Henry Holt & Company, June 1997. Hardcover. "I could feel the heaving deck and smell the gun smoke in these pages". -- Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (retired) The Phenomenal Success Of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels has spawned a great hunger for more reading material on the Royal Navy and the..... More
Harvard University Press, October 1986. Hardcover. In exploring the origins and characterof the American liberal tradition, MyraJehlen begins with the proposition thatthe decisive factor that shaped the European settlers' idea of "America" or the"American" was material rather than conceptual--it was the physical fact of theland. European settlers came to a...... More
Beacon Press, January 1971. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Heavily worn, scuffed and scarred cover with edgewear, especialy bottom at base of spine. Textblock edges dust stained with soiling and some stray marks. First Beacon trade paperback edition. [390 pp.]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1976. First Thus. Paper Back. Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a national legend, for he was one of the greatest white champions of the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who worked..... More
Meridian Books, Inc. / World Publishing Company, March 1966. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Soiling & dark stains to cover. Spine darkened mildly. Small sticker remnants front cover. Previous owner's name stamped to textbock edge and twice on verso. Internal text without markings. Gutter last page before rear cover verso is split..... More
Yale University Press, January 1968. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket slightly worn/rubbed with mild edgewear & foxing. Red cloth covered boards with silver & gold lettering along spine. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked top right corner FFEP. Dust stains textblock top edge. There are quite a few pages foldee at..... More
University of Illinois Press, November 1971. Cloth. {5' x 9'} Octavo. In dustjacket with edgeworn dustjacket with foxing, rubbing, and darkened margins. Small tears. Colbalt blue cloth covered boards gold lettering. Tanning to end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP and front cover. Foxing/dust stains top edge and fore-edge. [591..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, October 1985. First Edition. Cloth. The Fascist regime under Mussolini regarded its youth as its best hope for the future. Young people were courted more assiduously than any other group in the society and their political socialization became a central concern of the government..... More
University of Notre Dame Press, June 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with considerable wear top edge. Small tears. Sun bleached spine. Scuff marks. Darkening/foxing at jacket margins & folds. More foxing to DJ verso. Salmon orange cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Black end pages. [260..... More
Grosset's Universal Library / Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn, especially top & bottom of spine. Dust staining. Darkening & dust stains to textblock edges. Interior text not marked. Gutter prior to half title page is split and bound in place only by threads. At top..... More
Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 1975. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Octavo.In dustjacket with darkened spine & folds. Moderate edgewear top and bottom edge. Tears. Flap is not clipped. Deep dark green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Foxing, soiling & dust stains along textblock top edge & fore=edge..... More
Hanover Square Press, April 2022. Hardcover. The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin.On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a...... More
Plume, May 1992. Trade Paperback. The true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn--told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer's Last Stand. The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American boy by U.S. cavalry troopers. Before it ended, all of those troopers..... More
Penguin Group USA, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Univ Tennessee Press, February 1996. Trade Paperback. In February of 1862, the fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson near the Tennessee-Kentucky border forced a Confederate retreat into northern Alabama. After the Southern forces failed that spring at Shiloh to throw back the Federal advance, the controversial General Braxton Bragg..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1991. Trade Paperback. No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. As one contemporary said, "They had...all the glamour of Robin Hood...all the courage and bravery of the ancient crusaders." Better known as Mosby's Rangers, they were..... More
Vintage / Random House, February 1977. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Heavy darkening of interior margins and gutters. [343 pages plus XVII pagessupplemental material & six page list of Vintage title then available.]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1982. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Foxing/dust staining textblock edges. Previous owner's name inked half title page. 4th paperback printing. [592 pp.]. More
Beacon Press, 1971. Soft Cover. Octavo. Sunned spine. Soiling, Signed & inscribed on title page by De Caux: 'To Marty Morand, Better for knowing you. Len De Caux.' I presume the Morand to whom this book was inscribed to be the Martin Morand who was Professor Emeritus of Industrial and..... More
Little, Brown and Company, January 1976. First Thus. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Slight darkening to cover. Darkening to spine. Previous owner's name inked front cover. Foxing & dust staining to textblock edges. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Dog-earred pages. Bruised top fore-edge corner. [211 pp.]..... More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1978. Hardcover. Previouw owner's name on front free endpaper and front of jacket. Edged foxed; mild shelfwear to cloth and jacket. Still, a solid copy with unmarked text. More
Knopf, November 1998. Oversized Hardcover. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1974. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with sunned spine. Flap not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Spine tightly bound, yet somewhat cocked. Remainder mark bottom textblock. Textblock top edge moderate foxing and darkening top and fore-edge. Sky blue end..... 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
Prentice-Hall, Inc., January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo. Creased & worn cover. Considerable underlining scattered through text. 2nd printing. [402 pp.]. More
