Military Buttons of the Gulf Coast, 1711-1830

By Dan Jenkins. Published by the Museum of the City of Mobile, Alabama, 1973. Soft covers, 44 pages, index, illustrated, glossary, notes and bibliography. The green covers show some scattered surface scuffing. The interior of the book is in excellent condition. It is extremely tight, clean, and is a great reference source for early military buttons from the Gulf Coast of the United States. The content includes chapters on the following types of buttons: Plain Face buttons; French Colonial; British Colonial; Spanish Colonial; Early American; Infantry;...
Circa: 1973
ISBN: 0006321757  

Collecting Grand Army of the Republic Memorabilia

Autographed and Numbered Limited First Edition

By R. Brad Long. Limited First Edition, signed by the author on the title page; Copy number 23 out of 1,000 copies. Printed April 1990 A.D. Exactly 100 years after the peak membership of the national Grand Army of the Republic, "Our Vanished Army." Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-61054. Technical Consultants & G.A.R. Memorabilia Dealers; David E. Wells, Omaha, NE., and David E. Limpert, Manchester, MI. Edits: Photography by Bev Cruse Photography, Martinsville, IL. Printed...
Circa: 1990
ISBN: 0962758418  

Enola Gay: The Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

August 6, 1945, a date that will forever live in history as when the first aerial drop of a uranium bomb wiped out almost an entire city in Japan!

By Gordon Thomas, and Max Morgan Witts. Published by Konecky & Konecky, Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Hard cover with dust jacket. Copyright, 1977, 327 pages, illustrated, bibliography, index, chapter notes. Excellent-like new condition.

It was quite probably the most important event of World War II. Its consequences were greater than those of any other event of the war. Yet the story of the...
Circa: 1977
ISBN: 1-56852-597-4  

Alexander Hamilton

By Ron Chernow, published by Penguin Books, 2004, softcover, 818 pages, index, illustrated, notes and bibliography. New condition. #1 New York Times Bestseller.

"Moving and Masterly...By Far The Best Biography Ever Written About The Man." The New York Times Book Review.

"Grand scale biography at its best...thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written...a genuinely great book." David McCullough, author of John Adams.

Alexander Hamilton...is strangely underappreciated, at times even scorned. Such...
Circa: 2004
ISBN: 978-0-14-303475-9  

John Adams

By David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001, softcover, 751 pages, illustrated, index, notes and bibliography. This book authored by David McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize. Brand new condition. Never read.

"A masterwork of storytelling." Walter Isaacson.

"By far the best biography of John Adams ever written...McCullough's special gift as an artist is his ability to re-create past human beings in all their fullness and all of their humanity. In John and Abigail he has found characters worthy of his...
Circa: 2001
ISBN: 978-0-74322313-3  

Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power

Written by Jon Meacham. #1 New York Times Bestseller. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 6 x 9, paperback, published by Random House, New York, 759 pages, illustrated, index, footnotes, bibliography. Brand new condition.

In this magnificent biography, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jon Meacham brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times, giving us Thomas Jefferson the man, the politician, and the president. A Founder whose understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and marshal ideas, to learn from his...
Circa: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7948-0  

The Life And Times Of Benjamin Franklin

By H.W. Brands. Published by Anchor Books, New York, 2000, 5 1/4 x 8, paperback, 765 pages, index. National Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Brand new condition.

The foremost American of his day, Benjamin Franklin, was perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, and he comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other...
Circa: 2000
ISBN: 0-385-49540-4  

State Historical Markers of Virginia

State Historical Markers of Virginia, Listing the Inscriptions on All State Markers on the Principal Highways of Virginia, With Supplementary Data. Fifth Edition, 1941. With illustration of the Virginia State Seal. Issued by the Virginia Conservation Commission, Richmond, Va. Published by Division of Publicity and Advertising. Edited by Division of History and Archaeology. 4 3/4 x 8 3/4, booklet with illustrated cardboard covers. The same exact illustration is on the front and back covers. 243 pages, index. The inside front cover has the instructions on...  

Book, George Washington; A Life

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

By Ron Chernow. Published by Penguin Books, 2010. Paperback, 6 x 9 1/4, 904 pages, index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Minor wear, very fine to excellent condition. This magnificent study of the life of Washington won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. A must read for anyone interested in George Washington!

Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow, winner of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a...
Circa: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-14-311996-8  

A New History of Photography

Edited by Michael Frizot. Published by Konemann, 1998. Large 9 1/4 x 12, hardcover with dust jacket. 775 pages, profusely illustrated, photographic credits, bibliography, and index. Excellent condition. Very desirable book on the history of photography!

This volume brings together contributions by the most respected specialist in the image field. Editor Michel Frizot writes a substantial portion of the text, along with 29 additional authors who offer a plethora of analytical information and a very wide variety of points of view on the history of...
Circa: 1998
ISBN: 3-8290-1328-0  

Union Cases, A Collector's Guide To The Art of America's First Plastics

By Clifford and Michele Krainik with Carl Walvoord. Cententennial Photo Service, Grantsburg, Wisconsin, 1988. Large oversize hard cover book with dust jacket, 232 pages, index, profusely illustrated. Light wear to dust jacket. The book itself is in like new condition. The definitive reference book on this subject. A must for all serious photographic collectors! This excellent book is very desirable. Rare!

"Union Cases, A Collectors Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics" is a definitive reference which presents...
Circa: 1988
ISBN: 0931838126  

Mathew Brady and the Image of History

By Mary Panzer. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 232 pages, index, illustrated. New condition.

Mathew Brady (circa 1825-1896) remains an elusive and paradoxical figure. Renowned as a photographer of Civil War battlefields, he devoted most of his career to portraiture. An inexhaustible entrepreneur and self promoter, he left little except images of others to represent himself to posterity.

In "Mathew Brady and the Image of History," Mary Panzer describes how Brady used the...
Circa: 1997
ISBN: 1560987936