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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys-The Men of World War II

By: Ambrose, Stephen E. Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 1999

Seller ID: 7066

ISBN: 0684856298

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs. . This is an unread, unmarked copy, tight, square and clean. FINE.. Trade Paperback. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 396 pp
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These Wonderful People: Intimate Moments in Their Lives

By: Ames, Noel (ed)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1947

Seller ID: 27508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers. These brief, intimate glimpses into the lives famous people reveal them as warm, sincere human beings. Each colorful selection, whether an autobiography or biography, is so well written that you will better understand the people who move through these pages - pages in which there is struggle and heroism, happiness and sorrow, success and failure, youth and old age - pages from which emerge their great accomplishments. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Irving Berlin, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, Th...
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The Best Cat Ever

By: Amory, Cleveland

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1993

Seller ID: 12017

ISBN: 0316037443

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vii), 262 pp
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Bill and Hillary The Marriage

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 1999

Seller ID: 11748

ISBN: 2702838707

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

GOOD/GOOD.. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 340 pp
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Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1998

Seller ID: 23271

ISBN: 0688153127

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's blue paper over white boards, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xi, (iii), 472 pp
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To Fly and Fight Memoirs of a Triple Ace

By: Anderson, Clarence E. "Bud" with Joseph P. Hamelin

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Pacifica, CA, Pacifica Military History: N.D.

Seller ID: 16980

ISBN: 0935553347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Inscribed by the author on the fep. Publisher's full blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with b&w photographs. . Head of spine has light shelf-wear, the upper tip of the front cover is very slightly bumped, spine is slightly cocked, else pristine, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket is crimped at the upper tip of the front cover and has slight rubbing to the head of the spine. NEAR FINE/ VERY GOOD+. . B&W Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xv, 307 pp. Signed by Author
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My Lord, What a Morning

By: Anderson, Marian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Avon Camelot: 1967

Seller ID: 11425

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 222, (2) pp
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The Perfect Tribute

By: Andrews, Mary R.S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Scribners: 1926

Seller ID: 14551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's quarter bound black over light green boards, red and black emblem on cover and spine, endpaper decoration by Wilfred Jones, frontispiece decoration of Lincoln at bedside. . Moderate wear to head and heel of spine with some loss, spine and boards mildly rubbed and faded, pages yellowed, former owner's name on fep, otherwise unmarked and clean. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 49 pp
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The Lincoln Reader

By: Angle, Paul M (Editor)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1947

Seller ID: 11691

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 564 pp
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Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian

By: Annan, Noel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1984

Seller ID: 23928

ISBN: 0394530616

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Quarter bound in grey cloth over grey boards, copper lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs. . Edges of boards sunned, former owner's inscription on ffep, some very light marks and underlining throughout, newspaper review of book has been taped to rfep, else near fine. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, spine lightly sunned. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD+. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xv, (i), 432 pp
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A Memoir of the Life of Peter the Great

By: Anonymous (Sir John Barrow)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, John Murray and Thomas Tegg: N.D.

Seller ID: 15917

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Full calf, spine in six compartments, gilt lettering on burgundy label in one compartment, intricate gilt tooling in the remainder, gilt borders on covers, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Peter the Great. nd (c. 1850).. Hinges professionally reinforced, a portion of upper board lightly sunned, else unmarked, tight, square, supple and clean. An extremely handsome binding. VERY GOOD. . Portrait Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi, 366 pp
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Catherine the Great

By: Anthony, Katharine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1925

Seller ID: 21562

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in beige cloth over decorated boards, black lettering on spine, t.e.g. (black), fore and bottom edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W plates. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, spine sunned, tops of several pages lightly stained, not affecting text, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 331 pp
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Westward Journeys: Memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Who Traveled the Overland Trail

By: Applegate, Jesse A.; Lavinia Honeyman Porter; Martin Ridge (ed)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1989

Seller ID: 19919

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with a color map showing both routes, an engraved frontispiece, and several additional photographs and drawings.. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 87. B&W Photographs. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. lxiii, 416 pp
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Cervantes: Adventurer, Idealist and Destiny's Fool

By: Arbo, Sebastian Juan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson: 1955

Seller ID: 9165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Full red cloth, gilt medallion on cover, gilt lettering on spine. . Boards slightly warped, some slight wear to corners and head and heel of spine, some mild rubbing on spine, some light foxing on endpapers. VERY GOOD- . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 261 pp
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Napoleon and his Women Friends

By: Aretz, Gertrude

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1927

Seller ID: 13794

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Stated first edition. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, fore and bottom edges deckle. Illustrated with 16 full-page, glossy, B&W illustrations. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. . Spine very lightly sunned, some mild rubbing around corners and head and heel of spine, former owner's name and date (1927) written on ffep, else fine. NEAR FINE.. B&W Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 375 pp
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Up The Years From Bloomsbury: An Autobiography

By: Arliss, George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1927

Seller ID: 14523

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full green cloth, black lettering on cover and spine, t.e.g. (green), fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece. . Spine moderately sunned with mild wear to head and heel, corners bumped, rear cover lightly stained, former owner's name on ffep, some light underlining throughout, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 321 pp
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The Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R. A.

By: Armory, Martha Bobcock

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1882

Seller ID: 14989

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on maroon leather label on spine, top edge deckle, green endpapers, tissue-protected engraved portrait frontispiece. . Head and heel of spine and edges moderately shelf-worn, label on spine rubbed, minor offset of frontispiece on title page, else fine; unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD.. B&W Frontispiece. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 478 pp
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LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Two Volumes in One

By: Arnault, M. A. and C. L. F. Panckoucke (trans)

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: N.D.

Seller ID: 19226

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Two volumes in one. Publisher's full blue cloth with gilt on spine, floral design embossed in black on cover and spine. The Alta Edition. . Title page and front endpapers are disbound, head and heel of spine and tips are rubbed, front hinge is cracked, top edge is dust soiled, else unmarked, square and clean. FAIR. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. iv, 498 pp
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The King in Love: Edwards Vll's Mistresses : Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, Alice Keppel and Others

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1988

Seller ID: 11552

ISBN: 0060160330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over rust boards, gilt lettering on spine, salmon endpapers. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs.. Minor shelf-wear and light spotting on edges, otherwise unmarked, tight and square. Dust jacket only slightly worn. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xii, 301 pp
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Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1973

Seller ID: 25798

ISBN: 067251723X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Former owner's name written on ffep of volume, else fine. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild wear, small closed tear at bottom of front panel. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 353 pp
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