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Knopf, NY, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st edition, 2nd printing. "Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World." [Pub. Info] "Voyagers to the West is a superb book. It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian." [R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies] 1ST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1983. 2nd edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. "The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound incompleteness results of Kurt Godel. In the same period, the cross-fertilization of mathematics and philosophy resulted in a new sort of 'mathematical philosophy', associated most notably (but in different ways) with Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, and Godel himself, and which remains at the focus of Anglo-Saxon philosophical discussion." [Pub. Info] Mathematicians also include Gotleib Frege, Rudolph Carnap, Henri Poincrne, and others. 600 pages. There is a protective mylar cover. 2ND EDITION.

St. Martin's Press, NY, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Novel based on the screenplay by David Williamson and the story by Peter Weir (who also directed the Australian film Gallopoli). The story concerns young men who enlist in WWI and "come-of-age" in the failed Allied Campaign (Britain and France) against the Ottoman Empire. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.

Folio Society, London, 1st thus. Hardcover. Fine. "In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there... Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than with earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperello, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. 100 tales with a framework story written in 1349. Revised by Boccaccio in 1370-1. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative."" [Pub. Info] Slipcase is in Fine condition. 1ST THUS. Beautifully produced book.1ST THUS. Deluxe Edition.

Oxford University Press NY, 1956. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine /Very Good. This is a fascinating study of the American lyceum of the nineteenth century, the first major adult education program in the country... It was, typically, a local citizens' organization, sponsoring lectures as well as other activities - debates, discussions, and readings. The lyceum as an American social institution began in the late 1820s... the Age of Jackson, flourished in the late 1830s and 40s, and withered away in the 1850s under the fire of the slavery controversy and the oncoming Civil War. At the height of the movement there were 3000 lyceums, and they were important... principally through the 'messages' of the lecturers - on religion, philosophy, and ethics; on social customs...; on science; and on literature and the fine arts." [Dust jacket] Dust jacket has very slight wear on the bottom with minor chipping on top and bottom of the spine; Scuffing on the back cover probably shelfwear. There is a protective mylar cover.

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. Today the term has been taken up again by its 'Indian' or native peoples to describe their own world - both its threatened present condition and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. Using indigenous sources as primary sources, 'Book of the Fourth World' explores the landscapes and chronologies of this world as they have been seen and interpreted from the inside. Mapping the continent by this literary means, it pays particular attention to the well-documented traditions of the Nahuatl (Aztec) and Maya to the north of the isthmus, and of the Quechua-speaking Inca to the South... it offers detailed analyses of texts ranging far back into the centuries of civilized life that antedated Columbus." [Pub. Info] 478 pages, 18 color plates; 68 figures (illuatrations); 6 maps and 5 tables.] Detailed… Read More

Bonanza Books, 1951. Hardcover. Fine. "Here you will find the whole vivid story in pictures of the gallant, heroic slice of history that was the Confederate States of America….you will find the best of the great wealth of illustrations of the Confederacy….Here are rare Brady photographs, Sheppard sketches, Chapman oils, Volck engravings; here are photographs and on-the-spot drawings by unknown Confederate soldiers, never before reproduced in any book."" [Dust Jacket] 288 pages. There is a protective mylar cover.

Harper & Row, NY. Hardcover. Fine. "Mini-biographies of nearly everybody: scientists, inventors, thinkers, writers, entertainers, who made a difference in the 20th century, until about 1990, when it was published."" [Pub. Info] 2000 entries by 300 contributors. 60 subject categories. 865 pages. 1ST EDITION