Old Is Gold
Discover old books and books of old at our online bookstore. Shop old classic books, best-selling books, and timeless treasures—perfect for collectors and book lovers alike!
-
Berlin DiaryThe author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII. By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany...
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and SurvivalThe nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb's principal creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita: "Now...
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of AmericaNamed one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDSMichael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the...
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Last Adieu: Lafayette's Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic"Memories of the Revolution have come back to life..."In the summer of 1824, the aging Marquis de Lafayette, defeated politically and distraught over the fate of liberty in Europe, set sail one last time from France for America after an absence of forty years.Across...
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation's urban history. Across that decade, a wave of...
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Boy From Block 66He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66.January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp with several hundred other children. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire...
- $50.50 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.50 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
One Ordinary Man - A novel based on the true story of Harry Hopkins"Vesce...manages to pique reader interest through his passionate dedication to historical detail.... he knows how to spin a good historical yarn. Vesce's larger-than-life portrait of Hopkins reminds that there really is some truth to the whole "Greatest Generation.." - Kirkus Reviews"I could hear the...
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Rebel Girl and the Godfather: New York City's Italians and the Fight for Civil RightsThe story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true story of a rivalry between a pair of improbable social...
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United StatesFrom 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January...
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Doctors' Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in AmericaThroughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the "resurrectionists" - body snatchers....
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Archaeology of Kingston, New YorkA comprehensive analysis of eighty-eight archaeological sites in and around the City of Kingston, New York.The Archaeology of Kingston, New York covers Kingston (and New York State and the Hudson Valley to a lesser extent) from Paleo-Indian times circa twelve thousand years ago through...
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Lincoln's Road to WarFollow Lincoln's day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the...
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Blood to Rubies"Rhapsodic and sensuous." "Savage and tender." Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the...
- $50.45 USD
$95.99 USD- $50.45 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & ClarkA major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of the most important episodes in American history, humanizing forgotten figures and shattering long-held myths....
- $50.00 USD
$104.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Colorado BookThe Colorado Book brings together some of the voices that have shaped the Centennial State, offering readers an expansive journey through Colorado's literary, historical, and cultural landscape. Curated with deep knowledge of the state's heritage, this collection spans genres and generations--from compelling fiction and...
- $50.00 USD
$104.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city's descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the...
- $50.00 USD
$104.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy."--Dan Jones, The Sunday Times From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history's most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial...
- $50.00 USD
$104.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de MorèsA vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call "fascism." The Marquis de Morès was the first populist, white supremacist, and...
- $50.00 USD
$87.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of BeliefShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize - In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and highly emotional man haunted by the great intellectual...
- $50.00 USD
$87.99 USD- $50.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
