Americas
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Top Sellers in Americas
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
Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West
by Holthaus, Gary
University of Arizona Press, 1997. 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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£4.91
Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II
by Kashima, Tetsuden
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked, showing light reader's use and handling. Full cloth binding. xi, 316pp. Slightly rubbed jacket now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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£20.41
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
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
Jesuit Relations and Other Americana in the Library of James F. Bell. A Catalogue
by compiled by Frank K. Walter and Virginia Doneghy
Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xii. 419 pages, facsimiles of title pages. Ex-library, very clean seems uncirculated..
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£13.06
Diccionario básico español - maya - español
by BASTARRACHEA MANZANO Juan Ramón - YAH PECH Ermilo - BRICENO CHEL Fidencio
Maldonado Editores, Merida, Yucatan, 1992, 3rd edition 1996. In-8, iii & 134 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. Language: Spanish - Maya. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mexico.
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£19.17
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
Descripción de las Indias Ocidentales. 4 volumes (complete set)
by HERRERA Y TORSEDILLAS (de) Antonio
Extremely rare. Oficina Real de Nicolas Rodríguez Franco, Madrid, 1726-1730. Eight parts in four volumes, folio (296 x 203mm). Engraved title and eight engraved section titles, copied from the title pages of the original 1601-15 Madrid edition; engraved head-pieces; 14 engraved maps in vol. 1, of which 12 are double-page and two folding (light marginal wear and spotting on title; marginal repairs on title for section 2; repaired corner on title for section 4; light dampstaining at beginning of vol. 3...
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£8,295.73
The Young Man of God. Memories of Stanley Pumphrey.
by Newman, Henry Stanley
London, Ca. 1882: Partridge Book. Very Good. Brown Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 298 pages, frontispiece. Library plate from "Friend's Meeting House, Ilkley" on front endpaper but no other library markings..
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£39.19
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
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
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
Hard Times : An Oral History of the Great Depression in America
by Studs Terkel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1986. Paperback. Good. Former library book; 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
Relief sculpture of ancient Mexico. Rubbings of objects from the Mayan and Aztec world. Vol. I: Text. Vol. II,1: plates: Maya, Tolteca. Vol. II,2: plates: Azteca, Olmeca, Teotihuacan, Zapoteca, Mixteca, Totonaca, Huaxteca (complete)
by TONEYAMA Kojin
Rare. Bijutsu Shuppansha & Boston Book and Art, Tokyo - Boston, 1971. First edition. Folio, 49 pages, 69 plates. Original orange cloth with printed paper label, a fine copy. (HDS) Language: English. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mexico.
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£243.99
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
Les Aztèques à la veille de la conquête espagnole
by SOUSTELLE Jacques
Hachette, Paris, 1955, reprint 1995 in the collection: "La vie quotidienne. Civilisations et sociétés". In-8, 332 pages. Original softcover, small bump on lower corner, otherwise as new. Language: French. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mexico.
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£9.59
Hard Times: An Oral History of The Great Depression (Signed First Edition)
by TERKEL, Studs
New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 462 pages. Another terrific book from Chicago journalistic mainstay Terkel who won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for his book "The Good War." A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with a long tear to the base of the front panel, some faint foxing and other light wear. Signed by Terkel on the front free endpaper with his generic: "Let the good times roll"...
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£44.90
Diccionario zapoteco de Juarez. Zapoteco-Español. Español-Zapoteco
by NELLIS Neil - GOODNER DE NELLIS Jane
Serie de Vocabularios y Diccionarios Indigenas Mariano Silva y Aceves, 27. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, México, 1983. First edition. In-8, 484 pages. Original softcover. Front cover and first pages have a bend on the lower corner, otherwise a fine copy. Language: Spanish. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mexico.
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£14.81
Yell Chia Lhen Xtilla. Mi pueblo y mi palabra. Palabras zapotecas
by CASTELLANOS M. Javier
Rare. Zanhe Xbab SA, Oaxaca de Juarez, 1986, reprint 1999. In-8, 92 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. Language: Spanish. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mexico.
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£39.21
Geology and Mineral Resources of Manitoba.
by Davies, J. F.; B. B. Bannatyne; G. S. Barry & H. R. McCabe
Winnipeg: Province of Manitoba/Department of Mines and Natural Resources, 1962. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 190 pages. Illustrated with numerous fold-out maps, photos and diagrams..
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£11.43
Tradiciones mexicanas
by VERTI Sebastián
Editorial Diana, México, 1991, 7th reprint 1997. In-8, 415 pages. Original softcover, slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Language: Spanish. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mexico.
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£14.81
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
