McManus, Blanche

How the Dutch Came to Manhattan

New York, E.R. Herrick & Co. 1897. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Blanche McManus. 82pp. Yellow boards, silver and black lettering and decoration, top edge silver. Very light wear and very light soil to cover, spine darkened but very readable, contents are mildly toned and very clean and sound. A succinct narrative of the Dutch settlement in America, accompanied with black and white illustrations on every page of text. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003276

Catalogue: American History

Keywords: Netherlands Colonies

Miller, Aaron David

The End of Greatness

New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 9781137279002. 280pp. Hardcover. Book is in clean and unmarked condition. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 002758

Catalogue: American History, Government and Politics

Keywords: Presidents Presidency Obama Roosevelt Washington Lincoln 9781137279002

Mills, John

The Magic of Communication. A Tell-You-how Story.

American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1935. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 36pp. Stapled stiff blue wraps. Spine rubbed, otherwise clean and sound. Traces the history of the telephone form Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 to 1935, when the pamphlet was published. Very Good.

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Book number: 001181

Catalogue: American History, Business, Science and Mathematics

Keywords: "Bell Laboratories" "AT&T"

Mitchell, Joseph B.

Decisive Battles of the Civil War

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 226pp. Black cloth, red decoration and lettering. Very good book in sound condition. SIGNED by the author for the members of the Civil War Book Club. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003849

Catalogue: American History, Military, U.S. Civil War

Keywords: Union Confederacy

Murray, Louise Welles

Notes from Craft Collection in Tioga Point Museum on the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 Including Order Book of General Sullivan Never Before Published

Athens, Pennsylvania, Louise Welles Murray, 1929. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Sogned By Editor. Tan boards, brown spine, paper spine label. Pages 1-33 consist of text followed by 100 pages of the order book, foldout map. Title page is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Louise Welles Murray, the founder of the Tioga Point Museum, and the title page is also INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Ethelyn Duvall Clark Stupp, a descendant of General John S. Clark. Cover is edgeworn and somewhat soiled, spine label is partially missing, but the contents are clean. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001375

Catalogue: American History, Military

Keywords: "Tioga Point" Newtown "Craft Collection"