Search Results: Titles starting with L from House of Our Own Books

Paris, France: Editions Gallimard, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In French (very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Italia: Edizioni Cardano, 1995. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine/Fine: Published in Italy with text in Italian: The Charterhouse and Europe: Six Centuries of Travels to the Charterhouse of Pavia consists primarily of travelers' accounts of visits to the Charterhouse of Pavia, an elaborate Carthusian monastery in Lombardy; also includes biographical sketches of writers and travelers, color photographs of the monastery, and many illustrations throughout (black covers, gift inscription on the front end paper; black dust jacket with white lettering, antique map on the front, drawing of the monastery on the back; a bright clean, tight copy)

La Habana Cuba: Ministerio de Educacion de la Republica de Cuba. Paper Covers. Good. An issue of the Spanish edition of the International Journal of Socialist Countries on contemporary education, translated from the Russian edition / La Edicion en Espanol (yellow paper covers with shelf and edge wear, white sticker on front cover, pages browned, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Armand Colin, 1990. Reprint. Very Good/No Jacket. 10 1/4" X 8. From 1889 to 1893 the French botanist Georges Colomb, under the pseudonym Christophe, published a popular series of early comic strips about a French provincial family; this is a reprint of an album originally published in 1893 of reproductions of the comic strips; text in French (orange pictorial covers with gold & black lettering and cartoon characters on the front and green decorative end papers; covers have slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Glenat. Paperback. Near Fine. 9 1/2" x 11. This book, in French, contains a selection of political cartoons of the Chirac era published in the Swiss press from 1995 to 2007 (light blue pictorial cover with cartoon of Chirac on the front, slight corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is the 5th edition, published in 1983, of a Spanish translation by Aurelio Garzon del Camino of Debray's account of Che Guevara's abortive guerrilla war in Bolivia; Debray, a French intellectual and journalist, author of Revolution in the Revolution?, a handbook for guerrilla warfare, was convicted in Bolivia of being an associate of Guevara and imprisoned for three years before an international campaign led to his release (white cover with color photo of Che on the front, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good. Original edition of Italian novel (The Bishop's Room) set on Lake Maggiore, also made into a film by Dino Risi (green cloth with gold lettering on spine, cover edges and spine sunned, minor edgewear, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Librairie Armand Colin, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text in French; Political Life in France Since 1789: Volume 2; laminated white paper-covered boards, slightly bumped corners; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy (volume 1 also available)

Paris, France: Librairie Armand Colin, 1965. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text in French; Political Life in France Since 1789: Volume 1: laminated white paper-covered boards, slightly bumped corner; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy (Volume 2 also available)

Madrid, Spain: Editorial Betania, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in Spanish (The Visionary: Work in Two Acts); this drama had its premiere at the Public Theatre's Festival Latino de Nueva York in 1984; the author, a playwright and songwiter, was born in Cuba in 1932 but spent most of his life in New York City, where he co-founded El Teatro de las Americas Unidas in 1973 (light yellow pictorial cover with photo of the author on the back, slight edgewear, crease along front fold; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Maison des Sciences de L'Homme , 2006. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. In French (The Slum from One Century to Another), a volume in the series Horizons Americains (American Horizons), with a preface by Yves Grafmeyer; the author is a professor of sociology in Rio de Janeiro; a publisher's review copy (white pictorial cover, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Tubingen, Deutschland: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text in French; this book is a supplement to the Journal for Romance Philology (yellow textured cloth with black lettering is slightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Roma, Italia: Carocci, 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in Italian (red cover with green lettering, slight edgewear & corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Japan: International Society for Educational Information, 1974. Paper Covers. Very Good. 7 1/8" X 8 1/4. This booklet is an introduction to the labor situation in Japan and covers employment, wages, labor unions and labor-management relations, employee welfare, worker consciousness, and labor policy; the editor, a professor at Tokyo University, notes that the Japanese system of wages and employment has evoked interest in the Western world, and that Japan's economic growth is based on a highly educated labor force, lifetime employment, a seniority wage system, and enterprise unions organized according to individual companies; further, the labor-managment relation is defined as a human rather than contractual relationship, a situation based on unique Japanese cultural characteristics (white pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Oxford, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1976. This book is a Marxist analysis of the social position, behavior, and ideology of artisans in 19th century Edinburgh; it attempts to answer questions about the nature of class domination and the social forces that might have challenged that domination (black cloth with gold lettering; orange dust jacket with white lettering has very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Boston, MA, U.S.A: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The object of this book is to examine the position of black migrant labor in the British political process; based on research in an area of north-west London undergoing socioeconomic decline and with a high proportion of black workers, the authors explore a number of issues, including relations between working class consciousness and racial consciousnes, racism itself, trade unionism, options for political action, and issues of importance to migrant women workers (black pictorial cover with slight edgewear, reading crease along edge of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Amherst, MA, U.S.A.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. The central concern of this history of the British labor movement is with the relationship between working-class organization and the idea of a socialist transformation of society; it argues that the building of trade unions was an activity distinct from mobilizing the working class (black cloth with silver lettering; pictorial dust jacket with red lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Langenscheidt, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. This is the English-German volume (English words with German definitions) of the latest revision of the Condensed Muret-Sanders German Dictionary, which the Times Literary Supplement said "can confidently be regarded as the best large-scale English-German dictionary available to the student of either language;" this edition includes thousands of new words and phrases; 1325 pages (blue cloth with gold lettering; two corners slightly bumped, lower corner of text block creased; yellow dust jacket with slight corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; includes cardboard box; a very large, heavy volume)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The essays in this volume concern the relationship between society and politics in England, in particular the changing place of the working class; it examines both the analytical conceptions of class, and the actual manifestations of class in the history of English politics and culture since the 1830s; it draws a distinction between two conceptions of class, the commonplace perception of its pervasiveness and the Marxist conception of its revolutionary significance, and proceeds to challenge the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of class consciousness (cream-colored cover with photo of the 1889 London dock strike on the front, pages tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Clevedon, England, U.K.: Multilingual Matters, 1993. Trade Paperback. Fine. This book examines injustices in language policy and practice in education and suggests how to remove them; it looks at policies that are formal and explicit, as well as policies that are tacit, and the three groups most affected: women and girls, minority cultural groups, and minority social groups (white pictorial cover with blue lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)