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Schafer David
Just the Greatest Life
Jamesport MO: Poosey Press. Very Good; Covers lightly scuffed. 2000. Second Printing. Softcover. 0967688604 . Inscribed by the author on the title page. Photos. A charming account of the author's life on his Missouri farm. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages . Poosey Press paperback
Référence libraire : 35435 ISBN : 0967688604 9780967688602
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Blackburn, Julia
Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket very lightly scuffed. 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 0679420010 . Bibliography. A biography of the unusual life of Daisy Bates an Englishwoman who spent thirty years in the deserts of South Australia in the early 20th century. Cloth-backed boards. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 232 pages . Pantheon hardcover
Référence libraire : 35487 ISBN : 0679420010 9780679420019
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Barbour, Philip L.
Dmitry: Called the Pretender Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia 1605-1606
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 35504
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Earle, Alice Morse
Margaret Winthrop
Williamstown MA: Corner House Publishers. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped sunned and lightly . tattered. 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. 0879280654 . Red cloth binding. Reprint of this 1895 title by Earle in her Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times series. xiii 341 pp. Index.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Corner House Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 35644 ISBN : 0879280654 9780879280659
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Horwitt, Sanford D.
Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky - His Life and Legacy
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket scuffed owner name on front . free endpaper. 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 0394572432 . xii 595 pp. Index notes several pages of photographs. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Référence libraire : 35682 ISBN : 0394572432 9780394572437
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Harmon Anne N.
And I Never Learned to Yodel! Growing Up in Cape Cod in the 1940s and 1950s
Osterville MA: North Bay Press. Very Good. 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. 096369491x . Signed by the author on the title page. Photos. The eighth-generation Cape Codder relates her early years in Osterville a village in Barnstable. ; 104 pages . North Bay Press paperback
Référence libraire : 35716 ISBN : 096369491x 9780963694911
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Wistar Isaac Jones
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half a Century in War and Peace
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed faint foxing to fore-edges . and page tops. 1937. Hardcover. Blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. vii 528 pp index folding map of American West at rear. Frontispiece photo of the author a lawyer Gold Rush miner Union General during the Civil War and penologist. Howes W-598.; 4to 11" - 13" tall . The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology hardcover
Référence libraire : 35741
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Ernest Samuels
The Young Henry Adams
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1965. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. very good/No DJ. Hardcover no DJ very good condition typical reader wear. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 170213004
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Agresti, Olivia Rossetti
David Lubin: A Study in Practical Idealism
Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed gift inscription on front . pastedown owner stamp on front flyleaf. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. vi 372 pp index. Foreword by William Roscoe Thayer. Photogravure portrait of Lubin as frontispiece. Navy cloth with printed paper spine label. A biography of the Polish-Jewish emigre to California who became a noted agriculturist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Little, Brown and Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 35809
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Griffin, Edward M.
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston 1705-1787
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers scuffed. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0816609071 . x 248 pp index endnotes list of the works of Charles Chauncy. Brick red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Frontispiece portrait of Chauncy a Congregational clergyman. ; Minnesota Monographs in the Humanities; Vol. 11; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . University of Minnesota Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 35837 ISBN : 0816609071 9780816609079
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Carr, Elmendorf L.
