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Most of the biographies here are older hardcovers about writers, artists, jazz musicians, politicians and scientists. The subject links below go straight to military lives, sports figures, women or a single country.
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Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt top edges. Markings to covers, spines darkened. Record # 801763
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Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faded spine. Record # 801777
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Hardcover. London, Collins & Brown Ltd., 1st, 1998, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. B/W photographs. Matching covers and dust jacket. Bookseller's sticker at bottom dust jacket front flap. Like new condition inside an out. Record # 802863
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Hardcover. Chicago, Thos. W. Jackson Publishing Co, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 407 pages, illustrated with 12 b&w plates by E. Bert Smith, red cloth cover decorated with black vine and flower illustrations on front cover and spine, color pictorial dust jacket protected with acetate. Wear to dust jacket and cover; otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 803301
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Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages. Color pictorial dust jacket in mylar protector is price clipped and has minor edgewear. 8 page photograph section. Record # 803482
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Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 438 pages. Black and purple cloth with silver and purple lettering. Good dust jacket is price clipped with overall minor wear. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Record # 803632
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Hardcover. London, Virtue Brothers, 1st, 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages + several pages of ads. Green cloth, spine label with gilt lettering. Small paint spot to top edge of cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Tissue guarded frontispice of Wedgewood is heavily foxed. Numerous black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on page opposite cp. Record # 804334
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Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, February 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Black & white photographs. Good pictorial wrappers with some rubbing. Record # 804456
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Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages w/ index. Brown cloth, gilt on spine. Green pictorial dust jacket in protective mylar cover. B/W pictorial end papers. Clean, tight, unmarked. Record # 804486
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Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st Volume: 443 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 10 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean tight copy. 2nd Volume: 475 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 12 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket - book in great condition. Record # 804557
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Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy. Record # 804561
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Hardcover. New York , Johnson, Fry & Co., 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in half leather, 488, 470 pages. Features 119 full-page b&w engravings of famous Americans. Leather shows some edgewear, Vol. 2 with water stain to bottom at gutter, effecting about first 50 pages, stain not touching image, but some of name and description underneath. Record # 804910
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Hardcover. Meriden, CONNECTICUT, The Meriden Gravure Company , Reprint, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with white title to spine, no dust jacket. Very nice copy. Like new. Record # 805677
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Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Published for U. New Hampshire by University Microfilms International, na, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Biographical history of Paul Rosenfeld, his artistic, musical, and literary criticisms and his contemporaries. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise a tight and clean copy. Record # 806805
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Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Straight Arrow Books, 1st paperbound, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. White wrappers with b&w illustration, blue and green titles, perfect binding, numerous b&w plates. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy. Record # 807309
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Hardcover. Boston, Shambhala, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Blue boards, dark blue cloth binding with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic plates. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy. Record # 807348
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Hardcover. Totowa, NJ, Barnes & Noble, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of the life of Helen Bannerman and her controversial books about "Little Black Sambo." 194 pages. In very good condition, clean and well-bound. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Includes b&w illustrations. Record # 807633
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Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Dark brown marbled boards, tan cloth spine with gilt titles, color-illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering, full-color color frontispiece, numerous b&w illustrations by Rudolf Freund. Price-clipped, frontispiece and following page stuck together, otherwise pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition. Record # 808283
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Hardcover. 4th printing, Macy-Masius Publishers, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Gray covers, gray and gold patterned endpapers, gold labels to spine and front cover with titles, tipped-in b&w frontispiece of Smith's portrait by Wilfred Jones. Light soiling to covers, book plate to paste-down front endpaper, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy. Record # 808718
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Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages, b&w photograph plates. Cut flaps of dust jacket laid in, photo and caricature laid in. Brown cloth with silver lettering on spine. Light foxing to fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 809160
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Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Institute for Clinical Science, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 641 pages, b&w photos. Bound in green leather, gilt design and lettering, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Record # 809275
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Hardcover. Shaker Heights, OH, The Corinthian Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. B&W photographs. Handwritten letter from the author laid in. Inscribed by author on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with small tape-repaired tears. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 809685
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Hardcover. London, UK, William Kimber and Co. Ltd., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Black cloth, lacks dust jacket. Light wear and soiling to covers, minor tear to upper edge of spine. Nice, tight copy. Record # 809727
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Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1st US, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from the French by Marvin McCord Lowes. Light wear, fraying, rubbing to edges and spine, no dust jacket. Small stains to bottom edge and front endpaper. Record # 809737
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Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 809747
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Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, University of Tokyo Press, 1st Eng. Trans., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 347 pages. Translated and with an introduction by Joyce Ackroyd. Dark brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 809779
