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London/Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (1979). HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0710003129 Part of Britain Before the Conquest Series. A look at the basic features of Roman Britain, the cities and towns, the monuments of an urban culture, and to consider the evidence, mainly from inscriptions, of the people who worked in, or lived in, or visited Britain during the first two centuries of Roman rule. . 193pp ... more information

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (1982) 2nd ptg. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0262231085 Book traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues: hard work, perserverance, the gospel of technological progress, the mythology of the self-made man, individualism, optimism, practically mingled with idealism. . 328pp ... more information

Seattle, WA: Univ. of Washington Press. (1972) 1st ed. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0295951699 The author's analysis of the Raiapu Enga agricultural system is an important contribution to this field, while at the same time it increases our understanding of Highland societies. . 253pp ... more information

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. (1999) 1st ed. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) signed by author in May 1999. ISBN 1564029026 After Mary makes a garden in an old cooking pot and includes in it a boy fashioned out of clay, she finds herself with him in the garden. . unpaginated ... more information

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1864. HC. good+, black cloth (hardcover). Two Civil War Senate Reports bound together. 38th Congress, 1st Session, Rep. Com. 63, FORT PILLOW MASSACRE, 128pp; and, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Rep. Com. No. 68, RETURNED PRISONERS, 34 pages followed by 4 plates with two illustrations each of prisoners as found in prison. ... more information

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1912. HC. good++, blue cloth, teg (hardcover). "The object of this book is to set before the general reader a clear account of a great man who has been too much forgotten." . 356pp ... more information

New York: The Lyons Press. (2001) 1st ptg. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1585742643 . 258pp ... more information

London: Tiger Books International. (1988). PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1870461584 Condensed from the original 1978 Phaidon edition. Includes historical introduction on Gauguin's life and over 30 color plates and over 15 B&W reproductions. . 64pp ... more information

Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co.. 1898. HC. good, black cloth (hardcover). Detailed statistics with Manufactures by Towns, and by Industries. . 641pp ... more information

Nashville, TX: Barbee & Smith, Agents. 1896. HC. good, red cloth (hardcover) light wear to covers. 492pp ... more information

Albuquerque, NM: Univ. of New Mexico Press. (1971) 1st ed. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0826302246 This book is an effort by historians and scholars in related fields to explore the ways in which man has understood and conceptualized the idea of universal human kinship. It is a project of the Council for the Study of Mankind, an association of scholars founded in Chicago in 1952. . 227pp ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. (1976). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0517523469 A suberb compendium of visual and narrative, bringing alive the excitement and vitality of New England. . 342pp ... more information

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. (1968) 2nd ptg. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). Wagenknecht confronts the literary controversy concerning Charles Dickens's relations with Ellen Ternan. In addition to the title essay, selections include "Dickens in Longfellow's Letters and Journals," "Dickens and Ellen Glasgow," "Dickens and the Marxians," and others. . 162pp ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press. 1974. HC. good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). 307pp ... more information

Notre Dame, IN: The Ave Maria. (1918). HC. good, brown cloth (hardcover). Uncommon Waggaman title. Nice clean and tight copy, only library mark is St Thomas School stamp on front free endpaper and owner's name. . 335pp ... more information

New York: Orchard Books. (1990) 1st ptg. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) OWNER'S NAME INKED OUT FFEP. ISBN 0531058913 After fifty years of estrangement following a quarrel, two sweethearts finally get together again with the help of a cow and blackberry patch. . unpaginated ... more information

Cambridge, MA: The Hampshire Press, Inc.. (1948). HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover) part of dustjacket laid in. 502pp ... more information

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Soc. 1963 1st ed. HC. fine, wraps (softcover) in good+ slipcase. 83pp ... more information

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. (1969). HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). A complete appraisal of the works of Henry Adams that reveal him as a literary artist of commanding attention and as a humorist unique in our intellectual history. . 268pp ... more information

Blandford, Dorset, UK: The Oakwood Press. (1975) 2nd ptg. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). First published in 1968. . 76pp ... more information