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Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 721 pages, many b&w illustrations, come color. John Brewster's landmark book shows us how British artists, amateurs, entrepeneurs, and audiences created a culture that is still celebrated for its wit and brilliance. Light notations to five pages, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Leipzig, K.F. Koehler, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title block on spine and a gilt design of a naval battlship on the front cover. 166 pages. b&w plates, GERMAN TEXT. Inscription in German on front fly leaf dated 1934. Copyright states 1920. Clean copy.

Hardcover. August Paul Wooster and Sons, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Unpaginated, but approx. 200 pages. Numerous b&w and color illustrations of uniforms, dress, weapons, insignias, etc, appear to be assembled from German pictorial sources. Clean, bright copy. Self-published.

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

Hardcover. Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 350 pages. Describes Israel's use of spies in Lebanon during the seventies, the secret relations between Israel and Jordan, and U.S. secret channels to the PLO. Posner focuses on violence and terrorism employed by the Palestinians in their quest for nationhood, and on inter-communal violence in the Middle East in general and more specifically in Lebanon. He treats the little-known Circassion community in Jordan, that community's role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Sadat peace initiative, and the role of the United States in seeking a peaceful resolution of the civil war in Lebanon. A good book to gain a perspective on contemporary diplomacy and Middle East politics. Clean copy.

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

Softcover. London/NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to once again produce a significant rubber crop in Brazil. Dean traces the numerous attempts to plant rubber in Brazil, including the ill-fated Ford estates, and others established by the major multinational tire companies. He also analyzes the struggles of the Brazilian government to foster rubber development, in the hope of obtaining a domestic source of supply for national industries that are now dependent on imports from Southeast Asia. Bookseller label on rear cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two-volume set, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rebecca West, 1892-1983, wrote Black Lamb & Grey Falcon after spending 6 weeks in Yugoslavia. Publication occurred at the same time as the Nazi invasion of the state. West pays tribute in the book's epigram to the thousands of civilians who lost their lives in the horrific events that followed; "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved." 32 black and white photographic plates, map endpapers to both volumes. Clean, tight bindings. Tattered dust jackets laid in. No markings. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half of Mexico, due to the wealth of records about the glorious past of this region. Mesoamerica was only one of three cultural superareas of ancient Mexico, however, all interlinked by complex economic and social relationships. Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the Postclassic states, the authors describe the ties between the three superareas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these superareas-Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica - cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico's past.

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

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 24 illustrations. Genealogical chart of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. These letters were only discovered in the 1970's at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. These letters bring new light to bear on major world and minor domestic events, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for her haemophilic children and grandchildren, from the assassination of the Tsar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Princess's Victoria's sister to marry the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter, Lady Brabourne, has provided a fascinating introduction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 368 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering. This volume concerns the economic life of Britain from 1750 to the beginning of the war of 1939. Front fly leaf with stamping, Harvard Book Store sticker. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 496 + maps. Chunk of dj gone from rear panel at top. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 296 pages, b&w illustrations. This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history. Drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, the book first demonstrates that the standard account of the Great Wall is untrue and misleading and then presents a convincing new account. It begins by tracing the various walls and systems of frontier defences that existed in early Chinese history, and shows how the greatest of these achieved a mythical symbolic stature which long survived the Wall itself. A striking concluding chapter traces how the true history of the Wall was lost in the early twentieth century as it was gradually transformed into a Chinese national symbol explained through historical myth. The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitudes, and will be of interest both to students of Chinese history and of international relations in the pre-modern world. Clean, bright copy.

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

Hardcover. Belgium, Brepols , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 696 pages, 34 b/w illustrations.The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and Francois Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France closely rivaled Britain as a colonial power, as well as leading all other nations in commodity production and participating in the slave trade. Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field, this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France, an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise, including the Royal Navy, the Academie Royale des Sciences, the Jardin du Roi, and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas. Mainly supported by the French state, the Colonial Machine reveals itself through its actions from the time of Colbert and Louis XIV as it grappled with fundamental problems facing contemporary European colonialism. SIGNED LETTER from co-author McClelland laid in. Clean copy.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 630 pages. This is an account of 110 years of turbulence and change. At the offset there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second - Bonaparte's - authoritarian. The tension between the two characterized the period and shaped the Republic that in the end emerged from the ruins of the Ancien Regime. Clean copy.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 225 pages. First published in 1930 and untranslated until now, this is one of the minor classics of French historical literature. The author relates the bizarre beginnings of the Third Republic during the presidency of Adolphe Thiers (1871-1873), when an assembly dominated by monarchists groped uncertainly toward the establishment of a republican government.

Hardcover. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Trafalgar Press, 1st, 1986 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright "(Skillfully traces the causes of the Crimean War and sketches a vivid picture of an age which made possible 'the world's most curious and unneccesary struggle'. Troubetzkoy ingeniously weaves together the varied developments in diplomacy, trade, nationalistic expression and personality conflict in the decade which led to the hostilities. The armies of the belligerents are described (and the) reader is introduced to the principal personages of the drama - Napoleon III, Marshal St. Arnaud, Lord Raglan and the great Russian engineer, Todleben, who, apart from Florence Nightingale, was the only one to earn true distinction during the War. Vividly described are Nicholas I and the Russian Empire." Clean copy.

