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New York: MJF Books, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4th Printing Hard cover in very good condition with beige boards and spine cloth with gold gilt spine lettering. Ink gift inscription marked out with green marker; other text block clean & tight, no other writing, no markings. Dust jacket in fine condition; no price on front flap.

A Harvest Book / Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Soft cover. Fine. Stated: First Harvest edition 1999. Followed by a letter line including the letter A. Soft cover in fine condition with crisp uncreased and unmarked wraps. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 494 numbered pages. Size approx 9 18"" tall x 6 1/4"" wide x 1 1/4"" thick. * From the rear cover, ""A riveting narrative history of America, from the Jamestown landing in 1607 to the brink of the Civil War. . . tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present a startling and moving drama of the effects of slavery and racism on our conflicted national identity. The result transcends history as we were taught it - and transforms the way we see our past.""

Smithsonian Books, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. OVERSIZE. 2nd Printing Stated First Edition and number line indicating second printing. Hard cover with lilac boards, copper-colored spine lettering and lilac end papers in fine condition. Interior text block clean & tight. Contains all glossy paper (288 numbered pages) with black & white and colored photographs, illustrations and maps on almost every page throughout the extensive narrative. Size 11"" tall x 9"" wide x 7/8"" thick. Appears unread. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped, there is no price on front flap. * Introduction by George Horse Capture. From the book, ""In this intimate portrait, encounter the real Indians of North America, peoples whose cherished traditions have endured a mighty upheaval - the peopling of the New World by masses of humanity from the Old.""

Random House, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. In addition, complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight but for former owner's name on inside of front cover under the jacket flap; no other writings or markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped. * From a review by William H. McNeill, professor emeritus in history, University of Chicago, "". . . a learned and judicious essay about a man who became a myth in his lifetime and remains partly mythical today in spite of the best efforts of generations of scholars to interpret and reinterpret surviving ancient texts about him. Certainty on many points will never be possible, but reading what Rogers has to say about how Alexander changed the world around him and how his deeds still echo among us is a delightful exercise. Alexander modeled himself… Read More

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with crisp bright wraps; no creasing. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Has beautiful colored and black & white pictures throughout. 400 numbered pages; Size approx 7"" wide x 9 3/4"" tall x 1 1/8"" thick. * A comprehensive and very readable history of the United States. Originally written for a 13 hour television series. From the book, ""As brilliant a popular study of the country as we are apt to get for a long while. . . . "" ""The first, and maybe the finest, tribute to the nation on its bi-centennial.""

Mill Valley, California: Cohen Publishers, Inc., 1992. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. OVERSIZE. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. In addition, a number line which includes number one. Soft cover in very good condition with red, white, and blue wraps and French flaps. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Size approx 11 1/2"" tall x 10 1/2"" wide; 167 numbered glossy pages with black & white and color photographs throughout. * From the book, "". . . a stunning photographic survey of American life since the advent of photography more than 150 years ago. Researchers and archivists from around the country found fabulous old photographs tucked away in libraries and historical societies: Nebraska farmers and Philadelphia paperboys, Tallahassee May Queens and Seattle loggers. Then, David Cohen, innovator of the highly successful ""Day in the Life"" book series, assigned some of America's top photographers to… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Routledge in association with The Open University, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover 7.5"" x 10"" with wraps in good conditions and showing shelf and edge wear with corners slightly bumped. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Concludes with extensive index. * From WorldCat Summary, ""....this book offers in-depth readings on the technological dimensions of US cities from the earliest settlements to the internet communications of the 1990s.""

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. * In addition to three featured reviews and an extensive section of book reviews, contains the following five main Articles: Toward a Cultural History of Scholastic Disputation; Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America; The Mexicanization of American politics: The United States' Transnational Path from Civil War to Stabilization; The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea: Austria, Great Britain, the Ottoman empire, and the Mediterranean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century; and Surface Tensions: Empire, Parisian Modernism and ""Authenticity"" in African Sculpture, 1917-1939. 670 numbered pages before section of advertisements.

New York: Regan Books / Harper Collins, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with brown boards and copper gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no markings, no writing noted but for former owner's name at top of verso of front board.. Contains two sections of black & white and color photographs. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. A hefty 590 numbered pages. Concludes with a section of Acknowledgments, a Glossary, and an extensive Index. * From the jacket, "". . . drawing on his own recollections and military records declassified for this book, Franks offers the first true insider's account of the war on terrorism that has changed the world since September 11, 2001. . . .""

New York: Farra, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in additon to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with cream colored boards and gold spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings or tears noted. Dust jacket in very good condition with very slight rubbing along edges and small closed tear at top of back fold; not price clipped. * From the book, ""The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq' recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq.""

