Inside Spetsnaz: Soviet Special Operations, a Critical Analysis
Novato (CA.): Presidio Press, 1990. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj with light edge and surface wear/8vo./308 pp./maps Russian History. RUS7/5132. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
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Le Pays Basque et sa Liberte
Editions Le Sycomore, (1980). Paperback. 8vo. White paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Light foxing to wrapper. Residue to rear wrapper where original price sticker was. Light foxing to several pages throughout though text remains clean and bright. IN FRENCH. 198 pages. Spanish History. SPA/030111. Very Good. More
Encyclopedie Illustree de la Lorraine. Les Temps Modernes 2. De la Paiz de Westphalie a la Fin de l'Ancien Regime
Nancy: Editions Serpenoise, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, (1991). Hardcover. 4to. Near fine in olive green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Stamp to front free end page and to copyright page. Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Red and white illustrated dust jacket with white and black title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 231 pages. IN FRENCH. FREHIS/110215. Near Fine. More
Kingdom of the Sun God. A History of the Andes and their People.
Guild Publishing, 1990. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with color plates and line drawings throughout. 224 pages. South America. SAME/8052. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
A Discourse Pronounced at the Capitol of the United States, in the Hall of Representatives, Before the American Historical Society, January, 30, 1836.
Washington: P. Thompson, 1836. Paperback. Very good in lightly foxed paper wraps with black title to front wrapper. Minor foxing throughout though text remains bright. 58 pages. American History. AME6/5023. Very Good. More
Nouvelle Histoire de Paris de la fin du Regne de Philippe Auguste a la Mort de Charles V 1223-1380.
Paris: Diffusion Hachette, (1972). Hardcover. 4to. Very good in off-white leatherette covered boards with blue title labels with gilt title to spine. Gilt design to front board. Minor rubbing to exterior and minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Very slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. 470 pages. IN FRENCH. French. FRE110231. Very Good. More
Small Fires: Letters From the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine, 1987-1990.
New York: Summit Books, 1990. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY FROM CERF. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./303 pp./contents bright, crisp, and clean Russian History. RUS5/5092. Very Good. More
Histoire Poetique du Quinzieme Siecle
Paris: Edouard Champion, 1923. Hardcover. This two-volume publication is part of the Librairie Speciale Pour L'Histoire de France. It is an important summary of the history of French poetry in the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. 60 phototypes inset. Small quarto. Black leather-covered boards, with gilt title to raised spine of each volume. Leather is scuffed and worn at all corners and edges of covers on both volumes, as well as at front and back gutters and on spines. Marbled front and back endpapers. Pages are browned but clean. 395 pages in Volume I; 475 pages in Volume II. FRELANG/090722. Very Good. More
Brother Enemy: The War After the War, A History of Indonesia Since the Fall of Saigon. 1st Edition.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./remainder mark/illus./479 pp. Asian History. AS15/4192. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey (1st Edition).
Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1987. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./308 pp. Russian History. RUS3/5112. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
The Education in the Yi Dynasty. 1392-1863.
Seoul: Soodo Women's Teachers College, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and chinese characters to front board. Interior is clean and bright with text in both english and chinese. Asian History - China. CHINA1/4182. Very Good. More
Thunder Over the Horizon: From V-2 Rockets to Ballistic Missiles
Westport CT: Praeger, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo. SCARCE. Written by a former missile launch officer, this book "focuses not only on the development and employment of the ballistic missile - from early German V-2 use to today - but on their subsequent impact on national strategies, doctrine, force structure, and politics" (jacket). Black cloth boards with silver title to spine. Pristine, tight interior. Grey illustrated dust jacket with white title to spine. 221 pages. MIL/031706. Fine in Fine dj. More
The Lost Fortune of the Tsars (1st American Edition).
