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Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads by: Fraser J. Harbutt
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Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads
by: Fraser J. Harbutt

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This revisionist study of Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946 challenges Americocentric views of the period and highlights Europe's neglected role. Fraser J. Harbutt, drawing on international sources, shows that in planning for the future Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and others self-consciously operated into 1945, not on "East/West" lines but within a "Europe/America" political framework characterized by the plausible prospect of Anglo-Russian collaboration and persisting American detachment. Harbutt then explains the destabilizing transformation around the time of the pivotal Yalta conference of February 1945, when a sudden series of provocative initiatives, manipulations, and miscues interacted with events to produce the breakdown of European solidarity and the Anglo-Soviet nexus, an evolving Anglo-American alignment, and new tensions that led finally to the Cold War. This fresh perspective, stressing structural, geopolitical, and traditional impulses and constraints, raises important new questions about the enduringly controversial transition from World War II to a cold war that no statesman wanted. Clean copy.

Record # 378803

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Yang Kuei-Fei Legend in Japanese Literature, The (Japanese Studies, Vol 6) (SIGNED COPY) by: Masako Nakagawa Graham
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Yang Kuei-Fei Legend in Japanese Literature, The (Japanese Studies, Vol 6) (SIGNED COPY)
by: Masako Nakagawa Graham

Hardcover. Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with b&w decoration to front cover, 295 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, possibly to the publisher Edwin Mellen. (the name has been corrected and is difficult to read.)

Record # 358606

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Yankee Doodle Days Exploring the American Revolution by: Diamant, Lincoln
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Yankee Doodle Days Exploring the American Revolution
by: Diamant, Lincoln

Hardcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 178 pages.Award-winning biographer and historian Lincoln Diamant introduces a diverse group of men and women who contributed in unique ways to the eight-year American Revolution. . . . Among them are soldiers and civilians, veteran generals and three-week militiamen, patriots and spies, a host of Native American and African-American volunteers, and more than a few courageous women. Clean copy.

Record # 396659

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by: Barnes, James
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Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812
by: Barnes, James

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, Reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages. Gilt decorated front cover. Pencil marking on page 195. Minor soiling and edge wear on cover and spine. Minor spotting on front and rear end papers. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852318

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Year Book of the Queens-Nassau Medical Society by: N/A
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Year Book of the Queens-Nassau Medical Society
by: N/A

Softcover. Jamaica NY, Queens-Nassau Medical Society, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages, b&w photographs, softcover booklet. A roster of physicians who practiced in Queens and Nassau Counties from 1806-1920. Light dust soiling otherwise very good.

Record # 406583

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 by: Berk, Stephen M.
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Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-1882
by: Berk, Stephen M.

Hardcover. Westport, Greenwood Press, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Clean, bright copy. Hardcover, no dust jacket.

Record # 607860

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Years of Bitterness and Pride: Farm Security Administration Photographs 1935-1943 by: Evans [photographer, Hiag Akmakjian (Introduction), Walker
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Years of Bitterness and Pride: Farm Security Administration Photographs 1935-1943
by: Evans [photographer, Hiag Akmakjian (Introduction), Walker

Softcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 85 pages, b&w photographs. Minor fading along cover edges and spine. Otherwise, in clean condition.

Record # 354125

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Yellow Wolf: His Own Story by: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
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Yellow Wolf: His Own Story
by: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

Softcover. Caldwell ID, Caxton Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages. illustrated frontispiece. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again. A first person account, through author L.V. McWhorter of the Nez Perce's ill-fated battle for land and freedom. Clean copy.

Record # 385615

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Yellowstone National Park, The - Historical and Descriptive by: Chittenden, Hiram Martin
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Yellowstone National Park, The - Historical and Descriptive
by: Chittenden, Hiram Martin

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd, Revised, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, ex-lib with light marking. B&W illustrations, 530 pages. Folding color maps present, top edge gilt, blue cloth covers with light edgewear, light water stain to margin of frontispiece.

Record # 175276

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Yesterday's Rulers: The Making of the British Colonial Service by: Robert Heussler
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Yesterday's Rulers: The Making of the British Colonial Service
by: Robert Heussler

Hardcover. London/Syracuse, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright , price-clipped dust jacket, 260 pages. Foreword by Sir John Macpherson and Introduction by Margery Perham. A history of the Colonial Administrative Service in Britain from 1900-1945. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387812

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House by: Berliner, Nancy
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Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House
by: Berliner, Nancy

Hardcover. US, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2003-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Three scratches to fore-edge. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464533

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Young Hickory: A Story of the Frontier Boyhood and Youth of Andrew Jackson by: Young, Stanley
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Young Hickory: A Story of the Frontier Boyhood and Youth of Andrew Jackson
by: Young, Stanley

Hardcover. New York , Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, b&w line illustrations, some two-color by Robert Fawcett. Maroon cloth with paper labels on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with wear, chipping. Previous owner's signature crossed out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405982

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Young People's Natural History by: Johnson, Isaac Thornre (ed.)
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Young People's Natural History
by: Johnson, Isaac Thornre (ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, R. H. Woodward Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and with color lithographs that are bright & clean. Edges lightly foxed. Corners bumped.

