Search Results: History: North America from The Owl at the Bridge

Four bookseller catalogues. Reese: 58, 329 items, a few photos; 91, 244 items, a few photos; 136, 100 items, illus. Rostenberg, 1776, 251 items, index. All have paper covers; all Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0298.

Boston, Gambit, 1973.. Hard Cover. xv, 286 p., index. 'Advances a thesis that the myth of a new wonderland as described in ancient books now unread is an illusion that survives strongly in American thinking and writing today.' Stock #100,879, Vg/ dj vg. America History Literature

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ©1991. Soft Cover. xvi, 323 p., illus., map; 23 cm. "Explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. He sees white resistance as an example of reactionary populism, a social movement mixing both populist and conservative elements. Racism was a key factor, but racial prejudice alone cannot explain the movement." ISBN (10): 0807842923. Very Good / soft cover. Stock#47532.

Eight book catalogues from D&E Lake of Toronto listing books on Canada and North America. #45, 95 items; #48, 328 items; #50, 91 items; #52, 105 items; #55, 180 items; #80, 422 items; #97, 347 items; #99, 322 items; all stapled in paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0310.

"This catalogue is devoted to material on Indians of the Americas, primarily North, but with some notable Central and South American material as well. Included are good samplings of Indian language material, Indian captivity narratives, ethnological data, and first hand accounts of Indian-White contacts." 531 items, a few illustrtions; Good. Stock#ofc0225.

Three Reese catalogues listing materials about French North America, Canada, the Arctic, and "the North Country": #32, 163 items; #48, 268 items; #83, 602 items. Book Cellar's mimeographed list has 743 items. All have paper covers; all are Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0311.

The Many Deaths of General Wolfe: 1 At the Face of the Cliff; 2 In Command; 3 Deep in the Forest; 4 On the Heights of Abraham; Death of a Harvard Man: 1 Honest Sweat: The Blacksmith's Son; 2 Income: The Pedestrian; 3 Enterprise: The Janitor; 4 Debt: Skyrocket Jack; 5 Taking Stock: The Prisoner and the Public; 6 Accounts Rendered: Lawyers, Doctors and Other Solid Citizens; 7 Payment Pending: The Press, the Preachers and the Prisoner; 8 Settlements: The Legatees. 333 pages, folding color plate, illus.; paper; edges rubbed, chipped, worn; Good. Stock#ofc0491.

Toronto : Doubleday Canada c1980. Soft Cover. 241 p. : illus. ; 25 cm. Material previously published in Cape Breton's magazine. 52 pieces on traditional folk ways including rum running, moonshining, leather sewing, fishing, lumbering, fiddling, bone playing, hooking rag rugs as well as events such as the sinking of a ferry by a U-Boat in 1942. Stock# 44,093. Good+, coffee slash lower edge of rear third (text not affected)/ soft cover.

NY, Knopf, 1996. 'First American Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. xiv, 348 p., 16 p. of plates, 4 maps, index; 24.5 cm. 'Over the years the drama of the American landscape... has awoken in me a powerful and continuing curiosity in what it means for what I do. I am a military historian. Rivers, mountains, forest, swamp and plain, desert and plough, valley and plateau: these are the primary raw materials with which the military historian works. In constructing a narrative, in charting the movements of armies, the facts of geography stand first.' Stock#100393. Vg /color pictorial dj.

Bookseller catalogue listing materials relating to Indians of North America. 1217 items. Stapled in paper covers; Good. Stock#ofc0314x.

Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa, 1994. University of Toronto Italian Studies 10. Soft Cover. 278 p., illus.; 21.5 cm. 20 essays (6 Italian, 14 English) concerning Italian literary & cultural matters and the teaching of Italian in North America. Subjects include the history of Italian studies, leading figures & pioneers, new trends & pedagogical challenges, changing canons, translation, contemporary Italian poetry, women in Italy, Italian cinema in North America, and questions of centralities & margins. Teachers of Italian will find this balanced & varied collection of real interest & pertinence. Paper; new from publisher. stock#102046x.

London, Dent / NY, Dutton; Everyman's Library. Hard Cover. xiv, 231 p., index, Gazetteer, color maps. Includes G. C. Brooke, A Brief Survey of the Coinage of North and South America, pp. 99-114 with 8 plates; Maps and Plans of Notable Battles and Districts connected with Famous Authors and their Books, pp. 117-135. Red cloth; good+. Stock#24783.

1954, Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 'First Edition.' 'Written expressly for the layman, The Mammal Guide deals fully with habitat, range, reproduction characteristics, behavior patterns, and conservation.' Hard Cover. 384 pages, index, 37 black & white text illustrations and 145 maps, color plates ("250 figures in full color of 182 species"); color pictorial dust jacket, in mylar; Very Good+. Stock#26714/house.

NY, Dutton [Knickerbocker Press; c1900]. Hard Cover. iv, 347 p., 12 illus. incl. front.; 21 cm. Revolutionary North America of 1779 and the campaign against the Central New York Iroquois. Historical fiction. Pictorial silver cloth stamped in white & navy, spine stamped in gold; no dj; spine faded, spine ends worn, covers lightly soiled; internally clean; good. stock#102296.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina UP [1986].. Soft Cover. xiii, 306 p., 16 plates, 22.5 cm. Continental Army administration and American political culture, 1775-1783. "American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence." Vg, there are ink notes at 3 places early in the text/ softcover. Stock #101,426. American History.

North of the Bridge, Novato, Ca., c2005. This two-CD self-guided round-trip historical tour begins on California route 101 just north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and comprises a 64.5-mile overview of the country as far as Healdsburg. The cultural history of Marin and Sonoma counties unfolds with precisely timed driving instructions which guide the listener through seven towns, three California state parks, and Luther Burbank's gardens, and include mention of 16 wineries, with their locations and brief précis of their product. This comprehensive and interesting historical tour ranges through Richardson Bay, Point Reyes, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, Geyserville, Sebastopol, Bodega, and Cotati, ending at historical Washoe House in Petaluma. Humans important in California history include Louise Boyd, the Pomo Indians, Luther Burbank, and Maria Carillo. Although these CDs are intended to be played during car travel, they can also be enjoyed with a good map and imagination. Music and sound effects… Read More

New-York: Published By James Eastburn. Clayton & Kingsland, Printers. 1820. Shoemaker 1069 & 3104; Wegelin, American Poetry 941. Written in collaboration with Robert C. Sands, who also edited the work. Frontispiece plate "Seat of King Philip" and added engraved title page "Mount Hope" by Asher B. Durand after illustrations by J. Neilson. Copyright Nov. 27, 1820, by James Eastburn. "Notes," pages [257] to end, followed by "Errata", page [340]. Twelve lines of a Wordsworth poem on printed title-page. Hard Cover. xii, 339, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates, illustrations; 21 cm. Ink manuscript note on engraved titl, too faint to read. Bound in unusually elaborate full contemporary leather stamped in gold and with [owner name] "E. G. Turner" [the classicist?] stamped in gold on front cover; marbled endpapers; 1st & 2d flyleaves stained by old newspaper clipping (now in mylar). Very Good. Stock#OB798.