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Ten Pains of Death, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., First US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Pale red cloth boards with sunfaded spine & top edge, navy printed titles to spine. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf & faint toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751177


Price: $25.00 

 

The Adams Papers - Diary of Charles Francis Adams Volume III September 1829-February 1831


Friedlaender, Marc and L.H. Butterfield (ed)

Cambridge, Belknap Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Black & white sketches. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 203915


Price: $30.00 

 

The Adams Papers - Diary of Charles Francis Adams Volume IV March 1831-December 1832


Friedlaender, Marc and L.H. Butterfield (ed)

Cambridge, Belknap Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 502 pages. Black & white sketches. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 203916


Price: $30.00 

 

The Avengers - A Jewish War Story


Cohen, Rich

New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 205112


Price: $15.00 

The Empress of Farewells : The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico.Prince Michael of Greece
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The Empress of Farewells : The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico.


Prince Michael of Greece

Hardcover. New York , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408169


Price: $13.00 

 

The Great Singers - From the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time


Pleasants, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light soiling to dust jacket. otherwise very nice condition. previous owner's signature on front paste-down. previous price sticker on upper rt corner of front cover. many black & white photos and reproductions of paintings. hardbound, 382 pgs.

Record # 108726


Price: $28.00 

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne BoleynWeir, Alison
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn


Weir, Alison

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230051


Price: $15.00 

 

The Making of a Publisher - A Life in the 20th Century Book Revolution


Weybright, Victor

New York, Reynal, rep, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by glassine wrapper.

Record # 206850


Price: $15.00 

 

The Marble House in Second Street : Biography of a Town House and its Occupants, 1825-2000.


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Softcover. New York, Rensselaer County Historical Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Paperback. With essays by: Douglas G. Boucher, Stacy Pomeroy Draper and Walter Richard Wheeler. Black and white photographs and diagrams of various buildings and styles of architecture.

Record # 500110


Price: $30.00 

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 Private Life of Chairman Mao: the Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician


Li, Zhisui

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 682 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark. Slight wear to jacket edges. Small gouge out of upper back cover edge. Otherwise tight and clean copy. "From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty~two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily~and increasingly intimate~contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was excellent; thus he and the doctor had time to discuss political and personal matters. Dr. Li recorded many of these conversations in his diaries as well as in his memory. In The Private Life of Chairman Mao he vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience."

Record # 2230472


Price: $25.00 

 

The Proudest Day: Macdonough on Lake Champlain


Muller, Charles G.

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages. B&w frontispiece. Foxing to edges. Spotting and light edgewear to cover. Light chipping, wear, rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. Else a tight copy.

Record # 852127


Price: $12.00 

The Trial of Madame CaillauxBerenson, Edward
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The Trial of Madame Caillaux


Berenson, Edward

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Paperback, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with some minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471438


Price: $15.00 

Thelonious Monk Reader, Thevan der Bliek, Rob (ed.)
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Thelonious Monk Reader, The


van der Bliek, Rob (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to spine, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230934


Price: $19.00 

 

Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett - 1897 - 1965


Milsom, S. F. C.

Softcover. London, UK, Oxford University Press, First Edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Grey pamphlet from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume LI. Frontis illustration, Theodore Frank Plucknett, in black & white. 17 pages numbered p. 506 - 519. Some age toning and light wear to wraps. Staples to spine enclosed within wraps. Else clean.

Record # 751542


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 

 

Things That Have Interested Me (Second Series)


Bennett, Arnold

Hardcover. New York, NY, George H. Doran Company, First Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Hardcover. Red boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Light soiling to boards. Light toning throughout. Deckled side edge. Clean, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751571


Price: $19.00 

 

Thomas - A novel of the Life, passion, and miracles of Becket


Mydans, Shelley

Garden City, Doubleday , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Soil and rubbing to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Small stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 200737


Price: $15.00 

 

Thomas Archer: Architect of the English Baroque.


Whiffen, Marcus

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Red cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine, and no visible wear. Dust jacket has some fading to corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations, photographs and blueprints throughout.

Record # 852690


Price: $12.00 

 

Thomas Bayley Lawson: Portrait Painter of Newburyport and Lowell


Coburn, Frederic W.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Newcomb & Gauss Co., reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprinted from The Essex Institute Historical Collection, Vol 83, October 1947. 59 pages with 10 b&w plates.

Record # 805361


Price: $19.00 

 

Thomas Davenport - Pioneer Inventor


Davenport, D.D., Walter Rice

Hardcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages plus index. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Ex-library copy with standard marking. Covers slightly bowed.

Record # 609137


Price: $40.00