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Barbarians & Mandarins - Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China


Cameron, Nigel

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 443 pages.

Record # 58494


Price: $15.00 

 

Romance of the Alaska Highway, The


Godsell, Philip H.

Hardcover. Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1st , 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The story of the building of the Alaskan-Canadian Highway in the 1940's. Black & white photos, 235 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 59341


Price: $40.00 

Catholics, Peasants and Chewa Resistance in Nyasaland by: Linden, Ian
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Catholics, Peasants and Chewa Resistance in Nyasaland by: Linden, Ian

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 223 pages. Light edgewear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy. Record # 60088
Price: $12.00 

 

Bernal Diaz Chronicles, The - The True Story of the Conquest of Mexico


Idell (Ed.), Albert

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Rep., 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Slight slant to spine, light soil, to rear cover edge, internally VG. Dj worn, chipped. 414 pages.

Record # 61398


Price: $15.00 

 

Quito - Cindad de Contrastes


Caspicara, Coleccion

Hardcover. Quito Ecudador, Edifado Por Impresora Nacional, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 black & white photos of city in Ecuador. Endpaper map. Intro. in English & Spanish.

Record # 63453


Price: $18.00 

 

Women of the Shadows


Cornelisen, Ann

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos by author. 228 pages.

Record # 64171


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Italy in North Africa - An Account of the Tripoli Enterprise


McClure, W. K.

Philadelphia, John C.Winston, 1st , 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. and maps (3 fold-outs in rear) 328 pages. Ex-lib with bookplate, minimal marking, nice condition.

Record # 65145


Price: $100.00 

 

Tropical Africa


Drummond, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribner & Welford, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Authorised edition with 6 folding maps (#6 is actually 2-in-1 in rear), black & white plates. 228 pages. Red cloth with gilt bug decoration on front, spine darkened. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate.

Record # 67309


Price: $70.00 

 

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 

 

Land of the Lamas - Adventures in Secret Tibet


Goullart, Peter

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 221 pages. Small ink notations on front end paper.

Record # 69428


Price: $15.00 

 

Bridge Through Time, A - A Memoir


Said, Laila

Hardcover. NY, Summit, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pgs.

Record # 100582


Price: $15.00 

 

Diagnosis of the Brazilian Crisis


Furtado, Celso

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, An account of the economic problems that faced Brazil in the 1960s. Dust jacket worn.

Record # 101091


Price: $15.00 

 

Paris


George, Andre

Paperback. Grenoble - Paris, B. Arthaud, wraps, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 gravure photos. Spine paper starting to peel, otherwise VG.

Record # 106084


Price: $20.00 

 

On Trial - Reagan's War Against Nicaragua


Dixon (Ed.), Marlene

Paperback. San Francisco, Synthesis Pub., 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Testimony of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. black & white photos. 268 pgs.

Record # 108193


Price: $15.00 

 

Chasing the Dragon / Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle


Cox, Christopher R.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 125601


Price: $20.00 

 

Southland of North America, The - Rambles and Observations in Central America During the Year 1912


Putnam, George Palmer

Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-library with usual markings. hinges cracked- internally very good. many B&W photos. 425 pages, fold-out map in rear

Record # 175324


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Her Own, A - A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France.


Carles, Emilie

New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations. 271 pages.

Record # 200139


Price: $20.00 

 

Daily Life In Spain In The Golden Age


Defourneaux, Marcelin

NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 201071


Price: $15.00 

 

Treasures of Ancient Nigeria


Eyo, Ekpo and Frank Willett

Paperback. New York, Knopf, 1st wraps, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pges. Paperback. Black & white and color photographs.

Record # 204197


Price: $18.00 

 

Lenin in Zurich


Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Translated by H. T. Willetts. 309 pages. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 205801


Price: $12.00 

 

The Charm of Scandinavia


Clark, Francis E. and Sydney A. Clark

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. black & white photography. Top edge gilt. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Cover has light edgewear.

Record # 206710


Price: $18.00 

 

My Name is Sei Shonagon


Blensdorf, Jan

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 220567


Price: $26.00 

Pyrenees Sud-Quest by: Mellottee, Paul (editor)
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Pyrenees Sud-Quest by: Mellottee, Paul (editor)

Hardcover. Paris, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 575 pages + 95 pages of ads. Thirteen double page & one single page color maps. Two large folding color maps. Numerous single and double page b&w maps. French text. Previous owner's signature. Record # 220853
Price: $12.00 

 

Panama to Patagonia - The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries of South America


Pepper, Charles M.

NY, Young Peoples' Missionary Movement, 2nd, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. 4 folding maps, B&W photos. Ex-lib with bookplates on front end paper. Light residue to rear spine, lettering faded. Otherwise very good.

Record # 300959


Price: $50.00 

 

Head of the Dragon, The


Clayre, Alasdair

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 281 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Previous owner's small sticker to front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 302198


Price: $18.00 

 

Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany


Kieckhefer, Richard

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Previous owner's bookplate. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 303911


Price: $15.00 

 

Macedonian Greece


Crossland, John & Diana Constance

New York, Norton, 1st U.S., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Color, B&W photos.

