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$22.50
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Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism


GRAMM, JEFF

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: Harper Business 2015

KEYWORDS: business boardroom shareholders history Jeff Gramm

$25.00
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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth


BURKERT, WALTER & BING, PETER (Trans)

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: University of California Press N/D (c.1990s)

KEYWORDS: anthropology ancient history myths mythology Greece Greek rituals sacrifices

$36.50
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A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England


HOBBES, THOMAS & CROPSEY, JOSEPH (Ed & Intro)

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: University of Chicago Press 1971

KEYWORDS: Thomas Hobbes history historical dialogues philosophy law

$20.00
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The Invercargill Book


DEAR, LYNLEY

Octavo softcover, spiralbound (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: Morepork Press N/D (c.2005)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Southland Invercargill cities south island pioneers

$35.00
xx15pol212274

The Origin of Russian Communism


BERDYAEV, NICOLAS

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: Geoffrey Bles 1948

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian economics politics communism history

$25.00
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The Ship That Stood Still


READE, LESLIE & DE GROOT, EDWARD P (Ed & Updated) & HART, Miss EVA (Fore, Titanic Survivor)

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: Patrick Stephens 1993

KEYWORDS: maritime disasters nautical Captain Stanley shipwrecks history

$25.00
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Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building


KRAUS, HENRY

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) pgs 79-82 detached but present; 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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979

KEYWORDS: religion religious history buildings cathedrals finance economics

$75.00
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok


LEONOWENS, ANNA; WILLIAMS, LEIGH (introd)

Super 8vo, pp. xx + 267; purple buckram boards, spine lettered in yellow; plates; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep).

PUBLISHER: Roy Publishers [1954]

KEYWORDS: Anna Leonowens Siam Siamese Thailand court history 19th 20th century

$40.00
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848


HOWE, DANIEL WALKER

Super 8vo, pp. xx + 904; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Prwss 2007

KEYWORDS: United States of America 19th century American history politics government economic conditions economics social change international relations Daniel Walker Howe

$65.00
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Prohibition and Politics: Turbulent Decades in Tennessee, 1885-1920


ISAAC, PAUL E

Ex-library. First edition. Super 8vo, pp. x + 301; red cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; library markings to prelims & terminals; tape to boards, adhesive residue from tape to eps); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning).

PUBLISHER: The University of Tennessee Press 1965

KEYWORDS: Paul E Isaac United States of American 19th 20th century American history Tennessee prohibition

$40.00
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The Drug Beat


GELLER, ALLEN & BOAS, MAXWELL

Ex-library. 8vo, pp. xxii + 278; black buckram boards, spine lettered in yellow; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from tape to boards & eps; library markings to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning).

PUBLISHER: Cowles Book Company 1971

KEYWORDS: Allen Geller Maxwell Boas 20th century drug use drugs social history

$60.00
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The Drugtakers: The social meaning of drug use


YOUNG, JOCK

Ex-library. First edition. 8vo, pp. 240; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from tape to boards & eps; library markings to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to front & central gutters; pp. 5-8 peeling from gutter); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; price clipped to front flap; some water damage).

PUBLISHER: MacGibbon & Kee 1971

KEYWORDS: Jock Young 20th century drug use drugs social history first edition

$42.50
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Whangarei Hospital: A Century of Service, 1901-2001


MENEFY, DIANA (ed)

4to, pp. 308; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ht).

PUBLISHER: Northland Health 2001

KEYWORDS: Diana Menefy New Zealand Whangarei hospital 20th century history

$245.00
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The Great Books of Hashish Volume I, Book I


CHERNIAK, LAURENCE

Imp. 8vo, pp. xxiv + 150; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to p. i; light soiling throughout).

PUBLISHER: And/Or Press 1979

KEYWORDS: Laurence Cherniak marijuana hashish cannabis history social drugs drug use

$55.00
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Alchemy: The Secret Art


DE ROLA, STANISLAS KLOSSOWSKI

Imp. 8vo, pp. 128; green heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Bounty Books 1973

KEYWORDS: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola alchemy science philosophy nature history

$55.00
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The Flowering of a Waratah: Neurology in Australia: A History


JEADIE, MERVYN

Super 8vo, pp. xvi + 350; illus. heavy card boards; photos; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges) ; in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Scholarly Publishing 2024

KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand neurology neurologists history

$40.00
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Indian Hemp: A Social Menace


JOHNSON, DONALD; PULLAR-STRECKER, H (forew)

Ex-library. First edition. 8vo, pp. 112; red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; library markings to spine & eps; light to moderate cracking to front & rear hinge).

PUBLISHER: Christopher Johnson 1952

KEYWORDS: Donald McI Johnson H Pullar-Strecker Indian hemp marijuana cannabis drugs drug use history marihuana

$60.00
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Film and the Shoah in France and Italy


LICHTNER, GIACOMO

Super 8vo, pp. xii + 244; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising, curling & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Vallentine Mitchell 2008

KEYWORDS: Giacomo Lichtner film cinema Shoah France Italy history

$585.00
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The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914-1915: An account based on official records of the Seizure and Occupation by New Zealand of the German Islands of Western Samoa


SMITH, STEPHEN JOHN

Scarce. 8vo, pp. 218; green/blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; photos; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions in black ink to front pastedown & in blue ink to rfep; light cracking to front gutters; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Ferguson & Osborn 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Samoa occuption military history 20th century

$175.00
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24 Battalion


BURDON, R M

First edition. 8vo, pp. xvi + 261; red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, foldout maps; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to central gutters); in facsimile d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping, some loss to spine at head and tail; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs 1953

KEYWORDS: R M Burdon New Zealand war warfare military history first edition

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