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Menders of the Maimed


Keith, Arthur

Hardcover. Huntington, NY, Robert E. Krieger publishing Co., Reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Red cloth, silver titles and decorations, no dust jacket issued. Very minor rubbing along edges, else like new.

Record # 809656


Price: $25.00 

 

Mentor Graham - The Man Who Taught Lincoln


Duncan, Kunigunde & D.F. Nickols

Chicago, IL, Univ. of Chicago, 1st , 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 274 pages. Some minor underlining, check marks in margin.

Record # 66486


Price: $25.00 

Merchant of DreamsHigham, Charles

Merchant of Dreams


Higham, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Adult, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468115


Price: $13.00 

 

Meriwether Lewis: A Biography


Dillon, Richard

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann, Inc., First Edition, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Deckled side edge, maps to endpapers, black & white illustrations throughout. Light toning throughout. Dust jacket has light edge wear & is protected with a plastic cover. Gilt titles to spine. Clean copy.

Record # 6670162


Price: $15.00 

MERLIN: PRIEST OF NATUREMarkale, Jean

MERLIN: PRIEST OF NATURE


Markale, Jean

Softcover. Rochester, Vt., Inner Traditions International, reprint, 1995, Rochester, Vt., Inner Traditions International, reprint, 1995, 230 pages. Softcover. Illustrated chapter headings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. . 230 pages. Record # 467439

Record # 467439


Price: $10.00 

 

Mezzotints in Modern Music


Huneker, James

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Rough-cut pages. Top edge gilt. Light edge wear, soiling to covers; spine faded. Binding weak in places. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850807


Price: $20.00 

 

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - His Life, His Legend, His Works


Hinks, Roger

Hardcover. New York, The Beechhurst Press, 1st Edition, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to preliminary pages, endpapers & top edge, toning throughout. Light foxing to couple plates. Brick cloth boards with light sunfade to spine spine. Frayed top edge corner of spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750262


Price: $19.00 

 

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara


Scigliano, Eric

Hardcover. US, Free Press, 1st, 2005-08-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463541


Price: $11.00 

 

Mighty Hard Road: The Woody Guthrie Story, A


Yurchenco, Henrietta

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 159 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Author assisted by Marjorie Guthrie. Introduction by Arlo Guthrie. Some sun-fading and creasing along dust jacket spine. Small stain on rear dust jacket cover. A little edge wear on rear dust jacket flap. Front dust jacket cover creased, with closed and open tears. Tiny tear on bottom of front flap. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856222


Price: $25.00 

Military and Civil Life of General Ulysses S. GrantBoyd, A.M., James P.

Military and Civil Life of General Ulysses S. Grant


Boyd, A.M., James P.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, P.W. Ziegler & Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 731 pages. Green warped covers with gilt and stamped decoration. Tissue guarded frontispiece, black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Binding cracked.

Record # 408344


Price: $63.00 

 

Milton Friedman: A Biography


Ebenstein, Lanny

Hardcover. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Blue cover boards, some moisture damage to top right on front cover board and top left on back cover board, doesn't affect pages or edges. Binding tight. In great shape.

Record # 31571


Price: $19.00 

 

Minor Lives - A Collection of Biographies by John Nichols


Hart (Editor), Edward L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 367 pages. Dust jacket worn, with darkening to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610115


Price: $13.00 

 

Mirrors of Washington, The


Anonymous

Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Profiles (not always flattering) of 14 U.S. politicians. 14 caricatures by Cesare and 14 black & white photo portraits. 256 pages. Light fraying to top of spine.

Record # 61237


Price: $12.00 

Missing Reel, TheRawlence, Christopher

Missing Reel, The


Rawlence, Christopher

Hardcover . London, Collins, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with gold gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469342


Price: $15.00 

 

Mission to Shanghai: The Life of Medical Service of Dr. Josiah C. McCracken


Fulcher, Helen McCracken

Hardcover. New London NH, Tiffin Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Insight into China, its history, and the heart, mind and family life of devoted Christian physician. Mild rubbing to boards. Faint soiling to rear panel. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952572


Price: $29.00 

 

Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945: A Critical Biography 1945-1969


Elton, G.R.

Hardcover. London UK, Methuen & Co., 1st UK, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 239 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Modern history of Britain, post WWII. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light chipping to top and bottom dust jacket edges. Fading to rear dust jacket panel. Light pencil underlining throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Age toning to top text block edge. A tight copy.

Record # 952500


Price: $19.00 

 

Money Lords, The


Josephson, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, First Edition, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with light marginal wear & protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750937


Price: $19.00 

 

Moon Man, The: A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay


Webster, E.M.

Hardcover. Berkely, Univeristy of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading to dj spine (see image), very good condition. Binding tight, spine straight. Red endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape.

Record # 32202


Price: $23.00 

 

More Generals in Gray


Allardice, Bruce S.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A Companion Volume to Generals in Gray. This book is about the Confederacy's "other" generals, the men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment, and who have been virtually lost to history as a consequence.

