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Recollections of Three Kaisers

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Herbert Jenkins Limited: 1929

Seller ID: 2290462

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards spotted and lightly rubbed, edges and a few pages lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. ix, [10]-315, [5] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece of Empress Frederick, 6 photographic portraits in text. An account of three generations of leaders of the German Empire.
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The Illustrated London News, April 4, 1953, No. 5946--Volumes 222: In Memoriam Number Queen Mary

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Illustrated London News: 1953

Seller ID: 2299940

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. No chips, no tears. Light general wear. 1953 Stapled Binding. Includes two-panel color photograph of Queen Mary.
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Rochester and Other Literary Rakes of the Court of Charles II. With Some Account of Their Surroundings.

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 2303180

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards and edges lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and university library stamp on title page. 1903 Three-Quarter Leather. x, 330 pp. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Top page ridge gilt. With portraits. Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685)[c] was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland an...
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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park New York

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 2267216

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

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 thirteen presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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Wheatland

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: American Association for State and Local History:

Seller ID: 2267978

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

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. Meredith in 1841. Wheatland changed hands again in 1848, when it was purchased by Buchanan. Buchanan occupied the house for the ...
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Official Program of the Inaugural Ceremonies, Inducting into Office Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, John N. Garner, Vice President of the United States, March 4, 1933

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ransdell Incorporated: 1933

Seller ID: 2282987

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Faint crease to wrappers, front wrapper very faintly foxed, a couple light stains on rear wrapper, minor surface tear to rear wrapper. 1933 Stapled Binding. 64 pp. Official Program of the Inaugural Ceremonies, Inducting into Office Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, John N. Garner, Vice President of the United States, March 4, 1933.
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LIFE: John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition, Including His Biography and His Most Enduring Words

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Time: 1963

Seller ID: 2296531

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Minor ink note on front wrapper, a few creases. No chips. Wrappers intact. 1963 Stapled Binding. John F. Kennedy memorial edition, including his biography and his most enduring words. All of Life's pictures and text on the most shocking event of our time. Including his biography and his most enduring words. It is all over now. The frightful moment has passed and what unfolded before the eyes of a nation has begun-such is nature's mercy-to recede. But stark images still crowd the mind. We remember the smiling young couple, and a bunch of red roses; then-the monstrous act itself; and then-a flag...
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Post, the Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963: John F. Kennedy, 1917-63, In Memoriam [Norman Rockwell]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Curtis Publishing Company: 1963

Seller ID: 2296534

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A few light creases. No chips. Wrappers intact. 1963 Magazine. 84 pp. COVER: Norman Rockwell portrait of JFK. In Memoriam: A Senseless Tragedy; The New President. CONTENTS: Articles - Hate Knows No Direction (Speaking Out); When the Highest Office Changes Hands, by Dwight D. Eisenhower; The New President: He Ought to Try to Slow Up, Alsop Interviews L. B. J.; The Assassination; Death in Emergency Room No. One; A Eulogy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, by Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.; A Profile in Family Courage; What's Ahead for the G.O.P.?; New Weapon against Muscular Dystrophy; Wacky Search for Gold...
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The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Presidential Campaign of 1960 (Freedom of Communications, 87th Congress, 1st Session, Rept. 994, Part 3)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1961

Seller ID: 2304592

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine creased, minor ink marginalia in Contents. 1961 Soft Cover. xiv, 699 pp. Final Report on the Committee on Comerce United States Senate Prepared by Its Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications Pursuant to S. Res. 305, 86th Congress. Part III.
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Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine: Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages

By: Abbott, John S. C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Mason Brothers: 1856

Seller ID: 2301435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former a binder's copy - has been repaired. Loss to spine head, spine base and to front joint; ink name on title page. 1856 Hard Cover. 404 pp. With numerous illustrative notes and anecdotes. Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of Josephine, and Also Several Private Letters from the Emperor to His Brother Joseph, and Other Important Personages.
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George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago (American Pioneers and Patriots)

By: Abbott, John S.C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company: 1875

Seller ID: 2299625

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, ink stamp on front free endpaper. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 360 pp. The life of Washington reveals to us the state of society in our land, the manners and customs of the people, their joys and griefs, one hundred years ago. As a statesman, as a general, as a thoroughly good man, he stands pre-eminent. He was so emphatically the Father of his country that it may almost be said that he created the Republic.
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The March of Democracy: The Rise of the Union (Volume I)

By: Adams, James Truslow

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1932

Seller ID: 2266170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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; The War of 1812; The Era of Good Feeling; The Jacksonian Period; The Nation in Mid-Century; A Decade of Expansion, 1840-1850; ...
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (Penguin Classics)

By: Adams, John and Abigail; Shuffleton, Frank

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2004

Seller ID: 2296771

ISBN: 0142437115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. Small surface tear on front wrapper from sticker removal. 2004 Trade Paperback. xxxvi, 473 pp. The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history - the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and...
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Diaries, 1779-1821 (Library of America) [John Quincy Adams]

By: Adams, John Quincy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Library of America:

Seller ID: 2205512

ISBN: 159853520X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

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 events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, t...
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The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American Political, Social and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk

