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1) Iraq Under Siege
Arnove, Anthony ( Editor )

Cambridge:: South End Press, 2000 262p, trade pb, as new, not read. Includes articles by Noam Chomsky, Naseer Aruri, John Pilger et al... Soft Cover. As New/No Jacket. more information

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2) CANADA IN NORTH AMERICA 1800-1901
BROWN-HARMAN-JEANNERET

Toronto: Copp Clark, 1961 71p illus.12mot authors: Eleanor Harman & Marsh Jeanneret. Colour illus. By J Merle Smith,drawings: Ruth Bagshaw, maps: Robert Kunz. In pink cloth covered boards with illustrations on front and black lettering. Previous owner's signature. Cover slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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3) A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume Three, The Age of Revolution
Churchill, Winston C

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. 402 pages including maps & genealogical tables and index; footnotes. Book/binding is dark blue cloth on boards, gilt lettering on red blocks on spine; clean, firm, tight and square; light rubbing on tops. GLossy dustjacket has chips and repaired cuts at top/bottom edges; a few light rubbed spots on covers. Text and maps clean and unmarked on white pages.. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. more information

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4) Trust and Counterthrust
Classen, H. George

Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Rand McNally & Company, 1965 Hard Cover. History. 6" x 9" Tall. The genesis of the Canada-United States Boundary Red cloth with purple writing on. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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5) Heart of Jade
De Madariaga

New York: Creative Age Press, 1944 UNTIL DEC. 20, 2005 THIS BOOK WILL BE SHIPPED XPRESS POST CANADA. Cloth. Very Good/Fine/Fair. Illus. by Herbert Cahn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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6) Mao for Beginners
Del Rio, Edouardo (Rius)

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980 New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Softcover. Second Printing. Faint vertical partial crease on front cover, almost invisible. Cover is tan with picture of Chairman Mao on cover. Includes hundreds of b/w photographs and illustrations. Pages are crisp, tight, book appears unread. An oversized, high quality softcover. Chinese communist humor. A Pantheon Documentary Comic Book. Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 171 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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7) Marx for Beginners
Del Rio, Edouardo (Rius)

New York: Pantheon, New York, 1980 Publisher:, NY, U.S.A.; A Pantheon Documentary Comic Book. First American Edition, second prt. Factual and sometimes comical look at Karl Marx and his times, by Mexican cartoonist Eduardo Del Rio ("Rius") in a comic-book style on pulp paper, illustrated w/ b/w drawings and photos. 156pp., inc. Dictionary and Tips for Further Reading. Crease at bottom corner front cover, light rubbing to spine; pencil gift inscription inside front wrap. History made fun!. more information

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8) Peasant Marketing in Java
Dewey, Alice G

Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1962 3/4 Brown cloth with orange cloth with gold letters on binding, small black flower on bottom front cover, 238pp. Price-clipped jacket with small tear on bining- Book in almost new condition, uncut copy. desa-plan in text, list of kinship terms, glossary, bibliogr., plan of Modjokuto on endpapers with key. Organization and functioning of a "typical" peasant market in the fictious Eastern Javanese town "Modjokuto.". Fine+/Good+. more information

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9) From Sea Unto Sea
Hardy, W.G

Garden City, NYNeptune, New Jersey: Doubleday & Company, 1960 Blue boards, v. sl. wear to top of spine, clean and square, blue top page edges, binding tight, decorative endpapers, pages bright and clean w/ maps, DJ: red and blue paper jacket, no tears or creases, v. sl. discoloration, 528 pp. This is volume four of the "Canadian History Series" edited by the historian and novelist Thomas B. Costain. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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10) The Leopard
Lampedusa

New York: Pantheon Books, 1960 Pantheon Books Inc. New York. 1960. First U.S. edition. Translated from. First Edition US. Cloth. Fine+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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11) Caravan to Xanadu
Marshall, Edison

New York: Farrar Straus and Young,, 1953 ; 371 pp. Teal cloth lettered with black on the spine; endpaper maps.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Good+. Illus. by Reynold, James. more information

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12) Africa
Martin, Phyllis M. (Editor) O'Meara, Patrick (Editor)

Indiana University Press, 1995 I9 by 6 inches. (472 pages) This text analyzes what has happened to Central Africa since decolonization in the 1960s. It compares the legacies of British, French and Portuguese colonization and explores the internal dynamics of change as people adapted to new national identities, economic developments and urbanization.. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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13) Male and Female
Mead, Margaret

New York and London: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1949 1st Edition[NAP] #1 in a box is present. Green cloth boards with black lettering & decoration on cover and spine. 477 pages, Binding tight & square, veryslight corner wear. Interior is flawless. clean, bright, and unmarked. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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14) Darwin for Beginners
Miller, Jonhatan

New York, Pantheon Books. 1982, 1st American Edition. (ISBN: ) Paper, The life of Darwin richly illustrated in the typical For Beginners style. A tiny touch of soiling to the edge of the front edge, otherwise fine.. First Edition US. Illus. by Borin Van Loon. more information

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15) The Golden Warrior
Muntz, Hope

London: Cahtto and Windus, 1948 VG hardcover, no DJ. Turquoise blue cloth bound cover, with gilt spine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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16) CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Nanda, Serena; Warms, Richard L

Belmont, CA, U.S.A: Wadsworth, 2002 7th edition Oversized. Pictorial soft cover. Tight with clean & unmarked text. Perfect except corners tuning due to weitght of book.Great study book used to assist the student in his acquisition of knowledge. With full directions and photos/illustrations... Fine+/No Jacket. more information

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17) Wind in the Olive Trees: Spain from the Inside
Plenn, Abel

New York: Book Find Club, 1946 UNTIL DEC. 20, 2005 THIS BOOK WILL BE SHIPPED XPRESS POST. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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18) An Army of Children
Rhodes, Evan H

New York: Dial Press, 1978 brown cover with initials embossed at top front, gilt lettering very. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). As New/No Jacket. more information

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19) Century of Conflict: the Struggle Between the French and British in
Rutledge, Joseph L

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1956 Toronto, Doubleday Canada 1956 -Fine+ blue harcover with red and gold. Fine+/Good+. Illus. by Rafael Palacios (jacket). more information

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20) Civilisation in Europe and the World
Shapiro, Morris, Soward

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Coop Clark Co, 1938 Publisher: The Copp, Clark Company, Toronto Canada; First Canadian. First Canadian Edition. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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21) Days of Our Years
Van Paassen, Pierre

New York: Hillman-Curl, 1939 UNTIL DEC. 20, 2005 THIS BOOK WILL BE SHIPPED XPRESS POST. First Edition US. Fine/No Jacket. more information

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