Search Results: HISTORY from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1989. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 110p. Shows how the excavations of the Palace of Minos on Crete by Sir Arthur Evans were conducted and "how the reconstruction of the parts of the Palace was achieved." [front jacket flap] Includes selected bibliography. B&w photographs. (8-1/8"x8-1/4")

Dublin: The Bell, 1945. Wraps. Very Good. 95p. Cover corners worn and edges scraped. Includes articles on: Irish neutrality in World War II, rebuttal to Wallace Stegner's "Who Persecutes Boston?," Marie Howet, Pierre de Coubertin, historical development of Hollywood movies, social security in Austria, and contemporary Irish literature. Articles by Harry Craig, Charles Sidney, John Ireland, Edward Hogg, "Sociologus," and John V. Helleher; poems by Austin Clarke and Freda Laughton. B&w illustrations and 1 leaf b&w plate. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")

London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 294p. 2nd printing (1962) Cover has fade spots, bookstore ink stamp on back endpaper, rubbed jacket has tears and chips to edges, former owner's name on front endpaper. Details "two and a half centuries of British rule, from the first voyage of an East India Company vessel in 1601 to the withdrawal in August 1947," by an insider to the British turnover to Indian rule. B&w illustrations and photo plates. (8-5/8"x5-3/4")

Berlin: National Council of the Free German Youth in cooperation with the Institute of International Politics and Economics, 1973. Softcover. Good +. 127p. Cover edges scraped and paper at bottom of spine torn. B&w photographs. (11"x7-3/4")

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1938. (First Edition). Cloth. Good+/Good. Flanagan, John R.. [xii], [307p.] Cover corners bumped and worn and spine cloth torn on bottom, price clipped jacket has chips to edges especially to corners and top and bottom of spine. B&w illustrations. (8-3/4"x6")

New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education, 1942. Stapled wraps. Good +. [36p.] Wraps creased with front bottom corner torn. Includes articles on the Conference of the International Labour Organization, 1941; the United States Bill of Rights; and plans for after World War II. (7-3/4"x5-1/8")

1951. Hardcover w/faux suede and leather binding. Good. 64p. Cover edges worn down to reveal the cardboard beneath with tear to faux leather on bottom front. Cover edges worn down to reveal the cardboard beneath with tear to faux leather on bottom front. Cutouts from the 1951 Hague Academy of International Law brochure are clued on the first few pages composing a title page and introduction. Created by Cecilia Mandal (or Mandahl) of Sweden, who attended the Academy in 1951 and 1954, this collection contains 19 greetings from the 1951 Academy attendees and nine from the 1954 Academy attendees. Laid in preceding the 1954 pages are two loose leaves titled Information Concerning the 1954 Session. The signatures represent a worldwide assembly of young lawyers. Identified signatures include those of W. Ian Stewart (Scottish Solicitor-General, 1973-4), Claude Roux (Paris Council member, 1965-1983), Fernando Montes de Oca y Gómez of Costa Rica, Jorge Siles and his brother, Luis Adolfo Siles (Bolivian Vice… Read More

Chicago: Ken, Inc., 1938. Stapled wraps. Good +. 138p. Some tears to internal pages, wrap edges have small tears and corners worn with 3" tear at bottom and middle of spine fold. From Wikipedia: "Ken was a short-lived illustrated magazine first issued on April 7, 1938. It was a controversial, political, large format magazine with full page photo spreads, published every two weeks on Thursdays." In this first issue are articles on: Allal El Fassi, sharecroppers in the southern U.S., recognition of the Manchukuan empire, alleged framing of Richard Hauptmann, munitions worker's death at Lake Erie Chemical Company, feminine prophylactics, worldwide agrarian unrest, inflation, Ernest Hemingway reporting from Spain on the civil war, Axis secret agents in the Panama Canal Zone, British Intelligence Service, Adolf Hitler's search for a wife, diesel engine manufacturing, Senator William E. Borah's actions against the Anti-Lynch Bill, Mexican's political climate and General Saturnino Cedillo, the Carraway… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928. (First Edition). Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. [xx], 315p. Table of contents tipped in, page fore and bottom edges and first 30 pages have acid discoloration spots, cover spine lightly sunned and corners bumped. Author's experiences in Siberia during World War I. B&w frontispiece and foldout map. (7-5/8"x5")

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. (First Edition). Cloth. Very Good/Good. 254p. Signed by Sherwin on front endpaper. Jacket has chips and creased tears to edges that have been reinforced with clear tape. Jacket Ben Feder, Inc. 8 b&w photo plates. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")

New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935. Cloth. Good/Good. [xii], 210p. Four spies - from Great Britain, France, Germany, and Soviet Union - operating during the time between the two world wars detail their experiences. Back hinge cracked, top of pages lightly soiled, top of spine sunned, cover corners lightly worn, round sticker on jacket spine, front flap torn with tape on both flaps and pastedowns, large chips to top and bottom of spine and to corners with tears to edges. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 1976. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very good/very good. viii, 218p. Jacket lightly soiled. Urban anthropologist Moore examines the history of the Chuetas of Majorca, descendants of Jews but practicing Catholics, and the future changes to their ethnic identity. Jacket design by Emily Schossberger. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

New York: International Publishers, 1987. 1st English Language Edition. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. 64p. 1st printing. Includes selected bibliography and biographical data on Marx-Aveling, youngest daughter of Karl Marx. Reprint. Originally published: The woman question, 1986; with additional material Written in answer to August Bebel's "Woman--past, present, and future." 12 leaves b&w plates. (8-3/4"x5")