Resultados de búsqueda: History - American from Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Athens, Ga: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. Hardcover. VG. Blue cloth, blue & white illus. dust jacket, 298 pp., BW illus. "Our image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model for women of the nineteenth century. In All-American Girl, however, Frances B. Cogan identifies amid these extremes a third ideal of femininity: the "Real Woman." Cogan's Real Woman exists in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories whose characters did not dedicate their lives to passivity or demand the vote. Appearing in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880, these women embodied qualities that neither the "True Women"—conventional ladies of leisure—nor the early feminists fully advocated, such as intelligence, physical fitness, self sufficiency, economic self-reliance,… Leer más

West Chester, Pa: F.S. Hickman, printer, 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. G (Binding has average edge wear; pages are tanning or lightly foxing in margins; BW plate pages are generally clear, as is text.). Dark stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, gilt decoration on front cover, marbled endsheets, deckled edges, gilt top edge, color frontispiece. 199 pp., BW illustrations, engraved capitals. Gilt dentelle on turn-in. A chatty narrative history and geography of part of the Brandywine River valley in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. Well illustrated with archival views as well as line drawings of select natural and architectural features.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hardbound. VG, clean and tight with only minor bump to one top corner. Black cloth with gold lettering; 371 pp. with 7 bw illustrations. Published in conjunction with the German Historical Institute.

Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1966. Paperback. G+. Red title faded on spine. Book shows wear, especially along edges; smudging on cover and small rips in tail of spine. Some foxing along page edging. A few edges creased on the fold-outs.. Cream wraps with BW illustration and black and red lettering on cover; French flaps. 289 deckled pp. 172 BW illustrations, at least 7 of which are fold-outs. Text in English, Portuguese, and German. 4,000 copies printed.

Lexington, Massachusetts: National Heritage Museum, 2006. Softcover. VG+ with tiny nick to top of front cover. Softcover wraps with french fold, colored illustrations and white lettering. xvii; 262 pp. Many colored illustrations. "Published in conjunction with the National Heritage Museum, this extravagantly illustrated volume offers an overview of Freemasonry's origins in seventeenth-century Scotland and England before exploring its evolving role in American history, from the Revolution through the labor and civil rights movements, and into the twenty-first century. American Freemasons explores some of the causes for the rise and fall of membership in the fraternity and why it has attracted men in such large numbers for centuries." - Amazon.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. ex-lib copy. Associated library markings on both volumes. Covers have general wear, Bookblock and interior pages have age toning. Blue cloth boards. White title block on spine. Rough cut bookblock. Frontispieces, portraits, maps Vol 1 403 pgs. Vol 2. 386 pgs. Includes bibliographical references. Limited to 100 copies this is set 341.

New York: Macmillan, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. ex-lib copy. Associated library makrings throughout book. Cover has general wear, corner damage. Spine has top/bottom damage. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. xi pages, 2 leaves, 198 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

various. Softbound. VG. Printed wraps. Number of pages varies, usually around 12. The following issues are in this lot: Vol. 4: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12. Vol. 5: 1 (section 1), 5, 6, 7, 8, 11. Vol. 6: 1, 7, 8, 9, 10. A total of 18 issues.

Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1945. Hardcover. G. ex-library, no dj, with library markings on spine and identity stamp on page edges, bookplate on inside front cover, pages are clean, spine is fairly tight, stray black mark on front cover.. Brown cloth, 383 pp. A year-by-year list of published diaries in the U.S., from 1629-1860. Includes index.

London, England: George Virtue, 1840. Hardcover. VG- (scratches & rubbing to boards; harsh edge-wear w/ indentation to front edge. corners bumped & curled w/ fairly light rubbing. spine cloth scratched; rubbing to top. pgs variously lightly toned or tanned. pgs have speckled or blotched foxing, though rather light in hue; instances of concentrated, large blotched foxing, but remain rather light.). green marbled boards w/ quarter cloth navy spine; burgundy & gilt spine plate. book iv, 106 pgs w/ bw tissue-guard plates throughout. all edges marble. Remains tightly bound; appears to be a lightly read copy. This is only Volume II. Previous owners name to front and back endpapers.

