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Hurrah for the life of a sailor!: Life on the lower-deck of the Victorian Navyby: Winton, John

Hurrah for the life of a sailor!: Life on the lower-deck of the Victorian Navy
by: Winton, John

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Edgewear, rubbing and sunning to dust jacket. Internally very good

Record # 354032

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Arnold's Expedition to Quebec - Special Editionby: Codman, 2nd, John/William Abbatt (Editor)

Arnold's Expedition to Quebec - Special Edition
by: Codman, 2nd, John/William Abbatt (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612743

Price: $160.00 
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Hero Tales & Legends of the Rhineby: Spence, Lewis

Hero Tales & Legends of the Rhine
by: Spence, Lewis

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 380 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Frontispiece and tissue guard detached. Gutter crack in multiple pages. Corners bumped and light soil. Illustrated with 16 color and 16 monochrome plates by Louis Weirter. Embossed red cloth with elaborate embossed design and bright dragon design and lettering. Fold-out virgin map in rear appears to have never been unfolded. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Odin and Brunhild.

Record # 354217

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Sheepherder's Goldby: Cornelius, Temple H.

Sheepherder's Gold
by: Cornelius, Temple H.

Hardcover. Denver, Sage Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. Yellow cloth covers. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Unmarked text. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614018

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OKEMO OUTLOOK/ 1936 CCC newsletter/ Ludlow, Vermontby: N/A

OKEMO OUTLOOK/ 1936 CCC newsletter/ Ludlow, Vermont
by: N/A

Softcover. Ludlow VT, privately printed, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Local newsletter, 12 pages, printed by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Okemo Mountain Park. Dated September 10, 1936 it covers national news, camp news and what's playing that week at the Royal Movie Theater. ("Green Pastures", among others.) Center fold otherwise very good.

Record # 359828

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Support of the Shaken Sangat - Personal Recollections of Three Great Mastersby: Oberoi, A. S.

Support of the Shaken Sangat - Personal Recollections of Three Great Masters
by: Oberoi, A. S.

Softcover. Sanbornton, Sant Bani Press, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations and a few in bw. Interviews & reflections with Kirpal Singh, Baba Sawan & Sant Ajaib. Light wear to spine edges, light sunfading to lower spine. Discolored smudge to top edge. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750480

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History of Anderson County 1780-1936 (SIGNED COPY)by: McKee, Major Lewis W; Bond, Lydia K.

History of Anderson County 1780-1936 (SIGNED COPY)
by: McKee, Major Lewis W; Bond, Lydia K.

Hardcover. Frankfort, KY, Robert's Printing Co., 1st, n.d., Book: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Top front corner heavily damaged. Signed and inscribed by Lydia Bond on front fly leaf. Front hinge tear at top. Soil to front cover.

Record # 368155

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Story of American Toys, Theby: O'Brien, Richard

Story of American Toys, The
by: O'Brien, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Artabras, 2nd Printing, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black printed rocking horse decoration to cover, black printed titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully interspersed throughout text. Bright dust jacket with sunfading to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750735

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Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecksby: Steffy, J. Richard

Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks
by: Steffy, J. Richard

Hardcover. College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 1st Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, black title on spine, just a touch of chipping at top and bottom of spine and top of front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has a small (patched from underneath) 1" tear at top of front cover (see image), some small creasing at top of front cover, as well (see image) otherwise very good. Previous owner's name at top of front endpaper and stamp on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean. A guide to the study of the most marvelous structures ever built by humankind--wooden ships and boats a value to historians, authors, model builders, and other interested in the design and construction of wooden watercraft of the past.

Record # 369283

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American Navy, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Chadwick, French E.

American Navy, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Chadwick, French E.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to a Mrs. Thomas (the levelest head I know among women) with sincere affection and regard. Dated Newport. 27 May, 1915. The dust jacket is fragile with large missing chips and a few tape repairs on the inside, but with both flaps intact and the front and back being essentially there to be able to read the extensive copy on both sides. Internally very clean.

