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Standard Population Guide: incorporated cities, towns, villages and boroughs of the U.S. having a population of 1,000 or over.

National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

NY, Natl Bureau of Casulaty, 1931. VG. Bank and safe deposit box burglary rules & rates, mercantile open stock, safe, messenger, paymaster, and interior robbery. insurance, office or store robbery. Looseleaf notebook with two brass brads.

The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American military adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008.

Ricks, Thomas E., · 2009 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, Perseus Press, 2009. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Ricks documents the inside story of Iraq war since late 2005.

Against All Enemies: inside America's war on terror.

Clarke, Richard A., · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

NY, Free Press, (2004). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. "The (Bush) administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda.A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing. stronger.".

Fighting Back.

Sammon, Bill, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,714)

Washington, DC, Regnery, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The war on terrorism from inside the Bush White House.

A Look over My Shoulder: a life in the Central Intelligence Agency.

Helms, Richard, with William Hood, foreword by Henry Kissinger, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Random, (2003). 1st ed. G in G DJ ex-library. Begins with President Nixon's attempt to embroil the CIA with director Helms in the Watergae cover-up. Helms was a foreign. correspondent in Berlin, where he once lunched with Hitler before returning to do newspaper work in the...

Hellhound on His Trail: the stalking of Martin Luther Kind Jr. and the international hunt for his assssin.

Sides, Hampton, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Doubleday, (2010). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Exhausted by constant death threats and the toll of his punishing schedule, the Nobel Laureate was at the bottom of. his career, beset on the left by the Black Power movement and vicoiously harassed by J. Edgar Hoover who con...

Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg.

Williamsburg Foundation, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg Fndatn, (2007). 3rd ed. VG lg sz PB. What to see and do in the historic area, new revolutionary city programming, street by street, building by building guide,. decorative arts and folk art museums, dining shopping, lodging and recreatio...

South African War Machine.

Heitman, Helmoed-Romer, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,714)

NY, Gallery Books, (1985). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Describes the history of S. African armed forces, their weapons, organizations, their role in the two World Wars & Korea. and explaining how this background has contributed to the unique make-up of S. Africa's defense forces toda...

Every Day Life in the Colonies.

Stone, Gertrude and M. Grace Fickett, · 1905 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Boston, Heath, 1905. G. First New England Christmas (1620), when the Indians fell on Saco, telling time without a clock, letters of long ago. poor debtor's children (1733), May Day journey (1727), two letters of long ago (1743). Light green binding, dark green lettering, tanne...

Contemporary Europe Since 1870.

Hayes, Carlton J. H., · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Macmillan, (1953). 1st ptg. VG. Green binding, black title circle front cover, black square title box spine, owner bookplate front endpaper, owner name &. jottings front flyleaf, chapter IV on Nationalistic Central Europe and the Anomalous Empires of Eastern Europe contain...

History of Vassalborough, Maine: 1771-1971.

Robbins, Alma Pierce, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

np, Self-published, nd (ca 1971). VG lg sz PB. Frontis of Memorial to Samuel Vassal of London, England, in King's Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts erected 1760.

Too Many to Mourn: one family's tragedy in the Halifax Explosion.

Mahar, James and Rowena Mahar, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Halifax, NS, Canada, Nimbus Pub, (1998). VG PB. The Halifax Explosion had an epicenter with a force so great it vaporized everything within a 100 foot radius, within 1,000 feet. a solid wall of force destroyed everything. The north end of Halifax, Richmond, bore the undiminish...

Class of 1863.

Bowdoin College, · 1863 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

np, np, 1863. G in leather boards, all edges gilt with tooling to binding. Names, photos and signatures of 1863 class with remarks to owner G. Charles B. Shackford. Notes at front indicating book. was put in the possession of Burnham B. Davis, lawyer, Conway, New Hampshire. Li...

From Then Till Now: a chronology.

Small, Ken, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

np, np, nd (ca 1954). G PB signed by author. Signed by author. Remniscences of South Chatham, New Hampshire. Photo on cover of author with old car in background. Tanned at edges.

Annual Report of the officers of the Town of Conway, New Hampshire 1945.

Conway, New Hampshire, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

N. Conway, NH, Reporter Press, (1945). VG PB. Pictorial cover. Few smudges.

Some Folk-Lore Stories And Songs with Englsh translation and notes.

Rattray, R. Sutherland, preface by Rev. Alexander Hetherwick, D.D., · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

NY, Negro Universities Press, (1969)(1907). 2nd ed. VG. The author has been for some years located among the Nyanja speaking tribes of British Central Africa at Blantyre and. afterwards in Central Angoniland. Sturdy book, tanning at internal center of endpapers.

Eye of the Storm: a Civil War odyssey.

Nelson D. Lankford, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,428)

NY, Free Press, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Grant's Personal Memoirs. From four tattered scrapbooks. found in a Connecticut book vault in 1994 by Union private and mapmaker Sneder.

A Stern and Lovely Scene: a visual history of the Isles of Shoals.

University Art Galleries, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Durham, NH, Univ of NH, (1978). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Title from a quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks, 1852. Writing about Shoals by various writers. Fading toward edges of back cover.

Hiram Hitchcock's Legacy: the history of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.

Land, Loretta Churney, R.N., · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Canaan, NH, Phoenix Pub, (1980). VG in VG DJ ex-library. "There is scarcely a house in the village that has not had the help and comfort of their ministrations." Library markings.

Victorian Pubs.

Girouard, Mark, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (1990). VG lg sz PB. Victorian public houses have been much and rightly admired but they have tended to be treated as folk-art and taken for granted. This book attempts to treat them as buildings built or altered at identificable dates by identifiab...