Douanes

Women, Women, Women ! Phoitographed by Cris Alexander. Foreword by Anita Loos

184p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good

A GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF THE WORLD, EMBRACING THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND PURSUITS, OF EVERY NATION. Revised, Corrected, And Improved, By James G. Percival. Illustrated by Engravings. Twelfth Edition.

pp. 406, (2) [Index, (1)-46 [Appendix] + 13 full page wood engravings. Plates browned. Text foxed. XLib bookplate of Mt. St. Mary's Library on front paste down. Inked accession numbers on title page. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full worn leather binding. Front board detached. Binding cracked, needs to be resewn. Rev. J. Goldsmith pseud. for Sir Richard Phillips. He was a printer and bookseller, and later a sheriff of London - after which he was knighted by King George III. This American edition was improved by American polymath, Dr. Percival, who was also a poet, philologist, and geologist. S&S/AI 34778. Hardbound. Good. Ron bought before consign. AI BX 8

The Sabbath / The minor festivals & fasts / Shavuoth / Passover / Hanukkah & Purim / Succoth / Yom Kippur / Rosh Ha-Shanah [8 VOLUMES SET] [JEWISH HOLIDAY GUIDES]

[ALL VOLUMES]: 170X110 mm. [74]+[80]+[111]+[95]+[69]+[83]+[74]. Gilt Hardcover. [MINOR FESTIVALS & FASTS]: Cover corner slightly bumped. Spine corner slightly worn.[SHAVOUTH]: Cover edges slightly worn. [PASSOVER]: Cover slightly stained. [SUCCOTH]: Cover slightly scratched. [ROSH HA-SHANAH]: Cover slightly stained. Few pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: Else in good condition.

Light and Consolation: The Development of Jewish Consolation Practices

A Death Feast in Dimlahamid

xi, 200 pages. Bibliography. "Takes us inside the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en peoples' campaign for justice and recognition. Glavin shows how their struggle, which is taking place within Canada's legal system as well on the land itself in a series of roadblocks, is rooted in their view that their relationship to the land is one of responsibility - for the land , and to the generations to come. A rich and fascinating blend of past and present, this timely book will forever change the way readers think of the 'land claims' issue." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book

Costume, tradizione e ambiente nella campagna marchigiana.

cm. 16,5 x 23,5, xviii-114 pp. con 63 ill. n.t. 324 gr. xviii-114 p.

A PICTURE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS. Pennsylvania History Studies: No. 1.

68 p. + Illustrations. 8vo. Softcover. Original printed wraps bound in stiff library wraps. Very XLib. PA GER-ENG PAMP BX2/BAG 32

LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL CITY.

274 p. Illustrated. 195mm. Softbound. Apollo Editions paperback. VERIA BX 3

My Village in Portugal

81 pages plus map. Library binding. Full colour decorative phot front cover. Cover shows mild bumps and wear. Normal Library markings although the only external evidence of this book's former owner is faint sticker or tape remnant at two spots on the front board . "Authors are a highly gifted husband-and-wife team who have traveled to many parts of the world and set down a living record of them in skillfully combined texts and photographs." - N.Y. Times. In this the twenty-second book in the popular 'My Village' series, author-photographer Sonia Gidal, through an informal, information-filled text and many handsome black and white photographs, gives the reader a lively portrait of an unfamiliar and engaging way of life. Featured is Carlos Verissimo of the small village of Nazare on Portugal's rugged Atlantic coastline. Book

The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, October 1929

84 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book

The Prince of Destiny: The New Krishna

With frontispiece picture of Sarath Kumar Ghosh. Small, 25mm diameter round embossed stamp "Presentation Copy" on title page. Spine bumped and worn top/base and spine faded. General soiling to covers. Page edges greyed and a little foxed, several marks on top page edges.

Never Forget the Good Times : A Story of Life in British Columbia

317 pages including index. Author's fifth book. Recalls his pioneer life on Saltspring Island through his challenging life during the depression of the 1930s, supervising tough wartime construction jobs, operating as many as 20 logging camps and breeding show-winning cattle on his ranch south of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Clean, bright, unmarked and unread. Beautiful copy. Rare in hard cover. Book

Boston's North Shore: Being an Account of Life Among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric & Ordinary 1823-1890

409p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition

'The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II, Mexico, 1519. Plate 63 of Volume I of "Il costume antico e moderno, o storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni provata coi monumenti dell'antichità e rappresentata cogli analoghi disegni", by Giulio Ferrario.

Aquatint etching by Gallo Gallina with original hand coloring on wove (vellin) paper. Original blindstamp at bottom right image. Sheet size: 26 x 36 cm.; image size: 14 x 16,5 cm. Framed around 1900. Old collection stamp.

Bursa folkloru.

Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 223, [16] p. Folklore of Bursa City. Bursa folkloru.

New England Childhood

294p. Hardcover Good condition, lacking front flyleaf "This is a true story of a little boy who grew to be a notable man -- Edmund Clarence Stedman."--Foreword

Her yönüyle Araç.

Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [iv], 348 p., color and b/w ills. Her yönüyle Araç.

Greek Society

Good student text - some underlinings, 197p. illus.index Book

The English

250p. Hardcover Good condition. lacking front flyleaf Autographed by David Frost

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe 1762-1850

276 pages. The story of an energetic, involved woman. Her life divides into two phases. As the wife of John Graves Simcoe, Elizabeth is a sensible lady of the Age of Reason, pursuing the picturesque with sketch book and water colours. Following Simcoe's death, her long life as a widow finds meaning in fostering the well-being of her church. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book

Vasilika : A Village in Modern Greece

Comprehensive account of life, traditions and customs in a farming village in Boeotia in the 1950's. 110p. plates.map.bibliography. This copy has notes and underlinings, a student reading copy only. Book

The Geography of Death 1985-1989 : Mortality Atlas of British Columbia - Volume 26 Western Geographical Series

223 pages. How often and where do people die, and from what causes? These and related questions are central to the study of population health geography and epidemiology. As one contribution to answering such important questions, and hopefully as a catalyst to the generation of other inquiries, this atlas illustrates spatial variations of all major causes of death in British Columbia for the period 1985 to 1989. Overhead transparencies in pocket inside back board. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to top edge of dust jacket else an As New copy. Book

The GRITS (girls raised in the South) guide to life

249pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good

From Youthful Manuscripts to River Elegy: The Chinese Popular Cultural Movement and Political Transformation 1979-1989

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 343 pages. Previous owner's name inside.