For Sale, postage extra: MARGARET PUMPHREY'S PILGRIM STORIES, Hall, pb, 144 pp, xlib, 1974, back cover missing an edge, $4
WHO'S THAT STEPPING ON PLYMOUTH ROCK? Jean Fritz, hb with dj, exc cond, beautiful book, $12 THE PLYMOUTH THANKSGIVING,the story of the Pilgrims trip to America, their difficult first year, & their first Thanksgiving; beautifully illustrated in color & B&W by Author Weisgard, 1967 HB, 8 x 12, xlib, good cond, $5 THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND, sc, Samuel Eliot Morison, Cornell 1936/70,288 pp, "An eminent historian re-examines the whole fabric of intellectual life in colonial New England.....in addition to a survey of the schools, libraries, and printing establishments of the 17th century, Professor Morison provides some fine examples of the literature."clean, white pp, $6 FLORIDA UNDER FIVE FLAGS, Patrick, hb, "an authentic interpretation of Florida's development under five varying cultures. In eleven swift-paced and absorbing chapters Professor Patrick has skillfully woven together the main episodes in the story of the southernmost state from the period of its discovery to recent months," 118 fine reproductions of photographs and old paintings, 5 excellent maps,and more, 1955, dj, 140 pp, $8 ON THE DAY PETER STUYVESANT SAILED INTO TOWN, by Arnold Lobel, hb, dj, xlib, 9 x 9, 1971, Harper and Row, New York in 1647, the Dutch citizenry, and Peter Stuyvesant, their leader, $9 FIRST BOOK OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Franklin Watts, 1957, by Henry Steele Commager, 64 pp, cover soiled, but inside vg tight and clean, xlib, HB, $6 HEAR YE OF PHILADELPHIA, Polly Curren, Werth illus, 8 x 10 hb with mylar dj, xlib, vg cond, Lothrop, 1968, a wonderful book to introduce American history to elementary students, (size of a Cornerstone of Freedom), $10 THE COMING OF THE PILGRIMS, TOLD From Governor Bradford's Firsthand Account, Smith and Meredith, hb, mylar dj, Little, Brown and Co, 1964, 60 pp, elem to middle school, $14 SARAH MORTON'S DAY, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PILGRIM GIRL, Waters, Scholastic 7 x 9, RL3, 32 pp, many color photos from reinactors, exc cond, $3 THE STORY OF THE "OLD COLONY" OF NEW PLYMOUTH (1620-1692) by Samuel Eliot Morison, illustrated by Overly, Alfred Knopf pub, 1956/60,HB, 296 pp, includes alot of detail- from the Pilgrims in Holland, how they got here and why, fishing, fur-trading, prosperity and expansion, government, laws, housing, clothing, manners and customs, farming, trade, business, Pequots and Narragansetts, Elder Statesmen passing, Indian problems, Philip of Pokanoket, King Philip's War, and last years of the old Colony and more, $20 THE REBIRTH OF AMERICA, Arthur DeMoss Foundation 8 x 11 sc, 1986, America Yesterday: A Nation Established; America Today: A Nation Adrift; America Tomorrow: A Nation Reborn, writers such as John Newton, Reagan,Whitehead, Peter Marshall, Colson, Lutzer, Jeremiah, C Everett Koop, D James Kennedy, Orr and more, 256 pp, excellent historical information, $5 ELIN'S AMERIKA, Marguerite de Angeli, hb with mylar dj, xlib,vg cond, 1941,beautiful book, Doubleday, lithographed, exquisite illustrations- many in color, set in 1648 New Sweden (New York) in America,last blank page cut out by library, $27 THE STORY OF AMERICA, REader's Digest, large volume, 8.5 x 11, 528 pp, vg cond, no dj, 1975, includes colonial America, War for Independence, the Flag, government, trailblazers, mountain men, education, War of 1812, Craftsmen, Great Fairs and Expositions, Heroes, Inventors, Medicine, Scientific Revolution, Immigration, Presidents, America's Music, Fashions through the years, Literature, Battles in Foreign lands, sports, seven wonders of the modern world, and much more, $16 JOHNNY TREMAIN, The story of Boston in revolt against the British by Esther Forges, Newbery honor book, 269 pp, pb, vg cond, $3 BUILDING THE NATION From 1788 to 1850, The Golden Book History of the United States, vol4,HB,1963, exc cond, includes preamble to the Constitution, Washington's election, Indian uprisings, Jefferson-Hamilton feud, John Adams as PResident, the Louisiana PUrchase from Napoleon, Lewis and Clark, War of 1812, Madison as PResident, Lundy's Lane, Westward settlers, Monroe, Missouri Compromise, John Quincy Adams, Remember the