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De Gustibus... An Exhibition of American Paintings Illustrating A Century of Taste and Criticism by: The Corcoran Gallery of Art
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De Gustibus... An Exhibition of American Paintings Illustrating A Century of Taste and Criticism by: The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with yellow tagboard covers, minor rubbing. Paper wrappers tight. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp. 23 b/w plates of American painting, from 1830 until 1949. Catalog is divided up by years and includes 59 listed works. Short essays on each time period of painting, as well as an introduction on the history of American painting. Record # 807663
Price: $12.00 

Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President by: Holzer, Harold
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Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President by: Holzer, Harold

Hardcover. Reading MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages, b&w illustrations, clean and bright in a similar dust jacket. Record # 408309
Price: $12.00 

Dearest Friend - A Life of Abigail Adams by: Withey, Lynne
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Dearest Friend - A Life of Abigail Adams by: Withey, Lynne

New York, Touchstone , Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. Originally published in 1981, this is a near fine hard copy reprint. Record # 305224
Price: $12.00 

Death and Life in the Tenth Century by: Duckett, Eleanor
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Death and Life in the Tenth Century by: Duckett, Eleanor

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 359 pages. B&W maps. Record # 304523
Price: $12.00 

Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by: Landis, Arthur H.
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Death in the Olive Groves: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by: Landis, Arthur H.

Hardcover. New York, Paragon House, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Several black and white photographs and maps. Author Landis recounts his own experiences and the personal histories of other American volunteers. Index Record # 220799
Price: $12.00 

Decline of an Empire - The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt by: d'Encausse, Helene Carrere
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Decline of an Empire - The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt by: d'Encausse, Helene Carrere

Hardcover. New York, Newsweek Books, 2nd, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Black & white diagrams and maps. Dust jacket has light edgewear and sunning to spine. Internally very good Record # 205371
Price: $12.00 

Defender's Triumph by: N/A
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Defender's Triumph by: N/A

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 239 pages, in a very worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. Courtroom drama and brilliant legal strategy in four classic murder trials. Record # 411389
Price: $12.00 

Deke!: An Autobiography by: Slayton, Donald K.
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Deke!: An Autobiography by: Slayton, Donald K.

Softcover. US, Forge Books, 1st pb , 1995-06-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to wrappers, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 463469
Price: $12.00 

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by: Gioia, Ted, Illust. by: Harpe, Neil
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by: Gioia, Ted, Illust. by: Harpe, Neil

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography and illustrations throughout. Remainder dot present on the bottom edge. This book combines extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living musicians, and first-person accounts with Gioia's own calm, argument-closing incantations to draw a line through a century of Delta blues. This engrossing narrative is flavored with insightful and vivid musical descriptions that ensure an understanding of not only the musicians, but the music itself. Clean copy. Record # 33777
Price: $15.00 

Demonic Comedy - Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein by: Roberts, Paul William
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Demonic Comedy - Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein by: Roberts, Paul William

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 611766
Price: $12.00 

Deviants and the Abandoned inn French Society: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations by: Forster, Robert & Ranum, Orest
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Deviants and the Abandoned inn French Society: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations by: Forster, Robert & Ranum, Orest

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Foxing to edges. Some fading to spine and cover. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855544
Price: $12.00 

Diary of the Century, A - Tales from America's Greatest Diarist by: Ellis, Edward Robb
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Diary of the Century, A - Tales from America's Greatest Diarist by: Ellis, Edward Robb

Hardcover. NY, Kodansha Inter., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 578 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, bright copy. Ellis's journal is a vivid, passionate portrait of twentieth-century America, mirroring its turbulent decades and tumultuous changes. It is also the stirring personal drama of one man and his times: the author as adolescent, bachelor, husband, father, reporter, widower, friend, and indomitable octogenarian. Record # 55727
Price: $15.00 

Dictionary of Wars by: Kohn, George C.
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Dictionary of Wars by: Kohn, George C.

Hardcover. NY, Facts on File Publications, Book Club, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light chipping along edges of dust jacket. hardbound. spine good and pgs clean. 586 pgs Record # 108577
Price: $12.00 

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by: Gould, Stephen Jay
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Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by: Gould, Stephen Jay

Hardcover. New York, Harmony, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear on dust jacket top edge, otherwise clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Record # 468203
Price: $12.00 

Diplomat Among Warriors by: Murphy, Robert
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Diplomat Among Warriors by: Murphy, Robert

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Record # 11028
Price: $12.00 

Directory of Vermont Silversmiths and Watch and Clock Makers, A by: Fredyma, Paul J.; Marie-Louise Fredyma
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Directory of Vermont Silversmiths and Watch and Clock Makers, A by: Fredyma, Paul J.; Marie-Louise Fredyma

Softcover. Hanover, NH, Self published, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages. Blue paper wrappers with black lettering, Interior clean and tight. Listing format. Record # 408555
Price: $12.00 

Discovery in the North Atlantic by: Sharp, J. J.
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Discovery in the North Atlantic by: Sharp, J. J.

Softcover. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nimbus Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps and illustrations throughout. This book is an account of the explorations in the North Atlantic between the 6th and 17th centuries. It offers fresh and provocative insights into this dangerous undertaking by several adventurers. Clean copy. Record # 34407
Price: $12.00 

Discovery of Jeanne Baret, The : A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by: Ridley, Glynis
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Discovery of Jeanne Baret, The : A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by: Ridley, Glynis

Hardcover. US, Crown, 1st, 2010-12-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463796
Price: $12.00 

Discovery of the Bismarck by: Ballard, Robert, Illust. by: Ken Marschall
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Discovery of the Bismarck by: Ballard, Robert, Illust. by: Ken Marschall

Hardcover. New York, Warner/Madison Press Book, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Co-written with Rick Archbald. Color Illustrations by Ken Marschall. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy. Dust jacket scuffed. Record # 802186
Price: $12.00 

Disease and History by: Cartwright, Frederick F./Michael D. Biddiss
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Disease and History by: Cartwright, Frederick F./Michael D. Biddiss

Hardcover. London, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, dust jacket covered with acetate, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 801518
Price: $12.00 

Ditchdigger's Daughter: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story by: Thornton, Yvonne S.
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Ditchdigger's Daughter: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story by: Thornton, Yvonne S.

Hardcover. US, Citadel, 1st, 1995-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 466143
Price: $12.00 

Divided Hope - Germany After the War 1945-49 by: N/A
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Divided Hope - Germany After the War 1945-49 by: N/A

Softcover. Bonn, Gesamtdeutsches Institut, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog issued for an exhibit, many b&w Illustrations,108 pages, color fold-out map in rear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 70775
Price: $12.00 

Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories by: Kelly, Henry Ansgar
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Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories by: Kelly, Henry Ansgar

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Brown cloth, silver lettering. Record # 512578
Price: $12.00 

Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by: Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun
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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by: Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This is the first biography to explore Margaret Chung's remarkable and complex life as the first known American-born Chinese female physician. It offers an intimate portrait of a woman who invented and reinvented herself in a quest for influence and social acceptance. Clean copy. Record # 34251
Price: $28.00 


  
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