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A START IN FREEDOM.
by Foot, Hugh (1907-1900)
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- Used - Very good in a good dust jacket (R stamped on front endpaper, partially price-clipped, edgewear to dj)
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- good
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- (1964)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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$18.50
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New York:: Harper & Row,, (1964). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (R stamped on front endpaper, partially price-clipped, edgewear to dj) . First US printing. An "account of Sir Hugh Foot's career as a British diplomat in some of the most troubled spots around the world" - including Palestine, Nigeria, Jamaica… Read more about this item Item Price
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MOSCOW SPRING.
by Taubman, William and Jane Taubman.
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- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- fine
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- (1989)
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- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
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- 9780671677312
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$31.50
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New York:: Summit Books,, (1989). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A first hand account "of Gorbachev's attempted restructuring of the Soviet Union. . Despite the fierce conservative opposition Gorbachev faces, the authors see optimistic signs of change in workplace elections, a press that is no longer monolithic and in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE GREAT ARAB CONQUESTS: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In.
by Kennedy, Hugh.
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- Used - Very near fine in a green printed wrappers.
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- (2007)
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- First edition -
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$23.50
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Philadelphia:: Da Capo Press / Perseus Book Group,, (2007). First edition -. Very near fine in a green printed wrappers. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "From a leading expert in Arabic history, a sweeping and engaging history of the great Islamic expansion that carved out an empire from Spain to China. In just over… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TURBULENT CITY: PARIS 1783 TO 1871.
by Castelot, Andre.
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- Used - Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the dj) .
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- near fine
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- (1963)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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Ione, California, USA
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$27.50
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New York:: Harper & Row,, (1963). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the dj) .. First US printing. A history of Paris in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution of 1798 and of most of the century following it. Translated from the French by Denise… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE AGE OF NATIONALISM: The First Era of Global History.
by Kohn, Hans (1891-1971)
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- Used - Near fine in a good only dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on bottom edge of textblock, price-clipped, sunning to spine
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- good only
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- (1962)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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$39.50
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New York:: Harper & Row,, (1962). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good only dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on bottom edge of textblock, price-clipped, sunning to spine, edgewear).. First edition. Kohn was an American historian and philosopher, who pioneered the academic study of nationalism. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then… Read more about this item Item Price
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DANGER ZONE: The Coming Conflict with China.
by Brands, Hal and Michael Beckley.
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- Used - Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few corners dog-eared)
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- fine
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- (2022)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9781324021308
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$22.50
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New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2022). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few corners dog-eared). First printing. "A provocative and urgent analysis of the US-China rivalry." Notes, index. xix, 275 pp. Item Price
$22.50
FLIGHT 149: A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War.
by Davis, Stephen
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- Used - Very good in a near fine dust jacket.
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- near fine
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- (2021)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9781541700055
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$21.50
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New York:: PublicAffairs,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket.. First printing. "On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers and crew. Instead, Flight 149 stopped in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE VILDE AFFAIR: Beginnings of the French Resistance.
by Blumenson, Martin.
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- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (price-clipped)
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- like
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- 1977.
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780395253502
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$25.00
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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1977.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (price-clipped). First printing. The story of Boris Vilde and the beginnings of the French Resistance in Paris, after the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, by this noted World War II historian. Based on access to documents… Read more about this item Item Price
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ROYAL FAMILY OF ENGLAND PICTURE ANNUAL: Volume One.
by Langton, Sarah
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- Used - Good only in a good dust jacket (corners bumped, some bleeding from the red cloth to upper corners of the last several leaves, e
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- good
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- n.d. (1952)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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$20.00
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London:: Daily Graphic / Pitkin Publishing,, n.d. (1952). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in a good dust jacket (corners bumped, some bleeding from the red cloth to upper corners of the last several leaves, edgewear to dj).. First edition. From the dust jacket: "The period covered by this record embraces the closing months of the noble… Read more about this item Item Price
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SEIZE THE FIRE: Heroism, Duty and the Battle of Trafalgar
by Nicolson, Adam.
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- Used - Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to flap of dj).
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- near fine
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- (2005)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780060753610
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$24.50
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New York:: Harper Collins,, (2005). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to flap of dj).. First printing. A book which uses the naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805 "to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.. . This was a battle… Read more about this item Item Price
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NAMES ON THE GLOBE.
by Stewart, George R.
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- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- fine
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- 1975.
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780195018950
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New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1975.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A fascinating discussion of the human dimension of place names - that is who gave a place a particular name, how has it changed over the years, and why has it changed. Divided into four parts: Man, the Namer, The Mind… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE HOLOCAUST: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945.
by Levin, Nora.
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- Used - Good only in a good dust jacket (some dampstaining to the outer edges of the textblock, printed on the usual very thin paper, sh
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- good
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- (1968)
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- Hardcover -
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New York:: Crowell,, (1968). Hardcover -. Good only in a good dust jacket (some dampstaining to the outer edges of the textblock, printed on the usual very thin paper, short tears to dj edges. ).. Taiwan piracy. An inexpensive printing of this detailed study not just of the events at the death camps themselves but of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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IN THE LABYRINTH.
by Morley, John David.
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- Used - Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the edges of the black dj).
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- near fine
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- (1988)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780871130709
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New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the edges of the black dj).. First printing. The author's second book, based on hours of interviews with "Joseph Pallehner" (the fictitious name of a real person) which begins shortly after World War II,… Read more about this item Item Price
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WHY MY FATHER DIED: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie.
by Kahn, Annette.
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- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- fine
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- (1991)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780671658830
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New York:: Summit Books,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Kahn was two years old in 1944 when her father, a Jew and a French Resistance fighter, was murdered by Nazi Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon.' "Forty-three years later, as chief political reporter for the magazine Le Point , she… Read more about this item Item Price
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GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
by Bowden, Mark.
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- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- fine
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- (2006)
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- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
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- 9780871139252
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$40.00
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New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. "On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE NEXT CENTURY.
by Halberstam, David.
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- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- fine
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- (1991)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780688103910
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Ione, California, USA
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$17.50
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New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis.
by Rifkin, Jeremy.
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- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
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- like
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- (2009)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9781585427659
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$25.00
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New York:: Tarcher Perigee / Penguin, , (2009). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A book by one of the "big picture" thinkers - an "erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto. Never has the world seemed so completely united - in the form of communication, commerce, and culture - and so… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
NATURE'S IDEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE: A Literary and Geographic Perspective on Its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath.
by Olwig, Kenneth Robert.
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- Used - Near fine in glossy white boards.
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- (1984)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780047100024
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$35.00
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London:: George Allen & Unwin,, (1984). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in glossy white boards. . First printing. Number 5 in the London Research Series in Geography. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography, index. xix, 115 pp. Item Price
$35.00
THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY: What Can Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Diamond, Jared.
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- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
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- like
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- (2013)
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- Hardcover first edition -
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- 9780670024810
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$29.50
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New York:: Viking,, (2013). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. This Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the past in search of a better future. Based in large part upon his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people,… Read more about this item Item Price
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