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Parallel Worlds: an Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa by: Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham

Parallel Worlds: an Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
by: Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages. This is a rivetting chronicle by two visitors to a complex world rarely seen by outsiders: the vibrant daily lives of West African villagers, and the parellel, invisible realm of spirits that surround them. This beautifully written memoir recounts the deepening knowledge slowly acquired by Alma Gottlieb, a cultural anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived among the Beng, a previously unstudied people of Cote d'Ivoire. Clean copy.

Record # 387828

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Pharaoh to Faroukby: Jarvis, H. Wood

Pharaoh to Farouk
by: Jarvis, H. Wood

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 299 pages. A history of Egypt beginning with the early Dynasties from 3000 BC, with very readable and detailed accounts of the more dramatic episodes, including the battles of Napoleon's invasion, the siege of Khartoum, and Kitchener's battles. Bookplate on inside front cover, small blank sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387820

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Poems of Childhood by: Field, Eugene & Parrish, Maxfield

Poems of Childhood
by: Field, Eugene & Parrish, Maxfield

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Stated on copyright page "Published, September, 1904" with Scribner seal and 1904 printed on title page A clean, unmarked copy complete with 8 color plates plus a color illustrated title page. Bound in black cloth hardcover with illustrated color pastedown on front, gilt titled spine. Printed endpapers with wonderful lobster art. NOTE: No tissue guards on plates which has caused some foxing/tanning to the color plates (mostly in the margins), no top edge gilt, A clean, sound copy otherwise.

Record # 387790

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Powder Keg: Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831-1840 by: Lorman Ratner

Powder Keg: Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831-1840
by: Lorman Ratner

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 172 pages. This study examines the realities that the Free North held a substantial population who opposed the abolition of slavery, describing the history of this phenomenon and the attendant aspects of racism towards Black Americans during this period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387890

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Prelude To The Partition Of West Africa by: Hargreaves, John D.

Prelude To The Partition Of West Africa
by: Hargreaves, John D.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in worn dust jacket, 383 pages. fold-out map, bibliographical notes. A seminal study of the infiltration of European influence into West Africa (1860s-90s) from Senegal to Cameroon, the tension between French and English leading to partition.. Light pencil marking throughout. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 387814

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Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century by: John Frederick Martin

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
by: John Frederick Martin

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Record # 387787

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Pueblo Indian Textiles: A Living Traditionby: Kent, Kate Peck

Pueblo Indian Textiles: A Living Tradition
by: Kent, Kate Peck

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, School of American Research Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Light sunning to front wrapper. Otherwise clean.

Record # 387609

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Radicals and Visionaries: A History of Dissent in New Jerseyby: Schonbach, Morris

Radicals and Visionaries: A History of Dissent in New Jersey
by: Schonbach, Morris

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 125 pages, endpapers map, 'The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 12'. A look at radicalism from colonial days forward. Mild soil to dust jacket.

Record # 387848

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Religion and The Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Studyby: R.H. Tawney

Religion and The Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study
by: R.H. Tawney

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 337 pages. In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In so doing, the book offers an incisive analysis of the morals and mores of contemporary Western culture. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is more pertinent now than ever, as today the dividing line between the spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, blending ethical considerations with the motivations of the marketplace. By examining the period that saw the transition from medieval to modern theories of social organization, Tawney clarifies the most pressing problems of the end of the century. In tough, muscular, richly varied prose, he tells an absorbing and meaningful story. And in his new introduction, which may well be a classic in its own right, Adam Seligman details Tawney's background and the current status of academic thought on these issues, and he provides a comparative analysis of Tawney with Max Weber that will at once delight and inform readers. Based on his Holland Memorial Lectures, 1922. Hinge cracked at title page. front end papers with bookplate, old ink price.

