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Longest War, the - Israel in Lebanon


Timerman, Jacobo

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Translated from Spanish by Miguel Acoca. Nice condition. Dust jacket shows some very light wear but otherwise and internally clean. Hardbound, 167 pgs.

Record # 109195


Price: $18.00 

One Day in China: May 21, 1936Cochran, Sherman (Editor)

One Day in China: May 21, 1936


Cochran, Sherman (Editor)

Hardcover. New Haven, 1st, July 1, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket; spine faded. Spine cocked. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451427


Price: $20.00 

 

Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest


Bowman, Alan K.

Hardcover. 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456655


Price: $30.00 

 

Second Empire, The


Guedalla, Philip

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 2nd, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 457 pages. Leather bound, gilt decorated covers.

Record # 64149


Price: $35.00 

 

Meiji Revisited - The Sites of Victorian Japan


Finn, Dallas

New York, Weatherhill, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Color and black & white photography. Black & white sketches.

Record # 205673


Price: $40.00 

 

Mezzogiorno


Chevallier, Elisabeth

Hardcover. NY , French & European Pub., 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, color, b&w photos by Raymond Chevallier.

Record # 100590


Price: $25.00 

 

Moscow Zaryadye - History of Architectural Landmarks


Kazakevich, I.I.

Hardcover. Moscow, Iskusstvo Publishers, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages including Russian/English index. Edwear to corners and spine separated. Otherwise a nice copy.

Record # 501642


Price: $24.00 

 

United States and Ireland, The


Akenson, Donald Harman

Hard Back . Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light soil to dust jacket, and small tear on back of dust jacket.

Record # 200954


Price: $15.00 

 

Mission to the Head-Hunters


Drown, Frank/Marie Drown

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 252 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Tape repaired tears along edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606756


Price: $12.00 

 

Sonya - The Life of Countess Tolstoy


Edwards, Anne

Hardcover. Ny, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 512 pgs. remainder stamp bottom edge.

Record # 105032


Price: $20.00 

 

Servants, Shiphands and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa, Japan


Leupp, Gary P.

Hardcover. NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, rep., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub. hardcover 1992

Record # 54753


Price: $18.00 

 

Egypt - The Land Between Sand and Nile


Nawrath, Alfred

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 B&W, 51 color plates. some light pencil underlining in text, otherwise very good

Record # 175261


Price: $18.00 

 

History of the Conquest of Mexico


Prescott, William H.

Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, rep., n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete in one volume. 467 + 490 pages.

Record # 58513


Price: $20.00 

 

Japan Before Buddhism


Kidder, J. Edward

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, revised ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 photos, 65 drawings, 7 maps.

Record # 125599


Price: $35.00 

 

Turning Wheel, The - Thirty Years of the Asian Revolution by a Correspondant for The New Yorker


Shaplen, Robert

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 398 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket with light edgewear, fade to spine

Record # 175467


Price: $18.00 

 

Henry of Navarre - Henry IV of France


Russell, Lord

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with closed tear.

Record # 56687


Price: $15.00 

 

SICILY: ISLAND OF FIRE


Ordway, Donald

Hardcover. New York, National Travel Club, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color pictorial end papers. 269 pages. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings + black and white plates by author. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt. Dust jacket good with edge wear, chips, small tears, price clipped.

Record # 220571


Price: $10.00 

 

Photographing in Old England with Some Snap Shots in Scotland and Wales


Adams, W. I. Lincoln

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 112 pages. Black & white photography by Adams and others. Gilt edges. Gold lettering and green decoration on front cover. Rubbing to extremities. Soiling to covers. Darkened spine.

Record # 508849


Price: $9.00 

 

Military Interpreter, The: English French Vietnamese Military Handbook


N/A

Pirated ed, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 160 pages. Some soiling to covers. Stamp on rear endpaper.

Record # 508401


Price: $16.00 

 

Victorian Aftermath, The


Wingfield-Stratford, Esme

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 16314


Price: $30.00 

 

Mr. Pitt and America's Birthright / A biography of William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham 1707-1778


Long, V. C.

Hardcover. NY, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 576 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Decorative staining to top text block.

Record # 16303


Price: $15.00 

 

Rollo in London


Abbott, Jacob

Hardcover. Boston, Brown, Taggard & Chase, rep., 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 56806


Price: $8.00 

 

Western World and Japan, The: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures


Sansom, G. B.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 504 pages, plus index in rear, with black & white illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and chip, light foxing on fore edge, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 854596


Price: $12.00 

Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in GuatemalaWilkinson, Daniel

Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala


Wilkinson, Daniel

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 373 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and small dog-ears to a few pages, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458692


Price: $23.00 

 

Tanganyika: Report for the Year 1952


HMSO

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages, green paper wraps, fold-out charts, b&w photos. Paper spine partially torn at rear edge. Covers lightly edgeworn, binding solid. Clean copy, no marking.

Record # 405587


Price: $31.00 

 

Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan 1873 - 1922


Nakamura, James I.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages, dust jacket with light wear, fading. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 406280


Price: $15.00 

 

Sacred Scriptures of the Japanese, The


Wheeler, Post

Hardcover. New York , Henry Schuman, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages, in a lightly chipped, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 407398


Price: $25.00 

Garden Route, The - South AfricaN/A

Garden Route, The - South Africa


N/A

Softcover. Pretoria, South African Tourist Corp., 1950s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, travel brochure on the picturesque area between Capetown and Port Elizabeth along South Africa's coast., 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w. No date but appears to be early 1950s. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 411329


Price: $25.00 

 

Legacy of Islam, The


Arnold, Sir Thomas and Alfred Guillaume

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Slight bumping to corners. Fading to front and rear flyleaf. Many detailed illustrations and plates throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951571


Price: $24.00 

 

British Policy Towards Wartime Resistance in Yugoslavia & Greece


Auty (Editors), Phyllis and Richard Clogg

Hardcover. London, The Macmillan Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Detailed study of British policy towards resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece during World War II. Heavy edgewear to dust jacket at top edge and spine. Chipping to dust jacket edges and fading to spine. Board corners bumped. Red toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952177


Price: $23.00 

 

Silla Korea and the Silk Road: Golden Age, Golden Threads


Carriere (Editor), Frederick F.

