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Abcarius, M. F. (Michel Fred). Palestine through the Fog of Propaganda. Introduction by Major-General Sir E. L. Spears. London: Hutchinson, 1946. 240 pages. 'The book presents the Arab case in the bitter dispute between Jew and Arab in Palestine.' - Front jacket panel. Good hardcover in frayed, chipped and torn dust jacket. #27878. $55
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Adler, H. G. Die Verheimlichte Wahrheit: Theresienstadter Dokumente. Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1958. Small 4to (medium-large book). xiii, 372 pages. Index. Illustrations. Folding plate. Map. Text in German. Good hardcover, bound in library buckram. Exlibrary: spine title and call number, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, on front flyleaf, barcode label and stamp on rear flyleaf; small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25899. $110
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American Federation of Labor. Building Service Employees International Union, Local 32B. Going Up! The Story of 32B. Messages by William L. McFetridge and George Meany. New York: Building Service Employees International Union, Local 32B, 1955. 98, [1] pages. Illustrations. Twenty First Anniversary. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #25295. $45
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Aptheker, Herbert. The Colonial Era: A History of the American People. New York: International Publishers, 1959. 158 pages. Index. Bibliography. Inscribed and signed by the author. Good hardcover in frayed, worn and slightly torn dust jacket; endpapers are stained. #28058. $22.50
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Bancroft, George. History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent. Volumes I-VI. New York: D. Appleton, 1888-1890. The Author's Last Revision. 6 volumes. Index. Bibliographical references. Frontispiece portrait of the author in volume VI. Good hardcover volumes with gilt author, title and volume number on spine; former owner's name stamp on blank front flyleaves and also some title pages; top of backstrip of volumes 5 and 6 slightly torn; front hinge of volume 5 weak. #27027. $150
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Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition. London: Smith, Elder, 1865. 12mo (small book). x, 266 pages. Frontispiece. Alternate title: The Book of Werewolves. Fair hardcover, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; upper corner of front endpaper slightly chipped; original worn and chipped 3/4-leather and cloth covered boards detached (and held together with tape); lacks backstrip. Text block intact. Bookplate inside front cover. #27335. $1400
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Barnes, Albert. An Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery. Detroit, Michigan: Negro History Press, 1969. Facsimile reprint. 384 pages. Reprint of Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855. On lower spine: Scholarly Press. Very good hardcover. Extensive pencil underlining and marginalia in first half of the book. #23525. $47.50
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Begin, Menachem. The Revolt: Story of the Irgun. Translated by Samuel Katz. English version edited, with notes, by Ivan M. Greenberg. Jerusalem: Steimatzky's Agency, 1951. There is no publication date; this appears to be the first Israeli edition. xiii, 386 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. #25232. $80
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Bennigsen, Alexandre, and Marie Broxup. The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Reprinted. 170 pages. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. First published in 1983. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket; some yellow highlighting. ISBN 0312437390. #27929. $22.50
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Besson, Waldemar, und Friedrich Frhr. Hiller v. Gaertringen, Herausgebers. Geschichte und Gegenwartsbewusstsein: Historische Betrachtungen und Untersuchungen. Festschrift fur Hans Rothfels zum 70. Geburtstag dargebracht von Kollegen, Freunden und Schulern. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963. 526 pages. Bibliographical references. Portrait. Text mostly in German. Good hardcover, bound in buckram. Exlibrary: call number, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, and inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25636. $30
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Bezold, Carl. Historische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur. Zettelproben des Babylonische-assyrischen Worterbuchs der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1915. 67 pages. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stiftung Heinrich Lanz, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1915, 8. Abhandlung. Text in German and Assyrian(?). Good wrappers (soft cover), bookplate inside front cover, former owner's name on title page, covers frayed and worn and loose at spine ends. #27890. $35
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Bishop, Patrick. Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940. London: HarperCollinsPublisher, 2003. 1st printing. xiii, 434 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Map. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0002571692. #27783. $35
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Blatt, Warren, editor. Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area. Newton Highlands, Massachusetts: Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston, 1996. 1st printing. 4to (large book). vii, 275 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Includes listings on census records, naturalizations, passenger lists, and vital records. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0965215105. #23104. $27.50
