Countries

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 504 pages, b&w illustrations. After scrutinizing the attitudes of the Nazi Party's leadership - Hitler in particular - toward economic issues and big business, the author proceeds to trace the known contacts between the Nazis and the men of big business down to the triumph of Nazism in 1933. For the first time, the story is told from both sides, employing documentation from Nazi as well as business sources. In the course of assessing the significance of financial contributions to Hitler's party, the author provides the first systematic analysis of Nazism's sources of income. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself put of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust.

Hardcover. Hoboken NJ, John Wiley, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages. The tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with buildings such as the original St. Paul's cathedral. The Great Fire of London depicts the heartfelt and inspiring human dramas that unfolded, drawing on firsthand accounts of aristocrats, tradesmen, and servants. It reveals the stories of many compelling figures, including diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the early hours of the fire from the Tower of London, as well as Charles II and his brother, who helped the commoners thwart the flames. In an era when structures were built of wood with thatched roofs, before organized fire departments and insurance, the Great London Fire left in its aftermath a devastated population of homeless, poverty-stricken people who nevertheless found the strength and courage to rebuild their city from ashes. Light bump to bottom rear cover, clean copy.

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.

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.

Hardcover. London, Studio Editions, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages. Color plates throughout. This book includes the work of nine leading cartographers spanning the first half of the nineteenth century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading. 240 pages, b&w illustrations. 75 photos, 48 line drawings, 15 maps, 1 table. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. ".recreates the tense, exciting battles with rocks and mud, quicksands and "nephitic gasses," fire and water, that made the "great national undertaking" a fiasco" but did eventually become of important use by trains of the East London line.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages. This is a rivetting chronicle by two visitors to a complex world rarely seen by outsiders: the vibrant daily lives of West African villagers, and the parellel, invisible realm of spirits that surround them. This beautifully written memoir recounts the deepening knowledge slowly acquired by Alma Gottlieb, a cultural anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived among the Beng, a previously unstudied people of Cote d'Ivoire. 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, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering on black title blocks, 650 pages. "This is the only complete history of the Latin American Republics that takes into account the important subject of inter-American relations in the present war {World War II}. It brings Latin American history down to the conferences in which Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles helped to cement North and South solidarity." The book presents, in separate chapters, the history of each of the twenty Latin American nations since independence. Bookplate and name on front endpapers, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 162 pages. Japan's economy enjoyed unprecedented technological growth in the decades after World War II. At first stereotyped as an exported of shoddy goods, Japan enjoyed a worldwide reputation as an efficient manufacturer of high-quality products. This comprehensive analysis of Japanese management treats four related but distinct subject matters: the economic, social, cultural, and political environment pertinent to Japan's industrial and managerial system; the ideologies and background to the Japanese business elite structure and the relationship between government and business; and managerial practices (organizational structure, personnel practices, decision making). The book first describes the postwar technological environment in and outside Japan. It identifies the Schumpeterian characteristics of economic development and the particular set of relationships that Japan had with the United States and with developing nations in Asia that provided it with the incentive and the necessary mechanisms to advance technologically. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Snow Lion Publications, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY THE 14TH DALAI LAMA IN OCTOBER OF 2012 AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 269 pages. Photos by Norton Brown, Chase's husband. Map of Africa on end pages. An amusing and informative account of their photo-safari in East Africa. Contains meetings with Louis Leakey, Joy Adamson, and Tom Mboya. Clean 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.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages. In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives. Clean.

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.

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. 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.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLARD on a tipped-in prlim page. The Rosetta Stone--discovered by French soldiers in 1799, seized by a British envoy, and deciphered 23 years later--set off an obsessive interest in Egypt, including by the newly established Royal Geographical Society, to find the headwaters of the Nile. Bestselling author Millard, a former writer and editor for National Geographic, offers a tense, vibrant history of several dramatic expeditions across East Africa that finally resulted in a successful discovery. Drawing on archival sources and her own multiple trips to Africa following the explorers' paths, Millard creates a palpable sense of the daunting task undertaken by three ambitious men: the magnetic, impulsive, and often combative Richard Burton; John Hanning Speke, an aristocratic infantry lieutenant and passionate hunter whose initial interest in East Africa was largely for the animals he could kill; and their devoted and resourceful native guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay a former enslaved person whose intimate knowledge of tribes and terrain proved to be indispensable.

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 413 pages, illustrated with 450 plates, 50 in color. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Errata slip laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth covers with light wear, 436 pages. The author spent 25 years in China as a journalist. Powell's book covers the period between (1917-1945) and discusses the personalities of the day: Chiang Kai Shek, Yuan Shi Kai and Chang Husiliang as well the intrigues of the Soviets and the Japanese. Note: Powell lost both his feet to the Japanese at his stay at the Bridge House. No markings.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 255 pages. Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of xenophobia and racism; here Tabili recovers the historical conditions under which racial inequality was institutionalized in Britain. Clean copy.

