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Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. 8vo size trade paperback; 370 pages in graphic novel style with black and white illustrations. There are also some color illustrations. Author photo and biography on inside cover. Bound into book is an overview of the book, similar in content to what would be included with a proof. From cover: "Historians,… Read more about this item

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Translated and with a new introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter 8vo size trade paperback; 424 pages including index. There are a few black and white photographs within the text. From back cover: "Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the 'born'… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. Advance Reading Copy with covers unique to proof. Front cover states Advance Reading Copy. Back cover states Advance Uncorrected Proofs. The back cover provides an overview of the book, a small color photo and brief biography of the author and details on the finished book and its Marketing & Publicity… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books Stated First American Edition Translation of Les Carnets de la drole de guerre: Novembre 1939 - Mars 1940 by Quintin Hoare From dust jacket: "The discovery and publication in France of Sartre's hitherto unknown war diaries was an event of major importance... Here is Sartre as a young man, vulnerable… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Educational Publishing, 1965. One of the American Heritage Series Stated First Printing 8vo size trade paperback; 559 pages including index In x parts: Woodrow Wilson: A Self Portrait Political Processes From Conservatism to Reform The New Freedom Enunciated The New Freedom Enacted Moral Diplomacy: Theory and Practice Neutrality and Preparedness Mobilization… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1968. A selection and arrangement from the journals, correspondence and article of the major men and women of letters who lived through the war edited by Jack Lindeman Stated First Edition Chilton Book Company; Philadelphia; 1968 8vo size gray clothbound hardcover; 308 pages including Notes and Index From dust jacket: "The… Read more about this item

Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. 11th Edition 8vo size trade paperback; pagination is from 445-1167. Contents include: Free Speech in a Democratic Society Freedom of the Press Religious Freedom Due Process of Law Search and Seizure Racial Discrimination The Expansion of Equal Protection Rights of Privacy Politician Participation Efforts to Curb the Court Creased bottom… Read more about this item

London: Crowell-Collier Press, 1969. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 88 pages including index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. From dust jacket: "The more than three billion members of the family of man are divided into genetically different populations, or races. As with any other species, this diversity reflects man's adaptation to various geographical… Read more about this item

Blackstone Audio, 2008. New, Shrinkwrapped! Unabridged on 9 CDs: about 11 hours Read by William Hughes From back of package: "Hamden was captured near the Pakistani border and turned over to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. After confession to being Osama bin Laden's driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantanamo Bay and designated for trial before… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Stated First Edition Allen Dulles (1893 - 1969) was the first civilian director of the Central Intelligence Agency. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; endpapers are maps; 268 pages. Black and white author photograph on back cover. From dust jacket: "This is the first complete, inside account… Read more about this item

Syracuse University Press, 1951. Foreword by Alvin Johnson 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 380 pages including index From dust jacket: "(This book) penetrates the Iron Curtain of propaganda, silence and falsification behind which the Communists of Soviet Russia have hidden the treatment of the Jewish population of the USSR... Communist propagandists have long… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2005. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 152 pages including index From dust jacket: "The 11 former-confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interest it… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with silver foil titles on spine and front cover; 426 pages including index Contents include: The Present Status of English The Present Structure of English The History of Old English The Structure of Old English The History of Middle English 1150-1500 The Structure of Middle English The History… Read more about this item

London: Scala Publishers Limited, 2003. 8vo size trade paperback with photo illustrated covers; 64 pages profusely illustrated with color photographs and illustrations plus a few black and white illustrations. Also includes audio CD. Contents include: Roman London 50-450 Saxon London 450-1066 Medieval London 1066-1485 Tudor London 1485-1603 Stuart London 1603-1714 18th Century London 1714-1789 World City 1789-1914… Read more about this item

New York: Interlink Books, 2002. 8vo size trade paperback; 238 pages including index. Maps within the text plus a section of photo photographs on glossy stock. From back cover: "A unique book for visitors to France that acts both as a history and a guide to the sites, battlefields and siege towns that still remain from this… Read more about this item

New York: Sentinel, 2015. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket, endpapers are maps; 238 pages including index plus section of illustrations on glossy stock From dust jacket: "This is the little known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president… Read more about this item

American Through Time, 2017. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 304 pages plus a section of sepia colored photographs on glossy stock From dust jacket: "(This is) a vivid is absorbing account of one man's efforts to construct a building that would create 'a new way for Bostonians - and Americans - to live.' Not only does… Read more about this item

1983. Very Rare Title - This is a 1983 2nd edition, revised from a 1977 hardcover edition which included two additional co-authors: Tony Manno (who died before publication of the book) and Mancel Warrick (father of Dionne and Dee Dee, who died in 1977, after the publication of the first edition.) It appears to be a… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Edited and with text by Clark Worswick Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith Stated First Edition Horizontal 4to size hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 149 pages illustrated with sepia colored photographs throughout From dust jacket: "These 128 photographs constitute a rare pictorial document that spans 25 years. they… Read more about this item

Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1955. 8vo size navy blue hardcover with gilt titles on the spine; 630 pages including Notes and Index. Endpapers are maps. There are 19 full page black and white illustrations on glossy stock. John A Macdonald (1851 - 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada, serving in that capacity for… Read more about this item