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Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1974, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket shows light wear, sunning to covers and a small rubbed patch inside the front flap from an old sticker. Upper edge of front end paper is price clipped. Nice, bright copy. Record # 809832
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Hardcover. New York , Columbia University Press, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume II. 316 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light wear and small white mark on font cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Nice, bright copy. Record # 809835
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Hardcover. Canada, Macmillian, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear, chipping, protected in a clear mylar cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper, else a nice, clean, tight copy. Record # 809836
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Hardcover. New York , Boar's Head Books, 1st, 1953, 253 pages. Black cloth. Dust jacket shows wear and creasing to edges, else a neat, tight copy. Record # 810090
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Hardcover. Chicago, Lakeside Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages, small volume. Top edge gilt, some black and white photos. Very clean and tight. Record # 850005
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Hardcover. New York, Paddington Press Ltd., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, b&w and color illustrations, illustrated end paper. Light edge wear, smudges to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 850039
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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, b&w photographs. A biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear, rubbing, spine slightly faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 850043
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Softcover. Colorado, Westview Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Very slight wear to edges and corners. A few pages slightly turned down. Otherwise, a very nice, clean copy. Record # 850111
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Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. B&W photographs. Pictorial dust jacket with slight wear and soiling. Record # 850129
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Hardcover. VT, P. Merrifield, 3rd pr., 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Brown cloth covers worn, soiled. Prior owner signature on front end paper and flyleaf. Spotting and foxing throughout. Heavily marked on back flyleaf. Otherwise, a nice copy. Record # 850142
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Hardcover. New York, NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 474 pages. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Portrait frontispiece. Top edge cosmetic stain. Slight wear and foxing to spine. Sticker residue to front endpapers. Overall, a clean, tight copy. Record # 850573
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Hardcover. Portland, ME, The Evening Express Publishing Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rebound. 769 pages. Frontispiece. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Ex-library with usual markings. A very nice, tight copy. Record # 850580
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Hardcover. Boston, MA, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. 100 B&W illustrations. B&W portrait frontispiece. Red pictorial dust jacket with slight edgewear. Red boards with slight spotting. Soiling to top edge. Overall, a nice copy. Record # 850603
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Hardcover. London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages with 9 family trees. Red boards with gilt title to spine and gilt crest to front. Hinges cracked. Previous owner signature. Soiling to edges. Record # 850677
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Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages, b&w illustrations. Light green top edge. Edge wear, light rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 850764
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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 101 pages. B&W photographs throughout. Blue pictorial dust jacket with wear. Blue cloth with gilt title to front and spine. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. Record # 850822
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Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st thus, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. Blue marble cover with black label and gilt title to spine. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. Record # 850827
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Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. Green marble cover with black label and gilt title to spine. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. Record # 850834
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Softcover. New York , Griffon House Publications, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Minor wear and crease to pictorial stiff wrappers. Clean, tight clean copy. Record # 851458
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Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, 2-page illustrated plate in front of book. Light foxing to plate. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Rubbing to cover corners. Spine faded. Library bookplate inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 851488
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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Publisher's letter laid in. 329 pages. Edge wear, rubbing, large tape-repaired tears to dust jacket. Small stains on bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 851518
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Hardcover. Williamstown, Corner House, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages, b&w illustrations and frontispiece. Minor wear to price-clipped dust jacket; in brodart. Else a nice, tight copy. Record # 851574
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Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st , 1867, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Green cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration on spine. Soiling, rubbing, and edgewear to cover. Front and rear hinges cracked. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Binding cracked at page 204. Some spotting and staining throughout. Record # 851601
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Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. B&w frontispiece and 4 b&w illustrations and photographs in text. Some wear and rubbing to cover. Some light spotting. Else nice, tight copy. Record # 851629
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Hardcover. Seattle, Superior Publishing Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w photographs throughout. Private library stamp and prev. owner's signature on front endpaper. Minor rubbing, edgewear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 851665
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Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Foxing to edges. Edgewear to dust jacket. Some edgewear, soiling to cover. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 851729
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Hardcover. Boston , Charles T. Brandorf Co, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages. Decorated endpapers. Minor edgwear to cover. Else a nice, clean copy. Record # 851736
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Hardcover. Evansville, The Poor Clares of the Monastery of S. Clare, 2nd, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. B&w frontispiece and 36 b&w illustrations. Soiling, edgewear to cover. Else a clean copy Record # 851796
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Hardcover. Cincinatti, H.W. Derby, 1st, 1856, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages. B&w illustrations. Previous owner
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Hardcover. Hudson, Sawyer, Ingersoll, and Company, 1st US, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Previous owner
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Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transleted into English by Hamish Miles. 182 pages. Ex-library bookplate on front endpaper. Gilt top edge. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Light rubbing to cover edges. Top and bottom of spine slightly frayed. Pages clean and tight. Record # 851818
