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King Edward VIII: An Intimate Biography

By: Bolitho, Hector

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1937

Seller ID: 2291628

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Third printing. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1937 Hard Cover. 327 pp. Red boards. Gilt titles on spine and on front board. With 34 illustrations in aquatone. Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 - 28 May 1972) was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from the death of his father, George V (1910-36), on 20 January 1936, until his abdication on 11 December 1936. He was the second monarch of the House of Windsor, his father having changed the name of the Royal...
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 2007

Seller ID: 2305488

ISBN: 0060761857

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First printing. A fine copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. xxiii, 360 pp. In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would decide the fate of the entire North American continentnot just between Great Britain and France, but for the Spanish and Native Americans as well. Fought across virgin wilderness, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, the French and Indian War is best remembered for dogged frontier c...
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The Hidden Serbia

By: Bosnic, Dragan

Price: $35.00

Publisher: ., Karic Foundation: 2003

Seller ID: 2272198

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 2003 Large Hardcover. 149 pp. A beautiful photographic expose of the eastern European land of Serbia.
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Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell)

By: Boswell, James; Pottle, Frederick A.; Morley, Christopher

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1950

Seller ID: 2029695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Minor loss of gilt from spine titles. 1950 Hard Cover. xxix, 370 pp. 8vo. Map illustrated endpapers. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. Boswell is also known for the detailed and frank journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered until the 1920s. T...
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Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France

By: Bouchard, Constance Brittain

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Cornell University: 1998

Seller ID: 2302862

ISBN: 0801485487

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing. Sticker on rear wrapper, some pencil marginalia. 1998 Trade Paperback. xii, 198 pp. Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval l...
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Ireland

By: Bourniquel, Camille; Fisher, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Vista Books: 1960

Seller ID: 2269110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine creased, one-and-a-half inch tear to front wrapper along spine, wrappers and pages lightly toned. 1960 Trade Paperback. 191 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Then: When No English Were There - The Agony of the Gaels - The Ireland of Silence - Liberty to Do What? - Foreign Brothers; Now: Strange Dublin - Peace at Home - The Vanishing Irish - The Gaelic Renaissance - Everyday Passions - The Isle of Saints; For Ever: The Art of Signs - The Vanishing Painting - Abbey Street - The Death of Ossian - Anna Livia; Appendices; Practical Information.
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Napoleon's Grande Armee of 1813 (Armies of the Napoleonic Wars Research Series)

By: Bowden, Scott

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, The Emperor's Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2303450

ISBN: 0962665517

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. An excellent copy. 1990 Hard Cover. 374 pp. Armies of the Napoleonic Wars Research Series is a factual in-depth study of the armies, battles, and leaders of the Age of Napoleon. The principal purpose of the volume is to bring together the most information practical on the raising and formation of Napoleon's war machine, its level of training, combat effectiveness and the opinions of strengths and weaknesses made by the people closest to the army - the officers and ministers themselves. This volume includes extensive, detailed parade states of the army throughout 1813 and is purpose...
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David Hartley and James Mill (English Philosophers)

By: Bower, G.S. [George Spencer]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1881

Seller ID: 2308132

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine label lightly rubbed. 1881 Hard Cover. iv, 250 pp. David Hartley FRS (baptized 21 June 1705 Old Style; died 28 August 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology.--Wikipedia. James Mill (born James Milne,[1] 6 April 1773 23 June 1836[2]) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics.[3] He also wrote the monumental work The History of British India. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and...
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Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2294644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, minor surface tears to jacket spine which do not obscure text, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor ink marginalia, ink notes on rear free endpaper,. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 535 pp. Rescued from obscurity in this the first English biography, Pierre Vergniaud, genius and orator, whose eloquence held the violence of the French Revolution in check from 1791-93, is here given his due. On the one hand he fought the excesses and inequities of th...
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The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad, 1965-1990

By: Bowlt, John E; Kornetchuk, Elena; Roberts, Norma

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art: 1990

Seller ID: 2295902

ISBN: 0295970618

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Good

Spine lightly creased, crease on back corner. 1990 Large Softcover. 191 pp. Shows the variety of moods, and styles of Soviet artists.
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4 Gardens in One: The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

By: Bown, Deni; Bennell, Alan P.; Gregory, Norma M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., Crown / HMSO: 1992

Seller ID: 2202767

ISBN: 1872291082

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Includes original jacket. Ink gift note & address label on front endpaper. 1992 Large Hardcover. 211 pp. 11 x 9. Photographic endpapers. Photographs throughout. CONTENTS: Foreword; History of the Garden; Work of the Garden; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Younger Botanic Garden Benmore; Logan Botanic Garden; Dawyck Botanic Garden; Maps of the Gardens; Index.
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Abbeys & Monasteries

