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176: Aldiss, Brian W. (Ed. ) and Harrison, Harry (Ed. ) Hell's Cartographers, Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers
Harper & Row NY 1975 0060100524 / 9780060100520 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
246 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny shelf rub at front corner tip. Now in protective sleeve. An Excellent Gift! Super art work by Randall Richmond. We are an entirely new sort of popular writer, the poor man's highbrows. We wrote against the grain and were accepted against it... We had faith in what we were doing; individualists though we were (and are), it transpired that the faith virtually created a movement. A lot of people needed to re-dream our nightmares - Brian Aldiss.
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14076: Alpers, Antony Katherine Mansfield - A Biography
Alfred A. Knopf NY 1953 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
392 pages; Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Attractive green cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration. Tiny name/date to inside front board. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Boards are straight, spine is square and pages are clean. The biography of Katherine Mansfield, that is Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield.
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19379: Amory, Mark Biography of Lord Dunsany
William Collins Sons UK 1972 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good dust jacket
288 pages; Fine/Very Good. Blue boards with bright gilt lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny chips at bottom spine tip. A couple of closed tears at top edge. Just a bit of light shelf rub to white on back panel. The inside front flap had some creases - now straightened in protective sleeve. Few who love English literature will not know something of Lord Dunsany. Fewer still will remember more than that he was an Irish aristocrat who wrote books of strange beauty and created certain splendidly comic characters.
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7459: Ashley, Mauurice (Ed) Cromwell Great Lives Observed
Prentice-Hall NJ 1969 0131942905 / 9780131942905 First Printing Trade Paperback Near Fine
177 pages; Near Fine condition. Tiny bump to front top corner tip. No creases. Solid, clean. Each volume in this series views the character and achievement of a great world figure in three perspectives; through his own words, through the opinions of his contemporaries, and through retrospective judgments; thus combining the intimacy of autobiography, the immediacy of eyewitness observation, and the objectivity of modern scholarship. Ashley has devoted most of his life researching the study of this great man, Oliver Cromwell.
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13564: Bacchion, Eugenio (Intro) Papa Giovanni Patriarca A Venezia (Pope John XXIII) - Italian Text
Editrice Triveneta Venezia 1964 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket
Unpaginated pages; Near Fine/No Jacket - with Slipcase. Text in ITALIAN. Illustrated with photos - Fantastic pictures. White boards with black lettering and black & white photograph to front board. Gift inscription to half title page mostly in Italian. In Fine slipcase in same colors as book only trimmed in red. An excellent gift! Completely full of pictures of Pope John XXIII from 1953 through 1958, including his diary for those years - monthly important events. Accomplished a number of important changes in the second Vatican Ecumenical Council. Also pictures of his successor, John Paul I. All text is Italian.
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16725: Batten, Jack Robinette, The Dean of Canadian Lawyers
Macmillan Canada 1984 0771598025 / 9780771598029 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
250 pages; Near Fine/Very Good. Blue and black boards with bright gilt lettering. Just a bit of shelf rub at spine tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is lightly shelf rubbed at all edges. Now in protective sleeve. John Josiah Robinette is, without question, the most gifted courtroom advocate this country has produced. There could be no more fitting subject for a detailed biography by Jack Batten. Robinette is sure to win its author the same high praise he received for his previous two books (DJ blurb)
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8170: Beatty, Richmond Croom Bayard Taylor, Laureate Of The Gilded Age
University of Oklahoma Press OK 1936 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Poor dust jacket
379 pages; Very Good/Poor. Very sparse underlining. Book plate inside front board. Bright gilt lettering and illustration. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are otherwise clean. DJ is split at spine edge. Page numbers written on back inside flap. Chipped. Now in protective sleeve. Illustrated. The story of Bayard Taylor, lecturer, travelier and Author of nineteenth century.
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16016: Beer, Thomas; Conrad, Joseph (Intro) Stephen Crane, a Study in American Letters
Alfred A. Knopf NY 1924 Second Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
248 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Two-toned blue designed cloth with gilt lettering. Name very tiny top inside front board. Spine is lightly age tanned. Outside page edges are age tanned. Just a bit of shelf rub at the edges. Soft bump to bottom corner tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. In truth I had never expected the biography of Stephen Crane to appear in my lifetime. I had of course read his The Red Badge of Courage of which people were writing and talking about at that time - Joseph Conrad
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14784: Beilenson, Nick (Ed) Thomas Jefferson: His Life and Words
Peter Pauper Press NY 1986 0880883472 / 9780880883474 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Peden, Rachael A.
