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Capital
by Karl Marx
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics, Marx's great...
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Big Russ and Me
by Tim Russert
TIM RUSSERT is NBC-TV's senior vice-president and Washington Bureau Chief, the producer and moderator of Meet the Press, contributing political analyst for The Today Show, and host of his own weekly news program on MSNBC. He holds the Walter Cronkite Award for journalism and the American Legion Journalism Award. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, writer Maureen Orth, and their son, Like, and was named "Dream Dad of the Year" by Parents magazine.
British Society Since 1945
by Arthur Marwick
High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text. 'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls.. it is astonishing how much he gets in' Times...
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Historical Geography Books & Ephemera
The Federated Society of Electrotypers & Stereotypers of Great Britain and Ireland. London Branch: Handwritten Meeting Minutes, October 8 1894 - April 10 1899
by Mr. Lockyer et al
Not published, 1899. n/a. Hardcover. Poor Condition. Size: 4to <12". Unpaginated. Boards and prelims loose. Spine mostly disintegrated. Text block split in a couple of places. Edges browned. Covers marked and worn. Corners bumped. Comes with loose compositor apprentice certificate. Handwritten minutes with relevant printed notices tipped in throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; England; 19th century; Genealogy & Local...
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€236.48
The Convention Speeches of Roe Fulkerson
by Fullard, Harold
Chicago: Kiwanis Magazine, 1946 Book. Illus. by Robert Bruce Crippen. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original reddish-brown cloth on boards. Cover title rubbed. No writing except "1946, Christmas Greetings, Bill Kotchapaw "(signed). I twigged to the name Kotchapaw because I lived in Prince Edward County, Ontario, for many years and had heard it there. Roe Parham Fulkerson was the first editor of Kiwanis Magazine,...
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€33.08
Virtuous Lives: Four Quaker Sisters Remember Family Life, Abolitionism, and Women's Suffrage
by Lucille Salitan & Eve Lewis Perera (ed.)
Continuum, New York, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 180 pp. Binding firm. Edges slightly foxed and marked. Occasional creasing to page corners. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Slight curling to covers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; United States; 19th century; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 0826406874. ISBN/EAN: 9780826406873....
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€14.19
American Geographical Society Know Your America Progam (12 vols.)
by Alice Taylor et.al
Nelson Doubleday, 1958. Paperback. Very Good. Nelson Doubleday,1958. Paperback. 12 vols. Philadelphia, Boston, California,America's Farms and Ranches, New Orleans, Pacific Northwest, Railroads, Mountain States, Our Nations Capital, Alaska,National Scenic Vacationlands, San Francisco.Covers have very slight shelfwear. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. These volumes contain stickers, 4 of the volumes have untouched stickers - they have not been placed on their pages. The other 8 have their...
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€66.26
THE MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED:
by Scammon, Charles M
Quarto (12 by 9 1/2 inches) San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Company, 1874. Original First Edition. 319 + v pages, hardcover, bound in original green pebble cloth, with title in gilt on spine, and gilt vignette of a seal on upper front cover; 27 lithographic plates drawn by the author, and printed by Britton and Rey, plus many other fine lithographs (a few drawn by another hand) of whaling equipment, seals, dolphins and porpoises. Neat nineteenth century inked gift inscription on front fly leaf; minor...
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€897.94
Poverty and Progress: A Second Social Survey of York
by B. Seebohm Rowntree
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xx + 540pp. Front hinge cracked, webbing exposed. Board affixed at threads. Spine cocked and faded. Edges browned and marked. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Corners bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Genealogy & Local History; England; Sociology & Culture....
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€14.19
A Nation Of Victims : The Decay Of The American Character
by Sykes, Charles J
New York, New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1992. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 289 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#001786: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Jacket's front flap is creased. Worn spot on front flyleaf from removed original owner's nameplate. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Review "In a trenchant and tonic analysis of America's loss of backbone, the author of The Hollow Men alleges that we have become a...
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€17.96
Overground: A pictorial review of London's road Transport
by Newman, Stanley
Shepperton: Ian Allan Limited, 1953. Book. Very Good. Stapled Card Covers. 2nd Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 32 pages, 75g. Stapled soft card covers a little rubbed to edges, Very good. Illustrated with period b/w photographs..
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€7.09
Hell's Foundations: A Town, its Myths and Gallipoli
by Moorhouse, Geoffrey
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1992. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 256 pages. The author looks at the effect Gallipoli has had on the small mill town of Bury in Lancashire. In this microcosm he answers some questions that may and should be asked everywhere of any war. How do we use our legends of military heroism in the years following the...
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€13.59
AN ELEGANT MADNESS: High Society in Regency England
by Murray, Venetia
NY: Viking, 1999. First American edition. Octavo. xvii, 316 pp; 28 b/w plates + b/w drawings in the text; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A social history of the Regency, an era of lavish parties, ferocious gossip, relentless bed hopping, and notorious gambling that set a new standard for elegance and vulgarity.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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€18.90
John Darke's Sojourn in the Cotteswolds and Elsewhere
by Buckman, S.s
London: Chapman & Hall, 1890. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with discolouration to boards, rubbing to ends of very sunned spine and minor bumping to corners. 204pp. The author's rambles, the tales he tells and the people he meets. Illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (-)/No Jacket. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.
