in a creamy brown leather, gilt ruling to spine, gilt title over black leather label at spine. New endpapers. Moderate toning to text-block. All in, a sweet, tightly bound, and highly usable copy. Fine black-and-white engraved portrait of Ebenezer Fox i 1838 at age 75 at frontis. A bit of foxing to endpapers, else dissipating. "Elegant Engravings" throughout. Includes prior to the Preface, a facsimile of a letter to Charles Fox (the author's son) from Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 - March 14, 1866) in 1847, the latter having been an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as the 17th President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853. From D. Gordon's homage to Mr. Fox, "As Ebenezer Fox neared the end of his life, he felt compelled to produce a manuscript of his experience as a young patriot during the Revolutionary War â€oewith the hope that it may prove as interesting to the raising generation, as it has to my own grandchildren.” His autobiography, written in 1838 when he was 75 years old, recounts his experience growing up in Massachusetts and later leaving home as a teenager seeking adventure and an experience out at sea. Fox first worked as a cabin boy aboard a vessel traveling to the French colony of St. Domingue (today’s Haiti) and then returned to the colonies to work as an apprentice for a wigmaker and barber in Boston.After a brief stint as a replacement soldier during the early years of the war, the 17-year-old Fox joined the American navy in 1780 as a sailor battling British fighting vessels along the Atlantic coast. For the next three years, Fox experienced both the exhilarating glories of winning sea battles and the deep despondency of being a war prisoner. Throughout his perilous adventures at sea, Fox maintained his conviction in the pursuit of liberty and a sense of optimistic perseverance, no matter how precarious his situation was. The excerpts below are taken from Fox’s autobiographical manuscripts. The first section recounts his recruitment process and the general atmosphere in the colonies during the midst of the Revolutionary War in 1780. The second section details Fox’s experience as a prisoner of war just a few months after he first joined the colonial navy." 240 pp. plus a bookbinder's ad at end.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Boeknummer: 356474
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 41.5]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Charles Fox Ebenezer Fox U.S. History American History Revolutionary War
The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself
Exeter, Massachusetts, J. & Williams, 1832. . Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Cute little tome, bound in full leather, light rubbing to front joint, chipping to spine head, light bruising to but no breakage of tips, moderate toning to and foxing of interior. Richard Price, the editor, provides a Preface. vi [1], 8-253 pp. plus a two-page index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Boeknummer: 357201
USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: memoir Benjamin Franklin autobiography American history
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume One: 1900-1933; Volume Two: 1933-1951; Volume Three: 1952-1999
Toronto, Canada, Stoddart, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set, complete in three volumes, bound in Imperial octavo hardcover format, big, massive, heavy, specifically bright and clean of interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jackets, illustrated, little worn but for crease to front inner flap of the third volume. From the publisher's blurb of Volume Three (1999), "This final work in Martin Gilbert's magisterial and critically acclaimed three-volume history of the century describes the dramatic events of the last fifty years with the same detail and richness to which his readers are accustomed." Volumes contain scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Volume One (1997, First Edition, xiii [1], 1-927 pp.); Volume Two (1998, First Edition, xxii [2], 3-1050 pp., with bumping to spine bottom, some edgewear to dust jacket spine bottom); Volume Three: (1997, First Edition, 1072 pp.).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,
Boeknummer: 357282
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 59.75]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Martin Gilbert Winston Church World War On World War Two Twentieth Century English history English culture
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1961; the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788; and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Eighty-Sixth Congress, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1961, Inclusive
Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Eighty-fifth Congress 2nd Session, House Document No. 442. Includes listings of Officers of the Executive Branch of Government, The Continental Congress, and members of The Congress of the United States from the First Congress thru the Eighty-sixth Congress. Individual biographies listed alphabetically from page 455 onward. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with bruising at tips including light fraying at front bottom, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Slight wrinkling of title page. Light foxing to edges, and apparent water stain and minor wrinkling to bottom edges. Small closed tear, taped, at near bottom tip of page 1,343. Includes four black-and-white photographs depicting two aerial shots of the U.S. Capitol, and the interior of Senate chambers and the House of Representatives. Heavy, over-sized volume with burgundy covers, gilt seal stamped on front and gilt lettering on spine. 1,863 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Boeknummer: 346734
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.25]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: U.S. Government|Continental Congress|Congress|House of Representatives
The Effects of Atomic Weapons
