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Falls Memories

By: Adams, Gerry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Kerry, Ireland, Brandon Book Publishers: 1983

Seller ID: 002601

ISBN: 0863220134

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

144 pp. A blackened area on inside front cover, crossing out a name, has bled slightly through to the front cover, creating a small dark stain beneath the author's name on the glossy green cover. Otherwise clean, no markings in text, with only slight wear. A vice president of Sinn Fein recounts his youth on Falls Road in Belfast. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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The Toughest Indian in the World

By: Alexie, Sherman.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, Atlantic Monthly Press: 2000

Seller ID: 009491

ISBN: 0871138018

Binding: Boards

Condition: Fine

238 pp. Virtually new, no markings, gift quality. Dust jacket has pasted circle sticker noting Alexie is one of best under-40 American fisction writers, according to the New Yorker. Alexie, a Spokane Indian, writes about middle- and upper-class Native Americans in urban settings, coping with some of the same issues as white neighbors. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In.
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library)

By: Bowen, Elenore Smith

Price: $6.00

Publisher: NY, Anchor (Doubleday): 1964

Seller ID: 009388

ISBN: 0385053126

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good +

297 pp. Several lower page corners thumbed and creased. Text clean. Binding sturdy. Bowen (pen name of anthropologist Laura Bohannan) writes a novel about her first year of field work with an indigenous tribe in West Africa.Introduction by sociologist David Reisman. Part of the American Museum of Natural History series. Size: 12mo -- 7 in Tall
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Strangers and Pilgrims: The Last Italian Migration

By: Cornelisen, Ann

Price: $4.00

Publisher: NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: 1980

Seller ID: 001332

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Near Fine

304 pp., notes. Four inch tear in rear of dj, plus chipping. Crossed out name on front end paper, no other markings. A relief worker in Southern Italy writes about Italian families who emigrate to Germany in the 1970s. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Hardball: A Season in the Projects

By: Coyle, Daniel

Price: $4.00

Publisher: NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1993

Seller ID: 000946

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Near Fine

217 pp. A look at an inner-city Little League team in Chicago and the interaction between the volunteer coaches and the players. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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News

By: Delbanco, Nicholas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, William Morrow: 1970

Seller ID: 001648

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Very Good

243 pp. Jacket heavily chipped, soiled, tape on 2 tears. Black cloth, soiled white board cover. Colored end papers. Text clean and bright. A Sixties period novel about 4 rich white Americans who get caught up in black separatist movements in various parts of America. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Nima: A Sherpa in Connecticut

By: Fuller, Elizabeth

Price: $4.00

Publisher: NY, Dodd Mead & Co: 1984

Seller ID: 001749

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Very Good +

198 pp., with b&w photos scattered throughout text. An American woman relates the story of Nima, a young Tibetan Sherpa guide who is brought to Connecticut by his American benefactors for treatment of tuberculosis. He recovers and becomes partly Americanized. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America

By: Hayden, Tom

Price: $4.00

Publisher: NY, Verso: 2001

Seller ID: 001595

ISBN: 1859846165

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Very Good +

311 pp. Very clean, no markings, nearly new. California legislator and 60s radical Tom Hayden tells of rediscovering his Irish roots and becoming acquainted with Northern Ireland's nationalists. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

By: Ladurie, Emmanuel LeRoy

Price: $4.23

Publisher: NY, Vintage (Random House): 1979

Seller ID: 002713

ISBN: 0394729641

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

383 pp., index, and separate index of village families.. A few pages in Chapter 1 have light underlining. Corners thumbed. A vivid reconstruction of medieval life in a southern French village that rebelled against corrupt Catholicism in the 1300s.
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Angela's Ashes

By: McCourt, Frank

Price: $3.00

Publisher: NY, Scribner: 1996

Seller ID: 001579

ISBN: 0684874350

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Near Fine

363 pp. Clean, no markings.A later printing. DJ has circles stating "bestseller" and "Winner of the Pulitizer Prize." McCourt gives a memoir of his troubled childhood in a poverty-stricken alcholic family trying to survive in Limerick, Ireland.
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Twenty Years A-Growing

By: O'Sullivan, Maurice

Price: $4.40

Publisher: Oxford, UK, Oxford Univ: 2000

Seller ID: 007067

ISBN: 0192813250

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

298 pp. Close to new, cover corners bumped.No markings. Spine uncreased. Translated from Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. With introductory note by E.M. Forster. A simple autobiographical account, written in dialectical English, of a childhood and youth spent on Blasket, a rural island off the southwest coast of Ireland in the early 1900s. First published in 1953, Oxford reissued the book in 2000. Size: 8vo -- 7.75 In Tall
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No High Adobe and Adobe Doorways

