Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Record # 408313
Softcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. From ocean to stock pot, an in-depth look at the lobster and it's interaction with the human world. Record # 460271
Softcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages, soft cover. Covers have two 'used' stickers, one on the rear and one on the spine, and light bumping to the corners, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. Clean copy. Record # 34232
Hardcover. Toronto, ON, MacMillan, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 360 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is worn, ripped, and folded, but the binding and interior pages are in very good condition. Examines Malcolm X in all of his depth and complexity. Critiques, dialogues, and articles by his black compatriots throughout the world, in addition to his own writings, speeches and manifestos. Previous owner's initials are in the top corner of the first front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33579
Hardcover. New York, Portfolio Hardcover, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468326
Softcover. Shepperton UK , Ian Allan Pub, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 468092
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Illustrated by Armstrong Sperry with 10 b/w plates and a color frontispiece of Sacagawea with one of the explorers. Black, orange, and white color pictorial end papers of Indian totems, tepees, buffalo, more. Double page color map. Introduction by Christopher B. Coleman. Four page glossary of Indian and French names at pages 225 to 228. 8vo. Orange pictorial cloth with black lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Minor marking and smudging to cover. Light edgewear. Very Good. Record # 219852
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468976
Hardcover. Ithaca, NEW YORK, Cornell University, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages explore a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged and the confrontation between changing demographics circumstances in a more secular world. 8vo. B/W illustrated plates. Gray cloth with red spine title label, gilt lettering. Burgundy endpapers. Near Fine. Pictorial dust jacket with minor marking. Very Good. Record # 219956
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan and Company, Early Reprint, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages, hardcover. Covers of this small form book are bumped, with most of the wear concentrated near the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Top edge gilt. This book is a collection of essays and sketches by William Winter, American author and critic. The book was first published in 1892 and contains Winter's reflections on various topics, including literature, art, and nature. The essays are written in a lyrical and poetic style and often focus on the beauty of the natural world. Winter also shares his thoughts on the importance of preserving historic sites and buildings, particularly those with a connection to the country's early history. Previous owner's signature present on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33892
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd printing, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 460 pages. Light gray boards, no dust jacket. Light smudge and wear to edges of spine, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a neat, tight copy. Record # 854611
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 282 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket shows some edge wear along the top and bottom, but is still in good condition. Orange cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W photography, maps, and tables are present throughout. This book is shows how the massive peasant migration to Russian cities-an influx unprecedented in world history-had major consequences for the nature of the Soviet system and the character of Russian society even today. Light pencil markings by previous owner are present throughout, and their name is inscribed on the last page of the bibliography. Record # 33974
Hardcover. Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, gray cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book encourages readers to see history and poetry as complimentary literary forms. Illuminates the various ways in which contemporary poets redeem a vision of personal, aesthetic, and social relevancy from the shadow of traditionally narrated history. Contains author's inscription to the previous owner on one of the front end pages. His signature is also present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34544
Hardcover. Chicago, Disable American Veterans of the World War, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 564 pages, with illustrations and gilt decorated green cloth cover. Light ex-library residue, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853785
Hardcover. Chicago, Disable American Veterans of the World War, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages, with illustrations and gilt decorated green cloth cover. Light ex-library residue, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853784
Hardcover. Chicago, Disable American Veterans of the World War, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 635 pages, with illustrations and gilt decorated green cloth cover. Light ex-library residue, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853783
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, 484 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism, the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communists reshaped this notion into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Neither vision, however, fit the "community spirit" of the Russian people, and the resulting clash defined the Soviet world. Light underlining in pencil present throughout. Record # 33909
Softcover. Harlow, England, Pearson Education Limited, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. The story of Russia's First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. This book shows that war is itself revolutionary in that it ruptures established social and economic ties, but also creates new social and economic relationships, affiliations, practices and opportunities. Clean copy. Record # 33976
Hardcover. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Early Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black paper covers with gilt text, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Bringing smugglers and smuggling to life, this book provides a fascinating exploration for all readers interested in crime and corruption throughout modern history. Alan Karras provocatively argues that smuggling was, and is, tightly woven into an uneasy relationship among governments, taxation, and citizenship. Clean copy. Record # 34115
Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, World Weaver Press, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is an anthology collection of speculative fiction which imagines humanity in a more sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations, large space ships propelled by the pressure of solar radiation, the advent of photosynthetic humans, and how different society might be if we had switched to renewable energies much earlier in our history. Clean copy. Record # 34368
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
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