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Chicago: Kirchner, Meckel & Co., 1906 Book. Very Good - Fine. Cloth. 4to. Unpaginated. Contents: Chicago, A Review of its Governmental History by Hugo S. Grosser, The Evolution of Chicago's Seal by Dr. B. J. Cigrand, The League of American Municipalities by John MacVicar Program of the Convention, Advertising Section with b&w illustrations throughout. Original softcover rebound in maroon cloth with vanilla endpapers. Lightly rubbed rear board with light wear to spine edges and fore-edge tips, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Binding is Trade PB rebound as Hardback..

Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. xii (xiv), 478 (4) pp, illus. First Edition, 2001. Very small chip to top edge rear panel near spine dj, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.25". Mustard-yellow paper-covered boards with blue back strip, and silver lettering to spine. Not Price Clipped, Illustrated dj in acetate protector..

New York: The Republican Club Of the City of New York, 1909 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Limited/Numbered Edition. Large 8vo. Large 8vo. (4), 358 (2) pp, tissue-protected frontis. Privately Printed for The Republican Club of the City of New York, 1909. Number 354 of 500 Limited Edition Copies. 1" x 1 1/4" x 1/2" triangle chip fore-edge margin page 7 with Lightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block, and lightly browned spine, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.75" x 9.75". Heavy-weave tan cloth with blue textured highlights, a gilt-bordered brown leather title plate with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block..

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1977 Book. As New. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo. lxiii, 328 pp, b&w frontis, publisher's preface, list of b&w illustrations, historical introduction by Gene M. Gressley, acknowledgments, 20 chapters, index. The Lakeside Classics Christmas Edition, 1977. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Navy blue cloth with gilt publisher's crest on front board, gilt lettering on the spine and gilt top edge..

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo. 280 (6) pp. stated First Edition, 1967. Introduction, nine titled chapters, index. Owner's ex libris plate on front paste down. Very light fading along top edge boards, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Closed tears and small chips along edge dj. Price clipped, Illustrated dj. DJ handles nicely in acetate protector. .

Tulsa, OK: Gilcrease Museum, 2006 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Quarto. 4to.96 pp, illus. Published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name held January 14 to April 9, 2006: First Edition, 2006. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 9.5" x 12.25". Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, and map on endpapers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "Artists often accompanied explorers as they encountered the American west expanse, becoming eyewitnesses and visual commentators of the changing shape of the frontier, and the tragic displacement of the American Indian tribes. With more than sixty paintings, drawings, and prints, this book presents and places in thematic and historic context its epic journey.".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933 Book. Illus. by James Will. Very Good +. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Small 4to. xiv (ii), 251 (6) pp, illus. Second Printing, 1933. Scarce Title with Dust Jacket. Price clipped. Inked name on ffep. Tiny chips top and bottom spine and some corner tips dj. Only the slightest text-block and endpaper toning and external wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 7.5" x 9.5". Illustrated red cloth with gilt lettering on front board, gilt lettering to front board and spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "Will James (1892-1942] was a French Canadian artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cow Horse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal This collection of autobiographical essays and short fiction distills the conversational style of Will James. In his easy-going cowboy vernacular, James patiently explains the ins and outs of cowboy life while giving the good parts a bit of a romantic glow and… Read More

New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. x + 454 pp, inked prev owner name and date on ffep, Stated First Edition, acknowledgments, Map: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century; text with footnotes in 4 Books / 18 chapters. Book I: The Promised Land (6 chapters); Book II: A New Deal (chapters 7-10); Book III: The Volatile Society (Chapters 11-14); Book IV. Slavery and Freedom (chapters 15-18); Footnote Abbreviations, Appendix; A Note on the Sources, Index. Binding tight, pages clean, bright white, and unmarked, cover cloth near fine with gilt spine on red background NF. Illustrated DJ (inner fr flaps clipped) wear & a chip or two - top & bottom. Handles nicely in mylar-acetate protector (removable). .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 731 pp, introduction, 26 chapters, notes, select bibliography, index. "[The author] traces the development of historical scholarship in the U.S. from the European sources of its origins up to the present, in order to explore the links between our living experience of the present and the relived experience of the past. It is an examination of why historians have written about America as they have, and how, by choice of method, substance and approach, they have delimited and shaped the notions we hold about ourselves as a nation and as a people." from the inside jacket flap. Price clipped with a black remainder mark across the bottom edge, and only the faintest wear to bottom spine edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth..

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 2000 Book. As New. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo. lix, 459 pp, b&w frontis, publisher's preface, list of b&w illustrations, historical introduction by W. David Lewis, an explanation, an introduction of two persons, author's introduction, 35 chapters, index. The Lakeside Classics Christmas Edition, 2000. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt publisher's crest on front board, gilt lettering on the spine and gilt top edge..

