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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 

 

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 

 

Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays, The


Froude, James Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, historical essays on the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Saint Teresa, the Templars, Norway fjords. Gilt on top edge, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801567


Price: $18.00 

China Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World.  by: Fishman, Ted C.
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China Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World. by: Fishman, Ted C.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. White boards, orange cloth spine, silver lettering. Pictorial dust jacket. Record # 803506
Price: $12.00 

Look at Finland by: Aho, and Soldan
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Look at Finland by: Aho, and Soldan

Hardcover. Helsinki, Otava Publishing Co., Reprint, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Brown faded/toned boards are somewhat loose. Previous owner's signature front flyleaf. Entire book is b/w plates featuring people and places of Finland. Record # 803859
Price: $12.00 

 

Russian Souvenir: Russian Play Horses / :


Mozhaeva / , E.M. / . .

Hardcover. Moscow / , Soviet Russia / , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 127 pages. Text in Russian. Brown decorative cloth (leather?), gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket shows minor edgewear, small tear top front, crease top back. Beautiful color plates. Tight, clean, unmarked copy. "Russian School, Middlebury College" stamp on front fly leaf covered by white sticker.

Record # 804187


Price: $30.00 

 

Palekh Miniature Painting /


Nekrasova / , M.A. / . .

Softcover. Leningrad / , RSFSR Artist / , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Text in Russian w/ lists of illustrations in English, French, German. Beautiful gilt-decorated, tan cloth cover. Color pictorial dust jacket has very minor edgewear and one 1-inch repaired tear at top front. Small crease in each flap of dust jacket. Very tight, clean, unmarked copy. Beautiful glossy color and B/W plates throughout. Still in original gold cardboard box.

Record # 804220


Price: $80.00 

 

Crisis Politics in Prewar Japan: Institutional and Ideological Problems of the 1930s


Wilson, George M.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Sophia University, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages. INSCRIBED BY GEORGE M. WILSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black boards, cream cloth spine with gilt titles, white dust jacket with illustration. Price-clipped, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808225


Price: $70.00 

 

India and Malaysia


Thoburn, J. M.

Hardcover. New York, Hunt & Eaton, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 562 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w photographs throughout. Decorated cover with minor soiling and wearing and rubbing to edges. Ex-library stickers on front flyleaf and rear endpapers. Decorated endpapers.

Record # 851599


Price: $35.00 

 

English Lakes, The: Their Topographical, Historical and Literary Landmarks


Palmer, W. T.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 281 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, rubbing and chipping to dust jacket with previous owner's signature on front cover. Previous owner's signature of front end paper.

Record # 857067


Price: $13.00 

 

Picturesque China: Architecture and Landscape


Boerschmann, Ernst

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's Publishers, 1st, 1923, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Fair, 288 pages, hardcover. A look at the architecture and landscapes of pre-industrialized China. Cloth boards with front panel gilt titling intact. Fading to spine titling. Bowing to front panel. Bumping and fraying to corners and spine. Gutter cracked. Preliminary pages present but detached. Age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Many black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. A scarce copy.

Record # 951950


Price: $225.00 

 

Art of Transition, The: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis


Masiello, Francine

Paperback. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, paperback. Indispensable reading for literary critics working on contemporary Latin America. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light fading to wraps as well. Light bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952264


Price: $15.00 

 

My Four Years In Germany


Gerard, James W.

Hardcover. NY, Doran, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages, b&w photos. Green cloth gilt titles. Gerard was the ambassador to Germany before WW I. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 1196


Price: $12.00 

 

Quito to Bogata


Veatch, A.C.

Hardcover. NY, G.H. Doran, 1st US, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, b&w plates, 338 pgs, 2 fold-out maps in rear

Record # 29376


Price: $35.00 

 

World on the Wane, A


Levi-Strauss, Claude

Hardcover. NY, Criterion, rep, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. by John Russell. Black & white photos. dj with light soil.

Record # 52059


Price: $9.00 

 

Venetians, The


Thubron, Colin

Hardcover. Alexandria, VA, Time-Life, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, One in "Time-Life's Seafarer's Series". Color, black & white illust.

Record # 53660


Price: $18.00 

 

Legends of the Plumes Serpent - Biography of a Mexican God


Baldwin, Neil

Hardcover. NY, Public Affairs, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Color, black & white illust.

