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Franklin


Hawke, David Freeman

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456761


Price: $12.00 

 

Frederic Remington and the West - With the Eye of the Mind


Vorpahl, Ben Merchant

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with black printed titles to spine. Dust jacket with faint toning & illustration in bw. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751136


Price: $23.00 

 

Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline


Kahrl, Andrew W.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 364 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of activist Ned Coll and the geography of racism along the Connecticut coast. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952490


Price: $19.00 

 

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky


Spender, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 417 pages, b&w photographs. Like new in a mylar protected dust jacket.

Record # 512717


Price: $13.00 

From Behind the Veil: A STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN NARRATIVEStepto, Robert B.
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From Behind the Veil: A STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN NARRATIVE


Stepto, Robert B.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 2nd , 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Softcover. Some rubbing to corners. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 468292


Price: $10.00 

 

From Dublin to Chicago - American Impressions


Birmingham, G.A.

Hardcover. NY, G.H. Doran, rep., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. A famous Irish humorist's observations in the American mid-west. Excellent condition. Donation stamp on front paste-down.

Record # 58879


Price: $20.00 

 

From the Green Mountains to the Prairies


Barker, Frances Long

Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.

Record # 32281


Price: $25.00 

 

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him


Henry, David

Hardcover. US, Algonquin Books, 3rd printing, 2013-11-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464667


Price: $13.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping to front cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605494


Price: $29.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping, in protective mylar cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605495


Price: $29.00 

 

Gallant Hood, The


Dyer, John P.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A biography of Confederate General John B. Hood. 383 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Rear hinge cracked, front hinge weak. Light wear, soil to red cloth covers.

Record # 601354


Price: $24.00 

 

Gallery of Dudes, A


Sprague, Marshall

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 296 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Black & white photography and illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped. Edgewear, rubbing, soiling, chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Record # 500857


Price: $30.00 

Gamaliel Painter: Biography of a Town FatherStorrs, W. Lee
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Gamaliel Painter: Biography of a Town Father


Storrs, W. Lee

Hardcover. Forest Dale, Vt., Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469620


Price: $13.00 

 

Gen

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket very good, unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age. Brown cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges, a touch of tanning and the beginnings of foxing to edges. Pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. "Wineapple brings to life the intense, compelling woman who, sporting a monacle, came to be synonymous with our bittersweet, romantic view of Americans in Paris between the wars."

Record # 31768


Price: $15.00 

 

General Thomas


Coppee, Henry

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library with stamping and previous owners stamp on end papers. Noted as "Large Paper Edition" - Limited to 1,000 copies - this being hand numbered #166. 6 black & white illustrations. Rubbing and stains to spine label, light rubbing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612387


Price: $38.00 

 

Genius in Disguise:: Harold Ross of The New Yorker


Kunkel, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 7, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else very good.

Record # 452250


Price: $10.00 

 

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allan Dulles


Grose, Peter

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 641 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. First full biography of American intelligence pioneer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light soiling/age toning to exterior text block edges. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 4450050


Price: $25.00 

 

Genuine Reality: A Life of William James


Simon, Linda

Softcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st Thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations. Wrapper very good. A touch of tanning and a little bit of soil to edges. Pages clean. Binding tight. "A tender, ironic portrait of the philosopher William James, who came at the world with energetic diffidence and forged an inspiring philosophy of pluralistic, psychological nuance."

Record # 31759


Price: $15.00 

George Bellows : American ArtistOates, Joyce Carol
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George Bellows : American Artist


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. New Jersey , The Ecco Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Cream cloth spine, with gilt titles, over mustard yellow boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor shelf-wear to jacket, else like new.

Record # 401438


Price: $18.00 

 

George Bellows: American Artist


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. US, Ecco Pr, 1st, 1995-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages, illustrations in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464128


Price: $15.00 

 

George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs


Myers, Jane, Linda Ayres

Hardcover. Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. 187 b&w illustrations. List of print exhibitions, bibliography, index. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket in very nice condition. Bright, clean copy with tight binding.

Record # 605077


Price: $32.00 

 

George Catlin and the Old Frontier


McCracken, Harold

NY, Dial, 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A Biography and Picture Gallery of the Dean of Indian Painters. 36 color plates, 130 in black & white. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 65349


Price: $50.00 

George F. Kennan: An American Life (SIGNED) Gaddis, John Lewis
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George F. Kennan: An American Life (SIGNED)


Gaddis, John Lewis

New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 800 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket edges. Pencil marking across textblock edge. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471288


Price: $75.00 

 

George Harvey - A Passionate Patriot


Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614202


Price: $31.00