John C. R. Kelton: A Boy's Life 1911-1927
Private Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated on the front free endpaper by Mrs. Kelton. Burgundy cloth with title stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Frontispiece photo of the subject and many others. A memorial volume commemorating the short life of John C. R. Kelton of Brookline Mass.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 57 pages . Private Printing hardcover
Référence libraire : 35830
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Robert Stetson Gorham: Born June 28 1863 Died June 18 1913
Boston: Geo. H. Ellis. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and spine. 1915. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding. Photogravure portrait of Gorham a Boston attorney. Inscribed by Mrs. Robert S. Gorham. Top edges gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages . Geo. H. Ellis hardcover
Référence libraire : 35864
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Brookes, Martin
Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton
London: Bloomsbury. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed. 2004. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1582344817 . "Explorer inventor meteorologist psychologist anthropologist and statistician Galton was one of the great Victorian polymaths. But it was in the fledgling field of genetics that he made his most indelible impression. Galton kick-started the enduring nature/nurture debate and took hereditary determinism to its darkest extreme dreaming of a future society built on a race of pure-breeding supermen." from front jacket flap xviii 298 pp. Photos.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Bloomsbury hardcover
Référence libraire : 35120 ISBN : 1582344817 9781582344812
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Freeman, Sarah
Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs. Beeton
NY: Coward McCann & Geoghegan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops dusty jacket lightly . tattered. 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. 069810711X . Cloth-backed boards. Foreword by H. Montgomery Hyde. Index bibliography notes recipes illustrations. The absorbing biography of the remarkable woman who wrote Beeton's Book of Household Management in 1859 a perennially bestselling cookbook in Victorian Britain. ; 336 pages . Coward, McCann & Geoghegan hardcover
Référence libraire : 35186 ISBN : 069810711X 9780698107113
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Mingus Sue Graham
Tonight at Noon: A Love Story
NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375421157 . Many photographs. The wife of the late bassist and composer Charles Mingus relates her stormy but terribly interesting years with the jazz legend. A New York Times Notable Book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages . Pantheon hardcover
Référence libraire : 35210 ISBN : 0375421157 9780375421150
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Reid, Michaela
Ask Sir James: Sir James Reid Personal Physician to Queen Victoria and Physician-In-Ordinary to Three Monarchs
NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and lightly . scuffed. 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0670826464 . Index glossary notes illustrations. The wife of Sir Reid's grandson relates a detailed biography of Queen Victoria's medical doctor and confidante. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages . Viking hardcover
Référence libraire : 35270 ISBN : 0670826464 9780670826469
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Danilova, Alexandra
Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped spine cocked. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394505395 . Burgundy cloth binding. Many photos. A detailed autobiography by the late storied prima ballerina who started out as a eight-year-old dancer with St. Petersburg's Maryinsky School danced with George Balanchine and Diaghilev in Paris and Monte Carlo at the Ballets Russe and directed her own touring company before teaching with the School of American Ballet. Winner of the 1986 de la Torre Bueno Prize for the best book in the Field of Dance Studies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Référence libraire : 35292 ISBN : 0394505395 9780394505398
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Marchand, Philip
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
NY: Ticknor & Fields. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned jacket price-clipped. 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 0899194850 . 320 pages . Ticknor & Fields hardcover
Référence libraire : 34809 ISBN : 0899194850 9780899194851
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Harmon, Anne N.
Ambergris and Arrowheads: Growing Up on Cape Cod in the 1930s and 1940s
Osterville MA: North Bay Press. Very Good. 1993. Second Printing. Softcover. 0963694901 . Signed by the author on the title page. Photos. The eighth-generation Cape Codder relates her early years in Osterville a village in Barnstable. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages . North Bay Press paperback
Référence libraire : 34829 ISBN : 0963694901 9780963694904
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In the Hearts of His Friends: George Kurtz Bird 1876-1930
Private Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D. Hardcover. Circa 1930-31 memorial volume for the President of the now defunct Plimpton Press of Norwood Massachusetts. Blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt with tan linen spine gilt-stamped leather spine label. Photogravure portrait of Bird as frontispiece. 61 pages of memorial testimonials by various authors. . Private Printing hardcover
Référence libraire : 34826
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Karol, K. S.
Between Two Worlds: The Life of a Young Pole in Russia 1939-46
NY: Henry Holt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. 0805000992 . Translated from the French by Eamonn McArdle. Map endpapers. ; 309 pages . Henry Holt hardcover
Référence libraire : 34833 ISBN : 0805000992 9780805000993
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Sneller Anne Gertrude
A Vanished World
Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket waterstained at lower front . boards jacket price-clipped and tattered musty. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. The author's memoir about growing up in the rural town of Cicero in New York's Onondaga County in the last half of the 1800s. Author photo on rear jacket panel. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 365 pages . Syracuse University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 34896
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Strahs, James
Seed Journal
NY: Harper and Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060141441 . The author refused military induction during the Vietnam War years and chronicles his exile abroad in this journal. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages . Harper and Row hardcover
Référence libraire : 34911 ISBN : 0060141441 9780060141448
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Washington, George
The Journal of Major George Washington: An Account of His First Official Mission Made As Emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the Commandant of the French Forces on the Ohio October 1753 - January 1754
Williamsburg VA: Colonial Williamsburg. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Price inked on front jacket panel. 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. 091041257x . A facsimile reprint of Major George Washington's first official mission from Virginia to Ohio in 1753-1754. Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Map notes introduction. ; 42 pages . Colonial Williamsburg hardcover
Référence libraire : 34919 ISBN : 091041257x 9780910412575
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of James S. Parker Late a Representative from New York
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn corners rounded. 1934. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt stamping on front boards. Frontispiece photo of the New York Congressman James Southworth Parker 1867-1933 of Salem New York. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages . U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 34931
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of David Johnson Foster: Delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office. Good with no dust jacket; Silverfish damage to boards boards rubbed. 1913. Hardcover. Black cloth binding with gilt stamping on front boards. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the Vermont congressman. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pages . U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 34932
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Lacy, Leslie Alexander
The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro
NY: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops soiled. 1970. Hardcover. The author was "brought up in the rareified atmosphere of Negro society private schools and a studied imitation of the white world" but then became an activist who left the US for Nkrumah's Ghana and later returned to America. Black cloth sewn binding. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages . Macmillan hardcover
Référence libraire : 34933
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Miller, Francis Trevelyan
Thomas A. Edison: An Inspiring Story for Boys
Philadelphia: John C. Winston. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and stained. 1940. Hardcover. Black cloth binding. Photo endpapers showing brightly lit cityscape at night. Many illustrations and photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages . John C. Winston hardcover
Référence libraire : 34945
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Peat, Harold R.