Paperback. New York, The Korea Society, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages, paperback. A color photo illustrated text book on Korea's role in the Silk Road trade route. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unopened CD-ROM still attached to front endpapers. A tight copy.

Record # 952351


Price: $50.00 

 

Adventures in Bolivia


Prodgers, C.H., Illust. by: C.H. Prodgers

NY, Dodd-Mead, 1st US, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illust., black & white photos by author. 282 pages. Introduction by R.B. Cunninghame Graham.

Record # 68604


Price: $35.00 

 

Afghanistan - Land in Transition


Watkins, Mary Bradley

hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Van Nostrand, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white photos. Illustrated end papers. Spine faded.

Record # 201919


Price: $18.00 

 

Coffee and Conflict in Columbia 1886-1916


Bergquist, Charles W.

Paperback. Durham, Duke Univ., Rep. wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint with new preface

Record # 54862


Price: $12.00 

 

Faggot of French Sticks, A (2 vols.)


Head)(Sir Francis

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sketches of Paris street life, public institutions and education in the French Army. 463,455 pages. Half-leather binding shows edgewear, rubbing, some labels gone but internally crisp and clean. Marbled edges & end papers.

Record # 69001


Price: $51.00 

 

Prelude to the Partition of West Africa


Hargreaves, John D.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Maps. 383 pages. Pencil, underlining, marginal notes. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 64131


Price: $23.00 

 

Muscovy: Russia through foreign eyes, 1553-1900,


Wilson, Francesca M

Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 328 pages, b&w plates. Red top edge. Yellowing, light edge wear to dust jacket. Small stamp on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453352


Price: $10.00 

 

Castilian Days


Hay, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Rep., 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by Joseph Pennell. Lovely gilt-decorated cover design.

Record # 61433


Price: $25.00 

 

Maghreb - Tunisie Algerie Maroc


La Bastide, Henri De

Hardcover. Geneva, Horizons De France, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY HENRI DE LA BASTIDE on half title pg, many color, b&w photos, 264 pgs + maps, French text.

Record # 70811


Price: $50.00 

 

Modernity and Tradition: The Saudi Equation


Al-Farsy, Foud

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul International, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket has minor foxing on back side.

Record # 803779


Price: $8.00 

 

The Drama of Fiji - A Contemporary History


Wesley Coulter, John

Rutland, VT, Tuttle, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 205578


Price: $18.00 

 

UN and the Palestinian Refugees, The - A Study in Nonterritorial Administration


Buehrig, Edward H.

hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 215 pages. Dust jacket worn, soiled.

Record # 65002


Price: $18.00 

 

Toward Uhuru in Tanzania - The Politics of Participation


Maguire, G.Andrew

Hardcover. London, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60061


Price: $30.00 

 

America In 1492 - The World of the Indian Peoples Before The Arrival of Columbus


Josephy, Jr., Alvin M. (Ed.)

NY, Knopf , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white and color illustrations and photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201327


Price: $20.00 

 

Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to The Jazz Age


Levenstein, Harvey

Hardcover. Chicago IL, University of Chicago, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 805726


Price: $13.00 

 

Battle of Bosworth, The


Bennett, Michael

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. 75 black and white illustrations and three maps. Detailed reconstruction of the battle that claimed the life of Richard III and ended the Plantagenet line. Wrinkle in dust jacket laminate.

Record # 512292


Price: $8.00 

 

First Australians, The


Berndt, Ronald & catherine

Hardcover. NY, Philosophical Library, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 141 pages.

Record # 100856


Price: $19.00 

 

History of Korea, The


Han, Woo-Keun

Honolulu, East-West Center Press, 2nd, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 551 pages Ex-lib with light stamping, stickers on dust jacket spine, light residue to rear end papers.

Record # 66660


Price: $6.00 

 

Colors of Africa


Kilgo, James

Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. B&W illustrations by author.

Record # 603264


Price: $15.00 

 

African Societies in Southern Africa


Thompson, Leonard

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of scholarly historical studies. 336 pages. Dj with closed tears. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60084


Price: $40.00 

 

Hungarians in America


Szy, Tibor (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Kossuth Foundation, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear, soiling; spine faded. Light soiling to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850798


Price: $20.00 

 

Patagonian Year


Nordang, Bruno

hard back. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white photos.

Record # 202324


Price: $20.00 

 

Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Everyone - An Introduction to the Writing of Ancient Egypt


Scott, Joseph Elenore

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 5th pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pg. illust.

Record # 57771


Price: $15.00 

 

African Railwaymen - Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force


Grillo, R.D.

Hardcover. London, Cambridge Univ., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 plages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60075


Price: $25.00 

 

Readings in Russian Civilization (3 vols.)


Riha, Thomas (Ed.)

Paperback. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Rep. wraps , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: Russia Before Peter the Great 900 -1700; Vol. 2: Imperial Russia, 1700 -1917; Vol. 3: Soviet Russia,1917-1963. 801 pages. Previous owner's sticker, otherwise clean. Paperbacks.

