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Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography, with a Narrative of his Public Life and Services by Rev. H. Hastings Weld

By: Franklin, Benjamin

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers: 1856

Seller ID: 27692

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full brown embossed cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, intricate blind-stamped decoration on covers. Illustrated with 76 engravings by J. G. Chapman. Originally copyrighted in 1848, this is the second or third printing. . This is an ex-library copy with the usual stickers and the residue of a removed pocket on the rep, otherwise unmarked, tight and square. GOOD.. Ex-Library. Engravings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xvi), (ii), 549 pp
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The Wives of Henry VIII

By: Fraser, Antonia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1992

Seller ID: 23709

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Color Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 479 pp
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire

By: Fraser, Flora

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2009

Seller ID: 21903

ISBN: 0307265447

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in red cloth over tan boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with 12 pages of color photographs and reproductions.. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has small scratch on spine, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xvi, 287, (1) pp
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Emma, Lady Hamilton

By: Fraser, Flora

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1987

Seller ID: 24910

ISBN: 0394530535

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in beige cloth over beige boards, copper lettering on spine, medallion blind-stamped on front cover, fore-edge deckle, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with B&W reproductions. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. x, 356, (1) pp
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Lee: An Abridgment in One Volume by Richard Harwell of the Four-Volume R. E. Lee

By: Freeman, Douglas Southall

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Birmingham, AL, The Southern Classics Library: 1982

Seller ID: 11184

Binding: Leather

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Full brown leather, spine split into six compartments by five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on spine and boards, aeg, red silk ribbon marker, cream silk endpapers. Illustrated with color and B&W maps and photographs. . Aside from the Registry bookplate on the half-title, the volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Southern Classics Library Series. Color and B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xvii, 601, (1) pp
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My Friend Leonard

By: Frey, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Riverhead Books: 2005

Seller ID: 26468

ISBN: 1573223158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's grey paper over grey boards, silver lettering on spine, silver decoration on front cover. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (viii), 357, (3) pp
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Goethe: His Life and Times

By: Friedenthal, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The World Publishing Company: 1963

Seller ID: 23931

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Full red cloth, blue lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W reproductions. . Volume shows mild wear around corners and head and heel of spine, spine sunned and lightly rubbed, former owner's name on ffep, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 561 pp
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Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson

By: Friedman, Lawrence J.; Robert Coles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Scribner: 1999

Seller ID: 13572

ISBN: 0684195259

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in black cloth over green boards, gilt lettering on spine. . Remainder mark on bottom edge, else as new. The unclipped dust jacket shows only slight shelf-wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 592 pp
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George The Fourth

By: Fulford, Roger

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1935

Seller ID: 15181

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine with vertical bands of decoration. Illustrated with B&W photograph on frontispiece and other B&W photographs. Includes List of Authorities and Index. . Covers and spine are faded, head and heel shelf-worn, beveled corners, else volume is unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD. . B&W photograph. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 334 pp
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Julius Caesar Man, Soldier, and Tyrant

By: Fuller, J.F.C.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Da Capo Press: 1965

Seller ID: 7561

ISBN: 0306804220

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

8vo, 336 pp, B&W illustrated frontispiece. B&W diagrams , illustrations and maps throughout. Slight shelf-wear, pages clean and tight. . Spine cocked and creased, slight shelf-wear,esp bottom edge, otherwise unmarked, pages tight. VERY GOOD . B&W maps and illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 336 pp
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The Life and Times of Chaucer

By: Gardner, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977

Seller ID: 12036

ISBN: 0394493176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Brief gift inscription on front flap of price-clipped dust jacket. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. ix, 328, x pp
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte

By: Gaskell, Mrs. (Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Company: 1875

Seller ID: 20268

Binding: Leather

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Half leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, one black and one red label in two compartments, gilt borders in all compartments, gilt borders on covers, marbled endpapers. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810 – 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mrs. Gaskell was a close friend of Ch...
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte

By: Gaskell, Mrs. (Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Company: (1889)

Seller ID: 27287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

Quarter bound in publisher's green cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering on black panel on spine. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Bronte with facsimile signature. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mrs. Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, and was asked by Charl...
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My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

