Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Amsterdam / NY, N. Israel / Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, 482 and 546 pages. High quality facsimile of the 1845 John Murray edition published in London. Illustrated with a black-and-white folding map. Mylar covers without dust jackets as issued. "With Some Account of the Beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands". Wakefield went to New Zealand with the first settlers in the Tory in 1839 and remained there until 1844, keeping his diary about the proceedings of the settlers. One of the most important works on the early settlement of New Zealand. Clean, bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni, 3rd pr, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 376 pages with illustrations, endpapers, and cover design by Miguel Covarrubias. Frontispiece loose, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 24 illustrations. Genealogical chart of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. These letters were only discovered in the 1970's at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. These letters bring new light to bear on major world and minor domestic events, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for her haemophilic children and grandchildren, from the assassination of the Tsar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Princess's Victoria's sister to marry the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter, Lady Brabourne, has provided a fascinating introduction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, The Tuttle Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, College yearbook of Dartmouth, class of 1904. 228 pages, with 33 pages of advertisements. Bound in heavy green buckram, illustrated throughout with photographs and engravings (b&w). In very good condition, some small stains to the covers and yellowing to page edges, pages clean and binding tight.
Hardcover. New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1912 Junior Annual of Dartmouth College. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and front cover, beveled edges. Light edgewear, mild foxing to page block edges, spine slightly cocked, ex-lib with bookplate to front endpaper, otherwise no evidence of ex-lib markings, pages crisp and unmarked; overall a very neat, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages plus ads. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Minor rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 Pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. EX-LIB with usual markings, stamps. Card residue on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London/Colorado, Heinemann/Westview press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Westport CT, Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Originally published in 1852 this is an in depth study of the African people , both in Africa and in America. A great deal of material on slavery and the South, as well as early material on Liberia. Presented in a series of "conversations", this is an in-depth history of the African continent's peoples, the colonization of Africa, and subsequent African American slavery in the United States. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Africana Publishing , 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1929 the author was awarded a Rhodes Trust Travelling Fellowship witha vague commission to study problems of race and colour. This book contains a section of her diary, essentially as she wrote it, devoted to Southern Africa including the Rhodesias and the Congo. She addressed a huge night time meeting of African workers called by Zulu union organizer, George Champion. In Bechuanaland she met the young and capable regent; in Basutoland she accompanied an Assistant Commissioner on a long trek on horseback into the interior. Thoroughly entertaining it also sets the scene for much of what was to follow in the subsequent history of the territories she visited. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Africana Publishing , 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1929 the author was awarded a Rhodes Trust Travelling Fellowship witha vague commission to study problems of race and colour. This book contains a section of her diary, essentially as she wrote it, devoted to Southern Africa including the Rhodesias and the Congo. She addressed a huge night time meeting of African workers called by Zulu union organizer, George Champion. In Bechuanaland she met the young and capable regent; in Basutoland she accompanied an Assistant Commissioner on a long trek on horseback into the interior. Thoroughly entertaining it also sets the scene for much of what was to follow in the subsequent history of the territories she visited. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 242 pages. The history of a Catholic mission to Uganda and how in 1886 its native converts were executed. No dustjacket. Front fly leaf clipped otherwise very good, clean copy.
Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 289 pages. For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called 'the Old Slave Coast'-share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Clean copy.
Softcover. Providence RI, John Carter Brown Library, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.
Hardcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, color and b&w photographs. Hardcover in a very good dust jacket, clean. As pointed out in the introduction by Elizabeth Roberts, this book isn't aiming to be a history of fashion of the past century. It explores the ideas behind it; the influences of clothing by society we live in, and to convey this the outstanding work of the Press Association is used. This book is a visual, eye-watering history that tells the story of how we've become today.The book is split into five chapters followed by a page-to-page picture index.1. FILMSTARS, FULL SKIRTS AND FUR: POST-WAR GLAMOUR2. ROMANCE AND REVOLUTION: 1960's3. FROM THE QUEEN TO POSH: FASHION ICONS4. ON THE STREETS AND IN THE SHOPS: WHAT WE REALLY WORE5. FANTASY AND REALITY: LONDON FASHION WEEK 2008-2009
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, Revised 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with moderate wear, closed tear. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR HENG on front fly leaf. The authors (husband and wife) return to China after the Cultural Revolution, interviewing hundreds of Chinese and observing the signs of a surprising new China in the making. Among those interviewed are Peng Ming, now a composer and television executive; Chen Yizhi, head of the planners; and Wu Tianming, one of China's best-known filmmakers. 1986. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1997, Hardcover,224 pages, 93 full-color photographs. Much has been written about Alfred Stieglitz and his role in establishing photography as an art. Little attention, however, has been paid to the pictorial photographers who followed Stieglitz, among them Imo Jean Cunningham, Edward Weston, Clarence H. White, and a host of others -- those who, in a widespread movement, approached photography in a painterly fashion, creating beautiful images through the use of careful lighting, manipulated tones, soft focus effects, and artistic compositions. In this important volume, Christian A. Peterson finally gives the pictorialists of the first half of the twentieth century their due. He describes the backgrounds of the movement, their methods, the photo clubs they belonged to, and their work, illustrated here with ninety-three stunning reproductions. The movement seemed to die out, Peterson suggests, with the rising popularity of 35mm photography in mid-century, when the care and slow working procedures required by large-format cameras became unpopular.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself put of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust.