Charleston, SC, San Francisco et al: Arcadia Publishing, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A photographic history of this rugged coast in Northern California 100 years ago. "Timber was king here. Logging, milling, and shipping wood was the focus of the economy. Railcars steamed through the forests, and ships pulled up to rickety landings to load shipments for faraway places. Today some coast views remain the same, while others have changed dramatically, and whole towns have vanished over the century." SIGNED on the title page by the author. 127 pp. ISBN: 978-0738559469.

Sacramento: California Journal Press, (1978). First edition - 125 years of California history from the 1849 gold rush to 1976 and Governor Jerry Brown, illustrated with vintage political cartoons from publications all over the state. Includes information on the cartoonist, bibliography. Square format. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-930302141.

New York: Putnam, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A vivid and sometimes humorous account of the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable in the mid-19th century, written for older children. A title in the Paths of Progress series. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, bibliography, index. 160 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1961) dj. Hardcover - A rather uncommon Asimov title, written for older children(for ages 11 and up), in which he "explores the Greek myths to discover the roots of hundreds of words that have entered our daily language." Includes a general index and a mythological Illustrated with small black and white drawings by William Barss. 225 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

San Francisco: Cliff House Gift Shop, n.d. (ca 1975). Includes brief one page description of each of the 21 old Missions - those founded by Serra, but also the later ones - through Mission Solana in Sonoma in 1823. Illustrated. 24 pp.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1987). Originally published in French in 1979, this traces slavery in Brazil over 300 years - it places the slave in the center of the history not simply as a type of labor, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Foreword by Stuart Schwartz. Map, appendices, currency tables, bibliographies, index. xiv, 250 pp. ISBN: 0-813511550.

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, (1962) dj. Hardcover - Stories for older children about colonial history in New York State from the founding of the Great League of the Iroquois to Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, the American Revolution and more. Illustrated by Reg Massie. 185 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police written for older children and based on official records. The force was founded in 1874 to bring law and order to Canada's wild northwest frontier and had two mottoes - 'Uphold the Law' and 'Get Your Man.' Among the stories are those of Jerry Potts and Ernest Cashel. This also includes stories of the dogs who were trained to work with the Mounties. Illustrated by C. L. Hartman. A title in the Real Books series edited by Helen Hoke. Index. 183 pp. Dust jacket art by Manning De V. Lee.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1994). Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, notes, index 330 pp. ISBN: 0-393007332.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Among the trails and cities covered are the Osage Trail, Chisholm Trail, Abilene, The Texas Road, Texas Fever, Dodge City, California and Goodnight Trails, and more. Also contains information on Wild Bill Hickok and on Billy the Kid, the Earps, John Wesley Hardin, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Ben and Bill Thompson, and the Talbot gang, the slaughter of buffalo and it ends with the last of the trails - The Oregon and Northern. Illustrated with photographs, maps, notes, index. Top edge tinted red. xii, 274 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947. dj. Hardcover - Tenth printing, originally published in 1936. Illustrated by the author with drawings throughout, full-color frontispiece of Nantucket Harbor. Map on Nantucket Island on the front endpapers and of Nantucket Harbor on the rear. Index. xi, 316 pp.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains 22 stories, recorded by Marks, many being told for the first time of "Jewish men and women who hid from the Nazis as children - and of how this experience shaped their later lives. . . In Nazi-occupied Europe, there were about 1.6 million Jewish children, ny 1945, about 1.5 million had been killed. . Some children, however, survived by disguising themselves as Christians and hiding--often without their families, and often forced to live in sewers, huts, barns, and woods." (Kirkus) Preface by Abraham H. Foxon and a chapter on the historical perspective by Nechama Tec. Photographs. xxvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-44990685X.

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1916 (1917). Hardcover first edition - A discussion of the circumstances which both led to the popularity of play-parties, and its subsequent almost disappearance except in very rural areas. Includes dances, songs, games, for children and adults. A title in the Indiana Historical Collections series (since by law a copy was provided to every library in Indiana and others reserved for Indiana University, it is unusual that this copy is not ex-library) Bibliography. 120 pp.

Medford, OR: Klocker Printing Company, 1979 dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Russell J. Hogue. Traces the history of the first 50 years of one of southwestern Oregon's oldest and largest forest products companies. Double page map. Illustrated with many photographs, Endnotes. List of Medco's long time employees. xi. 167 pp.

Adelaide: Rigby, Limited, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a thoroughly researched account of the "brutal annihilation" of the traditional way of life of the thousands of the Barkindji people who once lived in the Darling River region of New South Wales. They have dwindled to a mere handful, mostly part-Abroriginals. This volume is "an appalling case history of the relationship between white man and black man in Australia" between 1829 to 1940. While explorers like Charles Stuart and Edward John Eyre treated the Barkindji with kindness and received loyal friendship in return, this did nothing to stop the slide into humiliating dependence. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 246 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-72700008X.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1979) dj. Hardcover - An account of some of the early botanists, explorers and foot-loose travellers brought us such things as coffee, tea and chocolate, spices from black pepper to nutmeg, cloves and more - as well as medicinal herbs like quinine from the "fever bark tree." Bibliography, index. vii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-070172900.

London: Amber Books Ltd, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the the major special ops organizations and underground cells during World War II, "ranging from the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the German Abwehr to resistance movements across Europe . . includes well known cases as the SOE and Norwegian agents sabotaging Norwegian hydroelectric plants to the less explored territory of Soviet partisans, from the Abwehr's rescue of Mussolini to the French Maquis, from the Polish Home Army to OSS operations in the Pacific." Slightly oversized format, illustrated with 120 black-&-white photographs. Bibliography, index. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-178276554.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive history of Hitler's infamous personal army, the military wing of Himmler's SS, which acquired a reputation for military excellence and also for atrocities against soldiers and civilians alike. Photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography and index x, 496 pp. ISBN: 978-0306824654.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1960) dj. Hardcover - A book for older children, which focuses on the defense of the Alamo and its significance in Texas history. Illustrate with duotone drawings by Herb Mott. North Star Book #16 (lists to #40 on back cover) Bibliography, index. 183 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1981). Hardcover first edition - First publication in the US of a book originally published in 1946, the first history of the Icelandic Church to appear in English from the first traces of Christianity and the official adoption of Christianity in the year 1000 through the 19th century. Also describes the development of the church under the Bishops of Skalholt and the histories of Iceland's two saints, St. Jon and Thorlak. Frontispiece and map. Chronology, references, index. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-313221944.

New York: Random House, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'Landmark Book' for children, illustrated by Stephen Medvey. The Landmark series is perhaps one of the best series of historical and biographical books for children from the mid-20th century, and they are especially remarkable for the quality of the writing - in many cases, a Landmark book might be the only children's book by an author who is considered an expert in their field. Includes glossary of Hawaiian words and phrases, index. 183 pp. plus 2 pp list of other Landmark books. Illustrated endpapers.

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, (1970). Edited and with an introduction by Harry M. Trebing. Includes essays by Andrew Hacker, Adolf A. Berle, Elizabeth B. Drew, Emmanuel Cellar and others on on the beginning of the multi-national corporations. A New York Times Book. Suggested reading, index. 273 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of the state of California with an emphasis on the trends and themes that have defined it, from the Missions and the Indians, to the Mexicans and the North Americans, the Gold Rush, the scandals and more - but still it remains a symbol of hope and reinvention. Illustrated with maps. Bibliography, index. 464 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-060125241.

Honolulu, Mutual Publishing (2002). First edition - Includes many small maps, illustrated with drawings and photographs. Glossary, bibliography. 187 pp. ISBN: 1-566475295.