Stewart, James B.

Blood Sport; the President and His Adversaries

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (9), 10-479, index; Photographs; blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards lettered in silver, in a dust jacket. Bill Clinton gave his opponents plenty to work with beyond politics and policy. Stewart is a Pulitzer Prize winner and insightful writer. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14186

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Presidents; Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Clinton ; Impeachment; Arkansas; Politics; the Clintons; Hilary; Hilary Clinton; Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency

Storrs, Lee W.

Town Father, a Biography of Gamaliel Painter

New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, (2), 3-242, sources; line drawn decorations; red cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket; jacket has creases and a small chip bottom left. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Painter served in the Revolutionary War and later founded Middlebury College. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 14237

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Vermont; Vermontiana; Middlebury College; Middlebury; Signed Books; Vermontiana

Sutton, Ann and Myron

Yellowstone, a Century of the Wilderness Idea

New York, The Macmillan company, (nd). A Chanticleer Press Edition. Quarto. yellow cloth in dust jacket. Ill.: Illustrated with numerous photographs by Charles Steinhacker and others. Good in good or better jacket. Boards splayed. Small soil specks on boards. Top edge foxed. Text block tight. Jacket lightly scratched wtih light edgewear at head and tail.

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Book number: 7321

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Yellowstone, National Parks, Wildlife Refuge. Illustrated with Numerous Photographs by Charles Steinhacker and Others. Western Americana

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Royal Tyler

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, (ii), 281, index; five photographs; terra-cotta cloth, lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket; Very good, gilt on spine faded. First full length book study of Tyler, a Vermonter and important pre-Revolutionary literary figure. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14256

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Vermont; Vermontiana; Rural America; New England; Vermontiana

Thornton, J. Quinn

The California Tragedy; with a Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan

(Oakland, Printed at the Gillick Press, Berkeley, for Bio Books, 1945. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies with errata slip. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; v, (iii), 161, (i), colophon; illustrated in color by Victor R. Anderson; pictorial cream cloth, lettered in red in a pictorial dust jacket. A narrative of the Donner Party Tragedy. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17767

Catalogue: Western Americana

Tibbles, Thomas Henry

Buckskin and Blanket Days, Memoirs of a Friend of the Indians

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1985. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; liv, 466, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, plus forty-four additional illustrations including a map; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Tibbles was an advocate for Native Americans in the 19th century. Very good .

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Book number: 19190

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Native Americans

Trudeau, Noah Andre

Like Men of War: Black Troops in the CIVIL War 1862-1865

Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxii, (2), 3-548, index; photographs, maps; tan cloth in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good. Complete battle by battle history of the black regiments, their contributions and their up hill battle to overcome popular sentiment that they did not have the intelligence or courage and would not fight. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 12244

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; CIVIL War; Black Troops; Military CIVIL War

Trumbull, John

M'Fingal: An Epic Poem; with Introduction and Notes by Benjamin J. Lossing

New York, American Book Exchange, 1881. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 322; decorated blue cloth, gilt; Very good, edge wear at corners and spine ends. Lossing's notes expand this epic poem of the American Revolution. Very good .

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Book number: 13590

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Benjamin J. Lossing; American Revolution; Poetry; Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Twain, Mark, Edited by Walter Blair

Mark Twain's West, the Author's Memoirs About His Boyhood, Riverboats and Western Adventures

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1983. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; liii, 450, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait plus twenty-one additional illustrations; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Very good .

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Book number: 19180

Catalogue: Western Americana

United States Government

Official Manual and Constitution Book of the War Department Beneficial Association, Containing Constitution, by Laws, History of Association, Benefits Derived Therefrom, Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the Heads of Various Departments, Bureaux of Offices and Other Interesting Matter Relating to the War Department, Army. Etc.

