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Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Engels, Frederick - 1892

Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844: With Preface Written In 1892

by Engels, Frederick

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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. Hardcover. Fair. Red cloth-covered boards are mottled and splotchy, but title and author in black are clear. Cloth is worn at top and bottom spine edges and front corner tips. Gilt lettering on spine still has some shine. Front board has a few tiny pin-head-size spots of white. Front paste down and free front endpaper are split at binding. Previous owner's bookplate in on inside of front board. Previous bookstore's stamp is on free front endpaper. Pencil notation (not ours) on ffep states that "pages 113-128 are hanging by thread." This is true. Binding has several splits, but none of the pages are missing. Pages are unmarked and clean throughout. There are 4 pages after the index that list other books in a "Social Science Series."

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  • Date Published 1892

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HISTOIRE DES CROISADES (4 VOL SET - COMPLETE)

HISTOIRE DES CROISADES (4 VOL SET - COMPLETE)

by M. Michaud

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Paris: Furne et Cie, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol 1 � vii, 528 pgs. Vol 2 � 502 pgs. Vol 3 � 510 pgs. Vol 4 � 494 pgs. Text in French. 6 x 9 in. Half chocolate-brown morocco with red marbled shiny paper boards. 4 raised bars on spine with gilt lettering and designs. Brown marble endpapers. Marbled edges to text block. Brown silk bookmark. Tissue-protected frontis illustration. Vol 4 has fold-out map at end. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+ ; leather and gilt on spines very clean and bright, some very slight wear, very faint cracking. Some wear to paper boards. Tops of text block darkened with age. Foxing sporadic throughout text. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front paste down. Wear to and very small tears to corners. Very tight Vol 1 � slight damage to raised bars on spine, wear to front board. Vol 3 � tiny damage to one raised band of spine.
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WILLIAM I AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE
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WILLIAM I AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE: A Biographical and Historical Sketch

by G. Barnett Smith

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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Fair. Gift inscription signed by author on half-title page - dated March 2, 1888. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have bumping at corners and fraying at head and tail of spine. Book is cocked. Hinges are exposed. Front board partially separated from text block. 355 pp.
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CORNELII NEPOTIS QUAE EXSTANT OMNIA. QUID PRAETEREA IN ACCURATISSIMA HAC  EDITIONE PRASTITUM SIT,...
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CORNELII NEPOTIS QUAE EXSTANT OMNIA. QUID PRAETEREA IN ACCURATISSIMA HAC EDITIONE PRASTITUM SIT, INDICAT EPISTOLA AD LECTOREM

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Patavii: Josephus Cominus. Very Good. 1720. First Edition. Hardcover. Josephus Cominus; Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer nearly all of whose writings are lost. His only surviving work is the "Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae" (included herein pp. 1-125). This is actually only one volume of Nepos' larger "De Viris Illustribus," originally containing descriptions of foreign and Roman kings, generals, lawyers, orators, poets, historians, and philosophers. Johann Albert Fabricius (1668 - 1736) who was a German classical scholar and bibliographer included this work in his 'BIBLIOTHECAE LATINAE" (1st pub. 1703). [ ( xxxvi) , 140pp, 66] Vellum, spine with raised bands. Marble page edges. Interior of text Is tight and intact. A few margin notes. First 15 pages have a bottom margin damp stain. Slight lean. Roman History; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages .
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Movements in European History (Rare FIRST STATE)
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Movements in European History (Rare FIRST STATE)

by D. H. Lawrence

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Oxford: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First illustrated edition, first printing, first state, with the plate showing the Old South Church in Boston incorrectly as the place where Patrick Henry gave his famous "Give me liberty, or give me Death" speech at page 271, which was substituted with the plate showing the Boston Harbor in the second state. The vast majority of the first-state copies were recalled and destroyed by the publisher with only 12 known copies surviving. In the original-issue dark-blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover. xiii + 354 pages, followed by 15 pages of b/w maps. Many full-page b/w illustrations throughout. Large, heavy book measuring 8 1/8" x 5 5/8" x 1 1/8" and weighing nearly 2 pounds. In NEAR FINE condition. Book is very bright and clean, tight and square, with strong, firm hinges with no cracking. Very slight bumps to the tips of two corners, very… Read More
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La Guerre / Documents de la Section Photographique de l'Armée
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La Guerre / Documents de la Section Photographique de l'Armée

