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.
Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 559 pages. "Behind the Bamboo Curtain is an important collection of essays on Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War An excellent contribution from a Vietnamese historian and well-documented chapters on Soviet and French policy further augment the importance of the volume. The contributors make extensive use of primary documents from the United States, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, and Russia and offer authoritative analyses." -- The Journal of Cold War Studies. Claen, unread copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & light grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with ligh wrinkles. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover ina worn, rubbed dust jacket. 340 pages. Essays exploring the impact of Church law on medieval legal theory. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Wright & Potter/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 202 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth binding with gilt decoration. Some rubbing, light residue to covers, back hinge partially cracked. Interior very good.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam & Co, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in one. 267, 248, and 100 pages respectively. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Heavy spotting to endpapers, title page, and spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature and stamp on front flyleaf, bookplate on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Markings on top edge. Damp stains, wear, rubbing, and soiling to cover.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. David Irving's The Trail of the Fox is the best work on Rommel ever written. The circumstances around Rommel's involvement with the attempt on Hitler's life, which is the most speculated aspect of Rommel's life, and how the Gestapo came to believe Rommel was involved, have not been made clear in most of the historiography on Rommel. Irving pieces together what really happened most effectively. There are so many strengths of this book, of which the greatest is probably the fact Irving had access to Rommel's dairy and many of his letters, which he got permission from the family to view. Other items he found in collections in the United States, England, and Germany. Since he worked on this in the 1970's he also was able to interview a number of German officers who were still alive that knew and served with Rommel. The whole work is the way historical research should be done; totally reliant on primary source material, and ignores secondary sources that often use conjecture or just repeat incorrect narratives from earlier books. Every source is from people who fought the war; Germans, Italians, British, French and American officers who were in these campaigns and had either first hand observation of Rommel or were major participants like Eisenhower, Churchill, Goebbels, etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket. 575 pages, b&w illustrations. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy--not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such as Second City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was--Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period's satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. Clean copy.
London, Independent Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. Target Dresden chronicles the development of bombing from the earliest days through the Zeppelin and Gotha raids of the First World War to the development of strategic bombing of WWII and examines how it affected post war thinking. Packed with facts Target Dresden gives the story behind the raids which were the most controversial conventional bombing attacks of World War Two.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, photographs throughout. Egypt After the Pharoahs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, cultural, and intellectual ferment of this period comes alive in Alan Bowman's narrative. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. Crissy, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Title page plus 10 double-page maps, printed on one side. Maps are b&w, NOT hand-colored. Plates engraved by J. Yeager. Maroon cloth spine and corners, brown boards with paper label on front. Front endpaper with library stamp, rear endpaper with light water stain, not affecting maps which are in bright, clean condition, no foxing.
Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas. Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire, to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands. This edition also features a selection of Higginson's essays, including "Nat Turner's Insurrection" and "Emily Dickinson's Letters." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Publishing Group, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket & slipcase. Mustard cloth boards with black printed titles to spine. Full page, full color illustrations protected with tissue guards throughout. Frontis illustration, Man Playing the Samisen, in full color & protected with a tissue guard. Chronological chart of Japanese Humor tipped-in. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, lightly price-clipped to corners. Plain slipcase with creases, light wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Other Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 584 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Publishers note within. A tight copy.
Softcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1st Edition, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover pamphlet with string binding. Buff, textured endpapers, some tanning throughout from age. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has some moisture staining and other soil, but otherwise very good and intact (see image).
Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 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.
Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 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.In 1863 Horace Porter, then a captain, met Ulysses S. Grant as Grant commenced the campaign that would break the Confederate siege at Chattanooga. After a brief stint in Washington, Porter rejoined Grant, who was now in command of all Union forces, and served with him as a staff aide until the end of the war. Porter was at Appomattox as a brevet brigadier general, and this work, written from notes taken in the field, is his eyewitness account of the great struggle between Lee and Grant that led to the defeat of the Confederacy.
