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$25.00
xxzcb179955

Islam in the African-American Experience


TURNER, RICHARD BRENT

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: religion African-American studies history Islam religious muslims

$15.00
xxzcc179959

China and the Superpowers


MEDVEDEV, ROY & SHUKMAN, HAROLD (Trans)

SOME HIGHLIGHTING, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1986

KEYWORDS: China Chinese politics US America American Russia Russian political relations foreign history

$25.00
xxzcc179960

Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir: Volume 1


DAVIS, VARINA & SYMONDS, CRAIG L. (Intro)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company 1990

KEYWORDS: Jefferson Davis US America American confederacy confederate biography memoir politics political history presidents presidency

$15.00
xxzcc179962

War Between Russia and China


SALISBURY, HARRISON E.

ANNOTATIONS & UNDERSCORING, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company 1969

KEYWORDS: Russia China relations conflict history soviet Russian Chinese politics political tensions

$22.50
xxzci179975

Peking and Moscow


MEHNERT, KLAUS & VENNEWITZ, LEILA (Trans)

SOME ANNOTATION & HIGHLIGHTING, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1963

KEYWORDS: political politics history China Russia Chinese Russian soviet foreign relations

$40.00
1y98a/2

Seed of a Country: A Story of the Life and Times of John and Janet McGregor


McGREGOR, LESLIE WYLIE

Super octavo, black faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 140pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to boards, fep missing, inscription in ink to full title page)

PUBLISHER: Privately Published 1988

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Scottish migrants history Aotearoa early settlers pioneers biography memoir McGregor John Janet

$60.00
1y98a/3

A History of Queen's Redoubt & the Invasion of the Waikato


BARTON, IAN & RITCHIE, NEVILLE

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus title page, xiii + 314pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Atuanui Press 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history conflict Waikato War colonial Maori British Queen's Redoubt

$40.00
1y98a/5

Round Shot and Rammers


PETERSON, HAROLD L. & COPELAND, PETER F. (Illus) & HOLST, DONALD W. (Illus) & KLINGER, ROBERT L. (Illus)

Quarto, orange heavy boards, black lettering to grey buckram spine, frontispiece, 128pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps, white-out/tippex to top corner of ffep, light foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: Bonanza Books 1969

KEYWORDS: US America American history muzzle loading artillery military weaponry guns canons mortars howitzers siege guns petards swivel columbiads

$45.00
1y98a/6

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium


INGLIS, LUCY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 440pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2018

KEYWORDS: first edition opium drug opiates industry war pharmaceuticals history poppy tears poppies heroin fentanyl

$40.00
1y98a/7

The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga, 1758


NESTER, WILLIAM R.

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white & red lettering to spine, xi + 264pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light fading, chafing & soiling to spine & boards, sl foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2007

KEYWORDS: military history war Ticonderoga British New York 18th eighteenth century conflict

$50.00
1y98a/24

Disraeli's Daughter


STYLES, CATHERINE

WARMLY INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, 159pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2013

KEYWORDS: Benjamin Disraeli illegitimate children daughters biography family history British politicians Victorian Britain

$50.00
1y98a/35

Celtic Religion in Roman Britain


WEBSTER, GRAHAM

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 205pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Barnes & Noble Books 1987

KEYWORDS: religion ancient history celts celtic Roman Britain British archaeology archeology anthropology

$40.00
1y98a/42

Pillars of the Past: History, Science, Technology as These Relate to Chronology


GINENTHAL, CHARLES

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 578pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, sl soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated (2003)

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity geophysics Immanuel Velikovsky civilisations civilizations archaeology archeology

$40.00
1y98a/47

When China Unites: An Interpretive History of the Chinese Revolution


GANNES, HARRY

FIRST EDITION, octavo, orange buckram boards, blue lettering & decoration/illus to spine, top page edges stained blue, 293pp + xiii index to rear, folding map to prelims, VG- (light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 1937

KEYWORDS: first edition China Chinese history revolution politics 20th twentieth century

$85.00
1y98b/3

East of the Iron Curtain


VAN NARVIG, WILLIAM

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black illus to front board, illus eps, 361pp, VG- (heavy staining to boards, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, some light to moderate water & water related staining to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Ziff Davis 1946

KEYWORDS: first edition Russia Russian soviet geopolitics politics political territory history

$45.00
1y98b/4

Cursed Days: A Diary of Revolution


BUNIN, IVAN & MARULLO, THOMAS GAITON (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, red lettering to black buckram spine, frontispiece, xiii + 286pp, VG (sl scuffing to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, occasional light highlighting) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ivan R. Dee 1998

KEYWORDS: first edition Russian revolution Russia anti-bolshevik diary journal history

$45.00
1y98b/8

Galatas 1941: Courage in Vain


McCONNELL, LYNN

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus eps, 256pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate curling & creasing to cover edges & corners, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reed 2006

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war 2 two ii Greece Galatas campaigns Crete New Zealand kiwi soldiers

$25.00
1y98b/9

In Darkest England and the Way Out


GENERAL BOOTH [WILLIAM]

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, folding frontispiece, 285pp + xxxi appendix to rear, VG- (heavy chipping & scuffing to spine extrems- adhesive strapping reinforcement/mending, light scuffing & cracking to spine & hinges, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutters, half title pg detached but present & other prelim pgs loose, 1cm closed tear to folding frontis, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army N/D (c.1890)

KEYWORDS: Salvation Army Christianity history religion charity work charities poverty

$75.00
1y98b/12

The Syonan Years: Singapore Under Japanese Rule 1942-1945


BOI, LEE GEOK

Quarto, illus stiff card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, illus eps, illus title page & prelims, 345pp + unpaginated index to rear, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing/bruising to cover edges, moderate chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: National Archives of Singapore and Epigram Pte Ltd 2005

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Singapore Japan empire British Japanese Asia

$245.00
1y98b/26

Marguerite Higgins: War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent


HIGGINS, MARGUERITE & MYDANS, CARL et al (Photos)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY LEGENDARY PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, SCARCE! Octavo, grey buckram boards, red lettering to spine, illus eps, 223pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl discolouration to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps)

PUBLISHER: Doubleday & Company 1951

KEYWORDS: military history pulitzer prize winners Marguerite Higgins photography Korean war signed rare

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