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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2000; Open-Topic Issue

By: Beckwith, Sarah and Annabel Wharton

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 07970

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

186-430 pages. Some articles in this issue include: House Arrest: Modern Archives and Medieval Manuscripts; Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome; Witch-speak in Late Elizabethan Docu-fiction; and Circumcising Donne: The 1633 Poems and Readerly Desire.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2001; Open-Topic Issue

By: Beckwith, Sarah and Annabel Wharton

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 07972

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

214-442 pages. Some articles in this issue include: Making History: The Rhetorical and Historical Occasion of Elizabeth Tudor's Coronation Entry; Elizabeth, Mercilla, and the Rhetoric of Spencer's Faerie Queene; and Ashes and "the Archive": The London Fire of 1666, Partisanship, and Proof.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2002; Open-Topic Issue

By: Beckwith, Sarah and Annabel Wharton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 07973

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Rear cover and the last several pages are wrinkled. May have been exposed to exposure, though stains are evident. 228-426 pages. Some articles in this issue include: The Invisible Spouse: Henry VI, Arthur, and the Fifteenth-Century Subject and The Act of Libel: Conscripting Civic Space in Early Modern England.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2003

By: Beckwith, Sarah and Annabel Wharton

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 04002

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Pages 1-210. Some articles in this issue include: The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land; Reading Queenship in Cynewulf's Elene; and King Arthur in America: Making Space in History for The Faerie Queene and John Dee's Brytanici Imperii Limites.
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Das Wiener Opernhaus 1869 Bis 1945

By: Beetz, Dr. Wilhelm

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Zurich, Panorama: 1949

Seller ID: 07573

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edge wear, shelf wear. Some ink notation on several pages. Previous owner bookplate and place and date of acquisition--Vienna, 1950. The dust jacket is rubbed and stained and has some small nicks and tears to the edges. Protected now in a new Mylar archival cover. History of the Vienna Opera House. 254 pages followed by a section of 99 black and white plates that illustrate the text. GERMAN LANGUAGE TEXT.
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Man's Conquest of the Pacific: The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania

By: Bellwood, Peter S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 04881

ISBN: 0195201035

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

462 pages, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Numerous illustrations.
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Peasants Against Politics: Rural Organization in Britanny 1911-1967

By: Berger, Suzanne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 06547

ISBN: 0674659252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light spotting to page edges. Jacket chipped at the head of the spine and shows light foxing. 298 pages, with Bibliography, Notes, and Index. Illustrated with tables.
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Volume 59, Number 1, January 2000

By: Biggs, Robert D. (Editor)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 2000

Seller ID: 10410

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Contents: A Genizah Letter from Rhodes Evidently Concerning the Reconquest of Crete; Rituals of Ebla II, ì-giš sag: A Purification Ritual or Anointing of the Head?; and Notes on Sumerian Sexual Lyric. 76 pages, including Book Reviews and an alphabetical list of books received. Ads in the back from this and other publishers' books and journals.
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International Atomic Policy During a Decade 1945-1955

By: Biorklund, Admiral Elis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd: 1956

Seller ID: 07796

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Light shelf wear, spotting to top-edge of page block. Jacket is age-torn and edge-worn. 148 pages with Appendixes: Appendix 1: Sources; Appendix 2: Important Deposits of Fissionable Material; Appendix 3: Map of Sources of Raw Materials (fold-out map at back of book, attached inside rear cover).
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Balkan As Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation

By: Bjelic, Dusan I. and Obrad Savic (Editors)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press: 2002

Seller ID: 04799

ISBN: 0262025248

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

382 pages, Index.
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Germany 1945 | 1954

By: Boas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Schaan-Liechtenstein, Boas International Publishing Co.: 1954

Seller ID: 03771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth with gilt lettering/stamping. Very light wear, slightly bumped at the corners. Front free endpaper creased, a previous owner's name "whited out." Otherwise unmarked and clean. 738 pages, illustrated with numerous photos. Fold-out map (rear) of Germany in the boundaries of 1937. An account of the development of the German Federal Republic in the decade following the end of World War II. A cross-sectional look at the German economy, its businesses, and products. Photos and bios presented at the end of the book for prominent personalities. There is also a Production List (many ...
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John Adams and the American Revolution

By: Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Company: 1950

Seller ID: 10684

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear, bumping to boards. Dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends and the front and rear flaps are price-clipped. From the jacket: "The story of young John Adams, of the dramatic events in which he was a leader, and of the statesmen who worked with him for independence." 699 pages with Index. Illustrations, including endpaper maps and a frontispiece portrait of Adams.
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Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920

By: Bradley, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1968

Seller ID: 06557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Jacket has small tear at lower corner of rear panel. 251 pages, with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with seven maps by Arthur Banks.
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Prehistoric Men

By: Braidwood, Robert J.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1967

Seller ID: 05990

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

181 pages with Further Reading and Index. Illustrated. Human achievement from the beginnings of culture to the dawn of written history.
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Roman Architecture (The Great Ages of World Architecture series)

By: Brown Frank E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 01470

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Light wear to boards and jacket. More than 100 illustrations, including photographs, plans, and drawings. 125 pages, indexed, with a selected bibliography.
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Island of Hope, Island of Tears

By: Brownstone, David M.; Franck, Irene M.; Brownstone, Douglas L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc.: 1979

Seller ID: 00710

ISBN: 0892560827

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine cocked, corners and spine ends bumped. Slightly chipped jacket with a heavy crease the length of the front flap. Immigrant stories, in their own words, of those who came through Ellis Island. Illustrated with black & white photos; 307 pages.
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Heroes of the Dark Continent and How Stanley Found Emin Pasha

By: Buel, J.W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Jas. H. Earle: 1890

Seller ID: 10492

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Red cloth-covered boards with black and gold decoration and lettering. Shelf wear and worn corners. Minor insect nibbling. First signature (containing title page and part of the Introduction) is separated from the binding, but present. The rest of the book is solid, binding tight and square. 576 pages, illustrated with 500 engravings and colored plates and a fold-out map of Africa reproduced from John Ogilby's 1670 map. A 19th-century history of expeditions, exploration, and discovery in Africa.
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The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period 1815 to 1840 - Two Volumes

By: Buley, R. Carlyle

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press: 1950

Seller ID: 08251

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Spines of both volumes show fading and some discoloration. Otherwise, both volumes are in Near Fine condition. Comes with original, matching slipcase, which has some scuffing, rubbing and general wear. VOLUME I: 632 pages with Index. VOLUME II: 686 pages with Bibliographical Essay and Index. Both volumes are illustrated with photos, photocopies of various images, and maps.
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Greenland

By: Bure, Kristjan (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Denmark, The Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs: 1953

Seller ID: 03056

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Cream-colored boards with green print. Very light shelf wear and a small faint stain to the top edge. Inscription inside to a previous owner, dated 1953. Illustrated jacket lightly chipped with a few small edge tears. Protected now in a new mylar cover. 167 pages with many black & white photographs illustrating the culture and history (Danish influence) of the Arctic island, as well as the indigenous Eskimo.
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The Pioneers: The Picture Story of Canadian Settlement

By: Careless, J.M.S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1968

Seller ID: 02783

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

127 pages, illustrated with numerous historical photographs. From the Canadian Illustrated Library series.
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