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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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Earth Transformed, The: An Untold Historyby: Frankopan, Peter

Earth Transformed, The: An Untold History
by: Frankopan, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 2023, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 695 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Color and b/w illustrations throughout, including maps. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent condition. Yellow cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine.

Record # 99049

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Bergen County History. 1976 Annualby: Tholl, Claire K., Editor

Bergen County History. 1976 Annual
by: Tholl, Claire K., Editor

Softcover. River Edge NJ, Bergen County Historical Society, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 103 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 386425

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Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empireby: Dickey, Eleanor

Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire
by: Dickey, Eleanor

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages. Learn Latin from the Romans is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners. These texts, the 'colloquia', consist of dialogues and narratives about daily life similar to those found in modern-language textbooks today, introducing learners to Roman culture as well as to Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way. Students and instructors will find everything they need in one complete volume, including clear explanations of grammatical concepts and how Latin works, both British and American orders for all noun and adjective paradigms, 5,000 easy practice sentences, and over 150 longer passages (from the colloquia and a diverse range of other sources including inscriptions, graffiti, and Christian texts as well as Catullus, Cicero, and Virgil). Written by a leading Latin linguist with decades of language teaching experience, this textbook is suitable for introductory Latin courses worldwide. Clean copy.

Record # 386562

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Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944 - Volume 7 in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War IIby: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944 - Volume 7 in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, 369 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386584

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Old Bergen (NJ): History and Reminiscences by: Daniel Van Winkle

Old Bergen (NJ): History and Reminiscences
by: Daniel Van Winkle

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages, b&w illustrations. The village of Bergen, established in 1660, was the first permanent settlement in New Jersey. Now known as Hoboken and Jersey City, the marshy land on which Bergen was founded is just across the Hudson River from New York. At the beginning of this century, when this book was written((1902), the Bergen region was still known for an old-fashioned charm. Mr. Van Winkle used sources such as colonial and revolutionary documents, old newspaper articles and individual's reminiscences to compile this pleasant and enjoyable history. Light pencil marking to 10 pages.

Record # 386883

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Considerations on Religion and Public Education (1st American Edition, 1794), and Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) by: More, Hannah /Bu

Considerations on Religion and Public Education (1st American Edition, 1794), and Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793)
by: More, Hannah /Bu

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 23 and 27 pages, introduction by Claudis Johnson. Facsimile reprints of two pamphlets written to benefit priests who were expelled by the revolutionary French Government. Both authors championed causes to relieve their plight. Clean copy.

Record # 386969

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The Myth of Hiawatha: And other oral legends, mythologic and allegoric, of the North American Indianby: Schoolcraft, Henry

The Myth of Hiawatha: And other oral legends, mythologic and allegoric, of the North American Indian
by: Schoolcraft, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Kraus Reprint, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, 341 pages. A reprint of a book first published in 1856. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 378012

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High School Memory Book/ Proctor, Vermontby: Nina Marion Eckley

High School Memory Book/ Proctor, Vermont
by: Nina Marion Eckley

Hardcover. Proctor VT, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A unique personal diary filled with written entries, ephemera and photographs, all related to the Class of 1918 at Proctor High School in Vermont. Inscriptions and messages from teachers and classmates. Dozens of photographs, programs, clippings, tickets, etc. The owner, Nina Eckley (1900-1989) is listed in a couple school play programs. The "Commencement Memory Book" was published by Dodd Mead in 1916. This item captures the spirit of the times better than any scholarly work.

Record # 387387

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The Killing of Crazy Horse by: Thomas Powers

The Killing of Crazy Horse
by: Thomas Powers

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a crime. A rich cast of characters, whites and Indians alike, passes through this story, including Red Cloud, the chief who dominated Oglala history for fifty years but saw in Crazy Horse a dangerous rival; No Water and Woman Dress, both of whom hated Crazy Horse and schemed against him; the young interpreter Billy Garnett, son of a fifteen-year-old Oglala woman and a Confederate general killed at Gettysburg; General George Crook, who bitterly resented newspaper reports that he had been whipped by Crazy Horse in battle; Little Big Man, who betrayed Crazy Horse; Lieutenant William Philo Clark, the smart West Point graduate who thought he could "work" Indians to do the Army's bidding; and Fast Thunder, who called Crazy Horse cousin, held him the moment he was stabbed, and then told his grandson thirty years later, "They tricked me! They tricked me!" With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Thomas Powers recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horse's life not to lay blame but to establish what happened.

Record # 387603

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The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution by: Kennan, George F.

