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Maclean, James N. M.
Reward Is Secondary: The Life of a Political Adventurer and An Inquiry Into the Mystery of 'Junius'
Hodder & Stoughton 1963. 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 item950grams ISBN: Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2925556
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Richards James Maude
Memoirs of An Unjust Fella
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1980. 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 item550grams ISBN:029777767X Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3707479 ISBN : 029777767X 9780297777670
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Mrs. Shorthouse (ed)
Life and Letters of J. H. Shorthouse Vol. 1-2
Macmillan 1905. 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 item1300grams ISBN: Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3707946
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Gash, N.
Mr. Secretary Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830
Longmans Green and Co 1961. 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 item1200grams ISBN: Longmans Green and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5774165
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Duncan Jones Katherine
Shakespeare's Life and World
The Folio Society 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. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1400grams ISBN: The Folio Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2925654
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Symes, S.
Tour of Duty
Collins 1946. 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 item500grams ISBN: Collins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3707623
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Marmontel, J.-F.
Autobiography. A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published: Memoirs of Marmontel Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and Political Life and Anecdotes of the Principal Characters of the Eighteenth Century Volume 1
Whittaker Treacher and Arnot 1830. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.Pocket brown cloth 8vo with brown leather half binding. Decorative gilt borders and gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and shelf wear. Split joints backstrip has been secured with clear tape. Blue end papers. Front hinge split. Interior is secure and clear of markings save for some grubbiness on a couple of pages. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5776661
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Sutherland, J.
Defoe
Methuen & Co 1937. 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 item750grams ISBN: Methuen & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3708139
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Knight, W. (ed)
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth
Macmillan and Co. 1925. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's inscription inside cover. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: Macmillan and Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5774173
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Strickland A.
Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents Private as Well as Public Volume 8
Henry Colburn 1845. Volume 8. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.Medium brown cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Front board detached. Bumped corners and some general wear to boards. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: Henry Colburn hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5776686
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Strickland, A.
Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents Private as Well as Public Volume 2
Henry Colburn 1840. Volume 2. 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. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.Medium brown cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and some general wear. Small knock in front board edge. Small pen stain on front board. Frontispiece and illustrated half title page. Pages up to contents page have some damp staining. Several pages at rear have small amount of damp staining. Some foxing. Pages reasonably secure. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item550grams ISBN: Henry Colburn hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5776681
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Fitzmaurice, Edmond
The Life of Granville George Leveson Gower Second Earl Granville K.G. 1815-1891 Volumes 1-2
Longmans Green and Co 1905. 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. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1750grams ISBN: Longmans Green and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2924860
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Bidault, G.
Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967. 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 item600grams ISBN: Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3708049
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Strickland A.
Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents Private as Well as Public Volume 5
Henry Colburn 1842. Volume 5. 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. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.Medium brown cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and some general wear. Interior is secure and clear of markings save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: Henry Colburn hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5776679
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King, James
The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1990. 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. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN:0297810421 Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3707383 ISBN : 0297810421 9780297810421
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Stoller, Paul
Stranger in the Village of the Sick: A Memoir of Cancer Sorcery and Healing
Beacon Press 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:9780807072615 Beacon Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 5597234 ISBN : 0807072613 9780807072615
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Abraham, Eric; Sang, Glenn Farne.
A Dungaree Digger. The War Memoirs of Eric Kingsley Abraham. The Last Original Dungaree.
Australia: The Author 1999. ix 120pp bw ills map appendices. Pictorial card. Near new. SIGNED by author/subject on title page with his stamp also on the title page. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Author Paperback
Bookseller reference : 055334
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Airey Fred.
The Time of the Soldier.
South Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1991. 211pp few bw ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. Slightest of edge wear. Author's account of his experiences in WWII including those as prisoner of the Japanese. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Fremantle Arts Centre Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 055335 ISBN : 0949206962 9780949206961
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RAMO, Simon
Tennis By Machiavelli
New York: Rawson Associates. Very Good/Very Good. 1984. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 0892562692 nice clean copy. no stamps or names present . Rawson Associates hardcover
Bookseller reference : BOOKS029097I ISBN : 0892562692 9780892562695
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Butler Yeats J.
