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Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1997. 339 bright, white pages with a section of glossy black and white photographs. Wear to covers, price sticker on spine; creases to back corners; several pages in the back have previously turned top corners. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase price supports charity and benefits literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little Brown, 2000. 594 pages with several glossy sections of black and white photographs. From flap: "Konrad Adenauer: one of the truly great leaders of the twentieth century. In an astonishing political career that spanned six decades - including fourteen years as Chancellor of West Germany - he was instrumental in shaping the modern political landscape, both of his own country and of Europe." Bumped top corner of jacket, quarter in tear to top of jacket spine, spot of very light soil on outside pages. Heavy volume, no extra shipping charges only if sent via US Media Mail. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1966. 526 pages. Edgewear, some light creases to back cover. We note underlining on at least 15 pages. Heavy volume. No additional shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. Please see our other book, Builders of America, by the same editors. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1968. Ex-library with typical treatments; many blacked out; covers have been laminated. 103 pages with tanned margins. This appears to be a professional library rebinding. One of the Problems in American Civilization Series, edited and with an introduction by Theodore P. Greene. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. Stated First Edition. Inscribed and signed by co-author Curtis Wilkie (signed with first name only) on title page. Jim McDougal and the Clinton Whitewater scandal. "Vintage political history, (this book) is a southern tragedy with lessons for us all." 316 bright, white pages. Slight bump to head and heal of dust jacket. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. 8vo size maroon clothbound hardcover; 277 toned pages with some black and white illustrations plus a section of glossy black and white photographs. This volume was probably rebound from its original binding into this sturdy binding, possibly at the time of original purchase. This volume includes a reproduction of a drawing done by Adolph Hitler and a reproduction of a German language book page with "reading marks" made by him. Please see our photographs for the latter. Contents include: Prelude The Nazi Experiment The Crystallization of the National Socialist Art Doctrine Operation Degenerate Art Nazi Painting: A Study in Retrogression Soviet Insistence and Western Dilemma The Postwar Situation German Art Behind the Iron Curtain Art in Soviet Russia Conclusion: the Challenge to Democracy Ex-library with typical treatments, some blacked out. We note several previously folded page corners, bumped lower corners and a tacky area on back cover… Read More

New York: Modern Reader, 1973. From back: "Dr. Horn's repor tis based on the longest continuous observation of the Chinese revolution by a Western writer." 192 pages with center section of glossy black and white photographs. Darkened spine, sunned band to photo illustrated front cover. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1959. 8vo size clothbound hardcover; 336 deckle edged pages From page 16: "In Plonsk ... in 1886 Sheindal Green... presented her young husband Avigdor with their sixth child. In Pinsk at this time, a 12-year-old boy named Chaim was enrolled at one of the local schools. The sixth child of Sheindal and Avigdor Green became David Bun-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel. The boy named Chaim was Chaim Weizmann, who became the first President of Israel." Edgewear, bumped head and heel of spine, small area of shelf soil at bottom fore-edge. Dealer Direct Payment Only. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 294 bright, white pages with a few black and white illustrations. From back: "(This volume) takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions. (This volume) puts the poor themselves at center stage and shoes how their entrepreneurial energies are shackled by political and social discrimination. When these shackles are removed, as is happening in places such as China and Vietnam, the poor are able to seize opportunities and drive wealth creation... (This book) explains how leader in the developing world can build more inclusive societies and more equitable governments, thereby creating dynamic national economies and giving the poor the opportunity to accumulate the means and skills to control their own destinies." Bumped head of spine and bump to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits… Read More

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Unique copy of this book, ex-library book from Christian Science Publishing Society with gift plate on inside cover from Willis J. Abbot. Included with book is a signed letter from author Claude G. Bowers to Willis J. Abbot thanking Mr. Abbot for his favorable review of this book in the Christian Science Monitor. The letter is typewritten, contains some mistakes, is dated Sept. 28, 1932 and signed in ink. The letter was originally folded several times and is presently stored folded in half. The book does have the usual library markings and stamps, including marking on the spine, and pockets. There is some wear to covers including bumping and there is a separation of the fep at spine of inside front cover. There is some tanning to blank endpapers, but little tanning to pages. 610 pages including index, with illustrations, black and white plates. Contents include: Boyhood, DePauw Days, At the Bar, Springtime in Indianapolis, Prophet of Imperialism; The Triumph… Read More

