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Screaming With Joy - The Life of Allen Ginsberg

by- Caveney, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Broadway Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos

Record # 54196


 
Price: $25.00
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"GIVE 'EM HELL HARRY." Reminiscences.

by- Gallu, Samuel

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 82 pages. Illustrated with plates of President Harry Truman. 8vo. Blue boards and white cloth.

Record # 220681


 
Price: $25.00
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"Old Bruin" Commodore Matthew C. Perry 1794-1858: The American Naval Officer Who Helped Found Liberia, Hunted Pirates in the West Indies, Practised Diplomacy with the Sultan of Turkey and the King of the Two Sicilies' Commanded the Gulf Squ

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 482 pages. Minor edge wear, spots, and rubbing on dust jacket. Illustrations in black and white. Price clipped. Some spotting on bottom edge. Top edge decorative stain.

Record # 852201


 
Price: $15.00
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"Wild Bill" (James Butler Hickok)

by- Courney, O.W.

Mitchell, S.D., Educator Supply Co., 1st , 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photo of "Wild Bill"'s last resting place on frontispage. 80 pages. 7-1/2 x 4-1/2. Reprinted from the Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader. Browning to front & back pastedowns and flyleafs. Light stains to front red cloth cover.

Record # 500217


 
Price: $250.00
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'Tis

by- McCourt, Frank

Paperback. NY, Scribner, Unc. proof wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54082


 
Price: $23.00
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1185 Park Avenue - A Memoir

by- Roiphe, Anne

New York , Free Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. B&W photos

Record # 301418


 
Price: $25.00
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1920 Diary

by- Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale, reprint , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Edited by Carol J. Avins, translated by H.T. Willetts. Nice condition. Dust jacket shows light wear. Hardbound, 126 pgs.

Record # 109400


 
Price: $23.00
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20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents

by- Youngblood, Rufus W.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy .

Record # 809843


 
Price: $15.00
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20th Century Journey - A Native's Return 1945-1988

by- Shirer, William L.

Boston, Little Brown , Book Club, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 484 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 303700


 
Price: $19.00
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27 Years a Maverick

by- James, Will S.

Hardcover. Austin, TX, Steck-Vaugn Co, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages, a facsimile reproduction of the first edition, b&w illustrations, patterned endpapers, blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and pictorial to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear and faded spine to dust jacket, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 803303


 
Price: $23.00
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3 Homes: Recollections of Childhood

by- Earle, Virginia Osborn

Hardcover. Dublin, H.H., William L Bauhan, June 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 450065


 
Price: $10.00
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44 Dublin Made Me - A Memoir

by- Sheridan, Peter

NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 201324


 
Price: $23.00
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A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir

by- DeCaro, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, June 1, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 450027


 
Price: $11.00
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A Cab At The Door

by- Pritchett, V.S.

NY, Random House, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 200623


 
Price: $15.00
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A Different Person - A Memoir

by- Merrill, James

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages.

Record # 205944


 
Price: $38.00
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A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat,' And the Struggle for Honor in Washington

by- Felt, Mark

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453087


 
Price: $15.00
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A House of Trees - Memoirs of an Australian Girlhood

by- Colebrook, Joan

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages.

Record # 204555


 
Price: $19.00
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A Letter to Myself

by- Mallet-Joris, Francoise

New York, Farrar Straus, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 237 pages. Sticker on front end paper. Cover has some soiling and chipping.

Record # 204219


 
Price: $19.00
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A Life in Smoke: A Memoir

by- Hansen, Julia

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, November 7, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 450093


 
Price: $13.00
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A Life of Her Own - A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France

by- Carles, Emilie

New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Black & white photographs. A very nice copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 204400


 
Price: $8.00
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A Life of Kenneth Rexroth

by- Hamalian, Linda

New York, Norton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages. Black & white photographs and paintings by Kenneth Rexroth.

Record # 204399


 
Price: $23.00
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A Life of Sir Francis Galton - From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics

by- Wright Gillham, Nicholas

New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Black & white illustrations and maps. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 207990


 
Price: $15.00
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A Place to Live, and Other Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg

by- Ginzburg, Natalia/Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Softcover. New York, Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 239 pages, translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, uncorrected proof, review slip laid in, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800708


 
Price: $13.00
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A Rockwell Portrait - An Intimate Biography

by- Walton, Donald

Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color and Black & white photos and Illustrations.

Record # 201253


 
Price: $25.00
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A Story of a Boy's Life

by- Sanders, Wendell

Hardcover. Privately Printed, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Top edge gilt. Light wear, rubbing, soil to covers and spine.

Record # 510769


 
Price: $18.00
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A Thousand Springs: The Biography of a Marriage

by- Chennault, Anna

Hardcover. New York, Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 318 pages, b&w photographs. Yellow and orange cloth covers. Light foxing to top edge. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851340


 
Price: $31.00
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A Tragic Honesty -The Life and Work of Richard Yates

by- Bailey, Blake

New York, Picador, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 671 pages. B&W photos.

Record # 304585


 
Price: $38.00
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A William Maxwell Portrait : Memories and Appreciations

by- Baxter, ed., Charles/Michael Collier, and Edward Hirsch

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages, one b & w photo, SIGNED BY ALL THREE EDITORS, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800795


 
Price: $50.00
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A Woman in Revolt: A Biography of Flora Tristan

by- Desanti, Dominique

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1st U.S., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages, translated from French, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800868


 
Price: $13.00
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A Woman Tenderfoot

by- Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin

NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Over 150 black & white illustrations by husband E.T. Seton. Edgewear and soil to covers. Corners bumped. top edge gilt.

Record # 201283


 
Price: $45.00
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