Record # 303679


Price: $30.00 

 

Divided Hope - Germany After the War 1945-49


N/A

Softcover. Bonn, Gesamtdeutsches Institut, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog issued for an exhibit, many b&w Illustrations,108 pages, color fold-out map in rear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 70775


Price: $10.00 

 

Das Personliche Regiment Whilhelms II


Eyck, Erich

Hardcover. Entenbvach-Zurich, Eugen Rentsch, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, German Text

Record # 57123


Price: $25.00 

 

High Kings, The - Arthur's Celtic Ancestors


Chant, Joy

Hardcover. Toronto, CN, Bantam, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color and black and white Illustrations by George Sharp. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket. Sticker on the back of dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 202085


Price: $12.00 

 

Guanajuato


deVarona, Esteban A.

Softcover. Mexico, Union Grafica, 2nd, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in English. & black & white photographs by author. A travel history & quide to this Mexican town circa 1950

Record # 53709


Price: $15.00 

 

Vicky - Princess Royal of England & German Empress


Bennett, Daphne

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The daughter of Queen Victoria

Record # 54877


Price: $8.00 

 

Guardian, The - The Men Who Ruled India


Woodruff, Philip

London, Jonathan Cape, 3rd, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages, B&W illustrations, maps. Bottom corner bumped, previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 302941


Price: $12.00 

 

Afrika My Music - An Autobiography 1957-1983


Mphahlele, Es'Kia

Paperback. Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages.

Record # 64120


Price: $23.00 

 

Indians of Canada


Jenness, Diamond

Hardcover. Ottawa, National Museum of Canada, 3rd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages. Good, edge worn dust jacket with repair marks. Black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 804075


Price: $19.00 

 

Neighbors - Living the Revolution


Lewis, Oscar and Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon

Hardcover. Urbana, Univ. of Ill., 1st. , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An oral history of contemporary Cuba with errata slip laid in

Record # 54984


Price: $20.00 

 

Russian Folk Fairy Tales with Illustrations by the Palekh Artist, Alexander Kurkin /


Seryshev / , L. (ed.) / . ( )

Leningrad / , Aurora Art Publishers / , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This a portfolio of 16 large sheets of glossy cardstock folded in half, inside each of which there is a Russian fairy tale printed, along w/ a beautiful tipped-in color illustration. Text in Russian w/ a list of the fairy tales in English. Plates in great condition. Color pictorial portfolio itself shows edgewear and a couple small tears. It is discolored in a couple spots on front.

Record # 804229


Price: $22.00 

 

Fatal Friendship, The - Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the Flight To Varennes.


Loomis, Stanley

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Rep., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 341 pages

Record # 55073


Price: $18.00 

 

His Letters & Sketches from the Crimea.


Clifford, V.C., Henry

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white, color illus. by author. Torn front corner bumped

Record # 54629


Price: $30.00 

 

I Know Tunisia


Martin, Dahris

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 2nd, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub in August, 1943, this pub Sept, 1943 some fade to spine

Record # 24681


Price: $12.00 

 

Australian Pictures Drawn With Pen and Pencil


Willoughby, Howard

Hardcover. London, Religious Tract Society, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Many fine B&W line engravings. Pristine fold-out color map of Australia. Brown cloth with black and gilt decoration. all edges gilt.

Record # 300921


Price: $100.00 

 

Guardians of the Treasure House: How a Group of Individuals Helped Turn a Rough-Edged Factory Town into One of the Richest Cities on Earth


Vittachi, Nury

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Society of Accountants, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A financial history of Hong Kong from the early 1970s through 1998. Published to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants.

Record # 402956


Price: $50.00 

 

Collector's Luck in Spain


Carrick, Alice Van Leer

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 202 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket stained, w/ large pieces missing; in brodart. Foxing to end papers and top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401953


Price: $15.00 

 

Political Corruption in India


Dwivedy, Surendranath and G.S. Bhargava

Hardcover. New Delhi, Popular Book Service, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj badly chipped

Record # 56127


Price: $15.00 

 

In Siberia


Thubron, Colin

NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages.

Record # 67665


Price: $23.00 

 

Spain


Hurlimann, Martin

London/New York, Studio/Crowell, Rep. , 1956 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 B&W, 8 color photographs.

Record # 301766


Price: $25.00 

 

Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico


Beezley, William H.

Softcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 181 pages. Light soiling to rear cover.

Record # 504146


Price: $15.00 

 

Historic Chinese Architecture


N/A

Paperback. Beijing, China, Qinghua University , 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. Color photos of landmark sites throughout China. Paperback.

Record # 302366


Price: $30.00 

 

Here and There in Mexico - The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend


Townsend, Mary Ashley

Tuscaloosa AL, University of Alabama Press , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Hardcover, 332 pages, like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 602993


Price: $25.00 

 

Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa


Morgenthau, Ruth S.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 445 pages. Light wear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60082


Price: $20.00 

 

Gods of Noonday - A White Girl's African Life


Orr, Elaine Neil

Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good ,

Record # 304641


Price: $20.00 

 

Lirica Italiana Antica


Levi, Evgenia

Hardcover. Florence (Firenze), Presso R. Bemporad & F., rep, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. 1/4 red leather, 3/4 marble-like boards. Spine missing, edgewear, corners bumped. Marble end papers. B/W pictures throughout. Text block unmarked and still pretty tight.

Record # 804003


Price: $19.00 

 

China Threat, The - How the People's Republic Targets America


Geeertz, Bill

Washington, DC, Regnery, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Previous owner's sticker on front of dust jacket.

