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Bogota Columbia Kelly, 1960, paperback. Segunda edicion, reprint 1960, originally published 1897. Biblioteca "Eduardo Santos" volumen XXIII. Text in SPANISH. 261 pages. -- Softcover. Condition: very good (text block corner bumped). -- Columbia.

Bern, Verband Allschlaraffenrat, 1978, hardcover. 119/120 [one issue ONLY]. Der Landesverband: Austria, Deutschland, Helvetica, Nordamerika, Lateinamerika. Text in GERMAN. -- Hardcover, blue flexible plastic covers. Condition: very good but spine wrinkled; no dust jacket. -- German-language-only social groups.

London: Hamilton 1880, hardcover. INCOMPLETE COPY: lacking preliminary pages: table of contents (a copy is laid in), dedication, introduction. Small errata slip is bound in. Otherwise complete. -- Chronological list of events, page or two of explanation, starting year 1545. **This copy includes a very early photograph of HMS Victory** tipped in at p.131, section "1805 Lord Nelson's Last Embarkation from Portsmouth." -- Hardcover, attractive red cloth with gilt and black decoration. Condition: poor: lacks content as described; binding broken; cover moderately worn and stained; pages are mostly clear and bright, the occasional foxing and margin tear.

London Murray, 2003, paperback. True family saga, British aristocrats at 19th-20th century, World War I, more politically involved than the Downton Abbey group. Includes photos. 528 pages. Softcover. Condition: very good minus (pencil marks). -- Antonia Fraser says: "I was engrossed." ISBN 0719565251

London Grant Richards, 1901, hardcover. Author was also a painter and art critic, studied in London and Paris, influenced by Ruskin, was U.S. consul at Rome [Century Cyclopedia]. -- Hardcover, two volume set, ex-library with vintage spine labels, new labels; top-edges gilt, deckled fore-edge. Condition: very good minus (library flaws as noted, otherwise pages are bright and binding is tight).

[No place no publisher, 2006, paperback. No publisher given. 64 pages, 8.5x11 inches. Softcover, spiral bound. Condition: near fine. -- Fictional memoir, 1920s, coal mining, troubles and strikes, in the north of England.

London Bentley, 1841, hardcover. Published 1841, Great source for early 19th century economics. -- Includes index for trade and manufacture (fisheries, books, sugar, etc.) and appendixes (flax, cotton, machinery prices, etc.). -- Hardcover, 2 volumes, nicely rebound in brown cloth. Condition: very good (paper bit fragile; title-page has archival tape repair).

New Zealand Purchase Family, 2009, paperback. Family history, with ancestors chart on one page, and illustrated with photos. -- Softcover, 8.2x11.6 inches. Condition: near fine.

New Brunswick NJ Rutgers University Press, 1995, paperback. Softcover. Condition: good-only (hi-lites to begnning pages). ISBN 0813522722

London Bodley Head, 2016, hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. ISBN 9781847922694

Placida Fl Barrier Island Parks Society, 1990, paperback. Reprint edition, originally published 1956. -- Dedicated to those who "since 1888 have piloted ships across the bar and through treacherous current into Charlotte Harbor." History, stories, anecdotes, people, ships. Illustrated with photos. -- Softcover. Good used condition.

Harmondsworth England Penguin, 1970, paperback. Series: Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Reprint. Pocket paperback. Condition: very good minus (page margins tanned). ISBN 140212582

New York Scribner's, 391890, hardcover. Later printing 1891. Popular biography of Josephine, translated into English by Thomas Sergeant Perry. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (spine tips worn, surface tear to spine; endsheets foxed; early owner name).

Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society, 1984, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED, to [name] by Clara Isaacman. As told to Joan Adess Grossman, the true story of escape from Nazis in Belgium. Holocaust. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 082760243X

Lewes UK Southover Press, 1989, paperback. Published 1989, this is later printing 2000; the original was 1825 and gives first-hand account of backstairs life around that time. -- Historical introduction, with sources, by Pamela Horn. Illustrated. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine (spine foot bump). ISBN 1870962095

London Printed for F. Newbery, 1771, hardcover. Founded upon natural, certain and obvious principles ... according to the usage of the old and new husbandry ... illustrated with plans of the necessary buildings belonging to a farm house [folding plate at page 40] ... also, accurate delineations of some newly-invented farming instruments [line drawings of plows etc. on plate at rear] ... by a Practical Farmer, and a friend of the late Mr. Jethro Tull [etc.]" -- Hardcover, 3/4 leather with printed boards, apparently lacking preliminary pages (title page is first). Page 63 misnumbered as "39." -- Condition: GOOD-ONLY worn copy (backing cracked, cover edges worn to boards). Pages and plates are clear, though there is often print shadow from the verso page; three pages have jagged tear into the text; last pages are loosened. -- Pagination: xxiv [4] 432 pages, [1] leaf plate. -- This book has been reprinted, but the original copy listed here is quite scarce.

Santiago de Chile Fondo Historico y Bibliografico Jose Toribio Medina, 1952, hardcover. Second edition. -- Includes Primera and Segunda series, paged and indexed consecutively. Original wrappers bound in. Text in SPANISH. 500 pages, 8x11x1.7 inches. -- Attractive hardcover, quarter red leather, raised bands on spine. Condition: very good (light wear to spine bands, corners). -- Nice copy of this phenomenally prolific Chile scholar, publisher, bibliographer.

Totowa NY Barnes & Noble, 1987, hardcover. Reprint edition. No "merrie rustics" here, the author examines the Poor Law and Corn Law, unrest amid changes in land ownership and machine agriculture. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good (page margins tanned) with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0389207209

New York Norton, 2007, hardcover. Monumental work hoping to serve as antidote to cultural decay. The format is 100 new essays each focused on one iconic person: Mao, Camus, Louis Armstrong, Proust, Wittgenstein, etc. -- Hardcover, 876 pages. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 9780393061161

London Methuen, 1960, paperback. This version published 1960 and this copy reprinted 1967. -- Abridged and edited by Marjorie Hoover, text in German rather than the original Dutch, with introduction in English. 40 entries are given, each with textbook questions for the German student. Vocabulary list in rear from the German to the English. -- Softcover. Condition: very good (blank page corner clipped). Holocaust