Search Results: American Revolution from Old Saratoga Books

Saratoga, NY: Robson and Adee. Good; Waterstained at edges of covers, covers worn, tear at center . fore-edge of frontispiece.. 1927. Second Printing. Softcover. An account of the Battle of Saratoga and the defeat of the British forces led by General Burgoyne. Tan illustrated wraps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 57 pages .

NY: The Dial Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered, pages lightly toned, owner name inked out on front free endpaper.. 1957. First Edition.Red cloth binding. xxi, 617pp. Index. Hamilton's published and unpublished writings on a variety of topics, selected, edited and interpreted by Morris. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards rubbed.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. xiii, 416 pp. illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: American Enterprise Institute. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight . copy.. 1975. Softcover. Published in 1975 in honor of the bicentennial by American Brands of New York. Contains the following three lectures sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute: The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution by Irving Kristol, The Revolution of Sober Expectations by Martin Diamond, and Freedom in a Revolutionary Economy, by G. Warren Nutter. Several illustrations, footnotes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages .

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2020. First Printing. Hardcover. 1591027632 . Black cloth. Notes and index. The great virtue of this book is that it uses a reasonable what-if story to force Americans to face the worst aspects of a system that never is questioned. (from the rear jacket panel) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages .

NY: Franklin Watts. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket rubbed, jacket . chipped.. 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with orange topstain. xix, 236pp. Black and white illustrations, acknowledgments, and indexes. Includes excerpts from works by Patrick Henry, John Burgoyne, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Knox, and John Adams with a chronology of major military events for 1775- 1783. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Tamkang University. Very Good; Date inked on title page.. 1987. Softcover. Reprint of an article originally published in the Tamkang Journal of American Studies, Vol. III, No. 3, Spring 1987, published by Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. Printed tan stapled wraps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 35 pages .

Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing. Very Good; Lower front corner bent.. 2007. Reprint. Softcover. 0548475598 . Bibliography and notes. A facsimile copy of this historical essay (including underlining of original copy) originally published in 1907. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 39 pages .

NY: William Morrow. Good in Good dust jacket; Library label on spine of jacket and writing on . front pastedown endpaper.. 1990. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 1557100349 . Index, bibliography, notes. Several pages of illustrations. ; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 667 pages .

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped.. 1958. Hardcover. Third in the "Williamsburg in America" series of popular histories of Williamsburg and Tidewater Virginia in the eighteenth century. Green hardcover binding. Index, bibliographical notes. Library of Congress number 58-13521.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 179 pages .

NY: A. L. Fowle. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed, finger pull tear to Vol I, . and owner bookplate in Vol I.. 1900. Later Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth. Vol I 384pp / Vol II 381pp. Frontispiece portrait illustration, notes. A solid copy of this two-volume Revolutionary War history featuring information on Joseph Brant, Sir William Johnson, and the Battle of Saratoga. First published in 1846. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Ann Arbor, [MI]: William L. Clements Library. Very Good; Wraps faintly scuffed.. 1936. Softcover. 21 American Revolutionary War maps described as exhibited at the William L. Clements Library in 1936. Frontispiece illustration. Printed stapled light blue wraps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pages .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Rear jacket flap creased.. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670025445 . Black cloth. xvii, 398pp. Color photos and illustrations, black and white photos and illustrations, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, illustration credits, and index. With characteristic passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the Revolutionary landscape - geographic, emotional, political, and ideological - in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America". Signed by the author on the title page. Autographed copy sticker on jacket front panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Good with no dust jacket; Rear cover waterstained.. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 0674091000 . xii, 285pp. Red cloth binding. Illustrations, index, notes, bibliography. Scholarly biography of the Boston minister who exhorted colonists to resist the Stamp Act and other British policies during runup to the the Revolutionary War. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Reprint. Hardcover. Circa 1970s facsimile reprint of this 1853 title originally published by Lindsay & Blakiston. Navy cloth binding. Numerous engravings by Croome. vi, 447 pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Pioneer Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Hint of scuffing to jacket.. 1980. Hardcover. 0913150428 . Mustard cloth binding. Index, bibliography, notes. Signed by the author on the title page. An account of the American Revolution in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania in the pivotal year of 1777. ; 448 pages .

NY: Fraunces Tavern Museum. Very Good; Edges scuffed, errata slip bound in.. 1987. First Printing. Softcover. 0961641525 . Endpaper map, acknowledgements, black and white photos, bibliography, and lenders list. An exhibition catalog focused on the events and individuals of post-Revolutionary War New York City. Stapled illustrated card covers. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages .

Boston: Boston City Council. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, scrape on lower corner of rear . boards, light foxing to front and rear several leaves and tissue guards.. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark green blindstamped beveled boards with gilt city seal design on front boards and titles stamped in gilt on spine. viii, [9-11], 12-174pp. One of 1,000 copies. Frontispiece engraving of Boston City Hall, plus three additional engraved plates of Music Hall reception, Triumphal Arch at Charlestown, and Bunker Hill Monument (last three engravings after illustrations by artist Edwin A. Abbey from early in his career). An account of the pomp and circumstance of the centennial celebrations of the Battle of Bunker Hill, including all speeches, invitations, proclamations, description of procession, the services, and appendix of literature of Bunker Hill. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Backstrip split and reglued, boards heavily . worn, pages toned, water spots on front and rear boards.. 1900. Hardcover. Pictorial hardcover with blue cloth spine. Stories and verse about various figures in American Revolutionary War history and black and white illustrations by Mabel Humphrey of children dressing up and reenacting these scenes. Twelve full-page chromolithograph plates by Maud Humphrey (Mabel's sister and Humphrey Bogart's mother). Scenes and stories include Martha Washington pouring tea, the surrender of Cornwallis, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Lafayette dancing the Minuet, Moll Pitcher, Betsy Ross, Paul Revere's ride, the Boston Tea Party, Paul Jones, the Battle of Bunker Hill, Ben Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia, and the courtship of George Washington. The children depicted in these illustrations are plump and rosy-cheeked and have meticulous costuming. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Heath, MA: Self Published. Very Good; Covers lightly shelfworn.. 2019. Softcover. 035979453X . xiii, 151pp, photos. Inscribed by the author on the title page. An account of the author's ancestor and Revolutionary War soldier, Abel Sprague. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .