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0807009644.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Light wear to dust jacket. A couple of ink marks. 542 pages.
284 pages. References. "These essays fill a large gap in our knowledge of Haiti, and suggest many lines for future research, both pure and applied... This collection of papers was originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas and the Research Institute for the Study of Man. The authors, many of them Haitians, come from both academic and professional backgrounds, and address themselves to problems ranging from demography to New World Negro music and to the language situation to nutrition and health." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket bears moderate wear and is protected in a clear plastic cover. Quality copy. Book
pp xi, 236. Foxed. 8vo. Library buckram binding. Mildly XLib. "Dr. Dewees looks at the treatments proposed by Dr. Abolition and Dr. Colonization, and decides that a blend of emancipation and colonization will provide the optimal cure, with compensation for slave owners from the proceeds of public land sales." FIRST EDITION. Blockson 9481. LCP 3094. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN2 SE1/2
pp. 124 + Plus frontis and numerous photographs of the league. 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding. Fragments of original dust jacket. First Edition. BLKAM 1.
2016x-1137553561Palgrave Macmillan 2016. Hardcover. New. 359 pages. 8.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
SA07I-00625Maryland Commission On Negro History and Culture. Used - Good. Good condition. maryland md african american Maryland Commission On Negro History and Culture unknown
192724095<p>McLoughlin Bros. Inc. Springfield 1927. HBDJ 1927 GOOD/VG- AS-IS Back DJ light soil Wear & tiny Chips Tears Extremities liSts thru Skpper of Cynthia Dj light tiny ChipS Tears Extremites 254 Pgs NO ADS in Back Red Cloth with black lettering light Rub Wear Delightful Mystery as Ruddy meets Ethel Slade who has Blind spells Camping with Boys Scouts on Evergreen Lake & Mysterious Cave with Face of Fire. Tussle with Two Wildcats. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.</p> McLoughlin Bros. Inc., Springfield hardcover
3039102125.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ria9783039102129_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Topic of this volume is Pomattertitsch a German dialect which is doomed to extinction. This Allemanic Walser dialect is spoken at Formazza a tiny Alpine community in Italy and after centuries of semi-secluded existence is now under paperback
32 pages. Features: When Old Salem Hunted Witches - men and women were put to death on the accusation of little children; The Man Who Fights Alone - "The Cop is the World's Greatest Warrior" - article with statistics of policemen killed on the job; Why I Left New York (part 1) - a middle westerner moves there but is in conflict with its alien atmosphere; Who Pays for Our Radio Programs? - noted economics author explains how national advertisers foot the bill so we can listen-in without charge; Captain Kidd - Pirate-Catcher - the rover is commissioned to capture ships flying the black flag; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - no amount of pretense can improve upon the original; Editorials - the time of England's trouble, is the jury system a failure, police death roll, the family is the unit; Woodrow Wilson (part 9) - He refused to be rushed into hasty decisions; World War's Effect Upon the Negro - overseas the colored soldier acquired an entirely new estimate of his importance in the scheme of things; Dry-Farming - The Tragedy of the West - scores of deserted homes stand as mute monuments to the settler's struggle in a land where rain seldom comes; Moonlight Midnight on "Old Tim" - Climbing Mount Timpanogas; The Voyage of the Victoria - part 3 - further adventures of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers; A Dance a Week - Hull's Victory, Lady Walpole's Reel, and Speed the Plow (with piano music for each); amazing photos of strange worldwide professions - a daredevil juggling atop several chairs, rubber tappers in Ceylon demonstrating the herringbone system,Egyptian dervishes passing skewers through their cheeks, and a Korean peddler of earthen ware - carried upon his back! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Gene Tratton Porter - The Woman - Glimpses of Novelist's Inner Life Revealed in Intimate Talk with Friend; How the South Regards the Negro - "We shall speak with no malice in our hearts - We aim merely to be frank"; "Off Agin! On Agin! Gone Agin! - there have been 25 Premiers of France this century, almost one a year; Is Europe Satisfied with the League of Nations? - governments and peoples differ as to what benefits, if any, are to be derived; New Salem, Illinois - The Town That Put Lincoln on the Map; Passing of the Yankee Country Store - better transportation and mail order house have sounded knell of village emporium; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - there is much that can be done to lift up America's back lands lf neglect; Editorials - the true sesqui-centennial, up from slavery, scarcely any play can get by today on Broadway without a prostitute, war debts, Max Goldberg and the murder of "Lefty" Kanter; Woodrow Wilson - Master of Dreams (part 7); Traveling Around Without a Coat - a garment which becomes a symbol of respectability and passport to civilization; Voyage of the Victoria (2nd part of a series) - Finding of the Spiceries; What I Remember of Longfellow - famous Novelist's son give intimate personal recollections of the author of 'Evangeline'; The Bedouins and the Wahabis (short article); Nations take action for World Sanitation; A Dance a Week - The Minuet - with piano sheet music; R.C. (Mac) MacLeod and his Walla Walla, Washington magazine "Up-to-the-Times"; The Last of the Catawba Nation; Fantastic photos of unusual occupations - Paris rat catcher, alligator trainer, Swiss lace-maker, village musicians of Brittany, One-man travelling restaurant in Java, and a Cairo drinking water pedlar. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Firestone ad inside front cover features photo of Harvey S. Firestone addressing 25th annual stockholders' meeting in Akron, OH; A Sailorman Poet - John Masefield; What has become of our Parties? - Coolidge puts last Democrat doctrine into Republican creed; Is the Pulpit a Bulletin Board? - is the preacher a prophet or propagandist?; An English View of American Installment Buying; A Scientist Urges Farmers to Utilize Waste Products - paper can easily be made from wheat straw; Mental Tests Make Us Seem Foolish - because quacks rush in where true psychologists fear to tread; Henry Ford's Page - the dangers of debt; Editorials - U.S. surplus of housing, Abraham Rothfeld is ordered to not reapply for U.S. citizenship for 10 years; Senator Borah speaks like a statesman, P.R. battle over French debt to the U.S., Dictators are increasing in number in Europe, Robert T. Lincoln of the Pullman Company has given the negro 'the only racial monopoly in the world', namely the Pullman porter, sea travel in steerage becomes fashionable; Life Among the Wild American Humorists, as described by Thomas L. Masson; Islam Aims at World Domination - Consolidation of Moslemism inspires Conference at Mecca; A Negro Views His Own Race - the thoughts of Charles Plummer; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 8) - Wreck of the Santiago; Chats with Office Callers - William Lyon Phelps writes article claiming New York stage plays attack Protestants but not Catholics because they are afraid to attack them; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 4) - tales of the time when people traveled for days to see teh circus, and slave-traders followed the show; China's Use of Proverbs; The Stories the Windmills Tell - Joy, grief, trouble or celebration all are indicated by the huge sails which serve as 'Town Criers' for the countryside; A Fighting Quaker of '76 - Joseph Hewes - who led the North Carolina Men in Declaring for Independence; A Dance a Week - Seventeenth Century Minuet, with piano sheet music; I Read in the Papers. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Belgium Tries to Get on her Feet - a 94 Million$ loan will cost her 226 Million?; What is the Matter with Mexico?; Facts, Not Words - article by the secretary of the Episcopal Committee of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico; The Punishment of Sisyphus - is paralleled in that of a young man whose efforts get him nowhere; The Negro as the Lucky Child of Destiny; Any Mother to Any Daughter; Henry Ford's Page - what distinguishes false from true prophets; Editorials - the modern bucketeer (operator of a financial bucket shop), Cobb and Judge Landis and the baseball scandal, more light is needed on the Nicaraguan situation, Senator Capper and voter apathy; How Primitive was Prehistoric Man? - The Hunter; Man's Own Flat Wheels - part 2; The Garrulous Diplomatist; South Sea Island King (Tufele) of the Manua group of Islands - great photo-illustrated article; Training Junior For a Home - how the Children's Home Society give lonely little children a more congenial atmosphere; Chats with Office Callers - origin of Jewish names; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - the Hall-Mills case was 'dud', Barring the Garb of Old Gaul, Michigan's boundaries are divided, smoking suits for women; Briefly Told; Great winter sport photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4, 7-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Interesting stories about Japan's intentions in the far east, Negro suspects held re: Bremerton murders, rough trip on Manitoba lake ice, and many more; photo ads for the new Ford V-8 and the Graham auto sold by Thos. Plimley, Ltd.; Weird story of Wolf Man of B.C. Coast is denied; editorial page; Safeway ad; Large Hudson's Bay Company ad; Social pages; Assorted additional vintage ads. Above-average wear and soiling. Chipping to bottom edge of some pages with minor loss of text. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
385p. + Plus photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Decorative endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, very slight tear. Book Club edition. AFRICA/3
338p. Very XLib. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Spine has loss and black XLib marks. Copy worn. BLKAM 1.
1994Q-0671796305Fireside 1994-06-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Fireside paperback
1991mon0004021371Fireside 1991T. hardcover. Very Good. 0.9000 9.3000 6.4000. Fireside hardcover
1993Q-0671796291Atria Books 1993-05-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Atria Books paperback
1993Q-1879958120Tradery House 1993-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Tradery House hardcover
074326486X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
ria9781630514396_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Mathematics is built from the natural integers 1 2 3 etc. Numbers are fundamental ordering elements and possess qualitative aspects that are widely present in many traditions such as the Pythagorean or the I Ching. During the buildin hardcover