Record # 305360


Price: $15.00 

 

Popular History of the Dominion of Canada, A


Withrow, William H.

Hardcover. Boston, B. B. Russell, 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 616 pages, illustrated with 3 steel engraved portraits, one double page map in color and over 100 woodcut engravings in the text. Terra-cotta cloth with black and gilt design, beveled edges, rear hinge cracked. Light wear and rubbing to cloth otherwise very good. Clean, tight binding.

Record # 401777


Price: $150.00 

 

Gascon Royalist in Revolutionary Paris, A: The Baron De Batz 1792-1795


Lenotre, G.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, 5 b&w plates. Translated by Rodolph Stawell. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering, faded on spine. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers, light foxing to title page, top edge soil, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 402854


Price: $30.00 

History of Writing in Japan, ASeeley, Christopher
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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 

Greece - Pictorial Descriptive and Historical: A New EditionWordsworth, Christopher
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Greece - Pictorial Descriptive and Historical: A New Edition


Wordsworth, Christopher

Hardcover. London, Wm. S. Orr & Co., 2nd Ed., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 458 pages. Hardcover. Maroon leather binding with gilt decorations, raised bands on spine. All edges gilt, illustrated with numerous wood engravings and 25 steel engravings. First 6 pages (including frontispiece and title page) with a water stain to bottom third, otherwise very good throughout with tissue guards in place. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, light foxing to some pages.

Record # 404908


Price: $188.00 

 

Sunlight: A Tribute (SIGNED)


Grant, Elihu

Hardcover. Haverford PA, privately printed, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, green boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated 1936. An essay/folktale of Palestine.

Record # 405941


Price: $38.00 

 

Oscar Lewis: A Mexican Peasant and His Family


Lewis, Oscar

New York , Random House , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 507 pages, b&w drawings by Alberto Beltran. Black and red cloth covers in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 408168


Price: $15.00 

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

 

Japanese Studies in the United States: The 1990s


No Author

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, Assn for Asian Studies Inc, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454695


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Ricordo di Roma - 100 Tavole a Colori Dal Vero


NA

Rome, Italy, Editore Enrico Verdesi, nd. (1950s?), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paper wraps with string tie. 100 color photography plates of Rome. Color photo pasted on front cover. "Roma" gold embossed on cover. Slight yellow rim to each page. Edgewear, soiling to wraps.

Record # 500880


Price: $18.00 

 

Paris and its Provinces 1792-1802


Cobb, Richard

London, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 279 pages. Black & white map on frontispiece. Line drawing maps on front & back end papers. Dust jacket with bottom flap corner price clipped.

Record # 502276


Price: $15.00 

 

Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688-1740


Burtt, Shelley

Cambridge England, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 182 pages. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor edgewear.

Record # 503105


Price: $35.00 

100 Hours to Suez: An Account of Israel's Campaign in the Sinai Peninsula by: Henriques, Robert
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100 Hours to Suez: An Account of Israel's Campaign in the Sinai Peninsula by: Henriques, Robert

New York, Viking Press, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Some discoloration to endpapers. Dust jacket iwth edgewear, soiling, chipping. Record # 503932
Price: $12.00 

 

American Enterprise in South Africa: Historical Dimensions of Engagement and Disengagement


Hull, Richard W.

New York, New York University Press, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 419 pages. Dust jacket with slight yellowing to edges, edgewear.

Record # 504163


Price: $15.00 

Roundabout to Canterbury by: Brooks, Charles S. , Illust. by: Julia McCune Flory
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Roundabout to Canterbury by: Brooks, Charles S. , Illust. by: Julia McCune Flory

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Black & white illustrations by Julia McCune Flory. Soiling to covers. Rubbing to extremities. Tear down middle of paper label on spine. Record # 508638
Price: $12.00 

 

Year Book & Guide to East Africa


Gordon-Brown, A.

London, Robert Hale Ltd., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 342 pages plus additional ads and color maps - one enveloped fold-out map on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear and some chipping/chunks missing at top and bottom of spine, now protected by clear plastic cover.

Record # 510058


Price: $32.00 

 

Shaka: King of the Zulus


Burness, Donald

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Three Continents Press, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages, clean, tight copy with minor moisture stains on fron cover.

Record # 511463


Price: $18.00 

 

Common Russian Similes - Illustrated Dictionary for English Speakers


Ogoltsev, V. M.

Softcover. Moscow, Russky Yazyk, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 173 pages with 2-color cartoon illustrations.

Record # 600018


Price: $30.00 

 

Some Experience of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate


Monckton, Captain C.A.W.

Hardcover. London , John Lane, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, 337 pages, 37 b&w illustrations, fold-out map. Half leather binding, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on first blank page. Minor insect damage to several pages at fore-edge, otherwise very good.

