John Alden

Hemingway, Ernest (editor) (Charles Oman; Richard Hillary; Eric Jens Petersen; Jean De Joinville; Lloyd Lewis; Livy; Richard Aldington; Charlotte Yonge; Marquis James; Leonard Ehrlich; T. E. Lawrence; Alden Brooks; Frederick F. Van De Water): MEN AT WAR: The Battle of Hastings; The Invaders; Who Called You Here; The French Crusade; Shiloh Bloody Shiloh; Horatius at the Bridge; The Fight on the Hilltop; At All Costs; The Pass of Thermopylae; Deguelo; Harper's Ferry; Blowing Up a Train, New York Bramhall House 1979
051702084X Very Good

1072 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Introduction by Ernest Hemingway; The Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar; The Battle of Hastings 1066 A.D. by Charles Oman; The French Crusade 1249 - 1250 A.D. by Jean De Joinville; The Battle of Arsouf by Charles Oman; The Death of Montezuma by William Hickling Prescott; Who Called You Here by Eric Jens Petersen; The Invaders by Richard Hillary; The Massacre at Matanzas Inlet by Pedro Menendez de Aviles; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; The Blocking of Zeebrugge by Sir Archibald Hurd; Horatius at the Bridge by Livy; Shiloh Bloody Shiloh by Lloyd Lewis; How David Slew Goliath from The Bible; The Fight on the Hilltop by Ernest Hemingway; The Last Battle of King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory; At All Costs by Richard Aldington; The Pass of Thermopylae 430 B.C. by Charlotte Yonge; The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; Deguelo by Marquis James; Torture by T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia;) Tsushima by Frank Thiess; The Parisian by Alden Brooks; The March to the Sea by Xenophon; Vale of Tears by Laurence Stallings; The Odyssey of the Three Slavs by Alden Brookes; Gold from Crete by C. S. Forester; Harper's Ferry by Leonard Ehrlich; Custer by Frederick F. Van De Water; An Egg for the Major by C. S. Forester; The Merrimac and the Monitor by Mary Johnston; Manila Bay by Admiral George Dewey; Tank Fighting in Libya by Alan Moorehead; Blowing Up a Train by T. E. Lawrence; Lisette at Eylau by General Marbot; The Stolen Railroad Train by Marquis James; Air Battle by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; The Corvette Claymore by Victor Hugo; Turn About by William Faulkner; The Trojan Horse by Virgil; The People's War by Count Leo Tolstoy; The Wrong Road by Marquis James; Miracle at Dunkirk by Arthur D. Divine; Gallipoli by Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller; The Stars in Their Courses by Colonel John W. Thomason Jr; Waterloo by Victor Hugo; The Retreat from Caporetto by Ernest Hemingway; The Battle of Cannae by Livy; The Victory of the Americans at Saratoga by Sir Edward S. Creasy; The Lost Battalion by Thomas M. Johnson and Fletcher Pratt; Bagration's Rearguard Action by Count Leo Tolstoy; After the Final Victory by Agnes Smedley; Her Privates We by Private 19022; Borodino by Count Leo Tolstoy; Trafalgar by Robert Southey; The Battle of Atlanta by Lloyd Lewis; Oriskany 1777 by Walter D. Edmonds; The Calvalry Charge at Omdurman by Winston Churchill; The Sun of Austerlitz by General Marbot; The Marines at Soissons by Colonel John W. Thomason Jr; The Battle of Ypres by Frank Richards; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce; Joshua's Conquest of Jericho from The Bible; The Taking of Lungtunpen by Rudyard Kipling; Ball of Fat by Guy de Maupassant; Hands Across the Sea by Alexander Woollcott; I Bombed the Barges by The Captain of a Blenheim Bomber; The Italian Debacle at Guadalajara by F. G. Tinker Jr; Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig; I Take Vladivostok by Frazier Hunt; Up Periscope by An Officer of H. M. Submarine Sturgeon; Father Duffy by Alexander Woollcott; The War Years by James Hilton; Soldiers of the Republic by Dorothy Parker; The Chauffeurs of Madrid by Ernest Hemingway; A Man's Bound to Fight by Colonel John W. Thomason Jr; Falling Through Space by Richard Hillary; Squadron Squadron by Byron Kennedy; A Personal View of Waterloo by Stendhal; Pearl Harbor by Blake Clark; Three Men on a Raft by Harold F. Dixon; A Name and a Flag by Colonel John W. Thomason Jr; and Midway by Walter B. Clausen. First Thus Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

