Results for: Gilded Age (US)
Constitution and Statutes of the Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar of the United States of America together with Forms for Templar Trials, Constituting of New Commanderies, Installation of Officers, etc.
Dayton, OH: Knights Templar / Groneweg Printing Co., 1914.
Octavo. Bloack cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Head and hee of spine worn, some wear to edges and corners. Water staining to lower boards and most pages, moreso toward front. Boards scuffed. Some Ohio statutes corrected /altered in pencil. 254 p. w/index to constitution and statutes, general index, and illustrations of commandery jewels. Rest of title: Passed and adopted at the 31st Triennial Conclave held in Chicago, Illinois August 9th, 10th, and 11th, 1910. With Amendments adopted at the 32nd Triennial Conclave, held at Denver Colorado August 12th, 13th, 14th, 1913.
Price: $30.00
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920.
Boyer, Paul.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with a few minor tears and some scuffing to covers. Name on front free endpaper in ink. Ink marks in margins and a little bit of ink underlining in text throughout book. 387 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and index. An interesting study of urbanization in nineteenth-century America and efforts by reformers to bring "morality" to the city-dwellers.
Price: $20.00
Susan B. Anthony: The Woman Who Changed the Mind of a Nation.
Dorr, Rheta Childe.
New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928.
Good octavo hardcover in maroon cloth binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and slight tear/hole in binding on lower corner of front panel. Front hinge is cracked and weakened along upper edge between front free endpaper and half-title page. Sticker of previous owner on dedication page. Few pages have not been separated/cut along fore-edges. Few light pencil marks in margins. 367 pages with illustrations, few footnotes, and index. An older biography of Susan B. Anthony.
Price: $35.00
The Johnstown Flood.
McCullough, David G.
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to lower front corner. Dj has some wear and rubbing along edges with a few minor tears and some scuffing to covers with browning along spine. Small waterstains on upper edges of pages. Name and address of previous owner written large on rear fly page. 302 pages with illustrations, list of victims, bibliography, and index. A detailed account of when in May of 1889, Lake Conemaugh washed away Johnstown, PA.
Price: $45.00
Mayne Reid : A Memoir of His Life.
Reid, Elizabeth his widow.
London: Ward and Downey, 1890.
Octavo. Brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Only slightly ex-library with an attractive library Civil War collection bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and another stamp with less but similar information on title page and last endpaper. Blocked in black at edges. Wear to edges and corners. Small tear in cloth at head of spine. Chipping at head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to covers. Articles about Him, his widow, and the book pasted in the front two endpapers. 277 p. w/illustrations. The favorable and not always accurate biography of this Irish author and adventurer by his wife. Reid came to the US in 1840 via New Orleans, traveled, traded and hunted along the Missouri and Platte Rivers, eventually living in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, then New York. He joined the First New York Volunteer Infantry for the Mexican American War, was wounded at Chapultepec and promoted to First Lieutenant. He was discharged and began writing plays and Boys' novels based on his experiences with indians, exploration, and war which influenced readers as different as Theodore Roosevelt and Vladimir Nabokov. He married Elizabeth, daughter of an English artistocrat in 1853. He declared bankruptcy after freely spending his fortune in 1866, and moved to England 1870. he struggled to make ends meet until his death in 1883.
Price: $95.00
Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization.
Schoonover, Thomas.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has some light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 180 pages with endnotes, selected bibliography, and index. A study of the Spanish-American War and the growth of an American empire.
Price: $18.00
Standing in the Gap : Army Outposts, Picket Stations, and the Pacification of the Texas Frontier, 1866 - 1886.
Uglow, Loyd M.
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2001.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and faint scuffing to covers. Name and number written on front free endpaper. 234 pageswith maps, illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of the importance of smaller outposts, versus large forts, in maintaining and controling the Texas frontier after the Civil War.
Price: $20.00