Record # 387893

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Return to Paradiseby: Breyten Breytenbach

Return to Paradise
by: Breyten Breytenbach

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The painter, writer, and political activist returns to his native South Africa, where he was once imprisoned for working for the African National Congress, and reflects on the decline of apartheid and his own attachment to the Boer state. He describes the travail of his country riven by racial conflict. He recounts his seven-year imprisonment for treason and shares the passionate love of an exile--he resides in Paris--for his native land. In the recent period of "stability laced with blood" as De Klerk and Mandela's forces struggle to maintain a precarious political equilibrium, Breytenbach has been allowed to return for visits with his Vietnamese wife. Part travelogue and part memoir, this account offers frequent political discussions about the rivalry between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. A careful observer of people, their surroundings, fauna and flora, Breytenbach weaves richly colored narrative history, local lore and personal allusions. Clean copy.

Record # 387815

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Roosevelt in the Bad Landsby: Harmann Hagedorn

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
by: Harmann Hagedorn

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering and medallion on the front panel. 491 pages, frontispiece, 53 black and white illustrations throughout. "Hagedorn gathered bit by bit the story of Roosevelt's life as a ranchman; but the main sources of material were the men and women who were Roosevelt's companions and friends. This book details Theodore Roosevelt's experience in the Badlands of North Dakota after the deaths of his mother and wife. It gives a picture of what life was like in that area with the scenery, the hunting, the cattle business and other adventures." This is an ex-lib copy with stamping, name and residue to the endpapers. Interior is clean, very good. Rear endpaper with right side of Badlands map missing.

Record # 387880

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Sarajevo-Tangoby: Hermann

Sarajevo-Tango
by: Hermann

Hardcover. Dupuis, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 56 pages illustrated in color by Hermann. French text. A graphic novel about the conflict in Sarajevo. Clean copy.

Record # 387840

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South Africa by: Jan H. Hofmeyr

South Africa
by: Jan H. Hofmeyr

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 331 pages, fold-out map in rear. Clean, bight copy.

Record # 387874

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Stalking the Good Life: My Love Affair With Nature by: Gibbons, Euell

Stalking the Good Life: My Love Affair With Nature
by: Gibbons, Euell

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 247 pages. For Gibbons the good life is sharing & enjoying nature & maintaining an environment where natural thing can flourish. Camping without polluting or plundering. Memorable journeys into the wild. Creative specific solutions to ecological poblems. Clean copy.

Record # 387865

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Stories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel: Retold from the Bible by: Celia Lottridge

Stories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel: Retold from the Bible
by: Celia Lottridge

Hardcover. Toronto, Groundwood Books , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 144 pages with color illustrations by Gary Clement. Lottridge uses her storyteller's ear to bring ancient stories from the Hebrew Bible to a young audience, tailoring them to make them more age appropriate. Sometimes blending several stories together, she introduces the familiar characters--Adam and Eve, Abraham and his kin, Moses, Daniel--and writes about them in ways that bring them near. The numerous, well-drawn ink-and-watercolor illustrations are reminiscent of Warwick Hutton's work. Clean copy.

Record # 387793

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Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure by: Lyon, Peter

Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure
by: Lyon, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. 433 pages, b&w illustrations. McClure was the father of the muckraking movement and brought about a revolution in American journalism in the days of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. His journalistic contributors included Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and he introduced authors such as O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane and Jack London to the American public. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387878

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Thank God We Kept the Flag Flying: The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith, 1899-1900 by: Griffith, Kenneth

Thank God We Kept the Flag Flying: The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith, 1899-1900
by: Griffith, Kenneth

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 398 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. About the Boer War and the rescue of the garrison at Ladysmith, Natal, under siege by 5,000 Boer farmers. One map with bottom corner torn, affecting several words on caption, otherwise very good, clean copy.

Record # 387824

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The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. Oct.-Dec. 1955by: N/A

The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. Oct.-Dec. 1955
by: N/A

Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, but around 220 pages with 125 plates. Clean copy.