Record # 601168


Price: $41.00 

 

Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire - Handbook for Travelers


Baedeker, Karl

Hardcover. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 5th Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 maps, 55 plans, 454 pages. Limp red cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on title-page and front fly leaf.

Record # 601857


Price: $25.00 

Stone Voices - The Search for Scotland by: Ascherson, Neal
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Stone Voices - The Search for Scotland by: Ascherson, Neal

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604170
Price: $12.00 

 

Japanese Religiosity


Spae, Joseph J.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Oriens Institute , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows wear with small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607971


Price: $40.00 

 

Empire of the Steppes, The: A History of Central Asia


Grousset, Rene

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press , 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 687 pages,end paper map, map illustrations.Translated by Naomi Walford. Ink marking to about 25 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 611010


Price: $19.00 

Search for the Panchen Lama by: Hilton, Isabel
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Search for the Panchen Lama by: Hilton, Isabel

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801167
Price: $12.00 

 

Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia


Ishwaran, K.

Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill , 1st, 1976, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages, edited by Bardwell L. Smith, blue cloth cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Light wear to dust jacket; overall, book in great condition.

Record # 803271


Price: $19.00 

Finland and Its Geography by: Platt, Raye, R. (ed.)
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Finland and Its Geography by: Platt, Raye, R. (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An American Geographical Society Handbook. 510 pages. Slightly faded blue cloth. B/W plates, maps. Front hinge cracked. Record # 803821
Price: $12.00 

 

Leggendo e Ripassando


Speroni, Charles and Carlo L. Golino

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rhinehart &Winston, Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages plus glossary. Blue pictorial cloth. Has a couple marks on front cover. Corners bumped and spine worn slightly at top/bottom. Map end papers. Some foxing on a few pages and ink writing on flyleaves, otherwise, clean, unmarked, tight.

Record # 804005


Price: $29.00 

 

Culture and Art of Peter's Times /


Komelova / , G.N. (ed.) / . . ( )

Hardcover. Leningrad / , Aurora Art Publishers / , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Text in Russian w/ English Table of Contents and Summaries. Red decorative cloth, gilt, silver. Cloth in large spots toned to orange. B/W illustrations throughout. "Russian School, Middlebury College" stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, unmarked. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 804207


Price: $25.00 

 

American Review of Canadian Studies: Spring 1987


Lipke, William C.

Softcover. CANADA, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Volume 17 No. 1 of The American Review of Canadian Studies. Topic: Inuit Art - Contemporary Perspectives. A collection of essays. Price sticker on back lower right corner.

Record # 806201


Price: $12.00 

 

Pitcairn: The Island, the people, and the pastor


Murray, Rev. Thos. Boyles

Hardcover. London, Society for promoting christian knowledge, 12th, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages in green publisher's cloth, with gilt title to spine, gilt stamp of ship on front, and blind decorations tooled on front, back and spine.This edition includes additions from the author regarding the original settlement and present conditions of Norfork Island. B&W plates throughout book. Inner hinges cracked, and some browning to pages. Ink inscription to previous owner dated 1874. A small amount of foxing and smudges on interior pages. Oherwise a clean and tight copy.

Record # 850017


Price: $60.00 

 

Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications


Dumont, Louis

Softcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, Reprint, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Translated into English by Mark Sainsbury. Some wear along spine. Light creasing on top corner of rear cover. Minor rubbing on front cover. Underlining and markings in pencil in introduction. Good reading copy.

Record # 856157


Price: $15.00 

 

Famous American Explorers


Keating, Bern, Illust. by: Lawrence Bjorkland

Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, hardcover. Many black-and-white and color illustrations throughout. Line drawings by Lawrence Bjorkland. Heavy age toning to spine and top text block edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951631


Price: $24.00 

 

Russia: A Social History


Mirsky, D.S.

Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 3rd printing, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Social history of Russia. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Chipping to dust jacket corners and spine. Minor age toning and soiling to text block edge. Heavy bumping to board corners and spine. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952179


Price: $23.00 

 

il Paesaggio Toscano: L'Opera Dell'uomo e la Nascita di un Mito (Italian Text)


Conenna, Lucia Bonelli, Attitio Brilli, Giuseppe Cantelli

Hardcover. italy, Monte Dei Paschi De Siena, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages. Hardcover. Italian text. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped/glossy. Dust jacket has some light scratching, but excellent. Clean and unmarked inside with a sight touch of age yellow to edges of pages. Binding quite tight. In very good condition.

Record # 5560133


Price: $75.00 

 

Eye for the Dragon, An/ Southeast Asia Observed 1954-1970


Bloodworth, Dennis

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Author was Far East Correspondent for London Observer

Record # 10954


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Land and Polity in Tibet


Carrasco, Pedro

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st Edition, 1959, 307 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. B/w illustrations (maps). Some light foxing to top edge, slight tanning to edges. Pages clean. Pine straight. Binding good. Agewear to covers (see image).

