Search Results: Americana from Focloir

Ireland 047 Talty, Stephan. Black Irish: a novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2013, 320p. Good copy in dust jacket. Signed by Talty on the title page. $20.00
Murder novel set in the working-class Irish American enclave of South Buffalo.

AH 1000 Nasatir, Abraham Phineas 1904- Borderland in retreat: from Spanish Louisiana to the far Southwest. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976, x, 175p, bib, index, maps. Very good in dust jacket. $8.50

American Lit 1000Hay, John, 1838-1905. The Bread-winners: a Social Study. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1884, 319p. Covers somewhat darkened, wear to edges, gift inscription from 1884 on title page, bookplate of collector on front lining paper. Good condition overall. The author was Lincoln's personal secretary and had a distinguished career in the public sector. This, his fourth book, and only novel, was written anonymously. It was first published in installments in The Century Magazine. It takes a decidedly anti-labor stance, apparently a reaction to bitter strikes that had plagued his various business interests in the 1870s and early 1880s. Hay never acknowledged writing the book, but he was widely suspected of being the author. It was only after his death that the true authorship of the book became common knowledge. BAL 7762. Wright 2608. $14.50

Americana rrbv Reed, Roger. Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J. F. Bryant. Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007, xiii, 224 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. NOT EX-LIBRARY. $20.00 Box 8181.

"In Building Victorian Boston, Roger Reed focuses on representative projects by Bryant, presenting them in a chronological narrative that both illuminates the trajectory of his career and creates a portrait of the profession of architecture during a defining period of New England history. Bryant designed more major buildings in Boston from 1840 to 1880 than any other architect. He also undertook commissions throughout New England, especially in towns linked to Boston by newly constructed railroad lines. In many ways, his practice presaged aspects of modern architectural firms.For this volume, Reed has tracked down hundreds of Bryant's drawings as well as specifications, letters, newspaper articles, published renderings, and historical… Read More

Americana 104 (Civil War - Healy family). Noble, Dennis L. and Truman R. Strobridge. Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy: from American slave to Arctic hero. Foreword by Gene Allen Smith and James C. Bradford. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009, xx, 326p, notes, bib, index, illus, maps. Good to very good in dust jacket. $18.50
The Georgia plantation -- Down to the sea -- Love and the sailor -- Eastern interlude -- Healy's polar passion -- Cannons, expeditions, shipwrecks, and reindeer -- The captain and the immortal Bear --"Monster Healy" -- The czar of the North -- "I steer by no man's compass but my own" -- "A desperate and dangerous man" -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Important dates in the life of Capt. Michael A. Healy -- Appendix 2: The family of Michael Augustine Healy -- Appendix 3: Charges brought against Capt. Michael A. Healy in 1896 trial.

Americana 057 Chambers, Robert W. Cardigan.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1901, 513 pages, 2 pages of publisher's ads. Some shelf wear, good copy. Novel, Sir William Johnson of New York.

Wales elmc Evans, Lewis Monroe. Carmarthen. Memoirs of a Welshman. Charleston, Missouri: Evans Engineering, 1993, 462p, illus. Large volume, 8"x10", very good to fine in dust jacket. Nicely made book. The autobiography of this grandson of Welsh immigrants. Heavy volume. $13.50 Box 26

Americana crct Cleland, Robert Glass. The Cattle On A Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850 – 1880. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1951, xvi, 365 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. This is the second edition, first was published in 1941. This second edition has a new chapter and corrections to the first edition. Very nice, clean bright copy.
$18.50 Box 4118

Americana fvcp Fisher, Vardis. The Caxton Printers in Idaho. A Short History. Cincinnati, Ohio: Society of Bibliosophers, 1944, viii, 32 pages. First edition. The gilt lettering on spine is pretty much worn off but a good plus to very good copy of the book. (Small point: on the verso of the title page there is a small sticker that states: Copyright, 1945 by Lloyd Emerson Siberell, Cincinnati, Ohio). Lloyd Emerson Siberell, born in Kingston, Ohio, was an official of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, but his main interest in life was books and bibiography. He used to refer to himself as a railroad man by vocation and a literary man by avocation. Above all, he was an enthusiastic collector of Powysiana, which had preeminence over the rest of his activities, for he strongly believed that the Powys, and John Cowper especially, would be one day recognised as the great writers they were. $22.50 Box 10

Ireland hjcc Hernon, Joseph. Celts, Catholics and Copperheads. Ireland views the American Civil War. Ohio State University Press, 1968, ix, 150p, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket, dj has few smudges. $17.50 Box 6212 Box 8080
Irish public opinion contemporaneous with the war was an often confusing amalgam of both coherent and contradictory views of the American strife. Who supported the attempt to preserve the Union, who supported the South's attempt at self-determination? Consistency for both factions, the unionists and the nationalists, was sometimes difficult.

