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Washington: Smithsonian. Hardcover. 1560980370 Dust jacket condition: Good. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Although modern African literature and music have become well known in the West, through the contributions of such famous authors as Chinua Achebe and Bessie Head and such popular musicians as King Sunny Ade and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the continent's vast body of modern visual arts has been little explored. ... more information

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Unknown. Paperback. Text in French and Korean with a bit of English. Illustrated in color throughout. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1988. ... more information

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Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ Pr. Hardcover. 0819550868 Dust jacket condition: VG. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Regarded in France as one of the most important contemporary writers, sometimes likened to Mallarme, Edmond Jabes was one of four writers (with Sartre, Camus, Levi-Strauss) whose work represented France at Expo 1967 in Montreal. Claude Mauriac, in Le Figaro, called his work "one of the major works... more information

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Grove Press, Granta. Paperback. 1929001150 Unread store shelf copy; Short edge tear to cover, else as new. Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85-an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the Indian tailor who became the face of a riot, Giles Foden on the origins of "The African Queen," plus new fiction by T. C. Boyle and Anne Enright.... more information

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. CD-ROM. 0781714176 New - Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery on CD-ROM> CD-ROM containing the full text of the author's text: Reconstructive Knee Surgery, c1995, and Knee Arthroplasty, c1995, by Paul Lotke. System requirements: Windows 95 or higher, 16MB RAM, and 5 MB free space; Macintosh System 7.5 or higher, 16MB RAM, and 5MB free space. 0 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . New. 1999. ... more information

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Plaid. Paperback. Light crease to front cover; else as new. 11 Painting Projects with the Gleam and Glimmer of FolkArt Metallics. 34 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1999. ... more information

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London, UK: Country Life. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: No jacket. Retired library book with usual library markings. Several pages at front and rear and endpapers show damp staining. From the Foreword: In preparing our notes for a history of toys, we desire to give an account, however imperfect, of the early companions of the youth of the world. The importance of suitably chosen toys is fully understood by those who realise that children's minds and tastes are run into the mould which their ... more information

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Wellingborough: Harpercollins. Paperback. 0850597137 Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Retired library book with usual library markings. What is it like to be strapped into a Tornado flying a few feet above the ground at close to the speed of sound, in the dark and regardless of weather conditions? Or to accelerate through Mach 1 in a vertical climb seconds after taking off in a Lightning? In this immensely readable book, Robert Jackson discusses a wide variety of modern fighter ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian. Hardcover. 087474377X Jacket condition: Good; Solid ex-US Military library copy. This well-researched book is a history of the Hawker Hunter, one of the most elegant - and effective - jet fighters of its era. The author, Robert Jackson, working closely with the Air Historical Branch of the Ministry of Defence, has drawn extensively on the Operational Records of the RAF Hunter squadrons to paint a vivid picture of the Hunter in action. We see the Hunter from its service debut... more information

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New York: American Photographic Book Pub. Co. Hardcover. 0817405518 Dust jacket condition: Good. This book gives you the latest comprehensive information on the Konica Autoreflex models! It explains in clear and precise terms how to operate the Autoreflex, and how to get the best results from your excellent Konica equipment. There are chapters devoted to lenses, accessories, flash, exposure, closeup and macro photography, as well as an extended section on composition, craftsmanship, and timing. Lou Jaco... more information

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Cleveland: Ameritype & Art. Paperback. 096297000X Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Every working day millions of people design, print, fill in and process forms. Unfortunately, many forms are designed by people without forms design training, resulting in forms that are inefficient, confusing and costly. It is also unfortunate that very few forms design books have ever been written and that, until now, a college-level textbook has never been written. To address this problem, For... more information

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Seattle: University of Washington Press. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. "Lectures originally delivered at the 1963 meeting of the Western History Association." Includes bibliographies. 113 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1965. ... more information

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Newtown, CT: Taunton. Hardcover. 0942391055 Contrast as a design tool What makes a "good" or successful house design? To architects Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein (among the authors of A Pattern Language) and Barbara Winslow (co-author of Design for Independent Living), the answer is contained in the idea of linked contrast. In everyday language, the authors explain their theory: how strong contrasts-open spaces combined with closed spaces, light with darkness, simplicity with complexity, ord... more information

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Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. Paperback. 0738504521 Cedar Grove is situated in the Peckman River Valley between the First and Second Watchung Mountains. Located only fifteen miles west of New York City, the area remained a farming community until well into the twentieth century. While generally focusing on the town in the early 1900s, Cedar Grove also chronicles significant events and personalities through the end of the millennium. Best known for being the home of the Meadowbrook and its nationwid... more information

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Brattleboro, VT, USA: STEPHEN DAYE PRESS. Hardcover. Retired library book with usual library markings. Cloth worn at bottom board and spine edges. Illustrated w/ b/w photos. 107 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1935. ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Nordic Press. Paperback. 0962972428 Contents Fine. Case shows wear. "Tere Eestimaa!" is a unique audiovisual course intended for anyone interested in learning colloquial Estonian. The course consists of: * a forty-five minute dramatization of a trip to Estonia * a forty-five minute audiocassette * * 144-page textbook The video was filmed on the spot in Estonia. It teaches communication in everyday situations and serves as an introduction to contemporary Estonian s... more information

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Sphere Books. Paperback. 0722127006 MURDERS MOST FOUL... Even on those dark, anxious nights when Jack the Ripper and his infamous Yorkshire namesake prowled the streets, few communities can have been as close to hysteria as was the East End of London in the weeks before Christmas, 1811. Nor have there been many slayings as brutal and apparently unprovoked as the seven bloody killings known collectively as the Ratcliffe Highway Murders. Feelings of revulsion ran so high that the corpse of the alleged murde... more information

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Argus Books. Paperback. 1854860178 In this book, David James explains how to obtain the best and most consistent performance from these 'hof engines and discusses their operation, installation, servicing, fuels and gloplugs, and the adjustments to make. 64 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . New. 1990. ... more information

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Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society. Hardcover. 0876360274 In a Fine slipcase. "Reprinted is an abridged version of the original edition (Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1823)." Raymond Grimaila designed this edition of 1950 copies of Sketches of a Tour to the Lafes. Connecticut Printers composed and printed the text in the Granjon type face on Mohawk Superfine paper. The Meriden Gravure Company reproduced the water-color sketches directly from originals in the collections of the American Philosophical ... more information

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Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. Dust jacket condition: VG. First edition. Light edge wear and tear to jacket. Henry James EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MORTON DAUWEN ZABEL For Henry James, travel was an art in itself; but, more than an art, it became a major factor in his own art and life, the basis of his moral and critical outlook, and a life activity second only to his writing. THE ART OF TBAVEL is not only a vivid record of famous places, shrewdly and elegantly observed. It is a record as well ... more information

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