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L'arte della guerra (The Art of War) (Original title: Bingfa)

By: Sun Tzu

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Rome, Italy", Tascabili Economici Newton: 1994

Seller ID: 08T002

ISBN: 8879833677

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Tight, faint page yellowing, a few finger smudges, bumped corner. ""e il piu antico, famoso e studiato fra I trattati militari della Cina antica. In tredici stringate capitoli, l'opera espone per principi fondamentali una dottrina bellica improntata al piu schietto utilitarismo, fomendo preziose indicazioni su valutazioni preliminari e gestione logistica di un conflitto, strategie e manovre de attacco e ritirata, rapporti psicolognini con le proprie truppe e col nemico, conformazione dei terreni e fattori atmosferici, peculiarita e stutturazione di una rete spionistica."" ...
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Class Act: College of San Mateo - A History

By: Svanevik & Burgett

Price: $17.95

Publisher: "SF, CA", Custom & Limited Editions:

Seller ID: 4-1X001

ISBN: 1881529193

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for faint wear to 1 corner of cover. ""A college and a community that grew up together while reflecting the image of America…Events that occurred at this small California college near San Francisco were duplicated in a thousand others across the nation...Everything changes...Things didn't become better or worse, just radically different..."""
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War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

By: Sweeney, Charles W.,Antonucci, James A.,Antonucci, Marion K.

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Avon Books:

Seller ID: 9780380788743

ISBN: 0380788748

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

On August 9,1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps Major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion. In the belly of his bomber, the Bock's Car, was a newly developed, fully armed weapon that had never been tested in a combat situation--a weapon capable of a level of destruction never before dreamed of in the history of the human race...a bomb whose terrifying aftershock would ultimately de...
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Historia de Espana Alfaguara VII: La Republica; La Era de Franco

By: Tamames. Ramon

Price: $11.95

Publisher: "Madrid, Spain", Alianza Editorial (AU#51): 1973

Seller ID: 81T015

ISBN: 8420620513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Solid binding. Pages tanned on edges. Overall clean but there is occasional underlining in chapters ""sitema social"" and ""Estructura y desarrollo economicos"". Previous owners's name written on first page. Creased spine and cover. Some rubbing along edges. Text in Spanish. 623 pages (7-3/4"" x 5-1/4"") ""el resultado de la estreca colaboracion entre los especialistas que se han responsabilizado de cada uno de los siete volumenes...El presente volumen se abre con la proclamation de la Republica en abril de 1931 y concluye en lo...
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State of Connecticut Register and Manual 1948

By: The Secretary Frances Burke Redick)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: "Hartford, CT", State of Connecticut: 1948

Seller ID: 81T029

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE/Near Fine

"As new with original brown paper dust jacket. First annual edition of the Register printed after WWII, Governor James C. Shannon (R, Bridgeport). (not printed every year during WWII because of paper rationing) Includes state constitution, lists of town population, government officials for each town, Chairman & Vice-Chairman of Republican & Democratic Town Committees in each town, origins of names of CT towns, and all kinds of facts and figures for 1948. Blue cloth with gilt. 704 pages."
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State of Connecticut Register and Manual 1953

By: The Secretary of State (Alice K. Leopold)

Price: $29.95

Publisher: "Hartford, CT", State of Connecticut: 1953

Seller ID: 09T037

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE / No DJ

"As new except for faint page yellowing, faint rubbing to exterior edges and slight skew. Governor John Lodge (R, Westport). Includes state constitution, lists of town population, government officials for each town, Chairman & Vice-Chairman of Republican & Democratic Town Committees in each town, origins of names of CT towns, and all kinds of facts and figures for 1953. Blue cloth with gilt. Color-coded map of Congressional Districts, Counties, Railroad lines and Towns on last page and back endpaper.760 pages."
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History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics:

Seller ID: 9780140440393

ISBN: 0140440399

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventuall...
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But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor

By: Toland, John

Price: $1.10

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780345257482

ISBN: 0345257480

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

By: Toth, Jennifer

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Chicago Review Press:

Seller ID: 9781556522413

ISBN: 155652241X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.

The Historic Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Resources

By: Trinkle and Merriman

Price: $18.95

Publisher: "Armonk, NY", M.E. Sharpe: 2000

Seller ID: 22H005

ISBN: 0765604787

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE / No dj

"As new but has no dust jacket. ""lists thousands of sites that will appeal to anyone interested in history and which our specialist section authors have determined to be reliable and useful for the serious study of history…"" 600 indexed pages."
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How to Respect and Display Our Flag

By: U.S. Marine Corps

Price: $4.50

Publisher: US Government Printing Office: 1973

Seller ID: 96T042

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new, 32 page, staple-bound booklet with color illustrations. History of the flag and its association with the Marine Corps. Rules on proper use of the flag and it's display. 7.5x5.25"" ( 19x13.3cm)."
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Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities. Number 5