Record # 33462


Price: $23.00 

 

Scotland - Archaeology and Early History


Ritchie, Graham and Anna

Hardcover. NY, Thames and Hudson, rep., unk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, 149 black & white Illustrations

Record # 53635


Price: $20.00 

 

Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45


Tuchman, Barbara W.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Light wear to dj

Record # 53730


Price: $20.00 

 

Where Is Nicaragia?


Davis, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's embossed mark front end paper,

Record # 53917


Price: $15.00 

 

Blood Accusation - The Strange History of the Beiliss Case


Samuel, Maurice

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54615


Price: $18.00 

 

South Africa's City of Diamonds


Worger, William H.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale, 1st , 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Mine workers & monopoly capitalism in Kimberley, 1867-1895.

Record # 54860


Price: $20.00 

 

Chanzeaux - A Village in Anjou


Wylie (Ed.), Laurence

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Lacks front end paper. 383 pages

Record # 55072


Price: $20.00 

 

River Jordan, The - Being an Illustrated Account of Earth's Most Storied River


Glueck, Nelson

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust.Previous owner's signature front fly leaf & on dj front. Dj with edgewear, chips

Record # 56150


Price: $18.00 

 

Train to Tarragona, A


Carson, Anthony

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Lt edgewear to dj. small notation on front panel otherwise

Record # 56735


Price: $23.00 

 

Africans, The - A Noted Foreign Correspondent's Encounters with Black Africa Today


Lamb, David

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages

Record # 57110


Price: $18.00 

 

Paris


Boudot-Lamotte, Emmanuel

Paperback. Paris, Paul Hartmann, Unk Wraps, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white gravure photos by author. French text.

Record # 57791


Price: $15.00 

Night Letters - Inside Wartime Afghanistan by: Schultheis, Rob
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Night Letters - Inside Wartime Afghanistan by: Schultheis, Rob

Hardcover. NY, Orion Books, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Record # 58348
Price: $12.00 

 

Through the Gates of the Netherlands


Waller, Mary E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, unknown, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white plates. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. 337 pages.

Record # 58665


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Journey to Persia


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj worn, chipped, price clipped.

Record # 61384


Price: $15.00 

 

Monsoon Asia


Dobby, E.H.G.

Hardcover . London, Univ. of London Press, 3rd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Many black & white diagrams, maps, black & white photos. About 20 pages marked, underlined. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 62985


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Masque of Capri, The


Cerio, Edwin

Paperback. Capri, Edizioni La Conohiglia, Rep. wraps, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 206 pages.

Record # 64566


Price: $18.00 

 

Black and Gold - Tycoons, Revolutionaries and Apartheid


Sampson, Anthony

NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Remainder line top edge.

Record # 65129


Price: $23.00 

History of Korea, The by: Han, Woo-Keun
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History of Korea, The by: 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: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Battle For the Falklands, The


Hastings, Max and Simon Jenkins

NY, Norton, 3rd, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 384 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 69006


Price: $18.00 

 

Mediterranean Lands, The


Robinson, Harry

hardcover. London, University Tutorial Press, 2nd, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Second Ed. with Illustrations, 470 pgs, advanced level geography series.

Record # 75054


Price: $15.00 

 

Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland The Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry: Volume I


Berger, Thomas R.

Paperback. Ottawa, 1st wraps, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A report that deals with the social, economic and environmental impact of a proposed oil pipeline in Canada. 213 pgs. Illustrated in color.

Record # 100978


Price: $15.00 

 

Round About Andorra


Newman, Bernard

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-library but internally clean. Black & white illustrations. Andorra is small and hidden among the mountains of the Pyrenees. Since WW II tourists are the main industry.

Record # 105701


Price: $50.00 

 

Roundabout to Moscow - An Epicurean Journey


Bouton, John Bell

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, light wear to spine. lib. sticker on spine, sticker to inside cover.

Record # 107933


Price: $26.00 

 

Chile - Death in the South


Timerman, Jacobo

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, translated from the Spanish by Robert Cox. Great condition. Dust jacket is shiny and shows no wear, also internally completely nice and clean. Hardbound, 134 pgs.

Record # 109197


Price: $12.00 

 

Modern India and the Indians - Being a Series of Impressions, Notes and Essays


Williams, Monier

Hardcover. London, Trubner & Co., 3rd, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrated, 365 pages & ads. Ex-lib with light markings otherwise clean internally

Record # 175249


Price: $35.00 

 

French Impressions-The Adventures of an American Family


Littell, John S.

Hardcover. NY, New American Library Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Based on writings by Wary W. Littell. Dust jacket price clipped. 354 pgs

Record # 177793


Price: $12.00 

 

The Fall of Japan


Craig, William

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. Map on end papers.

Record # 200888


Price: $15.00 

 

Minor Heresies - Reminiscences Of A Shanghai Childhood By A Born Master Of The Light Touch


Espey, John J.

NY, Knopf, 3rd, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and soil.

