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A Motor Flight Through Algeria and Tunisia by: Ayer, Emma Burbank

A Motor Flight Through Algeria and Tunisia
by: Ayer, Emma Burbank

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 445 pages, b&w photos by the author. Front fly leaf with top corner clipped. Tan covers and spine have discoloration, fading, internally very good. Map on front end paper. No markings.

Record # 374793

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Zapotec Deviance: the Convergence of Folk and Modern Sociology (SIGNED COPY) by: Selby, Henry A.

Zapotec Deviance: the Convergence of Folk and Modern Sociology (SIGNED COPY)
by: Selby, Henry A.

Hardcover. University of Texas Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, with a foreword by Howard S. Becker, red cloth; gilt titles; 166 pages.; b/w illustrations; some edgewear and spine sunning to price-clipped dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY SELBY on front fly leaf. clean copy.

Record # 378330

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Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945 (SIGNED COPY)by: Eckert, Carter J.

Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Eckert, Carter J.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages, hardcover. B&w plates. INSCRIBED BY ECKERT. Light foxing to edge and light wear to bottom edges of cover. According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. In this expansive and provocative study, now available in paperback, Carter J. Eckert challenges the standard view and argues that Japanese imperialism, while politically oppressive, was also the catalyst and cradle of modern Korean industrial development. Ancient ties to China were replaced by new ones to Japan - ties that have continued to shape the South Korean political economy down to the present day. Eckert explores a wide range of themes, including the roots of capitalist development in Korea, the origins of the modern business elite, the nature of Japanese colonial policy and the Japanese colonial state, the relationship between the colonial government and the Korean economic elite, and the nature of Korean collaboration. He conveys a clear sense of the human complexity, archival richness, and intellectual challenge of the historical period. His documentation is thorough; his arguments are compelling and often strikingly innovative.

Record # 510084

Price: $60.00 
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The Testimony of Steve Biko by: Arnold, Millard W. (Ed.)

The Testimony of Steve Biko
by: Arnold, Millard W. (Ed.)

Softcover. Johannesburg, Picador Africa, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on title page, Clean copy. First published in the U.S. under a different title in 1978.

Record # 379543

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Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947by: Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry

Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947
by: Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers stamped in silver, 242 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Over the course of the American Occupation of Japan, the U.S. attitude toward the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) gradually shifted from one of friendly cooperation to one of mutual opposition. This new study examines the initial approach toward communism in Japan; internal and external factors that affected American attitudes; the various phases of the relationship; and how Japan ultimately became a democratic nation. Oinas-Kukkonen investigates American information gathering techniques used at the time to determine possible links with the Soviet Union. He also discusses the possibility that Nosaka Sanzo, one of the main leaders of the JCP, was an American spy. Using previously secret records of General MacArthur's intelligence staff and plentiful archival materials on the Occupation, this study explores how the United States originally sought to utilize the JCP to assist in the democratization process. It identifies the perceived threat of a revolution in March 1947 as a key turning point in U.S. attitudes. Involved in a delicate balancing act with multiple Japanese interests, some American officials feared that elements of the extreme left might even evolve into extreme right-wing terrorists. In this comprehensive account, Oinas-Kukkonen includes information on the indirect role of the Europeans in this affair, as well as the roles of outsider groups such as the outcaste burakumin and the Koreans residing in Japan.

Record # 378775

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An African Adventure by: Isaac F. Marcosson

An African Adventure
by: Isaac F. Marcosson

Hardcover. NY, John Lane Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded gilt lettering. Written by Isaac Frederick Marcosson, an American magazine editor, on his travels through Africa and along the Congo. Complete with 48 illustrations including photographs, maps and frontispiece of King Albert. Newspaper photo of author pasted to inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 380839

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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provincesby: Mounteney-Jephson, A. J.

Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces
by: Mounteney-Jephson, A. J.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 490 pages, green cloth covers with black and gilt decoration. Two gravure frontispieces (of author and Henry Stanley), 21 full-page plates plus text illustrations. Folding map and facsimile of letter in envelope in rear. There is a small chunk of cloth gone from top of spine and some scuffing of cloth on spine and rear cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 406621

Price: $100.00 
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Travels in the Interior of Africa by: Mungo Park

Travels in the Interior of Africa
by: Mungo Park

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth boards, gilt titles, pictorial pastedown on cover. Maroon card slipcase is a little faded at entrance. 203 pages with endpaper maps plus 16 plates from photographs. A legendary explorer's own account of his expedition up the Gambia river originally published in 1799, here with the text of the 1860 edition with new opening and closing material by John Keay. Clean copy.

Record # 380847

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The Sword And The Olive: A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force by: Creveld, Martin van

The Sword And The Olive: A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force
by: Creveld, Martin van

Softcover. NY, Public Affairs, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 422 pages, b&w illustrations. Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions, The Sword and the Olive traces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in Palestine to today. The book also goes beyond chronology to wrestle with the political and ethical struggles that have shaped the IDF and the country it serves--struggles that are manifesting themselves in the recent tragic escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Often revisionist in attitude, surprising in many of its conclusions, this book casts new light on the struggle for peace in the Middle East. Clean copy.

Record # 396674

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Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling Systemby: Daniels, Robert V.

Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling System
by: Daniels, Robert V.

Softcover. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Crisp, clean, illustrated wraps. From the back cover: "An astute observer of the soviet Union, Robert Daniels collects here his observations of political change in the USSR over a twenty-five-year period." Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 30167

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Myths and Legends of the Bantuby: Werner, Alice

Myths and Legends of the Bantu
by: Werner, Alice

Hardcover. London, Harrap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Illustrated with 32 black & white photographs. Front flyleaf gone. Front hinge exposed at top 1" at gutter. Light wear to covers and dust jacket.

Record # 604429

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Bangkok: Biography of a Cityby: Alec Waugh

Bangkok: Biography of a City
by: Alec Waugh

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages, b&w illustrations. A graceful, witty and dramatic biography of one of the most fabulous cities in the world. Clean copy.

Record # 381194

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War and Slavery in Sudan The Ethnography of Political Violence by: Jok, Jok Madut

War and Slavery in Sudan The Ethnography of Political Violence
by: Jok, Jok Madut

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Exposes the fact that slavery remains widespread in Sudan and is not grounded in the current civil war but on old prejudices between the Muslim north and the Christian south. A shocking account of Sudanese slavery.

Record # 381170

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Pharaoh to Faroukby: Jarvis, H. Wood

Pharaoh to Farouk
by: Jarvis, H. Wood

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 299 pages. A history of Egypt beginning with the early Dynasties from 3000 BC, with very readable and detailed accounts of the more dramatic episodes, including the battles of Napoleon's invasion, the siege of Khartoum, and Kitchener's battles. Bookplate on inside front cover, small blank sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387820

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Brabant & East Flandersby: Omond, George W. T.; Painted by Amedee Forestier

Brabant & East Flanders
by: Omond, George W. T.; Painted by Amedee Forestier

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth decorated in two-colors and gilt. 20 color plates by Amedee Forestier with captions on tissue guards. 127 pages. Top edge gilt. The tissue guard on Waterloo has a pencil notation, light foxing to pages otherwise clean.

Record # 415187

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Ejido, The: Mexico's Way Outby: Simpson, Eyler N.

Ejido, The: Mexico's Way Out
by: Simpson, Eyler N.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 849 pages, b&w illustrations. Tan cloth covers with dark brown decoration. Previous owner's stamp on both end papers.

