Countries

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, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages plus index. Illustrated by Don Pottinger plus b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, 154 pages. Numerous black & white photographs printed with the text; maps on endpapers. A survey of South African society, including much on traditional Zulu culture. The author was an Italian explorer, who wrote numerous books on sub-Saharan Africa and made documentary films of the region. Light envelope residue to rear paste-down indicating ex-lib, but no oher markings.

Hardcover. NY, James Pott & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with bright gilt design to cover, gilt lettering on spine, 127 pages. Introduction by George Meredith. Bookplate/name on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

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.

Softcover. Boca Raton FL, Bordighera Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations. Tucked away on Via Tasso in a middle-class district in the Eternal City--a stone's throw from the Basilica of St. John in Lateran--the former prison is now the Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, commemorating the liberation of Rome by Resistance fighters and Allied troops in June 1944. Within, anti-fascist partisans scrawled graffiti full of pathos and the romantic idealism that so permeated the Italian Resistance. A visitor today can still read the desperate inscriptions, collected in this volume along with recollections by inmates and narratives concerning the Via Tasso. Pugliese's thoughtful narrative, accompanied by black-and-white photos by Lianna Miuccio, documents the lives of such antifascist prisoners as Arrigo Paladini, who wrote on the wall as he was dying, "There is nothing that can give the joy of a beautiful death as the consciousness of having served the country until the last breath of life." This book examines the inscriptions on the walls, translates them, shows Miuccio's stark photos of them, and gives a historical context, timeline, and survivor and family interviews. Clean copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. London/NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages. Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi book-burnings and repression. Relying on a broad range of sources--from police reports, films and personal interviews to sex manuals unearthed from library basements and secondhand book stores--the book analyzes a remarkable mass mobilization during the turbulent and innovative Weimar years of doctors and lay-people for women's right to abortion and public access to birth control and sex education. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages, b&w illustrations. Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a passive scientific community coerced into cooperation with the Nazis fails to grasp the reality of what actually happened-namely, that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy. The book presents the most comprehensive account to date of German medical involvement in the sterilization and castration laws, the laws banning marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and the massive program to destroy "lives not worth living." The study traces attempts on the part of doctors to conceive of the "Jewish problem" as a "medical problem," and how medical journals openly discussed the need to find a "final solution" to Germany's Jewish and gypsy "problems." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 317 pages, b&w illustrations, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Bright dust jacket with price-clip.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 590 pages plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece portrait of Speke, 2 maps (one folding at rear of book). Rebound in brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Marbled edges. Clean and bright.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 708 pages. Hardcover. This is Volume two only. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some darkening to endpapers and to a few pages. Dust jacket with chipping, darkening to edges. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Brown cloth w/ color pictorial label on front. Color pictorial slipcase shows minor edgewear. Text in French, captions next to pictures also in English. Beautiful color plates throughout. Tight, clean, unmarked.

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.

Hardcover. Dublin, James Duffy, 1st , 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages. Ex-library, rebound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Residue on endpapers, Interior is clean.

Hardcover. Paris, France, E. Plon, Nourrit , unk, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Color illustrations by the author. Red top edge. Yellow covers with green and gold decoration. Corners and spine rubbed. Light soiling to covers. Spine a bit loose.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 223 pages. The Nzema of West Africa, who inhabit a land of forest and lagoons along the Atlantic, continue a heritage untapped by anthropologists and scarcely influenced by Western civilization. Vinigi L. Grottanelli first discovered the rich culture of this southern Ghanaian tribe in 1954. Over the next three decades, intermittent sojourns enabled Grottanelli to develop friendships with the Nzema and learn about their beliefs, traditions, and practices. In twenty absorbing vignettes, The Python Killer renders a vivid portrayal of Nzema life. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf to fellow anthropologist William Mitchell.Images of the Bushman--from the innocent hero of the hit movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, to "vermin" eradicated by the colonists, to the superhuman trackers conscripted by the South African Defense Forces, and the living embodiment of prehistory for the academic--shape our perceptions rather than the actuality. Looking at this interplay between imagery, history, and policy, Robert Gordon focuses not on the Bushman but on the colonizers' image of them and the consequences of that image for the people assumed to be Bushmen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, A Green Estate traces the effect of French domination through the colonial period and into the years after official Malagasy independence in 1960. The book reveals how the people of northwest Madagascar have reasserted their ownership of the land and reclaimed their heritage through a ritual reburial of a king who died at the height of the colonial era...by analyzing the long dialogue between the French & the Malagasy over monarchy, gender, death, land, work and taxes, French rule, she shows,resulted in the imposition of provincial centers of government and commerce that diverted attention and labor from agricultural villages and religious centers. 36 plates, maps.

