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Gollan, Robin.
The Coalminers of New South Wales: A History of the Union,
1860-1960.
New York: Melbourne University Press, in association with the Australian
National University, 1963. 1st printing. viii, 249 pages. Index. Bibliography.
A history of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. Very good hardcover in
worn and chipped dust jacket. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #26040.
$17.50
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Goodwyn, Frank.
Lone-Star Land: Twentieth-Century Texas in Perspective.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st edition. Special Texas Edition. viii, 352,
x pages. Index. Photographs. Maps. Signed by Goodwyn.
Very good cloth-covered boards in slightly worn dust jacket. #18821. $12.50
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Hall, Edward Hagaman, editor.
Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution.
New York: Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1899.
Small 4to (medium-large book). 584 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Includes a Roll of Members with personal data and genealogies and a Roll of
Revolutionary Ancestors with records of their services. Blue, yellow and white
cloth hardcover. Pages uncut, some pages unopened. Covers slightly soiled, else
Very good copy. #21681. $27.50
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Hall, H. Duncan, and C. W. Wrigley.
Studies of Overseas Supply.
With a Chapter by J. D. Scott. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office and
Longmans, Green, 1956. ix, 537 pages. Index. Bibliographical references.
Folding plate. History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Civil Series,
War Production Series.
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. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25637. $50
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Hawkley, Louise, and James C. Juhnke.
Nonviolent America: History through the Eyes of Peace.
Foreword by Robert Kreider. North Newton, Kansas: Bethel College, 1993. xiii,
279 pages. Index. Cornelius H. Wedel Historical Series, 5. A collection of
papers based on a scholarly meeting which had the high purpose of reexamining
and reenvisioning American history in the light of the values of peace. The
conference was at Bethel College on April 10-12, 1992. It had the title,
'Violence and Nonviolence in the American Experience.' Essays by historians,
theologians and social scientists- Preface.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0963016016. #24463.
$75
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Hone, Philip.
The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851. (2 volumes).
Edited, with an Introduction, by Allan Nevins. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. 2
volumes. xxvii, 962 pages. Index. Frontispiece portraits in each volume.
Good hardcover books with paper author and title labels on spines. Cover
slightly worn and soiled. #23408. $150
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Jenkins, William Sumner.
Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South.
Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 1935. 1st printing. xi, 381
pages. Index. Bibliography. University of North Carolina Social Study Series.
'The author has attempted to analyze the whole body of thought that developed
in the Old South in justification of the peculiar system of society which
existed there.' - Preface. Very good hardcover. Bookplate inside front cover.
#25061. $30
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Johnson, John Willard.
Reminiscences.
Introduction by Peter Osborne III. Cover design by Joseph Cavallo. New York:
Town of Highland Cultural Resources Commission, 1987. 1st printing. xix, 360 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Printed by The Reporter Co., Inc., Walton,
New York. This is a reprint of J. W. Johnston's Reminiscences and Descriptive
Account of Delaware Valley and its Connections aiming to extend from Pond Eddy
to Narrowsburgh both inclusive. Chiefly devoted to a descriptive account of the
early residents, the lumber and the industrial pursuits of the people; and the
construction progress management and abandonment of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal. 2 volumes, 1900.
Reminiscences is a first-hand, turn of the century account of the Upper
Delaware and the D&H Canal. - Back cover. Very good pictorial softcover. Spine
slightly separated pages 122-23. #22150. $30
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Jones, Proctor Patterson, Editor.
Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy,
1800-1814.
With the assistance of Charles-Otto Zieseniss. Preface by Jean Tulard.
Sacramento, California: Proctor Jones Publishing Company, distributed by Random
House, 1992. 1st edition, 1st printing. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book).
xxxv, 444 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white photographs and
illustrations. Endpaper illustrations.
'The pages of this volume are filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings,
maps, and reproductions of original letters covering Napoleon's career as
soldier, lover, and imperial head of state. These works of art are complemented
by the memoirs and recollections of the two men who were most regularly in
Napoleon's company during his years of supremacy: Baron Claude-Francois de
Meneval, Napoleon's secretary, and Constant Wairy, the Emperor's first valet.'
- Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Front hinge
weak. ISBN 0679414584. #22749. $30
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Kirakossian, John S.
