Brokaw, Tom,

The Greatest Generation.

NY, Random House, 1998. 1st. VG in VG DJ. Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation.

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Book number: BOOKS055832I

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Brooks, Leonard L. and Margaret W. Soule,

Celebrating Waynflete: one hundred years in the life of a school.

Portland, ME, Waynflete School, 1998. 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. School's history has been one of innovation, a challenge to sustain an experimental attitude and institutional continuity.

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Book number: BOOKS046426I

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Brooks, Paul (signed by author),

The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the land in a New England town.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 1ST PRINTING. VG hardback in G DJ. Brooks tells the story of his hometown of Lincoln, MA. Signed by Brooks on the fep.

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Book number: BOOKS057307I

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Broun, Heywood,

Our Army at the Front: America in the War.

NY, Scribner, 1919. 1st ed. VG. Blue embossed binding with eagle on ft cover, gilt lettering on spine. Foxing on title page.

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Book number: BOOKS046546I

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Brown, Anne S. K., adapted from the French of Henry Lachouque,

The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and His Guard: a study in leadership.

Providence, RI, Brown Univ. Press, 1961. First edition. VG in VG DJ. Autographed by author Anne S. K. Brown on May 15, 1961. Of all his works, the Imperial Guard was Napoleon's finest creation. Molded from the flotsam of the French Revolution, this elite corps swept through Europe for 15 years behind its indomitable master, sharing in his brilliant victories and bearing the brunt of his epic defeats with unfaltering devotion. Enclosed is an invitation to the Autographing Party by the author on May 15, 1961. Tanning spot on front endpaper from newspaper clipping of this book's publication being laid in. Also included is a Catalog of Books in Print 1960 from Brown University Press. DJ edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS054864I

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Brown, Cassie with Harold Horwood,

Death on the Ice: the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914.

Canada, Anchor Canada, (1972). 1st prntg. VG PB. Each year for generations, poor ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out to the ice to hunt seals in the hope of a. pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnesses the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life. For two long days and nights a party of seal hunters 132 men-were left stranded on an icefield floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were lightly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter against the snow or the constant bitter winds. To survive they had to keep moving, always moving. Those who lay now to rest died.

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Brown, David C.,

A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692.

np, David C. Brown, (2006). 7th ptg. VG PB.

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Book number: BOOKS054507I

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Brown, John,

I Saw for Myself.

London, Selwyn & Blount, (ca 1940s). VG. Yellow binding, black box for title on spine.

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Book number: BOOKS017701I

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Brown, Sam & Len Ackland, introduction by Mayor John V. Lindsay,

Why Are We Still in Vietnam?.

NY, Random, (1970). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Examines U.S. policy in Southest Asia esp since Nixon's election. DJ price clipped, ft DJ flap creased.

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Book number: BOOKS038358I

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Browne, George Waldo, edited by,

Early Records of Londonderry, Windham and Derry, N.H. 1719-1762 Vol. I only.

Manchester, NH, Manchester Historical Assn, 1908. vg. Introduction, notes & index by Browne. Green binding, gilt lettering on spine. Nice tight condition, some edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS041570I

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Browne, G. Waldo,

Legends and Deeds of Yesterday.

Manchester, NH, Standard Book Co, 1921. VG. Tobacco color pictorial binding of man riding off to war against the redcoats. Edge wear, owner bookplate ft endpaper.

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Browne, Lewis,

Something Went Wrong: a summation of modern history.

NY, Macmillan, 1944. Reprint. VG.

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Book number: BOOKS038882I

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Brucan, Silviu,

The Post-Brezhnev Era: an insider's view.

NY, Praeger, (1983). VG in VG DJ. Brezhnev marked end of old guard professional revolutionaries & rising of a modern industrial country.

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Book number: BOOKS007023I

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Bruno, Harry A., President,

The Lotos Club 1953-54.

NY, Club House. VG. The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary clubs in the U.S. It was founded in 1870 when NY Mayor A. Oakey Hall invited. several friends to establish a congenial meeting place to entertain distinguished visitors from Europe & other parts of the world. As a result a group of artists, writerse, actors, merchants, musicians and public officials met one n ight in Albert Weber's piano warehouse on lower Fifth Avenue and formed themselves into a club to promote & develop art, sculpture, architecture, journalism, music, drama, science, education & the learned professions & to provide an assembly of representatives, amateurs and friends of literature, science & the fine arts & members of the clerical & collegiate orders. In 1947 the Club moved to a French Renaissance mansion. Rose binding with navy spine & gilt decoration & lettering. Sl fading at edges of binding.

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Brush, Carey W.,

In Honor and Good Faith: a history of the State University College at Oneonta, New York.

np, Humphrey Press, nd (ca 1970). VG in VG DJ. Laid in leaflet of Alumni Day, April 30, 1983.

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Book number: BOOKS015517I

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