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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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Cuban Foreign Relations: A Chronology 1959-1982

By: Franklin, Jane [Introduction By William LeoGrande]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Center for Cuban Studies: 1984

Seller ID: 04166

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

69 pages, with Index.
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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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Public Lives: Women, Family, and Society in Victorian Britain

By: Gordon, Eleanor and Gwyneth Nair

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 05091

ISBN: 0300102208

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

294 pages with Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated.
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Science and the Soviet Social Order

By: Graham, Loren R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 07601

ISBN: 0674794206

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket has slight edge wear and the price has been clipped form the front flap. Clean copy. 443 pages with Notes and Index.
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International Communism in the Era of Lenin

By: Gruber, Helmut

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 07007

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Light foxing to endpapers and edges of the text block. Jacket chipped, slightly rubbed, and protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 512 pages, with Selected General Bibliography, Chronology, and Index.
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The Queen Mother and Her Family

By: Hall, Trevor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, British Heritage Press: 1983

Seller ID: 00162

ISBN: 0517405547

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Corners and spine ends bumped. Upper corners of pages slightly bent. Previous owner blind stamp. Dust jacket chipped with a few smal tears. Longer tear to the rear flap. 206 pages profusely illustrated with black and white and color photos. Foreword by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort. Oversized, heavy volume that may require additional postage for expedited or overseas delivery.
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Mexico

By: Hanff, Helene

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Nelson Doubleday, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 08194

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Published for children in co-operation with the American Geographical Society. 64 pages with photographs and illustrations and placeholders for stamps that were issued with the book. All stamps have been affixed to their proper places in the book.
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Uckfield : Portrait of a Wealden Town

By: Hart, Brian; Nunn, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Uckfield, Millgate Publishing: 1988

Seller ID: 03717

ISBN: 0951045415

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition assumed, as no additional printings indicated. Soft cover, 8.5 X 11 inches. 64 pages with numerous black & white historical photos of Uckfield, in the heart of the Sussex Weald in England. Maps on the inside covers, a 1911 map inside the back cover. Creases to the covers, otherwise in nice condition.
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Public Television: America's First Station

By: Hawes, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sunstone Press: 1996

Seller ID: 04560

ISBN: 0865342458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Inscribed to the previous owner: "To Pedro, Ever onward. William Hawes." 160 pages with Notes and Index. Illustrated with black & white photos. History of the first public television station (PBS)--KUHT in Houston, which signed on May 25th, 1953.
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