Record # 202649


Price: $15.00 

 

The Travels of Captain Cook


Syme, Ronald, Illust. by: Werner Forman

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 180 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Werner Forman. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Record # 205602


Price: $18.00 

 

Arabesque and Honeycomb


Sitwell, Sacheverell

London, Hale, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Black & white photography.Dust jacket chipping. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Cover corners slightly bumped. Related article laid in.

Record # 206335


Price: $13.00 

 

Namibia - Africa's Harsh Paradise


Bannister, Anthony and Peter Johnson

Chicago, Domus, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 261 pages. Color photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Record # 207968


Price: $40.00 

Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by: Landis, Arthur H.
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Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by: Landis, Arthur H.

Hardcover. New York, Paragon House, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Several black and white photographs and maps. Author Landis recounts his own experiences and the personal histories of other American volunteers. Index Record # 220799
Price: $12.00 

 

Japan - Insight Guides


Davis, Malcolm B. (Ed.)

Paperback. Singapore , APA Publications , 1st Ed. wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Color illust. Paperback

Record # 300780


Price: $12.00 

 

Battle for Peace, The


Weizman, Ezer

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages. B&W photos. Small sticker residue to dust jacket cover, chip to top of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Record # 301844


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

French Personalities and Problems


Brogan, D. W.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton , 2nd, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages. Some pages with corner creases. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 305188


Price: $12.00 

 

European Paintings: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue


Brown, J. Carter

softcover. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of European paintings: 417 pages, black & white plates. In very good condition; edges slightly worn. Foreword by J. Carter Brown.

Record # 401058


Price: $30.00 

 

Obregon: Estampas de un Caudillo


Barrera, Carlos

Softcover. Mexico, Talleres Graficos Toledo, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages, several photo portraits of the controversial Mexican leader. Spanish text. Softcover, clean, very good with a worn, chipped dust jacket.

Record # 402624


Price: $20.00 

 

Germans When Lies Were Decreed as Truth and a Nation Allowed Itself to Be Deceived, The


Conway, Harry

Hardcover. New York, Schreiber Publishing, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf.

Record # 403049


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

Tanganyika: Report for the Year 1948


HMSO

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 321 pages, green paper wraps, folding map in rear pocket, fold-out charts, b&w photos. Covers lightly edgeworn, binding solid. previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, internally clean.

Record # 405589


Price: $31.00 

 

Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal


Macaulay, Rose

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Cudahy , 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages, illustrated with b&w gravure photos, map end papers. Bright, clean copy with a dust jacket that has rubbing, edgewear. Copyright line canceled with a black line through it. (1949)

Record # 407298


Price: $19.00 

Walton-on-the-Naxe in old picture postcardsNorman, Bernard J.
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Walton-on-the-Naxe in old picture postcards


Norman, Bernard J.

Hardcover. Zaltbommel NE, European Library, 3rd Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated boards, features 75 postcard scenes reproduced in b&w from 1880 - 1930. The small town is on the north-east Essex coast of England. Clean copy.

Record # 412272


Price: $39.00 

Tibetans, The Kapstein, Matthew T.
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Tibetans, The


Kapstein, Matthew T.

Hardcover. Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2nd pr, October 13, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, b&w photographs. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454404


Price: $30.00 

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

 

Colonial Office Report on the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya for the Year 1955


na

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Booklet. 160 pages. Soft cover, contains black & white photos and fold-out map. Wrinkling at spine, some scratches to back cover, stapled binding. Minor edgewear. Internally very good.

Record # 500013


Price: $30.00 

 

Case for African Freedom and Other Writings on Africa, The


Cary, Joyce

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 241 pages. Corners bumped. Spine wear. Dust jacket with major chipping, creasing.

Record # 502112


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 

Adventurer's Paradise by: Scobie, Alastair
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Adventurer's Paradise by: Scobie, Alastair

London, Travel Book Club, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 249 pages. Contains some black & white photographs. Bottom corners bumped. Soiling, chipping, creasing to dust jacket. Adventures with camera and gun among the people and animals of Northern Kenya. Record # 503693
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Majorcan Holiday


Mais, S. P. B. and Gillian Mais

Hardcover. London , Alvin Redman Limited, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 272 pages. Light foxing to first and last few pages. Bump to bottom edge of a few pages. Spine sunned. Fade marks to covers. White markings to front cover. Light wear to corners.

Record # 508253


Price: $13.00 

 

English Field Systems - Harvard Historical Studies XXII


Gray, Howard Levi

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and charts in black & white. Laid-in postcard and letter by author. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Spine sun faded and has small hole 1" from top. Minor stain on bottom corner edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 509910


Price: $41.00 

 

In and Around Tadousac


Roy, J. Edmond

Hardcover. NP, Levis, 1st US, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Originally a paperback, cover pasted on cloth binding, ex-library copy with usual stamping. Top edge stained green. Top and bottom edges of spine worn.

