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Paddington Sketchbook

By: Thompson, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Australia, Rigby Limited: 1971

Seller ID: 08181

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Trace of wear at the extremities, written gift inscription on blank page facing the half-title page. The dust jacket ha a small tear near the head of the spine and s protected now in a clear Mylar sleeve. A look at some of the history in Padington, one of Australia's oldest residential neighborhoods (Sydney), which got started in 1804. Sixty-two pages, illustrated.
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Macedonia: History, Monuments, Museums

By: Touratsoglou, Ioannis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Athens, Ekdotike Athenon, S.A.: 1996

Seller ID: 07896

ISBN: 9602133309

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Reading crease to spine, else a fine, clean copy. 459 pages with numerous photos. A complete guide with maps and plans.
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Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67

By: Ulam, Adam B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers: 1969

Seller ID: 06360

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very light wear to book; jacket has a bit of edge wear and rubbing to the spine (heavy) and front panel (light). 775 pages, Index.
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The Forgotten Ally

By: Van Paassen, Pierre

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Dial Press: 1944

Seller ID: 10566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Shelf wear, rubbing wear to the extremities. Very light foxing to the fore-edge and bottom edge of the page block. Personalized inscription from the author on the half-title page: "For my friend Freddy ___ with best wishes, Pierre Van Paassen." On the verso of the half-title page is a gift inscription to the previous owner. The dust jacket is chipped and edge-worn, but no large tears or staining. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 343 pages. Endpaper maps, The Arab World, with Palestine highlighted. 1969 newspaper article about the future of the Middle East laid in at the front of the b...
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Sons of Sinbad: The Great Tradition of Arab Seamanship in the Indian Ocean

By: Villiers, Alan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1969

Seller ID: 09328

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild edge wear to book and dust jacket. Slight lean to the spine. Jacket is also price-clipped and has a short tear at the top of the front flap. Gift inscription on the blank page following the front endpapers. 414 pages with Index. Illustrated with endpaper maps and black and white photos.
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Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy

By: Weir, Alison

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: 1989

Seller ID: 11286

ISBN: 0370313100

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Some light smudging to the fore-edge of the page block. The jacket has just a trace of wear. A nice copy of this rare edition. Alison Weir's genealogy was commissioned by the Bodley Head as a reworking of a Royal Family dictionary that took her 22 years to complete. She organized that information into a more readable chronology, resulting in this volume-the true first edition-which has become rather scarce. OCLC locates only one institutional copy (South Africa). Subsequent printings have included updated information as it has surfaced, but this is the original work. 386 pages with Select Bibl...
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The Qin Terracotta Army: Treasures of Lintong

By: Wenli, Zhang

Price: $7.50

Publisher: London, Scala Books and Cultural Relics Publishing House: 1999

Seller ID: 03209

ISBN: 0856674508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Archaeological find at Lintong, the burial ground for Emperor Qin Shi Huang (second century B.C.) where more than 7,000 terracotta soldiers and horses and countless bronzes have been discovered. They were crafted by slaves over many years to serve the Emperor in the underworld.
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The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics, 1927-71

By: Whitson, William W. (with Chen-hsia Huang)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Praeger Publishers: 1973

Seller ID: 05164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

638 pages, with Notes, Bibliography, Name Index, and Subject Index. Illustrated with maps and charts; includes List of Charts, Key to Chart Abbreviations and Index of Maps. Clean copy, tight binding.
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Aspects of Sinhalese Culture

By: Wickramasinghe, Martin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, Tisara Prakasakayo: 1973

Seller ID: 02808

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

English language, 174 pages, with index. In addition to the line drawings of Mr. L.K. Karunaratna, there are 21 black & white plates. Includes chapters on folk poetry of the Sinhalese, Buddhist art, Sinhalese masks, literature, tradions, education and much more.
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Daily Mail Year Book 1920

By: Williamson, David (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Associated Newspapers, Ltd:

Seller ID: 05820

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

298 pages, Index on page xiv. Worn around the edges,chipped at the head of the spine, and reading creases along the spine. Cover loose, but still attached.
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Sweden in the Sixties: A Symposium of Facts and Views in 17 Chapters

By: Wizelius, Ingemar (Editor)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Sweden, Almqvist & Wiksell: 1967

Seller ID: 04758

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Light wear, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Jacket is price-clipped and front flap creased. 296 pages, illustrated with figures and photos. Map and Bibliography at rear of book.
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India

By: Wolpert, Stanley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California Press: 1991

Seller ID: 05597

ISBN: 0520072170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

The book encompasses four millenia of development, from an ancient civilization to its rebirth as a modern nation. 273 pages with bibliographical references and index. Illustrated with two sections of black & white photos.
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Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome

By: Yadin, Yigael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1971

Seller ID: 02861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket chipped at the head of the spine and has a large piece missing from top of rear panel. Original price on flap marked out and a discounted price written underneath. Otherwise, the jacket is in nice ocndition. Protected now in a new mylar cover. 271 pages, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings.
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The Black Death

By: Ziegler, Philip

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Alan Sutton Publishing, Inc.: 1991

Seller ID: 06570

ISBN: 0862998387

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

249 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. This book follwos the devastating consequences of the plague as it swept from Asia into Italy and the rest of Europe in the 14th century. An unparalled human disaster. This illustrated edition includes 64 images to complement the text.
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