Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a green dust jacket that's faded to blue along spine. Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests, their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to capitalism. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press with Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. This beautiful book is the first full-length study of Degas`s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, one of the most famous and beloved of all nineteenth-century sculptures. The book surveys the history, character, and significance of the sculpture, as well as its social context and the mixed reactions to it over the years.

Hardcover. United Kingdom, Norton Simon Distribution, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 2. 596 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Large heavy coffee table book. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full gray leather. all edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, raised bands. Facsimile reprint of his landmark work first published in two volumes in 1838 and 1840. The author was a French aristocrat, political philosopher and historian. His travels through America and his astute observations about our government and it's people create an important historical portrait of the country at the time. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 452 pages. This book covers the Massachusetts Convention of 1820-21; New York State Convention of 1821; and the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, along with numerous tables. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 357 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to dust jacket flaps and top edge, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. A moving account of Theodore Roosevelt's post-presidential years. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Original advertising leaflet for book laid-in. Moderate rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. Paris, Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 699 pages. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound first edition. Blue cloth covers with title in gilt on black leather spine label. Features black & white illustrations and full color tipped-in plates. Clean, tight. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Fairmount Park Guard Pension Fund Association, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers with white lettering, 88 pages with b&w photos, ads. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boca Raton FL, Bordighera Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations. Tucked away on Via Tasso in a middle-class district in the Eternal City--a stone's throw from the Basilica of St. John in Lateran--the former prison is now the Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, commemorating the liberation of Rome by Resistance fighters and Allied troops in June 1944. Within, anti-fascist partisans scrawled graffiti full of pathos and the romantic idealism that so permeated the Italian Resistance. A visitor today can still read the desperate inscriptions, collected in this volume along with recollections by inmates and narratives concerning the Via Tasso. Pugliese's thoughtful narrative, accompanied by black-and-white photos by Lianna Miuccio, documents the lives of such antifascist prisoners as Arrigo Paladini, who wrote on the wall as he was dying, "There is nothing that can give the joy of a beautiful death as the consciousness of having served the country until the last breath of life." This book examines the inscriptions on the walls, translates them, shows Miuccio's stark photos of them, and gives a historical context, timeline, and survivor and family interviews. Clean copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Company, 2nd pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcver in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with $4.95 on the flap. This is the fascinating story of a naval squadron, a study in depth and in action of DesRon-23, of Arleigh Burke's tremendously significant doctrine of faith, and of the mystique which it produced to make this the greatest destroyer squadron in the history of the U. S. Navy. Included are authentic, minute-by-minute details, the scalp-tingling stories of the slashing naval battles of Tassafaronga, Savo Island, Rmpress Augusta Bay, and Cape St. George , battles fought against the Japanese in World War II. ' ... Six pages of maps. Index. Mild wear to dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This memoir by Confederate General Richard Taylor is usually considered one of the best and least biased by a general officer. The work is full of considered analysis on both the strategy of the war and the personalities of his fellow officers. Taylor is always fair in his criticism and seems to have no real scores to settle. While he makes little mention of his own talents, his tactical brilliance and strategic insight does shine through. Many contemporaries said Richard Taylor was one of the best soldiers of the war, but he is comparatively little known due to his posting to peripheral theaters. While he was a man of his time, the work (with the exception of some of his Reconstruction writings) is much less tainted by Lost Cause polemics than most Confederate memoirs.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, etc.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 666 pages. Name on front fly leaf, title-page. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, A. Wittemann, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in gilt. 29 plates with photos of Detroit landmarks in the late 1800s. Top half inch of spine cover gone, title page with a tan corner stain. Plates all clean. Front endpapers with previous owner's signature, address. Binding shaken, but holding.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 542 pages, tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping to corners. There is some light pencil marking to about 12 pages in the front of the book. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Hamburg, Cigaretten Bilderdienst, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with embossed gilt design on front cover. 150 pages with 225 mounted black and white and color images. German text. There is a frontispiece portrait of Hitler and a few other similar panels. A monumental propaganda work on Herr Hitler, Der Fuhrer, 9" x 12", The quality of the photographs is excellent, but one giant picture at the end, which opens out to 6 solid pages all joined together showing "Standartenweihe im Luitpoldhain1933" A vast sea of Hitler's armed forces in a giant arena. All photographs were taken and carefully selected by Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler's official photographer. Hoffmann's photography was used. A chilling piece of German history and a fascinating example of the NSDAP's propaganda machine. Volume shows some shelf wear, name on half-title page, good plus overall.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black and white illustrations. Dust jacket in cream & white with photograph & only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked. A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime. By the author of Power on Earth.

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 434 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has just a touch of shelf wear to very top of spine. In excellent shape. Binding tight, seems barely read. Clean and unmarked inside and out.

