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xvi+249 pages with tables (2 folding), appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. This book presents a study of the influence of commerce on Anglo-Spanish diplomacy from 1667 to 1750, with the main focus being on the first half of the eighteenth century. The text compares, using archive documents, both Spanish and British versions of events, taking a more rigorous and specific approach than that seen in many previous works on the subject. A bibliography, graphs and detailed notes are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in European history, Anglo-Spanish relations and economics. Condition: Spine ends sunned, corners bumped. Jacket 1" loss to spine ends, edges and corners chipped, soiled else a very good copy in a good jacket.

529-532 pages with figures and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 14, Number 5 complete issue. First edition. The purpose of this work is to draw together and illustrate the known specimens of iron agricultural implements from the Victoria Falls region of southern Zambia, since this collection is the only available evidence of the form and type of these implements from early Iron Age manifestations withing the subcontinent. Other articles: Radiocarbon dates from China: some initial interpretations, by K. C. Chang (4 p) Discussion on Mechanisms of Population Growth During the Neolithic (8 p.). An Approach to the Study of the Medical Aspects of Culture, by Haydée Seijas ( 1 p.). A convergence of Psychological and Sociological Explanations of Witchcraft, by Dennison Nash (2 p.). Social Anthropology in the Political Study of New Nation-States, by T. V. Sathyamurthy (22 p., with C.A. comment). Anthopology and Colonialism, by Diane… Read More

iii+196 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables, and plates. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in green leather with flex boards. Volume 27. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6001) First edition.Skakbladet is the official organ of the Danish Chess Union. First published in 1904 and has had a continuous run since. Published monthly.Condition:Some age toning to pages, book plate to front paste down else a very good copy.

192 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables, and plates. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in black leather with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 26. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6001) First edition.Skakbladet is the official organ of the Danish Chess Union. First published in 1904 and has had a continuous run since. Published monthly.Condition:Some age toning to pages, fold at center else very good.

16 pages with illustrations, maps and games. Oblong octavo (8 1/4" x 11 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Through fun activities, this activity book introduces the culture of the Assyrians to 7 to 11 year olds. The book includes games, puzzles, maps, spot-the-difference pictures and drawing and coloring activities.
Condition: Light edge wear with gently bumped corners else very good.

2 parts: xiv+78 pages with 426 plates; 8 unpaginated pages and 13 plates. Royal octavo (9 14" x 6 1/8") issued in wrappers with black and gilt lettering. First edition.Robert Woods Bliss was the earliest of the serious collectors of Pre-Columbian art. In 1945, he wrote to the secretary of his Harvard class:About forty years ago [closer to thirty years, in fact] I became interested in the sculpture and artifacts in general of the various pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico, Central America, and the west coast of South America. At that time few, if any of our art museums had on display these objects, which were only made available to the public in museums of natural history as part of their archaeological finds. To me, many of the pieces I saw had artistic significance and also revealed remarkable craftsmanship. So I began to collect, buying only pieces which appealed to me as objects of art . . . I began to try to impress upon others the importance of the history of art, of the stylized and powerful… Read More

312 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Frist edition.On her first day, the newest member of the United States Senate witnesses a brutal murder on the Senate subway. But by whom, and why does someone now seem determined to put a permanent end to her political career? As she stakes out her claim on an important issue, she begins to see a link between her cause and the murdered man. It's a connection leading down a trail of dark secrets that people will mercilessly kill again to keep!Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.

vii+144 pages with tables, charts, figures, maps, illustrations and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Appendix "Anthropology of Umotina, Nambicuara, and Iranxe, with comparative Data from other Northern Mato Grosso Tribes by Marshal T Newman. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology Publication 15. First edition. The field work on which this monograph is based was carried out as a part of the teaching and field research program in anthropology conducted jointly by the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution and the Escola de Sociologia e Politica de Sao Paulo, during June, July and August of 1947, 1948 and 1949. Condition: Corners bumped, edge wear else about very good

1417-1427 pages with cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 67, number 6, part 1. First edition.This study focuses on mass peasant movements capable of realizing social goals and attempts to ascertain the conditions under which peasant grievances are channeled into a mass political movement. This paper thus moves beyond our earlier cases of generally restricted rebellions against local grievances which often lacked unity and effective organization. A basic hypothesis concerns the potential political radicalization of a peasantry through economic advances in urbanization, industrialization, and the subsequent commercialization of agriculture that result in improved transportation and communication and make mass recruitment of peasants possible. In the light of this hypothesis, particular con-temporary peasant movements are examined. Special attention is given to the… Read More

University of Missouri Press 1980 Columbia, 1980 VG+/VG+ 1st HB 8vo 6/10/96 ix,269 Remainder mark at head end pages, spine heal lightly rubbed. DW small chips at corners, spine heal lightly rubbed.. Hardcover.