63 pages; Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Attractive blue, white and yellow illustrated boards with black and white lettering. Un-read tight. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips and corner tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has two tiny closed tears top edge. Tiny bit of shelf rub at top edge. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Introduction starts with a quote from Jefferson: I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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17102: Berlin, Isaiah Karl Marx, His Life and Environment
Oxford University Press NY 1978 0195200527 / 9780195200522 Fourth Edition Trade Paperback Near Fine
228 pages; Near Fine condition. No creases. Un-read tight. Just a bit of shelf rub to edges. Solid, clean. Photograph on front cover was the first known photograph of Marx, taken in 1861. Isaiah Berlin's brilliant account of the life and doctrines of the author of Das Kapital has long been established as a classic of exposition. It provides a lucid, comprehensive introduction to the traditional Marx, his personality and ideas as they were understood by those who, in his name and guided by his ideas, made the revolutions which transformed the world. For this new edition, the author has written a new preface, revised the text throughout, and added a number of fresh passages.
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13263: Blair, Joan; Blair, Clay, Jr The Search For J. F. K.
Berkley NY 1976 0399114181 / 9780399114182 Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
695 pages; Very Good Plus/Very Good. Black boards with bright gilt lettering. Just a bit of shelf rub to spine tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is shelf worn at spine edges. In protective sleeve. There is a classic description of the Kennedy political operation: his smashing successful win of the seat in Congress, showing why a Kennedy is such an awesome political opponent. The Blairs have made understandable the qualities of a political powerhouse and the mixture of fate and character that establishes history.
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7451: Blandford, Linda Super Wealth, The Secret Lives Of The Oil Sheikhs
William Morrow NY 1977 0688031358 / 9780688031350 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
319 pages; Fine/Very Good Plus. Map end papers. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has just a bit of crinkle to foil at spine tips. Very lightly rubbed. Now in protective slleve. The spoils of oil have led to a social upheaval in the Arab world whose impact has been almost as great as the birth of Mohammed 1400 years ago. How the men, and particularly the women , are coping with the pressures of their wealth is the subject of Linda Blandford's revealing book. An excellent gift!
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8420: Blunt, Wilfrid The Dream King, Ludwig II Of Bavaria, With A Chapter On Ludwig And The Arts By Michael Petzet
Penguin NY 1973 0140036067 / 9780140036060 Reprint; First Printing Trade Paperback Very Good+
264 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Faint foxing to first page. No creases. Just a bit of shelf rub to cover edges. Outside page edges very lightly age tanned. Solid, clean. In this lavishly illustrated biography Wilfrid Blunt has skilfully portrayed the fantastic world of a strange and misunderstood king. Today he is remembered for some of Bavaria's most lucrative attractions - Wagner's operas (fruits of his quixotic patronage) , the opera house at Bayreuth and a series of enchanted castles. The very things that Ludwig was condemned for.
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15673: Bocca, Geoffrey The Adventurous Life of Winston Churchill
Avon NY 1958 Reprint; First Printing Paperback Near Fine
160 pages; Near Fine condition. First Paperback edition. No creases. Un-read tight. Just a bit of shelf rub to edges. Solid, clean. The incredible true story of the daring fighter, passionate rebel, witty, stubborn, clever man who saved England, and possibly the world. The true life story of Winston Churchill reads like the most fabulous adventure novel.
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14432: Boorstin, Daniel The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
Beacon Press MA 1960 0807054917 / 9780807054918 Ninth Printing Trade Paperback Very Good+
306 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Light front hinge crease. No spine creases. Just a bit of shelf rub at edges. Light age tan to outside page edges. Solid, clean. An excellent gift! I have sought in this volume to discover the dominant spirit of the Jeffersonian view of the world. My purpose was to get inside the Jeffersonian world of ideas--to see the relation among their concepts of God, nature, equality, tolerance, education and government.
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14439: Borden, Morton (Ed) ; Stearn, Gerald Emanuel (Gen. Ed) Great Lives Observed: George Washington
Prentice- Hall - Spectrum NJ 1969 0139454853 / 9780139454851 First Printing Trade Paperback Fine Illustrated by Stuart, Gilbert; Robinson, Bennett
154 pages; Fine condition. 1st Spectrum Edition. No creases. Un-read tight. Solid, clean. An excellent gift! The GREAT LIVES OBSERVED series combines the intimacy of autobiography, the immediacy of eyewitness observation, and the objectivity of modern scholarship. In George Washington, Morton Bordon presents Wasington's own words, the views of his contemporaries, and analysis in retrospect by leading historians and other modern observers to create a three-fold perspective.
