Lands And People

Länderkunde.- Völkerkunde.- Asiatica.- Cressey, George B. Asia's Lands And Peoples - A Geography of One-Third The Earth And Two-Thirds Ist People, New York, McGraw - Hill Book, 1944

. Gr.-8°. 597 S. m. Titelbild u. einigen Illustr.. OLeinwand illustr. m. Goldpr.. Second Edition 1951. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Stempel auf d. unteren Schnitt, sonst gut

[KW: Asiatica.-]

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Patai, Raphael. The Vanished Worlds of Jewry. Picture research by Eugene Rosow with Vivian Kleiman. >"In pictures and words, ... attempts to resurrect those great Jewish quarters and streets which, until a generation or so ago, throbbed with life - before the Nazi holocaust, before the flight from Muslim lands, and before the global distribution of the Jewish people was altered by the 'ingathering of the exiles' following the re-establishment of Israel".< New York, 1980, Macmillan Publishing.
Guter Zustand/good condition, leichtere Lagerspuren.

192 Seiten/pages mit 150 Abbildungen in Schwarzweiss/150 black-and-white illustrations. Gebunden/hardcover. Schutzumschlag/dust jacket. Quart.

[KW: Jüdische Kultur. Jewish traditions. Jiddische Kultur. Yiddish Culture. East-european Jews. Diaspora.]

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Stites, Clara. WALKS IN DARTMOUTH Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust 1978. Dartmouth, MA: Dartmouth NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST, 1978.
Saddle-stapled booklet. Top edge of front cover is stained dark brown (cocoa? ) . Very minor traces of the brown stain on the edges of a few pages. Small chewed area on back cover's top edge and last page. Otherwise minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are unworn. ; 8-1/2" Tall, 44pp. Saddle-stapled booklet with covers somewhat lighter than posterboard. AMERICANA. "The locations described are only a portion of Dartmouth's public lands, but they seem to be the most accessible and interesting. ... With this guidebook, people should be able to visit new areas of Dartmouth and make new observations about familiar areas. " Some of the areas: Howland property; Town Forest; Flora B. Pierce Trail; Map of Acushnet Cedar Swamp; Tucker Farm Woods (Gildey Farm) ; Emerald Heights; Knowles property; McBratney property; Katharine Nordell Lloyd Center; Fall River Reservoir land. Appendix lists the birds you are likely to see and the kinds of habitat in which they are likely to be seen. Another Appendix lists five canoe trips in Dartmouth. Illustrations, mostly plant drawings, throughout text by Hilary Hunt..

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[KW: HOLLY Island; Children's Museum;; Southeastern Massachusetts University; Russells Mills Road; DeMello School; Town Beach; Demarest Lloyd State Park;,]

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Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York, New York, U.S.A.: the dial press Inc., 1968.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1968 ---First Edition Second Printing --Keywords: AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOBIBLIOGRAPHY STORY OF A YOUNG BLACK GIRL GROWING UP IN MISSISSIPPI -- Excerpt from the dust jacket flap: "Certainly none of his books ever displayed more advantageously his great gifts-that special sensitivity to the cadence and meaning of folk speech; the heart that understood and interpreted the world around him with such sympathy; the craftsmanship to communicate this love and enthusiasm intact so that others might share it. How he will be missed!" There were those who claimed the Green Roller never lived. He must have been a h'ant, they said. But others knew better. They knew the Green Roller had preached up and down the swamp lands of Louisiana for a hundred years. And after that he went to glory, dissatisfied that he hadn't had time to make for it a stretch on the surface of iniquity. But the Green Roller did more. He trained twelve men to take up his work. Some were smarter than others. Sin Splitting Samuel and Elder Johnson may have been hard on the collection plate. Butt-Cut Bo~tick may have been handy with the ladies and a lazy hypocrite besides. But they preached powerfully. These twelve sermons. by the men the Green Roller taught to carryon the Lord's work against Satan rightly concern themselves with Sin and Righteousness, with the troubles that visited people in Bible times and still visit people today, and with the Lord God Jehovah who runs the show. There are sermons in which Daniel, Job, Noah, Moses, King Nebby-kaneezer, and the President of the United States are brought to sit beside members of the congregation-{)er_ mons of poetry and fire out of the hearts of people who have made a neighber of God. --- --Born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi in 1940, Anne Moody spent her early childhood on a plantation where parents are sharecroppers.' --- very good Condition Gray Cloth Bound Hardcover---with--- Very Good Condition Dust Jacket Which Is Price Clipped---DJ Is a New Archival Dust Jacket Protector (Brodart)--- That ---Book Is Clean and Unmarked----Not Ex-Library or Bookclub Edition.----from Smoke-Free Environment---- 348 pages---COLLECTIBLE--.

First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good/Very Good.

[KW: AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOBIBLIOGRAPHY STORY OF A YOUNG BLACK GIRL GROWING UP IN MISSISSIPPI,]

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