Worthy of the Nation: The History of Planning for the National Capital
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1977. Quarto, 415, illus., maps, bibliographic essay, index, tears and chips to DJ. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1977. Quarto, 415, illus., maps, bibliographic essay, index, tears and chips to DJ. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 170, wraps, illus. (covers fold out), maps, bibliographical notes, bibliography of the exhibition, catalog of the exhibition, index covers somewhat worn and soiled, small tear at top of spine, three loose black and white photographs reproduced by the Library of Congress laid in (Washington Monument, White House, and long view of the Capitol). Publishedin cooperation with the National Capital Planning Commission. Smithsonian Institution Press publication number 6161. History of the planning and evolution of the City of Washington, followed by a catalogue of the exhibition on the subject that was held at the Smithsonian. The focus is onthe core of the city designed by Pierre L'Enfant, but includes much information on the many subsequent development plans. Published at the timeof the Bicentennial. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. First Edition. 210, reading list, index, stamp ins fr flylf, soiling to fore-edge, DJ worn & scuffed: small tears, creases, small pieces missing. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 181, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The first book to examine the developing relationship between American business and the U.S. Navy in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Kurt Hackemer is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at University of South Dakota. He teaches a wide range of American and non-American military history courses, but his research focuses on 19th century American naval and military history. He is currently working on a pair of complementary projects focused on Dakota Territory. The first project explores the territory's Civil War experience from a War and Society perspective, and the second examines the world of Civil War veterans who moved to the frontier. More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 393, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Index. Foreword by Honorable Martin R. Hoffman and General Fred C. Weyand, U.S.A. This is Number 51 in the Contributions in Military Studies series. Kenneth James Hagan is an American naval historian and retired faculty member of the United States Naval Academy and of the Naval War College's distance education faculty located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In 1973, the United States Naval Academy appointed him assistant professor. He was subsequently promoted to associate professor in 1977, full professor in 1987, and then archivist and director of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in 1990. In 1994, he retired with promotion to director and professor emeritus. He became visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in 1997–98, before being appointed Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College's Monterey Program, where he served from 1998 until his retirement in 2010. More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. First Edition. 368, illus., chapter notes, reading lists, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ quite worn & scuffed: sm tears, sm pcs missing. More
Hickory, NC: Clay Printing Co., 1911. Relatively modern Xerox-type reproduction of 1911 edition. Comb binding. 385, [ Index at pages A-T], plus covers. Illustrations. Front and back cover has some staining. Title label on spine. During the War Between the States, over 2,106 Catawba County men (out of a population of about 6,000) went off to war. Over a third of them never returned. Excerpt: No flag ever waved over braver boys, and none who wore the gray showed more willingness or promptness than did the heroic sons of Catawba. They can leave their children and posterity no richer nor more enduring monument than a record of their achievements as contained in this book. Professor George Washington Hahn was an educator for over 45 years. He served in Co. E NC 32nd Infantry, the Southern army during the Civil War and was twice wounded at Gettysburg. He was an educator by profession. Some of his life's work lives on in the book "The Catawba Soldier of the Civil War", a book of biographical sketches of soldiers from his home county. Catawba County, formed in 1842 from Lincoln County, was named after the Catawba River. The word "catawba" is rooted in the Choctaw sound kat'a pa, loosely translated as "to divide or separate, to break." However, scholars are fairly certain that this word was imposed from outside. The Native Americans who once inhabited the region known as the Catawba people, were considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes in the Carolina Piedmont. They now live along the border of North Carolina, near the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina. Scots-Irish and German colonial immigrants first settled in the Catawba River valley in the mid-18th century. More
Alexandria, VA: Donald C. Hakenson, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.75 inches. vii, [1], 78, [2] pages. Foreword by Thomas J. Evans. Illustrations. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Don Hakenson is the past President for the Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. He has served as a History Commissioner for Lee District in Fairfax County. Don is also a Civil War advisor for the Mosby Foundation. Don's manuscript, This Forgotten Land was the recipient of the 2001 Nan Netherton award presented by the Fairfax County History Commission and his book, This Forgotten Land, Volume II, received a special History award from the Alexandria Historical Society and received the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal Award from the United Daughters of the Confederacy Loudoun Chapter 170. Don also published three other books about Colonel John S. Mosby and his men. More
Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1907. Sixth Edition. 26 cm, 425, illus., maps (6 in pocket), index, notations inside board and on flyleaf, boards worn, tear along part of spine. More
Glenside, PA: Seniram, Pub. 1988-1991. First Edition. First? Printing. 29 cm, 430, v.1 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., maps, references, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. More
Glenside, PA: Seniram Publishing Inc., 1988. First edition. First edition [stated]. Hardcover. 2 volume set. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 430, 946 p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Special Tables. More
New York: Golden Press, 1960. 28 cm, 131, wraps, illus., text browning a bit. More
Manassas, VA: National Capitol Publishers, 1957. Second Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 194, wraps, illus., maps, charts, bibliography, index, spine worn, some discoloration to covers. More
Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed, 1906. Limited Edition. Quarto, 247, bibliography, pencil checks in margins of several pgs, fr board weak, lib stamp, discoloration & small tear inside front flyleaf. More