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16464: Borges, Jorge Luis; Fernandez, Teodosio (compiled) Album, Biografico Y Fotografico
Alianza Editorial Espana 1999 Reprint Trade Paperback Fine
87 pages; Fine condition. Book completely in Spanish. No creases. Solid, Clean. An excellent gift! Born in Buenos Aires on 24th of August. He had a long productive life and died in Switzerland of liver cancer. He was a translator at the early age of 10, translating into Spanish Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. In his writings you will find the following: "Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God, who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night. " He was a poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction writer; A world traveler; He also translated the works of, among others, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville, André Gide, William Faulkner, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Sir Thomas Browne, and G. K. Chesterton. In a number of essays and lectures, Borges assessed the art of translation. All of this little biography is in Spanish.
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8509: Bowers, Claude G. The Young Jefferson, 1743 - 1789, Illustrated
Houghton Mifflin MA 1945 Later Printing Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
544 pages; Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Spine gilt is fading. Front board gilt is bright. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Once the Revolution was forced on the Americans, Jefferson saw an opportunity for the creation of a new, distinctly American system for the better protection of the rights and liberties of all people...
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19847: Bradley, Ian William Morris and His World
Charles Scribner's Sons NY 1978 0684158671 / 9780684158679 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
127 pages; Fine/Fine. Green boards are clean, bright and straight. Tips are pointed, spine is square, and pages are bright and clean. Brilliant gilt lettering to spine. DJ is also Fine. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Was William Morris merely a romantic socialist visionary, the idle singer of an empty day, as he described himself; or was he born fifty years ahead of his time, and essentially practical man whose modern ideas and insights, unrecognized in his own day, were to have a decisive influence on the visual attitudes of the twentieth century?
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13648: Brewer, Derek Chaucer And His World
Dodd, Mead NY 1978 0396075193 / 9780396075196 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
224 pages; Near Fine/Fine. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips. Bright orange boards with bright gilt lettering. Beautiful medieval design end papers. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is great! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Full of awesome illustrations; e. I. Paintings, drawings, stone carvings. Not only the biography of Chaucer but his world, Medieval England. This is not a book of Literary Criticism but it emboodies a vivid discussion of his writings.
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15700: Briggs, Martin S. Christopher Wren
Falcon Educational Books London 1951 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket Illustrated by Kneller, Godfrey; Briggs, Martin S.
144 pages; Near Fine/Very Good. Brown boards with gilt lettering. Endpapers are lightly age tanned. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips and corner tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is age tanned to spine. Very lightly age tanned at edges. Now in protective sleeve. Wren was far more than an architect. He was famous in his own time as a scientist, an astronomer, a member of the Royal Society and as a mathematician, yet he found the time to build no fewer than fifty-two churches in London alone, as well as a great number of houses, hospitals, and palaces, many of which are illustrated in this book.
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18919: BRODIE, FAWN M. THE DEVIL DRIVES, A Life of the Fabulous Explorer Sir Richard Burton
Penguin UK 1971 0140033238 / 9780140033236 Paperback Good
505 pages; Good condition. Reading creases. Some shelf bump and shelf rub at the edges. Outside page edges are age tanned. Solid, clean. Discovery is mostly my mania, proclaimed Sir Richard Burton. Nevertheless, as Fawn Brodie shows in this splendid account of a Renaissance Victorian, he was a soldier, poet, translator, ethnologist, amateur physician, botanist, zoologist and geologist as well.
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13470: Brodie, Fawn M. THOMAS JEFFERSON, AN INTIMATE HISTORY
W. W. Norton NY 1974 0393074803 / 9780393074802 Book Club Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
591 pages; Very Good Plus/Very Good. Light shelf wear at spine tips and corner tips. Boards are straight and tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is shelf rubbed on front panel and edges. Tiny chips and closed tears at edges. Now in protective sleeve. This is a challenging new biography, a rich, three-demensional intimate portrait which illuminates the relationship between Jefferson's inner life and his public life.