Early Memories; Some Chapters of Autobiography
The Cuala Press 1971. 1971 Facsimile.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 item400grams ISBN: The Cuala Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4844193
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Murphy Alex
The Official Illustrated History of Manchester United; The Full Story and Complete Record 1878-2010
London: Simon & Schuster 978-1-84737-910-8 978-1-84737-910-8 2010. 4to 352pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs tables. Book about Football Manchester United & Soccer. Foreword by Sir Bobby Charlton. Sports. Simon & Schuster 978-1-84737-910-8 Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 158136 ISBN : 1847379109 9781847379108
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Gooch, Brad
Flannery A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Little Brown and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 0316000663 . Stiff clean book unmarked but for remainder line to bottom edge; in crisp dust jacket. ; 9.30 X 5.90 X 1.40 inches; 464 pages . Little, Brown and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40748 ISBN : 0316000663 9780316000666
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O\'Brien PJ
Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom
Chicago Philadelphia Toronto: John C. Winston 1935. Fine. <p>8vo 288p illustrated blue illustrated cloth few stain on the back</p> John C. Winston hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio589
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Follain, Jean
Agendas 1926-1971
Paris: Seghers Pour mémoire 1993. New. <p>1n 8 642p couv ill rempliée illustré</p> Seghers, Pour mémoire unknown
Bookseller reference : biblio586 ISBN : 2232102904 9782232102905
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Copeau Jacques
Journal - 1901-1915 - 1916-1948.
Paris: Seghers Pour mémoire 1991. New. <p>in8 761792p br couv ill 2 vol sous boîtier ill</p> Seghers, Pour mémoire unknown
Bookseller reference : biblio587
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Tillery Gary
. The Cynical Idealist: A Spiritual Biography of John Lennon
Wheaton Ill: Quest 2009. New. <p>8vo XI 202p</p> Quest unknown
Bookseller reference : biblio441 ISBN : 0835608751 9780835608756
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Gagnon, Jean , ancien libraire
Quelques souvenirs
Québec: Éditions de la Huit 1992. New. <p>in12 45p Tiré à 200 exemplaires numérotés et signés par l'auteur</p><p>Pendant 38 ans Jean Gagnon tint une librairie ancienne et publia plus de 400 catalogues</p> Éditions de la Huit unknown
Bookseller reference : biblio396 ISBN : 2980230014 9782980230011
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Nordon, Pierre
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. L'homme et l'oeuvre.
Paris: Didier Études Anglaises 17 1964. Good. <p>In8 480p broché illustré dos éraflé</p> Didier, Études Anglaises 17 unknown
Bookseller reference : biblio350
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Vallee Arthur
Un biologiste Canadien Michel Sarrazin 1659-1735: sa vie ses travaux et son temps
Québec: Imprimé par Ls-A. Proulx 1927. Fine. <p> in-16 viii 291p rel toile verte de l'éditeur aux armes de la province de québec ill d'un fac-simile ''Catalogue des plantes envoyées par Sarrazin au Jardin Royal en 1704''</p> Imprimé par Ls-A. Proulx unknown
Bookseller reference : biblio250
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Boaden, James
Memoirs of Mrs Siddons: Interspersed with anecdotes of Authors and Actors
<p>Very good No dust jacket as issued Cover lightly soiled head-cap dammaged full margins XV 471 p Includes illustrations Original mauve cloth covers with gilt and purple decorations on upper cover gilt lettering on spine Edition limited to 150 copies on large paper # 48</p> hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio54
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None
The life and times of King George VI 1895-1952.
