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193724 pages. Features: Spain - The War Turns In Full Fury on Civilians; The National Scene; Movies and Labor; Conditions in Puerto Rico; Americana; News from Ireland and Japan. Photo of Filipino women who have now won voting rights; Friction resumes between Hitler/Nazis and the Pope/Catholics; Egypt and Foreign Rights; Spain update - with photo of General Franco with General Mola; Interesting international news bits; Famine in 2137?; Dr. Margaret Wylie says it is more or less a scientific fact that blondes, more often than brunettes, are mothers of twins; Rebuff to Nazis - loss of academic freedom in German universities; "Cultural Olympics"; Photo of Trudi Schoop; Religion and Society; 14 Burlesque/strip-tease palaces are padlocked in New York; The Relief Problem; Photo and major article on circus press agent Dexter William Fellows; Capital Chat; The Movie World; Back cover circus photos; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1793rif. aff-rev-2611793 48X37
rif. 3641Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1781 ; in-8. Titre-XVI- 599 pp.- 1 planche gravée dépliante hors-texte. Plein veau brun d'époque, usagé (coiffe sup. recollée, un mors et les coins renforcés par des pièces de vélin, importante tâche brune sur le titre). Le reste de l'ouvrage est propre et solide.
rif. DADAX0141978287Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2018-07-05. paperback. New. 8.50x5.43x1.20. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group paperback
1931rif. 68141931 Imprimerie J. Bourge, Viviers, 1931, in-8, 380 pages + table , broché. Avec ex libris tamponné.
1971Features: the physiology of starvation; cable television; the object in the world of the infant; the lunar rocks; carbon 14 and the prehistory of Europe; how living cells change shape; Mossbauer spectroscopy; the measurement of the 'man-day'. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
1574rif. W93823Franckofurti Moeni [Frankfurt am Main], Martinus Lechler 1574 viii + 143 [i.e. 286] + [vii] pp., with one blanco ff. between f.111 and 112, with index, Original 1574-edition, with numerous woodcut initials, 21cm., 19th cy. hardcover binding (spine in leather with gilt title, corners bit bumped, in good condition), marbled endpapers, upper left corner of all pages is lacking some paper (not affecting the text, except for - at some pages - the first word of the repeated chapter name mentioned on top of each page), text is very well readable and clean except for some vague spots at some pages, old ex-libris stamp and ex-dono on title page, [German title: "Durch Gottes segen, newe Speisskammer und Speiskeller in vorstehenden hungers nöten, Landstheuwerungen, und Kriegsslaeufften, sampt anmuetiger Haussapotecken und Kuchenartzney ; dergleichen niemals vorhin publiciert worden". This is a scarce complete edition of this interesting work discussing nutrition during wartime and famine. It contains numerous receipts for making bread, the use of fruit, liquor, etc. The text is written in Latin, but the shouldernotes in the receipts are in German. Ref.: Oberle 67 "Ouvrage rare et très curieux", Vicaire Sp.804f.: "Ouvrage assez rare", Wellcome I,6125], W93823
1574viii + 143 [i.e. 286] + [vii] pp., with one blanco ff. between f.111 and 112, with index, Original 1574-edition, with numerous woodcut initials, 21cm., 19th cy. hardcover binding (spine in leather with gilt title, corners bit bumped, in good condition), marbled endpapers, upper left corner of all pages is lacking some paper (not affecting the text, except for - at some pages - the first word of the repeated chapter name mentioned on top of each page), text is very well readable and clean except for some vague spots at some pages, old ex-libris stamp and ex-dono on title page, [German title: "Durch Gottes segen, newe Speisskammer und Speiskeller in vorstehenden hungers nöten, Landstheuwerungen, und Kriegsslaeufften, sampt anmuetiger Haussapotecken und Kuchenartzney ; dergleichen niemals vorhin publiciert worden". This is a scarce complete edition of this interesting work discussing nutrition during wartime and famine. It contains numerous receipts for making bread, the use of fruit, liquor, etc. The text is written in Latin, but the shouldernotes in the receipts are in German. Ref.: Oberle 67 "Ouvrage rare et très curieux", Vicaire Sp.804f.: "Ouvrage assez rare", Wellcome I,6125], W93823
rif. 500378029collection Santé & Bien-être. Sans date. Le roman retrace la vie de Wang Lung un paysan chinois du XIXe siècle et de son épouse O-Len. À travers les épreuves de la guerre de la famine et des inondations le couple parvient à accumuler une fortune considérable grâce à un travail acharné. L'histoire explore les joies et les malheurs de leur famille de la pauvreté à la richesse
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1961rif. 17101961 br. in-8 avec jaq. ill. / couv. recto, goutt. à témoin, 4 ill., 10 cartes in-txt., 16 ill. h-txt., n.c., 334 p., plon éd.,
1995rif. 100148110Oxford 1995 in8. 1995. Broché. Cet ouvrage collectif dirigé par Jean Drèze et Amartya Sen analyse le paradoxe de la persistance de la faim dans un monde d'abondance alimentaire. Il couvre la nature et la diversité de la faim et des privations ainsi que les stratégies de prévention des famines avec une attention particulière portée à l'Afrique subsaharienne et à l'Asie
1995Previous owner's small neat label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and traces of storage. 570pp. A major study from the 16th century onwards in which ninety-five leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including regional migration patterns.
