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326 pp. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free endpaper. Several highlighted passages. Book is tight and square. Spine is not creased.

440 pp. Several penciled underlined passages in the first few pages. Ex-college library book with the usual stamped markings and card holder attached. Covers are tight and square.

In 'As New Condition." Full page illustrations throughout. "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Peter Sandbichler Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Lugners (Truth is the Invention of a Liar)." Exhibition was held from July 16th to September 4th, 2011. Text in German and English.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. A couple of pages have a slight fold on the extreme bottom outside edges. Unclipped DJ is bright and intact without any creases or chips. There is an almost undetectable small, closed tear at the top outer edge of the front DJ. From the front DJ flap, "Feeling a desire to reconnect to the Bible, award-winning author Bruce Feiler set out on a perilous, ten-thousand-mile journey, retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. traveling through three continents, five countries, and four war zones, Feiler is the first person to complete such a historic expedition."

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."

480 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Author has signed the title page. In "As new Condition". "My purpose in this book has been to reconstruct some of the long-forgotten events that occurred in the southern portion of the state of West Virginia during the early days of the Civil War.", from the Preface.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, bright, and tight binding. Price unclipped DJ has some wear around the edges with a small chip out of the top spine. Back of DJ is smudged. Written at the top of the front free end paper, "Book find - 10-27-48." with a price 1.79. From the front DJ flap, "This is an account of how we lost a fight for democracy at home while winning a victory over fascism on the battlefield of Europe and Asia. The fight we lost was fought in Washington, and the issue was how American business and the American people were to be organized for the super-human production effort that was required for victory. The fight was between those that believed a democracy at war should be a cooperative effort of all the people, of big and little business and labor alike, and those who wanted a limited war to be fought in such a way as not to threaten any vested interest of big business or any privilege of the War or State Departments."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Black and white photo sections throughout. The extreme outer edges of the binding are slightly faded. DJ is bright with no tears nor chips. The inside of DJ has some foxing. This volume appears unused. From the front DJ flap, "Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. 'A War to be Won' is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War which tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air."

350 pp. In as new condition. DJ has very slight wear along the spine. From the inside DJ flap, "Throughout the Second World War, I. F. Stone, one of America's finest investigative journalists, observed the political and international scene from his post as Washington correspondent for 'The Nation'. "

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight, and intact covers. The covers have a very slight curl on the outside edge. Page 451 has a small ding on the middle bottom of the page. Illustrated fully with photos throughout. "In a world where so much evil exists, where human nature itself propels people into aggressive action, there is no chance that war will simply disappear, just because we hope it will. Indeed, our history shows us that some wars had to be fought - and still the contradictions and paradox of armed conflict confound us at every turn. World War II was such a war, and there is much we can learn from it."

63 pp. Text is unmarked and clean in tight and intact covers. Booklet is age-toned with very minor wear along the outside edges. Part of the Little Lenin Library series, Volume 2. "Lenin's essay on the second International will...serve as an aid in the determined and persistent struggle which the workers must wage against their enemies within the labor movement." p. 6.

272 pp. Some highlighted passages in the first half of the book. Previous owner's name on the half-title page. Used book stamp and label from a bookstore. Book is clean and tight. Spine is not creased.

23 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Pamphlet is intact with a small chip out of the bottom outside corner on each page. Last page has a chip out of the top inside corner that includes part of the text.

808 pp. Black and white photos included. Only defects are a slight smudge on the fore edge of the text and a stain on the bottom fore edge of the text block. The same stain is on the bottom of pages 3357-369. Worst is page 359 and 360 though not covering any of the text.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Spine is not creased. Very light shelf wear to back cover. "In the summer of 1980 the Republican Party, dominated by its ultra-right wing, made no secret of its objectives. The Republican platform called for arms negotiations with the Soviet Union from a position of 'military superiority' - a position that effectively ruled out the possibility of reaching a mutually acceptable arms control agreement." pp.24-25.

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Full page photos included. Previous owner's name on the top of the front free end paper. DJ has some smudging and wear around the edges. From the front DJ, "...which embodies the fascinating story of the Annapolis, Md. State House - oldest in the Nation in daily use."

Text is clean and unmarked in an attractive and intact binding. Lettering on the spine is faded. Several pages are cut short in the text at the top of the text block. Minor foxing at the outer edges of the text block. Attractive volume from the late 19th or early 20th century.

Volume Five of this mid-19th century edition series. Text has foxing and stains on the text margins throughout. The front free endpapers and title page are detached but included. Chip is out of the top of the spine. Corners of the binding are worn.

There is foxing and stains throughout the text. Writing only exists on the free front and back end papers and a contents page. Back binding is loose but attached. One of the front free end papers is missing a piece. Corners of the binding are worn. This is Volume Four from a 19th century edition of this work.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, tight. and bright binding. Black and white plate section included with a full-page color frontispiece. DJ is without tears or chips with very slight shelf wear present. "This book has been published to accompany the exhibition 'Artists of the Tudor Court: the portrait miniature rediscovered 1520-1620' held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 9 July - 9 November 1983."