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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Softcover, 54 pgs. Includes articles on "The Axe and Oakland," "The First Shelters of OUr Pioneer Ancestors," "Sod Consruction on the Plains," "Some Examples of Plank House Construction and Their Orgin," and others. Light wear, faint toning to top edge.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 46 Original stories. Hardcover. Oversized. 830 pages. BCE. DJ: nominal edge wear. Black boards with pink spine text. May have prior owner's Ex-Libros plate obverse upper board. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Dangerous Visions, #2. SCIFI/SHORTSTORIES/HORROR/FANTASY/SERIES. Ed Emshwiller (illustratore).…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers are clean with light handling wear. Address label on back. Contents: Meadows, Abraham Lincoln and the Register. Dirck, Lincoln's Kentucky childhood and race. Meadows, Toward a view of Abraham Lincoln's trans-Appalachian world in motion. Leonard, One Kentuckian's hard choice: Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln. Stegmaier, Abraham Lincoln and the Danville Farmer: the president-elect discusses policy with a Kentuckian. Smith, "Gentlemen, I too, am a Kentuckian": Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Bicentennial, and Lincoln's Kentucky in recent scholarship. Kleber, The judgment of future events: Kentucky embraces Abraham Lincoln, its native son. Williams, Legend and myth: Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky. Bowman, Comparing Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. Hudson, Abraham Lincoln: an African American perspective. Meely, American nationalism in the image of Henry Clay: Abraham Lincoln's eulogy on Henry Clay in context. Harrison, Lincoln, slavery, and Kentucky. Research fellowships. Index. 9.0" tall; 340 pages.…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Good. 1975. Third edition. 149 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. First edition. Thirteen volumes of very scarce Great Western Railway company memorandums from the first half of the twentieth century. Thirteen volumes of publications of Great Western Railway Company Memorandums, published between 1907 and 1934.With eight volumes of the 'Memorandum of Provisions in Acts of Parliament Relating to Other Companies and Bodies Inserted for the Protections of the Great Western Railway Company' sessions dating from 1907, 1909, 1912, 1914, 1915 to 1919, 1924 to 1925, 1932 and 1934. With four volumes of the company 'Memorandum of Powers and Protective Clauses', dating from 1908, 1913, 1914 and 1924. Also present is an appendix to the 1927 session 'Containing Extracts from Correspondence, &c.'Each volume is edited by both a company solicitor and parliamentary agent, and contains an interesting record of the internal workings of this British Railway company, founded in 1833.The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, a period covered by these publications. In the publisher's original quarter cloth bindings. With the rear wrap absent to volumes II and VII, with back strip detaching from text block of volume VII. Cloth similarly detaching from heads and tails of remaining volumes. Discolouration to publisher's paper wraps, with some chipping and small tears. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean and bright. Good. None (illustratore). book.…