Softcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st pbk, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Illustrated with black and white photos.; A history of of the racially-charged integration of black players into baseball's southern minor leagues.
Hardcover. Oklahoma Heritage Assn., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 324 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR THOMPSON on the title page.Bryce Harlow was one of the most extraordinary political figures in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. He served four presidents with great honor and distinction. His word was his bond. With his gentle manner and Oklahoma drawl, Harlow advised Presidents on more public issues than perhaps anyone in American history.Dr. Henry Kissinger says Harlow spent his entire adult life studying the ways of Washington, D.C., alternating between participant and observer. Harlow had a deep sense for the Presidency, its power, its majesty, and the awful responsibility it imposes. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 263 pages, b&w illustrations. The author traces the origins of humor to primitive drama, folk ritual, and carnival play. from antiquity to the era of Laurel and Hardy. Light making to about 16 pages.
Softcover. Syracuse, NY, Willis N Bugbee Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet. Green paper wrappers with softened edges. Light soil to paper wrappers. tight copy. Lightly faded on rear.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. David Macaulay's large format architectural volumes are always instructive in their detail. This volume amps up that opportunity. On the 25th anniversary of the his publication, "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction", Macaulay published this volume literally illustrated with the step-by-step development of that book. So, here are the quick drawings, smudges, early drawing drafts, hand-written and typed copy, reproduction proofs, revision notes, and more. Intriguing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. David Macaulay's large format architectural volumes are always instructive in their detail. This volume amps up that opportunity. On the 25th anniversary of the his publication, "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction", Macaulay published this volume literally illustrated with the step-by-step development of that book. So, here are the quick drawings, smudges, early drawing drafts, hand-written and typed copy, reproduction proofs, revision notes, and more. Intriguing.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Building the Devil's Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans's early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy's picaresque account of New Orleans's wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city's global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism--where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined--New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works.
New York, Brockhampton/William R. Scott, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. Many black & white and color detailed illustrations of buildings by the Leacrofts. Dust jacket with mild wear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear and creases to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Italy, Leonardo Arte Srl , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. Color illustrations throughout. A book about Italy's greatest jeweler.
Softcover. Athens/Paris, Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Volume Two: pages 371-900, followed by 16 b&w plates. Cream paper wraps. Glossy pages with many black and white photographs are uncut. Text in English and French.
Softcover. US, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that shows fading, 360 pages, b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command a force designated to capture Albany and end the rebellion, Burgoyne advanced from Canada but soon found himself surrounded and outnumbered. He fought two battles at Saratoga, but was forced to open negotiations with Horatio Gates. Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners. Burgoyne faced criticism when he returned to Britain, and never held another active command. Clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green card covers with dark blue lettering. 60 pages of listed subscriber phone numbers with ads throughout plus a 24 page classified business section. Directory covers Bristol, Burlington, Charlotte, Essex Center, Essex Junction and Richmond. Small perforated hole in upper corner, clean, bright copy of uncommon Vermont ephemera.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W plates and maps; Large 8vo 9' - 10' tall; 686 pages; 'Allen's work deals primarily with the human elements of the forgotten war waged between the doomed empires of Great Britain and Japan in Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945. The author's familiarity with Japanese sources enables him to strike a balance unusual in Western accounts. Allen's Japanese are as much prisoners of their culture as the British are of theirs. They are victims of incompetent command and inadequate logistics. They do not want to die, but their ready acceptance of death lends a special horror to Allen's descriptions of some of the century's most vicious fighting.' Clean bright copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Weymouth, MA, George H. Ellis Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH HANDWRITTEN POEMS AID IN. Light foxing and age discoloration on pages. Light soil to covers. Tight copy.
Softcover. Manchester University Press , 1st pbk, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 514 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Biography of Union general Ambrose Burnside, reassessing his reputation as an "incompetent leader" by viewing his entire career as a soldier during the war: along the Carolina coast, at Antietam, and his capture of Knoxville in East Tennessee, while still recognizing the debacle at Fredericksburg.
Hardcover. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. The first British edition featuring wrap-around color pictorial artwork by Frederick S. Remington (The Sign of the Buffalo Scout,1907). 487 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos, reproductions, double-page frontis map. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, World War II action/adventure from one of the all-time great cartoonists. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Chicago IL, Fleming H. Revell, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 402 pages. Contains two-tone plate illustrations by E. S. Paxson. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Edgewear. Spine and corner rubbed.