East Asian Library
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The Collection of Songs among the Flowers 花間集
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Biography of Zhang Yi 張儀列傳
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The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi 東海道五十三次
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“Coloured Memories”: A German American soldier’s illustrated notebook
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John J. Audubon's Birds of America
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Alice In Wonderland Playing Cards
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Albert Einstein's Appendix II: Generalized Theory of Gravitation
Helen Hunt Jackson was a poet and writer, as well as an activist for improved conditions for Native Americans by the United States government. "Ramona", published in 1884, dramatized the government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican-American War. It became immensely popular, and was reprinted approximately 300 times. Its popularity sparked a tourism boom in Southern California, with visitors wanting to see the locations Jackson included in the novel.
Front and back covers are detached; spine lacking; former repair needs to be removed and signatures may need resewing. Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Hamlin Garland was a Pulitzer Prize-winning and prolific novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. "Main-Travelled Roads" was Garland's first major literary success. It is a collection of short stories inspired by his childhood on his family's farm in Wisconsin. It was also influenced by the ideas of Henry George, a political economist who promoted the "single tax" on land in the United States, and whose work inspired an economic philosophy based on the belief that people should own the value they produce thesmelves but that the value of land should belong equally to all. His second autobiography, "A Daughter of the Middle Border", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Garland moved to Hollywood in 1929 and taught for a time at USC (which now houses his literary papers). This is a paperback edition of this text.
Front and back covers of this paperback edition are detached; spine falling off. Requires a custom box for long term preservation.