1. Benoit-Lévy, Georges.

Cités-Jardins D’Amérique. [Signed / Inscribed] [History of American Garden Cities]. Préface par Émile Cheysson Membre de L’Institut.

Paris, Henri Jouve, 1905. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. III, 462 pages. Several black and white photographic plates throughout. Original Hardcover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tanning to pages and more markedly so on pages 145 to 160. Ex-library and museum copy with four stamps, all from Frankfurt institutions, to endpapers and title page. Also a small stamp from Wilhelm Denn bookbinder, Frankfurt on bottom corner of pastedown. Library labels and codes on spine and in pencil on pastedown. Scribble in ink pen on free endpaper. Signed and inscribed by author Georges Benoit-Lévy dated 1/9/‘05.

2. White, Theodore.

“Negro Violence – The Black and White Picture. A distinguished reporter analyses a gathering storm that civil rights and desegregation alone cannot contain, and that may transform the American way of life beyond recognition”.

Reader’s Digest ARticle, c.1966. Octavo. 6 pages. Extracted, stapled original pages from a Reader’s Digest publication. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Disturbing, very ambivalent article by Theodore White, condensing his thought about the “biological anarchy” of collapsing Negro communities after the uprising and riots of 1964 and 1965; “Teenage Savages” (″Negroes and Puerto Ricans of the late teens and early 20’s. These teenagers are an element that no one knows how to handle. Denied love or dignity or patrimony or tradition or any culture but television, they rock around on the deck of an unstable society, their bread given to them by underpaid welfare workers, their hopes at zero, their mothers despised, their hearth the gutter, a sub-culture in a general American urban culture which itself does not know where it is going”).

3. [Kennedy, Bobby] Matthews, Chris.

Bobby Kennedy – A Raging Spirit.

Third Printing. New York / London and others, Simon & Schuster, 2017. Octavo. 396 pages with many photographs. Rare Original Hardcover with the illustrated dustjacket. Deckled Edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Fewkes, Jesse Walter.

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National park – Cliff Palace.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1911. 23 1/2 cm. 82 pages with illustrations and plates as well as 1 double-folded plan. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookblock slightly detached

5. Morison, Samuel Eliot.

The Maritime History of Massachusetts (1783 – 1860). With Illustrations.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company – The Riverside Press Company, 1941. Octavo. XI,420 pages with wonderful illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the jacket (some fraying and loss to corners of the jacket only). The book is firm and due to the protected dustjacket in wonderful gift-condition.

6. [Conder, Josiah].

North America [and Canada] – Volume II / [this being Volume The Twenty-Fourth of “The Modern Traveller”– A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe – United States of America and Canada – Vol. II].

London, Printed for James Duncan, 1830. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. IV, 335 pages. With a fold-out map of the United States and 4 black and white engravings showing: 1. Philadelphia / 2. The President’s House, Washington / 3. The Capitol, Washington / 4. Quebec. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament and raised bands on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel slightly loose. Minor foxing. Contains small ink stamp of previous owners name to front endpaper.

7. Atkinson, Rick.

An Army at Dawn – The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.

London, Little, Brown, 2003. 15.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 681 pages. Several black and white maps and photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print. [Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy].

8. [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Cherry, P. P.

The Western Reserve and Early Ohio.

Ohio, R. L. Fouse, 1921. 14 x 20 cm. 332 pages with 40 illustrations. Original blue cloth covered Hardcover-edition. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of logician Willard Van Orman Quine – with his ownership-stamp to the front free endpaper.

9. Kelly, Mary Pat.

Home Away From Home – The Yanks in Ireland.

Belfast, Appletree Press, 1994. 16.5 cm x24 cm. 164 Pages. Original Softcover. Dogear to rear cover. Otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

10. Anonymus.

An Historical Review and Directory of North America: Containing a Geographical, Political, and Natural History of the British and Other European Settlements, the United and Apocryphal States, the General State of the Laws, particularly those affecting Commerce, Foreign and British Debts; also, Strictures upon Lord Sheffield’s Treatise upon American Commerce to which is added “A description of the Interior Parts of North America, general Face of the Country, Mountains, Forests, Rivers and the most noted Towns, Cities, Seats and Public Buildings. A Plan of the Roads and a concise account of the different Indian Nations. A copious Index to American State Papers. With a Great Variety of Tables necessary to all Merchants in their Intercourse with North America. [With a concise Account of the Island of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, together with the Manners, Customs, Policies and Trade of the Inhabitants and a short account of the Whale Fishery]. By a Gentleman immediately returned from a Tour of that Continent.

