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London: Rubicon Press, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W photos, drawings, floor plans & maps throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2000 Rubicon Press (London) hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition. There are some pale rubbings back DJ panel. B&W photos, drawings, floor plans & maps throughout. CONTENT: A chronological overview of the funerary monuments of Egypt, beginning with the last pyramids and ending with the tombs of the Ptolemaic Periods in the Nile Delta. The architecture and decoration of the tombs, along with their contents, are discussed in detail, including the results of more recent excavation in the Valley of the Kings. The discussion is accompanied by numerous photographs of the tombs, their artwork and plans of the funerary complexes which show the development of both architectural styles and religious beliefs.

Hyperion, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW/UNREAD 1998 Hyperion large (634 pages) trade paperback, first edition stated, 1st printing. Unfortunately, no illustrations. Foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov. CONTENT: takes an already popular yet sometimes intimidating subject and makes it accessible and understandable for everyone. Noted dance critic and teacher Robert Greskovic has written an entertaining, reader-friendly book that provides everything the novice needs to learn and to enjoy the ballet. This is a wonderful book, HOWEVER, there are a couple of drawbacks: first, this isn't a book you can give your 10 year-old daughter to enjoy - this is a book for high school readers +; second, obviously newer ballets are not covered.

Oxford University Press, 2004. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 2004 Oxford Univ. trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Tiny edge wear to cover edges- front cover. Interior clean & tight - perfect. CONTENT: No one can doubt that the Bible has exerted a tremendous influence on Western civilization since the dawn of Christianity. But few of us have considered the precise nature of that influence in particular historical contexts. In this book, David Kling traces the fascinating story of how specific biblical texts have at different times emerged to be the inspiration of movements that have changed the course of history. By examining eight such pivotal texts, Kling elucidates the ways in which sacred texts continue to shape our lives as well as our history. Among the passages he discusses are: * "Upon this rock I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18), which inspired the formation of the papacy and has served as… Read More

Pegasus Books, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 2 era B&W and Color Photo Sections. CONDITION: "AS NEW" - what makes this book As New? Nothing I can pinpoint; it just seems perused. 2017 Pegasus hardcover & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. 2 era B&W and color photo sections. End pages decorated with map of Darwin's travels. CONTENT: An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin. Everybody knows-or thinks they know-Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist-on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna. Tracing Darwin's footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson sets out on a trek across the Andes, repeating the nautical surveys made by the Beagle's crew, hunting for fossils in… Read More

Marlowe & Company, 1998. First Thus Printing Unknown. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. B&W drawings by the Author. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1998 Marlowe large (and heavy) paperback edition. Tiny edge wear bottom edge (due to size of book) and a remainder mark bottom edges at spine. The interior is clean & tight. CONTENT: This definitive illustrated account of the warrior societies and cults of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Crow and other Plains tribes, brings alive through text, meticulously rendered pen and ink drawings and vibrant color prints the intricate, inventive beauty of Indian costume and regalia in a sympathetic evocation of a way of life tragically destroyed. From the years between 1750 and 1850.

Broadway Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W drawings & art repros throughout. Loaded. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Broadway Books trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Beautiful book: B&W drawings & art reproductions throughout; decorated end pages; deckle edges; and chapter decorations. CONTENT: Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn't always good to be the queen Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison towers and were marched to the scaffold where they surrendered their heads to the executioner. And they are hardly alone in their undignified demises. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad ends--dying of starvation, being burned at the stake, or expiring in childbirth while trying desperately to produce an heir. They always had to be on… Read More

Rigby, 1983. Revised & Updated 11th Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Ainslie Roberts. CONDITION: For its age, this book is in remarkable condition. UNREAD 1983 (last date given) of the revised edition (1970). The boards are olive green with a white embossed drawing. The pages are not tanned in any area. In short, a very very nice book. Color illustrations by Ainslie Roberts. Welcome to the hazy world of Dreamtime. Questions welcome and answered. Oh - now shrink-wrapped for protection.

