Later printing, SIGNED by author Irving Howe on half-title page. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean gold endpapers; no previous owner names, writing or bookplates. 714 pgs. Sturdy slipcase is unchipped, no cracking or wear, with clean illustrated large paste-on label on both side panels (very faint small spot, size of dime on one corner of right paste-on). The journey of ... more information

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New York: Boni & Liveright, n.d. (c 1927) . First US printing. . Very good minus condition in sturdy blue-gray cloth - lettering on spine rubbed and faded, but contents near fine. . Posthumous publication (selected and edited by her stepmother) of many of Bell's letters covering her entire adult life - "The letters published here, from the time she was twenty until the end of her life, show such an amazing range of many-sided ability that they may seem to those who read them to present a p... more information

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Heidelburg, Germany: Conad / Aloys Gral. 1945. Large quarto. ROTC stamps on the endpapers, small white number on spine, which is also a bit darkened, a very good copy. . ... more information

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Roma [Rome]: Edizioni Di Storia e Letteratura. 1964. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. S Soft Cover. Very Good. In Italian. Two volumes, tan softcover printed in red and black, 345 + 355 pages. Some cover soil and age-toning, an unopened (upper page edges still connected) copy that is internally about fine, very clean with no names or other markings. ... more information

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New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son. 1882. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall. F First US Edition. H Hard Cover. Good. First American edition [1882]. Very clean and handsome copy of this well- produced collection of European views, including dozens of full page engravings and even more illustrations scattered throughout the accompanying text - a total of two hundred engravings. Bright blue cloth over beveled boards, elaborately decorated in gilt, silver gilt and black, all edges gilt, 241 pages on thick pa... more information

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New York: Delisser & Proctor. 1859. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. H Hard Cover. Very Good. Well written and engaging story of the Bastille, illustrated with fourteen full page plates including a frontis with a bird's-eye view of the Bastille from the west. Brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, 677 pages. A nice solid copy with fairly light external wear, good hinges, firm binding. Plates are age-tanned and text pages lightly to modera... more information

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London: The London Printing and Publishing Company. G: in Good condition. Covers rubbed with wear to corners and external hinges. Endpapers foxed. [1876]. First Edition. Half-leather cover. xii, 241pp, ii, 198pp :: Steel-engravings throughout by Allom, Turner, Bartlett et al :: 210mm x 210mm (8" x 8") . ... more information

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Washington, DC: American Historical Association Service Center for Teachers of History. 1959. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. S Soft Cover. Very Good. Collection of 52 booklets (numbers 1 through 53, but without number 27), designed for teachers of high school and college-level history, dated between the late 1950s and early 1960s. Subjects include: American foreign policy, the South, the industrial revolution, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, Latin-American history (Colonial perio... more information

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Calcutta:: Editions India,, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Translated from the Original Persian of Mahomed Kasim Fersihta. To Which is Added, An Account of the Conquest By The kings of Hydrabad, Of Those Parts Of the Madras Provinces Denominated The Ceded Districts And Northern Circars. With Copius Notes. First published 1829. Vol. 1: 350 pages with chronological chart of related European events. Vol. 2: 342 pages plus chronological chart. Vol. 3: 322 pages plus chronological chart. Vol. 4: 423 pages wit... more information

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Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.: Kimbell Art Museum. 1993. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. S Soft Cover. Very Good. Hefty and well-illustrated reference on this Italian High Renaissance painter, measuring eleven inches tall and more than an inch and a half thick. Softcover with inner flaps, 595 pages. Minor shelfwear, mainly a bit of edge rubbing, shallow crease to spine surface, some minor surface soil to light colored spine and rear cover. Internally about fine with no names or other markings. A... more information

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Albany, NY: B. D. Packard. 1816. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H Hard Cover. Fair. Early American printing, in rough condition, of this influential history of England, which picks up where Hume left off. Full calf with black spine labels, older handwritten labels adhered to spine, three engraved portraits, 787 + 618 pages. Externally worn and rubbed, but basically sound with text blocks firm and no loosened pages. Both hinges of volume I and the rear hinge of volume II were reinforce... more information

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Ontario, Canada: Peel History Committee.. Very Good. 1999. Hardcover. 0968627609 . 4to - 28 x 21.5 cm.; 840 pp. A massive book reflecting a massive amount of information on the early history and settlement of Peel Township in Ontario, Canada. Starting with the history of the Attiwandaronk Nation of Indians, this history follows the European settlement of the area by Concession lots, then looks at larger community institutions such as churches, schools, business, railways, etc. Also includes the complet... more information

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Princeton University Press, 1949. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Light foxing on page ridges & spine. 1949 Large Hardcover. 458 pp. A scarce scholarly work on constitutional government in the U.S. Six copies located in OCLC. CONTENTS: THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN POLITICAL THINKING: James Harrington and the Oceana - The Mechanics of Republican Government; John Locke and the Treatise of Civil Government - The Consent of the Governed; Baron de Montesquieu and The Spirit of the Laws - Confede... more information

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London: Derek Verschoyle Limited. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. 1954 (c.1953). 2nd impression. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear, light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge, one-time owner's rubber-stamped signature on front pastedown (hidden by jacket flap); jacket soiled at rear panel, minor scrunching at spine ends]. (color frontis., B&W photos, line drawings) "This is the first book in English to tell the history and describe the intricacies of Modern Tattooing. It ranges from the t... more information

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28th Infantry Division. 1946. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. F First Edition. H Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition of this regimental history, not a reprint. Features hundreds of photos and other illustrations documenting the 28th Infantry Division's fight across Europe, including Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe. Embossed light blue on tan cloth with gilt stars and lettering and keystone in red, map endpapers, about 180 pages. Some fairly light shelfwear, m... more information

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Bad Odesloe, Germany: Goasia Verlag, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. New. New. The book had a limited print run and stock will soon run out. The book will not be reprinted. In this book, by means of lithographs, metal engravings, post cards, maps, newspapers and other ephemera, the author gives us a glimpse of social life for both Asians and increasing numbers of Europeans coming to settle and colonise the continent between the 16th and 19th centuries. What distinguishes this book from many others is the ... more information

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New York: D. W. Evans & Co.. 1859. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. F First Edition. H Hard Cover. Fair. Externally rough but quite serviceable copy of this popular history of New England including its first European settlement; the French and Indian Wars; story of Miles Standish; King Phillips' War; the Revolutionary War; more. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and in blind, 428 pages. Covers chipped at the extremities, especially at the spine ends, front hinge partiall... more information

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West Point, New York: United States Military Academy. 1953. First. First edition. Three volumes. Octavo; octavo, oblong folio. 684; 565; 168 + [6] pp. Fine. Operations in the European Theaters, Operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific Theaters, and Atlas. . ... more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1999, 1st Edition, 1st Printing ---with Minneapolis, MN.: HighBridge, 2000 ------------2 items, first is a hardcover 1st edition, Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, looks close to new, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, ---'Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by lin... more information

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Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Hard Cover. Very clean. Two-volume set, parts 1 and 2, included. Square, tight bindings. Clean and bright pages. Gently bumped corners.; Documents for the period 1952-54 on United States relations with the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and Austria. Lists of abbreviations, persons, short titles, sources; index. The Foreign Relations of the United States series, produced by the State Department&#... more information

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