American History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedAt the epicentre of the Cold War's most dangerous decade, George F. Kennan — the architect of America's containment policy — presents a first-hand...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, few minds were as sharp, as conflicted, or as consequential as that...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: DJ - price clipped; Through the lens and pen of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated aesthetes,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of personal memoir and social chronicle, Edmund Wilson's The Thirties stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSydney's Rocks precinct is one of Australia's most storied urban landscapes — a place where convict sandstone, maritime...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt once a confession and a meditation, The Crack-Up stands as one of the most searingly honest documents...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering, morally hollow world of 1920s Long Island, a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the desperate, smoke-choked skies of the Pacific in the early days of World War II, a band...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the smoke-choked skies over the Pacific, a handful of outnumbered and outgunned American pilots waged a desperate,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the suffocating heat of fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies over war-torn landscapes,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched Arizona Territory of the 1870s, a lone army dispatch rider named Hondo Lane rides into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of athletic greatness and wartime tragedy stands Nile Kinnick — Heisman Trophy winner, University of Iowa football...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodShe was the original poor little rich girl — heir to the Woolworth fortune, courted by princes, married seven times, and yet...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in twentieth-century American diplomacy encompass such sweeping historical drama as that of Joseph C. Grew, a career diplomat who witnessed...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at full throttle across every corner of the globe — that is the extraordinary promise...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the myth of Howard Hughes — the reclusive billionaire, the aviation maverick, the shadowy puppet-master of American politics — lay a far stranger and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNestled in the heart of Norfolk, Swanton Morley airfield witnessed some of the most dramatic chapters of aerial...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Loose binding - pages still intactIn the shadow of the greatest military conflict the modern world...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the annals of criminal justice, few forensic breakthroughs have proven as decisive and transformative as the science of fingerprint...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore television dominated the living room, radio was the invisible thread that wove together the social and cultural fabric of a nation,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American natural history loom as large as John James Audubon, and Francis Hobart...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most explosive political trials of the twentieth century — the Hiss-Chambers affair — tore through American public life like a thunderbolt, leaving behind...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the cockpit of a WWI biplane and take to the skies in The Ancient Art of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith boldly seized control of their own destinies in 1919, they founded United Artists —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the earliest balloon post of 1793 to the jet-age networks of 1981, Air Mail: An Illustrated History 1793–1981 chronicles nearly two centuries...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A - paperback with blue card cover in good condition; faded spine. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding condition: Good. Published annually...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon by Robert Sklar...

Edition: 2nd paperback ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A - paperback with red card cover, some wear and fading to edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging....

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Creased spine ith minor creasing on cover. Part of the renowned Writers and Critics series, this...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of American literary criticism, The Red Hot Vacuum presents...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of American political history, The Death of a President:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few lives illuminate the turbulent currents of twentieth-century radicalism...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the turbulent intersection of revolutionary Russia and capitalist America, a remarkable cultural...

Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. In the shadow of the antebellum South, Eugene D. Genovese's Roll,...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding firm. Few American writers have wielded a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded and worn with some tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. In the turbulent years following the Great Crash of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Intact. At the crossroads of history and intellectual biography, Richard Hofstadter's...

Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; . Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Good. One of the most influential works of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, lightly yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. A landmark work in African American intellectual history, The Crisis...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. At the heart of the so-called special relationship lies a tangle of shared history, cultural...