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Purdy, Al (ed) -Farley Mowat, Peter C. Newman, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Eric Nicol, Ray Smith, James M. Minifie, Margaret Laurence, Tom Marshall, Irving Layton, Robin Mathews, Louis Dudek, Stephen Vizinczey, Earle Birney, Hugh Garner, ++++++++++: The New Romans: Canidid Canadian Opinions of the U. S.-The Testament of a Canadian, Backdrop Addresses Cowboy, The North American Pattern, I Love Americans, State of the Nation, Balancing the Books, Lyndon Johnson & Bismarck's Ghost, Pictures From Vietnam, Edmonton M. G. Hurtig 1968
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-----Large format soft cover (not large print), (xiv) 172 pages, tight square and clean, flat spine, light tanning to interior, ink name on inside front cover far left edge, minor edge wear. Contents include: Intro by A. W. Purdy; Letter to my Son by Farley Mowat; The Testament of a Canadian by Peter C. Newman; Backdrop Addresses Cowboy by Margaret Atwood; The North American Pattern by Mordecai Richler; Dat Ol' Man River by Eric Nicol; Cape Breton is the Thought Control Center of Canada by Ray Smith; Eagle's Feather by James M. Minifie; Open Letter to the Mother of Joe Bass by Margaret Laurence; American Apoclypse: Collage with Headlines by Tom Marshall; From Roosevelt to LBJ by George Grant; The Great Liberal Myth by John W. Warnock; The Anti-American by A. W. Purdy; Their America, and Mine by Robert Fulford; American Girl: A Canadian View by George Jones; Some Feelings About the United States by William Kilbourn; Vive Le Canada Libre by Laurier LaPierre; Hymn to the Republic by Irving Layton; Death Chant for Mr. Johnson's America by Raymond Souster; The Folger Factor in Canadian-American Relationships by Arnold Edinborough; 1966 by C. J. Newman; Centennial Song by Robin Mathews; Various Americas by George Woodcock; O Canada by Louis Dudek; If Throughout his Reign Napoleon...by Stephen Vizinczey; Billboards Build Freedom of Choice by Earle Birney; I Love Americans by Hugh Garner; State of the Nation by Peter Stevens; Balancing the Books by Jack Ludwig; The Parable of the Seventh Seal by Lionel Kearns; The Preacher & the President by Edward McCourt; Lyndon Johnson & Bismarck's Ghost by Alden Nowlan; New Jersey: 1935 by Dorothy Livesay; The Generation of Hunters by Dave Godfrey; Winning by George Bowering; Boil Me No Melting Pots, Dream Me No Dreams by Larry Zolf; The What is the be Done Poem by Phyllis Webb; A New Nest of Eagles by Henry Beissel; Pictures From Vietnam by Michael Ondaatje; Hooray for the Scars & Gripes by J. M. S. Careless; America by John Newlove; Besieged, Neglected, Violated, and Ignored by Naim Kattan; The Decline of America by Andre Major; The Children in Nathan Phillps Square by Dennis Lee; 'mericans by Barry Lord; As I think of where Today I Csn Get th Rent Money by Bill Bissett; A Borderline Case by David Helwig; My Thoughts on Americans & the U.S.A by Desmond Pacey; Oh Canada by John Robert Colombo; Enlightened (?) Self-Interest of the U.S. by C. W. Gonick; Biographies. Any image directly beside this listing is the actaul book and not a stock photo 1st Edition Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"