London: Odhams Press. <p>Embossed red buckram 159p A pictorial biography</p> Odhams Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio135
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Mack, Gerstle
Toulouse-Lautrec
Alfred A. Knopf 1949. Fine. <p>Original cloth gilt XV 370 XXIVp color front 58 pl folding plgenealogic tree of Toulouse-Lautrec no dj previous owner's signature third printing</p> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio137
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Buchanan David
The Treasure of Auchinleck : The Story of the Boswell Papers
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1974. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped $14.95. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright shiny clean square tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. First printing with complete number row 123456789 on the copyright page. Delightful and fascinating history of these documents and Ralph Heyward Isham's titanic 25 year struggle to reunite them. A scholarly work that reads like a thriller. With 46 illustrations. Six appendices. Genealogical Tables. Index. Hardcover. 6.75" wide by 9.25" tall. Bound in the original tan cloth stamped in black on the spine. From the dust jacket: "James Boswell the great biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson accumulated a huge mass of papers. He kept a daily journal corresponded with dozens of literary figures of his age and kept most of his correspondence including copies of letters he sent. This is the story of the 'treasure' of Auchinleck -- one of the most fascinating and varied collections of eighteenth-century papers ever assembled. For more than a century the papers were believed to have been lost or destroyed in an attempt to hide Boswell's more candid and 'unpublishable' self-revelations. About 1925. the staggering task of acquiring and reuniting Boswell's scattered archives was undertaken by an American collector the late Ralph Heyward Isham. The accomplishment of his task after twenty-five years of struggle at the cost of near impoverishment is an epic feat of literary salvage
In these lively colorful pages Buchanan explains what really happened to the papers after Boswell's death and how they were dealt with by successive generations of the Boswell family.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine jacket. Illus. by Aulicino Robert jacket design. xxii 371pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. McGraw-Hill Book Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015894 ISBN : 0070087105 9780070087101
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BAKER, William J.,
Jesse Owens: An American Life
<p>University of Illinois Press 2006. Pbk 289pp small remainder stamp on bottom foredge otherwise appears unused and an excellent clean tight and unmarked copy as new.</p> University of Illinois Press, 2006, paperback
Bookseller reference : ASP43 ISBN : 025207369X 9780252073694
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Houston, James
Confessions of an Igloo Dweller
Toronto Ontario Canada: Mcclelland & Stewart. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771042728 . 320 pp. Illus. Spine corners bumped. Jacket has light edgewear price clipped. Houston describes his life in the Canadian Arctic from 1948 to 1962 a time when he brought Inuit art to the outside world. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Mcclelland & Stewart hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIO0628 ISBN : 0771042728 9780771042720
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Durham, Michael S. and Charles Moore
POWERFUL DAYS The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Stewart Tabori & Chang. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First. Hardcover. 1556701713 . Offset browning to front free-endpaper. Binding tight and straight inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is flap-intact clean with light edgewear now protected within mylar cover.; 0.9 X 8.9 X 11.2 inches; 207 pages . Stewart Tabori & Chang hardcover
Bookseller reference : 67592 ISBN : 1556701713 9781556701719
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Scheim, David
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
New York: Shapolsky Publishers Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 093350330X . DJ and boards show light shelf wear small stain on page foredges pages tanned as is common with books of this era. Price-clipped DJ with short tear lower back edge.; A bright solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 480 pages; "A reexamination of the Mafia's role in the Kennedy assassination discusses Jack Ruby's criminal activities and Mafia ties and how the Warren Commission blatantly covered up the evidence" . Shapolsky Publishers, Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22553 ISBN : 093350330X 9780933503304
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Connally, Nellie & Mickey Herskowitz
From Love Field Our Final Hours with President John F. Kennedy
New York: Rugged Land LLC. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 1590710142 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages; The author wife of Texas Governor John Connally was in the limousine with her husband and the President and Mrs. Kennedy at the time of the assassination. As one of the closest witnesses to the events in Dealey Plaza she gives a first-hand account of what happened that day. . Rugged Land LLC hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22555 ISBN : 1590710142 9781590710142
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Shenon, Philip
A Cruel and Shocking Act The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
New York: Henry Holt and Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805094202 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Remainder mark on top page edges.; A bright solid book dustjacket in Mylar unclipped.Illustrated with B&W photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 625 pages; " Shenon shows how the commission's ten-month investigation was doomed to fail because the man leading it Chief Justice Earl Warren was more committed to protecting the Kennedy family than getting to the full truth about what happened on that tragic day. " . Henry Holt and Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22552 ISBN : 0805094202 9780805094206
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Zirbel Craig
The Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Scottsdale AZ: The Texas Connection Co. Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0963144901 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear short tears bottom of DJ repaired with archival tape. ; A bright solid book dustjacket in Mylar unclipped. B&W illustrations and photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages; The author outlines the theory that President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the death of his predecessor. . The Texas Connection Co. Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22554 ISBN : 0963144901 9780963144904
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Prokosch, Frederic
THE MISSOLONGHI MANUSCRIPT - Lord Byron
New York: Farra Straus & Giroux 1968. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. 338pp. Farra, Straus & Giroux unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS075049I
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LLOSA, Mario Vargas
A Writer's Reality
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1991. Bound in stiff glossy wraps with the author's photo on the front panel. Tight clean copy of this 164 soft cover book of Autobiographical Essays. The true first edition with the number line ending in "1". Only flaw is some offsetting to the front free endpaper presumably from a laid in newspaper article. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Published. Houghton Mifflin Paperback
Bookseller reference : 8000424
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Leslie, Rosella
The Cougar Lady: Legendary Trapper of Sechelt Inlet
Caitlin Press Inc. 2014. Book. Good. Paperback. Corners are dog eared and smudged. Caitlin Press Inc. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 048749 ISBN : 192757563X 9781927575635
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Bowen, Lynne
Those Island People
Rocky Point Books & Nanaimo Museum Society 2013. Book. Good. Paperback. Light stain to outer closed page edges. . Rocky Point Books & Nanaimo Museum Society Paperback
Bookseller reference : 048635 ISBN : 0969740727 9780969740728
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Sinclair James D.
