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Taking Part: The Power and the People in Sweden

By: Link, Ruth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sweden, Sweden NOW/ingenjorsforlaget AB: 1973

Seller ID: 04764

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

135 pages. Account of current social practices and what to expect during the 1970s. Includes an interview with Prime Minister Olof Palme.
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Maya Script: A Civilization and Its Writing

By: Longhena, Maria

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Abbeville Press: 2000

Seller ID: 07827

ISBN: 0789206536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Slight edge wear to jacket. 180 pages with Further Reading list and Index. Illustrated.
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The Facts About Palestine

By: Lourie, Arthur

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Zionist Emergency Council:

Seller ID: 10606

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No date, circa 1943. 17-page stapled pamphlet promoting the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine.
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Bailes De Tierra En Chile

By: Loyola, Margot

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Valparaiso, Chile, Ediciones Universitarias De Valparaiso: 1980

Seller ID: 08643

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edicion de 2.000 ejemplares. Light wear to book. Bookstore sticker on the first page accompanied by a long gift inscription in Spanish. Small amount of foxing inside the covers, rest of the interior is clean. 276 pages with Glossary, Bibliography, and Appendix. Traditional Chilean dances with diagrams and musical scores.
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The Papers of James Madison, Volume 6: 1 January 1783 - 30 April 1783

By: Madison, James; Edited By William T. Hutchinson and William M.e. Rachal

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 09091

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The dust jacket has some discoloration and what appears to be moisture drop stains on the spine. They are not visible on the inside of the jacket and did not affect the spine of the book. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 545 pages, with Index and illustrations.
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The Papers of James Madison, Volume 7: 3 May 1783 - 20 February 1784

By: Madison, James; Edited by William T. Hutchinson and William M.E. Rachal

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 09092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The dust jacket is slightly darkened on the spine and has what appears to be moisture drop stains on the spine. They are not visible on the inside of the jacket and did not affect the spine of the book. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 479 pages, with Index and illustrations.
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Lindisfarne, the Cradle Island

By: Magnusson, Magnus

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Stocksfield, Northumberland, England, Oriel Press: 1984

Seller ID: 04335

ISBN: 0853622108

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Sheila Mackie's beautiful illustrations help tell the story of the Isle of Pilgrimage for birds and men, sanctuary of Nature, and shrine of Christianity from the beginning to the present day. 218 pages.
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En ros at Norrkoping

By: Malmberg, Arne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norrkoping, Nermans Bokhandel: 1963

Seller ID: 08067

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear. Clean, tight copy. The dust jacket has some chips and edge tears, rubbing to the rear panel, and is protected now in a clear Mylar cover. Eighty-eight pages with numerous black and white and color photos promoting Norrkoping, Sweden--its history, culture, and present day lifestyle.
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The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union: American Foreign Policy & the Disintegration of the USSR

By: Mandelbaum, Michael (Editor)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Colchester, Vermont, U.S.A., Council on Foreign Relations: 1991

Seller ID: 06333

ISBN: 0876091001

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

120 pages with Appendixes and Index.
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Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History

By: Margo, Robert A.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press: 1991

Seller ID: 05257

ISBN: 0226505103

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some faint highlighting of text and red underlining of a few sentences. Bookstore price sticker on front free endpaper. Clean otherwise throughout.
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

By: Martin, Thomas R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 05420

ISBN: 0300067674

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

252 pages with Suggested Reading and Index. Illustrated with maps, plans, tables, and photos.
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The American Collections of the University Museum: The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America [University Museum Bulletin, Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, June 1943]

By: Mason, J. Alden

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, University Museum: 1943

Seller ID: 05859

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

First several pages have a diagonal crease. Tail of the spine chipped. Soiling to rear cover. 64 pages, illustrated. This bulletin offers a brief sketch of the peoples and cultures of ancient Mexico and Central America, including the Aztecs, Mayans, and Toltecs. Illustrated with maps and photos of archaeological artifacts in the museum's archives.
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Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union

By: Matlock, Jack F. Jr.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1995

Seller ID: 06038

ISBN: 0679413766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to boards, jacket has a bit of wear at the extremities, no tears or chips. 836 pages, including the following after the chapters: Names and Transliteration, Chronology, Dramatis Personae, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Endpapers map of the Soviet Union 1989. A 16-page section of black and white photos follows page 342.
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Dueling; The Cult of Honor in Fin-de- Siècle Germany

By: McAleer, Kevin

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 09379

ISBN: 0691034621

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

268 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated. From the publisher: "This sharp, often playful, cultural critique of the German duel, the deadliest type of one-on-one combat in fin-de-siècle Germany, questions what it took "to be a man." From initial provocation to final death agony, the book invites the reader into the complex mindset and protocol of the duel."
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The American Revolution and its Influence on World Civilization

By: McCormick, Robert R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Chicago Tribune: 1945

Seller ID: 05654

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear, wear to the jacket's spine (small holes, tears). Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Subtitle on jacket: "How America's ideals have advance human progress and how they are now menaced by counter revolutionary forces." A compilation of a series of addresses broadcast over WGN and the Mutual Broadcasting System February 24-May 5, 1945.
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

By: McDaniel, W. Caleb

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2019

Seller ID: 11316

ISBN: 0190846992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very slight hint of having been read, though a clean, very gently used copy. 2020 Pulitzer Prizer winner for History. 340 pages with Appendix (A Essay on Sources), Notes, and Index. Black and white photos. From the publisher: "Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a Kentucky businessman, abducted Wood and sold her back into bondage. She obtained her freedom a second time after the war and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for $20,000 in damages, now known as reparations. Astonishingly, after ten years of li...
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Memories in Focus: N.E. Uslter from Old Photographs 1850-1950

By: McDonald, Tom & Robert Anderson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland, Second Coleraine Company boys' Brigade Old Boys Silver Band:

Seller ID: 04011

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

The book is not paginated, but includes one black & white plate per page. As there are 120 plates, the book runs about 120 pages, plus a brief Bibliography. Gift inscription to the previous owner on the front free endpaper.
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The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France

By: McGowan, Margaret M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 08092

ISBN: 0300085354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

461 pages, including Coda, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Numerous illustrations.
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The Genius of the People

By: Mee, Charles L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1987

Seller ID: 10842

ISBN: 006015702x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

348 pages with Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated, endpaper maps. The genius of the people as it revealed itself in the strange mix of bankers, farmers, politicians, merchants, scholars, and generals who struggled throughout the long summer of 1787 to construct a constitution unique in the history of nations.
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King of the Mountains: Ludwig II and the Bavarian Alps

By: Menzel, Marianne (Introduction and Text Selection)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Munchen, Objektiv Verlag: 1986

Seller ID: 08779

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

122 pages with numerous color photos of the Bavarian landscape by Gregor Schmid. Accompanied by contemporary texts from the 19th century. Endpaper maps of Bavaria. English translation by PJ Blumenthal.
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Category: History