Private Peat
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards rubbed light foxing to endpapers . jacket waterstained rubbed and tattered. 1917. Later Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth with titles stamped in white on front boards and spine. Maps many photograph reproductions of World War I soldiers. Private Peat served in the Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent during World War I and was gravely injured in the fighting. His oddly enthusiastic memoir of combat in France and Belgium outlines various battles and tells the story of many valiant soldiers. Rear cover blurb by the author notes that anxious mothers and fathers of American Boys should not worry about gas attacks as "the universal use of gas masks has made that devilish German innovation about as harmless as a morning mist." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 235 pages . Bobbs-Merrill hardcover
Référence libraire : 35005
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Metcalf, Keyes DeWitt
Random Recollections of an Anachronism: Or Seventy-Five Years of Library Work
NY: Readex Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Hint of scuffing to jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0918414024 . Red cloth. xviii 401 pp. index. In this first volume of the nonagenarian librarian's memoirs he discusses his years at the New York Public Library 1913-1937 ending with his decision to accept a position as Director of the Harvard University Library. . Readex Books hardcover
Référence libraire : 34723 ISBN : 0918414024 9780918414021
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George and Helen Waite Papashvily
Anything Can Happen
Harper & Brothers Publishers 1945. Hardcover. very good/poor tattered dj. Hardcover very good overall typical reader wear former owners name and address on title page. DJ largely intact but tattered and front end flap separated. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 160820006
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Fan Kane
Suitcase Diplomats A Story of A Pacific Journey
Carlton Press 1962. Hardcover. very good/Good - considerable wear to dj. Signed. Autographed by author inscribed to previous owner dated 1962 DJ a little tattered especially on edges and spine. Carlton Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 160820007
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Henry P. Van Dusen, Editor
The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles Selections From His Articles and Addresses
The Westminster Press 1959. Hardcover. very good/No DJ. Hardcover reading wear no DJ. Former owners name inside front cover. The Westminster Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 160822005
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Pederson, William D.; Howard, Steve
Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World The M.E. Sharpe Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt Studies Volume 4
Routledge 2002-12-14. Paperback. Very Good. excellent condition has name on first page Routledge paperback
Référence libraire : 160904025 ISBN : 0765610310 9780765610317
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Albert Einstein; Alan Harris translator
Einstein The World As I See It
Philosophical Library 1949. Hardcover. very good/Good - considerable wear. Hardcover very good condition typical reader wear. Gift inscription inside front cover DJ very good but considerable wear. Philosophical Library hardcover
Référence libraire : 160919012
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De Aguirre, Jose Antonio
Escape Via Berlin: Eluding Franco in Hitler's Europe
Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. 0874171679 . Reprint of this 1944 title with new annotations and introduction by Robert P. Clark. Brown cloth binding. The author briefly served as President of the Basque Republic until he escaped his country and went into exile in France when Spanish Nationalists took over in 1937.; 391 pages . University of Nevada Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 34610 ISBN : 0874171679 9780874171679
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Norman Podhoretz
Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg Lionel and Diana Trilling Lillian Hellman Hannah Arendt and Norman Mailer
Free Press 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good dj. Signed. Hardcover very good condition doubtful if read autographed copy just signature no inscription DJ very good with shelf wear. Free Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 160706004 ISBN : 0684855941 9780684855943
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Woodruff Hiram; Foster Charles J. editor
The Trotting Horse of America: How to Train and Drive Him with Reminiscences of the Trotting Turf
NY: J. B. Ford and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed frontispiece toned and foxed . biopredation at spine pages toned. 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes introductory notice by George Wilkes and a biographical sketch by the author. Green beveled boards with gilt design of trotter and driver in buggy stamped in gilt on front boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Woodruff with tissue guard. Woodruff 1817-1867 was a famed trotting horse trainer and driver and this posthumously published biography recalls his many winning purses and the horses and races with which he was associated. ; 412 pages . J. B. Ford and Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 34531
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Willard L. King
Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice of the United States 1888-1910
Phoenix Books University of Chicago Press 1967. Paperback. very good. very good condition has previous owners name plate inside front cover cover wear but quite good. Phoenix Books, University of Chicago Press paperback
Référence libraire : 160520009 ISBN : 0226435792 9780226435794
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William Hillcourt
Baden Powell: The Two Lives of a Hero
The Gilwellian Press 1992. Hardcover. former library book with library/No DJ as issued. Hardcover former library book but only signs are a name plate inside front cover and "discard" stamp. No other signs very good condition. No DJ as issued. The Gilwellian Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 160522011 ISBN : 0839535945 9780839535942
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Monroe, Will S.
