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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 Story of Civilization: Part III - CAESAR AND CHRIST: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from their Beginnings to A.D. 325

By: Durant, Will

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1944

Seller ID: 11427

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Just a trace of corner wear in a price-clipped, rubbed jacket with some edge wear and chipping at the spine ends. Protected now in a Mylar archival cover. [vii-xvi] pp. 3-751. Bibliography, Notes, and Index. Illustrations, including endpaper maps.
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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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Photo-Facts Pocketbook of Knowledge, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 1938

By: Fawcett, W.H. (Editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Fawcett Publications, Inc.: 1938

Seller ID: 04720

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Edge-worn covers, crease to front cover. Foxing to rear cover. 130 pages, numerous articles and photos on a variety of topics from around the world. Cover story is The Mystery of the Lost Papyri. Front cover illustrated in color. No ads throughout magazine.
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Russian Liberalism: From Gentry to Intelligensia

By: Fischer, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 08541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Board edges scuffed or nibbled, light foxing to edges of page block. The dust jacket is edge-worn with some large chips. Rubbing and foxing to the rear panel. Protected now in a clear Mylar cover. 240 pages with Sources, Bibliography, Notes, and Index. Illustrated with several pages of photos.
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Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration

By: Fraser, Antonia

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979

Seller ID: 20100101

ISBN: 039449721X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Mild shelf wear. Bookplate and handwritten date on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket has some edge wear and chipping at the spine ends. 524 pages with References and Index. Illustrated endpapers, text illustrations and color and black and white plates.
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Last Moments of a World

By: Gaan, Margaret

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated: 1978

Seller ID: 01475

ISBN: 0393056570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light wear. Jacket's front flap clipped at bottom, price intact at top. Clean and unmarked. Stated First Edition. A true family saga set in Shanghai against the violent, incredible events of the Chinese civil war.
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The Bretons (Peoples of Europe Series)

By: Galliou, Patrick; Jones, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 08791

ISBN: 0631164065

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Barely a trace of wear to book and jacket. A clean, sharp copy. 334 pages with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black and white plates as well as figures and genealogical charts. From the publisher: "A history of one of the most distinctive regions of France, from prehistoric times to the end of the independent Duchy in the 15th century. The authors draw upon a wide range of material to explore a society which has combined peoples from two very different linguistic and cultural traditions."
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Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923

By: Gardner, Lloyd C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 07764

ISBN: 0195034295

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. Jacket slightly toned. 383 pages with Notes and Index. An examination of the reactions of Britain and the United States to revolutions in the early part of the 20th century, which occurred in Mexico, China, and Russia--all within the same period of time that preceded the Great War in Europe (World War I). President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George are the prominent figures in this study.
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Historians at Work, Volume Two: Valla to Gibbon

By: Gay, Peter & Victor G. Wexler (Editors)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1972

Seller ID: 05468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Slightly chipped jacket at the spine ends. Light soil to spine. 406 pages.
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Historians at Work, Volume IV: Dilthey to Hofstadter

By: Gay, Peter and Gerald J. Cavanaugh (Editors)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1975

Seller ID: 01759

ISBN: 0060114762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bumping to spine ends and corners. Jacket price-clipped and chipped at the spine ends, wear to the spine. This final volume in the set includes selections from the principal historical writings of twentieth-century writers. 411 pages.
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Historians at Work, Volume III: Niebuhr to Maitland

By: Gay, Peter and Victor G. Wexler (Editors)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1975

Seller ID: 01758

ISBN: 0060114746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lightly bumped in a price-clipped jacket. Minor abrasions to spine of jacket. This volume in the set includes selections from the principal historical works of nineteenth-century writers such as Jules Michelet, Jacob Burkhardt, Karl Marx, Francis Parkman, and Henry Adams. 325 pages.
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The Real Suez Crisis: The End of a Great Nineteenth Century Work

By: Georges-Picot, Jacques

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1978

Seller ID: 07749

ISBN: 0151759634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

The former Chairman of the Board of the Suez Company answers questions surrounding the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal on the night of July 26, 1956 and the French-run Suez Company being asked to leave. 200 pages.
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The Pacific Century: Asia and America in the Modern World

By: Gibney, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1992

Seller ID: 07812

ISBN: 0684193493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to book and jacket. Companion volume to the PBS TV Series. 596 pages with Selected Refrences and Index. Illustrated with maps and photos, including a section of color plates. Heavy volume that may require extrra postage for expedited or overseas delivery.
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Victoria Illustrated, 1857 & 1862: Engravings from the Original Editions By S.T. Gill & N. Chevalier

By: Gill, Samuel Thomas; Newnham, W. H.; Chevalier, N.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Lansdowne Press: 1971

Seller ID: 07686

ISBN: 0701803002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Trace of shelf wear and several tiny specks to the fore-edge of the page block. Previous owner names at bottom of title page. 128 pages featuring engravings from the Gold Rush era in Victoria, Australia, which were published in two albums titled Victoria Illustrated in 1857 and 1862.
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The Other Side of Jordan

By: Glueck, Nelson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, American Schools of Oriental Research: 1970

Seller ID: 02507

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Very light shelf wear, some chipping to the jacket's spine ends. From the author's introduction: "Revised edition of the author's monumental archaeological study. Glueck's exploration covered from the Yarmuk River in the north, bordering Syria, to the Gulf of Aqabah in the south, and from the Iraqi and Arabian deserts to the east and south, westward to that part of the great rift reaching from Turkey to Africa in which the Jordan River and valley, the Dead Sea and the Wadi Arabah are contained. For the first time in modern history an entire land consisting of a complete geographical entity...
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Category: History