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407 pages with plates, maps, tables, bibliographies and index. Royal octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition limited to 1000 copies. Contents: "Modelos de desarrollo rural? Tres hipotesis para la discusion" by Olga Lucia Catillo Ospina; "Politicas publicas dirigidas al medio rural brasileno. El caso del Pronaf" by Rosangela Ap. de Mederios Hespanhol; "Intervencion estatal, participacion social y desarrollo rural en los Chimalapas, Oaxaca" by Yanga Villagomez Velazequez and Jorge Lopez Paniagua; "Desarrollo rural territorial y turismo comunitario indigena en el sur andino peruano. El patrimonio inmaterial y la diversidad cultural como recurso" by Beatriz Perez Galan; "Las transformaciones rurales y las relaciones de genero en America Latina. Aportes desde la 'nueva ruralidad', las 'estrategias de vida rurales' y la teoria de genero" by Maria Adelaida Farah Quijano; "Emprendimientos locales y organizativos para el manejo de recursos de uno comun en la… Read More

x+149 pages with tables, indexes and diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and black chess vignette to front cover. Introduction by Max Euwe (Betts: 29-153). First edition.An account of his chess career accompanied by fifty three complete games and nineteen game positions with full annotation. Includes indexes of openings and opponents.D A Yanofsky was born to a Jewish family in Brody, Poland (now western Ukraine), and moved to Canada when he was eight months old, settling with his family in Winnipeg. He learned to play chess at the age of eight. Yanofsky won his first Manitoba provincial championship at age 12 in 1937, also making his debut in the Closed Canadian Chess Championship that same year in Toronto. In 1939, just 14 years old, he played for Canada at the Buenos Aires Olympiad. Yanofsky was the sensation of the tournament, making the highest score on second board. He won his first Canadian Chess Championship in 1941 at age 16, at home in… Read More

[vi]-133 pages with photographs. Square Octavo (8" x 7 1/2"0 bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. These songs and chants express concepts which were as obvious and natural to the Indian as electricity is to present-day society. They were not contrived for idle entertainment, neither were they sung for the benefit of a few discerning listeners; they were part of the tribal fabric, full of meaning and power--direct communications with the infinite. Condition: Previous owner's name to half title, edge wear, corners bumped else a very good copy.

767-780 pages with charts, tables and figures. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Revista Mexicana de Sociologia Volume XX (20) Number 3 complete issue. From the library of Robert V Kemper. First edition. Contents: Nota acerca de la Primera Reunión del Sub-Comité de Sociología Rural y Urbana de la Asociación Internacional de Sociología de la U.N.E.S.C.O. by Oscar Uribe Villegas; Los Métodos de Investigación Social y la Política Científica del Sub-Comité de Sociología Rural y Urbana de la Asociación Internacional dc Sociología by Lucio Mendieta y Núñez; Esbozo de un Plan de Investigaciones acerca de la Vida Social en el Medio Urbano by Paul Chombart de Lauwe and Oscar Uribe Villegas; Características de los Datos Utilizables en un Estudio Internacional sobre la Urbanización by Jack P. Gibbs, Kingsley Davis and Oscar Uribe Villegas; Diferentes Condiciones de Vida en la Ciudad y en el Campo by Astolfo Tapia Moore; Interrogantes Relativas a la Tipología… Read More

278 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with gilt lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial wrappers. First American edition. When two armed intruders break into the Jarvises' country house, the lives of Derek, his wife Janet and daughter Hannah are to be changed forever. Fearing for their safety, Derek offers no resistance, but one of the men is not content with robbery and a brutal rape takes place. Though subsequently the men are caught, a bond of trust has been broken and Derek's family falls apart. Desperate to make amends, and hungry for revenge, he conceives a plan to punish the rapist in a way the criminal justice system has failed to do ... Condition: Fine in like jacket.

240 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. The Times' referred to this work as a superior psychothriller and it certainly lives up to the epithet. The central character is Mick Harvey, who has just been released after a spell in prison. He enjoys frightening people – it is his way of gaining a thrill. One day he encounters Laura and Marion, who subsequently report him for dangerous driving. Thereafter, Mick has one thought only on his mind – how to exact revenge. With what might seem a simple plot at first glance, Margaret Yorke manages to keep the reader on tenterhooks right up to the fitting conclusion. Condition: Jacket closed tear at back head edge else near fine in like jacket.

Mysterious Press 1995 New York, 1995 F/F 1st HB 8vo 6/24/97 278. Hardcover.

x+208 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Stark Young was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic, translator, and essayist. Young taught at the University of Mississippi in 1905-1907, and then moved to the University of Texas at Austin. There he established the Texas Review and became involved with theater. In 1915 he moved to Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he taught English until 1921. He resigned to pursue other interests and moved to New York City. In New York, he was appointed as an editor of Theater Arts Magazine and as drama critic for The New Republic. Young worked at The New Republic until his retirement in 1947. During this period he was also professionally involved with the theater in New York and wrote several plays. Young's plays include: Guenevere, Addio, Madretta, At The Shrine, The Star In The Trees, Twilight Saint, The Dead Poet, The Seven Kings and… Read More

151 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Second edition. Coup de Grâce is a 1939 novel in French by Marguerite Yourcenar. The narrative is a triangle drama set in the Baltics during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) Condition: Some insect damage to edges, page ends soiled. DW price clipped, spine ends and corners rubbed else about very good in a very good jacket.

223 pp. Spanish translation of Around the World in 80 Years: A Memoir. A Musical Odyssey.  Translation is by the author and Antonio Saborit.  Pages clean, binding tight, cover and spine uncreased; condition is like-new.