Softcover. Lima, Librerias A. B. C., Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover with light marginal wear to wraps. Bright photograph, Young Hiram Bingham in Front of Tent, to front wrap in bw. Full page, full color photographs throughout. Very clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, University Microfilms, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Reproduction of a thesis written in 1970 for a PHD at Syracuse University. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprints, 1913/1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spines, top edge gilt. Vol. 1: 1850-1854, 506 pages, title page dated 1913. Vol. 2: 1854-1860, 541 pages, title page dated 1914. NOTE: These are the first two volumes of what became an 8-volume set. Name on front fly leaf in both copies, otherwise lean bright copies.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, 424 pages. 98 Black & white and 25 color illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Color illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guard. Light edgewear to covers. Rear and front hinge cracked.
Hardcover. Osceola, WI, MBI, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Printers error and weak glue has caused signatures to separate from glued binding and protrude slightly. Otherwise a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. Orleans MA, Lower Cape Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches with map end sheets. 264 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, A two-volume set, taupe-colored cloth boards with gilt decorated illustration of Rome on front cover. Top edge gilt. Vol I: Fold-out map of Rome as frontis., 332 pages, 14 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Vol II: Photo of St. Peters Square as frontis., 344 pages, 13 photogravure plates with tissue guards, numerous line illustrations in the text. Light soil to covers, both volumes with mild residue to inside covers where bookplate may have been removed. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 277 pages. Starting in the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse shifted away from the "color" of immigrants to their religion and culture. It focused in particular on newcomers from Muslim countries--people feared both as terrorists and as products of tribal societies with values opposed to those of secular Western Europe. Leo Lucassen tackles the question of whether the integration process of these recent immigrants will fundamentally differ in the long run (over multiple generations) from the experiences of similar immigrant groups in the past. For comparison, Lucassen focuses on "large and problematic groups" from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Lucassen emphasizes that the geographic sources of the "threat" have changed and that contemporaries tend to overemphasize the threat of each successive wave of immigrants, in part because the successfully incorporated immigrants of the past have become invisible in national histories. Clean copy.
Softcover. West Lafayette IN, Purdue University Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 529 pages, b&w illustrations. Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans-Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic-who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing-directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation-also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.
Softcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House years longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic policies and the war's ongoing cost. Despite gravely deteriorating health, FDR and his feisty running mate, the unexpected Harry Truman, campaigned vigorously against young governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and old-line Ohio governor John Bricker. Roosevelt's charm and wit, as well as the military successes in Europe and the Pacific, contributed to his sweeping electoral victory. But the hard-fought campaign would soon take its toll on America's only four-term president. Preeminent historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub recaptures FDR's striking "last campaign" and the year's momentous events, from the rainy city streets where Roosevelt, his legs paralyzed by polio since 1922, rode in an open car, to the battlefronts where the commander-in-chief's forces were closing in on Hitler and Hirohito.
Hardcover. Hildesheim GR, Edition Olms, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the "St. Paul Pioneer Press. "
Hardcover. Fort Worth, TCU Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes,. Volume 1 - 164 pages. Ceremonial Dance, Ritual and Song. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear plastic protective cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 323 pages. Myths, Legends and Folktales. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Seaforth Publications, 3rd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations throughout. What began as a scrapbook and a photo album now emerges as a coherent narrative, which one Edistonian has rightly said "will educate those who should know Edisto's history." The Sea Islands are unique, and some are yet unspoiled--Edisto least of all, perhaps. Opening this new door into the past may also open a more informed path into the future. Ninety two pages from eariest history to the 1970's, when the barrier island were mostly ignored. Lots of information about hurricanes, Colonial Times, Plantation days, and after the Civil War. Mrs. Puckette became a well known South Carolina writer. Inscroption on inside cover, otherwise clean.
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.
Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Journal Office, 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 612 pages. Maroon cloth covers, gilt decoration and lettering on spine and cover with stamped decorations. Corner and edge wear, fading to spine. Decorative stain on all page edges. Tissue guarded illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Binding cracked in multiple places.
