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The Life of Samuel Johnson (Three Volumes - Complete in Slipcases)

By: Boswell, James

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, The Heritage Press: 1963

Seller ID: 6646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

Three volumes (complete) in individual slipcases. Publisher's full brown linen cloth, genuine gold leaf lettering on red labels on spines, cream endpapers. Illustrated with three full-color frontispiece portraits. The Heritage Club Sandglass (Special Publication: S28) laid in. Printed on fine wove papers specially made for this edition. This special three-volume edition also contains the marginal comments and markings from two copies of the biography annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, a friend of both Boswell and Johnson. It was prepared for publication, with an introduction, by E...
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Part of a Long Story

By: Boulton, Agnes

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1958

Seller ID: 13937

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's full tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine and embossed gilt, silver, on cover. . Former owner's signature in an elegant hand penciled on ffep, otherwiseThe volume is in perfect, unmarked, tight, square and clean. FINE /NONE . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 331 pp
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YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS: JUSTICE HOLMES AND HIS FAMILY

By: Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1945

Seller ID: 6534

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on black panel on spine, additional gilt decoration on spine, gilt medallion on cover. 475 pp. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs. Includes extensive Notes, Bibliography, Appendices, and Index. Gift inscription on ffep, otherwise unmarked. spine sunned, boards lightly rubbed and mildly soiled, else near fine. VERY GOOD.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man

By: Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1963

Seller ID: 12830

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

"Throughout history Francis Bacon's reputation has remained sullied as a result of his impeachment for corruption at the height of his career. Now Catherine Drinker Bowen, as only a biographer of her supreme stature could do, has laid before us the circumstances of Bacon's life and environment and left us to judge his deeds.". VERY GOOD.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xi), 245 pp
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Outrageous Fortune: The Rise and Ruin of Conrad and Lady Black

By: Bower, Tom

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2006

Seller ID: 24006

ISBN: 0061146145

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black paper over black boards, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with 12 pages of B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket shows only light shelf-wear, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xii, 436 pp
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The Young Jefferson 1743-1789

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1945

Seller ID: 11927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxx, (i), 544 pp
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America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Bradford, Sarah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2000

Seller ID: 12185

ISBN: 0670891916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Boards soiled, some smoke damage not affecting text, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket also has minor smoke damage, else fine. GOOD/GOOD. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (x), 500 pp
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America's Queen The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Bradford, Sarah

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, The Viking Press: 2000

Seller ID: 19087

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

Publisher's full black boards, silver gilt lettering on spine, numerous black and white photographs. . Head and heel of spine gently bumped, very light stains on page edges, else tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket is bumped slightly at head and heel of spine and edges with few small tears. NEAR FINE/GOOD. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (x)500 pp
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Flags of Our Father

By: Bradley, James; Ron Powers

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 2000

Seller ID: 24785

ISBN: 0553111337

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in blue paper over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, title blind-stamped on front cover, photographs on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (viii), 376 pp
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The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with The President

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 2009

Seller ID: 19084

ISBN: 1416543333

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full white boards, copper gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. . Hinge starting, head and heel of spine gently bumped with small tear at heel, very light marks on top page edge, else square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows moderately shelf-wear. FINE/VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 707 pp
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Henry Miller: The Paris Years

By: Brassai

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Arcade Publishing: 1995

Seller ID: 24998

ISBN: 1559703474

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE.. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 224 pp
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Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World

By: Brightman, Carol

Price: $8.00

Publisher: San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1994

Seller ID: 26301

ISBN: 0156000679

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs.. Volume shows only mild shelf wear, else fine. NEAR FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xix, 714, (1) pp
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The Reagan Diaries

By: Brinkley, Douglas (ed.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2007

Seller ID: 22931

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Publisher's quarter black cloth over black boards, silver lettering on spine, artistic depiction of Reagan's diaries on endpapers. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 767 pp
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Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character

By: Brodie, Fawn McKay

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, W . W. Norton & Compnay, Inc.: 1981

Seller ID: 13118

ISBN: 0393014673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket

Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD +/ FAIR . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 574 pp
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Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1956

Seller ID: 9692

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Publisher's full blue cloth, white lettering on spine, white publisher's medallion on cover. . The volume is in excellent condition, with only slight shelf-wear at the head and heel of the spine, some pages lightly smudged. The dust jacket, now in Mylar, is significantly chipped, with some loss. VERY GOOD/GOOD. . Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. vi, 166 pp
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The World of Washington Irving

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $15.00

Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company: 1944

Seller ID: 17423

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Full green cloth, gilt lettering on black panels on spine, black decoration on spine, gilt medallion on front cover, fore-edge deckle. . Volume shows only light shelf-wear, spine lightly sunned, else fine. NEAR FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (ix), 387 pp
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Anatole France Abroad

By: Brousson, Jean Jacques

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Robert M. Mcbride & Company: 1928

Seller ID: 21533

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Quarter bound green over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine, green lettering on cover. . Hinge starting, some marks on front and rear panel, pages yellowed. Unclipped dust jacket is worn and faded, some stains, in protective mylar cover. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 387 pp
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Manchild in the Promised Land

By: Brown, Claude

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, The Macmillan Company: 1965

Seller ID: 25182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

First Edition, Third Printing (stated). Publisher's full red cloth, gilt and black lettering on spine, top edge red, fore-edge deckle. "Manchild in the Promised Land" is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African-Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praise...
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The Worlds of Robert E. Sherwood: Mirror to His Times, 1896-1939

By: Brown, John Mason

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row Publishers: 1965

Seller ID: 10652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine, author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, grey endpapers, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with several B&W photographs. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition, with only the slightest signs of wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 409, (1) pp
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THAT MAN HEINE

By: Browne, Lewis; Elsa Weihl

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NY, The Macmillan Company: 1927

Seller ID: 6274

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

First Printing (October 1927). Publisher's black cloth over silver boards, gilt (silver) lettering on spine, embossed corner boarders on covers. 8vo. 420 pp. Illustrated with glossy frontispiece portrait and full page B&W reproductions. Gift inscription on ffep, front hinge starting, boards lightly rubbed, else near fine. VERY GOOD.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Category: Biography