Recent Arrivals from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

Sequel to The Celestine Prophecy. From the Author's Note: "Like The Celestine Prophecy, this sequel is an adventure parable, an attempt to illustrate the ongoing spiritual transformation that is occurring in our time. My hope with both books has been to communicate what I would call a consensus picture, a lived portrait, of the new perceptions, feelings, and phenomena that are… Read more about this item

From the Time-Life series - The Old West. Gunfighters and justice. Civil War, Jesse James and much more. Lots of black & white, and color, photographs and illustrations, plus information. Book - Very Good condition. Beautiful Embossed and padded Leatherette Covers. Front cover has E. F. Ward's painting of a sheriff wearing the sheriff's star which stamps him as a gunfighter recruited… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "High Iron is a record in prose and pictures of some of the more arresting aspects of the most heroic of American sagas, the legend of railroading. It is not a history of railroads nor is it a handbook of the evolution of trains and locomotives. It concerns itself with the magnificence, the romance and the… Read more about this item

From the front DJ flap: "Here is the Pictorial History of American Railroad Motive Power as it developed from 1900 - a continuation of the story begun with Iron Horses. From the first Atlantic and Prairie types, fifty years of progress are shown by well over 100 full-page plates, together with diagrams and descriptions." Book - Very Good condition. Very minimal… Read more about this item

This is Volume 1 of a 3 volume set. Per the Preface: "It has been the purpose of the Editor in preparing this his Third Revision to treat much more fully all encyclopaedic titles, except those in which there has been no development in recent years, while adding many dictionary and other minor titles not found in the las Revision.… Read more about this item

From back cover: "...a tool for field identification and has led millions to a better understanding of the natural world." "Full color, usually in several plumages, and described in detail." Very Good condition. Light rubbing on back cover, a little light edge wear on first few pages. Clean and tight. Please use photos as part of the description. 384 pages including Index.

This book is a song book with music and verses - all written by Albert E. Brumley. Albert began his study of music in 1922. In 1931 he married Goldie. He is the author of more than 600 gospel songs and hymns - including "I'll Fly Away". More than 100 of his songs have been recorded by major recording companies. As… Read more about this item

From the back cover - The Irish Roots Guide Offers clear, step-by-step instructions Equips you to do your own research in the Irish archives Adopts a fresh approach to family history, debunks myths, and never forgets that half of our ancestors were women. Whether your research is to be a lifelong hobby or a once-off quest, this book will prove indispensable. Very Good condition. Light wear… Read more about this item

From the Foreword: "The ten men whose lives are traced in the following pages are of the West. The three Indians - Almighty Voice, Gun-an-noot, and Tzouhalem - being born there, knew no other world than their limited tribal range, except for Gun-an-noot, who had a brief and deadly glimpse of the 'outside'." "The seven others, white men, were westward-seekers, who… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Seeking his fortune, R. H. Williams left the English navy in 1852 to farm in southwest Virginai. When that lost luster he went west and joined the 'Border Ruffians' who were fighting to make Kansas a slave state. By 1860 he was in Texas, and within another year he was riging with an irregular Confederate cavalry, battling… Read more about this item

From the Preface: This book represents an attempt to integrate pictorial and factual material about the Minnesota country from the mid-seventeenth century, when the earliest French explorers began to record their impressions of the area, to 1958, when the American commonwealth that took root and grew in this land of lakes and streams marked its centennial as the thirty-second state." Almost… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "A proper knowledge of the long and eventful history of Kansas requires an understanding of the state's geography. Whit the "place called Kansas" was originally the home of certain Indian tribes, the earliest recorded histories of the state are chronicles of journeys across it. Adventurers, traders, and pioneers crossed Kansas..." Very Good- condition. Covers have some rubbing/bumping… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "Each of this book's six sections, arranged chronologically, opens with a world map that shows developments at various points of the copmass, along with an essay about that was happening and why." It has a world-wide perspective. Colorful images and lots of information. Book - Near Fine condition. Beautiful book - Navy over boards with compass design impressed… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "In the summer of 1863 after the climactic battle at Vicksburg, Lincoln's government was more interested in Ulysses Simpson Grant than any other man alive." This book gives a "detailed and revealing portrait of Grant during the last year and a half of the war. Book - Good+ condition. Navy cloth over boards with gold gilt image on… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a cane until it splintered and the helpless Massachusetts senator lay unconscious and covered in blood. It was a retaliatory… Read more about this item

From back cover: "A Profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the war between the states." "The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike each identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side." This book measures the gap between those claims and draws… Read more about this item

From back cover: "In this unique series the Civil War comes vividly to life. Here are eyewitness accounts...by generals, journalists, and ordinary foot soldiers, both blue and gray." "Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the Fifth Corps records the dramatic final acts of the Civil War: Sheridan's rise, Warren's fall, and the slow inexorable stalking of Lee's forces across the battle-scarred countryside. ...Chamberlain… Read more about this item

Quote on back cover: "There is a magnificent unity to this story of Grant's leadership in both war and peace that is not found anywhere else. In this compelling narrative, Grant emerges more fascinating than ever before." - Doris Kearns Goodwin, authorof Team of Rivals and No Ordinary Time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history Black and white photo section… Read more about this item

From piece pasted on end paper (I believe it to be part of the original dust jacket): "...So incisive and vigorous is this record of heroism, gallantry, strife, and consusion, of colossal blunders and terrible tragedies, that one loses sight of the fact that he is reading history, and finds himself reliving battles, deciding policies, and what, and watching events… Read more about this item

A book of science-related cartoons from The Cartoon bAnk, a Division of the New Yorker Magazine Company. Book - Very Good+ condition. Very minimal wear, but corners do have an outward curve. Please use photos as part of the description. 86 pages, plus Index of Artists