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Geier, Wolfgang, und Harald Homann, herausgebers. Karl Lamprecht im Kontext: Ein Kolloquium. Leipzig: Institut fur Kulturwissenschaften, 1993. 124 pages. Schriften des Instituts fur Kulturwissenschaften I. Gr. der Universitat Leipzig. Text in German. Very good wrappers (soft cover). #27575. $35
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General Federation of Trade Unions. To the Workmen Affiliated to the Confederation General du Travail. Hamilton House, Bidsborough Street, London, W.C.: General Federation of Trade Unions, 1917. 4 pages. Dated December 18th, 1917. Very good wrappers (soft cover). This is a single folded sheet, with printing on all four sides. #27793. $50
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Gledhill, Kate Sprague, compiler. The Gledhills of Halifax: A Family History. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Kate Sprague Gledhill, 1991? 4to (large book). 51 pages, and 24 pages of photographs and illustrations. Large folding genealogical chart in rear pocket. Inscribed by the author. Very good hardcover. #27885. $70
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Gollan, Robin. The Coalminers of New South Wales: A History of the Union, 1860-1960. New York: Melbourne University Press, in association with the Australian National University, 1963. 1st printing. viii, 249 pages. Index. Bibliography. A history of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. Very good hardcover in worn and chipped dust jacket. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #26040. $17.50
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Goodwyn, Frank. Lone-Star Land: Twentieth-Century Texas in Perspective. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st edition. Special Texas Edition. viii, 352, x pages. Index. Photographs. Maps. Signed by Goodwyn. Very good cloth-covered boards in slightly worn dust jacket. #18821. $12.50
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Gregoire, Henri, avec la collaboration de P. Orgels, J. Moreau, et A. Maricq. Le Persecutions dans l'Empire Romain. Bruxelles: Palais des Academies; Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1964. Deuxieme edition revue et augmentee. 265 pages. Academie royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Memoirs, LVI, Fascicule 5. Koninklijke Academie van Belgie, Klasse der Letteren en der Morele and Staatkundige Wetenschappen, Verhandelingen, Boek LVI, Aflevering 5. Text in French. Very good wrappers (soft cover). #27340. $35
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Hackney Community Defence Association. Who Killed Patrick Quinn? The Framing of Malcolm Kennedy. Hammersmith Police Cover Up. London: Hackney Community Defence Association, Resistance Publications, 1994. 84 pages. Photographs. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), crease in front cover.. #28013. $22.50
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Hamill, John. The History of English Freemasonry: A Souvenir of a Permanent Exhibition in the Library and Museum of the United Grand Lodge of England at Freemasons' Hall, London. London: United Grand Lodge of England, 1986. 32 pages. Illustrations, some color. Portraits. An Exhibition of the History of Freemasonry in England. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #27876. $25
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Harison, Casey. The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 1st printing. 331 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Review slip laid in. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. ISBN 9780874130201. #29419. $57.50
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Hawkley, Louise, and James C. Juhnke. Nonviolent America: History through the Eyes of Peace. Foreword by Robert Kreider. North Newton, Kansas: Bethel College, 1993. xiii, 279 pages. Index. Cornelius H. Wedel Historical Series, 5. A collection of papers based on a scholarly meeting which had the high purpose of reexamining and reenvisioning American history in the light of the values of peace. The conference was at Bethel College on April 10-12, 1992. It had the title, 'Violence and Nonviolence in the American Experience.' Essays by historians, theologians and social scientists- Preface. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0963016016. #24463. $75
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Hessler, Julie. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004. 1st printing. xvi, 366 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. ISBN 0691114927. #29423. $50
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Hill, J. Michael. Fire & Sword: Sorley Boy MacDonnell and the Rise of Clan Ian Mo, 1538-1590. Fort Worth: Aegis Press, 1993. xiii, 321 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Genealogies. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0963714201. #29468. $35
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Holley, O. L. The New-York State Register, for 1845; Containing an Almanac for 1845-6. With Political, Statistical, and Other Information Relating to the State of New York and the United States. Also, a complete List of county Officers, Attorneys, &c. The National Register Contains a Full List of U. States Government Officers, &c. editor. New York: J. Disturnell, 1845. xv, 516, 12, 22 pages. Fair hardcover; front cover almost detached, edges and corners worn, taped spine worn; spine ends worn. #28446. $20
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Hone, Philip. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851. (2 volumes). Edited, with an Introduction, by Allan Nevins. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. 2 volumes. xxvii, 962 pages. Index. Frontispiece portraits in each volume. Good hardcover books with paper author and title labels on spines. Cover slightly worn and soiled. #23408. $150
