Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Kingston Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, bibliography and index. A scarce scholarly history. Slight sunning to dust jacket spine, otherwise like new, clean and tight.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 232 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Illustrated plates of old advertising. Yellow cloth covers w/ red decoration. Worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket - now protected by clear plastic cover. Light foxing, soiling to edges; else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 227 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy. Naipaul presents here four essays about the "half-made" societies, those still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism and prey to corruption." He examines the role of Eva Peron as the catalyst for violence in Argentina, with its yearning for a European culture and the physical, historical, cultural reality of the land in which the native Indians were wiped out and the colonialists took over. He writes of the infamous Michael X in Trinidad whose pretensions to power and destiny led to the man's insanity and execution following two pointless murders. Shorter essays address nihilism in the Congo and Naipaul's take on Joseph Conrad and the Heart of Darkness.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket. 575 pages, b&w illustrations. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy--not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such as Second City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was--Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period's satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Hardcover,324 pages. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Hardcover,324 pages. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt lettering on spine, pages. Black and white photos and one map. Includes footnotes, geographical note, list of local people, 2 appendices and index. "Shows how one backward village became a revolutionary bastion in the ten years after the revolution in the late 1940s." A ten years' history of one Chinese village, covering the period immediately before the setting up of the Chinese People's Republic, and based on village records and the authors' personal experiences living with the farmers.Owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 443 pages. This book contains UNDERLINING which is mainly confined to chapter 7. Otherwise a bright, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 334 pages, b&w illustrations. Relying on original historical materials, an illustrated biography traces the lives of an influential pair of American socialists--he a wealthy journalist-activist, she an aspiring novelist. When they fell in love amid the tumult of the 1905 Russian revolution, they believed they were destiny's match: William English Walling, a wealthy American journalist-activist from the Midwest, an Anna Strunsky, an aspiring novelist from San Francisco. Vowing to dedicate themselves to socialist ideals, they soon became celebrities who moved in an elite circle of writers, journalist, and reformers. ultimately, both their marriage and their political commitment faltered, but not before they had participated in some of the most urgent social causes of their day. Drawing on archival sources and family materials, James Boylan creates engaging portraits of two striking figures. He reveals the details of Strunsky's intesnse involvement with Jack London and their troubled literary collaboration. He describes the creation of Walling's "revolutionary news bureau" in Russia under scrutiny of the czarist police, and Strunsky's harrowing journey to report on a pogrom. He also recounts the couple's dash to cover a race riot in Illinois, Walling's pivotal role in creating the NAACP and the disasterous schism between Strunksky's pacifism and Walling's bellicosity during World War I. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light sunfade to bottom edge. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 2nd Printing, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with wear and darkening along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 236 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 634 pages, mild shelf wear. An incredible chronologically arranged, unedited and indexed collection of FDR's Foreign Policy, National Defense Policy, Public Letters & Papers, Messages to Congress, Executive Orders, Proclamations, Fireside Chats & Public Addresses. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages. Examines Rousseau's contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to twenty-first century debates. Rubber stamp on copyright page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, like new. A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. 437 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often led to the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first of these migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million Russians were forced into exile. With this book, Marc Raeff, one of the world's leading historians of Russia, offers the first comprehensive cultural history of the "Great Russian Emigration." He examines the social and institutional structure of the emigration and describes its rich cultural and intellectual life. He points out that what distinguishes this emigration from other such episodes in European history is the extent to which the emigres succeeded in reconstituting and preserving their cultural creativity in the West. The flourishing Russian communities of Paris, Berlin, Prague and Kharbin not only enriched Russian arts and letters, but also significantly influenced the culture of their Western hosts, and Raeff concludes with an assessment of their impact on the development of modern Western and Soviet culture.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Green cloth with gilt title and decoration. Front and rear hinges cracked. Missing front endpaper. Heavy foxing to preliminary pages up to contents page, and last 5 pages at end of book; including map. Front fold-out map at title page and rear most map both badly damaged. Foxing to edges. Moderate wear to covers. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear and rubbing to covers and edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books , 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 239 pages. Red cloth. Light edgewear to dust jacket with one small closed tear to front cover. Spine slightly slanted. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a pric-clipped dust jacket that has a bright red cover but fading to spine. 372 pages, clean copy. Describes the influence of Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers. The growth of that influence among Mexican-Americans and many other concerned Americans. The years when Chavez called for boycotts, and the greatest agricultural labor strike in U.S. and the greatest agricultural labor strike in U.S. history, the struggle for justice and a means to reverse the order of the system. A book about the man. Cesar Chavez.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on front flyleaf. 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with some slight shelfwear. Corner fold on dust jacket front inside flap.Otherwise tight copy. Salvador is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador.

