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Paassen, Pierre van.
Earth Could Be Fair.
New York: Dial Press, 1946. 1st edition. 509 pages. Signed by the author.
Good hardcover, spine title partially faded. #26749. $22.50
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Pakula, Marvin H.
Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages.
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes, 1972. 4to (large book). 264 pages.
Index. Bibliographies. Glossary. Color and black-and-white illustrations.
Contents include heraldry, shields, ordinaries, the cross, subordinates, the
lion, common charges, blazoning and tricking, differencing, allusive arms,
augmentations, marshalling, the crest, supporters, badges and knots, mottoes,
crowns, coronets, and chapeaus, and other topics. Good hardcover in slightly
torn and repaired dust jacket, with tape repairs at top and bottom of spine and
lower front right-hand corner. Former owner's small name stamp inside front
cover. ISBN 0498078434. #25243. $25
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Perrot, Michelle.
Les Ombres de l'Histoire: Crime et Chatiment au XIXe Siecle.
Paris: Flammarion, 2001. 428 pages. Index. Bibliography.
A history of crime and prisons in France in the 19th century. Text in French.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 2080679147. #28301.
$30
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Plutarch.
Plutarch's Essay.
Preface by The Rev. Andrew F. Peabody. Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Troy, New York: Nims and Knight, 1881. xxx, 549 pages.
Good hardcover; spine ends slightly frayed, edges and corners rubbed, front
hinge starting. #26753. $80
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Redekop, Calvin, Stephen C. Ainlay,
and Robert Siemens.
Mennonite Entrepreneurs.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1985. 1st printing. ix, 291 pages.
Index. Bibliography. Map.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's name in ink on
blank front flyleaf, bookplate inside front cover, some red ink marginalia on
p. 39. ISBN 0801850037. #24459. $22.50
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Reynolds, Grindall.
A Collection of Historical and Other Papers, by Rev. Grindall
Reynolds, D.D., to which are added Seven of His Sermons.
Edited by Alice Reynolds Keys. Introduction by Hon. George F. Hoar. Concord,
Massachusetts: Alice Reynolds Keyes, 1895. 1st printing. xv, 499 pages. The
Rev. Grindall Reynolds, 1822-1894, served Unitarian churches at Jamaica Plain
and Concord, Massachusetts. In 1881 he was elected Secretary of the American
Unitarian Association. His historical essays include American history, history
of Concord, Massachusetts, and a other topics.
Good hardcover, edges and corners slightly rubbed. #25082. $25
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.
The Roosevelt Letters: Being the Personal Correspondence of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Early Years, 1887-1904. Volume 1.
Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Edited by Elliot Roosevelt. London: George G.
Harrap, 1949. 1st printing. 470 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations.
Good hardcover in worn, foxed and frayed dust jacket. Foxing on endpapers and
top, bottom, and fore edges. Previous owner's name in ink on title page.
#21406. $15
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Rosenberg, Arthur.
The Birth of the German Republic, 1871-1918.
Translated from the German by Ian F. D. Morrow. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1931. viii, 286 pages. Index. Bibliography.
A scholarly narrative of the events leading up to the establishment of the
German Republic in November 1918. - Preface. Very good hardcover in slightly
worn and frayed dust jacket. #26815. $25
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St. James, Warren D.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People:
A Case Study in Pressure Groups.
Foreword by Ulysses S. Donaldson. New York: Exposition Press, 1958. 1st
edition. 252 pages. An Exposition-University Book. Based on the author's Ph.D.
dissertation, Saint Louis University, 1956.
Very good hardcover. Exlibrary: small label on spine, stamps on top and bottom
edges, pocket inside front cover, stamp on blank front flyleaf and inside rear
cover. #23991. $30
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Sammis, Edward R.
Last Stand at Stalingrad: The Battle That Saved the World.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1966. 1st printing. 96 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs. Review slip laid in. Macmillan Battle Books.
'September 13, 1942. German tanks rumbled into the bomb-blasted Russian city of
Stalingrad, shooting as they came.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in Very
good dust jacket. #21993. $15
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Santillana, Giorgio de, and Hertha
von Dechend.
Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth & the Frame of Time.
Boston: Gambit, 1969. 1st printing. xxiii, 505 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Illustrations. Endpaper timeline.
'This exploratory book investigates the origins of human knowledge in the
archaic, preliterate world.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in good,
slightly frayed and rubbed dust jacket. #28357. $25
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Scharfstein, Sol.
Chronicle of Jewish History from the Patriarchs to the 21st
Century.
