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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 10: January 1794 – June 1795	Adams Family Hogan, Margaret A. Taylor, C. James Martin, Sara Woodward, Hobson Sikes, Sara B. Lint, Gregg L. Georgini, Sara	HARDCOVER	03/15/2011	$123.00
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 11: July 1795–February 1797	Adams Family Hogan, Margaret A. Taylor, C. James Martin, Sara Millikan, Neal E. Woodward, Hobson Sikes, Sara B. Lint, Gregg L.	HARDCOVER	07/01/2013	$106.00
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9: January 1790 – December 1793	Adams Family Hogan, Margaret A. Taylor, C. James Barzilay, Karen N. Woodward, Hobson Claffey, Mary T. Karachuk, Robert F. Sikes, Sara B. Lint, Gregg L.	HARDCOVER	07/31/2009	$127.00
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams	Adams, Abigail Adams, John Hogan, Margaret A. Taylor, C. James	PAPERBACK	11/15/2010	$24.00
Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 1: January 1820 – June 1825	Adams, Charles Francis Butterfield, L. H. Friedlaender, Marc	HARDCOVER	01/01/1968	$106.00
Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2: July 1825 – September 1829	Adams, Charles Francis Butterfield, L. H. Friedlaender, Marc	HARDCOVER	01/01/1968	$106.00
Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volumes 3 and 4: September 1829 – December 1832	Adams, Charles Francis Friedlaender, Marc Butterfield, L. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1968	$193.00
Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volumes 5 and 6: January 1833 – June 1836	Adams, Charles Francis Butterfield, L. H. Friedlaender, Marc	HARDCOVER	01/01/1974	$193.00
Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volumes 7 and 8: June 1836 – February 1840	Adams, Charles Francis Friedlaender, Marc Ryerson, Richard Alan Taylor, Robert J. Walker, Celeste	HARDCOVER	01/01/1986	$193.00
Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes	Backhouse, Roger E. Bateman, Bradley W.	HARDCOVER	11/15/2011	$25.95
One and Inseparable: Daniel Webster and the Union	Baxter, Maurice G.	HARDCOVER	10/05/1984	$48.00
Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist	Beers, Laura	HARDCOVER	10/10/2016	$31.00
His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire	Bose, Sugata	PAPERBACK	11/12/2012	$22.00
Julian the Apostate	Bowersock, G. W.	PAPERBACK	03/25/1997	$29.50
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald	Brown, David S.	HARDCOVER	05/22/2017	$29.95
Machiavelli: A Portrait	Celenza, Christopher S.	HARDCOVER	02/24/2015	$24.95
Nero	Champlin, Edward	PAPERBACK	09/30/2005	$31.00
A Diary from Dixie	Chesnut, Mary Boykin Williams, Ben Ames	PAPERBACK	05/07/1980	$34.00
The Lius of Shanghai	Cochran, Sherman Hsieh, Andrew	HARDCOVER	04/22/2013	$45.00
The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist: Volumes 1 & 2	Curwen, Samuel Oliver, Andrew	HARDCOVER	01/01/1972	$58.00
The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man	Dale, Stephen Frederic	HARDCOVER	11/02/2015	$32.00
The Return of Martin Guerre	Davis, Natalie Zemon	PAPERBACK	10/15/1984	$27.50
Lives of the Milanese Tyrants	Decembrio, Pier Candido Ianziti, Gary Zaggia, Massimo	HARDCOVER	09/17/2019	$29.95
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum	Delbourgo, James	PAPERBACK	03/18/2019	$18.95
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself	Douglass, Frederick	PAPERBACK	04/15/2009	$9.50
Emperor Huizong	Ebrey, Patricia Buckley	HARDCOVER	01/06/2014	$50.50
Saladin	Eddé, Anne-Marie Todd, Jane Marie	PAPERBACK	05/12/2014	$24.50
Napoleon: A Political Life	Englund, Steven	PAPERBACK	04/30/2005	$31.00
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 2: 1914-1919	Freud, Sigmund Ferenczi, Sándor Falzeder, Ernst Brabant, Eva Hoffer, Peter T.	HARDCOVER	03/01/1996	$109.50
Charlemagne	Fried, Johannes Lewis, Peter	HARDCOVER	10/10/2016	$39.95
Indonesian Destinies	Friend, Theodore	PAPERBACK	10/31/2005	$32.50
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India	Gandhi, Supriya	HARDCOVER	01/07/2020	$29.95	Not yet available
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume I: I Will be Heard!: 1822–1835	Garrison, William Lloyd Merrill, Walter M.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1971	$142.50
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: A House Dividing against Itself: 1836-1840	Garrison, William Lloyd Ruchames, Louis	HARDCOVER	01/01/1971	$142.50
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume III: No Union with the Slaveholders: 1841–1849	Garrison, William Lloyd Merrill, Walter M.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1974	$142.50
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume IV: From Disunionism to the Brink of War: 1850–1860	Garrison, William Lloyd Ruchames, Louis	HARDCOVER	01/01/1976	$142.50
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume V: Let the Oppressed Go Free: 1861–1867	Garrison, William Lloyd Merrill, Walter M.	HARDCOVER	10/09/1979	$142.50
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume VI: To Rouse the Slumbering Land: 1868–1879	Garrison, William Lloyd Merrill, Walter M. Ruchames, Louis	HARDCOVER	06/29/1981	$142.50
Kenmu: Go–Daigo's Revolution	Goble, Andrew Edmund	HARDCOVER	11/01/1996	$52.50
Bonaparte: 1769–1802	Gueniffey, Patrice Rendall, Steven	HARDCOVER	04/13/2015	$39.95
Seven Wise Men of Colonial America	Gummere, Richard M.	E-DITION	01/01/1967	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Biography: A Brief History	Hamilton, Nigel	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$21.00
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War	Hanna, Martha	PAPERBACK	12/15/2008	$25.00
The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology	Heimert, Alan Delbanco, Andrew	PAPERBACK	02/22/1985	$50.50
A Monument More Durable than Brass: Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson	Horrocks, Thomas A.	HARDCOVER	04/01/2010	$35.00
From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary	Inman, Arthur C. Aaron, Daniel	PAPERBACK	10/01/1996	$19.50
Fanny Kemble's Journals: Edited and with an Introduction by Catherine Clinton	Kemble, Fanny Clinton, Catherine	PAPERBACK	09/11/2000	$18.50
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism	Kimmage, Michael	HARDCOVER	03/31/2009	$57.00
A Northern Alternative: Xue Xuan (1389–1464) and the Hedong School	Koh, Khee Heong	HARDCOVER	09/19/2011	$39.95
Ashoka in Ancient India	Lahiri, Nayanjot	HARDCOVER	08/05/2015	$35.00

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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, by Anthony Abraham Jack, from Harvard University Press

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