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Price: $19.95
Publisher: 0
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 009234
The history of relations between the two nations during the 19th century.Publisher's blue cloth. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Moderate handling wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpage. Dust Jacket price-clipped is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. View more info
By: Duncan, David E.
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press: 1997
Seller ID: 010181
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. This is the story of a legendary expedition across four thousand miles of the future United States, led by an explorer searching for an illusionary empire of gold. Formerly the second-in-command in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Incas in 1531, Hernando de Soto arrived in the country he called La Florida in 1539, leading a glittering, armored Renaissance-era army of six hundred men on the first major exploration of North Am... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York:, Free Press,: 1995.<br>
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 008891
At the start of the 19th century West Africa's strongest empire, the Asante, ruled over 3 million people and enjoyed a wealth and military strength unparalleled in the region; but its conflicts with the British Empire proved its downfall. Enjoy one of the few in-depth histories to tackle the history of the African nation and its unique successes in its struggle for control of the Gold Coast. -- Midwest Book Review. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail ha... View more info
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By: Erdemgil, S. and others. Translation: Christine M. Thomas
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Turkey:, DO-GU Yayinlari,: 2004.
Seller ID: 008503
The city was famed for the nearby Temple of Artemis (completed around 550 BC), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Among many other monumental buildings are the Library of Celsus, and a theatre capable of holding 25,000 spectators. Ephesus was one of the seven churches of Asia that are cited in the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of John may have been written here. The city was the site of several 5th century Christian Councils. The city was destroyed by... View more info
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Price: $29.95
Publisher: New York & Oxford, England:, Oxford University Press,: 1996.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 008964
"This year's best book for investors."--The New York Times Annual Survey of Books in Business and Economics. . No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve 8vo; 536 pages with extensive notes, bibliography and index. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Boston, Little Brown Company: 0
Seller ID: 010290
All four volumes have tight bindings, as if never opened. Dust Jackets now in new protective Mylar sleeves have minimal shelf handling. They are illustrated, with maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, source references, and index. BCE - Book Club Editions. Flexner's biography of Washington won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. View more info
By: Fowke, Edith
Price: $49.95
Publisher: Austin, TX and London, University of Texas Press: 1970
Seller ID: 006722
Tunes transcribed by Norman Cazden.Edith Fowke's collection of sixty-five songs, recorded from former shantyboys, is unique, being the first in this field to exclude the more general songs popular in the bunkhouse. Mrs. Fowke presents a vivid picture of life in the north woods before the days of mechanization. Unused, no flaws but minimal shelf handling; Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve. View more info
By: Freidel, David A,; Schele, Linda; Parker, Joy
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York:, William Morrow & Co,: 1993
Seller ID: 008604
Witnessing the practice of ancient Maya religion in modern Latin America and explaining archaeological discoveries about Maya myth, a study of Maya culture shows how the Maya have survived centuries of religious oppression.Unread; Unused. No flaws but some minor spotting top edge of front text-block .4to; 543 pages with index, chapter notes and bibliography. View more info
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Price: $39.95
Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: 1968
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009496
Highly detailed treatment of Custer's 1867 trial. The court-martial grew out of a disastrous expedition against Plains Indians in the summer of 1867, commanded by General Winfield Hancock with Custer in command of the cavalry.Carefully handled, Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has a bit of handling wear and a slight fade. 8vo; 280 pages with Bibl... View more info
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Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York:, Penguin Press,: 2011
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing.
Seller ID: 008635
In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2012.This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of t... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York:, Columbia Univ Press.: 1996.
Edition: 1st Edition.
Seller ID: 002840
No flaws to this unread unopened book. Irene Gendzier's argument is tightly presented and coherent, and the overall story of the antecedent to the 1958 U.S. intervention in Lebanon is told with insight, clarity, and on the basis of an excellent use of primary research materials.This book will be looked upon as a model for the presentation of a well-evidenced argument on the nature of U.S. foreign relations with Lebanon, and more generally, with the Middle E... View more info
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Washington, D. C.:, Potomac Books,: 2009.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 008592
“The 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Beirut compound and of the nearby French paratroopers’ building was a declaration of war by radical Islamists against Western influence in the Middle East. It marked the beginning of an asymmetrical war, one that continues to this day. The Marines in Lebanon, under the command of Col. Tim Geraghty, realized the magnitude of the challenge and the seriousness of the dangers this meant to the security of the free world. Yet it... View more info
Price: $21.45
Publisher: Mystic, CT, U.S.A., Mystic Seaport Museum, Incorporated: 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 003220
No flaws to book. Minimal wear top spine dust jacket; Now in a protective Mylar sleeve.Picturesque T Wharf was long the home of Boston's fishing industry. Henry D. Fisher created a remarkable photographic record of the fishing fleet in Boston Harbor between 1908 and 1920, when Boston was America's largest fish market. This book's 117 photographs, accompanied by an equally vivid text, recreate the fishing vessels and markets of a vanished era. The North American So... View more info
By: Gerrare, Wirt
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1903
Edition: First Edition, First Printing. [American]
Seller ID: 005579
From NY Times Saturday Review: ‘... convey[s] an adequate idea of Russia’s advance - especially her industrial progress and commercial prospects... [with] particular attention to the problem of the Far East... full details of the topography of the country through which the Trans-Siberian Railway runs, of the customs of the Siberian tribes, and of the products of the country, present and prospective.’ Publisher’s blue cloth covered boards. Stamped gilt t... View more info
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By: Gissurarson, Loftur Reimar
Price: $80.00
Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers: 1997
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009622
A scholarly social anthropological study of the role of spiritualism in Icelandic church and society during the first half of the twentieth century. The authors put forth the view that spiritualism was an integral part of Iceland's transition to modernity and its conversion to Christianity and demonstrate how "modern" spiritualism is a distinct phenomenon in Icelandic life. Of particular interest to philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologis... View more info
By: Gray, John S.
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009536
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 23.5 cm.; 9.25 inches tall; with Appendix, Bibliography and Index. View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner’s Sons,: 1924
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 006180
Third Edition. With new chapters on fisheries, Fur-farming, Fur Seals, Game, Gold-Mining, Petroleum and Coal, Railroads and Volcanoes. Twenty-four photographic plates, 7 text maps, Lacking large folding color map from rear pocket. Published originally in 1909, this edition has been practically rewritten and presents Alaska as it was in 1924. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Minor sun-darkening to the spine. ... View more info
By: Greene, Casey Edward ; Kelly, Shelly Henley
Price: $45.00
Publisher: College Station, Texas A&M University Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009970
It had no name and gave no warning but crept stealthily into the Gulf and then roared ashore, killing six thousand people; the worst natural disaster in U.S. history; with many never-before-published accounts, from primary sources. More than seventy dramatic photographs underscore the catastrophe.No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 8vo; 24 cm.; 9.5 inches tall; 206 pages with Chapter Notes, Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with photographs. View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Philadelphia:, The Jewish Publication, Society of America: 1969.
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000909
Blue cloth covered boards with white titles. Endpages decorated with maps and drawings. Bindings square and tight, no flaws to book but a hint of fading to top edge. Dust jacket intact with light shelf wear. Protected in Mylar sleeve. View more info
By: Gross, Michael
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York:, Broadway.: 2009.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009284
'Gross' s coup is not only in the vast amounts of information he has obtained but also in his ability to tell a story about the rich and powerful people of New York nearly effortlessly and without disdain.' -Jillian Steinhauer, ArtInfo.No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 545 pages with notes and index. View more info
