Search Results: History - United States from W. Fraser Sandercombe

New York: Presidio Press - Ballantine Books, 2003. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiv) 272 pp. Dark gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Opening Shots 1966; 1st Division Sniper School - Gunnery Sergeant Vernon D. Mitchell; 5th Marine Snipers - Chu Lai Vietnam - Corporal Ronald R. Willoughby; VC Sapper Attack - Marine Corps Base Chu Lai - Sergeant Tom Casey; Night Ambush Chu Lai - Tom Casey and Vaughn Nickell; Sniper Operation at An Hoa - Sergeants Tom Casey and Ron Willoughby; Operation Tuscaloosa - Ron Willoughby and Vaughn Nickell; Six O'clock Charlie Gets Zapped; Casey's Shooters Go into Battle; Storm Clouds Gather Over Go Noi Island; Searching for the Enemy; The Viet Cong Brace for Battle; The Snipers' Assault; Snipers Invade Antenna Valley - Fred Sanders and Dennis Toncar; Snipers Called into Arizona - Sergeant Tom… Read More

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 528 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The full title is: ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE GOLD FIELDS - containing a Full Account of the Discovery of Gold; Enormous Deposits of the Precious Metal; Routes Traversed by Miners; How to Find Gold; Camp Life at Klondike - Practical Instructions for Fortune Seekers, Etc., Including a Graphic Description of the Gold Regions; Land of Wonders; Immense Mountains, Rivers and Plains; Native Inhabitants, Etc. Originally published in 1897, it goes on to say: Including Mrs. Eli Gage's Experiences of a Year Among the Yukon Mining Camps; Mrs. Schwatka's Recollections of her Husband as the Alaskan Pathfinder; Prosaic Side of Gold Hunting, as seen by Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras. Illustrated with black and white drawings..

West Haven, Connecticut: Pendulum Press, 1976. Book. Illus. by Nardo Cruz;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 62 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by Nardo Cruz. The Contents are: Efforts toward integration in the south move along quickly; Both America and the Soviet Union send men into space; John F. Kennedy becomes the thirty-fifth president; Kennedy keeps Russian missiles out of Cuba - in November 1963 he is assassinated; Both negroes and chicanos continue to fight for their rights - Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy are assassinated; During Nixon's term as president a man walks on the moon; and The Watergate hearings cause Nixon to resign....

West Haven, Connecticut: Pendulum Press, 1976. Book. Illus. by Resty Ronguillo;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 61 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by Resty Ronguillo. The Contents are: Mexico Alaska and Hawaii are freed from European control; The ports of Japan are opened to trade with western nations; The Spanish-American War begins - Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders become noted for their bravery under fire; Dr Walter Reed finds a way to control yellow fever; As president, Theodore Roosevelt makes sweeping changes both in business and in Amerca's natural resources; Against his will President Woodrow Wilson announces entry of the United States into World War I; and The League of Nations is formed but America does not join it..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (x) 262 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Chapters are: PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE WAR 1830 - 1860: A Nation of Sections: Shaping America's Growth; The Sections Take Shape: Northeast, Northwest, South. Dilemmas of Democracy on the Move: Slavery Casts a Dark Shadow; Jacksonian Democracy at Work; Free Negroes as Society's Orphans; Manifest Destiny Propels America to the Pacific. The Drive Against Slavery: The Antislavery Crusade Launched; Negroes and the Antislavery Drive; The Antislavery Tide Swells; Slavery Issue Pushes into Politics; Polk Wilmot and the Rift in the Democracy. Sectional Confrontation: The First Crisis of the Union - 1850; Economic Growth and Distractions Abroad. Mounting Sectional Crises: The Crime Against Kansas; Forging the Republican Party; Critical Years 1857 -… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1960. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. (viii) 158 pp. Ballantine Book 392K. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Subtitled: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression..

Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1961. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Edition. 139 pp. Monarch Book MA316. Edge and corner wear with faint creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; Flight 629 - Denver to Portland; The Mystery Bombings; Rendezvous at Painted Desert; Collision Over the City; Holocaust on Rikers Island; The Electra Crashes; and Conclusion..

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo. (xviii) 329 pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; endpaper maps; illustrated in black and white. Light wear at the corners with the presentation details on the first blank page and some fading on the spine; book plate on the front pastedown; wear along the edge of the front free endpaper. The history of Niagara from the beginnings with the indigenous people and the Jesuits and Chevalier de la Salle, through the battles with the United States, General Isaac Brock and on through the Rebellion and the Fenian raids..

Albany, New York: The State of New York, 1921. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvi) 689 - 693 - 1423 pp. Both volumes are blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light edge and corner wear; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjackets. The Contents of Volume One are: Preface by the State Historian, James Sullivan; Charles Mason Dow - in Memoriam by James Sullivan; Introduction by Charles Mason Dow; Niagara Discovered: The French Period; Other Eighteenth Century Accounts: The English Period; Travelers' Original Accounts 1801 - 1840; Travelers' Original Accounts since 1840; Niagara - Historical and Reminiscent; Flora and Fauna; and Science Geology and Physics. The Contents of Volume Two are: Music Poetry Fiction; Maps and Pictures; Industrial Niagara; Preservation of the Falls; Open Road - Guides - Railroads - Canals - Bridges; and Alphabetical List - Bibliography..

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1984. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. (xii) 196 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction: Definitions and Implications; Forms: Divisions: Antislavery Unity and Disunity; Means: Abolitionism as Career and Community. Content: Religion: Evangelical Protestantism and the Reform Impulse; Morality: Racialist Thought, the Moral Sense, and Environmentalism; Control: Sexual Attitudes, Self Mastery and Civilization. Context: Families: The Centre of Earthly Bliss and Its Discontents; Economy: Toward a Yankee South; Union: A Divisive Nationalism; and Afterword: Discontinuity and Uniqueness; followed by an index..

New York and San Diego: Zebra Books; PEC Special, 1967. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First and Later Printings. 211, 160 pp. Both books have light edge and corner wear; Dallas has a crease on the spine; Oswald, the first editiion, has an uncreased spine; no interior markings..

University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 209 pp. Green boards decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; blue endpapers. Some wear on the corners with a few nicks around the edges of the dustjacket; price intact. The Chapters are: Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE: What Happened; It Was Not War - It Was Murder; PART TWO: How It Happened; The Charge Decided the Victory; The Weapon of the Brave; The New Rifle Can Stop the Advance; A Change of Tactice Is Absolutley Necessary; Fieldworks Were Assaulted but Rarely Carried; Desperate Valor; Grandeur the South Could Not Afford; Beyond the Noise No Great Harm Was Done; The Cavalry Was Abruptly Checked; PART THREE: Why It Happened; We Dashed with Sword and Bayonet on the Foe; The Rebels Are Barbarians; followed by an Essay on Selected Sources; and an Index..

New York: Franklin Watts - The African American Experience, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This includes two dropped-in baseball cards, one in the old cigarette pack style featuring Cool Papa Bell from the 1992 Sports Card News series; and the other featuring Satchell Paige in a St Louis Browns uniform, a Topps reproduction card from 1990. The Contents are: Gentleman's Agreement - African Americans and Baseball's Beginning; A Ballplayer from Cooperstown - Post Reconstruction America and the Strange Career of Bud Fowler; False Spring - Fleet Walker and the Grudging Integration of the 1880s; Jim Crow Wins - Cap Anson Gets the Save; War Paint and Feathers - Jim Crow and Chief Tokohama; Second Class Immortals - Satchel Paige and the Black Babe Ruth; The Badge of Martyrdom - The Myth of Rickey and Robinson; and… Read More

Omaha, Nebraska: Addicus Books, 1999. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. 8vo. (ix) 281 pp. Trade paperback format. Signed by Ernest B. Lageson on the inside of the front cover. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the author's writing, no interior markings. Illustrated with a map. In May 1946, six inmates of Alcatraz attemped to escape. The result was one of bloodiest uprisings in the history of American prisons....

