AMERICAN HISTORY - Popular authors and time periods - includes Biographies
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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American History
BOOKS BY INGRI
AND EDGAR PARIN d'AULAIRE
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BOOKS BY
HOLLING CLANCY HOLLING:
PADDLE TO THE SEA by Holling Clancy Holling
Hardcover 1969 no dustjacket Houghton Mifflin Co. - very good condition - great
pages and tight binding ..... 4.50
BOOKS BY
CLYDE
ROBERT BULLA
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JAMES DOUGHERTY
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BOOKS BY JEAN FRITZ !!!!
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BOOKS BY WILMA PITCHFORD HAYS
**FORTH
OF JULY RAID by Wilma Pitchford Hays illustrated by Peter Burchard -
hardcover 1959 Weekly Reader ed. - good condition with some wear to edges of
cover....3.00
BOOKS BY GENEVIEVE FOSTER
**BIRTHDAYS
OF FREEDOM BOOK ONE - From Early Egypt to the Fall of Rome by Genevieve
Foster -1952 Hardcover - former school library book with pocket and markings -
very good condition (little wear to edges) binding great and pages very
good....15.50
BOOKS BY
RUSSELL FREEDMAN
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell
Freedman
– softcover Clarion Nonfiction - - new book (list price
10.95) -( 2 Copies) ….6.00
**FRANKLIN
DELANO ROOSEVELT by Russell Freedman - softcover Scholastic edition - near
fine condition...3.00
BOOKS
BY ROBERT LAWSON
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BOOKS
BY PETER MARSHALL AND DAVID MANUEL
**FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA FOR
CHILDREN by Peter Marshall and David Manuel - softcover - very good +
....4.00
BOOKS
BY WILLIAM O. STEELE
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BOOKS
BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
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BOOKS BY ROBERT QUACKENBUSH
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BOOKS BY RONALD SYME
**BALBOA:
FINDER OF THE PACIFIC by Ronald Syme illustrated by William Stobbs -
hardcover 1956 William Morrow exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
- Wear to the cover to boards with fraying - spine is little wobbly - pages are
good with some dog ears.....4.00
BOOKS BY EDWIN TUNIS
**COLONIAL
CRAFTSMEN and THE BEGINNING OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY by Edwin Tunis - World
Publishing 1956 stated first edition 'CW'- hardcover dj exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
-- book cover is overall intact, yet fair condition - heavy wear to edges -
binding torn to webbing at front hinge, repaired with clear tape - pages are
Good and clean, dj is tattered and back jacket flap is torn off....8.00
BOOKS
BY F.N. MONJO
**ONE BAD
THING ABOUT FATHER by F.N. Monjo pictures by Rocco Negri - Hardcover/dj/mylar
1970 "An I Can READ History Book" Harper and Row - exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
ffep torn out and first title page is also torn.- overall good with moderate
library wear including heavy chipping to book edges....2.00
**THE
SECRET OF THE SACHEM’S TREE by F.N. Monjo illustrated by Margo Tomes –
Hardcover dj with brodart plastic cover. 1972
Coward/McCann – “A Break-of-Day Book”
- Ex.lib – usual markings – torn out pocket and sticker attachments
– good condition --- … Story of Halloween 1687 in
Hartford
,
Connecticut
– The Wadsworth children are fearful of a woman that they think is a witch.
Sir Edmund Andros comes on behave of the King and takes away The
Connecticut Charter – Captain Wadsworth and his children plan to stop him.
– for Advanced Beginning readers “A Connecticut legend” …1.50
GRAND PAPA AND ELLEN AROON
:Being the Account of Some of the Happy Times Spent Together by Thomas Jefferson
and His Favorite Granddaughter by F.N. Monjo illustrated by Richard Cuffari
Hardcover ex.lib 1974 – good condition 58pages (We loved this
book!)….5.00
WILLIE JASPER’S GOLDEN
EAGLE- BEING AND EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT STEAMBOAT RACE BETWEEN THE
NATCHEZ
AND THE ROBERT E LEE
by F.N. Monjo illustrated by Douglas Grosline Hardcover exlib 1976
Doubleday and Co. – oversized 95
pages –very good condition (1870 race on the
Mississippi
as told by a young boy) ….5.00
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AMERICAN HISTORY by TIME PERIODS
EARLY
AMERICAN EXPLORERS
THE
FIRST BOOK OF NEW WORLD EXPLORERS by Louise Dickinson Rich pictures by Cary-
hardcover 1960 Franklin Watts - exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
library rebound cover good condition....2.00
FAMOUS
AMERICAN EXPLORERS - by Bern Keating line drawings by Lorence Bjorklund
Hardcover Rand McNally 1972 exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
"Traces the journeys and adventures of those who explored the North
American continent including the Spanish conquistadors, the Vikings, French
Voyageurs and mountain men." larger 89 pages with many 1-2 page color
reproductions of famous paintings - overall good condition .....2.50
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS
**ONLY THE NAMES
REMAIN: THE CHEROKEES AND THE TRAIL OF TEARS by Alex W. Bealer - hardcover
1972 Little Brown co. library buckram rebound exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
pages very good...2.50
**LIVING IN
NAVAJOLAND by Flora Hood illustrated by Mamoru Funai- 1970 Hardcover "A
See and Read, Beginning to Read Book" -exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
wear to cover with some soiling - good pages ...2.00
THE VERY FIRST AMERICANS by Cara Ashrose illustrasted by Bryna Waldman -
softcover "All Aboard Books" - elementary level "picture type
book" good condition....1.50
IN THE HANDS OF THE SENECAS by Walter D. Edmonds
(Also titled: The Captive Woman)– Hardcover exlib.
“An Atlantic Monthly Press Book”
Little Brown Co. 1947 –210 pages set in
New York
in 1778 - nice solid pages –light gray cloth cover shows some staining
–usual discard markings….2.00
THREE LITTLE INDIANS by Gene S. Stuart paintings by Louis S.
Glanzman Hardcover "Books for Young Explorers" by National Geographic
Society 1974 Very Good condition - with some rubbing wear... has a story each for three little Indian children. One is Cheyenne, one
is Creek, and one is Nootka. book has large two-page color paintings and
is in the style of a picture book. 31pages large size ...4.00
INDIAN MUSIC MAKERS by Robert Hofsinde (Gray-Wolf)
– Hardcover ex.lib 1967 william Morrow
Co.
– 93 pages with index.
“Examples of Indian music from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) of northern
Minnesota
.” - good condition – clean and
solid – shows some rubbing wear to cover – usual library attachments and
markings….5.00
THE CRYING FOR A VISION by Walter Wangerin, JR.
– Hardocover with dj/mylar – ex.lib 1994 Simon and Schuster Books for
Young People – "allegorical saga " Waskin Mani (Moves
Walking) the son of a Lakota woman and one of the stars in the sky, is torn
between his devotion to the mystical world and his destiny of confronting the
powerful one-eyed warrior fire Thunder.” By
the author of “The Book of God” -
very good condition + 277pages…..2.50
PILGRIMS
AND EARLY SETTLERS
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MARGARET PUMPHREY'S PILGRIM STORIES revised and expanded by Elvajean
Hall softcover 1991 Scholastic - classroom library markings....3.00
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JAMESTOWN THE BEGINNING "A True Account of the First Permanent
English Colony in North America" - Elizabeth A. Campbell 1974
hardcover library buckram rebound cover -exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
cover is scuffed and worn but pages are very good...2.00
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GIVING THANKS: THE 1621 HARVEST FEAST by Kate Waters Photographs by Russ
Kendall in cooperation with Pimoth Plantation - softcover scholastic - very good
condition with some small wrinkling....1.50
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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING by Jean Craighead George
illustrated by Thomas Locker - softcover Philomel Books 1993 - slight wear to
corners ....1.50
COLONIAL
AMERICA
AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
EMMA'S JOURNAL - The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss "A
Young American Voices Book" - softcover 1999 SilverWhistle Harcourt
Inc. near fine condition ....2.50
TALES
OF INDENTURED SERVANTS by Joseph and Edith Raskin illustrated by William
Sauts Bock - hardcover Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. - 1978
126pages with index exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments. - 8 chapter stories about indentured servants in
America - usually children - Hard-to-find-- good condition nice pages tight
binding - clean -......12.00
WESTERN EXPLORERS, PIONEERS AND 18TH
CENTURY WESTWARD EXPANSION
**PIONEERS
by Francine Sabin - Hardcover Troll assoc. very good condition 1985....1.50
SNOWSHOE
THOMPSON by Nancy Smiler Levinson pictures by Joan Sandin - softcover
Harcourt Reading - very good (4 copies)....2.00
WHERE
THE BUFFALOES BEGIN by Olaf Baker drawings by Stephen Gammell - softcover
Picture Puffin - exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
tape reinforced spine - good reading copy - ....0.50
GOLD
FEVER! by Catherine McMorrow illustrated by Michael Eagle- Hardcover-softcover
library laminated boards 1996 Step Into REading step 4 book Grades 2-4 - exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
very good condition ...2.00
PATTY
REED'S DOLL by Rachel K. Laurgaard illustrated by Elizabeth Sykes Mickaels -
softcover - Tomato Enterprises - very good condition - I purchased this new and
it has some crinkles at edges ...2.00
THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, leading Issues (slavery) and reconstruction:
THE LONG ROAD TO GETTYSBURG by Jim Murphy - softcover Scholastics - ex.