Record # 510767


Price: $26.00 

Battle of Bosworth, The by: Bennett, Michael
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Battle of Bosworth, The by: 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: $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 

Berlin zur Kaiserzeit by: Lemmer, Klaus J.
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Berlin zur Kaiserzeit by: Lemmer, Klaus J.

Berlin, Rembrandt, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Berlin under the Kaiser as seen in contemporary engravings by various artists. German text. Record # 601690
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Life and Work of the People of England


Hartley, Dorothy/Margaret M. Elliot

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607576


Price: $15.00 

 

Japan - September 1959 - Number Seven, This is


Asahi Shimbun Newspaper

Softcover. Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Large magazine/digest format - measures 10" X 13" X 1". Wood slipcase shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610397


Price: $38.00 

Kingdom of the Sun God: A History of the Andes and Their People by: Cameron, Ian
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Kingdom of the Sun God: A History of the Andes and Their People by: Cameron, Ian

Hardcover. London, Random Century Group Ltd., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, b & w and color illustrations, color photos, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, very slight wear to edges of cover, clean, tight copy. Record # 800553
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 

 

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 

Little Saint by: Green, Hannah
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Little Saint by: Green, Hannah

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Record # 803968
Price: $12.00 

 

Monuments of Russian Architecture and Art /


Denisovskii / , B.A. / . .

Hardcover. Leningrad / , RSFSR Artist / , 1971, 278 pages. Publisher's flaw: First 8 pages missing, pages 273-278 bound in upside down in their place. These pages are also present at the back in their correct place. Otherwise, a beautiful copy: 1/2 brown leather, decorative boards. Heavy paper, B/W and color plates throughout. No markings. Clean, tight.

Record # 804197


Price: $26.00 

 

Memoirs of Henry the Great and of the Court of France During His Reign (2 Vols.)


Henry the Great

Hardcover. London, Harding Triphook Lepard, 1st, 1824, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set, 498, 540 pages, volume one with frontispiece portrait. Bound in half-polished brown calf with marbled boards. Spines with raised bands, spine labels with gilt lettering. Marbled edges, very good condition on both with only light edgewear to corners.

Record # 804869


Price: $160.00 

 

Gazetteer of India, The: History and Culture, Volume 2


Chopra, Dr. P. N.

Hardcover. India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India, 4th, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 807 pages. Fold out maps. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Corners bumped. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 809675


Price: $28.00 

 

East and the West, The: A Study of their Psychic and Cultural Characteristics.


Gulick, Sidney Lewis

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 425 pages. Black cloth cover, gilt lettering, very light wear. Dust jacket is price clipped and worn on corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Pages untrimmed on bottom edge. Inside is bright and clean, a tight copy.

Record # 853003


Price: $12.00 

 

Saint John: Two Hundred Years Proud


Schuyler, George W.

Hardcover. Canada, Windsor Publications LTD, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed by the Mayor of Saint John (1985) on the front flyleaf. Light foxing to top copy edge. Spine edges slightly bumped. Dust jacket slightly soiled; light edgewear. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951208


Price: $19.00 

 

Education and the State in Tsarist Russia


Alston, Patrick L.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages, hardcover. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards, mostly confined to spine. Heavy bumping to fore edge corners. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952112


Price: $13.00 

 

After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese (SIGNED)


Borton, Lady

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. An important corrective to the normal historical view of the Vietnam war. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952567


Price: $39.00 

 

First Strike


Nakdimon, Shlomp

Hardcover. NY, Summit, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, How Israel foiled Iraq's attempt to get the bomb. Rem stamp bot

Record # 7645


Price: $20.00 

 

Mediaeval Universities, The


Schachner, Nathan

Hardcover. NY, Stokes, 1st US, 1938, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 16302


Price: $40.00 

Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside KosovoMcAllester, Matthew
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Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo


McAllester, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. McAllester tells the story of Pec, Kosovo's most destroyed city.

Record # 30171


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Times of Edward VII, The


Middlemas, Keith

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, illustrated in color, black & white. foxing to text block edges otherwise

Record # 53617


Price: $18.00 

 

History of the Girondists, or Personal Memoir of the Patroits of the French Revolution


Lamartine, Alphonse De

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1st US, 1848, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Vols. Transl. by H. T. Ryde. Light foxing esp. of Vol III with soil. Otherwise very good.

Record # 53711


Price: $51.00 

 

Drinkers, Drummers and Decent Folk - Ethnographic Narratives of Village Trinidad


Stewart, John O.