Hardcover. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is an attempt to explain the most basic ritual called lsti with the help of the original texts and the photographs of the actual performance of that sacrifice that took place in Pune, India, in July 1979. The book contains in all 140 photographs showing various stages of the sacrifice with explanation of the rites. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. An anthropological and historical discourse on the arrival of Christianity in the Southern Tswana region of South Africa. A compelling read and referenced in an in-depth manner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1955, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 288 pages, color frontis, 23 color plates, 26 black and white plates, from photos by the author, map, index. Based on the author's extensive travels, over 17,000 miles during a year in eastern and south-east Africa, where he travelled with his wife and three children, from Cape Town, Basutoland, Swaziland, through the Congo to Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika (Tanzania), Nyasaland, Zambesi, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), etc, with much on the wildlife, peoples, conditions.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A history of apartheid traces the institution back to its roots in the 17th century, and shows how it developed along with Afrikaner nationalism, as well as the response from the Africans.

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 335 pages. The emphasis throughout the book is on the history of the Indonesian peoples themselves. An essential narrative of Political history is provided as well as discussions of social, cultural affairs. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers with purple titles. With front endpaper map of "All Protestant Mission Stations in Japan, Korea, and Formosa". 248 pages, b&w plates. Details early Christian Japanese collaboration on social challenges and reforms. Related newspaper clippings laid in. Covers worn interior clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly sunned dust jacket, 233 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir of the author's experience living in a Botswana village. Glossary and A Note on the Setswana Language at back. 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.

Softcover. Fayetteville AK, University of Arkansas Press , 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. The author recounts his experiences as a teacher in northern China, and describes how government restraints have caused and finally crushed the democracy movement of the students. Fading to spine otherwise vg.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers, black lettering to spine, 288 pages. About 1307 a remarkable woman in Japan sat down to complete the story of her life. The result was an autobiographical narrative, a tale of thirty-six years (1271-1306) in the life of Lady Nijo, starting when she became the concubine of a retired emperor in Kyoto at the age of fourteen and ending, several love affairs later, with an account of her new life as a wandering Buddhist nun. Through the vagaries of history, however, the glory of Lady Nijo's story has taken six and half centuries to arrive. The Confessions of Lady Nijo or Towazugatari in Japanese, was not widely circulated after it was written, perhaps because of the dynastic quarrel that soon split the imperial family, or perhaps because of Lady Nijo's intimate portrait of a very human emperor. Whatever the cause, the book was neglected, then forgotten completely, and only a single manuscript survived. This was finally discovered in 1940, but would not be published until after World War II in 1950. This translation and its annotations draw on multiple Japanese editions, but borrow most heavily from the interpretations offered by Tsugita Kasumi. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Seoul Korea, Taewon Publishing , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 85 pages. McGrane's historical analysis presents a lucid overview of events during the crucial years of Japanese intervention and occupation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Some sunning to wraps, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Doubleday Anchor Book, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. First published in 1917 and long regarded as a classic of English social history. Preface by Asa Briggs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1908. Memoir of the author, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest white hunters, trusted lieutenant of Cecil Rhodes, friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and the model for H. Rider Haggard's Alan Quartermain. The turn of the century big game hunter shares his observations on protective coloration, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, tse-tse flies, rhinoceros, giraffes, and unusual hunting experiences. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Many maps including fold-out of India as frontispiece. Text unmarked. Light foxing on pages. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge chipping. Hinges cracked. Ex- library with stamping, reside to endpapers.