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16794: Brookhiser, Richard The Adamses, 1735-1918: America's First Dynasty
Free Press NY 2002 0684868814 / 9780684868813 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
244 pages; Fine/Fine. Full number sequence. Handsome light brown on 1/4 darker brown boards with bright gilt lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Brookhiser's canvas starts in colonial America, when John Adams had to teach himself the law and ride on horseback for miles to find clients. It does not end until after the Titanic sinks - Henry had booked a room, but changed his plans - and World War I begins, with Henry near the action in France. As with any family, there was a darker side to the Adams story. Only one of the four great Adamses was a kind man and father; the others set standards so impossibly high that few of their children could meet them. Yet, despite more than a century of difference between John to Henry, certain Adams traits remain the same. In this the story of our first and still-greatest family, we can all see something of our own struggles with family, fate and history.
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6258: Brooks, Van Wyck THE WORLD OF WASHINGTON IRVING
E. P. Dutton NY 1944 Book Club Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
387 pages; Very Good/Very Good. Light shelf wear at spine tips and corner tips. Boards are straight, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has small chipping at spine tips and corner tips. Very light stain on back panel. Now in protective sleeve.
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6261: Brophy, John Somerset Maugham
Longmans, Green & Co. London 1958 Revised Edition Stapled wraps Fine
Writers and Their Work; 48 pages; Fine condition. NO creases. Solid, Clean. With frontisepiece.
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18589: Brown, Anthony Cave Bodyguard of Lies
Bantam Book 1976 1st Bantam Edition; First Printing Trade Paperback Good
947 pages; Good condition. No creases to the spine - but does have hinge creases and creases to the covers and some shelfwear to the edges. Outside page edges are age tanning. Writing to half title page and last page (About the Author page). No writing or underlining to text. Solid - but rated just Good because of condition of covers. The extraordinary, true story of the clandestine war of deception that hid the secrets of D-Day from Hitler and sealed the allied victory. History. World War II.
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14120: Bryant, W. W. ; Chapman, S. (Ed) Pioneers Of Progress - Men Of Science: Galileo
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge UK 1918 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
64 pages; Good/No Jacket. Gray boards with illustration to front in black and white. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips and corner tips. Tiny name/date front inside cover. Endpapers are age tanned. Tiny bit of foxing top text block. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are otherwise clean. The life story of Galileo.
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17930: Cameron, Gail Rose, a Biograpgy of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Berkley Medallion NY 1972 Second Printing Paperback Very Good
320 pages; Very Good condition. With 8 pages of photographs. Reading creases. Store stamp on first page. Just a bit of shelf rub and bump at the edges. Outside page edges age tanning. Daughter of a flamboyant mayor, wife of a brash, selfmade millionare, mother of a beloved President, Rose Fiztgerald Kennedy is one of America's most admired women.
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15394: Campbell, Jeremy Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap
Simon and Schuster NY 1986 0671475479 / 9780671475475 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
432 pages; Near Fine/Near Fine. Full number sequence. Attractive gray boards with silver bright lettering. Just a bit of fade to bottom boards front edge. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! A study of recent discoveries in biochronology, including why WInston Churchill juggled his wartime cabinet meetings so as to get a good nap after lunch.
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15396: Cannon, Peter Lovecraft Remembered
Arkham House WI 1998 0870541730 / 9780870541735 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Hertzel, Martin
486 pages; Fine/Fine. Approximately 3500 books printed. New. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. Fantastic art work by Hertzel. In protective sleeve. Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon has gathered all the major shorter memoirs, together with some rare contemporary glimpses from the amateur press before the master fantasist made his mark in Weird Tales.
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14079: Carlton, W. N. C. Pauline, Favorite Sister Of Napoleon - Illustrated
Harper & Brothers NY 1930 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
373 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Attractive blue boards with gilt lettering. Spine and board edges sun faded. Tiny name/date to inside front board. Outside page edges are age tanned with some foxing. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are otherwise clean. The life of Princess Pauline Borghese, Napoleon's Favorite sister.
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13771: Carlyle, Thomas History Of Friedrich II Of Prussia, Called Frederick The Great - In Three Volumes Books 17-21 - Volume III
Chapman and Hall UK No Edition Notated; No Printing Noted Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Good/No Jacket. Vomume III ONLY. No copyright date. Bright blue boards with gilt lettering. Just a tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Names & date (1929) in inside front board. Crack starting at page 288. Outside page edges are age tanned. Tiny bit of foxing on title page. Solid binding and hinges. Some pages are uncut at top edge. Boards are straight, tips are pointed spine is square, and pages are otherwise clean. Five books in this one volume, Nos. 17 to 21, on life of King Friedrich II of Prussia. Pages start anew with each book.
