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The Fifties
by David Halberstam
"A sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
Hard Times
by Studs Terkel
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.
Americas Books & Ephemera
Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan.
by Markham, Sir Clements
London: Hakluyt, 1911. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 288 pages, 3 maps 9 illustrations, a few small stamps of the "Reform Club" London, endpapers brittle..
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NZ$205.75
The Mapping of Bermuda: A Bibliography of Printed Maps and Charts, 1548-1970
by Palmer, Margaret. Edited by R.V. Tooley
London: Holland Press Cartography , 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 31 pages, 41 plates. Uncirculated, very clean ex-library copy..
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NZ$65.15
An American Jewish Bibliography: Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews or Relating to Them Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies until 1850
by Rosenbach, A.S.W
Baltimore: American Jewish Historical Society, 1926. Book. Very Good. Brown Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xi, 486, 11 pages, many facsimiles of title pages. Ex-library copy in very clean unread condition. .
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NZ$51.44
Journal du Voyage fait a la Mer de Sud avec les flibustiers de l'Amerique En 1684. & Annees Suivantes.
by Raveneau De Lussan
Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1690. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. Second Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. [16], 272 pages. Nice new leather binding, Gilt spine title Voyage a la Mer de Sud. Title page and 2 other pages have expertly done paper repairs on the margins, first page of the dedication has a few old library number, no other markings. One of the very few first hand accounts of the buccaneers in the 17th century. Written by a French nobleman, Sieur Raveneau de Lussan. He...
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NZ$2,057.52
Tangweera, Life and Adventures Among Gentle Savages
by Bell, C. Napier
London: Edward Arnold, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 318 pages, frontispiece and 7 plates. Old bookplate on front endpaper. Contains valuable historical and ethnographical information not recorded elsewhere. Gustavus von Tempsky who played a major role in the Maori land wars in the 1860s and 1870s in New Zealand is mentioned on several pages..
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NZ$116.59
Alaska: a bibliography, 1570-1970, With subject index
by Tourville, Elsie A
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. First Edition. xvii, 738 pages. Cean uncirculated ex-library copy in very good condition , minimal library markings..
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NZ$102.88
Roster and record of Iowa soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, together with historical sketches of volunteer organizations, 1861-1866 .Vol. II, 9th-16th Regiments - Infantry
Des Moines: Emory H. English, State Printer, 1908. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxiii, 1199 pages. Original binding. Each regiment is organized by company, with the service record and brief biographical information about each soldier: name, national origin, residence, date of enlistment, promotions, wounds, etc. muster out date and place..
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NZ$133.74
Bibliography of the Chickasaw
by Hoyt, Anne Kelley
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1987. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. xvi, 212 pages. Uncirculated and very clean ex-library copy..
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NZ$137.17
The Dalesmen of the Mississippi River. The story of the dalesmen and their families who went from the Swaledale area of England's North Yorkshire in the early 19th Century to Seek a New Life in the Country of the Upper Mississippi River
by Morris, David
York: William Sessions Limited, 1989. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 121 pages, b/w illustrations. Handwritten addresses on last blank page..
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NZ$51.44
A Canadian Indian bibliography 1960-1970
by Abler, Thomas S., Sanders, Douglas E. & Weaver, Sally M
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xi, 732 pages. Uncirculated clean ex-library copy.
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NZ$30.86
The Life and Times of David Zeisberger. The western pioneer and apostle of the Indians
by De Schweinitz, Edmund
New York: Johnson Reprint, 1971. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 747 pages. Very clean ex-library copy, appears never to have been in circulation..
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NZ$61.73
A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924: A supplement (Native American Bibliography Series, No. 5)
by Littlefield, Daniel F.; Parins, James W
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1985. Book. Very Good. Yellow Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. vii, 339 pages. Very clean ex-library copy, no markings on the spine. We also have in stock the bibliography published in 1982. We can combine postage..
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NZ$60.01
Index to Maps of the American Revolution in Books and Periodicals Illustrating the Revolutionary War and Other Events of the Period 1763-1789
by Clark, David Sanders
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 301 pages. Very clean, unread ex-library copy..
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NZ$20.58
The Southern Black: Slave and Free. A Bibliography of Anti- and Pro-Slavery Books and Pamphlets and of Social and Economic Conditions in the Southern States from the Beginnings to1950. Works available in Microform
by compilked by Lawrence S. Thompson
Troy: Whitston Publishing Company, 1970. Book. Very Good. Yellow Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 576 pages, a very clean and hardly read ex-library copy. .
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NZ$41.15
Ontogenetic Stages of Some Simple Corals.
by Durham, J. Wyatt
BerKELEY: University of California Press, 1949. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. Volume 28, No. 6, pp. 137-172. 17 figures in text, 2 plates. one institutional stamp, some wear on spine..
