Search Results: World History from Paperback Recycler

Atlanta, GA: Majestic Books, 1980. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 214 pp. with Index and Bibliography. Illus. with B&W photos. Cover lightly worn and soiled; gift inscription on title page. Text clean, no tears.

Agrigento: Self Published. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 136 pp. with Index. Color photos and map. Light edge wear. Binding tight, text clean.

Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2015. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 425 pp. Includes Chronology, Bibliography, Index, and List of Contributors. B&W photos. Binding tight, text clean. The book has a slight musty smell. Shipment out of the US will require additional postage.

London: Collins, 1961. Third Impression . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 319 pp. with Index. Illus. with B&W plates. Green cloth The binding is cracked at the title page, with the first 3 pages loose from the top edge. Small white spot on spine. Text clean, no tears.

Ottawa: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1970. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 19 pp. Stapled wraps. Illustrated with B&W photos and maps. Cover lightly worn; small tear at top edge at fold. Text clean.

Brooklyn, NY: The Institute of the Joint Apprenticeship Program. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 46 pp. Well illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. Cover lightly worn. Text clean, no tears.

London: J. Miles & Co. Ltd., 1934. First Printing . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 61 pp. Tan cloth, brown lettering. Illustrated with B&W plates. Signed on the title page by the Major of Stratford upon Avon (Roderick Ba.....). The cloth is slightly discolored along the edges; former owner's name on front endpaper; boards slightly bowed. Binding tight, text clean.

Seoul, Korea: Korean-British Society, 1984. First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 62 pp. with Notes. Illus. with B&W photos. Lavendar wraps. Binding tight, text clean.

NY: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1944. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 52 pp. plus 21 B&W plates. Dark green wraps, black lettering. Contents: "Doll, Queen, or Goddess?" by Elizabeth Riefstahl and "The Tapestries of Colonial Peru" by Nathalie Herman Zimmern. Ex-Library copy with pocket removed from front endpaper, library stamps and stickers. Front cover torn at bottom spine area. Text clean.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1943. First Printing . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 141 pp. with Index and Chronology. Tan cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with charts. The history of the calendar, and a new and better time plan. Former owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Binding tight, text clean.

Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 369 pp. with Appendixes; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index of Recipes by Course, and General Index. Illus. with color photos.Part of the Series "Studies in Food and Gastronomy". Ex-Library copy with library stamps and stickers. Binding tight, text clean, spine square. Shipment out of the US will require additional postage.

NY: Paragon House, 1988. First Pb Ptg. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 318 pp. with index and list of contributors. Nine provocative chapters by prominent Chinese specialists which analyze Chinese economic change - the break-up of collective farming, the growth of private commerce, and the decentralization of industry. A PWPA book. Binding tight, text clean.

Banbury, Oxfordshire: Porthkerry Publications, 1985. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 60 pp. Lovely B&W drawings of the churches of North Oxfordshire. Gift inscription on front endpaper, jacket price-clipped. Binding tight, text clean.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Dorrance & Company, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 251 pp. with Index. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper ("To Alan Courtney with personal best wishes, Roy Cadwell, Feb. 9/64"). Edges soiled, corners bumped, light foxing to paper. Binding tight, text clean.

Miami FL: Mnemosyne Publishing Co., 1969. Reprint . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 264 pp. First published London, 1848. Being a narrative of the principal events which led to Negro slavery in the West Indies and America. Library pocket on front endpaper, sticker on spine, stamps on edges and title page. Edges worn. Binding tight, text clean.

Lima, Peru: Fondo De Cultura Popular, 1969. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 127 pp. Diez anos del Poder Rovolucionario Analisis y Exposicion detallada ante la CEPAL y la Prensa Mundial. Text in Spanish. Pages browned, cover worn.

London: Odhams Books, Ltd., 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 320 pp. with Index. Illus. with B&W plates, map endpapers. Red cloth. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. Also laid in is a letter from the former owner of the book (to whom it was inscribed) to Alan Courtney of Miami (he was forwarding the book to Mr. Courtney). A famous diplomatic correspondent's urgent warning to the West about tomorrow in Asia. Fore-edge soiled, jacket worn.

NY: Book-of-the-month Club, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Good +/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 340 pp. with Index and Bibliography. A convent of nuns possessed by devils, a priest accused of witchcraft and martyred at the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, a saintly mystic gripped by the demons he had challenged - these are the extraordinary elements of a powerful and absorbing book. Light edge wear to book and jacket. Binding tight, text clean.

Mexico City: Self Published, 1961. First Printing . Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 176 pp. Illus. with B&W drawings and maps (2 fold-out). Tan cloth with gilt lettering and illustration. The front free endpapers have been cut out and the cut continues into the title page and 2nd page almost cutting through them. There are library stamps and stickers, some pencil notations in the text and the hinges are weak. No missing or loose pages.

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Imperial Publishing Co. Ltd., 1944. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 237 pp., illus. with drawings. Pictorial endpapers. Brown cloth. Corners and edges worn. Author is Station Director Radio Station CHNS, Halifax. A series of broadcast talks designed to make us familiar with our City and Province and revive memories of bygone days. Binding tight, text clean.