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The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's drift to revolution 1825-1917.

Crankshaw, Edward, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Viking, (1976). BCE. VG in G DJ. A dynasty in decline, the last 4 Tsars' history shows how Russia had within it the seeds not only of revolution but also. of many aspects of modern Russia peculiar to the Soviet state. How the autocratic Romanovs responded to the obvious ne...

A History of Peaks Island and Its People also a short history of House Island, Portland, Maine.

Goold, Nathan, · 1897 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,162)

Portland, ME, Lakeside Press, 1897. G. Early history of the islands, revolutionary, shipwrecks harbor frozen. Owner name pencil ft endpaper, ft hinge cracked,. endpapers tanning, edge wear, binding rubbed. Black binding, gilt lettering.

The Totem 1924: Portland High School, Portland, Maine yearbook.

Portland High School Students, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

np, np, 1924. Fair. Portland (Maine) High School Yearbook 1924. Black binding, gilt/light green title square (rubbed). Hinges cracked, text. pulling away from spine, owner name, inscription back endpaper.

Ordeal by Hunger: the story of the Donner Party with a supplement and 3 accounts by survivors.

Stewart, George R., · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1988). 13th ptg. VG PB. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 87 people set. out for California persuaded to attempt a new overland route. They reached the summit of the Sierras, onl...

Eric Sloane's America: compilation of American Barns & Covered Bridges; Our Vanishing Landscape; and American Yesterday.

Sloane, Eric, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Promontory Press, (1982). VG in VG DJ. If you lived in Pioneer America, how different would your life be? When Sloane found some remnants of the past on his New. England land he asked himself these questions. DJ edge wear, owner blind stamp.

A History of the First Congregational Church, U.C.C., of South Portland, Maine (the Old North Church).

Loveitt, Rosella & Joshua W. Curtis, Jr., · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

S. Portland, ME, First Cong Church, (1984). Numbered copy. VG PB. Roots of the church date back to 1733 when the entire area was known as Falmouth. Church architect Dr. Arland A. Dirlam. wrote "The lifting reach of its tower reveals man's highest aspirations _ and declares tha...

Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the struggle to save American liberalism.

Chafe, William H., · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Basic, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A chronicle of liberalism at the barricades & a gripping story of a man desperately seeking internal peace in a world haunted. by secrets. Lowenstein helped to shape a generation, many of the young disciples now at the pinnacle of power...

Bakers' Union no. 3, of Brooklyn A.F.W. Headquarters Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. printed card.

The Committee, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

np, np, nd. VG. "The time has arrived for Bakers' Union No. 3 to remind tht it is your duty to join its ranks. You must realize that it is. only a question of time before the bosses fill our positions with cheaper help. Immmigration is bringing more and more bakers into this c...

Luftwaffe Victorious: an alternate history.

Spick, Mike, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Military, (2005). VG in VG DJ. The Luftwaffe suffered a dramatic defeat at the Battle of Britain in 1940. What went wrong? Wht would have happened?.

Early Schools: The Early Settler Life Series.

Kalman, Bobbie, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Crabtree Pub Co, (1991). VG lg sz PB.

The Los Angeles Barrio 1850-1890: a social history.

Castillo, Richard Griswold del, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Berkeley, Univ of California Press, (1979). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Los Angeles Mexican American were excluded from the developing economic & political systems, traditional family customer were. in decline & women were often heads of families & wage earners. By 1890 the main out...

Pardner of the Wind: story of the Southwestern cowboy.

Thorp, N. Howard (Jack) in collaboration with Neil M. Clark, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Caldwell, ID, Caxton, 1945. 2nd ptg. G ex-library. Last blank page removed, library markings, edge wear.

Praying for Sheetrock: a work of nonfiction.

Greene, Melissa Fay, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, (1991). 2nd ptg. G PB. Struggle for human dignity & racial equality in McIntosh County, Georgia. Cover creased.

The Last Party: Studio 54, disco, and the culture of the night.

Haden-Guest, Anthony, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Morrow, (1997). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Outrageous photos of the Studio 54 scene, wrap around banner over DJ.

The West Point Atlas of American Wars: 2 volumes:I) 1689-1900 II) 1900-1953.

introduction by Dwight D. Eisenhower editor Gen Vincent Esposito, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$62.00 (€56.25 | £46.93 | ¥9,901)

NY, Praeger, (1964). 3rd ptg. VG. Vol. I has a discoloration on spine.

What Went Wrong?: Western impact and Middle Eastern response.

Lewis, Bernard, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 2002. 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. For many years the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement & economic power in the world, leader in the arts &. sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of babarism & unbelief. ...

Cuba, Castro, and Revolution.

Suchlicki, Jaime, edited & with introduction by, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Coral Gables, FL, Univ of Miami Press, (1972). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. 10 Cuba watchers pool their ideas & research to give the reader a penetrating view of Cuba with new insight into Cuba's. economic, political & social realities. Also Sergio Roca, Julian Weinkle, Roberto E. Her...

One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression/a snapshot album.

Welty, Eudora, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

NY, Random, (1971). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Signed by Welty. Welty took these photos when she had just come from college & into the Depression. She was publicity. agent for the Mississippi office of the W.P.A. and had to travel all over the state. Inscribed by Welty and owner on ...

The Statesmanship of the Civil War: The Page-Barbour Lectures, University of Virginia, 1951.

Nevins, Allan, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, 1953. 1st ptg. VG in Fair DJ. Nevins appraises the men who guided Civil War North and South Light green/gray binding sl edge tanning, DJ torn & creased.

In Olde Connecticut being a record of quaint, curious and romantic happenings there in colonie times and later.

Todd, Charles Burr, introduction by Henry Reed Stiles, A.M., M.D., · 1906 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Grafton Press, (1906). 1st ed. VG. Green binding, gilt seal & lettering. Owner bookplate (blank) ft endpaper, dent on ft cover side edge, few line marks at. bottom, top edge of front cover chewed.