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NZ$24.00
Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865-1980, volume 2
by Smith, John David
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x, 866-1847. Volume 2 only of the 2 volume set. 2 internal library stamps but no accession number or markings on the spine.
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NZ$60.01
Bibliography of the Languages of Native California, including closeley related languages of adjacent areas
by Bright, William
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Orange Cloth. First Edition. x, 221 pages. Uncirculated clean ex-library book. No markings on the binding..
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NZ$42.86
The Correlation Of The Pre-cambrian Rocks Of The Region Of The Great Lakes.
by Lawson, Andrew, C
Berkeley: University of California, 1919. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 19 pages. Offprint from University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Vol. 10, No.1..
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NZ$29.15
The German language press of the Americas = Die deutschsprachige Presse der Amerikas. 3 volume set
by Arndt, Karl John Richard; Olson, May E
Munchen: Verlag Dokumentation, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Third revised edition. 845, 708, (4); 838 pages, facsimiles. 3 Volumes. Text in English and German. Uncirculated ex-library copies, clean. Volume I has a dust wrapper, volume 2 and 3 without dust wrappers. A bibliography of German language publications in America, including newspapers and pamphlets. Facsimile illustrations of numerous publications..
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NZ$162.89
![Bibliography of the Muskhogean Languages [with] Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages [with] Catalogue of the Publications of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories [with] Bibliography of North American Invertebrate Paleontology : Being a Report Upon the Publications that have Hitherto been made upon the Invertebrate Palaeontology of North America, Including the West Indies and Greenland.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/845/604/717604845.0.b.jpg)
Bibliography of the Muskhogean Languages [with] Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages [with] Catalogue of the Publications of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories [with] Bibliography of North American Invertebrate Paleontology : Being a Report Upon the Publications that have Hitherto been made upon the Invertebrate Palaeontology of North America, Including the West Indies and Greenland.
by Pilling, James Constantine; Hayden, F.V.; White, C.A.; Nicholson, H. Alleyne
Washington: Government Printing Office Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. four volumes bound in one. 114; 208; 37; 132 pages. The bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages has a few facsimiles. Ex-institutional library with very few markings, leather spine, marbled boards..
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NZ$82.30
![Report of an Inspection of the Artillery School Fort Monroe, V.A. [with] Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy (West Point), made to the Secretary of War for the Year 1883. And Annual Report for 1885.[with] Station-List of Officers of the Medical Department, United States Army. [with] Standard Supply table of the Medical Department of the United States Army. 1883. [with] Studies on the Coast Defence applied to the Gulf of Spezia. [with] Revised Regulations of the War Department relative to Advertising and Job printing. January 1, 1874.[with] [with] Digest of Laws, Rulings, and Decisions governing the military crime of Desertion. To which is added a Compendium of the Disabilities attaching to Desertion.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/731/584/1324584731.0.b.jpg)
Report of an Inspection of the Artillery School Fort Monroe, V.A. [with] Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy (West Point), made to the Secretary of War for the Year 1883. And Annual Report for 1885.[with] Station-List of Officers of the Medical Department, United States Army. [with] Standard Supply table of the Medical Department of the United States Army. 1883. [with] Studies on the Coast Defence applied to the Gulf of Spezia. [with] Revised Regulations of the War Department relative to Advertising and Job printing. January 1, 1874.[with] [with] Digest of Laws, Rulings, and Decisions governing the military crime of Desertion. To which is added a Compendium of the Disabilities attaching to Desertion.
by Jno. C. Tidball; C.H. Crane; Caesar Guarasci; Richard C. Drum; Fred T. Wilson
Washington: Government Printing Office Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8 separate publications bound in on volume. Leather spine and corners. Ex-Genearl Assembly Library New Zealand. Publication dates are between 1874 and 1885. The covers of each separate publication are not bound in. Several are very rare..
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NZ$300.06
A Bibliography of California Indians: Archaeology, Ethnography, Indian History (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Vol. 48)
by Heizer, Robert F.; Elsasser, Albert B
New York: Garland Publishing, 1977. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 267 pages. Uncirculated and very clean ex-library copy..
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NZ$102.88
The Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish: A Bibliography with Annotations
by Smucker, Donovan E
Waterloo Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1977. Book. Very Good. Beige Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xvi, 232 pages. Uncirculated and very clean ex-library copy..
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NZ$17.15
![Bibliotheca americana vetustissima. A description of works relating to America, published between 1492 and 1551. [bound with] Additions](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/292/774/1406774292.0.b.jpg)
Bibliotheca americana vetustissima. A description of works relating to America, published between 1492 and 1551. [bound with] Additions
by Harrisse, Henry
Amsterdam: Verlag P. Schippers, 1967. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2 volumes bond in one. Facsimile reprint of the 1866 New York edition, plus the Additions published in Paris 1872. liv, 519 pages; xl, 199 pages. Ex-library but unread and very clean.
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NZ$82.30