Record # 809858

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History of the Polish Revolution of 1830by: Hordynski, Joseph

History of the Polish Revolution of 1830
by: Hordynski, Joseph

Nafziger Collection , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Large size 28cm x 21cm in soft card covers. Clean and sound. History of the Polish Revolution of 1830 by Joseph Hordynski - Major of the Late Tenth Regiment of Lithuanian Lancers (Originally pub. in 1833) .

Record # 370432

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History and Construction of the United States Schooner Ticonderoga, The by: Crisman, Kevin James

History and Construction of the United States Schooner Ticonderoga, The
by: Crisman, Kevin James

Softcover. Alexandria, Eyrie Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in blue wrappers, 82 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on top right corner of front cover. Minor rubbing to cover edges. SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851656

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PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

Hardcover. London, printed by C. & R. Baldwin for Thomas Payne, 1st, 1808, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished brown calf, 253 pages. A clean copy of the First Edition of Samuel Johnson's tract on the Corn Laws written in 1766 for the use of his friend William Gerard Hamilton - an important politician of the period who achieved a brilliant reputation as an orator - despite his nickname of 'Single Speech Hamilton' The volume was edited by Malone, who found the tract among Hamilton's papers and contributed a long preface. 8vo., xlvi, 253, [1]p colophon.; Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, edgewear/rubbing to calf along gilt ruled border on covers, spine with gilt decoration, red morroco label on spine. Front cover hinge tender, but holding.

Record # 371292

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History of American Privateers, A.by: Maclay, A.M., Edgar Stanton

History of American Privateers, A.
by: Maclay, A.M., Edgar Stanton

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.

Record # 852376

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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture by: Bernard Lewis (Ed.)

Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
by: Bernard Lewis (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 360 pages. Published in association with the American Heritage Publishing Co. Text by Bernard Lewis, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Fritz Meier, Charles Pellat, A. Shiloah, A.I. Sabra, Edmund Bosworth, Emilio Garcia Gomex, Roger M. Savory, Norman Itzkowitz, S.A.A. Rizvi, Elie Kedourie. Illustrated with 495 reproductions, photographs, drawings, and maps, 160 of them in full color.

Record # 372044

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Cassell's Illustrated History of Indiaby: Grant, James

Cassell's Illustrated History of India
by: Grant, James

Hardcover. London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, unknown, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in one. Volume I is 576 pages. Volume II is 588 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering and design, corners and edges are worn and frayed. Top edge gilt. Heavy foxing on title page and frontispiece, light foxing on some pages throughout, otherwise inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage, reads "Used in tour around the world, 1881-1882." Previous owner was author and traveller Joseph Cook. A impressive and thorough copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 853144

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Story of a Common Soldier, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Stillwell, Leander

Story of a Common Soldier, The (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Stillwell, Leander

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Leander Stillwell (1843-1934) was an American lawyer, judge and a pioneer attorney who co-created the first bar of Erie. From 1861 to 1865 he was with the Union army joining as a private of Company D, Sixty-first Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers. He was appointed Corporal, then Sergeant and later First Sergeant in 1863, and re-enlisted in 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and several minor engagements. His experiences were published as The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1917/20). In 1876 he was elected a member of the lower house of the Kansas Legislature. He was a republican and held various township offices, both in Illinois and Kansas, and was quite active in civic affairs. In 1883 he was elected judge of the Seventh Judicial District. He was re-elected judge of the same district in 1887, 1891, 1895 and 1899, and resigned in 1907.

Record # 372358

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Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florenceby: Norton, Charles Eliot

Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence
by: Norton, Charles Eliot

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, with gilt top edge and titles. Minor corner and edge wear, light crack along spine but no loose pages, overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854290

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Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Taylor, Richard

Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Taylor, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This memoir by Confederate General Richard Taylor is usually considered one of the best and least biased by a general officer. The work is full of considered analysis on both the strategy of the war and the personalities of his fellow officers. Taylor is always fair in his criticism and seems to have no real scores to settle. While he makes little mention of his own talents, his tactical brilliance and strategic insight does shine through. Many contemporaries said Richard Taylor was one of the best soldiers of the war, but he is comparatively little known due to his posting to peripheral theaters. While he was a man of his time, the work (with the exception of some of his Reconstruction writings) is much less tainted by Lost Cause polemics than most Confederate memoirs.