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Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&w frontispiece. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. A clean, tight copy. Record # 851930
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Hardcover. London, Cassell & Co, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. B&w illustrations. Very light edgewear to cover and dust jacket. A very nice, clean copy. Record # 851952
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Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. B&w frontispiece. Minor wear to cover edges. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Record # 851961
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Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages. B&w frontispiece. Foxing to edges. Spotting and light edgewear to cover. Light chipping, wear, rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. Else a tight copy. Record # 852127
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Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Edgewear to cover; Spine faded. Else a clean copy. Record # 852134
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Softcover. Oakland, CA, Biobooks, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. First California edition of 1000 copies. With maps and plates from original designs, some in color. Very clean pages and tight binding. Record # 852338
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Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering. Minor wear on edges of spine. Pages untrimmed. Nice, clean inside with many b&w illustrations. Record # 852377
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Hardcover. Promontory Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 241 pages. Small sticker residue on front dust jacket cover. This is the 2nd volume of a two volume biography. Very clean and tight copy. Record # 852388
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Hardcover. Privately Published, Susan W. Dryfoos, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Very minor fading on cover edges. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy. Record # 852421
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Hardcover. London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Biography of Commander Godfrey Herbert of the Royal Navy, illustrated. Minor spine edge wear. Spotting on book edges and minor foxing on some pages. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy. Record # 852423
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Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1st, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 437 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Wear on bumped edges and spine. Foxing throughout, heavy in parts. Provincetown library sticker on front endpaper. Some b&w illustrations. An interesting biography. Record # 852467
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Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Minor cover corner and spine edge wear. Gilt top edge and titles on spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece portrait of Commodore Rodgers. Very clean and tight copy. Record # 852538
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Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Minor spine edge fray and corner wear. Gilt decorated cover and title on spine. Spine cracked at page 88 but pages intact. Record # 852549
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Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Minor dust jacket edgewear and spotting on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight. Record # 852662
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Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Small sticker, and residue from larger sticker, on spine. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Front hinge cracked. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Some foxing on beginning pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852683
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Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 169 pages. Gray cloth cover with no visible wear. Dust jacket has wear and some stains on back, but very little wear on front. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852686
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Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Red cloth cover with no visible wear. Dust jacket has some very minor bumping on a few edges, otherwise no visible wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852687
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Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Red cloth cover with no visible wear. Dust jacket has some very minor bumping on a few edges, otherwise no visible wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852689
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Hardcover. New York, Bartholomew House, Ltd., 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front front fly leaf. Minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight. Record # 852775
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Hardcover. Lynn, Mass., The Nichols Press, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 443 pages, frontispiece portrait of Newhall with tissue guard. Slight edge wear and foxing on top edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 852778
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Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 484 pages, with illustrations and decorative blue stain on top edge. Minor dust jacket edge wear, price clipped. "SEA" written on book edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 852780
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Hardcover. New York , Charless Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Volume I has 328 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. Volume II has 379 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Small stain on bottom of first ~10 pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean. Record # 852813
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Hardcover. London, T. Fisher Unwin, reprint, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 547 pages, gilt decorated cover and title on spine. Minor edge and corner wear, previous owner's inscription on front front fly leaf. Light pencil markings on a few pages and slight foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean and tight. Record # 852831
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Hardcover. Scotland, Argyll Publishing, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages, with illustrations throughout. A new translation by Roland Wison. Very clean and tight copy. Record # 852989
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Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton and Company, 1st U.S., 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Green cloth cover, beveled edges, gilt design,some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing and shadows on front and rear endpages. With an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Frontispiece is b&w portrait of William Morris. Binding slightly cocked. Inside pages are bright and clean. A nice copy. Record # 853088
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Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Oversized, 319 pages, with decorations by Robert Bell. Decorative red stained top edge and some plates by Wilson. Dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, slight foxing on edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853106
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Hardcover. New York , Belwin Mills Publishing Corp., 1st U.S., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket is worn on edges and corners. Many b&w photographs, and reproductions of documents, throughout. Record # 853154
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Hardcover. West Hanover, MA, O'Raghailligh Ltd., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Introduction by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Red cloth cover, very little wear. 208 pages. Dust jacket has wear, slight bumping, to edges. Very light foxing on front and rear endpages. Many b&w and color illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy. Record # 853237
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Hardcover. Boulder, CO, Paladin Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Cover and dust jacket have some wear to corners and edges. Inside is clean and bright, with beautiful b&w and color illustrations throughout by Dmitri Vail. Record # 853248
