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REVERSING AFRICA'S DECLINE: Worldwatch Paper 65, June 1985.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1985. First edition - Focuses on the breakdown between a people and their natural support systems - with famine and the threat of famine as one of the results of this breakdown - and on what can be done to restore these systems: the soil, the forests. Specifically deals with population issues. Charts, notes. 81 pp. ISBN: 0916468-658.
Condition: Fine in stiff stapled brown wrappers.
Book ID: 30624More details Price: $10.00 -
MYSELF: The Autobiography of John R. Commons.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, (1964). The life story - "frank, informal and often humorous" - of this important scholar in the field of labor history and economics. Originally published in 1934. Photographs, 201 pp.
Condition: Good overall - ink brackets on several pages, but otherwise a tight copy.
Book ID: 69952More details Price: $10.00 -
NIGERIA: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Neocolonial Elites: An Appeal to the People
Edition: First printing, a slim trade paperback.
Leeds, UK: Iroko Press, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - A study of the politics and government , armed forces and economic conditions since 1960. Foreword by Kunle Olajide of the Nigerian Patriotic Front (NPF). Egbezor begins by quoting Chinua Achebe "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Bilbiography. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-952911604.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy red and black wrappers (crease to upper corner of front cover.) Very uncommon.
Book ID: 40090More details Price: $40.00 -
THE PART PLAYED BY LABOUR IN THE TRANSITION FROM APE TO MAN,
Edition: 2nd printing.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, nd (ca 1960). A translation of an unfinished manuscript originally written by Engels in 1876 and first published posthumously in German in 1896. 30 pp.
Condition: Good condition in stapled wrappers with red and blue lettering.
Book ID: 88266More details Price: $12.50 -
THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER: A Politico-Economic Profile.
Edition: First printing.
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A provocative study of the development and changes in the borderlands between Mexico and the US. While not a history of this area, the discussion is chronological. Maps and tables. Notes, index. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-268019142.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (some short closed tears to the dj, sunning to the spine).
Book ID: 71792More details Price: $25.00 -
THE NEXT CENTURY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1991). Hardcover first edition - A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I don't think he could have imagined how prophetic he was being when he said the American century is over! 126 pp. ISBN: 0-68810391X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79640More details Price: $15.00 -
SOUTHERN AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains four long studies on the factors affecting relations between the US and the nations of the subcontinent in the light of changing attitudes in both continents - contents include Southern Africa and its implications for American policy by Vernon McKay; New white politics in South Africa by Munger; The political situation of non-whites in South Africa by Kuper and The case for and against US disengagement from South Africa by Hance. Editor's postscript, bibliography. 171 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall very good - tight and clean in dark burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket as issued .
Book ID: 31664More details Price: $12.50 -
THE GIFT OF GLOBAL TALENT: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 74147More details Price: $28.50 -
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. A Chemist's Interpretation/
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little Brown, 1928. Hardcover first edition - From the preface: "The thread which binds [this book] together is the reiterated emphasis upon the debt which Industry owes to Chemistry and the necessity of utlizing the creative power of research if we are to avoid its alternative, which is retrogression." Published just before the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, this in an interesting look at the American economy at the time. Includes comments on immigration and a long chapter on future fuel. Index. 287 pp.
Condition: Very good in burgundy cloth with gold lettering (some pages were opened carelessly with tears to the margins,)
Book ID: 65147More details Price: $25.00 -
POLITICS IN AFRICA: The Former British Territories
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'Politics in Ex-British Africa.' A title in the Comparative Modern Governments series. Suggestions for further reading, index. Map. xx, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-393055167.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31406More details Price: $21.50 -
POLITICS IN AFRICA: The Former British Territories
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'Politics in Ex-British Africa.' A title in the Comparative Modern Governments series. Suggestions for further reading, index. Map. xx, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-393055167.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on title page)
Book ID: 85971More details Price: $20.00 -
HARRIET MARTINEAU'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMORIALS OF HARRIET MARTINEAU (2 volumes, complete)
Edition: Fourth edition (first published in the US in 1877.)
Condition: Good condition overall in embossed brown cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Foxing to the edges of the textblock and especially to the plates and tissue guard (the text is almost unaffected), previous owners' names (with the earliest being that of Pauline Esselborn, perhaps the wife of German immigrant and Ohio winemaker, Julius Esselborn), a little scattered pencilled underlining and marginal notations (erasable) and comments in both ink and pencil in the hand of G. R. Wieland on the blank rear pages.
Book ID: 34067More details Price: $100.00 -
PATTERNS OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: Five Comparisons.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1967.). First edition - Includes an Introduction by Spiro and 5 long essays: Some reflections on constitutionalism for emergent political orders, by Carl. J. Friedrich; Nationalism in a new perspective: the African case by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod; The challenge of change: Japan and Africa, by Claude E. Welch; Borrowed theory and original practice in African politics, by Ali A. Mazrui and Repetition or innovation? by Herbert. J. Spiro. A Spectrum book. 144 pp.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 31655More details Price: $8.50 -
GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Oral Histories and Social Change
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., (1985). Includes oral histories of participants in seven different Inter-American Foundation supported organizations - among them a textile manufacturer in urban Ecuador, small farmer co-operatives in eastern Paraguay and women's theater in Jamaica - as it shows that "impoverished people will use rural credit and other resources in ways not anticipated by development planners, and that these recipients often know how to make more efficient use of aid than the planners do."Map frontispiece, photographs. Bibliography, index. vii, 197 pp. ISBN: 0-030016924.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers - inscription on first page,
Book ID: 84514More details Price: $21.50 -
LENIN ON THE PARTY AND THE PEOPLE
Edition: Trade paperback.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, nd (ca 1962). In addition to a discussion of Lenin's role as the founder of the party this includes a brief commentary on friends in other countries - specifically Cuba and Uruguay. 53 pp Uncommon.
Condition: Good condition in green stapled wrappers with red and black lettering (crinkling to lower corner).
Book ID: 88265More details Price: $18.50 -
LABOUR IN THE U.S.S.R.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, nd (ca 1961). First edition - Covers such topics as public ownership and free labor, plans for full employment, working conditions and more. Ends with optimistic comments on future abundance. Illustrated with photographs. 48 pp. Uncommon.
Condition: Good condition in stapled wrappers with red and blue lettering.
Book ID: 88264More details Price: $20.00