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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1995

Seller ID: 16362

ISBN: 0679439161

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, showing only light shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (ix), 432, (1) pp
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One Generation After

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1970

Seller ID: 21881

ISBN: 0394439155

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Deckle edge. . Unclipped dust jacket shows ligt shelf and fading; otherwise, this copy is clean, unmarked, square & tight, . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 198 pp
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Van Gogh

By: Wight, Frederick S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, The Beechhurst Press: N.D.

Seller ID: 20166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Publisher's full blue boards, black lettering on spine and cover, forty-six reproductions including twelve in color. . Spine faded and yellowed, head and heel of spine and all corners bumped, endpapers and text are foxed and yellowed at edges, else tight and square. Dust jacket is torn at all edges, spine is missing, in protective mylar cover. . Color & B&W Drawings. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 63 pp
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Dictionary of Jewish Biography

By: Wigoder, Geoffrey

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1991

Seller ID: 20180

ISBN: 013210105X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Unclipped dust jacket is slightly crumpled at the top of spine. . B&W Illustrations and Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 568 pp
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Thomas Lamb Eliot 1841-1936

By: Wilbur, Earl Morse

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Private Printing: 1937

Seller ID: 15942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full tan cloth, black lettering on beige label on spine, family tree rear volume laid in. Illustrated with B&W portrait frontispiece and photographs. Includes Notes, Offices Held, and Published Writings. . Shelf-wear to head and heel, sunned, corners slightly rubbed, else very good. GOOD. . B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. ix, 140 pp
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Nelson

By: Wilkinson, Clennell

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co, Ltd.: 1931

Seller ID: 560

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine+ with no dust jacket

Elegantly bound in three-quarter blue gilt ruled Morocco by Hatchards of Piccadilly. Five raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and titles, with tooling on bands; gilt ruled covers; t.e.g. Illustrated with 19 B&W Photographs and three Plans. An extremely handsome volume in a fine binding.. Scarce binding. Former owner's bookplate on fep, else fine. FINE.. B&W Photographs and Plans. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 322 pp
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Dear Mom: Why Raising Four Boys was Neither Boring nor Monotonous

By: Willett, Jean

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Madison, WI, Goblin Fern Press: 2005

Seller ID: 26187

ISBN: 1595980032

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Signed by author on title page. Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, showing only mild shelf-wear. FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. viii, 472, (1) pp. Signed by Author
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Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties

By: William Bross; Charles Cleaver; Joseph Jefferson; Mabel McIlvaine (Intro)

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press: 1913

Seller ID: 19987

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of Chicago in 1853. Includes: Introduction; William Bross - extracted from "What I remember of early Chicago", a lecture delivered Jan. 23, 1876; Charles Cleaver - extracts from articles which appeared first in the Chicago tribune; Joseph Jefferson, Chicagoan - reprinted from "The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson"; and Chicago's first railroad systems - reprinted from Andraes's "Histor...
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THE WORLD OF TITIAN: C.1488-1576

By: Williams, Jay; and the Editors of Time-Life Books

Price: $9.95

Publisher: NY, Time-Life Books: 1975

Seller ID: 4818

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Hardcover in custom slipcase. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over cream boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Printed endpapers. Folio (approx 9.25 x 12.25"). 192 pp. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Includes Chronology, Bibliography and Index. Both the volume and the slipcase are in perfect, unmarked condition, except for a tiny nick on the rear panel of the volume, else as new. FINE/AS NEW (slipcase). A volume in the Time-Life Library of Art series.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War (Two Volumes)

By: Williams, Kenneth P.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1949

Seller ID: 14582

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Two volumes in red slipcase. Full blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with several pages of B&W maps and photographs. . Both volumes are in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Slipcase shows some mild wear, else fine. NEAR FINE. . B&W Maps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xviii, (i), 443; ix, (i), 457 pp
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Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War (Two Volumes)

By: Williams, Kenneth P.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 14836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Two volumes. Full blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with several pages of B&W maps and photographs. . Both volumes are only slightly shelf-worn, unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD+. . B&W Maps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xviii, (i), 443; ix, (i), 457 pp
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The Show Business Nobody Knows

