[minor shelfwear, slight wear to cloth at top of spine, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood); jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge of front panel (slightly impacting the title), a few other little edge-nicks, and a little fading along the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) Auden and Isherwood's journal of their trip through war-torn China, undertaken in 1938 at the joint request of their English and American publishers. "Their itinerary included Hong-kong, Canton, Hankow, Shanghai, the Yellow River war zone, and the Southeas... View More...
(no dust jacket, probably as issued) [very slight bumping to bottom corners, tiny scuff mark on front cover, no other significant wear]. Essays, speeches (many by Josip Broz Tito), official documents, government reports, etc., documenting "one of the greatest historical achievements of the working class and all working people in their long, organized revolutionary struggle to build socialism in Yugoslavia," which per the book's introduction had in its 30-year history "emerged as the dominant socioeconomic relationship, as the heartbeat of the social, economic and political being of... View More...
[bumped and scrunched at lower spine, resulting in several bends in the lower section of the publication, light tanning of page edges due to cheap paper]. (halftone photographs, document facsimiles) Communist political tract (published in East Berlin, but with text entirely in French, for some reason) that attacks the then-Governing Mayor of West Berlin Willy Brandt and the then-West German Minister of Defence Franz Josef Strauss, primarily by attempting to establish (with, among other evidence, reproductions of relevant documents) their Nazi connections, specifically with the SS. Neither my... View More...
[moderate wear to book along top and bottom edges, slight deterioration of cloth on front cover, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket shows only slight wear along top edge]. "In this study based on a wide array of hitherto unused documentary sources, the author delves deeply into the inner workings of the Nationalist regime and concludes that the Nationalists collapsed largely as a result of their own failings. Most strikingly, he uses the records and memoirs of the Nationalists themselves to document the weaknesses of the Nationalist rule. ... He carefully scrutinizes the relationship ... View More...
[minimal wear to book, light soiling to fore-edge, old price inked out on front pastedown, small label remnant on ffep; jacket a little edgeworn, 3-inch diagonal tear at upper left corner of front panel, with a small piece missing at that spot]. This book "examines the political involvement of those leading British writers who dedicated their talents to the defense of Nationalists or Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and who saw that war as symbolic of their own Right-Left dialogue." Among the literary figures discussed are William Butler Years, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Roy Cam... View More...
[minimal wear to book, a nice tight attracive copy; jacket a little worn at extremities, some internal dampstaining but only a trace of bleed-through on spine]. ("In the Steps of" series) Series (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) "Travelling round Britain on a second tour of three thousand miles, the author rediscovers the places associated with the men of the Middle Ages. The story he tells is interspersed with anecdotes of his adventures and many a tale and legend gleaned from a casual acquaintance on the road, so that side by side with his picture of medieval Britain he depicts the ordinary ... View More...
[good sound copy, light shelfwear, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, generic vintage bookplate on front pastedown (with one-time owner's name blacked out); fold-out map in excellent condition; jacket is edgeworn, small tears at most corners, small puncture-wound in spine, shallow paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs, fold-out map) The history of "La Libre Belgique," an underground journal operated by a group of Belgian patriots during the German occupation of their country during World War I. "Started soon after the Germans had closed down all the Belgian newsp... View More...
(no dust jacket) [good solid clean copy, light wear to extremities; gilt lettering strong on front cover, a little rubbed but still easily readable on spine; one-time owner's name at top of rear pastedown]. (B&W photographs) General history of parachuting, primarily focusing on developments during World War I and during the 1920s. View More...
[light soiling to top edge, slight bumping to top corners, offsetting to both endpapers, one-time owner's signature and date of acquisition on ffep; jacket color-faded at spine (black text/graphics still strong), one small closed tear at top of front panel]. (line drawings) A mere thirteen years after India's emancipation from the British Empire came this "fascinating glimpse of the heritage (in the form of social, economic, traditional and linguistic legacies) which the India of to-day 'enjoys.'" -- all the influences, "useful, appealing or, in a few cases, pathetic, of an imperi... View More...
[a bit of wear to corners, age-toning to page edges due to cheap paper stock; jacket has residue from removed label on rear panel, otherwise no significant wear]. Twenty-four essays by a group of leading Canadian political scientists, covering "such topics as regionalism, the role of the state in Canadian life, bilingualism, the constitution and the charter of rights, communications policy and the role of the media in politics." The book also includes four essays on the work and influence of teacher/writer Donald Smiley, the text of an address by Smiley himself ("On Political Scie... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, but worn/frayed at corners and spine ends]. Uncommon memoir by a New York newspaperwoman, who accompanied her husband, American communist and cartoonist Ryan Walker, to the Soviet Union. He was an official delegate to the November 7th celebration, but she was just a tourist, and her book tells "a simple story of the author's reactions [to the country], and of her gradual understanding of the Russian people," which is also enriched by "sidelights on the inner circle from her husband's experiences." View More...
[moderate shelfwear to book; jacket is edgeworn, with numerous small nicks and tiny tears, crinkling and wear at spine ends]. (endpaper maps, B&W photographs) A report on conditions in the East German territories which had been under Polish (i.e. communist) administration since the end of World War II, based on information gathered by the author and his wife in a road trip through the region in the summer of 1957. ("Honey, how about we vacation along the Oder-Neisse line this year?") "They journeyed more than 4000 miles through East Prussia, the Danzig area, Pomerania, East Bran... View More...
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