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The Civil War at Charleston.

Wilcox, Arthur M. and Warren Ripley, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Charleston, SC, News & Courier/Everning Post, (1993). 17th ed. VG lg sz PB. Pictorial cover shows attack on Fort Sumter when the fighting begins April 12, 1861, 4:30 a.m. Back cover shows Federals. occupy Fort Sumter, the fighting ends, February 18, 1865.

Japan or Germany: the inside story of the struggle in Siberia.

Coleman, Frederic, F.R.G.S., · 1918 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Doran, (1918). G. Preface: Should Japan go to Siberia? What will the sending of the Japanese army to the Northland mean toward the development. of the Far Eastern question and the struggle for the Mastery of the Pacific? How will Japan emerge from the World War? What effec...

As New Englanders Played.

Sandler, Martin W., · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chester, CT, Globe Pequot Press, (1979). 1st ed. G lg sz PB. From their stern puritan beginnings it took a while for New Englanders to lear to play but with the industrial revolution. came "play" in a big way. Here from original glass negatives is the story of how they learned...

Masked Dispatches: Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775-1900.

served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$48.00 (€43.55 | £36.33 | ¥7,663)

Natl Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic Hist., (2002). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB updated from previous edition. This forms a backdrop for understanding modern cryptology and its role in the growth in the U.S. Cryptology, the art and. science of code-breaking (cryptanalysis) de...

Maine Game Wardens.

Wright, Eric (signed by author), · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Freeport, ME, DeLorme Pub Co, (1985). VG in G DJ. Inscribed by author Eric Wright "Best Wishes "85". Being a Maine game warden is not just a job but a way of life and. Sergeant Eric Wright, over 22 years a warden, gives us an inside look in this honest, personable, and enterta...

Lighthouse Mysteries of the North Atlantic.

Cahill, Robert Ellis, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Salem, MA, Old Saltbox Pub House, (1998). 1st ed. VG PB. All lighthouses are erected where the waters are most treacherous and storms kept the keepers on the edge of their. seats.

Biltmore Estate: Images of America.

Rickman, Ellen Erwn, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Charleston, SC, Arcadia, (2005). VG lg sz PB. Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, with its 250 room French Renaissance-style chateau and 125,000 acres of gardens, forests,. and working farms, has captured the fascination of people for over 100 years. Opened to the public in 1930...

The White Pass and Yukon Route: a pictorial history.

Cohen, Stan, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Missoula, MT, Pictorial Histories Pub Co, (1982). 3rd ptg. VG lg sz PB. After making the 110-mile journey from Skagway to Whitehorse in the comfort of a modern train, it is hard to imagine the. hardships endured by the gold stampeders as they trekked across the mountain passes...

Faith and Practice of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (Book of Discipline).

New England Friends, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Worcester, MA, New England Yearly Meeting, 1985. VG. Adopted 1985 New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Begins with a brief history of Friends in New England. Includes index. Paul Cuffee, the slave who became a Quaker sea capain; those who befriended the Indians, the "conduct...

Stroudwater Sketches.

Pease, Isabelle K., teacher of Creative Writing Class of 1938, · 1938 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

np, Privately published, (1938). VG lg sz PB. Recollections of Parson Bradley, life of Jeremiah P. Applegate, school days, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, Hawes House,. Portland Railway Co., Stroudwater River, Walter P. Griffin, Bibliography.

Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American south.

the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Chapel Hill, Univ N. Carolina Press, (2001). 1st ptg. VG PB. "Carefully researched and well-written ethnographic study adds to our understanding of our Scots at home and abroad, but also. of the process of ritual itself and the ways that immigrants everywhere symbolize, enact,...

Etruscan Studies: volume 3 1996: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation.

Etruscan Foundation, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Detroit, MI, Wayne State University, (1996). VG lg sz PB.

Ice Storm '98: a CMP photographic journal.

Central Maine Power, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Portland, ME, CMP, (1998). VG lg sz PB. All over Maine heavy ice felled trees, powerlines & poles, cutting electricity to more than 600,000 people. Gov. Angus King. initiated Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a grassroots effort of Mainers looking out for one another.

Boston Globe newspaper covering resignation of Richard Nixon: August 3, August 5, August 6, August 8, August 9, August 12.

Boston Globe, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

Boston, Boston Globe, August 1974. 6 Boston Globe complete newspapers for date of each event. Six complete newspapers covering the regisnation of Pres. Richard Nixon & the swearing in of Gerald Ford as new president. #1 - August 3, 1974 - Dean sentenced to 1-4 years in jail #2...

Death from the Sea: the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

Mason, Herbert Molloy, Jr., · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Dial Press, 1972. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Some estimates of deaths in Galveston ran as high as 8,000 people killed, based on survivors' accounts and official. records. Customarily gentle sea breezes mounted to gales and then winds of unprecedented violence, causing the ocean ...

Lovell, Maine: a collection of photographs and snapshots.

Lovell Historical Society, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Denmark, ME, Lovell Historical Society, 1978. Fair PB ex-library. Wonderful photos of the history of Lovell, Maine, est. 1800. Library markings, some soil to binding, appears intact.

Over There: the story of America's first great overseas crusade.

Freidel, Frank, Harvard Professor of History, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Boston, Little Brown, (1964). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. "Over there" was the shell-tortured Western Front in 1917 where the battered Allies badly needed fresh troops. And the Yanks. were comng, two millions of them to make the world "safe for democracy". They were enlisting, trainin...

Forward-March!: the photographic record of America World War and the Post War Social Upheaval: sections one and two.

Mackey, Frank J. and Marcus Wilson Jernegan, Ph.D., Advisory Editor, · 1934 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Chicago, Disabled American Veterans, 1934,-35,-36-37. VG. Published by the Department of Rehabilitation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War(I). Two volume set. Blue binding 11x14, silver lettering and decorations, end papers have blue decorative edging, color il...

Historic Ticonderoga 1609-1781.

Ticonderoga Historical Society, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Ticonderoga, NY, Historical Society, nd. VG PB. Pictorial cover shows the fort, John Hancock House, Champlain's picture plan.

West Philadlephia: University City to 52nd Street: Images of America.

Skaler, Robert Morris, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Charleston, SC, Arcadia Pub, (2002). VG lg sz PB. The many neighborhoods west of the Schuylill River across from William Penn's "Quaker City" were distinctly rural until 1860. when horsecar lines first crossed the river. The area soon became home to wealthy businessmen who bui...