Search Results: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) from Tangible Tales

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "for Ted with best wishes - Ed ----" Tan cloth hardcover, 1st edition in dustjacket. A near fine copy - clean, straight and solid with minor shelf-wear at the spine extremities. Price-clipped dustjacket is very good with ruffling along the op edges of the panels. 315 pp., indexed, signed and personalized by the renowned author of "Benjamin Franklin."

North Carolina: The Orange County Historical Museum, 1964. Pamphlet. Good. Tan pamphlet with brown titles and illustration. A good copy, but with crinkling along the top edge. Previous owner's name across the top of the half-title page is the only marking. Stapled binding is solid. 36 pp., some black and white illustrations. An examination of the Regulator Insurrection in North Carolina that many see as pre-cursor to the Revolutionary War.

Michigan: River Road Publications, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Red hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Esther Ellen and the joy of reading an adventure in history! Janie Lynn Panagopoulos 1997." Large previous owner's gift inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise a clean copy, bright, tight and attractive. Jacket with minor shelf wear, bright and clean. 146 pp., a young adult book telling the historical adventure of a capture by the Seneca tribe.

Nabu Press, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Trade paperback, oversize a Nabu public domain reprint - appears to be an electronically scanned copy of the New York Public Library's holding of the 1913 S.J. Clarke edition. The title page indicates "Volume I" though there is no volume statement on the cover. As is true with many of these scanned replicas, some of the pages are hard to read and the scanning is unclear. A very good copy with wear at the edges and light bending at the corners. Binding is solid with no creases or wide-open sections. Marked at 354 pp. - a solid history of the various townships and the original native peoples - typically poor scan quality, but the original is near impossible to find.

New York: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1969. Hardcover. Fair/poor. Ex Military Library, gray cloth hardcover 1969 edition in original glassine dustjacket. A fair copy only, with military library stamps,pocket, and markings, including a withdrawn stamp. Hard bumps to the corners and board edges, and sun fading to the board. The spine titles are still bright and attractive. The binding and hinges are solid - a well-bound copy. Pages are clean, other than library stamps. Original glassine dustjacket is in poor condition - much fading to the black titles and scuffing/scratching to the panels. Tape to the bottom of the spine panel from removal of a library call number tag, and tape along the jacket panel edges for reinforcement. Included for completeness rather than quality. 395 pp., indexed, lengthy notes/bibliography. Black and white illustrations and a few color maps. Oversize and overweight - will require additional shipping for international or expedited orders.

New York: Ecco / Harpercollins, 2006. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Signed without inscription by the author on the title page. A good copy but previous reader opened it widely at the photo insert - binding intact but shaken and with a crease to the spine corresponding to the photo section. Remainder stripe to the bottom of the text-block edge, and light bumping and wear to the corners and spine tips. Pages are clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is more just a 1/3 height wrap around price intact and a bit of discoloration on the inside of the spine panel. 475 pp., indexed. A history of the slaves who fled their plantations to fight in the revolutionary war.