By: Gay, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 27774

ISBN: 0300076703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over green boards, silver lettering on spine, gray endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Renowned historian Peter Gay tell the poignant story of his youth as an assimilated antireligious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939. Peter Joachim Gay (né Fröhlich; 1923 – 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author. Born Peter Joachim Fröhlich in June 1923 to a Jewish family in Berlin, he and his family fled from Nazi Germany in 1939 and arrived in the U.S. in 1941. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and forme...
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Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark

By: Geniesse, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, Random House: 1999

Seller ID: 13337

ISBN: 0394583965

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on spine.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 432 pp
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George the Faithful: The Life and Times of King George V

By: Gibbs, Sir Philip (ed)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: (1936)

Seller ID: 26749

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of B&W photographs.. Former owner's small address labels on fep and rep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 534, (10) pp
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WINSTON CHURCHILL The Wilderness Years

By: Gilbert, Martin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1981

Seller ID: 18612

ISBN: 0333325648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Publisher's full dark red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with b&w photographs. . Head and heel of spine are lightly rubbed, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket is faded on the spine, dust soiled on the covers and has a water stain at the head of the spine, not affecting the book or any of the pages. NEAR FINE/ VERY GOOD-. . B&W Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 279 pp
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Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West

By: Glendinning, Victoria

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Quill: 1983

Seller ID: 26290

ISBN: 0688041116

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Volume shows mild shelf wear, former owner's name and address written on half-title page. VERY GOOD+. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xviii, (ii), 436, (3) pp
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Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music

By: Glover, Jane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2005

Seller ID: 17610

ISBN: 0060563508

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Signed by author on title page. Quarter bound in black cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W and color reproductions. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition, showing only light shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (vii), 406, (1) pp. Signed by Author
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Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide

By: Goldberg, Jeffrey

Price: $6.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 2006

Seller ID: 23616

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xi), 316 pp
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Carl Sandburg

By: Golden, Harry

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cleveland, The World Publishing Company: 1961

Seller ID: 6532

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's beige cloth, gilt lettering on red panel on spine, gilt lettering and red portrait medallion on cover, TEG (red), fore-edge deckle. 8vo. 287, (1) pp. Unmarked, spine sunned and worn, boards mildly rubbed, front hinge starting, top edge lightly spotted, else fine. VERY GOOD.. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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James Joyce

By: Golding, Louis

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd.: 1933

Seller ID: 24452

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Green cloth with black design of inkwell and paper at bottom of front cover. Black print on spine. . Spine is darkened but in fine condition. New York Herald Tribune from Januarty 26th 1941 is folded and inserted between pages 76 and 77, leaving indentation of article which has been inserted since 1941. Wonderful copy. Very slight wear to spine on book and dust jacket, otherwise book is in pristine condition. Bright interior, tight and square. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE.. Modern Writers and Playwrights Series Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 175 pp
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Goldwater

By: Goldwater, Barry M.; Jack Casserly

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday: 1988

Seller ID: 23099

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Quarter bound red cloth on blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, author's signature in gilt on cover. . Lower spine rubbed, gilt on spine dulled, else tight, clean, square, and unmarked. VERY GOOD-. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xiii), 414 pp
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My Father Owned a Circus

By: Gollmar, Robert H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers Ltd.: 1965

Seller ID: 24532

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Signed by the author on the ffep. Publisher's full olive cloth, red lettering on spine and cover. Profusely illustrated with photographs and full-color reproduction of the 1911 Souvener Route Book, which includes a listing of the performers in the big show, and all of the other personnel working with the show, including salary information. This is a nostalgic history of the Gollmar Brothers Circus, the "Greatest Of American Shows," which began as a small wagon show in 1891, and became, by 1916, the fourth largest railroad Circus in America. The book includes a large amount of techn...
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Beyond the Looking Glass

By: Gordon, Colin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1982

Seller ID: 25133

ISBN: 0151120226

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W illustrations. The author weaves a puzzle and detective story that leads us into the lives of the people who made up Alice's world, including John Ruskin, William Thackeray, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934), the Hargrave and Liddell families, and many others. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition, showing only minor shelf-wear. FINE/FINE.. Color and B&W Illustrations. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 246, (7) pp
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Category: Biography