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Jardins de Paris by: Jean Jacques Leveque

Jardins de Paris
by: Jean Jacques Leveque

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear to rear panel. Beautifully illustrated volume on the extraordinary gardens of Paris, past and present. FRENCH TEXT. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 385747

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Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688-1740by: Burtt, Shelley

Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688-1740
by: Burtt, Shelley

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 182 pages. This book offers a detailed study of political argument in early eighteenth-century England, a time in which the politics of virtue were vigorously pursued - and just as vigorously challenged. In tracing the emergence of a privately orientated conception of civic virtue from the period's public discourse, this book not only challenges the received notions of the fortunes of virtue in the early modern era but provides a promising critical perspective on the question of what sort of politics of virtue is possible or desirable today. Clean copy.

Record # 386185

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Sahara Adventureby: Philippe Diole

Sahara Adventure
by: Philippe Diole

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Engaging account of the author's camel trek across the untamed South Fezzen region of the Sahara Desert, encountering exotic vegetation and prehistoric cave paintings along the way. No markings.

Record # 387567

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African Crossroadsby: Dundas, Sir Charles

African Crossroads
by: Dundas, Sir Charles

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers, 243 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. Author was an administrator in East Africa and the West Indies from 1908 to 1944. A memoir of 30 years of colonial rule in Africa by a lifetime member of the British Colonial Service. Beginning with his first glimpse of Africa on a tropical morning as a young man and ends with a last glimpse of Kilimanjaro after spending his entire working life as one of the last servants of the old Empire. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387816

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Africa Dances: A Book about West African Negroesby: Gorer, Geoffrey

Africa Dances: A Book about West African Negroes
by: Gorer, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 337 pages, Index. Black & white photographic illustrations. Cream cloth with red & black illustration and lettering. The exciting story of the author's travels by car with Paris Benga, the famous Negro dancer, on a tour which zigzagged through the French colonies, the French and British mandates, and the Gold Coast to study the native dances in the districts most remote from civilization. This is also a study of the government and religion, the sex-life and marriage ritual, habits and customs, and the emotional and mental character of these West African Negroes. Mild stain to corners of front cover, not affecting the interior. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 387879

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The Duke of Newcastleby: Browning, Reed

The Duke of Newcastle
by: Browning, Reed

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with a faded spine. 388 pages, b&w frontis. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396470

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Passing the Time in Ballymenoneby: Henry Glassie

Passing the Time in Ballymenone
by: Henry Glassie

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 852 pages. The life and art, the folklore, history, and common work of a rural community in Northern Ireland-through the eyes and pen of gifted folklorist Henry Glassie. Glassie regards the people of Ballymenone with respect and affection, allowing them to describe their ideas, life-ways, and values on their own terms, not his. Recognizing that theirs is a mindset and lifestyle that must be seen as an integrated whole, Glassie studies everything about Ballymenone from traditional songs to entertainment to religious beliefs to architecture, liberally quoting from the people who welcomed him into their homes over his extended stays. Some of his insights are pure brilliance, such as recognizing the way the poets and storytellers of a rural Irish district have adapted ancient Gaelic metrics to the English they use today. You will learn more about Ireland and its people in this one book than in a host of others. Clean copy.

Record # 396706

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The Committee of One Million: China Lobby Politics, 1953-1971by: Bachrack, Stanley D.

The Committee of One Million: China Lobby Politics, 1953-1971
by: Bachrack, Stanley D.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 371 pages. Looks into the origins and activities of a foreign-policy interest group which emerged after the Korean War and exerted pressure on the federal government not to recognize the People's Republic of China. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397205

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London's Riverside: From Hampton Court in the West to Greenwich Palace in the East by: Suzanne Ebel; Doreen Impey

London's Riverside: From Hampton Court in the West to Greenwich Palace in the East
by: Suzanne Ebel; Doreen Impey

Hardcover. London, William Luscombe, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a broad and long history of the Thames. Inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397495

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Black Majesty: The Life of Christophe, King of Haitiby: John W. Vandercook, Mahlon Blaine (Illustrator)

Black Majesty: The Life of Christophe, King of Haiti
by: John W. Vandercook, Mahlon Blaine (Illustrator)

Hardcover. NY, The Literary Guild, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Literary Guild edition, with the 1st Edition (stated) signatures from Harper. Bound in black cloth and pictorial boards. Illustrated in color and b&w by Mahlon Blaine.

