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Jüdisches Ulm: Schauplätze und Spuren

By: Adams, Myrah and Christof Maihoefer

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Haigerloch, Germany, Verlag Medien und Dialog Klaus Schubert: 1998

Seller ID: 10807

ISBN: 3933231035

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

A walking tour of Ulm, Germany with Jwish history sites of interest. Illustrated, including maps inside the front and rear cover flaps. German language text. 34 pages.
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Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance

By: Adburgham, Alison

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Thames and Hudson: 1979

Seller ID: 04263

ISBN: 0500012059

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Burgundy cloth with gilt stamping. Endpapers show some toning from the jacket's flaps. Jacket shows light wear in a few spots. 192 pages, Bibliography, Index and 174 illustrations. The author explores shoppers and shopping, shopkeepers and shopworkers, following the topographical development of London from the Restoration to the period before World War I.
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Kontakt Amerika: Svenskamerikanskt Kulturutbyte under 100 ar Historik 1896-1996

By: Adolfson, Goran P. D.; Jagemar, Einar

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Asklepios: 1996

Seller ID: 04766

ISBN: 9163040751

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by the author on the title page. Two other signatures/inscriptions at bottom of title page, cannot make out or connect with book.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 31, Number 3, Fall 2001; Special Issue: Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern

By: Aers, David and Sarah Beckwith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 03999

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Pages 443-691. Some of the articles include: A Martyr to Love: Sacrificial Desire in the Poetry of Bernart de Ventadorn; "The Living Witness of our Redemption": Martyrdom and Imitation in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale; and "That Spectacle of Too Much Weight": The Poetics of Sacrifice in Donne, Herbert, and Milton.
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques: King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz

By: Al-Farsy, Fouad

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Knight Communications: 2001

Seller ID: 04451

ISBN: 1874132178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

282 pp., Bibliography and Index. Color photos and charts.
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Undermining the Japanese Miracle: Work and Conflict in a Coalmining Community

By: Allen, Matthew

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 06437

ISBN: 0521450098

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear and bumping. Clean copy. 290 pages, including Glossary, List of Abbreviations, Notes on Translation and Anonymity, Bibliographical Essay, Bibliography, List of Informants, and Index. Illustrated with black and white plates, maps, and figures (lists provided for each). An account of the coalminers of Chikuho, largely forgotten in the history of Japan's postwar industrialization efforts. Neglect of these miners by the coal companies and the Japanese government has created a region of poverty, unemployment, crime, and welfare.
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Architecture of France: From Caves to Corbusier [Oriel Guide]

By: Allsopp, Bruce and Ursula Clark

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Oriel Press Ltd: 1963

Seller ID: 10927

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Foxing to the covers and first few pages. Reading creases to the spine. 96 pages with Index of Places in France. Numerous black and white illustrations.
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The President's Men

By: Anderson, Patrick (SIGNED)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1968

Seller ID: 05529

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The letters are fading a bit. Very light amount of wear otherwise. Publisher's stamp on front pastedown (With compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc.). Author signed (name only) on the half-title page.
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Famille Royale a la Mode de France (une semaine a` Louveciennes)

By: Andrau, Marianne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Paris, France-Empire: 1959

Seller ID: 08268

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some shelf wear and light spotting to the top edge of the page block. The dust jacket s chipped and edge-worn and protected now in a clear Mylar sleeve. 291 pages. Written in French. History and genealogy of Henri of Orléans, Count of Paris (Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe d'Orléans, 1908 to 1999).
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Russia Abroad: Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918-1938

By: Andreyev, Catherine; Savicky, Ivan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 04256

ISBN: 0300102348

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

246 pages with Notes, Selected Bibliography, List of Names, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos and a map of Europe 1918-1938.
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Telling the Truth About History

By: Appleby, Joyce Oldham; Hunt, Lynn; Jacob, Margaret

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc: 1994

Seller ID: 10832

ISBN: 0393036154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First Edition stated, line number 10 to 1, but no price on the dust jacket indicates a Book Club Edition. Nice clean copy. The dust jacket has a trace of wear. 322 pages with Index.
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The Guillotine and the Terror

By: Arasse, Daniel

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Allen Lane / The Penguin Press: 1989

Seller ID: 08898

ISBN: 0713990082

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Parts of the page block are a bit "wavy." Otherwise fine. 192 pages, with Notes and Appendices. Chapters organized into three parts. PART I: The Birth of the Machine, PART II: Mechanical Effects, and PART III: The Theatre of the Guillotine. Period illustrations of the guillotine and executions are reproduced.
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NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume XIV, Number 2, Mar-Apr 1980: El Salvador - Why Revolution?

