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Banyoles, al Costat de Barcelona

By: Casals, María; Joan Solana; and Xavier Xargay

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Barcelona, Ajuntament De Banyoles: 1987

Seller ID: 06923

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Texto en Catalan, Frances e Ingles. Text in Catalan, French, and English (French and English translatiions found near the end of the book). Looking forward to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, this book promotes Barcelona's smaller, neighboring town of Banyoles and its lake as the best venue for the rowing events in the Olympics. The book documents the history of the area aas well as its natural resources nd features numerous photographs to illustrate the text--both historical and contemporary subjects. Beautifully illustrated and designed, this is a large, heavy book, 198 pages, 30x30 cm (12x12...
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Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture

By: Chapman, Malcolm

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Croom Helm: 1978

Seller ID: 08910

ISBN: 0856647527

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

264 pages with Notes, References, and Index. From the dust jacket, this book offers an examination of "the complex relationship between Gaelic and English spheres of life at many levels--in the life of the bilingual Gael, in the confrontation of Highland and Lowland Scotland, and in the literary expression of these."
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Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National preservation and Reconstruction

By: Church, William Conant

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Company: 1926

Seller ID: 10911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Dark blue cloth, faded gilt lettering on the spine, barely visible now. Edge wear. Previous owner stamps inside the covers on the endpapers. Cracking starting at the front endpaper and there is a tear at the bottom of the front free endpaper. 473 pages with Index. Frontispiece photo of Grant in his second term as President of the United States. Good reading copy.
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Whampoa: Ships on the Shore

By: Coates, Austin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, South China Morning Post Limited: 1980

Seller ID: 07817

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Brown leatherette with gilt lettering on the spine. Dust jacket included, a bit of edge wear and protected now in a new Mylar cover. 266 pages, with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black and white and color photographs. History of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company and the building of the docks in Hong Kong, which revolutionized the city.
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One Day in China: May 21, 1936

By: Cochran, Sherman and Andrew C.K. Hsieh with Janis Cochran (Translated, Edited, and Introduced by)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 08452

ISBN: 0300028342

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket has wear at the head of the spine and some rubbing to the rear panel. 290 pages with Appendixes, List of Passages Translated, Bibliography, and Index. Depicts the activities and experiences of people from all over China and at every level of society on an ordinary day, as related by the people themselves. Originally published in China in 1936, this is the first English edition and contains 84 of the original pieces. The selections are organized to focus on four topics that were of central importance to Chinese people at that time: Women, Local Authority, Popular Religion, and the Japane...
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The Story of Dominion Square Place Du Canada

By: Collard, Edgar

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ontario, Canada, Longman Canada Limited: 1971

Seller ID: 06048

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Edge wear and light chipping to jacket. Clean copy. Sixty-three pages, illustrated history that goes back to the time Dominion Square was a cemetery outside Montreal. The southern half of the square was renamed Place du Canada in 1966.
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Betting on America: Why the U.S. Can Be Stronger After September 11

By: Cortada, James W.; Wakin, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ, Financial Times Prentice Hall: 2002

Seller ID: 03296

ISBN: 0130460788

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

El Montserrat del Espiritu, Tomo I

By: Cucurella, Dom Columbano M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Igualada, Pedro Bas: 1953

Seller ID: 10932

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Spanish Language text. Pictorial cardstock cover with glassine wrapper. Heavy foxing to the first and last few pages. Mild wear otherwise. 562 pages with Index. Many pages are unopened (uncut) at the top.
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The Economic Development of Spain

By: Davis, H. David (Editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press: 1963

Seller ID: 03215

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Shelf wear and bumping to boards. Previous owner name on front pastedown. Jacket chipped and edge-worn. Tape repair to tear at the tail of the spine. Small tear on front panel, large chip on rear panel. 416 pages, illustrated with figures and maps. Report of a mission organized by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the request of the Government of Spain.
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Trails of the Troubadours

By: De Loi, Raimon

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 08094

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear and bumping to corners. One torn page found. Gift inscription to previous owner. Illustrated endpapers, some illustrations in the text. A book about the troubadours, or young poets and their poetry of love, in the south of France from 1050 to 1250.
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Orixas Da Bahia