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, n.d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Essays, poetry and fiction portray rural life in Trinidad. No dj issued

Record # 53896


Price: $18.00 

 

Not Yet Home - A South African Journey


Cartwright, Justin

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54346


Price: $28.00 

 

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 

 

Forgotten Army, The - India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945


Fay, Peter Ward

Paperback. Ann Arbor, Univ. of Mich., Rep. pbk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54988


Price: $15.00 

 

Behind God's Back


Farson, Negley

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 3rd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 56140


Price: $15.00 

 

Little Cities of Italy


Maurel, Andre

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 black & white plates. 295 pages. Transl. from French by Helen Gerard. Gilt decorated blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 56316


Price: $18.00 

 

Other Americans, The - The Cities, the Countries & Especially the People of South America


Rluhl, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white photos. 321 pages. Bright covers. Previous owner's signature bkplt.Hinges a little tender

Record # 56886


Price: $15.00 

 

Asian Rural Society - China, India, Japan


Fukutake, Tadashi

Hardcover. Seattle, Univ. of Washington, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 57757


Price: $18.00 

 

Provence and the Cote Dazur


France

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A detailed travel guide of the area. Color illust. 408 pages.

Record # 58631


Price: $15.00 

 

Early Fidel, The - Roots of Castro's Communism


Martin, Lionel

Hardcover. Secaucus, NJ, Lyle Stuart, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 272 pages. Author was Havana correspondent for the Washington Post. Dj with light edgwear, chips

Record # 59745


Price: $18.00 

 

Vuta Kamba - The Development of Trade Unions in Tanganyika


Friedland, William H.

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 280 pages. Previous owner's signature on half-title page.

Record # 60122


Price: $15.00 

 

Trooper 3809 - A Private Soldier of the Third Republic


Decle, Lionel

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages.

Record # 61425


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Tibet


Jigmei, Ngapo N. and others

Hardcover. NY, Gallery Books, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Preface by Harrison Salisbury. Color photos throughout. 296 pages.

Record # 64303


Price: $44.00 

 

Apartheid - A History


Lapping, Brian

NY, George Braziller, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 197 pages.

Record # 65120


Price: $25.00 

 

Introductory Bibliography for Japanese Studies - Vol. XII, Part l - Social Sciences 1996-97


Gakkai, Toho

Tokyo, Japan Foundation, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 page.

Record # 65890


Price: $15.00 

 

La Cathedrale de Reims


Demaison, Louis

Paris, Henri Laurens, 1st , n.d. (circa 1910), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A 136 page monograph (from a series) on the cathedral at Reims. 44 black & white photos, double page plan. With a number of clippings tipped-in & laid-in about the edifice, including its destruction in WW I by the German army. 1914 dated on title page.

Record # 67357


Price: $25.00 

 

Spanish-American Revolutions, 1808-1926


Lynch, John

NY, Norton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An account of the revolutions that swept over South & Central America in the early 1800's. 433 pages.

Record # 68785


Price: $18.00 

 

Caribbean, The


Rodman, Selden

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, b&w drawings by Bill Negron, 320 pgs. Dust jacket worn chipped, price clipped

Record # 70719


Price: $15.00 

 

China Connection, The - U.S Policy and the Peoples Republic of China


Gregor, A. James

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institute, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pgs. Light fade to dj spine.

Record # 100790


Price: $23.00 

 

Game Keeper At Home, The - Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life


Jefferies, Richard

Hardcover. London, Smith Elder, 3rd, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Gilt decorated cloth, green else VG

Record # 106465


Price: $80.00 

 

Personally Conducted


Stockton, Frank R., Illust. by: Joseph Pennell, Alfred Parsons

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front end paper. address written in pencil on back end paper. Cover is worn, spine is weak and the binding brittle and breaking but for its age, good condition. Internally the pgs are clean and there are lots of nice black & white illustrations by Joseph Pennell, Alfred Parsons, and others. hardbound, no dust jacket, 240 pgs.

Record # 108976


Price: $35.00 

 

Historical Dictionary of South Africa


Saunders, Christopher

Hardcover. Metuchen, New Jersey, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages

Record # 175125


Price: $18.00 

 

Road to Ophir


Tremlett, Rex

London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, light tears, chips, especially at spine.

Record # 176330


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Fire From the Mountain - The Making of a Sandinista


Cabezas, Omar

New York, Crown, 3rd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Translated by Kathleen Weaver. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. 233 pages.

Record # 205151


Price: $18.00 

 

Indian Development - Selected Regional Perspectives


Dreze (ed), Jean and Amartya Sen

Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages. Black & white maps and diagrams. Ex-library copy with usual markings.

Record # 206113


Price: $15.00 

 

The Correspondence of Prince Talleyrand and King Louis XVIII During the Congress of Vienna


Pallain, M. G.

New York, Scribners, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 621 pages. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 207603


Price: $20.00 

SPAIN by: Nagel Travel Guide.
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SPAIN by: Nagel Travel Guide.

Hardcover. New York & Paris, Nagel, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color map front paste down. 700 pages with maps and city plans throughout. 32 color map plates at back. 16mo. Red cloth, gilt. Record # 220593
Price: $12.00 

 

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


Oliphant Mrs.

London, Macmillan, Rep., 1905, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 410 pages. B&W illust. A handsome, bright copy.

