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Food In Russian History And Culture (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by: Editor: Glants, MusyaEditor: Toomre, Joyce
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Food In Russian History And Culture (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by: Editor: Glants, Musya Editor: Toomre, Joyce

Softcover. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages, soft cover. Covers and interior pages are both clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations throughout. This essay collection reveals surprising insights into how food shaped Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. Some of the chapters focus on historical topics while others consider images of food in literature and art. Clean copy. Record # 33922
Price: $18.00 

Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines by: Browne, Junius Henri
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Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines by: Browne, Junius Henri

Hardcover. Hartford, CT, O. D. Case and Company, 1st, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages, hardcover. Brown pebble cloth covers are in good condition despite some staining, and edge wear concentrated at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior pages have significant foxing but are otherwise clean and bright. Binding is solid but not perfectly square. Contains a few B&W illustrations throughout. Browne was a war correspondent for the New York Tribune, and this book is a compilation of his articles and reports from the front lines. The book covers a wide range of topics related to the war, including military strategy, battles and skirmishes, political developments, and the experiences of soldiers and civilians. Previous owner's name is present on the front end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34227
Price: $40.00 

Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North by: Longenecker, Steve
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Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North by: Longenecker, Steve

Hardcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor discoloration, but is still in very good condition overall. Black paper cover boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and maps throughout. This book explores the religious history of antebellum and Civil War-era Gettysburg, shedding light on the remarkable diversity of American religion and the intricate ways in which it interacted with the broader culture. Clean copy. Record # 34207
Price: $25.00 

Ghost Town El Dorado by: Florin, Lambert
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Ghost Town El Dorado by: Florin, Lambert

Hardcover. Bonanza Bks, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 460033
Price: $12.00 

Ghost Town Trails by: Florin, Lambert
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Ghost Town Trails by: Florin, Lambert

Hardcover. Random House~trade, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 460032
Price: $12.00 

Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Italy by: Bugialli, Giuliano, Illust. by: Dominis, John
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Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Italy by: Bugialli, Giuliano, Illust. by: Dominis, John

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book is about the cuisine of Italy, and is inspired by the beauty, elegance, tastes and textures of the country itself. 125 recipes are set against the architecture and landscapes of Italy, to tie together history, culture, and cuisine. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34183
Price: $30.00 

Glass, Paper, Beans by: Cohen, Leah Hager
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Glass, Paper, Beans by: Cohen, Leah Hager

Hardcover. US, Doubleday Business, 3rd printing, 1997-01-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461807
Price: $12.00 

Gourmet's France by: Gourmet Magazine, Illust. by: Micossi, Mario
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Gourmet's France by: Gourmet Magazine, Illust. by: Micossi, Mario

Hardcover. NY, Gourmet Books, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 632 pages, hardcover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Full-color photography and B&W illustrations throughout. This book offers views of the French countryside, insights into French culture, and shares traditional recipes for hors d'oeuvres, soups, pates, terrines, seafood, poultry, meat, vegetables, salads, desserts, and pastries. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34040
Price: $16.00 

Hands Across the Sea: A Celebration of the German Presence in American Art by: Indiana University Art Museum
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Hands Across the Sea: A Celebration of the German Presence in American Art by: Indiana University Art Museum

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Art Museum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Gray stapled covers with black line illustration and red titles, full page b&w frontispiece, preface by Thomas T. Solley, essay by Claus Cluver, 15 b&w plates throughout, catalog organized alphabetically by artists, biographical notes. Slight rubbing to wrappers; a very clean, tight copy. Record # 806165
Price: $12.00 

Heartbreakers - Women and Violence in  Contemporary Culture and Literature by: Hendin, Josephine Gattuso
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Heartbreakers - Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature by: Hendin, Josephine Gattuso

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Record # 69654
Price: $12.00 

Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on their Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes by: Armitage, Allan M.
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Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on their Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes by: Armitage, Allan M.

