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Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of the 1950s by: Yeager, Bunny
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Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of the 1950s
by: Yeager, Bunny

Softcover. US, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352545

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England by: Hemmeon, Morley de Wolf
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Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England
by: Hemmeon, Morley de Wolf

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 234 pages. Spine slightly faded.

Record # 506948

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography by: Gerald Howson
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Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography
by: Gerald Howson

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that shows fading, 360 pages, b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command a force designated to capture Albany and end the rebellion, Burgoyne advanced from Canada but soon found himself surrounded and outnumbered. He fought two battles at Saratoga, but was forced to open negotiations with Horatio Gates. Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners. Burgoyne faced criticism when he returned to Britain, and never held another active command. Clean copy.

Record # 397483

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Burlington District Telephone Directory: July 1933 by: N/A
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Burlington District Telephone Directory: July 1933
by: N/A

Softcover. Burlington VT, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green card covers with dark blue lettering. 60 pages of listed subscriber phone numbers with ads throughout plus a 24 page classified business section. Directory covers Bristol, Burlington, Charlotte, Essex Center, Essex Junction and Richmond. Small perforated hole in upper corner, clean, bright copy of uncommon Vermont ephemera.

Record # 396549

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

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

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

Record # 386371

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Burmese Monk's Tales by: Maung Htin Aung
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Burmese Monk's Tales
by: Maung Htin Aung

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 181 pages. The tales contained in this collection were first told in the dark decade of Burmese history (1876-85) during the coming event of the British conquest. The stories combine exotic background with strong details that offer the Western reader both a picture of Burma in the nineteenth century and an understanding of the basic good sense, gaiety, and gentleness of the Burmese people and the Buddhist clergy. The characters that appear in the book illustrate timeless truths about human nature, which today's reader can apply to existing people and situations. For the first time since the eleventh century the future of Burmese Buddhism became uncertain, and there was widespread fear, both in Upper Burma still under a Burmese king and in Lower Burma already under British rule, that the final fall of the Burmese kingdom would result in the total extinction of both the national religion and the Burmese way of life. Told with the purpose of allaying this anxiety and fear, these tales give a full and faithful resume and appraisal of the position of Burmese Buddhism on the eve of the British conquest of 1886. Name on front fly leaf which has mild edgewear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 472143

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Burning Japan: Air Force Bombing Strategy Change in the Pacific by: Daniel T. Schwabe
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Burning Japan: Air Force Bombing Strategy Change in the Pacific
by: Daniel T. Schwabe

Hardcover. Potomac Books/University of Nebraska , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Burning Japan is an investigation of how and why the air force shifted its tactics against Japan from a precision bombing strategy to area attacks. The guiding doctrine of the 1930s and 1940s called for focused attacks on specific targets deep behind enemy lines. Eager to prove itself, the nascent Army Air Force at first lauded the indispensability of strategic bombardment in areas otherwise unreachable by the army or navy. But when strategic bombing failed to yield the desired results in Europe and in initial efforts against Japan, the United States switched tactics, a shift that culminated in the area firebombing of nearly every major Japanese metropolis and the burning of sixty-six cities to the ground. Clean copy.

Record # 472528

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Burning of Royalton, Vermont by Indians (SIGNED) by: Dunklee, Ivah
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Burning of Royalton, Vermont by Indians (SIGNED) by: Dunklee, IvahBurning of Royalton, Vermont by Indians (SIGNED) by: Dunklee, Ivah

Burning of Royalton, Vermont by Indians (SIGNED)
by: Dunklee, Ivah

Hardcover. Weymouth, MA, George H. Ellis Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH HANDWRITTEN POEMS AID IN. Light foxing and age discoloration on pages. Light soil to covers. Tight copy.

Record # 368910

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62 by: Neil MacMaster
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Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62
by: Neil MacMaster

Softcover. Manchester University Press , 1st pbk, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Clean copy.

Record # 374705

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Burnside by: Marvel, William
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Burnside
by: Marvel, William

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 514 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Biography of Union general Ambrose Burnside, reassessing his reputation as an "incompetent leader" by viewing his entire career as a soldier during the war: along the Carolina coast, at Antietam, and his capture of Knoxville in East Tennessee, while still recognizing the debacle at Fredericksburg.

Record # 359131

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Burr Bibliography: A List of Books Relating to Aaron Burr by: Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock
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Burr Bibliography: A List of Books Relating to Aaron Burr
by: Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock

Hardcover. NY, Burt Franklin, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, 89 pages, reprint of the 1892 edition

Record # 371922

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American West by: Brown, Dee
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - An Indian History of the American West
by: Brown, Dee

Hardcover. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. The first British edition featuring wrap-around color pictorial artwork by Frederick S. Remington (The Sign of the Buffalo Scout,1907). 487 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos, reproductions, double-page frontis map. Clean copy.

Record # 396589

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Business Contracts of Medieval Provence: Selected Notulae from the Cartulary of Giraud Amalric of Merseilles 1248 by: Pryor, John H.
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Business Contracts of Medieval Provence: Selected Notulae from the Cartulary of Giraud Amalric of Merseilles 1248
by: Pryor, John H.

Softcover. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages, b&w frontispiece. Pencil underlining to 3 pages. Light shelfwear, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 403262

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Business History Review - Autumn 2003 by: Friedman (Eds.), Walter A. and Thomas K. McCraw
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Business History Review - Autumn 2003
by: Friedman (Eds.), Walter A. and Thomas K. McCraw

Softcover. Boston, Harvard Business School, 1st wraps, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles: U.S. Advertising in Latin America, Industrial Structure: the American Pottery Industry, Selling Elegant Glassware, etc. Paperback.

