Search Results: Authors starting with U from George S. MacManus Company

(SOUTH CAROLINA). UHLENDORF, B.A., transl., ed. The Siege of Charlestown. With an Account of the Province of South Carolina: Diaries & Letters of Hessian Officers from the Von Jungkenn Papers.... Ann Arbor, 1938. Illus. 445pp. Very good in orig. cloth, d/j. Scarce in d/j.

1925. ULMANN, Doria. A Portrait Gallery of American Editors Being a Group of XLIII Likenesses. With Critical Essays by the Editors and an Introduction by Louis Evan Shipman. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. 1st ed. Folio. xii,177pp. 43 plates. Orig. cloth-backed boards, T.e.g. A few small library stamps, else very good. One of 350 numbered copies. Brief essays on editors of American magazines of the day accompanying photographic portrait plates.

1892. ULMER, George T. Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer, or a Drummer Boy from Maine. [Chicago: n.p., 1892]. 1st ed. 77pp. Portrait frontis. , illus., plates. Later cloth, original pictorial wrapper laid down. Very good. The author served in Co. H, 8th Maine Volunteers. Dornbusch I: ME-69.

UMFREVILLE, Edward. The Present State of Hudson's Bay Containing a Full Description of that Settlement, and the Adjacent Country; and likewise of the Fur Trade...Edited with an Introduction and Notes by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, (1954). Illus. folding charts. xv, 122pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Later printing of Howes U-10.

1896. UNDERHILL, Francis T. Driving for Pleasure or, the Harness Stable and Its Appointments. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 1st ed. 4to. xi,158pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. 3/4 brown polished calf and gilt- and blind-pictorial suede, T.e.g. Rebacked, original leather spine laid down, else very good. "A basic work on carriages and one of the landmarks of American books on the subject ... Relatively Scarce"--Rittenhouse 90.

1946. UNDERHILL, Ruth M. First Penthouse Dwellers of America. Santa Fe, (1946).(14), 161pp. Very good in d/j.

UNDERHILL, Ruth M. Ceremonial Patterns in the Greater Southwest. With: FRENCH, David H. Factionalism in Isleta Pueblo. N.Y., [1948]. xi, 62; vi 48pp. Very good in orig. cloth. American Ethnological Society Monographs XIII and XIV.

1901. (NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENTAL). UNDERWOOD, George C. History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops in the Great War, 1861-'65. Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers, Book and Job Printers, [1901]. 1st ed. 122,6pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Orig. cloth. Cloth worn and speckled, wear to spine ends and corners bookplate of the C. Alphonso Smith Collection of American Literature, front inner hinge starting, very old waterstaining, final leaf torn, else very good. HOWES U-13, "aa." Dornbusch II:803. Presentation inscription from the author on recto of frontis.: "Prof. C. Alphonse Smith with the compliments of The Author, Apl. 2, 1907." Nevins I, p.171. Underwood was Assistant Surgeon in the 26th North Carolina Infantry. He includes much information about the role played by North Carolina troops at Gettysburg.

1978. (NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENTAL). UNDERWOOD, George C. History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops, in the Great War 1861-'65. [Wendell, NC: Broadfoot's Bookshop, 1978]. Facsimile ed. 122,6pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Orig. cloth. Fine. "A reprinted chapter from Vol. II of Walter Clark's history of North Carolina units" Nevins I, p.171.

1881. (MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTAL). UNDERWOOD, Adin B[allou]. The Three Years' Service of the Thirty-Third Mass. Infantry Regiment 1862-1865. And the Campaigns and Battles of Chancellorsville, Beverley's Ford, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Chattanooga, Atlanta, the March to the Sea and Through the Carolinas in Which It Took Part. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1881. 1st ed. xiv, 299, [35] pp. Orig. cloth. Some edgewear, else a very good copy. "This dramatic account is concerned more with large movements than with the regiment's actions; it is also based too much on hearsay testimony." Nevins I, p. 171.

1906. UNDERWOOD, J[ohn] L[evi]. The Women of the Confederacy. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. 1st ed. 313 pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth. Near fine. "There are more than one hundred and sixty articles on various aspects of the experience of Southern women during the war and its aftermath.... Among the prominent Confederates contributing were Jefferson Davis, John B. Gordon, Marcus J. Wright, and Joseph E. Johnston." Krick 516.

1906. UNDERWOOD, J[ohn] L[evi]. The Women of the Confederacy. In Which Is Presented the Heroism of the Women of the Confederacy with Accounts of Their Trials during the War and the Period of Reconstruction, with Their Ultimate Triumph over Adversity. Their Motives and Their Achievements as Told by Writers and Orators now Preserved in Permanent Form. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. 1st ed. 313pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed, else very good. "Excerpts from a variety of sources recount the war work of Southern women" Nevins II, p.204. "There are more than one hundred and sixty articles on various aspect of the experience of Southern women during the war and its aftermath" Krick 516.

1999. (NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENTAL). UNDERWOOD, George C. History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of North Carolina Troops, in the Great War 1861-'65. [Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1999]. Facsimile ed. 158pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Orig. cloth. Fine. "A reprinted chapter from Vol. II of Walter Clark's history of North Carolina units" Nevins I, p.171. Dornbusch IV:7270.

2004. UNGER, Arthur C. The ABCs of Custer's Last Stand: Arrogance, Betrayal and Cowardice. El Segundo, CA: Upton and Sons, 2004. 1st ed. 4to. xiii,286pp. Illus., portraits, maps, facsimiles. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. In-depth review of Little Big Horn. .

2011. UNGER, Harlow Giles. American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution. New York: Da Capo Press, [2011]. 1st ed. xiv,288pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth-backed boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine.

2010. UNGER, Harlow Giles. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation. New York: Da Capo Press, [2010]. 1st ed. xiv,322pp. Frontis. illus., portraits, maps. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine.

2017. UNGER, Harlow Giles. First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence. [New York]: Da Capo Press, [2017]. 1st ed. xiii,306pp. Frontis. Portrait., illus., portraits, maps. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine.

UNIONIUS, Gustaf. Minnen fran en Sjuttonarig Vistelse i Nordvestra Amerika. Upsala, 1861-1862. 1st ed. 2 vols. 8 plates. [viii], 424; [viii], 621pp. A fine set in contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. Howes U-20. "Describes his activites as founder of a Swedish settlement in Wisconsin, in 1841, and his later residence in Chicago.

1916. UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, comp. Reconstruction Period in Georgia, 1865-72. [Statesboro, GA: Bulloch Times, 1916]. 1st ed. 59pp. Later 3/4 black morocco, raised spine bands, red morocco spine labels, original printed wrappers bound in. Front wrapper tape-repaired, rear wrapper professionally repaired, else very good. Rare, Worldcat locates five copies. Brief essays on Georgia under Reconstruction including the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

1910. UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, comp. War Days in Fayetteville, North Carolina. [Fayetteville, NC: Judge Printing Company], 1910. 1st ed. 60pp. Plate. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Chip to foot of spine, light scattered foxing, else very good. Rare, Worldcat locates two copies. Brief accounts by eyewitnesses including "The Taking of the Arsenal," "Return of the Bethel Heroes," "Incidents of Hospital Life," and "Sherman's Raid.