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Tales of the Observer

By: Edwards, Richard H. (Jr.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, MA, Jordan Marsh Company: 1950

Seller ID: 012962

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An insider's version of the first hundred years of one of Boston's premier businesses. 116 pp.
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Imperial Reckoning; The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

By: Elkins, Caroline

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co.: 2005

Seller ID: 010698

ISBN: 0-8050-7653-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

White paper boards backed in green cloth. No writing or damage. Appears to be a comprehensive and well-founded study of British domination of native tribes in Kenya, especially the Kikuyu. While immigrants from Britain were given large tracts to farm, native farmers were restricted and taxed, often being forced to work for the large landholders. Natives were forced to carry identification and live in camps where corporal punishment was the rule, often ending in death. This book made me understand and appreciate how and why the Mau Mau began. 475 pp.
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A Social History of Scottish Dance; Ane Celestial Recreatioun

By: Emmerson, George S.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 007642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. DJ has a few tiny tears head and foot. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, and a whole lot of history ! This meaty volume will be of much interest to the student or teacher of dance as well as the historian. ISBN 0-7735-0087-1. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940; A People's Struggle for Survival

By: Epp, Frank H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1982

Seller ID: 009187

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original bright blue cloth on boards. Just reading the author's bio is enough to make me want to read this book. That should ameliorate my ignorance when asked, "What's the difference between the Mennonites and the Amish ?" Heavy book will need extra postage. 640 pp.
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Der Volkerbund; Der Veg Zum Weltfrieden

By: Erzberger, M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Berlin, Reimar Hobbing: 1918

Seller ID: 001058

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original grey soft cover with black lettering. No DJ. Text in German. 196 pp.
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The Sanusi of Cyrenaica

By: Evans-Pritchard, E.E.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 005725

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. DJ chipped at foot of spine, with price tag removal stain. Previous owner's name in ink with no other writing or damage. A Muslim order in Libya and Sudan, founded in Mecca in 1837. This book describes the nature of an Islamic order and how this particular order was founded and spread, with special reference to its relations with Italy. Origin and expansion of the Sanusiya, Bedouin of Cyrenaica, Sanusiya and the tribes, Turkish administration, First Italo-Sanusi war, Period of the accords, Second Italo-Sanusi war, Italian rule and colonization, Appendices...
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Excerpta Cypria for Today; A Source Book on the Cyprus Problem

By: Faulds, Andrew (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Lefkosha, Cyprus, Friends of the North Cyprus Parliamentary Group: 1988

Seller ID: 009092

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original white trade paperback. Edited by a British Member of Parliament, this book is an excellent case study for anyone interested in human relations. This island has a history of victimization by outside interests. Recently it has been a standoff between Greeks in the South and Turks in the North, stirred up by Britain and chastised by the United Nations. Although 95% of voters in 1949 favoured "enosis" (union with Greece) it still hasn't happened. 224 pp.
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The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy

By: Ferguson, Kathy E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 010589

ISBN: 0-87722-357-2

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Dark blue paperback. From the Series, Women in the Political Economy, by Ronnie J. Steinberg. This book has light-medium underlining and highlighting. Disagreement of ISBN - back cover lists it as 0-87722-400-5. "Ferguson maps new terrain for radical feminism, reduces liberal feminism to a heap of false promises, forces Leftists toward feminism to a degree unapproached by the 'Marxist-Feminist' literature, and, of course, makes a case against bureaucracy." - back cover. 286 pp.
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Dancing Gods; Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona

By: Fielding, Henry

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1934

Seller ID: 010555

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Grey cloth with spine designs on boards. Various dances of Southwestern U.S. as practiced by Pueblo groups, Hopis, Navajos, and Apaches. Dance as prayer and of "things that matter." 276 pp. plus index.
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Red Carpet

By: Finder, Joseph

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., New Republic/ Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: 1983

Seller ID: 004716

ISBN: 0030604842

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red paper boards. Unclipped DJ. A revelation of how wealthy, well-known American businessmen have associated with top Kremlin figures for years. 372 pp.
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The English Heritage

By: Finn, Rex Weldon

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1937

Seller ID: 009071

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original royal blue cloth on boards. Remains of DJ taped to covers. Purchased at library book sale, but no evidence of circulation (Notes on title page.) Withdrawn stamp on bottom edge. Celtic and Pre-Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Norman, Middle Ages, Tudor, Puritan, The Inventors. Black-and-white photos. 264 pp.
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India (Peeps at Many Lands)

By: Finnemore, John

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, Ltd.: 1924

Seller ID: 007200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original grey cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Eight full-page colour drawings. Reading the Contents page impressed upon me the variety of both geography and society in this ancient country. Truly a land of great contrsts ! Some foxing spots to front edges. 92 pp.
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Eye-Witness; An Anthology of British Reporting

By: Fisher, John (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1960

Seller ID: 007752

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ shows water stain. One chilling account from 1958 records the execution of a couple for murder - the man by decapitation and the woman by stoning - in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 284 pp.
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Chicago and A Century of Progress

By: Flader, Louis (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Edward J. Wonn: 1933

Seller ID: 008373

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original gold paper boards with small pastedown. A thorough photographic excursion through Chicago of the 30's, showing dozens of public buildings. An optimistic look at the future, so soon after the stock market crash ! How many of these imposing and expensive structures are still in use after nearly 80 years ? Unpaginated. Approx. 94 pp.
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Waiting for the Wave; AThe Reform Party and Preston Manning

By: Flanagan, Tom

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd.: 1995

Seller ID: 010480

ISBN: 0-7737-2862-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black paper on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing. Minor foxing to edges only. 235 pp.
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Island in Revolt (Signed)

By: Foley, Charles

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Longmans: 1962

Seller ID: 009099

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth on boards. Charles Foley's account of life in Nicosia as the editor of a newly-founded newspaper. Moves along quickly. Brits sem to be regarded as not-so-necessary evils as the struggle for "enosis" (union with Greece) heats up. EOKA and General Grivas will give him something to write about ! Designated to be given to Jane Armstrong, signed "With love, Charles" on title page, and a longer inscription to Jane, "who has the bug, too". Jane was the wife of and fellow -correspondent with her husband, Lawrence Earl, formerly Larry Wiezel, of Saint Jo...
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The Happy Time

By: Fontaine, Robert

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Venture Press, Simon and Schuster: 1945

Seller ID: 000542

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth with red and yellow pastedown label on boards, good DJ with some internal taped repairs to DJ only. The story of the goings-on in a two-family house in Ottawa in the 20's. Chapter titles begin with God Hit a Home Run, and end with Little Green Apples. As good for improving family life now as when it was first published. 269 pp.
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With Enthusiasm and Faith; History of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 1930-1972 (Signed)

By: Forbes, Elizabeth (Bess)

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs: 1974

Seller ID: 003391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original yellow trade paperback lettered in green. Signed by the author. 170 pp.
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The Show Must Not Go On

By: Frith, Senator Royce and Kuchar, Len

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Outremont, QC, Robert Davies Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 009331

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original illustrated cover trade paperback. Add this to your collection of Mulroney-bashing books ! Even though it's 20 years old it can probably get your juices flowing again ! 182 pp.
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The Tingley Family Revised; Volume II, Being a Record of the Descendants of Samuel Tingley of Malden, Mass.

By: Frye, Marian McCauley

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Self-published: 1972

Seller ID: 009275

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing except related notes on endpapers. Volume I listed separately. 599 pp.
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Category: Social History