Hardcover. New York, Hovendon & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Blue cloth covers with bright gilt and 3-color design. Illustrated with black & white engravings and color plates. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covered boards with gold gilt lettering, slight stain on back cover, otherwise clean copy. Published by the Council on East Asian Studies at Harvard University. 335 pages. Appendixes include Table of the Published Chinese Sources of John Dewey's Lectures Delivered in China, 1919-1921, John Dewey's Major Lecture Series, Published Articles, and Professional Activities During His Visit to China, and Translations of Dewey's Works into Chinese.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth-backed boards with paper spine label. Translated from the Italian and Latin by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio. Introduction by Antonio Favaro. Frontispiece portrait and other illustrations/diagrams throughout. 300 pages. Originally published in 1914. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Here is the true story of the strike that upset the diamond kings, and with it, a history of the world's most acclaimed diamonds, the process by which they are cut, smuggled and stolen, legends and superstitions, and of the shadowy hand of De Beers, for whom diamonds are forever.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w photos. Orange cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Faint spotting to rear cover, light wear to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 467 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from the German and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. Johann Ewald was acknowledged by the British for whom and with whom he fought in the American Revolution as one of the best light infantry officers (termed outpost officers) in their service. A dedicated, trained professional from Hesse-Cassel, who was 'hired out' by his sovereign for the American War, he knew his job 'from muzzle to butt plate' and was an excellent leader of men, as well as a shrewd observer of what he saw. Fortunately for us, he also wrote all of it down. This book is one of the most valuable memoirs of the period. The petite guerre (little war), also called partisan warfare, of the period is of great importance in understanding the picture of the whole for the War of the Revolution. The jagers that Ewald commanded were also some of the most deadly light infantry in the world at the time, and they were greatly feared by their American opponents. Armed with short German hunting rifles and dressed in green and brown, they not only blended in with their surroundings, but they served in almost every action and battle of the war. Ewald's direct, observant prose paints a vivid picture of the war, his British comrades, and his American opponents. He respected the Americans, especially their officers' attempt at becoming more professional as the war progressed, exemplified by the military books and treatises they read, which Ewald saw from time to time as he came across captured officers' baggage. he was amazed at the American attempts, which he noted were sadly lacking in his brother British officers. He noted this with care. Ewald ended up in the surrender at Yorktown and was eventually sent home to Germany. Light fading to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power. ^ pages with dog earred crease, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Belfast, Appletree Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages. Hardcover. Dark green cloth boards & gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1st Limited Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 631 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Cajun to English/English to Cajun Dictionary. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. No Dust jacket. Binding very good. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight.

Hardcover. Yokohama, unknown, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 842 pages, gray cloth covers worn, spine cloth loose from spine backing, hinges cracked. Inside very good,clean, lacks title page which may never have been printed. A detailed collection of names, places, events, throughout Japanese history. English text. From a library in Japan with card and envelope inside rear cover and sticker on spine. Uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 650 pages, b&w illustrations. A rare study of the Nabataeans, whose kingdom included that archaeological wonder of the world:, Petra. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine with fading.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 365 pages illustrated in b&w and color. For film buffs, Disney fans, and animation enthusiasts, a fascinating and personal look at seven men who defined the craft of directing an animated film under the tutelage of Walt Disney. This untold history collection chronicles the progression of the animation director role during the 1920s through the 1970s. For students of film making and management, this book serves as go-to resource for a complex and sometimes technical role that demanded precision. For all Disney fans, these personal portraits of Walt's closest creative leaders offer a fuller picture behind the stories, characters, and magical realms in Disney's beloved and respected animated films. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages. This unique reference book is a compendium of makers and manufacturers of every variety of musical instrument made in the United States circa 1981. It provides names and addresses of instrument makers indexed alphabetically. Each entry gives all known information on the total and annual number of instruments the maker has produced, the number of workers in the shop, the year the individual or firm began manufacturing instruments, whether the instruments are available on demand or made to order, and whether a brochure is available from the maker. Complete cross-references are provided for companies known by more than one name, for partnerships, and for parent and subsidiary firms. Instruments are also indexed, and makers are listed by state for the convenience of the reader. Lists of schools of instrument making and relevant organizations and publications are included as appendixes. An invaluable source of information for historians and for the rapidly growing number of collectors of musical instruments, who will be able to use the data gathered here in appraising instruments and tracing their history.

Hardcover. NY, Chelsea House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, no dust jacket. When explicit images of sex were taboo, stag films secretly shows generations of men everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask. Here is a richly illustrated nostalgic history of dirty movies, how, when and why they were made. Rather scolarly text with extensive Bibliography and Filmography. No marking.

Softcover. White River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 376 pages. Translated from the French by Elborg Forster, edited and Introduction by Orest Ranum. A new translation of the 1681 work of theology and philosophy by Roman Catholic bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 379 pages. As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 418 pages. The first book to show how the Civil War transformed gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality among Americans. This unique volume brings together a wide spectrum of critical viewpoints by newly emerging scholars as well as distinguished authors in the field to show how gender became a prism through which the political tensions of antebellum America were filtered and focused. Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, from new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers, to women's roles in the guerrilla fighting, to the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. In addition, an incisive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson helps place these various subjects within an overall historical context. Copyright page states first edition, but no price on dj says Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library , reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. A facsimile reprint of the 1787 London edition, the 17th Edition, corrected and improved by William Muchal. 335 pages plus index. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Wichita KS, Pr. Printed, 2nd Ed., n.d. (1930), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white frontispiece of author. Many black & white photo plates. 342 pages. No date. Nice tight copy. Green covers with bright cover decoration, spine lettering faded otherwise very good. One of the classic books on the policing, range-roving, & settlement of the Western plains.

Hardcover. Boston, Phelps and Farnham, Revised Ed., 1825, Book: Good, Hardcover, worn leather covers, hinges cracked but holding. 652 pages including index plus publisher's ads. The American Edition printed from the English 21st Edition, While the covers are worn the interior pages are bright and free of foxing. An important and popular medical guide for the home in the early 19th century. The black spine label is mostly gone. Binding solid, no markings.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime emerged. Using published accounts and array of archival sources, he focuses on questions of subalternization, meaning making, copying, and exotization, which proved crucial to both the Spaniards and the Incas. On the one hand, he re-inserts different epistemologies into the conquest narrative, making central to the plot often-dismissed, discrepant stories such as books that were expected to talk and year-long attacks that could only be launched under a full moon. On the other hand, he questions the dominant image of a clear distinction between Inca and Spaniard, showing instead that on the battlefield as much as in everyday arenas such as conversion, market exchanges, politics, and land tenure, the parties blurred into each other in repeated instances of mimicry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 580 pages profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Italian.