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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe by: Murphy, Cullen
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
by: Murphy, Cullen

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, and drawings, Cartoon County brings the postwar American era alive, told through the relationship of a son to his father, an extraordinarily talented and generous man who had been trained by Norman Rockwell. Cartoon County gives us a glimpse into a very special community-and of an America that used to be.

Record # 353149

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Cartoons for Victory by: Bernard, Warren
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Cartoons for Victory
by: Bernard, Warren

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. A tight copy. Cartoons for Victory showcases wartime work by cartoonists such as Charles Addams, Harold Gray, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, and many others. Most of the cartoons and comics in this book have not been seen since their first publication.

Record # 353492

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Cassell's Illustrated History of India by: Grant, James

Cassell's Illustrated History of India
by: Grant, James

Hardcover. London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, unknown, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in one. Volume I is 576 pages. Volume II is 588 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering and design, corners and edges are worn and frayed. Top edge gilt. Heavy foxing on title page and frontispiece, light foxing on some pages throughout, otherwise inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage, reads "Used in tour around the world, 1881-1882." Previous owner was author and traveller Joseph Cook. A impressive and thorough copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 853144

Price: $160.00
Price: $160.00 

Cast Away in the Cold: An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures by: Hayes, Dr. Isaac
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Cast Away in the Cold: An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures
by: Hayes, Dr. Isaac

Hardcover. New York, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Orange covers with black stamped decorations and gilt panel on spine. Gutter cracked throughout. Rear hinge starting. Captain John Hardy, Retired, a weather-beaten, somewhat eccentric old sea dog of 59 recounts the exciting, sometimes amusing tale of his running away from home at eighteen to become a sailor/mate on a ship bound for the Arctic seas to hunt seals to harvest their valuable pelts.

Record # 367932

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Castles by: Oman, Charles
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Castles by: Oman, CharlesCastles by: Oman, Charles

Castles
by: Oman, Charles

Hardcover. London, The Great Western Railway, 1st, 1926, Hardcover, maroon boards with black cloth spine, 230 pages. The result of two interesting journeys, devoted to castle-seeking, one in 1924, covering Wales and the English counties along the Welsh border; and the other in 1925 devoted to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall ".The text is accompanied by 105 illustrations, 77 drawings, 1 Plate, 2 colored Plates, and 2 Maps, a color map folded into rear pocket inside cover. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383204

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Cataclysm 1914: The First World War And The Making Of Modern World Politics by: Alexander Anievas (Ed.)
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Cataclysm 1914: The First World War And The Making Of Modern World Politics
by: Alexander Anievas (Ed.)

Softcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 471 pages. Brings together leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection seeks to visualise the conflict and all its immediate consequences (such as the Bolshevik Revolution and ascendency of US hegemony) as a defining moment in 20th century world politics, rupturing and reconstituting the 'modern' epoch in its many instantiations. Appeals to general readers and those focused on Marxian theory and strategy and leftist histories of the war.

Record # 400764

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES) by: N/A
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Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES) by: N/ACatalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES) by: N/A

Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES)
by: N/A

Hardcover. New Haven, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 964 pages. 2 Volumes. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Light rubbing to edges on dust jackets. Clean, tight copies with color pictures throughout.

Record # 368974

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Catalogue of Chinese Coins From the VIIth Century B.C. to A.D. 621 Including the Series in the British Museum edited by Reginald Stuart Poole by: De Lacouperie, Terrie
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Catalogue of Chinese Coins From the VIIth Century B.C. to A.D. 621 Including the Series in the British Museum edited by Reginald Stuart Poole
by: De Lacouperie, Terrie

Hardcover. London, Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange cloth covers with black lettering and rules on spine and both covers, 443 pages with hundreds of pictures. Front and rear hinges partially cracked, previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, otherwise the book is very good, clean throughout.

Record # 407683

Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00 

Catamount Surgeons: Surgery and Surgical Education at the University of Vermont 1804-2008 (SIGNED COPY) by: Pilcher, David B. & Curran, Michael G
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Catamount Surgeons: Surgery and Surgical Education at the University of Vermont 1804-2008 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Pilcher, David B. & Curran, Michael G

Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PILCHER on title page. The history of surgical education at the University of Vermont, from 1804 to 2008. Large format. Handsomely produced and illustrated. 444 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Record # 378873

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Cattle-Raising on the Plains of North America by: von Richthofen, Walter Baron
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Cattle-Raising on the Plains of North America
by: von Richthofen, Walter Baron

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850993

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America by: Hamill. Hugh M.
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Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America
by: Hamill. Hugh M.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 373 pages. Presents conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Nunez, Mexico's Porfirio Diaz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican 'Benefactor' Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Peron and his wife Evita, Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner - called 'The Tyrannosaur,' Chile's Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba's Fidel Castro. Clean copy.

Record # 399983

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic by: Kuehn, Karl Gernot
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Caught - The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic
by: Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Hardcover. Berkeey, University of California, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, nearly 150 b&w photos accompany the text. A survey of photography in East Germany; from 1945 to 1989. In a very good dust jacket with light fade to spine. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while also providing an illustrated social history of people 'caught' in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires."

