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Abels, Jules
The Rockefeller Billions: The Story of the World's Most Stupendous Fortune
<p>NY: Macmillan. Good in Good dust jacket; Spine cracked jacket worn. 1965. Later Printing. Hardcover. Beetle-themed bookplate of David Rockefeller on front pastedown endpaper. Black cloth binding photos index. A history of the Rockefeller fortune and the activities of the various family members. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Macmillan hardcover
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Moses, Robert
Public Works: A Dangerous Trade
<p>NY: McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front flyleaf removed jacket lightly worn. 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed to real estate developer Joe Lesser by the author Robert Moses on dedication page. Gray illustrated cloth binding. Foreword by Raymond Moley xxxvi 952pp biography index photos. Autobiography by the legendary public works commissioner and New York State and City power broker who remade many of the metropolitan parks highways neighborhoods and bridges. A doorstop of a book only bested by Robert Caro's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Moses. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> McGraw-Hill hardcover
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Hope, Bob; Martin, Pete
The Last Christmas Show
<p>Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn jacket tattered and stained page . edges stained. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385072635 . Warmly inscribed to Betty L. By Bob Hope on the title page. Red cloth binding xii 383pp. Many photos. Preface by John Steinbeck. The legendary entertainer discusses memories of countless overseas trips over three decades to entertain American troops. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .</p> Doubleday and Company hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 63229 ISBN : 0385072635 9780385072632
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Ewell, M L Beckwith
One True Heart: Leaves from the Life of George Beckwith
<p>New Haven CT: Henry H. Peck. Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed corners bumped front hinge . cracked portrait tissue guard missing. 1880. First Printing. Hardcover. Blindstamped green cloth binding with gilt titles. Black and white frontispiece illustration notes. A solid copy of this memorial tribute to the founder of Beckwith's Almanac. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 134 pages .</p> Henry H. Peck hardcover
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Allen, Frederick Lewis
Paul Revere Reynolds: A Biographical Sketch
<p>NY: Privately Printed. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and lightly worn. 1944. First Printing. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with deckled fore-edge. Black and white frontispiece portrait photo. A solid copy of this profile of the highly regarded literary agent. Inscribed: From the Reynolds Family 1944 on the front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages .</p> Privately Printed hardcover
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Pringle, Henry F
The Life and Times of William Howard Taft: A Biography In Two Volumes
Hamden CT: Archon Books. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase sunned and lightly worn. 1964. Later Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth bindings housed in paper-covered cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Photos illustrations. Comprehensive biography of the 27th President who later served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Volume one: xii 555pp; volume two: viii 1106pp index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Archon Books hardcover
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Russell, Bertrand
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell In Three Volumes
<p>Boston and New York: Atlantic Press Monthly and Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jackets tattered and toned. Hardcover. Volume one: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914 Boston: Atlantic Press Monthly 1967 first American edition second printing. Navy cloth binding. 356pp photos index. Volume two: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1914-1944 Boston: Atlantic Press Monthly 1968 first American edition first printing. Red cloth binding. 418pp photos index. Volume three: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1944-1969 NY: Simon and Schuster 1969 first American edition first printing. Green cloth binding. 339pp photos index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Atlantic Press Monthly and Simon and Schuster hardcover
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Coxe, William; Walpole, Robert
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford. 3 volume set
London: T Cadell; W Davies. VG : in very good condition. Covers rubbed. Slight foxing. 1800. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xl 470pp; 506pp; 360pp; xxxiv. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . T Cadell; W Davies hardcover
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Frank, J
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt 18211849
Princeton University Press 1976. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN:0691062609 Princeton University Press hardcover
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Ottenberg, Hans-Gunter
C.P.E. Bach
Oxford University Press 1987. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN:0193152460 Oxford University Press hardcover
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Seton, Marie
Sergei M. Eisenstein: A Biography
Dennis Dobson 1978. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN:0234774401 Dennis Dobson hardcover
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Lutyens, Elisabeth
Goldfish Bowl
Cassell & Company 1972. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:0304936634 Cassell & Company hardcover
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Schenk Jr, Hilbert & Henry Kendall
Shallow Water Diving For Pleasure and Profit
Cornell Maritime Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1950. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover tight binding clean unmarked pages the covers have faint shelfwear else VG in VG- DJ with over-all wear chip in lower spine spine has mild loss now in clear mylar jacket protector. Prior to WWII underwater diving was a scarce sport and business bloomed after the war however. This is an early book on the subject; it has the very rare dustjacket which is now in clear mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Cornell Maritime Press hardcover
