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Pioneer America (The History of Human Society)

By: Alden, John R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson of London: 1966

Seller ID: ID277447

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good [Price-Clipped] Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White plates and maps. DJ has creased inside front flap. Numbers neatly inked to upper corner of front free endpaper. xxix, 309 pages, Index x The epic story of American society from pre-colonial times to the end of the Civil War.
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Transatlantic Crossing. American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century

By: Allen, Walter [Editor]

Price: $14.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1971

Seller ID: ID274050

ISBN: 0434018309

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. DJ has 'grubby'appearance with marks to front and slightly age-darkened spine. 332 pages Selected and with an Introduction by the Editor, this is an anthology of the findings and observations of some forty travellers between the two countries.
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Harlem The Great Black Way 1900-1950

By: Anderson, Jervis

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Orbis Publishing Limited:

Seller ID: ID309549

ISBN: 0856134457

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine a little faded. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 390 pages Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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The American Work Ethic and The Changing Work Force An Historical Perspective (Contributions in Labor Studies Number 52)

By: Applebaum, Herbert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Westport, CT, Greenwood Press: 1998

Seller ID: ID301679

ISBN: 031330677X

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine Condition. As new. 228 pages From colonial times to the twentieth century.
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Lethal Imagination Violence and Brutality in American History

By: Bellesiles, Michael A (Edited by)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, New York University Press: 1999

Seller ID: ID308333

ISBN: 0814712967

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 453 pages This collection of original essays examines the role of violence in America's past, exploring its history and development, from slave patrols in the Colonial South to gun ownership in the twentieth century. Contributors examine both individual acts, such as domestic violence, murder, dueling, frontier vigilantism, and rape, and group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical e...
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Many Thousands Gone. The first two centuries of slavery in North America

By: Berlin, Ira

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press: 1998

Seller ID: ID311612

ISBN: 0674810929

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. 497 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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My Country The Remarkable Past and The Wild Country More Tales From The Remarkable past Two Volumes in Slipcase

By: Berton, Pierre

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, McCelland and Stewart Ltd: 1977

Seller ID: ID270918

ISBN: 0771013930

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. This is a heavy item and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 320 & 250 pages Historical, social or geographical significant stories about Canada's past by famous Canadian journalist and author, Pierre Berton.
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The Kensington Rune Stone. New Light on an Old Riddle.

By: Blegen, Theodore

Price: $18.00

Publisher: St Paul, MI, Minnesota Historical Society: 1968

Seller ID: ID299101

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Spine lightly sun-faded.Dustjacket is price-clipped. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 212 pages This book by an eminent historian dispassionately examines the circumstances surrounding the stone's discovery and the early history of the controversy in an attempt to untangle some of the snarles and clarify some of the problems.
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A Nation of Agents The American Path to a Modern Self and Society

By: Block, James E.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 2002

Seller ID: ID302564

ISBN: 0674008839

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 658 pages A sweeling reinterpretation of American political culture.
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Manchester on the Merrimack

By: Blood, Grace Holbrook

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Manchester, New Hampshire, manchester Historical Association: 1975

Seller ID: ID235520

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. 353+ PAGES A local history of Manchester, New Hampshire. First published in 1948.
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Jefferson Architect of American Liberty

By: Boles, John B.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 2017

Seller ID: ID311414

ISBN: 0465094686

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xi, 626 pages. A magisterial biography of this complex and controversial American founding father.
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American Impressions

By: Braddon, H.Y. Hon.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1920

Seller ID: ID308212

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Red cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Some minor marking to rear cover. 120 pages
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The Gold Rush. An account of six months in the California diggings

By: Buffum, E. Gould

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1959

Seller ID: ID304294

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Nice copy. Bookplate to the preliminary pages. Illustrated with black and white gravures reproduced from contemporary paintings and wood engravings. Preface by Oscar Lewis. 152 pages First published in 1850.
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Indians of the Southeast: Then and Now

By: Burt, Jesse & Ferguson, Robert B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Nashville, Abingdon Press: 1973

Seller ID: ID2906

ISBN: 0687187931

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine very lightly faded. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and original Drawings by David Wilson 304 pages.. Citing early sources, tells the history of the Indians of Southeast USA - their religion, languages, lifestyle, food, games, dance and music and what happened when European settlers arrived.
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A History of Education in American Culture

By: Butts, R. Freeman and Cremin, Lawrence A.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: 1965

Seller ID: ID311518

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition. No dustjacket. Mild rubbing to covers. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 628 pages.
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Close to Shore. A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence.

By: Capuzzo, Michael

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Books: 2001

Seller ID: ID303242

ISBN: 0767904133

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 317 pages Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse pounding narrative, "Close to Shore" brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass histeria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
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American Battlefields. A Complete Guide to the Historic Conflicts in Words, Maps and Photos

By: Cobb, Hubbard

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1995

Seller ID: ID310467

ISBN: 0028604369

Binding: Softcover

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Sepia & one colour maps. Sepia photos. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 382 pages.
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The Good Old Days: A History of American Morals and Manners as Seen Through the Sears Roebuck Catalogs

By: Cohn, David L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Arno Press: 1976

Seller ID: ID11327

ISBN: 0405076800

Binding: Hardcover

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Interior starting to tan with age. Black & white illustrations. 597pages.
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Illustrated History of the American Civil War

By: Commager, Henry Steele (Editor)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Orbis Publishing Limited: 1982

Seller ID: ID310276

ISBN: 085613211X

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Colour and black & white illustrations. 284pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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"Uncle Dick Wootton". The Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region

By: Conard, Howard Louis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1980[1890]

Seller ID: ID266124

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition. Leather binding with gilt titles, marbled endpapers and gilt to edges. Black & white illustrations. 472 pages An account of the adventures and thrilling experiences of a noted American hunter, trapper, guide, scout, and Indian fighter.
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Category: History-US&Canada