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Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson.

JONSON. PETERSON, Richard S. · 1981

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.79 | ¥2,488)

Yale University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Ex-library, spine a touch sunned, otherwise good. No dj. B/W illus. An in-depth study of Jonson's poetry. 247pp.

The Old English Advent. A Typological Commentary.

BURLIN, Robert B. · 1968

A$22.00 (€13.52 | $14.91 | £11.28 | ¥2,380)

Yale University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Ex-library. Spine a touch sunned. No dj. An in-depth study that examines the contemporary religious thought which influenced the genre. 202pp.

The Middle English Penitential Lyric. A Study and Collection of Early Religious Verse.

PATTERSON, Frank Allen. · 1966

A$19.00 (€11.68 | $12.87 | £9.74 | ¥2,056)

AMS Press, 1966 (1911). Hardcover. Ex-lib. No dj. Penning & pencilling. Includes 69 lyrics with extensive notes. 203pp.

Essays in European Economic History, 1789 - 1914.

CROUZET, F., CHALONER, W.H., & STERN, W.M. ed. · 1969

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Edward Arnold, 1969. Hardcover. A touch of sunning to spine of dj, o/wise good condition. Includes essays on the effects of 19th-century liberal agrarian reforms on social structure in Central Europe, the railway policy of the Second Empire, industrial crises in Russia from 18...

The Early Development of Henry James. Revised Edition.

KELLEY, Cornelia Pulsifer. · 1965

A$21.00 (€12.91 | $14.23 | £10.77 | ¥2,272)

University of Illinois Press, 1965. Hardcover. Ex-lib. No dj. Some pencilling & penning to last chapter. An in-depth study of Henry James' life & works from 1864 to 1881. 319pp.

The Marriage of Contraries. Bernard Shaw's Middle Plays.

WISENTHAL, J.L. · 1974

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Harvard University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Ex-library, otherwise good. No dj. Examines Shaw's works Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma & Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, & Back to Methuselah. 259pp.

The New England Girl. Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells and James.

EAKIN, Paul John. · 1976

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University of Georgia Press, 1976. Hardcover. Ex-lib, o/wise good condition. No dj. Examines the heroines in the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells & Henry James. 252pp.

With Pen and Tongue. The Jesuits in Australia, 1865 - 1939.

BYGOTT, Ursula M.L. · 1980

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Melbourne University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Ex-libris stamps to feps, taped-in dj, slight bump to top corners, o/wise good. B/W plates. The first general history of the Irish Jesuits in Australia. 423pp.

Trade Unionism in Germany from Bismarck to Hitler. Volume Two, 1919 - 1933.

MOSES, John A. · 1982

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George Prior, 1982. Hardcover. Slight bump to lower corners, o/wise good condition in dj. Examines "...the rise and development of German trade unionism in its historiographical context, from the rival socialist theories of Marx & Lassalle which influenced its ideology, throug...

After a Funeral.

ATHILL, Diana. · 1986

A$27.00 (€16.60 | $18.29 | £13.85 | ¥2,921)

Jonathan Cape, 1986. 1st (true) UK edition. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Scarce in true first. 158pp.

Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income.

ATKINSON, Anthony B. & MICKLEWRIGHT, John ed. · 1992

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Cambridge University Press, 1992. Wrappers. Condition vg. Examines the distribution of income & poverty under Communism in Eastern Europe allowing comparisons to be made "...between Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, between Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland, & between...

Travels Into the Poor Man's Country. The Work of Henry Mayhew.

HUMPHREYS, Anne. · 1977

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Caliban Books, reprint (1977). Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Examines "...both Mayhew's life and his surveys of the London poor and puts forward a theory of his personality to explain the erratic pattern of his work & career". B/W illus. 240pp.

Themes in Economic Anthropology.

FIRTH, Raymond ed. · 1967

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Tavistock, 1967. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Examines "...the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems". ASA Monograph, No. 6. 292pp.

The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism.

LEACH, Edmund ed. · 1967

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Tavistock, 1967. Hardcover. Spine of dj sunned, a touch of foxing to edges, o/wise good condition. An in-depth examination of the work of Claude Levi-Strauss in the area of myth & totemism. An ASA Mongraph, No. 5. 185pp.

Black Carib Household Structure. A Study of Migration and Modernization.

GONZALEZ, Nancie L. Solien. · 1969

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University of Washington Press, 1969. Hardcover. Spine of dj, a touch of foxing to RH edges, o/wise good condition. B/W plate. Monograph 48 of the American Ethnological Society. Examines the historical development of migratory labor among the Black Caribs of Guatemala, tracin...

Three Styles in the Study of Kinship.

BARNES, J.A. · 1971

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Tavistock, 1971. Hardcover. Slight sunning to spine of dj, several small closed tears to dj, o/wise good condition. Examines the work in the study of kinship of G.P. Murdoch, Claude Levi-Strauss & Meyer Fortes. 318pp.

Jamaica Farewell. Jamaican Migrants in London.

FONER, Nancy. · 1979

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Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979 (1978). Hardcover. A touch of sunning to spine of dj, o/wise good condition. Examines changes in status from Jamaica to England for migrants, focusing on "...individual mobility up or down a specific status hierarchy on the one hand, and change in ...

The Cruelest Month. Spring, Nature, and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics.

WILHELM, James J. · 1965

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,164)

Yale University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Ex-library, o/wise good. No dj. 310pp.

From Peasant to Farmer. A Revolutionary Strategy for Development.

WEITZ, Raanan with APPLEBAUM, Levia. · 1971

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Columbia University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Ex-lib, a little pencilling, o/wise good. 292pp.

Between Heaven and Earth.

WERFEL, Franz. NEWMARK, Maxim trans. · 1944

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Philosophical Library, 1944. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Good condition in slightly worn dj. A collection of essays on God, faith, sin etc. 252pp.