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Angell, Frank C
Looking Backward Four Score Years 1845-1925: An Autobiography and Reminiscences
Centredale RI: Centredale Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn corners rounded. 1925. Hardcover. 10 78pp photos. Green cloth titled in gilt. Frontispiece photo of the author. The author relates his life in the small Rhode Island village of Centredale where he spent many years as the village librarian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Centredale Press hardcover
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Bell, H G
Life of Mary Queen of Scots Two Volume Set
NY: J. & J. Harper. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and foxed scattered foxing . throughout text splits at outer joints. 1831. Hardcover. Printed light brown cloth. Two volume set. Harper's Family Library No. XXI and XXII. Measures 6.25 x 4 inches. 276pp; 275pp publisher ads. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . J. & J. Harper hardcover
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Field, Eugene
An Auto-Analysis
Chicago: Frank M. Morris. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn and soiled several . pages toned from something laid in which is no longer in situ. 1896. Second Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth spine with printed paper-covered boards. Measures 6x4 inches. Beautifully hand-illuminated initial letters in gilt and color which BAL states were painted by Mrs. W. Irving Way. Printed for Frank M. Morris of The Book Shop by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At Chicago's Lakeside Press. Second edition of Field's 1891 sketch about himself republished posthumously and with a new introduction by Francis Wilson in a limited edition of 350 numbered copies on laid paper this is no. 213 and 150 copies on Japan vellum. BAL 5822. I dislike all exercise and I play all games very indifferently. I love to read in bed. I believe in churches and schools; I hate wars armies soldiers guns and fireworks. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Frank M. Morris hardcover
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Strachey, Lytton
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning Dr. Arnold Florence Nightingale General Gordon
NY: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and toned. N.D. Later Printing. Hardcover. Circa 1936. Brown flexible balloon cloth with maroon topstain. xi 342pp 6pp titles list. Toledano binding style 7 orange Rockwell Kent endpapers titles list and jacket reverse to G27 Origin of Species and #215 Ten Days That Shook The World. 242 titles noted on jacket non zip code rear panel. A lovely copy in the hard to find 95 cent blue and white pictorial dust jacket. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . The Modern Library hardcover
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Bicknell, Leona M
How a Little Girl Went to Africa: Told by Herself
Boston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned edges foxed pages curled. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Red decorated cloth. Many black and white photos. The Burlington Vermont girl relates the two years she spent in South Africa with her missionary parents. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 172 pages . Lothrop, Lee & Shepard hardcover
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Pepys, Samuel; Wheatley, Henry B (editor)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys In Three Volumes
London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket; Binders defect to pp. 175-176 doesn't . affect text boards lightly worn. Hardcover. Three volumes uniformly bound in black cloth titled in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. 371pp; 385pp; 514pp. Volume One: 1659-1663; Volume Two: 1664-1667; Volume Three: 1667-1669 index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. hardcover
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Troide, Lars E (editor) ; Burney, Fanny
The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume I 1768-1773
Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket and edges foxed. 1988. First North American Edition. Hardcover. 0773505385 . xlvi 353pp. Illustrations index history of the Burney manuscripts and family genealogy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . McGill-Queen's University Press hardcover
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Gallatin, James; Gallatin, Count (editor)
A Great Peacemaker: The Diary of James Gallatin Secretary to Albert Gallatin US Envoy to France and England 1813-1827 and Negotiator of the Treaty of Ghent
London: William Heinemann. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine faded boards lightly worn. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth titled in gilt. Introduction by Viscount Bryce. xv 316pp illustrations. Armorial Gallatin bookplate on front pastedown. Inscribed by the author the grandson of James Gallatin to his cousin J. J. Reubell on front free endpaper. Albert Gallatin was Treasury Secretary under Presidents Jefferson and Madison and helped secure the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . William Heinemann hardcover
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Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Flight to Arras
London: William Heinemann. Very Good in Poor dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped taped and heavily . chipped and tattered corners rounded. 1942. Second Printing. Hardcover. French aviator and author Antoine de Saint Exupery is best known for his novella The Little Prince and lived only 44 years disappearing after an aerial World War II reconnaissance mission. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. A memoir of Saint Exupery's service as a French pilot during World War II especially during the Battle of France in 1940. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages . William Heinemann hardcover
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Leonhard, Wolfgang
Child of the Revolution
London: Collins. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and has a few tears. 1957. 1st English Language Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding. Translated from the German by C. M. Woodhouse. Introduction by Edward Crankshaw Glossary index. Absorbing autobiography by the German-born Leonhard who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1936 with his mother a German Communist. She disappeared in the Stalinist purges for thirteen years. He grew up in a children's home. In 1945 he was sent to Germany to serve as a Communist Party official. He escaped to Belgrade in 1949. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 447 pages . Collins hardcover
