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Horse in the West: Arabian, Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Appaloosa, The  by: Smith, Bradley
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Horse in the West: Arabian, Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Appaloosa, The by: Smith, Bradley

Hardcover. New York, Leon Amiel, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Light staining to dust jacket interior, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857474
Price: $12.00 

Houses of St. Augustine 1565-1821, The  by: Manucy, Albert
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Houses of St. Augustine 1565-1821, The by: Manucy, Albert

Softcover. St. Augustine, FL, The St. Augustine Historical Society, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages, b&w illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Pamphlets laid in. Old price-sticker to front cover, else like new. Record # 805680
Price: $12.00 

How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob
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How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller by: Geller, Jacob

Hardcover. NY, Harper Pop (Harper Collins Publishers), 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout. This book deftly interweaves video game analysis with the complex narratives of art, politics, and history. It positions video games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves. Clean copy. Record # 34302
Price: $28.00 

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by: Meyerowitz, Joanne
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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by: Meyerowitz, Joanne

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 363 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with bending to the top edge. Covers are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. Clean copy. Record # 34162
Price: $18.00 

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 

Hunters of the Stormy Sea: The Violent History of the Sea Otter Hunters of Alaska by: McCracken, Harold
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Hunters of the Stormy Sea: The Violent History of the Sea Otter Hunters of Alaska by: McCracken, Harold

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 312 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in poor condition with multiple open tears. Cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Top edge of the pages colored green. This book covers the story of the sea otter hunters, and the hundred-year rule of the Russians on the Northwest Coast of America. It is a saga of one of primitive man's most rigorous conquests of nature, combined with one of the most ruthless eras of human subjugation, cruelty, and rapine in frontier history. Title page is inscribed with a dedication by the previous owner, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33787
Price: $18.00 

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 

I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant: The Memoirs of an Auschwitz Physician by: Nyiszli, MiklosTransl. Zbirohowski-Koscia, Witold
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I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant: The Memoirs of an Auschwitz Physician by: Nyiszli, Miklos Transl. Zbirohowski-Koscia, Witold

Softcover. Krakow, Poland, Frap-Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Miklos Nyiszli was a Hungarian Jew and doctor who was forced to sign the death reports of the Auschwitz death camp crematorium. This is his memoir. Clean copy. Record # 33660
Price: $20.00 

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by: Klemperer, Victor Transl. Chalmers, Martin
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by: Klemperer, Victor Transl. Chalmers, Martin

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 556 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Pages have a deckled edge. In this book, Victor Klemperer, a German-Jewish professor, provides a firsthand account of daily life under Nazi rule from 1942-1945, documenting persecution, survival through the Dresden bombing, and Germany's postwar denial of Holocaust atrocities. Clean copy. Record # 34148
Price: $12.00 

Ice time: A portrait of figure skating by: Wilkes, Debbi
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Ice time: A portrait of figure skating by: Wilkes, Debbi

Hardcover. Scarborough, Ont., Prentice Hall Canada, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else very good. Record # 454624
Price: $12.00 

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by: Young, Jeffrey S.
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iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by: Young, Jeffrey S.

Softcover. Hoboken NJ, Wiley, reprint, 2006, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Softcover. B&w photographs throughout. Some curling to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468363
Price: $12.00 

Illinois: Mapping the Prairie State Through History: Rare and Unusual Maps Fro the Library of Congress by: Virga, Vincent Cohn, Scotti
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Illinois: Mapping the Prairie State Through History: Rare and Unusual Maps Fro the Library of Congress by: Virga, Vincent Cohn, ScottiIllinois: Mapping the Prairie State Through History: Rare and Unusual Maps Fro the Library of Congress by: Virga, Vincent Cohn, Scotti

Illinois: Mapping the Prairie State Through History: Rare and Unusual Maps Fro the Library of Congress by: Virga, Vincent Cohn, Scotti

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, Globe Pequot Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 117 pages, hardcover. Velum dust jacket has a chip and a closed tear along the bottom edge, but is still in good condition overall. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book devoted to Illinois contains fifty archival maps from the Library of Congress' unrivaled collections. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34193
Price: $12.00 

