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Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward


Young, Jeffrey S.

Hardcover. US, Scott Foresman Trade, 1st, 1987-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 440 pages, b&w photos. Edgewear, rubbing and light creasing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464508


Price: $50.00 

 

Stranger and Traveler


Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Story of Dorothea Dix, American reformer. Previous owner's signature.

Record # 2682


Price: $18.00 

 

Street Player: My Chicago Story


Seraphine, Danny

Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2010-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, photos in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464743


Price: $50.00 

 

Strenuous Life, The: The "Oyster Bay" Roosevelts in Business and Finance


Cobb, Wm. T.

Hardcover. New York, William E. Rudge's Sons, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 99 pages, b&w photographs, genealogical chart on front end paper. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light rubbing to corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851069


Price: $18.00 

 

Studies in Naval History: Biographies


Laughton, John Knox

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 469 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, tear and fade. Price clipped. Decorative red stained edges. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852557


Price: $18.00 

 

Swanee River and a Biographical Sketch of Stephen Collins Foster, The


Hodges, Jr., Fletcher

Hardcover. Orlando, Robinsons Inc., 2nd pr, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 52 pages, b&w illustrations. Light soiling to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401947


Price: $20.00 

 

Sweet Chaos : The Grateful Dead's American Adventure


Brightman, Carol

Hardcover. 27.50, Clarkson Potter, 1st , 1998-11-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 356 pages. Gilt titles on spine. front hinge cracked. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 465906


Price: $15.00 

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray RobinsonHaygood, Wil
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Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson


Haygood, Wil

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 461 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460425


Price: $23.00 

 

Sydney Laurence, Painter of the North


Woodward, Kesler E.

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Includes foreword by Patricia B. Wolf, Introduction, Short biography of author, 95 full color plates, chronology, catalogue, selected bibliography. In very good condition, painting reproduced on front cover. Some scratching to covers, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806705


Price: $150.00 

 

Sylvia Plath: A Biography


Wagner-Martin, Linda W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, pink quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In this biography, only the second ever published, and the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, the author examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Platt's life, as well as her achievements.

Record # 32191


Price: $25.00 

 

Take the Connoli: Stories from the New World (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Vowell, Sarah

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover. AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKPLATE on front flyleaf. Gray cover boards, red gilt title stamped on spine. Boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning to edges, otherwise very good. Top edge has just a little foxing. Binding tight, clean and bright inside, spine straight. In great shape. A moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene..

Record # 31680


Price: $19.00 

 

Tales from the Margaret Mead taproom


Hoffman, Nicholas Von

Hardcover. Kansas City, Sheed & Ward, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages, advanced review copy with author's photograph and press release laid-in. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 456461


Price: $25.00 

 

Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing


Walters, Anna Lee

Softcover. US, Firebrand Books, 1st , 1992-11-01, Book: Good, 222 pages. Damp stain on bottom edge. Light edgewear to wrappers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466035


Price: $10.00 

 

Texas Cowboy, A: Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1st Thus, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 198 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations by Tom Lea throughout. With Biographical Study & introduction by J. Frank Dobie and drawings by Tom Lea. Has original dust jacket, unclipped, has a touch of age wear. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Bump to back cover board bottom. In great shape for its age. Originally published in 1885 as a paperback, this reissue is Siringo's chronicle of his years as an "itching-footed" boy, cow hand, range detective, and adventurer and is told with enormous gusto and relish.

Record # 32242


Price: $25.00 

 

The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance: A Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp (SIGNED)


Fenn, Forrest

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Fenn Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some scratches and wear on jacket. Otherwise clean and tight copy. Sketches and color plates throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 2230466


Price: $375.00 

The Coldman Cometh: A Family's Adventure in the Alaska BushDurr, Bob
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The Coldman Cometh: A Family's Adventure in the Alaska Bush


Durr, Bob

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Light wear/scratching to dust jacket. Nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 452938


Price: $12.00 

The Man Who Could Grow Hair or Inside AndorraAttwood, William
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The Man Who Could Grow Hair or Inside Andorra


Attwood, William

Hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, protected by brodart sleeve. Wear to bottom edges of cover.

Record # 2230681


Price: $23.00 

The Paris Years of Thomas JeffersonAdams, William Howard
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The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson


Adams, William Howard

Hardcover. New Haven, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, b&w illustrations. Small crease to dust jacket; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450845


Price: $25.00 

 

The Passions of Andrew Jackson


Burstein, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Very light edge wear to dust jacket. Rough-cut pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450847


Price: $15.00 

 

The Territory of Men: A Memoir


Fraser, Joelle

Hardcover. New York, Villard Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800861


Price: $15.00 

 

Theodore Rex


Morris, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 772 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 750226


Price: $19.00 

 

Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Volume 1


Bishop, Joseph Bucklin

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Son's, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 only. 505 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Dark green cover with faded gilt title to spine. Wear to cover. Tissue covered frontispiece. Rough cut front edge and soiling to all three edges. Overall, a clean, nice copy.

Record # 850403


Price: $15.00 

 

Theodore Roosevelt: Private Citizen


Looker, Earle

Hardcover. New York, Fleming H. Revell, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with design, lettering. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 404636


Price: $25.00 

 

Theodore Winthrop


Eliot, Jr., Ellsworth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY AUTHOR. Portrait of Winthrop opposite title page. Darkening to title on spine, with chip missing at very top. Moderate rubbing with small section of abrasion at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611868


Price: $56.00