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The Realist Novel in England. A Study in Development.

WILLIAMS, Ioan. · 1974

A$30.00 (€18.44 | $20.33 | £15.38 | ¥3,246)

Macmillan, 1974. Hardcover. Ex-lib, o/wise good condition. No dj. Traces the way in which the philosophical framework of the Victorian novelists developed. Examines the work of Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Thomas Carlyle, George Meredith, Charles Dickens, G...

Structure and Society in Literary History. Studies in the History and Theory of Historical Criticism.

WEIMANN, Robert. · 1976

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

University Press of Virginia, 1976. Hardcover. Ex-library, o/wise good condition. No dj. Examines past significance & present meaning in literary history, reconsiders the concept of tradition, examines past origins & present functions in American literary history, structuralis...

Race and Suicide in South Africa.

MEER, Fatima. · 1976

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Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Examines suicide both as a personal act & as a social phenomena, across South Africa's different ethnic groups. 319pp.

Sin City.

PERRIAM, Wendy. · 1987

A$35.00 (€21.51 | $23.71 | £17.95 | ¥3,787)

Michael Joseph, 1987. 1st (true) UK edition. Hardcover. Some foxing to top edges, o/wise condition vg. Perriam's sixth novel. Scarce. 410pp.

Laughing Hysterically. American Screen Comedy of the 1950s.

SIKOV, Ed. · 1994

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University of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. Slight sunning to spine of dj, o/wise condition vg. B/W plates. Examines comedies of these times as examples of cultural criticism. 282pp.

William Wordsworth. His Life, Works, and Influence.

WORDSWORTH. HARPER, George McLean. · 1960

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,813)

Russell & Russell, 1960 (1929). Hardcover. 2 vols. Ex-library. No dj's. B/W illus. A few marks to covers, bottom corners of vol. 1 a little bumped. A reprint of the classic biography of the great poet, Wordsworth. 621pp.

Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission.

PRINDLE, David F. · 1981

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University of Texas Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. An in-depth examination of seven policymaking episodes of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission, covering five decades of its history. 230pp.

From the Outer World.

HANDLIN, Oscar & Lilian. · 1997

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

Harvard University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Bottom corners a little bumped, o/wise good. No dj. A collection of writings on various aspects of American society written by visitors, travellers, & outsiders ranging from Rabindranath Tagore to V.S. Naipaul. 491pp.

Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy.

NATHANS, Sydney. · 1974

A$29.00 (€17.83 | $19.65 | £14.87 | ¥3,137)

John Hopkins University Press, 1974 (1973). Hardcover. Slight sunning to spine, o/wise good. No dj. An in-depth biography of of Daniel Webster that examines how he responded to party conflict in the Jacksonian era. 249pp.

One Kind of Freedom. The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.

RANSOM, Roger L. & SUTCH, Richard. · 1977

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

Cambridge University Press, 1977. Wrappers. Slight crease to top corner of front cover, o/wise good condition. Ex-libris stamp to title-page. Examines "...the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economi...

Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism.

HUTHMACHER, J. Joseph. · 1968

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Atheneum, 1968. Hardcover. Spine of dj a touch sunned, a few small tears to dj, o/wise good condition. Frontis. B/W plates. An in-depth & comprehensive biography of the political career or Wagner, from his political battles with Republican opponents to his legislation for the ...

Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power.

MARCUS, Maeva. · 1977

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Columbia University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Examines the background & consequences of President Truman's unprecedented use of presidential power to seize control of the country's steel mills in 1952. Comprehensive. 390pp.

The Agrarian Transition in America. Dualism and Change.

ROHRER, Wayne C. & DOUGLAS, Louis H. · 1969

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Bobbs-Merril Co., 1969. Hardcover. Ex-lib. Slight bump to top edge of front cover, o/wise good. Within the American context this study examines agrarian ideology & social change, the agrarian tradition, modern agriculture and organized rural life, the public sector of rural li...

William Penn's Legacy. Politics and Social Structure in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1726 - 1755.

TULLY, Alan. · 1977

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John Hopkins University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Ex-libris stamp to title-page. B/W illus. Argues contra to the prevailing view that early American political history was unstable, showing instead that from a thirty year period in Pennsylvania, "...the eighte...

The Romance of the Colorado River. The Story of its Discovery in 1540, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons.

DELLENBAUGH, Frederick S. · 1982

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Time-Life facsimile reprint, 1982 (1902). Hardcover. Leather-bound. Embossed & decorated covers. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Col. frontis. B/W photos & illus. The author was a member of the United States Colorado River Expedition of 1871 and 1872. Part of the Classics o...

The Minstrel Code.

NELSON, Walter. · 1979

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

Secker & Warburg, 1979. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. 231pp.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Volume 4: 1994.

MCGOWAN, Kate ed. · 1997

A$39.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | £20.00 | ¥4,219)

Blackwell, 1997. Hardcover. A little wear to top of spine, o/wise good condition. No dj. Surveys the critical literature on a range of subjects including psychoanalysis, historicism, colonial discourse/ postcolonial theory, art history, Australian Aborginal identity, culture &...

Basis and Belief.

COLLINS, John Henry. · 1964

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The Epworth Press, 1964. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Some browning & a few slight stains to dj, o/wise good condition. Examines the status of religious authority from a philosophical rather than a theological viewpoint, with an in-depth historical account. 162pp.

Das Licht Fur Das Profis.

HUNECKE, Richard. · 1988

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,813)

Mulitblitz, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. 4to. In German. A technical examination of the use of lighting in photography, using Multiblitz equipment in particular. Good condition.

A Cast of Smiles.

BROOKFIELD, Amanda. · 1990

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

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. 1st (true) UK edition. Hardcover. Fine in dj. Brookfield's second novel. Rare in true UK first. 206pp.