1998New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 102 p. First printing Constantinople 1875. Account of a famine which devastated Central Anatolia in the 1870's. The famine in Asia-Minor: Its history. Compiled from the pages of the Levant Herald.
1998Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 102 p. First printing Constantinople 1875. Account of a famine which devastated Central Anatolia in the 1870's. The famine in Asia-Minor: Its history. Compiled from the pages of the Levant Herald.
19968vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1988Signed and inscribed "For Robert Conquest, with admiration" atop title page, apparently by Luciuk, at Kingston, Ontario in 2008. Conquest [1917-1915] was a renowned author and sovietologist once described by a close adviser to Margaret Thatcher as Britain's greatest living historian. His landmark 1986 treatise 'The Harvest of Sorrow' documented the Ukraine's great terror-famine of 1932-1933. 493 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Fold-out colour map. "The documents reveal that even at the height of the famine the Soviet authorities denied that there was starvation, rejected foreign aid, and exported food, and that senior British officials refused to alert the public and discouraged private relief. This collection thus furnishes evidence about the causes, course and consequences of one of the great politically engineered famines of the twentieth century." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and special association copy of this important historical record. Book
rif. B9781013643934Hardback. New. hardcover
1962510p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1990570 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "The classic work on Stalinism - now available in a major revision using new evidence from glasnost." - dust jacket. "A masterpiece of historical detection, likely to remain the definitive work." - The Economist. A considerably updated version of the 1968 first edition. "Includes hitherto secret information on the three great 'Moscow Trials,' on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
1986Signed by Robert Conquest [1917-2015] upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by Bob [Robert Conquest] to Joe [Joseph D. Dwyer, 1942-2017] upon front free endpaper in the year of publication. Dwyer was an invaluable resource to Conquest at the Hoover Institution and succeeded him as curator of its Russian collection in 2002. 412 pages with black and white plates, extensive footnotes, select bibliography and index. "A meticulous and moving account of a momentous, tragic yet neglected chapter of modern history [now known as the Holodomor]. Presents for the first time the full story of Stalin's collectivization program and its consequences. Reconstructs the background of the events and carefully details the fate of villages and individuals, the desperate condition of children left homeless, and the various cruelties and agonies of the man-made famine that followed. Seeks a true accounting of the death toll and shows how the West has long been deceived about what really happened." - dust jacket. "Conquest's excellently and professionally written book investigates the most serious crime of Leninist-Stalinist communism: its war against the peasantry of the U.S.S.R., which, before its destruction, constituted 82 percent of the entire population." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Unmarked with light overall wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. This stark testament of one of the greatest crimes in human history is a must for the shelf of any serious sovietologist. Book
1934Pages 341-384. Features: nice ad for the Sporting and Dramatic News inside front cover; Cover photo of Canada's loftiest peak, the unconquered summit of Mount Waddington, plu two pages of text and photos showing a climbing party on the treacherous mountain; Photo of bizarre sea creature washed up at Querqueville, near Cherbourg - probably the remains of a basking shark; Two pages of detailed illustrations explaining drought and its dangers in rural England, plus schemes for alleviating water famine; Photo-illustrated book review of "Secrets of the Red Sea", by Henry de Manfreid; Photos and text describe jewelry of a Byzantine-Nubian Queen - more treasures from a mysterious Egyptian cemetery; Photo-illustrated article on an expedition to Cocos Island in search of long-buried pirate treasure with gold and silver indicating instruments; 12 photos illustrate life in the Saar, a district to choose by plebiscite government by Germany, France or the League; Two full-page photos of vast flocks of ducks at the unique Open Lake Sanctuary in Arkansas, plus photos of Mr. George S. Wilcox who protects the ducks; Photos of personalities of the week include the commission of government inaugurated in Newfoundland, Sir James Jeans, Sir H. G. Lyons, Madame Stavisky, the archduke Otto and ex-Empress Zita; the Queen of Siam and H. W. Austin in the Monte Carlo lawn tennis handicap; Acquitted Reichstag fire trial prisoners released and welcomed in Moscow include Mr. Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff, Norman O'Neill, John Dillinger, Prof. S. F. Oldenburg, and Princess Irina Youssoupoff, who was awarded damages in the "Rasputin" film libel action; Centrefold photos of Prince George's 4000 mile tour in South Africa; Photo of the outdoor construction of Imperial Airways liner "Scylla" (too large for a hangar); Photo of stowaways John Pitzer and Arthur Martin afloat in the Gulf of Mexico; Photo of huge crowd in Trafalgar Square gathered to hear speeches about the unemployment bill; Photos of low British reservoirs; Photo of zeppelin "LZ 129" under construction; Photos of destroyed buildings in Kalgoorlie, Australia after anti-foreigner riots; Article and three photos describe sinking of the "Cheliuskin" near Wrangell Island; Photos of archaic Chinese jade in perfection - finds in the Lo-Yang tombs; Two pages of text and photos describe discoveries which "surpass anything yet known of archaic Chinese jade"; One-page ad for the new Ford Fourteen car; Half-page ad for the Crossley two-litre car; Half-page ad for the Armstrong Siddeley Twenty car; Half-page Rover car ad; Nice half-page Bentley car ad; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
rif. 20098'"Standard" Office Wigan May 27th. 1862.'. For the background to this letter see William Otto Henderson 'The Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-65' 1934 and Angela V. John 'By the Sweat of their Brow' 2013. Between 14 April and 16 October 1862 Whittaker published a dozen letters on the 'Lancashire Distress' in the London Times under the pseudonym of 'A Lancashire Lad'. Edwin Waugh in his 'Home Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine' 1867 describes Whittaker as 'one of the first writers whose appeals through the press drew serious attention to the great distress in Lancashire during the Cotton Famine. There is no doubt that his letters in The Times and to the Lord Mayor of London led to the Mansion House Fund. In The Times of April 14 1862 appeared the first of a series of letters pleading the cause of the distressed operatives.' The letter is 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. In fair condition aged and worn. Whittaker begins by apologising to Langley for sending only part of the note intended for him but as Langley has 'gathered the sense of what the whole note contained' he will not trouble him 'with the same thing again'. Regarding his seventh 'Lancashire Lad' letter he writes: 'In today's Times I try to correct the statement made by the chairman of your Board of Guardians last week. It is a great pity that he should have made that statement especially as about the very time that he was making it I was consulting with others as to the 400£ distributed to Preston and other towns. He ought to have seen that it is injurious to make any statement which may lead to cavilling and the more so in a case like this where the thousands of out-of-work-operatives are becoming more and more dependent upon what is being contributed for their relief. He concludes by suggesting that 'all ought to combine in helping and that each ought to be specially careful not to say or do anything which might lead to lessening the help afforded to our poor'. Whittaker's later activities are clouded in obscurity. In 1869 the 'Bookseller' reported that 'Mr. John Whittaker whose letters in " The Times" under the signature of " A Lancashire Lad" led to the formation of the Mansion-House Relief Fund has we are informed left the staff of The Daily Telegraph upon which paper he has been engaged during the last few years and joined that of The Echo the new half-penny daily paper.' '"Standard" Office | Wigan | May 27th. 1862.' unknown
1936Pages 209-308. Features: Frontispiece photo of George F. McCorquodale; Natural and artificial methods of salmon production - a short review of Canadian results; Salmon Fisheries of Norway; Defective Bones in Hand-reared Trout; The Grayling - part IV - bait fishing; Rod Joints and Whippings - how to recondition them for difficult climates; The Value of Hatchery Trout for Stocking Rivers; De Profundis - a tale of a fisherman's Dilemma; Experiments on the Starvation of Trout Fry; Artificial Propagation of Brown Trout - Hatchery Mortality; Reviews of new books; The Jolly Angler (continued); and more. Average wear. Few institutional library markings. A sound vintage copy. Book