By: Armstrong, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, North American Congress on Latin America: 1980

Seller ID: 09627

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Stapled covers with rubbing and edge wear. Bi-monthly publication of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) focusing on the political economy of the Americas. The feature for this issue is titled, El Salvador - Why Revolution, by Robert Armstrong. This 33-page article discusses the history of El Salvador from the 1930s and the coffee oligarchy, postwar development and modernization, and the political struggles of the 1970s. The article has two Appendices and References. Appendix I: Foreign Military Assistance to El Salvador, Appendix II: Direct Foreign Investment in El Salvador....
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 32, Number 1, Winter 2002; Special Issue: The Cultural Process of "Appropriation"

By: Ashley, Kathleen and Veronique Plesch (Issue Editors)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 04000

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

226 pages. Some of the articles include: Cult Lines and Hellish Mountains: The Development of Sacred Landscape in the Early Medieval Alps; From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Later Middle Ages; and Creating Family Identity in Books of Hours.
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The German Jew: A Synthesis of Judaism and Western Civilization, 1730-1930

By: Bach, H.I.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University (for the Litman Library of Jewish Civilization: 1985

Seller ID: 06165

ISBN: 0197100333

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

255 pages, with Index. The history and achievement of Jews in Germany in the two centuries preceding the Nazi Era, when their contributions to German intellectual, scientific, and cultural life came to an abrupt halt. Intended more for the general reader, with highlights of the main stages of progress. Jacket illustrations, none in the text.
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Flags of the World

By: Barraclough, E.M.C. and W.G. Crampton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne: 1978

Seller ID: 04952

ISBN: 0723220158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean copy, no marks. 250 pages with Bibliography and Index. Standard reference on the subject. Illustrated.
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Delhi Diary, Vol. XI. No. 45, March 13-20, 1970

By: Bazaz, Mohini (Editor)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: DeLhi India, Mohini Bazaz, Caslon Press: 1970

Seller ID: 09891

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Very scarce Delhi, India periodical offering a snapshot in time of entertainment, dining, and other cultural options in Delhi one week in 1970. Contents also list churches, tips for tourists, a medical guide, and more. The last page features an article about tiger hunting in the jungles of India. Front cover ads for a beauty salon and Japan Air Lines, while the rear cover shows a full-page ad for a Ravi Shankar concert at Sapru House, New Delhi. Shankar, a master (Pandit) musician and composer had a big influence on Western pop music in the 1960s, particularly with George Harrison and the Beat...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, Winter 1999; Special Issue: The Cultural Work of Medieval Theater: Ritual Practice in England, 1350-1600

By: Beckwith, Sarah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 07967

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

206 pages. Illustrations.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 28, Number 3, Fall 1998; Special Issue: Body/Matter/Spirit

By: Beckwith, Sarah and Annabel Wharton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 07966

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Pages 494-661, with a few illustrations. Some of the articles include: Witches who Steal Penises: Impotence and Illusion in Malleus maleficarum; Pregnancy and Productivity: The Imagery of Female Monasticism within and Beyond the Cloister Walls; and The Matter of Italy: Sodomy and the Scandal of Style in Sixteenth-Century France.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1999; Open-Topic Issue

By: Beckwith, Sarah and Annabel Wharton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 07968

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

212-426 pages. Some of the articles include: A Body in Question: Aging, Community, and Gender in Medieval Iceland; Speculum of the Courtly Lady: Women, Love, and Clothes; and Saint Teresa's Problematic Patrons.
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