Hardcover. NY, New Amsterdam Book Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Newspaper photography of author tipped-in to front end paper. Essays on the history, natural history and sociology of the South Seas and their islands, (including some whaling). Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.
Softcover. UK, Trustees of the Uganda National Parks, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 102 pages plus ads in rear. Also has a small folded map of Uganda in back pocket. B&w illustrations throughout.
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.
Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt lettering on spine, pages. Black and white photos and one map. Includes footnotes, geographical note, list of local people, 2 appendices and index. "Shows how one backward village became a revolutionary bastion in the ten years after the revolution in the late 1940s." A ten years' history of one Chinese village, covering the period immediately before the setting up of the Chinese People's Republic, and based on village records and the authors' personal experiences living with the farmers.Owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages. This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century.
Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape /Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages. Decorated cloth with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on spine. A French doctor's account of Chinese life & civilization, based on his twenty years of life, work & travel there; he was Director of the Imperial School of Medicine at Chengtufu. Typically patronizing and moralistic; the author credits China with having been great in the past, but now in the grip of a profound lassitude, only to be helped by Europeans. Translated from the French by Elsie Martin Jones. Previous owner's name, date on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Glasgow, Burns, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The author was a Catholic priest from Liverpool who was recuperating from several operations by sailing around Africa in 1960: his comments on the vovage and on the places where they stopped are very interesting. He chose to visit Africa because he thought it was the 'crossroads of the world' and 'possibly the place where the future of mankind will be decided.' He expresses strong anti-apartheid sentiments, describes visiting the site of the Sharpeville massacre, the pro-Nkrumah sentiment in Kenya, as well as discussions of the history and customs of Africa. Illustrated with photographs. 183 pages.
Hardcover. London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover red cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 264 pages, b&w plates. No date, appears to be circa 1920s. Subjects include: old stone crosses, sanctuaries, English bells, holy wells, misericords, the holy grail, etc. Cloth has
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.
Hardcover. Cambridge , Oelgeschlager Gunn & Hain , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 362 pages. An extremely informative and useful study of Thai politics . especially valuable for its description and analysis but also for hard-to-find data on leaders and organizations, which will be of lasting value to scholars and journalists who follow events and history of Thailand. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 692 pages. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their 'betters'. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes, jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast, still in police uniform), Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) and Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa, struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic and social landscape for the next three decades.Deeply researched, often amusing and always intensely entertaining and readable, the first volume of David Kynaston's ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. True account of the kidnapping of an adolescent Morocco girl, the economic problems this presents for her rascally parents, her recovery, and the restoration of her virginity. Originally ran in The New Yorker. Clean copy.
Softcover. London/Berkeley, James Currey/University of California, 1989, Softcover, 422 pages, despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism--commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The bloody hostilities between the tribally-oriented Zulu Inkhata movement and supporters of the African National Congress are but the most recent example of tribalism's tenacity. The studies in this volume offer a new historical model for the growth and endurance of such ideologies in southern Africa. Name on front fly leaf, underlining to Introduction, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son Limited, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon leather stamped with an ornate gilt design. Two titles from the publisher's "Beautiful England" series, here rebound in a single volume. Each 64 pages with 12 color plates by E.W. Haslehurst. Decorative endpapers. ribbon marker. Bookplate on a blank prelim page, spine leather faded to brown, but gilt decorations and lettering are bright. Two related photographic cards laid in.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half of Mexico, due to the wealth of records about the glorious past of this region. Mesoamerica was only one of three cultural superareas of ancient Mexico, however, all interlinked by complex economic and social relationships. Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the Postclassic states, the authors describe the ties between the three superareas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these superareas-Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica - cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico's past.
Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, ribbon bookmark present. Map crisp and undamaged in front pocket. To which is added a Union-Castle East African Atlas with 12 pages of color maps followed by dozens of local business ads. Dust jacket spine with loss to top and bottom. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
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.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in worn dust jacket, 383 pages. fold-out map, bibliographical notes. A seminal study of the infiltration of European influence into West Africa (1860s-90s) from Senegal to Cameroon, the tension between French and English leading to partition.. Light pencil marking throughout. Name on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Blairgowrie Scotland, Three Cats Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, illustrated. A collection of memories collected from nine inhabitants of this Scottish town. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 304 pages. In this book, a revised edition of the original published in England in 1957, Herbert Butterfield explores the sources of myths, errors and inferences concerning the reign of King George III. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 601 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to edges and covers of pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 364 pages. Tells of the Americans who came to China, openly and in secret, and their role in the ultimate U. S. decision to spurn Chinese Communist overtures of friendship and throw greater support to the sinking regime of Chiang Kai-shek. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 520 pages. In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. Using his consummate skill as a historian, Professor Hill suggests that there might have been non-theological reasons for supporting the Puritans, or for being a Puritan. He shows Puritanism as a living faith, answering the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans. He looks at oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts, and poor relief and assesses the significance of the household (rather than the Parish) and the dignity of labor. He shows Puritanism in daily life and discusses the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical Puritan revolutionaries. Light bump to top corner of about 50 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. Seoul, Royal Asiatic Society, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Five decades of North American missionary work in Korea are revealed in this book, giving readers a glimpse into the profound struggle for cultural and spiritual identity that often accompanied the Christian missionaries' foray into unbaptized territory. Most could not make the necessary leap from their own backgrounds to their new home culture; a few did, and came away from the experience with a sharper perception of self, society, and the sometimes problematic nature of their work. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st pbk, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 430 pages, b&w illustrations. A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture -- particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the flowering of fauvism, cubism, dadaism, and surrealism. In Bohemian Paris, Dan Franck leads us on a vivid and magical tour of the Paris of 1900-1930, a hotbed of artistic creation where we encounter Apollinaire, Modigliani, Cocteau, Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, working, loving, and struggling to stay afloat. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Berne, Kummerly + Frey, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This fascinating book concerning the history of the Sinai Peninsula is 239 pages in length, with 51 text figures, and numerous fine (unnumbered) color plates. Housed in plain gray cardboard slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 249 pages, 97 b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light rubbing to cover corners. Binding slightly weak in some places. Else a nice, clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. London ; New York, Routledge, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Light foxing to top edge. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Cornmarket Press Ltd., reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages + advertisement. Reprint of 1911 edition. Part of series of 50 books reprinted in facsimile from originals in the National Maritime Museum Library. B/W illustrations. Fold-out map at end of book. Dust jacket faded and lightly soiled otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Melbourne, Melbourne Pub. Co., 1st , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Many black & white photos throughout. Previous owner's name on front end paper.Staining on front cover, spine faded and light rubbing and edge wear. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Vancouver, CN, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like New. Black & white illustrations. Harcover in a bright dust jacket, 302 Pages.
Hardcover. London, Cassell , 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine, 488 pages. Frontis. of Lord Randolph Churchill. Ex-library with minimal traces: Bookplate inside front cover, stamp to title page, residue to rear paste-down. Interior bright and clean, top edge gilt.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a frayed and chipped dust jacket. Pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine. A photo essay on the young princesses during the war year of 1940. Book is clean, very good, dust jacket is fair only.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf`, 1st, 2019, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 227 pages. "In North Africa, between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, [are] four...States...Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Together they form what the Arabs call 'The Maghrib', and Sir Geoffrey Furlonge calls 'The Lands of Barbary'." Black and white photographic plates.
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.
Hardcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 184 pages, b&w illustrations. "Chosen for their unique skills, 400 Canadian voyageurs transported imperial forces up the Nile in a daring attempt to rescue "Chinese" Gordon, former governor-general of the Sudan, at Khartoum. A generation later, another Canadian, Sir Percy Girouard, built the desert railway enabling Kitchener to capture Khartoum in 1898." Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Berdine Ardrey. Two foldout color charts of chronology of man's evolution. This book posits the hypothesis that man evolved on the African continent from carnivorous, predatory ancestors who distinguished themselves from apes by the use of weapons. The work bears on questions of human origins, human nature, and human uniqueness. It has been widely read and continues to inspire significant controversy. The theories of Dart and Ardrey flew in the face of prevailing theories of human origins. At the time of the publication of African Genesis it was generally agreed that human beings evolved from Asian ancestors. Clean copy.
NY, Harper & Brothers , reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone photographs. Original decorated publisher's cloth, with gilt titles. First published in 1897. Account of Sicily at the turn of the 20th century, with a focus on the art, history, and landscape of the Island, from the largest of cities to its hamlets and villages. Contemporary color postcard laid in. Original pale green cloth fafed, previous owners name, embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. MI, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial binding, 128 pages, 47 maps, 60 b&w illustrations. Mombasa is the largest and most important port on the East African coast. A brief history of it's European colonizers is followed by a study of the port city and how it empowered the economy in the 1960s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Reprint of the original Knopf 1968 edition with the same quality of binding and paper as the original. Classic book on the history of silent film. 598 pages including index. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos throughout. The magic of the silent screen, illuminated by the recollections of those who created it. A narrative and photographic history of the early days of the movies, combining fact, anecdote, and reminiscence in a critical survey of films, actors, directors, producers, writers, editors, technicians, and other participants and hangers-on. Clean copy.
Softcover. North Ferrisburg VT, Heron Dance Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1943. A northern classic, describing a canoe trip from Reindeer Lake, via the Cochrane, Thlewiaza and then to Windy Lake in the thirties. A story of eight months travel by canoe, motorboat and dog-team on the Northern rivers and along the New Quebec coast of Hudson's Bay. This expedition was to investigate mineral deposits on the Nastapoka Islands, especially Clarke Island where Curran's previous expedition (1907) had found valuable iron ore deposits. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, Printed by Cox, Sons and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 140 pages plus bibliography and index. A study of a little West Somerset town. 8 b&w plates. Privately printed, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Mild soil to dj, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff paper covers with light edgewear, tanning, 356 pages, TEXT IN FRENCH. Illustrated throughout, folding map.
Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. Describes the causes and background of the Zulu War, recounts the experiences of British and Zulu survivors, and looks at the strategies and tactics of the war. Clean copy.
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