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Softcover. Portland, Maine, L. H. Nelson Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, with illustrations. Soiling on cover and some pages, binding loose from pages 15-18. Overall in good condition. Record # 853283
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Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages, with photographs a foreword by Leonard Woolf. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tears, rubbing and price clipped, otherwise, clean and tight. Record # 853307
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Softcover. Wakefield, Mass., Pride Publications, Inc., 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four volumes from the New England Historical Series, illustrated by Robert J. Neary. 1970-1972. Minor foxing on cover corners and edges, previous owner's stamp on front endpaper on all four volumes. Overall, very clean and bright pages and tight biinding. Record # 853357
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Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 433 pages, with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Faded gilt title, water stain on bottom corner of frontispiece and minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853594
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Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, and Co., reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages, with pull out maps and tissue guarded illustrations throughout, volume II only. Small ex-library stamp on rear endpaper, and minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853700
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Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853767
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Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 579 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853777
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Hardcover. Harrisburg, Pennyslvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages, Walker was a Pennsylvania native and author of Hopewell Village: A Social and Economic History of an Iron-Making Community published in 1966. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. Record # 853828
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Softcover. Southbridge, Mass., Privately Printed, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages, with photographs and illustrations. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853829
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Hardcover. Concord, NH, Privately Published, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page, with b&w photographs. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853904
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Hardcover. Los Alamitos, CA, Art Bagnall Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, with photographs throughout and illustrated cover. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853940
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Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing Company, reprint, no date, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, with illustrations, two volumes in one, gilt title on spine. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 854002
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Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages, oversized book with illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and cardboard slip case, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. Record # 854130
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Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga Publishers, 1st English, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 435 pages, with photographs, translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 854137
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Hardcover. Norwalk, Conn, The Easton Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 502 pages, with illustrations, all edges and title gilt, all leather cover with raised spine, publisher's bookplate laid-in. Handsome and tight copy. Record # 854166
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Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages, with illustrations and pull-out family tree in rear. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 854221
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Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 311 pages, with illustrations by George Cruikshank; edited, annotated and introduced by Richard Findlater. Minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy. Record # 854370
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Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 474 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, price clipped, otherwise, unmarked and tight copy. Record # 854561
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Softcover. Paris, Criterion Historie, 1st FR, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 756 pages, b&w illustrations. French text. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 854644
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Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages, with frontispiece portrait of Clemenceau. Light corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front endpaper, "sale" stamp on title page, otherwise, clean and tight. Record # 854751
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Softcover. Halifax, Canada, Nimbus Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages, b&w illustrations in rear. What looks like a tiny coffee-stain on the edge of the textblock, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 854847
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Hardcover. New York, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, with illustrations, originally published in 1880. Light stain on back cover, otherwise, very clean and bright. Record # 855124
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Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 394 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 855207
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Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 855284
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Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages, with illustrations, gilt top edge and faded gilt title on spine, gold cloth bound. Light spine edge fray and corner bumps, minor rubbing, light tape repair to front fly leaf with previous owner
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Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket has price clipped out. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855474
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Hardcover. NY, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1st , 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Gilt top edge. B&W frontispiece with tissue guard. Crinkling to edge of pages. Library sticker on front end paper which has caused outline mark on front fly leaf. Some fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855475
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Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Yellow cloth boards. Foxing to top edge. Pictorial dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855687
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Hardcover. Washington, DC, Seven Locks Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 203 pages. Inscribed by author on front fly leaf. Foxing to edges. Crease on front flap of dust jacket. "Autographed Copy" sticker on front of dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855717
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Hardcover. Cambridge MA, M.I.T Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 458 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and tanning to price clipped dust jacket, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 855870
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Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Ex-library with markings on spine, card-pocket in rear and previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. INSCRIBED BY Williams son John Jay on front end paper. Light wear and rubbing to covers, no dust jacket issued. Faint foxing to edges. Internally clean and bright. Record # 855918
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Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1t, 1959, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Pencil marks to a handful pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 855920