Record # 357546

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Causes and Spirits: Photographs from Five Decades by: Carter, William
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Causes and Spirits: Photographs from Five Decades
by: Carter, William

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 368863

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Celestial Horses & Long Sleeve Dancers: The David W. Dewey Collection of Ancient Chinese Tomb Sculpture by: Jacobsen, Robert
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Celestial Horses & Long Sleeve Dancers: The David W. Dewey Collection of Ancient Chinese Tomb Sculpture
by: Jacobsen, Robert

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Media Resources, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to cover boards, otherwise clean bright copy. Color pictures throughout. 12x12x1 dimensions. Numbering over 250 works spanning nearly 1500 years, the Dewey collection of ancient Chinese tomb sculpture is exceptional for its breadth and outstanding quality. Representing nearly all figural types, stylistic traditions and themes, it provides a comprehensive visual record with fascinating insights into the customs and fashions, inventions and superstitions of ancient China's ruling elite during the golden age of the Great Silk Road.

Record # 471895

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies by: Sanders, James
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Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
by: Sanders, James

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 498 pages, index, B&W photos and illustrations culled from studio archives and privste collections, show the image of New York city in the world of film. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Record # 456479

Price: $0.00
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Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping by: Robert Zorn
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Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
by: Robert Zorn

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. For seventy-five years, the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son has gone unsolved. Evidence, opinion, and logic have discredited the notion that Bruno Richard Hauptmann --electrocuted in 1936 --acted alone. In this meticulous and authoritative account of the crime, the trial, and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices --including the mastermind --he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership, which would shake every class and culture of American society. Using personal possessions and documents, never-before seen photographs, new forensic evidence, and extensive research, Robert Zorn has written a shocking and captivating account of the crime and the original "Trial of the Century." Thin black remainder line on bottom edge otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 399638

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Centennial Celebration, Together with an Historical Sketch of Reading, Windsor County, Vermont and its Inhabitants from the first settlement of the town to 1874 by: Da

Centennial Celebration, Together with an Historical Sketch of Reading, Windsor County, Vermont and its Inhabitants from the first settlement of the town to 1874
by: Da

Bellows Falls, VT , A. N. Swain, 1st, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 169 pages. B&W illust. Lots of genealogical information. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, spine color faded

Record # 300430

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Centennial Proceedings and Historical Incidents of the Early Settlers of Northfield, Vt. by: Gregory, John
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Centennial Proceedings and Historical Incidents of the Early Settlers of Northfield, Vt.
by: Gregory, John

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT , Argus & Patriot, 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 319 pages, b&w illustrations. Back hinge slightly cracked otherwise book is very good. Previous owner's inscription pasted to front end paper. Original green cloth binding with gilt design & lettering on spine. On front cover the North in "Northfield's First Century" is partially rubbed, the gilt design is undamaged.

Record # 300420

Price: $65.00
Price: $65.00 

Central Colonies Chronicle: The Freemen, The Servants, and The Governments, 1722-1732 by: Armand Francis Lucier
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Central Colonies Chronicle: The Freemen, The Servants, and The Governments, 1722-1732
by: Armand Francis Lucier

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages. Colorfully depicts colonial life in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland as reported in the newspapers and journals of the region. 'Feel the pulse of the people by reading the same items and advertisements presented in their weekly newspapers; the same words, the same spellings, the same compositions as they were written by Colonial compositors and publishers.' These pages are 'filled with newspaper abstracts concerning runaway slaves and indentured servants, the near frontier, piracy, ships and mariners, plantations, land and home sales, and many more happenings and items of interest to the highborn as well as the common tradesman.

Record # 387947

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Ceramics of the 20th Century by: Preaud, Tamara and Serge Gauthier
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Ceramics of the 20th Century
by: Preaud, Tamara and Serge Gauthier

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, 347 illustrations, 85 in color. A comprehensive guide with factories, artists, potters and techniques all covered. Near fine in a similar dust jacket in a cardboard slipcase.

Record # 605009

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Challenge of Dissent, The: Religious Conditions in New Hampshire in the Early Nineteenth Century by: Hudson, Richard Lloyd
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Challenge of Dissent, The: Religious Conditions in New Hampshire in the Early Nineteenth Century
by: Hudson, Richard Lloyd

Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, University Microfilms, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Reproduction of a thesis written in 1970 for a PHD at Syracuse University. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 405643

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Challenged Identities: North American Missionaries in Korea, 1884 to 1934 by: Elizabeth Underwood
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Challenged Identities: North American Missionaries in Korea, 1884 to 1934
by: Elizabeth Underwood

Hardcover. Seoul, Royal Asiatic Society, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Five decades of North American missionary work in Korea are revealed in this book, giving readers a glimpse into the profound struggle for cultural and spiritual identity that often accompanied the Christian missionaries' foray into unbaptized territory. Most could not make the necessary leap from their own backgrounds to their new home culture; a few did, and came away from the experience with a sharper perception of self, society, and the sometimes problematic nature of their work. Clean copy.

Record # 398743

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Champlain Valley Memories: Volume II- the 1940s, '50s And '60s by: The Burlington Free Press
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Champlain Valley Memories: Volume II- the 1940s, '50s And '60s
by: The Burlington Free Press

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Pediment Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages, b&w photos throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 397441

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Chaplin: His Life and Art by: Robinson, David
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Chaplin: His Life and Art
by: Robinson, David

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 792 pages, b&w illustrations. David Robinson who was given unbridled access to Chaplin's records documents Chaplin's life from his childhood in London to his death in Switzerland. Great attention is given to his film making methods especially the great classics. The book contains many photos and over a hundred pages of appendices.

Record # 370675

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00