Record # 406010

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The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta by: Slater, Montague

The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta
by: Slater, Montague

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn, chipped dust jacket, 255 pages, fold-out chart in rear. A blow by blow account of the Mau Mau leader's trial that lasted for over 100 days, "one of the most dramatic and important this century". In 1952, Kenyatta was arrested in Kenya by the British colonial authorities and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising. Although protesting his innocence, a view shared by later historians, he was convicted. He remained imprisoned at Lokitaung until 1959 and was then exiled to Lodwar until 1961. Appears to be a book club edition. Overall clean copy but cheap paper is tanning.

Record # 387826

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Sauna as a Symbol. Society and Culture in Finlandby: Edelsward, L. M.

Sauna as a Symbol. Society and Culture in Finland
by: Edelsward, L. M.

Softcover. NY, Peter Lang, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 267 pages. Every culture has a secret ingredient, and for Finnish culture and society it is the sauna. The sauna is an actual bath and bathhouse which in practical life brings people together in ways otherwise impossible. And the sauna as symbol brings together and integrates the many contradictory ideals and realities of Finnish society and culture. Through the sauna, nature and culture, the individual and society, the person and the polity, may be woven into an integral whole. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383462

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We Went to Heaven Before We Died: Tales of the Quebec Bush (SIGNED COPY)by: Baker, James A.

We Went to Heaven Before We Died: Tales of the Quebec Bush (SIGNED COPY)
by: Baker, James A.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BAKER on title page. Unnumbered copy of 500 printed.

Record # 404469

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Munich 1923: The Story of Hitler's First Grab for Power by: John Dornberg

Munich 1923: The Story of Hitler's First Grab for Power
by: John Dornberg

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 385 pages, b&w photos. A fast-moving re-enactment of the thirty hours of Hitler's 1923 Munich beerhall putsch, based on newspaper reports, police documents, trial records, and the personal recollections of participants and eye-witnesses.

Record # 384878

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Die zwei weissen Volker! Kiel und Skagerrak. Deutsch-englische Erinnerungen eines deutschen Seeoffiziers(The two white peoples! Kiel and Skagerrak. German-English memories of a German naval officer)b

Die zwei weissen Volker! Kiel und Skagerrak. Deutsch-englische Erinnerungen eines deutschen Seeoffiziers(The two white peoples! Kiel and Skagerrak. German-English memories of a German naval officer)
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Hardcover. Leipzig, K.F. Koehler, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title block on spine and a gilt design of a naval battlship on the front cover. 166 pages. b&w plates, GERMAN TEXT. Inscription in German on front fly leaf dated 1934. Copyright states 1920. Clean copy.

Record # 385539

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ADVICE TO A GRAND-DAUGHTER - Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesseby: Richard Hough, Editor

ADVICE TO A GRAND-DAUGHTER - Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse
by: Richard Hough, Editor

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 24 illustrations. Genealogical chart of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. These letters were only discovered in the 1970's at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. These letters bring new light to bear on major world and minor domestic events, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for her haemophilic children and grandchildren, from the assassination of the Tsar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Princess's Victoria's sister to marry the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter, Lady Brabourne, has provided a fascinating introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 386008

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Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle Eastby: Kamrava, Mehran (Editor)

Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East
by: Kamrava, Mehran (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, french flaps, small bump to bottom of spine (see image). Pages clean. Binding good. Examines the nature and evolution of ruling bargains, the political systems to which they gave rise, the steady unraveling of the old systems and the structural consequences thereof, and the uprisings that have engulfed much of the Middle East since Dec. 2010.

Record # 99050

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Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Damis, John

Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Damis, John

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 196 pages. illustrated with several maps. A study of the conflict between Morocco and Algeria over tribal areas in the Sahara. Clean copy.