Record # 31799


Price: $15.00 

Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five GenerationsArmstrong, Diane

Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations


Armstrong, Diane

Hardcover. New York , St Martins Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607955


Price: $10.00 

Most Famous Man in America, The - The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherApplegate, Debby

Most Famous Man in America, The - The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher


Applegate, Debby

Softcover. New York, Three Leaves Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 527 pages. Softcover with light edgewear. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750135


Price: $10.00 

Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream CultureCharyn, Jerome

Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Culture


Charyn, Jerome

Hardcover . New York, Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469343


Price: $13.00 

Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791Braunbehrens, Volkmar

Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791


Braunbehrens, Volkmar

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 481 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt lettering on spine. Discoloration to top edge. of dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.. 481 pages. Record # 467519

Record # 467519


Price: $13.00 

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His MusicGlover, Jane

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music


Glover, Jane

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2006-01-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462015


Price: $10.00 

 

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel


Keller, Julia

Hardcover. New York, Viking USA, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor foxing to top edge of text block. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471081


Price: $15.00 

 

Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man - Mathew B. Brady


Meredith, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Front interior hinge tender. Foxing to cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609506


Price: $25.00 

Murder of a Medici PrincessMurphy, Caroline P.

Murder of a Medici Princess


Murphy, Caroline P.

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, April 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages, b&w and color illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454648


Price: $12.00 

Murrow: His Life and TimesSperber, A. M.

Murrow: His Life and Times


Sperber, A. M.

Hardcover. New York, June 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 795 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451544


Price: $12.00 

My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last CenturyLamont, Thomas W.

My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century


Lamont, Thomas W.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages, blue cloth covers with spine and cover labels. Light wear soil to covers otherwise clean.

Record # 411793


Price: $15.00 

 

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt


Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 2nd Printing, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608528


Price: $15.00 

 

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt


Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with gilt lettering, 365 pages B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 412216


Price: $29.00 

My German Question - Growing Up in Nazi BerlinGay, Peter

My German Question - Growing Up in Nazi Berlin


Gay, Peter

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Illustrated with 32 pages of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612695


Price: $10.00 

 

My Indian Boyhood


Bear, Luther Standing

Softcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else in excellent condition.

Record # 453880


Price: $8.00 

 

My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter


Beer, Anna

Hardcover. US, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2003-08-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462379


Price: $10.00 

 

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard


Cooper, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 5th pr., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages, 16 b&w plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, front cover label with photo illustration. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise very good. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 402347


Price: $18.00 

My Life in the Old Army: The Reminiscences of Abner Doubleday: from the collections of the New-York Historical SocietyDoubleday, Abner, Illust. by: Wil Martin

My Life in the Old Army: The Reminiscences of Abner Doubleday: from the collections of the New-York Historical Society


Doubleday, Abner, Illust. by: Wil Martin

hardcover. Ft. Worth, TX, Texas Christian University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468812


Price: $19.00 

 

My Life with John Steinbeck: The Story of John Steinbeck's Forgotten Wife


Brown, Douglas

Softcover. UK, Lawson Publishing, 1st paperback, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape, looks barely read. Based on interviews between Gwyn Steinbeck and Douglas Brown. A look at the mysterious author, John Steinbeck.

Record # 31886


Price: $23.00 

 

My Olympic Years


Killanin, Michael Morris

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 471863


Price: $15.00 

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the DepressionStimpson, Eddie

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression


Stimpson, Eddie

Softcover. Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 167 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 804368


Price: $12.00 

Mysteries of Time and Spirit - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald WandreiLovecraft, H. P./S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Editors)

Mysteries of Time and Spirit - The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei


Lovecraft, H. P./S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Editors)

Hardcover. San Francisco, Night Shade Books, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 439 pages. Hardcover with facsimile copy of handwritten letters to endpapers. Black cloth covered boards with iridescent titles to cover & spine. Frontis illustration of H. P. Lovecraft & Donald Wandrei in black & white. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751009


Price: $80.00 

 

Nancy Reagan / The Unauthorized Biography


Kelley, Kitty

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 4th print, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108433


Price: $18.00 

 

Napoleon III and Eugenie


Ridley, Jasper

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 768 pages. General wear to dust jacket. Maps and black & white photographs throughout. In six parts. Overall tight and clean copy.

Record # 809199


Price: $15.00 

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of The Years of Supremacy 1800-1814Jones, Proctor Patterson

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of The Years of Supremacy 1800-1814


Jones, Proctor Patterson

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Inc, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. A Napoleonic museum within covers, with pages filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings, maps, and reproductions covering Napoleon's career as soldier, lover and head of state. Red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. White pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and a minor tear to bottom edge of spine, else a beautiful copy in excellent shape.

Record # 606479


Price: $65.00 

 

Narrative Of The Narvaez Expedition


Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Top edge gilt. Gilt decorations on front cover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 410254


Price: $19.00 

 

National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans from Original Paintings by Alonzo Chappel with Biographies by E.A. Duyckinck (2 Vols.)


Duyckinck, E.A. and Alonzo Chappel

Hardcover. New York , Johnson, Fry & Co., 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in half leather, 488, 470 pages. Features 119 full-page b&w engravings of famous Americans. Leather shows some edgewear, Vol. 2 with water stain to bottom at gutter, effecting about first 50 pages, stain not touching image, but some of name and description underneath.

