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

 

Berlin Rising: Biography of a City


Read, Anthony, David Fisher

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title stamped on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. History of the German city, Berlin.

Record # 31650


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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
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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.
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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 

Blair Years, The: The Alastair Campbell DiariesCampbell, Alastair
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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