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€88.68
Barnard Castle and Teesdale - A Victorian Perspective
by Rackham, Robin A
Barnard Caslte: The Teesdale Buildings Preservation Trust, 1988. Book. Fine. Stapled Card Covers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not paginated but illustrated with 38 full page b/w photographs with descriptive text. 290g. Stapled soft card covers slightly edge-creased. Oblong format, FINE. Shows the major changes in the Townscape and Landscape of the area using photographs taken nearly 100 years ago..
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€15.17
A Miscellany of This and That and Things Remembered. (Totton & Eling Historical Society publication).
by ???
Totton: Totton & Eling Historical Society., 1988. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Revised. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 18 pages. 110g. Stapled paper covers FINE with contents and staples tight and clean. Illustrated with poorly reproduced b/w photographs. One of a series of historical publications of this area of Hampshire..
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€5.06
OTTO KAHN PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPH WITH BLACKSTONE STUDIOS SIGNATURE, 1933
by Blackstone Studios (photography)
[1933 PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPH OTTO KAHN WITH BLACKSTONE STUDIOS SIGNATURE] BLACKSTONE STUDIOS, NY, PLATINUM PRINT/PHOTOGRAPH of the famed financier Otto Kahn, pencil signed "Blackstone, NY", in pencil at lower left corner, "April 1933" in pencil at lower right, number "47" in pencil below this, 10-1/2" high x 8" across to the plate marks on 13-1/2" x 10-1/2" cotton rag photographic paper…limited edition photograph, possibly one-of-a-kind or only known copy that was part of a photo album of more than 40...
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€118.15
Blokes & Sheds
by Thompson, Mark
Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1995. Oblong octavo size [approx 24x16cm]. Near Fine condition in pictorial laminated boards as issued. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 121 pages. Behind the corrugated iron curtain of Australia's sheds. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€12.36
The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age
by Scott, Willard
NY: Hyperion. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 2003. 1st Edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. Very lightly used, mild signs of handling - unmarked. Nice, used copy. DJ improved with new, clear mylar cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages .
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€7.36
Wiltshire Windmills
by Watts, Martin
Wilts.County Council Library & Museum Service, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Soft Card Cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 48 pages, 120g. Soft card covers a little marked, Near FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings..
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€5.91
Tilling Group (Glory Days)
by Gavin Booth
Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Oblong 12mo <7 3/4". 95 pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Edges browned. Comes with associated newspaper snippets. Profusely illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Automobiles & Vehicles; England; Modern; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0711025975. ISBN/EAN: 9780711025974. Pictures of this item not already displayed here...
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€9.46
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 33 No 2
by Kent, J. S. (editor)
Manchester: The Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society, 1997. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to upper corner. 81-148pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
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€5.85
Totterdown Rising. A Story of Endurance and Survival
by Kate Pollard
Tangent / Totterdown, Bath, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. 96 pp. Internally clean. Binding firm. Edges slightly foxed and browned. Profusely illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; England; Modern; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0955352037. ISBN/EAN: 9780955352034. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 47402. ....
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€9.46
A Collection of Three Farming Ledgers belong to Lewis Wetherbee of Ashby, MA
by Lewis Wetherbee
Ashby, MA, 1873. General wear, toning, and soiling. Binding are loose.. A collection of three farming ledgers belonging to Lewis Wetherbee, a farmer in Ashby, MA. The first is an 'Egg Ledger' and dates from 1846-1873. It begins with a list of items bought by Wetherbee for his family and farm. The list only continues until early 1847 and consists of such items as sugar, tea, pepper, oil, nutmeg, cream tartar and candy. The remainder, from 1849 thru May 1873, is a ledger of the eggs sold including the...
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€307.19
A History of Monmouthshire. From the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time. Vol. IV - Parts I, II & III: The Hundred of Caldicot
by Joseph Alfred Bradney
Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, London, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Elephant Folio. 347 pp. 3 volumes only of set or series. Bindings firm. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of books mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Corners slightly bumped. This set is published over the period 1929-33. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Wales; History. Pictures of...
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€295.60
Jharia Coalfield
by D. Chandra
Geological Society of India, Bangalore, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 149 pp. Internally clean. Binding firm. Edges browned. Covers slightly marked and creased. Mineral Resources of India 5. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; India; Modern; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 8185867003. ISBN/EAN: 9788185867007. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available...
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€23.65
The Crosfield Family: A history of the descendants of Thomas Crosfield of Kirkby Lonsdale who died in 1614
by John Fothergill Crosfield
Cambridge University Press, 1980. First Edition (no. 279 of 400 limited edition copies). Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Size: Folio 12 - 19". xxx + 402pp. Binding firm. Bump to top of spine. Edges slightly browned and marked. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Covers marked. Corners bumped. Profusely illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Modern;...
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€82.77
Accept this offering..." Serene Natural Landscape Valentine
by Meek
England, 1850. Very good. Minor staining. An attractive 12mo-sized Valentine by the maker Meek, using lace paper which has been lithographed and hand-colored. The text reads, "Accept this offering dear and true. Affection bids me pay to you." Image is of a serene lake with autumn trees, morning glories. Measures approx. 5.75" by 3.75
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€61.44