Volume II (of II). Cork, Printed by W. Matthews, 38 North-Main-Street, 1801. 10 cm x 17 cm. IX, 377 pages. Original Hardcover (full calf). The original binding with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners bumped. Endpapers and pastedowns a little scruffy. Otherwise in very good condition.

11. Franklin, Benjamin / Wright, Esmond (editor).

Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It.

London, The Folio Society, 1989. 16 cm x 25.5 cm. 260 pages. Original hardcover with slipcase. As new.

12. Edwards, Jonathan.

Basic Writings. Selected, Edited and with a Foreword by Ola Elizabeth Winslow.

New York, New American Library, 1966. 10.5 x 18cm. 255 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some age darkening. Pencilled price marking on front jacket. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [A Signet Classic, No. CT 297].

13. Weatherford, Jack.

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World.

New York, Fawcett Columbine / Ballantine Books, 1988. 13 x 20.5cm. 272 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text underlining.

14. Walter-Verlag.

Seattle – Wir sind ein Teil der Erde. Die Rede des Häuptlings Seattle vor dem Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika im Jahre 1855.

Olten, Walter-Verlag, 1985. 12 cm x 20.5 cm. 37 pages. Some black and white photographs throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. Tingle, Tim.

Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory.

El Paso, Cinco Puntos Press, 2003. 15 x 23cm. 142 pages, with black and white photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Handwritten dedication by the author to Chuck Kruger on title page.

16. Sprague, Marshall.

The Great Gates. The Story of The Rocky Mountain Passes. With illustrations and maps.

First Edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Octavo. VII, 468 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. One corner of the rare dustjacket with small damage. Otherwise in near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. Shaw, Simon.

Frontier House. Simon Shaw with Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. Photography by Audrey Hall.

New York a. o, Atria Books, 2002. 22cm x 28.5cm 232 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. Schlesinger, Rudi.

Die Zollpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika [USA] von der Beendigung des Weltkrieges bis zum Fordney-Mc-Cumber-Tarif [United States customs policy from the end of World War II to the Fordney McCumber Tariff].

German Edition. Jena, G. Fischer, 1926. 8°. X, 106 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Halbleinen mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Sehr gut erhaltenes, ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar. [Finanzwissenschaftliche und volkswirtschaftliche Studien ; H. 6]

19. Reedy, George E.

From the ward to the White House. The Irish in American politics.

New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. 16 x 24 cm. 212 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Parent, Michael / Olivier, Julien.

Of Kings and Fools: Stories of the French Tradition in North America. Collected, translated and retold by Michael Parent and Julien Olivier.

Little Rock, August House Publishers, 1996. 13.5 x 21cm. 206 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, other than sunned spine and some minor text markings. Handwritten dedication by author to previous owner. [American Storytelling from August House].

21. [New York] Hall, Edward Hagaman.

A Guide to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City of New York.

Tenth Edition. New York, The Laymen Club of the Cathedral, 1931. 12 x 17 cm. 142 pages with 42 illustrations. Frontispiece photograph of North Elevation of the Cathedral. Original softcover with illustrated front cover. Binding a little shaky with some pages loosened / Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by preowner on front endpaper.

22. Morison, Samuel Eliot.

The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America.

New Edition. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Octavo. XXV, 752 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

23. Mills, C. Wright.

The New Men in Power – America’s Labor Leaders. With the assistance of Helen Schneider.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 323 pages. Several tables throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with obvious signs of external wear to the dust jacket and minor wear to the cover. Pages only slighty discoloured. Name in ink pen on endpaper. Annotations in pencil throughout.

24. Mee, Charles L.

The Genius of the People.

First edition. New York etc., Harper & Row, 1987. 16 cm x 24 cm. XI, 348 pages with photographs and illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight spotting on page edges.

25. Mead, Robert Douglas.

Journeys Down the Line – Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

First Edition. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. 15 cm x 22 cm. 609 pages with a Map to the pastedown and endpaper, totled “Alaska and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline”, showing the Route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska. Original Hardcover andl illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare.

26. [Kennedy, Jackie] Keogh, Pamela Clarke.

Jackie Style.

London, Aurum Press, 2001. 19 cm x 26 cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

27. Kennan, George F.

Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Volume II: The Decision to Intervene.

Princeton, Princeton Paperbacks, 1989. 16 cm x 24 cm. XII, 513 pages including many illustrations and maps. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

28. Kennan, George F.

At a Century’s Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995.

New York / London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 351 pages. Original Softcover. Fine / As New.

29. Keenan, George F. / Lukacs, John.

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946 – The Keenan-Lukacs Correspondence. Introduction by John Lukacs.

Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1997. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 85 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

30. Karp, Matthew.

This Vast Southern empire. Slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2016. 17 x 24.5 cm. 360 pages, including illustrations and maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

31. Johnson, Andrew.

Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, on the State of the Union; delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 5 and 6, 1861.