Record # 500943

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific - Vol.1 by: Crane, Roy
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Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific - Vol.1
by: Crane, Roy

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, World War II action/adventure from one of the all-time great cartoonists. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 351930

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

By Order of the Prophet: A Tale of Utah by: Henry, Alfred H.
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By Order of the Prophet: A Tale of Utah
by: Henry, Alfred H.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, Fleming H. Revell, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 402 pages. Contains two-tone plate illustrations by E. S. Paxson. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Edgewear. Spine and corner rubbed.

Record # 503433

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Bystander: A History of Street Photography by: Joel Meyerowitz / Colin Westerbeck
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Bystander: A History of Street Photography by: Joel Meyerowitz / Colin WesterbeckBystander: A History of Street Photography by: Joel Meyerowitz / Colin Westerbeck

Bystander: A History of Street Photography
by: Joel Meyerowitz / Colin Westerbeck

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 446 pages. This landmark book chronicles the development of a kind of photography that is created out of the energy and chance juxtapositions found in everyday life on the street. Street photography is at the heart of what makes photography unique. An unprecedented study that is the first history of this tradition ever published, Bystander explores street photography through a discussion of the medium's masters - Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Evans, Levitt, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and many others - and reveals along the way much about the craft and creative process of photography. Profusely illustrated with the work of more than eighty photographers, the book is composed of four parts separated by lively folios of pictures. Each part discusses a different era - from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe, to America in the late twentieth century - and devotes entire chapters to the key figures of that period. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398660

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Byzantine Art and the West - The Wrightsman Lectures by: Demus, Otto
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Byzantine Art and the West - The Wrightsman Lectures
by: Demus, Otto

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Faint foxing to edges. Includes Errata slip. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611855

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Byzantium: An Introduction to East Roman Civilization by: Baynes, Norman H., & Moss, H. St. L.B.
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Byzantium: An Introduction to East Roman Civilization
by: Baynes, Norman H., & Moss, H. St. L.B.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine, 436 pages plus 48 b&w plates and 3 fold-out maps in rear. The publication of this introduction to east Roman civilization has been described as a major event in the history of Byzantine studies in England. The book contains chapters by authorities of international reputation on all aspects of Byzantine culture, and Professor Baynes's short introduction brilliantly sums up the essence of Byzantium and describes what it gave to the world. Gutter cracked at title page, still solid, clean copy.

Record # 472565

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

C. A. Gaskell Family and Business Atlas of the World, The - New and Complete by: Gaskell, C. A.
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C. A. Gaskell Family and Business Atlas of the World, The - New and Complete
by: Gaskell, C. A.

Hardcover. Chicago, U.S. Publishing House, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages, containing maps of all the states and territories of the United States, all the continents, empires, kingdoms and republics, together with maps of the leading cities of the United States, and useful and instructive colored diagrams, charts and engravings. With all populations according to 1890 census. Large format, brown pebbled cloth covers, minor wear.

Record # 408278

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Cabinet of Freedom, The: Volume 1 by: Jay, William and others
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Cabinet of Freedom, The: Volume 1 by: Jay, William and othersCabinet of Freedom, The: Volume 1 by: Jay, William and others

Cabinet of Freedom, The: Volume 1
by: Jay, William and others

New York, John S. Taylor, 1st, 1836, Book: Good, Hardcover, 296 pages plus 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Original black boards with embossed design, gilt lettering and design with number ! on spine. Folding chart/map tipped in at page 196 with short tears. Illustrated title page. The first of three anti-slavery books published by John Taylor, a staunch abolitionist. A few brief notations on prlim pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 416612

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Cabins & Castles: The History & Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina by: Swaim Douglas (edited by). Essays by Talmage Powell and John Agar
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Cabins & Castles: The History & Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina
by: Swaim Douglas (edited by). Essays by Talmage Powell and John Agar

Softcover. Asheville NC, Bright Mountain Books, 2nd Ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 224 pages, b&w photos. Cabins & Castles was first completed in 1981, a joint effort of the Historic Resources Commission and the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. The book became enormously popular with natives, tourists, historians, and preservationists as a primary source of knowledge about the richly historic Buncombe County. Cabins & Castles contains a historical overview, as well as the specific record of individual properties built in the area, primarily those constructed prior to 1930. Historical sketches of Buncombe County and Asheville written by John Ager and Talmage Powell are followed by editor Douglas Swaim's essay on local architectural history. Rapid development in the urban and rural areas of Buncombe County makes this record timely and valuable. Clean copy.

Record # 386370

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Cadet Gray: A Pictorial History of Life At West Point As Seen through its Uniforms by: Todd Col., Frederick P. /Frederick T. Chapman (Illust.)
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Cadet Gray: A Pictorial History of Life At West Point As Seen through its Uniforms
by: Todd Col., Frederick P. /Frederick T. Chapman (Illust.)

Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 112 pages, many b&w illustrations plus gorgeous color plates by Frederick Chapman. A reprint of the 1955 edition. Clean copy.

Record # 397971

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Cadets at War: The True story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR) by: Beller, Susan Provost
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Cadets at War: The True story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR) by: Beller, Susan ProvostCadets at War: The True story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR) by: Beller, Susan Provost

Cadets at War: The True story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Beller, Susan Provost

Hardcover. White Hall, VA, Shoe Tree Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. The excitement in the barracks on the night of May 10, 1864 was electric. At last, the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute were going to war!

Record # 99081

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00