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BENEDICT ARNOLD: Traitor to His Country.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Julian Messner, Inc, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) for young adults and older children which attempts to answer what leads a man to betray his country. Bibliography, index. 190 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription, edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 85364More details Price: $18.50 -
A CRUISE WITH PAUL JONES: A Story of Naval Warfare in 1778 (Young Patriot Series #5)
Edition: First or very early edition.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1898). Hardcover first edition - Historical adventure story for boys. Illustrated by J Watson Davis with a frontispiece and five inserted plates. vi, 262 pp plus a 32 pp publisher's catalogue.
Condition: Good only in blue cloth with red, black and gilt lettering and illustration - some soiling/dulling to the cloth, corners bumped, missing front free endpaper.
Book ID: 63310More details Price: $13.50 -
THE FIRST SALUTE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - On November 16, 1776, a ship flying the flag of the Continental Congress entered the port of St. Eustatius in the West Indies and was greeted with a salute, recognizing the authority of the government whose flag the ship carried. Noted military historian uses this salute as the starting point of her examination of the next 5 years, and the effects the American Revolution had, not just on American and England, but on Holland, France and the entire Old World. Illustrated. 347 pp including bibliography, notes and index. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-553330.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (appears unread, prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 25340More details Price: $19.50 -
THE KING'S ORCHARD.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel about two Irish immigrants to America in 1772, and their roll in settling the area around what is now Pittsburgh, and was then the far western frontier of Ft. Pitt. Based not only on historical facts of the time but also on the personal history in the unpublished family records. Map endpapers. 467 pages.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bookplate.)
Book ID: 20299More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MUSKET BOYS OF OLD BOSTON or The First Blow for Liberty. The Revolutionary Series #1.
Edition: Reprint.
Cleveland, OH: Goldsmith Publishing, (c 1909) dj. Hardcover - The first book in this early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, a story of adventure and heroism during the early days of the Revolutionary War. 284 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in a good dust jacket (tidemark on edge of textblock, usual rather severe tanning to the pages, binding cracking between pages 22-23
Book ID: 74320More details Price: $15.00 -
HIS EXCELLENCY: George Washington.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent biography of Washington, as a young man, general, and president, one which 'eloquently conveys the magnitude of Washington's accomplishments.' (NY Times). Photographs, notes, index. xiv, 320 pp. ISBN: 1-400040310.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54914More details Price: $20.00