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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini A Florentine Artist

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Spenser Press: N.D.

Seller ID: 10843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering on green panels and gilt design on spine, border and design blind-stamped on front cover. . Gilt design on spine faded, head and heel of spine slightly worn, front cover smudged, corners bumped, endpapers yellowed, former owner's name on fep, title page lightly smudged, pencil scribble on rep, else fine. VERY GOOD. . The World's Greatest Literature Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 403 pp
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American Rose A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2010

Seller ID: 14951

ISBN: 1400066913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Quarter bound tan over black boards, gilt lettering and design on spine. Frontispiece is photograph of a young Rose Louise Hovick. . Head and heel of spine glently bumped. Dust jacket has very slight wear to head and heel. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 422 pp
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The World According to Martha

By: Adler, Bill (Editor)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Mcgraw-Hill: 2006

Seller ID: 24504

ISBN: 0071464565

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall. vii, 182, (1) pp
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Memoirs of the Life of John Adlum in the Revolutionary War

By: Adlum, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Caxton Club: 1968

Seller ID: 26281

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

First, Limited edition (limited to 500 copies). Bound full blue slate G. S .B. Fabric's S-522 cloth, blue-stamped on the spine, black lettering and red decoration on white label on cover, printed endpapers. Edited, and with an Introduction by Howard H. Peckham. John Adlum (1759-1836) was a pioneering American viticulturalist who was the first to cultivate the Catawba grape. He is known as "the father of American viticulture." He also served in the American Revolutionary War; was a well-known surveyor; was one of the first associate judges in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; and served...
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Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, of Several Eminent Persons of the Present Age. Never Before Printed. (Three Volumes, Complete)

By: Almon, John

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, T. N. Longman and L. B. Seeley: 1797

Seller ID: 22616

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Quarter bound in tan calf over original boards, spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on black label in one compartment, gilt volume numbers and dates in two compartments, gilt borders on edges. John Almon (1737-1805) was an English journalist and writer on political subjects, notable for his efforts to secure the right to publish reports on the debates in Parliament. He was born in Liverpool and came to London, where in 1761 he was a reporter for the Gazetteer, and published A Review of Mr. Pitt's Administration, which was popular with the opposition. In 1770 ...
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These Wonderful People: Intimate Moments in Their Lives

By: Ames, Noel (ed)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Peoples Book Club: 1947

Seller ID: 27508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers. These brief, intimate glimpses into the lives famous people reveal them as warm, sincere human beings. Each colorful selection, whether an autobiography or biography, is so well written that you will better understand the people who move through these pages - pages in which there is struggle and heroism, happiness and sorrow, success and failure, youth and old age - pages from which emerge their great accomplishments. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Irving Berlin, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, Th...
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The Best Cat Ever

By: Amory, Cleveland

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1993

Seller ID: 12017

ISBN: 0316037443

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vii), 262 pp
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Bill and Hillary The Marriage

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 1999

Seller ID: 11748

ISBN: 2702838707

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

GOOD/GOOD.. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 340 pp
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Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1998

Seller ID: 23271

ISBN: 0688153127

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's blue paper over white boards, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xi, (iii), 472 pp
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My Lord, What a Morning

By: Anderson, Marian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Avon Camelot: 1967

Seller ID: 11425

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 222, (2) pp
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The Living Lincoln: The Man, His Mind, His Times, and the War He Fought, Reconstructed from His Own Writings

By: Angle, Paul M.; Earl Schenck Miers (eds)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1955

Seller ID: 28044

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, spine in six compartments separated by light blue borders, gilt lettering on light blue panel in one compartment, gilt lettering in two others, top edge blue. The Living Lincoln is based on the original eight-volume edition of "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," (the ninth volume is an index) published by Rutgers University Press in 1953, to which these editors have been given unlimited access. From this collection these editors have selected the most revealing of Lincoln's writings, both on himself and the important issu...
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Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian

By: Annan, Noel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1984

Seller ID: 23928

ISBN: 0394530616

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Quarter bound in grey cloth over grey boards, copper lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs. . Edges of boards sunned, former owner's inscription on ffep, some very light marks and underlining throughout, newspaper review of book has been taped to rfep, else near fine. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, spine lightly sunned. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD+. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xv, (i), 432 pp
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A Boy Musician; or, The Young Days of Mozart

By: Anonymous

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son: N.D.

