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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Second Printing. 640 & 619, 2 vols., illus., footnotes, appendix, index, some soiling to a few pages, boards & spines somewhat scuffed & edges worn. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Second Printing. 640 & 619, 2 vols., illus., footnotes, appendix, index, some soiling to a few pages, boards & spines somewhat scuffed & edges worn. More
New York: ECCO, 2006. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 478, [4] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Dramatis Personae, Notes and References. Further Reading. Index. DJ is a small format, About 4.5 inches wide. It has a small crease in front flap. Decorative cover. Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRSL (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specializing in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University, New York. He first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. In the United Kingdom, he is perhaps best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain broadcast between 2000 and 2002. Schama was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List. In 2003, he signed a new contract with the BBC and HarperCollins to produce three new books and two accompanying TV series. Worth £3 million (around US$5.3m), it represents the biggest advance deal ever for a TV historian. The first result of the deal was a book and TV show entitled Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, dealing in particular with the proclamation issued during the Revolutionary War by Lord Dunmore offering slaves from rebel plantations freedom in return for service to the crown. More
London: BBC Books, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 448 pages. Illustrations (some with color). Dramatis Personae. Chronology. Notes and References. Further Reading. Index. DJ is price clipped. DJ has slight wear. Ink notation on fep. Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRSL (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specializing in Dutch history, Jewish history and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University, New York. He first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. In the United Kingdom, he is perhaps best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain broadcast between 2000 and 2002. Schama was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List. In 1980, Schama took up a chair at Harvard University. Citizens (1989), written at speed to a publisher's commission, saw the publication of his long-awaited study of the French Revolution, and won the 1990 NCR Book Award. Its view that the violence of the Terror was inherent from the start of the Revolution. As part of a multi-book contract, Schama produced a book and TV show entitled Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, dealing in particular with the proclamation issued during the Revolutionary War by Lord Dunmore offering slaves from rebel plantations freedom in return for service to the crown. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1976. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 420, endpaper maps, bibliography, index. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1927. 648, fold-out color map, footnotes, bibliography, chronological table, appendix, index, some wear to board and spine edges. More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, c1976. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 281, illus. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1975. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 372 pages. Indices. Name of previous owner present. Boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2009. First Edition [stated]. Fifth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 326 pages. Illustrations. End of Chapter Questions. Cover has some wear and soiling. The contents include Introduction; The Earliest American Settlers; The Colonists are Revolting; A Nation Declines to Bathe; The Civil War; The Gilded Age; World War I; The Roaring Twenties; The Depressing Thirties; World War II; 1947-89; And on Into the Future; The End, and Index. Adam Selzer (born July 13, 1980, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American author. Adam Selzer's first novel was How To Get Suspended and Influence People, a 2007 Random House novel which was included on the Chicago Public Schools 2007 Summer Reading List. It was also nominated for a Cybils 2007 Fiction award, and, in 2009, made national news after attempts were made to have it removed from an Idaho library; it was included in the American Library Association's Banned Books Week packet in 2010. In 2013, his 2011 novel Sparks (published under the name "SJ Adams") was named a Stonewall Honor book, as well as being placed on the ALA's "Rainbow List." His Smart Aleck's Guide to American History was nominated for a YALSA award for nonfiction by the American Library Association in 2011. Critics frequently compared the humor to that of The Daily Show and Mark Twain. His novel, I Put a Spell On You: From the Files of Chrissie Woodward, Spelling Bee Detective (which was based on Watergate) was nominated for a Great Lakes Book Award and short-listed for an Edgar award nomination. A 2009 short film he co-wrote, At Last, Okemah!, won awards at multiple festivals. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 492 pages. Maps. Inscribed by the author on the title page To Eleanor and Friend All the Best! Jeff Shaara July 10, 2001. Book signing slip laid in. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara. Jeff followed his father's footsteps, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most historically relevant characters. In total, Jeff has written fifteen New York Times bestselling novels. The book spans from the Boston Massacre to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The American Revolution is not merely a story of great battles. The Revolution itself was about not just the power of armies, but the power of a people to decide their own future. This story allows you, the reader, to witness the very birth of our nation through the eyes of the wonderful men and women who by their integrity, sacrifice, and astounding courage caused it to happen. It is a story that belongs to every American. More than a powerful portrait of the people and purpose of the Revolution, Rise to Rebellion is a vivid account of history's most pivotal events. This is the first volume of a two-part story of the American Revolution, as told from the points of view of several of the key participants. This book follows the time line from the first bloodshed in Boston, in March 1770, through the summer of 1776. While the events and the people are real and true to history, this in not what you may have read in high school history class. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 492 pages. Maps. Autographed Copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, Jeff Shaara July 10, 2001. Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara. Jeff followed his father's footsteps, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most historically relevant characters. In total, Jeff has written fifteen New York Times bestselling novels. The book spans from the Boston Massacre to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The American Revolution is not merely a story of great battles. The Revolution itself was about not just the power of armies, but the power of a people to decide their own future. This story allows you, the reader, to witness the very birth of our nation through the eyes of the wonderful men and women who by their integrity, sacrifice, and astounding courage caused it to happen. It is a story that belongs to every American. More than a powerful portrait of the people and purpose of the Revolution, Rise to Rebellion is a vivid account of history's most pivotal events. This is the first volume of a two-part story of the American Revolution, as told from the points of view of several of the key participants. This book follows the time line from the first bloodshed in Boston, in March 1770, through the summer of 1776. While the events and the people are real and true to history, this in not what you may have read in high school history class. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2015. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stating]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 371, [1] pages. Illustrations. Time Line, Notes. Index. This is the inspiring story of James Madison’s coming of age, providing incisive and original insight into the Founding Father who did the most but is known the least. Michael Signer takes a fresh look at the fourth president. His focus is on Madison before he turned thirty-six, the years in which he did his most enduring work: battling with Patrick Henry—the most charismatic politician in revolutionary America, whose political philosophy and ruthless tactics eerily foreshadowed those of today’s Tea Party—over religious freedom; introducing his framework for a strong central government; becoming the intellectual godfather of the Constitution; and providing a crucial role at Virginia’s convention to ratify the Constitution in 1788, when the nation’s future hung in the balance. Signer’s young James Madison is a role model for the leaders so badly needed today: a man who overcame daunting personal issues (including crippling anxiety attacks) to battle an entrenched and vicious status quo. Michael Signer’s brilliant analysis of “Madison’s Method,” the means by which Madison systematically destroyed dangerous ideas and left in their stead an enduring and positive vision for the United States, is wholly original and uniquely relevant today. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., [1916]. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 332, bibliography, index, discoloration inside boards & flyleaves, foxing to fore-edge, pencil name & address ins fr flylf, DJ worn. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. First Printing. 25 cm, 358, illus., some soiling to DJ. More
Old Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda: Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 152 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Appendices. Photo sources. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and sticker residue. The book has become a Bermuda best-seller. The Library of Congress believes that it is the first complete historical summary of US-Bermuda relations written from an American perspective ever published. The book also provided the images and materials for the “400 Years of Friendship Walls” that had erected at the American Consulate and the U.S. Preclearance facility at the airport. The “Friendship Walls” convey America and Bermuda’s long-lasting and mutually beneficial friendship for the hundreds of thousands of visitors that pass through the airport and the Consulate each year. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1975. Quarto, 491, illus. (some in color), endpaper maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, minor damp stains at top of last 10 pp. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Book Club/1st? Edition. 25 cm, 1170 total, 2-vol. set (no slip case), illus., notes, index, some pages dinged, DJ's somewhat worn and soiled. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Book Club/1st? Edition. Hardcover. 25 cm, 569, v.2 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., notes, index, fore-edge soiled/foxed, front DJ flap corner torn off, DJ worn/creased sticker residue on DJ spine, small tears and chips to DJ edges, larger tear at DJ spine. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. Book Club Edition. 1899 total, 2 vols., maps, bibliographic note, index, bookplates p. iv both vols., DJ's worn & sm edge tears, larger pcs missing DJ spines. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. Book Club Edition. 872, v.1 only, maps, small tears/chips to DJ edges, DJ somewhat worn and creased, raised stamp on front flyleaf The author defines the American Revolution as a popular uprising, the first of what would now be described as a people's liberation movement. More
Place_Pub: Philadelphia, PA: United Presbyterian Church, 1974. 189, wraps, illus., usual library markings, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
London: Greenhill Books, 1997. 24 cm, 441, map. More
Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company, 1925. 122, illus., top corner p. 9 ripped off, small scratch on fore-edge, boards and spine somewhat soiled. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946. Revised Edition. Third Printing. 404, illus., map, footnotes, notes on methods, index, plate after p. 168 loose, boards & spine somewhat stained, board corners worn. More
Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1970. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 165 p. More