Civil War 21m4c McDonough, James Lee. Chattanooga - a death grip on the Confederacy.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984, illus, xviii, notes, bib, index. First edition, so stated. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. $4.50 A 91

Americana 038 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Cheyenne memories of the Custer fight: a source book. (Series: Frontier military series; 18). Compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1995, 189p, bib, index, illus, maps. Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles, as befits the Seventh Cavalry colors. $23.50
Hardorff is a specialist on the battle and the author of some interesting books on the engagement. Sadly, with some notable exceptions, the white man seldom sought out the views of Native Americans on this or any other event.

Americana crcm Casey, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1890-1962. Chicago medium rare: when we were both younger. Illustrated by John and Ann Groth. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952, 347p, illus. Tattered dust jacket, good, clean, tight copy else.
Casey's nostalgic account of the golden age of Chicago, 1890-1910.

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(Civil War- Army of Northern Virginia). O'Grady, Kelly J. Clear the Confederate way! The Irish in the Army of Northern Virginia. Foreword by Robert K. Krick. Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Company, 2000, xix, 348p, bib, index, illus. Very good. $10.00 Box 90
The unlucky 10th Tennessee Infantry was organized in 1861, just a few weeks after the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter. The "Sons of Erin's" motto was "Go where Glory Waits You." At the fighting at Fort Donelson the 10th Tennessee suffered severe losses and earned the nickname of "The Bloody Tenth." After the surrender of Fort Donelson, the field and staff officers were taken as prisoners of war, moved to Fort Warren and Camp Douglas where they received cruel treatment, but were eventually exchanged in 1862. The reunited 10th Brigade was then ordered to Vicksburg where they suffered another bloody defeat at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. They continued to fight for the losing cause until the end of the war. There were… Read More

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Weinert, Richard P., Jr. Confederate Regular Army. [Shippensburg, PA]: White Mane Publishing Company, 1991, xii,135 pages, illus., portraits, maps. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Book label of military collector on front free endpaper. Fine copy. $9.50 Box 24

Civil War 111hjc Headley, John W.
Confederate Operations in Canada and New York. (Series: Collector's Library of the Civil War). Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1984, 480 pages, illus. Full black leather, all edges gilt as well as lettering on spine and front cover panel. Marbled lining papers. The front lining paper has collector bookplate, in Irish Gaelic in old type face. Fine copy. Reprint of New York, 1906 edition. $8.50 Box A 111

Big Horn 1000 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Russell, Don, 1899-1986. Custer's last; or, The Battle of the Little Big Horn in picturesque perspective, being a pictorial representation of the late and unfortunate incident in Montana as portrayed by Custer's friends and foes, admirers, and iconoclasts of his day and after. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1968, v, 67p, notes, bib, illus. (part col.). Very good in dust jacket. $10.00

Civil War 109pwd Pittenger, William. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure. Introduction by Alexander Clark. (Series: Collector's Library of the Civil War). New York: Time-Life Books, 1984, 288 pages, illus. Full black leather, all edges gilt as well as lettering on spine and front cover panel. The front lining paper has collector bookplate, in Irish Gaelic in old type face. Fine copy. This is a photographic reprint of the 1863 Philadelphia edition. $8.50 Box A 109

Americana wmdd Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705. The Day of Doom or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment with Other Poems. Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth B Murdock. New York: The Spiral Press, 1929, xi, 94 pages. This is number 448 of 535 numbered copies. The book is in overall good condition but with the following detractions: the cover, cloth spine paper over boards, is bumped at the corners exposing boards; spine is little dusty, paper label is OK; the paper on the bottom edges of the cover are worn away in part; the front lining paper has a light yellowish stain, maybe where a bookplate was; on the front free endpaperare three or four small stains. Else good as noted. $21.50 Box A 126

Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) was a Puritan minister, physician, and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England. Sort of appropriate that the work was published in 1929, the financial day of doom.

Americana 423h Hennepin, Louis. A Description of Louisiana. Translated from the edition of 1683 by John Gilmary Shea. (Great Americana Series), New York: Readex Microprint, 1966, 407 pages, index. Good copy in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Has some spotting to top paper edge, good copy (would be very good else) $8.50 Box A88
This is a facsimile of the scarce New York 1880 English edition.