Record # 510069

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country by: Lampe, John R.
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Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country by: Lampe, John R.Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country by: Lampe, John R.

Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country
by: Lampe, John R.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, no rips or tears. B/w illustrations. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good shape. The first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history and that of its ethnic mosaic.

Record # 32385

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Yvon's Paris by: Stevens, Robert
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Yvon's Paris
by: Stevens, Robert

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Also small tear with piece missing from dust jacket bottom fore edge front. The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself "Yvon," wandered the streets of Paris between the world wars looking for the moment when the shifting light and clouds would perfectly reveal the city?s ephemeral, iconic beauty. The dramatic images of the city and its people that he made during those years would become the most popular postcards in France. Yvon?s Paris reproduces more than one hundred of his loveliest images, many made from recently discovered glass negatives.

Record # 352076

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer by: Goodyear, Frank H. (Author), Elizabeth O. Wiley (Contributor), Jobyl A. Boone (Contributor)
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Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer
by: Goodyear, Frank H. (Author), Elizabeth O. Wiley (Contributor), Jobyl A. Boone (Contributor)

Hardcover. NY, Merrell Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. In the early twentieth century Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869?1933) was one of the busiest photographers in New York City, maintaining a fashionable studio on Fifth Avenue, exhibiting her distinctly modern portraits across America, Europe and Russia, and publishing work in many magazines. Her self-portraits also challenged traditional perceptions of female identity. This striking book celebrates Ben-Yusuf ?s achievement, showcasing a significant selection of her elegant and compelling portraits featuring prominent artistic and political figures of the day, including Lincoln Steffens, Edith Wharton, Elsie de Wolfe and Robert Henri.

Record # 351294

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Zambia Before 1890: Aspects of Precolonial History (SIGNED COPY) by: Langworthy, Harry W.
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Zambia Before 1890: Aspects of Precolonial History (SIGNED COPY)
by: Langworthy, Harry W.

Softcover. London, Longman, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean copy.

Record # 381612

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Zanzibar in Contemporary Times: A Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century by: Lyne, Robert Nunez
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Zanzibar in Contemporary Times: A Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century
by: Lyne, Robert Nunez

Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Light edgewear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856923

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Zapata! by: Steinbeck, John
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Zapata!
by: Steinbeck, John

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. The Previously Unpublished Introduction, Commentary and Script for the Film VIVA ZAPATA! Clean copy.

Record # 612202

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Zapata! by: Steinbeck, John
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Zapata!
by: Steinbeck, John

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612203

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by: Carol Leonnig
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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
by: Carol Leonnig

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 532 pages. The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6--by the Pulitzer Prize winner.

Record # 381305

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Zion's Pilgrim by: Hawker, Robert
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Zion's Pilgrim by: Hawker, RobertZion's Pilgrim by: Hawker, Robert

Zion's Pilgrim
by: Hawker, Robert

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Swift & Chipman, 2nd American from the 7th London Edition, 1811, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather cover boards, front cover board slightly bowed (see image), gilt title on spine with gilt bands. Binding tight. Spine straight. Some appropriate agewear throughout: tanning, foxing, etc. A series of graphic and interesting scenes illustrating the temper and conduct of the pilgrim on his way to Zion.

Record # 99194

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Zoar Furniture 1817-1898: A Preliminary Study by: Snyder, Tricia and Gil, and Paul A. Goudy
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Zoar Furniture 1817-1898: A Preliminary Study
by: Snyder, Tricia and Gil, and Paul A. Goudy

Softcover. New Philadelphia, OH, Tuscarawas County Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spiral bound softcover. 128 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Small scratches on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851027

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Zu Gast im alten Berlin (German Edition) by: Taubrich, Hans-Christian
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Zu Gast im alten Berlin (German Edition)
by: Taubrich, Hans-Christian

Hardcover. Munchen GR, Hugendubel, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, Over 250 historical photos featuring public buildings, storefronts, cafes and other gathering spaces in the city. GERMAN TEXT. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket. Appears to be a reprint of a book first published in 1990.

Record # 361014

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00