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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Beneath Black Stars: Contemporary Austrian Short Stories This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

First Edition. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218). Contents; On colonialism and development Colonial beginnings Diffusion and establishment High noon: Melanesia in a white man's world Tremors from faraway convulsions 1905-1920 The ills of mercantilism Hard times and new beginnings Trauma 1940-1946 The Hasluck period and the new colonialism The advance toward political independence The deepening commercial colonization of Melanesia The face of pluralism in Melanesia Melanesian reaction A view of the Third World Perils and prospects Epilogue: toward an understanding of colonialism. Subjects; Melanesia History 19th-20th centuries. Melanesia Economic conditions 19th-20th centuries. Melanesia Politics and government 19th-20th centuries. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 4th Edition. viii, 292pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners and spine ends. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges and endpapers just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 61 figures. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, kaum Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, few traces of use. X1669 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 570.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, kaum Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, few traces of use. X1670 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 280 pages, 53 b/w illustrations - 12 essays about the comedic in art. Philosopher Simon Critchley and art historian Janet Whitmore discuss the modern origins of comedic genres and some of the key theoretical articulations of laughter and witby Freud, Bergson and othersand the special zone of outlandish humor demarcated by the cabarets, café concerts and ephemeral publications of Montmartre in the 1880s and 1890s. John C. Welchman focuses on John Baldessari, one of the fountainheads for the new permissibility of humor in art in the 1960s as the hegemonies of modernist seriousness withered away, while performer, playwright and former V-Girl, Jessica Chalmers, and writer and curator, Jo Anna Isaak, discuss the relation between comedy and gender. Finally, artist and writer David Robbins reports on his decade long investigation into the comedy in objects, as video, performance and installation artist Michael Smith reflects on his hilariously awkward and regressive journeys with alter persona "Mike.". …

1932, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 4to, pp193, colour and black and white illustrations, white cloth, paper labels. Spine very slightly browned, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. xviii, 528 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. ; LC: TX715; Dewey: 641.5 ; OCLC: 8500998 ; dark red textured boards with gold decorations ; no dustjacket ; facsimile pages as endpapers ; reproduction of original edition ; Contents: Preface -- List of Contributors -- Bread -- Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate -- Milk and Butter -- Soup -- Oysters and other Shell Fish -- Fish -- Game -- Meats -- Beef and Veal -- Mutton and Lamb -- Poultry -- Salads -- Sauces -- Brunswick Stews, Gumbo, and Side Dishes -- Eggs -- Vegetables -- Pickles and Catsups -- Cake -- Icing -- Gingerbread -- Small Cakes -- Puddings -- Pudding Sauces -- Pastry -- Fritters and Pancakes -- Jelly, Blanc-mange, Charlotte Russe, Baked Custard, Creams, and Miscellaneous Desserts -- Ice Cream and Frozen Custard -- Fruit Desserts -- Preserves and Fruit Jellies -- Confectionery -- Wines -- Beverages, Cordials, etc. -- The Sick-Room, Diet and Remedies for the Sick -- House-cleaning, etc. -- Recipes for Restoring Old Clothes, Setting Colors, Removing Stains, etc. -- Miscellaneous Recipes -- Index. ; thick volume ; with a few period advertisements ; VG. Book. …

Zustand: Very Good. 193, 8 col plates, 7 b/w plates, 95 b/w illus. . HB. 4to, orig. cloth, pasted red title label to cover and spine (some wear to edges of spine label), some mild foxing to page edges. Presentation inscription to endpaper. Collected essays and prose on rural life and leisure, with charming illustrations by Cecil Aldin.…

First Edition. Red cloth lightly bumped at spine head/foot, with gilt lettering on spine. Foxing on edges and some pages. Otherwise tidy in tight binding. Dust jacket unclipped, faded/browned near edges with short tears. Spine browned, with small loss at head. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Features: Hooded Americanism - Rips the mask off our native Nazis and exposes their century-long subversive war against the American way of life; How Baseball Tried To Commit Suicide; The Revenge of Red Sleeves - Mangas Coloradas was the greatest war leader the Apaches ever produced; Australia's New Sea Monster; Louis Enricht And His $500k Miracle Motor Fuel Fleece; Astronomical Liability Awards For Ridiculous Claims; Outward Bound - How To Build A Man The Hard Way; Cigar Store Chiefs - 75,000 of them once inhabited the land - brief article with color photos; Mystery of the Marrying Murderer; Joseph Markey Found Trinidad's Tantalizing Treasure; Al Ljutic - Virtuoso of the Trap Gun; Photos of Austria's Leaping Painter Game; Color photos of swimwear fashions; William B. Hafford Makes Hay From Hay Fever; Great color-photo ads; and more. 122 pages. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy.; Photography; 4to. Illustrated by Horowitz, Irwin (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all other prisoners and guards lock up! - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part III (conclusion) - Winifred S. Blackman spent three winters with local people in Upper Egypt - article with photos; Photo of man in India who has committed to roll his body for two thousand miles from Rameswara to Benares! Trade-Wind Cay - Three men find themselves stranded on an uninhabited islet, once the lair of pirates, in the Spanish Main; Our Andean Adventures - Harriett Chalmers Adams travelled into the region across the Peruvian Andes and the mysterious "inside" country beyond, which she was the first white woman to penetrate - article with photos; The Great Dog Derby of La Pas - Photo-illustrated account of the annual race for men and dog-teams over two hundred miles of snow-covered wilderness at La Pas, Manitoba; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part IV - The story of a British officer's journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; The Bell of Solavetski - Ralph Durand spent twenty pounds to travel to faraway Archangel and the ice-covered Arctic wastes of Nova Zembla - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part IV - A bull-terrier spared from death rewards his new owner, Count Nils Cronstedt, by saving him multiple times during his time as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; Across the Atlantic in "Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht travels an adventurous 3,000 miles home to Britain for a refit (with photos; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part IV - Beatrice Grimshaw explored up the Sepik River of New Guinea where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; The Grey Devils - A grim story of hungry wolves in the Canadian North-West; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Crombie, Charles; York W.G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Robinson, T.H.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Williams, C. Fleming; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). …