[SW: -----Large format soft cover (not large print), (xiv) 172 pages, light tanning to interior, ink name on inside front cover far left edge, minor edge wear. Contents include: Intro by A. W. Purdy; Letter to my Son by Farley Mowat; The Testament of a Canadian by Peter C. Newman; Backdrop Addresses Cowboy by Margaret Atwood; The North American Pattern by Mordecai Richler; Dat Ol' Man River by Eric Nicol; Cape Breton is the Thought Control Center of Canada by Ray Smith; Eagle's Feather by James M. Minifie; Open Letter to the Mother of Joe Bass by Margaret Laurence; American Apoclypse: Collage with Headlines by Tom Marshall; From Roosevelt to LBJ by George Grant; The Great Liberal Myth by John W. Warnock; The Anti-American by A. W. Purdy; Their America, and Mine by Robert Fulford; American Girl: A Canadian View by George Jones; Some Feelings About the United States by William Kilbourn; Vive Le Canada Libre by Laurier LaPierre; Hymn to the Republic by Irving Layton; Death Chant for Mr. Johnson's America by Raymond Souster; The Folger Factor in Canadian-American Relationships by Arnold Edinborough; 1966 by C. J. Newman; Centennial Song by Robin Mathews; Various Americas by George Woodcock; O Canada by Louis Dudek; If Throughout his Reign Napoleon...by Stephen Vizinczey; Billboards Build Freedom of Choice by Earle Birney; I Love Americans by Hugh Garner; State of the Nation by Peter Stevens; Balancing the Books by Jack Ludwig; The Parable of the Seventh Seal by Lionel Kearns; The Preacher & the President by Edward McCourt; Lyndon Johnson & Bismarck's Ghost by Alden Nowlan; New Jersey: 1935 by Dorothy Livesay; The Generation of Hunters by Dave Godfrey; Winning by George Bowering; Boil Me No Melting Pots, Dream Me No Dreams by Larry Zolf; The What is the be Done Poem by Phyllis Webb; A New Nest of Eagles by Henry Beissel; Pictures From Vietnam by Michael Ondaatje; Hooray for the Scars & Gripes by J. M. S. Careless; America by John Newlove; Besieged, Neglected, Violated, and Ignored by Naim Kattan; The Decline of America by Andre Major; The Children in Nathan Phillps Square by Dennis Lee; 'mericans by Barry Lord; As I think of where Today I Csn Get th Rent Money by Bill Bissett; A Borderline Case by David Helwig; My Thoughts on Americans & the U.S.A by Desmond Pacey; Oh Canada by John Robert Colombo; Enlightened (?) Self-Interest of the U.S. by C. W. Gonick; Biographies. Any image directly beside this listing is the actaul book and not a stock Photo, Cover by Roy Peterson , The New Romans: Canidid Canadian Opinions of the U. S., Reference]

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Lebeau, Bryan F. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way, New Jersey Prentice Hall 1997
ISBN: 0134425421 Near Fine