Record # 303103


Price: $12.00 

On the TakeCameron, Stevie

On the Take


Cameron, Stevie

Hardcover. Toronto, MacFarlane Walter & Ross, 1st, June 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages, b&w photographs. Minor wear to dust jacket; spine slightly faded. Else very good.

Record # 454625


Price: $12.00 

 

Mexico City


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and World, Inc., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 212 pages. 14 color and 85 B/W photographs by Dick Davis. Cloth cover faded on front bottom edge and spine. Dust jacket has small tears on top and bottom edges otherwise very clean.

Record # 802515


Price: $13.00 

 

First Emperor of China - The Geatest Archeological Find of Our Time


Cotterell, Arthur

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 208 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 302201


Price: $15.00 

 

Inequality in the Peruvian Andes - Class and Ethnicity in Cuzco


van den Berghe, Pierre L and George P. Primov

Columbia, Missouri University Press , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Black & white photography and map. Cover has very light edgewear.

Record # 206655


Price: $15.00 

 

Culture of the English People, The : Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution


Pounds, N. J. G.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st, May 27, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 477 pages. Light sunning to spine and slight stain to for-edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458156


Price: $15.00 

 

Saddam's War


Bulloch, John and Harvey Morris

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The origins of the Kuwait conflict and the international response

Record # 54766


Price: $15.00 

 

I FIND AUSTRALIA


Hatfield, William

Hardcover. Melbourne , Oxford University Press, 1st Australian, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Illustrated. 12mo. Gray cloth, black titles.

Record # 220582


Price: $10.00 

Standard Guide to Havana and Cuba - A Complete Handbook for Visitors with Maps, Illustrations, History and an English-Spanish Manual of ConversationReynolds, Charles B.

Standard Guide to Havana and Cuba - A Complete Handbook for Visitors with Maps, Illustrations, History and an English-Spanish Manual of Conversation


Reynolds, Charles B.

Softcover. New York/Havana, Foster & Reynolds, reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages plus advertisements. Illustrated with b&w photos, several maps. Softcover with green printed wrappers, front cover detached but present. Light staining to top edge otherwise clean and tight copy despite loose front cover.

Record # 401328


Price: $80.00 

 

Man in the Amazon


Wagley, Charles (Ed.)

Gainsville, FL , University of Florida, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of papers read at the 23rd Latin American Conference in 1973. All on the Amazon Valley, its people, history and economic condition.

Record # 200144


Price: $18.00 

Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in HavanaTattlin, Isadora

Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana


Tattlin, Isadora

Hardcover. 1st, May 17, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very clean copy. light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise, like new.

Record # 450740


Price: $12.00 

 

White-Stone Russia


Simonov, A. G. and M. G. Lukashevitch

Hardcover. Leningrad, RSFSR Artist, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. 200 photos (mostly b&w) of examples of old Russian stone architecture. Gray and white cloth covers in a matching slipcase. Bi-lingual text in Russian and English. All very good condition.

Record # 600040


Price: $50.00 

 

Asian Rural Society - China, India, Japan


Fukutake, Tadashi

Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st U.S. , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to end papers.

Record # 303249


Price: $12.00 

 

Korean Enterprise - The Quest for Globalization


Ungson, Gerardo R. and others

Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. A study of Korea's business culture.

Record # 601576


Price: $12.00 

 

Highways and Byways in the Lake District


Bradley, A. G. , Illust. by: Joseph Pennell

London , Macmillan, reprint , 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 332 pages. Fold-out map in rear. Black & white illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Soiling to covers. Corners slightly bumped. Darkened spine.

Record # 508629


Price: $10.00 

 

History of France From the Earliest Times to 1848 (8 vols.)


Guizot, M. and Madame Guizo

NY/Boston, H.M. Caldwell, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white illust. Over 4,200 pages. 458, 515, 645, 575, 603, 496, 523, 460. 3/4 leather, marbled boards & end papers . Vol. 8 with missing front cover, spine chipped, end papers chipped, leather worn

Record # 67795


Price: $200.00 

 

Paris Through the Ages


Wilhelm, Jacques

Paperback. Paris, Duchene, wraps, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color, B&W. 86 pages, English text

Record # 1112


Price: $30.00 

 

Bound to Exile - The Victorians in India


Edwardes, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white plates. 283 pages. Dj with repaired shor ttears, soil

Record # 56832


Price: $18.00 

 

Histoire de la Tour Eiffel


Braibant, Charles

Hardcover. Paris, Plon, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 252 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear. French text.

Record # 404765


Price: $19.00 

Language Reform in China - Documents and CommentarySeybolt, Peter and Gregory Kuei-ke Chang

Language Reform in China - Documents and Commentary


Seybolt, Peter and Gregory Kuei-ke Chang

Hardcover. New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 410 pages. Hardcover. White cloth covers with brown lettering. INSCRIBED by co-author Chang on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 405110


Price: $125.00 

 

Israel Diary


Bloomfield, Bernard M.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 182 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket worn, with tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611137


Price: $19.00 

 

Social Revolution in Mexico, The


Ross, Edward Alsworth

Hardcover. New York , Century Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Area of light spotting to front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 406004


Price: $31.00 

 

Character and Style in English Politics


Grainger, J.H.

Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages, red cloth covers, dust jacket with light edge wear. Clean.

Record # 407024


Price: $15.00 

Floor of Heaven, The: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold RushBlum, Howard

Floor of Heaven, The: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush


Blum, Howard

hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Dust jacket has been lightly taped to covers.