By: Brabbs, Derry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 2000

Seller ID: 2266920

ISBN: 1841880477

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 2000 Soft Cover. Magnificent photographs celebrate the history, the settings, and the graceful structures of the abbeys and monasteries that once proudly dotted England's landscape. Gaze awestruck at the incredibly beautiful Canterbury Cathedral, where Thomas Becket suffered martyrdom; at the fortresslike Battle Abbey from the days of the Norman invasion; and at the distinctive outline of Whitby Abbey, perched high on the cliffs in North Yorkshire. Their beauty is truly a tribute to the power of the spirit.
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An Impartial Account of Lieut. Col. Bradstreet's Expedition to Fort Frontenac: To Which are Added, a Few Reflections on the Conduct of That Enterprize, and the Advantages Resulting From Its Success

By: Bradstreet, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Forgotten Books: 2018

Seller ID: 2303506

ISBN: 0265401410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

2018 print on demand facsimile of 1759 original. The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 2628, 1758 during the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States) between France and Great Britain. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post which is located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where it drains into the St. Lawrence River. British Lieutenant Colonel John Bradstreet led an army of over 3,000 men, of whom about 150 were regulars and the remainder were provincial mil...
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The Atlantic Wall in France, 1940-1945

By: Braeuer, Luc

Price: $20.00

Publisher: France, Editions Le Grand Blockhaus: 2010

Seller ID: 2295102

ISBN: 295338412X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Top corner of rear wrapper creased. 2010 Large Softcover. 80 pp. In the spring of 1940, the German army began its offensive against northern and western Europe. In less than three months, it would conquer the entire European littoral from North Cape in Norway to the Spanish frontier. After the entry into the war of the United States in December 1941, the German high command sought to prevent at all costs the opening of a second front in the west. It decided to construct a wall of concrete and steel along more than 600 kilometres of coastline to render all landings impossible. How and by whom w...
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Historical Documentary of the Ukrainian Community of Rochester, New York

By: Bratush, James D.; Smerychynska, Anastasia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, James D. Bratush: 1969

Seller ID: 2306549

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Near fine book in fair jacket. A few minor tears to jacket edges, small chip to jacket spine base, front jacket panel lightly stained. Smudge on top page ridge. 1969 Hard Cover. xix, 581 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; Map of the Ukraine; Part One: History of Ukrainian Settlement in Rochester, New York; Part Two: The Preservation of a Cultural Heritage; Part Three: The Ukrainian Civic Center of Rochester, New York; Part Four.
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Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy

By: Breay, Claire

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, British Library: 2015

Seller ID: 2281912

ISBN: 0712357637

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Light edge wear. 2015 Soft Cover. Granted by King John as a practical solution to a political crisis in 1215, Magna Carta has become a globally important document, as a resonant symbol of liberty and the rule of law. Two original copies of the charter are featured alongside a host of documents and artefacts illustrating its legacy, from the 1534 English translation to modern political cartoons.
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Gide

By: Bree, Germaine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2276940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket, small tear to inner front board, minimal pencil underlining. 1963 Hard Cover. An engaging literary criticism of the controversial French novelist and thinker.
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The Hellenistic and Roman Age (The History of Philosophy)

By: Brehier, Emile; Baskin, Wade - Translator

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 2307985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1965 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 261 pp. ...the second part of Brehier's great Histoire de la Philosophie... Following the Hellenic Age, it completes Brehier's account of the classical philosophers. The post-Aristotelian systems are taken up in this part--the Socratics, the Old Stoa, Epicureanism, Skepticism, Neo-Platonism, and Hellenism and Christianity.--rear wrapper
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The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (The History of Philosophy)

By: Brehier, Emile; Baskin, Wade - Translator

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2307986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1967 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 272 pp. ...traces divergencies of opinion of doctrinal matters from the time of the first recorded heresies in the fourth century through the ascendancy of Spanish mysticism during the Renaissance.--rear wrapper
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The Seventeenth Century (The History of Philosophy)

By: Brehier, Emile; Baskin, Wade - Translator

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2307987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Minor general wear. 1968 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 313 pp. ...traces and illustrates the pervasive themes of the seventeenth century--the grandeur and the wretchedness of man, faith and reason, the concepts of body and soul, the search for order in science and politics, absolutism and freedom. ...examines the work of the moralists and political writers--Pascal, Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, and Hobbes; of the innovators and synthesizers--Descartes, whose seminal thinking dominated the century, Bacon, Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Locke; and then those who ...
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The Hellenic Age (The History of Philosophy)

