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120 pp. Underlined passages and notes in the margins throughout. Covers are intact and tight. Fifteen additional pages of photos included in the back. "And the epic of the virgin lands has once again shown the world the fine moral qualities of Soviet people. It has become a symbol of the selfless service to the Homeland, a great achievement of the socialist epoch." p.120.

187 pp. Light fading to the very top of the covers. A name label is attached to the top outside corner of the front free end paper. Ribbon book marker is attached. Clean and unmarked text in square and tight binding. DJ has a small section of the top layer of paper scrapped off the front. Also very light wear around the DJ edges.

520 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. This is Volume VII of V.I. Lenin Selected Works. First published by Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. DJ has a large chip out of the top spine. Corners and edges of DJ are worn.

135 pp. A small name and address label attached to the front cover. Several highlighted passages. Age-toned but tight and sqaure

351 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Spine is not creased. Minor dulling of covers from shelf life. From the back cover, "Dolores Ibarruri...was the most famous - and in many ways, the most important - Spanish Communist of her times..."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding is slightly faded on the extreme front and back edges. Tape mark on the outside corner of the front free end paper. DJ has a closed tear on the front top edge and a chip out of the bottom front edge. From the back DJ flap, "In his book 'Secret Weapon in Africa,' Soviet foreign affairs analyst Oleg Ignatiev takes Angola to show the mechanics of the subversive activity conducted by the imperialist forces on the African continent. In the past ten years he made eight trips, more than any other Soviet journalist, to guerrilla-controlled territories in Portugal's African colonies."

Age-toned text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. DJ is faded, smudged, and has a large tear at the spine. DJ spine has a chip out of the bottom. DJ is worn along the outer edges. From the front DJ flap, "Here is another rich and exciting book by a famous team of writers. Spreading out before the reader is a colorful panorama of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance when mankind was struggling out of the darkness of superstition and intolerance into the light of scientific truth."

Text is clean and unmarked. Several stains in the margins. Card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top of the text block. Price unclipped DJ is protected by a plastic cover and is without tears, chips, or noticeable wear. From the back DJ flap, "Since Beale left Lynchburg a century and a half ago, adventurers, fortune-seekers and cryptologists have tried to locate the treasure, but to no avail. In 'Gold in the Blue Ridge', P. B. and Walter Dean Innis tell of their own hunt for the treasure."

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are intact with smudging and a small scrapped area on the front cover. Previous owner's name on the front cover and title page. Seven pages of ads in the back of volume.

Text is unmarked other than some foxing. Foxing on the edges of the text block. Binding is clean with clear lettering in the spine. Several cracks in the margin throughout. All pages are firmly attached. Previous owner's name and an inscription on the top of the front free end paper.

Text is clean and unmarked. Photo sections included. Some slight smudging on the text block edges. Covers are intact without tears or chips. A narrow stain along the bottom back cover edge. "This study of the Anglo-American alliance was enriched by the fact that many of the warring commanders took pains to keep a record of what they were doing - whether with an eye to publication, like George Patton, or out of the classic diarist's itch to jot, like the man Eisenhower called his 'eyes and ears', Everett Hughes. Some of the papers have been used by other historians...But many other, immensely revealing diaries have been neglected until now."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, bright, and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. A Presentation Label is attached to the front free end paper. This volume appears to have not been put into circulation. DJ has been protected with a plastic cover. There are two library labels attached to the otherwise fine condition DJ. From the Foreword, "Today, the origin of the type can be better understood for, historically. The type is now known to have developed from an English basic hull model that did not originate in the earlier Jamaica and colonial sloops, but was the foundation for the hull development of these and of the English cutter, as well as other fast-sailing ships."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume is over one hundred years old, and the text block edges show age-toning. There is a small, closed tear at the top of page 149. A corner crease is present at the edge of the back free end paper. "Immediately on his arrival, Columbus dispatched a courier to the king and queen of Spain with tidings of his discovery. He wrote also to the king of Portugal...requesting permission to go with his vessel to Lisbon...To prevent any misunderstanding as to the nature of his voyage, he assured the king that he had not been on the coast of Guinea, nor to any other of the Portuguese colonies, but had come from Cipango and the extremity of India, which he had discovered by sailing to the West."

Text is unmarked in a square and tight binding. Some foxing and a few smudges on the text margins. Text block edges are age toned. A solid volume over one hundred years old. From a series of 'The Works of Washington Irving." "Washington...had a very little private life but was eminently a public character. All of his actions and concerns almost from boyhood were connected with the history of his country...My work is founded on the correspondence of Washington, which, in fact, affords the amplest and surest groundwork for his biography...I have also made frequent use of 'Washington's Writings' as published by Mr. Sparks." pp3-4.

Volume is a solid and tight copy. A liquid stain is present on the top margin of a large portion of the first half of the text. Binding has been laminated. Closed tears on the top of pages 467-476 and page 69 of Volume II. Volume is from the New Hudson Edition of the works of Washington Irving. "The present volume treats of the earlier part of Washington's life previous to the war of the Revolution, giving his expeditions into the wilderness, his campaigns on the frontier in the old French war; and the other 'experiences,' by which his character was formed, and he was gradually trained up and prepared for his great destiny."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has been laminated. The back and front free end papers, title page, and the Preface have lines marked on them. The frontispiece has a strip of tape on the bottom. The volume is solid.

Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight binding. Green cloth book mark is attached. Top of text block is gilted. Slight wear to the outer edges of the binding. Inscribed on the front free end paper, To "Dannie' from 'Uncle Fred' Dec. 25th / 99. Very nice and attractive volume for the age.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the half title page. Only other defect is age-toning. Spine is not creased. From the front cover, "This is Grace Irwin's best novel to date. She recounts the exciting adventures of John Newton's life both as a profane and immoral slave trader and later as a devoted servant of Christ. And is there anywhere a more beautiful love story than that of John newton and Mary Catlett."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, tight, and bright binding. Only defect is a small dot remainder mark on the bottom of the text block. Price unclipped DJ is in fine condition. From the front DJ flap " 'Night and Horses and the Desert' reveals the authentic greatness of Classical Arabic literature. Selecting a wide range of Arabic poetry and prose in translation, from the most important and typical texts to the very obscure, Robert Irwin provides an invaluable introduction to the subject."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, tight, and bright binding. DJ is unmarred. Volume appears unused. From the front DJ flap, "The publication of Edward Said's hugely influential 'Orientalism' in 1981 called into question the entire history of the Western study of Islamic culture, condemning this scholarly tradition as one that presented inaccurate and deliberately demeaning representations of Islamic peoples and institutions..."