Record # 300567


Price: $18.00 

 

Reign By Reign


Usherwood, Stephen

London, Michael Joseph, 2nd, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 94 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony and Geoffrey Harper. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 301660


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Valley of Mexico, The - Studies in Pre-Historic Ecology and Society


Wolf, Eric R. (Ed.)

Albuquerque , University of New Mexico, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. B&W charts, diagrams.

Record # 304856


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

German Mark from 1914 to 1924, The: From 1 mark to 100 Billions


N/A

Softcover. Nuremberg Germany, E. Schuster, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, illustrated booklet with b&w photographs of various denominations of German currency. Mustard color paper wrappers with light soil.

Record # 402572


Price: $20.00 

 

Social Prelude to Stalinism, The


Pethybridge, Roger

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 343 pages, ink marking, mostly underlining, to about 55 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 403005


Price: $12.00 

 

Dawn of Legal Reform, The: April 1985 to June 1989


Chalidze, Valery

Softcover. Benson VT, Chalidze Publications, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, heavy paper wrappers. Edited by Lisa Chalidze. A documentation of the first 4 years of perestroika.

Record # 403220


Price: $100.00 

 

Geneva


Gribble, Francis H.

Hardcover. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, 20 color plates by J, and May Hardwicke Lewis. Blue cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in pencil on blank prelim page. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy.

Record # 405139


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

Fairest Cape, The (Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa)Cartwright, A.P.
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Fairest Cape, The (Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa)


Cartwright, A.P.

Softcover. Pretoria, South African Tourist Corp., 1950s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, travel brochure on Capetown, 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w. No date but appears to be early 1950s. Faint crease otherwise clean, unmarked.

Record # 411328


Price: $23.00 

 

Provincial Development in Russia: Catherine II and Jakob Sievers


Jones, Robert E.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers Univ Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to front and spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Record # 453500


Price: $20.00 

 

Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia


Quire, George of Plean;

Hardcover. reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456704


Price: $18.00 

Thousand Bells at Noon, A: A Roman's Guide to the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native CityRomagnoli, Franco G.
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Thousand Bells at Noon, A: A Roman's Guide to the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City


Romagnoli, Franco G.

Hardcover. South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Italia, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470454


Price: $25.00 

The Art of Russia by: Rubissow, Helen
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The Art of Russia by: Rubissow, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Philosophical Library, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 black & white reproductions of Russian art. Also includes list of artists, index of illustrations, introduction. Blue cloth cover with title on spine and front in gilt. Previous owner namestamp in front endpages. Record # 501644
Price: $12.00 

 

Oxford: University and City


Woolley, A. B.

Hardcover. NY, Oxord University Press , 1st , 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings, plates. Street maps on front and back endpapers. Foreward by Sir Maurice Bowra. Soil to front endpaper. Green cloth binding with gold spine lettering.

Record # 502623


Price: $20.00 

 

English Travels of Sir John Percival and William Byrd II, The: The Percival Diary of 1701


Wenger (Ed), Mark R.

Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 197 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 503312


Price: $15.00 

 

Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis


Carmack (Ed), Robert M.

Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 334 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 504134


Price: $20.00 

 

Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico


Pastor, Robert A. and Jorge A. Casta–eda

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 415 pages. Ligth edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear to front of dust jacket at edge.

Record # 508097


Price: $18.00 

 

Penelope's Experiences in Scotland (Vol. 2 only)


Wiggin, Kate Douglas, Illust. by: C. E. Brock (Charles E. )

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 301 pages. Volume two of a three volume set. Black & white illustrations by C. E. Brock. Gilt top edge. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Wear to extremities. Light soiling to covers.

Record # 508931


Price: $24.00 

 

Russian Revolution, The


Keep, John L. H.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 614 pages, hardcover. Foxing and stains on top edge. Dust jacket has blue circular sticker on top of front flap and remnants of tape and sticker on spine. Dust jacket top edge age tanned and lightly worn.

Record # 510178


Price: $10.00 

 

Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History 1627-1834


Handler, Jerome S.

Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, b&w map frontispiece.

Record # 512135


Price: $18.00 

 

Nikolai Romadin


N/A

Softcover. Russia, Sovetskaya Rossia Publishers, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages including bibliography and list of plates. 179 color plates. In Russian and English. Cardboard slipcase frayed at corners. Book dust jacket shows some edgewear, likely from removal and return to case.

Record # 600078


Price: $35.00 

 

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 

 

Franco Years, The - The Untold Human Story of Life Under Spanish Fascism


Yglesias, Jose

Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise very good condition.

Record # 602737


Price: $12.00 

 

Famous Americans in Florence


Dentler, Clara Louise

Hardcover. Firenze, Giunti Marzocco, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Collection of biographies of famous Americans living in Italy. Gray cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 40 b&w plates. Wear to dust jacket edges; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605429


Price: $19.00 

 

World Within Walls - Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era 1600-1867


Keene, Donald

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 606 pages. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608046


Price: $20.00 

 

Cotswolds, The


Hadfield, Charles/Alice Mary Hadfield

Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 216 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612471


Price: $10.00 


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