Record # 387881

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The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Charles Neider/ Editor: Stephen Tatum

The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Charles Neider/ Editor: Stephen Tatum

Softcover. Reno NV, University of Nevada Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Neider's novel has been praised as one of the great westerns of all time, up there with "Shane" and "The Ox-Box Incident". It loosely follows the facts of the Billy the Kid story, but it is not intended as a retelling of that story. It is written in the style of a person-to-person narrative as told by the man who shot the Kid. INSCRIBED BY NEIDER on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. First published in 1956, the book was the basis of Marlon Brando's only directing effort, "One-Eyed Jacks", which the author covers in his Preface.

Record # 387837

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The Autobiography of My Mother (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Kincaid, Jamaica

The Autobiography of My Mother (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Kincaid, Jamaica

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A PEN/Faulkner Award nominated novel. The story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica - the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half African father, abandoned as an infant. INSCRIBED BY KINCAID on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Record # 387852

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The Bloodybacks: The British Serviceman in North America and the Caribbean 1655-1783 by: Hargreaves, Reginald

The Bloodybacks: The British Serviceman in North America and the Caribbean 1655-1783
by: Hargreaves, Reginald

Hardcover. London , Rupert Hart=Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, 365 pages. An informal military history of the North American continent. The two major campaigns covered being the war with France for the possession of Canada & the American War of Independence. Service discipline in the British Army meant a bloody back, hence the nickname for the soldiers of the time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387889

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The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784by: Edited and with an Introduction by L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender and Mary-Jo K

The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
by: Edited and with an Introduction by L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender and Mary-Jo K

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 411 pages; index; 24 illustrations, including color frontispiece of Abigail and John; from the Introduction: " 'The Book of Abigail and John' is a Bicentennial updating of Charles Francis Adams' contribution ('Familiar Letters') to the nation's Centennial. It contains what the present editors consider the best letters of John and Abigail Adams, written from their courtship beginning late in 1762 to their reunion in Europe in August 1784.To these letters have been added a number of letters to "third parties" and selected diary and autobiographical passages that reveal the two as man and woman, husband and wife, father and mother." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387805

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The Brave New World (SIGNED COPY)by: Nearing, Helen & Scott

The Brave New World (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nearing, Helen & Scott

Hardcover. Harborside ME, Social Science Institute, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 247 pages. SIGNED BY THE NEARINGS on the front fly leaf. The authors have also written about homesteading and living off the land - both were vegetarians. Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, and advocate of simple living. This volume describes their experiences on trips to the Soviet Union and People's China in 1957-58. Light tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 387883

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The British-Americans:The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789by: Norton, Mary Beth

The British-Americans:The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789
by: Norton, Mary Beth

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 333 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387804

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The Bus of Dreams (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Morris, Mary

The Bus of Dreams (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Morris, Mary

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY MORRIS on the half-title page. The author's third book.

Record # 387896

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The Butler Variations: Seven Utopian Houses by: Kalkin, Adam

The Butler Variations: Seven Utopian Houses
by: Kalkin, Adam

Softcover. Shelburne VT, Nice Nietzsche Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A catalog offering 7 possibilities of homes built with basic materials like shipping containers, garage doors and prefab roof systems. All drawn in line plans by Kalkin. Mild wear to wrappers.

Record # 387876

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The Case for African Freedom and Other Writings on Africa by: Cary, Joyce

The Case for African Freedom and Other Writings on Africa
by: Cary, Joyce

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Foreword by George Orwell. Introduction by Christopher Fyfe. 241 pages. Reprints two books by Irish novelist Joyce Cary (1888-1957), "The Case for African Freedom" (1941) and "Britain and West Africa" (1946), and three shorter magazine pieces. Illustrated in black and white, with three maps of Africa. Cary was English novelist who served in the Nigerian political service.

Record # 387817

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The Colonial Period of American History: Volume 4 England's Commercial and Colonial Policiesby: Charles M. Andrews

The Colonial Period of American History: Volume 4 England's Commercial and Colonial Policies
by: Charles M. Andrews

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 477 pages. Original edition of this major study of British policies toward its North American colonies by a premiere early 20th century historian of Colonial America, Charles M. Andrews. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 387781

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The Death of Sweet Mister by: Daniel Woodrell

The Death of Sweet Mister
by: Daniel Woodrell

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Shuggie Akins is a lonely fat boy of thirteen. His mother, Glenda, teases him with her sexual provocations. His father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises his son. Into this mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. It isn't long before he and Glenda begin a torrid affair. What follows is violent, shocking, and totally unpredictable - except that it is totally foreordained. Author's seventh novel. Slight slant to spine.

