American History from Berthoff Books

Scribner, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 567 pages, with index. First Scribner trade paperback of book published 2003. "With a new afterword". Illustrated with more than 130 b&w photos on plates. Hilary Clinton's autobiography up through Bill Clinton's second term. Eighteen-point "Reading Group Guide" at the end. Large trade paperback (9-1/8" x 6-1/8"), slight curl to wraps, 1/4"… Read more about this item

Vintage Books (Random House), 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 591 pages, with index. First Vintage (paperback) edition. Eleven maps, 16 pages of b&w photos. On the final years of the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam, from the Paris Peace Agreements of 1973 through the fall of Saigon. Large trade paperback (6-1/8" x 9-1/4"), red remainder mark on top… Read more about this item

Vintage Books (Random House), 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. 638 pages, with index, bibliography, note on sources. The book by Washington insider reporter Bernstein came out the previous year, when Hillary Clinton was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination against Barack Obama. Trade paperback, practically unworn, touch of dust soil to top edge. Pages bright and unmarked. … Read more about this item

St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 282 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Combined autobiography and analysis of American mafia. Gray paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine, photographically decorated end papers, very slight wear along bottom of boards. Unclipped DJ has a little edge wear, small crease… Read more about this item

Avon Books, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with bibliography, index. "The explosive inside story of the CIA's supersecret airline" (front cover), first Avon printing of book published 1979. History from Cold |War period, especially Vietnam War. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, barely worn, binding tight, pages slightly age-toned but unmarked.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, glossary. Account by U.S. News and World Report editor ranges from Iran-Contra to freeing kidnap victims in Italy to other cover ops in Central America. Features "the private notebooks of Oliver North." Blue paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine,… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 465 pages, with index, acronyms list. A study of the secretive National Security Agency. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/4"), maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, in price-clipped dust jacket with Brodart protective cover, stains to jacket on spine and a few smudges elsewhere. Former owner's name written… Read more about this item

Ballantine Books, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 603 pages, with index, selected bibliography, notes and sources list, b&w photos on seven double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), light gray paper over boards with dark gray quarter, scant shelf wear, soil to edges, in unclipped dust jacket with scant wear and outer plastic jacket. Former library… Read more about this item

Anchor Books (Doubleday-Random House), 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. 395 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book published the previous year. Addresses domestic surveillance excesses in the George W. Bush years. Trade paperback, very light wear along edges, pages bright and unmarked.

Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 249 pages. Strand's b&w photographs printed on semi-glossy stock, with texts (poems, sermons, laws, essays) selected by the editor interspersed. Foreword by Newhall, Introduction by Strand. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/4"), grayish-brown cloth with white lettering, wear to corners/crown/heel with chip to backstrip at crown, edges/end papers age-toned. The book has… Read more about this item

Bramhall House, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 363 pages, with List of Illustrations, Bibliography, Chronology, Index of Illustrations, Index of Museums and Private Collections, general Index. Preface by James J. Rorimer. Scores of b&w art reproductions and 36 on color plates. 4to (9-1/4" x 12-1/4"), green cloth with rubbed gilt lettering, light green end papers, spine and upper margins… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 207 pages, with Index, Selected Bibliography. Preface by James Biddle, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Foreword "The Heritage of the Hudson" by the historian and folklorist Carl Carmer. Sixty-six pages of maps and plates, both color and b&w - photographs and art reproductions of Hudson River School and… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, Inc., 1973. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 97 b&w photos of New York City, taken by Berenice Abbott in the 1930s. Originally published 1939 as Changing New York; intro by Audrey McMahon and captions by Elizabeth McCausland are from that first edition. Eleven pages of front matter including list of plates. Landscape-layout paperback, 11-1/4" x… Read more about this item

University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 28 Roman-numeralled pages precede the 226 photographs on unnumbered pages, some of which take up a page or more, while some are smaller photos grouped on one page. Black and white photographs taken by the author Eudora Welty in her native Mississippi, most of them during her time as… Read more about this item

Homestead Publishing, 2003. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 268 pages, with index. Revised edition of Star Food, first published 1981. "Choice recipes from two Danish chefs and their award-winning restaurants favored by Hollywood's great - circa 1928 to 1989; [the author's father] Carl Andersen's Chatam in Westwood Village and Kenneth Hansen's Scandia of Hollywood." Line Drawings… Read more about this item

Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 228 pages. Introduction by Kate Simon. Artwork by four dozen artists, interspersed with short text excerpts by even more writers. 8-1/2" x 11" paperback printed on heavy stock, next to no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Dover Publications, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 228 pages, with indexes (general, photographers, photographs in chronological order). 196 Prints from the Collection of the New York Historical Society - black and white. Introduction and captions by Mary Black, curator of painting and sculpture. Quarto-sized (9" x 12") paperback, wear to corners and edges (especially front bottom and heel)… Read more about this item

The MIT Press, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 162 pages, with Bibliography, Index of Cambridge Commercial Photographers 1858-1945, Foreword by Harvard Professor of History Oscar Handlin. Eighty-one b&w photos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated 1844-1945, with historical annotation of each. Landscape layout trade paperback (10-1/2" x 8"), light shelf wear, rubbing to wraps especially along spine. Gift inscription on… Read more about this item

Icon Editions (Harper & Row), 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 266 pages, plus index. Thirteen essays written in the 1970s and 1980s debate the legacy of Modernism, and Abstract Expressionism in particular. Six plates with b&w art reproductions. Keynote essays by Clement Greenberg view the debate about Modernism as rooted in art criticism of the late… Read more about this item

The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 348 pages. Volume I only. Letters in Vol. I go up to 1893. Frontispiece portrait photo of William James from 1907, nine other b&w illustrations on plates - portraits, and sketches by James. Edited by his son Henry James. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), midnight blue buckram,… Read more about this item