Washington, War Department, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Square octavo, terra-cotta pebbled cloth, gilt with eagle and shield on the front board. Top edge gilt. 152pp. with index of advertisers. Illustrated. Various portraits of the officers of the Association and other related government officials of the time: Elihu Root, George D. Meikeljohn, Nelson A. Miles, Maj. Gen. Henry Clarke Corbin, Brigadier Breckenridge, Col. John F. Weston, and many more. These are accompanied by short biographies as well, with material on the dates of principal battles of the Civil War, who commanded in each, and the number killed on both sides; Veterans National Cemeteries and numbers buried; with interesting material, salaries, employment, levels of occupation information on many of the government departments at the time: War Department; Hospital Corps, Adjutant General, Inspector General, Judge Advocate General, Quartermaster General, Commissary General of Subsistence, Surgeon, Paymaster, Generals, Chief of Engineers, Ordnance, Chief Signal Officer, At least half of the book is given over to advertisers including a useful index of same at rear. The ads are very targeted, products that would be of interest to the War Department. Colt (Colt Automatic Gun, Browning's Patent and the Colt Automatic Pistol) Remington, Parker. Harrington and Richardson guns , Wires and Cables by Brixey; Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company Dredging; Underwood Typewriters; Paint by Detroit Graphite Manufacturing Company; Haas uniforms; Lorillard Refrigerators; Julius Beam Lithography; National Casket Company; Schaffer and Budenberg Steam Engines; Chicago Rawhide; H.K. Porter Locomotives; Brown Segmental Tube Wire Gun; Rarig Engineering Mortar Carriages; more (some advertisements are illustrated). Some edge wear and wear to the tips, spine ends fraying. a few minor closed edge tears within. An OCLC search reveals five copies institutionally. Overall very good condition. Quite scarce. Good + .

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Book number: 11847

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; War Department; Army; Elihu Root; George D. Meikeljohn; Nelson A. Miles; Maj. Gen. Henry Clarke Corbin; Brigadier Breckenridge; Col. John F. Weston; Colt; Browning; Remington Militaria

Wentworth, Dorothy

Settlement and Growth of Duxbury 1628-1870

Duxbury, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. (Duxbury:1973). Half brown cloth and terra cotta boards in dust jacket. Jacket is not price-clipped.144pp. Profusely illustrated with vintage photographs, maps and engravings. There are three folding maps depicting "Old Duxbury Paths", "Duxbury Shipyards", and "Ancient Landmarks". The frontispiece is a facsimile of the 1857 map of Duxbury. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title. There is a number, "343", calligraphically written below the author's name on the title page, the significance of which is unknown. Very good in very good jacket with a little wear at the top of the sine and top corners. "She locates the early mills, the country stores, shows the Indian trails turning into roads. She tells curious tales of the early days, describes shipbuilding Duxbury. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 19419

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana; Signed; Duxbury, Ma; Shipbuilding New Englandiana Massachusetts

Wheaton, Henry

Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Speeches of William Pinkney

New York, G. & C. Carvil, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. octavo; pp. 616; engraved frontispiece portrait and a holograph facsimile plate; full calf; This is an ex-institutional; copy. The spine has been covered with a library tape. The book block is complete and sound and very good, externally it is a sound copy but unattractive. The only edition with errata and directions to the binder. Pinkney was Madison's Attorney General and a diplomat. Uncommon. Good .

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Book number: 12758

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Politics & Politicians

Wright, Charles B.

Aftermath; Continuing "a Teacher's Avocations

Middlebury Vt, Middlebury College Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; ix (i), 181; blue cloth, gilt; Very good, largely uncut. Signed by the author on the title page. Lead essay on making one's personal library worth the price of admission alone. Wright was Professor Emeritus of English Lit at Middlebury. Scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 14260

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Vermont; Vermontiana; Rural America; New England; Middlebury College; Middlebury; Vermontiana

Zabriskie, George A.

The Pathfinder

The Doldrums, Ormond Beach, Florida, Privately Printed, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 24, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and five black and white plates; sage cloth lettered in gilt in a red dust jacket, decortaed endpapers. An appreciation of General John C. Fremont (1813-1890), the first separate printing of this article that appeared in the New York Historical Society Quarterly. This copy signed by Zabriske, a presentaion copy to "Celia" of an undefined limited edition as a Christmas gift. light foxing else very good/very good.

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Book number: 16730

Catalogue: Western Americana