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Highlanders : A History of the Scottish Clans

Maclean, Fitzroy · 1995

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

New York, Viking Studio Books, 1995. Hardcover. xi, 276 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm. Very good condition, small coffee stain edge of fly leaf/good.

Flat-Tops and Fledglings; a History of American Aircraft Carriers [by] Gareth L. Pawlowski

Pawlowski, Gareth L · 0

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

New York, Castle Books, c1971. Hardcover. 530 p. illus. 29 cm. Very good condition/good, 0.

The Irish Regiments, 1683-1999... Revised by H.R. G. Wilson

Harris, R. G. · 1999

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Rockville Centre, N.Y. Sarpedon, 1999. Second edition. Hardcover. 288 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Very good condition/edge-worn.

The Hebrides at War

Hughes, Mike · 2001

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Edinburgh, Birlinn Limited, 2001. Paperback. 119 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm. Very good condition .

Sea People : The Puzzle of Polynesia / Christina Thompson

Thompson, Christina · 2019

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

New York, Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. First printing. Hardcover. xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm. Very good condition/good, How did the earliest Polynesians reach these far-flung isla...

We Are Lincoln Men" : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends / David Herbert Donald

Donald, David Herbert · 2003

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Simon & Schuster, c2003. First printing. Hardcover. viii, 269 p. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Very good condition/good.

The Salmon Book / Douglas Sutherland ; Foreword by Lord Home

Sutherland, Douglas · 1982

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Collins, 1982. Hardcover. 160 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Very good condition/good.

Blood of the Celts : The New Ancestral Story

Manco, Jean · 2015

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Thames & Hudson, 2015. Hardcover. 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Very good condition/very good, The heritage of the Celts turns up from Portugal to Romania, from Scotland to Spain. Yet debate continues about who exactly were the Celts, where ultimately they...

Music to Be Performed at the World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival, in Boston, June, 1872.

World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival (1872 : Boston, Mass.) · 0

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Boston, Ditson and company,, c1872. Hardcover. 1 p.l. 177, 35 p. 25 cm. Good condition, in worn 3/4 leather, front cover detached .

Free Joe : Stories by Joel Chandler Harris ; Selected and Introduced by John Tumlin.

Harris, Joel Chandler · 0

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Savannah, Beehive Press, c1975. Hardcover. xxi, 232 p. ; 26 cm. Printed at The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, VT. Very good condition/very good, Contents: Where's Duncan?--Blue Dave.--Balaam and his master.--Free Joe and the rest of the world.--The colonel's "nigger dog."--Daddy ...

Chinese Rhymes for Children, with a Few from India, Japan and Korea, Translated and Edited by Isaac Taylor Headland... Illustrated by Sui Wesley Chan.

Headland, Isaac Taylor · 0

$98.00 (€88.91 | £74.18 | ¥15,649)

New York, Fleming H. Revell company, c1933. First edition. Hardcover. 156 p. illus. 23 cm. Inscribed by the author "To Mrs Finn, who started me on this work. Ill.: Sui Wesley Chan//. very good condition, slightly cocked A charming compilation of children's rhymes from East Asi...

Music on My Mind; the Memoirs of an American Pianist, by Willie the Lion Smith with George Hoefer. Foreword by Duke Ellington.

Smith, Willie · 1964

$173.00 (€156.96 | £130.95 | ¥27,626)

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Co. 1964. First printing. Hardcover. xvi, 318 p. 22 cm. Very good condition/good, This memoir by legendary jazz pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith, provides an intimate glimpse into the life and times of one of jazz's most influential figures. With a ...

A Brief Exposition and Vindication of Some of the Most Important of the Original Doctrines, Principles, and Practices of the Religious Society of Friends

Perry, Charles · 1885

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Cambridge, Mass. Riverside Press, 1885. Hardcover. 43 p. ; 22 cm. Very good condition An insightful examination and defense of the foundational doctrines and principles of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers). It reflects on the theological and social i...

Making Transportation Pay 1926: A Digest of Presentations Made by Electric Railways, August 1, 1926, to the Charles A. Coffin Foundation

Norris, Henry Hutchinson, ed. · 1927

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

New York, American Electric Railway Association, 1927. Hardcover. xiii, 244 p. [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Very good condition This book focuses on the operations and financial strategies of electric railways in the 1920s, with an emphasis on methods to achieve profitabi...

A Soldier of the Cumberland: Memoir of Mead Holmes Jr. , Sergeant of Company K, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers. By His Father. With an Introduction by John S. Hart... 9

Holmes, Mead · 0

$81.00 (€73.49 | £61.31 | ¥12,935)

Boston, American Tract Society, c1864. Hardcover. xiv, 15-240 p. incl. front. (port.) plates. 17 cm. Very good condition, small repaired edge tear on t.p. gift inscription on flyleaf A firsthand account of the experiences of a Union soldier during the American Civil War; it ca...

Johnny Tremain Riverside Literature Series

Forbes, Esther · 0

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, c1960. Hardcover. 254, xxi p. illus. 22 cm. Good condition .

Theater Playbill for Miss Stephens' First Night... July 2nd, 1825... Beggars Opera... Rosina... Spoil'd Child

Theatre Royal, English Opera House, Strand · 1825

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

London, 1825. Unbound. Broadside 1 sheet. Very good condition, edge-worn Catherine Stephens (1794-1882) was well known for her beautiful soprano voice, particularly of ballads. William Hazlitt, who spoke of her and Edmund Kean as the only theatrical favourites he had, wrote hi...

Theater Playbill for Miss Julia Daly in "Our Female American Cousin" and Senorita Cubas and Senor Ximenes at the Boston Academy of Music, October, 1861.

Boston Academy of Music · 1861

$63.00 (€57.16 | £47.69 | ¥10,060)

Boston, J.H. & F.F. Farwell, Printers, 1861. Unbound. Broadside 1 sheet. Very good condition Charles Gayler's Our Female American Cousin, which opened in New York City in January 1859, was written in imitation of Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin. Julia Daly was a prominent Ame...

A Voyage of "Ffisshinge and Discovery. " in the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Vol. 10, Number 4, August 1953, P. 181-184.

Eaton, Dorothy S · 1953

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1953. Paperback. The other articles in this issue of the Quarterly Journal include "Two Photographs of Abraham Lincoln" by Paul Vanderbilt & "The American Academy of Arts and Letters Collection " by Vincent L. Eaton. Very good condit...

A Coastal Companion : A Year in the Gulf of Maine, from Cape Cod to Canada / Catherine Schmitt ; Illustrated by Kimberleigh Martul-March and Margaret Campbell.

Schmitt, Catherine · 2008

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Gardiner, Me. Tilbury House, 2008. Paperback. 250 p. ; 26 cm. Very good condition Signed by the author.