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Aaron Burr (2 volumes): The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756 - 1805, and The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805 - 1836


Lomask, Milton

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st Volume: 443 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 10 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean tight copy. 2nd Volume: 475 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 12 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket - book in great condition.

Record # 804557


Price: $26.00 

 

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - The Political Biography of an American Dilemma


Hamilton, Charles V.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lib stamp to front fly leaf, light residue to rear end paper otherwise not read

Record # 70687


Price: $15.00 

 

Antony Eden / A Biography


James, Robert Rhodes

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

Record # 108430


Price: $20.00 

 

Days of Anger, Days of Hope - A Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937-1942


Folsom, Franklin

Hardcover. Niwot, Co, Univ. Press of Colorado, 1st , 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos.

Record # 57646


Price: $35.00 

 

Frankie - Mrs. R. D. Randolph and Texas Liberal Politics


Crawford, Ann Fears

Austin, TX, Eakin Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title-page. Black & white illust. 143 pages.

Record # 66328


Price: $25.00 

 

From the Top of the Stairs


Finletter, Gretchen

Boston, Little Brown , rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, The daughter of Walter Damrosch tells of her early encounters and conflicts with pianos, performers, politics and parties. 252 pgs. dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 300084


Price: $15.00 

 

Joseph P. Kennedy - A Life and Times


Koskoff, David E.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 3rd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 643 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has edgewear.

Record # 207878


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Speeches of Henry Clay - Vol. II


Clay, Henry

NY, Creeley & McElrath, Unknown, 1843, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. II only. Black & white frontis. 597 pages. Light foxing.

Record # 62064


Price: $35.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Life of William Ewart Gladstone, The (2 Vols.)


Morley, John

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, Rep., 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol 2 with small tear to front hinge.

Record # 60127


Price: $9.00 

 

Maxim Litvinoff


Pope, Arthur Upham

Hardcover. NY, L.B. Fischer, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front fly leaf gone. Slight slant to spine

Record # 57735


Price: $18.00 

 

Mayor Who Mastered New York, The - The Life and Opinions of William J. Gaynor


Thomas, Lately

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 516 pages

Record # 56211


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Passions and Politics: A Biography of Versailles


Barry, Joseph

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company Inc., Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 538 pages. Hardcover. Ivory canvas covered boards with black titles to spine. Deckled edge, illustrations in black & white, clean inside and out with maps to endpapers. Dust jacket with edgewear, light toning & price-clipped. A nice copy.

Record # 6670078


Price: $23.00 

 

Personal and Controversial


Blanshard, Paul

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Spine faded. Dust jacket slightly torn. Previous owner's sticker front end paper.

Record # 803356


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Scott Nearing - Apostle of American Radicalism


Whitfield, Stephen J.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Black & white photography. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 206299


Price: $12.00 

 

Sketches From a Life


Kennan, George F.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 5th pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 57669


Price: $23.00 

 

When LaGuardia Was Mayor - New York's Legendary Years


Heckscher, August

hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 448 pages. Dust jacket edgewear, closed tears.

Record # 64954


Price: $15.00 

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