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Blix, Hans. Disarming Iraq. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. 1st printing. x, 285 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0375423028. #27933. $20
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Bouquet, Henry. The Papers of Henry Bouquet. Volume II: The Forbes Expedition. S. K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent, and Autumn L. Leonard, editors. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1951. xxxiii, 704 pages. Index. Bibliography. Folding plates. Illustrations. Color frontispiece. Bouquet's papers, June 1-December 31, 1758. 'Henry Bouquet was the first great military figure in the history of Pennsylvania.' - Foreword. Very good hardcover. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. #28450. $50
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Brebner, John Bartlet. The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia: A Marginal Colony during the Revolutionary Years. New York: Russell & Russell, 1970. Facsimile reprint. xv, 388 pages. Index. Bibliography. Folding map. First published in 1937. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: stamp on title page and rear flyleaf. #26895. $20
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Brewitz, Walther. Von Abraham bis Rathenau: Viertausend Jahre judischer Geschichte. Berlin: Dr. W. Brewitz, 1937. 2. Auflage, 35.-45. Tausend. 16mo (small book). x, 247 pages, und 22 Federzeichnungen. Index. Text in German. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #27757. $45
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Brooks, Mary Elizabeth. A King for Portugal: The Madrigal Conspiracy, 1594-95. Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. 1st printing. 192 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. #18237. $10
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Burman, Ben Lucien. The Generals Wear Cork Hats. An Amazing Adventure that Made World History. Sketches by Alice Caddy. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1963. 'This is a limited edition of 300 copies of which this is copy No.-', however no copy number has been filled in. xvi, 257, [12] pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Inscribed and signed by the author: 'For Jack Howard, With Every Kind of Good wish, Ben (Ben Lucien Burman)'. 'Mr. Burman decides to go to Africa with his wife and illustrator, Alice Caddy, to learn the truth about Petain and the Vichy government, and arriving at the headquarters of the Free French rebels in the Congo, suddenly found himself plunged into a situation rivaling that of any of his fictional heroes.' - Front and rear dust jacket panels. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. #23048. $15
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Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. In Three Volumes. Volume 1: The Bastille. Volume II: The Constitution. Volume III: The Guillotine. Philadelphia: Porter & Coats, 1892? 3 volumes (487, 501, 487 pages). Index. Illustrations. Good hardcover, black cloth with gilt title device and fleur-de-lis on the front cover and spine. #26752. $35
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Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. 1st edition. xi, 429, xv pages. Index. On blank flyleaf: 'Cordially yours, W. J. Cash,' signed by the author. Good hardcover. No dust jacket. Top and bottom of backstrip slightly frayed; backstrip somewhat worn with small piece of clear tape toward bottom; corners slightly worn, some foxing inside front and rear covers. Unrelated name in ink along top edge of verso of rear flyleaf. #20459. $2000
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Chazan, Robert. Medieval Jewry in Northern France: A Political and Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. xi, 238 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Ninety-First Series (1973), 2. 'The Jews of medieval northern France occupy a distinguished niche in the long and rich history of their people. They constituted an important element in early Ashkenazic Jewry, the biological source of the major portion of modern Jewish population.' - Introduction. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0801815037. #27041. $45
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Chirol, Valentine. The Occident and the Orient. Lectures on the Harris Foundation, 1925. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1924. 1st printing. Small 8vo. ix, 228 pages. Index. Very good hardcover; some stains on fore-edge. #27747. $27.50
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Clay, Henry. The Papers of Henry Clay. Volume I: The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814. Edited by James F. Hopkins and Mary W. M. Hargreaves. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959. xv, 1037 pages. Index. Portrait. Very good hardcover. #28449. $40
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Colson, Chuck, and Jack Eckerd. Why America Doesn't Work. Dallas: World Publishing, 1991. 4th printing. xii, 227 pages. Index. Inscribed and signed by Chuck Colson. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0849908736. #19938. $17.50
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Cornwall, Julian. Revolt of the Peasantry 1549. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. 1st printing. 254 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Peasant uprisings, Kett's Rebellion in Great Britain. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0710086768. #28026. $30
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Deane, Hugh. Good Deeds & Gunboats: Two Centuries of American-Chinese Encounters. Foreword by John S. Service. San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, 1990. xiv, 258 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Small date stamp on top edge. ISBN 0835123782. #22662. $12.50
