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R. E. Lee: A Biography (Four Volumes, Complete)

By: Freeman, Douglas Southall

Price: $650.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1945

Seller ID: 9655

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spines, gilt lettering and decoration on each cover. Originally published in 1934. Profusely illustrated with photographs, facsimilies, and maps. xviii, (ii), 647, (plus 34 illustrations and maps - one fold-out); xi, (ii), 621, (plus 77 illustrations and maps); xi, (ii), 559, (plus 70 illustrations and maps); viii, (ii), 594, (plus 30 illustrations and maps) pp. . All volumes are tight and square, with minimal soiling and shelf-wear; gilt on spines faded, all interiors and illustrations clean and bright. NEAR FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 647; 621; ...
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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 7" - 9" 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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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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Champion Campaigner: Franklin D. Roosevelt

By: Gosnell, Harold F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Macmillan: 1952

Seller ID: 21716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with B&W political cartoons. . Head and heel of spine gently bumped, pages and page edges lightly sunned, else tight, square and clean. Dust jacket is slightly worn and sunned, some tears at corners and edges, previous price sticker affixed to rear panel. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 235 pp
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CLEOPATRA

By: Grant, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Barnes and Noble Books: 1992

Seller ID: 266

ISBN: 0880297255

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. Illustrated with B&W maps. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. B&W Maps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 301 pp
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Julius Caesar

By: Grant, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, M. Evans & Company: 1992

Seller ID: 631

ISBN: 0871317206

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo, (xii), 173 pp. Publisher's quarter light gray paper over black paper boards. Pages and binding in pristine condition. Wonderful biography with poor bibliography. NF/AN. slight shelfwear on dust jacket, else NF. Book , AN. . B&W Maps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 173 pp
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Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic 1895-1926

By: Graves, Richard Perceval

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Elisabeth Sifton Books: 1987

Seller ID: 26305

ISBN: 0670813265

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Quarter bound in black cloth over grey boards, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Tops of boards lightly sunned, some faded pencil marks at top corner of ffep, else fine. Unclipped dust jacker, now wrapped in Mylar, show mild shelf wear, front flap lightly creased. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxi, 387 pp
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The von Richthofen Sisters: The Triumphant and the Tragic Modes of Love

By: Green, Martin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1974

Seller ID: 26340

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Full purple cloth, red lettering and black decoration on spine, t.e.g. (red), fore edge deckle, black endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Former owner's name and stamp on half-title page, edges of boards sunned. Price-clipped dust jacket shows mild shelf wear, spine sunned, flaps lightly creased. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+ . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xviii, 396 pp
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Category: Biography