Design and graphics by Dorcas Gelabert. Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing
House, 1997. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 349 pages. Index. Photographs.
Illustrations. Maps. This book combines the text of two previously published
paperback volumes: 'Understanding Jewish History: From the Patriarchs to the
Expulsion from Spain,' and Part II: 'From the Renaissance to the 21st Century.'
Very good pictorial hardcover. ISBN 0881256064. #26929. $50
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Schenkel, Peter.
ETI: A Challenge for Change.
New York: Vantage Press, 1988. 1st edition. xiii, 248 pages. Index.
Bibliographical references.
ETI, extraterrestrial intelligence, and an analysis of what advanced
intelligent life on other planetary systems would mean to us. Very good
hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0533076501. #27883. $45
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Scrutton, Thomas Edward.
Commons and Common Fields, or the History and Policy of the
Laws Relating to Commons and Enclosures in England.
New York: Burt Franklin / Lenox Hill Publ. & Dist. Co., 1970. Facsimile
reprint. viii, 180 pages. Index. Yorke Prize Essay for the University of
Cambridge for the year 1886. First published in 1887.
Very good hardcover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. Stamps on rear
flyleaf. #23440. $120
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Semmel, Stuart.
Napoleon and the British.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 1st printing. xii, 354 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author.
Fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. ISBN 0300090013. #28397. $25
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Sparks, J. A.
In the Shadow of the Blackdowns: Life at the Cistercian Abbey
of Dunkeswell and on its Manors and Estates, 1201-1539.
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, U.K.: Moonraker Press, 1978. 1st printing. viii, 133
pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Color frontispiece and one color plate.
'The main focus of this book is on the Cistercian community in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries, when it was an energetic and progressive force in
medieval society.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
Former owner's name on title page. ISBN 0239001788. #22333. $22.50
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Spector, Stephen.
Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st printing. xv, 279 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 019530716X. #28494.
$17.50
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Stiles, William H.
Austria in 1848-49: Being a History of the Late Political
Movements in Vienna, Milan, Venice and Prague; with Details of the Campaigns of
Lombardy and Novara, A Full Account of the Revolution in Hungary; and
Historical Sketches of the Austrian Government and the Provinces of the Empire.
2 volumes in 1.
New York: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. Facsimile reprint. 2 volumes
in 1 (x, 391; vi, 444 pages). Portraits. First published New York, Harper &
Brothers, 1852.
Very good hardcover. Exlibrary with minimal markings, small stain on lower
spine, small stamps inside front and rear covers and on front and rear
flyleaves, pocket inside rear cover. #26901. $60
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Stone, J. M.
Reformation and Renaissance, circa 1377-1610.
London: Duckworth, 1904. Small 4to (medium-large book). ix, 470 pages. Index.
Illustrations.
Good hardcover; front and rear covers worn and partially discolored, spine ends
slightly frayed, corners rubbed, front hinge starting, paste-down endpapers
worn at outer edges. Internally sound. #26754. $45
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Strauss, Walter, editor.
Signs of Life: Jews from Wuerttemberg. Reports for the Period
after 1933 in Letters and Descriptions.
New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1982. xvii, 389 pages. Index. Photographs.
Good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. Some soiling on front
flyleaf. ISBN 0870682016. #22075. $15
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Swallow, Charles.
The Sick Man of Europe: Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic,
1789-1923.
London & Tunbridge: Ernest Benn, 1973. 1st printing. 143 pages. Index.
Photographs. Maps. Benn's World Histories.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0510184200. #23997.
$15
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Tacitus, Cornelius.
C. Cornelii Taciti Opera: From the Text of Brotier; with His
Explanatory Notes, as Edited by A. J. [Abraham John] Valpy. Translated into
English. Volume III of 3 volumes.
London: Printed and Published by A. J. Valpy: Sold by Longman and Co, [etc.],
1834? 306 pages. For the Use of Schools and Colleges. Contains: Historiae;
Situ, Moribus, et Populis Germaniae; CN. Julii Agricolae Vita; Dialogus de
Oratoribus.
Text in Latin with footnotes in English. Very good hardcover; blindstamped
cloth with gilt author and title on spine; spine ends slightly rubbed and
worn. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. #27927. $35
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Tsao, Po-i, editor-in-chief.
China Forum. Volume 1, No. 1, January 1974.
Taipei, Taiwan: China Forum, 1974. Small 4to (medium-large book). 358 numbered pages with text in
English. About 358 additional pages of text in Chinese.