Record # 53873


Price: $25.00 

 

African Apprenticeship - An Autobiographical Journey


Perham, Margery

Hardcover. NY, Africana Pub., rep., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Diary of a South African journey in 1929. Black & white photos

Record # 54313


Price: $20.00 

 

Queen Victoria


Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Smoker owned. Black & white illust.

Record # 54675


Price: $18.00 

 

Transgressor in the Tropics


Farson, Negley

Hardcover. N Y, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Spine slightly cocked

Record # 54937


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

French Foreign Legion,. The - A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force


Porch, Douglas

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, Book Club, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Front fly leaf clipped on top corner. Previous owner's signature, otherwise. Black & white photos. 728 pages including index

Record # 56174


Price: $20.00 

 

Survey of Northwest Africa, A - (The Maghrib)


Barbour (Ed.), Nevill

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1st pub. in 1959. Fold-out map in rear. Moderate underlining in text. Dj edgewear

Record # 56874


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Sharpeville Six, The


Diar, Prakash

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Steward, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 321 pages.

Record # 58162


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 

 

Soft War, The: The Uses & Abuses of U. S. Economic Aid in Central America


Barry, Tom and Deb Preusch

New York, Grove Press, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 304 pages. Minor edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 504169


Price: $15.00 

Looking for Elizabethan England by: Francis, Raymond
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Looking for Elizabethan England by: Francis, Raymond

Hardcover. London , MacDonald, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 238 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling, chipping. Record # 508649
Price: $12.00 

 

Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945


Eckert, Carter J.

Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages, hardcover. B&w plates. INSCRIBED BY ECKERT. Light foxing to edge and light wear to bottom edges of cover.

Record # 510084


Price: $65.00 

 

Lady Nugent's Journal: Jamaica One Hundred Years Ago


Cundall, Frank

Softcover. London, Great Britain, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, about 100 years old, fragile, front cover detached, 404 pages, b & w illustrations and maps, previous owner's inscription.

Record # 511600


Price: $41.00 

Soviet Man and His World by: Mehnert, Klaus
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Soviet Man and His World by: Mehnert, Klaus

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from German by Maurice Rosenbaum. 310 pages in an edgeworn dust jacket with slight tear to front cover. Previous owner's name stamp on front fly leaf. Record # 600037
Price: $12.00 

 

Land of the Sun, The


Brady, E. J.

Hardcover. London, Edward Arnold, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, 12 b&w photographic plates, folding map. Decorated orange cloth covers.

Record # 601185


Price: $13.00 

 

Freedom's Battle


Vayo, J. Alvarez del

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 381 pages, fold-out map, b&w photography of author. Dust jacket worn. clipped, spine faded.

Record # 602239


Price: $25.00 

Son of Heaven - Imperial Arts of China by: Thorp, Robert l.
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Son of Heaven - Imperial Arts of China by: Thorp, Robert l.

Paperback. Seattle, Son of Heaven Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs of Chinese Paintings, Pottery, Bronze, Jade, Armor, and more. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604365
Price: $12.00 

 

Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought


Havens, Thomas R.H.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Minor foxing to page edges and dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607972


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

Passage to India, A by: Van Sinderen, Adrian
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Passage to India, A by: Van Sinderen, Adrian

Hardcover. New York, N. P., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 158 pages, color and b&w photos by Van Sinderen, maps on endpapers, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801330
Price: $12.00 

La Pittura Veneziana: Alla mostra del Settecento by: Fiocco, Giuseppe
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La Pittura Veneziana: Alla mostra del Settecento by: Fiocco, Giuseppe

Softcover. Venice, Italy, Rivista Della , na, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Italian text. Chipping, light marking to covers. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Record # 803335
Price: $12.00 

 

Scandinavia Beckons


Oakley, Amy, Illust. by: Thornton Oakley

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton Century Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 540 pages w/ index. Dj very chipped, in mylar cover. Blue cloth, gilt. Map end papers.

Record # 803822


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

 

Pedagogical Encyclopedia (Volumes 2-4 of 4) / ( 2-4 4)


Kairov / , I.A. and F.N. Petrov / . . . .

Hardcover. Moscow / , Soviet Encyclopedia / , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 912 columns of text (2 columns per page) in 2nd volume. 880 columns in 3rd volume. 912 columns w/ index in 4th volume. Text in Russian. Beige cloth, gilt. Minor edgewear, bumping, a few marks to boards. Bindings slightly loose, but text block is clean, unmarked (except for previous owner's name stamp on front fly leaves), intact. B/W and color illustrations throughout.

