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By: N/A
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, Cobb, Andrews & Company: 1873
Seller ID: 20889HNC
Tightly bound and very clean with nice beveled edge to both boards. Brown cloth shows small bit of wear to corners and to crown and tail of spine, but no cracking to hinges, either fornt or back. Pages are also very clean with very light overall foxing to two blank pages at fornt and back. Eells was a 19th century American philosopher, essayist ,and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Book offers biographic... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Evansville, Indiana, Unigraphic: 1977
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 27158
Clean, attractive book with no names or wriiting.. No bumps to boards, vey clean pages. designed without dustkjacket. Originally published in 1894 by J.H. Beers, Chicago. Bound here in strudy buckram and measures 7"x10" with 515 pages and a 57 page index. Very good reference for Huron and Lorain genealogy. Illustrated with portraits. This is VOL&UME I ONLY. If you are looking for a specific name please inquire and I will look for you. The book is not designed alp... View more info
By: Abbott, John S.C
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper: 1870
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23511
Very handsome small book with a pleasing design to spine and front board. The binding is tight and there are no cracks to gutters and no names or writing. Hortense was the daughter of Josephine and the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The book is illustrated witholut with fill page steel engravings. Book measures 5" x 7" and has 379 pages plus a couple pages advertising Abbott books. View more info
By: Adlum, John; Peckham, Howard H. (editor)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Chicago, The Caxton Club: 1968
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 24650
Very handsome, small book printed in just 500 copies bound in slate blue cloth and published by the esteemed Caxton Club, a bibliophilic association.The book measures 5-1/4"x7-1/2" and bears a handsome paste-on title box to front board.. Clean as a whistle inside and out with fading to spine only. Text published here for the first time. 143 pages View more info
By: Alfred Weidinger
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Munich and New York, Prestel: 1996
Seller ID: 23750
Crisp, clean book with no bumps to boards, no names or writing and no remiander mark. The pages and page edges are also pristine. The dustjacket is likewise clean with no bumps and no tears. There was never a printed price on either the front or back flap. I have covered the jacket with a brand new mylar cover. The book weaves both the biograpihes of Oskar and Alma, his art, and her music. Kokoschka loved her all of his life. She, on the other hand, was married to comp... View more info
By: Ann Zwicker Kerr
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Publications in Continuing Education: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 28318
Book is like new with no defects of note. No names or writing, no chips or tears, no bumps to boards, no remainder marks and no creasing. The dustjacket will arrive in a band new mylar cover. The jacket shows no price-clip printed on the front flap. This is the story of Malcolm Kerr, an American scholar of Middle East Studies who took a job as president of the Americna University of Beirut. Seventeen months later he was assassinated leaving hiswife and children remaine... View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Braace Jovanovich: 1972
Edition: 1st Edtiion (English)
Seller ID: 23618
These books are exquisite nestled in a bright red slipcase. The boards are white and the jackets are colorful and beautiful with the works of Matisse. The only fault is a couple tears to top edge of the spine. It was taped on both back and front, but I placed it in a mylar cover which helped quite a bit. The second volume has a few tiny tears at the same place, but it was not taped. I used a bit of archival tape on the back only. The books and the slipcase are clean and ... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: U.S.A., New American Library: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Ashe
Seller ID: 28250
Crisp, clean book with no names or writing other than Arthur Ashe's SIGNATURE scrawled on half title page without isncription. No bumps to boards, no tears or chip,s and no price-clip. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Book includes two sections of black and white photographe to augment this biograohy. View more info
By: Bartlett, Lee
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., New Directions: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 26071TB
Crisp, clean beautiful book with no fault of note. No tears or chips, no bumps, no names or writing. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. William Emerson was a celebrated poet before he converted to Catholicism, joined a religious order and became Brother Antoninus, and became a celebrated Catholic poet. But then in 1969 he left to marry the woman he loved. He remained a poet. 272 pages. View more info
By: Bastin, John Sturgus;National Museum (Singapore)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Singapore, National Museum: 1999
Edition: Third Impression
Seller ID: 24232
Crisp, clean, book. Handsomely designed with burgundy cloth spine enhancing red cloth boards, the front of which is decorated with a painted portrait of Lady Raffles in a gilt "frame." Book measures 5-1/2"x8" and has pristine pages and page edges. Large color portrait of subject at frontis. Tells the story of Sophia Raffles, the second wife of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with handsome illustration throughout. She and her husband traveled extensively in As... View more info
