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By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Seller ID: 2267216
No publisher date. Unpaginated. Fold-out. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum holds the records of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945). Located on the grounds of Springwood, the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, the library was built under the President's personal direction in 1939-1940, and dedicated on June 30, 1941. It is the first presidential library in the United States and one of the ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: American Association for State and Local History:
Seller ID: 2267978
No publisher date, half-inch tear along top edge of front wrapper near spine. Unpaginated. Reprinted from American Heritage, Volume 5, Number 3. Wheatland, or the James Buchanan House, is a brick, Federal style house outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County. It was formerly owned by the 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan. The house was constructed in 1828 by William Jenkins, a local lawyer. It was sold to William M. Mer... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Desaulniers & Company:
Seller ID: 2267979
No publisher date, a few faint smudges to wrappers, general wear. Unpaginated. A guide to historic sites in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The Lincoln Heritage Trail is a designation for a series of highways in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky that links communities with pre-presidential period historical ties to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1903
Seller ID: 2202470
Front hinge weakened, ink name & date on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 360 pp. Original blue cloth, white borders, gilt titles. Frontispiece of Revolutionary War battle by Paul Hardy. A biography of President George Washington, from Abbott's Lives of the Presidents. View more info
By: Abbott, Jacob
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Altemus: 1900
Seller ID: 2162604
Very light rubbing to boards. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A guide to the controversial ruler of England, beheaded during the English Revolution. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press: 1875
Seller ID: 2278326
Bookplate of William Whitman on front endpaper, with a couple ink notations that appear to reference his personal library's organizational system. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 424 pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece of Abigail Adams. Transcriptions of 284 letters between future President John Adams and his wife Abigail, written during the American Revolution, with a brief biographical sketch of Abigail. Index follows text. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266170
First edition. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. No jacket, bookplate on front endpaper. 1932 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 428 pp. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. CONTENTS: Discovery and Settlement; The Colonial System Takes Form; The Duel with France; American Life in 1763; The Insoluble Problems of the New Empire; The Revolution; The Federal Union Formed; The New Nation Gets Under Way; Jeffersonian Democracy; The Presidency of Jefferson; T... View more info
![Image for Diaries, 1779-1821 (Library of America) [John Quincy Adams]](/assets/images/product/2205512.jpg)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Library of America:
Seller ID: 2205512
Original edition with slipcase, not a reissue with dust jacket. Still encased in shrink-wrap. Original edition with slipcase, not a reissue with dust jacket. The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical... View more info
By: Adams, John; Adams, Charles Francis
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1992
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274912
Publisher's insert and blank bookplates laid in. 1992 Full-Leather. Complete in two volumes. ix, [3], 542; [2], 576, [6] pp. 8vo. Original navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of the published works and some manuscript material written by the second President of the United States, John Adams. The writings include biographical information from his time as a private citizen, his role in government and the... View more info
By: Adler, Bill
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Carol Publishing Group: 1993
Seller ID: 2202536
Small black smudge to page ridge. 1993 Trade Paperback. vi, 154 pp. The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln seemed to have a comment — sagacious or humorous — on just about anything that mattered. This concise compendium offers his astute observations on a variety of subjects—from women to warfare. Nearly 400 quotations include such thought-provoking and memorable remarks as:Bad promises are better broken than kept.Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2265815
First edition. Bookplate signed by Albright without inscription affixed to front endpaper. 2006 Hard Cover. xii, 339, [1] pp. 8vo. Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America’s approach to the world. Drawing upon her experiences while in office and her own deepest beliefs about morality, the United States, and the present state of wo... View more info
By: Alden, John R.; Palmieri, Patricia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274892
Publisher's insert and blank bookplates laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. xvi, [2], 780 pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece of Washington, new foreword by Patricia Palmieri. Describes Washington's ancestry, boyhood in Virginia, career as a surveyor, experiences as a soldier in the French and Indian War, and involvement in the Revolution and the formation of a new Ameri... View more info
By: Allen, Robert
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Mott Media: 1989
Seller ID: 2268356
Faint edge wear. 1989 Trade Paperback. A biography of Webster from his years as a farm boy to his career as a lawyer, congressman, senator, and Secretary of State. View more info
By: Allison, Graham; Blackwill, Robert D.; Wyne, Ali; Kissinger, Henry A.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The MIT Press: 2013
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2276316
Fourth printing. Sticker on jacket rear. 2013 Hard Cover. xxviii, 186 pp. Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy. When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Al... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 1966
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2173941
2nd printing. Tape remnant on jacket flaps, jacket price clipped.Near Fine. 1966 Hard Cover. xiii, 349 pp. 8vo. An account of the friendship of two of the United States's founding fathers, who became the second and third presidents. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1966