Record # 804910


Price: $170.00 

 

Nature of Sacrifice, The: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64


Bundy, Carol

Hardcover. New York, NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 548 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations, very clean & unmarked inside. Dime sized, faint mark to top edge. Dust jacket with only marginal wear to edges. A very nice, crisp copy.

Record # 751465


Price: $19.00 

 

Nature's Engraver - A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages. Softcover. Black & white engraver's illustrations throughout. Clean, crisp & unmarked copy.

Record # 750924


Price: $19.00 

 

Ned Wayburn And The Dance Routine - From Vaudeville To The Ziegfeld Follies


Stratyner, Barbara

Paperback. Madison, Wisconsin, Society of Dance History Scholars, 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new. Black & white photos and illustrations. 125 pages.

Record # 202465


Price: $15.00 

 

Neither Angel Nor Beast: The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal


Coleman, Francis X. J.

Hardcover. New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd, 1st, January 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. Light sunning and edgewear to dust jacket spine, yellow sticker-scar to front flap. Faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458412


Price: $15.00 

 

Nell Gwyn - Mistress to a King


Beauclerk, Charles

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, First US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of full page, full color illustrations. Mustard cloth covered boards with navy titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. A nice copy, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751277


Price: $15.00 

 

Nelson's Wife - The First Biography of Frances Herbert, Viscountess Nelson


Keate, E. M.

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Black & white illustrations. Upper right corner of cloth cover and interior pages bumped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Blue cloth covers and spine sun faded with minor rubbing. 1/4" tear to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608800


Price: $50.00 

Nelson, A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797Sugden, John

Nelson, A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797


Sugden, John

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 943 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Only slight wear to jacket. Very light foxing to top of text block. Creasing from mark along page 89-90, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230837


Price: $23.00 

 

New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801


Mitchell (Ed.), Stewart

hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Mitchell 281 pages. Dust jacket flaps pasted to rear end papers.

Record # 64498


Price: $10.00 

 

New, Original and Authentic Record of the Life and Deeds of General U. S. Grant, Containing a Full History of his Early Life; His Record as a Student at the West Point Military Academy; His Gallantry in the Mexican War; His Honorable Career

Hardcover. Fond Du Lac, G. L. Benjamin, Reprint, 1885, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 1038 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on preliminary page. Black & white illustrations. Covers quite worn, rear hinge tender. Good reference copy. Sold 'As-Is'.

Record # 613085


Price: $38.00 

Newton and the counterfeiter: the unknown detective career of the world's greatest scientistLevenson, Thomas

Newton and the counterfeiter: the unknown detective career of the world's greatest scientist


Levenson, Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468976


Price: $10.00 

 

Niccolo's Smile - A Biography of Machiavelli


Viroli, Maurizio

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket illustration by Santi di Tito, Portrait of Machiavelli, Florence, Italy. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750390


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia


Hyland, Angus (editor)

hardcover. London, Booth-Clibborn Editions, reprinted, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color/black and white pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469466


Price: $31.00 

 

Nicholas I - Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias


Lincoln, W. Bruce

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press/Midland, 2nd, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages. Softcover. Some light underlining in pen. Cover shows standard wear.

Record # 610690


Price: $13.00 

Nicholas II: Last of the TsarsFerro, Marc

Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars


Ferro, Marc

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, b&w photos. Light wear,rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453297


Price: $12.00 

Nicholas II: Last of the TsarsFerro, Marc

Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars


Ferro, Marc

Softcover. Oxford University Press, USA, 1st Am, January 15, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453358


Price: $12.00 

Nicholas II: The Interrupted TransitionD'Encausse, Helene Carrere

Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition


D'Encausse, Helene Carrere

Hardcover. New York, Holmes & Meier Pub, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459493


Price: $15.00 

 

Nicolas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias


Lincoln, W. Bruce

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages, paperback. Important and scholarly contribution to Russian history. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952113


Price: $13.00 

 

Nikolai Strakhov: philosopher, man of letters, social critic


Gersetin, Linda

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Yellow cloth boards. Foxing to top edge. Pictorial dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855687


Price: $15.00 

 

No Turning Back - A Hopi Indian Woman's Struggle To Live in Two Worlds


Qoyawayma, Polingaysi

Softcover. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, As told to Vada F. Carlson. Black & white illust. 180 pages. Heavy sunning to wrappers otherwise VG.

Record # 65359


Price: $15.00 

 

Nobility of Failure, The : Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan


Morris, Ivan

Softcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3rd printing, 1988-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462543


Price: $25.00 

Noble and Glorious Cause, A: The Life, Times and Civil War Service of Captain Elijah W. GibbonsLa Lancette, Thomas E.

Noble and Glorious Cause, A: The Life, Times and Civil War Service of Captain Elijah W. Gibbons


La Lancette, Thomas E.

Softcover. Middleton, CT, Godfrey Memorial Library, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean.

Record # 470493


Price: $25.00 

 

North American Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham, The


Walker, John

Hardcover. US, University Alabama Press, 1987-11-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 463741


Price: $10.00 

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights MovementR., James (James Richard) Ralph

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement


R., James (James Richard) Ralph

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear and fraying to dj, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 471888


Price: $23.00 

 

Not without Struggle: The Story of William E. Hoy and the Beginnings of Tohoku Gakuin


Mensendiek, C. William

Hardcover. Sendai, Japan, Tohoku Gakuin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white photos and one color photo. A couple of closed tears on front dust jacket cover and minor edge wear on dust jacket covers, in general. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459473


Price: $63.00 

 

Notorious Dr. Bahrdt, The


Flygt, Sten Gunnar

Hardcover. Nashville, Vanderbilt, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 428 pages. Wear, rubbing and light soil to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges. Nice reading copy.