Record # 804210


Price: $40.00 

 

Museum of Northern Arizona, The


Roat, Evelyn

Softcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, K. C. Publications, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Staple cover with b&w illustration. b&w prints and illustrations throughout. Related material laid in. back cover slightly dirty.

Record # 806202


Price: $12.00 

 

In French Africa: Scenes and Memories


Betham-Edwards, M.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. 16 B&W illustrations. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and front. Sunfading. Fraying to spine. Top edge cosmetic stain. Foxing throughout. Overall, a tight copy.

Record # 850578


Price: $25.00 

 

Oxford History of India, The


Smith, Vincent A.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 898 pages. Edited by Percival Spear. 20 black-and-white text-figures (including one fold-out map). 40 black-and-white illustrations. Small spot and chipping on dust jacket spine. Minor stain on rear dust jacket cover. Some soiling on dust jacket covers. Light sun-fading on dust jacket flaps. Slight foxing on top edge. Previous owner's signature and pencil notes on front flyleaf. Pencil and pen markings throughout. A little spotting on first few pages. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856159


Price: $19.00 

 

Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities


Jakle, John A.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Featuring eighty-two vintage postcards published at the turn of the century; a display of American cultural life as it was being transformed by industrial strength and shifting demographics. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951727


Price: $15.00 

 

Problems of Socialist Policy in the Countryside


Kardelj, Edward

Hardcover. London , Lincolns-Prager , 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Agricultural production in Tito's Yugoslavia. Heavy chipping and edgewear to dust jacket, mostly to top and bottom edges. Chipping to dust jacket corners and spine. Rubbing and soiling to top and board edge. Heavy age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952194


Price: $25.00 

 

Wound Within: America in the Vietnam Years 1945-1974, The


Kendrick, Alexander

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY KENDRICK. Previous owner's inscription.

Record # 11024


Price: $9.00 

 

Cathedral Cities of Italy


Collins, W.W., Illust. by: W.W. Collins

Hardcover. London, Heinemann , 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 color plates by Collins, INSCRIBED BY COLLINS on front fly leaf, previous owner's signature, covers worn, spine cloth loose from binding, interior VG, solid. Candidate for repair.

Record # 19901


Price: $30.00 

James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People by: Rutt, Richard
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James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People by: Rutt, Richard

Hardcover. Seoul, Korea, Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, in conjuction with Taewon Publishing Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 396 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is significantly ripped and worn. Covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a brisk narrative based on the traditional Korean interpretation of history, packed with anecdotes, and enlivened by perceptive notes about folklore and customs. James Scarth Gale (1863-1937) was a Canadian missionary and a pioneer scholar. He was a prolific writer, an industrious translator, and a major lexicographer. Previous owner signed their name on the inside front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33717
Price: $35.00 

 

Last Nights Fun - In and Out of Time with Irish Music


Carson, Ciaran

Hardcover. NY, North Point Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53637


Price: $18.00 

 

Short History of France, A


Marriott, Sir John A. R.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. Some sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 53746


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 

 

From the Yaroslavsky Station - Russia Perceived


Pond, Elazabeth

Hardcover. NY, Universe Books, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pub. in UK as "Russia Perceived: A Trans-Siberian Journey" by the Christian Science Monitor's correspondent. Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 54620


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Watch for the Morning - The Story of Palestine's Jewish Pioneers & Their Battle for the Birth of Israel


Sugrue, Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with light edgewear, chipping

Record # 56152


Price: $15.00 

 

"In Society" - The Brideshead Years


Courtney, Nicholas

Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 166 pages

Record # 56736


Price: $18.00 

 

Mountains of Pharaoh, The


Cottrell, Leonard

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., Unk., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Spine stain, fade

Record # 57111


Price: $15.00 

 

From Despotism to Revolution 1763-1789


Gershoy, Leo

Paperback. NY, Harper & Bros., Unk Wraps, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 57792


Price: $18.00 

 

Generation of Giants - The Story of the Jesuits in China in the Last Decades of the Ming Dynasty


Dunne, George H.

Notre Dame, Ind., Univ. of Notre Dame, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages.

Record # 58496


Price: $15.00 

 

Germany - With a Chapter on German Tourism and Mountaineering by Anthony Bertram


Bullett, Gerald

Hardcover. London, A & C Black, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 color plates by E. T. and E. Harrison Compton. Fold-out map in rear. Tear to contents page. Light wear to covers.