West Haven, Connecticut: Pendulum Press, 1976. Book. Illus. by E. R. Cruz;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 61 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a slightly faded spine; no interior markings. Illustrated throughout with drawings by E. R. Cruz. The Contents are: The Americans Begin Fighting with Mexico; Brigham Young and the Mormons; New Mexico and California; The Indians Forcefully Moved - Horace Mann for Education; The Fight for Women's Rights Begins; Great Progress in Farming and Manufacturing; and The Problem of Slavery..

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press - Popular Culture Bio-Bibliographies, 1983. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvi) 235 pp. Teal green cloth lettered in silver on the front panel and spine; headband; black and white frontis of Billy the Kid; illustrated with a map and with a few stills from various films. Light rubbing at the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. The Contents are: Preface; The Life and Death of Billy the Kid; Billy and the Historians - Bibliography of Historical Sources; Billy the Kid in Fiction - Bibliography of Fictional Sources; Billy the Kid in Film - Filmography and Bibliography; and The Legend of Billy the Kid - Bibliography of Critical Sources; followed by: Appendix A: A Billy the Kid Miscellany; Appendix B: A Billy the Kid Chronology; and an index..

New York: Vintage Books - Random House, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. (xiv) 252 pp. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: African Beginnings: The Seamless Web; The Rupture and the Ordeal; Strange New World: Afro-Americanization; The Changing Context; Master and Slave; The Slave Community; Nominal Freedom; and Adaptation Resistance and Virtue; followed by an epilogue: Sic Semper Tyrannis..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 117 pp. Brown boards lettered in gilt on the spine; yellow endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; Exploration and Conquest in the 1500s; The Colonial Era 1600 - 1769; Struggles for Independence 1770 - 1789; Struggles for Freedom 1790 - 1860; The Civil War and Its Legacy 1861 - 1877; Buffalo Soldiers 1877 - 1918; The Spanish American War 1898; Achievements and Setbacks 1898 - 1917; World War I and After 1917 - 1940; World War II 1941 - 1945; Battles on the Home Front 1946 - 1950; Korea 1950 - 1953; Vietnam 1965 - 1975; Fighting for Freedom 1954 - 1990; and The Gulf War and Its Legacy 1991 - 1999; followed by Epilogue: Black Soldiers Past and Present; and an index..

New York: Bonanza Books, 1953. Book. Illus. by Muriel Sibell Wolle;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xvi) 510 pp. Orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with maps and with drawings by the author. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and small chips around the edges and some rubbing on the panels; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: Introduction - The Bonanza Trail; New Mexico - Indian Turquoise and Spanish Gold; Arizona - Desert Mines in Cactus Hills; California - Mother Lode and Mohave Desert; Wyoming - Copper and Gold in the Sagebrush; Montana - From Alder Gulch to Anaconda Copper; Idaho - From Boise Basin to the Coeur D'Alenes; Washington - Chief Moses Held the Key; Oregon - Strikes Beyond the Siskiyous; Nevada - Raw Camps in Barren Hills; Utah - The Army Turns Prospector; Colorado - Stampede to Timberline; and South Dakota - Indian Menace in the Black Hills; followed by an index..

Princeton, New Jersey: Auerbach Publishers, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 150 pp. Red cloth lettered in black on the spine; illustrated with drawings and facsimile documents. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few short nicks around the edges; previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Raising a Revenue; Bonfire A-Building; Thomas Hutchinson: Born and Educated Among Us; Boston Under Pressure; The Ships - The Body Meetings - And the Laws; Boston Harbor a Teapot; Aftermath; How the News Was Received in London; Lord North; Riots and Proceedings; Measures Against Boston; Will Boston Submit; Condemned Without a Hearing; and A Congress Meets; followed by appendices and an index..