Record # 387565

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Return to Paradiseby: Breyten Breytenbach

Return to Paradise
by: Breyten Breytenbach

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The painter, writer, and political activist returns to his native South Africa, where he was once imprisoned for working for the African National Congress, and reflects on the decline of apartheid and his own attachment to the Boer state. He describes the travail of his country riven by racial conflict. He recounts his seven-year imprisonment for treason and shares the passionate love of an exile--he resides in Paris--for his native land. In the recent period of "stability laced with blood" as De Klerk and Mandela's forces struggle to maintain a precarious political equilibrium, Breytenbach has been allowed to return for visits with his Vietnamese wife. Part travelogue and part memoir, this account offers frequent political discussions about the rivalry between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. A careful observer of people, their surroundings, fauna and flora, Breytenbach weaves richly colored narrative history, local lore and personal allusions. Clean copy.

Record # 387815

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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by: Gleijeses, Piero

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages, b&w illustrations. The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396385

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Kenkenroku: a Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 by: Munemitsu, Mutsu /Translated By Gordon Mark Berger

Kenkenroku: a Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895
by: Munemitsu, Mutsu /Translated By Gordon Mark Berger

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a hole on front fore-edge, 318 pages. Mutsu Munemitsu was the Foreign Minister of Japan during the time of the Sino-Japanese War from 1894 until the signing of the peace treaty on May 8, 1895. Mutsu was responsible for the secret documents on diplomatic matters in which he was involved, such as the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the facts about the Triple Intervention. The phrase "kenken" means "serving the sovereign with a pained heart," thus showing his loyalty to serve the Emperor. The documents in this book are exceedingly important as they are virtually the only material mentioning the diplomatic situations in the days of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396625

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Japan and America: From Earliest Times to the Presentby: Lawrence Henry Battistini

Japan and America: From Earliest Times to the Present
by: Lawrence Henry Battistini

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no dj issued, 198 pages including index, 5 maps. The author looks back over the hundred years that have passed since Perry opened up Japan and forward to the future of our relationship with Japan. He deals with the problems of Japan's rearmament and of its economic survival. First published in 1953.

Record # 396916

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Speak for England An Oral History of England: 1900 1975 Based on Interviews with Inhabitants of Wigton Cumberlandby: Melvyn Bragg

Speak for England An Oral History of England: 1900 1975 Based on Interviews with Inhabitants of Wigton Cumberland
by: Melvyn Bragg

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, BD Ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 499 pgs. illustrated with photographs and maps. Who speaks for England? A farmer, a miner, a housewife, factory workers, dog breeders, shopkeepers and pigeon fanciers, more than sixty men and women of various ages and occupations, all inhabitants of the small northern English town, Wigton. Stated First Edition but no price on dj, embossed square to back cover, so a Book Club Ed. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397418

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The Map That Is Half Unrolled: Equatorial Africa From the Indian Ocean to Atlanticby: E. Alexander Powell

The Map That Is Half Unrolled: Equatorial Africa From the Indian Ocean to Atlantic
by: E. Alexander Powell

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 355 pages, frontis, 64 plates from photos, two colored folding maps each showing author's route, index. . The author, a popular travel writer and explorer, traveled from the Indian Ocean, across Tanganyika and the Congo to the Atlantic, and described the peoples, tribes and nature in some detail. The photographs are by Rexford W Barton and by the author. Corners bumped, fading to gilt on spine, rear hinge cracked.

Record # 380878

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Wonders of Japan: A Portfolio of Views in the Enchanted Bamboo Land by: N/A

Wonders of Japan: A Portfolio of Views in the Enchanted Bamboo Land
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, Hobart Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange and black. Three introductory pages of text; balance of book consists entirely of 77 black and white photographs with descriptive captions. Plates showing temples, traditional Japanese residences and businesses, Japanese people at work and at play, a karuma carriage, Yokohama Bay, etc. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 379921

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Hidden China: On the Trail of Old Tradiitonsby: Meniconzi, Alessandra

Hidden China: On the Trail of Old Tradiitons
by: Meniconzi, Alessandra

Hardcover. H. F. Ullmann, 1st Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has very small tear on back cover bottom right, patched with tape (see image), otherwise dj in excellent condition. Clue cover boards with some slight shelf wear about the edges. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Swiss photographer, Alessandra Meniconzi successfully shot on countless expeditions through the remote regions of China studying the little-known ethnic minorities of that region.