The Armenian Genocide: The Young Turks before the Judgment of
History.
Translated from the Russian by Shushan Altunian. English edition prepared by
Arman Kirakossian. Madison, Connecticut: Sphinx Press, 1992. 1st printing.
xxxiii, 277 pages. Bibliography. Maps.
Very good large trade paperback (soft cover). ISBN 0943071143. #25201.
$37.50
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KZ-Graber Fursorge Dachau (Camp).
Never Again - Nie Wieder - Jamais Plus. A short report on life
and suffering in the Concentration Camps at Dachau between 1933 to 1945. Ein
Kurzbericht in Wort und Bild uber Leben und Leid im Konzentrationslager Dachau
1933-1945. Un reportage en paroles et images sure la vie miserable au camp de
concentration de Dachau 1933-1945.
Dachau: KZ-Graber Fursorge Dachau, 1950. Oblong small 8vo. 64 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. 2 Maps of Camps/Lagerplane/Plans.
A haunting memoir of the Holocaust by a former Dachau camp inmate, whose printed
signature on the last page is illegible. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers.
#22059. $140
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Leo Baeck Institute.
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book XXXV.
Arnold Paucker, editor. London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. 1st printing. xxiv, 616
pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. The focus of this
volume is on German-Jewish historiography and the historiography of
antisemitism.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0436255499. #23243.
$20
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Landheer, Bartholomew, editor.
The Netherlands.
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. xviii, 464 pages.
Photographs. Maps. Signed by Landheer on flyleaf. The United Nations Series.
Chapters by Johan Willem Albarda, Adriaan Jacob Barnouw, Hendrik Nicolaas Boon,
Jan O. M. Broek, Paul Bromberg, Henri Emile Enthoven, David Friedman, Jan
Greshoff, J. Anton de Haas, Philip Hanson Hiss, James H. Huizinga, Raymond
Kennedy, Marinus Michiel Lourens, Raden Mouhammad Mosa Soerianatadjoemena, Joep
Nicolas, Hendrik Riemens, Peter H. W. Sitsen, Samuel van Valkenburg, Amry J.
Vandenbosch, Bernard H. M. Vlekke.
Very good cloth covered hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. Stamp
on rear free end paper. #17968. $20
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Lindsay, Jack.
The Troubadours & Their World of the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries.
London: Frederick Muller, 1976. 1st edition. xii, 306 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Illustrations.
'The first great vernacular outburst of European poetry was that of the
Troubadours of Southern France. In effect it founded secular European
literature. The central theme was the poet's love for the unattainable lady,
often set out in paradoxical forms of loss and possession which carried on
directly into Dante and Petrarch and then in more diffused ways, with permanent
effects on our culture.' - Front dust jacket. Exlibrary. Spine label; stamps
on front flyleaf, Dedication page; pocket on rear free endpaper. Very good
hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Some pencil marginalia and
notes. ISBN 0584103166. #22790. $17.50
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McCormack, Mike.
Echos of Irish History. Volume I-3.
Hauppauge, New York: Printed by Clover Graphics, 1980. 3 small volumes (30,
31, 30 pages.) Illustrations. Volume I is a 2d printing. Volumes II and III are
undated.
The author is a columnist for the Irish Echo. Very good stiff wrappers (soft
cover). #26375. $20
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Mac Geoghegan, J., Abbe.
The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most
Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade.
Translated from the French by Patrick O'Kelly. New York: D & J Sadlier, 1851.
Small 4to (medium-large book). 630 pages. Index. Illustrations.
Poor hardcover, lacks backstrip, rear cover detached, front cover partially
detached; most of textblock intact; covers are blindstamped. #25749. $35
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McKale, Donald M.
The Nazi Party Courts: Hitler's Management of Conflict in His
Movement, 1921-1945.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974. xii, 252 pages. Index.
Bibliography.
About the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei. Oberstes
Parteigericht, Walter Buch, and Adolf Hitler. Very good hardcover.
ISBN 0700601228. #21990. $12.50
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Macurdy, Grace Harriet.
Hellenistic Queens: A Study of Woman-Power in Macedonia,
Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1932. 1st printing. xv, 249 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Illustrations. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology,
14. Label on lower title page: Distributed by Argonaut Inc., Publishers,
Chicago, Illinois.