Record # 857050


Price: $19.00 

 

Novelist of Vermont, The - A Biographical and Critical Study of Daniel Pierce Thompson


Flitcroft, John E.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages hardcover. Green cloth covers. Gilt decoration on the spine. Gilt top edge. Illustrate frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857205


Price: $19.00 

 

O'Keefe - The Life of an American Legend


Hogrefe, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, Bantam Books, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with white titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with light wear to edges, faint tone to edges & price clipped. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751315


Price: $19.00 

 

Obregon: Estampas de un Caudillo


Barrera, Carlos

Softcover. Mexico, Talleres Graficos Toledo, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages, several photo portraits of the controversial Mexican leader. Spanish text. Softcover, clean, very good with a worn, chipped dust jacket.

Record # 402624


Price: $20.00 

 

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover


Summers, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th printing, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Slate paper covered boards with gold lettering. Dust jacket white with red, blue, and black lettering and author's photograph on back cover. 528 pp.

Record # 401300


Price: $15.00 

 

Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life


Pruitt, Ida

Hardcover. US, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1979-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 129 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and upper edges of flaps. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462903


Price: $38.00 

 

Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time


Cleaves, Freeman

Hardcover. Newtown CT, American Political Biography Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulous biography of the ninth American president. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951912


Price: $31.00 

 

Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit


Rosenblum, Mort

Hardcover. New York, 4th printing, November 29, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457556


Price: $15.00 

On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert BellLyons, Robert

On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell


Lyons, Robert

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471536


Price: $25.00 

 

On Gold Mountain - The 100 Year Odyssey of a Chinese American Family


See, Lisa

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages

Record # 50869


Price: $15.00 

 

One Hundred Notable American Engravers


New York Public Library

Softcover. New York, NY, New York Public Library, Reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 38 pages. Softcover pamphlet. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Staple binding. Wrapper (cover) has some tanning from age and wear about the edges (see image). Pages also Alightly tanned but doesn't affect illustrations (plates), or text. Binding tight. In very good shape for its age, no pages missing or torn.

Record # 32279


Price: $15.00 

 

Only the Nails Remain: Sense from the Balkan Wars


Merrill, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, rep, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 401 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Faded dust jacket on rear and spine.

Record # 2233326


Price: $15.00 

 

Oscar Wilde


Ellmann, Richard

Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd printing, 1988-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Small tears to upper edger of dust jacket flaps, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463018


Price: $13.00 

 

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull


Goldsmith, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages, b & w illustrations, tight, clean copy, like new, dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 800563


Price: $6.00 

 

Otto Ping 1900-1940 - Photographer of Brown County, Indiana


Hartley, W. Douglas, Illust. by: Ping

Softcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1st wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Many duotone photos by Ping. Essays by Anne E. Peterson and Stephen J. Fletcher. Paperback.

Record # 66884


Price: $10.00 

 

Our Town: Cabot Past & Present


N/A

Paperback. Cabot, VT, Mary Elliot Beausoleil, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. light brown paper wrappers with staining on spine edge. interior clean and black & white photo, advertisements.

Record # 408554


Price: $15.00 

Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)Barger, Thomas C.

Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)


Barger, Thomas C.

Hardcover. Vista, CA, Selwa Press, 2nd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy. Black & white images throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF.

Record # 470828


Price: $38.00 

 

Over the Dead Line, or Tracked by Blood-hounds


Dufer, S.M.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Free Press Association, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering. Age discoloration on front end paper, foxing on fore edge.

Record # 408369


Price: $50.00 

OVERDRIVE: BILL GATES AND THE RACE TO CONTROL CYBERSPACEWallace, James

OVERDRIVE: BILL GATES AND THE RACE TO CONTROL CYBERSPACE


Wallace, James

Hardcover. New York, J. Wiley, reprint, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, J. Wiley, reprint, 1997, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. . 307 pages. Record # 467762

Record # 467762


Price: $10.00 

 

Oxford History of English Literature: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660.


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852595


Price: $15.00 

 

Oxford History of English literature: English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century


Sutherland, James

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.

Record # 852594


Price: $18.00 

 

Paintings on the Move: Heinrich Heine and the Visual Arts


Zantop, Susannen(Editor

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages plus plates. Color and b/w illustrations at back of book. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of shelf wear (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In excellent condition. Heine's role as art critic and innovator of art criticism has gone largely unexamined until this book.

Record # 32451


Price: $15.00 

 

Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, Ariz., Univ of Arizona Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Price clipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 454108


Price: $12.00 

 

Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, Ariz., Univ of Arizona Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Price clipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 454109


Price: $12.00 

 

Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, Ariz., Univ of Arizona Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Price clipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 454110


Price: $12.00 

 

Pancho Villa


Lansford, William Douglas

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Sherbourne Press, 1st , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Spine with slight slant. Dj with small hole in spine

Record # 53867


Price: $28.00 

 

Papers of Adlai E.Stevenson, The - Vol I: Beginnings of Education 1900-1941


Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, proof, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Walter Johnson and Carol Evans. Light wear. 588 pages + black & white illust.