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/many illustrations/8vo./312 pp. Russian History. RUS5/5082. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
The Heart of the Dragon
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine and gilt dragon emblem to front board. Clean, tight interior with many color illustrations. Tight binding. Minor wear to spine ends. Bookplate to front pastedown. Index, 281 pp. CHINA/020805. Very Good Plus. More
House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan. SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Myron L. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Columbia University. His research concentrations included historical anthropology, family and kinship, and the State in society. HIs work is concentrated on East Asia, China, and Taiwan. His fieldwork in Taiwan and in villages in northern, eastern, and western mainland China has been concerned with uncovering commonalities and variation as among widely separated Han Chinese communities, especially with respect to family and community arrangements. He is a recipient of the Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Shanghai Society of Anthropology. [From the Columbia University website.] This work from 1976 examines the Chinese family model as seen in the village of Yen-liao in Taiwan. He particularly emphasizes the expansion of the traditional Chinese family into large or joint family groupings, and how this affects family economics and social organization. Presentation copy to Ernest Bueding, signed by author and dated Dec., 25, 1976. Octavo. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. Cream dust jacket with title in black to front and spine panels. Sunning to jacket, and some bumping at edges of covers and jacket. Pages are clean and bright. 267 pages. CHINA13/4192. Very Good / Very Good. More
Memorials of Henry the Fifth, King of England
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. Hardcover. From "The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages" series. Ex-libris with library book plate to front paste down. Very good in maroon cloth black paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Wear to exterior includes rubbing to boards, bumping to corners and spine ends and some rippling to the cloth on the spine. Light damp stain to front board. Presentation slip tipped in at front. Interior is clean and bright. Index, 186 pages. English Monarchy. ENGMON20/062699. Very Good. More
Memories
New York: John Lane Company, 1913. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in grey cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Minor rubbing to front board, edges, and hinges. Top edge gilt. Light sporatic foxing throughout. Binding cracked but tight. 247pages , plus approximately 20 pages of ads. English History. ENG105310. Very Good. More
The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua Canal
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1895. Hardcover. First Edition. With numerous illustrations, plans, and maps. An examination of how to travel to the Far East by means of the Nicaragua Canal including studies of "the problem in all its varied bearings - mechanical, commecial, and political - made on the ground and in the study, and of general observation and travel to Nicaragua" (preface). Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Minor wear to corners and edges of boards, with heavier wear to top front corner. Bookplate of A.J. Tullock to front pastedown. Tullock (? - 1904) was an engineer from Illinois who later owned the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company. Minor soiling and spots of foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Occasional spots of foxing to interior. A few of the fold out maps and illustrations have small creases to edges or corners. Pencil brackets to margins of a few pages. Browning from a laid in scrap of paper to page 303. Clean and bright overall. 443 pages. SOAMER/021919. Very Good. More
Report of the Committee on Fowl Pest Policy. 1962
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962. Paperback. Includes laid in three page typed report with pencil annotations from a Conservative Agricultural Committee M.P's Fowl Pest Report meeting, which began in 1960 and wasn't "signed" until 1962. Bound in blue paper wrappers with black title to front cover and handwritten black title to spine panel. Minor wear to covers and previous owner's name to top of front cover. Some underlining in pencil to text. Includes two fold-out charts. 108 pages. ENG/091015. Very Good. More
The Land and People of the United States of America
New York: Macmillan, 1955. Hardcover. SIGNED. 8vo. Orange cloth covered boards with red title to front board and to spine. Slight foxing to first few pages. Illustrations throughout. Includes the author's business card with note written on the back which reads " Remember- this is a juvenile! And written for the U.K. market, too. -F." Maroon, blue, and white illustrated price clipped dust jacket with white titel to front and spine panels. Minor chipping to spine ends. Index, 90 pages. American History. AME610291. Very Good + in Very Good DJ. More
Strangers and Pilgrims: The Last Italian Migration (1st Edition).
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./text is crisp and clean/304 pp. Italian History. ITH10/5092. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
The Liberty Incident. The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship. (1st Edition)
Washington D.C. Brassey's, Inc., 2002. Hardcover. Mint in mint red and blue dust jacket with white title to front panel and to black spine panel. Like new. 295 pages. Includes section of notes for each chapter. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. Middle Eastern History. MID/8132. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
The Army of the American Revolution and its Organizer
New York: Rudolf Cronau, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Vg in blue cloth covered boards with black title to front board and to spine. Wear to edges and corners as well as spine ends. Minor browning to spine. Frontis. Minor foxing and browning to end pages. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. 150 pages. REV/5172. Very Good. More
Britain's Economic Problem
London: Jonathan Cape, (1953). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in black cloth covered boards with silver title to spine. Interior is clean and bright. White and grey price clipped dust jacket with black and red title to front and spine panels. Browning to spine panel and top edge of front panel and minor soiling to dust jacket. Index, 224 pages. ENGHIS/070716. Near Fine / Very Good. More
The French War on Trade: Privateering 1793 - 1815
England: Scholar Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright. Beige dust jacket with turquoise title to spine and front cover. Minor fading to spine panel of jacket. 251 pages. FRE/040919. Very Good / Very Good. More