General Nonfiction from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
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String Figures and How to Make Them
de Jayne, Caroline Furness
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1962
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 11.19
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Dover, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fascinating instruction and history book about the incredibly wide variety of "cat's cradle" type games played by indigenous populations around the world. Originally published in 1902 as "String Figures", this is a Dover reprint in quite respectable condition, with a stray ink scrbble on the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 11.19
A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago
de Christiansen, Richard
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 2004
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780810120419
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 19.57
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Northwestern University Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A history of theater in Chicago from the Tribune's former lead critic. An excellent copy, fine in a fine jacket, signed (and inscribed) by the author. The perfect gift for theater lovers named Steve, slightly less perfect for those not named… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 19.57
The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law
de Hobson, Charles F.
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1996
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780700607884
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 20.51
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Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A very clean first printing examining the judicial history/role/infleunce or Marshall. Effectively a new book.
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Madachy's Mathematical Recreations
de Madachy, Joseph S.
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1979
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780486237626
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 23.30
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Dover , 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. A fairly scarce bit of math and logic puzzles of the sort popularized by Martin Gardner. A good tight paperback binding, with a little wear and a small ding to the front cover, and a little discoloration/toning to rear. Importantly, UNMARKED by anyone who might have tried to take notes as… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 23.30
Ford Mustang Mercury Capri Automotive Repair Manual
de Warren, Larry, Ahlstrand, Alan, and Hayes, John H.
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 2004
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9781563921308
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 13.98
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Haynes Publishing Group, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A repair manual for Mustangs from 79-93 and Mercury Capris from 79 to 86. A bit of scuffing to front cover, but internally clean and unmarked
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The French at Table
de Chelminski, Rudolph
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1985
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780688044596
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 22.37
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Harper Collins, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Overall, a nice first printing of this cultural history of French...eating? VG in a like jacket. Jacket has some overall wear and a tiny tear to lower rear. Book has previous owner's (moderately large) "please return to" on ffep - tip… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 22.37
NTC's Dictionary of Easily Confused Words
de Williams, Deborah
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Published
- 1995
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780844257877
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 13.98
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NTC Publishing Group, 1995. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. This helpful resource for the English learner helps the owner distinguish between similar sounding words with different meanings. (grayed vs grade, undo vs undue, etc). NF in wraps, no markings.
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Klett's Modern German and English Dictionary
de Weis, Erich
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1993
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780844228716
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 9.32
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National Textbook Company, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Totally acceptable if somewhat older German/English dictionary. VG with no internal markings. No jacket as issued, minimal wear to boards. 2nd edition ('93)
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Complete & Utter Failure: a Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops
de Steinberg, Neil
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1994
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385472913
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Precio
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EUR 26.10
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New York : Doubleday , 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. An amusing little book by the author, best known as a Chicago Sun-Times columnist, detailing all sorts of assorted types of failure (product design, institutions, explorers, etc.). Inscribed "To Zan, my fellow writer and bon vivant, thanks for everything… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 26.10
And the Band Played On
de Shilts, Randy
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1987
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780312009946
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Precio
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EUR 88.55
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New York : St Martins Press, 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A quite nice copy of this critically important book on the AIDS crisis. A nearly fine copy in a similar dust jacket with minimal shelfwear.Very slight bow to front board. First printing with a complete number… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 88.55
Thunderstruck
de Larson, Erik
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Edición
- Advance Reader's Copy
- Published
- 2006
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9781400080663
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 37.28
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Crown, 2006. Advance Reader's Copy . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. This is a fine Advanced Reader's Copy of Erik Larson's follow up to Devil in the White City. Signed and dated May 2006 (prior the book's official October release). Fine in pictorial wraps
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EUR 37.28
Making Silent Stones Speak
de Schick, Kathy and Toth, Nicholas
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1993
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780671693718
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 8.39
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Simon and Schuster, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- stone, wood, and bone tools-- forever changed the course of human evolution. First printing, Very Good (nearer to fine but… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 8.39
Origins of the State: The Anthropology of Political Evolution
de Cohen, Ronald and Service, Elman
- Estado
- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1978
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780915980840
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 16.78
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Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of, as the title suggests, how the concept of the political state came into being. Good, in wraps, with some discoloration to the top of the front panel, which also has the previous owner's name in pen. SIGNED… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 16.78
A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site
de Feder, Kenneth
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1993
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780195029048
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 13.98
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Mayfield Publishing Company, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of archaeological research done at a site in Connecticut, where Native Americans, African-American slavs, and colonists all resided in the 18th and 19th centuries. VG in pictorial wraps, with a little faint pencil underlining, and a few asterisks/exclamation marks in the margins.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man
de Reader, John
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1988
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780140228083
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 9.32
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Pelican Books, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Revised edition of this 1981 book on early hominids and eventually homo sapiens. A nice copy, although pages are somewhat browned with age. Clean and unmarked, wtih 16 pages of B&W photos.
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EUR 9.32
U and I
de Baker, Nicholson
- Estado
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Published
- 1991
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780394589947
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 9.32
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Random House, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The author's exploration of how the work of John Updike has affected him. First printing, NF in a VG jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
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Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
de Ehrman, Bart
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 2004
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780195181401
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 7.46
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Oxford University Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. From the renowned religious historian Bart Ehrman, a thoughtful look at what religious/historical elements of Dan Brown's sensationalist Da Vinci Code have some basis in fact, and which are total fabrications (and a few in between, I'd suppose). A fine first… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Nijinsky, Pavlova, Duncan: Three Lives In Dance
de Magriel, Paul (ed)
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780306800351
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
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EUR 7.92
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Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A VG Paperback copy of this title, internally clean and unmarked, with a bend to the top front corner of the pictorial wraps. Long out of print, the three beautiful volumes contained here offer the modern reader a rare opportunity to see Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 7.92
Angels
de Underhill, James
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1994
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781568520247
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
-
Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Precio
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EUR 13.05
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Konecky & Konecky, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy, an apparent first, in a NF jacket with minimal shelfwear. Internally clean and unmarked, NOT ex-library. Largely an examination of images of angels in art, with many well reproduced plates of old master paintings. Chapters Include: Angels: An… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Tiffany
de Baal-Teshuva, Jacob
- Estado
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Published
- 2001
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9783822862193
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Precio
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EUR 23.30
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Taschen, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fine copy in a like jacket, appears unread. Does have, strangely, a Tiffany postage stamp, and the cover to the stamp book, pasted to the front free endpaper. Otherwise, a very clean copy. Over 300 color plates, text by Jacob Baal-Teshuva, a documentary index, and an illustrated… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 23.30