Record # 399007

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Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reichby: Jeffrey Herf

Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
by: Jeffrey Herf

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 251 pages. In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity. Light pencil underlining to some pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 399200

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Hitler and the Power of Aestheticsby: Spotts, Frederic

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
by: Spotts, Frederic

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, Overlook Press, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 456 pages with b&w and color illustrations. In Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, acclaimed historian Frederic Spotts presents a startling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations. Spotts dismisses the traditional biographical view that Hitler was an "unperson," who had no life outside of politics, Spotts shows that Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism and his argument is punctuated with photographs and illustrations, including reproductions of Hitler's watercolors and drawings from his 1925 sketchbook. The book offers the first full analysis of Hitler's own work as a painter, as well as of his art collection. It also treats the entire range of his personal interests: from architecture, painting, symphony, opera, and sculpture, to the German autobahn system and the development of the Volkswagen. A riveting and highly original work, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics provides a key to an understanding of the Third Reich which has, until now, been missing from biographies and studies of the arts in the Third Reich, as well as from political and military studies of Hitler. Clean copy.

Record # 399262

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Slavophile Controversy, The: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth Century Russian Thoughtby: Walicki, Andrzej

Slavophile Controversy, The: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth Century Russian Thought
by: Walicki, Andrzej

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 609 pages, translated by Hilda Andrews-Rusiecka. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Yellow dust jacket with slight fading to spine. Approximately 30 pages with ink marking, mostly underlining. Otherwise this scarce volume is in very good condition.

Record # 402967

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Old Stan's Diary: Autumn and Winter on the Farmby: Goodland, Norman

Old Stan's Diary: Autumn and Winter on the Farm
by: Goodland, Norman

Hardcover. London, Macdonald & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, dust jacket with minor wear. B&W illustrations by Frank Martin.

Record # 406023

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Land of the Midnight Sun, The: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland (2 vols)by: Du Chaillu, Paul B.

Land of the Midnight Sun, The: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland (2 vols)
by: Du Chaillu, Paul B.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. 441 and 474 pages. 235 black & white illustrations. Volume One has a map in rear pocket. Previous owner's bookplate on front end papers in both volumes. Rubbing to corners, spine, and covers. Corners a little bumped otherwise a bright, collectible set.

Record # 503184

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Les Miniatures russes du XIe au XVe siecleby: Popova, O.

Les Miniatures russes du XIe au XVe siecle
by: Popova, O.

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.

Record # 804213

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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

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People of Holland, Theby: Jungman, Nico

People of Holland, The
by: Jungman, Nico

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 tipped-in color plates, 32 small black & white illustrations by Jungman. Intro. by Gordon Hume. Light spotting to covers.

Record # 56906

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Walker Evans: Havana 1933by: Mora, Gilles

Walker Evans: Havana 1933
by: Mora, Gilles

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. In April 1933 an editor at Lippincott asked Evans to take photographs for a polemical book by Carlton Beals, a leftist writer who was very critical of the then Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and anxious to show how American support of Machado had created an economic catastrophe in Cuba. Evans agreed after acceptance of his conditions that he have complete freedom to choose the photographs for publication and that they be collected at the end of the book so that they appeared to be an independent entity and not simply illustration of the text. Indeed, according to legend, Evans had not read Beals's text when he went to Havana in May 1933. He was in Cuba for three weeks. When his personal funds ran out, his way was paid for by Ernest Hemingway; the two had never met before, but Hemingway was eager for the company of someone equally qualified in literary conversation and in drinking. In the end, Evans contributed thirty-one photographs to the published "The Crime of Cuba". This book, WALKER EVANS: HAVANA 1933, contains seventy of the photographs Evans took in Cuba, including most of the photographs he selected for "The Crime of Cuba". The volume is introduced by an excellent essay by Gilles Mora that gives the historical background and discusses the place of Evans's Cuban photographs in his overall body of work. The photographs were selected by Mora and by John T. Hill, who also was responsible for the sequencing of their presentation. (One of Mora's points is that Evans attached a great deal of significance to the sequencing of his photographs, any collection of which he viewed as a composite artistic/documentary statement and, as such, more important than any single photograph.)

Record # 350731

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Peeps at Parliament: Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair by: Henry W. Lucy, F Carruthers Gould (illustrator)

Peeps at Parliament: Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair
by: Henry W. Lucy, F Carruthers Gould (illustrator)

Hardcover. London, George Newnes Ltd., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, black, white and gilt decoration with Speaker of the house in profile on cover, 378 pages. Illustrated with text cartoons throughout and a color frontis by Gould. Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (1842 -1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. Owner's signature on blank prelim page, cloth is worn at spine edges with some fraying, title on spine faded. Binding is sound, tight.

Record # 374330

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The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa: Bushmen and Hottentots by: Schapera, I.

