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Why England Slept
by John F Kennedy
Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title was an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.
The Book Of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura
Zen and the art of tea-the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life. Ritualized, romantic, and historically rich, the tea ceremony is the creation of something beautiful out of the everyday. Originally written in English more than a hundred years ago to be read aloud at Isabella Stewart Gardner's famous salon, The Book of Tea presents the meeting of East and West in a teacup. It explores Asian culture through the history and aestheticism-or "teaism"-of the tea...
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You Cant Do That a Servey Of the Forces Attempting, In the Name Of Patriotism, To Make a Desert Of the Bill Of Rights
by George Seldes
The Life Of Emmeline Pankhurst, the Suffragette Struggle For Women's Citizenship
by E Sylvia Pankhurst
Political History Books & Ephemera
U. S. - PLO DIALOGUE. Secret Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution.
by Rabie, Mohamed
University Of Florida Press, FL.. As New in As New dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 0813013267 . First Edition hardcover signed and inscribed to the previous owner by the author, Mohamed Rabie on the first free end page and dated Dec. 1995. The author, Mohamed Rabie, was instrumental along with William Quandt in the short lived decision to start a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. 203 pages, appendixes, index. Dust jacket and book are in as new...
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A$137.90
EVERYTHING TO GAIN. Making The Most of the Rest of Your Life.
by Carter, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Random House, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. 1987. Second Printing. hardcover with dustjacket. 0394558588 . Signed by the former First Lady Rosalynn Carter on a bookplate and attached to the first free end page. 198 pages. Dust jacket and book are in Fine condition. Second printing.; Standard Book Size.; 198 pages .
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A$184.38
REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN, WITH SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES, by Ex.-Gov. Benjamin Franklin Perry, of Greenville, S.C. Second Series
by Perry, Benjamin Franklin
Greenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co., Printers, 1889. Printed at head of title page: "With Respects of Mrs. Governor B.F. Perry." [4], iii, [1], 397, [3] pages, plus frontispiece and one plate. Original black cloth stamped in gold on spine and in blind on covers. [23.4 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint evidence of removed call number at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title page and plates, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin...
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A$61.98
Covering the Body. the Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory.
by Zelizer, Barbie
The University Of Chicago Press, Chicago.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0226979709 . The author explores the way we learned about and came to make sense of the killing of the president. A scholarly study of the Media and the assassination of President Kennedy. 299 pages including bibliography and index. Dust jacket and book are in Fine condition. ; Standard Book Sixe. .
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A$60.43
The Nationalist Movement : Indian Political Thought from Ranade to Bhave
by Brown,D. MacKenzie
Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1961. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Covers lightly rubbed and interior starting to tan with age. Previous owner's initials to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 244 pages. Illuminates the events in 19th century India flowing from the first strongly defined nationalistic movement, which aimed first for reformand later at independence from Britain. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided...
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A$20.00
A Short History of the English People In Two Volumes With a Survey of the Period 1815-1960 (Everyman's Library 727 & 728)
by Green, John Richard
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjackets. DJs protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Some mild tape marks to free endpapers of Volume One. Both DJs are lightly rubbed at edges with faded spines. Coloured maps. Introduction and Notes by L. Cecil Jane. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xliii, 901 pages. From the 7th century English Kingdoms until 1960....
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A$50.00
Jawaharlal Nehru An Autobiography With Musings on Recent Events in India
by Nehru, Jawaharlal
London: John Lane Bodley Head. 1942. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. The age-toned Dustjacket is chipped with a small tear to the top of spine. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Illustrated with sepia toned Photographs. Includes Appendices and Index. 623 pages. First published in 1936. This is a New Edition containing an Additional Chapter 'Five Years Later'. Robust,...
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A$85.00
Reflections. Life after the White House.
by Bush, Barbara
A Lisa Drew Book/ Scribner, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0743223594 . First Edition Hardcover signed by Barbara Bush on a bookplate attached to the first free end page. 420 pages, index. Dust jacket and book are in Fine, as new, condition. ; Standard Book Size .
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A$147.19
Ten Minutes from Normal.
by Hughes, Karen. (Signed)
Viking, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 0670033057 . A First Edition in hardcover signed by the author, Karen Hughes, and counselor to then President George Bush. She signed the book on the title page. Signed only - no other names, marks, or writing in book. Dust jacket and book are in Fine, as new, condition. The woman who left the White House to put family first .346 pages, index. ; Standard Book Size; 346 pages; Signed by Author .
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A$91.41
The Iran-Contra Scandal (The National Security Archive Document)
by Peter Kornbluh [Editor]; Malcolm Byrne [Editor];
The New Press, 1993. paperback. Very Good-. . 7x1x9. VG-. black glossy illustrated wraps, bagged for protection, clean paper, well bound..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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A$40.59
A Short History of Communism
by Harvey, Robert
New York: Thomas Dunne Books. 2004. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Sticker to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 422 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
Indexes to the Ancient Testamentary Records of Westminster
by Burke, Arthur, Meredyth
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in original black cloth with gilt title to front board. 104pp folding map frontispiece. From a private institutional library with bookplate to inside of front board. Sunned to edges front and rear and also to spine. Overall a good, neat copy..
