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Mass Market. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Aulicino, Christine - Design (illustratore). First Edition Stated. 208 Pages. Black boards with gold spine lettering and two different illustrations on the endpapers. Stated First Edition. No defects noted. The dust jacket has 1 ½ inch chunk out of the top spine area. The remainder of the jacket including the flaps is complete. Interior text pages are as new. Perhaps as in no other single document of its kind is the plight of the Indian written about with such candor and with such personal conviction as it is in these memoirs. From over seventy-five years of notes, Chief Red Fox, with the help of Cash Asher - journalist and former Executive Director of the American Indian Defense Association - has given us a remarkable record of the Red man's fight for survival, the loss of his rights and his identity. In doing so, he forces us to recognize what we have done and what we must now do to alter our course: The Indian people you put here weep for what has happened. They have a sturdy background of morality and discipline. Forgive those who tried to remake them in to the image of the White man, and let the wealth of their heritage be preserved as a vital force in the world, and not entombed in museums or consigned to oblivion. Contents: How Empty Is My Wilderness, The Great Spirit, As Long As The Sun Shines, The Sun Goes Down, The Ghost Dance, Flight, The Massacre, Footnotes in History, Through The Magic Door, With Buffalo Bill, Geronimo's Revenge, The Turn of The Century, To Kill A King, Tepees in The Nickelodeon, Equating The Savage, The Shadow Of Oblivion, and Prayer.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Printing. 287 Pages. No defects noted to this very clean book with flawless interior text pages. In this book Florent Quenu is unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851. He escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand program of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Emile Zola's picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked. This book is the third of hxis famous series of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter Claude Lantier and in its satirical representation of the bourgeoisie and capitalism complements Zola's other great novels of social conflict and urban poverty. Emile Zola was born in Paris in 1840, the son of a Venetian engineer. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence and after an undistinguished school career and a brief period of dire poverty in Paris, Zola joined the newly founded publishing firm of Hachette which he left in 1866 to live by his pen. He had already published a novel and his first collection of short stories. Other novels and stories followed until in 1871 Zola published the first volume of his Rougon-Macquart series, in which he illustrates the influence of heredity and environment on a wide range of characters. It was not until 1877 that his novel L 'Assommoir, a study of alcoholism in the working classes, brought him wealth and fame. The last of the Rougon-Macquart series appeared in 1893.

Hard Back. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Clucas, Philip - Design (illustratore). First Edition. 240 Pages. Six inked-lines gift inscription on front endpaper. No other defects noted and interior text and illustration pages are near flawless. The dust jacket is identical to the laminated pictorial boards and has a small chunk missing at the top of the spine area. From the dull thud of the first cannon shot at Ft. Sumter to the scratch of Lee's surrender pen at Appomattox, the Civil War affected Americans and our history forever. The great War tested the divided nation during a dramatic, four-year struggle that was filled with both grandeur and terrible carnage. Human will and courage were tested in battle after battle as modern firepower confronted human heroism. In this book, respected author and historian Jim Murfin tells the action-packed story of the Civil War in masterful narrative. The tactics, strategy, victories and defeats of the war come alive through the words of those who were there, from the explanations of the generals to the first-hand accounts of the foot soldiers. Each of the important battles, from the firing on Sumter in April 1861 to Lee's capitulation in 1865, is described in this book with clarity, detail and drama. The great figures of the war - Lincoln, Davis, Grant, Lee, Jackson, Sherman, and all the rest, speak across decades, and there are vivid descriptions from lesser-known eye-witnesses who on the firing lines and heard the roar of cannon and the crack of muskets. Pictures of the war by photographers and artists who covered the battles show people and places in their own time, and a beautiful 48-page color portfolio illustrates many of the battlefields as they are today preserved as hauntingly beautiful reminders of the conflict. The story of the Civil War includes grand strategy and small acts of supreme human valor, all of it told here in inspiring words and pictures.

First Edition. Everyman series. A Fine copy in a jacket which has a small closed tear to rear panel but is otherwise VG.

HardBack. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Early Reprint just 1 year after true 1st Edition. Excellent clean tight sound square, well held in joints and hinges, crisp fresh leaves and corners, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Bound in bright gilt lettered red cloth, together with very good matt olive Faber dustwrapper, now housed and protected in transparent removable Mylar wrapper. Written in 1914 after Dubliners and posthumouly published, Giacomo Joyce is a free form poem in the form of notes to a Dark Lady, subject of an ilicit love affair. Giacomo is the Italian form of James.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. A hardback volume in Fine condition, a very little very light shelfwear, appears unused, in a Very Good dustjacket. Text in Latin, synopsis etc. in English. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.