MARCUS, GREIL

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century

Harvard University Press. 1989, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0674535804). Hardcover. First printing. Black cloth spine, black boards, gilt titles. By the author of Mystery Train. A personal tour of heretics and iconoclasts throughout history. Book very good plus with a few smudges at edges, light bowing to boards. DJ also very good with a couple of short tears, repaired with archival tissue. 396 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Katalog: World History

Sonstige Stichworte: Sociology 0674535804

REDDING, J. SAUNDERS

An American in India

Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1954, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Blue gray cloth, gilt titles, photo endsheets. Subtitled "A Personal Report on the Indian Dilemma and the Nature of Her Conflicts." Author's stated intent was to present a picture of then-contemporary India through the lens of an American traveler confronting varying attitudes toward the US. Book very good plus with owner signature to ffep. DJ also very good plus with edgewear. 277 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Katalog: World History

Sonstige Stichworte: African American History & Politics Sociology

WOODHAM-SMITH, CECIL

The Great Hunger

Harper and Row. 1962, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt titles. Likely second printing, with $6.95 price on flap and 0263 code beneath. The story of the great potato famine of the 1840s that killed a million Irish peasants and caused a flood of immigrants to the US and elsewhere. With a photoplate section on coated paper and a fold-out map of Ireland in 1848. Extensive references/chapter notes. Book very good plus with owner address stickers to pastedowns, notation of 'Christmas 1963' on ffep. DJ likewise very good with a couple of small surface abrasions, minor wear to spine-ends, folds. 510 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Katalog: World History

Sonstige Stichworte: Britain & Ireland