The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution
by: Kennan, George F.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 513 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable story: the arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387772

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A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620-1660 by: Gura, Philip F.

A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620-1660
by: Gura, Philip F.

Softcover. Wesleyan University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages. "A Glimpse of Sion's Glory" signals an important new direction in the study of American Puritanism. The presence of dissenters in the colonies was not unknown, but never before have they been seen as a major shaping force for seventeenth-century American Puritanism. Gura displays a thorough knowledge of New England dissent from 1620 to 1660. This is a ground-braking study. Clean copy.

Record # 387819

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Munich: Prologue to Tragedyby: Wheeler-Bennett, John W.

Munich: Prologue to Tragedy
by: Wheeler-Bennett, John W.

Hardcover. NY , Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor dust jacket with chipping, fading, especially to spine. Wheeler-Bennett worked as the director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs' information department. In particular, Wheeler-Bennett lived in Germany in 1927-1934 and witnessed firsthand the rise of Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Wheeler-Bennett was a critic of Appeasement, and 10 years after the Munich Agreement wrote a book condemning it. Footnotes. Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography. Index. 507 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396261

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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Laborby: Juravich, Tom, Kate Bronfenbrenner

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
by: Juravich, Tom, Kate Bronfenbrenner

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of age wear, top edge has former bookstore stamp. otherwise clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30984

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Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, The (6 volume set)by: Wharton, Francis (Editor)

Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, The (6 volume set)
by: Wharton, Francis (Editor)

Hardcover. Washington D.C., United States Government, 1st Edition, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1: 666 pages. Volume 2: 875 pages. Volume 3: 883 pages. Volume 4: 869 pages. Volume 5: 881 pages. Volume 6: 1002 pages. Domestic shipping only. Hardcovers. Complete set. Light brown leather cover boards with decorative details, red, black, gilt, raised bands and title on spine, all still bright and without fading. Some agewear to covers, rubbing, light scratches, all usual shelfwear. Pages unmarked, tanning throughout from age. Binding excellent. Spines straight. Beautiful collector's set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99200

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Taming the Land : The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plainsby: Morris , John Miller

Taming the Land : The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains
by: Morris , John Miller

Hardcover. College Station TX, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 232 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. "Taming the Land" presents, in a large, detailed format, photographic postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. Each entry includes this historical context of the photo.

Record # 350971

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Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864by: Parkhurst, Henry M.

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864
by: Parkhurst, Henry M.

Hardcover. NY, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 175 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering. Originally published in 1864 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Introduction by William Lloyd Garrison, President. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396462

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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet Itby: Hinton Rowan Helper

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
by: Hinton Rowan Helper

Hardcover. NY, Burdick Brothers, reprint, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ninth thousand. The Impending Crisis is often considered the only popular antislavery work by a southern author prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Helper (1829-1909)'s argument that "slavery was economically unsound" caused this work to be "officially banned in the South"; in the North, it "vied in popularity and influence with Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Howes). The book stoked fears among southern slaveholders that the "North would promote a class conflict among southern whites," and helped drive many towards secessionism. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Otherwise a clean copy in exceptionally nice condition.

Record # 397170

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The Cardinal and the Secretary: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell by: Neville Williams

The Cardinal and the Secretary: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell
by: Neville Williams

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396482

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Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 46.by: Smith (ed), Melvin T.

Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 46.
by: Smith (ed), Melvin T.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Utah Historical Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Brown cloth cover, slightly oversized, gilt lettering, very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 852898

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Cultures of United States Imperialism by: Kaplan, Amy and Donald E Pease (Editors)

Cultures of United States Imperialism
by: Kaplan, Amy and Donald E Pease (Editors)

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 672 pages. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. Clean copy.

Record # 396521

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Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey From Burlington Bay to the Hudson River (SIGNED COPY)by: Cohn, Arthur B.

Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey From Burlington Bay to the Hudson River (SIGNED COPY)
by: Cohn, Arthur B.

Hardcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED by author Arthur B. Cohn on title page. Dust jacket worn, with light sunning and tearing. Related article laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 454067

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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30 1945 by: Hachiya, Michihiko

Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30 1945
by: Hachiya, Michihiko

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Endpaper maps. Day-by-day eye witness account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the seven weeks that followed. Dr. Hachiya, himself wounded in the blast, was director of a major Hiroshima hospital. Translated and edited by Warner Wells, M.D. One of the best first hand accounts; much on the the gradual "discovery" of radiation sickness. The dust jacket's rear panel has photo of the author's surviving family. Bookplate opposite half-title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396626

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Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflictby: Engelstein, Laura

Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict
by: Engelstein, Laura

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, map endpapers. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small sticker on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453509

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The Bloody Massacre: Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regimentby: n/a

The Bloody Massacre: Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston, on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment
by: n/a

Hardcover. Barre, Ma, Imprint Society, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration by Paul Revere. Gray cloth cover boards with title paste on. Small bump on spine. Together with a print of the event taken from the plate engraved by Paul Revere, the report from the Boston Gazette, and a note by Dr. Richard Hale. "Nineteen hundred & fifty copies of this presentation book have been printed for the members of Imprint Society. The engraving of the Boston Massacre was pulled by hand from Paul Revere's original copperplate by Anderson-Lamb of Brooklyn. This is copy number 1822."

Record # 99235

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The Land of Hunger by: Camporesi, Piero

The Land of Hunger
by: Camporesi, Piero

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Polity Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages, In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe. Camporesi brings together a mosaic of images from Italian folklore: phantasmagoric processions of giants, pigs, vagabonds, down-trodden rogues, charlatans and beggars in rags. He reconstructs a world inhabited by the strange forces of peasant culture, and describes the various rituals - carnivals, festivities, competitions and funerals - in which food played a central role. NOTE: light pencil making to many pages.

Record # 379851

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Genealogies of New Jersey Families From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (TWO VOLUMES)by: Joseph R. Klett (Ed.)

Genealogies of New Jersey Families From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (TWO VOLUMES)
by: Joseph R. Klett (Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, matching black cloth covers with gilt stamping. Vol. 1, 1139 pages, Families A-Z, Pre-American Notes on Old New Netherland Families. Vol. II, 1087 pages, A Genealogical History of New Jersey/Bible Records of New Jersey. Clean, bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397379

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Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptionsby: Sandra R. Joshel

Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions
by: Sandra R. Joshel

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 239 pages. In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the significance of work-as a source of community, a way to reframe the conditions of legal status, an assertion of activity against upper-class passivity, and a standard of assessment based on economic achievement rather than birth. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and women's history, this thoroughly documented volume illuminates the dynamics of work and slavery at Rome. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean, unread.

Record # 374978

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Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]

Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's
by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]

Softcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 452 pages. This book covers the Massachusetts Convention of 1820-21; New York State Convention of 1821; and the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, along with numerous tables. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397449

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Scary Screen, The: Media Anxiety in The Ringby: Lacefield (Ed.), Kristin

Scary Screen, The: Media Anxiety in The Ring
by: Lacefield (Ed.), Kristin

Hardcover. London, Ashgate, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Silver gilt on spine. 'Like "the ring" itself, this book is viral: it gathers into itself literature and film, disease and survival, cultural studies and aesthetics, Japan and America, technology and the family. We won't read Suzuki's novels or watch the films in the same way again. A thoroughly readable and teachable text!' Steven Bruhm, Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English, The University of Western Ontario, and author of Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic 'Taking as its point of departure the phenomenon of The Ring in all its manifestations"the Japanese novel, the Japanese film, the American film, and the various sequels"The Scary Screen offers an in-depth and sustained speculation about the anxiety created by the development of communication technologies. The collection introduces startling insights into the relationship between changes in media forms and widespread fears of contagion, while also identifying a new universal form of horror that has emerged in recent decades as the status of reproduction"both technological and biological"has undergone a profound transformation. The essays included here represent a powerful theoretical response to this transformation.' Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, and author of The Impossible David Lynch and The Real Gaze '... The Scary Screen is a useful contribution to studies of The Ring, horror film, and cultural anxieties evoked by technology.' Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Record # 470131

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The Character of John Adamsby: Shaw, Peter

The Character of John Adams
by: Shaw, Peter

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages, b&w illustrations. Published for the Williamsburg, VA Institute of Early American History & Culture. Instead of recounting, in detail, the public events of John Adams's extraordinary career, Peter Shaw views as a whole Adams's character, thought, and acts, personalizing for the reader the most remote of our Founding Fathers. This compact but comprehensive biography brilliantly portrays the poignant revelations of John Adams's inner life implicit in the recently released Adams family manuscripts. The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by the author's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Adams's behavior appears less eccentric when viewed in the context of its origin in the village life of eighteenth~century Massachusetts; and his politics and ideas appear less abstractly motivated when viewed in the light of the evolution of his character. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397537

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Hope and Fear in Washington (The Early Seventies) The Story of the Washington Press Corps by: Collier, Barney (Maggi Castelloe, Photographs)

Hope and Fear in Washington (The Early Seventies) The Story of the Washington Press Corps
by: Collier, Barney (Maggi Castelloe, Photographs)

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 254 pages, b&w photos by Maggi Castelloe. In the early seventies, when the press and the President were at war, Washington journalists became superstars. A profile of the era. Clean copy.

