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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.
Last Train To Memphis
by Peter Guralnick
This is the first of two volumes that make up what is arguably the definitive Elvis biography. Rich in documentary and interview material, this volume charts Elvis' early years and his rise to fame, taking us up to his departure for Germany in 1958. Of all the biographies of Elvis - this is the one you will keep coming back to.
The Warmth Of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. The award made her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. She won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at...
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CUANDO ARDIO EL CIELO Y SE QUEMO LA TIERRA
by AMADO RIVERA BALDERAS, PEDRO ARRIETA FERNANDEZ FELIX BAEZ-JORGE
JUAN GERSON, PINTOR INDIGENA DEL SIGLO XVI ~ SIMBOLO DEL MESTIZAGE ~ TECAMACHALCO PUEBLA
by Rafael Carrillo Azpeitia
I'Ll Take My Stand
by Donald Davidson, F L Owsley, John Gould Fletcher, Lyle Lanier, Allen Tate, H C Nixon, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Robert Penn Warren, John Donald Wade, H B Kline, Stark Young John Crowe Ransom
Americas Books & Ephemera
Reich der Inka. Textteil: Sprache und Kultur im ältesten Peru. Bildteil: Keramik, Weberei und Monumentalbau.
by Fuhrmann, Ernst
Hagen: Folkwang Verlag, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 60 pages of text followed by 96 plates. .
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£12.14
Wine and the Good Life, By Angelo M. Pellegrini
by pellegrini, angelo
Knopf, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£12.73
HARD TIMES: An Oral History of The Great Depression
by Terkel, Studs
New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 462pp. This copy warmly INSCRIBED "TO DOCTOR BRONOWSKI (Jacob Bronowski - Ascent of Man), Let the light that is in rare men such as you shine among the rest of us With admiration, Studs Terkel." Embossed brown cloth, spine stamped in gold and black, cover is spotted. In pictorial dust jacket that has edge wear and small edge tear, light foxing to verso.
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£68.81
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List of Special Examiners and Their Post Office Addresses. [plus] Additional Instructions to Special Examiners.
Washington, 1883. Book. Good. Disbound. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ca. 20 pages, no wrappers, disbound from a volume of government publications. Published by the Department of the Interior, Pension Office. The Additional Instructions were published in 1889, 6 pages..
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£19.43
A Prison and a Prisoner
by Sheehan, Susan
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1978. 1st printing. Tight, square and unmarked in full cloth binding. 275pp. Price-clipped jacket now in a new mylar cover. A case study of George Malinow.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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£16.19
Immigration Laws and Regulations of February, 1906.
Washington: Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureua of Immigartion and Naturalization, 1906. Book. Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 48 pages..
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£17.81
American Diaries: Volume 1: Diaries Written from 1492 to 1844. Volume 2: Diaries Written from 1845 to 1980
by Arksey, Laura; Pries, Nancy; Reed, Marcia
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2 volume set. 310 and 501 pages. Ex-library, clean. Volume 2 has a separate ISBN number: 0810318006 and the publication date is 1987. Two heavy volumes which list and describe 6046 diaries. Includes geographic and name indices.
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£80.95
Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's
by Nash, Sunny
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. 3rd printing. Inscribed by Sunny on half title page. 186pp. Dust jacket is very slightly rubbed. Growing up and facing racisim in Bryan, Texas.. Inscribed and Signed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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£12.14
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
by Branch, Taylor
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 1st printing. Gift note inked on third front flyleaf. Quarter cloth binding. 1064pp. Jacket is price-clipped, offered now in a new mylar cover. Nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner for history.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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£21.05
Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy
by Beloff, Max
Pelican / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1972. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. black titles spine; "Thomas Jefferson contributed more than any other thinker and statesman to shaping the ideals and political techniques of modern America. He was a participant in every important development in American affairs between the Declaration of Independence and the Momoe Doctrine. His dramatic confllct with Alexander Hamilton prefigured many vital issues of later...
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£6.00
The Money Question During Reconstruction
by Nugent, Walter T. K
W. W. Norton & Co, New York, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. white titles spine; "Gold, silver, or greenbacks? For three decades after the Civil War the American people were baffled, irritated, and divided by a great debate over the recondite question of money. The end of slavery; reconstruction in the South; the unrest of farmers, workers, and city dwellers; the mushrooming of industrial enterprise; the new immigration: these great problems of the postwar era failed to...