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A$38.76
Dorothy May, Freiburg Letters: an Englishwoman in the Third Reich Writes to her Missing Husband, 1942-1946
by Michael Bassett, Richard Morris and David Stocker (eds.)
Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy. When Dorothy May died in 2003, her neighbours knew that she possessed 'something of great value' in her bureau. Jeweller Michael Bassett was expecting gemstones, but instead he found a stack of some 250 letters and a 'guest book'. Between 1938 and 1946, Dorothy, as a young music-teacher, left Lancashire, married Paul May - stage-manager of the State Theatre in...
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A$28.98
Kelley. the Story of an FBI Director.
by Kelley, Clarence M. and James Kirkpatrick Davis
Andrews, McNeel & Parker.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; no number line. hardcover with dustjacket. 0836279352 . First Edition hardcover signed on the first free end pageby Clarence Kelley. Signed only - no other names, writing. Or marks. Eleven chapters tells the former FBI directors career as the man in charge of the FBI from 1973 until 1978. He joined the FBI in 1940 and observed the former director, J. Edgar Hoover ' regime. Include chapters on the Hearst...
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A$122.40
The Great Republic of the Southern Seas. Republicans in Nineteenth-Century Australia
by Oldfield, Audrey
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger. 1999. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 280 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$18.00
Fateful transformations : the four years' parliament and the constitution of May 3, 1791 / by Janusz Duzinkiewicz
by Duzinkiewicz, Janusz
Boulder ; New York : East European Monographs : Distributed by Columbia University Press , 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 334 p ; 23 cm. Subject: Constitutional history Poland. Poland History Stanislaus II Augustus, 1764-1795. Poland Politics and government 1763-1796.
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A$35.23
THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences by his Great-Granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph. Third Edition, Third Printing. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1967
by Randolph, Sarah N.; Jefferson, Thomas
generic, 1967-01-01. Hardcover. Good//Good-. . 0x0x0. GOOD/GOOD-. tan paper jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Jacket cut out by publisher to show paste-on illustrated plate of front board, jacket has coaster stains and large chips to surface and edges, hinge split beginning to form at half-title page..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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A$11.31
When the News Went Live. Dallas 1963.
by Huffaker, Bob, Bill Mercer, George Phenix and Wes Wise. (Signed by All 4)
Taylor Trade Publishing, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1589791398 . First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket and book are in Fine, as new, condition. Signed by the four reporters Bob Huffaker, Bill Mercer, George Phenix, and Wes Wise on the half title page. Signed only -no other names, writing, or marks. Reporters, Bill Mercer, Bob Huffaker, Wes Wise, and George Phenix take us back to November 22, 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 207...
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A$106.91
THE NATIONAL AND JEWISH QUESTION IN LIGHT OF REALITY
by Novick, Paul
New York: Morning Freiheit, [1970?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [48p.] Wrap edges lightly chipped with slight stains on front and back. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")
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A$29.44
![MR. CLAY'S SPEECH, Delivered in the City of Raleigh, N.C., April 13, 1844. [Caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/268/189/1307189268.0.b.jpg)
MR. CLAY'S SPEECH, Delivered in the City of Raleigh, N.C., April 13, 1844. [Caption title]
by Clay, [Henry]
N.Y.: Greely & McElrath, Tribune Office, [1844. Imprint at base of p. [1].] 12 pages. Self-wraps; stab-stitched (perhaps added). 22 x 13.5 cm. Removed from a bound volume. Small paper remnant on the gutter of the first page (from later plain wraps, removed and retained). Else good only. Short closed tear to first and final leaves, affecting one word with no loss; scattered foxing and soiling; tiny hole to margin of one leaf. Provenance: Small printed bookplate of Joseph Keith Newell (1837-1895),...
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A White House Diary.
by Johnson, Lady Bird
Holt, Rinehart And Winston, N. Y.. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1970. Second Printing, November 1970; Second Printing. hardcover with dustjacket. 0030852544 . Signed by Lady Bird Johnson on her bookplate attached to the first free end page. No other names, writing, or marks in the book. A biography of Lady Bird Johnson, wife of former President Johnson, during her years as First Lady in the White House. 806 pages, index of proper names. Very long closed tear at the front fold of the dust jacket....
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A$116.21
THE JACKSONIAN EPOCH
by Peck, Charles H
New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1899. [10], 472 pages. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. [22.7 cm.] A bright, near fine copy with slightest rubbing to spine ends and corners, small, very faint spot to front cover, and some light offsetting, apparently from original dust jacket (not present) on two preliminary pages and the rear endpapers. Partially unopened. FIRST EDITION. American politcs, 1815 to 1840. Discusses origin of Jackson/Clay feud; Missouri Compromise;...
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American Government
by Volkomer, Walter E.; Smith, Carolyn D. [Editor]
Prentice Hall College Div, 1994-12-01. Sprl 7th. Paperback. Good. 9x7x0. GOOD. Blue glossy photo-illustrated wraps with white spiral binding. Used textbook with usual marks and university book store stickers to covers, some highlighting and annotations to text, good reading copy, light shelf wear, spiral binding intact, no loose or missing pages..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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A$40.59