-----Large format softcover (not large print), tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, (xii) 308 pages, no names. "Between June 10 and September 22, 1692, nineteen people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One person was pressed to death, and over 150 others were jailed, where still others died and many remained for several months. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is a history of that event. It provides a much needed synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject, places the trials into the context of the Great European Withc-Hunt, and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England." Contents inlcude: Preface / "A Biography of a Terrible But Perfectly Normal Superstition" / The Origins of European Witchcraft / The Developments of European Witchcraft / The Great Eruopen Witch-hunts / "Haviang Familiarity with The Devil" / Witch-hunts in Seventeenth-Century America / Witch-hunts in 17th Century New England / Some Notable Witch Trials in 17th Century New England / The Pattern of Witch-hunt Activity in 17th Century New England / "The Evil Hand" Is Upon Them / A Glimpse at Salem's Past / The 1st Signs of the Devil / "Is Not This a Brand Plucked From the Burning?" / The Cased of Martha & Giles Corey and Dorcas Good / The Case of Rebecca Nurse / Deodat Lawson's Lecture Day Sermon / Sarah Cloyce Is Charged / Mary Easty Is Summoned / "If They Are Let Alone We Should All Be Devils and Witches" / The Cases of Elizabeth and John Proctor / Mary Warren Tries to Recant / Bridget Bishop & Abigail Hobbs are Charged / Seven of the Nine Are Formally Charged / The Ordeal Begins for Mary & Philip English / The "Black Minister" is Apprehended / Dorcas Hoar is Jailed / "God Will Deliver Us Out of The Hands of Unmerciful Men" / The Case of George Jacobs Sr. / John Willard Changes Sides / Daniel Andrew Is Charged / The Carys Escape / John Alden is Arrested / The Andover Witch-hunt / "God Will Give You Blood to Drink" / The Court of Oyer and Terminer is Established / Bridget Bishop is Tried / The Court Completes Its First Session / The First Mas Execution & its Effects / "What a Sad Thing It is to See Eight Firebrands of Hell Hanging There" / The Case of George Burroughs / The Proctors Are Condemned / The Cases of George Jacobs Sr., John Willard, & Martha Carrier / The Hangings of August / The Trials of September: The Cases of Martha Corey & Mary Easty / The Ordeal of Giles Corey / The Confessions of 1692 / "It Were Better That Ten Suspected Witches Should Escape, Than That One Innocent Person Should Be Condemned" / Voices Are Raised in Opposition to the Trials / Phips Dismisses the Court of Oyer and Terminer / The Jails Are Emptied / The Superior Court of Judicature / The Magistrates & the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Guilty As Charged? / "Ruined in the Mistaken Management of the Terrible Affair Called Witchcraft" / Cotton Mather & His "Wonders of the Invisible World" / Salem in Ruins / The Repenting Begins / Settling Up / Epilogue / Notes / Bibliography / index. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo 1st Edition 1st Printing Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: -----Large format softcover (not large print), tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, (xii) 308 pages, no names. "Between June 10 and September 22, 1692, nineteen people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One person was pressed to death, and over 150 others were jailed, where still others died and many remained for several months. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is a history of that event. It provides a much needed synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject, places the trials into the context of the Great European Withc-Hunt, and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England." Contents inlcude: Preface / "A Biography of a Terrible But Perfectly Normal Superstition" / The Origins of European Witchcraft / The Developments of European Witchcraft / The Great Eruopen Witch-hunts / A Summary View of Witch-hunts in England / "Haviang Familiarity with The Devil" / Withc-hunts in Seventeenth-Century America / Witch-hunts in 17th Century New England / Some Notable Witch Trials in 17th Century New England / The Pattern of Witch-hunt Activity in 17th Century New England / "The Evil Hand" Is Upon Them / A Glimpse at Salem's Past / The 1st Signs of the Devil / The Hearings Begin / "Is Not This a Brand Plucked From the Burning?" / The Cased of Martha & Giles Corey and Dorcas Good / The case of Rebecca Nurse / Deodat Lawson's Lecture Day Sermon / Sarah Cloyce Is Charged / Mary Easty Is Summoned / The Pace Quickens / "If They Are Let Alone We Should All Be Devils and Witches" / The Cases of Elizabeth and John Proctor / Mary Warren Tries to Recant / Bridget Bishop & Abigail Hobbs are Charged / Seven of the Nine Are Formally Charged / The Ordeal Begins for Mary & Philip English / The "Black Minister" is Apprehended / Dorcas Hoar is Jailed / "God Will Deliver Us Out of The Hands of Unmerciful Men" / The Case of George Jacobs Sr. / John Willard Changes Sides / Daniel Andrew Is Charged / The Carys Escape / John Alden is Arrested / The Andover Witch-hunt / "God Will Give You Blood to Drink" / The Court of Oyer and Terminer is Established / Bridget Bishop is Tried / The Court Completes Its First Session / The First Mas Execution & its Effects / "What a Sad Thing It is to See Eight Firebrands of Hell Hanging There" / The Case of George Burroughs / The Proctors Are Condemned / The Cases of George Jacobs Sr., John Willard, & Martha Carrier / The Hangings of August / The Trials of September: The Cases of Martha Corey & Mary Easty / The Ordeal of Giles Corey / The Mood in September 1692 / The Confessions of 1692 / "It Were Better That Ten Suspected Witches Should Escape, Than That One Innocent Person Should Be Condemned" / Voices Are Raised in Opposition to the Trials / Phips Dismisses the Court of Oyer and Terminer / The Jails Are Emptied / The Superior Court of Judicature / The Magistrates & the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Guilty As Charged? / "Ruined in the Mistaken Management of the Terrible Affair Called Witchcraft" / Cotton Mather & His "Wonders of the Invisible World" / Salem in Ruins / The Repenting Begins / Settling Up / Epilogue / Notes / Bibliography / appendix / index. Religion Unexplained Phenomenon/Occult]