class room library with library pocket inside ffep. good condition....2.00
STRANGER AND TRAVELER: THE STORY OF DOROTHEA DIX AMERICAN REFORMER by
Dorothy Clarke Wilson - hardcover/dj 1975 Little,Brown Co. Bookclub edition -
very good condition, dj has some rubbing wear and closed tears - library friends
stamp on ffep - 360pages - ....10.00
ABE LINCOLN'S HOBBY by Helen Kay illustrated by William M. Huchinson -
Hardcover 1961 Reilly and Lee - exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
ffep removed - library rebound buckram cover - overall good reading copy....3.00
THE AMISTAD SLAVE REVOLT AND AMERICAN ABOLITION by Karen Zeinert -
softcover 1997 Linnet Books - near fine condition....2.00
WAR
OF 1812
THE AMAZING VOYAGE OF THE NEW ORLEANS by Judith
St. George drawings by Glen Rounds - Hardcover 1980 exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
"Recounts the voyage in 1811 of the New Orleans, the first steamboat
to travel down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, a trip fraught with dangers
including North America's most violent earthquake." very good
condition....2.00
TAKE COMMAND, CAPTAIN FARRAGUT! written by
Peter Roop and Connie Roop illustrated by Michael McCurdy - hardcover with dj -
very good condition - remainder marking....2.00
WWI
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at this time
THE
GREAT DEPRESSION
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WWII
PENDING**THE SECRET ARMIES: Spies, Counterspies, and Saboteurs in World War II
by
Albert Marrin - Hardcover 1985 Antheneum -234 pages - exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
library rebound buckram cover - good condition - pages are excellent - ....4.00
**IN FLANDER'S FIELDS: THE STORY OF THE POEM BY JOHN MCcRAE
by Linda Granfield
illustrations by Janet Wilson 1995 Hardcover exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
library rebound buckram cover - good condition with usual library wear -
**suggested iin Tapestry of Grace Year 4** WE LOVED THIS BOOK ...5.00
BASEBALL
SAVED US written by Ken Mochizuki illustrated by Dom Lee - softcover
Scholastic Like new - ....2.50
JOURNEY
TO TOPAZ by Yoshiko Uchida illustrated by Donald Carrick - hardcover 1971
Charles Scribner Weekly Reader edition - "A Story of the Japanese-American
Evacuation" - Historical Fiction chapter book 150 pages - good
condition...2.00
WORLD
WAR II : WARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by Ken Hills illustrated by John Berry
1988 Marshall Cavendish Limited. exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
- good condition 32 pages with index....3.00
MISC
and General 19TH-20TH CENTURY
AMERICA
**A PRESENT FOR NELLIE
by Anne Harvey - Julia MacRae Books "A Blackbird
Book" 1982 Hardcover exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
library rebound buckram cover "This story is based on a true incident
in the childhood of the writer Eleanor Farjeon, which can be found in her
autobiographical volume, A Nursery in the Nineties (OP). 44pages
good condition early reader chapter book....3.00
**GOLD DUST AND BULLETS
by Florance Walton Taylor 1962 Hardcover/dustjacket
Albert Whitman & Co. exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
"A boy and his father plan to leave Galena Illinois in 1861 to join a stage
troupe the will play before miners in the Colorado gold fields....here's an
adventure story the makes the ghost towns of Colorado live again."
Based on facts and real people. overall good condition with moderate
wear....3.00
**WILMA
UNLIMITED - Kathleen Krull softcover 1993 Troll - A biography of the African
American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman
to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics. - Very good
condition....2.00
AMELIA
EARHART Story - COLORING BOOK by Muriel Earhart Morrissey softcover by
Bellerophon Books - Very good - clean - no writing or coloring ....1.50
A
BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES A GARFIELD "THE PREACHER PRESIDENT" by William
M. Thayer - ABEKA Sons of Liberty Series - like new softcover book (originally
published 1980) ...4.00
RIDE
ON THE WIND - by Alice Dalgliesh from the Spirit of St. Louis by
Charles A. Lindbergh pictures by George Schreiber - Hardcover 1956 Charles
Scribner's Sons exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
- good condition with cover rubbing wear and edge/corner wear and
rounding....3.50
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GENERAL,
AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENT!
