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Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Pr.. (1967). HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). Charles Cotesworth Pinckney served his country in many capacities for more than sixty years - first as a highly respected soldier and constitution maker and later as a skillful diplomat and statesman. . 295pp ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. (1990) 1st ed. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0517580098 Take a trip through a hand-colored America. This is an album of the exquisite linen-finish hotel picture post cards that flourished during the thirties, forties, and fifties. . 96pp ... more information

Novato, CA: Presidio Press. (1995). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0891413995 . 339pp ... more information

New York: William Morrow and Company. (1992) 1st US. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0688113508 A well-known geoarchaeologist has discovered the true nature of Plato's story and the real location of Atlantis in this ground- breaking book, which draws on modern science, legends, and ancient poetry to solve one of the world's most mysterious puzzles. . 256pp ... more information

New York: Princeton Architectural Pr.. (1995). PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1568980930 This sweeping overview of landscape design, painting and planning examines the history of the physical environment of the United States from the 1830s to the present. . 215pp ... more information

Phoenix, AZ: Salt River Project. (1984). HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0916743004 The story of the beginning of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association (today's Salt River Project) and the building of the flagship dam--the Theodore Roosevelt Dam--of national irrigation. . 253pp ... more information

published by the authors. 1983. PB. good, wraps (softcover). 196pp ... more information

Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 1943 1st ed. HC. good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket). "For this purpose I prepared lectures on vaious aspects of the Conquest, the enslavement of the Indians, the encomiendas, the labor of the natives, and the social experiments which accompanied or followed the Conquest. These lectures have been brought together in the present volume." . 118pp ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press. 1990. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0195059409 The struggles of the French middle classes, squeezed between history "from above" and history "from below", are often overlooked. The author recaptures the experiences of a signal group of the middle class: master artisans. . 258pp ... more information

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. (1994) 1st ed. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0811709906 . 210pp ... more information

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1990. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0804716781 This is a fascinating new look at Mao Zedong: not as the excited generalist of the Hunan report, but as a down-to-earth pragmatist, teasing out the facts on the minutiae of class status, occupation, and skills. . 280pp ... more information

Chamberlain, SD: Tipi Press. 1994 3rd ed. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1877976083 ... more information

New York: The New York Public Library. (1984). PB. good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0871042843 This volume was published to accompany the inaugural exhibition in The New York Public Library's D. Samuel and Jean H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall. The most comprehensive exhibition ever mounted on the subject, it was designed to examine, interpret, and illustrate landmark struggles of censorship from the advent of printing to the present day. . 144pp ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1929 1st ed. HC. good, blue cloth w/faded spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket). "While the principal events of this story are grounded on a solid historical basis, I have used as the immediate source of my material, wherever possible, the legends woven by the Serbian people about these events rather than the record of more sober documents, with the result that kings drink wisdom from the lips of falcons, and the deities of wood and mountain interfere in matters ... more information

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1967. HC. good w/lightly rubbed dustjacket (hardcover) UNDERLINING ABT 8pp. By the summer of 1962 the Castro Revolutionary Government had consolidated its power and the early widespread popular euphoria had been replaced by clean lines of social cleavage generated by actions taken by the Revolutionary Government. At this point, Professor Zeitlin and his wife conducted a unique series of interviews with Cuban workers to explore their attitudes toward the Cuban revol... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (1977) 1st ed. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0374376638 Hilda's father says she should have a medal, and so he makes one for her out of a tin-can top. It says: TO HILDA FOR HELPING, in red and green letters, because every night at dinnertime Hilda sets the table, while her sisters, Gladys and Rose, find other things to do. . unpaginated ... more information

Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc.. (2000) 1st ed. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1561642053 . 144pp ... more information

Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press. (1998). HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0520215788 . 344pp ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. (1980). HC. good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0070568308 A breathtaking book on China written and illustrated by experts who are themselves Chinese. . 289pp ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1974 1st Amer. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0394489365 Originally published in 1973. The marvelously told tale of one of the most bizarre and extraordinary battles in modern history that was England's revenge for the murder of Gordon at Khartoum: The year - 1898; The place - The Sudan . 241pp ... more information