Record # 469610


Price: $15.00 

 

Missions in Hindustan: With a Brief Description of the Country, and of the Moral and Social Conditions of the Inhabitants


Campbell, Rev. James R.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Board of Missions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, by Geo. H. Stuart, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, gilt title on spine, 239 pages, 6 b&w plates including frontispiece. Covers with light edge wear, previous owner's pencil signature on the front fly leaf, other wise clean.

Record # 412220


Price: $79.00 

 

Decline of Imperial Russia, The: 1855-1914


Seton-Watson, Hugh

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 406 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Bumping to corners. Age toning and spotting to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952111


Price: $13.00 

Jericho: dreams, Ruins, PhantomsRuby, Robert

Jericho: dreams, Ruins, Phantoms


Ruby, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Very clean inside and out. The story of Jericho, then and now.

Record # 30169


Price: $13.00 

 

Royal Ceremonies for the Rattanakosin Bicentennial


Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary to Commemorate the Rattanakosin Bicentennial

Hardcover. Thailand, Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary to Commemorate the Rattanakosin Bicentennial, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paginated in Thai, printed in Thai and English. Front cover illustrated in full color, gold spine with white embossed titles, gilt titles to front, red glossy textured endpapers, profusely illustrated with gorgeous full-color photographs, laid-in Thai insert. Previous owner's short inscription to preface page printed in Thai, slight edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; a lovely copy in great condition.

Record # 807293


Price: $40.00 

 

Finland and Its People


Medill, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Robert McBride & Co., 2nd, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Blue cloth, faded along the edges, spine. Gilt lettering and design. Map end papers. B/W photos throughout.

Record # 803861


Price: $8.00 

 

Voyage of Sabra, The - An Ecological Cruise Through the Caribbean With Extras


Frankel, Michael L.

NY, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 256 pages.

Record # 68787


Price: $18.00 

 

Correspondence de Frederic-Cesar de la Harpe et Alexandre I (Vol 2 Only)


Biaudet (ed), Jean Charles and Francoise Nicod

Neuchatel, Baconniere, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 865 pages. French text.

Record # 207549


Price: $35.00 

 

Cathedral Cities of Spain


Collins, W. W.

New York, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Color plates by author. Top edge gilt. Cover sunned. Cover has light edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206777


Price: $40.00 

 

How the Far East Was Lost - American Policy and the Creation of Communist China


Kubek, Enthony

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages.

Record # 61402


Price: $20.00 

 

Walk in the Villa, A


Baggio (Ed), Elena

Hardcover. Rome, Italian State Tourists, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pgs, many Illustrations in color, black & white. A history of Villas in Rome. The 14th edition of the Italian Book of days - an annual promotional book for tourists.

Record # 101046


Price: $10.00 

 

Men and Women of the French Revolution


Gibbs, Philip

London, Kegan Pauk, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Worn copy with edgewear to covers, hinges cracked. Ex-lib with end paper residue, but 28 very nice engraved black & white plates.

Record # 65889


Price: $13.00 

 

Modernization and Diplomacy of China


Liao, Kuang-Sheng (ed)

Paperback. China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Foxing to pastedowns. Illustrated with many tables and charts.

Record # 803772


Price: $19.00 

 

Sun and Shadow In Spain


Howe, Maud

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W photos very bright, clean, gilt-decorated covers

Record # 16116


Price: $35.00 

 

Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han or, the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India (2 vols.)


Tod, James

Hardcover. New Delhi, India, N. B. D. Publishers, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 vols. 637 and 631 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end papers. Dust jackets with light soiling, creasing, chipping.

Record # 214349


Price: $30.00 

 

Manifesto to the Mexican Republic which Brigadier General Jose Figueroa, Commandant and lpolitical Chief of Upper California, Presents on his Conduct and on that of Jose Marie de Hijar and Jose Maria Padres as Directors of Colonization in 1

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Cal. Press, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. with intro and notes by C. Alan Hutchinson. Facsimile of original . Dj lightly rubbed

Record # 53866


Price: $35.00 

 

Strong Brown God, The - The Story of the Niger River


DeGramont, Sanche

Paperback. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, rep. wraps, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 56143


Price: $12.00 

 

Cathedral Church of Chester, The - A Description of the Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See


Hiatt, Charles

Hardcover. London, George Bell, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages plus ads. B&W photos, illustrations. Green cloth with ornate art nouveau decoration in black. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf.

Record # 600858


Price: $15.00 

 

Romantic Education, A


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in clear brodart cover.

Record # 54344


Price: $41.00 

 

Early History of Malawi, The


Pachai, Professor Bridglal

Hardcover. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations, 454 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 175137


Price: $32.00 

 

West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century


Forde, Daryll/P.M. Kaberry

Softcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 289 pages, b & w illustrations, clen, tight copy.

Record # 511461


Price: $12.00 

 

French North Africa - The Maghrib Between Two World Wars


Berque, Jacques

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st Eng. trans. , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Translated by Jean Stewart. Black & white maps. Black cloth covers with spine fade.

Record # 502494


Price: $20.00 

 

Threat, The: Inside the Soviet Military Machine


Cockburn, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 58156


Price: $15.00 

 

Strolling Saint, The: Being the Confessions of the High and Mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the State of Piacenza


Sabatini, Rafael

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 442 pages. Volume XIII of the Autograph Edition series, limited to 750 copies. Gray boards, maroon cloth spine with spine label, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece. Spine lightly faded; otherwise, a neat, tight copy.

Record # 850856


Price: $15.00 

 

Scott Country, The


Crockett, W.S.