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(Ministère de la Guerre) Librairie Armand Colin, s.d. (1916) 35x28,5 cm. Fascicule VI: Reims - Soissons - Arras Fascicule VII: En Alsace reconquise Fascicule VIII: Armes et munitions Fascicule IX: En Artois Fascicule XI: Prisonniers et trophées Fascicule XII: De l' Yser à la mer du Nord Fascicule XIV: Les étapes du blessé
--- Some wear at spines. Valuable B&W photographs from the First World War. Text in french.
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HISTOIRE DES CROISADES (4 VOL SET - COMPLETE)

HISTOIRE DES CROISADES (4 VOL SET - COMPLETE)

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Paris: Furne et Cie, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol 1 � vii, 528 pgs. Vol 2 � 502 pgs. Vol 3 � 510 pgs. Vol 4 � 494 pgs. Text in French. 6 x 9 in. Half chocolate-brown morocco with red marbled shiny paper boards. 4 raised bars on spine with gilt lettering and designs. Brown marble endpapers. Marbled edges to text block. Brown silk bookmark. Tissue-protected frontis illustration. Vol 4 has fold-out map at end. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+ ; leather and gilt on spines very clean and bright, some very slight wear, very faint cracking. Some wear to paper boards. Tops of text block darkened with age. Foxing sporadic throughout text. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front paste down. Wear to and very small tears to corners. Very tight Vol 1 � slight damage to raised bars on spine, wear to front board. Vol 3 � tiny damage to one raised band of spine.
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Corsica in its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The record of a tour in the summer of...
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Corsica in its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The record of a tour in the summer of 1852. Translated from the German by Russell Martineau, M. A. In Three Parts.

by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1855. First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821 - 1891) historian and writer.

Russell Martineau (1831 - 1898), Linguist, translator and librarian of Early Printed Books at the British Museum. The eldest son of James Martineau.

"The entrepot of all the surrounding nations of the continent"
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CORNELII NEPOTIS QUAE EXSTANT OMNIA. QUID PRAETEREA IN ACCURATISSIMA HAC  EDITIONE PRASTITUM SIT,...
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CORNELII NEPOTIS QUAE EXSTANT OMNIA. QUID PRAETEREA IN ACCURATISSIMA HAC EDITIONE PRASTITUM SIT, INDICAT EPISTOLA AD LECTOREM

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Patavii: Josephus Cominus. Very Good. 1720. First Edition. Hardcover. Josephus Cominus; Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer nearly all of whose writings are lost. His only surviving work is the "Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae" (included herein pp. 1-125). This is actually only one volume of Nepos' larger "De Viris Illustribus," originally containing descriptions of foreign and Roman kings, generals, lawyers, orators, poets, historians, and philosophers. Johann Albert Fabricius (1668 - 1736) who was a German classical scholar and bibliographer included this work in his 'BIBLIOTHECAE LATINAE" (1st pub. 1703). [ ( xxxvi) , 140pp, 66] Vellum, spine with raised bands. Marble page edges. Interior of text Is tight and intact. A few margin notes. First 15 pages have a bottom margin damp stain. Slight lean. Roman History; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages .
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Movements in European History (Rare FIRST STATE)
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Movements in European History (Rare FIRST STATE)

