Search Results: Catalog 65 - History from Joseph Valles - Books

New York] : The Associated Press ; [St. Louis, MO : Jointly issued by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat], 1975., 1975. Very Good. 300 pp. ; illustrated with numerous pictures and maps, in color and black & white ; 31 cm. ; LCCN: 75-332951 ; OCLC: 2941200 ; LC: E208 ; Dewey: 973.3 ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; jointly issued by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ; corner of front ep clipped ; "This book, then, is an attempt to transfuse some of the color back into that dead day, to recover some of the small about some of the great people and events. The vehicle is a year, 1776..."--preface ; VG

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985., 1985. Very Good. 259 pp. ; maps ; Ex-Library copy ; stamps, labels, pocket and cards ; ISBN 0312009232 ; LCCN 85-17960 ; Contents : The Soviet Invasion -- The Soviet Strategy : MIGs, Helicopter Gunships and Kalashnikovs -- The Guerrilla War : A Patchwork of Resistan ce -- The Resistance Fronts -- Soviet Influence in Afghanistan -- The Communist Overlay : Repression and Control -- The Sovietisation of Afghanistan -- The Afghan struggle : the People's War -- Refugees, Doctors and Prisoners : a trickle of humanity -- Perspectives ; "Based on five clandestine trips into Afghanistan with the resistance, the book examines why the Soviets invaded in 1979 and what they were seeking to defend. The author analyses their deliberate policy of migratory genocide through a combination of aerial bombardments, political repression and economic blockades. The book is written by the journalist Ed Girardet, one of the world's leading authorities on the conflict, whose particular… Read More

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira, 2004, 2002., 2004. Very Good. 1st AltaMira Press edition ; xx, 231 pp. ; illustrated ; 28 cm. ; Series: Indigenous archaeologies, v. 2 ; illustrated, stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction : "Too many Captain Cooks"? : an archaeology of Aboriginal Australia after 1788 / Rodney Harrison and Christine Williamson -- The Mjöberg collection and contact period Aboriginal material culture from north-east Queensland's rainforest region / Asa Ferrier -- Shared histories and the archaeology of the pastoral industry in Austral ia / Rodney Harrison -- "This civilising experiment" : photography at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station during the 1860s / Jane Lydon -- Finding meaning in the patterns : the analysis of material culture from a contact site in Tasmania / Christine Williamson -- Legislating the past : native title and the history of Aboriginal Australia / Libby Riches -- Can archaeology be used to address the principle of exclusive possession in native title? / Peter Veth… Read More

New York : Harry Abrams, 1997., 1997. Fine. 304 pp. ; illustrated ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0810940051; 9780810940055 LCCN: 97-7636 ; OCLC: 36407845 ; LC: TK6143.B4; Dewey: 621.385/092 ; brown cloth with gold lettering in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Birth of an Inventor Education and Experiments in Scotland -- "I May Succeed" Deaf Education and Telegraphy -- "Mr. Bell, Do You Understand What I Say?" Inventing and Patenting the Telephone -- "One Good Invention" The Bell Telephone -- The Highest Incentive a Man Can Have Photophone, Medic al Research, Graphophone -- The Bell Monopoly Growth of an Industry -- "It Will All Be Up With Us!" A Summer Retreat, Flying Machines -- The Rise of the Independents After the Monopoly -- "The World And All That's In It" The National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian, Travels -- "To Get Into The Air" Manned Flight -- From Coast to Coast Long-Distance Telephony Comes of Age -- Life With Grandfather The Late Years -- "What the World Calls Failures" The Golden Age… Read More

Taylors, SC : Chick Springs, 2001., 2001. Very Good. 301, [4] pp. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 096702739X ; OCLC: 52729078 ; LCCN: 2002-514538 ; LC: PS3552.R724; Dewey: 813/.54 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Sequel to: Of Love and War ; novel of Guadalcanal and the OSS ; SIGNED presentation to Guadalcanal prisoner of war Jack Brookshire ; some fading, else VG