Record # 32397

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Chinese Family and Marriage in Singaporeby: Freedman, Maurice

Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore
by: Freedman, Maurice

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff orange paper wrappers. 249 pages. An interesting and comprehensive exploration of Chinese families in Singapore. Maurice Freedman (1920-1975) was a British scholar who was one of the world's leading experts on Chinese anthropology. Includes chapters on 'The Social Background', 'The Household', 'The Kinship System', and many more. Frontispiece photograph of a Chinese Mass Wedding. There are also an appendix of tables, another on Chinese characters for Hokkien words used in the text and an index. Clean copy.

Record # 378405

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Pilgrimage to Palestine, Aby: Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Pilgrimage to Palestine, A
by: Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 2nd, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages. Color fold-out map opposite title-page. Mild soiling to covers. Faded gilt on spine.

Record # 508625

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Madman of Ch'U: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent by: Schneider, Laurence

Madman of Ch'U: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent
by: Schneider, Laurence

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Drawing on the scholarship of folklore, historiography, and literary anthropology, this study traces the evolution of one of China's most enduring and controversial madmen, the legendary southern poet Ch'u Yuan, whose suicide by drowning is still commemorated annually in the colourful Dragon Boat festival. Light pen underlining to several pages of Intoduction, small name on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 381698

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A Diary of Two Parliaments: The Disraeli Parliament 1874 1880by: Henry W. Lucy

A Diary of Two Parliaments: The Disraeli Parliament 1874 1880
by: Henry W. Lucy

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 2nd Ed., 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 520 pages plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece portrait of Disraeli. The author was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. Small ink name on title page, otherwise tight and clean copy.

Record # 374354

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Encyclopaedia/Encyclopedia Of Papua & New Guinea Volume I A-K; Volume II L-Z; Volume III Index by: Ryan, Peter (Ed)

Encyclopaedia/Encyclopedia Of Papua & New Guinea Volume I A-K; Volume II L-Z; Volume III Index
by: Ryan, Peter (Ed)

Hardcover. Melbourne AU, Melbourne University Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes. Volume 1: A-K, 588 pages. Volume 2: L-Z, pages 589-1231. Volume 3; Index, 83 pages, plus a fold-out map in a folder at the back. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and decoration on upper cover. All volumes with numerous illustrations and maps, the indispensable reference work on New Guinea. NOTE: Vol. 2 has text block separated from binding but all pages present in VG condition.

Record # 379192

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Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William Hardy Eshbaugh and the role he played in its early development (SIGNED COPY)by:

Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William Hardy Eshbaugh and the role he played in its early development (SIGNED COPY)
by:

Hardcover. Southbury CT, self-published, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, printed paper over pictorial boards. 75 pages with many b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 379114

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Came to Oxfordby: Bone,Gertrude, Illustrator: Muirhead Bone

Came to Oxford
by: Bone,Gertrude, Illustrator: Muirhead Bone

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Basil Blackwell, 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Thirty-one indexed unpaginated plates, including frontispiece. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. "Sir Muirhead Bone, the illustrator of Came To Oxford, was Britain's first officially appointed war artist, serving in both the First and Second World Wars. He is recognized as well for his portraits of Joseph Conrad, his watercolours and drawings of Old Spain, and his works recording the damage and reconstruction in his beloved England following the wars." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 372327

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Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by: Schlesinger, Stephen E., Kinzer, Stephen

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
by: Schlesinger, Stephen E., Kinzer, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The story of the CIA overthrow of the Central America country on behalf of the United Fruit Company and engineered by the Dulles brothers.Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. 320 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 396339

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Shadows of Africaby: Peter Matthiessen /Mary Frank (Illustrator)

Shadows of Africa
by: Peter Matthiessen /Mary Frank (Illustrator)

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of words and images chronicle the life and habits of animals in the African wild, presenting essays on animal endangerment and drawings, paintings, and sculptures. 71 plates, 23 in color. Clean copy.