Boston: Everett and Munroe, 1809. Fair+ significant foxing, but sheets are strong. SOmeone has handwritten "By John Quincy Adams" where an author name would usually be found. In the upper right corneris found the notation "From The Publis[her is trimmed off]. Printed sheets, removed long ago from a larger bound volume. 56 pp.trimmed to 5" x 8" Ames, a Massachusetts Representative in the first four Congresses (1791--97), was an extreme Federalist, convinced that the Republic would come to ruin under Jeffersonian principles. On January 11, 1811, Adams father wrote the following relating to Ames: "...Fisher Ames, the highest of the High Federalists: "Ames was ingenious, had read a good deal, and was a fair Character and a good Man: but he owed his Rise, and was bouyed up by a British Faction and the Remnants and Shreds of old Toryism, as an Egg is borne upon the Surface of a Strong Lie. It was not in him ... a monarchical Mania but a Mania of fear and Ambition: Fear that we should be conquered and… Leer más

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1925. Hardcover. G+, ex-library, no dj, with usual library markings, incl. perforation stamp on all illus., bookplate on inside front cover, and pocket at inside back cover, some scratch marks on cover.. Blue cloth, library binding, 271 pp.; 14 BW illus. A study of "the old and rare books whih contain the earliest printed sources of American history." (Foreword).

New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. Hardbound. VG/VG. Navy cloth with silve lettering and illus. dj with red and blue lettering; 368 pp. with 2 illustrations and 1 map. Includes three parts and an epilogue.

New York, New York: Christie's, 2009. Softcover. VG. Color pictorial wraps. 96 pp. Profusely illustrated. Accompanied the auction held February 12, 2009, (sale CASABLANCA-2265), which featured fifty-one lots of Americana, including letters by George Washington, John Adams, and John Hancock, maps, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln (taken by an anonymous photographer), and more. Extensive annotations!

New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Softcover. VG (as new). Black illus. wraps with gold and white lettering; 544 plus appendices. A textbook probing the deep cultural and historical roots of American government, it engages students in an ongiong constitutional dialogue about the development of ideas, institutions and politics.

Berkeley / Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1971. Hardcover. VG/VG (light wear to boards. spine ends lightly bumped & crinkled. corners lightly rubbed. dustjacket has light wear to corners & edges). green cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 237 pgs. Remains a nice, bright and sharp copy.

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1794. Hardcover. AS IS (Boards are heavily worn generally, all over, including spine strip; covers are barely holding on at the hinges, which are cracked; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged/foxed; pencil writing ifc; pages are toned, as expected with a book this age, and foxed; textblock is still solid.). Brown leather boards with mounted red title card on the spine, with gilt lettering; 416 pp. This is Volume One only, of a two-volume set.

New York: J. C. Buttre, 1877. Hardcover. Vol. I: Text block solid and text clean but with browning along top edge. Front cover/spine detaching from binding. Vol. II: NF interior; covers solid but with light rubbing. Vol. III: Text block NF, solid and clean. Front cover detached and spine loosened from binding.. Three quarter calf with pebbled morocco and 5 raised bands on spine; gilt decoration and lettering; AEG. All volumes unpaginated. Pale blue silk moire endpapers, frontispiece portraits and engraved title leaves to each volume. Tissue guards over each engraving. Steel engravings of 240 important historical people, including Washington, Lincoln, "David" Crockett, Sam Houston, Edison, Longfellow, Poe, Choate, James Buchanan, John Paul Jones, Martha Washington, and four other women, each with a lengthy biographical sketch.

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG+/VG+, clean and tight.. Terracotta textured cloth over boards. Color-illus. dj with green/black lettering. 284 pp. with 77 bw illus. "In the picotal decades just before and after the turn of the 20th century, American domestic life underwent dramatic alteration. From backstairs to front stairs, spaces and the activities within them, whether inside or outside, secular or spiritual, routine events or special occasions, all were radically affected by shifts in the larger social and material environment." Not just the study of buildings but also the study of behaviours of those who lived in the middle-class, detached American home between 1880 and 1930.

San Francisco, California: Olema Press, 1983. Hardcover. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, IDs to lower spines, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. edge-wear, scuffs & scratches to boards. corners rubbed, bumped or creased. spine ends rubbed.). red & navy leatherette boards w/ gilt trim & printing. vol1: book vii, 345 pgs; vol2: 862 pgs. From a college library. Due date cards have no removal stamps. Pages appear clean, but, may have marginalia, notations, etc. Remains a nice, two volume set.