By: Wilson, Earl

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1973

Seller ID: 11396

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

B&W Photographs. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xvi, 461 pp
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William Pitt, the Younger

By: Wilson, P. W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company: 1932

Seller ID: 25073

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, former owner's name written on front endpapers. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. vi, (iv), 347 pp
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The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing 1865-1866

By: Wing, John M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Southern Illinois University Press / The Caxton Club: 2002

Seller ID: 26852

ISBN: 0809324830

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

The personal - and often intimate - diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, ex-soldiers, and the thriving merchant class making its fortune from both before the great fire of 1871 left much of the city in ashes. These diaries were transcribed and edited by noted Chicago bibliophile and historian Robert Williams, and published in cooperation with the Caxton Club, with a foreword by Paul F. Gehl, and an essay by Richar...
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Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual

By: Winters, Jonathan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1987

Seller ID: 24822

ISBN: 0394564243

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in brown cloth over beige boards, gilt lettering on cover and spine. . Both the volume and the price-clipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvii, 216, (3) pp
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The Green Desert: A Silent Retreat

By: Winters, Rita

Price: $18.95

Publisher: NY, The Crossroad Publishing Company: 2004

Seller ID: 12679

ISBN: 0824521331

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New with no dust jacket

Signed by the Author. Publisher's glossy wraps. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, brand new, unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEW.. Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 224 pp. Signed by Author
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Comrade Chiang Ch'ing

By: Witke, Roxane

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1977

Seller ID: 25779

ISBN: 0316949000

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Full orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, former owner's name written on ffep, else fine. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild wear, spine lightly sunned. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxvi, 549 pp
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The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera

By: Wolfe, Bertram D.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Stein & Day: 1963

Seller ID: 7738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's gray cloth over brick boards, gilt lettering on brown panel on spine, author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, green endpapers, TEG (red). Profusely illustrated with 164 plates and 39 line drawings. . The volume is in almost perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, showing only the slightest signs of shelf-wear. The price-clipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is very lightly chipped at the head and heel and at the corners. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs and Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 457, (1) pp
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In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign

By: Wolff, Leon

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, Time Incorporated: 1963

Seller ID: 23407

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xxxvii), 455 pp
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

By: Wolff, Tobias

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 18957

ISBN: 0679402179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xiii), 221, (1) pp
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The Hudson's Bay Company

By: Woodcock, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Crowell-Collier Press: 1970

Seller ID: 22723

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full beige cloth, black lettering on spine . Spine marked with black pen, all edges stamped by Zion-Benton Township High School, ffep scratched, else tight, square, and clean. GOOD . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 186 pp
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Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort

By: Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1972

Seller ID: 16822

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Full tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. (green), fore-edge deckle, green endpapers. . Volume shows only light shelf-wear, bottom of fore-edge lightly stained, else near fine. Unclipped dust jacket, now wrapped in Mylar, is moderately chipped and worn. VERY GOOD+/GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, (i), 495 pp
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In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

By: Woodruff, Lee; Bob Woodruff

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2007

Seller ID: 23299

ISBN: 1400066670

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's grey cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 16 pages of color photographs. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. viii, 288, (3) pp
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Two Years Residence on the English Prairie of Illinois

By: Woods, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press: 1968

Seller ID: 8382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. John Woods was an English farmer apparently of some substance who was attracted by the opportunities for himself and his family in the United States, and especially in the Midwest. Like many others before and after, he descended the Ohio River and struck out north and west to give great impetus to the early settlement of the southern parts of several midwestern states. His detailed and interesting account of his journey and what he found was surely an important contribution to the early development of Illino...
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Two Years' Residence on the English Prairie of Illinois

By: Woods, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1968

Seller ID: 9073

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, fore-edge deckle, t.e.g. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and reproductions. John Woods was an English farmer apparently of some substance who was attracted by the opportunities for himself and his family in the United States, and especially in the Midwest. Like many others before and after, he descended the Ohio River and struck out north and west to give great impetus to the early settlement of the southern parts of several midwestern states. His detailed and interesting account of his journey and what he found ...
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Category: Biography & Memoir