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Hardcover. New York , George H. Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, b&w photos. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Minor bump to corners of rear cover, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 856017
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Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear and rubbing to edges of dust jacket with slight crease/tear to rear cover. Protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 856021
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Hardcover. Mobile, Alabama, R E Publications, Reprint, no date, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Abridged from 1696 foliio. Gilt lettering along spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 856118
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Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 178 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Three black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Tanning along spine of dust jacket. Water stains on front and rear dust jacket covers, cloth cover and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Also some water staining along top edge and on frontispiece and title page. Light foxing on front and rear end paper and flyleaf and fore edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy. Record # 856128
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Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages. A little spotting and edge wear along dust jacket spine. Foxing on top edge. Minor tanning on rear flyleaf where newspaper clipping lay. Good, unmarked copy. Record # 856227
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Hardcover. New York, Bergman Publishers, Reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. About five pages with top corner slightly creased. Clean, tight copy. Record # 856292
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Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages. 40+ black-and-white illustrations. Minor edge wear on dust jacket spine. A little sun-fading along edges of dust jacket flaps. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Very light tanning on front flyleaf. Nice, unmarked copy. Record # 856305
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Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Blue cloth with solver titles and decor, no dust jacket. Slight wear to covers and some fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 856320
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Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Widener Library/ Harvard University, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 856792
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Hardcover. N/P, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 265 pages. Signed by the author on half title page and with a letter by he author laid-in. Dust jacket is missing a few small chunks around the edges of the spine and light soil. Clean, tight copy. Record # 856799
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Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton, 1st revised, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout on b&w. Light edgewear, creasing and tearing to price clipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Faint foxing to edges. Record # 856868
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Hardcover. Saranac Lake, NY, North Country Books, 3rd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 204 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge and end papers, else a clean, tight copy. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Record # 856909
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Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's signature on title page. Light wear and rubbing to to blue cloth covers, slight fading to spine. Cutter is cracked at title page, else a nice, clean copy. Record # 856916
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Hardcover. Nashville, Vanderbilt, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 428 pages. Wear, rubbing and light soil to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges. Nice reading copy. Record # 857050
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Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Light edgewear, fraying and spotting to blue cloth covers. Internally very good. Record # 857063
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Hardcover. Washington, D. C. , The National Tribune , 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Light shelf-wear to illustrated maroon cloth covers with slight fraying to edges of spine. Previous owner's signature on prelim page. Light tanning to title page from printed frontis, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 857068
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Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages hardcover. Green cloth covers. Gilt decoration on the spine. Gilt top edge. Illustrate frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857205
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Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Related articles laid in. Record # 857383
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Toronto Canada , Leypoldt & Holt , 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 458 pages. Gilt titles and decoration on spine. Slight insect damage to pages 235 to page 270. Binding cracked between pages 272 and 273. Edge wear to top and bottom of spine. All pages legible. Record # 857402
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Hardcover. Boston , Little, Brown and Company , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Decorative stain to top edge. Related newspaper articles laid in. Light soiling to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857482
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Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857499
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Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages, brown cloth with gilt and red design, top edge gilt. Record # 900132
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Hardcover. London, Compton Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages plus index. B&W illustrations. Very good in a bright dust jacket. Record # 900139
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Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 546 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famous Illustrator. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951127
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Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 621 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of the first Queen of modern Britain. Light edgewear to top edge of dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951145
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Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Slight soiling to dust jacket, pencil mark on rear wrapper. Small crease to front flyleaf. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 951146
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Hardcover. Boston, Birkauser, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages, hardcover. Edited by F. Clifford Rose. Black and white photos throughout. Light rubbing to boards. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing to copy top and fore edges. Foxing on half title page and title page. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951160
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Hardcover. NY, Theatre Arts Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Minor edgewear to dust jacket spine. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951169
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Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of the famed revolutionary Filipino political leader. Faded spine; mild foxing to top edge. Slightly rubbed wrappers. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951171
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Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st U.S. , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography on the "Martyr King." With black-and-white illustrations. Edgewear to dust jacket; light rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear to dust jacket fore edge. Former price sticker on front flyleaf. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951242