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Sheridan, Clare
Mayfair to Moscow: Clare Sheridan's Diary
NY: Boni & Liveright. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn and soiled owner name . on verso of front free endpaper pages toned. 1921. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author in French to Madame Louise Knoedler on the half-title. Maroon cloth titled in gilt. Memoir by the British sculptor 1885-1970 outlining her 1920 trip to the Soviet Union and the busts she sculpted of Lenin Trotsky and other Russian historical figures. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages . Boni & Liveright hardcover
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Vance, John G ; Fortescue, J W
Adrian Fortescue: A Memoir
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn owner names on front . free endpaper. 1924. Hardcover. Black cloth binding titled in gilt. Several illustrations. vi 62pp. Biographical chronology list of Fortescue's literary works. A profile of the English Roman Catholic priest theologian artist author and scholar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages . Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd hardcover
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Paine, Harriet E
The Life of Eliza Baylies Wheaton: A Chapter in the History of the Higher Education of Women
Norton MA: The Alumnae Association of Wheaton Seminary. Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed corners worn spine label torn. 1907. First Printing. Hardcover. Brown paper quarter-bound in brown cloth with paper spine label top edges gilt and deckled edges. Black and white frontispiece portrait photo and black and white photos. A biography of the noted advocate of women's education featuring material from her private papers and the reminiscences of friends and associates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages . The Alumnae Association of Wheaton Seminary hardcover
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Ashe, Arthur; DeFord, Frank
Arthur Ashe: Portrait in Motion
<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed light wear to jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395204291 . Inscribed in black felt-tip marker by the late Ashe on the half title: For Tom Thanks for believing in me Arthur. TLS on Arthur Ashe letterhead and signed by Ashe as Arthur in black felt-tip marker to Thomas J. Ross Jr. VP of American Airlines stating that he is enclosing this book as a gift. xii 272pp. Many photos. Green cloth binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Houghton Mifflin hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 55456 ISBN : 0395204291 9780395204290
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Frederick The Great; Frederic II of Prussia
Posthumous Works of Frederic II King of Prussia Volume One
Dublin: Luke White. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and chipped at head of spine front . free endpaper and front flyleaf removed price and stray in marks on front . pastedown endpaper crack at outer front joint pages toned foxed some . light soil. 1791. Leather. Mottled calf. Two leather lettering pieces on spine. Sprinkled edges. Xxv 2 270pp; xii 2 154pp. Translated from the French and with preface by Thomas Holcroft. Volume one only of a four-volume Dublin reprint of the 13-volume 1789 original publication. Contains The History of My Own Times Part I and The History of the Seven Years War Part I. Military history and memoir seen through the eyes of Frederick the Great 1712-1786. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Luke White hardcover
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Nisbet, Harry T
Foot Prints on the Road
Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text. N.D. Hardcover. Circa 1900s. Printed by Martin B. Brown Company NY. Rebound in brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Frontispiece photo and facsimile signature of the author. Scarce memoir by the longtime traveling shoe salesman whose career was ended after an accident in Albany New York which left him an incurably crippled and partially blind pauper inmate of the male blind ward at the almshouse on Blackwells Island NY in distressed want and suffering. He states that he wrote this book to raise funds for himself and his wife. In it he relates many aspects of the shoe industry of the late 19th century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages . Self Published hardcover
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Starkie, Walter
Spanish Raggle-Taggle: Adventures with a Fiddle in North Spain
Bath England: Cedric Chivers Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Sticker liftoff on front pastedown . endpaper. 1973. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. 0855948124 . Orange cloth binding all edges speckled. xv 481 pages. Black and white frontispiece illustration bibliography notes glossary fold-out map and index. Traveling through Spain in the early 1930s as a wandering minstrel the author records interesting and unusual moments and collects stories of local incidents. A New Portway reprint edition of the original 1934 John Murray edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Cedric Chivers Ltd. hardcover
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Bagnold, Enid
A Diary Without Dates
NY: William Morrow. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges foxed front hinge weak endpapers . darkened jacket price-clipped toned and chipped. 1935. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with paper spine label. x 146pp. National Velvet author's first book which records her experiences in a military hospital during World War I. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . William Morrow hardcover
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Pauling, George; Buchan, David (editor)
The Chronicles of a Contractor: Being the Autobiography of the Late George Pauling
London: Constable and Co. Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled and rubbed pages toned minor . foxing to edges and endpapers. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth. Frontispiece photo of Pauling. Introduction by J. O. P. Bland. xii 240pp. Autobiography by the longtime engineer/contractor on various railway and mining projects around the British Empire. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Constable and Co. hardcover
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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
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Leavenworth, Elias Warner
A Genealogy of the Leavenworth Family in the United States with Historical Introduction Etc.