By: Brehier, Emile; Thomas, Joseph - translator

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 2307984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine lightly creased, minor general wear. 1965 Trade Paperback. 242 pp. Emile Brehier's Histoire de la philosophie has been the standard French work in its field since its original publication in the 1920's and 30's, The Hellenic Age is the first part of this great work...it includes chapters on the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato and the Academy, and Aristotle and the Lyceum.
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Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew

By: Breitman, Richard

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Hill and Wang: 1998

Seller ID: 2307657

ISBN: 0965709302

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. viii, 325 pp. A controversial study based on newly declassified documents. In the course of its war for world domination and a projected racial utopia, Hitler's government committed monstrous crimes. As defeat neared, the Third Reich's officials tried to destroy all the physical and documentary evidence about their murder of millions. They did not fully succeed, but huge gaps in the historical record have made it hard for us to reconstruct how they planned the Holocaust. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for all along its intellige...
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The Edwardians

By: Brent, Peter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, BBC: 1972

Seller ID: 2265669

ISBN: 0563123494

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Edges rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1972 Trade Paperback. A look at some of the notable characters from early 20th century England. Includes studies of: Robert Baden-Powell; Horatio Bottomley; Arthur Conan Doyle; Marie Lloyd; Lloyd George; E Nesbit; Rolls & Royce; Daisy Warwick.
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Bloody Clash at Sadzot: Hitler's Final Strike for Antwerp

By: Breuer, William B.; Devlin, Gerard M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Saint Louis, Zeus Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 2306952

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Small chip and tear to jacket spine head, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. xxvi, 309 pp. ...Here for the first time is related the extremely exciting, fascinating and suspenseful struggle for Sadzot by an author who fought there. Sadzot was one of the bloodiest small-unit actions of the war and significant far beyond the relatively limited number of American and German soldiers who struggled there.
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Viaggiatori stranieri in terra di Siena

By: Brilli, Attilio

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Roma, Monte Dei Paschi di Siena: 1986

Seller ID: 2199172

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1986 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 331, [2] pp. Italian text. A tour of Sienna profusely illustrated with color photographs and illustrations, and reproductions of historical illustrations and documents.
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Alla ricerca degli itinerari perduti / In Search of Lost Itineraries

By: Brilli, Attilio

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Milano, Silvana Editoriale: 1988

Seller ID: 2199385

ISBN: 8836602258

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. Top corner lightly bumped, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1988 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 167, [1]; 22 pp. Italian text, with English translation included in a separate paperback supplement. A collection of narratives of Italian voyages by notable individuals,with reproductions of color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Includes mentions of the following: Mary Shelley; Henry James; John Ruskin; Gabriele d'Annunzio; Charles Dickens; William Hazlitt; John Milton; Frances Trollope; Michel de Montaigne; Aldous Huxle...
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An Introduction to Contemporary German Philosophy

By: Brock, Werner

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1935

Seller ID: 2308293

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor general wear. 1935 Hard Cover. xx, 143 pp. ...this book charts the development of philosophy in Germany from German Humanism to Heidegger and his contemporaries. Brock also devotes an entire chapter to the lasting impact of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard on German philosophy. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of German philosophy and its presentation before WWII.
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Brown, Daniel James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 2014

Seller ID: 2307369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. 1 inch crease on rear corner. 2014 Trade Paperback. 403, [1] pp. For readers ofUnbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of timesthe improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
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Life on the Lagoons

By: Brown, Horatio [Robert] F. [Forbes]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Rivingtons: 1900

Seller ID: 2198746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Third edition. Ink name and date on half-title page, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1900 Hard Cover. [vi], 297, 31, [1] pp. 8vo. A history and topography of the area surrounding Venice, by the Scottish historian specializing in Italian history, and best known for hisCalendar of State Papers (Venetian). Based in part on journeys undertaken with Brown's friend, and fellow Italian historian, John Addington Symonds.Black-and-white illustrations.
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The Dutch East: Sketches and Pictures, with Seventy-Eight Illustrations from Photographs

By: Brown, J. Macmillan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd.: 1914

Seller ID: 1849188

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Page ridges and front & end matter lightly foxed, spine faded, corners rubbed, light stain on corner of first several pages. 1914 Hard Cover. xvi, 222 pp. 1-page terminal publisher ad. A history of the presence of the Dutch East Company in Southeast Asia, illustrated with photographs.
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