France: SCALA, 2011. 1st American Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Color photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2011 SCALA (France) paperback, appears to be a first American / English edition, no printing given. This is 246 pages of beautiful color photos of artifacts and locations (plus a Glossary) on heavy paper. Text and photographs verified by Alice Cartocci. English translation by Shanti Evans. Each page shows information in 4 languages - English, French, German, and I other that may be Dutch. These books are always a class act. CONTENT: A fantastic overview of the world's most famous civilisation's 4000 year history. Pyramids, mummies, and sarcophagi, as well as Tutankhamen's treasure, tomb wall paintings and huge statues of the gods turn this book into a fascinating and mysterious experience.

Harvard University Press, 1978. Revised Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W photos (very few) . CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" The DJ shows short "cuts" - one at the top front edge and one at the top back edge. What caused this? No idea. UNREAD 1978 Harvard Univ. Press hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), supposedly the "revised" edition. There are only 2 B&W photos that I have found. CONTENT: The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the 12th century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle Ages, she was Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and went with him on the exciting and disastrous Second Crusade. Inspiration of troubadours and trouveres, she played a large part in rendering fashionable the Courts of Love and in establishing the whole courtly tradition of medieval times. Divorced from… Read More

Clarendon Press, 1993. 1st Edition 7th printing. Soft cover. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: Very Good+ 1993 Clarendon Press trade paperback, first edition, 7th printing. PROBLEM: some underlining from page 1 through page 57 and then appears abandoned. No spine crease - outwardly appears perfect. CONTENT: This book takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, other historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of the English Protestant establishment. Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenth century as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of… Read More

New York: Dorset Press, 1989. New Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Filled with B&W era photos, maps, plans. CONDITION: UNREAD 1989 Dorset Press hardcover (grey boards) & dust jacket, first edition Dorset, 3rd printing. Filled with B&W era photos, drawings, maps, plans. CONTENT: Drawing on the archaeological evidence and the written records from the period of the Spanish conquest, Kendall has painted an evocative and rounded picture of their daily routine and ritual occasions, including feasts, games, and sacrifices. She highlights the remarkable approach of the Inca emperors to town planning and describes the construction of their homes, palaces, temples and fortifications, and the organization of work forces for farming, building and fighting, as well as the education of children, the responsibility of adults and care of the aged. While this is an older book, the observations and research are still in good standing with modern findings.

Viking, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 2 B&W photo sections; B&W maps. CONDITION: UNREAD 1996 Viking hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Tiny spot of glue with small bleed-through inside front cover. Now and then it happens. 2 B&W photo sections with B&W maps. CONTENT: Egyptian Queen Hatchepsut, who died in 1482 B.C. after more than 20 years of peaceful rule, proclaimed herself pharaoh during her reign. An absorbing scholarly biography, based on a meticulous review of the archaeological record, of a remarkable woman who ruled as pharaoh for 20 years in Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1490 B.C.). Although an important pharaoh whose rule was notable for internal order and other significant achievements, Hatchepsut has suffered, Tyldesley argues, from an unjust obscurity, born mostly from her enemies' determined efforts to obliterate her memory and from a consequent paucity of archaeological evidence about her. The daughter of Tuthmosis I and widowed… Read More

Arcturus, 2020. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Arcturus trade paperback, first edition, printing not given. B&W era photos throughout. Depressing photos, at that. CONTENT: When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe. Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule - in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands- to be brought to heel by bribery and brutality, rape and torture, inducement and intimidation as the Germans carried out their vile policies. We hear of quislings and collaborators who conspired with their captors, the 'enemies of the Reich' including Jewish citizens who were rounded up and exterminated, as… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Color photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD, LIKE NEW 2017 St Martin's Press hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. What makes this "like new" is the small remainder dot top edges. Color photo section. CONTENT: Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent's worst nightmare. His teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend, fell into the clutches of a radical mosque. Dimitri watched helplessly as his son, Jay, transformed from a gentle boy to a soldier in training, wearing traditional robes and following a strict diet. Completely brainwashed, Jay snuck out of the house and traveled to Syria, all but vanishing. Too late, Dimitri learned that their country, Belgium, was the leading hotbed of Islamic radicalization. Large numbers of teenagers were being lured into this world and expertly indoctrinated into radical Islam. One by one, they disappeared into the Middle East,… Read More

Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Tommy LaVergne (B&W photos). SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR/PHOTOGRAPHER on Title Page. What makes this book "AS New"? Same thing that makes it more valuable - signed by Author/Illustrator. AS NEW 2004 Texas Review Press large paperback (pictorial boards), first edition, first printing. B&W photos illustrate. CONTENT: "You are about to come face to face with a Texas that has always been there, but that we don't take the time to see. The magnificent photos by Tommy LaVergne and the poetry of my friend Joyce Hardy combine to remind us of the stark beauty of this state. They remind us that in this age when only new seems to count, enduring things should never be discarded. Is there poetry in the commonplace and the mundane? The answer is a resounding YES that echoes from the Hueco Tanks through the sleepy main streets, out to the hard land and `Stretches taut… Read More

Touchstone, 1996. 1st Paperback Edition 4th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W artifact photos, sketches, floorplans, etc.. CONDITION: NEW 1996 Touchstone trade paperback, first PB edition, 4th printing. B&W era artifact photo section plus many B&W maps. CONTENT: In case you have never heard of him, Brian Fagan (b. 1936) is an English author with work in both archaeology and anthropology. Fagan is an archaeological generalist, with expertise in the broad issues of human prehistory. He is the author or editor of 46 books, including seven widely used undergraduate college texts. Fagan has contributed over 100 specialist papers to many national and international journals. He is a Contributing Editor to Archaeology Worldwide,[4] American Archaeology and Discover Archaeology magazines, and formerly wrote a regular column for Archaeology Magazine. He serves on the Editorial Boards of six academic and general periodicals and has many popular magazine credits, including Scientific American and… Read More

John Wylie & Sons, 2016. New Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 2016 John Wylie hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, new edition, 2nd printing. B&W era photos throughout. CONTENT: As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime. --William B. Breuer. The annals of World War II are mined with captivating cases of strange coincidences, ominous premonitions, and baffling mysteries. Now, William Breuer's painstaking research has yielded over 100 fascinating historical accounts, including: The mysterious fire on the Normandie . . . Who really was behind the eerily efficient destruction of the famed ocean liner? The ominous "Deadly Double" advertisement in The New Yorker . . . Was it a coded leak to Japanese and German spies announcing the upcoming bombing of Pearl Harbor? The botched Nazi kidnapping of the Duke of Windsor . . . How did a serendipitous series of events save the duke from Hitler's grasp (and the Allied… Read More

Oxford University Press, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2014 Oxford Univ. Press hardcover (white boards - oh no!) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. No illustrations of any kind. CONTENT: Mikhail Gorbachev's relations with the West have captured the imagination of contemporaries and historians alike, but his vision of Soviet leadership in Asia has received far less attention. The failure of Gorbachev's Asian initiatives has had dramatic consequences, by the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was in full retreat from Asia, and since the Soviet collapse, Russia has been left on the sidelines of the "Pacific century." In this exceptionally wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Sergey Radchenko offers an illuminating account of the end of the Cold War in the East, tracing the death of Soviet ambitions in Asia. Radchenko shows that Gorbachev began with big gestures, of which the most important was his… Read More

Thames & Hudson, 2011. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Samuel Valentino color & B&W art; maps; B&W photos. CONDITION: NEW 2011 Thames & Hudson large paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Beautiful color and B&W art by Samuel Valentino.Also, maps; B&W photos. CONTENT: A beautifully illustrated and informative survey that explores the world of Arthur and the impact of the Arthurian legends on history and the arts. King Arthur, Camelot, Excalibur, Merlin, the Holy Grail, Lancelot, and Guinevere?the names conjure up vibrant images of medieval Europe, of chivalry, and of romance. But did Arthur really exist, or is Camelot only a dream? Christopher Snyder examines the realities and the impact of the Arthurian legends. Medieval texts and archaeological discoveries are used to piece together a picture of the fifth and sixth centuries, when Arthur was believed to have reigned as champion of the Britons. Welsh and Breton bards sang the exploits of Arthur and… Read More