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£6.00
Mind at Play
by Gaskin, Stephen
Summertown: Book Publishing Company, 1980. Very scarce in hardcover. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked in full cream cloth binding. 183pp. Jacket is lightly rubbed but has a significant chip at spine head, affecting half of title on spine. Now in a new mylar cover. A collection of essays on religion, politics, philosophy and current affairs from the counterculture hippie teacher icon, who co-founded "The Farm," a spiritual commune in Summertown, Tennessee.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very...
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£48.57
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
by Mitford, Jessica
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition quarter cloth hard cover with dust jacket, VG/VG. Clean, tight, unmarked copy showing light reader's use and handling. Dust jacket retains original price, is lightly rubbed at extremes, and is offered in new mylar cover. viii, 277pp. From the afterword by Carl Bernstein: "Ms. Mitford demystifies what should be a simple process and takes us back to the basics. Reporting, she knows, is the best obtainable version of the truth. Then she shows us...
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£12.14
St. George and the Godfather
by Mailer, Norman
Signet, New York, 1972. Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. red titles spine; "Norman Mailer presents himself once more as a witness of our times-inside the conventions, 1972, he eyes the candidates with skyrocket brilliance, smells their aura, feels around their crowds, and sniffs the general ambiance. Through potent description, philosophic genius, humor and compassion, great reporting becomes an art as Norman Mailer, with exquisite cunning and precision, exposes the forces that...
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£6.00
McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of & a Critical Symposium with a Rebuttal By McLuhan
by Stearn, Gerald Emanuel (editor)
New York: Dial Press, 1967. 2nd printing. Tight, square and unmarked. Quarter cloth binding. 312pp. Contributions by Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Howard Gossage, Harold Rosenberg, George Steiner, and Tom Wolfe. Jacket is good only, well rubbed and with spine sunned to pale. Now in a new mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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£16.19
American Government and Politics
by Potter, Allen Meyers
Faber & Faber, London, 1955. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. white titles spine; "after a brief account of the framing of the Constitution, of the ideas which lay behind it and of how those ideas have been changed and modified by the shifting currents of history and politics, Mr. Potter gives a full and lively explanation of the position today. Through the complex and sometimes bewildering maze of constitutional theory and practice, of the relationship between President,...
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£5.00
Directory and Soldiers' Register of Wayne County, Indiana
by Power, J.C. (editor)
Richmond, Indiana: W.H. Lanthurn, 1865. Book. Good. Black Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 484 pages, many advertisements by local businesses. Original binding, foxing on some pages, no map, damage to front bottom corner, Japanese tissue paper on rear gutter. .
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£263.09
Skid Row, U.S.A.
by Harris, Sara
Doubleday & Company, 1956. Stated first edition. Toning to page edges. Name and address ink-stamped on half title page. Full cloth binding. 285pp. Jacket is good only, unclipped but well rubbed and worn along edges, especially around spine head. In a protective mylar cover. Skid Rows across the nation - New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, the West Coast.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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£16.19
Wakefield: 350 Years by the Lake - An Anniversary History.
by Bertrand, Nancy (editor)
Wakefield, Massachusetts: Wakefield 350, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. xi, 400 pages, many b/w illustrations. Wear on edges of dust wrapper. Inscribed by one of the authors of the book: Marcia Phinney..
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£29.14
... The Explosion, December 6, 1917 ... Dartmouth's Day of Anguish
by Chapman, Harry
Dartmouth: Dartmouth Museum Society, 1992. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. vi, 45 pages, b/w photos. .
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£11.33
The Fifties
by Halberstam, David
USA: Villard Books/Random House, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Trade Paperback Edition in Very Good Condition. 28 pages of photographic illustrations on coated paper. Book is clean and unmarkedwith slight wear to cover edges. Soundly bound, tight & solid, square. Pages lightly toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind, no creases or tears. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides our first panoramic view of the twentieth century's...
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£12.14
Boundaries of the Latin American republics; an annotated list of documents, 1493-1943. (Tentative version)
by Marchant, Alexander
Washington: Department of State, 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 386 pages. Ex-library copy. .
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£48.57
New Echinoids from the Tertiary of California.
by Weaver, Charles E
BerKELEY: University of California Press, 1908. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Volume 5, No. 17, pp. 271-274, two plates. 2 institutional stamps..
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£20.24
Vanishing trails of romance. Legendary and historical tales and events gleaned along moccasin-winged trails of Aztec and Indian, and the blazed trails of explorer and pioneer settler in enchanting Colorado.
by Boyer, Warren E. [Edward]
Denver, Colorado, Great West Publishers, © 1923. . Original-Ausgabe. Mit Anmerkungsteil. - Umschlagränder bestoßen; erste Bll. leicht eselsohrig, Besitzvermerk aV.
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£20.82