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Hourani, Albert. Europe and the Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. 1st printing. xiii, 225 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. 'The essays in this book all spring, in one way or another, from a concern with the attitudes of Western thinkers and scholars towards Islam and those who call themselves Muslims, and more generally with the relations of Christians with those who profess other faiths.' - Introduction. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. ISBN 0520037421. #27042. $50
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Hunter, C. Bruce. Beneath the Stone: The Story of Masonic Secrecy. Illustrations by Phil Hawkins. Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co., 1992. 1st printing. xxxiii, 378 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Map. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 088053088X. #29271. $20
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Ibn Khaldoun (Ibn Khaldun). Les Textes Sociologiques et Economiques de la Mouqaddima, 1375-1379. Classes, traduits et annotes par G.-H. Bousquet. Paris: Editions Marcel Riviere, 1965. 186 pages. Bibliographical references. Alternate spelling: Muqaddimah. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover); partially unopened; some pencil underlining. #27891. $65
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Johnson, John Willard. Reminiscences. Introduction by Peter Osborne III. Cover design by Joseph Cavallo. New York: Town of Highland Cultural Resources Commission, 1987. 1st printing. xix, 360 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Printed by The Reporter Co., Inc., Walton, New York. This is a reprint of J. W. Johnston's Reminiscences and Descriptive Account of Delaware Valley and its Connections aiming to extend from Pond Eddy to Narrowsburgh both inclusive. Chiefly devoted to a descriptive account of the early residents, the lumber and the industrial pursuits of the people; and the construction progress management and abandonment of the Delaware and Hudson Canal. 2 volumes, 1900. Reminiscences is a first-hand, turn of the century account of the Upper Delaware and the D&H Canal. - Back cover. Very good pictorial softcover. Spine slightly separated pages 122-23. #22150. $30
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Johnson, Margaret L. The First Congregational Church of Woodstock, Vermont. An Historical Sketch Delivered before the Woodstock Historical Society, January 19, 1947. Woodstock, Vermont: Elm Press, 1947. 17, [2] pages. Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); some light foxing on title page. #29090. $20
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Kingston Historical Society, Kingston, Ontario. Historic Kingston, Number 23: Being the Transactions of the Kingston Historical Society for 1974. Edited by H. Pearson Gundy. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Kingston Historical Society, 1975. 85 pages. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Contributions by T. L. Brock, John W. Spurr, J. Keith Johnson, H. Pearson Gundy. Duncan McDowall, Neil Patterson, Wallace Havelock Robb, and Hans Westenberg. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28479. $25
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Kirschner, Don S. The Paradox of Professionalism: Reform and Public Service in Urban America, 1900-1940. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. 1st printing. xiii, 195 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Contributions in American History, 119. '[This book] is essentially an intellectual history of the professionalization of reform.' - Introduction. Very good hardcover; some light pencil marginalia and underlining. ISBN 0313253455. #29316. $55
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Knox, Israel, and Irving Howe. The Jewish Labor Movement: Two Views. New York: Jewish Labor Committee and Workmen's Circle, 1958. 27, [1] pages. Includes: 'Jewish Labor--The Reality and the Ideal,' by Israel Knox, and 'The Significance of the Jewish Labor Movement,' by Irving Howe. Published May, 1958. Good stiff stapled wrappers (soft cover); covers slightly stained. #29451. $25
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Koffsky, Peter L. The Consul General's Shanghai Postal Agency, 1867-1907. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972. v, 46 pages. Bibliographical notes. Illustrations. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, 10. A paper based on research at the National Archives. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), covers slightly soiled and stained. #26541. $12.50
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KZ-Graber Fursorge Dachau (Camp). Never Again - Nie Wieder - Jamais Plus. A short report on life and suffering in the Concentration Camps at Dachau between 1933 to 1945. Ein Kurzbericht in Wort und Bild uber Leben und Leid im Konzentrationslager Dachau 1933-1945. Un reportage en paroles et images sure la vie miserable au camp de concentration de Dachau 1933-1945. Dachau: KZ-Graber Fursorge Dachau, 1950. Oblong small 8vo. 64 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. 2 Maps of Camps/Lagerplane/Plans. A haunting memoir of the Holocaust by a former Dachau camp inmate, whose printed signature on the last page is illegible. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers. #22059. $140
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Lonn, Ella. Reconstruction in Louisiana. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1967. Facsimile reprint. vi, 538 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. First published in 1918. Good hardcover. Exlibrary, with usual stamps and markings. #28513. $20
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Lyons, Clara M. Howell. A Little Book on Heraldry. No Place: No Publisher, 1907. 58 pages. Illustrations and coats of arms. Very good hardcover; red cloth with gilt front cover title; light foxing throughout. #27585. $35