Record # 387799

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The Eighth Dwarf (SIGNED COPY)by: Thomas, Ross

The Eighth Dwarf (SIGNED COPY)
by: Thomas, Ross

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 319 pages. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. Minor Jackson is broke when he meets Ploscaru, a dwarf, who tells Jackson that Kurt Oppenheimer's relatives would pay highly to have him found. What Ploscaru doesn't tell Jackson is that Oppenheimer is a professional killer who is being sought by the British, the Americans, and the Russians. Set in 1946, this intricately woven espionage thriller traverses four major settings beginning with Beverly Hills, California and continuing with Mexico, Germany and Washington, D.C. Clean copy.

Record # 387776

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The Flying Spyby: de Carlo, Lieut. Camillo

The Flying Spy
by: de Carlo, Lieut. Camillo

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, 402 pages. Translated form the Italian by Maria Sermolino. An account of WW1 by an officer in the Italian Army. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 387836

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The French and Indian Wars: The Story of Battles and Forts in the Wilderness by: Hamilton, Edward P.

The French and Indian Wars: The Story of Battles and Forts in the Wilderness
by: Hamilton, Edward P.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A volume in the Mainstream of Americas Series, edited by Lewis Gannett. Between the period of settlements in colonial America and the time of the Revolutionary War, English and French interests clashed in a struggle to determine who would rule the New World. It was a time from which a great deal of fiction draws inspiration, an exciting and dramatic period well~salted with the Washingtons, Johnsons, Frontenacs, Amhersts, Wolfes, and Montcalms who so greatly influenced the early growth of our land. Edward Hamilton has reconstructed this absorbing story of wilderness, forts, and weapons with a scholarly respect for minute detail. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 387785

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The Great Buffalo Hunt by: Gard, Wayne

The Great Buffalo Hunt
by: Gard, Wayne

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages plus index. Illustrated with 17 halftone reproductions from various sources and with line drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. A comprehensive history of the slaughter of the buffalo, the battles between the hunters and Indians. Also tells of the buffalo hunting for sport by Washington Irving and the Russian Prince Alexis. Describes Buffalo Bill's killing buffaloes to feed the men who were building a railroad across the plains. Most of the book, however chronicles the hide hunters who swarmed over the ranges in 1871 and reduced the herds of nearly forty million buffaloes to fewer than one-thousand, taking the hides and leaving the meat to rot. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387866

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The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrativeby: Wiiliam Starr Myers & Walter H. Newton

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative
by: Wiiliam Starr Myers & Walter H. Newton

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 553 pages. "The complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover's four years in Washington." Written by Myers, a history scholar whose academic field was the GOP, and Newton, a former member of Congress who was for many years Hoover's personal secretary or roughly his Chief of Staff.This is about as good a defense of Hoover's actions just before and during the Great Depression as anything that has come out since. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387892

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THE ITALIAN BEACHES From Ventimiglia to Reggio Calabria and Sardiniaby: De Gasperis, Roberto

THE ITALIAN BEACHES From Ventimiglia to Reggio Calabria and Sardinia
by: De Gasperis, Roberto

Softcover. Rome, The Italian State Tourist Department, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover brochure, 72 pages with fold-out flaps. Illustrated with 2-color maps, b&w photos. Nice, clean copy.