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1968. From jacket: "This book is an indictment of apartheid...(the authors) have chosen eight men...who have worked in equally varied ways to bring peace and justice to their troubled land...Alan Paton, Nelson Mandela, Albert Lutuli; Robert Sobukwe, Beyers Naude, Nana Sita, Dennis Brutus, Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered in mylar. 207 pages with some full page black and white photograph portraits of these men. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013. 8vo size trade paperback; 346 pages including Notes and Index From back cover: "In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they pease, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful. But thousands of others are not ready to give up. Ordinary citizens across the nation are meeting in living rooms, church basements, synagogues and schools to identify shared concerns and take action... The most important book on organizing and grassroots democracy in a generation... a passionate and hopeful account of how our endangered democratic principles can be put into action. Edgewear. We also noted seven creased page corners and a spot on the bottom margin of the contents page. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1993. Stated First Edition Signed and inscribed on fep. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 307 bright, white pages. From jacket: "Kevin Phillips shows how the populist explosion revealed a powerful new political force: widespread frustration over the decline of middle-class prosperity and the threat to the American dream... (This book) shows in dismaying details what has happened to the middle class since the 1970s in disposable income, earnings, home values, job prospects, public services, assets and net worth, pension safety and health insurance, and the next generation's prospects of enjoying the same rising living standards and upward mobility as its parents had. And it was not a natural result of adverse global trends but of deliberate political choices." Some sunning to, wear and edgewear to jacket, top of book is sunned underneath jacket; crease to inside back flap of jacket, some on rear endpaper and inside back cover. . Signed by Author. First.… Read More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. 295 crisp, clean pages, appears unread. In very good condition with a tiny blemish on back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1943. Red clothbound hardcover; 97 clean, toned pages. From clipping: "This study of British Far Eastern Policy is of interest ... because it is exceptionally rich in examples of different types of policy, some seemingy dictated by businessmen, others broadly imperialistic or informed with a modern attitude of international cooperation; and also because the British have shown an unusual facility of adjusting their policies in the light of their experience to changing conditions." Ex-library with traditional markings and treatments. Descriptive text from jacket has been clipped and paperclipped to fep. Paperclip has left impressions on following pages. Pencilled booksellers markings on fep. Sunned spine. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Tokyo: Simul Press, 1973. Author was Prime Minister of Japan. First English language edition. 228 bright, white pages plus sections of glossy black and white photographs. Name stamp on fep; some light wear and light soil to dust jacket. From jacket: "An unabridged translation...a bold, innovative blueprint for remodeling the overcrowded, polluted, growth-oriented Japan into a more livable land." Quotes are for illustrative purposes and remain the property of their respective copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, 1922. Maroon cloth cover with sunned spine and sunned bands on front. Bumped head of spine and stray black line on front cover. 127 toned pages with several sections of glossy black and white photographs. Portraits of Mayor Edward W. Quinn and James T. Barrett, President of the City Council as well as other photographs of city hall, other notables and notable events. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Duell Sloane and Pearce, 1944. 8vo size clothbound hardcover; 326 pages; black and white frontispiece. Dust jacket is missing, but the inside flap of the jacket was removed and paperclipped to fep. W.L. (William Lyon) Mackenzie King (1874 - 1950) is the longest serving Canadian Prime Minister in the country's history. King served three non-consecutive terms beginning in 1921 and was prime minister during World War II. King's leadership during World War II paralleled that of Winston Churchill. This volume contains 21 speeches by King which he delivered between September 1941 and June 1944, selected to illustrate his war policies, both at home and abroad. Ex-library with typical treatments. Paperclip has left impression on subsequent pages. Booksellers pencilled notations and prices on fep, toned pages. Lightly bumped corners and top and bottom of spine. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning... Cloth.… Read More

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1932. 8vo size dark green clothbound hardcover with silver titles on the spine; 421 toned pages with some black and white illustrations on glossy stock. Carl Schurz was a German-born American statesman, who served as United States Senator and Secretary of the Interior. He was also a well-known speaker and journalist and the first German-born person to be elected a United States Senator. Ex-library with typical treatments; this volume was professionally rebound in 1985 and the new binding is in great condition. Pages up to page 5 have a small tear in the bottom margin. Some pages have been mended with cello tape which has discolored and caused some transfer tanning to other pages. Pages 5-9 have a very light spot. There is a small spot in the bottom of pages 72/73. There is a half inch tear to the bottom margin of pages 189/190. Pages 312 has a penciled "x" and the illustration opposite also has an "x" in the bottom margin and a spot or… Read More

National First Ladies Library, 2003. 4to size softcover with extended inner flaps; 183 glossy pages with black and white and color illustrations throughout. Edgewear, some scratches on back cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.