The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa: Bushmen and Hottentots
by: Schapera, I.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow-orange cloth with stamped gilt lettering. One of the earliest and most comprehensive ethnographical studies of the Khoisan peoples. The interior contents (xi + 450 pp.) are clean, complete, and securely bound. These contents include two rear fold-out maps and 16 b&w plates. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 378329

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Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theaterby: William T. Vollmann

Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater
by: William T. Vollmann

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. William T. Vollmann, the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central, offers a charming, evocative, and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theatre and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty. Kissing the Mask is the first major book on Nohby an American writer since the 1916 publication the classic study Pisan Cantos and the Noh by Ezra Pound. But Kissing the Mask is pure Vollman--illustrated with photos by the author with provocative related side-discussions on femininity, transgender, kabuki, pornography, geishas, and more. 500 pages, clean copy.

Record # 378832

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Among the Ibos Of Nigeria: An account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African peopleby: G.T. Basden

Among the Ibos Of Nigeria: An account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African people
by: G.T. Basden

Hardcover. London, Frank Cass and Company, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1921, an account of the curious & interesting habits, customs & beliefs of a little known African people by one who has for many years lived amongst them on close & intimate terms as a missionary in the early 1900s. Clean copy.

Record # 379397

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The Sharpeville Six: South African Trial That Shocked the World by: Prakash Diar

The Sharpeville Six: South African Trial That Shocked the World
by: Prakash Diar

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 321pages, b&w illustrations. The Sharpeville Six were six South African protesters convicted of the murder of Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Kuzwayo Jacob Dlamini, and sentenced to death. On September 3, 1984, a protest march in Sharpeville turned violent (some of the crowd threw stones at Dlamimi's house, he responded by firing a gun and a riot ensued and the Deputy Mayor was murdered. Mojalefa Sefatsa, Theresa Ramashamola, Reid Mokoena, Oupa Diniso, Duma Khumalo and Francis Don Mokhesi were arrested in the following months, found guilty of murder under the "Common purpose" doctrine and sentenced to death by hanging on December 12, 1985. Christian Mokubung and Gideon Mokone were also sentenced to eight years in prison. All were represented by lawyer Prakash Diar, the author of this book.

Record # 380848

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Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africaby: Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon

Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa
by: Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with black lettering. 314 pages, frontis, plates from photos. A description of a stay of over a decade in Gaboon (French Congo), at various mail stations, with much on the missionary activities, schools, and the native peoples in the area including the Njem tribe in the Lomie district, about 400 miles inland from the coastal town of Kribi. This copy from a YMCA library with a stamp and an envelope on the front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 380947

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Stanley: The Making of an African Explorerby: McLynn, Frank

Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer
by: McLynn, Frank

Hardcover. Chelsea MI, Scarborough House, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 411 pages, b&w illusttrations. This biography recounts the life of the eccentric and indomitable African explorer Henry M. Stanley (1841-1904), who circumnavigated Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria, fixed the source of the Nile, and traveled the length of the Congo River. Clean copy.

Record # 381157

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Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa; Including A Sketch Of Sixteen Years Residence In The Interior Of Africa by: Livingstone, David

Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa; Including A Sketch Of Sixteen Years Residence In The Interior Of Africa
by: Livingstone, David

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1858, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, now faded. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition, the Trans-Africa journey of 1853-56. Livingstone also gives an accurate account of the tsetse fly and of the disease produced in cattle following its bite. Frontispiece portrait, 732 pages, [4]pp ads, 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith at the rear, 1 double page wood engraving, 1 folding diagram, many wood engraved text illustrations. Fair condition only with worn, rubbed covers, cloth split along spine edges. Interior pages clean with tight binding.

Record # 381185

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In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle by: Hazareesingh, Sudhir

In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
by: Hazareesingh, Sudhir

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In contemporary France, Charles de Gaulle has become a figure of legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation's pre-eminent "historical" figure. But paradoxes abound. For one, his personal popularity sits oddly with his social origins and professional background. Neither the nobility, nor the Catholic Church, nor the Army is particularly well-regarded in France today, as they are seen to represent antiquated traditions and values. So why, then, do the French nonetheless identify with, celebrate, and even revere this austere and devout nobleman, who remained closely wedded to military values throughout his life? In the Shadow of the General resolves this mystery and explains how de Gaulle has come to occupy such a privileged position in the French imagination. Sudhir Hazareesingh's story of how an individual life was transformed into national myth also tells a great deal about the French collective self in the twenty-first century: its fractured memory, its aspirations to greatness, and its manifold anxieties. Indeed, alongside the tale of de Gaulle's legacy, the author unfolds a much broader narrative: the story of modern France. Clean copy.