Hardcover. London, A.C. Black, 4th Ed., 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub. 1902

Record # 54172


Price: $18.00 

 

Ricordo Dio Genova - 40 Vedule


Photo

Hardcover. Genova, Edizione A.P., Unk., n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An accordion-fold photo album with 40 black & white gravure views of Genova. Text in four languages

Record # 57273


Price: $20.00 

 

fire on the Andes


Beals, Carleton

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 2nd, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illust by Jose Sabogal. Ex-lib (air force base) w/markings to eps, spine wear to covers. Internally VG.

Record # 125756


Price: $12.00 

 

Fall of Imperial China, The


Wakeman, Jr., Frederic

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 3rd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 54734


Price: $18.00 

 

Red Lights on the Prairies


Gray, James H.

Hardcover. Toronto, Macmillan, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and chipping to dust jacket.

Record # 58489


Price: $20.00 

 

Pobre Raza! Violence, Justce, and Mobilization Among Mexico Lindo Immigrants 1900-1936


Rosales, F. Arturo

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 281 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 602803


Price: $12.00 

 

Makers of Venice, The - Doges, Conquerors, Painters & Men of Letters


Oliphant, Mrs.

Hardcover. NY, Mershon Co., rep., n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib with light stamping otherwise VG

Record # 53657


Price: $15.00 

 

Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture


Winchester, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Prentice Hall Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Red boards, black cloth spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Light rubbing to dust jacket, tiny nick to bottom of front boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 807227


Price: $15.00 

 

History of Scandinavia, from the Early Times of the Northmen and Vikings to the Present Day


Sinding, Paul C.

Hardcover. New York, Self-published, 10th, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. Brown cloth, embossed design, gilt. Fold-out map at back. B/W fontispiece, tissue guard. Spine faded, edgewear. Some minor browning, otherwise clean.

Record # 803825


Price: $18.00 

 

Communist China and Asia - Challenge to American Policy


Barnett, A. Doak

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 106328


Price: $12.00 

 

ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH SOCIAL HISTORY. (4 volumes in 2 books)


Trevelyan , G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175-206-209-186 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w, also some color plates, including color frontispieces in each book. Illustrations selected by Ruth C. Wright. Top edge stained red. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. There is a dull spot at middle right center of spine on Vol 3-4. Spines lightly faded. Minor foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's 1955 inscription on front endpapers. Some small markings on fore edge of Vol. 1-2. Very Good. In red cloth slip case that shows some fading, discoloration, and spotting.

Record # 219922


Price: $19.00 

 

Architectural Monuments of the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra: Research and Restoration / - :


Trofimov / , I.V. / . .

Hardcover. Moscow / , State Publishing Co. "Literature" / , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Text in Russian. Yellow cloth, design on cover, gilt on spine. B/W pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar cover, shows minor edgewear. B/W photos throughout. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Spine cocked. Otherwise, clean, unmarked, tight.

Record # 804183


Price: $30.00 

 

History of the Art of the Peoples of the USSR Volume 6. Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century and Beginning of the 20th Century / 6. XIX- XX


Veimarn /

Hardcover. Moscow / , Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo / , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 453 pages. Text in Russian with a summary and list of illustrations in English. Volume 6 of a Nine-volume series. Green cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket shows minor edgewear and a couple small closed tears. Corners bumped. Color pictures throughout. Clean, tight, unmarked.

Record # 804216


Price: $20.00 

 

Anti-Stalin Campaign and International Communism


Roberts (Ed.), Henry L.

Softcover. NY, Columbia Univ. Press, Revised Ed. Wraps, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. A selection of documents edited by the Russian Institute. Grey wrappers with light wear and soil. Internally very good.

Record # 55058


Price: $8.00 

 

Along the Niger River - An African Way of Life


Jenness, Aylette

NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos by author. Dust jacket with light wear, chipped.

Record # 65130


Price: $19.00 

Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, TheStarr (Ed.), S. Frederick

Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, The


Starr (Ed.), S. Frederick

Softcover. Armonk NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages, about 26 pages with ink marking, mostly underlining.

Record # 403002


Price: $12.00 

 

London: Being a Comprehensive Survey of the History, Tradition & Historical Associations of Buildings & Monuments Arranged Under Streets in Alphabetical Order


Cunningham, George H.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 887 pages. Green cloth covers, embossed gilt titles, yellow top edge stain. Light edgewear, covers faded at spine and edges, clean, unbent pages; overall a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 401183


Price: $40.00 

 

Charles Baillairge: Architect & Engineer


Cameron, Christina

Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queens Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 52033


Price: $9.00 

 

Svenska Folket


Wallander, J.W. & Onkel Adam, Illust. by: J.W. Wallander

Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, unknown, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in 3 languages, color by J.W. Wallander, 17 folding chromolith plts, each depicting a different scene of Swedish country life. Binding poor, loose, plts VG

Record # 10058


Price: $51.00 

 

Arabic-English With a Petroleum Accent


Shaheen, Dr. Esber I.

Hardcover. Tulsa, OK, PPC Books, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 171 pages. Plastic covering taped to endpapers.

Record # 503698


Price: $9.00 

History of Writing in Japan, ASeeley, Christopher

History of Writing in Japan, A


Seeley, Christopher

Hardcover. Leiden Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 403098


Price: $180.00 

 

Old Hong Kong - Volume Two 1901-1945


Wiltshire, Trea (Ed.)

Hardcover. Hong Kong, FormAsia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages. Many historical photographs from the first half of the twentieth century. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 176544


Price: $42.00 

 

Kenya Sketches


Le Breton, J. G.

