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Flyboys

Bradley, James · 2003 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Boston: Little Brown, 2003. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The story of the aviators who bombed Chichi Jima, were captured and then disappeared.

Chinese Encounters

Morath, Inge & Arthur Miller · 1979 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. 2nd printing., Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Miller & Morath traveled in China in 1978. Rather than a closed society, they found the people insisted on talking to them.

Guerilla Strategies: an Historical Anthology From the Long March to Afghanistan

Chaliand, Gerard Editor · 1982 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. book club edition., Spine slightly canted otherwise very good hard cover book/ edgewear & some very small chips otherwise good dust jacket., A collection of essays covering all aspects of revolutionary war & counterinsurgency.

Reading, Writing & Race: the Desegregation of the Charloote Schools

Douglas, Davison M · 1995 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued., An examination of the struggle to desegregate the schools of Charlotte, North Carolina, from the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1...

Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia From the Wilderness to Appomattox

Power, J Tracy · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 3rd printing., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Science, Race and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895

Stephens, Lester D · 2000 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In the decades preceding the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South, parti...

A Guide to Old American Houses: 1700-1900

Williams, Henry Lionel & Ottalie K Williams · 1962 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1962. Slight wear at base of spine otherwise near fine hard cover book/ closed tear & small chip on rear dust jacket panel otherwise good price clipped dust jacket, A well-illustrated history of American residential which traces architectural styl...

Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899

Jamieson, Perry D · 1994 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean A clean fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The Civil War demonstrated the effectiveness of modern weapon technology in defensive positions. All branches of the Army concluded tha...

Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice

Sperling, Jutta Gisela · 2000 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Fine trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued., 417 pages; illustrated. In original shrinkwrap.

Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects

Apter, Emily · 1999 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. A clean fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued., 286 pages; illustrated. In original shrinkwrap.

Wendingen: a Journal of the Arts, 1918-1932

Le Coultre, Martijn F With An Introduction By Ellen Lupton & An Essay By Alston W Purvis · 2001 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In its 14 year history, Wendingen featured a diverse array of artists and architects, for example, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Michel de Klerk, El Lissitzky, Eri...

The Homes of America

Pickering, Ernest · 1951 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.50 (€6.80 | £5.68 | ¥1,198)

NY: Bramhall House, 1951. 1st printing of 1st edition., light shelfwear otherwise near fine hard cover book/ closed tear on rear dust jacket panel otherwise very good dust jacket., With characteristic enterprise, Americans have increasingly developed better places for living. ...

Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing

Hoffman, Daniel Editor · 1979 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard, 1979. Fine trade hard cover book/ light edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Selections From the First Two Issues of the New York Times Review of Books

Silvers, Robert & Barbara Epstein Editors · 0 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.50 (€4.08 | £3.41 | ¥719)

NY: New York Times Review of Books. Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Turning the World Upside Down: Inside the American Revolution

Tebbel, John · 1993 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: Orion Books, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ light scratch on front dust jacket panel otherwise near fine dust jacket., History is written by the winners but sometimes in a biased fashion. So Tebbel decided to get as close to the truth as possible...

Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

McMurtry, Larry · 1987 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1987. 1st printing of 1st edition., Remainder mark on bottom edge otherwise fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

The American Automobile: a Brief History

Rae, John B · 1965 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book/ edgewear along dust jacket spine ends otherwise very good dust jacket., Although the automobile wasn't an American invention, the application of mass production methods to its manuf...

Rethinking Home: a Case for Writing Local History

Amato, Joseph A · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued., Drawing on his studies of the past 25 years on Southwestern Minnesota, Amato calls for a renewed emphasis on writing local history.

The Acceleration of History

Piel, Gerald · 1972 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Knopf, 1972. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ small closed tears on front dust jacket panel otherwise near fine dust jacket., Piel along with two colleagues founded the new Scientific American in 1948 and in this set of essays discusses a wide rang...

A View of the Mountains

Gibson, Morris · 1983 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Beaufort, 1983. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Light foxing on front end paper otherwise Near fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Drs. Morris and Janet Gibson emigrated to the tiny town of Okotoks in the Canadian Rockies in the 1950s & set up their practices there.