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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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Ambling Into History The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

By: Bruni, Frank

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Harpercollins: 2002

Seller ID: 21046

ISBN: 0066213711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Fine dust jacket

Unclipped dustjacket, clean, unmarked and tight. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 278 pp
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Growing Up with Southern Illinois 1820 to 1861

By: Brush, Daniel Harmon

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley: 1944

Seller ID: 20122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and medallion on cover. Illustrated with sepia portrait frontispiece and map of Southern Illinois.. Corner lightly bumped, else fine; tight, square, unmarked, and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. B&W Photo . 12mo 7" - 7" tall. (xxxii), 265 pp
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A True Picture of Emigration

By: Burlend, Rebecca; Milo Milton Quaife (ed)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press: 1936

Seller ID: 12256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and borders on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece. On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebeccas narrative, written with the help of her son, w...
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Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

By: Burns, James MacGregor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1970

Seller ID: 26726

ISBN: 0151788715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Full red cloth, red and silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, showing only very mild shelf wear. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly chipped and worn. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 722 pp
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A Royal Duty

By: Burrell, Paul

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, G. P Putnam Sons: 2003

Seller ID: 12193

ISBN: 0399151729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 405 pp
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Decision Points

By: Bush, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown: 2010

Seller ID: 18105

ISBN: 0307590615

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine. In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we lived. "Decision Points" brings readers inside the Texas governor's mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during ...
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Skyward

By: Byrd, Admiral Richard Evelyn

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1981

Seller ID: 13169

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 B&W frontispiece and several B&W photographs. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (1888-1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights, in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and...
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Skyward

By: Byrd, Admiral Richard Evelyn; William R. Anderson (ed)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1981

Seller ID: 19910

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 B&W frontispiece portrait and numerous B&W photographs. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (1888-1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights, in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic ...
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George Washington: Soldier and Man

By: Callahan, North

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 12284

ISBN: 0688000673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiii, (iii), 296 pp
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Underdog How One Man Turned Hollywood Rejection into the Worldwide Phenomenon of Benji

By: Camp, Joe

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Longstreet Press: 1993

Seller ID: 11837

ISBN: 1563520702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall. 230 pp
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Queen Elizabeth II

By: Campbell, Judith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1979

Seller ID: 14205

ISBN: 0517539748

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, decorated endpapers. Illustrated with B&W and color photographs.. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE.. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. (i), 184 pp
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Queen Elizabeth II: A Biography

By: Campbell, Judith

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1980

Seller ID: 23556

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Color Photographs. Square Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 184 pp
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The First Man

By: Camus, Albert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1995

Seller ID: 10664

ISBN: 0679439374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over beige boards, gilt lettering on spine, author's initials, gilt, embossed on cover, printed endpapers, fore-edge deckle. Translated from the French by David Hapgood. This is Camus' final work, first published in France in 1994, 34 years after the handwritten manuscript was discovered in the car wreckage when Camus was killed. This is the first edition in English. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. viii, 325 pp
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Revolutionary Days: Recollections of Romanoffs and Bolsheviki, 19141917: Including Passages from My Life Here and There, 1876-1917

By: Cantacuzene, Princess Julia, Countess Speransky

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2556

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece and B&W photographs. Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzne Spiransky, Princess Cantacuzne, Countess Spiransky (1876-1975), was an American author and historian. She was the eldest child of Frederick Dent Grant and his wife Ida Marie Honor, and the first grandchild of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. In 1899, she married Prince Mikhail Cantacuzne, a Russian general and diplomat. Princess Cantacuzne was the author of three first-person accounts of the ...
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Puccini: A Critical Biography

By: Carner, Mosco

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Holmes & Meier: 1974

Seller ID: 21817

ISBN: 0715607952

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. First published in 1958, this new (2nd) edition of Dr. Carner's definitive book on Puccini contains many revisions and additions. "No study of Puccini has appeared in any language comparable to this for thoroughness and penetration, both musical and psychological." - Daily Telegraph. . The volume is in virtually perfect condition, except for a former owner's name on the reverse of the rfep; else as new. The price-clipped dust jacket has some minor chipping, a closed tear near the heel of the spine,...
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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1949

Seller ID: 16223

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Stated First Edition. Full red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photographs. . Corners and head and heel of spine show some mild wear, former owner's inscription on fep, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. x, (i), 304, (1) pp
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Napoleon and his Parents: On the Threahold of History

By: Carrington, Dorothy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, Dutton: 1990

Seller ID: 9810

ISBN: 0525248331

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's white cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs and drawings. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The dust jacket is price-clipped but otherwise unmarked. AS NEW/NEAR FINE. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xxv), 289 pp
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The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence

By: Carswell, Catherine

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1932

Seller ID: 25382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. (red). . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, spine and edges of boards lightly sunned, some sparse notes and underlining in pencil throughout. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 296 pp
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Category: Biography