Record # 57719


Price: $23.00 

 

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, The - Vol. I: January 6, 1706 through December 31, 1734


Labaree, Leonard. W. (editor)

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w with fold out color center plate. Front cover slightly soiled. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front flyleaf.

Record # 509981


Price: $21.00 

 

Passion of Abby Hemenway, The: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History


Clifford, Deborah Pickman

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 2230375


Price: $19.00 

 

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark


Geniesse, Jane

Hardcover. US, Random House, rep, 1999-09-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463211


Price: $11.00 

 

Passions of Andrew Jackson, The


Burstein, Andrew

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, b&w illustrations, Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 601561


Price: $15.00 

Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (SIGNED COPY)Gabler, James M.

Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (SIGNED COPY)


Gabler, James M.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Bacchus Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411303


Price: $15.00 

 

Path to Power, The


Thatcher, Margaret

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471249


Price: $23.00 

 

Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation


Smith, Richard Norton

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Incisive and revealing look into Washington the man, and his times. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951905


Price: $19.00 

 

Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy: A History, Volumes I & II.


Buell, Augustus C.

Hardcover. New York , Charless Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Volume I has 328 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. Volume II has 379 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Small stain on bottom of first ~10 pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean.

Record # 852813


Price: $15.00 

 

Paul: The Mind of the Apostle


Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Shelf wear to cover. Creasing to some pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 467998


Price: $10.00 

 

Pauline: Favorite Sister of Napoleon


Carlton, W. N. C.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, Second Printing, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, Princess Pauline Borghese, Portrait by Lefevre in black & white. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf. Publisher's navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Sunfading to spine, board edges & to rear cover board. Light toning throughout with additional illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 6670144


Price: $19.00 

 

Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake


Peake, Ernest Cromwell, Hillary Spurling (Introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."

Record # 32165


Price: $25.00 

Pearl, The: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's RussiaSmith, Douglas

Pearl, The: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia


Smith, Douglas

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price sticker to dust jacket rear. Otherwise a tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 471378


Price: $19.00 

Pen Of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (SIGNED)Bridges, Peter

Pen Of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (SIGNED)


Bridges, Peter

Hardcover. Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. SIGNED AN INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Black and white illustrations. Tight copy.

Record # 471379


Price: $35.00 

 

Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation


Allgor, Catherine

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006-04-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462397


Price: $11.00 

 

Peron - His Rise and Fall


Owen, Frank

London, Cresset, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 pages. Black & white photography. Previous owner's signature on inside of front cover.

Record # 207044


Price: $15.00 

 

Perry's Victory Centenary, The: Report of the Perry's Centennial Commission, State of New York.


Emerson (ed), George D.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Slightly oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, a nice copy.

Record # 852680


Price: $28.00 

 

Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers


Powell, Aaron M.

Hardcover. Plainfield, Anna Rice Powell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor stains along top edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612438


Price: $38.00 

 

Philosopher Pickett


Powell, Lawrence Clark

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 178 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Three black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Tanning along spine of dust jacket. Water stains on front and rear dust jacket covers, cloth cover and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Also some water staining along top edge and on frontispiece and title page. Light foxing on front and rear end paper and flyleaf and fore edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856128


Price: $44.00 

 

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa -From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh


Elder, John

Hardcover. Chrarlottesville, University of Virginia Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Mustard cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust jacket with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751201


Price: $19.00 

Pioneering the Helicopter by: Morris, Charles Lester

Pioneering the Helicopter


by: Morris, Charles Lester

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages, hardcover. Covers are in very good condition, despite some minor sunning to the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Includes B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This is a comprehensive book that details the history of helicopter development, from the earliest attempts to create a flying machine that could take off and land vertically, to the modern helicopters of today. Morris explores the many challenges and obstacles that were faced by pioneers in the field, including technical limitations, safety concerns, and financial constraints. Inscription by previous owner on the first front end page, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 33904


Price: $28.00 

 

Plain Mr. Knox


Whitley, Elizabeth

Hardcover. London, Skeffington, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color postcard of Knox's house laid-in. 223 pages. Dj with light edgewear.

Record # 61259


Price: $20.00 

Playboy's illustrated treasury of gamblingCarroll, David

Playboy's illustrated treasury of gambling


Carroll, David

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460024


Price: $15.00 

 

Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.

Record # 31443


Price: $15.00 

 

Pocahontas


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white plates. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Remainder stamp bottom edge 383 pages

Record # 55642


Price: $20.00 

Poison King, The: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest EnemyMayor, Adrienne

Poison King, The: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy


Mayor, Adrienne

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of textblock. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Tight copy.

Record # 471700


Price: $25.00 

 

Pop - The Genuis of Andy Warhol


Scherman, Tony/David Dalton

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, HarperCollins Publishers, First Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Hardcover. Bright illustrate dust jacket, crisp, clean. Tight binding, clean inside and out with only light marginal wear, 16 pages of illustrations in full color.