Hardcover. London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, slight slant to spine

Record # 11265


Price: $26.00 

 

City of Light, The


D'Ancona, Jacob and David Selbourne

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. & ed. by David Selbourne

Record # 53729


Price: $30.00 

 

Decline of an Empire - The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt


d'Encausse, Helene Carrere

Hardcover. New York, Newsweek Books, 2nd, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Black & white diagrams and maps. Dust jacket has light edgewear and sunning to spine. Internally very good

Record # 205371


Price: $10.00 

 

Russia - Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams


Shipler, David K.

Hardcover. NY, Times, Revised ed., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The author's 1983 bestseller is here revised and updated. 462 pages.

Record # 58653


Price: $18.00 

 

Wildlife & Safari in Kenya


Pearson, John

Hardcover. Kenya, East African Publishing House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with photographs and drawings in color and black & white. Cover shows light wear. Clean,tight copy. Bonus of possible interest is 12-page color brochure with accomodations and rates for the Best Hotels in Kenya circa 1971.

Record # 510052


Price: $19.00 

 

Chinese Political Thought


Thomas, Elbert Duncan

Hardcover. New York, Greenwood Press, 1st Thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Clean, tight pages.

Record # 607984


Price: $30.00 

 

Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries (2 vols.)


Froissart, Sir John

Hardcover. London, William Smith, Rep., 1848, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, transl. by Thomas Johnes. 116 black & white engravings. Illuminated title page in color. 768, 733 pages. All edges gilt. 3/4 leather, spine with raised bands & gilt lettering. Previous owner's small name stamp on front paste-down. Pages slightly wavy.

Record # 64152


Price: $193.00 

 

Cradle of Mankind


Amin, Mohamed

Hardcover. Woodstock, NYH, Overlook Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Colot photos throughout. 190 pages. Elia Kazan's copy. INSCRIBED BY HIS WIFE on his birthday. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 58160


Price: $60.00 

 

Land and Labor in the Greek World


Burford, Alison

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Cloth boards. Light wrinkling along top edge of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 510401


Price: $14.00 

 

Baedeker's Switzerland


Baedeker, Karl

New York, Scribner's Sons, 20th ed, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 536 pages. Color maps. Cover has edgewear and light soiling. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 205768


Price: $30.00 

 

Middle East, The: After the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon


Freedman (Ed.), Robert O.

Hardcover. New York, Syracuse Universiy Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Blue cloth with bronze lettering and design.

Record # 603161


Price: $16.00 

 

South Africa and the United States: The Erosion of an Influence Relationship


Bissell, Richard E.

Softcover. New York, Praeger Publications, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 147 pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Minor edgewear.

Record # 504135


Price: $15.00 

 

Iron Gate of Illyria, The


Sommelius, Torgny

Hardcover. NY, Roy, 1st US, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj w/ edgewear, spine fraying

Record # 19894


Price: $20.00 

 

Chile - An Album of Photography


Cori, Jacques

Hardcover. santiago, n.p, 4th ed., n.d, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white gavure photos by Cori, appears to be late 40's, early 50's. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, tears.

Record # 106460


Price: $18.00 

 

Fasti of Roman Britain, The


Birley, Anthony R.

Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 476 pages. Brief biographies of over 200 Romans who governed Britain. Very light spine fade to dust jacket otherwise like new.

Record # 502811


Price: $102.00 

 

Handbook on Environmental Assessment Legislation in the SADC Region


N/A

Softcover. South Africa, Development Bank of South Africa, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages illustrated in color. Clean, softcover book on the environmental laws in various countries of southern Africa.

Record # 404548


Price: $50.00 

 

Constantine the Great - The Man and His Times


Grant, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 267 pages.

Record # 64168


Price: $19.00 

 

Battle for Peace, The


Weizma, Ezer

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations

Record # 101022


Price: $18.00 

 

Distant Neighbors - A Portrait of the Mexicans


Riding, Alan

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pgs.

Record # 100933


Price: $20.00 

 

Berlin - Einst und Jetzt


Gottwald, Franz

Frankfurt, Weidlich Reprints, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Reprint of a 1926 edition, features early photographic views of Berlin 1880 - 1925 as well as several artists renderings from even earlier. German text. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 601746


Price: $9.00 

 

Highways & Byways in Derbyshire


Firth, J.B., Illust. by: Nelly Erichsen

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 492 pages, fold-out map. B&w illustrations by Nelly Erichsen. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Hinges cracked.

Record # 601252


Price: $11.00 

 

Scotland in Colour


McLaren, Moray

Hardcover. London, Batsford, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 color photos by A.F. Kersting. Light wear to dj along spine

Record # 56105


Price: $18.00 

 

Family of Islands, A - A History of the West Indies


Waugh, Alec

hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A history from 1492 to 1898 with an epilogue covering the Spanish-American War to the 1960's. 348 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 64571


Price: $18.00 

 

We Are Everywhere - Narratives from Rhodesian Guerillas


Raeburn, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by James Baldwin. 1st pub. in UK as "Black Fire!"

Record # 56875


Price: $15.00 

 

Season of High Adventure - Edgar Snow in China


Thomas, S.Bernard

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif, 1st., 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53076


Price: $25.00 

 

Irish Rivers


de Buitlear, Eamon

Hard Back . Dublin, Ireland, Country House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color photos of Ireland's natural wild life. light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 200863


Price: $15.00 

 

History of the Freedom Movement in India - Volume One


Chand, Tara

Softcover. Delhi, Publications Division/ Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Covers with light fading, minor chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610945


Price: $25.00 

Indian Tales of the RajMasani, Zareer

Indian Tales of the Raj


Masani, Zareer

Softcover. United States, University of California Press, rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages, photos in b&w. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, light shelf-wear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460659


Price: $11.00 

 

Land's End


Hudson, W. H.