Macon Georgia: Henchard Press, Ltd., 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 112 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Signed and inscribed by the author on the Acknowledgments page. Inscription reads: To Skeet Willingham, a fabulous historian. Best wishes, F. Mikell Harper. Topics covered include Typee Island/Yorktown; Seven Days; Manassas; Fredericksburg; Gettysburg; Wilderness/Spotsylvania; Petersburg; Catharine Whitehead Rowland Journal; Sherman's March; Battle of Aiken; and Appomattox. In May 1861, Private Henry Clay Harper, together with eighty other men, joined a military unit from Waynesboro, Georgia, known as the Burke County Sharpshooters. This unit, with nine units from the counties of Banks, Meriwether, Moscogee, Finnin, Cherokee, Whitfield, Marion, and Stewart, comprised the Second Georgia Infantry Regiment. The Second, with the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Twentieth Regiments, was, throughout the duration of the war, a part of the Fifteenth (Toombs-Benning's) Brigade, Hood's Division, First Army (Longstreet's) Corps, Army of North Virginia. The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment fought in all of the most famous and important campaigns of the Eastern theater of the American Civil War. This account also follows the trail of The Second Georgia's regimental flag from its creation by the women of Burke County, Georgia to its appearance in many battles before its retirement in place of the Confederate battle flag, and finally, its return home to the care of those who made it. The book contains many maps and illustrations, many of which are in color. Also contains References and an Index. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1951]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 418, illus. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1951]. 24 cm, 418, illus., facsims., index, boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Richmond, VA: The Virginia State Library, 1957. 345 total, 2 vols., illus., appendix, index. More
charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1953. Second, Rev. Edition. 43, footnotes, facsimiles. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1962. Revised Edition. Third Printing. 24 cm, 249, illus., maps, footnotes, index, edges somewhat worn, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ worn and scuffed. More
New York: Citadel Press, [1960]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 352, illus., index, some discoloration to endpapers, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears/chipping. More
New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1867. Sold Only By Subscription--Presumed First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 609, [5] pages [advertisements]. Nevins I: 225. Sabin 31149. Pagination starts out with roman numerals but converts to Arabic at page 13. Decorative front cover with Our Navy printed above an image of an Ironclad and 1861 to 1865. printed below. Text and image in gold gilt Ink notation related to donation to a library inside front cover. "Our Navy During the Great Rebellion, 1861-1865, printed on a free end paper. Farragut and Our Naval Commanders. is on a half-title page immediately preceding the title page. Verso lists the copyright date as 1866. Verso also as notations of errata at nine specific pages. Cover has wear, soiling, and bumped corners. Spine faded but below the title has the names of a dozen prominent naval commanders listed. List of illustrations has been checked against the text and all listed illustrations are present. Engravings include: Farragut's Naval Engagement (Mobile Bay), Sinking of the Pirate Alabama off the Coast of France, The Red River Expedition Passing the Rapids, and Bombardment and Capture of Fort Fisher. In addition there are portraits of 18 officers identified in the List of Illustrations. Some foxing and discoloration around the illustrations and some image transference to the facing page. There is foxing and page discoloration throughout the book, with some soiling and stains from apparently spilled liquid. Pagers are all separate and text is generally unaffected by the moisture stains. Other than notation inside the front cover about the book being donated to a library, there appear to be no other library markings. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1944. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 366, [2] pages. Frontis and other illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Cover has wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. Endpaper discoloration. Joseph Hooker (November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879) was an American Civil War general for the Union, chiefly remembered for his decisive defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. Hooker had served in the Seminole Wars and the Mexican–American War, receiving three brevet promotions, before resigning from the Army. At the start of the Civil War, he joined the Union side as a brigadier general, distinguishing himself at Williamsburg, Antietam and Fredericksburg, after which he was given command of the Army of the Potomac. His ambitious plan for Chancellorsville was thwarted by Lee's bold move in dividing his army and routing a Union corps, as well as by mistakes on the part of Hooker's subordinate generals and his own loss of nerve. The defeat handed Lee the initiative, which allowed him to travel north to Gettysburg. Hooker was kept in command, but when General Halleck and Lincoln declined his request for reinforcements, he resigned. George G. Meade was appointed to command the Army of the Potomac three days before Gettysburg. Hooker returned to combat in November 1863, helping to relieve the besieged Union Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and continuing in the Western Theater under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, but departed before the end of the Atlanta Campaign when he was passed over for promotion. Hooker became known as "Fighting Joe" after a journalist's error, and the nickname stuck. More
Washington, DC: National Archives, 1990. Oversized, 355, profusely illus., index, sticker residue on front board. More
Washington, D.C. Tennally Press, 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [4], vii, [3], 602, [7] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Book includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include The Beginnings: Before 1790; The Tennallys and Tennallytown: 1790-1860; The War Between the States Comes to Tennallytown: 1861-1865; The Growing Village, 1865-1899; Peaceful Days: 1900-1914; Changes, 1914-1939; and Modern Times: 1940-1981. Title page inscribed and sighed by the author; inscription reads: For Paul and Edna Bente with all good wishes! Judy Helm, Jan 31, 1982. Pastor Judy Beck Helm graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School at the age of 16. She graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA with a degree in English and was working in Washington, DC as a writer and editor. Judy lived near Tenley Circle in DC and in the 1970's she researched and wrote a 600 page local history of the area with over 200 photos and maps: Tenleytown, DC. Country Village into City Neighborhood was first published in 1981. Judy lectured and was active in the DC Historical Society in the 70s and 80s. Paul Bente is believed to be the person who was appointed to the senior staff of the President's Council on Environmental Quality in the Ford administration where he investigated the effects of increasing population for reports to the United Nations Conference on World Population in Bucharest (Romania) and the UN Environment Program meetings in Nairobi (Kenya), and advanced green technologies through solar biofuels programs. He married his wife Edna in 1942. More