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Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Autobiography of famed columnist. Mild rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing to all copy edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy. Record # 951252
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Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages, hardcover. No dust jacket. Slight bow to front boards, light soiling and shelf wear as well. Slight soiling to copy fore edge. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 951267
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Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of silent film superstar. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight condition. Record # 951275
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Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The literary side of America's sixteenth president. Light bumping to corners, mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy. Record # 951343
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Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A portrait of the genius cartographer. Very faint foxing to top text block. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, corners lightly bumped. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951349
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Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, hardcover. The memoirs of an English aristocrat. Black-and-white illustrated frontis. Heavy fading and soiling to spine. Moderate edgewear and marking to boards. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Mild soiling to front flyleaf as well. Age toning to top text block edge. A tight copy. Record # 951461
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Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A biography of the British Foreign Secretary who designed the Concert of Europe. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Fading to dust jacket spine. Rubbing and light edgewear to dust jacket. Light spotting and age-toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A tight copy. Record # 951462
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Hardcover. Boston, Crosby and Nichols, reprint, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages, hardcover. Gilt stamped spine including a tree, a bird, a figure and the title, lightly worn. Black-and-white engravings throughout, by J.W.Orr. Bumping to corners and spine; spine and corners frayed. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. Gutter crack at page 133. Pencil markings to rear flyleaf. A good reading copy. Record # 951476
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Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famous Jazz singer. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951484
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Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies. Record # 951510
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Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A narrative of adventure and discovery. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951533
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Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 561 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of important American political figure. Age toning and mild spotting to text block edge. Light edgewear to dust jacket, slight chipping to dust jacket as well. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 951569
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Hardcover. New York, Nation Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series ends with this portrait of his father. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951615
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Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A frank self-revelation and a distinguished piece of literature. Price clipped dust jacket. Moderate fading, edgewear, and rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. A tight copy. Record # 951616
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Hardcover. Saranac Lake, NY, Adirondack Yesteryears Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famed turn-of-the century conservationist. With a foreword by Robert F. Hall. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf. Heavy edgewear to top edge dust jacket. Fading to dust jacket spine. Mild age toning to front dust jacket panel. With many black-and-with photographs and illustrations throughout. A clean and tight copy. Record # 951628
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Softcover. New York, Anchor Books, 1st paperback , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 620 pages, paperback. A portrait of Andrew Jackson. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. With black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy. Record # 951663
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Hardcover. New York, Knopf, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 320 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Detailed look at the life of the George Washington. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight tear to dust jacket at the middle of the front panel fore edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951665
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Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st paperback, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, paperback. A portrait of the extraordinary statesman, both public and personal. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight yellowing to text block. Unmarked. A tight copy. Record # 951678
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Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 478 pages, hardcover. Biography of noted British figure. Frontispiece intact. Top edge text block gilt intact as well. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy. Record # 951681
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Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A venture into the inner workings of the Soviet spy network in Europe and America in the 1930's, and the life story of one it's finest operatives. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Mild staining to text block edges. Small stain to front flyleaf as well. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 951722
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Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Biography of famed "Queen of the Underworld." Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate fading to text block edges. A clean and tight copy. Record # 951739
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Hardcover. London, Anthony Blond Limited, 1st UK, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of a con artist and Court Jester from the Renaissance. Slight bowing to boards. Bumping to corners. Price-clipped. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy. Record # 951748
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Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A new investigation of Darwin's early years and how he arrived at his revolutionary ideas. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951752
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Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 3rd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Editor William T. Anderson chronologically arranged dozens of newspaper and magazine articles regarding Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Fading to dust jacket spine. Slight bowing to front and rear boards. Light age toning to top text block edge. Mild crease to top front flap. Unmarked. A clean copy. Record # 951787
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Hardcover. Chevy Chase MD, Posterity Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulously researched account of the life of the prominent New England physician and churchman. Foreword by the Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, with a preface by the Reverend Charles H. Clark. Slight cocking to front panel. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy. Record # 951835
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Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Baron De Steuben and the making of the American army. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951879
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Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Incisive and revealing look into Washington the man, and his times. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951905
