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Albany, New York USA: Self-Published. Hardcover. Copy #240 of edition of 500 copies. Illustrated with photographs and color coat of arms. From the Foreword: THE World War brought into use a vast number of new words and phrases. They were short and expressive. Such terms as "No Man's Land," "Over the Top," "Buddy," and a score of others-everybody used them, and everybody knew what they meant. But, curiously enough, few people know how they came into existence. They were ... more information

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Princeton, New Jersey USA: Princeton University Press. No Jacket; Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. Retired library book with usual library markings. From the Foreword: Writing about service attaches-their history and, at least by implication, their sociology-must almost inevitably result in historical injustice. For it is largely by their indiscretions that they are known to the world. Not their achievements but their failures are celebrated, whatever form the celebration may take: documentary public... more information

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Portland, Or.: Timber Press, Incorporated. Hardcover. 0881922277 Dust jacket condition: VG. Drawing upon his gardening experience in what many consider to be a most difficult climate, author George Valchar has compiled a delightful and informative book, sure to inspire and energize amateur and expert gardeners alike. Warmly personal and unpretentious, the volume begins with a guided tour of the author's 2-4-acre garden in Connecticut, then describes each of the native and introduced plants in that ga... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, USA. Paperback. 0195089820 "Should attract serious excitement in the field.... Using a discursive approach so well and combining it so smoothly with the study of women's working lives, the book has real advantages over almost anything I can think of.... Very well written." -Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University. Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. This groundbreaking reassessment sets aside this app... more information

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New York: Praeger. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Retired library book with usual library markings. From the Foreword: Many thousands of men, and not a few women, have fought in the Philippines, often on both sides in the same war, for what they have believed to be the cause of freedom and democracy. We seek here to present some of their experiences and some of the conclusions that can be drawn from them. The result is neither scholarly history of the Philippine experience nor doctrine on h... more information

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Caedmon. Audio Book. Retired from library use. Original audio cassette in nice condition in library case, with usual library markings. ~ Guitar: Alvaro Marazzi Classical Guitar: David Perry The Band is comprised of: Piano: Patti Clements * Bass: Pepe Gonzales Timbales: Rudy Morales * Congas: Alfredo Mojicas, Jr. Children of the Polk Elementary School, Alexandria, Virginia Children of the Beauvoir School, Washington, D.C. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. ... more information

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New York: Crown Publishers. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: Good. Yellowish stain to lower corner of front panel of jacket. One indisputable peculiarity distinguishes Rousseau from every other painter. If this difference does not appear obvious to us today, it is because it has become blurred by a heightened eclecticism in the matter of taste. By pushing back the frontiers of art, the emancipation of esthetics has, in the course of the last hundred years, blinded us to the exceptional nature of the cus... more information

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New York, New York USA: Moffatt, Yard and Company. Hardcover. Bookplate affixed inside front cover. Short poem penned inside rear end paper Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1908. ... more information

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Scribners. Hardcover. 1st ed. From the Foreword: THE masterpieces of painting need no apologies; if they did they would not be masterpieces. Sometimes, however, a word of explanation puts them in a better light. Gallery visitors are disposed to jump at conclusions about them, to exalt or debase them in advance of the evidence. That is why so many tourists return from Europe each season with mixed or violent opinions about the old masters. They have not seen truly nor comprehended adequately nor judged ... more information

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New York, New York USA: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: No jacket. Retired library book with usual library markings. Front hinge open. Green cloth binding; cloth worn at spine ends and extremities. 432 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Fair. 1950. ... more information

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East Haddam, Connecticut USA: Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.. Paperback. Souvenir book. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. 24 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1963. ... more information

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New York, New York USA: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Retired library book with usual library markings. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. 387 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1963. ... more information

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London: Keagan Paul. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Illustrated. 172 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1920. ... more information

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The MIT Press. Paperback. 0262720353 2" Tear to paper cover at top edge. "Lost flower of the Andes is blooming in Britain." This headline in the Daily Telegraph celebrated the last remaining example of Passiflora lourdesae, a Venezuelan herbaceous climber that was raised from a cutting by John Vanderplank--the only successful attempt from a dozen cuttings sent to botanists around the world. The story of this dramatic recovery from extinction is just one of the delights of Passion Flowers... more information

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New Haven, CT, USA: Yale Univ Pr. Hardcover. Retired library book with usual library markings. Plates 105 and 106 are xerographic replacements. Front hinge tender. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Fair. 1924. ... more information

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Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. Paperback. 0752409670 Unread store shelf copy. Durham is a progressive New South city, one in which both the white and black populations have economically and culturally prospered over the past century. Durham's Hayti opens a door into the community's past that will allow you to walk down familiar streets into a time that may seem distant, but is not that far removed, and to experience the full life of Hayti, from its churches and schools to its businesses and recre... more information

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Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. Paperback. 0268017670 This comprehensive, critical edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the fruit of William Vantuono's research on the fourteenth-century romance. In combining fantasy and realism, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight praises court life with an undercurrent of satire against a declining chivalric ideal. The poem calls up from the mythic past the shadows of archetypal figures, yet inspires modern psychoanalytic interpretations, and en... more information

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New Brunswick, N.J.: I.H. Print. Co.. Hardcover. Almost as new. From the Foreword: Children of Ellis Island -This Side of the Rainbow is a collection of remembrances of children of turn-of-the-century Hungarian immigrants, recording their experiences in the Americanization process. The remembrances highlight those bittersweet years both before and during the Great Depression. Focusing on the impact of both Americanization and the Depression on the second generation, the story is first and foremost a t... more information

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New York, NY USA: Caedmon. Audio Cassette. Retired library copy with usual library markings. Tape in Fine condition in library clamshell case. CAEDMON CASSETTE CDL5 1473 Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1975. ... more information

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New York: Praeger. Dust jacket condition: Fair. Bibliography: p. 193-241. Dutch settlers in South Africa-on their Great Trek to the Orange Free State and the Transvaal-used to draw their wagons into a laager, a circle to defend themselves from the Zulus. Their descendants today have retreated within a new kind ol laager-the harsh and restrictive laws that constitute the policy of apartheid-to escape the realities of the modern, multiracial world. The laager this time is a trap, not a defense. This study ... more information

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