Higginson Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D. Reprint. Hardcover. Circa 2000 reprint of a 1873 genealogy reference work published by S. G. Hitchcock & Co. of Syracuse NY. Navy cloth binding. Indices illustrations. A high-quality facsimile reprint edition in heavy-duty binding. Title page notes that Elias Leavenworth used the 1827 genealogical tree compiled by William and Elias W. Leavenworth of Great Barrington Mass as basis for this work. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 376 pages . Higginson Company hardcover
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Howe, MA DeWolfe M A
The Life and Letters of George Bancroft In Two Volumes
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Hinges cracked in Vol. I both volumes have . light rubbing to boards. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Uniformly bound in dark green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spines. Top edges gilt. Several illustrations in each volume. Bibliography of Bancroft's works. Vol. I: vii 294 pp; Vol. II: 364 pp. Unsigned manuscript note tipped in to front free endpaper of Vol. I: "Mr. Bancroft will do himself the honor to wait on Miss Meade tomorrow at about 1/2 past 3 Monday Eve March 9 -". Bancroft was a U. S. Secretary of the Navy a teacher diplomat and prolific author best known for his multi-volume opus History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the American Continent. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
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Hotchkiss, Charles F
On the Ebb: A Few Log-Lines from an Old Salt
New Haven CT: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned and some finger soiling boards . lightly worn owner name on front pastedown first gathering loose. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown gilt-blocked cloth. Tipped-in front free endpaper printed advertisement for Forest and Stream Publishing Company publications strip at lower corner removed. Howes H-666. An autobiography by the author at 73 years of age relating his experiences as a cabin boy on the brig Shepherdess adventures in California during the 1849 Gold Rush and many saltwater fishing trips. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages . Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor hardcover
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Rothenstein, John
Summer's Lease: Autobiography 1901-1938 and Brave Day Hideous Night: Autobiography 1939-1965
NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Vol. I: pages toned jacket lightly . worn and soiled rear hinge cracked. Vol. II: Pages toned foxing to . endpapers jacket lightly tattered. 1965-66. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. I: Blue cloth. xii 216 pp index illustrations. Good/VG. Vol. II: Purple cloth. xii 386 pp index illustrations. VG/VG. Both volumes signed by the author on the title page dated 17. X.67. Sir John Rothenstein was an art historian writer and long-term director of London's Tate Gallery. Laid inside Vol. I is a newsy TLS signed by literary editor James O'Shea Wade to another cultural Brahmin the late J. Carter Brown who enjoyed an exceedingly long tenure at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The letter mentions Wade's gift of these two volumes of Rothenstein's memoirs and notes that "He too had to ride the often bucking back of a powerful institution." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
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Ranney, Dave
Dave Ranney or Thirty Years on the Bowery: An Autobiography
NY: American Tract Society. Very Good with no dust jacket; Light rubbing to boards spine cocked . spine cracked one dog-eared page. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Rev. A. F. Schauffler. Red cloth with chromolithograph illustration onlaid to front boards from photograph of the smartly dressed author with a scruffier man and woman seated in front of him. Many interior black and white photographs. The author relates his early years growing up on "Dutch Row" in Hudson New Jersey where his sampling during his thrice-daily errand to fetch his grandfather pints of mixed ale led to his self-professed "drunkard's habit" at the tender age of ten. He led a life of burglary vagrancy homelessness and served a two-year prison term ending up "down and out" on New York City's Bowery row living in various flophouses. His life turned around when he received help from a missionary outreach worker and Ranney became sober in 1892. He ended up reuniting with his estranged wife and son and doing mission work himself. He has many photos of residents in the New York City beer halls lodging-houses and on the streets. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages . American Tract Society hardcover
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Pond, Major J B
Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage
NY: G. W. Dillingham Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed owner name penciled on front . free endpaper front hinge cracked foxing to front and rear endpapers. 1900. Hardcover. Green cloth stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece photo and facsimile signature of the author and many other photo portraits of the nearly 100 orators and performers profiled in this book. xxvi 564 pp. Chapters entitled: Orators; Pulpit Orators; Humorists; Women Lecturers and Singers; Explorers Travellers and War Correspondents; Actors and Dramatic Critics; Literary Lecturers; Miscellaneous; Author Readers and Lecturers; and General Survey of the Lyceum Field. Includes profiles of Susan B. Anthony Frederick Douglass Ernest Thompson Seton Booker T. Washington Thomas Nast P. T. Barnum Rudyard Kipling Walt Whitman Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . G. W. Dillingham Company hardcover
