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Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. University of Missouri, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. A "shooter" for the Associated Press for thirty-three years, Burroughs was assigned to the Washington bureau, and his photos appeared frequently in newspapers around the world, as well as on the covers of Life and other magazines. Close-ups of History is both an eyewitness account of history and a stirring professional memoir--a book that brings special moments into the viewfinder as Burroughs turns his trained photographer's eye to reflect his highly cultivated sense of news. These dramatic photographs testify to an incredible career launched at the end of World War II, and Burroughs's work in postwar Germany is especially poignant. He documented the remains of Hitler's office, ruined cities and displaced persons, and the Nuremberg trials. He also captured the beginning of the Cold War as the Soviets tried to take over Berlin and the German people struggled to hold the city for the West.

Hardcover. Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, black title on spine and front cover. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Brown endpapers. This book challenges widespread asumptions about common-sense philosophies and provides a major reassessment of an influential segment of the history of ideas.

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.

Hardcover. Golden CO, Colorado Railroad Museum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 238 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Five of the articles are on passenger and mixed (passenger and freight) trains and trolleys in a topographic setting that owing to mineral resources had a phenomenal network of rail lines. Written for the train buff, the historian of western transportation will find good material here. Heavily illustrated with modern and period photos. The sixth piece is on the steam-powered meter-gauge trains of Zimbabwe. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 156 pages with 10 color and 232 b&w plates. The chapters are: general history before 1850 with factory marks; excavations on the Caughley site: other early Coalport porcelain; Messrs Antice, Horton & Rose's Coalport porcelain; 1815-1850 & the factory pattern-books; porcelain from 1850: Coalport artists; early Coalport porcelain mentioned in 19th century catalogues; the 1841 & 1861 census returns. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. From their perches on islands such as Buka and Bougainville, coast watchers -- for the most part, Australian civilians -- monitored Japanese shipping and aircraft activity. They played a pivotal role during the battle for Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, when their intelligence facilitated the interception and destruction of twelve Japanese transports. These reports from the participants themselves provide a fascinating account that will intrigue historians as well as World War II and espionage buffs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, b&w photos. The author offers the reader a fascinating window into the Georgia Peach's life and times when the then, dying Cobb, hired him in 1960, to ghost write his autobiography. It was from those months that came "My Life in Baseball," a carefully sanitized justification for Cobb's life and career. This book, however, includes the darker side of Cobb's life in an authoritative and compelling account of this sports legend. Remainder X on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, James Pott & Co, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles and gilt embossed illustration to front, top edge gilt, tissue-protected b&w frontispiece, 16 b&w plates. Very light edgewear and rubbing to covers, spine lightly faded, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For over a century Coca-Cola has been a touchstone of modern culture and a global icon. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain, the beverage has become an instantly recognizable symbol around the world, woven into people's lives and memories. This newest addition to Assouline's best-selling Memoire collection, Coca-Cola: Film, Music, Sports celebrates the iconic brand's broad-reaching influence in the domains of film, music, and athletics. With imagery of some of these industries' most revered names, and forewords penned by Ridley Scott, Quincy Jones, and LeBron James, these volumes explore the beverage's prominence in some of the greatest films of all time, its inspiration for legendary musicians of all genres, and its motivational support of athletes from the Olympics to professional sports.This slipcase set is a must-have accessory not only for collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia but also for lovers of American culture everywhere.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For over a century Coca-Cola has been a touchstone of modern culture and a global icon. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain, the beverage has become an instantly recognizable symbol around the world, woven into people's lives and memories. This newest addition to Assouline's best-selling Memoire collection, Coca-Cola: Film, Music, Sports celebrates the iconic brand's broad-reaching influence in the domains of film, music, and athletics. With imagery of some of these industries' most revered names, and forewords penned by Ridley Scott, Quincy Jones, and LeBron James, these volumes explore the beverage's prominence in some of the greatest films of all time, its inspiration for legendary musicians of all genres, and its motivational support of athletes from the Olympics to professional sports.This slipcase set is a must-have accessory not only for collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia but also for lovers of American culture everywhere.

Softcover. Rochester VT, Park Street Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. A lavishly illustrated history of coca wine and the revolutionary advertising methods that made it a world-wide success. Follows 19th-century pharmacist Angelo Mariani's interest in coca from medical uses to the development and healing effects of his world-famous coca wine, Vin Mariani. In this full-color illustrated history of coca wine, the first of its kind, author Aymon de Lestrange follows Mariani's interest in coca from its medicinal applications to the creation of the tonic wine. The author explores the botany of coca, how it differs from cocaine, its traditional use in pre-Columbian America, and scientific studies on coca from the 17th through 19th centuries, including from Sigmund Freud, who was a known user. He describes the introduction of coca in the U.S. and France and the many coca preparations then available at drugstores. He also studies the introduction of cocaine in these two countries and the prohibition laws that followed.

Hardcover. Freeport, NY, Books for Libraries Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. Blue cloth cover, very light wear to corners and edges, bottom edge slightly bumped. Some foxing and shadowing on front and rear endpages, otherwise inside is bright and clean. Three pages have light markings by previous owner, otherwise inside in unmarked. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Collage has a relatively short, but incredibly rich history. The popularity of collage is on the increase again, partly as a result of such postmodernist concerns as pluralism, multiplicity and hybridity. This book features works by international artists Picasso, Schwitters and Ernst, through to Hannah Hoch, Martha Rosler, John Stezaker, Richard Hamilton, Layla Curtis, David Salle, Eduardo Poalozzi, Javier Rodriguez, Robert Rauschenberg, Mimei Thompson, David Thorpe, Fred Tomaselli and many more.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 347 pages. Light pencil notes on rear fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy. Volume 1 only of a two volume set.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pages 349-708. A clean, tight copy. Volume 2 only of a two volume set.

Hardcover. Stonham MA, G.R. Barnstead, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 235 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. The history and folklore of the Cape Cod region. Many b&w illustrations, photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. SIGNED BY BRIGGS opposite title page. Introduction is dated January, 1913. The author was Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. This volume contains four essays, two each from two of Briggs' earlier works -- School, College, and Character, and Ideals -- focused mainly on students. 124 pages. Clean copy. Laid in is a folded mimeographed sheet: "Message from Dean Briggs of Harvard", date unknown.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 459 pages. Green cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Book comes with a press release from "News From Cambridge". Black and white plates throughout. Thirty-one essays on colonial painting organized in three chronological sections: Origins and Beginnings, to 1680; The Transition, 1680-1840; and The Culmination, 1740-1790. Bibliography.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 4 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 248 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 291 pages. Measured drawings by William Allen Dunn, Many b&w photos, ex-lib but very clean, tight. stamp on foredge, small envelope on back end paper

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, reprint , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Tunis.160 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages. "Colonial Desire is a controversial study that breaks new ground in analysing how concepts of culture get formed, and how racialized assumptions continue to pervade them." In this study, the author argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the 19th century. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 196 pages. investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with veiled women of the Orient. Her original and compelling argument calls into question dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East masculinist assumptions of Orientalism, and Western feminist discourses that seek to 'liberate' the veiled woman. Clean copy.