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Tales of the Observer


Edwards, Richard H.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Jordan Marsh Company, First US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & faded gilt titles to spine. Binding worn with some soiling and sunning to edges. Red ribbon marker with tears to edges. Profuse illustrations in black & white, light toning to edges, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751437


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 Times of My Life and My Life with the Times


Frankel, Max

Hardcover. Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 546 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear, scuffing to dust jacket.

Record # 456857


Price: $15.00 

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Uncivil Liberties


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 63979


Price: $15.00 

 

Vanished Imam, The - Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon


Ajami, Fouad

Hardcover. London, I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., First Edition, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Frontis illustration, Musa al Sadr, in black & white. Stamped top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751225


Price: $31.00 

Vanity Fair Book, The: The Highspots in Pictures and Text from America's Smartest MagazineFair, Vanity
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Vanity Fair Book, The: The Highspots in Pictures and Text from America's Smartest Magazine


Fair, Vanity

Hardcover. New York, John Day Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 174 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in brodart cover, some chipping and fading underneath. Discoloration along spine, but otherwise good and tight copy.

Record # 33521


Price: $106.00 

Villard: The Life and Times of an American TitanBorchgrave, Alexandra Villard de
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Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan


Borchgrave, Alexandra Villard de

Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470165


Price: $19.00 

 

Voice in the West: Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper


Ashton, Wendell J.

Hardcover. New York , Duell Sloane & Pearce, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 424 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of The Desert News Press in Salt Lake City. Dust jacket very edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 406087


Price: $15.00 

 

Where Has Last July Gone? Memoirs


Middleton, Drew

Hardcover. New York, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of a foreign correspondent. Light fading to dust jacket top inner edge. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, light rubbing to board top and bottom. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952257


Price: $19.00 

 

Who Killed Daniel Pearl?


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Hardcover. Hoboken, Melville House Publishing, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750225


Price: $15.00 

 

William Allen White - The Man From Emporia


Rich, Everett

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, Unk., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 58149


Price: $18.00 

 

Winchell - Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity


Gabler, Neal

NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 681 pages, black & white photos.

Record # 68051


Price: $20.00 

 

Witness to a Century / Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious and the Three SOBS


Seldes, George

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108428


Price: $18.00 

Writing HomeBennett, Alan
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Writing Home


Bennett, Alan

Softcover. New York, Picador, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750143


Price: $11.00 

Agitations - Letters to the Press, 1875-1950 by: Shaw, Bernard

Agitations - Letters to the Press, 1875-1950 by: Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, edited by Dan H. Laurence and James Rambeau, 375 pgs. Dust jacket with fade to spine, top edge of front panel. Record # 105893
Price: $12.00 

Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life by: Jones, James H.

Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life by: Jones, James H.

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1997-10-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 937 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464126
Price: $12.00 

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley by: Beard, Patricia

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley by: Beard, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with gilt lettering, black and white photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block. Record # 468441
Price: $12.00 

Cissy Patterson: The Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Times-Herald by: Hoge, Alice Albright
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Cissy Patterson: The Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Times-Herald by: Hoge, Alice Albright

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 237 pages. B&w photos throughout. Pink top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, scratches. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 501958
Price: $12.00 

Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With Boss Steinbrenner by: Madden, Bill

Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With Boss Steinbrenner by: Madden, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468446
Price: $12.00 

Fabulous Freddie & Saints and Sinners by: Green, Paul D.

Fabulous Freddie & Saints and Sinners by: Green, Paul D.

Hardcover. New York, Funk, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 289 pages. Black & white photography. Gift inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket has edgewear, spine sunned. This account of Freddie Darius Benham is part biography of the man but mostly a record of the organizations he has founded, the most famous of which is the Circus Saints and Sinners where important people were recruited and raucously initiated. Record # 207891
Price: $12.00 

Hotel, The: A Week in the Life of the Plaza by: Kleinfield, Sonny

Hotel, The: A Week in the Life of the Plaza by: Kleinfield, Sonny

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 334 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing on top edge, corners bumped and frayed. dust jacket shows edgewear and has small rips to top spine. Water stain on rear dust jacket. Record # 470297
Price: $12.00 

Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird by: Barcott, Bruce

Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird by: Barcott, Bruce

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 313 pages, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight. Record # 457308
Price: $12.00 

Luck Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime  by: Powell , Hickman

Luck Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime by: Powell , Hickman

Hardcover. New York, Barricade Books , reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black covers with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466913
Price: $12.00 


  
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