Record # 372374

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German Fury in Belgium, Theby: Mokveld, L.

German Fury in Belgium, The
by: Mokveld, L.

Hardcover. New York , George H. Doran, unknown, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 249 pages. Faint foxing to edges, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857004

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De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Cultureby: N/A

De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture
by: N/A

Hardcover. University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in gilt and silver, 271 pages. This volume is the result of an international conference held at the University of Notre Dame in 1991 in which leading scholars, classicists, medievalists, theologians, philologists, rhetoricians, literary critics, and philosophers-gathered to focus on one of the most remarkable and influential books of late antiquity, Augustine's De doctrina christiana. Contributors to this volume place the historical setting of De doctrina christiana within the context of contemporary scholarship and explore in detail its theological meaning and impact on western culture and Christian education. The essays cover the entire field of current Augustinian studies starting with the historic setting of late antiquity in which De doctrina christiana was written. They then examine the work itself, its literary structure and interpretive and theological significance, how it was received by later patristic writers, and how it has been used as an authoritative source in contemporary times. An extensive bibliography facilitates further study.

Record # 373421

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Shotgun Encyclopedia, The: A Comprehensive Reference Work on All Aspects of Shotguns and Shotgun Shootingby: Taylor, John

Shotgun Encyclopedia, The: A Comprehensive Reference Work on All Aspects of Shotguns and Shotgun Shooting
by: Taylor, John

Hardcover. Long Beach, CA, Safari Press, Inc., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230231

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LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS The Story of the Veto Battle 1832-1911by: Harry Jones

LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS The Story of the Veto Battle 1832-1911
by: Harry Jones

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles, 351 pages. Preliminary pages with foxing, stamp on title page otherwise good plus. Complete with 27 pages of publisher's ads in rear.

Record # 374148

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Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925by: Margaret Hindle and Robert M Hazen

Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925
by: Margaret Hindle and Robert M Hazen

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 281 pages, b&w illustrations. "For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest lapse of attention could convert a fire from friendly ally to ravaging destroyer. To examine the cultural context of fire in "combustible America," Margaret Hazen and Robert Hazen gather more than a hundred illustrations, most never before published, together with anecdotes and information from hundreds of original sources, including newspapers, diaries, company records, popular fiction, art, and music. What results is an immensely entertaining and encyclopedic history that ranges from stories of the tragic "great fires" of the century to fire imagery in folktales and popular literature. Dealing more with technology than with fire in nature, the book provides a vast amount of information on fire manipulation and prevention in urban life. Hazen and Hazen discuss the people who worked with fire--or against it. Founders, gaffers, blacksmiths, boilers at saltworks, and housewives knew how to "read" a fire and employ it for their purposes. A few dedicated investigators inquired about the scientific nature of heat and flame. And firefighters gradually progressed from "bucket brigades" to "using fire to fight fire" with the newly invented steam engine. The colorful stories of these Americans--the risks they took and the rewards they received--will fascinate not only social historians but also a broad audience of general readers. Clean copy.

Record # 374324

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Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables Populist Protest Colonial Encounters Algeria and Tunisia 1800-1904 by: Julia A. Clancy Smith

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables Populist Protest Colonial Encounters Algeria and Tunisia 1800-1904
by: Julia A. Clancy Smith

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 370 pages. Focuses on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia. In this study the author provides a detailed analysis of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374700

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Admirals All: The Story of Camp Merryweatherby: Rosalind Cobb Wiggins

Admirals All: The Story of Camp Merryweather
by: Rosalind Cobb Wiggins

Hardcover. Ipswich MA, Ipswich Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 66 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos and drawings. The lively history of the summer camp founded in the early 1900s in North Belgrade, Maine. Dust jacket with mild wear. otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 377852

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The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South West Pacific 1944-45by: Charlton, Peter

The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South West Pacific 1944-45
by: Charlton, Peter

Hardcover. Melbourne AUS, Macmillan, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w illustrations. The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war.