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Day, Martha; Fitch, Rev Dr Eleazar
The Literary Remains of Martha Day: With Rev. Dr. Fitchs Address At Her Funeral and Sketches of Her Character
New Haven CT: Printed By Hezekiah Howe & Co. Fair with no dust jacket; Top third of backstrip and front flyleaf and . title page missing text foxed boards worn. 1834. Hardcover. Original brown cloth with printed paper label on front boards. vi 121 pp. Sabin 18972. A memorial volume for the 21-year-old daughter of Yale University President Jeremiah Day. Includes Martha Days obituary Rev. Eleazar Fitchs December 4 1833 eulogy poems stories letters and other writings by Martha Day and a long biographical sketch by H. L. C. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Printed By Hezekiah Howe & Co. hardcover
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Biographical Review Volume XXIII : Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties New Hampshire
Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire most notably home boy Horace Greeley newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages . Biographical Review Publishing Company hardcover
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Vie Privee du Marechal de Richelieu: Contenant ses Amours et Intrigues In Three Volumes
Paris: A. Maestricht and J. P. Roux & Compagnie. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed light foxing and toning to . text block. 1791. Hardcover. An 18th century biography of the French aristocrat born in the 17th century rebound in a 19th century binding. Text in French. Uniformly rebound in three-quarter dark green cloth with black and white marbled sides. Black leather spine labels with titles stamped in gilt and floral flourish stamped in gilt in center spines. xvi 316 pp; 342 pp; 314 pp. Silk ribbon markers. A set as dashingly handsome as its subject Louis-Francois-Armand du Plessis Duc de Richelieu 1696-1788 who was often a member of King Louis XVs court a soldier diplomat and celebrated womanizer. It is thought that the notorious character of Valmont in the 1782 classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses is based on Richelieu. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . A. Maestricht and J. P. Roux & Compagnie hardcover
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Wodehouse, P G
Wodehouse on Wodehouse
Hammondsworth England: Penguin Books Ltd 1987. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback Reprint 400gms 655 pages. Here is one volume are the tree books which effectively make up Plum's autobiography Bring on the Girls with Guy Bolton Performing Flea and Over Seventy. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear mild page discolouration throughout small texta mark on the inside front page otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Penguin Books Ltd Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : BIOUK58 ISBN : 0140052453 9780140052459
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Leggat, George
Your Obedient Servant: Tales of a Uganda Forester
Henry Osmaston 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item400grams ISBN:0951803956 Henry Osmaston paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2288882 ISBN : 0951803956 9780951803950
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Wilson, Elizabeth
Mirror Writing: An Autobiography
Virago Press Ltd 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN:0860682412 Virago Press Ltd paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2287902 ISBN : 0860682412 9780860682417
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Figgis, D
Recollections of the Irish War
Ernest Benn Limited 1927. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN: Ernest Benn Limited hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4945401
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Boyle, EM E M
The Orrery Papers: Volumes 1-2
Duckworth & Co 1903. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1650grams ISBN: Duckworth & Co hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4945332
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Nye, Mary Jo
Blackett Physics War and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Harvard University Press 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:9780674015487 Harvard University Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2289182 ISBN : 0674015487 9780674015487
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Gwynn, S & Tuckwell, G M
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke: Two-Volume Set
John Murray 1918. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1900grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2287552
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Albright, Madeleine K
Madam Secretary - A Memoir
Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Macmillan New York NY 2003. Signed by Author Albright on bookplate on Title page. 6th Printing. 562 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 8vo. Signed Biography History::U.S.A.::1950-Present History::U.S.A.::20th Cent. Politics 0447 hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 140286 ISBN : 140503369X 9781405033695
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