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. Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Herausgegeben Vom, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. Text in German. Approx. 300 pages. B&W tipped in photographs. Dark blue cloth with gilt pictorial bell to cover. Spine cocked. Edges soiled. Inscription in German on front flyleaf of second volume. Overall, a nice set.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in 1935, "This represents an accumulation of letters spanning thirty years the author received from big game hunters including F. C. Selous; C. H. Stigand; R. J. Cunninghame and many others. Most of this correspondence deals with hunting in Africa especially, for the Big Five, and rifle choices for use in various international locales."

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

Hardcover. New York, Excalibur Books, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 216 pages. 169 black & white illustrations. Edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, demi dust jacket. The history, cultural life, customs and social life of Venice. 403 pages. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. Two 8 page sections of full color illustrations, and two of black and white; b/w drawings at each chapter head. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 450 pages. Map endpapers. Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West. In The Politics of Dispossession Said traces his people's struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO's bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel. As frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said is equally unsparing in his demolition of Arab icons and American shibboleths. Stylish, impassioned, and informed by a magisterial knowledge of history and literature, The Politics of Dispossession is a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemic that has the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 480 pages, b&w photos. The first full-length biography of the 'Prince of Broadway' highlights the wit and sophistication of playwright and director Moss Hart as it describes his rise from poverty to success in the New York theatrical world, his remarkable contributions to the American theater, and his sometimes turbulent private life. Clean copy.

London, Baynard Press, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages, Illustrated with 5 b&w portraits of Generals, 15 fold-out maps in color. Label on front cover is torn, chipped, with paper loss to 3 sides. Otherwise book is very good with all maps in excellent condition. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY, Monacelli Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 267 pages in color. This lavishly illustrated and engaging book is the authoritative guide to the most exclusive Alpine destinations in Europe. Notable hotel expert and 84 Rooms Founder, Sebastian Schoellgen, presents a uniquely curated selection of 84 luxury and family-run boutique hotels in the five Alpine countries (France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany) in over 180 superb photographs with lively storytelling and practical information, too. Featured throughout are insider guides by the author and such tastemakers as hotelier Arnauld Zannier, who map out the most stylish and scenic places to shop, dine, stroll, and wind down after a long day on the slopes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 511 pages, b&w illustrations. When Hitler unleashed a fierce barrage of weapons on the defiant capital of England, London's resilient citizens were undaunted. With colorful detail and rich insight, historian Maureen Waller takes readers through London in the last year of war. She reveals the magnificence of human spirit that carried a besieged people through agonizing travails and the long, giddy transformation the metropolis made as it passed through battle, to celebration, and back to life as usual. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. The beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party, and the personalities and backgrounds of the two party founders, Ch'en Tu-hsiu and Li Ta-chao. Analyses of the perculiar nature of the Communist-Kuomintang alliance of 1924. Very good, no dust jacket.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. N. Ireland, Laurel Cottage Ltd., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, 92 pages, color illustrations by Derek Biddulph. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS AND ARTIST on the title page. The combination of Derek Biddulph's delightful paintings and the fascinating history, stories and anecdotes from Peadar and Dick make this handsome guided tour of Galway City and the surrounding area. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mason/Charter,, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 355 pages. Bibliography, appendix, notes, index. This biography reveals both the public and private sides of George Canning, and is also a study of international opportunism in an age when "empire" was an exalted concept. Name on front fly leaf,otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages. This provocative study touches all the bases, probing the important cases of U.S. involvement in Africa (the Congo, Angola, South Africa), laying out U.S. interests in Africa's minerals and strategic outposts, and depicting the concern of American blacks with Africa since the nineteenth century. Riding his theses rather hard, Jackson argues strongly against an ineluctable U.S. tendency to react in cold-war terms to African crises. Name on front fly lesf, otherwise clean.

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. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Detailed analysis of the events surrounding independence by former British ambassador. 138 pages plus index. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Introduction by John Ruskin. Green cloth covers, gilt titles to spine and front, all edges gilt, slip-on plastic protective covering to boards, numerous b&w illustrations by George Cruikshank. Slight foxing to endpapers, previous owner's inscription in pencil to half title page, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding, clean covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 410 pages, white cloth covers with brown lettering. INSCRIBED BY CHIANG, one of the editors, on the half-title page. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. Jacques Adler (1927-2017) was born in 1927. Jacques brought his experience in the Resistance to the study of history and used it in his pioneering Ph.D. Jacques joined the Jewish underground in Paris and was active throughout the war. During the Liberation, Jacques was involved in the Resistance takeover of the offices of the Union generale des israelites de France (UGIF), the organization which the Vichy regime forced French Jews to create and pay for in order to control the Jewish community. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1872-74, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in original dark green cloth. 633, 520 and 519 pages. Spine cloth frayed and separating on Volumes 1 and 2, Vol. 1 has a small chunk of cloth gone from top, chipped on bottom.otherwise books are clean and tight. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Centenary history of the Sydney-based business Burns, Philip & Co. The company was firmly established as a merchant in Australia and throughout the South Pacific. The book is unique in relating this big mercantile firm to its customers, regardless of their culture. A rich and varied story of a truly Australian company and a major contribution to Australian business history. 392 pages, 24 b&w plates, endpapers map. Clean copy.