Record # 387850

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The Judd Family: A Story of Cleanliness in Three Centuriesby: Kimball, Alice Mary/Hopkins, Mary Alden

The Judd Family: A Story of Cleanliness in Three Centuries
by: Kimball, Alice Mary/Hopkins, Mary Alden

Softcover. NY, Cleanliness Institute, 2nd pr., 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. 118 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Warren Chappell. Pioneers struggle with not only the wilderness but with keeping things clean (geared to 7th & 8th graders). Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387864

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The King of the Mountains (Le Roi Des Montagnes)by: Edmond About

The King of the Mountains (Le Roi Des Montagnes)
by: Edmond About

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 300 pages plus publisher's ads. 4 b&w plates by George Avison. First published as Le Roi des Montagnes (1856) About's popular novel satirizes the famous Klephts of 19thC. Greece. His portrait of Hadj-Stavros owes something to the real life brigand of the mountains Christodoulos Hadji-Petros (whose charm was sufficient to attact Lady Jane Digby during her adventurous stay in Greece) Translated by Florence Crewe-Jones. Bookplate on inside front cover, spine gilt with light fading.

Record # 387882

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The Lowering Clouds: The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes Vol. 3by: Harold L. Ickes

The Lowering Clouds: The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes Vol. 3
by: Harold L. Ickes

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, Book Club Ed., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 695 pages. Journal/diary kept by cabinet member Ickes during the beginning of the outbreak of WWII. He wrote of quiet changes that shifted the United States and the American people from a position of neutrality bordering on isolationism to one of deep and committed involvement with the foreign world. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 387895

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The Loyalists in the American Revolution by: Claude Halstead Van Tyne

The Loyalists in the American Revolution
by: Claude Halstead Van Tyne

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. 360 pages. Originally published in 1902. The author looks at the formation of the Tory or Loyalist party in the American Revolution, its persecution, the banishment (or death) of over 100,000 of these most conservative and respectable Americans, and the consequences of their banishment. In numbers, historically it is only comparable to the fates of the Moors of Spain and the Huguenots of France. This was the first book by the famous historian Claude Halstead van Tyne (1869-1930), who was a Michigan and Pennsylvania professor and author who wrote extensively on the American Revolution. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 387782

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The Man Behind The Maps: Legendary Ski Artist James Niehues by: Jason Blevins/ Ben Farrow

The Man Behind The Maps: Legendary Ski Artist James Niehues
by: Jason Blevins/ Ben Farrow

Hardcover. Open Road Ski Company, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 289 pages. Featuring over 200 ski resort trail maps hand-painted by one legendary artist, this beautiful 292-page hardcover coffee table book is the first and definitive compilation of the art created by James Niehues during his 30-year career. Eight geographically themed chapters form the heart of the book, offering you full-page images of the world's most iconic ski areas including Alta, Arapahoe Basin, Aspen, Breckenridge, Big Sky, Deer Valley, Heavenly, Jackson Hole, Jay Peak, Killington, Kirkwood, Lake Louise, Mammoth, Mont Tremblant, Mt. Bachelor, Park City, Revelstoke, Snowbird, Squaw Valley, Stowe, Sugarloaf, Sun Valley, Taos, Telluride, Whistler Blackcomb and other renowned resorts. In engaging narrative that complements the maps, Niehues reveals his exacting technique, which demands up to six weeks to complete a single painting. He then walks you through the step-by-step process for mapping Breckenridge, sharing everything from aerial photographs, to numerous pencil sketches, to in-progress builds, to the final trail map illustration. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387871

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The Man Who Invented Florida by: White, Randy Wayne

The Man Who Invented Florida
by: White, Randy Wayne

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A former intelligence agent now living in Florida, Marion "Doc" Martin, along with his hippie sidekick, Thomlinson, must clear his uncle of kidnapping and murder charges stemming from his discovery of the Fountain of Youth. Often cited as the "best" Doc Ford novel, the third book to feature Ford. Clean copy.

Record # 387779

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The Mordida Man (SIGNED COPY)by: Thomas, Ross

The Mordida Man (SIGNED COPY)
by: Thomas, Ross

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. When a legendary freedom fighter is kidnapped, his close friend the Libyan dictator angrily blames the CIA. In retaliation, the Libyans kidnap the U.S. Presidents brother. Enter the Mordida Man--an independent fixer and bribery expert who must find and free the Presidents brother without causing an international incident.

