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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos


Conant, Jennet

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 425 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Grey boards with silver titles to dark grey cloth spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket price-clipped in very good condition. Tight copy, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. Clean inside and out.

Record # 751438


Price: $13.00 

 

A Brook of Our Own: A Few Notes From the Files of a Mountain Real Estate Office


Harkness, Marjory Gane

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt titles to spine & embossed tree to cover. Light marginal toning throughout. Light sunfade to spine & board edges. Otherwise clean copy.

Record # 6670068


Price: $25.00 

 

A Memorial of Rufus Spaulding Cushman, D.D., Late Pastor of the Congregational Church in Manchester, Vermont


Manchester, Vermont

Andover, Draper, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 66 pages. All edges gilt. Cover has edgewear. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206886


Price: $18.00 

 

Aaron Burr (2 volumes): The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756 - 1805, and The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805 - 1836


Lomask, Milton

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


Price: $26.00 

Abigail Adams: Witness to a RevolutionBober, Natalie S.

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution


Bober, Natalie S.

Softcover. Simon Pulse, reprint, February 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Faint foxing to end papers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458408


Price: $15.00 

 

Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Work, and Character. An Anthology of History and Biography, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Belles-Lettres


Wagenknecht, Edward

Hardcover. New York , Creative Age Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 661 pages, black cloth covers with gilt design. Dust jacket with light edge wear, half inch chip at top of spine.

Record # 408314


Price: $13.00 

 

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World


Chace, James

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1998, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. The first complete biography of Dean Acheson. Selected bibliography. Unclipped. Nice copy.

Record # 803021


Price: $13.00 

 

Adams Papers, The: Portraits of John and Abigail Adams


Oliver, Andrew

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Very good dust jacket with tanning around edges and on spine. Black & white photographs throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to art historian scholar John Willmerding.

Record # 804447


Price: $26.00 

Addison County Justice: Tales from a Vermont Court House [ILLUSTRATED]Leahy, Senator Patrick (Introduction)

Addison County Justice: Tales from a Vermont Court House [ILLUSTRATED]


Leahy, Senator Patrick (Introduction)

Hardcover. Forest Dale, Vt., Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 454752


Price: $8.00 

 

Adventures ashore and afloat


Keyes, Roger

Hardcover. London ; New York, White Lion Publishers, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages, b&w plates and frontispiece. Edgewear, chipping to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454781


Price: $40.00 

 

Affair of the Poisons, The - Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV


Somerset, Anne

Softcover. London, Phoenix, First Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages. Softcover with light marginal wear to edges. 12 pages of full page, full color illustrations. Crisp & unmarked copy.

Record # 750925


Price: $15.00 

 

After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land


Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Publishing Group, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 2230355


Price: $19.00 

 

After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900


Frankenstein, Alfred

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Green cloth, no dust jacket. Light wear to covers, slight glue-stain to frontis, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 855157


Price: $63.00 

 

Age of Wellington - The Life and Times of the Duke of Wellington 1769-1852, The


Cooper, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613869


Price: $13.00 

 

Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott


Eisenhower, John S. D.

New York, Free Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 464 pages. Dust jacket with minor rubbing.

Record # 508765


Price: $23.00 

Agent Of Destiny: The Life And Times Of General Winfield ScottEisenhower, John

Agent Of Destiny: The Life And Times Of General Winfield Scott


Eisenhower, John

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458837


Price: $10.00 

 

Ahead of Her Time

New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, Book Club, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages including index and black & white photos. Near fine in dust jacket that shows little to no edgewear. A very nice copy.

Record # 700640


Price: $15.00 

Air Force Spoken Here: General Ira Eaker and the Command of the AirParton, James

Air Force Spoken Here: General Ira Eaker and the Command of the Air


Parton, James

Hardcover. Bethesda, Md., Adler Pub Co, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 557 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small closed tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460697


Price: $15.00 

 

Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema


Goodwin, James

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, The John Hopkins University Press, First Thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean text with tight binding & sharp corners. A nice copy.

Record # 6670037


Price: $15.00 

 

Alexander Hamilton - Portrait in Paradox


Miller, John C.

New York, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 659 pages.

Record # 303881


Price: $25.00 

Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual RevolutionaryActon, Edward

Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary


Acton, Edward

Hardcover. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, April 30, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket; spine faded. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453584


Price: $40.00 

 

Alexander Korda


Tabori, Paul

Hardcover. New York , Living Books, Inc, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 323 pages, b&w photos. Some wear, rubbing and soil to yellow dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge. Nice readingcopy.

Record # 856043


Price: $25.00 

 

Alexander Pushkin: A celebration of Russia's best-loved writer


Briggs, A.D.P.

Hardcover. US, Hazar, 1st, 1999-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462921


Price: $10.00 

 

Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail


Tyler, Ron

Hardcover. Texas, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 480 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout, displaying beautiful images of the old West. Dark brown cloth. Dust jacket slightly faded in places otherwise in very good condition.

Record # 605057


Price: $42.00 

Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass WarsWhite, G. Edward

Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars


White, G. Edward

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, March 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else very good.