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Cole, William, ( Editor )... Mark Twain / Ogden Nash / George Ade / Samuel Butler / Erica Jong / Lewis Carroll / Charles Dickens / Jonathan Swift / William Makepeace Thackeray / J. B. Morton / Oliver Goldsmith / Charles Lamb / A. Conan Doyle / Ben King: ...And Be Merry! A Feast of Light Verse and a Soupcon of Prose About the Joy of Eating, New York Grossman Publishers 1972
ISBN: 0670122807 Near Fine

Brown cloth with gold and green lettering and design on spine, illustrated endpapers, 243 clean pages, former owners book plate on half-title page, illustrations throughout. Some of the contributors are W. S. Gilbert / Colin Ellis / J. B. Morton / Stephen Potter / Peter Dickinson / Norman Mailer / Ernest Oldmeadow / Raymond Souster / Don Marquis / Robert Burns / F. R. Higgins / Alden Nowlan / Mark Twain / Eugene Field / Carroll Arnett / Henry Fielding / Ogden Nash / Harri Webb / H. P. Lyste / H. S. Mackintosh / Justin Richardson / George Ade / Phyllis McGinley / Richard Lemon / E. S. Turner / Arthur Hugh Clough / Richard Wilbur / Mildred Weston / Samuel Pepys / A. H. Folwell / E. O. Parrott / Margaret Gresswell / Ben Jonson / Bayard Taylor / May Swenson / Samuel Butler / Stella Gibbons / A. P. Herbert / Harry Graham / Bert Leston Taylor / Richard Harris Barham / Edmund Gosse / Pink / William Makepeace Thackeray / Erica Jong / David McCord / Thomas Hood / Thomas Fuller / Charles Dickens / Saki / Jonathan Swift / Andre Launay / John Golld / Shelley Silverstein / John G. Saxe / George Sterling / John De Morgan / Sydney Smith / D. R. Peddy / Carolyn Wells / George Martin Lane / Margaret Fishback / Richard Leveridge / John Skelton / E. V. Wrighst / Edwin Brock / Oscar Williams / Irvin s Cobb / Oliver Goldsmith / Raoul Ponchon / Justin Richardson / Charles Lamb / C. W. V. Wordsworth / etc. This is a tight square and clean first edition. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo! First Edition Very Good Plus Plus Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: Brown cloth with gold and green lettering and design on spine, illustrated endpapers, 243 clean pages, former owners book plate on half-title page, illustrations throughout. Some of the contributors are W. S. Gilbert / Colin Ellis / J. B. Morton / Stephen Potter / Peter Dickinson / Norman Mailer / Ernest Oldmeadow / Raymond Souster / Don Marquis / Robert Burns / F. R. Higgins / Alden Nowlan / Mark Twain / Eugene Field / Carroll Arnett / Henry Fielding / Ogden Nash / Harri Webb / H. P. Lyste / H. S. Mackintosh / Justin Richardson / George Ade / Phyllis McGinley / Richard Lemon / E. S. Turner / Arthur Hugh Clough / Richard Wilbur / Mildred Weston / Samuel Pepys / A. H. Folwell / E. O. Parrott / Margaret Gresswell / Ben Jonson / Bayard Taylor / May Swenson / Samuel Butler / Stella Gibbons / A. P. Herbert / Harry Graham / Bert Leston Taylor / Richard Harris Barham / Edmund Gosse / Pink / William Makepeace Thackeray / Erica Jong / David McCord / Thomas Hood / Thomas Fuller / Charles Dickens / Saki / Jonathan Swift / Andre Launay / John Golld / Shelley Silverstein / John G. Saxe / George Sterling / John De Morgan / Sydney Smith / D. R. Peddy / Carolyn Wells / George Martin Lane / Margaret Fishback / Richard Leveridge / John Skelton / E. V. Wrighst / Edwin Brock / Oscar Williams / Irvin s Cobb / Oliver Goldsmith / Raoul Ponchon / Justin Richardson / Charles Lamb / C. W. V. Wordsworth / etc. This is a tight square and clean first edition. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!]

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