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New York: Julian Messner. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Foxing on inside covers, small amount of shelf wear on cover. .

College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 089096243X . Book is clean and tight, Ex-library with the typical school library markings, only on the inside, so it will look nice on your shelf. Corners and spine are bumped and there is a nick on the top front edge of cover with a soiled spot on bottom edge of pages. My husband and I went to West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M) with Billy Harrison as undergraduates. He was a special guy. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. The Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874 was a famous (to Texans at least) Indian battle.; Ex-Library .

Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ Pr. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 025332579X . Book is clean and tight. Book has tiny bit of shelf wear on corners. ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 256 pages .

New York: Negro Universities. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. 0837115469 . This would be fine if there wasn't a bit of staining on the last pages of the index from the glue used. Little bit of shelf wear to tips of corners and spine. Clean and tight .

London: Octopus. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 070640128X . One dirty spot on front of white cover, Dust jacket has several tears; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Princeton, New Jersey: D VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY INC. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Book is clean and tight. Bottom of spine is bumped. Very, very nice copy. Stated first edition. 4 page bibliography. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 166 pages .

Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. Journal is clean and tight. Corners are bumped, spine is sunned. Articles are: Booker T. Washington in Biographical Perspective; The Shanghai Crisis of 1932: The basis of British Policy; Obstacles to Agricultural Growth in Eighteenth-Century France; Preparing the Public for War: efforts to establish a National Propaganda Agency, 1940-41; The Military and Politics in Turkey 1960-64 and lots of Book Reviews. .

Philadelphia, PA: American Studies Association. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. Journal is clean and tight, corners are bumped. Articles include: Brown's Ormond: the Fruits of Improvisation; Baroque and Picturesque Motifs in L'Enfant's design for the Federal Capital; The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: the Establishment of Mount Auburn and the "Rural Cemetery" Movement; Emily Dickinson's Valentines; It might have been Euthenics: the Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement. .

Philadelphia, PA: American Studies Association. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. Journal is clean and tight, corners are bumped. Articles include: The Symbol of the Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance; The Paradox of "Progressive" Socialism: the Case of Morris Hillquit, 1901-1914; Literature and the Historial; Uncle Tom and Archy Moore: The Antislavery Novel as Ideological Symbol; Red, White and the Army Blue: Empathy and Anger in the American West. .

Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1904303544 . Book is clean and tight. Dust jacket has tip of front fold clipped, top edge is shelf worn with small tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. Journal is clean and tight. Corners are bumped, spine is sunned. Top of spine is shelf worn and slightly torn. Articles are: The Advent of Printing in current Historical Literature: Notes and Comments on an Elusive Transformation; At the Borderland of Law and Economic History; The contributions of Willard Hurst; The Creation of Nobles in Prussia, 1871-1918; "For God, For China and for Yale" - the Open Door in Action. and lots of Book Reviews .

American Historical Association. Very Good. 1971. Softcover. Journal is clean and tight, corners are bumped. Articles on Social Change and Vices in Latin Christendom, Gymnastics and Sports in Fin-de-Siecle France, Social Welfare in Calvin's Geneva and lots of book reviews.; Periodical .

New York, NY: Arno. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Book is clean and the front hinge is cracked but not loose. Typical library markings and pocket, some library marks have magic marker over them. No marks on text. Cover is sunned on spine and has color lifted where spine label was partially removed. Corners and spine are bumped and shelf worn.; Ex-Library .

Washington, D. C.: Anthropological Society of Washington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Has some underlining and margin comments in ink, owner's name inside front cover. Rubbed areas on spine and wear on corners. .

New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. 0195018427 . Spine is bumped top and bottom. Dust jacket is chipped along edges top and bottom. .

St. Mary's University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. Softcover. Book is clean and tight. This is just part of six indexes of the Laredo Archives. I am enjoying reading about all of the cases that came before the judges. If you like all of court tv, you will enjoy this. Stapled with brown tape on the spine. ; Laredo Archives Series #5; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 76 pages .

Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Ex Machina Pub Co. Very Good. 1989. Softcover. 0944287042 . Book is clean and tight. Bottom of back cover is shelf worn. Names, pictures, biographies from South Dakota history, including American Indians.; 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall .

University of Wisconsin. Very Good. 1971. Reprint. Unbound. This is a UMI reprint of a Thesis, it is in a heavy cardboard report cover with typical folding aluminum rods. Some printing is light. Book is 463 pages long and heavy. Military and Labor Historians might be interested in this item. Occasional short line in margin next to item of interest.; 4to; 463 pages .

Scribners. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. Bookplate, spine has yellow mending tape, reading copy.; Ex-Library .

London: Country Life Limited. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Book is clean and hinges are tight - does lay flat at the center, pages have tanned with foxing in text section and endpages, not illustrations. Corners and ends of spine are bumped and shelf worn. Dust jacket has small tears and shelf wear; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .