Dann, John C Edited by (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Blue cloth covered boards with darker blue titles; light shelf wear; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; no jacket. Illustrations in black and white; interior clean and unmarked; 180 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Near Fine Condition. No dust jacket. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscriptions. Nice illustrations throughout. Book does not appear to have been read. ; 180 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.; 180 pages.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Retitled in hardcover: A Great Library Easily Begets Affection. Memories from the WLCL.

Condition: Very Good. 1988. First Edition. hardcover. From the library of Michael Viney. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW sunned to spine and showing a little shelfwear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1988. First Edition. hardcover. From the library of Michael Viney. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW sunned to spine and showing a little shelfwear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . .

grey full cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~7"x10"). large bookvery . dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. minor rubbing, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xxvi+446p. approximately 48 b&w illustrations. chronology. index. american history. american revolution. biography. british empire. military history. ~ In this remarkable book you can learn, for the first time, how Ledyard met his death at Fort Griswold, how the Boyd party was massacred during the Sullivan expedition, and the truth behind Israel Putnam's legendary ride down the stone steps near Greenwich meetinghouse. You can read a firsthand account of the daring Sag Harbor raid by the common soldier who conceived it and eyewitness descriptions of Arnold's escape to the British and of Andre's execution. There are six confessions by spies, three Indian captivity narratives, two accounts by black veterans, and autobiographical sketches by two women~one of which provides a fine description of the Yorktown surrender. Difficult as it is to believe, with a single exception, not one of these accounts has ever been published before. The Revolution Remembered was made possible by an 1832 act of Congress~the first comprehensive pension act for veterans of the Revolutionary War. To apply for a pension, a soldier had to indicate the time and place of his service, the names of units and officers, and engagements in which he participated. In most cases applicants told their stories to a court clerk or reporter; some presented their stories in open court; others related their experiences to lawyers and attested to their narratives in court. The pension application process thus constituted one of the largest oral history projects ever undertaken. John C. Dann has sifted through the entire collection of applications and on the basis of historical importance and readability has selected those presented here. In their totality, the pension files give the reader a refreshing, uninhibited view of the war. Thinking back a half~century, the participants do occasionally recall the patriotic fervor portrayed in history books, but they also remember the physical hardships and senseless brutality, the soldiers' pranks, and the inconveniences of being drafted. Thoroughly indexed by names, places, and events, and illustrated with related period prints, The Revolution Remembered makes available to all a unique body of historical data on one of the most unusual armies ever to win a war.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988. Stated first edition, first printing, 1988. Blue hardcover with tan cloth spine, map endpapers, color illustrated dustajcket. Near fine with light foxing to the top edge, otherwise looks and feels about new, with firm binding, very clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some light shelf soil, no chips or tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition (?). B&W Illustrations; 9 1/4 x 12 1/4; 179 pages; Signed and inscibed inside front end paper: 'To Linda Chapman, fellow library ______, With best wishes, John C Dann. ', Hard cover is blue with blue lettering on front and spine. Matching DJ, in a mylar cover. Very faint rubbing. Blue endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. 'In 1920, Clements offered his collection to the University of Michigan, along with $175,000 (plus $15,000 for furnishings and equipment) to build a suitable home for it. Noted Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869-1942) designed the Clements Library in the Italian Renaissance style, based on Vignola's casino for the Villa Farnese, ca.1587, in Caprarola, Italy. In Kahn's plan, the casino, a one-story building, was enlarged to two stories, the roof flattened, the windows lengthened, and an elegant triple-arched entrance created. Finally, Kahn further ornamented the limestone exterior with relief sculpture and inlaid marble, the whole resulting in a building of extraordinary beauty and architectural coherence.As his personal fortune grew, Clements cultivated a passion for history and rare books, concentrating on Americana, particularly books written contemporaneously with the events they describethe primary sources for early American history.concentrating on two periods of American historythe discovery, exploration, and colonization of America by Europeans from the 15th through the 17th centuries, and late 18th century colonial and revolutionary America.opened in 1923 with the gift of Clements' extraordinary Americana collection ~~ 20,000 volumes of rare books, 2,000 volumes of early newspapers, several hundred maps, and the papers of Lord Shelburne, the British Prime Minister who negotiated the peace ending the Revolutionary War'. Illustrated with 100+ b/w facsimiles of the precious items in this wonderful archive. A truly beautiful and singular building in the center of U Michigan Ann Arbor main campus. Oversized, 4#. ; Signed by Editor.

Hard cover dust wrapper, xxvi/446pp. Dust wrapper worn at edges, as are boards. Some light foxing on page edges else very good. Drawn from accounts written by veterans of the Revolutionary War, relating to their applications for pensions under an 1832 act of Congress - applicants had to indicate time and place of service, names of units and officers, and engagements in which participated. Formed one of the largest oral history projects ever undertaken.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 402pp. Illustrated. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine faded. Signed by the editor on the front fly verso: "With Best Wishes, John C. Dann.".