Edison, NJ : Chartwell Books, 1996., 1996. As New. 144 pp. ; color illustrations ; 31 cm. ; ISBN: 078580689X; 9780785806899 ; OCLC: 36497003 ; LC: DA910; Dewey: 941.501 ; color photographic boards, in color photographic dustjacket ; "Find[s] defining moments in Irish history up to the 18th century a nd look[s] at how these have shaped the country's distinctive culture. The aim is to offer a glimpse of Ireland's colourful and fascinating past, of her sufferings and her triumphs, but, most of all, of the people and landscape that made her ; AS NEW

Atlanta, GA : Capricorn Corp., 1985., 1985. Very Good. 1st edition ; 48 pp. ; illustrated with photos, map ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 091071911X; 9780910719117 ; LC: F292.S85; Dewey: 975.8225 ; OCLC: 16992578 ; photographic paper wrappers ; "The history and guide to the Antebellum Plantation at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park illustrates all the key buildings, with particular attention to their most interesting interior features. The material in this book[let] follows the same sequence as a visitor views in exploring the complex. In addition, introductory material offers brief essays on plantation life in general, and on the development of the plantation at the Park. To assist the reader, a map of the complex is [included]"--preface ; example of limiting 1970's interpretive museum style ; remains of store label on title page ; VG

New York : Mallard Press, 1990., 1990. Fine. 176 pp. : illustrated, portraits ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0792453735 ; OCLC: 23036816 ; photographic boards, in like dustjacket ; FINE/FINE

New York : Mallard Press, 1990., 1990. Fine. 176 pp. : illustrated, portraits ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0792453743 ; OCLC: 23037338 ; photographic boards, in like dustjacket ; FINE/FINE

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967., 1967. Very Good. ix, 154 p. illus., maps (part col.), ports. 23 cm. ; OCLC: 441947 ; Tan cloth with black and white lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; photographs, maps ; VG/FINE

Cleveland ; New York : The World Publishing Company, 1965., 1965. Good. 127 pp. ; illustrated ; 31 cm. ; LCCN: 65-19718 ; LC: DA360; Dewey: 942.05/5 ; OCLC: 920618 ; green cloth with black lettering and designs, in torn dustjacket ; mark on front endpaper ; dustjacket price-clipped ; "In May of 1588 the greatest assemblage of naval power that had ever been seen set sail from Lisbon. This was Philip II's invincible Armada, with which Spain's powerful ruler planned to demolish Britain's navy and carry out a land invasion of England itself. Fired by religious zeal to restore a Catholic monarch to the English throne as well as by the more worldly aim of ridding the seas of Queen Elizabeth's raiders, the leaders of the Armanda seemed sure of victory. But ranged against them were the faster ships of England, led by the queen's distant cousin, Lord Howard, and such daring and resourceful 'sea dogs' as Hawkins, Drake and Frobisher."--dustjacket ; numerous illustrations feature maps, portraits and… Read More

London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton ; [Edinburgh : Printed by Turnbull & Spears], 1908 [sic, actually 1905], 1905. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 5th edition ; xix, 387 pp. ; frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm. ; OCLC: 1034076 ; LC: DG657.9.B4 ; green cloth with gold lettering ; wear to covers ; "This is the first life of the greatest lady of the Renaissance, the beautiful Isabella d'Este, who ruled the brilliant court of Mantua for almost half a century....[She] inherited from her father a three-fold love for building, travel and the theatre. As a patron of art she saw the first works of the Renaissance in the prime o f their beauty."--prospectus, laid in; with an image of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, the reverse of which contains a poem by Wanda Petrunkevitch, "At Night--A Violin" ; "If in Isabella we have the supreme representative of Renaissance culture in its highest and most intellectual phase, Beatrice is the type of… Read More

New York : Morrow, 1975., 1975. Very Good. xxxiii, 277 pp., [2] leaves of plates : illustrated. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0688003389; 9780688003388 LCCN: 74-31046 ; LC: PZ3.A355; PS1017; Dewey: 813/.4 ; OCLC: 1121099 ; red and black cloth with black lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; slght ed ge wear to dustjacket ; Contains an introduction by Madeleine B. Stern and four stories by Louisa. May Alcott : Behind a mask; or, A woman's power, The abbot's ghost; or, Maurice Treherne's temptation, Pauline's passion and punishment, and The mysterious key and what it opened. The first two of these were published under the pseud. of A.M. Barnard. ; VG/VG