Record # 59507


Price: $20.00 

 

Lure of Africa, The - American Interests in Tropical Africa 1919-1939


McKinley, Edward H.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Winner of Allan Nevins History Prize. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, dj with light wear.

Record # 60094


Price: $20.00 

 

Mexican Village


Niggli, Josephina

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Univ. of North Carolina, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white designs by Marion Fitz-Simons. 491 pages. Dj worn, spine faded.

Record # 61400


Price: $15.00 

 

Warszawa Na Starej


N/A

Hard Back . Poland, Artystyczno Wydawnictwo-Graficzne, 1st , 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, A collection of black & white photos of Warsaw, past and present. 166 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped, front flap gone.

Record # 63462


Price: $120.00 

 

Muslim Mind, The


Waddy, Charis

Hardcover. NY/London, Longman, 2nd, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 216 pages.

Record # 64177


Price: $23.00 

 

Rise and Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy


Tapie, Victor L.

hardcover. NY, Praeger, 2nd, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from French by Stephen Hardman. 430 pages. Dust jacket edgewear, chipping.

Record # 65005


Price: $18.00 

 

Italy From Napoleon to Mussolini


Albrecht-Carrie, Rene

NY, Columbia University, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Previous owner's stamp front fly leaf. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 65383


Price: $25.00 

 

Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period


Jones, Jr., Oakah L

Norman, OK, Univ. of OK, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 344 pages.

Record # 67310


Price: $20.00 

 

Spanish America - Its Romance, Reality and Future (2 vols.)


Enock, C.R.

NY, Charles Scribner's, 1st US, n.d. (1920 or before), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 black & white plates. Color fold-out map in rear. 294, 306 pages. Occasional pencil marking in text. Light foxing. Previous owner's signature to front end paper,. Spine lettering faded otherwise VG set.

Record # 68605


Price: $50.00 

 

Oxford


Thomas, Edward, Illust. by: John Fulleylove

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 color plates by John Fulleylove, all with tissue guards. 265 pages. Blue cloth with gilt & black designs, top edge gilt . Ex-lib with lettering on spine, bookplate light stamping, marking to end papers.

Record # 69567


Price: $35.00 

 

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 

 

Brabant & East Flanders


Omond, G.W.T

Hardcover. London, A & C Black, unknown, n.d, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 20 color plates by A Forestier. Back hinge slanting. Red cloth decorating, spine fade. otherwise very good.

Record # 101220


Price: $25.00 

 

Fiji - Little India of the Pacific


Coulter, John Wesley

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 2nd, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated cloth.

Record # 106154


Price: $15.00 

Islamic Arms by: North, Anthony
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Islamic Arms by: North, Anthony

Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Swords, daggers, and rifles in color and black & white photographs. An art exhibition catalog. no dust jacket issued. 48 pgs. Record # 108263
Price: $12.00 

 

Outnation, The / A Search for the Soul of Japan


Rauch, Jonathon

Hardcover. Boston, Harvard Boston School, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 125603


Price: $15.00 

 

Two on a Tour in South America


Sears, Anna Wentworth

Hardcover. New York , Appleton, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 B&W photos by Sears. 312 pages, Ex-library with light wear, stamping, clean internally

Record # 175445


Price: $18.00 

 

Comrade Criminal - Russia's New Mafia


Handelman, Stephen

New Haven, CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages.

Record # 200142


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Burmese Family


Khaing, Mi Mi

Bloomington, Indiana Univeraity Press, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Black & white sketches. Dust jacket is soiled and chipping at edges.

Record # 204409


Price: $18.00 

The French Army - A Military-Political History by: De La Gorce, Paul Marie
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The French Army - A Military-Political History by: De La Gorce, Paul Marie

Hardcover. New York, Braziller, 1st, 963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 568 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Dust jacket shows some wear, rubbing and chipping. Record # 205975
Price: $12.00 

 

The Greek Islands


Durrell, Lawrence

New York, Viking, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 287 pages. Color and black & white photography. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has edgwear.

Record # 206751


Price: $12.00 

SICILY: ISLAND OF FIRE by: Ordway, Donald
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SICILY: ISLAND OF FIRE by: 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: $12.00 

 

Brazil's Second Chance - En route toward the First World


Gordon, Lincoln

Washington, DC, Brookins Institution, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages

Record # 300106


Price: $18.00 

 

Praha-Prague and Environs


no author

Softcover. Praague, Cedok, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. 16 B&W photos, folding map in rear, fold-out chart, places of interest. Appears to be mid - late 1920's issued by the Czechoslovak Tourist and Transport Co. Hotel stamp on front cover. 5 x 7" Paperback. Lightgreen wraps.