Record # 381154

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Uganda Quest. African Wildlife After Darkby: Ernest G. Neal

Uganda Quest. African Wildlife After Dark
by: Ernest G. Neal

Hardcover. NY, Taplinger, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A look at one of the richest, most varied wildlife areas in the world, Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Color photographs, 127 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 380948

Price: $12.00 
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French Policy Towards the Chinese in Madagascar (SIGNED COPY)by: Slawecki, Leon M.S.

French Policy Towards the Chinese in Madagascar (SIGNED COPY)
by: Slawecki, Leon M.S.

Hardcover. Hamden CT, The Shoe String Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Non-discrept tan boards clean and tight. French policy regarding the Chinese inhabitants of Madagascar. Scarce. A bright copy.

Record # 952373

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Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763 by: Leach, Douglas Edward

Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763
by: Leach, Douglas Edward

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 566 pages, b&w illustrations, map endpapers. The story of warfare in North America in the 156 years between the founding of Jamestown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The first conflicts were between white colonists and Native Americans. Then came conflicts between competing European colonies, as with King William's War and Queen Anne's War and culminating with the French and Indian Wars. Well researched in original sources. Includes a good bibliography and glossary of period naval and military terms. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397523

Price: $18.00 
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In Northern Labrador by: Cabot, William Brooks

In Northern Labrador
by: Cabot, William Brooks

Hardcover. Boston, Richard B. Badger, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages. Octavo in original gilt lettered red cloth and gilt top edge with b&w plates (including frontispiece) from photos and maps on endpaper. "The author spent several seasons in (the) .Labrador interior, 1903-10, and records here his knowledge of the country, the trails, hunting & fishing among the Montagnais Indians." Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.

Record # 370524

Price: $120.00 
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Scotland Yardby: Scott, Sir Harold

Scotland Yard
by: Scott, Sir Harold

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine somewhat faded. 256 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY BILL HUGHES, Special Branch, New Scotland Yard, to John Isham, American serviceman who served there in the 1940s. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 383184

Price: $18.00 
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle Eastby: Anthony Shadid

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by: Anthony Shadid

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 321 pages. In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. When he was freed, he went home. Not to Boston or Beirut--where he lives-- or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather's estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild. House of Stone is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent's jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of the award-winning Night Draws Near creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house's renewal alongside his family's flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. In the process, Shadid memorializes a lost world, documents the shifting Middle East, and provides profound insights into this volatile landscape. House of Stone is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home. Clean copy.

Record # 398747

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La Riforma protestante nell'Italia del Cinquecento (Studi storici) (Italian Edition) by: Salvatore Caponetto

La Riforma protestante nell'Italia del Cinquecento (Studi storici) (Italian Edition)
by: Salvatore Caponetto

Softcover. Torino IT, Claudiana, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, laminated wrappers, 526 pages, b&w illustrations. ITALIAN TEXT. Labels inside covers, from university library but like new, never checked out.

Record # 384425

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Democracy and Socialismby: Kardelj, Edvard

Democracy and Socialism
by: Kardelj, Edvard

Hardcover. London, The Summerfield Press, 1st UK, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A synopsis of Yugoslavian socialist policies, translated by Margot and Bosko Milosavljevic. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Fading to front flyleaf. Fading to text block. Unmarked. Scarce. A tight copy.

Record # 952234

Price: $30.00 
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Social Canada in the millennium: Reform imperatives and restructuring principlesby: Courchene, Thomas J

Social Canada in the millennium: Reform imperatives and restructuring principles
by: Courchene, Thomas J

Softcover. C.D. Howe Institute, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454328

Price: $60.00 
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