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277 pp. Tight binding with unmarked text. Previous owner's name is on the back free endpaper and name and address on the front free endpaper. Ad for Gould's Pocket Medical Dictionary included.

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight, and square covers. Volume appears little used. Spine is not creased. Previous owner's name is on the title page. The title page has a crease and small closed tear at the outer margin. From the back cover, "Dr. Plumb's impressive and provacative narrative is accompanied by selected biographies of the era's most unforgettable personalities: 'Petrarch,' by Morris Bishop; 'Machiavelli,' by Garrett Mattingly; 'The Young Michelangelo,' by Kenneth Clark; 'Lorenzo de Medici,' by Ralph Roeder;..."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume is slightly age-toned. Black and white photos throughout. DJ has minor wear long the outer edges including a closed tear at the top spine and a small chip at the bottom of the back bottom edge. DJ is price clipped. From the front DJ flap, "From the time of the first European explorers, the Chesapeake Bay and its environs have has a special fascination for settlers and sailors. Over the centuries they created in this pleasant land of natural abundance a memorable panorama of maritime and social history."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamps on the outside edges of the text block. Price unclipped DJ has been protected in a plastic cover. DJ taped to the binding leaving tape stains on the front and back free end papers. From the back DJ flap, "In 'tell It All', Mrs. Stenhouse relates the history of Mormonism during the turbulent period of Brigham Young's leadership, giving full accounts of the infamous 1857 Meadow Mountain Massacre and of the life, confession, and execution of Bishop John Lee, as well as a scathing denunciation of Brigham Young himself."

Text is age-toned with some foxing and smudges in the margins. Spine of binding is reinforced with black tape. Card holder is on the back inside binding with a "Date Due" page attached to the back free end paper.

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Text is age-toned. Binding is slightly worn at the corners and the top of the spine. previous owner's name is at the top outside corner of the free end paper. "The simplest explanation for the survival of the classics is that ordinary readers have found them worth preserving. Their vogue has naturally fluctuated with vicissitudes of history and vagaries of taste, but periodic renascences have returned to them with renewed zeal and fresh advocacy." p. 3.

In "As New Condition". From the back cover, "From the critically acclaimed translator of 'The Arabian Nights' comes a volume of four most popular later stories: 'Sinbad the Sailor', 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and the Magic Lamp', and Qamar al-Zaman'. Readers will discover in each a world of high flamboyance and startling beauty, humor, and magic, and lessons of loyalty and love's endurance."

In "As New Condition". "Husain Haddawy's critically acclaimed 'Arabian Nights', based on Muhsin Mahdi's landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant version."

Volume and DJ are in "As New Condition." DJ is not price clipped. From the front DJ flap, " 'Signs of Life' is beloved author Scott Hahn's exciting guide to the biblical doctrines and historical traditions that underlie Catholic beliefs and practices. Devoting single chapters to each topic, the author takes the reader on a journey that illuminates the roots and significance of all things Catholic..."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Very slight fading at the extreme top edges of the binding. Previous owners' names written and on a name label on the top outside edge of the front free end paper. DJ has minor wear around the edges. From the front DJ flap, "This is David Halberstam's long-awaited book on America in the last decade - the story of what happened when the best and the brightest men in the country came to Washington, to serve the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and exercised, or failed to exercise, their power in office."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owners' names on the front inside front binding. Text is age-toned. Bright lettering on the spine. DJ is intact and complete. DJ is faded on the spine with wear around the edges. From the front DJ flap, "Here is a thorough revision of a well-known text in government and business. The book covers the control of business by state and Federal government, beginning with the theories of the function of state, showing relationship of government to business, and followed by a discussion of governmental control."

94 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Only defect is fading at the spine. Spine is not creased. Foreword by Henry Winston. From the Foreword, "Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USA, is the foremost exponent of Marxist-Leninist science in our country. For Gus Hall, as for Marx, science is 'a historically dynamic, revolutionary force'. For Gus Hall, as for Lenin, Marxism is invincible because it is true."

60 pp. Text was clean and unmarked in tight, intact covers with slight discoloration on the outside edges and wear at the outside back corner. "Because of the role of the state as an open capitalist class instrument, the new dimension in the working class movement demands qualitatively higher level of involvement in the arena of working class political action - a higher degree of integration between shop struggles and the struggles against the escalating cost of living." p. 41.

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are intact without tears, chips, or creases. Photo section included. "The chronic weaknesses of U.S. capitalism and the many-sided state monopoly drive to cut down living standards and increase super-profits has placed the sharp class questions on the front burner. How this affects each sector of society is the key to policy and tactical questions in the people's movements. For the working class the monopoly drive is a direct challenge." p.39.

16 pp. Text and covers are clean and unmarked. From the text, "The one reality, on which all Americans must take a stand, is that the system of Jim Crow must go now, and is going to go now because its time has come." p.9.

96 pp. Text is clean and unmarked Covers are tight and intact. There is a a small ink stain on the bottom of the back cover and some slight fading at the inner edge of the back cover. "We have to be a Party that merges the working class movement with socialism, a union of the movement of the present with the fight for the future. This means giving a class struggle content to all struggles for partial demands and reforms." p.95.

336 pp. Mid-20th century positions of the American Communist Party. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight covers. Spine is not creased. Appears not used.

Text is clean and unmarked in glossy, bright, and tight covers. Volume appears unused. From the preface, "The appearance of such a book is a rare occurrence. As a rule, information about Nadezhda is limited to three words: wife, friend and companion of V.I. Lenin. But this unlooked-for work from the U.S.A. presents the subjects from a totally different perspective - depicting their life together, the amazing interaction between them, their deep love for each other, all of which remained steadfast throughout their difficult lives."

Several penciled notes in the margins throughout. Binding is square and tight. Lettering on the spine is faded. Writing is present on the front and back free end papers. From the Preface, "The aim of this book is threefold: (1) To give the student skill in the art of computation. (2) To make him a good mathematician. (3) To give him a working knowledge of modern business methods."

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square but is faded along the outer edges with a very small ding on the front top corner of the binding. Illustrated tgroughout. DJ has chips out of the front, back, and spine. Back DJ has been taped. From the front DJ flap "In this treasury we hear the voice of Newbery Medal winner Virginia Hamilton - a voice that echoes the slaves and fugitives from her own American black ancestry as she tells the stories that kept their culturue alive."