Record # 454790


Price: $12.00 

 

Alice & Edith: A Biographical Novel of the Two Wives of Theodore Roosevelt


Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Light purple endpapers. Light blue boards, cream cloth spine with silver lettering and decoration. Boards are lightly toned along bottom edges. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket with b/w photography of Alice and Edith on cover. Very light edgewear.

Record # 40251


Price: $13.00 

 

Alice: Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland


N/A

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


Price: $50.00 

All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. SawtelleBuckingham (Editor), Peter H.

All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle


Buckingham (Editor), Peter H.

Hardcover. Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great shape. From the dust jacket front flap: "At the outbreak of the Civl war, Daniel Withum Sawtelle was a young man working on his family's farm in the north woods of Maine. The Republican son of a Democrat, he initially took little notice of a war he assumed would be over almost as soon as it started. As the conflict wore on, however, he began to disagree vehemently with his father about the future of the nation. Finally, in February 1862, he enlisted in the Eighth Maine Infantry. Fifty years later, Sawtelle drew on his wartime correspondence to compile a memoir of his experience."

Record # 30534


Price: $31.00 

 

Alloys and Automobiles - The Life of Elwood Haynes


Gray, Ralph D.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers with light wear along edges. Light foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612121


Price: $25.00 

Alone TogetherBonner, Elena

Alone Together


Bonner, Elena

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, b&w photos. White dust jacket shows minor yellowing due to age, page 57 dog-eared, else a very nice, tight, clean copy in clear mylar cover.

Record # 452893


Price: $12.00 

 

Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet - An Autobiography


Locke, Alton (Charles Kingsley)

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages plus ads. Green cloth covers with some color fading in areas. Book slightly cocked, fraying to top of spine

Record # 402378


Price: $12.00 

Ambassadors at Sea: The High and Low Adventures of a DiplomatCatto Jr., Henry E.

Ambassadors at Sea: The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat


Catto Jr., Henry E.

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 428 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Book is still in original publishers shrinkwrap. Clean, tight.

Record # 613537


Price: $19.00 

 

Amelia: Pilot in Pearls


Gilroy, Shirley Dodson

Hardcover. McLean VA, Link Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages, many b&w illustrations, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light fading to spine otherwise very good.

Record # 405269


Price: $44.00 

 

American Character - The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest


Thompson, Mark

New York, Arcade, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 207991


Price: $20.00 

 

American Character - The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest


Thompson, Mark

New York, Arcade, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 207992


Price: $20.00 

 

American Family, An - The Tafts 1678-1964


Ross, Ishbel

Hardcover. Cleveland, World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 468 pages.

Record # 61564


Price: $18.00 

 

American Irish, The - A Political and Social Portrait


Shannon, William V.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 458 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, soil. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf half-title page.

Record # 63054


Price: $18.00 

 

American Leonardo, The: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse


Mabee, Carleton

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages plus index, illustrated throughout in b&w. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket, top edge cosmetic stain. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606345


Price: $50.00 

 

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House


Meacham, Jon

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled foreedges. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Remainder mark (red dot) on bottom edge. In great condition. Andrew Jackson, his close group of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency.

Record # 31802


Price: $15.00 

 

American Painters: with Eighty-three Examples of Their Work Engraved on Wood


Sheldon, G. W.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, small tear to spine, worn, gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Edges gilt. Endpapers in back have cosmetic split, not affecting binding. Previous owner's inscription in front. In very good shape for its age.

Record # 605488


Price: $51.00 

 

American Politician, The


Salter, J. T. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages, b&w photographs. Gray cloth covers, spine browning. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850776


Price: $20.00 

 

Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America


Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

Hardcover. Key Porter Books, 1st Canadian, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 231 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, else, very clean and tight.

Record # 457305


Price: $18.00 

 

An Unofficial Statesman - Robert C. Ogden


Wilson, Philip Whitwell

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Page and Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages, maroon cloth, b&w illustrations. Except for a rear hinge crack, very good. Clean.

Record # 406908


Price: $15.00 

 

Andrew Jackson - Frontier Statesman


Judson, Clara Ingram, Illust. by: Lorence F. Bjorklund

Chicago, Follett Publishing, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrations by Lorence F. Bjorklund. 224 pages. Color illustrated covers. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 600189


Price: $12.00 

 

Andrew Jackson: His Life and TImes


Brands, H.W.

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


Price: $19.00 

 

Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain


James, Marquis

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. End paper map. Clean, bright copy with no dust jacket.

Record # 407332


Price: $10.00 

Anna Freud: A BiographyYoung-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Anna Freud: A Biography


Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Hardcover. US, Summit Books, 1st, 1988-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461567


Price: $10.00 

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic QueenDenny, Joanna

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen


Denny, Joanna

Hardcover. US, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2006-03-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462085


Price: $10.00 

 

Anthony Burns: A History


Stevens, Charles Emery

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


Price: $12.00 

Appletons of Beacon Hill, TheTharp, Louise Hall

Appletons of Beacon Hill, The


Tharp, Louise Hall

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 368 pages. B&W illust. The life and times of a celebrated 19th century Boston family. Ex-lib with light stamping residue. Dust jacket edgeworn, heavily chipped. Cover boards show heavy fading along top edges, spine cocked.