Record # 751480


Price: $25.00 

 

Poppie Nongena: The Internationally Acclaimed Story of One Woman's Struggle Against Apartheid


Joubert, Elsa

Hardcover. New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st U.S.A., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. A small bump to top edge of front cover board. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on back cover. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In great shape. A story of a woman's struggle to keep her family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings.

Record # 32163


Price: $15.00 

 

Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879-1885


Stealey III, John E. (Editor)

Hardcover. Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1200 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Tight copy.

Record # 471250


Price: $25.00 

 

Portrait of a Racist: The Man Who Killed Medgar Evers?


Massengill, Reed

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Record # 30346


Price: $15.00 

 

Portrait of jane Austen, A


Cecil, David

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609338


Price: $28.00 

 

Portrait of Picasso


Penrose, Roland

Softcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art New York, 2nd, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Published on the occasion of Picasso's 90th birthday. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Some tanning to pages, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding tight, no rips or tears. In great shape. Picasso's life and work.

Record # 31676


Price: $11.00 

 

Portrait of T. E. Lawrence: The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom


Richards, Vyvyan

Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in black & white throughout. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's pencil marks have been erased, light marks remain in some spots. Original dust jacket with small chips, tears to edges, now protected in a plastic cover. Tight binding, sharp corners, a nice copy.

Record # 751457


Price: $250.00 

 

Portraits of the World's Best-Known Musicians


McCoy (ed.), Guy

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Theodore Presser, rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 5,000 portraits, each with a short biographical note. 251 pages.`

Record # 109056


Price: $13.00 

 

Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas, The


Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1994-08-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 523 pages. Faint musty smell. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463081


Price: $10.00 

POWER AND THE DARKNESS: The Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the GameRibowsky, Mark

POWER AND THE DARKNESS: The Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the Game


Ribowsky, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468456


Price: $15.00 

 

Power with Grace - The Life Story of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson


Ross, Ishbel

New York , G.P. Putnam's sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photographs.352 pages.

Record # 203743


Price: $15.00 

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, ThePaludan, Phillip Shaw

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, The


Paludan, Phillip Shaw

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University of Kansas Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 406307


Price: $13.00 

 

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman


Miller, William Lee

Hardcover. US, Knopf, book club, 2008-02-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466154


Price: $11.00 

 

Prince Napoleon in America, 1861 - Letters From His Aide-de-Camp


Ferri Pisani, Li. Colonel Camille

Hardcover. London, Galley Press, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from French by Georges Joyaux. 1st pub. in the US in 1959. Ex-lib with envelope in back but very clean, Dj heavily edgeworn and with tape repair.

Record # 55533


Price: $15.00 

 

Prince of The Renaissance - The Golden Life of Francois I


Seward, Desmond

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1st Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. 40 full page, full color illustrations. 125 illustrations in black & white. Bright dust jacket with sunfading to spine. Bright unmarked copy.

Record # 750358


Price: $15.00 

 

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III


Fraser, Flora

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 2005-04-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462144


Price: $11.00 

 

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III


Fraser, Flora

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 2005-04-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462398


Price: $10.00 

 

Prison Life and Reflections; or a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr and Thompson,...


Thompson, George

Hardcover. Hartford, A. Work, reprint, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages. Chips and wear to edges of covers. Foxing throughout. Tear to corner of last two pages. Otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 855410


Price: $63.00 

 

Private Life of Daniel Webster, The


Lanman, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faded spine.

Record # 801777


Price: $38.00 

 

Proceedings on the Death of Hon. Solomon Foot - Including Addresses Delievered in the Senate and House


N/A

Hardcover. Wash, D.C., GPO, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foot was a Vermont Senator. Limp cloth covers

Record # 19949


Price: $40.00 

Producer, The: John Hammond and the Soul of American MusicPrial, Dunstan

Producer, The: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music


Prial, Dunstan

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 347 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 450321


Price: $18.00 

 

Purcell Remembered


Burden, Michael

Hardcover. US, Faber Faber Inc, 1st, 1995-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462738


Price: $10.00 

 

Pushkin


Feinstein, Elaine

Hardcover. US, Ecco Press, 1st, 1999-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463085


Price: $10.00 

Quantum Ten, The: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science (SIGNED)Jones, Sheilla

Quantum Ten, The: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science (SIGNED)


Jones, Sheilla

Hardcover. Toronto, ON, Thomas Allen Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white images included. Tight copy.

Record # 470814


Price: $25.00 

 

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion


Somerset, Anne

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 621 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of the first Queen of modern Britain. Light edgewear to top edge of dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951145


Price: $19.00 

 

Queen Mary, The


Potter, Neil and Jack Frost

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 291 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The biography of a beloved ship, the most famous ocean liner of modern times. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild age toning to exterior text block edges. Minor fading and age toning to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450040


Price: $13.00 

 

Queen Victoria's Other World


Underwood, Peter

London, Harrap, Ltd., 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 210 pages. Tail of spine bumped. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 507702


Price: $10.00 

 

Quentin Durward (Standard English Classics)


Scott, Walter/R. W. Bruere (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ginn & Company, Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning to edges. Small spots to a few pages. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf in pencil, else clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670059


Price: $19.00 

 

Raffles


Collis, Maurice

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853767


Price: $12.00 

Rage for Glory, A: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USNDe Kay, James Tertius

Rage for Glory, A: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN


De Kay, James Tertius

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 237 pages. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 401286


Price: $20.00 

 

Rahel Levin Varnhagen - The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual


Tewaron, Heidi Thomann

Paperback. Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations, 262 pages. Paperback.