Seller ID: 27520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and red, black, and gree decoration on spine and cover. Duotone frontispiece. . Worn, one page loose (but present), award label on fep (dated Dec. 21, 1888), else good. FAIR. . Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 126 pp
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Catherine the Great

By: Anthony, Katharine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1925

Seller ID: 21562

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in beige cloth over decorated boards, black lettering on spine, t.e.g. (black), fore and bottom edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W plates. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, spine sunned, tops of several pages lightly stained, not affecting text, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 331 pp
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Cervantes: Adventurer, Idealist and Destiny's Fool

By: Arbo, Sebastian Juan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson: 1955

Seller ID: 9165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Full red cloth, gilt medallion on cover, gilt lettering on spine. . Boards slightly warped, some slight wear to corners and head and heel of spine, some mild rubbing on spine, some light foxing on endpapers. VERY GOOD- . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 261 pp
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Up The Years From Bloomsbury: An Autobiography

By: Arliss, George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1927

Seller ID: 14523

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full green cloth, black lettering on cover and spine, t.e.g. (green), fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece. . Spine moderately sunned with mild wear to head and heel, corners bumped, rear cover lightly stained, former owner's name on ffep, some light underlining throughout, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 321 pp
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Days of Grace

By: Ashe, Arthur; Arnold Rampersad

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1993

Seller ID: 19213

ISBN: 0679423966

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xii, 317 pp
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An Autobiography (Volume 2, only, of 4)

By: Asquith, Margot

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1920

Seller ID: 18537

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's red linen, blue lettering on spine, author's facsimile signature blind-stamped on cover, frontispiece shows B&W sketch of author by the Marchioness of Granby. Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (1864-1945), born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928. Her writing style was not always critically accepted—the most famous review of Asquith's work came from New York wit Dorothy Parker, who wrote, "The affair between Margot ...
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A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson

By: Backes, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 1997

Seller ID: 21986

ISBN: 0816628424

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in green cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on cover and spine, gilt decoration on front cover, green endpapers. Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, and square. Some water damage at bottom of pages in first half of volume, else near fine. VERY GOOD+. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xvi, 387, (2) pp
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The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh

By: Bacon, Francis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1971

Seller ID: 1934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, elaborate gilt and red decoration on covers, top edge green, illustrated endpapers. Printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge. Color and B&W iIllustrations printed at Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., Norwich. Bound by W & J Mackay, Chatham. Includes Introduction by Editor, Foreword, Genealogies, reproduction of Henry's Account Book, and Biographical Index. Bacon's biography of Henry VII was first published in 1622. . Spine rubbed, slipcase lightly worn, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . B&W a...
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Samuel Beckett: A Biography

By: Bair, Deirdre

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1978

Seller ID: 11243

ISBN: 0151792569

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full brown cloth, blue lettering on spine, blue endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Edges (only) lightly foxed, else fine, unmarked, tight, and square. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is mildly chipped. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xiv, 736 pp
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Oxford Life

By: Balsdon, Dacre

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1958

Seller ID: 24041

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full navy blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs.. Gift inscription, otherwise clean, bright, and square. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . B& W Photos and Maps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 279 pp
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Caligula The Corruption of Power

By: Barrett, Anthony A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 612

ISBN: 0300046537

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, red endpapers. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs, line illustrations, maps, plans and family trees. Includes extensive Notes and References, Bibliography and Index. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows only the slightest shelf-wear. AS NEW/NEAR FINE. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvi, 334 pp
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King Peggy: An American Sercretary, Her Royal Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village

By: Bartels, Peggielene; Eleanor Herman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2012

Seller ID: 19059

ISBN: 0385534329

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

AS NEW/AS NEW. . Color Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. ix, 334 pp
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My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter

By: Beer, Anna

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2003

Seller ID: 14513

ISBN: 0345452909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in brown cloth over beige boards, gilt lettering on spine. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows only light shelf-wear, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxii, (v), 292 pp
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Category: Biography