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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE FAMILY QUARREL by Elswyth Thane

Illustrations from Benson Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution.

June 1959 written in ink on flyleaf.

VERY GOOD in VG Dust Jacket.

1959 First Edition.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:59-5562.

308 pages w/index

"A fresh approach to the Revolutionary War and a deftly written, absorbing chronicle of one whole phase of the Revolution-the battles fought in the South which led to the surrender at Yorktown and which have been curiously neglected by most historians." Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York.

Item No 34Price $22.50.

NEW YORK IN THE REVOLUTION by James A. Roberts, Comptroller

These records were discovered, arranged and classified in 1895,1896, 1897 and 1898.

Second Edition 1898 With two page frontispiece Map of New York 1775-1783 showing Tryon, Charlotte, Albany Ulster & Dutchess Co

Very good condition, some pages uncut but page 31 has been carelessly cut with no text lost.

32 illustrations of documents and Dignitaries

9 additional units not in first edition..

534 pages including index.

Large 10" X 12".

"New York, more than any other colony, was the battle-ground of the war"--- "The progress of this later inquiry has involved the handling of about 25,000 names, one-half of which were already in the card index. To the 40,000 names already in that index, 15,000 have been added, many of which are simply different ways of spelling the same name. There have been added to the Line, Levies and Privateers the names of 128 officers and 1,884 men".

A great reference to the names and units of those from New York who served in the Revolution Albany, N.Y. Press of Brandow Printing Company 1898.

Item No SNY3 Price $150.00.

BROADSIDES AND BAYONETS by Carl Berger

The Propaganda War of the American Revolution. Cy 1961.

Very good/very good.

Flyleaf and first six pages have fold at leading edge to about 1 1/2" at lower edge of page.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:61-5358.

Endpapers show map of The War In the South and The War in the North.

256 pages which include:Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, Index

During its eight-year progression the war gave birth to many divisive operations, well planned in some instances, and often involving minority groups on the scene as well as Englishmen and Americans.

Item No: SR1....Price $26.00

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WAR OUT OF NIAGARA by Howard Swiggett

RARE.

NEAR FINE Small tear 3/4" on upper part of inner hinge.

FIRST EDITION 1933.

309 pages including bibliography and index.

6 illustrations.

The true story of Walter Butler and his Tory Rangers including raids on the Mohawk Valley, Cherry Valley and pointing out errors in both Simms and Stone

There is a small sticker on the inside of the back cover from an out of print bookshop that once supplied the book to a previous owner.

Inspired by Robert W. Chambers and his remarkable fiction about the Mohawk Valley and "the villainous Walter Butler" Swiggett has researched and written the true story of Walter Butler and the Tory Rangers.

His extensive bibliography includes many unpublished sources.

New York was the most essentially Tory of all the Colonies. There was greater wealth in New York, and a greater contrast between rich and poor. It was the last state to agree to the Declaration of Independence".."Not so in New York or Tryon where the Johnsons and Butlers had no mountain range to block the long valley westward, where their own lands were widening. British Canada, too, ran along their right hand.".

The book is printed on cream paper and shows no foxing at all.

Item Number: SNY3...Price: $365.00

IN DEFENSE OF THE PUBLIC LIBERTY BY Samuel B. Griffith II

An exciting and detailed book on the American Revolution by a brigadier general retired from the United State Marine Corps who also wrote THE BATTLE FOR GUADALCANAL.

FIRST EDITION.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1976.

15 Maps and Illustrations.

Very good in very good dust jacket.

726 pages including Notes, Bibliography and index.

Front and back endpapers are maps of territory involved in the conflict.

The words of George Washington, John and Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, officers and common soldiers, George III, members of his Cabinet, Parliament, Louis XVI Comte de Vergennes, and dozens of others combine to depict the full spectacle of the birth of a new nation?This book presents to the modern reader all the heartbreak and the glory which are our common heritage from those times that tried men's souls."

"Britain, America, and the struggle for Independence from 1760 to the surrender at Yorktown in 1781"

"Those twenty-one years of struggle would first force upon the loyal English citizens who lived in America the unwelcome notion of independence, and then instill in them the determination to achieve it and defend it to the death. Men who asked only a reason to be loyal to their king found instead a higher loyalty to the ideals of liberty."

Item NO: SRV3...Price: $35.00

SWORDS AND BLADES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by George C. Neumann

Illustrated with drawings by George C. Woodbridge, and with over 1600 illustrations and descriptive detail.

Blue cloth binding with gold stamping.

FIRST EDITION Stackpole Books cy 1973.

Presentation copy signed by the author.

Very fine/very fine.

288 Pages including Glossary, Nomenclature of terms, and index

"Pictures, details, and identifies more than 700 arms, tracing the evolution and history of each weapon."

"Located in private collections and institutions the majority never before photographed for publication, the weapons pulled together here create the first comprehensive study of bladed weapons of the American War for Independence. Spanning the total Colonial period, with major emphasis on the years from 1700 to 1783 this book provides new insight on the shaping; of basic weapon patterns and sketches a picture of America's evolving education in military tactics. Although the musket superseded the pike as the infantry's primary arm by 1700 in Europe, linear tactics persisted through the Revolution, and it often was the final clash of bladed weapons a mass contact of bayonets, knives, swords, and pole arms that ultimately and quite literally carved out victory."

ISBN 0-8117-1720-8.

Item Number: SRV4...Price: SOLD

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PAUL REVERE'S OWN STORY, compiled by Harriet E. O'Brien

RARE,LIMITED EDITION, COPY 186 OF 500

NEAR FINE Small bump on lower edge of backstrip. Original slipcase present, but sadly deteriated.

47 PAGES, INCLUDING BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 PAGE PROSPECTUS OF BOOK, WHICH SOLD FOR $15.00 LAID IN.

31 ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDING FACIMILES OF REVERE LETTERS.

Printed under direction of Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Volume One of a series of rare historic and literary publications.

"All know Paul Revere as the Messenger of the Revolution. Few know Paul Revere as the inventor, the artist, the mechanic, the politician, or master of industry. This is a sketch of his life".

The book is bound in library boards,covered with a blue, hand made Italian paper..the beauty of the binding is greatly enhanced by a reproduction of the Revere family crest.

THERE IS INCLUDED A NUMBER OF SPECIMENS OF PAUL REVERE'S WORK AS AN ENGRAVER, SILVERSMITH AND CARTOONIST.

Item Number: SRV5Price: $175.00

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