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  Family Encyclopedia of American History
New York, Reader's Digest. 1975, First Edition. Hard Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Lib with Usual Stamps, General wear to boards, creased title page otherwise internally sound. 1370pp including index. Heavy tome so may be extra postal charge, please enquire when ordering. Good/No Jacket.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 530004
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  Philadelphia Bar Association 1802-1952
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Association. 1952, First Edition. Cloth , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 3,000 copies printed. Full title: "Philadelphia Bar Association." Recording the Proceedings, Addresses and Historical Displays and Observances Incident to the Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Association. 1802-1952. The oldest bar assoc in the US. Chapters etc. on the history, the dinner that commemorated the 150th anniversary and the mass traditionally celebrated in England at the the feast of St. Michael the Archangel. Michaelmas. Approx 61 b&w illustrations depicting the history of the Philadelphia Bar assoc. Attractive bookplate: "Samuel Fox Cunningham. " 148pp. Ex-lib with usual blemishes. Fair.
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: 500109
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ADAMS, MILDRETTA  Historic Silver City : The Story of the Owyhees
Owhyhee Publishing Company. 1999, Tenth Printing. Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pamphlet, originally published 1969. 98pp. B/W illustrations. Very Good.
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: kw5472
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BRINKLEY, ALAN ; POLSBY, NELSON W. ; SULLIVAN, KATHLEEN M.  New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution
New York & London, W W Norton & Co Ltd. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0393046192) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 179 pages. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw6168
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ANDRESKI, STANISLAV  Prospects of a Revolution in the U. S. A.
London, Tom Stacey. 1973. (ISBN: 0854685049) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 116 pp. Some signs of wear to the covers but generally a sound clean copy. Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw6744
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ARMSTRONG, VIRGINIA IRVING (COMPILED BY)  I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians
Chicago, The Swallow Press. 1971. (ISBN: 0804005303) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1971 paperback edition published by the Swallow Press. Previous owner has covered the book with clear plastic which has been stuck down with sellotape. Previous owner's name and address label inside front cover, some ink notes re the Indian chiefs on first page, otherwise a good tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book containing a collection of speeches made by Indians (or is it Native Americans?) from the seventeenth to the twentieth century on relations between the Indians and the Whites, particularly on Treaties. 206pp. Good/No Jacket.
GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.89 | JP¥ 1281] Book number: 003784
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ARNOLD, R. DOUGLAS  Congress and the Bureaucracy : a Theory of Influence
New Haven & London, Yale University Press. 1979. (ISBN: 0300025920) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 235 pp including index. Some shelf wear but generally in very good sound condition. Good.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.58 | JP¥ 996] Book number: kw6745
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BANNATYNE, LESLEY PRATT  Halloween, an American Holiday, an American History
New York, Facts on File. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0816018464) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, Ex library copy with paper label inside front board and ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev and on top and bottom page edges. Otherwise a very good copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this book dealing with Halloween traditions in the USA from Colonial times to the present day and including those customs introduced by the various Immigrant communities. 180pp, some b&w illustrations. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.89 | JP¥ 1281] Book number: 001536
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BROMFIELD, LOUIS  Malabar Farm
London, Cassel and Company Ltd. 1949, First Edition. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Lord, Kate. No dustwrapper, previous owner's name on f/ep. minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, but no fading, and gilt titles on spine are still bright. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing with the author's farming in Ohio in 1944-45 at the farm of the title. 399pp, b&w drawings. Very Good/No Jacket.
GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 US$ 23.16 | JP¥ 1992] Book number: 003681
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CATTON. BRUCE  Gettysburg. The Final Fury.
London, Gollancz. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385020600) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library, Documents the battle of Gettysburg in 1863 when Confederate forces met the Unionists in the decisive clash of the US. Civil War. 41. illus & 5 maps. Ex-lib with the usual blemishes. Ex-lib with Usual Stamps/Fair.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 500344
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BUFFUM, E GOULD  The Gold Rush, an Account of Six Months in the California Diggings
London, The Folio Society. 1959. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1959 Folio Society edition, blue cloth-covered boards with a small illustration of a prospector and his mules on a yellow panel on the front board, no slipcase. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this book dealing with the author's experiences in California during the 1849 gold rush. 152pp, 8 b&w illustrations. Good/No Jacket.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 003198
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BUNCE, VALERIE  Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy Under Capitalism and Socialism
Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press. 1981. (ISBN: 0691022054) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 296 pp including index. Small corner crease but otherwise in very good clean condition. Very Good.
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: kw6216
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COCHRAN, THOMAS C. ; MILLER, WILLIAM  The Age of Enterprise: Social History of Industrial America
New York, Harper & Row. 1961, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0061310549) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Originally published 1942 this revised reprint published 1961. 396 pp including index. Spine a little creased & a mark on back of cover, owner name on title page. Generally in good sound condition. Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw6476
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CARAMELLO, CHARLES  Silverless Mirrors : Book, Self & Postmodern American Fiction
Tallahassee, University Presses of Florida. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0813007690) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- lib, 250 pp including index. Ex-lib with some stamps and labels but generally in good clean condition. Good.
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: kw6301
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CHAMBERS, FRANCES  Trinidad and Tobago, World Biographical Series Vol 74
Oxford, Clio Press. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 1851090207) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor bumping to spine ends, pp 21-28 loose, otherwise a very good copy of this book, being a bibliography of publications relating to the Carribean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. 213pp, 1 map. Very Good/No Jacket.
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: 001448
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CLAY, GRADY  Close-Up, How to Read the American City
London, The Pall Mall Press. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0269283145) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A couple of small tears along the top edge of the unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book in which the author looks at American cities and the various parts thereof, and uses new terms for them. Among others, he seems to have been one of the first to use the word ''sink'' to describe an area inhabited by the lowest groups in society. 192pp, 165 b&w illustrations. Very Good/Good.
GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 12.41 | JP¥ 1067] Book number: 003156
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COOMBE, JACK B  Thunder Along the Mississippi, the River Battles That Split the Confederacy
New York, Sarpedon. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 1885119259) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper of this book dealing with the Naval campaign along the Mississippi during the American Civil War, when the Federal Western Gunboat Flotilla operated along the river. 260pp, 53 b&w photographic illustrations. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 001788
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CRONIN, THOMAS E.  State of the Presidency
Boston, Little Brown. 1980, Second Edition. (ISBN: 0316161799) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 417 pp including index. Some rubbing to edges otherwise a very good clean copy. Good.
GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 12.41 | JP¥ 1067] Book number: kw5790
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CARR, DAVID AND THORPE, JOHN  From the Cam to the Cays
London, Travel Book Club. 1961. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the 1961 Travel Book Club edition. Dustwrapper is slightly bumped to top and bottom, otherwise a very good copy of this account of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-60 by some of the group of undergraduates who took part. 190pp, 1 map. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw00313
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DICKINSON, ALICE  The Boston Massacrea March 5, 1770 : a Colonial Street Fight Erupts Into Violence
New York, Franklin Watts. 1968, First Edition. (ISBN: 0531009963) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 66 pp including index. Illustrated with contemporary prints and maps in B/W. Very Good/Fair.
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: kw5565
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DIXON, PETER  Amazon Task Force
London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340327138) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some minor bumps and creases to the dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy of this book dealing with an expedition to Peru near the source of the Amazon undertaken by a Christian medical mission in 1982. Signed by author on title page. 192pp, 29 b&w ills and a map. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw00400
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J. FRANK DOBIE  Cow People
London, Hammond, Hammond & Company. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- lib, 305 pp including index. Ex - lib with the usual blemishes. Good/Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw6159
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DONALDSON, GORDON  Sixteen Men, the Prime Ministers of Canada
Toronto, Canada, Doubleday. 1980, First Thus. (ISBN: 0385172672) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some very minor wear to the dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy of this book, originally printer as ''Fifteen Men'', but this is a revised edition, with the addition of sections on Pierre Trudeau and the short tenure of Joe Clark. Deals with all of the Prime Ministers of Canada from Sir John Alexander Macdonald in 1867 onward. 298pp, 16 b&w illustrations. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw00385
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GRIER. EUNICE AND GEORGE  Privately Developed Interracial Housing
Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press. 1960, First Edition. (ISBN: B0000CKKZE) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library with Usual Stamps, Study of the pioneers of racial desegregation in America's housing sector. The book examines housing developments by observing, examining records and interviewing builders and residents. 265pp. inc. bibliography, appendix and index. 5. tables. The front endpaper is missing and this is an ex-lib copy with the usual blemishes. Fine as a reading copy. Ex-lib with Usual Stamps/Complete with signs of Wear.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.58 | JP¥ 996] Book number: 500379
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FABRE, D G  Beyond the River of the Dead
London, The Travel Book Club. 1963. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the 1963 Travellers Book Club edition. Dustwrapper a bit grubby, and with some chipping to top and bottom, otherwise a very good copy of this book dealing with the experiences of the author and his wife among the Xavantes tribe in the Matto Grosso area of Brazil. 190pp. Very Good/Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: kw00307
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