Softcover. NY, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. Offers a unique account of Marxist theories of Imperialism. It has been fully updated and expanded to cover all the developments since its initial publication and will be essential reading for any student of Marxism or Imperialism. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, sticker residue on front of dust jacket. 392 pages. Written in the 1840's these are Thomas Bang Thorpe's sketches of the old Southwest, Edited, with a Critical Introduction and Textual Commentary, by David C. Estes .
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white photos. 347 pages. Super bright copy with gilt design, lettering on cover. Top edge gilt.
Hardcover. Hamden CT, Archon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of title page. Faint damp smell. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers. Vol. 1: 586 pages. Vol. 2: 625 pages. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. An important historical work, including chapters on the Middlesex elections of 1768-69 (the first great platform campaign), the economy agitation, the legal position of the platform, the French Revolution agitation, Roman Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League, accounts of notable libel and sedition trials, etc. Clean copies with light shelf wear.
Hardcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. 374 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Saratoga Springs hosted no more than a thousand hardy travelers yearly, Newport floundered in the midst of a fifty-year commercial decline, and Coney Island's beach resembled a wind-swept wilderness. A hundred years later, the number of summer visitors to Saratoga had increased a hundredfold, the antics of high society at Newport transfixed America, and at least five million pleasure seekers visited Coney annually. 'Those who talk of the mushroom growth of our Western cities,' declared an astounded writer for Harper's Weekly in 1878, 'might better spend their wonder and enthusiasm upon our Eastern watering-place.'" -- From the Introduction. Fifty-nine illustrations enliven Sterngass's unique study of the commodification of pleasure that occurred as capitalist values flourished, travel grew more accessible, and leisure time became democratized.
Hardcover. Freeport ME, Bond Wheelwright Co. , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 204 pages, b&w illustrations. The author, great grandson of Captain Barry, contextualizes the captain's correspondence and journals with information about transportation, economic conditions and the ice trade of the 19th century. Documents vessels commanded by Capt. Barry, including the James Perkins, Oakland, Madagascar, Delhi and William Lord. Glossary of sea terms; bibliography. Name stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Princeton Providence, Princeton University Press / Brown University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers. Complete in two volumes. Volume I: The Journals of Clermont-Crevecoeur, Verger, and Berthier. Volume II: The Itineraries, Maps, Views. Both volumes are fine in near fine unclipped dust jackets. Housed in a lightly rubbed slipcase that has a chip to one of the pictorial labels. INSCRIBED BY CO-EDITOR ANNE BROWN on the half title page in Vol. 1. Mild residue to prelim page in Vol. 2, otherwise nice, clean and unmarked. Vol. 1: 351 pages, Vol. 2: 362 pages, color and b&w illustrations, indexed, fold out maps. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 477 pages, b&w illustrations. Offers an illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. This work examines the ideology and practices that underlay the reign of the phallus. It demonstrates that classical Athens was more sexually polarized and repressive of women than any other culture in Western history. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This obsession with the phallus dominated almost every aspect of public life, influencing law, myth, and customs, affecting family life, the status of women, even foreign policy. This is the first book to draw together all the elements that made up the "reign of the phallus"--Men's blatant claim to general dominance, the myths of rape and conquest of women, and the reduction of sex to a game of dominance and submission, both of women by men and of men by men. In her elegant and lucid text Eva Keuls not only examines the ideology and practices that underlay the reign of the phallus, but also uncovers an intense counter-movement--the earliest expressions of feminism and antimilitarism. Clean, bright copy, lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Pasadena MD, Minerva Center, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 110 pages, b&w illustrations. As the debate on the role of women in the military continues, an interesting historical footnote has been brought forth: the publication of the only known surviving set of letters of one of the estimated 400 women who disguised themselves as men to fight as soldiers in the Civil War. Born on a farm in New York in 1843, Wakeman was the oldest of nine children. Few details of her family life are known, nor what exactly precipitated her flight into the army, but glimpses of this strong-minded woman are provided throughout: "I am as independent as a hog on the ice. If it is God's will for me to fall in the field of battle, it is my will to go and never return home." Private Wakeman did not return home: she is buried under her masculine pseudonym. How many more women were buried as men? Civil War historian Burgess provides an intriguing introduction to what is sure to become an area of growing interest. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.