By: U.S. Naval War College

Price: $48.95

Publisher: "Newport, RI", U.S. Naval War College: 2010

Seller ID: 9-NY002

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: FINE

"As New - Still in original shrink wrap. 7.5"" X 10""x0.9"" Publication for William B. Ruger Chair Workshop held at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island May 19th-21st, 2010. A total of thirty-five individuals participated in this by-invitation-only workshop held at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Sixteen panelists prepared and presented papers on topics of their choice within the subject areas of their respective panels. Following a presentation of the papers, all participants engaged in extensive discussion of the papers and of the f...
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The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem Part I: 1917 - 1947

By: United Nations

Price: $48.95

Publisher: NY, United Nations: 1979

Seller ID: 5-7Y012

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD-

" READING COPY. Tight, bright, clean and unmarked interior. Age tanned and soiled exterior. Corner bump has dog-eared the top corner of about1/2 of the pages. 110 annotated pages including maps. 10-7/8x8-5/8"" U.N. Publication Sales No. E.78.I.19. ""study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in pursuance of General Assembly Resolution 32/40B of 2 December 1977."""
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The world of Renaissance. Florence

By: Unknown

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Giunti Editore:

Seller ID: 9788809013490

ISBN: 8809013492

Binding: Paperback

Condition: very good

Sophie de Hanovre: Memoires et Lettres de Voyage

By: Van der Cruysse, Dirk

Price: $26.95

Publisher: France, Fayard: 1990

Seller ID: 6-0H015

ISBN: 2213025835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

Tight, bright, clean and square but has slight rubbing to top and bottom of covers and a 3 cm rip on hinge (stabilized with clear tape). Text in FRENCH. Memoirs and Letters has 304 indexed pages including Chronology, family tree and introduction. Sophie was the daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, and mother of George the I of Great Britain. Sophia, Electress of Hanover, was the heir presumptive to the thrones of England and Ireland under the Act of Settlement 1701. She died less than two months before she would have become queen.
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M. Le Duc de Saint-Simon et sa Comedia Humaine

By: Varende, Jean de La

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Paris, France, Hachette: 1925

Seller ID: 0-8T008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

Tight binding, age tanned but unmarked (easily readable) pages, light age soil to covers, square. Stitched binding. Top and bottom of spine have been reinforced with clear tape. Small chip on front cover edge. Age tanned, rough cut, page edges. 508 indexed pages5.25x8x1.5" 18th century France -St. Simon was "one of the founders of modern industrial socialism and evolutionary sociology."
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FM22-5 War Department Field Manual: Leadership; Courtesy and Drill

By: War Department

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Washington; DC, U.S. Government Printing Office: 16834

Seller ID: 09P024

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Tight, bright, light age soil to exterior, light stain to bottom corner of last 100 pages, slight curl. Stain appear to be from liquid but there is no mustiness. Corner bump has left a cover and few creased page corners. ""It covers the qualities and responsibilities of the leader, salutes and honors, discipline, commands, steps and marchings, manual of arms, drill, ceremonies, combat formations and signals."" 314 indexed pages, 6.75x4.25"" (15.9x10.8cm)"
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"The War Service Record of the Alumni, Students and Faculty of the University of Vermont in the Great War 1914-1918"

By: War Service Committee

Price: $34.95

Publisher: "Burlington, VT", The War Service Committee of the University of Vermont: 1924

Seller ID: 4-OT012

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD-

"Tight but has previously had inner hinge reinforced with tape. Spine is tilted, softened and frayed at both ends, sunned and has a horizontal rip in the cloth near the bottom of the title block. Interior pages are bright and clean. Red cloth with gilt titles and trim. Short biographies and photos of the 22 who died including John McCrae, author of ""In Flanders Fields"". Detailed lists of Wounded; Decorated; War Service Records (all); Women; YMCA; YMHA; Auxiliary War Work; and a short section of ""Memorabilia"". "
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"Nantucket's Native Americans, Historic Nantucket, Winter 1996, Volume 44 No.3"

By: West & Philbrick

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Nantucket, MA", Nantucket Historical Association: 1996

Seller ID: 8-DY003

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for faintest shelfwear and address sticker on back cover, 8.5x11x.25"" (21.5x28x.5cm). Illustrated pages 96-109 ""A Report on the NHA Symposium: Nantucket and the Native American Legacy of New England"", ""Beyond Repatriation"", ""The Whipping Post"""
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The Great Pathfinder: The Story of Jedediah Smith

By: Weston, May Forth (Louis Lundean, illus.)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: NY, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1944

Seller ID: 0-5T004

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

Solid READING COPY. No dust jacket. Tight, light age soil to tan cloth covers, clean text with a bunch of folded corners, binding tight and square.212 pages. 5.75x8.3x1". "Jedediah Smith, was an American clerk, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the North American West, and the Southwest during the early 19th century."
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