Exlibrary. Spine label removed; stamps on top and bottom edges, front flyleaf,
title page, dedication page; stamps, barcode label and pocket on rear free
endpaper. Very good hardcover. #23658. $40
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Madison, James.
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 which Framed the
Constitution of the United States of America. Reported by James Madison, A
Delegate from the State of Virginia. Volume Two.
Edited by Gaillard Hunt and James Brown Scott. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus
Books, 1987. Facsimile reprint. xiv, pages 220-677. Index.
Very good hardcover. ISBN 0879753889. #24743. $20
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Martines, Lauro.
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. x, 419 pages. Index. Bibliography.
A study based on Florentine archival research portrays representative humanists
of the period. Studied from the viewpoint of wealth, family tradition, civic
prominence, intellectual achievement, and an assessment of attitudes of other
Florentines toward them, the author concludes that the humanists were men of
wealth. - Front jacket flap. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library
acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine labels, stamps on top and bottom edges, front
flyleaf, dedication page; barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper.
#24987. $90
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Medlincott, W. N., Douglas Dakin, and
M. E. Lambert, editors.
Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939. Second Series,
Volume XII: European Affairs, August 5, 1934-April 18, 1935.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972. lxxx, 929 pages.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0115901876. #25234.
$30
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Merrill, Perry H.
History of Forestry in Vermont, 1909-1959.
Montpelier, Vermont: State Board of Forests and Parks, 1959.
Small 8vo. 66 pages.
Photographs. Map.
The story of the Vermont Forest Service. Slightly worn pictorial softcover.
#22314. $35
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Miller, Jennifer.
Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the
Middle East.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 1st edition, 1st printing. xiii, 261 pages.
Index. Map. Signed by the author on the title page.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0345469240. #24559.
$40
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Murray, Raymond.
The SAS in Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland: Mercier Press, 1991. Reprinted. 500 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. First published and reprinted in
1990.
'The SAS in Ireland traces the history of the British Army Special Air Services
Regiment, the SAS, in Ireland over the past 20 years. It details their
activities - intelligence gathering and surveillance, their links with British
Intelligence, notably MI5 and MI6, their connection with sectarian murders and
many other deaths. Fr. Raymond Murray analyses in detail the activities of the
SAS and plain clothes soldiers in the Six Counties. His research leads him to
the conclusion that in many instances the SAS engaged in a careful and
organised shoot-to-kill policy.' - Front jacket flap. Very good hardcover in
very good dust jacket. ISBN 0853429383. #25109. $25
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Myers, Minor, Jr.
Liberty without Anarchy: A History of the Society of the
Cincinnati.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. 1st printing. xii, [1],
280 pages. Index. Illustrations.
The Society was founded in May 1783 at Steuben's headquarters near Newburgh,
New York, by officers of the Continental army and navy. Very good hardcover in
slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0813909937. #22338. $95
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New York Tribune.
The Finance and Commerce of New York and United States,
Containing Exhaustive and Comprehensive Treaties on the Financial, Professional
and Commercial Interests of new York and the United States.
New York: New York Tribune, 1903? 4to (large book). 266 pages + 6 page
index. Photographs, including many portraits. Illustrations. Frontispiece.
'It is the intention of this Work to bring to the notice of the World the
gigantic manufacturing interests and immense resources of the United States,
and those financial, professional and commercial firms, corporations and
individuals whose business acumen has contributed to make us the first nation
of the world. Gratuitously Distributed.' - Title page. Good buckram hardcover
with gilt front cover title. Corners and edges slightly worn. Dampstain on
lower edges of rear part of book. Front hinge weak. #23609. $400
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O'Brien, Conor Cruise.
The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. 1st printing. 798 pages. Index.
Photographs.
A portrait of a people and a nation besieged, the struggle of the Jews to
establish, maintain and secure Israel, the Zionist dream that illuminates modern
Israel's achievements, failures, and dilemmas. The book begins with the waves
of anti-Semitic violence that swept Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth
century and ends in the years of war and peace, 1982. - Notes from Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in slightly worn, rubbed and torn dust jacket. ISBN 0671600443. #18657. $27.50
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