Hardcover. Athens, GA, Varsity Press, Inc., 2nd Pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 646 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color photography. This book provides easy-to-read information for over 500 genera, species and cultivars used in the gardening and landscape trade. Clean copy. Record # 34500
Price: $18.00 

Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by: McRae, Donald
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Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by: McRae, Donald

Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 389 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some staining and light edge wear, plus a small sticker on the spine. Blue paper cover boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book is an excellent study of two remarkable athletes whose rise into fame and subsequent political and social impact on America was nothing short of sensational. Clean copy. Record # 34511
Price: $22.00 

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by: Gross, Professor Paul R.
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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by: Gross, Professor Paul R.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 348 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light staining on dust jacket, otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Light foxing to top page block. Record # 468195
Price: $12.00 

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern by: Breisach, Ernst
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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern by: Breisach, Ernst

Softcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 481 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables throughout. This book presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women's history, and more. Clean copy. Record # 34188
Price: $12.00 

History of Chinese Civilization, A  by: Gernet, Jacques
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History of Chinese Civilization, A by: Gernet, Jacques

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 772 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453665
Price: $12.00 

Honky by: Conley, Dalton
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Honky by: Conley, Dalton

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 450018
Price: $12.00 

HotHouse by: George-Warren, Holly
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HotHouse by: George-Warren, Holly

Hardcover. New York, ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated with color and black & white Photographs chosen by the editors of Rolling Stone magazine. Light wear. Record # 511524
Price: $12.00 

Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture by: Gabbard, Krin
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Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture by: Gabbard, Krin

Hardcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 251 pages, with illustrations. Very clean, tight and bright copy. Record # 457302
Price: $12.00 

House of the 10,000 Pleasures: A Modern Study of the Geisha and of the Streetwalker of Japan by: Harris, Sara
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House of the 10,000 Pleasures: A Modern Study of the Geisha and of the Streetwalker of Japan by: Harris, Sara

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 273 pages, orange cloth covers. Very good in an edgeworn dust jacket. Record # 900105
Price: $12.00 

Hudson Valley Voyage: Through the Seasons, Through the Years [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Sparling, Reed, Illust. by: Spiegel, Ted
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Hudson Valley Voyage: Through the Seasons, Through the Years [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Sparling, Reed, Illust. by: Spiegel, Ted

Hardcover. Fishkill NY, Involvement Media, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is generally in good condition, with some bending at the top and bottom edges. Green cloth covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book offers a rich exploration of the Hudson River Valley's awe-inspiring beauty, and a breakdown of the last 400 years of its history. This copy has been inscribed by both the author and the illustrator with a dedication to the previous owner. Clean copy. Record # 33805
Price: $24.00 

Human Forecast, The  by: Darwin, Galileo K.
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Human Forecast, The by: Darwin, Galileo K.

Softcover. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Slightly warped, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 460104
Price: $12.00 

Humanistic Botany [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Tippo, Oswald Stern, William Louis, Illust. by: Tangerini, Alice R.
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Humanistic Botany [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Tippo, Oswald Stern, William Louis, Illust. by: Tangerini, Alice R.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 605 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition due to multiple chips and closed tears. Green cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography and illustrations throughout. This book was created for use in undergraduate courses in botany, as taken by students in non-science majors. Its emphasis is on the interrelationships between plants and people in society and culture. Author's inscription to the previous owner reads: "January 11, 1978 with thanks for his interest in and help with species - Bill Stern." Clean copy. Record # 34219
Price: $25.00 

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s by: Editor: O'Hanlon, Michael Editor: Welsch, Robert L.
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Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s by: Editor: O'Hanlon, Michael Editor: Welsch, Robert L.

Hardcover. NY, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2000, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a part of the Methodology and History in Anthropology series, being volume 6. It is a collection of ethnographically informed papers about ethnology of the Pacific and the culture of museum collectors, with contributions by the two editors. Each contributor presents ethnographic artifacts collected throughout Melanesia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as Germans, English, American, and British colonial powers carved out colonies in Melanesia. Interior pages contain markings by previous owner throughout, mostly in pencil, but some highlighting and blue pen as well. Record # 34166
Price: $18.00 

I Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia by: West, Sally
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I Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia by: West, Sally

Hardcover. DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Covers are very lightly bumped at the top corner. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This groundbreaking book is the first to study the cultural history of advertising in imperial Russia. The emergence of Russian advertising and consumer culture played a formative role in unsettling traditional tsarist society by promoting the aspirations of self-fulfillment through consumption. West's original study will appeal to scholars and students of advertising and Russian history, as well as those working in gender studies, folklore, and cultural history. Previous owner underlined some text throughout. Record # 33969
Price: $40.00 


  
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