Record # 378357

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Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932by: Donald A. Ritchie

Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932
by: Donald A. Ritchie

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. It was nothing less than a major political realignment, as the direction of federal policy shifted from conservative to liberal-and liberalism itself was redefined in the process. Electing FDR is the first book in seventy years to examine in its entirety the 1932 presidential election that ushered in the New Deal. Award-winning historian Donald Ritchie looks at how candidates responded to the nation's economic crisis and how voters evaluated their performance. More important, he explains how the Democratic Party rebuilt itself after three successive Republican landslides: where the major shifts in party affiliation took place, what contingencies contributed to FDR's victory, and why the new coalition persisted as long as it did. Ritchie challenges prevailing assumptions that the Depression made Roosevelt's election inevitable. He shows that FDR came close to losing the nomination to contenders who might have run to the right of Hoover, and discusses the role of newspapers and radio in presenting the candidates to voters. He also analyzes Roosevelt's campaign strategies, recounting his attempts to appeal to disaffected voters of all ideological stripes, often by altering his positions to broaden his popularity. With the advent of the New Deal, Americans came to enjoy a wide federal safety net that provided everything from old age pensions to rural electricity-government innovations so embraced by voters that even later conservative presidents recognized their importance. Ritchie traces this legacy through the Reagan and Bush years, but he relates how FDR in 1932 was often vague about the specifics of his program and questions whether voters really knew what they were in for with the New Deal. Clean copy.

Record # 378794

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The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by: Ikenberry, G. John; Knock, Thomas; Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Smith, Tony

The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
by: Ikenberry, G. John; Knock, Thomas; Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Smith, Tony

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2009, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between the ideals of Woodrow Wilson and those of George W. Bush. The Crisis of American Foreign Policy exposes the challenges resulting from Bush's foreign policy and ponders America's place in the international arena. Led by John Ikenberry, one of today's foremost foreign policy thinkers, this provocative collection examines the traditions of liberal internationalism that have dominated American foreign policy since the end of World War II. Clean copy.

Record # 378848

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Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture by: Inga Clendinnen

Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
by: Inga Clendinnen

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century. In the title work Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere ideology translated into dangerously novel circumstances, and the multiple paths to the sacred constructed by 'defeated' populations in sixteenth-century Mexico. The collection ends with Clendinnen's transition to the colonial history of her own country: a close and loving reading of the 1841 expedition journal of George Augustus Robinson. Clean copy.

Record # 379161

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English Landed Society in the Twentieth Centuryby: Beard, Madeleine

English Landed Society in the Twentieth Century
by: Beard, Madeleine

Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Beard examines the English country house life, its gentry, and the changes they undertook through the century in order to survive. The author shows how after World War Two, their political power had eroded and they began to run their estates as businesses, instead of paternalistic rural communities. Clean copy.

Record # 379720

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World's Fair Notes: a Woman Journalist Views Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition by: Shaw, Marian

World's Fair Notes: a Woman Journalist Views Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition
by: Shaw, Marian

Softcover. St Paul, MN, Pogo Press, 1st thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 108 pages, b&w illustrations. Presents a series of contemporary articles describing the 1893 Chicago world's fair for the Fargo, N.D., Sunday Argus, and discusses the author's career and the role of women journalists. Shaw's 12 newspaper articles along with contemporary photos are reprinted here.

Record # 380630

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Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold Warby: Michael Dobbs

Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War
by: Michael Dobbs

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 418 pages, b&w illustrations. From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace--but instead set the stage for a forty-four-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.

Record # 381227

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The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by: Chris Hedges

The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
by: Chris Hedges

NY, Nation Books, 1st US, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of Hedges essays originally published by Truthdig, the Webby award-winning progressive news website. Hedges lyrically and fearlessly dissects the most controversial issues of the day: America's wars of self-destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, the decay of American empire (at home and abroad), Israel's ghettoization of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the failure of American liberalism. Clean copy.