Record # 300703


Price: $15.00 

Apricot Cheeks and Almond Eyes by: Wimsatt, Genevieve

Apricot Cheeks and Almond Eyes


by: Wimsatt, Genevieve

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages, hardcover. Cyan cloth covers are in very good condition, despite minor bumping to one corner. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Some B&W illustrations present throughout. This is a biography of Empress Yang of the Southern Sung dynasty. It delves into historical records and accredited traditions surrounding the Empress, offering an account of her life and works. Clean copy.

Record # 33902


Price: $35.00 

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832Tillyard, Stella

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832


Tillyard, Stella

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, October 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, b&w and color plates. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454366


Price: $12.00 

 

Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas


Nadler, Steven M.

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ Pr, 1st, April 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 195 pages. Light sunning and edgewear to dust jacket spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458410


Price: $50.00 

 

Art Idea, The


Jarves, James Jackson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Reprint of the 1864 original. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. previous owner's inscription in front. A very crisp, clean and well preserved copy

Record # 804941


Price: $13.00 

 

Art of Maurice Sendak, The - 1980 to the Present


Kushner, Tony

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with illustrations to endpapers. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color illustrations beautifully presented, including fold out illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750387


Price: $44.00 

 

Art-Life of William Morris Hunt


knowlton, Helen M.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 2nd, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions of works by william Morris Hunt. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. 1" tear on right edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603664


Price: $32.00 

 

Arthur Schopenhauer's English Schooling


Bridgwater, W. P.

Hardcover. London ; New York, Routledge, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453675


Price: $40.00 

 

Artists of America, The: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists; with Portraits and Designs on Steel


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations on steel (by artist only mentioned in Preface as Mr. Burt) with tissue guards throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown leather, gilt title on spine, raised bands and embossed design on covers and spine. Some chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as corners of covers. Tanning from age and foxing to pages and edges, but doesn't affect legibility of text or illustrations. Beautiful old volume. Biographical sketches of eight American painters.

Record # 31725


Price: $63.00 

 

Artists of America, The


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Includes biographical sketches of Thomas Crawford, Rembrandt Peale, James DeVeaux, John Trumball, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Benjamin West, Henry Inman, Washington Allston. Brown cloth covers with embossed decorative borders, gilt titles decorative illustration to spine and cover, green patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 9 b&w tissue-protected engravings. Previous owner's pencil inscription to blank preview page, wear and rubbing to cover edges and spines, cloth covering partially detached from lower portion of spine, noticeable foxing to most pages. A rare book in good condition.

Record # 806049


Price: $80.00 

At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of ProfitO'Boyle, Thomas F.

At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit


O'Boyle, Thomas F.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped. Some soil to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468343


Price: $13.00 

 

At Home on the Prairie: The Houses of Purcell & Elmslie


Legler, Dixie; Korab, Christian

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout.

Record # 2233373


Price: $23.00 

 

Atat

Hardcover. London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a touch of age wear at top of back cover (see image), unclipped, very good. Top edge dyed. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. This important and absorbing biography will fill many gaps in our knowledge of the man who created modern Turkey and changed the course of European history.

Record # 32185


Price: $23.00 

 

Audubon, By Himself


Ford (Ed.), Alice

Hardcover. NY, Natural History Press, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with heavy edge wear to dust jacket, now covered in brodart. A profile of John James Audubon from his selected writings.

Record # 60126


Price: $15.00 

 

Augustus John: The New Biography


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st US, 1996-09-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 715 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Gutter crack at title page.

Record # 462469


Price: $19.00 

 

Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army


Ballentine, George

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Lakeside Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Edited by William H. Goetzman, a Lakeside Classic, brown cloth cover with gilt seal to cover and lettering to spine, b&w frontispiece, 40 b&w illustrations. Very light mildew marks to cover; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 804550


Price: $11.00 

 

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, The


Chaudhuri, Nirad C.

Softcover. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, reprint, July 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 506 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457332


Price: $12.00 

 

Autobiography of Miss Knight: Lady Companion to Princess Charlotte


Fulford, Ed., Roger

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


Price: $12.00 

 

Autobiography of Osugi Sakae, The


Osugi, Sakae

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 453694


Price: $20.00 

 

Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; or, Pioneer Life in the West


Strickland (Editor), W. P.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, Jennings and Graham, First Edition, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Blue embossed boards with some soiling, scuffing & wear to edges. Gilt titles to spine. Fraying to crown & heel. of spine Heavy foxing to preliminary pages, spotting throughout. Frontis illustration, James B. Finley, & engravings in b/w. Tight binding.

Record # 751367


Price: $63.00 

 

Autobiography of Richard Baxter: Being the Reliquiae Baxterianae, The


Baxter, Richard

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


Price: $50.00 

 

Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of His Time


Carlyle, Alexander

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, First Edition, 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with embossed & textured boards. Gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine. Light fraying to spine head & heel. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf & pencil marks to last page. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Light toning to edges throughout. Tight binding, tight signatures & frontis illustration in bw protected with a tissue guard.

