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Barrera, Aida Looking for Carrascolendas: From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television
Austin University of Texas Press 2001 0292708912 / 9780292708914 Hard Cover Fine Near Fine 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Orange cloth binding. 224 pp. Photos. Bibliography. Dust jacket, with a scratch to rear, in protective mylar. "This award-winning show, which originally aired on PBS in the 1970s and was subsequently broadcast throughout the country in the 1980s and 1990s, was the first Spanish and English children's educational television program broadcast to national audiences in the United States."
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Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad
New York Prentice Hall Press 1987 0139357432 / 9780139357435 Book Club Edition (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Quarter brown cloth binding book club edition in a jacket. Clean and unmarked. 308pp, illustrations, bibliography, index. Dust jacket, rubbed, scuff to back panel, in new mylar cover. First-person narratives of escapes to freedom in the north.
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Boas, Maxwell Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's
New York, New York, U.S.A. E P Dutton 1976 0525066756 / 9780525066750 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
First edition trade hard cover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Former corporate library copy with ownership stamp on front flyleaf and pocket on rear pastedown. Otherwise unmarked, clean copy. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners. 212pp.
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Boas, Maxwell Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's
New York E. P. Dutton 1976 0525066756 / 9780525066750 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
3rd printing, book club edition hard cover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Former owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Otherwise unmarked, clean copy. Jacket lightly rubbed and scuffed at corners. 212pp.
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Broadfoot, Barry Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II
Ontario Doubleday Canada Limited 1977 038512550x / 9780385125505 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
First printing hard cover with dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked copy showing slight handling wear. Dust jacket rubbed at corners, with a small chip to rear flap fold. Offered in new mylar cover. The Japanese Canadians' hardships mirror those of Japanese Americans during WWII, as they were also rounded up, relocated, interred and faced years of racial bias and economic hardships. viii, 370pp., black and white photographs.
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Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese-Americans
Del Mar Publisher's, Inc. 1976 0891630139 / 9780891630135 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Green boards with gilt-stamped lettering to front and spine. Clean and unmarked. xi, 386pp., illustrations, notes, index. Dust jacket, rubbed at corners, offered in new mylar cover. A legal history of people of Japanese ancestry in America, from 1869 until the publication date
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Cleaver, Eldridge Soul on Fire
Waco Word Books 1978 0849900468 / 9780849900464 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
A clean, tight, square copy; no markings. 240 pp. Photos. Dust jacket, in fresh protective mylar, is lightly surface rubbed all over, with a couple short closed tears, mild stains on reverse side lower spine.
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Clemen, Rudolf Alexander The American Livestock and Meat Industry
New York Johnson Reprint Company Ltd 1966 Reprint Cloth Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Quality reprint gray cloth hard cover in VG condition. Reprints work first published by The Ronald Press Company, New York, 1923, slightly abridged to exclude a small portion dedicated to the problems of marketing and public regulation in the 1910s which are of minor historical interest. Prior owner's name neatly inked on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked, well-cared-for copy. 478pp., provides a detailed history of pre-refrigeration period, early techniques, packing industry in the west, development of refrigeration and canning, war service. Out-of-print.
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Collins, Ronald K. L.; Skover, David M. The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon
Naperville Sourcebooks 2002 1570719861 / 9781570719868 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Inside pocket has been opened, but CD is present, narrated by Nat Hentoff. 562 pp. Photos. Notes, bibliography, index. Dust jacket, slightly rubbed to lower rear panel, offered in new mylar cover.
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Cooke, T. G. Finger Prints, Secret Service, Crime Detection
Chicago Finger Print Publishing Association 1932 Later Printing Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket
Seventh edition, blue cloth boards. 74 pages, illustrated, references. Former owners name on front fly, front board lightly spotted. Binding, text, clean and tight with very little wear. No dustjacket.
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