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After You've Gone

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Very good in very good dust jacket. Stated 1st edition. White boards/interior very clean, uncut edges. Remainder mark on top edge. Small, barely visible, scratch and minimal discoloring to inside top edge of dj. Not price-clipped. All else very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 229 p. Audience: General/trade. 14 short stories about people adjusting to change by one of today's master storytellers.


The Trunk Murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd: The Truth about an American Crime Legend Revealed at Last used book

The Trunk Murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd: The Truth about an American Crime Legend Revealed at Last

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Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date published: 1992 ISBN-13: 9780671740078 ISBN: 0671740075

Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight bumping along top jacket edge, but no tears. Now protected in vinyl sleeve. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. Charged with one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in this country, Winnie Judd breaks her silence about the 1931 murder of her two best friends whose dismembered bodies she allegedly stuffed into suitcases and sent by rail as baggage to Los Angeles. Sentenced to hang, she pled insanity and was committed ... Read More

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The Tiananmen Papers used book

The Tiananmen Papers

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Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: PublicAffairs Date published: 2001 ISBN-13: 9781586480127 ISBN: 158648012X

Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Excellent condition for ex-library edition. Inside very clean, bright. but with usual stamps/stickers. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 513 p. Audience: General/trade. Described on jacket as "The Chinese leadership's decision to use force against their own people--in their own words. " Based on transcripts of actual meetings and documents, this book is the first account of any top level political decisionmaking in the history of China. It ... Read More

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The Eskimos used book

The Eskimos

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Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Date published: 1988 ISBN-13: 9780806121260 ISBN: 0806121262

Description: Forman Werner. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library stamps/stickers. All pages very clean; tight binding. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 128 p. Audience: General/trade. Anthropologist Burch looks at the art, mythology and beliefs of the Eskimos to provide a unique insight into the qualities that have enabled them to survive in the frozen, inhospitable clines of the North. Includes 120 color photographs. Read More

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Give Me Liberty! : Seagull Edition: An American History used book

Give Me Liberty! : Seagull Edition: An American History

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Edition: 3rd edition Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY Date published: 2011 ISBN-13: 9780393911893 ISBN: 0393911896

Description: Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 1130 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Like new. Clean, tight binding, no marks. Read More

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Book: Fine/Like New

 

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Of the People: A History of the United States new book

Of the People: A History of the United States

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England Date published: 2010 ISBN-13: 9780195371031 ISBN: 0195371038

Description: New in fine dust jacket. Slight bump on back corner cover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 1071 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Halftones, black & white, Halftones, color, Maps, Figures. Audience: General/trade. Student Edition. Never used. Priority mail shipping via USPS due to oversize and ships only in contiguous US. Read More

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Zapatistas! : Documents of the New Mexican Revolution used book

Zapatistas! : Documents of the New Mexican Revolution

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Autonomedia Date published: 1994 ISBN-13: 9781570270147 ISBN: 1570270147

Description: Good. No dust jacket. Tight binding, clean pages, no marks. Cover some shelf wear. Taped tear top spine. Softcover Read More

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With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution used book

With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Date published: 1975 ISBN-13: 9780890960011 ISBN: 0890960011

Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual ex-lib markings. Slight pulling at fly page crease but binding tight; markings on some pages. Wear at top of boards. Text in English, Spanish. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 202 p. Audience: General/trade. Read More

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The Maya: Life, Myth, Art used book

The Maya: Life, Myth, Art

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, New York, NY Date published: 1998 ISBN-13: 9781556708237 ISBN: 1556708238

Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. Read More

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Six Days in Havana used book

Six Days in Havana

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX Date published: 1989 ISBN-13: 9780292776296 ISBN: 0292776292

Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual ex-lib markings, stamps; previous owners inscription on flypage. Otherwise, very good copy. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 144 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Read More

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