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The Last Fish Tale: the fate of the Atlantic and survival in Gloucester, America's oldest fishing port & most original town.

Kurlansky, Mark, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Ballantine Books, (2008). VG in VG DJ. "A fisherman is not a successful man he is not a famous man he is not a man of power, these are the damned by God.". Charles Olson, "Maximus to Gloucester", Sunday, July 19, 1960 A disappearing way of life, fishing, how it has thrived...

Official White House China: 1789 to the present (with added essays by White House curators to enrich the original text).

Klapthor, Margaret Brown, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

NY, Barra Foundation, (1999). 2nd ed. VG in VG DJ. Evoking distinguished gatherings of royalty, diplomats, politicians and celebrities at the nation's First Table. The records left by the ceramic art have furnished keys to many a secret which would otherwise remain locked. The...

Blueberries and Pusley Weed: the story of Lovell, Maine.

Moore, Pauline (signed by), , foreword by Charles T. Wood, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.46 | ¥27,936)

Kennebunk, Me, Star Press, Inc., (1970). VG. Signed by author Moore on front endpaper, also owner inscription. Story of Lovell, Maine, frontis of Charlotte E. Hobbs whom the Lovell Library was named after. Home and social life after 1860. Summer residents, Lodges, Camps, Hotel...

A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692.

Brown, David C., · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

np, David C. Brown, (2006). 7th ptg. VG PB.

To the Shores of Tripoli: the birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines.

Whipple, A.B.C., · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Morrow, (1991). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. What became known as the Barbary War forced Americans who had disbanded the Continental Navy to establish a new U.S. Navy and. Marine Corps. The war included a blockage of Tripoli, followed by sustained high-tech bomb...

West Wall: the battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line September 1933-March 1945.

Whiting, Charles, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,428)

Staplehurst, Kent, Spellmount, (1999). VG in VG DJ hardcover. Intended to be Hitler's ultimate defender of his much vaunted 1000-year Reich, constructed in utmost secrecy and at enormous. cost. It almost lived up to Der Fuhrer's expectations and prolonged the war by 6 months a...

Ghost Wars: secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden.

Coll, Steve, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,151)

NY, Penguin, (2005). 1st ed thus. VG lg sz PB. From the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001. To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat. of Islamic radicalism? Who tried to stop Bin Laden and why did they fail? Coll recounts the history o...

Confederate Cavalry West of the River.

Oates, Stephen B., · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Austin, Univ of Texas Press, (1995). 3rd PB ptg. VG lg sz PB. A little known theater of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Trans-Mississippi West that includes Missouri, Arkansas, the. Indian Territory, and part of Louisiana, one of the best ever mounted and describes its organ...

Freedom in the Western World: from the Dark Ages to the rise of democracy.

Muller, Herbert J., · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Harper & Row, (1963). 1st ed. VG in Fair DJ. Synthesis of the various major developments that have affected Western civilization from the dark ages to the rise of democracy. Creativity in art, gradual evolovement of ideas that promoted belief in man's dignity and fitness f...

Legends of Prince Edward Island.

MacArthur, F. H., · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

P.E.I., H. M. Simpson, (1974). 6th ptg. G PB. Long-isolated from their fellow countrymen by the Strait of Northumberland, the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island. developed personal characteristics and a way of life peculiarly their own. These 58 stories set against the backgr...

In the Heart of the Sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex.

Philbrick, Nathaniel, · 1819 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Viking, (16th ptg). VG in VG DJ. The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was a mythic event in the 19th century & inspired the climatic scene in Herman Melville's. Moby Dick masterpiece, to its rightful place in American history. In 1819 the 238 ton Essex set sail from Nantucket...

Bushworld: enter at your own risk.

Dowd, Maureen, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Putnam, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Dowd dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and son and the Orwellian logic of the rush to war in Iraq.

State of Denial: Bush at war, part III.

Woodward, Bob, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2008). VG in VG DJ. Examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves.

No Margin for Error: American in the eighties.

Baker, Senator Howard, introduction by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Times, (1980). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Named by his colleague in 1980 as the most respected U.S. Senator, Baker was called by Deniel Patrick Moynihan was very. much a man of ideas-new ideas-an incisive analyst of problems with a persistent interest in the political tradition....

Soviet Military Power 1983, 1985, 1987.

Weinberger, Caspar, Secretary of Defense, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt Printing Office, (1983,85,87). 3 VG lg sz PBs. Illustrations of new Soviet weapons systems introducing each chapter are derived from various U.S. sources although not. precise in every detail are as authentic as possible. Price is for all 3.

Soviet Military Space Doctrine.

Defense Intelligence Agency, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

np, DIA, (1984). VG PB. Presents a probable Soviet doctrine for the military use of space.

Downton Abbey: season one & two 3 CDs 4,5,6.

Masterpiece Classic, · 2012 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

London, Masterpiece Classic, 2012. Limited. VG. The Great War rages across Europe, romance and heartbreak, scandals and rumors, blackmail and betrayal.

The Perils of Prosperity 1914-1932.

Leuchtenburg, William E., · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1958). 2nd ed. VG PB. Traces the transformation of America from Woodrow Wilson's entry into WWI, our agrarian and isolationist country into a. liberal, industrialized power involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. Owner name and jo...

San Francisco's Great Disaster.

and Ralph Stockman Tarr, Professor of Geology, · 1905 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler Co, (1905). VG. Full account of recent terrible destruction of life and property by earthquake, fire & volcano in California & Vesuvius. & a brief account of ancient and modern earth quakes and volcanic eruptions in all parts of the world. Nice copy...

On the Edge: the Clinton presidency.

Drew. Elizabeth, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1994). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Inside, full-spectrum report on the Clinton Presidency, ambitious, hard-to-read, uncertain, looking toward the future,. hounded by the past. Some tanning to edges, few tan spots on front endpaper.