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The Fifties
by David Halberstam
"A sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
Hard Times
by Studs Terkel
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.
Americas Books & Ephemera
Notes on Echinoids from the Tertiary of California.
by Pack, R.W
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1909. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. Volume 5, No. 18, pp. 275-283, two plates. 2 institutional stamps..
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£20.41
The Breccias of the Mariposa Formation in the Vicinity of Colfax, California
by Moody, Clarence L
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1917. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Volume 10, No. 21, pp. 383-420, 4 text figures, 6 plates. 1 institutional stamp..
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£28.57
The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical (Cass Library of African Studies)
by Hogg, Peter C
London: Frank Cass, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xvii, 409 pages. Uncirculated clean ex-library copy. .
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£22.86
Love, Wages, Slavery The Literature of Servitude in the United States
by RYAN, Barbara
IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Hardcover. First edition. Like New hardcover with Like New dustwrapper. First edition. The book has stamp mark on bottom foredge. The book is a very nice, clean copy.
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£31.02
Ontario ethno-cultural newspapers, 1835-1972: An annotated checklist
by McLaren, Duncan
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 234 pages, ex-library copy, clean. .
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£12.25
Selected Bibliography on the Negro. Supplement to third edition
New York: The national urban league, department of research, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 23 pages. Ex-library.
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£24.49
Hard Times : An Oral History of the Great Depression
by Studs Terkel
Pocket Books, 1981. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£9.98
Fiction and the American literary marketplace. The role of newspaper syndicates in America 1860-1900.
by Johanningsmeier, Charles A.:
-Cambridge University Press, 1997-. Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History. First edition. xii+284 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to 'Syndicates', firms which subsequently sold the work to...
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£68.65£51.49
Klondyke to Kenya.
by Raper, Fred
London: Skeffington, 1938. Book. Good. Green Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pages, frontispiece and 21 other b/w illustrations. Ex-lending library but only markings on front endpaper, not on binding, slight watermarks bottom corner of frontispiece. Rare autobiography of an incredibly adventurous life covering, the Klondyke gold rush, the founding days of Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi in Zaire), prospecting in Africa, British Columbia, World war one in Kenya...
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£130.62
Hard Times : An Oral History of the Great Depression in America
by Studs Terkel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1986. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.62
Hard Times: Oral History of the Great Depression
by Terkel, Studs
Hardback. Acceptable.
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£8.35
A bibliography of Canadian native arts: Indian and Eskimo arts, craft, dance and music
by Bradley, Ian and Patricia
Victoria: GLC Publishers, 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 109 pages. Ex-library.
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£14.70
Metamorphism in the Southern Sierra Nevada northeast of Visalia California.
by Durrell, Cordell
BerKELEY: University of California Press, 1940. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. Volume 25, No. 1, pp. 1-118. 25 figures in text, one map. one institutional stamp, some wear on spine..
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£10.20
Hard Times
by Studs Terkel
Not a library or remainder copy. Discus Books (Avon Books), First Edition, 9th Printing, 1971. Book has some very light wear, light page tanning, o/w this is in very nice condition w/ no writing or highlighting. Please allow 4-8 business days for delivery.
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£6.92
Yucatan : An Annotated Bibliography of Documents and Manuscripts on the Archeology and History of Yucatan in Archives and Libraries of Mexico, North America and Europe. Catalogo de documentos para la historia de Yucatan y Campeche que se hallan en diversos archivos y bibliotecas de Mexico y del extranjero
by Martinez, Hector Peres (editor)
Salisbury: Documentary Publications, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 133 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1943 edition. Ex-library, seems uncirculated, clean, no markings on the binding.
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£97.97
Hard Times : An Oral History of the Great Depression in America
by Studs Terkel
New Press, The, 2005. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.18
A Guide to the History of Louisiana (Reference Guides to State History and Research)
by Cummins, Light Townsend; Jeansonne, Glen
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. xi, 298 pages. Uncirculated and very clean ex-library copy, no markings on the binding..
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£48.98
Unto Dust
by Herman Charles Bosman
Human & Rousseau, 1964. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Very good condition. Spine, cover and binding all absolutely fine. Contents unmarked and no inscription; silver gilt on spine very strong. Dustcover intact but shows wear and has a tear on the front cover.
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£9.00£8.10
Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries: A Narrative of Summer Travel in the Interior of Alaska
by Stuck, Hudson
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xvi, 387 pages, frontispiece, many b/w plates (1 missing), large folding map at the back. Ex--library, the map has tears and adhesion damage. .
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£24.49
The Battery, 1869
by VALENTINE, D. T. (David Thomas)
New York: D.T. Valentine, 1869. unbound. View. Lithograph with hand coloring. Sheet measures 9 1/2" x 13 1/4"<br/> <br/> This charming view depicts a a bird's eye view of the Battery in lower Manhattan, New York. Shows the promenade, as well as Castle Garden (later know as Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton), which served over the years as exhibition hall, opera house, theater, New York City Aquarium and perhaps most famously as America's first immigration station (before Ellis...
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£204.10
A New Shark of the Family Ptychodontidae from South America.
by Reinhart, Roy H
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. Volume 28, No. 8, pp. 195-202, one plate. 2 institutional stamps..
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£14.70
Geology of the Covelo District Mendocino County, California.
by Clark, Samuel G
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. Volume 25, No. 2, pp. 119-142, 7 text figures. 1 institutional stamp..
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£28.57