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7484: Carmichael, Joel Karl Marx The Passionate Logician
Charles Scribner's Sons NY 1967 First Printing Trade Paperback Very Good+
264 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Top outside page edges very light foxing. No creases. Solid, clean. Illustrated with photographs. This biography gives us an illuminating portrait of "a man in a strange kind of struggle, in its own way highly personal, whose consequences could scarcely have been foreseen. " In tracing the development of Marx's ideas, Mr. Carmichael shows how they were related to that personal struggle , and how varying interpretations of them have come to govern the lives of a third of mankind. ..
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13384: Carpenter, Humphrey Tolkien - A Biography
Houghton Mifflin MA 1977 0395253608 / 9780395253601 Third Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
287 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Attractive brown illustrated boards with bright gilt lettering. Bright green end papers. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is stark white - panels have tiny bit of shelf rub. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! The authorized biography of the creator of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
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4247: Carr, John Dickson THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Carroll & Graf NY 1976 0881843725 / 9780881843729 1st Carroll & Graf; First Printing Trade Paperback Fine with no dust jacket
304 pages; Fine condition. NO creases. As new. Solid, clean. Mr. Carr has done a beautiful piece of work here. Readers will feel that they have met an extraordinarily many-sided man. The combination of Carr and Doyle makes a notable biography - San Francisco Chronicle.
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4250: Carr, John Dickson THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Harper & Brothers NY 1949 Stated First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
304 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. First copyright date neatly blacked out - Code A Y. Stated First Edition, 1949. Wine colored boards with gilt lettering. Spine fading. Light shelf rub at board edges and boards. Outside page edges very lightly age tanned. Pages are clean. Boards are straight and Spine is square. Illustrated with photos. A thoroughly satisfying biography which is highly entertaining not only on the literary side but also in the field of domesticity, psychology and personality - Kirkus.
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6090: Carrington, Ulrich S. The Making Of An American, An Adaptation Of Memorable Tales By Charles Sealfield
SMU Press TX 1974 0870741438 / 9780870741432 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Fine/Near Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has a little bit of rub at the edges. Now in protective sleeve. Charles Sealfield was an American writer who originally fled from Austria's repressive regime to America in 1823. He returned to Europe in 1832 and settled in Switzerland. He returned as an American, and thereafter wrote book after book, all of them about the United States and Mexico...his books influenced Mark Twain. A great gift!
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6873: Chambers, R.W. Thomas More
Ann Arbor Paperbacks MI 1958 047206018X / 9780472060184 Reprint Trade Paperback Near Fine
416 pages; Near Fine. No creases. Outside page edges very lightly age tanned. Solid, Clean. The most brilliant writing about More by any modern scholar...
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15789: Chernow, Fred B; Chernow, Carol; Simonson, Dr. William N. Reading Exercises on Spanish Americans: Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Latin Americans
The Continental Press PA 1973 0845421034 / 9780845421031 First Edition; First Printing Stapled wraps Very Good+
65 pages; Veyr Good Plus condition. Illustrated. No creases. Questions at the end of each chapter. Contents page has initial in red for country of origin. Solid, otherwise clean. Reading Exercises on Spanish Americans presents short biograghical sketches of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Latin Americans. The figures treated represent a variety of occupations and fields of achievement: artists, liberators, writers, freedom fighters, doctors, political leaders, musicians, educators, businessmen, actors, and atheletes. The selections point up the success of individuals in overcoming obstacles and the contributions Spanish Americans have made to American and world culture.
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6008: Chute, Marchette Ben Jonson Of Westminister
E. P. Dutton NY 1953 Second Printing Hardcover Near Fine with no dust jacket
380 pages; Near Fine/No Jacket. Name on front fly-leaf. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Illustrated end papers. Literary biography of poet and playwright Ben Jonson.
