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Nicholas and Alexander: The Family Albums


of Greece, Prince Michael/Andrei Maylunas & Francesco Venturi

Hardcover. London, UK, Tauris Parke Books, First Thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover, coffee-table sized. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Full pages black & white photographs throughout. Prince Michael of Greece, the author and biographer, is the grandson of Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, thereby given access to the family photograph albums featured throughout. Clean, bright, unmarked pages. Dust jacket with light tone to top edge, and light wear. A very nice copy.

Record # 751459


Price: $50.00 

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth LawrenceWilson, Emily Herring
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No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence


Wilson, Emily Herring

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "...one hundred years after her birth, No One Gardens Alone tells for the first time the story of this fascinating woman. Like classic biographies of literary figures such as Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, this book reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and garden writers of the twentieth century."

Record # 30425


Price: $23.00 

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New YorkerLane, Anthony
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Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker


Lane, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 784 pages. Hardcover with lightly faded dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor bump on covers bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468499


Price: $23.00 

One Man's America - A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His CountryGrunwald, Henry
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One Man's America - A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country


Grunwald, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 658 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Light wear to dj, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 59331


Price: $16.00 

 

Open Polar Sea, The - A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States"


Hayes, Isaac I.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, Reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & spine. Gilt and black printed decorations & titles. Toning throughout. 16 illustrations in b/w. Frontis illustration, A Bear Hunt, by Darley. Decorative chapter tail-pieces drawn on wood from photos, sketches & engraved by J. A. Bogert. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tear to p. 327. Clean copy. Distinctive covers & spine.

Record # 750402


Price: $38.00 

 

Passion for Anonymity, A - The Autobiography of Anonymity: The Second Half


Brownlow, Louis

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 500 pages, b&w photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with chipping and edgewear to dust jacket. Chunk missing from rear top dust jacket.

Record # 512137


Price: $18.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

Peter Jennings: A Reporter's LifeDarnton, Kate (Editor)
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Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life


Darnton, Kate (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Ghost of pice-sticker to front cover of dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450286


Price: $15.00 

 

Players, The


Maule, Tex

Hardcover. NY, New American Library, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover. Color, black & white photos of pro-football by Arthur Rickerby of Life Magazine. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Some water damage to several pages. Fading to spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 62914


Price: $16.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Pultizer


Swanberg, W.A.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 462 pages. Dj with light edgewear

Record # 58124


Price: $20.00 

REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING, The : A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARDING DAVISLubow, Arthur
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REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING, The : A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS


Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Scribner, 1st, 1992-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461780


Price: $13.00 

 

REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING: A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS


Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Scribner, 1st, 1992-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460772


Price: $13.00 

 

Rescue Squad - A Fireman's Fascinating Account of His Dangerous Job


Ferazani, Larry

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendix of vintage emergency response procedures. Small tear to top corner of dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight, copy.

Record # 68007


Price: $45.00 

 

Right Time, The


Golden, Harry

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 450 pages. SIGNED BY HARRY GOLDEN ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609664


Price: $15.00 

Scribe: my life in sportsRyan, Bob
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Scribe: my life in sports


Ryan, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468853


Price: $13.00 

 

Secret Life of Walter Winchell, The


Stuart, Lyle

Hardcover. New York , Boar's Head Books, 1st, 1953, 253 pages. Black cloth. Dust jacket shows wear and creasing to edges, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 810090


Price: $12.00 

Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples TempleLayton, Deborah
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Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple


Layton, Deborah

Hardcover. NY, Anchor/Doubleday, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Black & white photos throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 58135


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn


Moorehead, Caroline

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped with light wear to edges of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457104


Price: $15.00 

Six Presidents, Too Many Wars - The 40 Year Memoirs of a Washington CorrespondentLawrence, Bill
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Six Presidents, Too Many Wars - The 40 Year Memoirs of a Washington Correspondent


Lawrence, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket has edgewear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 205875


Price: $12.00 

 

Stanley Morison


Barker, Nicolas

Hardcover. Cambrdige, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st edition, 1972, 566 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tears (taped) at the edges from agewear (see image). Top edge dyed. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. Barker has written an account of Morrison's life at once balanced and humane with a rare degree of insight into his complex and fascinating character.

Record # 32330


Price: $23.00 

 

Starting Out in the Thirties


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.

Record # 31774


Price: $15.00 

 

Stranger at the Party


Lawrenson, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.

Record # 32327


Price: $23.00 

 

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 


  
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