By: de Magalhaes, Elyette Guimaraes

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 1974

Seller ID: 07807

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Light to moderate edge wear and some reading creases to the spine. Portuguese and English sections. 161 pages with Glossary and Index. Color plates.
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This Affair of Louisiana

By: Deconde, Alexander

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., Scribner: 1976

Seller ID: 07904

ISBN: 0684146878

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Long tear to jacket's front panel, held in place now and protected from further damage by a clear Mylar cover. 325 pages with Notes, Bibliographical Essay, and Index. Map and photo illustrations. Story of the struggle among Spaniards, English, and French for Louisiana in America's early years. In April 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote; "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy... Every eye in the U.S. is now fixed on this affair of Louisiana."
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Miracle at Joaseiro

By: Della Cava, Ralph

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1970

Seller ID: 03513

ISBN: 0231032935

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A volume in the series from the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. Shelf wear and spotting to page edges. Jacket price-clipped and has edge wear around the spine ends and tips. Protected now in a new mylar cover. Northeast Brazil political history of a popular religious movement between 1889 and 1934, initiated by a reported miracle in Joaseiro. 324 pages, with Abbreviations, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with black & white photos.
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The Secret World : The Terrifying Report of a High Officer of Soviet Intelligence Whose Conscience Finally Rebelled

By: Deriabin, Peter and Frank Gibney

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1959

Seller ID: 01765

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to book and jacket. Faint spotting to edges of page block and light foxing to endpapers. Jacket is also price-clipped. 334 pages with Appendixes and Index.
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Gendarmeria... Entre el Roble y Laurel: Historia Integral de la Gendarmeria Argentina 1877-1955

By: Di Maio, Comandante Mayor Mario Nicolas

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Buenos Aires, Instituto Salesiano De Artes Graficas: 2003

Seller ID: 09226

ISBN: 9874360119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Light edge wear and small corner tear to the dust jacket. One of only a thousand copies printed in this edition. 175 pages with numerous photographs and illustrations documenting the history of Argentina's gendarme. SPANISH TEXT.
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The Struggle for a Democracy in Siberia, 1917-1920: Eyewitness Account of a Contemporary

By: Dotsenko, Paul

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, Hoover Institute Press: 1983

Seller ID: 07758

ISBN: 0817977716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Scattered pencil underlining and checkmarks among the pages. Crease to jacket flap. Index cards with notes laid in. 178 pages with Appendixes (Chronology and Chernov Memorandum), Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with endpaper maps. Reminiscences of the author, who, as a college student in 1912, became a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party who sought a functioning parliamentary democracy for Siberia.
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Santorino: La Citta Preistorica Di Akrotiri

By: Doumas, Christos G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Athens, Greece, Hannibal:

Seller ID: 08623

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Edge wear and rubbing, corner creases to covers, and foxing inside front cover and facing title page. Not paginated, but about 50-60 pages, including a section of color plates. Otherwise illustrated with black and white plates. Text in Italian.
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The Maupeou Revolution: A Study in the History of Libertarianism, France, 1770-1774

By: Echeverria, Durrand

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 08996

ISBN: 0807112100

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

347 pages with Bibliography and Index.
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Leningrad: A Short Guide-Book

By: Elyashkevich, M.L. (Translator)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Russia, 1966

Seller ID: 06106

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minor edge wear, small crease to lower corner of front cover. Pocket-size guide book to Leningrad (St. Petersburg), published as the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution was nearing. Lists many sites of interest and a Glossary of some Russian words used. Includes, naturally, a number of memorials and monuments to Lenin.
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Schubert's Vienna

By: Erickson, Raymond (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 08849

ISBN: 0300070802

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Trace of shelf wear. 283 pages with Index. Illustrated with black and white images and color plates. From the publsiher: "Eminent authorities examine Vienna's history and politics, class structure, and social conventions. They describe private and public entertainments, including music and dance, as well as classical and popular Viennese theater, both of which achieved special greatness in the early nineteenth century. They investigate the historical layers of architecture and sculpture that preserved Vienna's past or reflected the imperatives of Schubert's time. They analyze genres of pai...
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