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7224: Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot's Mission To The Indians Before King Philip's War
Harvard University Press MA 1999 0674475372 / 9780674475373 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Signed by Author
331 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed and signed "Rich" to another author on front fly-leaf. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tee-niny chip back bottom corner tip. Now in protective sleeve. This biography of Eliot, 1604-1690, also covers Indians of North America Missions, Massachusetts Missions History - 17th century. Puritans - Massachusetts - Biography. ; Signed by Author
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200.00 USD
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8198: Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David The Kennedys An American Drama
Summit NY 1984 0671447939 / 9780671447939 Book Club Edition Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
575 pages; Fine/Very Good Plus. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has light shelf rub at top spine tip with tiny closed tears. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! When I read this book, I felt airily confident that I knew everything about the Kennedys worth knowing. This shrewd and absorbing narrative of the rise, flourishing decline and fall of a tribal empire has shown me how wrong I was...
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17231: Coxe, Louis O. Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Life of Poetry
Pegasus Publishing NY 1969 First Edition; First Printing Trade Paperback Near Fine
188 pages; Near Fine condition. Just a bit of shelf rub at edges. No creases. Solid, clean. The Life of Poetry probes the life, mind and art of the celebrated American poet and offers a fresh approach to his poetry for readers of a new generation.
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12.00 USD
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18143: Crabbe, Katharyn F. J. R. R. Tolkien, Modern Literature Series
Frederick Ungar Publishing 1981 0804460914 / 9780804460910 First Printing Trade Paperback Near Fine
192 pages; Near Fine condition. First Paperback edition. No creases. Soft indent on front cover. Just a bit of shelf rub at the edges. Solid, clean. In this complete study of Tolkien's work and life, Katharyn Crabbe first deals with The Hobbit, which established his reputation, showing the peculiar enchantment f Middle-earth. She then explains The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarrillion. Crabbe also analyses the scholarly work that brought him renown as a philologist and Anglo-Saxon scholar.
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13315: Crum, A. R. (Ed) Romance Of American Petroleum And Gas - Volume I - Illustrated
Romance of American NY 1911 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
363 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Very large coffee table size book.
Shelf rub to edges. Boards are straight, spine and hinges are solid, pages are clean. Top page edges gilt, Red Leather and Cloth binding, no dust jacket; H.C. FOLGER JR. gilt stamped lower left corner front cover, four (4) tree/floral designs gilt stamped on spine with one between the gilt stamped ROMANCE OF AMERICAN PETROLEUM AND GAS and CRUM AND DUNGAN, floral end papers front and back. Heavy stock paper, tight binding. The text is clear on fairly bright paper which has a hint of age in some cases.
Planned as a three-volume set, Volume I deals with the discovery and developments, men and events in Appalachian field, during first 50 years of the petroleum industry. Mr. Crum died after Volume I was published and Volume II was completed by others about 1921.
The first part of the book, to about page 250, is an abbreviated history of the petroleum and gas industry up to about 1911.
The second part, to page 350, gives a short (generally a page or less) biography of prominent people in the business along with a picture/photograph of the person on slightly darker stock than the text. Leading off the set of biographies is the well known John D. Rockefeller. Following that are some who are somewhat less know to the American public such as John D. Archbold, Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller, and others.
On page 301 is the biography of Henry Clay Folger, Jr. with a facing photograph. Here we find that Mr. Folger was one of the most distinguished students of Shakespeare in the United States and had probably the best library of Shakespeariana in the US, consisting of of more than twenty thousand volumes. The Folger Shakespeare Library opened in 1932 as a gift to the American nation from Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger. It is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art.
Mr. Folger is the person whose name is stamped in gilt on the cover and this leads one to believe the book may have been the personal copy of Mr. Folger.
The last part of the book, before the Index and to page 359, deals with the companies of those times.
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15243: Daiches, David Virginia Woolf: the Makers of Modern Literature
New Direction CT 1942 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
169 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Blue boards with black lettering. Spine is sun faded. Name and date to endpaper page. Tiny bit of shelf rub to spine tips and corner tips. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Boards are straight, spine is square and pages are clean. Bibliography. Index. From Chapter 7: What, then, was Virginia Woolf's contribution to English literature? It was real, if in some sense a limited, one. She developed a type of fiction in which sensitive personal reactions to experience can be objectified and patterned in a manner that is both intelllectually exciting and aesthetically satisfying.
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2148: Darton, Eric Divided We Stand : A Biography Of New York City's World Trade Center
Basic Books NY 2000 0465017274 / 9780465017270 Fourth Printing Trade Paperback Very Good+
241 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Shallow spine creases. A Solid, Clean copy. More than an eloquent meditation on one of New York's most recognizable architectural markers. Pops with luminous insights into the social, economic and cultural contradictions of a city and a time. A must read!
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