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1968. Book. Illus. by Jackson, Everett Gee. Fine. Full-Leather. Hardcover - Deluxe Reprint. Wide Octavo. xxiv + 406 pp, Publisher's Preface, Introduction, acknowledgments, Habitats of Nations and Tribes represented. XI Sections named for category of Myth and/or Tale (e.g., VIII - Trickster and Transformer Legends) with approx ten subheadings for each of the 11 Sections. 8.25" x 9" red leather boards, gilt design and spine letters, gilt edges (top, fore-, bottom). Raised bands (spine). .

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1963 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo. xvii, 441 pp, preface, list of b&w illustrations, 22 chapters, bibliography, notes, index. Reprinted, 1963. Lightly faded front board fore-edge corner, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Yellow cloth..

New York Chicago San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Book. Illus. by Jerry Helmrich. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small Octavo. xiv + 354 pp, Ex-library "Released" 1/2" tall red rubber stamp on ffep, faint Detroit Public Library stamp on top edge - no further ex-lib markings. Preface, 4 Parts / 27 titled chapters, Notes onSources, Bibliography, index. Binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. 5.5" x 8,25" light brown cloth boards, gilt letters on red backstrip spine, blind stmped RofA on fr cover, in DJ with acetate protector. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Large Octavo. xvi + 740 pp + xxxv, stated First Edition, bookplate on upper inner pastedown, signed in ink on the ffep by H.L. Mencken. Preface, text in Six parts, each with numerous sub-chapters, followed by alphabetized referemce of words and phrases, index. rear gutter age-toned a bit. 6.6" x 9.5" black cloth boards, with dimmed else intact gilt spine letters and design, lower forecorner tip bent just slightly, top spine cloth with a few loose threads, bottom spine cloth turned in, else intact. Gray stain top edge VG. fore-edge and bottom edge, still VG. Unclipped DJ chipped top 1/4" or less,spine sun-tanned, else black letters & rear panel text VG. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo. xiv + 381 pp, Introduction, list of 36 illustrations, III Parts / 9 chapters, Notes, Note on Sources, Index. 6.5" x 9.5" red cloth boards, black spine letters, in illustrated DJ. Light external wear to red cloth at the corners, binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. Text block with sparse fox spots. DJ price clipped, very good color, little wear. .

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Oblong Octavo. vi + 154 pp, stated First Edition, in collaboration with David Slovic. 88 pp unpaginated color photographs, 73 credited photographs, 10.75" x 9.3" off-white cloth boards, blind stamped title fr cover, in unclipped DJ with acetate protector. .

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small Quarto. xii, 371 (1) pp, traces of previous owner's ex-libris plate inside fr pastedown, illus. First Edition, 1975. Foreword, Preface, acknowledgments, 3 titled Parts / 20 titled chapters, bibliography, index. Pristine, only the slightest external wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.1" x 10.25". Illustrated cloth with black lettering to front board and spine..

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. xviii, 455 pp. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series: First Edition, 1994. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.5". Black cloth with greenish-yellow lettering to spine. DJ in removable acetate protector. foreword by Richard C. Leone, preface, acknowledgments, 1. The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy; Part II. Liberal Democratic Internationalism and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1921: 2. Democracy in the Philippines; 3. Wilson and Demmocracy in Latin America; 4. Wilson and a World Safe for Democracy. Part II. Liberal Democratic Internationalism, 1933-1947: 5. FDR and World Order: Globalizing the Monroe Doctrine; 6. Democratizing Japan and Germany. Part III. Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War, 1947-1977: 7. Eisenhower and His Legacy, 1953-1977; 8. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress,… Read More

DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. 251 pp, acknowledgments, 1. The Parameters of Policy; 2. The First Stirrings of Expansionism, 1880-1892; 3. The United States Sidesteps and Empire, 1890-1896; 4. The United States Seizes and Empire, 1895-1899; 5. Adjusting to Great Power Responsibilities; 6. the Great Power in the Western Hemisphere, 1899-1909; 7. The Great Power in the Far East, 1880-1909' 8. Dollar Diplomacy and After, 1909-1914; conclusion, bibliographical essay, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1978. "The author argues that the U.S. shift to a major world power resulted from the conscientious planning of American foreign policy makers from 1880-1914." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Only the slightest edge wear and rubbing to dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black and blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine..

Oriskany, VA: Oriskany Press, 2002 Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. 4to. 409 pp, acknowledgments, forward, 1. The Great Valley; 2. Three Oaks Road; 3. Slippery Ford Road; 4. Reid Road; 5. Oriskany Square; 6. Craig's Creek Road; 7. Brahma Road; 8. Tucker Farm Road; 9. Old Rail Road; 10. Lignite Road; 11. Craig's Creek Road; 12. Patterson Creek; Resources: references, index, photo and graphics index with b&w illustrations and maps throughout. First Edition, Rervised, 2002. Lighlty curled bottom fore-edge front wrapper, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial softcover..