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D. C. Cook Pub. Co, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Original published under title Handyman of the Lord (1967). Mild shelfwear. [205 pages]. More
D. C. Cook Pub. Co, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Original published under title Handyman of the Lord (1967). Mild shelfwear. [205 pages]. More
Lyons Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. New York City experts James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of two dozen iconic New Yorkers, including Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, Central Park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, business titan JP Morgan, and music legend Bob Dylan. Beginning with the oldest..... More
Free Press, March 2009. Trade Paperback. How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively..... More
Modern Library, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts..... More
Berkley Publishing Group, August 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates the life of John Wesley Hardin, from his youth to his final days. An ingenious reconstruction.--Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, October 1987. First Thus. Paper Back. Quintilian's method is based on the interrelationship between speaking, reading, and writing. Murphy lists and defines the main elements that appear in the Institutio oratorio. Each of these elements--Precept, Imitation, Composition Exercises, Declamation, and Sequencing--is further subdivided according to goals..... More
Random House Value Publishing, December 1988. Hardcover. {8 & 3/4' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering and black faux-leather boards with blind stamped lettering. Tight binding. [342 pp.]. More
The Free Press, 1965. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Well worn. Previous owner's name stamp top edge, fore-edge and half title page., [266 pages plus one page list of Free Press titles.]. More
Quadrangle Books, January 1972. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxing/marginally darkened dustjacket with edgewear and small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Darkened/dust stained textblock edges. [336 pp.]. More
Louisiana State UP, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn DJ , sunned spine and toning. Front flap is not clipped. Lime geen cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy tanning to end pages. Previous owner's name inked upper right corner of FFEP. Foxing textblock top edge..... More
Random House, April 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine & black lettering on front board. Tight binding, despite slight give. Top textblock edge tinted black. Textblock fore-edge is soiled. [559 pp.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, February 1991. Hardcover. James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called history writing of the highest order..... More
Little Brown & Company, November 1974. Hardcover. Jacket chipped, torn at top edge. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2000. Trade Paperback. "In Lies Across America," James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning "Lies My Teacher Told Me," of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. "Lies Across America" is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over..... More
Random House (NY), April 1987. Hardcover. Based on new material and years of research, this masterly biography about the Confederate general who fought at the right hand of Lee throughout the Civil War is by a scholar and authority in the field. Maps, photographs. More
Easton Press, January 1989. Leather. Gilt-decorative brown leather binding with raised spine bands. Silk endapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. Unread; near flawless. More
Cleveland Landmarks Press, November 2002. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd Printing, Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Clean, sound, without markings. 107 pages. More
National Park Service, 1961. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Clean, sound stampled pamphlet. 60 pages. More
University of Tennessee Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket. Carmine colored cloth. Black and gold lettering on spine. First U.S. edition. Clean, unmarked interiors. No underlining. No notes. Signed by both authors, McDonough and Connelly on front free end page. James Lee McDonough also inscribed his signature..... More
P.W. Ziegler, 1881. Reprint. Cloth. Brown cloth with gold and black decorations and borders. Portrait of Garfiled in circlular emblem. Raised brown lettering in rectangular gold backgrounds. Floral designs in black. End pages are chocolate brown. Heavily worn ato top and bottom of spine with frayed edge. Front end page..... More
Faber and Faber, January 2007. Trade Paperback. Written by James Sheehan, 'The Monopoly of Violence' tells the story of war and peace in 20th century Europe. More
Macmillan Pub Co, November 1987. Hardcover. More
Yale University Press, February 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend Sailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to..... More
Mouton De Gruyter, December 1968. Soft Cover. Covers chipped. More