Williamsburg, Va., Colonial Williamsburg; distributed by Holt, New York, 1958., 1958. Good. 179 pp. illustrated 21 cm. ; LCCN: 58-13521 ; LC: F234.W7; Dewey: 975.542 ; OCLC: 478924 ; green faux leather boards with lettering and designs in gold ; possible waterstain on back cover, not readily apparent ; slight wear to bottom of covers ; G

New York : Vantage Press, 1995., 1995. Very Good. xxiv, 628 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 053311182X LCCN: 96-124615 ; OCLC: 34105422 ; LC: D790; Dewey: 940.54/5973 ; SIGNED presentation by author to Guadalcanal prisoner of war Jack Brookshire ; Brookshire's ownership stamps on eps ; blue cloth with grey lettering ; several photographs and color paintings ; "John Hutchinson was a Radioman First Class during the Pacific Campaign of World War II and in Bluejacket: In Harm's Way From Guadalcanal To Tokyo recounts his experiences and observations of those dramatic times. He tells of his own personal participation in the battles for the Solomons, the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa" --Midwest Book Review ; VG

[s.l.] : Bolivarian Society of Venezuela ; Clinton, MA : Colonial Press, Inc., 1951., 1951. Good. 242 pp., illustrated, 20 cm. ; blue-green and beige cloth, with blue-green lettering ; "Commemorative edition of the moving of the statue of the Liberator' ; LCCN: 52-1784 ; OCLC: 485545 ; foxed ; soiling to front cover ; else G

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995., 1995. Very Good. 2nd ed., 1st printing ; xviii, 386 pp., [32] pp. of plates : illustrated, maps ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0813324777; National Library: 960088393 ; LCCN: 94-24015 ; OCLC: 31610488 ; LC: DR1282; Dewey: 949.702/4; NLC: DR1282 ; "Struggling against high odds, Yugoslavia managed to survive from its inception in 1918 until the early 1990s. But now, tragic ethnic and regional conflicts have irrevocably fragmented the country. In his timely book, Lenard Cohen explores the original conception and motives underlying the 'Yugoslav idea,' looking at the state’s major problems, achievements, and failures during its short and troubled history." ; mauve and yellow paper wrappers ; some yellowing ; store stamp on front ep ; else VG

Sacramento, Calif. : California State Dept. of Education, 1948., 1948. Good. [2nd ed., revised and enlarged] ; x, 276 pp. : illustrated ; 27 cm. ; OCLC: 9846197 ; pictorial orange, black and beige cloth ; stamps of Old River School District, Downey, California ; a few marks, but probably not in use by students ; foxing ; G

Poole, Dorset ; New York : Blandford Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1986., 1986. Very Good. 144 p., [16] pp. of plates ; illustrated with photographs, drawing, reproductions of 19th century engravings and color plates ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0713716908; 9780713716900 LCCN: 86-197211 ; LC: U805; Dewey: 940/.04916 ; OCLC: 14378232 ; green cloth wit h gold lettering in color pictorial dustjacket ; ownership stamp on flyleaf ; mark from a store label on front ep ; "Such a survey of the long and furious struggle of the Celts against Roman, Germanic, Norse and English conquerors has never before b een produced. Tim Newark's vision of Celtic warfare from the point of view of the Celts is unique."-- dustjacket ; VG/VG

Washington, DC : Office of Naval Intelligence : Naval Historical Center : For sale by U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1996., 1996. Very Good. xxi, 498 pp. : illustrated ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0945274254 ; Stock no: 008-046-00174-0 ; LCCN: 94-35197 ; OCLC: 31131663 ; GovDoc: D 221.2:IN 8; GPO Item No: 0415-D-04; LC: VB231.U54; Dewey: 359.3/432/0973 ; large volume ; textured blue cloth with gold lettering ; VG