Record # 382123

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A Sentimental Journey In And About The Ancient And Loyal City Of Lichfield by: Alfred D Parker

A Sentimental Journey In And About The Ancient And Loyal City Of Lichfield
by: Alfred D Parker

Hardcover. Lichfield UK, A.C. Lomax's Successors, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. The spine is sunned and slightly over onto front board. 180 pages. No markings, a clean copy.

Record # 383157

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A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time by: Scarr, Deryck

A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time
by: Scarr, Deryck

Hardcover. Surrey UK, Curzon Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with a lightly faded spine, 323 pages, b&w illustrations. A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

Record # 384178

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JOURNEY TO POLAND: A GERMAN NOVELIST SEEKS HIS JEWISH ROOTS ON THE EVE OF THE NAZIS' RISE TO POWERby: Alfred Doblin

JOURNEY TO POLAND: A GERMAN NOVELIST SEEKS HIS JEWISH ROOTS ON THE EVE OF THE NAZIS' RISE TO POWER
by: Alfred Doblin

Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages. Black cloth spine over brown boards. First published in 1925.

Record # 384879

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The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland: With an Appendix Relating to the Huguenots in America by G.P. Disoswayby: Smiles, S

The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland: With an Appendix Relating to the Huguenots in America by G.P. Disosway
by: Smiles, S

Softcover. Honolulu HA, University Press of the Pacific, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. First published in 1874, 448 pages with index. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 385714

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The Communards of Paris, 1871by: Stewart Edwards (Ed.)

The Communards of Paris, 1871
by: Stewart Edwards (Ed.)

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st pbk, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 180 pages. The spirit of an event consecrated in anarchist legend is captured in these documents. Eyewitness reports, accounts of participants, and archival documents are used by Dr Edwards to illustrate the many facets of the seventy-three-day Paris Commune of 1871, the largest urban insurrection in modern history. Each section of the book is preceded by an explanatory note, and footnotes clarify contemporary references The introduction to the documents provides a general survey of the origins and events of the Commune. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 386045

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Down the Riverby: Bates/Agnes Miller Parker, H. E.

Down the River
by: Bates/Agnes Miller Parker, H. E.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 151 pages. 81 black-and-white wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Dust jacket with light wear, chipping.on dust jacket. clean, tight copy.

Record # 387434

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The Zulu War: Isandhlwana and Rorkes Drift by: Rupert Furneaux

The Zulu War: Isandhlwana and Rorkes Drift
by: Rupert Furneaux

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth, 210 pages. Great Battles Series. No dust jacket. Related clipping laid in. Mild fading to gilt lettering on spine. Clean copy.

Record # 387753

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Maroc Enchant?© by: Garrigue, Francois

Maroc Enchant?©
by: Garrigue, Francois

Hardcover. Paris, Arthaud, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. A photographic study of Morocco and it's people. Gravure photos, mostly b&w, some color. TEXT IN FRENCH. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387846

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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by: Davies, Norman

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
by: Davies, Norman

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 830 pages. Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age - 'the Empire of Aragon' which once dominated the western Mediterranean; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for a time the largest country in Europe; the successive kingdoms (and one duchy) of Burgundy, much of whose history is now half-remembered - or half-forgotten - at best. This book shows the reader how to peer through the cracks of mainstream history writing and listen to the echoes of lost realms across the centuries. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Record # 396449

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Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences by: Ike, Nobutaka

Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences
by: Ike, Nobutaka

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 306 pages. Records of 62 conferences held in Tokyo between March and December of 1941 provide direct access to the thinking and planning of Japan's highest leaders as they prepared for war. Indexed, with 12-page appendix. First published in 1967, no dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396628

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Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Period, 1600-1868: Methods and Metaphorsby: Tetsuo Najita/Irwin Scheiner

Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Period, 1600-1868: Methods and Metaphors
by: Tetsuo Najita/Irwin Scheiner

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages. The essays collected in this volume reveal the dramatic story of 'mindfulness' at all levels of Tokugawa society and demonstrate the importance of this history for modern Japanese culture. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397177

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George The Fourth by: Fulford, Roger

George The Fourth
by: Fulford, Roger

Softcover. NY, Capricorn Books, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. The classic biography by the brilliant English historian Roger Fulford has been hailed as one of the best royal biographies ever written; it is, as well, an indispensable guide to the intricacies of the Regency and Pre-Victorian England. Clean copy.