Alamo, Van Buren and Tyler, Taylor, California and the ORegon Trail, $6 THE PILGRIMS , BRAVE SETTLERS OF PLYMOUTH, Groh,GARRARD, 1968, hb, xlib, $8 AMERICA BEGINS, THE STORY OF THE FINDING OF THE NEW WORLD, by Alice Dalgliesh, pictues by Maloy, Scribner's, revised edition, hb, xlib, mylar dj, 1938/58, 64 pp, $10 A GATHERING OF DAYS, A NEW ENGLAND GIRLS JOURNAL, 1830-32, historical fiction by Blos, 19th Century New Hampshire, Newbery Honor book, 145 pp, ''$2 THE LORDS BALTIMORE, by Agle and Bacon, hb, xlib , mylar dj, "impressive story of the six English Lords who were responsible for founding and developing the colony of Maryland. ... a valuable picture of the colonists, and of both England and America during the turbulent 17th and 18th centuries," written for young people, 134 pp, 1962/69, Holt Library edition, vg cond, $16 YOUNG PAUL REVERE'S BOSTON, Epstein, GARRARD, 1966, hb, xlib, $9 OLD IRONSIDES, THE FIGHTING CONSTITUTION, Landmard, 1955, exc cond, privately owned copy, "Story of the U. S. S. Constitution, one of the earliest iron-clad battleships of the US Navy, famous in the War of 1812 with the British navy. Ever since. Americans have used the name "Old Ironsides" for their most famous and best loved ship." $15 GEORGE WASHINGTON, A PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHY, 8,5 x 11m exc cond, rl2, Scholastic sc, 1992, many framable illustrations in full color by Michael Dooling, $3 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot,Rand McNally, 1972, hb xlib, vg cond, some wonderful illustrations, similar to a Cornerstone of Freedom book, $4 THOMAS JEFFERSON, FATHER OF DEMOCRACY, Landmark, HB with dj, 1953, exc cond,private owner, dj has some small tears (top of spine, corners, edges), $15 CANDLE IN THE NIGHT, Howard, hb with mylar dj, 1952/66, Morrow Jr. Book, "Tamsen was 18 when she left NY State and started on the long journey to the West to join her brother. The West was Detroit in 1812....US would soon be at war with Great Britian,.... written for girls of Junior high age and up...braves the siege of Detroit in 1812 and in the process finds her true love." xlib, $5 SUNRISE TO SUNSET, Samuel Hopkins Adams, hb with dj, historical fiction for high school and older, "period and setting are based on the development of cotton mills and factories in upper New York State in the 1830's, the expliotation of female labor and the establishment of the first humane laws regulating wroking conditions in the mills." also a romance, privately owned, Random House BCE, 1950, 314 pp, $7 YANKEE DOODLE PAINTER, hb, by Anne Colver, during 1876, Archibald Willard painted a picture which he called "The SPirit of '76" and it became the best-known, best-loved painting in the coutry practically overnight. 1955, Knopf, excellent book/biography, 176 pp, exc cond, xlib, $20 THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, NORTHSTAR BOOK,neat gift inscription on first inside page,1960, exc cond, VanWyck Mason, $10 THE STAR-SPANGLED ROOSTER, Bruce Grant, hb, with dj, 1961 first edition, World pub, 119 pp,"Historical novel about Fort McHenry in Baltimore." xlib, vg cond, $8 1812, THE WAR AND THE WORLD, Walter Buehr, hb, dj, xlib, 1967 Rand McNally, 9 x9, vg cond, $8 THE BURNING OF WASHINGTON , AUGUST 1814, by Phelan, illus by Gretzer, xlib, hb, dj, "examines the events preceding, during and after the British campaign to capture Washington D.C. during the War of 1812," 1975,vg cond, 180 pp, $5 AARON BURR, by William Wise, LIVES TO REMEMBER biography, hb, 1968,exc cond,xlib, $5 PRESERVING AMERICA'S PAST, National Geographic Society, HB with dj, exc cond, the pleasures of a living past, from untamed land to fertile fields, cities that show their age proudly, of sail and steam and ships of wood, fledgling days on wings and wheels, and more, 200 pp, 8 x 11, $5 LAND OF THE FREE, ENID LAMONTE MEADOWCROFT, illus by Ames, "in a lively, warm style, a history of our country from the time America was discovered....events that shaped our country's history: the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence; the writing of the Star-spangled Banner, ghe Godl Rush of '49, and more" hb with mylar dj, xlib, exc cond, 1961, Crowell, 151 pp, $14 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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