Record # 751319


Price: $23.00 

Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their WorkBarker, Ronald

Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their Work


Barker, Ronald

Hardcover. Warrendale, PA, Society of Automotive Engineers, 2nd Revised edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471836


Price: $25.00 

 

Aviation's Mr. Sam


Haggerty, James J

Hardcover. US, Aero Publishers, 1st, 1974-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462870


Price: $15.00 

Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi GermanyLucas, Richard

Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany


Lucas, Richard

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Casemate Pub, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230083


Price: $15.00 

 

Baber - First of the Moguls


Grenard, Fernand

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st US, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 56151


Price: $15.00 

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A LifeWilson, Frances

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A Life


Wilson, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471555


Price: $19.00 

 

Battle from the Start, A: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest


Wills, Brian Steel

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Tan cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Decorated endpapers. In great shape. The biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Record # 31796


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Cassino, The


Majdalany, Fred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with age toning, tears to edges & chipping to spine. Toning to edges throughout. Black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751174


Price: $15.00 

Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War IIBudiansky, Stephen

Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II


Budiansky, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Red gilt titles on spine. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468121


Price: $19.00 

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and ModernismMcLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism


McLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471592


Price: $19.00 

 

Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters


Coven, Jeffrey/Dore Ashton (Contribution)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Bulfinch Press Book, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670046


Price: $19.00 

BaudelaireTroyat, Henri

Baudelaire


Troyat, Henri

Softcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Softcover. Previous owners inscription to front edge. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471591


Price: $15.00 

 

Beatrice Cenci - 2 Volumes


Ricci, Corrado

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 324 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 321 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612143


Price: $44.00 

 

Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition


Slaughter, Thomas P.

Hardcover. US, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2008-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462669


Price: $13.00 

Beecher Sisters, The White, Barbara A.

Beecher Sisters, The


White, Barbara A.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461328


Price: $19.00 

 

Beethoven: A Documentary Study


Landon, H. C. Robbins (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Am, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 pages, b&w and color plates throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing, a few small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851427


Price: $40.00 

 

Beethoven: Les Grandes Epoques Creatrices (2 Volumes)


Rolland, Romain

Softcover. Paris, Editions du Sablier, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text. 438 pages in total, b&w illustrations. Rough-cut pages. Tan paper wrappers w/ soiling, light edge wear. Small tears, pieces missing from spine of Volume I. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf of Volume I. Else nice, clean copies.

Record # 851000


Price: $40.00 

 

Beginning of the Journey, The : The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling


Trilling, Diana

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1993-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464309


Price: $13.00 

 

Behind the Bolshoi Curtain


Collins, Richard

Hardcover. London, UK, William Kimber, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, Back flap has a small crease, dj in good shape. Pages and edges lightly tanned, doesn't affect text or illustrations. The technical and artistic mastery of the Bolshoi, described by Collins, a dancer with the company for four years.

Record # 32001


Price: $44.00 

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters-and One Man's Search to Find ThemCarroll, Andrew

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters-and One Man's Search to Find Them


Carroll, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 471705


Price: $13.00 

 

Benedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior


Sellers, Charles Coleman

Hardcover. New York, Minton, Balch & Co., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, b&w plates. Red cloth covers w/ light rubbing, wear. Top edge red. Foxing to fore-edge and first few pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Else clean and tight.

Record # 851854


Price: $15.00 

 

Beneficiary, The: Fortune, Misfortune and the Story of My Father


Scott, Janny

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 2233084


Price: $15.00 

 

Benjamin Franklin


Morgan, Edmund S.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462657


Price: $10.00 

 

Benjamin Robert Haydon: Historical Painter


Olney, Clarke

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate and stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages and edges have slight tanning from age. Pages otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. The author's purpose is to evaluate Haydon's place in the history of art, to indicate his importance as a pioneer in social concepts of art, and to describe his success and failure as a painter and as a man.

Record # 32183


Price: $23.00 

 

Bernard Shaw on Photography


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 146 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to dust jacket covers, else a very nice, tight, clean, copy.

Record # 453874


Price: $12.00 

 

Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932


Jr., Edward Bliss

Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2000-12-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462660


Price: $10.00 

Big Bam, The : The Life and Times of Babe RuthMontville, Leigh

Big Bam, The : The Life and Times of Babe Ruth


Montville, Leigh

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, Bc. Ed., 2006-05-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464071


Price: $10.00 

 

Big-Little World of Doc Pritham, The


Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, B&W photographs. The biography of a Maine country doctor who spent 65 years practicing in Greenville, Maine.

Record # 304417


Price: $12.00 

 

Bin Ladens, The: An Arabian Family in the American Century


Coll, Steve

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 671 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has small tear (3/4") at top of spine, otherwise excellent shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page and edges clean and bright. Meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations.

Record # 32335


Price: $15.00 

 

Biographical Sketches of Vermonters


Kent, Dorman B.E.; Henry W. Taylor, W.H. Crockett

Hardcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages with index. Tan cloth covers with heavy rubbing on green stamped title on spine. Volume 2 only. First 60 pages, previous owner marks on page numbers. foxing on edges, and light marking on covers. tight copy.