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McCormack, Mike. Echoes of Irish History. Volume I-3. Hauppauge, New York: Printed by Clover Graphics, 1980. 3 small volumes (30, 31, 30 pages.) Illustrations. Volume I is a 2d printing. Volumes II and III are undated. The author is a columnist for the Irish Echo. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #26375. $20
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McCormack, Mike. A Long Voyage Home. The Tale of Jeanie Johnston and the Odyssey of the American Irish. Port Jefferson, New York: The Jeanie Johnston Project Port Jefferson Committee, in conjunction with the Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council, 2001. 1st printing. 38 pages. Color photographs. Illustration. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26707. $20
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MacFadyen, Jean (Not: MacFayden). For the Sake of the Record. Foreword by J. Elmer Murphy. Summerside, Prince Edward Island: Printed by Williams & Crue Ltd., 1979. 167 pages. Photographs. A compilation of articles, with their original publication date, written over a period of 35 years under the pseudonym J.L.M. These were first published in the Halifax Herald, the Guardian and the Pioneer, and finally in the Journal-Pioneer. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), covers and edges slightly rubbed. #27125. $17.50
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McNamara, John. History in Asphalt: The Origin of Bronx Street and Place Names, the Bronx, New York City. Edited by Gary D. Hermalyn and Lloyd Ultan. Bronx, New York: Bronx County Historical Society, 1991. 3rd revised edition. 556 pages. Bibliography. Maps. Very good large pictorial trade paperback (soft cover), small crease on lower front cover. ISBN 0941980162. #27190. $42.50
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Martin, Lawrence. History of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. New York: The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 1960. Small 4to (medium-large book). 32 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Contents: Serving New York, 1785-1960; The Society Today; Mechanics Institute; The Library; The Museum and the Mossman Collection of Locks; George E. Hoe Prize Fund; Trade School Scholarships; Pension Program; Ann Boyd Orr Hospital Bed; Membership; Eligibility for Membership; Administration; Past Presidents Gifts to the Society. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26787. $20
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Martines, Lauro. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. x, 419 pages. Index. Bibliography. A study based on Florentine archival research portrays representative humanists of the period. Studied from the viewpoint of wealth, family tradition, civic prominence, intellectual achievement, and an assessment of attitudes of other Florentines toward them, the author concludes that the humanists were men of wealth. - Front jacket flap. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine labels, stamps on top and bottom edges, front flyleaf, dedication page; barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper. #24987. $90
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Meinecke, Friedrich. Weltburgertum und Nationalstaat: Studien zur Genesis des deutschen Nationalstaates. Munchen und Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1908. iv, 498 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Text in German. Very good hardcover; quarter leather and cloth. #27574. $50
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Merrill, John V. D. S., and Caroline R. Merrill. Sketches of Historic Bennington. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1898. 1st printing. Small 8vo (small book). 99 pages. Photographs. Historical recollections of Bennington, Vermont. Very good hardcover; very narrow damp stain along front cover edge. #29099. $30
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Miles, Andrew. Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England. London: Macmillan Press, 1999. 1st printing. xiv, 262 pages. Index. Bibliography. Tables. Published in US in 1999 by St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312220456. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. ISBN 0333620593. #29422. $60
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Miller, Jennifer. Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 1st edition, 1st printing. xiii, 261 pages. Index. Map. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0345469240. #24559. $40
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Myers, Minor, Jr. Liberty without Anarchy: A History of the Society of the Cincinnati. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. 1st printing. xii, [1], 280 pages. Index. Illustrations. The Society was founded in May 1783 at Steuben's headquarters near Newburgh, New York, by officers of the Continental army and navy. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0813909937. #22338. $95
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Nguyen-Marshall, Van. In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 1st printing. x, 180 pages. Index. Bibliography. An exploration of the discourses on poverty and poor-relief activities in early twentieth-century Northern Vietnam. - rear cover. As New pictorial hardcover. ISBN 9781433102158. #29424. $70
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Oxley, Deborah. Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reprinted. xi, 339 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Figures. Tables. First published in 1996. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); crease in upper right-hand corner of front cover; several of the beginning pages have folds and creases in the upper corner. ISBN 0521446775. #29470. $50
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