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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights MovementR., James (James Richard) Ralph
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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement


R., James (James Richard) Ralph

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear and fraying to dj, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 471888


Price: $23.00 

 

Not without Struggle: The Story of William E. Hoy and the Beginnings of Tohoku Gakuin


Mensendiek, C. William

Hardcover. Sendai, Japan, Tohoku Gakuin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white photos and one color photo. A couple of closed tears on front dust jacket cover and minor edge wear on dust jacket covers, in general. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459473


Price: $63.00 

 

Notorious Dr. Bahrdt, The


Flygt, Sten Gunnar

Hardcover. Nashville, Vanderbilt, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 428 pages. Wear, rubbing and light soil to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges. Nice reading copy.

Record # 857050


Price: $19.00 

 

Novelist of Vermont, The - A Biographical and Critical Study of Daniel Pierce Thompson


Flitcroft, John E.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages hardcover. Green cloth covers. Gilt decoration on the spine. Gilt top edge. Illustrate frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857205


Price: $19.00 

 

O'Keefe - The Life of an American Legend


Hogrefe, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with white titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with light wear to edges, faint tone to edges & price clipped. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751315


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover


Summers, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th printing, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Slate paper covered boards with gold lettering. Dust jacket white with red, blue, and black lettering and author's photograph on back cover. 528 pp.

Record # 401300


Price: $15.00 

 

Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life


Pruitt, Ida

Hardcover. US, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1979-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 129 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and upper edges of flaps. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462903


Price: $38.00 

 

Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time


Cleaves, Freeman

Hardcover. Newtown CT, American Political Biography Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulous biography of the ninth American president. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951912


Price: $31.00 

 

Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit


Rosenblum, Mort

Hardcover. New York, 4th printing, November 29, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457556


Price: $15.00 

On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert BellLyons, Robert
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On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell


Lyons, Robert

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471536


Price: $25.00 

 

On Gold Mountain - The 100 Year Odyssey of a Chinese American Family


See, Lisa

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages

Record # 50869


Price: $15.00 

 

One Hundred Notable American Engravers


New York Public Library

Softcover. New York, NY, New York Public Library, Reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 38 pages. Softcover pamphlet. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Staple binding. Wrapper (cover) has some tanning from age and wear about the edges (see image). Pages also Alightly tanned but doesn't affect illustrations (plates), or text. Binding tight. In very good shape for its age, no pages missing or torn.

Record # 32279


Price: $15.00 

 

Only the Nails Remain: Sense from the Balkan Wars


Merrill, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, rep, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 401 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Faded dust jacket on rear and spine.

Record # 2233326


Price: $15.00 

Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855Whittaker, Cynthia
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Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855


Whittaker, Cynthia

Hardcover. DeKalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Blue cloth. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453501


Price: $30.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Ellmann, Richard

Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd printing, 1988-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Small tears to upper edger of dust jacket flaps, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463018


Price: $13.00 

 

Our Town: Cabot Past & Present


N/A

Paperback. Cabot, VT, Mary Elliot Beausoleil, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. light brown paper wrappers with staining on spine edge. interior clean and black & white photo, advertisements.

Record # 408554


Price: $15.00 

Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)Barger, Thomas C.
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Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)


Barger, Thomas C.

Hardcover. Vista, CA, Selwa Press, 2nd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy. Black & white images throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF.

Record # 470828


Price: $38.00 

 

Over the Dead Line, or Tracked by Blood-hounds


Dufer, S.M.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Free Press Association, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering. Age discoloration on front end paper, foxing on fore edge.

Record # 408369


Price: $50.00 

 

Oxford History of English Literature: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660.


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852595


Price: $15.00 

 

Oxford History of English literature: English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century


Sutherland, James

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.

Record # 852594


Price: $18.00 

 

Paintings on the Move: Heinrich Heine and the Visual Arts


Zantop, Susannen(Editor

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages plus plates. Color and b/w illustrations at back of book. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of shelf wear (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In excellent condition. Heine's role as art critic and innovator of art criticism has gone largely unexamined until this book.

Record # 32451


Price: $15.00 

 

Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, Ariz., Univ of Arizona Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Price clipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 454108


Price: $12.00 

 

Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, Ariz., Univ of Arizona Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Price clipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 454110


Price: $12.00