Poppa Why Do You Wobble
McNally Robinson Booksellers 2016. Book. Good. Paperback. Light wear. One man's story of recovery from stroke. McNally Robinson Booksellers Paperback
Bookseller reference : 048661 ISBN : 1772801208 9781772801200
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MacKay, Sandra Yuen
My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness
Bridgeross Communications 2010. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Faint finger smudge to lower page corners else very light wear. Bridgeross Communications Paperback
Bookseller reference : 048675 ISBN : 0981003796 9780981003795
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Dukowki, Kaye
Alberni Valley Pioneers - Drinkwaters and Connecting Families
2009. Book. Fair. Paperback. First page is coming loose a name inside otherwise light wear. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 048528
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Glenn Watkins
The Gesualdo Hex : Music Myth and Memory
W. W. Norton USA 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 384 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: W. W. Norton USA 2010. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has superficial rubbing. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance who continues to captivate composers artists and audiences today. In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue witchcraft and murder Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo - a life suffused with scandal and bordering on the fantastical. An isolated prince Gesualdo had a personal life that was no less eccentric and bewildering than the music he composed; his biography has often clouded our perception of his oeuvre which music scholars have periodically dismissed as a late Renaissance deformation of little consequence. Today however Gesualdo's music once deemed so strange as to be unperformable stands as one of the most vibrant legacies of the late Italian Renaissance with an undeniable impact on a host of twentieth-century musicians and artists. The incendiary details of Gesualdo's life recede and his grip on our musical imagination comes to the fore. Watkins challenges our preconceptions of what has become a nearly mythic persona weaving together the cumulative experience of some of the most vibrant artists of the past century from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Abbado and Herzog. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780393071023. Inventory No: 24010261. 9780393071023 W. W. Norton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24010261 ISBN : 0393071022 9780393071023
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John Lomax III
Red Desert Sky : The Amazing Adventures of the Chambers Family
Allen & Unwin Australia 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Signed by the entire Chambers family - Bill Di Kasey and Nash. Trade Paperback. 292 pages. Signed by the entire Chambers family - Bill Di Kasey and Nash. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin Australia 2001. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1865084255. ISBN/EAN: 9781865084251. Inventory No: 24010116. 9781865084251 Allen & Unwin paperback
Bookseller reference : 24010116 ISBN : 1865084255 9781865084251
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Dane Kennedy
The Highly Civilized Man : Richard Burton And The Victorian World
Harvard University Press UK 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 354 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harvard University Press UK 2005. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has slight foxing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier explorer ethnographer and polyglot of rare power as well as a poet travel writer and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile Burton traveled so widely wrote so prolifically and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. One of the great challenges confronting the British in the nineteenth century was to make sense of the multiplicity of peoples and cultures they encountered in their imperial march around the globe. Burton played an important role in this mission. Drawing on his wide-ranging experiences in other lands and intense curiosity about their inhabitants he conducted an intellectually ambitious highly provocative inquiry into racial religious and sexual differences that exposed his own society's norms to scrutiny. Dane Kennedy offers a fresh and compelling examination of Burton and his contribution to the widening world of the Victorians. He advances the view that the Victorians' efforts to attach meaning to the differences they observed among other peoples had a profound influence on their own sense of self destabilizing identities and reshaping consciousness. Engagingly written and vigorously argued "The Highly Civilized Man" is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0674018621. ISBN/EAN: 9780674018624. Inventory No: 24010212. 9780674018624 Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24010212 ISBN : 0674018621 9780674018624
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