By: Pillsbury, Dorothy L.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Alburquerque New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press: 1974

Seller ID: 010146

ISBN: 0826302262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

198 pp. plus 197 pp. Two short story collections in one. Nearly new, slight spine creasing. No markings. Dozens of tales about the author's years of living in rural Spanish-Indian settlements in the mountains of northern New Mexico. A sketch of an adobe wall is shown on both front and rear covers. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In Tall
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The Hiawatha Legends: North American Indian Lore

By: Schoolcraft, Henry R.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Gwinn, Mich., Avery Color Studios: 2001

Seller ID: 009379

ISBN: 0932212352

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

271 pp. Frontispiece of H.W. Longfellow. Close to new. Rippling of front cover and first 20 pp. No signs of dampstain, text clean. Binding firm. A collection of essays on Hiawatha and other Indian legends, published in 1856 by noted ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. An introduction by Larrie B. Massie briefly traces the life and research career of Schoolcraft, who became an expert on the Chippewa. Schoolcraft's work influenced Longfellow whose epic poem on Hiawatha was read by generations of American schoolchildren. S Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In.
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Social Change in Modern India

By: Srinivas, M.N.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press: 1966

Seller ID: 005149

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

194 pp. Ex-library from the Florida State Sociology Dept. library, but book is still in almost new condition, apparently uncirculated, according to the blank library card in pocket of rear cover. Srinivas, a well-known sociologist at the University of Delhi, presents his Tagore lectures on Indian modernization and its impact on the caste system. He delves into the opposing forces of Sanskritization and Westernization. Size: 8vo -- 8.25 in Tall
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Six Journeys: A Canadian Pattern

By: Taylor, Charles, Ed.

Price: $2.65

Publisher: Toronto, House of Awansi Press: 1977

Seller ID: 001045

ISBN: 0887840566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair +

254 pp., source notes. No markings. Large 1-inch chip from top of front cover. Text OK. Taylor, a Globe and Mail correspondent, presents biographical sketches of six daring Canadians who found themselves by immersing themselves in other cultures. The six profiled are: Brig. James Sutherland Brown, Bishop White, James Houston, Herbert Norman, Emily Carr and Scott Symons. The Symons sketch recounts Symon's struggle against bourgeoise values, his fight for public tolerance of homosexuality and his turbulent affair with a teenaged boy.
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American Dreams: Lost & Found

By: Terkel, Studs

Price: $3.65

Publisher: NY, Pantheon Books: 1980

Seller ID: 000697

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Very Good

472 pp. Portraits of 100 Americans who express their hopes and goals. Some are famous (Jesse Helms, Bill Veeck, et. al.); most are ordinary people. Slight chipping to dj, but otherwise clean, no markings. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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The Great Divide: Second Thoughs on the American Dream

By: Terkel, Studs

Price: $3.35

Publisher: NY, Pantheon Books: 1988

Seller ID: 000865

ISBN: 0394570537

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Near Fine.

439 pp. Vignettes of famous and ordinary people who have been coping with sweeping shifts in American culture and mores. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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The Human Cycle

By: Turnbull, Colin M.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: NY, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1983: 1983

Seller ID: 002571

ISBN: 0671226207

Binding: Cloth & Boards

Condition: Very Good

Cloth & Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 283 pp. Slight fading of spine, light soil on cover. No markings on endpapers or text. Firm binding. Anthropologist Colin Turnbull discusses stages of life in various cultures and includes his personal experiences. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Higher Authority

By: White, Stephen

Price: $5.50

Publisher: NY, Signet: 1994

Seller ID: 001357

ISBN: 0739402307

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

420 pp. Clean, no markings. A novel about tensions in modern Mormon society and Utah politics. From Publishers Weekly: "Nuanced, vivid characterization-especially of the right-wing fanatics who are the possible conspirators behind the nasty goings-on in White's third novel (Privileged Information; Private Practices)-makes this an engrossing thriller. Lester Horner, the first Mormon to sit on the Supreme Court, is implicated when his law clerk, fellow Mormon Blythe Oaks, is charged with sexual harassment by former employee Teresa Crowder." Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Category: Culture/Subcultures