Record # 408417


Price: $63.00 

 

Biographies and Legends of the New England Indians, Volumes I - IV


Bonfanti, Leo, Illust. by: Robert J. Neary

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


Price: $60.00 

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious ManKurlansky, Mark

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man


Kurlansky, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468105


Price: $13.00 

Black Saga: The African American ExperienceChristian, Charles M.

Black Saga: The African American Experience


Christian, Charles M.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Slight fading to spine. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468236


Price: $23.00 

 

Black Ship, The


Pope, Dudley

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fraying and small rips to dust jacket on top spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233358


Price: $19.00 

Blair Years, The: The Alastair Campbell DiariesCampbell, Alastair

Blair Years, The: The Alastair Campbell Diaries


Campbell, Alastair

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 816 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Newsletter from publisher lain within. Tight copy.

Record # 470761


Price: $19.00 

 

Blow the Man Down!: A Yankee Seaman's Adventures Under Sail


Williams, James H. and Warren Kuehl (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, b&w illustrations. In a crisp, bright dust jacket.

Record # 403532


Price: $15.00 

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan StanleyBeard, Patricia

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley


Beard, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with gilt lettering, black and white photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block.

Record # 468441


Price: $11.00 

Bob Dylan In AmericaWilentz, Sean

Bob Dylan In America


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 390 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Some stains to front and back dust jacket cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466859


Price: $15.00 

Bonnie Prince Charlie: A BiographyErickson, Carolly

Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography


Erickson, Carolly

hardcover. New York, W. Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some stains to top and fore edge. All pages clean and legible.

Record # 469155


Price: $13.00 

 

Book of the Artists


Tuckerman, Henry T.

Softcover. New York, James Fr. Carr, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 639 pages. "Comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists: preceded by an historical account of the rise & progress of art in America." Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to covers, mild wear to cover edges; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806114


Price: $80.00 

Booking passage: we Irish & AmericansLynch, Thomas

Booking passage: we Irish & Americans


Lynch, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469391


Price: $10.00 

 

Booking passage: we Irish & Americans


Lynch, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 224414


Price: $10.00 

 

Brandon, VT: A History of the Town 1761-1961


Selectmen of Brandon, VT

Paperback. Vermont, Town of Brandon, reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. bright red paper wrappers with black print. light rubbing, Binding cracked in center. Foxing on fore and top edge. Black & white photographs in center, some paper separation from binding.

Record # 408626


Price: $23.00 

 

Break It Up: Patti Smith's Horses and the Remaking of Rock'n'Roll


Paytress, Mark

Hardcover. London , Portrait, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 402512


Price: $15.00 

Bright ParadiseRaby, Peter

Bright Paradise


Raby, Peter

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Marking throughout, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468170


Price: $10.00 

BRISTOL: PROFILE OF A CITYSHIPSIDES, HELENA and Frank Eason

BRISTOL: PROFILE OF A CITY


SHIPSIDES, HELENA and Frank Eason

Hardcover. US, REDCLIFFE PRESS LTD, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages. Light foxing on front end paper, minor wear to dust jacket. Otherwise very good.

Record # 466519


Price: $13.00 

 

Buffalo Bill and the Wild West


Sell, Henry S. and Victor Weybridge

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 Pages. Pictorial map end papers and numerous illustrations.Chip to top edge of dust jacket.

Record # 219967


Price: $16.00 

 

Buffalo Bill's Wild West - Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History


Kasson, Joy S.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of Buffalo Bill and history and analysis of his show. Really great condition. dust jacket and internal pgs are all clean and look unread. Many black & white photos and illustrations. hardbound, 319 pgs.

Record # 108809


Price: $20.00 

 

BUFFALO BILL. HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, FAME, FAILURES, AND FORTUNES


Yost, Nellie Snyder

Hardcover. Chicago, Swallow Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. First edition, first printing. Map end papers. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown cloth with white lettering on spine. Brown, orange, and white pictorial dust jacket, lightly browned. Previous owner's red stamp on back inside flap of dust jacket and back inside cover.

Record # 219840


Price: $22.00 

 

Burr Bibliography: A List of Books Relating to Aaron Burr


Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock

Hardcover. New York , Burt Franklin, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, 89 pages, reprint of the 1892 edition.

Record # 405948


Price: $13.00 

 

Caesar - A Sketch


Froude, James Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 550 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with gilt title and decoration. Fold-out map. Light fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611666


Price: $38.00 

 

Caesars of the Wilderness: Company of Adventurers, Volume 2


Newman, Peter C.

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1987-11-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 450 pages, b&w illustrations. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465884


Price: $13.00 

 

Calvin Coolidge - The Man Who is President


White, William Allen

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Cloth covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609228


Price: $20.00 

 

Campaigning with King: Charles King, Chronicler of the Old Army.


Russell, Don

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


Price: $12.00 

 

Campaigning with King: Charles King, Chronicler of the Old Army.


Russell, Don

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


Price: $12.00 

Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing MachineBrandon, Ruth

Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing Machine


Brandon, Ruth

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Purple cover boards, light fading along the top and bottom, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear. Pages clean and unmarked. Some slight tanning to edges. Looks great for its age. Biography and social history tells of the rags-to-riches story of a self-made man who epitomized the great American dream while rambunctiously flouting its conventions.

