Search Results: American History from Lippincott Books

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Ex-Library. The Adams Papers, Series II. Volume 1: December 1791 - May 1776. lxvi, 424 pp. Volume 2 : June 1776 - March 1778, Index. xxiv, 490, [2] pp. Brown cloth, spine title gilt, illustrated. The usual library markings with numbers on spine and plates on pastedowns, still in Very Good condition. Foxing to endpapers and edges, a little thumb-soiling, very light edge wear. Multiple volumes: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

New York: The Globe. Hardcover. GVG/No Jacket. xvii, 154 pp. Gray paper-covered boards, blue cloth spine, paper labels with titles on front and spine. With foldout facsimiles of 1st issue of American Minerva and Commercial Advertiser 1797. Illustrated. A little age darkening to covers, corners and spine edges bumped, bookplate on front pastedown.

Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine. unpaginated. Brown cloth, red morocco label with title in gilt tipped in to front panel, marbled endpapers. One of 1250 copies. Published on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city, this edition reproduces 27 color plates from the original 1800 edition, opposite which are black & white photographs of the same site taken in 1960 & 1982. 2 maps, facsimile list of subscribers, references, and related pictures.

Wilmington: Star Publishing Company, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. 70 pp, with bibliography. Blue cloth, title label gilt. 5 plates including 2 maps. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, a few penciled notes (spelling corrections).

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 697 pp. Signed on autograph plate on the half-title. Includes a series of Gettysburg Battle maps. First-person accounts of each brigades experience. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Privately Printed, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. 320 pp. with index. This is a check list of books, pamphlets, newspapers, imprints, broadsides, maps, pictures and other printed matter relating more or less to Westchester County as it originally existed, which included the present Borough of the Bronx of New York City. Dark navy cloth, spine title gilt. Near Fine in first-state plain white dustjacket. Jacket is lightly soiled over all, with piece missing from back corner.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. x, 544 pp. With 3 maps and numerous photographs of various Indian chiefs and settlers, soldiers and political figures of Texas. With extensive notes, bibliography and index. Minor nick at top of front board else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Madison, Wisconsin: Madison House Publishers, 1988. Pictorial Stiff Paper Wrappers. Near Fine. 28 pp. Illustrated, list of sources. Reprinted from: Conley and Kaminski, eds., The Constitution and the States.

Helena, Montana: Independent Publishing Co, 1904. Hardcover. GVG/No Jacket. 467 pp, with index. Red cloth, gilt title on spine. Illustrated with many photographs including one folding map. From the library of Francis Greene, historian and author of the History of Boothbay, Southport, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the definitive history of the Boothbay region, with his stamp on the ffep and his bookplate on the rear pastedown.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. Facsimile of the 1923 Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. xii, 13-182 pp. Unitary Presidency discussion. Includes introduction to 2nd printing by Herbert J. Storing and index. NF

Charlottesville,: University Press of Virginia. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Volumes 2-6. Lacks Volume I. Vol II: 1766-70. xvi, 374 pp. ISBN 0-8139-0688-1 Dustjacket with small chip at top of spine, closed tear. Vol III: 1771-75, 1780-81 xv, 494 pp. ISBN 0-8139-0721-7. Dustjacket with light soiling. Vol IV: 1784-June 1786. xv, 406 pp. ISBN 0-8139-0722-5. Dustjacket with light soiling to edges and spine. Vol V: July 1786-December 1789. xvi, 560 pp. ISBN 0-8139-0801-9. Sunned dustjacket with light soiling and light edgewear. Vol VI: January 1790-December 1799. xvii, 554 pp. ISBN 0-8139-0807-8. Dustjacket spine sunned. Blue cloth, white cloth spine with gilt on blue titles. Each volume has bibliography and index, and frontispiece, some in color. All volumes are clean and tight. Overseas customers please request a shipping quote; the set will ship at cost.

Manchester, N.H.: John B. Clarke, Printer, 1885. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 147 pp. With 2 steel engravings of Emma Smyth and her Husband Frederick who was Governor of New Hampshire. Brown cloth with bright gold stamping shows slight wear. Several small holes in ffep. Very Good

New York: Bergman Publishers, 1969. First Edition, Thus . Hardcover. GVG/Very Good. xvii, 187, [1] pp. With a new introduction by Richard B. Morris to the 1934 text. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Material from Benj. Franklin, Geo. Washington, John Adams, Thos. Jefferson and Jas. Madison are quoted. This near fine copy marred by a musty oder. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket yellowed on spine and edges.

New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 166,[4] pp. Red cloth, title on pictorial paper label. Pen & ink drawings and one color plate. A bird's-eye view of the march of civilization across America, in 7 maps. Edge wear, light soiling, light foxing, slightly musty. PRESENTATION copy. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii, 338 pp. Includes notes and index. Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Spine edges and corner tips slightly rubbed, else near fine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Spiral Bound Paper Wrappers. Good. xx, 437 pp. PROOF; single faced sheets have been spiral bound in 2 volumes.

Phoenix, Arizona: Second Legislature of the State of Arizona, 1915. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. xii, 392 pp. with errata slip tipped in. Includes 5 black and white plates and index. Farish was the State Historian; at the direction of the legislature he wrote an 8 volume history of the state. Some low-life previous owner balanced a container of liquid on the book, which spilled, leaving blotches in the finish of the front and back boards, thus a very good and tight copy is now a good and tight one.

Boston: Merrymount Press, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 143, [3] pp. John Chipman Gray (July 14, 1839 - February 25, 1915) was an American scholar of property law and professor at Harvard Law School. In 1865, he co-founded one of the oldest and most prestigious law firms in the United States, the firm of Ropes & Gray. Blue cloth, titles & decoration gilt. With frontispiece, bibliography of his writings, reproduction of his bookplate as tail-piece, and complimentary card laid-in. Spine lightly sunned, light edge wear, otherwise clean & tight.

Seattle: Salisbury Press, Superior Publishing, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 192 pp with Appendix: The Fleet, Index, Index of ships. Attractive blue covers with gilt title on front and spine. Slight curve to covers, faint musty odor; dustjacket is rubbed at edges.

Garden City, New Jersey: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. xxx, 396 pp. Embossed black cloth, spine title gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated. With biographical sketch and index. Association copy. Butt was Aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. This book has a gift inscription to Walter H. Foster on verso of half-title. Foster was a Federal Judge appointed by Theodore Roosevelt. He was also a friend of Roosevelt. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.