The Story of the Naval War of 1812
By C. S. Forestor
No one has been so well equipped as C. S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812, to characterize the heroes more skillfully, or to comprehend ...
1956; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 284 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-06-6
Price: $17.95
American Frugal Housewife 12th Edition 1833, The
Dedicated to Those who are not Ashamed of Economy
By Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up of all the fragments, so that nothing is lost. I mean fragments of time, as well as materials. ...
1828; Chapman Billies; 4"x 7.25"; 130 pages; Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-939218-22-6
Price: $9.95
By Col. Frank A. Haskell
Col. Haskell wrote the first and, according to many authorities, the best eyewitness account of the most pivotal event in American history. His unique position and duties required him to ...
1864; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 156 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-12-7
Price: $9.95
Its Origin, Progress & Decline in America
By Henry Reed Stiles
Bundling was an important part of American courting life, enjoyed by all good country maids and men and blessed by honest folk. During the nineteenth century, many elders clothed bundling ...
1871; Chapman Billies; 5"x 7"; 146 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-23-3
Price: $10.00
Being the Saga of John Young and his Sloop-of-War
By William Bell Clark
During the American Revolution, the Saratoga played a significant role in stemming the flow of supplies to British forces. Sailing out of Delaware River ports on her three cruises, she ...
1953; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 208 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-07-3
Price: $14.95
Grandmother's Story Of Bunker Hill Battle
As She Saw It From The Belfry
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Illustrated by Howard Pyle
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poet Laureate of Boston, wrote this poem in 1875 as part of the Centenary celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Two months after Lexington and ...
1875; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 80 pages; Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-939218-10-3
Price: $12.50
Hundred And Seventy Chinese Poems, A
By Arthur Waley
First published by Alfred Knopf in 1919, this is the book that alerted the West to the richness and variety of Chinese literature. Arthur Waley (1889-1966), a shy reclusive scholar, ...
1919; Chapman Billies; 5.25"x 8.25"; 242 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-17-2
Price: $14.95
A Pioneer Hero
By W. D. Haley
This profile of Jonathan Chapman appeared in Harper’s Magazine of November 1871. It was one of the earliest, if not the first, gathering of all of the facts known about ...
; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.75"; 40 pages; Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-939218-04-2
Price: $9.95
The Black Brothers
By John Ruskin
Illustrated by Richard Doyle
For over one hundred fifty years, people of all ages have enjoyed this happy tale. Written at a time when children's books were more lectures than adventures, and their creators ...
1841; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 64 pages; Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-939218-09-7
Price: $12.50
Life And Adventures Of James R Durand, The
By James R. Durand
James R. Durand served on three American war vessels, including the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), was taken prisoner of war, and then impressed into the British Navy. For seven years ...
1820; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 156 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-08-0
Price: $9.95
By Edward Everett Hale
First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 and written to inspire patriotism and combat Northern sympathy with the Confederacy during the Civil War, this classic story met with immediate ...
1863; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 128 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-03-5
Price: $9.95
Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs Mary Rowlandson
By Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
In February 1676, during King Philip’s War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was attacked by a party of Nipmuck Indians and completely destroyed. As relief from Concord approached, the ...
1682; Chapman Billies; 4.50"x 7"; 94 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-20-2
Price: $9.95
By Washington Irving
Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott
This handsome edition of Washington Irving’s Old Christmas contains all of the 110 illustrations that Randolph Caldecott originally prepared for it. The text of Old Christmas first appeared as five ...
1819; Chapman Billies; 6"x 9"; 110 pages; Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-939218-15-8
Price: $22.95
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne’s talent for descriptive writings was never exercised on a happier theme than the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. Built in 1765 by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grandfather, it was Emerson’s ...
1845; Chapman Billies; 4.25"x 7.50"; 96 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-939218-00-4
Price: $9.95