Record # 381488

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The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 642 pages. Hailed in 1849 as "a new department in the literature of civilization," the slave narrative forms the foundation of the African American literary tradition. From the late-eighteenth-century narratives by Africans who endured the harrowing Middle Passage, through the classic American fugitive slave narratives of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives have provided some of the most graphic and damning documentary evidence of the horrors of slavery. Riveting, passionate, and politically charged, the slave narrative blends personal memory and rhetorical attacks on slavery to create powerful literature and propaganda.The Civitas Anthology presents the seven classic antislavery narratives of the antebellum period in their entirety: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave , the first slave narrative published by a woman in the Americas; The Confessions of Nat Turner , written when Turner was asked to record his motivation for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history; The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an international bestseller and the first narrative to fashion the male fugitive slave into an African American cultural hero; The Narrative of William W. Brown , an account that explored with unprecedented realism the slave's survival ethic and the art of the slave trickster; The Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb , the story of the struggles of the most memorable family man among the classic slave narrators; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom , a gripping chronicle of one of the most daring and celebrated slave escapes ever recorded; and Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl , a dramatic text that exposed the sexual abuse of female slaves and pioneered the image of the fugitive slave woman as an articulate resister and survivor.Born out of lives of unparalleled suffering, the slave narrative captures all the bravery, drama, and hope that characterized the African American struggle against slavery. From these beginnings came some of the most influential novels in American literature, for the works of writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Toni Morrison owe much of their power and social resonance to the slave narrative tradition. The Civitas Anthology gathers the most important narratives in this tradition into one volume for the first time, an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and general readers. Clean copy.

Record # 381599

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HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes
by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. 986 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps (some fold-out) and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 381715

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Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Our New West. Records of Travel Between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains Over the Mountains Through the Great Interior Basin Over the Sierra Nevadas To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast... Including a full

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hartford Publishing Co., 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering and design, embossed rules to covers. 524 pages. Detailed records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast on the newly completed transcontinental railroad. Includes much information on the Mormons, Salt Lake City, Indians, gold mining, etc. 12 engraved plates and one map. Bookplate on inside front cover, light fading to spine gilt. Solid, clean copy.

Record # 382021

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That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationshipby: Tombs, Robert; Tombs, Isabelle

That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
by: Tombs, Robert; Tombs, Isabelle

Softcover. NY, Vintage, 1st pbk, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship--rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection--and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Clean copy.

Record # 382131

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Hyde Park, Vermont: Shire Town of Lamoille County by: Bicentennial Committee

Hyde Park, Vermont: Shire Town of Lamoille County
by: Bicentennial Committee

Hyde Park VT, Town of Hyde Park , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt. 196 pages, b/w plates, maps. Clean copy, like new.

Record # 382390

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FOR MUNSINGWEAR UNION SUITS: Mother and Daughterby: N/A

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FOR MUNSINGWEAR UNION SUITS: Mother and Daughter
by: N/A

Minneapolis MN, Northwestern Knitting Co., 1918, Book: Very Good,

Record # 382629

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From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fairby: Fox, Timothy J. And Duane R. Sneddeker

From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fair
by: Fox, Timothy J. And Duane R. Sneddeker

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Perfect binding is tight. Interior is clean. Recreates, in words and pictures, the visual and emotional impact of the 1904 World's Fair. Using over two hundred images from the Missouri Historical Society's Photographs and Prints Collection, many reproduced from rare glass-plate negatives, From the Palaces to the Pike offers a tour of the St. Louis World's Fair that has been unavailable for nearly a century. Following an introduction that explains how the park was transformed into the World's Fair, the book takes readers inside the big exhibit palaces, brings them face-to-face with "human exhibits," and transports them over the fair grounds in hard-to-find aerial views. Special chapters also provide views of the Fair's entertainment district, known as the Pike, and of the 1904 Olympic Games. After the Fair, "the palaces crumbled, the exhibits dispersed, the Pike gave way to the mansions on Lindell Boulevard, and the fantasy land was reconfigured back into Forest Park," Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383214