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages. The infamous Nuremberg Doctors' Trials of 1946-47 revealed horrifying crimes --ranging from grotesque medical experiments on humans to mass murder--committed by physicians and other health care workers in Nazi Germany. But far more common, argue the authors of Cleansing the Fatherland, were the doctors who profited professionally and financially from the killings but were never called to task--and, indeed, were actively shielded by colleagues in postwar German medical organizations.The authors examine the role of German physicians in such infamous operations as the "T 4" euthanasia program (code-named for the Berlin address of its headquarters at Number 4 Tiergartenstrasse). They also reveal details of countless lesser known killings--all ordered by doctors and all in the name of public health. Maladjusted adolescents, the handicapped, foreign laborers too illto work, even German civilians who suffered mental breakdowns after air raids were "selected for treatment." (One physician who persisted in speaking of "killings" was officially reprimanded for his "negative attitude.") The book also includes original documents--never before published in English--that give unique and chilling insight into the everyday workings of Nazi medicine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Richard Bentley, 1st, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 503, 474 pages. Bound in calf with raised spine bands, marbled edges, marbled end papers. Spine labels chipped on Volume 1, missing on Volume 2. Spines age-darkened, light wear to top and bottom. Previous owner's inscription otherwise internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 138 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs by Shomei Tomatsu and Ken Domon. Introduction by Hideki Yukawa. Square format,white cloth covers with gray concentric circle design by Kohei Sugiura, gray lettering on spine. This copy is without a slipcase and the accompanying scientific booklet. There are 2 tannish stains to rear cover near spine, light soil to white covers and some bumps to top edge at corner and spine. Internally clean except for short owner's signature at top of title page. Photographs available.

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 407 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Lovely copy with only minor wear to upper edge of dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else in like new condition.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 151 pages. 81 black-and-white wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Chipping, wear, tanning, and staining on dust jacket. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. A few pages with tiny tears along bottom edge. Light foxing on all edges. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, Revised Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket spine faded, worn. 530 pages.

Hardcover. Geneva, De Vente Naville & Co., Deluxe Edition, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Deluxe Edition, limited to 400. 576 pages crammed with 1001 detailed photogravure views of Switzerland. Introduction by B. Motta. 3/4 brown morocco with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. top edge gilt , previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (Children's book author, Edith Hurd Thacher)

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated binding; designed by Decorated Designers (DD). No dj. Cover lettering and design intact, with some loss of gold, but lettering has disappeared from the spine. About 50 pages of black and white photos. A vivid and intimate record of Chinese life, revealing its glamour and fascination, its callousness and disregard of human values. Minor foxing to front endpapers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 543 pages. This is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis Sejersted, one of Scandinavia's leading historians, tells how Norway and Sweden achieved a rare feat by realizing grand visions of societies that combine stability, prosperity, and social welfare. It is a history that holds many valuable lessons today, at a time of renewed interest in the Scandinavian model. The book tells the story of social democracy from the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905 through the end of the century, tracing its development from revolutionary beginnings through postwar triumph, as it became a hegemonic social order that left its stamp on every sector of society, the economy, welfare, culture, education, and family. The book also tells how in the 1980s, partly in reaction to the strong state, a freedom and rights revolution led to a partial erosion of social democracy. Yet despite the fracturing of consensus and the many economic and social challenges facing Norway and Sweden today, the achievement of their welfare states remains largely intact.

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 379 pages. The origin and contents of the Magna Carta, its meaning in history and relevance today. Clean copy.