Washington, D.C., Atomic Energy Commission, 1950. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good condition in original light tan wraps, minor wear to and soiling of paper wraps, some crimping to a range of pages at book's end, clean, unmarked and tightly bound of interior. Paul J. Larsen provides the Colophon. Norris E. Bradbury, Director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. From the title page: "prepared for and in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission under the direction of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, it is identical with the edition officially published by the government of the United States." Stated Second Edition, from September of 1950, the first edition having been published in the same year. The volume was aimed at the ordinary curious citizen and more specifically Civil Defense personnel throughout the country. ix, 456 pp. and with many, many score black-and-white photographs and illustrations of ships and oceans and buildings and roads . . . but of only one human being, in this case, a Japanese woman in Hiroshima who had been wearing a kimono.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Boeknummer: 356417
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: nuclear weapons atomic weapons Atomic Energy Commission
Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868
Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. From the publisher's blurb, "Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron. The author argues that the prolonged development of the American iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Prelims plus 1-334 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,
Boeknummer: 352079
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: iron smelting metallurgy Anne Kelly Knowles U.S. history Great Britain United Kingdom
Abraham Lincoln, Shogakukan Inc. 's Children's Library, Volume 27, Japanese Edition
Tokyo, Japan, Shogakukan, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An odd, unusual title indeed, uncommon here in the U.S., there being no additional copies available on-line currently. An apparent hagiography of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln designed for use by Japanese students. Beautifully illustrated paper over boards, wholly in Japanese including kanji characters. Front pastedown has written in it, "To Children of Pasadena From Shogo Koide Chairman Pasadena-Mishima Committee, Author of This Book." 115 pp., tri-tone illustrations through, text and illustrations, Abraham Lincoln from boy to man, farmer to U.S. President.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Boeknummer: 357163
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Japanese language children's book Abraham Lincoln
Walter Knott: Keeper of the Flame
Fullerton, California, Plycon Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. A fine and accessible social history of Knott's Berry Farm. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs, printed on high-gloss paper. Foreword by John Wayne to a fine biography of Walter Knott depicting America at its best, a warm and intimate portrait of Americana. xii [2], 2-236 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,
Boeknummer: 357676
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Walter Knott Helen Kooiman Knott's Berry Farm
Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Langley compares the political and social histories of three revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence. xvi [1], 1-374 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,
Boeknummer: 350924
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: The Americas Lester D. Langley Central America South America North America
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the publisher's blurb, Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. â€oeI am an antichrist!” shouted singer Johnny Rotten―where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise. This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands―demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life―seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris―based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and ’60s; the rioting students and workers of May ’68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage â€oeAnarchy in the U.K.” and â€oeGod Save the Queen.” Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself." Frontis matter, 1-496 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,
Boeknummer: 357365
USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.25]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: 20th century Twentieth Century Greil Marcus music history culture pop culture politics
The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Pivotal Moments in American History. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xviii [2], 2-252 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,
Boeknummer: 356946
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 13]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: U.S. history Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams the Election of 1828 modern politics U.S. Presidents
The Disposal of Municipal Refuse
London, John Wiley & Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in any edition, this being the stated First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Brown linen cloth over boards, blind-ruled covers, still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Harry de Berkeley (1862-1935) was a well-respected American civil engineer. Ten tables, 73 black-and-white illustrations and photographs of civil engineering projects to handle municipal waste around the world. x [1], 2-186 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Boeknummer: 357216
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 69]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: H. de B. Parsons urban planning municipal planning refuse waste human waste
An Open Letter to All Members of the Communist Party
New York, Central Committee Communist Party, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. 23 [1] pp. Stapled little booklet housed in a plastic sleeve. Short closed tears to bottom edges, dissipating. Stamped twice at front cover with Workers Socialist Party Headquarters. Toned, but clean, unmarked interior.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Boeknummer: 357174
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Communist Party Socialist Workers Party
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