Record # 32909


Price: $15.00 

 

Captain James Cook


Villiers, Alan

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


Price: $15.00 

 

Captain John Ericsson: Father of the Monitor


Burnett, Constance B.

New York, Vanguard Press, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Clean. Very good pictorial dust jacket with little to no edgewear, in brodart.

Record # 700143


Price: $15.00 

 

CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT: The Last of the New England Highwaymen


Waldo, Frederick W.

Hardcover. Topsfield, MA, Wayside Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages. A narrative of his life and adventures, with some account of the notorious captain thunderbolt. First book published by The Wayside Press. Illustrated with 13 b/w plates, including frontisportrait. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on front flyleaf. 8vo. Red and black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing on back. Minor edgewear. Red/black pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear, water marks along left front edge, chips at top and bottom of spine, spine and top edge toned.

Record # 220608


Price: $19.00 

 

Captain Sam Grant


Lewis, Lloyd

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The early years of Ulysses S.Grant. ex-lib. copy with normal stamping, residue to rear end paper but hardly read. a tight clean reading copy. 512 pgs.

Record # 100919


Price: $12.00 

 

Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Caras of Open Court


Henderson, Harold

Hardcover. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 205 pages. Gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy, like new.

Record # 606633


Price: $25.00 

 

Catherine de'Medici


Willisamson, Hugh Ross

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color, black & white. 288 pages

Record # 53750


Price: $28.00 

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanMassie, Robert K.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman


Massie, Robert K.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 5th, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 625 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fading on dj spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 471885


Price: $19.00 

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanMassie, Robert K.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman


Massie, Robert K.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with minor shelf wear to dust jacket back. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 470821


Price: $23.00 

 

CECILS OF HATFIELD HOUSE


CECIL, DAVID

Softcover. US, CARDINAL, 1st, 1975-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Foxing to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466552


Price: $10.00 

 

Cezanne, His Life and Art


Lindsay, Jack

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphics Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Yellow cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Covers slightly worn and sunned. Previous owner's signature on front end papers, else a clean, nice reading copy.

Record # 810181


Price: $12.00 

 

Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe


Thorpe, Edward

Hardcover. New York , St. Martin's, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 407070


Price: $19.00 

 

Chanel and Her World


Charles-Roux, Edmonde

Softcover. US, The Vendome Press, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Wear and rubbing to wrappers, especially to the spine.

Record # 462842


Price: $38.00 

 

Chapters in a Life of Paul


Knox, John

Hardcover. New York, Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1st, 168 pages. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Beautiful tight, clean, copy.

Record # 40050


Price: $8.00 

 

Charles C. Caffin: A Voice for Modernism, 1897-1918


Underwood., Sandra Lee

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, UMI Research Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. UMI Research Press Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism. Light gray leatherette, Black lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Looks brand new.

Record # 605136


Price: $13.00 

 

Charles of Orleans - Prince & Poet


McLeod, Enid

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with short tears, edgewear

Record # 55618


Price: $18.00 

 

Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle


Shorter, Clement K.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st thus, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages. Light wear and fade to maroon cloth covers. Foxing throughout text.

Record # 857062


Price: $38.00 

 

Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World


Howard, Donald R.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 636 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Masterly biography on the man and the poet. Black-and-white illustrations. Fading to dust jacket spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket as well. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952073


Price: $23.00 

 

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life


Anderson, Jon Lee

Softcover. Grove Press, 6th pr, March 9, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 814 pages, b&w photographs. Large crease to front cover. Small mark on top edge. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454597


Price: $8.00 

Cheran: A Sierra Tarascan VillageBeals, Ralph L.

Cheran: A Sierra Tarascan Village


Beals, Ralph L.

softcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Softcover. Light edge wear to wrappers otherwise Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 468485


Price: $15.00 

Chieftain to Knight: Tibbott Bourke 1567-1629, First Viscount MayoChambers, Anne

Chieftain to Knight: Tibbott Bourke 1567-1629, First Viscount Mayo


Chambers, Anne

Hardcover. DUBLIN IR, Wolfhound Press, 1ST, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470555


Price: $25.00 

 

Chopin and Other Musical Essays


Finck, Henry T.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Grey dyed top edge. Light nominal toning, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. 273 pages. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670139


Price: $44.00 

 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: An Authorized Biography


Chernow, Burt, Wolfgang Volz (Epilogue

Softcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st paperback, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Remainder marks on top edge. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In great condition. A look at the backgrounds of these artists and what's behind their temporary masterpieces.

Record # 32226


Price: $15.00 

 

Churchill and America


Gilbert, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages. Hardcover. 30 pages of illustrations in black & white. Dust jacket price clipped & in very good condition. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750979


Price: $15.00 

 

Churchill's Generals


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Illustrated in black & white, tight bindng, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750947


Price: $15.00 

 

Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian


Lukacs, John

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, First Thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight copy. Clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670040


Price: $15.00 

 

Churchill


Morgan, Ted

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1982-06-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 607 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461628


Price: $10.00 

Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing HistorySchaap, Jeremy

Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History


Schaap, Jeremy

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Includes three appendices of boxing records. Previous owners notes on inside of dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466618


Price: $19.00 

Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946, A: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored DivisonMcAvoy, George E.

Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946, A: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Divison


McAvoy, George E.

Hardcover. Littleton, NH, Crawford Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470432


Price: $31.00 

Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946, A: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored DivisonMcAvoy, George E.

Citizen-Soldier Remembers 1942-1946, A: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Divison


McAvoy, George E.

Hardcover. Littleton, NH, Crawford Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470431


Price: $31.00 

 

City Work at Country Prices - The Portrait Photographs of Duncan Donovan


Harper, Jennifer

Softcover. Danbury, NH, Addison House, Wraps, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 53 turn-of-the-century images by a Canadian portrait photographer in wrappers with pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 62306


Price: $10.00 

 

Clare Boothe Luce


Sheed, Wilfrid

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 402524


Price: $10.00 

 

Clarke Letters: Mrs. Meech and her Family


Hemenway, Abby M.

Burlington, VT , Free Press and Times Print, 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Red cloth covers with black stamped lettering and decorations. Edge wear on spine, tears on fore edge bottom corner. Bumped corners. Age discoloration on pages. Dark brown end paper Front hinge cracked, binding cracked on page 108.

Record # 408529


Price: $38.00 

Clearing in the Distance - Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, ARybczynski, Witold

Clearing in the Distance - Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, A


Rybczynski, Witold

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 480 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613139


Price: $25.00 

 

Clemenceau


Bruun, Geoffrey

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


Price: $12.00 

 

Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age


Friedrich, Otto

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 381 pages. Remainder stamp on bottom edge. Cover has very little wear, dust jacket has light wear to edges and corners. Inside very clean, with section of b&w illustrations. A nice, bright copy.

Record # 455719


Price: $12.00 

 

Collis Potter Huntington


Evans, Gerinda W.

Hardcover. Newport News, VA, The Mariners' Museum: Volume II, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 775 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering and gilt embossed design. Very little wear to cover. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations and photographs throughout.

Record # 852694


Price: $15.00 

 

Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara


Castaneda, Jorge G.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Hardcover. Taupe boards with gilt titles to green cloth spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Borzoi book edition. Tight binding, illustrations in bw, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670025


Price: $19.00 

 

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn


Morantz-Sanchez, Regina

Softcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with marginal wear to edges, small spot of discoloration to rear wrap & edge. Illustrations in black & white, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 5560153


Price: $19.00 

 

Conquest of Everest, The


Hunt, Sir John/Sir Edmund Hillary & H. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., First Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with light blue graphic to cover & taupe cloth spine. Light toning to edges throughout. Profusely illustrated in full color & bw. Frontis illustration, Tenzig on the Summit of Everest, May 29th, 1953, in full color. Tight binding, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751287


Price: $15.00 

 

Contrary Farmer, The


Logsdon, Gene

Softcover. Post Mills, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Brick boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Faint foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751202


Price: $15.00 

 

Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Hook


Thomas, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30730


Price: $15.00 

 

Correspondence, 1945-1984


Truffaut, Francois

Softcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1990-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 590 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, and end papers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463742


Price: $13.00 

 

Crusader for Freedom - A Life of Lydia Maria Child


Clifford, Deborah Pickman

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56398


Price: $20.00 

 

Cuba and Castro


Casuso, Teresa, Elmer Grossberg (Translation)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, two tone title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, very good, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Top edge dyed red. In very good shape. "Teresa Casuso, who resigned her high position in the U.N. and took asylum in the United States after supporting Fidel Castro from the beginning, now reveals for the first time the behind-the-scenes story of the Revolution."

Record # 32168


Price: $19.00 

 

Culture in Exile: Russian Emigres in Germany, 1881-1941


Williams, Robert C.

Hardcover. Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1972], Cornell University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 404 pages, b&w photos. Some rubbing, edgewear and tearing to dust jacket. Internally very good.

Record # 459505


Price: $38.00 

 

Currier & Ives: America Imagined


F, LE BEAU BRYAN

Hardcover. US, Smithsonian, 1st, 2001-09-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463577


Price: $13.00 

 

Custer Favor the Bold - A Soldier's Story


Kinsley, D.A.

New York, Promontory Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 557 pages, b&w illustrations. A biography of General George A. Custer originally published in two volumes in the 1960s.

Record # 700415


Price: $18.00 

 

Custer: Cavalier in Buckskin


Utley, Robert M.

Hardcover. Norman, Revised Illustrated, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457608


Price: $31.00 

 

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage


Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Shuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket and remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462248


Price: $10.00 

Dali: The PaintingsDali, Robert Descharnes Neret Gilles Salvador

Dali: The Paintings


Dali, Robert Descharnes Neret Gilles Salvador

Hardcover. Los Angeles, TASCHEN America Llc, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 780 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471807


Price: $38.00 

Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With Boss SteinbrennerMadden, Bill

Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With Boss Steinbrenner


Madden, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468446


Price: $10.00 

 

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era


Moorehead, Caroline

Hardcover. US, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009-06-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464636


Price: $15.00 

 

Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield


Ackerman, Kenneth D.