Washington, The Congressional Globe Office, 1861. 8°. 28 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Waterstained. Poor condition. Unopened original title-wrappers.

32. [JFK – Kennedy, John F.] Mitchell, Arthur.

JFK and his Irish heritage.

Dublin, Moytura Press, 1993. 22 cm. 186 pages with illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

33. Jenkins, Dennis L. / Connolly, Thomas J.

Archaeological Excavations at the Paquet Gulch Bridge Site: A Pithouse Village in the Deschutes River Basin, Southwestern Columbia Plateau, Oregon. With Contributions by R. Scott Byram, Linda Scott Cummings, Dorothy E. Freidel, Richard E. Hughes, Vivien J. Singer, Guy L. Tasa, and Nancy A. Stenholm.

O.O., University of Oregon, 1994. 4°. XIV, 215 Pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. No markings in the Text! No Underlinings! (‘Anthropological Papers’, No. 49).

34. Howard, Jacob M(erritt).

San Juan Island – Speech of Hon.Jacob M.Howard, of Michigan, delivered in executive Session of the Senate, April 16, 1869.

Washington, F.&J.Rives & Geo. A.Bailey, 1870. 8°. 13 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Inscribed by Howard on the frontcover “Compl(imen)ts of J.M.H.”

35. [Hoover, J. Edgar] Gentry, Curt.

J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and His Secrets.

New York, Plume, 1992. 15 cm x 23 cm. 846 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

36. Hamilton, Alexander.

The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.

McLean, Va, IndyPublish.com, [2002]. 24 cm. 471 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

37. Garvey, Joan B./ Widmer, Mary Lou.

Beautiful Crescent – A History of New Orleans.

New Orleans, Garmer Press, 1997. 15 x 22,6 cm. 247 pages. Original softcover Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on titlepage.

38. Fox, Gustavus Vasa.

Russian Account of the Official Mission to Russia of Hon.G.V.Fox in 1866.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1867. 8°. 38 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Some light foxing only.

39. Fleming, Denna Frank.

The Treaty Veto of The American Senate.

London / New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1930. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. IX, 325 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Fading of cover and slight yellowing of pages. Signed by the author.

40. Faber, Doris/ Faber, Harold.

The Birth of a Nation. The Early Years of the United States.

First Edition. New York, Charles Scibner’s Sons, 1989. 15 x 22 cm. VIII,197 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

41. Everett, Edward.

Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863.

Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

42. Editors Of Look.

Look at America – The Country You Know – And Don’t Know.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, [1930]. 23 cm x 30.9 cm. 341 pages. With many black and white photographs throughout. Features 8 colour photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing and fading to edges. Very minor fading to gilt title on spine and front cover. Minor dampstain to page edges. With illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Impressive pictorial book with an intimate insight into American history, life and culture. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

43. Douglas, Kirk.

Autobiografia.

1a edicion. Barcelona, Cayfosa, 1988. 8°. 381 pages. Softcover. Edicion espanol. Incluye fotografías. / Spanish Ediiton. Very good condition.

44. Denton, Sally/ Morris, Roger.

The Money and the Power – The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 16,3 x 23,8 cm. 479 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on the dustjacket.

45. Cooke, Jay.

How our National Debt can be paid. The Wealth, Resources and Power of the People of the United States. Prepared by Dr.William Elder, of the Treasury Department.

Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1865. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Dogeared. Foxed. Extremely rare original pamphlet reflecting the costs, revenue possibilities etc. of the times previous, in and after the American Civil War.

46. Condon, Eddie.

We Called It Music – A Generation of Jazz. Narration by Thomas Sugrue.

Fourth Printing of the first edition. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 341 pages. Eight pages of black and white photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover (yellow cloth) / No dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with occasional pencil markings.

47. Collison, Gary.

Shadrach Minkins. From Fugitive Slave to Citizen.

First edition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997. 17 x 24 cm. 294 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, near fine, condition.

48. [John Minihan Collection] – Christie’s.

South Kensington Fine Photographs Friday 5 May 2000 at 10.30 am and 2.00 pm.

London, Christie’s, 2000. 21 cm x 27 cm. 190 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library and personal archive of irish photographer John Minihan.

49. Chernow, Ron.

The House of Morgan – An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. A Touchstone Book.

New York / London / Toronto / a.o., Simon & Shuster Inc., 1991. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XVII, 812 pages. Original Softcover. Several black and white photographs throughout. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

50. Bronsky, Eric / Samors, Neal.

Downtown Chicago in Transition. Foreword by Joel Daly.

Second Edition. Chicago, Chicago’s Books Press, 2007. 22,5 cm x 29 cm. 253 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.