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The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesarby: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesar
by: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

Hardcover. Dublin, Brett Smith, 1st thus, 1788, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound. 553 pages plus Index of Proper Names. Uncommon translation from Ireland. Hawkey was a Reverend and Master of the Free-School in Dundalk. "The Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest. The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present-day France and Belgium). "His Commentaries of the Civil War" is an account written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate. It covers the events of 49-48 BC, from shortly before Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus and flight to Egypt with Caesar in pursuit. It closes with Pompey assassinated, Caesar attempting to mediate rival claims to the Egyptian throne, and the beginning of the Alexandrian War. Prelim pages gone so the book opens on the title page. Interior pages bright with no foxing, firm binding. Light wear to covers, front cover with partial split along spine, Otherwise clean.

Record # 383404

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Nantucket's Shipwrecks and Railroadby: Harry B. Turner

Nantucket's Shipwrecks and Railroad
by: Harry B. Turner

Softcover. Nantucket MA, The Inquirer and Mirror, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 60 pages, b&w illustrations. Some text, but Largely a collection of black and white historical photos of Nantucket Island shipwrecks and trains with captions. Clean copy.

Record # 383683

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Greeters' Guide to Washingtonby: N/A

Greeters' Guide to Washington
by: N/A

Softcover. Washington DC, Greeters of America, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled tan wrappers. Compliments of the Arlington Hotel. Giving Location and description of principal points of interest, public buildings, etc., etc., illustrated with reproductions of latest photographs. 72 pages with a foldout map. in rear. In addition there is second, different street map of Washington's streets laid in. Folds out to approx, 20 X 23". All in very good condition.

Record # 383828

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The Search after Truth and Elucidations of the Search after Truth by: Malebranche Nicolas; Ed. Thomas M. Lennon & Paul J. Olscamp

The Search after Truth and Elucidations of the Search after Truth
by: Malebranche Nicolas; Ed. Thomas M. Lennon & Paul J. Olscamp

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, giltlettering on spine.861 pages including index. Pencil underling to a few pages. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 383978

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California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress Mapping the States through Historyby: Vincent Virga and Ray J

California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress Mapping the States through History
by: Vincent Virga and Ray J

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Globe Pequot Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps and narrative captions. 9 x 10, 447 pages, color maps & illustrations, notes, maroon endpapers. Hardcover in color pictorial boards, in translucent jacket.

Record # 385365

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Empire or Independence 1760 1776: A British American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution by: Christie, Ian R., Laraber, Benjamin W.

Empire or Independence 1760 1776: A British American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution
by: Christie, Ian R., Laraber, Benjamin W.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385545

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Teheran: Our Path in War and Peace by: Browder, Earl

Teheran: Our Path in War and Peace
by: Browder, Earl

Softcover. NY, International Publishers, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Author was leader of the American communist party, and the Teheran he refers to, is the meeting between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt in Teheran in 1943, and Brewstewr's wish to maintain the colalition post war. Clean, light shelf wear.

Record # 385720

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Europe in the Sixteenth Centuryby: Koenigsberger, H. G. and George L. Mosse

Europe in the Sixteenth Century
by: Koenigsberger, H. G. and George L. Mosse

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon stamping. 399 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386028

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Burma: The Longest War, 1941-1945by: Allen, Louis

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-1945
by: Allen, Louis

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W plates and maps; Large 8vo 9' - 10' tall; 686 pages; 'Allen's work deals primarily with the human elements of the forgotten war waged between the doomed empires of Great Britain and Japan in Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945. The author's familiarity with Japanese sources enables him to strike a balance unusual in Western accounts. Allen's Japanese are as much prisoners of their culture as the British are of theirs. They are victims of incompetent command and inadequate logistics. They do not want to die, but their ready acceptance of death lends a special horror to Allen's descriptions of some of the century's most vicious fighting.' Clean bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 386371

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