By: Bernard Malamud
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1997
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 23891
Book is beauiful in a low-key way. Boards are covered with brown paper and dark brown cloth at the spine.Tthe only defect to the book itself is a small "This Belongs To" sticker (unused) pasted on the top corner of the front free endpaper. The dustjacket is likewise nice save a tiny chip to the back corner. Jacket looks very handsome in a brand new mylar cover.. Malamud was the winner of two National Book Awards and a Pultizer. Here he includes speeches, interviews,... View more info
By: Berton, Pierre
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Plattsburgh, NY, U.S.A., McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 27384
Very nice, clean book in brand new protective mylar. Boards are unbumped and there are no names or writing other than having been SIGNED by Berton on title page with no inscription. Dated 1987. Dustjacket shows price-clipping and some toning to spine and to top of dustjacket, but there are no chips or tears. The acclaimed Candian historian offers up a lively, and at times funny, account of his first 27 years and sheds light on his contradictory nature. Handsome color p... View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, the University of Michigan: 1998
Seller ID: 23852
Crisp, beautiful book which appears unread or handled much. It measures 6" x 9" and has 118 pages printed on snow white coated paper. The text includes historic photographs from her chilhood home to her grave stone. The story of her life begins in 1797 as an orphan and ends1875 when she died. It also shows a photo of her grave. View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Vantage Press: 2003
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 16442
Crisp, BRAND NEW copy. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. A compilation of letters and black and white photographs which together recount the experiences of the author as an army surgeon during WWII. Dr. Billings arrived in Europe in time to handle the casualities from the D-Day Normandy invasion and the German counteroffensive. 428 pages. View more info
By: Boone, Nathan;Hammon, Neal O.;Draper, Lyman Copeland; Boone, Olive Van Bibber
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Univ Pr of Kentucky: 1999
Seller ID: 26041
Crisp, clean book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Pages and page edges pristine. Jacket is without tears or chips and shows only a small wrinkle to back near bottom of spine. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar. An interesting look at Daniel Boone from the prespective of his son, Nathan and Nathan's wife, Olive. This material was obtained by Lyman Draper, an oral history archivist, who interviewed Nathan Boone in the mid-1850's. Illustrated with ma... View more info
By: Bostridge,. Ian
Price: $22.00
Publisher: New York, Knopf: 2015
Edition: First American Edition Stated
Seller ID: 27935
Book is crisp and clean with no names or writing. Boards and dustjacket are completely white with the only decoration being the textural footprints on the face and spine of the jacket. Book measures 5-1/2" x 7-1/4" and has 500 pages. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Pages are printed on high quality coated paper and are illustrated beautifull in both color and black and white. The author dissects 24 lyrics to find clues leading to the realities ... View more info
By: Brian M. Jordan
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dorrance Pubishing Co. Inc.,: 2003
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 23896
Book is in excellent condition -- no spine crease, no cove left, no creases to pages, no names or writing other than the author' s which reads, "12-11-03, With Best wishes, Brian Mathew Jordan." President 14 is one of the least known of the 45. He put everything he had into poltiics and partisan ones at that. All of this kep him from his wife and children and paved the trail for the Civil War.The book measures 6" x 9" and has 133 pages. View more info
By: Brodsky, Alyn
Price: $25.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Truman Talley Books / St. Martin's: 2004
Edition: First Editiion
Seller ID: 28266
Very clean, attractive book with no defect of note -- not bumps to boards, no names or wtiting, no chips or tears and no price-clip. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Benjamin Rush appears in many tomes of history, but more in passing than not. Finally a biograohy has centered on him as a member of the First Continental Congress snd leading surgeon for the Continental Army. Book has 404 page including index. View more info
By: Burnharn, Fredrick Russell
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Prescott, Arizona, U.S.A., Wolfe Pub Co: 1994
Edition: Facsimile Reprint
Seller ID: 24953
Very nice clean book. Blue boards show no bumps or wear and pages are clean with no names or writing. A facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1926. Portrait of author at frontis in black and white. Burnham was an American scout and adventurer famous for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell. The latter caused him (Burnham) to play a role in the founding of the international Scouting Movement. Illust... View more info
By: Calvino, Italo
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Pantheon Books: 2003
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 25968TB
Crisp, clean, as new book in brand new mylar cover. No defective of note. Has not been -price-clipped and there are no names or writing. First time to be published in English. Comprised of 19 essays of a biographical nature written by Calvino. 255 pages including index. View more info