Record # 301169


Price: $75.00 

 

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 

 

Unto the Hills


Macrow, Brenda G., Illust. by: Robert M. Adam

Edinburgh , Oliver and Boyd, 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 111 pages, 52 B&W landscape photos by Robert M. Adam. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Oversize.

Record # 304342


Price: $15.00 

 

Of Gods and Men - The Heritage of Ancient Mexico


Gyles, Anna Benson & Chloe Sayer

New York, Harper & Row, 1st U.S. , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Many B&W illustrations.

Record # 305364


Price: $15.00 

 

Colonial Annual Reports: Kenya, 1948


N/A

Softcover. London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1950, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages, b&w photographs, fold out map. Edge wear, creases, staining to covers. Back cover separated. Binding weak. Foxing to inside of covers. Else pages nice and clean.

Record # 401931


Price: $50.00 

 

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 

Neo-Confucian Terms Explained (The Pei-hsi tzu-i)Ch'un, Ch'en and Wing-tsit Chan
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Neo-Confucian Terms Explained (The Pei-hsi tzu-i)


Ch'un, Ch'en and Wing-tsit Chan

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Translated, edited and with introduction by Chan. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 403099


Price: $60.00 

 

Under Czar and Soviet: My Thirty Years in Russia


Hird, John Wynne

Hardcover. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages, red cloth with spotting to covers and fading to spine. Interior clean and tight, some foxing to first six and last six pages. Author was an English diplomat stationed in Russia from 1900 to 1931.

Record # 404914


Price: $31.00 

 

Under Afrikas Sol


Kroyer, Olaf

Hardcover. Copenhagen Denmark, Carl Allers, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, b&w photographs, maps, softcover with color wrappers, here bound in half-leather with marbled boards, spine label with gilt lettering. Text is in Norwegian.

Record # 405968


Price: $31.00 

The Empress of Farewells : The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico.Prince Michael of Greece
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The Empress of Farewells : The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico.


Prince Michael of Greece

Hardcover. New York , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408169


Price: $13.00 

 

Idylls of France


Jones, Proctor (Ed.)

Hardcover. San Francisco, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages, color photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Bookplate on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451585


Price: $12.00 

 

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 # 454697


Price: $12.00 

 

Land of the Lakes


Bragg, Melvyn

Hardcover. US, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1984-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463006


Price: $15.00 

 

Assassin, The - A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid


Van Woerden, Henk

New York, Henry Holt, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 176 pages. Top corners a bit bumped. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor edgewear.

Record # 500891


Price: $18.00 

 

In the Shadow of the Bush


Talbot, P. Amaury

NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages plus index. Many b&w photographs, folding map in rear. Ex-library with usual markings, stamping. Binding shaken. A detailed study of the Ekoi people of Nigeria.

Record # 502298


Price: $100.00 

 

Norwegian Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil


Lovett, Richard

Hardcover. London, Religious Tract Society, 1885, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 219 pages plus index. Contains 127 black & white illustrations. Fold-out map. Frontispiece with tissue-guard. Gilt edges. Previous owner's signature on title page. Pages slightly yellowing at edges. Olive green covers with engraved illustrations. Gold lettering on front cover and spine. Corners and spine rubbed. Small stain, soiling to covers. Hinge cracked in middle.

Record # 503134


Price: $80.00 

Principality of Monaco, The by: Ranieri, Gagetti
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Principality of Monaco, The by: Ranieri, Gagetti

Hardcover. Milano, Italy, Kina Italia, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 95 pages. Contains numerous full-color photographs. Foxing to a few pages. Monte Carlo casino guide laid-in. Light edgewear. Record # 503940
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,The


White, Gilbert

Softcover. Menston, Scolar Press, Facsimile Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 468 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white reproductions and 2 fold-outs. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Some bubbling of plastic on cover. Top of spine bumped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 510788


Price: $21.00 

Moscow: Treasures and Tradition by: Allenov Mikjail M. et al.
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Moscow: Treasures and Tradition by: Allenov Mikjail M. et al.

Softcover. University of Washington Press/Smithsonian Institution , 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Introduction by W. Bruce Lincoln. Exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Red endpapers. Color pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, very good. Record # 512587
Price: $12.00 

 

Panorama of Rural England, A


Turner(Ed.), W.J.