Record # 381480

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The Dusky Afternoon: An Oregon Childhood by: Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

The Dusky Afternoon: An Oregon Childhood
by: Sara Jeanne Duncan Widness

Softcover. Luminare Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 138 pages. This memoir immerses the reader in post-World War II rural Oregon where logging trucks laden with timber rumbled along gravel roads and moonshine was secreted in nearby shadows. Here a man's measure was taken not by his wealth or success but by his toil, and a woman was assessed not by her virtues but by her virtue. Rivers and reputations rose and fell swiftly. Electricity came to this rural area almost to the day the girl and her family arrived at the farm. Lowell and Fall Creek were charged for change. Even though families of pioneers and newcomers together celebrated in 1948 the centennial of the Oregon Territory, the landscape flush with virgin forests and rivers in very short time changed exponentially. Clean copy.

Record # 397651

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Land to the West: St. Brendan's Voyage to Americaby: Ashe, Geoffrey

Land to the West: St. Brendan's Voyage to America
by: Ashe, Geoffrey

Hardcover. London, England, Collins, 1st UK Edition, 1962, 352 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Before Columbus, before the Vikings, did Ireland's St. Brendan make a North Atlantic crossing?

Record # 32390

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Australian Commandos: Their Secret War Against the Japanese in WWII by: Feuer A. B. /foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure

Australian Commandos: Their Secret War Against the Japanese in WWII
by: Feuer A. B. /foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure

Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 194 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a fascinating account of Australia's M/Z commando unit and the part it played in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. M Unit personnel were secretly landed to set up coast-watching posts and radio stations to monitor Japanese shipping movements and bombing flights. Members of the Z Unit carried out raids in enemy-controlled areas and also attacked targets of opportunity. Many commandos were delivered on their missions by U.S. Navy submarines that sneaked into dangerously shallow waters to put the men ashore. Other operatives were inserted by PT boats, Catalina aircraft, parachute, and snake boats. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397851

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Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 3: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Sept. 3 1658 to Dec. 30 1661 Inclusive by: Fernow,

Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 3: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Sept. 3 1658 to Dec. 30 1661 Inclusive
by: Fernow,

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 346 pages. VOLUME 3 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386532

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Coaching Roads of Old New England: Their Inns and Taverns and Their Stories by: George Francis Marlowe

Coaching Roads of Old New England: Their Inns and Taverns and Their Stories
by: George Francis Marlowe

Hardcover. NY, The MacMillan Co., 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 200 pages. Endpaper maps, b&w illustrations by the author. Inns and colorful personalities of Groton, Hanover and Old Boston Post Road. Five of the principal routes of New England's earlier days are the focus of this book. With these routes, the writer recalls much of the romance of these ancient highways over which our ancestors jogged on horseback with saddlebags, in jolting stage-wagons, or in the later Concord coach. Clean copy.

Record # 397998

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Floating West: The Erie and Other American Canalsby: Bourne, Russell

Floating West: The Erie and Other American Canals
by: Bourne, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Discusses the history and technology of the Erie Canal, examines some of the famous and infamous people involved with its construction, describes how other canals were built as a result of its success, and discusses how "Great Western" opened up the west.

Record # 2230235

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The Steamboats of Lake Champlain 1809-1930by: Ogden Ross

The Steamboats of Lake Champlain 1809-1930
by: Ogden Ross

Hardcover. Vermont Heritage Press, Revised Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a rubbed, edgeworn dust jacket. Pictorial end papers. B&w illustrations throughout. Intact foldout of "Shelburne Shipyard in Winter" in winter circa 1920. This new edition adds essays by Arthur B. Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, on Lake Champlain steamboats and ferries and recent developments in Champlain Valley Maritime archaeology. Clean copy.

Record # 398146

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Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, Aby: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Brief but most complete & true Account of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Pelham Westchester County State of New York, A
by: Barr (Ed.), Lockwood

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.

Record # 412406

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The Development of Central and Western New York: From the Arrival of the White Man to the Eve of the Civil War by: Mau, Clayton

The Development of Central and Western New York: From the Arrival of the White Man to the Eve of the Civil War
by: Mau, Clayton

Hardcover. Rochester NY, Du Bois Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules, 444 pages. Written with numerous extracts from period sources. This is a social and economic history of the settlement of the lands west of the Mohawk River. Well done. Includes notes, appendices & index. A nice copy. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398283

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Verdun - Argonne (1914-1918)by: Michelin Co.