Illustrated English Social History, vol. I: Chaucer and Early Tudors by: Trevelyan, G.M.
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Illustrated English Social History, vol. I: Chaucer and Early Tudors by: Trevelyan, G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 4th pr. , 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 175 pages. Pencil underlining in text. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Record # 507806
Price: $12.00 

Illustrated English Social History, vol. II: Shakespeare and Stuarts by: Trevelyan, G.M.
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Illustrated English Social History, vol. II: Shakespeare and Stuarts by: Trevelyan, G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Dust jacket with soiling and edgewear. Record # 507807
Price: $12.00 

Illustrated English Social History, vol. III: Eighteenth Century by: Trevelyan, G.M.
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Illustrated English Social History, vol. III: Eighteenth Century by: Trevelyan, G.M.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 209 pages. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Record # 507808
Price: $12.00 

Images of Childhood: An Illustrated Social History by: Schorsch, Anita
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Images of Childhood: An Illustrated Social History by: Schorsch, Anita

Softcover. Pittstown, NJ, Main Street Press, 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Foreword by Robert Coles. B/W and color illustrations. Some wear and soil on covers otherwise clean. Record # 802344
Price: $12.00 

Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation by: Editor: Kuchler, Susanne Editor: Melion, Walter
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Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation by: Editor: Kuchler, Susanne Editor: Melion, Walter

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 265 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with a few dents and glue on the spine where a sticker was peeled off. Red cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book presents eight essays, expanded and revised from papers presented at a symposium on the relation of mnemonic function to pictorial representation, held at Johns Hopkins University. Scholars in psychology, anthropology, art history, and social history argue that memory is not a neurological recording device, but is instead constructed using visual images. Clean copy. Record # 34122
Price: $25.00 

Impatient Armies of the Poor by: Folsom, Franklin
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Impatient Armies of the Poor by: Folsom, Franklin

Hardcover. Niwot, Colo., University Press of Colorado, 1st, November 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 558 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Tiny tear to dust jacket spine. Slight odor of smoke. Else clean and tight. Record # 455017
Price: $12.00 

IMPERFECT GOD. AN: GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS SLAVES, AND THE CREATION OF AMERICA by: Wiencek, Henry
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IMPERFECT GOD. AN: GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS SLAVES, AND THE CREATION OF AMERICA by: Wiencek, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 404 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 404 pages. Record # 467422 Record # 467422
Price: $12.00 

In Celebration of 50 Years 1930-1980: A Collection of Philadelphia Related Paintings & Decorative Arts by: Frank S. Schwarz & Son
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In Celebration of 50 Years 1930-1980: A Collection of Philadelphia Related Paintings & Decorative Arts by: Frank S. Schwarz & Son

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Frank S. Schwarz & Son, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, estimated date of publication circa 1980, color illustrated cover, 59 plates with some in color, one page folded insert released with catalog's publishing. Light wear to cover; overall a clean, tight copy. Record # 805749
Price: $12.00 

In Quest of the White God: The Mysterious Heritage of Central and South American Civilizations by: Honore, Pierre
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In Quest of the White God: The Mysterious Heritage of Central and South American Civilizations by: Honore, PierreIn Quest of the White God: The Mysterious Heritage of Central and South American Civilizations by: Honore, Pierre

In Quest of the White God: The Mysterious Heritage of Central and South American Civilizations by: Honore, Pierre

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 228 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has significant wear, with several chips and closed tears. Tan cloth cover boards have some minor discoloration, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a historical investigation which argues that pre-Columbian American civilizations were influenced by visitors from the Mediterranean. Previous owner wrote the date on the rear end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34516
Price: $28.00 

In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by: Degler, Carl N.
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In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by: Degler, Carl N.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 400 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some holes in dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 468150
Price: $12.00 

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America by: Katz, Michael
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In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America by: Katz, Michael

Softcover. Basic Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear to wrappers. Record # 456839
Price: $12.00 


  
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