Record # 203719


Price: $15.00 

 

Raphael


Jones, Roger, Nicholas Penny

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of tanning and a little age wear (see image). Pages clean, binding tight. A little soil to edges. In very good shape. Examines the life and works of the artist, the organization of his studio, the market he supplied, the patrons he served, and the status he enjoyed.

Record # 32004


Price: $19.00 

 

Rascal King, The : The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958


Beatty, Jack

Hardcover. Reading, Mass., Perseus Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 571 pages, b&w illustrations. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 452819


Price: $12.00 

Real Hornblower, The: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, GcbPerrett, Bryan

Real Hornblower, The: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, Gcb


Perrett, Bryan

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471755


Price: $15.00 

 

Reapers of the Dust - A Prairie Chronicle


Hudson, Lois Phillips

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib stamp and adhesive residue on front end paper, light soiling. 173 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket.

Record # 65379


Price: $15.00 

Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott DuniwayMoynihan, Ruth Barnes

Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway


Moynihan, Ruth Barnes

Softcover. NEW HAVEN, CT, Yale University Press, 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 450062


Price: $30.00 

 

Recollections of John Ferguson Weir, The


Sizer, Theodore

Hardcover. New York, New York Historical Society, reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. 10 b&w illustrations. Weir's recollections fall into three sections: Memoirs of West Point, the Tenth Street studios and Memoirs of a Yale Professor. Green leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. In good shape.

Record # 605128


Price: $19.00 

 

Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration


Chittenden, L. E.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. B&W frontis of Lincoln statue. Ex-lib with light stamping, front fly leaf missing. tape repair to front hinge, internally very good. Top edge gilt. Some soil to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 300734


Price: $20.00 

Reflections on Fieldwork in MoroccoRabinow, Paul R., Robert N. Bellah (Foreword)

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco


Rabinow, Paul R., Robert N. Bellah (Foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press1, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Dj priceclipped, Some light foxing to edges, pages clean. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Binding good, spine straight. Tan cloth cover boards, blue title on spine. Scarce.

Record # 33556


Price: $23.00 

 

Rembrandt in Amsterdam


Fuchs, R. H.

Hardcover. Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610861


Price: $15.00 

Rembrandt's EyesSchama, Simon

Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 748 pages. Full color illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610699


Price: $50.00 

 

Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".

Record # 30479


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminiscences (2 Volume Set)


McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies.

Record # 951510


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminiscences: Fifty Years a Lawyer and Appendix, Containing a List of the Officers and Members, and a Copy of the By-Laws of Phoebe Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Collinsville, Connecticut


Barbour, Sylve

Hardcover. Hartford, CT, Hartford Press/The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, has some fading around edges and a touch of soil to covers, gilt title on spine and front cover. Binding quite tight, spine straight, pages unmarked. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations.

Record # 31994


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

Revolt in the Desert


Lawrence, T. E.

Hardcover. New York, NY, George H. Doran Company, First US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers & fold out map tipped in to rear. Brick cloth covered boards with black titles & black illustrations to cover & spine. Clay dyed top edge. Deckled side edge. Moderate foxing to preliminary & title pages, light foxing to some pages throughout. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, otherwise clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751436


Price: $25.00 

 

Reynolds


Davies, Randall

Hardcover. London, UK, Adam and Charles Black, First Edition, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Hardcover with original dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with distinctive maroon embossed design, maroon titles to cover, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket is soiled, heavy wear to edges & tanning to spine. Wonderful full page full color illustrations of the artist's work throughout, each protected with a tissue guard. Light toning, many pages uncut. Light toning throughout, darkened to endpapers

Record # 6670158


Price: $38.00 

Ribbentrop: A BiographyBloch, Michael

Ribbentrop: A Biography


Bloch, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket back. Publishers promotional photo laid in. Black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470829


Price: $19.00 

Riel: A Life of RevolutionSiggins, Maggie

Riel: A Life of Revolution


Siggins, Maggie

Softcover. HarperCollins Publishers, 1st thus, September 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 507 pages, b&w plates. Bottom right rear corner creased. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454389


Price: $8.00 

Ring of Hate: Joe Louis vs. Max Scmeling: The Fight of the Century.Myler, Patrick

Ring of Hate: Joe Louis vs. Max Scmeling: The Fight of the Century.


Myler, Patrick

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. 246 pages. Record # 467273

Record # 467273


Price: $10.00 

 

Rise of Saint Calvin, The. Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge.


Gilfond, Duff

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. red stained top edge, untrimmed fore edge. Blue cloth covers with tipped in paper label on cover and spine. light edge wear, light foxing on bottom edge.

Record # 408367


Price: $23.00 

 

Rise of Saint Calvin, The


Gilfond, Duff

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Covers show standard wear.

Record # 608232


Price: $12.00 

 

Rise of the House of Rothschild, The - 1770 - 1830


Corti, Egon Caesar

Softcover. New York, NY, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, First Edition, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth covered boards with gilt titles, gilt decorative compartment lines, black text block to spine. Deckled side edge. Black & white illustrations, light toning. Clean copy.

