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Price: $69.95
Publisher: San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft: 1886
Seller ID: 12972
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Front board separated,paper tape securing title page and inner back hinge, previous owner's embossed stamp, some wear and peeling of leather. Leather of spine split down back edge and torn across middle. Raised bands somewhat worn but black spine labels with gilt print still bright ; Text block solid and unmarked, fold-out map in fine condition, marbled page edges, binding of tan leather boards needs some work but book appears to be complete ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 775 pages View more info
By: Barry, John M.
Price: $36.50
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1997
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 19210
ISBN: 0684810468
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.7 inches; 528 pages; "An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics fore... View more info
By: Brodie, Ralph & Marvin Schwartz
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Little Rock, Arkansas, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17954
ISBN: 0970857489
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
DJ shows light shelf wear, creased with shot tear top of spine. ; A bright, solid book, Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.10 X 6 X 0.80 inches; 211 pages; "Students and faculty members who went through the desegregation crisis of this memorable time recall events and personal feelings as they tried to avoid the outside interruptions while getting an education. Much has been said and written about the Little Rock Nine, who have also shared their memories through the years. And the students who protested and caused problems have also had their forum. Now, this book presents the ... View more info
By: Dodrill, William Christian
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Parsons WV, McClain Printing Co: 1974
Edition: Facsimile
Seller ID: 15939
ISBN: 087012157X
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Gift notation on front free end paper. ; A bright, solid book. This hardcover, bound in blue cloth covered boards is a facsimile reprint of the 1915 publication by Dodrill. ; 8.50 X 5.40 X 0.80 inches; 298 pages; This is a history of the mountain counties of West Virginia with an emphasis on pioneer life. View more info
Price: $21.50
Publisher: Tuscaloosa, AL, University Alabama Press: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19007
ISBN: 081730312X
Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
DJ shows very light shelf wear, slight soil page fore edges. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar. ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.7 inches; 296 pages; "British West Florida encompassed the panhandle of the modern state of Florida, about half of present-day Alabama, large portion of Mississippi, and some of Louisiana. The British were of diverse opinions regarding the territory. Some British politicians thought Florida full of strategic and economic potential. Others, perhaps without political affiliation, thought it strange that, having conquered developed Spanish possessions of known wealth, such ... View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1922
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: 16813
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Dark blue cloth covered boards show small ding on front board, reference library markings on front end papers and page edges. There appears to be a page missing following copyright page. Some water staining to edges of tipped in maps, light possible evidence of water damage to page edges. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Fold-out map bound in at page 248, double page map showing population distribution west of the Mississippi in 1850, tipped in between pages 456-7, double page showing land acquired by the US, tipped in between pages 504-505. ; Ex-Library; 8.40 X 5.70 X 1.40 inches; 528 p... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Mcgraw Hill: 1965
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 17287
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Cloth boards show light edge wear, DJ has 1" X 1 1/2" piece missing from top of spine area, general edge wear. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 309 pages; A history of the White House, home of the American presidents from its first occupant, John Adams in 1800, up to and including Lyndon B. Johnson and family in 1963. The early chapters review many of the preliminary designs for the building. Generously illustrated with many photographs and drawings. View more info
Price: $21.50
Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Company: 1987
Edition: First Edition; Fourth Printing
Seller ID: 18612
ISBN: 0393024784
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Some shelf wear present on DJ and boards, DJ is sun-faded on spine, short tear base of spine. Small bump to bottom edge of front board. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.20 X 5.80 X 1.30 inches; 360 pages; "Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Historical Society Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17457
ISBN: 0873515722
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
DJ has light edge wear, scuffingsmall bump bottom edge of book. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 196 pages; From the front DJ flap: "It was on the vast American Prairie that people from around the world seized the opportunity for personal and economic freedom promised by free land. Traveling across oceans and continents, these hard-nosed, pragmatic people began arriving in the 1860s with shovels and plows, convinced they were part of something important. They were. Putting hand to plow and breaking the sod for their first crude homes, t... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1990
Edition: Twenty-Ninth Printing
Seller ID: 19249
ISBN: 0385044941
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
DJ and boards show light shelf wear, DJ spine faded.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 10.2 X 7.1 X 1.0 inches; 210 pages; ""Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys. . . . [He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating country".-New York Time... View more info