Record # 397417

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Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italyby: Barolini, Helen

Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy
by: Barolini, Helen

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 309 pages. Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy's mythic appeal. Unlike Barolini herself, they were not daughters of the great Italian diaspora. Rather, they were drawn to an idea of "Italy" and its gifts-in whose welcome a new self could be created. Or discovered. Emily Dickinson traveled to Italy only in the imaginative genius of her verse. Margaret Fuller struggled alongside her Italian lover in the political revolutions that gave birth to the Italian Republic, while the novelist and short-story writer Constance Fennimore Woolson found her home in Venice and Florence. Here, too, is the flamboyant artist Mabel Dodge Luhan, entertaining at her villa near Florence; and Marguerite Chapin of Connecticut, who married an Italian prince and in Rome founded the premier literary review of the mid-century, Botteghe Oscure. Finally, here is Iris Cutting Origo, the Anglo-American heiress who, with her Italian nobleman husband, built a Tuscan estate, where she wrote acclaimed biographies-and created a refuge from Mussolini's fascism. Clean copy.

Record # 398028

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Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950by: Atina Grossmann

Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950
by: Atina Grossmann

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.

Record # 399192

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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947by: Christopher Clark

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
by: Christopher Clark

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 776 pages. "Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark's stately, authoritative history of Prussia from its humble beginnings to its ignominious end, presents a much more complicated and compelling picture of the German state, which is too often reduced to a caricature of spiked helmets and polished boots. Prussia and its army were inseparable, but Prussia was also renowned for its efficient, incorruptible civil service; its innovative system of social services; its religious tolerance; and its unrivaled education system, a model for the rest of Germany and the world. This too was Prussia-a tormented kingdom that, like a tragic hero, was brought down by the very qualities that raised it up. Mr. Clark, a senior lecturer in modern European history at Cambridge University, does an exemplary job. A lively writer, he organizes masses of material in orderly fashion, clearly establishing his main themes and pausing at crucial junctures to recapitulate and reconsider. Prussia, a self-invented artifact right down to its name, demands the kind of careful demythologizing that it receives from Mr. Clark, who gently but insistently exposes the flaws in most of the received wisdom about his subject. A result is an illuminating, profoundly satisfying work of history, brightened by vivid character sketches of the principals in his drama." Clean copy.

Record # 399216

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Last Days of the Consulate, Theby: Fauriel, M. and M. L. Lalanne(Ed.)

Last Days of the Consulate, The
by: Fauriel, M. and M. L. Lalanne(Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle Rivington, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages, frontispiece engraving of Napoleon. Chronicles the political intrigue that propelled Napoleon from military leader to Emperor. Bound in three-quarter black leather over blue cloth, raised bands on spine, gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt, light corner wear.

Record # 401320

Price: $150.00 
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Dictionary of the History and Geography of Japanby: Papinot, E.

Dictionary of the History and Geography of Japan
by: Papinot, E.

Hardcover. Yokohama, unknown, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 842 pages, gray cloth covers worn, spine cloth loose from spine backing, hinges cracked. Inside very good,clean, lacks title page which may never have been printed. A detailed collection of names, places, events, throughout Japanese history. English text. From a library in Japan with card and envelope inside rear cover and sticker on spine. Uncommon.

Record # 404532

Price: $70.00 
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Bruges & West Flandersby: Omond, George W. T.; Painted by Amedee Forestier

Bruges & West Flanders
by: Omond, George W. T.; Painted by Amedee Forestier

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive-green cloth decorated in two-colors and gilt. 37 color plates by Amedee Forestier with captions on tissue guards. 187 pages. Top edge gilt. Small ink notation on Preface page otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 415188

Price: $35.00 
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Forgotten Shrines of Spainby: Byne, Mildred Stapley

Forgotten Shrines of Spain
by: Byne, Mildred Stapley

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

Record # 608546

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Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation - The Semantics and Ontology of Negative Statements in Navya-Nyaya Philosophy, Theby: Matilal, Bimal Krishna

Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation - The Semantics and Ontology of Negative Statements in Navya-Nyaya Philosophy, The
by: Matilal, Bimal Krishna

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover. Green-blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light fading to spine title, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855866

Price: $80.00 
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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

Price: $12.00 
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History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years Truce - 1609 (4 vol. set)by: Motley, John Lothrop

History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years Truce - 1609 (4 vol. set)
by: Motley, John Lothrop

Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2326 total pages. 4 volume set. Hardcovers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. B/w illustrated fold-out map in volume 1. Decorated marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards with leather corners and quarter cloths. Leather spines with raised bands, gilt title and decorations. Spines straight. Light tanning from age to pages.

Record # 99240

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