615-652 pages with cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 39, Volume 5 complete issue. First edition. In recent critiques of evolutionary archaeology, Boone and Smith (1998) have expressed a preference for evolutionary ecology, Spencer (1997) for processual archaeology, and Schiffer (1996) for behavioral archaeology. These various approaches to explanation ask different questions and employ interpretive principles different from those of evolutionary archaeology. Some of their questions, methods, and principles overlap with those of evolutionary archaeology, but only evolutionary archaeology simultaneously exploits the temporal dimension inherent in the archaeological record, acknowledges the critical distinction between immanent and configurational properties and between essentialist and materialist ontologies, and builds its explanations of the cultural past from a theory employing mechanisms external to the subject of change.… Read More

322 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Inscribed by the author. First edition.William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist best known for his work of fiction, The Things They Carried, a critically acclaimed collection of semi-autobiographical, inter-related short-stories inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War. In addition, he is known for his work, Going After Cacciato, also written about wartime Vietnam. O'Brien has held the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University–San Marcos every other year since the 2003-2004 year (i.e. 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009–2010, and 2011-2012). Tim O'Brien is widely acclaimed as our finest chronicler of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. In his novel July, July he tells the heart-rending and often hilarious story of a group of men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American ideals… Read More

229 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Delilah West is in love, and to her that's scarier than any gunman. When a simple shopping trip to the mall turns into a bloodbath - leaving Delilah with a secret she can hardly bear to keep - she turns to Erik Lundstrom, her handsome millionaire boyfriend, for the comfort she needs. But both Erik's prickly eighteen-year-old daughter, Nicki, and Delilah's own fear keep her from getting as close to Erik as he would like. To add to her anxiety, Brian Hall, a troubled boy she saved that horrible day at the mall, shows up at her office hoping that Delilah can find his father. The case seems simple enough, and Delilah needs something to take her mind off of Erik. Soon the search begins to look hopeless, and it becomes so important to Erik for the two women in his life to get along that Delilah and Nicki agree to tolerate each other for an afternoon -… Read More

467+[ii]pages with color frontispiece, both black and white and color plates, photographs, music, facsimiles, compact disc on verso inner back cover, bibliography and index. Small folio (12 1/4" x 9 1/4") in black cloth boards with title blind stamped to spine and cover. First edition. This work covers a period from the pre-conquest, through the conquest to modern times, giving the history and cultural aspect of music and the musicians of Michoacan. Not only is it thoroughly and colorfully illustrated, but the added cd leaves the all the senses completely covered and thoroughly enriched. Condition: Some light rubbing to the boards, and jacket, spine lightly sunned else a better than very good copy in like jacket.

402 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This is a crime novel set in a decaying New England factory town, where Detective Hannah Shaw tracks down a demented ex-FBI agent who has murdered an activist priest. Jack O'Connell is also the author of Word Made Flesh, The Skin Palace, and Box Nine. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

462 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, photographs, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Robert Fischer was US Champion at 14 and World Champion at 29. This revised survey of his career includes every traceable serious game (nearly 700) that Fischer played between 1955 and 1977. The book also includes a record of his matches and tournaments and scores against opponents. Condition: Light edge wear, gently bumped corners else very good.

G P Putnam & Co. 1997 New York, 1997 Fine in a fine dust wrapper 1st Hardbound Tall 8vo 10/20/98 341p. Hardcover.

402 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This is a crime novel set in a decaying New England factory town, where Detective Hannah Shaw tracks down a demented ex-FBI agent who has murdered an activist priest. Jack O'Connell is also the author of Word Made Flesh, The Skin Palace, and Box Nine. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

152 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. The Sicilian Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. "Indeed, most statistical surveys suggest that 1.d4 is the most successful first move for White, but only because 1...c5 scores so highly against 1.e4." New in Chess stated in its 2000 Yearbook that of the games in its database, White scored 56.1% in 296,200 games beginning 1.d4, but a full two percent lower (54.1%) in 349,855 games beginning 1.e4. "The main culprit responsible for this state of affairs" was the Sicilian, which held White to a paltry 52.3% score in 145,996 games. One sixth (17%) of all games between grandmasters, and one quarter (25%) of the games in the Chess Informant database, begin with the Sicilian. Condition: Jacket: Light edge wear… Read More

28 unpaginated pages with illustrations. Oblong octavo (8 1/2" x 10 1/2") bound in original pictorial boards in original pictorial wrappers. First edition.In O'Donnell's fetching first book, night is falling as Thomas and his teddy bear gaze outdoors. Listening to the wind shake the trees and rattle the windows, Thomas is frightened--"he imagined he could hear the howling of wolves." And then magical things begin to happen. A fox appears ("just like the one in the painting near his bed"), and when Thomas asks if there are wolves outside, the kind animal offers to take him to the wise white stag, who will know the answer. As if to allay the boy's apprehension, teddy suddenly grows into a large, furry bear on whose back Thomas rides through the night. The trio's nocturnal adventure finally quells Thomas's fears about any scary creatures that might be lurking in the darkness. Youngsters with active imaginations will find this fantastical journey equally comforting. The moon's luminous glow infiltrates… Read More