by D. H. Lawrence

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Oxford: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First illustrated edition, first printing, first state, with the plate showing the Old South Church in Boston incorrectly as the place where Patrick Henry gave his famous "Give me liberty, or give me Death" speech at page 271, which was substituted with the plate showing the Boston Harbor in the second state. The vast majority of the first-state copies were recalled and destroyed by the publisher with only 12 known copies surviving. In the original-issue dark-blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover. xiii + 354 pages, followed by 15 pages of b/w maps. Many full-page b/w illustrations throughout. Large, heavy book measuring 8 1/8" x 5 5/8" x 1 1/8" and weighing nearly 2 pounds. In NEAR FINE condition. Book is very bright and clean, tight and square, with strong, firm hinges with no cracking. Very slight bumps to the tips of two corners, very… Read More
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Scholia stin Megali Charta tou Riga / Comments on the Great Chart of Riga
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Scholia stin Megali Charta tou Riga / Comments on the Great Chart of Riga

by Chatzifotis, Ioannis M.

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England In 1844 : With a Preface Written In 1892

by Frederick Engels

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: With a Preface written in 1892

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 : Complete and Uncensored

by Engels, Frederick

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844

by Frederick Engels

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: With a Preface written in 1892

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844

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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Marx+Engels compendium)
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Marx+Engels compendium)

by Engels, Frederick

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The Condition Of The Working-Class In England In 1844 : Complete And Uncensored

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Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries  Vol....

Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries Vol. II (Froissart's Chronicles)

by Froissart, Sir John

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London: William Smith, 1839. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (as published). 7" x 10. History from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Volume 2 of 2. Damage to the spine / backstrip and the back board detached though present but page block still tightly bound. Rough cut paper, pages clean throughout. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK, usually within 24 hours. Please call or email with your questions. This could be a good rebinding / restoration project. A heavier book, please enquire about shipping costs to your destination. 7"x10
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Soviet Russia: Promise or Menace?

Soviet Russia: Promise or Menace?

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New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 62, [2] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Attack on Soviet communism by Arnold Petersen, who was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party. The SLP was a bitter foe of the Communists, claiming they had abandoned Marxism. CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout, soiling to wrappers but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good.
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2

by W. B. Dixon

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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000
Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert

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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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V Zajetí Slov
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V Zajetí Slov

by apek, Karel

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Prague: Svoboda, 1969. Later Czech edition. Hardcover. Very good -. 209 pp. Octavo. [20.5 cm]. Blue cloth over boards with stamped illustration of eyeglasses, a pipe, and a pen on front cover. Publisher's pink top stain. Original dust jacket is in very good- condition, intact but foxed, toned, and mildly torn at edges and corners. Water damage to bottom portion of back cover, but textblock and dust jacket are unaffected. Written in his mother tongue, apek writes short essays about specific words and their uses and idiocyncracies. The second portion of the book moves into a broader reflection on the use of phrases and idioms and their cultural significance.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Angola Under the Portuguese
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Angola Under the Portuguese: The Myth and the Reality

by Bender, Gerald J

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xxvii, 288 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, top edge stained red, in white dust jacket printed in plum. Perspectives on Southern Africa, 23. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, rubbing to bottom edge of binding, internally crisp and clean, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor age-toning. Excellent copy.
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THE DUTCH BARRIER 1705 - 1719
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THE DUTCH BARRIER 1705 - 1719

by Geikie, Roderick & Montgomery, Isabel A. with Trevelyan, G.M. & Geyl, P

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Cambridge University Press, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxi, 418pp, frontispiece map of The Southern Netherlands, 5 Appendices. Bookplate of a former owner on the fep, with his name discretely in ink on the ffep, otherwise a clean, tight copy..
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Sociologia anarchica

Sociologia anarchica

by Gori, Pietro

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Milano: Editrice Moderna, 1947. Third Edition. Printed wrappers. Opere Volume VII. Stain to top edge and to lower corner of text block, old price to back cover. About very good. In the Italian language.; Octavo.
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

by Robert M Edsel

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1599951495
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First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket slows slightest shelf wear, and there is some yellowing of the pages around the edges, but the book binding is tight and clean. Signed and inscribed by author. Inscription reads, "To Richard Best Wishes." Book will be bubble wrapped upon shipping.At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments… Read More
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