Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1972.. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in black binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Some scuffing to the covers with a few white marks on the fore-edge of the front board. Pages are lightly browned. 223 pages with notes and index. A collection of essays and excerpts on racism in children's literature. ... more information

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Dingwall, Scotland, UK: North Star Proprietors, circa 1910. Hardcover in full deep green cloth Unknown, probably 2nd. Good Duodecimo (smalle rthan standard size). Soem wear to edges and corners, with bumping to corners. Thin split in cloth at spine near back board. Some spots to covers. Spine darkened. Text on cover still bright. Endpapers have some darkening, and the flyleaf has a long inscription. Name of former owner on pastedown. 256 p. A survey of important 19th c. Highland Scottish reverends. ... more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Hardcover First edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bump[ to upper corner of back cover. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 247 pages with footnotes and index. A look at liberalism and pragmatism in acting on public matters. ... more information

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Friday Harbor, Washington: the author, 1972. Hardcover First printing Very Good Octavo (standard size). Signed by the author on title page. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight soiling to page edges. 234 p. w/ B&w illustrations and line art. A collection of reminiscences of life in Nebraska at the turn of the 19th c. into the 20th. Includes discussions of Native Americans, church, pets, youthful hunting, and more. ... more information

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Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Hardcover Second revised edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Very good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear to edges and minor scuffing to covers. 256 pages with illustrations, 8 appendices, bibliography, and index. A nice work on the ships that helped make the tea trade a success. Special shipping rates for this work due to its size. ... more information

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Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1985. Hardcover in full cloth First edition thus Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so on dj. Complimentary card from press laid in. 266 w/ illustrations, afterword, bibliography, index. An excellent edition of the diary of this ambitious Victorian officer in the Second Afghan War (his diary called it the 3rd war) whose efforts for fame and recognition ultimately failed. Candid, persona... more information

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New York, NY: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Hardcover in full cloth Second edition Good Octavo (standard size). Gilt top edge of textblock. Some wear to edes and corners of boards, more so at head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to boards, with back board having 2 small white spots. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. Bookplate of former owner on first pastedown. 281 p. w/ 7 color illustrations and a good number of smaller b&w. MacManus ( 1868-1960 ) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and writer of popular... more information

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Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1977. First edition Very good octavo hardcover in very good price-clipped dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear to edges with light scuffing and minor browning to covers. Frontispiece bound upside down. 154 pages. ... more information

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Detroit: UXL, 1998.. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated boards without dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with minor scuffing to the covers. 330 plus lviii pages with illustrations, lists of sources, and index. A collection of brief biographies of various American criminals. This volume contains information on: Marcus Hess, Matya Komisaruk, Kevin Mitnick, Stanley Rifkin, Jerry Schneider, Aldrich Ames, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, Juliet Stuar... more information

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Detroit: Gale Research, 1981.. Hardcover Very Good 1st edition. Oversized. Very good in cloth. Edges and corners have slight wear. Stamped by the publisher in red on endpapers and title page. 345 p. w/illustrations, selected bibliography of works, brief bibliography of works about the dramatists. ... more information

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Oxford: For the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover in full brown cloth First edition Very Good Thick Octavo (standard size). Gilt lettering to spine and front board, with gilt emblem of Society on cover. Slight wear to edges and corners. 367 p. w/ 2 p.frontis, introduction. Text is in Middle English. ... more information

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New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover Later printing Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj, less so at boards. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated by Macaulay on half-title page with a drawing of a mammoth in black marker. 384 p. w/index. glossary of technical terms, and many many color illustrations. A superb and hugely popular work illustrating many aspect of the technologies that affect us everyday, and a major publishing success for Macaulay and... more information

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New York: Hurst and Company Publishers, no date given (late nineteenth century).. First American edition thus. Five good duodecimo hardcovers in reddish binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of the boards with heavy bumping to the heads and heels of the spines. Spines are faded and browned and the covers are scuffed. Volume I has a hole in back gutter and panel. Bookplates on front pastedown endpapers and stickers on the front free endpaper. Endpapers and pages are browned and a li... more information

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Minneapolis, MN. : Lutheran Orient Mission, 1920.. 1st edition. Good w/o dust jacket. Cover board is three quarters spotted and darkened (it appears another book was resting on it and partially protected it). Edges and corners have some wear, with some spotting on endpapers. 52 p. A brief biography of the life and work of the 13th & 14th century medieval Spanish missionary to the Moslems. He preached in North Africa, Spain, and the Baleric island of Majorca. He also wrote on eof the most famous works o... more information

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Ottawa, Canada: Government Printing Office, printed by F. A. Acland., 1921. Wraps First printing Very Good in Wraps Pamphlet. Slight wear to edges and corners. 50 p. w/13 plates. The first part of vol. 5, with detailed notes and b& w reproductions of drawings of vascular arctic plants. ... more information

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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937. Hardcover in full cloth First edition Very Good without dust jacket Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Some glue remnants on first pastedown. Endpapers are a bit age-toned. 148 p. w/ illustrations, bibliogaphy, index. Includes Xenobia, ealier vassal queens of the 1st century a.d., and women of the Julio-Claudian family. ... more information

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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974.. Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Inscribed by author to previous owner Robben Fleming, a former UM President, on front free endpaper. 186 pages with appendices, tables, and index. ... more information

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1917.. Pamphlet Poor First edition. Poor pamphlet in grey wrappers. Heavy browning to the edges of wrappers and pages. Some wear and small tears along edges and some scuffing to the covers. Pamphlet wrappers are partially detached from pamphlet itself along the spine. 64 pages with foldout map of battle and footnotes. A propaganda piece on the French victory in 1914 over the advancing Germans on the Marne. ... more information

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Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1976. Hardcover Reprint Very Good Octavo in green cloth with silver lettering and designs on spine and front board. A volume in Hyperion's Classics of Science Fiction. Light wear to edges and corners of boards, with light scuffing to covers. The only novel of this author ever translated into English(1932) , it tells the story of a band of travellers who visit several of the planets and the asteroid belt in their spaceship, then head on out to Alpha Centauri before heading... more information

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Boston: New Jinx, ca. 1970. Hardcover First collected edition Very Good Bound in black with bright gilt titling to spine, rather like a dissertation. Slight wear to edges and corners. 296 p. w/illustrations, articles, effects and commentary. Front material includes indexes to all issues. Includes all the New Jinx issues from 1962-1968, and is clearly not the Kaufman and Greenberg edition. An uncommon and apparently unrecorded collected edition of this work. ... more information

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