By: Adams, John Quincy; Nevins, Allan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.: 1929

Seller ID: 2292105

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

2nd printing. Hinges loosening, spine toned, light stain to top edge, edges lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. xviii, [2], 585, [1] pp. 8vo. The personal diary of the sixth President of the United States, whose family served in government for four consecutive generations. Footnotes throughout, bibliography & index follow text.
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, in Two Volumes (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Adams, John; Adams, Charles Francis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2305464

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Publisher's Collector's Notes and blank publisher bookplate laid in. An exceptional set. 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 formation of the United States as an independent nation, and his thoughts on history...
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George Washington: A Biography (The Library of Great Lives)

By: Alden, John R.; Palmieri, Patricia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2274892

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

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 American government.
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Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By: Alexander, John T.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2292064

ISBN: 0195052366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, clipped newspaper review laid in. 1989 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 418 pp. 8vo. One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portr...
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The Crown and the Swastika: Hitler, Hess and the Duke of Windsor

By: Allen, Peter

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1983

Seller ID: 2303015

ISBN: 0709012942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. Light smudge on page ridge. 1983 Hard Cover. 271 pp. Speculation on the exact role of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War and his connection with Rudolf Hess and the Nazis has continued for more than forty years... Peter Allen's exhaustive research into the events of the 1930s and the early war years, using German documents not previously taken into account, has led him to new and startling conclusions. The dramatic narrative of this book progresses from the events leading to the abdication of Edwar VIII to the subsequent journey of the D...
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Daniel Webster: Defender of the Union (Sowers Series)

By: Allen, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mott Media: 1989

Seller ID: 2268356

ISBN: 0880621567

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The War Diary of the Emperor Frederick III, 1870-1871

By: Allinson, A. R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company:

Seller ID: 2303019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Page ridges lightly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. xi, 355 pp. The Crown Prince of Germany, afterward the Emperor Frederick III, father of the ex-Kaiser, kept this diary during the Franco-Prussian War. He set down his daily impressions of the campaign, supplementing the diary later with extracts from his correspondence with his wife.
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The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty

By: Almedingen, E.M.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1966

Seller ID: 2297520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Smudge on rear board. 1966 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 333 pp. CONTENTS: Genealogical Table; Acknowledgments; Preface; The World They Entered; Father and Son; A Woman at the Kremlin; The First Emperor; The Ladies' Hour; 'We, Catherine the Second;' 'A Reign Fantastical;' Alexander the Blessed; The Crowned Policeman; The Liberator; The Dwarfed Titan; The World They Left; Index.
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Nixon: Volume 1 - The Education of a Politician 1913-1962

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1987

Seller ID: 2269216

ISBN: 067152836X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 life-size in all his complexity. Ambrose charts the peaks and valleys of Nixon's first fifty years -- his critical support as a...
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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)

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2274910

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

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 Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives...
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Eisenhower: Volume I: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952; Volume II: The President

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1985

Seller ID: 2281563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First paperback printings. Spine and back corner of volume 2 lightly creased. 1985 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 637, [3]; 750, [2] pp. 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 Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower'...
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Napoleon and His Women Friends

By: Aretz, Gertrude; Paul, Eden and Cedar

Price: $10.00

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2301230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. 375 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine and on front board. With sixteen illustrations. Woman, wrote the young Napoleon in 1791, is indispensable to man's animal organization…. The sweetness of this union beautifies the dreams and mitigates the sorrows of life; it diversifies life's joys; and it fertilizes the broad field of the sensations. Napoleon had many love affairs, but there was only one woman - the incomparable Joséphine - for whom such romantic notions could be said to have held any truth. I have ma...
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Grover Cleveland as Buffalo Knew Him

By: Armitage, Charles H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Buffalo Evening News: 1926

Seller ID: 2299622

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine very faintly toned, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. 278 pp. This book contains not only material published in a series of articles appearing in the Buffalo Evening News in the early months of 1924, but also a complete revision and rearrangement of the text and a considerable amount of new material.
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Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an Account of All His Engagements from the Siege of Toledo to the Battle of Waterloo: Also, Embracing Accounts of the Daring Exploits of His Marshals, Together with His Public and Private Life, from the Commencement of His Career to His Final Imprisonment and Death of the Rock of St. Helena. (Alta Edition)

By: Arnault, M.A.; Panckoucke, C.L.F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1890

Seller ID: 2287014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. No publisher date (circa late 1800s), hinges starting. 1890 Hard Cover. 247; 251 pp. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, Bonaparte rose to prominence under the First French Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; ...
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The Hermitage: A History and Guide. The Home of General Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States

By: Arnold, James E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Ladies' Hermitage Association: 1967

Seller ID: 2267212

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 plantation's purchase in 1804[3] and 110 at Jackson's death,[4] worked at the Hermitage, principally involved in growing cotto...
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Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1972

Seller ID: 2296700

ISBN: 0672513757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine very slightly cocked, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. ix, 260 pp. What do you say to the wonderful proceedings in Paris, which really seem like a story in a book or a play? wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, in December 1851. Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, had made himself dictator of France, stealing the limelight of the European stage to open the first act of a play that would last for more than thirty years—and in which Queen Victoria was herself to play a maj...
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