Hardcover. New York, Carroll and Graf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Small tear on top of back cover and tape covering a small tear on top of spine. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470950


Price: $23.00 

 

Daughter of the Medicis, A: The Romantic Story of Margaret of Valois


Mariejol, Jean H.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, First Edition, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with sunfade to edge. Sunfade to spine, rubbing & chips to paste down text on spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Biographyof the wife of King Henry IV of France. Frontis illustration & tissue guard detached, additional illustrations throughout all protected with tissue guards throughout. Light toning, clean, tight copy.

Record # 6670085


Price: $38.00 

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold WarBeisner, Robert L.

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War


Beisner, Robert L.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st , 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 800 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "...Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century."

Record # 30208


Price: $25.00 

 

Dearest Friend - A Life of Abigail Adams


Withey, Lynne

NY, Free Press , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Fair, Book very good, dust jacket fair with spine fade, rear panel badly torn, repaired with tape. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 300483


Price: $15.00 

 

Dearest Friend - A Life of Abigail Adams


Withey, Lynne

New York, Touchstone , Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. Originally published in 1981, this is a near fine hard copy reprint.

Record # 305224


Price: $6.00 

Defeat of John Hawkins, TheUnwin, Rayner

Defeat of John Hawkins, The


Unwin, Rayner

Hardcover. London, Readers Union/ Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Dark brown fabric covered, boards in great shape. Dust jacket slightly yellowed and frayed at top of spine, but no rips or tears. "A Biography of His Third Slaving Voyage"

Record # 30491


Price: $13.00 

 

DeGaulle - The Ruler 1945-1970


Lacouture, Jean

Paperback. New York, Norton, rep wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Paperback. Black & white photography.

Record # 208035


Price: $12.00 

 

Descendants of Oliver Lathrop of Weybridge, Vermont, The


Birchard, Adrian and Gladys

Paperback. Middelbury, VT, Gladys Birchard, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 106 pages. paper wrappers with staple binding. Light foxing on covers, black & white photographs. Clean interior.

Record # 408558


Price: $44.00 

 

Devil Soldier, The - The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the Most Honored and Controversial American in Chinese History


Carr, Caleb

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 366 pages.

Record # 58107


Price: $50.00 

Devil's Adjutant, The: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader: The Story of One of Himmler's Former Adjutants and the Battle Which Brought This Senior CommandReynolds, Michael Frank

Devil's Adjutant, The: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader: The Story of One of Himmler's Former Adjutants and the Battle Which Brought This Senior Command


Reynolds, Michael Frank

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Perseus Books, reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. Extensive appendix of b&w maps. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some slight foxing to dust jacket and edges, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468833


Price: $15.00 

devil's secret name, TheMorris, Jim

devil's secret name, The


Morris, Jim

Hardcover. Canton, Ohio, Daring Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469499


Price: $13.00 

Diaries of Sofia TolstoyNo Author

Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy


No Author

Hardcover. rep., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 609 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight bumps to all corners, light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457859


Price: $38.00 

 

Diary of Ebenezer Parkman 1703-1782: First Part- Three Volumes in One 1719-1755


Walett (Ed.), Francis G.

Hardcover. Worcester MA, American Antquarian Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850026


Price: $60.00 

 

Diary of the Century, A - Tales from America's Greatest Diarist


Ellis, Edward Robb

Hardcover. NY, Kodansha Inter., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 578 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, bright copy.

Record # 55727


Price: $6.00 

Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, A (Two Volumes)Conrad, Glenn

Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, A (Two Volumes)


Conrad, Glenn

Hardcover. New Orleans LA, Louisiana Historical Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1132 pages in two volume set. Bound in red leatherette, title gilt on spine. Some edge wear, corners slightly bumped. Interior very clean.

Record # 809053


Price: $100.00 

Diddy Waw Diddy - Passage of an American SonPorterfield, Billy

Diddy Waw Diddy - Passage of an American Son


Porterfield, Billy

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 417 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white photos. Memoir of a Texas journalist growing up in the Texas oilfield in the 30's.

Record # 51506


Price: $18.00 

 

Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video


Grant, Barry Keith (Editor)

Softcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 450000


Price: $25.00 

 

Donovan - America's Master Spy


Dunlop, Richard

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Company, 2nd Printing, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket with toning to edges. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750222


Price: $15.00 

 

Dostoevski's Image in Russia Today


Seduro, Vladimir

Hardcover. Belmont, MA, Nordland Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise excellent and wrapped in protective plastic cover. In great condition. Including Appendix.

Record # 32038


Price: $31.00 

 

Downhill All The Way - An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939


Woolf, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Record # 609355


Price: $12.00 

 

Dr. Richard Bright, 1789-1858


Bright, Pamela

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head Ltd, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. light edgewear,tanning on dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453988


Price: $15.00 

 

Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China


Seagrave, Sterling

Hardcover. New York, 1st, May 5, 1992, Book: Very Good, 601 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to edges and covers of pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 451710


Price: $18.00 


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