NY, Chanticleer Press/Hastings House, 2nd, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Introduction by Edmund Blunden. 319 pages, 48 color plates, 137 in b&w. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown.

Record # 600859


Price: $18.00 

Berlin - Einst und Jetzt by: Gottwald, Franz
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Berlin - Einst und Jetzt by: 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: $12.00 

 

Dark Heart of Italy, The: An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country


Jones, Tobias

Hardcover. New York, North Point, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Cream colored cover and white spine with gilt lettering. Color illustrated dust jacket.

Record # 603183


Price: $13.00 

 

Tales of Old Japan


Lord Redesdale

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages plus ads. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners inscriptions on inside front cover and front endpaper. Interior clean and tight. Slight fading to spine.

Record # 607679


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Histoire de L'Affaire Dreyfus: Esterhazy


Reinach, Joseph

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 717 pages, in French, volume 2, age tanning to pages, clean, tight copy.

Record # 800817


Price: $15.00 

 

History in our Time


Cannadine, David

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy.

Record # 803011


Price: $13.00 

 

Fall of Hong Kong, The: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal


Roberti, Mark

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Very good dust jacket with minor shelf wear.

Record # 803773


Price: $10.00 

 

Antologia Carducciana: Poesie e Prose


Mazzoni, Guido and Giuseppe Picciola

Hardcover. Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli, 2nd w/ appendix, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 495 pages. Cream cloth, gilt design/red title label on spine. All Edges Red. Covers soiled. Edges of boards bumped.

Record # 804001


Price: $16.00 

 

Folk Fundamentals of Russian Art Volume II / II


Zotov / , A.I. / . .

Hardcover. Moscow / , USSR Academy of Art / , 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Text in Russian. Blue cloth, silver lettering. Spine faded, minor edgewear. Binding/front hinge a little loose. Text block clean, unmarked. B/W illustrations throughout.

Record # 804198


Price: $28.00 

 

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 

 

Norwegian-American Studies Volume 30


Lovoll et. al., Odd S.

Hardcover. Northfield, MN, Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine. No dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else like new.

Record # 809697


Price: $12.00 

 

Chinese Folk Toys and Ornaments


Yuan (illustrator), Tian

Hardcover. Beijing, China, Foreign Languages Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Yuan throughout, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854191


Price: $18.00 

 

V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II


Blum, John Morton

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Politics and American culture during World War 2. Mild foxing to top and fore edges. Light fading and edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Lower fore edge lightly bumped. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951243


Price: $15.00 

 

Portraits of Russian Personalities: Between Reform and Revolution


Hare, Richard

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st UK, 1959, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illuminating work on Russian personalities between reform and revolution. Front and rear interior hinges cracked. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bumping to corners. Mild bumping to board spine. Age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Scarce.

Record # 952114


Price: $19.00 

 

New Earth, A


Huxley, Elspeth

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, rep, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos in center.

Record # 2233311


Price: $15.00 

 

Castro's Final Hour


Oppenheimer, Andres

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 3rd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Communist Cuba's decline 1959-1992

Record # 7654


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Switzerland and Its PeopleRook, Clarence, Effie Jardine (painter) , Illust. by: Effie Jardine
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Switzerland and Its People


Rook, Clarence, Effie Jardine (painter) , Illust. by: Effie Jardine

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Cover boards covered in navy blue fabric, gilt title on spine and gilt decorations on cover board (all still bright). Tissue guard on frontispiece. Deckled bottom and fore edges, gilt top edge. Former bookstore label on front endpaper. Pages yellow with age. Only a small bit of fraying at top and bottom of spine, otherwise in great shape for its age.

Record # 30585


Price: $75.00 

 

Illustrated English Social History - Vol. 4 - 19th Century


Trevelyan, G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longman's, Rep., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Color frontis, black & white Illustrations . Dj with tears, chunks gone from spine

Record # 53626


Price: $15.00 

 

Trading With the Enemy - A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba


Miller, Tom

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53715


Price: $18.00 

 

Portrait of India


Smith, Bradford

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 53901


Price: $12.00 

 

Winter in Castille


Tracy, Honor

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

Record # 54352


Price: $12.00 

 

Two Viet-Nams, The - A Political and Military Analysis


Fall, Bernard B.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 2nd revised, 1067, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor,

Record # 54762


Price: $12.00 


  
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