Icons of America
Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1978. Softcover. Red ill. wraps. 301 pp. Several bw ills. Analysis of the history of distinctly American cinematic, popular and architectural icons. Includes 23 topical essays. More
Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1978. Softcover. Red ill. wraps. 301 pp. Several bw ills. Analysis of the history of distinctly American cinematic, popular and architectural icons. Includes 23 topical essays. More
Boston: Horace Wentworth, 1853. Hardbound. Speckled boards with cloth spine and corners, rebound sometime ago. Color frontispiece and other color plates. 636 pp. Contents call for an errata sheet on page 637, but there is no page 637. An account of the principal aboriginal races; a description of their national..... More
Baltimore, MD: James S. Waters, 1859. Hardcover. Two volume set bound in brown cloth boards with gilt design and lettering, colorful block edges. Both volumes have a bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheets. Two volumes: v. 1. The Northmen in America. The Spaniards in America: Mexico, Peru, Chili, Florida..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Black paper boards with black cloth spine, black and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 580 pp., many BW illus. The third book in a triology, prefaced by The Parade's Gone By ... (1968) and The War, the West and the Wilderness (1979)..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1935 (1895). Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, black spine titles, unillustrated. Vol. 1: XIX, 634 pp. Vol. 2: VI, 647 pp. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Original. Hardcover. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Vol. I: xx + 724 pp. with folding map and no other illustrations. Vol. II: 764 pp. with no illus. Covers the national government, party system, public opinion, social institutions. Lots of facts and figures about the US..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardbound. orangish cloth with multi-colored printed dustjacket. v, [3], 413 pp., no illustrations. This is Buckley's second book, written with his brother-in-law, and it examines the conduct of McCarthy and his critics at the peak of the conflict he engendered, and finds both objectionable with..... More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Publishing Company, 1894. Hardcover. oblong, black cloth boards w/ gilt stamp; quarter leather spine w/ gilt printing. 502 pgs w/ monochrome plates. blue marbled edges. A wonderful photographic tour of America's natural landscapes with accompaying, lenghty essays. More
Glorieta, N. M. The Rio Grande Press, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Tan cloth with color illus. laid on front cover, 4 color plates on flyleaves, pp. 843-1108, 61 BW plates, 36 color plates. A reprint of the 1932 work originall issued as part of the "Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards; gold lettering on spine; 942 pp; 8 bw figures. vol 2: 1034 pp, bw illustrations, figures. dark green slipcase. Remains a nice, sharp set. As a notorious, substandardly bound edition, this copy appears to have been read..... More
n.p. n.p., 1898. Softcover. Heather grey printed wraps, stapled and with string at spine; 9 pp. Author signature/inscription stamp on cover. Written on the heels of the Spanish-American War, which occurred April - July of the same year. More
New York: J. C. Buttre, 1877. Hardcover. Three quarter calf with pebbled morocco and 5 raised bands on spine; gilt decoration and lettering; AEG. All volumes unpaginated. Pale blue silk moire endpapers, frontispiece portraits and engraved title leaves to each volume. Tissue guards over each engraving. Steel engravings of 240..... More
New York / London: New York University Press, 1986. Hardcover. black boards w/ red spine printing. book x, 307 pgs. red dustjacket w/ white & blue printing; protective plastic. From a college library. Pages clean and bright. "Cable succeeds in showing that America's failure in Vietnam was the result of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843. Hardcover. Blue cloth, library binding, 554, [4] pp. Contains the text of 38 speeches of South Carolinian politician John C. Calhoun (1782-1850). The publishers "believed that both friends and opponents of the distinguished person referred to will gladly avail themselves of this opportunity to..... More
Mexico: Agencia Editoria Mexicana, 1942. Ephemera. Cream wraps, stapled, with blue/black lettering. 12 pp. with no illus. No. 12 in the National and International Problems Series of the Department of State for Foreign Affairs and The International Press Service Bureau. Day of the Americas - also known as Pan-American Day..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. Hardcover. grey cloth boards w/ gilt printing. two volumes, various paginations. top edge gilt. Volume one appears to be a well read copy, while two is much more sturdy and respectable. Both volumes have ex-libris plates to front endpaper. Pages lightly tanned... More
Paris: Chez Cordier et Legras, 1810. Leather bound. Bound in brown leather, gilt illustrated spine, burgundy title block with gilt lettering on spine; blue and white illustrated end papers; bw illustrated frontispiece; xvi, 196 pp. Second part has its own bw illustrated frontispiece and title page, 180 pp. Text is..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with dark brown title block and gilt lettering on spine; xi, 290 pp. Chiefly revised versions of essays presented at a seminar held in 1982 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. Contents: Introduction: colonial identity in the Atlantic..... More
Philadelphia: Published by the author, 1815. 4th edition, enlarged. Hardcover. Bound in brown boards with brown leather spine; 241 pages. Volume 1 only. Includes a preface to the first edition, second edition, and fourth edition. More
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1943. Hardbound. Brown cloth over boards with gold lettering and decoration on blue cloth spine; 295 pp. Edited and with an introduction by Louis Pelzer. His intro gives background about Carleton and places the information in the logbooks in context against the status of the army..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schoolmaster Press, 2010. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps, 36 pp, From the book: This book is a companion to the Boston Landmarks Orchestra's CD, "John Adams: The Voice Heard 'Round the World", with music composed by Anthony DiLorenzo. More
Chicago: Inland Lithograph Company, 1948. Light blue cloth, 104 pp., many BW illus. An overview of the teams of the American and National Leagues of baseball for the 1947 season. Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox was the "No. 1 Man 1947." More
New York: Latin-American News Association, 1916. Softcover. Beige/grey paper wraps with bw photo of the author on front cover; 21 pp. Talks about the "current" government's disregard for the Mexican Constitution (written in 1857), the Plan of Guadalupe, and more. More
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1994. Softcover. Cream card wraps with blue/white illustration and blue/black lettering. 721 pp. with several bw illustrations, not numbered. The thirteen contributors address the pressing issues of dining, dress, and lifestyle through an examination of American material culture in the 18th century. Through a...... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987. Hardcover. Maroon cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Ivory dj with bw map; black lettering. Mylar cover. xiii, 317 pp. with several bw maps illustrations. The first comprehensive description of the dialects of the US, focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions. The book traces cultural..... More