**THE
WHITE HOUSE: A BOOK TO BEGIN ON by Mary Kay Phelan illustrated by Ed
Emberley - Holt, Reinhart, Winston Hardcover 1962 exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
cover has some wear and scuffs - pages are good....2.50
**WAR DOG HEROES by Jeannette Sanderson "True Stories of Dog Courage in
Wartime" - softcover Scholastic - moderate wear to cover with creasing -
library pocket inside front cover .....1.00
PRESIDENTS
OF THE UNITED STATES: THE STORIES OF THEIR LIVES WITH MORE THAN 150
ILLUSTRATIONS "A De Luxe Golden Book" by Cornel Adam Lengyel
-oversized hardcover Golden Press 1964 - 104pages - good condition - cello
covered boards that has some chipping - price sticker residue on cover....2.00
THE
BUCK STOPS HERE: THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES by Alice Provensen
Updated Edition through Bill Clinton - Trumpet Club edition - good
condition....2.00
THE
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN ACTION by Betsy Maestro and
Giulio Maestro - Hardcover 1996 exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
dustjacket/mylar covering - good condition ffep torn out ...1.50
ANIMATED
HERO CLASSICS VOLUME 1 MUSIC-VIDEO ****Video***
Warner-Nest Animation "living History" features songs from:
Christopher Columbus, William Bradford: the First Thanksgiving, George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Tomas Edison - New in shrink
wrap - 5.00
OUR
COUNTRY'S FOUNDERS: A BOOK OF ADVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE adapted from Our
Sacred Honor edited with commentary by William J. Bennett - Hardcover with
dj - near fine condition 304+ pages....4.00
VICE-PRESIDENTS
OF DESTINY by Joseph Alvarez - hardcover 1969 exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
G.P. Putnam's Sons Covers Vice-Presidents that became president up to 1963 and
Lyndon B. Johnson - very good condition - pictorial boards have some chipping
wear and rubbing wear - clean and unmarked pages ....1.00
SIDE
LIGHTS ON AMERICAN HISTORY by Henry W. Elson A.M. - Volume 1 - Hardcover
MacMillan Co. - 1908 - ex.lib with attachments and markings- overall good
condition - green cover with moderate rubbing wear to cover edges and corners -
binding is tight- 398 pages with index. - covers Declaration of Independence
through the Civil War. Has a section on the beginning of Political
parties, the Lincoln -Douglas debates and States Rights.
THE
STORY OF THE CONSTITUTION by Sol Bloom Hardcover– 1937 United States
Constitution Sesquicentennial commission – 192pages – includes – portraits
and sketches of the signers,text (with text of Declaration of Independence),
notes on the text, letters, amendments, analysis, and speeches.
Along with questions and answers. –
upper level reading. Good condition
– dj and book has chipping around edges….2.00
HEROINES
OF AMERICA by Henry Gilfond – hardcover Fleet Press 1970 - - short bio’s
of Women in American History – 20 different women such as Jane Addams,
Elizabeth Blackwell, Clara Barton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Georgia O’Keefe and many
others – very good condition….135 pages with index….4.00
THE
FIGHT FOR UNION by Margaret L. Coit – Hardcover ex.lib rebound cover 1961
Riverside Press Cambridge – 133 pages plus index – Tells about the times America
has had to fight to keep united. Good
condition….2.50
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STATE
HISTORY
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MINNESOTA "THE UNITED STATES BOOK"
revised edition by Bernadine Bailey pictures by Kurt Wiese 1968 very good
condition - ex school library - bumped corners and rubbed spine...1.00
ILLINOIS: A STUDENT'S HISTORY OF THE PRAIRIE STATE
by William L. Burton Hardcover 1969 Panoramic Teaching Aids inc. exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
180 pages with index - good condition...3.50
EXPLORING
ILLINOIS
by Pygman and Prater 1955/1958 Follett Pub. “New Unified Social
Studies” ex.school library - Tells
the story of
Illinois
with text, illustrations, and
photographs – good condition, some finger soiling to cover and pages. Cover
has some rubbing wear….. 2.50
ILLINOIS
GROWS UP - Here you may see ILLINOIS the Prairie State from A to Z by
Frances L. Blanchford and Lila W. Erminger illustrations by Louise Parsons
Stanton - Hardcover ex.lib rebound cover - A.C. McClurg and co. 1941 - plain
green cover in good condition - ffep has been repaired with tape - all other
pages are good with some finger soiling - 115 pages with index....2.50
EXPLORING
MINNESOTA by Harold T. Hadd - Hardcover 1967 Revised Follett
Publishing Co. - History of the state of Minnesota ...2.00
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AMERICAN TALL TALES
and FOLKLORE
CHUCK
WAGON STEW written and illustrated by E.J. Bird - Hardcover dj/mylar exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
"...delightful collection of stories...exaggerated tales from the old
west" Carolrhoda Books Inc. - good condition....1.00
KLONDIKE
ARTHUR by Alan Coren illustrated by John Astrop hardcover 1977 Little, Brown
and Co. exlib with usual library markings (stamps and discard) and attachments.
library rebound buckram cover - "It takes a ten-year-old bard to reform
Grizzly Wilkinson, the meanest prospector in the Klondike gold fields."
good condition - 74 pages....1.50
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