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2265141
2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 1966 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 349, [5] pp. 8vo. An account of the friendship of two of the United States's founding fathers, who became the second and third presidents. View more info
By: Alter, Jonathan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2007
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2199566
First paperback printing. Remainder mark on lower page ridge edge. 2007 Trade Paperback. 414 pp. This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to th... View more info
By: Alter, Jonathan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2007
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2202494
First paperback printing. Remainder mark on page base. 2007 Trade Paperback. 414 pp. This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt ... View more info
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Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1990
Seller ID: 2199546
Wrappers rubbed, laminate just slightly coming loose from cover, a few pages dog-eared/bumped at corner. 1990 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 635 pp. Numerous photographs. A condensed version of Ambrose's two-volume biography of the general who became the 34th President of the United States. Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the f... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269216
First edition. A couple small spots on page ridge, jacket a bit toned, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 752 pp. From acclaimed biographer Stephen E. Ambrose comes the life of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon. From his difficult boyhood and earnest youth to bis ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60 and '62, Nixon emerges li... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2270838
Reprint. A few light smudges on page ridges. 1990 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 635 pp. Numerous photographs. A condensed version of Ambrose's two-volume biography of the general who became the 34th President of the United States. Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier... View more info
![Image for Eisenhower, in Two Volumes: Volume One [I, 1]: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952; Volume Two [II, 2]: The President (The Library of the Presidents)](/assets/images/product/2274910.jpg)
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1987
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274910
Publisher's inserts and blank bookplate laid in. 1987 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 637, [3]; 750, [2] pp. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Numerous photographs. The complete two-volume biography of the general who became the 34th President of the United States. Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.: 1965
Seller ID: 2197224
Boards lightly soiled and toned. 1965 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4. A historical record of the life of Winston S. Churchill, illustrated with numerous color and black & white photographs and illustrations, including a stunning image of his studio at Chartwell, filled with over one hundred of his paintings. Includes an introduction by Dwight D. Eisenhower. View more info
By: Ammon, Harry
Price: $35.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265138
First edition. Jacket beginning to delaminated along edges, 1/4 inch closed tear to jacket spine head. 1971 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 706, [2] pp. 8vo. A biography of James Monroe who became the fifth president of the United States in 1816. Ammon recreates his remarkable career, through his service in the revolutionary army, the Confederation Congress, to his exertions in James Madison's cabinet and his subsequent presidency. James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was... View more info
By: Andre, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Centennial Press: 1971
Seller ID: 2264223
Faint stains to jacket front and spine, top corner of jacket rear lightly bumped. Title page through page 32 beginning to loosen from binding. 1971 Hard Cover. 221 pp. John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institution... View more info
By: Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1931
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2263117
Half-circle stain on jacket front, a few small spots on jacket rear, jacket lightly rubbed. A Woman's Philosophy clipping laid in. 1931 Small Hard Cover. 47 pp. ...another Lincoln story by Mrs. Andrews... The story is founded on the real incident of Lincoln's kindness to a drummer-boy. Sixty years later that kindness was passed on and was a tribute to the Great Heart which always had sympathy with the sorrows of childhood. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1926
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2270159
Fourth printing. Edges lightly rubbed, faint stains on top page ridge. 1926 Hard Cover. 331 pp. This work is primarily a story wherein Anthony has woven the portrait of a real woman into the pattern of 18th Century politics. The reader is introduced to Catherine, the statesman, who unites Russia, destroys Poland and participates in the American Revolutionary War. The reader also sees Catherine, the jealous mistress of men, who at sixty has a lover of twenty-five. The boo... View more info
By: Arnn, Larry P.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Nelson Books: 2015
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2266433
First printing. Spine-head lightly bumped. 2015 Trade Paperback. xxxiii, 376 pp. No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know Churchill is to understand the combinations of boldness and caution, assertiveness and humility, that define statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill, both in war and in peac... View more info
By: Arnold, James E.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Ladies' Hermitage Association: 1967
Seller ID: 2267212
Near Fine. 1967 Soft Cover. 74 pp. The Hermitage is a historical plantation and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville. The plantation was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845. Jackson only lived at the property occasionally until he retired from public life in 1837. Enslaved men, women, and children, numbering nine at the p... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House: 1997
Seller ID: 2206917
A very nice copy.Near Fine. 1997 Hard Cover. 262 pp. In 1978, fresh out of Oxford, Timothy Garton Ash set out for Berlin to see what he could learn from the divided city about freedom and despotism. As he moved from west to east--from Berlin glamour to Berlin danger--the East German secret police, the so-called Stasi, was compiling a secret file on his activities, monitoring his Berlin days and nights and tracking his growing involvement with the Solidarity movement in P... View more info