Katowice, Poland: National Publishing Agency-State Museum Oswiccim Brazezinka (Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza - Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiccim Brazezinka), 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with black, lightly textured, boards with Title blind-stamped on front cover. Interior text clean & tight but for an inscription in blue ink on front free end paper (assuming written in Polish.) The first 15 pages are comments and reactions from world leaders upon visiting the site. The balance of book consists of pages of photographs of the camps, buildings, prisoners, and much more. 96 photographs in all. In addition there are 12 pages, interspersed throughout, of small head shots of prisoners, many in prison uniforms - 70 pictures per page. Several pages show photos of letters and notes. The book is written in Polish. However, also laid in is an 8 5/8"" wide x 7 7/8"" tall stapled booklet, containing 4 leaves / 8 pages, with a translation of the words… Read More

U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Appears unread. Wraps crisp and bright.

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. McBride, Angus. Hard cover in very good condition with orange boards and gold lettering along spine.. Text block clean and tight. No writings, no markings noted. Contains black & white illustrations throughout, in addition to a special section of 8 leaves/16 pages of full page colored illustrations by Angus McBride. Dust jacket in very good condition. * From the book, ""This is an action-packed book as well as being full of new and established facts. Not only does it detail the weapons, wars and ways of these barbarian peoples, it also relates to their history the legends of Attila, Alaric and Charlemagne, so essential a part of the barbarian myth... The magnificent colour plates were specially painted for the book by the internationally renowned illustrator Angus McBride.""

NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. There is a very light scar/abrasion on back of fly leaf as if a sticker had been removed. No other markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition. * From the book, ""Sex, money, power, lies and scandal. Each has played a role in the making and unmaking of the Clinton legacy. Yet whatever the judgment of history, the continuing saga of Bill and Hillary is - above all else - a curious, compelling, and uniquely American love story.""

NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Edition: August 2006.In addition, complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with white boards and black spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted but for a black remainder line on bottom text block. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the book, ""Blistering, brilliant, and shocking . . . a searing indictment of waste and corruption. For anyone who cares about the fate of Iraq, and about America's place in the world, this is essential reading.""

Howell, Soskin, Publishers, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Robinson, Thomas P.. Copyright 1947. First Edition per no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with navy boards; on spine navy lettering in gold gilt panel and gold gilt lettering on blue portions of spine. Not ex-library, however had an aged Brodart cover which was taped on. Tape was dried out and easily fell off but light ghost of the tape can be seen on the boards. Jacket now sports a new Brodart jacket. Interior text block clean & tight with mellow age toning to the papers. No writing, no markings, no underlining noted. There is a blue spot on bottom text block and on bottom edges of jacket, especially verso, which appears to be color that bled from navy board at some point. Interior pages not affected. Dust jacket very good with age toning; light shadows indicate perhaps a water stain at front top and front bottom corner (see photo.) Not price clipped; original price $3.50. Illustrations… Read More

New York: Truman Talley Books, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black board and copper gilt spine lettering. Golden tan end papers. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Contains a center section of 16 leaves/32 pages of glossy color photographs. Dust jacket likewise fine with only ghost of shelf wear; not price clipped. * From the book, "" . . . an action-filled microcosm of the new kinds of ultramodern war fighting showcased in the overall battle for Iraq . . .a true-life tale of superbly trained men in extraordinary circumstances, packed with concrete detail, often surpassing fiction for its sheer drama.""

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition. * From the book, ""No one has done more to unearth the truth about Bill Clinton's character and career than R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and his magazine, The American Spectator. Now, Tyrrell draws all the known facts about Clinton - plus many never before revealed - into the most comprehensive and illuminating biography ever written about a sitting U. S. president. And he draws together the overwhelming evidence - enough to convict any lesser citizen - that the Clintons are guilty of tax fraud, obstruction of justice and lying to government agencies.""

Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1972. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight. Text block tight; spine uncreased. TOC has the page numbers of the first five sections circled in ink with an arrow in margin next to them. Page 3 containing introductory remarks has three lines of text underlined in ink; no other writing or marking noted. Contains several pages of black & white line drawings / newspaper caricaturists from newspapers of the time, such as Punch & Harpers. 324 numbered pages.

Fort Lee, New Jersey: Barricade Books, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Printing; no number line. Hard cover in very good condition with gray boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writng, no markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition with light shelf wear and a closed 3/4"" tear on front fold at head of spine; not price clipped. * From the jacket, ""Interviews with diplomats, politicians, and jurnalists from the internationally acclaimed TV program (The Charney Report.)"" . . . . "". . . .a riveting and thorough analysis of today's (circa 2001) Mid East Turmoil.""