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De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi. De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi: The Conquest of Lisbon. Edited from the Unique Manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with a Translation into English by Charles Wendell David. New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. 1st printing. x, 201 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Map. Frontispiece facsimile page. Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, 25. Very good hardcover; former owner's name inside front cover. #26816. $30
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De Kay, Eckford. Heraldry in the Episcopal Church: How Ecclesiastical Coats of Arms Depict the History of the Church. San Jose, California: Acorn Press, 1993. 4to (large book). 149, [2] pages. Illustrations. 'This volume gathers together almost six hundred emblems of the Episcopal Church, some excellent, some of questionable design, but all used in the hope of conveying something of the history, purpose and ideals of the organization involved.' - Preface. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0963825305. #24606. $90
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Delaney, Edmund. The Connecticut River: New England's Historic Waterway. Chester, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 1983. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). 183 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good pictorial softcover. ISBN 0871069806. #22349. $22.50
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Doyle, John Andrew. The American Colonies Previous to the Declaration of Independence. London: Rivingtons, 1869. Photocopy. vii, 219 pages. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover. This library-bound photocopy lacks a copy of the title page. Bound in front 16-page 'New Works in Course of Publication by Messrs. Rivington'/ #26900. $55
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Drucker, Olga Levy. Kindertransport. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. 3d printing. 146 pages. Dated, inscribed and signed on the half-title page by the author. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0805017119. #23562. $15
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Duignan, Peter, and L. H. Gann. Colonialism in Africa: 1870-1960. Volume 5. A Bibliographical Guide to Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: University Press, 1973. xii, 552 pages. Index. Bibliography. On half-title page: Hoover Institution Publications. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front and inside rear covers. ISBN 0521078598. #25902. $50
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Eaton, F. B., compiler. History of the Franklin-Street Church, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1844-1894, with Sermons, Addresses, and Proceedings at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary, October 7 and 9. Manchester, New Hampshire: Printed by the John B. Clarke Company, 1894. 114 pages. Unpaged appendix of 1,273 Members of the Church. History of the First Congregational Society. Good blind-stamped hardcover. #19443. $17.50
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Eldredge, Chas. Q. Illustrated Catalogue of Private Museum. Old Mystic, Connecticut: Charles Q. Eldredge, No date. 5th edition. 16mo (small book). 124 pages. Index. Photographs. Printed signature. Good stiff wrappers. #19446. $12.50
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Fermi, Laura. Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe, 1930-1941. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. xi, 440 pages. Index. Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #20928. $40
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Fleischmann, Julius. Die Wahrheit uber das amerikanische Angebot auf dem Schoneberger Sudgelande 14400 Wohnungen zu erbauen. Berlin: Hensel & Co. Verlag, 1927. 32 pages. A pamphlet written in opposition to the proposed construction of 14,400 housing units in Berlin, Germany, by New York's P. W. Chapman & Co. Text in German. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), front and rear covers soiled, page edges slightly worn. #26414. $75
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Forester, Thomas. The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, with the Two Continuations; Comprising Annals of English History, from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I. Translated from the Latin, with Notes and Illustrations, by Thomas Forester. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Facsimile reprint. 512 pages. Index. First published in London by Henry G. Bohn in 1854. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover; barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear cover; some pencil marginalia. #26902. $75
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Freeman, Edward A. The Methods of Historical Study. Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1884. With the Inaugural Lecture on the Office of the Historical Professor. London: Macmillan, 1886. vi, [1], 335 pages. Index. Good hardcover, top edge gilt. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, bookplate inside front cover; barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25671. $30
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Friedman, Tuviah, editor and publisher. Long Dark Nazi Years: Forty Years after the Collapse of the Third Reich, 1945-1985. A Record of Documents and Photographs of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution. New York: Tuviah Friedman, 1985. 4to (large book). No pagination. Photographs. Dated and signed by the editor. The author is the Director of The Documentation Center in New York, and affiliated with the Institute of Documentation in Haifa, Israel. Text in English and German. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #25236. $55
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History & Historiography Authors A B C D E F

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