Record # 387777

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The Mystery of the Diamond in the Wood by: Kherdian, David

The Mystery of the Diamond in the Wood
by: Kherdian, David

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edgewear, 95 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Paul Geiger. A fast-moving mystery for young adults by a Newbery Honor winner. Clean copy.

Record # 387862

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The Ones You Doby: Woodrell, Daniel

The Ones You Do
by: Woodrell, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Author's fourth novel, set in the steamy bayou town of St. Bruno. Woodrell reunites the three Shade brothers with their dissolute father. Aged rake and reprobate John X. Shade returns to his native Louisiana bayous, where he reviews his checkered past. Vengeful sociopath Lunch Pumphrey is hot on his trail, bent on recovering $47,000 stored in John X.'s safe, but Shade's young wife has absconded with the money in order to launch her singing career, leaving their daughter, toughly precocious Etta, in her father's care. Clean copy.

Record # 387801

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The Papers of George Washington: The Journal of the Proceedings of the President 1793-1797by: George Washington / W. W. Abbot (Editor)

The Papers of George Washington: The Journal of the Proceedings of the President 1793-1797
by: George Washington / W. W. Abbot (Editor)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 393 pages. Part of the monumental series comprised of all of the papers and correspondence of America's first President, George Washington (1732-1799). This stand-alone volume is "an executive daybook, a day-by-day account of many of the matters that engaged the attention of the executive departments during Washington's administration. The entries cover Washington's decisions on government contracts, appointments of office, and individual departmental problems. They throw considerable light on presidential and cabinet participation in decision-making during Washington's administration. Entries relating to the War Department are of particular value because of the destruction of most of the War Department's records by fire in 1800. ... Kept primariy by Washington's secretaries Tobias Lear and Bartholomew Dandridge, the Journal is written in th first person as if Washington were penning the entries himself." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387807

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The Preservation of Species; The Value of Biological Diversityby: Norton, Bryan G. (Editor).

The Preservation of Species; The Value of Biological Diversity
by: Norton, Bryan G. (Editor).

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 387834

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The Reinterpretation of Early American History: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Pomfret by: Billington, Ray Allen

The Reinterpretation of Early American History: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Pomfret
by: Billington, Ray Allen

Hardcover. San Marino CA, The Huntington Library, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, dark blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, 264 pages. 'An expression of thanks from those he has benefited and contributing to our understanding of the colonial era which has been his lifetime interest."

Record # 387798

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The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves by: Jean Clottes; David Lewis Williams

The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves
by: Jean Clottes; David Lewis Williams

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 120 pages illustrated in color. Since the first report of cave art (at Altamira in 1879), attempts have been made to explain the purpose of the mysterious drawings. Art for art's sake; totemism; hunting, destructive, or fertility magic; and modern structuralist theories have all been proposed. Clottes and Lewis-Williams propose a new theory emphasizing the shamanic aspects of Paleolithic cave paintings. After an unavoidably technical chapter providing the basics of shamanism, the authors examine Paleolithic paintings from across France and Spain, noting the use of animal figures, composite figures combining both human and animal characteristics, and geometric designs that are all common elements of shamanism. The bulk of the book is both fascinating and thought-provoking, and while it is not likely to be the last word on the subject, it is an important contribution to the field. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387886

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The Social Structure of Revolutionary Americaby: Main, Jackson Turner

The Social Structure of Revolutionary America
by: Main, Jackson Turner

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 330 pages.

Record # 387860

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The Tale of Peter Mink (Sleepy-Time Tales)by: Bailey, Arthur Scott

The Tale of Peter Mink (Sleepy-Time Tales)
by: Bailey, Arthur Scott

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with orange lettering, 112 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. "There were two ways in which Peter Mink was different from any other person in Pleasant Valley, or on blue Mountain, either. In the first place, he had no home; and in the second, he had a very long neck." Four two-color plates and endpapers by Harry L. Smith. Copyright page states 1916 but probably a reprint, last title of books in the Sleepy Time Series in front is Paddy Muskrat. Clean copy.

Record # 387851

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