Articles include 'History and Literature in Chinese Cultural Heritage'; several
articles about Sun Yat-sen, including a bibliography. Text in English and
Chinese. Very good hardcover.
Small date stamp on top edge. #22782. $30
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Turner, Victor, editor.
Colonialism in Africa: 1870-1960. Volume 3. Profiles of Change:
African Society and Colonial Rule.
Preface by Peter Duignan. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. viii, 455 pages.
Index. Bibliography. Maps. Illustrations. On half-title page: Hoover
Institution Publications.
Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges,
stamp inside front cover, pocket removed inside rear cover.
ISBN 052107844X. #25901. $30
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United States. Congress. Senate. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Hearings and Reports before the Senate Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy, House Hearings and Reports, on the United States Atomic Energy
Commission, Uranium Inventory at Oak Ridge, Public Laws, Hearings and Reports
on S.1717, Confirmation Hearings of the General Manager and Members of Atomic
Energy Commission, Senate calendars, Civil Defense against Atomic Attack, etc.,
79th-82d Congress.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945-1952. 7 volumes.
Bound in beige buckram with gilt spine titles on maroon and black backgrounds.
Very good condition. #20184. $420
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United States. Department of
Commerce. Bureau of the Census with the Cooperation of the Social Science
Research Council.
Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945. A
Supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Commerce, 1949. 4to (large book).
viii, 363 pages. Index. Errata Sheet No. 2 bound in. Together with:
Continuation of Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945. With
Revision of Selected Series. 4to. iv, 79 pages. Stiff wrappers. Very good
condition.
Good pictorial hardcover, covers slightly worn. #24661. $17.50
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Ware, James, Sir.
Ancient Irish Histories: The Works of Spencer, Campion Hanmer,
and Marlburrough. Volume 1.
Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1970. Facsimile reprint. Volume 1 of
2. 266, 204 pages. Kennikat Series in Irish History and Culture. Kennikat Press
Scholarly Reprints. First published in 1809. Contents: Edmund Spencer's 'A View
of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, between Eudoxus and Irenaeus,'
1596. Edmund Campion, 'A Historie of Ireland, Written in the Yeare 1571.'
Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label removed, stamp on all edges, number and
stamp inside front cover, number on lower title page, pocket and stamp inside
rear cover. ISBN 0804607672. #26006. $70
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White, Jonathan.
Italy: The Enduring Culture.
London and New York: Continuum, 2001. 1st USA printing. xiii, 346 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Color plates.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0718502574. #27787.
$17.50
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Wilson, A. N.
God's Funeral.
London: John Murray, 1999. 1st printing. xi, [2], 402 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Signed by the author.
'Wilson's fascinating and challenging account shows how the decline of
religious certainty in Victorian times had its origins with the
eighteenth-century sceptics--but brought a devastating sense of emotional loss
which extends to our own times.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in
very good dust jacket. ISBN 0719557615. #27266. $35
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Wilson, Woodrow.
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Volume 36, January 27-May 8,
1916.
Arthur S. Link, editor. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981. 1st
printing. xxiv, 684 pages. Index. Photographs. Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation and Princeton University.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0691046824. #22304.
$80
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Wright, Arthur.
The Man without Fear.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Dorrance & Company, 1986. 1st printing. 141 pages.
Photographs.
A fictional account of a Baptist missionary first in Czechoslovakia and later
in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Very good cloth-covered hardcover in
slightly frayed and chipped dust jacket. Two label stains on flyleaf.
ISBN 0805930280. #18658. $20
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Zlatar, Zdenko.
Between the Double Eagle and the Crescent: The Republic of
Dubrovnik and the Origins of the Eastern Question.
Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, Distributed by Columbia University
Press, New York, 1992. xx,336 pages. Bibliography. Frontispiece map.
'This study is an investigation of a problem: how and why the Republic of
Dubrovnik (in Latin and Italian Ragusa) had recourse to Habsburg protection,
and of how and why this alternative to the traditional Ragusan tributary
relationship to the Ottoman Empire (1458-1868, 1693-1808) first flourished and
then failed during the Morean War (1684-1699).' - Preface. Very good hardcover.
ISBN 088033245X. #27351. $35
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Zucker, A. E., editor.
The Forty-Eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution
of 1848.
Introduction by Arthur D. Graeff. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950.
xviii, 379 pages. Index. Bibliographical notes. Biographical dictionary.
Illustrations. Review slip laid in.
Very good hardcover; former owner's name stamp inside front cover. #28452.
$22.50
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