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200020627New Haven: Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0300085354 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
1967770London: Oxford University Press 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 312 pp illustrations portraits with index. A fine copy in clean dust jacket with light shelf wear. Sketches of twenty-four people or couples considered here as equivalent to one person such as the Webbs the Tawneys and the Hammonds who made a personal impression on Toynbee. Includes essays on T.E. Lawrence Sir Lewis Namier Lionel Curtis W.L. Westermann C.P. Scott Lord Bryce Jan Smuts Lord Samuel and Sri Jawaharalal Nehru among others. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1916892London: Duckworth & Co 1916. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression. xvi 240 pp illustrations 16 publisher's catalogue. Some light general wear to boards short gift inscription Christmas 1919 on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Compiled from letters written by the author from France Greece Serbia and England. Duckworth & Co hardcover books
198066251980. Softcover. VG previous owner stamps inside cover. Wraps. 58 pp. 21 color plates. Catalogue and short essay written by Mark Rosenthal. Also includes some isolated and I suppose important quotations by the artist arranged chronologically. Catalogue lists 34 works. Bibliography. Lovely color plates. unknown books
19182256New York: The Truthseeker Co 1918. Softcover. Good. Revised and enlarged edition. 32 pp in original stapled wrappers. Dampstaining and chipping to wrappers text clean. Gauvin 1881-1978 was a notable author and speaker in the Freethought movement. Here he details the many perfidies of Germany and her allies and asserts that "we must do all in our power to preserve our liberties by keeping a conquering military despotism away from our shores. And the things which we cherish for ourselves we must help France and England to uphold that all of us may do our duty to humanity as guardians of civilization." The Truthseeker Co paperback books
198514454Stockholm: Latvian National Foundation 1985. Softcover. Near fine. 93 pp in original printed wrappers. Slight cover wear. Clean tightly bound unmarked. Includes essays in English Latvian French German and Russian. Latvian National Foundation paperback books
1910257437New York: D. Appleton 1910. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Binding sound; spine lightly sunned; minor foxing to endpaper otherwise no markings in text. Very Good binding. D. Appleton unknown books
1961183654Barcelona: Direccion General de Relaciones Culturales 1961. Softcover. Good heavy wear to wraps library stamp on ffep glue for spine is loose but all pages are intact and clear. Color illustrated wraps with yellow lettering; 666 pp 96 pages of bw plates. Text is in French. Exhibition organized by the Spanish Government. Bibliography: pages 623-664. Direccion General de Relaciones Culturales unknown books
19332769New York: Macmillan 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 334 pp illustrations with bibliography index. Mild spine slant light wear to edges with lightly bumped corners bookplate on front pastedown; text clean binding tight. No dust jacket. History of relations between Russia and Asia primarily from the Russian perspective with chapters on the conquest of Siberia Peter the Great Catherine the Great "the Near and Middle East up to the Crimean War" annexation of the Amur region the conquest of central Asia the Russo-Japanese War World War I and more. Macmillan hardcover books
19631126London: MacDonald 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. 343 pp illustrations with bibliography index. Slight rubbing to extremities else fine. Dust jacket show very light shelf wear with a few short chips and tears. From the dust jacketL "Lloyd George achieved more absolute power than even Sir Winston Churchill secured in World War II. He was it has been argued 'the maker of Europe'. The theme of this book is how power corrupts. Lloyd George's pecadilloes which more than once threatened his career his intrigues with Zaharoff and the building up of his political fund with which to hold the main parties to ransom are shown as influences in the process of corruption." MacDonald hardcover books
19891265Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. xiv 463 pp with illustrations bibliography index flyer from related book event laid in. Minimal wear to edges minimal spotting to top edge; else fine in near fine dust jacket with one tiny tear at the foot of the spine. Signed with short inscription on title page. The dust jacket states that this volume "traces the intricate role of the United States in the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and presents the struggle for Czechoslovak liberation within the context of two of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century - the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution." University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
199514453Riga: Centre of Baltic-Nordic History and Political Studies 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. 335 pp indexed illustrated. Clean tightly bound and unmarked with just a touch of wear to the corners. Centre of Baltic-Nordic History and Political Studies hardcover books
197211401Uppsala 1972. Soft cover. Near Fine. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Historia Religionum #5. 593 pp. Bibliography index. Mild wear to wrappers; one corner lightly bumped. Pages unopened. paperback books