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

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 464 pages. Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period. Spine with light fading, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caroline of Brunswick, the scandaloue wife of the future George IV, is one of history's problems. Since her death in 1821, many have tried to understand her, to make her a sympathetic character, a heroine. She defeats every effort: there is an oddity about her which is not endearing, and no sooner has one assembled her good qualities - her generosity, her courage, her kindness - than one is confronted by an utterly unforgivable piece of callousness, or mischief, or immorality. A fascinating biography. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, ribbon bookmark present. Map crisp and undamaged in front pocket. To which is added a Union-Castle East African Atlas with 12 pages of color maps followed by dozens of local business ads. Dust jacket spine with loss to top and bottom. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with faded spine, 320 pages, b&w frontis. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcover volumes. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines. 1992 reissue of 1888 edition; the book was originally written by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, an advisor to both Charles I and Charles II. One of the most significant histories of the 1642-to-1646 English Civil War, it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered. Written at first as a defense of Charles I, it was extensively revised after 1667 and became far more critical and frank, particularly in its assessments of his contemporaries. Vol. 1 with pencil notations on front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, bright set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Feral House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 224 pages. The book Horizontal Collaboration encompasses the Jazz Age, Depression, World War and Occupation, and Liberation. It concludes with the shuttering of the licensed brothels in 1946, which some Parisian intellectuals thought was the final "destruction of French civilization". The term "Horizontal Collaboration" refers to the sexual liaisons between French civilians and German occupiers from 1940 to 1944. These were extremely widespread and included both individual wartime relationships in addition to prostitution. As Allied armies swept across the French countryside, thousands of young women?and some men?were savagely punished by the authorities or by vigilante crowds, becoming a source of deep national shame. Author Gordon redefines the pejorative term to mean something much broader: French men and women "horizontally collaborated" to overcome all social obstacles, divisions, and regulations. These obstacles include married and unmarried couples, straights and homosexuals, foreigners and locals, gun-toting soldiers and their vanquished subjects. The natural yearning for sexual pleasure equally corrupted all cohabitating partners. Clean copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. London, Cassell, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. This book unravels the secrets and workings of the English parish and its effect on English society. There are 13,000 parishes in England, each with its parish church, covering the country in a network which gives identities to local communities. Two-thirds of English parishes are ancient, probably a thousand years old; one-third have been founded in the last 150 years, largely to meet the enormously increased numbers of people in big towns. One of the major themes of the book is the changing social fabric. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Mills & Boon], 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 208 pages. 9 b&w photographic plates. Charming guide to this historic section of London. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, tiny nicks to cloth corners, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Seeley & Co, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover bound in brown gilt decorated cloth, 355 pages, many b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. London, Cassell & Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards stamped in black, 82 pages with dozens of gorgeous b&w pen line drawings by Moreland. "The face of London is changing so rapidly that the time cannot be far distant when much that is recording these pages will have disappeared". As this was written in 1931, the anticipated changes came of course much sooner and much more dramatically than had been anticipated. The author has depicted Dickens' storied locations as they appeared when written. Previous owner's inscription, name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Printed by Cox, Sons and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 140 pages plus bibliography and index. A study of a little West Somerset town. 8 b&w plates. Privately printed, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Mild soil to dj, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clean, square and tight in grey pictorial embossed buckram with no internal markings. Top page edges gilt. Little Pilgrimage Series. Illustrated throughout with 33 b&w photos, etchings and small b&w engravings. Tissue present between first illustration and title page. 1904 on title page in roman numerals. Clean copy.

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

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Color frontis plus photographic b&w plates. Clean copy.

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

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 196 pages. illustrated with several maps. A study of the conflict between Morocco and Algeria over tribal areas in the Sahara. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Penguin Books, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 317 pages. The roots of apartheid. The book relates the history of a small people, the Afrikaners, and their attempts to remake their particular world according to a rational plan from the radical Right. First published in 1975. Clean copy.

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

Hardcover. London, Putnam, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rust color cover with mild soil, gilt lettering on spine, 399 pages, b&w photographic plates, most taken by the author. Memoir of life as a writer, and the nature of the Devon countryside, which the author had lately left. A series of memories, reflections and previously unused sketches of West Country life, arranged in the form of a diary and including a lengthy account of the author's 1935 visit to Germany and the "Reichsparteitag am Nurnberg" at which he was present. Clean copy, mild musty smell.

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

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st thus, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Material previously published in The Village Book, and The Labouring Life, reworked in the light of the author's later experience. Chapters include: The badger dig; The darkening of the doorway; The well; The mystery of a damp cottage; An old-world courting; A village David and Goliath; The old cob cottage; The Ackymals; Billy Goldsworthy's barn; P.C. Bullcornworthy; Cemetery or burial ground?; Billy Goldsworthy's cow; The Zeale brothers; The linhay on the downs; The fox in the moonlight.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin. In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for everybody who was anybody. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames And Hudson, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages, 91 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 162 pages, index, genealogy of kings and chiefs, bibliography, chronology, notes. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Africana Publishing , 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1929 the author was awarded a Rhodes Trust Travelling Fellowship witha vague commission to study problems of race and colour. This book contains a section of her diary, essentially as she wrote it, devoted to Southern Africa including the Rhodesias and the Congo. She addressed a huge night time meeting of African workers called by Zulu union organizer, George Champion. In Bechuanaland she met the young and capable regent; in Basutoland she accompanied an Assistant Commissioner on a long trek on horseback into the interior. Thoroughly entertaining it also sets the scene for much of what was to follow in the subsequent history of the territories she visited. Clean copy.

Chicago, University of Chicago , 6th pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w illustrations. The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 298 pages. Name on front fly, also the next blank page. Otherwise clean copy.