Softcover. Fayetteville AK, University of Arkansas Press , 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. The author recounts his experiences as a teacher in northern China, and describes how government restraints have caused and finally crushed the democracy movement of the students. Fading to spine otherwise vg.

Hardcover. Topsfield MA, Salem House, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Not paginated but approximately 200 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w by author. Steadman's 'portraits of the Nixon Years, Vietnam and Watergate, and now Reagan years, Pearlygate and the 1988 Presidential Election are powerful, disturbing and above all, savagely funny.' Clean copy.

Hardcover. Roma, CalicEditori, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover in Italian text. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine. Bright navy dust jacket with photograph & red printed titles. Clean, unmarked & crisp copy.

Hardcover. Montclair NJ, Allanheld, Osmun, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 266 pages. Illustrated with maps and tables, this study describes and analyse the social and ecological destruction of the 1968-78 Sahel drought and famine, during which more than 100,000 W. Africans died of starvation and hunger related diseases, and livestock herds and agricultural production were critically reduced. It traces the history of this disaster to the impact of French colonial government policy on the fragile ecology of the region and the effects of food and export regulations on agriculture and on the social structure and interrelationships of the tribes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 429 pages. Brown cloth with embossed red image of Seale gagged and bound in the courtroom during the Chicago 8 Trial. A gorgeous copy of Bobby Seale's narration of the Black Panther Party's origins and his relationship with Huey P Newton. Written as Seale was on trial as part of the Panther 14 in New Haven and during the Chicago 8/7 Conspiracy trial. Dust jacket is bright with original $6.95 price intact and unclipped. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Hardcover. Deep red cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board, label (price tag?) residue to bottom right corner of back cover board. B/w illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The Free Press, 1st pbk, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages. With scholarly detachment, clarity, and taste the author presents a history and analysis of American ideals of success. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgwear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Birch Lane Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white cloth covers with black lettering on spine, no dust jacket. 238 pages with b&w photos. Biography by nephew of Malcolm X. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages, b&w illustrations. The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. This remarkable expression of republican thought has never before been published. Algernon Sidney was among the most unrelenting republican partisans of the seventeenth century, and was executed for his opposition to Charles II. Written during Sidney's continental exile, the vivid Court Maxims was only recently rediscovered. The work presents a lively discussion about the principles of government and the practice of politics, articulating a vital tradition of republicanism in an absolutist age.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 460 pages, gray cloth covers. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. SIGNED BY NIXON on tipped-in page. Xerox of dealer's letter laid in on the authenticity of Nixon's autograph. (He suggests it's authentic).

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 418 pages, b&w illustrations. From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace--but instead set the stage for a forty-four-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. In 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist to serve as a visual witness to the courtroom proceedings and provide worldwide media with artwork drawn during them. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine, 268 pages. In an edgeworn dust jacket with a crease lengthwise. Copy of literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck with his pencil signature and "Mindoro, Philippines 1945" (presumed where he served in WW2) on the front fly leaf. Some pencil markings and notations in text.

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with two small holes to front cover, 227 pages with index. "Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine the domestic and foreign policy of the "agrarian" party in our early history. For the agrarian politics of Jefferson, while possibly benefiting the small freeholder, very closely served the interests of the plantation system, at least as the planters conceived their interests." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 576 pages. Clean copy

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 609 pages, translated by Hilda Andrews-Rusiecka. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Yellow dust jacket with slight fading to spine. Approximately 30 pages with ink marking, mostly underlining. Otherwise this scarce volume is in very good condition.

Softcover. C.D. Howe Institute, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, AMS Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 305 pages. Originally published in 1939. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 520 pages. In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. Using his consummate skill as a historian, Professor Hill suggests that there might have been non-theological reasons for supporting the Puritans, or for being a Puritan. He shows Puritanism as a living faith, answering the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans. He looks at oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts, and poor relief and assesses the significance of the household (rather than the Parish) and the dignity of labor. He shows Puritanism in daily life and discusses the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical Puritan revolutionaries. Light bump to top corner of about 50 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 302 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with red covers. Lightly soiled. Black and white wordless cartoons by Soglow.

Softcover. London, James Currey, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wrappers, 211 pages. This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe Publications

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 303 pages, black & white photos and maps. Name on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 612 pages. Slight wear to cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 95 pages. Ex-lib with residue, stamping to endpapers. Interior clean, probably a rebound softcover published in 1906.