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Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. David Irving's The Trail of the Fox is the best work on Rommel ever written. The circumstances around Rommel's involvement with the attempt on Hitler's life, which is the most speculated aspect of Rommel's life, and how the Gestapo came to believe Rommel was involved, have not been made clear in most of the historiography on Rommel. Irving pieces together what really happened most effectively. There are so many strengths of this book, of which the greatest is probably the fact Irving had access to Rommel's dairy and many of his letters, which he got permission from the family to view. Other items he found in collections in the United States, England, and Germany. Since he worked on this in the 1970's he also was able to interview a number of German officers who were still alive that knew and served with Rommel. The whole work is the way historical research should be done; totally reliant on primary source material, and ignores secondary sources that often use conjecture or just repeat incorrect narratives from earlier books. Every source is from people who fought the war; Germans, Italians, British, French and American officers who were in these campaigns and had either first hand observation of Rommel or were major participants like Eisenhower, Churchill, Goebbels, etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, 362 pages including index. Originally published in 1878, this is the 1889 New Edition with final corrections and additions. A Victorian era study of male sexuality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 439 pages, b&w illustrations with fold-out map of Polo's travels in rear. First published in 1931, this is the 1950 third printing. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. * An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871). * The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co, reprint, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt-blocked half buckram over sandgrain cloth, 544 pages with index. Top edge gilt. Clean copy.

Softcover. Missoula MT, Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 pages. Photographic essay of the men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and their Forestry efforts during the 1930's and early '40's.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn, chipped dust jacket, 255 pages, fold-out chart in rear. A blow by blow account of the Mau Mau leader's trial that lasted for over 100 days, "one of the most dramatic and important this century". In 1952, Kenyatta was arrested in Kenya by the British colonial authorities and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising. Although protesting his innocence, a view shared by later historians, he was convicted. He remained imprisoned at Lokitaung until 1959 and was then exiled to Lodwar until 1961. Appears to be a book club edition. Overall clean copy but cheap paper is tanning.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 616 pages. A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the developing South.

Softcover. Kila MT, Kessinger, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue pictorial wrappers. This is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895, originally published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. Clean copy.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 278 pages. Illustrated throughout with 195 b/w plates. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Father Knows Best and Rebel Without a Cause are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book, a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled from the New York Times photo archives, brings this watershed period to life and examines who and what was important and why.

Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. ".recreates the tense, exciting battles with rocks and mud, quicksands and "nephitic gasses," fire and water, that made the "great national undertaking" a fiasco" but did eventually become of important use by trains of the East London line.

Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, J.P. Lippincott, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth covers stamped in black and gilt. Stated First Edition, SIGNED BY PULLEN on a prelim page. Pullen's classic and highly acclaimed book tells how Chamberlain and his men fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville on their way to the pivotal battle of Gettysburg. Small ownership sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Dayton OH, Morningside Bookshop, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages, b&w illustrations. Reprint of 1957 Edition. "Mr. Pullen...has gone to the letters, diaries and memoirs of the participants with the thoroughness and care of a good historian...He can also describe battle action with much distinction, his account of the 20th's fight at Gettysburg is as good a piece of battle writing as you are likely to find anywhere." - Bruce Catton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 522 pages, b&w illustrations. By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells-sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain's leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization- and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. First published in 1846, The Two Dianas is among the most well-known work in Dumas' Valois romances- which dramatize the intrigues & debacles of the real-life Royal House of France during the fourteenth-sixteenth century. His 1891 novel, The Page of the Duke of Savoy is the fictionalized tale of a woman who is forced to impersonate a man in order to remain by the side of her beloved Duke. Page 15 has a couple tape repairs where page was opened carelessly, several dog-eared pages, otherwise clean 12th volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies.

Softcover. Secaucus NJ, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, reprint, 1985, Book: Good, Softcover, 132 pages, b&w illustrations. The typewriter has had a profound effect on both the business world and social communication. This book is a treasure of well-researched information documenting the earliest introduction of a machine for impressing letters to the electronic typewriters of the early 1980s. The book contains over 100 black & white photographs tracing the history of the typewriter and is a useful resource for typewriter collectors. Spotting to edges not affecting inside pages.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 364 pages. Tells of the Americans who came to China, openly and in secret, and their role in the ultimate U. S. decision to spurn Chinese Communist overtures of friendship and throw greater support to the sinking regime of Chiang Kai-shek. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Versify/Houghton, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. a poignant and powerful ode to the resilience and strength of black life and history in America. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated in 2016, the poem adopts a picture book format with a new title, accompanied by stunning oil paintings in Nelson's trademark photorealistic style. The evocative illustrations stand out against stark white backgrounds and vary in their composition. On some spreads, the focus is on a single expressive portrait; others feature collages of African American icons from various disciplines, or refer to significant historical moments. The art functions in perfect harmony with the poet's spare, striking verse to electrify the Black American experience, and to celebrate black athletes, writers, musicians, activists, and heroes. Clean copy. Caldecott Winner 2020

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 2nd pr., 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering (now partially faded). 320 pages, b&w plates. Chapters include: The Scientific detective; Human Monsters; Famous bandits; Crimes of the insane; Political crime; Some famous women criminals; The case of a spy - Mata Hari; The Death Penalty. Spine faded, otherwise, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardccover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 497 pages, b&w illustrations. An overview of what entertained America for 200 years, from opera to comics. Clean copy.

Omaha NE, Union Pacific Railroad, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover brochure, 36 pages illustrated in color. A promotional piece issued by The Union Pacfic Railroad celebrating the 100th anniversary of the company. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st US, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with blacl title block, gilt lettering. Spine shows fading. 371 pages. Speeches, November, 1940 to the end of 1941. Many key speeches here including " All Will Be Well " made at the Guildhall , Hull, November 7, 1941. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. The official companion book to the feature-length documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, featuring previously unpublished photographs from the first season of Sesame Street and interviews with cast and crew. The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street expands on the film's exploration of the origins and legacy of Sesame Street with exclusive interviews and previously unpublished photographs from the first season of the globally beloved children's series. Author and filmmaker Trevor Crafts, who was given unprecedented access to archival footage and photography, presents more than 150 of photographer David Attie's behind-the-scenes images of Jim Henson, Will Lee, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Frank Oz, Matt Robinson, Caroll Spinney, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, and dozens of other pioneering puppeteers, animators, actors, and Sesame Street Muppets. Crafts uses Attie's remarkable photos and additional interviews from the film to dive deeper into the story of how show creator Joan Ganz Cooney, along with Sesame Workshop cofounder Lloyd Morrisett, director Jon Stone, and Muppet creator Jim Henson, took the values and goals of the civil rights movement and revolutionized children's television. Clean, no dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. Clean copy.