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English text is clean and unmarked in a tight binding. Binding has some slight wear and fading at the edges. A label has been removed from the inside front binding leaving a residue. Margin is cracked at the front free end paper but the pages are attached. Several spots in the margins. Frontispiece with a tissue guard is included. Introduction by Louis Frechette. Ilustrations throughout.

172 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. DJ is bright, unblemished except for a very small ding at the top spine. Only other blemish is the previous owner's name on the top outside corner of the half title page. From the front DJ flap, "The Crusaders chose their target shrewdly. Hagia Sophia represented the apotheosis of Byzantine art and wealth. rare marbles, gathered from the farthest reaches of the empire, shone in its side galleries, gold candelabra glinted from its nave, and breathless gold mosaics covered every inch of its ceilings."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Covers are without tears or chips. A solid copy. From the front cover, "A major authoritative guide to the world of classic myth and epic."

248 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Maps and charts included. DJ is worn around the edges with small closed tears and chips. From the front DJ, "Written since the fall of Poland and the 'peace offensive', this is the first factual guide to the strange new war in Europe."

633 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Spine is faded. Card holder attached to the back free endpaper. Library stamps on the outside edges of the text block. A very good solid copy. "Hannay...pointed out that an examination of the rate at which the volatile constituent of a compound is driven off at a constant temperature may afford valuable information as to the constitution of the body examined, and would bring out the relation between the varying vapor tension of a decomposing body and its chemical constitution."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Only defects are some light smearing on the front and back DJ. Illustrated throughout. Text in Korean and English. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Handmade Memories' Kukje Gallery 17 October - 15 November 2008."

Text is unmarked. Several smudges on the outside margins. Binding is tight with wear at the top of the spine. School stamp on the inside front cover. Previous owner's name and "discard 59 RJ" written on the front free end paper. Illustrated throughout. Volume from the Health and Safety Series.

In "As New Condition". Red cloth book marker attached. Volume is No. 73 of the Everyman's Library series. A very attractive copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in intact covers without creases, tears, or chips. Spine is not creased. Photos included. From the back cover, "Provides a significant historical dimension to the present plight of the urban Negro and the impact of his deprivation on the larger community of which he is a part."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's names are on the front inside binding and on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. Some foxing throughout. Illustrations included. A solid copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's names are on the front inside binding and on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. Some foxing throughout. Illustrations included. A solid copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. There is a black spot on the top of the spine. Frontispiece with intact tissue guard are included. Slight wear to the corners of the binding. A solid volume. " 'Harold the Webbed' is the naive fairy bed-time story of an aged adventurer who has preserved through a lifetime of extraordinry experiences, not all of them glorious, the fabulous imagination of a child. And it is the author's complete obliviousness of all modern literary technique which evokes in us an almost breathless fascination." p. 12-13.

47 pp. Front and back covers are detached but included. Text is clean and unmarked. "There is an element of the incredible in the brutal facts of Harriet Tubman's early life. Indeed, she had no childhood, for in her fifth year she was plunged into hard labor, and was beaten so mercilessly and so regularly that the meaning of slavery is to be found in her experience." p. 5.

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Author's photo frontispiece included. A separate list of characters is included. Green cloth book marker attached.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. A green cloth book mark is attached. DJ is worn around the edges with two small chips out of the spine. A stain at the bottom of the front binding. Some foxing on the outside edges of the text block. From the Library of Selected Soviet Literature. Received the Stalin Prize in 1950.

373 pp. In as new condition.

308 pp. Tight, clean copy with light fading on the blue top edge. Scenes from the Republic movie serial, Hawk of the Wilderness, on the back DJ panel. Owner's signature on the front free endpaper.

Text is clean and unmarked. Only defect to covers is age toning. From the front cover, "A critical review of 'The Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery", by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman." Booklet was reprinted from the June and July 1974 issues of "Political Affairs."

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight, and square covers. Volume appears unused. Color photos throughout. From the back cover, "In 'Heaven's Mirror', author Graham Hancock continues the quest begun in his international bestseller 'Fingerprints of the Gods': to rediscover the hidden legacy of mankind and to reveal that 'ancient' cultures were, in fact, the heirs of a far older forgotten civilization and the inheritors of its archaic, mystical wisdom. Working with photographer Santha Faiia, Hancock traces a network of sacred sites around the globe on a spectacular voyage..."

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the half title page. A small red remainder mark is on the top of the text block. Color photos included. DJ has slight shelf wear but is without tears or chips. From the front DJ flap, "...Hancock traces a network of sacred sites around the globe on a spectacuar voyage of discovery that takes us from the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt to the enigmatic statues of Easter Island, from the haunting ruins of pre-Columbian America to the splendors of Angkor Wat...It is an odyssey that leads to sunken monuments and hidden chambers...that forces us to rethink our entire conception of the origins of civilization."