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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. x+235 pages with maps, plates, figures, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. Book club edition. The civilization of the Maya in Mexico and Central America presents one of the world's most intriguing archaeological puzzles. The Maya built great cities, temples, and palaces, developed sophisticated systems of religion and government, and possessed extensive knowledge of science and mathematics. Yet at the height of their Classic Period (around A.D. 800), all activity ceased throughout the realm -- cities were abandoned, temples were left unfinished, and a once-powerful ruling elite vanished. Condition: Corners bumped; spine ends and corners lightly rubbed. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else very good in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xx+224 pages with figures, plates, charts, tables, appendices, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket. Foreword by James Watson. Appendices by John Thomas Barksdale and Russel Conda Boyd II. Anthropological Studies in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea volume II. First edition. R A Littlewood discusses the human biology of the Eastern Highland both by presenting the data of a physical anthropological survey of the members of the Kainantu Language Family and by endeavoring to discover the nature and possible causes of physical diversity of the region. Condition: Dust wrapper lightly chipped corners and spine ends else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 333 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The startling novel of a district attorney who, twelve years after sending a convicted murderer to Death Row, returns to the same courtroom to try to save that same man's life. A masterly tale of murder, guilt, and infidelity, set in Florida and featuring the rarest of heroes - a criminal lawyer with a conscience. Can Ted Jaffe represent a murderer he once prosecuted? The legal establishment insists he can't. Final Argument is about Jaffe's war - at the risk of his career, his marriage, and his personal safety - to free a man he believes he has grievously wronged. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 181+[4 ad] pages with diagrams, plates, figures, site plan and drawings. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Reprint from the 33rd Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution Annual. Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery. Condition: Underlining, spine sunned, corners bumped, point rubbed else about very good. …

paperback. Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good Condition. Has tearing. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Worn corners, boards showing. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1906 EDITION. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is unmarked. Slightly tanned. Couple pages minor edge tear. Covers show edge wear with small stain on front. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Sm Quarto, No Date, Unpaginated. Beautifully Illustrated With Collected Pictures From 1880-1930 (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 99 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's illustrated jacket. First edition. The Catalan Opening is currently in the repertoire of most all of the world's elite players. It has even been played at the World Championship level many times! This is largely because it combines strategic pressure with possibilities for a very sharp, complicated tactical struggle. This is perfect for those who insist on decisive chess. However, there are also some quieter, more solid lines. The Catalan combines the Queen's Gambit pawn duo(d4 and c4) with the hypermodern fianchettoed KB as with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3 or 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3. From g2, the KB strikes through the center squares e4 and d5 and beyond to c6, b7, and a8, applying pressure to Black's Queenside. Another important advantage of the Catalan is that it can be used to side step popular Black defenses such as the Nimzo-Indian and Queen's-Indian. It can also be reached by transpositions from many different move orders. This is very good against strong opposition! Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 344 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with silver letter to spine over black boards. First edition. From the author of SIMISOLA, a novel featuring Chief Inspector Wexford, whose wife allies herself to a protest movement when a by-pass is planned for Kingsmarkham, but the plot thickens when the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered, and people go missing, including his wife." Condition: Page ends dusty, spine ends pushed else very good in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 326 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4:) bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. The Keys to the Street is a crime novel by British writer Ruth Rendell from 1996. Against the will of her boyfriend, Alistair, Mary Jago volunteers to donate bone marrow. He beats her after finding out, so she breaks up with him and goes house-sitting for a rich couple in London. Leslie Bean, an old dog-walker, comes there twice a day to take the shih tzu Gushi out along with five other dogs. Mary makes an appointment with Leo Nash, the leukemia patient whose life she prolonged. Although he's secretive about his private life and doesn't want her to see his brother she starts an affair with him, much to the dislike of Alistair. Homeless people live in and around Regent's Park, including Roman Ashton, who's actually rich but prefers the street life since his wife and children died in a traffic accident. When Effie, a homeless woman, finds a corpse over the spikes of the park gate, he makes an anonymous phone call to the police. The victim is John Dominic Cahill, a homeless Irishman known as Decker. The newspaper nickname the killer 'The Impaler'. A second victim follows: James "Pharaoh" Clancy, a homeless man who was always wearing keys around his neck. DI William Marnock starts suspecting Bean, because he has accused the victim of beating him up and had plans to pay Hob, a drug addict, to beat up Pharaoh. In the meantime Mary starts asking questions about Leo and his mysterious brother. Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 280 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with silver lettering to spine over purple boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. In a desolate alley on the bank of the Thames, a spy slips through the shadows. Mungo is the Director General of English intelligence, and he knows Moscow Centre has been watching him for weeks, but there is no spy in London better at losing a tail. Satisfied he hasn't been followed, he drops off his message and disappears into the night. It's a classic scene of Cold War espionage, save for one detail: Mungo isn't a spy at all. He's a teenager, playing an epic game of make-believe. John Creevey, still reeling from the implosion of his marriage, is dreaming of taking revenge against his wife's lover when he discovers one of Mungo's coded signals. Unaware that the message is simply part of a child's game, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the rest of the spy networka tragic misunderstanding that threatens to turn this imaginary war into something very realand very deadly. Condition: Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 258 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with silver lettering to spine over grey boards with silver initial RR to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Pup Yearman dabbles in magic. But for Pup's older sister Dolly, the magic is more than dabbling. Deformed by a facial birthmark, Dolly desperately wants to be cured, and her obsession with Pup's magic sends her on a dangerous downward spiral. Condition: Remainder mark to heal end pages else very good to fine in a fine jacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 256 pages with map, photographs, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Elisabeth Svendsen continues her autobiography, started in Down Among the Donkeys, bringing the story up to date. The Donkey Santuary has now grown to 9 farms housing 6000 donkeys, mules and horses, being Britain's fifth largest animal charity. Her story is one that brings admiration as well as tears and laughter, with her stories of tormented animals and their deliverance. Condition: Head corner bumped else near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxiv+278 pages with frontispiece, tables, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with red lettering to spine. Foreword by Irving M Zeitlin. First edition. How may the sources of poverty in the Third World nations best be explained and understood? Does a Malthusian explanation based on extremely high population growth rates and scarce and diminishing resources provide the best understanding? Or does a Marxian explanation based on extreme class inequality provide a better understanding of Third World poverty? Luis A Serron, using Mexico as his test case because of its known extremes of population growth and class inequalities, here attempts to test the validity of Malthusian and Marxian theories against the bare facts of Mexican poverty. Analyzing an enormous amount of data on such key variables as fertility, mortality, migration, food supplies, health, housing, education, family patterns, contraception, public policy, concentrations of ownership in land, industry and commerce, as well as trends in finance, productivity, income distribution, unemployment, and the cyclical fluctuation of business, Serron demonstrates convincingly that the Marxian perspective allows a far deeper and more thorough understanding of Third world poverty than does the Malthusian perspective. Condition: Page ends dusty. Jacket spine sunned, front head edge closed tear with crease else a very good to fine copy in a better than very good jacket.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th edition; softer vinyl like cover; no writing or tears.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Owner name to end paper.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, a few small tears and areas of fading.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

PAPERBACK, light pencil lines and arrows in margins throughout the whole book, but no underlining, remains quite usable reading copy, old label across front cover. LEE, M. OWEN. Wagner's Ring: turning the sky round - COPY WITH MARKINGS. New York: Limelight Editions, 1994, First Limelight edition October 1994, 122pp., . Persistent light pencil lines and marks in margins throughout, remains quite readable nevertheless. 9780879101862 ISBN 0879101865.…