Verdun - Argonne (1914-1918)
by: Michelin Co.

France, Michelin & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Guide book to WW1 battlefield, illust. with black & white photos, maps (color two-page of Verdun). End-pages with ads. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Dust jacket in excellent condition.

Record # 501092

Price: $25.00 
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Stampede to the Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Coloradoby: Wolle, Muriel Sibell

Stampede to the Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado
by: Wolle, Muriel Sibell

Hardcover. Boulder CO, self-published, reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red decoration, 544 pages.Comprehensive look at 240 mining camps across the state of Colorado, with black-and-white sketches made from photos & 18 maps drawn by the author. Unfortunately, while the book is in very good condition, it does have a noticeable MUSTY smell.

Record # 398791

Price: $18.00 
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Regulations for the Uniformed Force of the Fire Department of the City of New Yorkby: Loftus (Fire Chief and Fire Commander), Peter and Jacob Grumet

Regulations for the Uniformed Force of the Fire Department of the City of New York
by: Loftus (Fire Chief and Fire Commander), Peter and Jacob Grumet

Hardcover. New York, New York Fire Department, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of individual pamphlets, bulletins, and illustrated instructions all bound between brown wooden boards with a metal binder. All dated 1958 and 1959. 442 pages total plus an index and supplemental directives in rear. Wear, light soil to covers, otherwise a sound, clean copy of this scarce volume of fire regulations.

Record # 353632

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Guide to the History and the Historic Sites of Connecticut (2 volumes)by: Crofut, Florence S. Marcy

Guide to the History and the Historic Sites of Connecticut (2 volumes)
by: Crofut, Florence S. Marcy

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 973 pages over two volumes, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. No dust jackets. Minor wear to covers, else a neat, clean set.

Record # 854712

Price: $150.00 
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Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in themby: Leader, Scott

Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in them
by: Leader, Scott

Hardcover. Florence, Flor & Findel, 3rd, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Tipped in illustrations and photographs. Age discoloration to pages, beveled brown leather over covers with three bands on spine continued on front and back cover ending in flor de lis decoration. Rubbing all edges. front and rear hinge cracked.

Record # 408290

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History of Ireland from the Invasion by Henry the Second to the Present Times, Theby: Dolby, William

History of Ireland from the Invasion by Henry the Second to the Present Times, The
by: Dolby, William

Hardcover. New York, Virtue and Yorston, 1864, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 477 pages plus index. Black & white plate illustrations with tissue guards. Leather spine and corners. Raised bands on spine. Tear to one illustration page. Rear fly leaf almost completely torn out. Previous owner's signature on front end paper and front fly leaf. Edgewear. Wear to corners. Soiling and tears to pages. Creasing to pages and tissue guards.

Record # 506624

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Paris in the Third Reich: A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944 by: David Pryce-Jones

Paris in the Third Reich: A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944
by: David Pryce-Jones

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, 294 pages. Depicts the German occupation of Paris during World War II from the perspectives of both the defeated Parisians and the victorius Germans, accompanied by 116 contemporary photographs in b&w, some color. Clean copy.

Record # 374123

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The Highlands of Phrygia; Sites and Monuments: Vol. I, Text; Vol. II, Plates (2 Volumes)by: Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie

The Highlands of Phrygia; Sites and Monuments: Vol. I, Text; Vol. II, Plates (2 Volumes)
by: Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spines. Emilie Haspels (1894 - 1980), a Dutch archeologist, tells about her excavation of Midas City that we nowadays know to have been the religious center of the Phrygian empire (9th - 7th century BC). She also writes about the adventurous quest for Phrygian rock-cut monuments in a romantic landscape that is still intact today. Woven into the presentation of her archaeological findings, she tells about the customs and culture in rural Turkey before and after World War II. Volume I - text, 421 pages. Volume II - 640 b&w photographic plates and plans. Very clean set, no dust jackets.

Record # 372735

Price: $120.00 
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Exercises Attending the Unveiling and Presentation of a Statue of Gen. Ethan Allen by: N/A

Exercises Attending the Unveiling and Presentation of a Statue of Gen. Ethan Allen
by: N/A

Softcover. Burlington VT, Free Press, 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 66 pages. Reprints an oration by L.E. Chittenden. Mild wear, crease to front wrapper, chipping to paper on spine. Clean.

Record # 387909

Price: $25.00 
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