EYMANN, MARCIA A. AND WOLLENBERG, CHARLES (EDITORS)

What's Going on? - California and the Vietnam Era

Berkeley, University of California Press/Oakland Museum of California. 2004. (ISBN: 0520242440). Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. A large format volume of xii + 209 pages. Illustrated throughout. This intriguing book provides a rich variety of perspectives on the roles played by California and Californians during the watershed era of the Vietnam War. It examines the continuing legacy of that war and is particularly valuable for the light it casts on the contributions of the Vietnamese to California and the nation. Conceived in tandem with the Oakland Museum of California's innovative national touring exhibition of the same title. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.07 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 1. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009184

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Vietnam War, California, Social Activism, Feminism 0520242440

SCHWARZ, ANGELO AND MASINO, CRISTOFORO AND OSTINO, GIUSEPPE

Farmacie E Farmacisti in Piemonte E Valle D'Aosta - Storia Per Immagini Di Una Professione

Italy, Collana Di Ricerca Storica Schiapparelli. 1980, First Edition. Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Special numbered edition 7030. Edizione speciale numerata per i Sigg. Farmacisti 7030. A history of pharmacies and pharmacists in the Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont. 96 pages with 91 illustrations in colour and 46 in black and white. 96 pagine con 91 illustrazione a colori e 46 in biamco e nero. A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 20A. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 004991

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Farmacie, Farmacisti, Piemonte, Valle D'Aosta, Chemists, Chemist Shops

ANONYMOUS

The Topkapi Palace

Istanbul, NET Turistik Yayinlar. 1988. (ISBN: 9754790019). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Card covers are clean and unmarked internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Fine copy. With original entry tickets enclosed. 93 pages printed on glossy paper. illustrated. throughout with colour photographs. The history of the 15th century Topkapi Palace. 50. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011179

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Turkish History 9754790019

ANONYMOUS

Writing in Ancient Western Asia - Its Origin and Development from Pictures to Letters

London, The Trustees of the British Museum. 1968, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714110701). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. White titles on black vinyl binder which has metal opening clips. Comprises 42 coloured slides with accompanying notes, contained in a clear plastic sheet. 8 page essay on I- Cuneiform Writing; II - The Alphabet - A - Egyptian Hieroglyphs, B - Semitic Alphabet, C - Greek and Roman Alphabet. SCARCE TO FIND WITH ALL SLIDES PRESENT 22. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008947

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: History of Writing, Cuneiform, Hieroglyphs, Alphabets 0714110701

ASCHERSON, NEAL

The Struggles for Poland

London, Michael Joseph. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718128125). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 242 pages. Map endpapers. An accessible yet authoritative account of the history of Poland in the 20th century accompanied by astonishing photographs, many of which were taken under extreme conditions during times of war and suppression. Ascherson draws upon hundreds of interviews with witnesses and survivors and upon his own experiences and vast knowledge of this extraordinary country to provide a vivid, and often moving, perspective on a nation journeying slowly towards justice and its effective independence. NOT EX LIB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.86 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 24. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007347

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Polish History, Stalinism, Wladyslaw Gomulka, Edward Gierek, Gdansk, Lech Walesa, Solidarity Trade Union, Jozef Pilsudski, Warsaw Ghetto, Katyn Massacre 0718128125

AUSTIN, F. BRITTEN

Tomorrow

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society. 1930, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Kermode, William. Black title on red cloth which have minor marks to front and wear and marks to backt. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Lino cut illustrations by William Kermode. Not dated but believe same as foreword by author 1930. Twelve studies summarising the social progress of mankind through the ages. Contains Isis of the Stone Age, King in Babylon, The Buddha Walks, The Glory That Was Greece, Rome Falls, Charlemagne Reviews His Road, Michelangelo in Casa Medici, Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, The Railroad Builders, Meet Lenin and Mother Earth. A1C. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000946

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Stone Age, Buddha, Isis, Babylon, Charlemagne, Michaelangelo, Lenin Kermode, William

BAINVILLE, JACQUES

The French Republic 1870-1935

London, Jonathan Cape. 1940. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow motif to front with yellow title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. 254 pages. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. Re-issued for the Academy Books series by Jonathan Cape from the 1936 first edition. Eminent work on the history and character of the Third French Republic by the noted French historian who died in 1936 as this translation was in the course of preparation. 4. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000263

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: French History, Politics, Third French Republic, Gambette, Jules Grevy, Delcasse, Dreyfus, Jules Ferry, Waldeck-Rousseau

BALL, EDWARD

Slaves in the Family

London, Viking. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670881066). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. 504 pages. 110 illustrations and 2 maps. First UK edition. In 1698 when Elias Ball sailed into the harbour at Charleston, South Carolina, he was just 22 years old and had travelled 3,500 miles from his home in England, a journey of some 6 weeks, to claim his inheritance - part of a plantation and 25 slaves. Elias and his progeny built a slave dynasty that lasted for 167 years, buying more than a dozen plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, and selling 'Carolina Gold' (rice). The family had assembled close to 4,000 slaves before 1865, when Union troops arrived from the North on the lawns of the Ball estates to force emancipation. The author, a direct descendant of Elias, has written a magnificent history using the copious plantation records of his family, supplemented by both black and white folklore and interviews with the descendants of the slaves themselves, uncovering the story of the people who lived and worked on his ancestors' lands - the violence and opulence, the slave uprisings and escapes, the dynastic struggles, and the mulatto children of Ball slaveholders and Ball slaves. NOT EX LIB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.04 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1E. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 007923

