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Barron, John Breaking the Ring
Houghton Mifflin New York 1987 0395421101 / 9780395421109 Hard Cover Fine Near Fine Hard Cover
Book is clean and tight; boards square. Dust jacket bright and clean; light wear and age toning, else fine.
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4.95 USD
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Cahill, Robert New England's Ancient Mysteries
Old Saltbox Pub Co Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1993 0962616249 / 9780962616242 Soft Cover Very Good + Soft Cover
Book is solid and clean - no creasing to spine; bottom of spine & front cover has slight wear, else fine. This book covers all finds and sits in New England by amateur and professional ancient artifact hunters since America was first settled.
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3.95 USD
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Cartledge, Paul The Spartans
Overlook Press Woodstock, NY 2003 1585674028 / 9781585674022 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Hard Cover
Book is clean and tight - no marks to interior, boards square. Slight pen mark to bottom of text (not remaindered) and light wear to bottom of spine. Dust jacket is bright and clean with light wear to edges.
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9.95 USD
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Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk
Penguin USA E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1989 014039074X / 9780140390742 Trade Paperback Near Fine Trade Paperback
Book is clean and tight. Faint edge wear, and age discoloration to pages, else fine. First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and studied in Berlin, these 14 essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyrics of African spirituals, which Du Bois called "sorrow songs."
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4.95 USD
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Hale, Jud The Best of Yankee Magazine: 50 Years of New England
Yankee Books Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1985 0899090796 / 9780899090795 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Book is clean and tight; front cover has bend near spine, but does not affect integrity of binding. Dust jacket is intact and clean. Edge wear and chipping; sunning to spine, and rubbing at spine. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover.
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9.95 USD
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Hawkins, Gerald S. Stonehenge Decoded
Dell Publishing New York 1965 Trade Paperback Very Good - Trade Paperback
Book is clean and tight. Edge wear, and chipping to top and bottom of spine. Creasing near spine on front and back covers. Contains illustrations and black and white photography. 202 pp. with index.
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4.95 USD
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Hoving, Thomas Pearsall Field Tutankhamun: The Untold Story
Simon & Schuster New York 1978 0671243055 / 9780671243050 Cloth Very Good Good Cloth
Seventh printing. Book is tight; boards square. No marks to interior. Light soiling to bottom edge of text. Dust jacket worn with creasing and chipping to top and bottom of spine, and wear to edges and corners.
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6.95 USD
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Hughes, Robert Barcelona
Alfred a Knopf Inc Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. 1992 0394580273 / 9780394580272 Hard Cover Very Good Near Fine Hard Cover
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. Fourth printing. Book is clean and tight; very faint curve to front cover and text block, else fine.
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9.95 USD
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Maurer, Harry Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975 An Oral History
Henry Holt & Co New York, New York, U.S.A. 1989 0805009191 / 9780805009194 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Hard Cover
This is a complete Vietnam story as seen through the eyes of 60 people who lived it. Book in in excellent condition - clean and tight with no major wear. Very light soiling to top edge of text block, and light wear to edges and lettering on spine - else fine. Dust jacket is clean and intact, light edge wear and creasing at corners of spine.
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6.95 USD
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McCulloch, Hugh Men and Measures of Half a Century
Scribners New York 1900 Cloth Very Good - Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Maroon cloth binding, gold gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Cracking/tearing to front hinge, but still well intact. Spine and boards straight and square. Text clean and unmarked. Few light marks (pen line width) to front cover. Written by the former Secretary of the Treasury for Lincoln, Johnson and Arthur.
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19.95 USD
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Morris, Jan Manhattan '45
Oxford Univ Pr Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. 1987 0195038703 / 9780195038705 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Hard Cover
Book is in excellent condition - clean and tight with no major wear. Former owner's stamp and inscription on ffep. Dust jacket clean and intact. Slight edge wear, else fine. "In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence that characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur."
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6.95 USD
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Novas, Himilce Everything You Need to Know About Latino History
Plume New York, New York, U.S.A. 1994 0452271002 / 9780452271005 Trade Paperback Good Trade Paperback
Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in America, but most Americans are woefully uninformed when it comes to the phenomenal impact they have had on American life. In an accessible, question-and-answer format, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to stay informed about the truly multicultural past--and future--of America. Book is solid and tight, with 'used' sticker on spine and back cover. Minor underlining in text, and name on first page. Back cover has crease running length-wise.
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4.95 USD
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Opple, Frank (Ed.) Tales of the New England Past
Book Sales New York, New York, U.S.A. 1988 1555212298 / 9781555212292 Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Hard Cover
Book is solid, tight and clean; boards square. Few folded corners in text, else fine. Dust jacket has few light scratches to back, else fine.
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7.95 USD
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Redford, Dorothy Spruill Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage
Doubleday New York, New York, U.S.A. 1988 038524245X / 9780385242455 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Fine Good Hard Cover
Book is clean and tight, in near new condition. This is a beautiful book with bound spine and hand-written family tree on end pages. Cloth over boards. Dust jacket has 1 " tear on front, 1/2" tear at back near spine, and some light bumping to edges; wrapped in protective mylar cover. "Redford, born into a black family of Columbia, N.C., in 1943, researched her roots over a period of 10 years. There are moments of drama, high humor and sorrow in Redford's odyssey. It's a joy to share her triumph at identifying her forebears, then bringing together 2000 of their descendants in 1986. The homecoming was at Somerset Place, the plantation in North Carolina where their ancestors were slaves."
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7.95 USD
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Snow, Edward Rowe Storms And Shipwrecks of New England
Commonwealth Editions Beverly, MA 2003 1933212217 / 9781933212210 Trade Paperback Fine Trade Paperback
Originally published by Yankee Publishing, 1943. Updated by Jeremy D'Entremont. Book is clean and tight - as new.
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14.95 USD
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Starkey, Marion L. The Devil in Massachusetts: a Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
Doubleday New York 1989 0385035098 / 9780385035095 Trade Paperback Near Fine Trade Paperback
Book is clean, solid and tight; no creasing to spine. Rubbing to corners of spine; small crease to back bottom corner. "This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy."
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8.95 USD
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