1987M11782Barcelona:: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1987. 1987. 8vo. 163 pp. Printed wrappers Mylar cover. TLS from former University of Houston biochemist J. Oro explaining the volume's origin laid-in. Very good. From the library of chemist and biologist Stanley Miller who was most famous for conducting the Miller-Urey experiment in 1952. He demonstrated that organic compounds could form naturally from inorganic precursors essentially providing a scientific basis for the theory of abiogenesis. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 1987. unknown books
197411400Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1974. Soft cover. Near Fine. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis/Stockholm Studies in History Number 20. 336 pp with index and bibliography. Trade paperback with slight cover wear. Clean tight unmarked. Almqvist & Wiksell paperback books
1968206784New York: Delacorte Press 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean. Very small bump on spine near top. Corners very lightly bumped. Dustjacket lightly soiled. Small tears and chips at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers at folds with very small pieces missing. Chip on dustjacket spine at front dustjacket cover about 1 inch down from top. Small closed tears at top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Delacorte Press unknown books
189025534Europe: No Publisher Noted 1890. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 10" x 14 1/2" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1890. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; closed tear; does not affect image. Some fading in the town and river area; in good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
199724237Amsterdam Holland: Fund for Central and East European Book Projects 1997. 125 pages; laid-in is a postcard inscribed and signed from the editor Vera Ebels-Dolonova; preface by Timothy Garton Ash; the 'portraits' include: Jelenkor Kiado- Gabor Csordas - Pecs Hungary by Renee Postma; Zeszyty Lierackie - Barbara Torunczyk - Warsaw Poland by Michel Maas; Savremennik - Vladimir Zarev - Sofia Bulgaria by Olaf Tempelman; Baltos Lankos - Saulius Zukas -Vilnius Lithuania by Felix Kaplan; Odjek - Nermina Kurspahic -Sarajevo Bosnia by Postma; Apostrof - Marta Petreu - Cluj Romania by Tempelman; Erasmus Guild - Vesna Pusic - Zagreb Croatia by Postma; Kritica & Kontext - Samuel Abraham - Bratislava Slovakia by Maas; Mlada Fronta - Vladimir Pistorius - Prague Czech Republic by Vera Ebels-Dolonova; also with an report on publishing in Central and Eastern Europe 'State of Affairs' by Ebels-Dolonova; also "The Book Continent" Reflections on the Trias Libraria" by Laurens van Krevelen and list of activities of the Fund list of supported publications funding contributors; approx. 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" size; bound in illustrated stiff cardstock softcovers; light wear; in very good condition interesting intimate details on the lives and struggles of these Central and Eastern European publishers to continue their literary and productive work. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Fund for Central and East European Book Projects Paperback books
200127894Oxford: Oxbow Books. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 1842170333 . Illustrated. First edition. Fine in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Oxbow Books hardcover books
19169067Paris: Bloud and Gay 1916. Staple-bound pamphlet; 22pp. Wear and sunning to edges of covers pages foxed and chipped at two points of fore edge else a clean and sound copy. Praise for Serbia's role in WW1. Publication of the Committee "The Effort of France and of her Allies. Bloud and Gay unknown books
19723166Boise ID: Offset Printer 1972. Softcover. Very Good. 115 pp with illustrations footnotes in original wrappers. Price sticker on inside front cover very light handling wear; else clean. From the Introduction: "The first part is an expanded version of the publication 'History and Origin of the Basque' first published in 1962 . Part II points out the highlights of recent Basque history from 1931 to the present and deals primarily with the short-lived Basque Republic and the Spanish Civil War which followed." Offset Printer paperback books
198111903Littleton MA: Gramatas salikums-Gunara Indara Apgads 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 9 x 11 inches oblong. Slight wear to boards else fine. No dust jacket. 267 pp primarily consisting of black and white photographs with captions in Latvian. Introductory text in Latvian and English. A fascinating pictorial history of the Latvian refugee/immigrant experience. "Photographer Vilis Gravitas has documented on film the years of transition from a refugee a virtual 'non-person' to the rank of an immigrant and ultimately to a full-fledged member of society again as a naturalized citizen of the United States." Shipping for priority or international orders may be more than standard. Gramatas salikums-Gunara Indara Apgads hardcover books
1992258632New York: Ticknor & Fields 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece previous owner notes to title page; number penned to top corner of frontispiece otherwise no markings in text. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Ticknor & Fields unknown books
1979258641New York: Viking Press 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece number penned to front pastedown otherwise no markings in text.Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page Dust jacket has small closed tear to top; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Viking Press unknown books
1985043738Baile Atha Cliath: Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta 1985. Hard Cover. Near Fine. A sort of verse history of the Gaelic Athletic Association; slight edgewear. #Irish# Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 043738. <br/><br/> Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta hardcover books