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Slavery in America, Elias Ball, Charleston, South Carolina, Rice Plantations, Cooper River, Mulatto 0670881066

BATTYE, EVELYN

Costumes and Characters of the British Raj

Exeter, Webb and Bower. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0906671426). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Elgee, Cecil. A Fine unmarked copy with complete dustjacket which has some foxing to the reverse side. Foreword by M.M. Kaye. A marvellous account of Indian costumes and people during the British Raj. The water colour paintings by Miss Cecil Elgee illustrate the lost India and were painted in India between 1922-1927 and depict different castes and creeds. Evelyn Battye's text reflects her long association with India and her first hand knowledge of the people and customs, interspersed with anecdotes of these idiosyncratic and colourful characters. NOT EX LIB 23. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 004467

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: British Raj, Costumes, India 0906671426 Elgee, Cecil

BELL, JANET CHEATHAM

Victory of the Spirit - Meditations on Black Quotations

New York, Warner. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0446672009). Soft Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 157 pages. Rooted in pride and drawn from the great thoughts of great minds, the book offers insights to help you face life's many challenges. Hard-won words of wisdom, as well as African proverbs, thoughtfully and provocatively interpreted by Janet Cheatham Bell. 50. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009582

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: African Proverbs, Black Quotations 0446672009

BINST, OLIVIER

The Levant - History and Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean

Cologne, Könemann. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 3829004958). Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A very large format voume of 320 pages. Coloured pictorial endpapers. Lavishly illustrated in colour. 4,000 years of history and archaeology in the Levant - from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages - are presented in this volume. Uncovering buried history, a team of French archaeologists follows the significant cultural developments and their impact on the gate between the Orient and the Occident: relics of the first cities in the Bronze Age, traces of the Phoenician conquests in the Mediterranean, characteristics of the fusion of cultures in the Greco-Roman era, monuments to the kingdoms of the Nabataeans and their mythical capital Petra, evidence of the golden age of oriental Christianity, and finally the manifestation of Islamic conquest as a battle for power during the crusades. In his pictures, the photographer Robert Polidori shows much more than just the special highlights of each epoch, but rather the cultural-historical meaning of the Levant as a region in which the face of civilization was dramatically shaped. Containing a synoptic chronology presenting the developments of the Levant in the context of the high cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran, a glossary of historical and archaeological terminology, a bibliography, and a comprehensive index. PLEASE NOTE: A VERY LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 2.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 5. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009430

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Levant, Bronze Age, Phoenicians, Greco-Roman Era, Nabataeans, Byzantine, Islam, Crusades, Oriental Christianity 3829004958

BISHARA, MARWAN

Palestine/Israel : Peace or Apartheid - Occupation, Terrorism and the Future

London, Zed Books. 2002. (ISBN: 1842772732). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy. Second Updated Edition. Foreword by Richard Falk. xxii + 173 page. 'Both a Palestinian and an Israeli, Marwan Bishara is the ultimate insider to the current conflict. This book, written in the aftermath of the Sharon election, has proved prophetic. While events may move on, the choices faced by Israelis and Palestinians remain the same.' 51. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010228

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Palestinian and Israeli Conflict 1842772732

BURGER, JOHN

The Black Man's Burden

London, Victor Gollancz. 1943, First Thus. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dark blue title on light blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked apart from some minor marks to spine with little sign of wear. Internally there are small inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper, some foxing to closed edges and two pages have a few paragraphs neatly marked with parallel lines in the margin else clean and unmarked.Map of South Africa frontispiece. The South African author originally wrote this book in 1939 and revised and brought it up to date in 1942 and this is the first revised edition. Covers the historical background, the reserves, European rural areas, towns, industries, crime and punishment, government, health and food, colonies et al. NOT BOOK CLUB C3B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001988

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: South African History

BAUGH, ALBERT C. AND CABLE, THOMAS

A History of the English Language

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1981. (ISBN: 0710001061). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with a touch of foxing to closed edges with near Fine dustjacket. Third edition. Considered a standard work on it's subject and now revised to take into account latest developments in linguistic scholarship, modern dialects have been thoroughly updated and much more material on the Indo-European family of languages has been included. 11 chapters covering language through the centuries including English in America and appendices of specimens of the Middle English Dialects and English Spelling with index, together with 5 maps and 4 illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 11. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 003158

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: Linguistics, Modern Dialects 0710001061

CLINTON, CATHERINE

The Plantation Mistress - Woman's World in the Old South

New York, Pantheon. 1982. (ISBN: 0394722531). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, the author sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. B2C. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008017

Catalogue: History - General

Keywords: American Slave Plantations, Slavery, Southern States, Plantation Life, American History, Sex Customs 0394722531