Record # 6670164


Price: $25.00 

 

Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The


Morris, Edmund

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann & Geoghegan, Book Club Ed, 1979, 886 pages, black cloth covers, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket is edgeworn with some scraping to spine. The book itself is clean and tight.

Record # 407336


Price: $15.00 

 

Robert Bacon - Life and Letters


Scott, James Brown

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bacon was former U.S. Secretary of State. Black & white photos. 459 pages. Front hinge cracked otherwise VG

Record # 59326


Price: $6.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin: The Beginning of a Literary Career


Connery Lathem, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with plastic protective cover. Ivory pages with illustrations in black and white. Clean, tight copy. Gilt top edge.

Record # 2233170


Price: $38.00 

 

Robert the Bruce - King of Scots


Scott, Ronald McNair

Hardcover . NY, Peter Bedrick, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Maps, 254 pages.

Record # 62936


Price: $12.00 

 

Rodin: The Shape of Genius


Butler, Ms. Ruth

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993-10-27, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 590 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with sunning to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 465804


Price: $31.00 

 

Rome Fell Today


Adleman, Robert H. and Colonel George Wilson

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company , 1st, 1968 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and fly leafs. Some tearing and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857467


Price: $10.00 

Rommel Charles, Douglas-Home

Rommel


Charles, Douglas-Home

Hardcover. New York, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471767


Price: $44.00 

Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed HollywoodMerritt, Greg

Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood


Merritt, Greg

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471717


Price: $19.00 

 

Roosevelt - The Story of a Friendship 1880-1919


Wister, Owen

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, Rep., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 372 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Remains of dj laid-in.

Record # 61566


Price: $20.00 

 

Roosevelts, The - American Aristocrats


Churchill, Allen

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A lively narrative of the Roosevelt family from 1640 to 1960. Light pencil notations to several pages. 341 pages.

Record # 61261


Price: $12.00 

Roots: The Saga of an American Family (SIGNED COPY)Haley, Alex

Roots: The Saga of an American Family (SIGNED COPY)


Haley, Alex

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 688 pages, tan boards with black spine. Appears to be a Book Club reprint. Book shows shelf wear, dust jacket has edgewear, chipping. INSCRIBED BY HALEY on front fly leaf, dated August 7, 1981. Previous owner's signature on same page. Light tanning to paper.

Record # 408295


Price: $63.00 

 

Rosemond Tuve: A Life of the Mind


Evans, Margaret

Hardcover. US, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1st, 2004-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464432


Price: $13.00 

Roxana's ChildrenBonfield, Lynn A.

Roxana's Children


Bonfield, Lynn A.

Softcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, November 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages, b&w photographs. Minor wear to wrappers. Else very good.

Record # 454890


Price: $10.00 

Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms RaceMcMillan, Priscilla Johnson

Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race


McMillan, Priscilla Johnson

hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 373 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469579


Price: $10.00 

Russia in the Age of Peter the GreatHughes, Lindsey

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great


Hughes, Lindsey

Softcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge-/shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453260


Price: $18.00 

 

Russia Through Women's Eyes - Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia


Clyman, Toby W./Judith Vowles

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. dust jacket with fading to spine, and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610670


Price: $13.00 

SadatHirst, David

Sadat


Hirst, David

Hardcover. US, Faber & Faber, reprint , 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages. Edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466962


Price: $10.00 

 

Sahara: Desert of Destiny


Gerster, Georg

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann Inc., First US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Original dust jacket with small tears to edges. Black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers. Pages are clean & unmarked throughout, two pages to rear have strong crease marks to corners. Tight binding.

Record # 6670128


Price: $23.00 

 

Saint Peter a Biography


Grant, Michael

Hardcover. Barnes Noble Books, rep., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 457100


Price: $10.00 

 

Samuel De Champlain: Father of New France


Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown Co, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 469826


Price: $15.00 

 

Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France


Morison, Samuel Eliot

Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 2nd, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. B&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Newspaper clipping from 1976 about author laid in. Price-clipped dust jacket in brodart. Light spotting to edges.

Record # 851792


Price: $30.00 

 

Samuel Kelly: An Eighteenth Century Seaman.


Garstin (ed), Crosbie

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering. Minor wear on edges of spine. Pages untrimmed. Nice, clean inside with many b&w illustrations.

Record # 852377


Price: $25.00 

 

Samuel Morey - The Edison of His Day


Carter, George Calvin

Hardcover. Manchester, George Calvin Carter, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Black & white photographs. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Homemade dust jacket.

Record # 609149


Price: $20.00 

 

Samuel Morey. The Edison of His Day.


Carter, George Calvin

Concord, NH, Rumford Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Black & white photo throughout. Light age discoloration. Tight copy.

Record # 408528


Price: $13.00 

 

Samuel Roberts, clock maker, an eighteenth-century craftsman in a Welsh rural community.


R., and T. Alun Davies Pryce W. T.

Hardcover. US, National Museum of Wales, 1st, 1985-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 450 pages, photos in b&w and color. Light de-lamination to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465889


Price: $44.00 


  

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