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Daughters Of Eve With Illustrations

By: Bradford, Gamaliel

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1930

Seller ID: 31508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Signed by Ms. Bradford. Second half of the book has uncut pages, leading me to believe it's never been read. 7 illustrations. Stains on burgundy boards, including the spine. Binding tight. ; B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; 31508; Signed by Author
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Ancient Egypt

By: Casson, Lionel

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1978

Seller ID: 25907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Great Ages of Man: a History of the World's Cultures Series; 4to - 11" to 13" tall; 192 pages; 25907
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La Malinche In Mexican Literature From History To Myth

By: Cypess, Sandra Messinger

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press: 1991

Seller ID: 30459

ISBN: 0292751311

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

La Malinche, an American Nahua Indian woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast who was given as a gift to Cortes. This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day. She played a role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acting as an interpreter, advisor, lover, and intermediary for Hernán Cortes. She was one of twenty women slaves given to the Spaniards by the natives of Tabasco in 1519. Later, she became a mistress to Cortés and gave birth to his first son, Martín, who is considered one of the first Mestizos (people of mixed European ...
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The Truth About History How New Evidence is Transforming the Story of the Past

By: Editors of Reader's Digest

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Readers Digest: 2004

Seller ID: 30676

ISBN: 0762105232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Contents: Origins of Man; Ancient Empires; Crowns and Conspiracies; milestones of History; Death and Disaster; Fame and Reputation; Invention and Discovery; Fact and Fable. Turns out that I look more like Cleopatra than Elizabeth Taylor did! ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages; 30676
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The Timetables of History The New Third Revised Edition

By: Grun, Bernard

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Touchstone: 1991

Seller ID: 29051

ISBN: 067174271X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

The world-famous reference that tells who did what and when from 4500 B. C. To the present day -- now updated for the 1990s. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 724 pages; 29051
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Struggle in the Andes Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru

By: Handelman, Howard

Price: $23.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press: 1975

Seller ID: 30724

ISBN: 029277513X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New Dust Jacket

Shrink wrap removed in order to get bibliographic details. ; Latin American Monograph Series Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 320 pages; 30724
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Keeping Clean, A Very Peculiar History

By: Kerr, Daisy (Created and Designed by David Salariya)

Price: $16.01

Publisher: London, Watts Books: 1995

Seller ID: 21297

ISBN: 074961613x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Glossary, index. "At different times and in different places, people have had very different ideas about keeping clean. " This book illustrates them. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 48 pages; 21297
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