Bulkington Books

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The archive is our hosted collection of public-domain books — sourced from the great digital libraries, preserved as-found. We did not typeset or restore these; we curate and serve them. Read them free.

the collection, by measure

The Folio

the great books
1874
A Short History of the English People
John Richard Green
1889
Anarchy and Anarchists
Michael J. Schaack
1912
Financial History of the United States
Davis Rich Dewey
1876
Pioneers in the Settlement of America
William A. Crafts
1923
Tennessee, the Volunteer State, 1769–1923, Vol. I
John Trotwood Moore
1879
The Constitutional and Political History of the United States, 1828–1846
Hermann von Holst
1804
The Life of George Washington, Vol. II
John Marshall
1804
The Life of George Washington, Vol. III
John Marshall
1805
The Life of George Washington, Vol. IV
John Marshall
1807
The Life of George Washington, Vol. V
John Marshall
1911
William Pitt and the Great War
J. Holland Rose

The Octavo

the working volumes
1874
A History of American Currency
William Graham Sumner
1846
A History of the American Revolution
John Lauris Blake
1880
A History of the Precious Metals
Alexander Del Mar
1847
A New History of Texas
Edward Stiff
1920
A Prisoner of Trotsky's
Andrew Kalpaschnikoff
1833
A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States
William M. Gouge
1774
A Voyage Towards the North Pole
Capt. Constantine John Phipps
1875
A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia
Sir Albert Hastings Markham
1900
American Fights and Fighters
Cyrus Townsend Brady
1930
An American Jezebel
Helen Augur
1920
And the Kaiser Abdicates
S. Miles Bouton
1898
Anglo-Saxon Superiority
Edmond Demolins
1926
British Slavery and Its Abolition, 1823–1838
William Law Mathieson
1922
Cecil Rhodes
Basil Williams
1897
Charles the Great
Thomas Hodgkin
1903
Civilisation in Congoland
Henry Richard Fox Bourne
1904
Colonial Self-Government, 1652–1689
Charles McLean Andrews
1920
Fighting Without a War
Ralph Albertson
1904
Great Revivals and the Great Republic
Warren A. Candler
1866
Historical Sketches of American Paper Currency
Henry Phillips Jr.
1882
History of the United States Under the Constitution, Vol. II
James Schouler
1924
Impressions of Soviet Russia
Charles Sarolea
1924
Impressions of Soviet Russia
Charles Sarolea
1921
In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919–1920
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
1841
Indian Wars of the United States
John Frost
1915
Kentucky in the War of 1812
A. C. Quisenberry
1836
Lectures on Slavery
Rev. Benjamin Godwin
1897
Letters from the Black Sea During the Crimean War, 1854–1855
Adm. Sir Leopold George Heath
1831
Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier
Christian Isobel Johnstone
1917
Modern Whaling and Bear-Hunting
W. G. Burn Murdoch
1905
Money and Banking Illustrated by American History
Horace White
1912
Pitt and Napoleon
J. Holland Rose
1922
Political Ideas of the American Revolution
Randolph Greenfield Adams
1922
Red Dusk and the Morrow
Paul Dukes
1923
The Case for Prohibition
Clarence True Wilson & Deets Pickett
1928
The Chinese Revolution, 1926–27
H. Owen Chapman
1901
The Confederate States of America, 1861–1865
John Christopher Schwab
1926
The Die-Hards in the Great War, Vol. I
Everard Wyrall
1920
The First World War, 1914–1918, Vol. II
Lt.-Col. Charles à Court Repington
1920
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki
Moore, Mead & Jahns
1807
The History of the Pirates, Free-booters, or Buccaneers of America
J. W. von Archenholz
1876
The Mariner's Progress
Duncan MacGregor
1927
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823–1826
Dexter Perkins
1917
The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917
Conrad Cato
1678
The Pirates of Panama; or, The Buccaneers of America
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin
1927
The Real Story of the Pirate
A. Hyatt Verrill
1922
The Republic of Texas
Clarence Wharton
1923
The Russian Navy in War and Revolution
Adm. Harald Graf
1919
Under the Bolshevik Reign of Terror
Rhoda Power
1924
Whaling
Charles Boardman Hawes
1920
With the 'Die-Hards' in Siberia
Col. John Ward

The Duodecimo

the pocket sort
1842
A Long Voyage in a Leaky Ship
James Gale
1841
A Narrative of the Early Days and Remembrances of Oceola Nikkanochee
Andrew Welch
1919
A Short English Constitutional History for Law Students
Edgar Hammond
1908
A Short History of Puritanism
James Heron
1898
Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon
Charles H. Eaton
1897
An Epitome of Texas History
William H. Brooker
1920
Bolshevism at Work
William Thomas Goode
1928
Calhoun and the South Carolina Nullification Movement
Frederic Bancroft
1915
Captives Among the Indians
Horace Kephart (ed.)
1885
Celtic Mythology and Religion
Alexander Macbain
1918
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
William Wood
1920
Florida Seminole Agency Report
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
1849
George Washington, Crowned by Equality, Fraternity, and Liberty
George Rogers
1896
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Edmund G. Ross
1905
Intemperance
Bp. Henry Horace Pereira
1901
Intoxicants and Opium in All Lands and Times
Wilbur F. Crafts
1920
M Company, 339th Infantry, in North Russia
Capt. Joel R. Moore
1850
On the Causes of the Success of the English Revolution, 1640–1688
François Guizot
1918
Russia 1918: Bolshevism in Practice
W. Daniel
1917
Russia and the Allies in the Great War
Gen. Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky
1927
Russian Impressions
G. Bromley Oxnam
1846
Sam Houston and His Republic
C. Edwards Lester
1919
Short Facts About Bolshevism
C. E. B.
1902
State Banking in the United States Since the Passage of the National Bank Act
George E. Barnett
1876
The Age of Elizabeth
Mandell Creighton
1918
The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon
Newell Dwight Hillis
1916
The Case Against the Little White Slaver
Henry Ford
1886
The Evangelical Revival in the Eighteenth Century
John Henry Overton
1876
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, 1603–1660
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
1854
The History of Tennessee, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
William Henry Carpenter
1910
The New Feed 'Em
Birch Helms
1864
The Printer Boy
William Makepeace Thayer
1918
The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims
A. C. Addison
1897
The Struggle Between the State and the Drunkard
E. D. Daly
1890
The Tariffs of the United States in Relation to Free Trade
Sir Lyon Playfair
1921
Through Starving Russia
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
1897
What Gunpowder Plot Was
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
1891
Whither Goest Thou?
J. C. MacErlain

where we dig

More gems than a lifetime can re-issue.

We dig through archives and directories to find our titles. We have found many gems there — more than we could ever hope to re-issue in a lifetime.

The Library of Congress
Especially good for American content and anything pre-1900.
Google Books
An endless plethora of books, newspapers, and periodicals.
The Internet Archive
An immense database of music, films, news footage, newspapers, and books.
The Rijksmuseum
An extremely well organized archive of prints and arts.
Tufts Perseus Digital Library
A great resource for Greek and Latin works.
The Getty Open Content Collection
Another very well maintained archive of images and paintings.
The Marxists Internet Archive
A volunteer-run free library of many books, texts, and articles.
Wikimedia Commons
Huge open-source archive of photos and links to other wikis.