Softcover. US, Wildwood House Ltd, rep, 1981-06-25, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to wrappers, small sticker scar to front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462998


Price: $13.00 

Fight the Wild Island: A Solo Walk Across IcelandEdwards, Ted

Fight the Wild Island: A Solo Walk Across Iceland


Edwards, Ted

Hardcover. Topsfield MA, Salem House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages, b&w photographs. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408170


Price: $11.00 

Days of the Dead, The: Mexico's Festival of Communion With the Departed/Los Dias De Muertos (Bilingual English/Spanish)Beimler, Rosalind Rosoff

Days of the Dead, The: Mexico's Festival of Communion With the Departed/Los Dias De Muertos (Bilingual English/Spanish)


Beimler, Rosalind Rosoff

Softcover. San Francisco, Collins Pub San Francisco, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Color pictures throughout by John Greenleigh. Both Spanish and English texts. Price sticker residue on rear wrapper.

Record # 470413


Price: $15.00 

 

Biography of a Colonial Town: Hamilton, Bermuda 1790-1897


de Chantal Kennedy, Sister Jean

Hardcover. Hamilton Bermuda, The Bermuda Book Stores, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of the colonial town Hamilton, Bermuda. With illustrations and maps throughout. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Blue toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951899


Price: $19.00 

 

Soviet Worker, The: Illusions & Realities


Schapiro (Editors), Leonard and Joseph Godson

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Yellow toning and mild foxing to top text block edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 952235


Price: $19.00 

Red Inc. - Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949 to the PresentSchaeffer, Robert K.

Red Inc. - Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949 to the Present


Schaeffer, Robert K.

Softcover. Boulder, Paradigm Publishers, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750276


Price: $38.00 

 

French Cathedral Windows of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries


Aubert, Marcel

NY, Oxford University Press , 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated with 19 plates in twelve colors direct from the originals. 14 page introduction by Aubert. Fade to edges of paper covered board. Large format.

Record # 502629


Price: $25.00 

 

Winter in Castille


Tracy, Honor

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54352


Price: $12.00 

 

Account of the Gypsies of Spain, An


Borrow, George

Hardcover. London, John Murray, rep, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 433 pages. Contains black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt top edge. Both hinges cracked. Some foxing to endpapers. Darkened spine. Some markings to covers.

Record # 503818


Price: $13.00 

 

Age of Empire 1875-1914


Hobsbawrn, Eric

New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 404 pages. B&W photos.

Record # 305425


Price: $15.00 

 

Paddy the Cope


Gallagher, Patrick

Hardcover. New York, The Devin-Adair Company, 2nd, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, hardcover. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Spine faded.

Record # 509989


Price: $20.00 

 

Daily Life in Eighteenth Century Italy


Vaussard, Maurice

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 218 pages.

Record # 61394


Price: $20.00 

 

Not By Sun Alone


Mikes, George

London, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white drawings by Papas. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping

Record # 200435


Price: $25.00 

 

In Bikole: Eight Modern Stories of Life in a West African Village


Gilroy, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 83 pages. Black & white drawings by Monica Vachula. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 511113


Price: $9.00 

 

In Pskov During the 17th Century / XVII


Alekseeva / , Z.A. (ed.) / . . ( )

Hardcover. Leningrad / , Lenizdat / , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color plates throughout. Text in Russian. Beige cloth, gilt. Tight, clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 804194


Price: $45.00 

Radical Reform in Yeltsin's Russia: Political, Econmoic, and Social DimensionsNelson, Lynn D. and Irina Kuzes

Radical Reform in Yeltsin's Russia: Political, Econmoic, and Social Dimensions


Nelson, Lynn D. and Irina Kuzes

Hardcover. Armonk NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, blue cloth covers. Extensive marking in text, mostly underlining.

Record # 403352


Price: $30.00 

 

Around the Highlands


Brander, Michael

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1st , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages, B&W photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 305577


Price: $12.00 

 

Contemporary Politics and Economics in the Caribbean


Mitchell, Sir Harold

Athens, OH, Ohio University, 1st U.S. , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 520 pages. WITH AUTHOR'S INSCRIBED BUSINESS CARD TIPPED ON front fly leaf. B&W photos, maps. Reprinted article by Mitchell laid-in. Dust jacket rubbed, edgeworn

Record # 301483


Price: $60.00 

 

ELIZABETHAN JOURNAL, AN: Being A Record of Those Things Most Talked of During The Years 1591-1598 (2 Vols.)


Harrison, G. B.

Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st, 1928 and 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 220749


Price: $32.00 

 

Views from a French Farmhouse


More, Julian

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st U.S., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color photos by Carey More. 144 pgs.

Record # 108149


Price: $18.00 

 

Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture


Nosco (Ed.), Peter

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages, pictorial wraps, clean and crisp copy.

Record # 403115


Price: $12.00 

 

Colonial Office Report on the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya for the Year 1956


na

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Booklet, 161 pages, soft cover. Contains black & white photos and fold-out map, stapled binding, soiling around edges & fading. Creases back cover and few rear pages. Registry stamp front cover. Crease to front top right corner and prelim pages.

Record # 500015


Price: $30.00 

 

In Unfamiliar England


Murphy, Thos. D.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 color plates, many photo plates. 403 pages. Fold-out map in rear, previous owner's bookplate. Front hinge partially cracked, fraying to cloth on top of spine.

Record # 68622


Price: $18.00 


  

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