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Hardcover. Newtown CT, American Political Biography Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulous biography of the ninth American president. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951912
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Softcover. Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia Press, 1st paperback, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 706 pages, paperback. A well researched and documented survey of American president. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light bumping to corners. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951914
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Softcover. Rock Island, IL, East Hall Press, 4th, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Story of a childhood in Nazi Germany. Slight fading to spine. Mild rubbing to wraps. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A tight and clean copy. Record # 951930
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Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story the most important woman in Chinese history; who ruled for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight fading to dust jacket spine. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy. Record # 951949
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Hardcover. New York, Henry Schuman , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The life and times of Sir Thomas Browne. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chip to dust jacket top edge. Previous author's notes on rear flyleaf. Mild age toning to top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A clean and tight copy. Record # 951982
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Hardcover. Boston , American Unitarian Association, 3rd, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 572 pages, hardcover. Brown stamped boards with gilt titling to spine. Fading and spotting to spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards. Age toning to text block edges. Record # 951991
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Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. FRENCH TEXT. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light fading to spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light bumping to corners. Mild age toning to text block edges. Light penciling throughout. A tight copy. Record # 952054
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Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages, hardcover. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to boards. Slight soiling to boards as well. Bumping to corners. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A tight copy. Record # 952058
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Hardcover. Los Angeles CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 163 pages, hardcover. The intersection of art and biography. Mild rubbing to boards. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean copy. Record # 952069
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Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages, paperback. Important and scholarly contribution to Russian history. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy. Record # 952113
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Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Authentic summary of the main areas of religious thinking of famed New England Puritan preacher. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Faint age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 952209
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Hardcover. New York, Tupper and Love, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, hardcover. Friendly collection of the domestic life of Katherine Tupper Marshall, wife of General Marshall. Heavy fading to boards, mostly to spine. Bumping to corners. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Heavy spotting and age toning to prelim pages. Includes tipped-in letter written by the author. Black-and-white photographs intact. Unmarked and scarce. A tight copy. Record # 952210
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Hardcover. London, The British Library, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look into the little-known side of the Bloomsbury world that illuminates a lost era of domestic service. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 952244
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Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A sensitive and intimate portrait of the noted philosopher. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight soiling to fore edge. With black-and-white photographs. Unmarked. A tight copy. Record # 952249
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Hardcover. New York, FSG, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famed British engraver. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight soiling to front flyleaf. Detailed line drawings and woodcuts throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 952253
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Hardcover. New York, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of a foreign correspondent. Light fading to dust jacket top inner edge. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, light rubbing to board top and bottom. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy. Record # 952257
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Paperback. Putney VT, Threshold Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 177 pages, paperback. Spiritual autobiography of a Caucasian tribal prince. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Foxing to top text block edge, soiling to lower text block edge. Unmarked. A tight copy. Record # 952261
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Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris. Gilted title on spine. Embossed titling to front panel. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy. Record # 952272
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Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 461 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of boxing legend. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight edgewear to upper spine. Mild fading to front dust jacket panel upper edge. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Rough-cut edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 952291
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Hardcover. New York, Simon & Shuster, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Memoirs of countercultural Texan writer. Bright and clean dust jacket, in a protective sleeve. A tight copy. Record # 952348
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Hardcover. Burlington VT, George Little Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look at Helen Rice's unique contribution to the world of chamber music. Mild fading and age toning to dust jacket. Light soiling to dust jacket front panel very faint. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy. Record # 952369
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Hardcover. New York, The Penguin Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 878 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Finely detailed biography of industrialist. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight pencil marking to dust jacket front panel. Photographs throughout. A bright and tight copy. Record # 952390
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Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 550 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Compelling biography of famed poet. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light scuffing and marking to rear dust jacket upper edge. Slight bumping to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy. Record # 952396
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Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate rubbing, edgewear, and fading to dust jacket. Light chipping to dust jacket top and bottom edges. Mild age toning to text block edges. Dust jacket enclosed in plastic sleeve. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A clean and tight copy. Record # 952428
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Hardcover. Essex Junction VT, Battenkill River Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHORS on front flyleaf. An intimate look at the life of Norman Rockwell and his Arlington, Vermont neighbors, the Edgertons. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Bright and clean. A tight copy. Record # 952468
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