Comenius and the Beginning of Educational Reform
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed and rounded. 1912. Later Printing. Hardcover. Tan cloth binding. Appendices. A biography of the 16th century educator John Amos Comenius. Handsome engraved bookplate of Edgar S. Barney 1861-1938 a longtime principal of New York City's Hebrew Technical Institute. ; The Great Educators Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 184 pages . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Référence libraire : 34422
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Bolster, Minnie Clark
A Saratoga Original: Clarence Knapp and Those He Met Along the Way
Self Published. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 1424334586 . Inscribed by the author to former Saratoga Springs Mayor A. C. Dake. Green cloth binding. Many illustrations and photos. A history of Saratoga Springs New York as told through the lens of the life of Clarence Knapp 1873-1963 an attorney New Yorker writer actor and two-time mayor of Saratoga Springs. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages . Self Published hardcover
Référence libraire : 34459 ISBN : 1424334586 9781424334582
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Auguste Wild
Mixed Grill in Cairo Experiences of an International Hotelier
Sydenham & Co. LTD 1954. Hardcover. very good/Good - considerable wear. very good condition typical reader wear mostly to DJ. DJ small tears well used has gift inscription inside front cover by son of author. Sydenham & Co. LTD hardcover
Référence libraire : 160411002
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Hill, Lewis
Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered
Chester CT: Globe Pequot Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name stamped on front free . endpaper. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0871064251 . Signed by the author on the title page. xii 206 pp. List of Useful Yankee Expressions at rear including "old pelter" the term for anyone older than you are opposite of "little snot" and "stave" in reference to making a big commotion so it will look like you are working. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Globe Pequot Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 34319 ISBN : 0871064251 9780871064257
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Christopher Hassal
Ambrosia and Small Beer A Record of a Correspondece Between Edward Marsh and Christopher Hassall
Harcourt Brace & World Inc 1965. Hardcover. very good/good. very good condition DJ has light staining but quite good. Harcourt, Brace & World Inc hardcover
Référence libraire : 160425010
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Arthur Marx
Not As A Crocodile
Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/No DJ. very good typical reader & shelf wear. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Référence libraire : 151026005
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Buchanan, Patrick J
The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Crown Forum 2014-07-08. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/excellent condition. 6x1x9. excellent condition Crown Forum hardcover
Référence libraire : 151222001 ISBN : 0553418637 9780553418637
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Nadel, Ira Bruce
Biography: Fiction Fact and Form
St Martins Press 1986-10-01. Paperback. has gift inscription inside fron. Signed. Autographed by author inscribed to previous owner - dated 1987 very good condition light reader & shelf wear includes personal letter on UBC letterhead from author to friend St Martins Press paperback
Référence libraire : 151108008 ISBN : 0312078676 9780312078676
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
John Adams and the American Revolution
Atlantic Little Brown & Co 1950. Hardcover. excellent /DJ has shelfwear & small tears. Book is in excellent condition DJ has some small tears on edges. Quite nice book Atlantic, Little, Brown & Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 151031002 ISBN : 0316103853 9780316103855
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R. Franklin Smith
Edward R. Murrow The War Years
New Issues Press 1973. Hardcover. former library book . Good condition former library book. Pocket page removed one page marked discard. Otherwise very good. Hardcover no DJ mostly wear to cover. New Issues Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 151230005
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