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Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1946
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 09999
Condition: Good
Bumping, shelf wear, and an edge-worn, price-clipped dust jacket protected now in a Brodart archival cover. 290 pages with Appendices (Bibliography of Writings of Edward Ward and Doubtful Attributions) and Index. Illustrated with eight black and white plates of London scenes and a frontispiece portrait of Ward. From the jacket: "Here is the first complete study of Edward Ward (1671-1731, one of the most colorful hack writers of all time, second only to Defoe in his age as a figure of importance in the early history of realistic periodical literature... Nowhere can be found a more effective pic... View more info
By: Ulam, Adam B.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 06480
ISBN: 0670666831
Condition: Very Good
Light shelf wear, chipping to jacket. Several pages were not cut properly and have a part that extends beyond the page block. 760 pages, Index, no photos. View more info
Price: $24.50
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1986
Edition: Fourth Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 09280
ISBN: 0394534255
Condition: Near Fine
A trace of shelf wear to book and jacket. Inscribed in Spanish to the book's previous owner by the author. 380 pages, black and white photos. The author recounts his twenty-two year imprisonment for opposing the government of Fidel Castro and describes the treatment of Cuban political prisoners. View more info
By: Van Doren, Carl
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1939
Edition: Seventh Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 09016
Condition: Very Good
Shelf wear. Fading to the spine, but lettering and decoration still prominent. Signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper (inscribed to the previous owner--Mrs. Lawrence Clark), 1940. 845 pages with Bibliography, Chapter References, and Index. Three illustrations--portraits of Franklin. View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Gainesville, Florida, University of Florida Press: 1995
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 04168
ISBN: 0813013615
Condition: Near Fine
136 pages, with Index and a selection of books for further reading. Illustrated with black and white photos. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Haskell House: 1969
Edition: Fourth Impression
Seller ID: 08899
ISBN: 0838301754
Condition: Near Fine
Couple of very faint scratches to the covers, otherwise fine. Extra weight with two volumes may require additional postage for priority and international shipping. View more info
By: Villegas De Magnon, Leonor; Lomas, Clara
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, Arte Publico Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 06424
ISBN: 1558850562
Condition: Near Fine
A few faint spots to the fore-edge and bottom edge. Memoir of Leonor Villegas de Magnon, a participant in the Mexican Revolution who rebelled against her aristocratic class. In 1910, she moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas and continued her support of the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria and founding La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross), a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces. [lvi] 297 pages, including Preface (In Search of an Autobiography: On Mapping Women's Intellectual History of the Borderlands) and a lengthy Introduction (Revolutionary Women and the Alternative Pres... View more info
By: Viscardi, Jr., Henry; Introduction By Eleanor Roosevelt
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Middlebury, Vermont, Paul S. Eriksson: 1979
Edition: Fourth Printing
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 04680
Condition: Near Fine
Lightly bumped corners. Jacket has a light amount of edge wear showing, with a few tiny tears. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. Inspirational biographies of disabled Americans. Viscardi was born legless and founded Human Resources Center to help other disabled people by aiding in employment, research, training, and educational programs. He has been an advisor to every president since Franklin Roosevelt (through Carter as of this 1979 publication). View more info
By: Waite, Terry
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03053
ISBN: 0151878498
Condition: Near Fine
370 pages with Index, black and white photos. View more info
By: Walworth, Arthur
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, Easton Press: 1978
Seller ID: 09218
Condition: Near Fine
Leather-bound, gilt-decorated covers. All edges gilt. Raised bands and gilt ruling and decoration to the spine. Faint pink mark to the top-edge gilt. Silk ribbon bookmark sewn into the binding. 454 pages with Index. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc.: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 07434
Condition: Very Good
Light rubbing and chipping to jacket. Protected in a Mylar archival cover now. 164 pages with Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, and Index. A title in Twayne's English Authors Series, edited by Sylvia E. Bowman, Indiana University. View more info
By: Weber, Marianne
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Tubingen, Mohr Siebeck: 1984
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 10055
ISBN: 3165448205
Condition: Near Fine
736 pages, black and white plates. Silk ribbon bookmark sewn into binding. German language text. Heavy volume that may require additional postage for expedited and international shipping. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Durham, UK, The Pentland Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 05475
ISBN: 1858210275
Condition: Very Good
Former library book at the Goethe Institute in Houston, Texas. Only one stamp--to the copyright showing the institute name and notation next to it. No other markings, but the jacket is wrapped in a protective Mylar and adhered to the boards. A card pocket in the rear of the book has been removed, resulting in a little paper loss and residue on the rear endpapers. The library spine label has been removed from the jacket, creating a slight sticker shadow. Inscribed from the author to the Goethe Institute. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy: 1959
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 02542
Condition: Very Good
Light edge wear to book and jacket. Remants of a paper label near the bottom of the spine. Clean with no writing, marks or stains. Biography of the famous 17th century diarist. 249 pages, frontispiece portrait by John Hayles, 1666. View more info
By: Wilson, Jonathan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Schocken / Nextbook: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 10557
ISBN: 0805242015
Condition: Fine
Price-clipped dust jacket, otherwise a fine, sharp copy. Inscribed to the previous owner and signed by the author on the title page. 238 pages, including a Bibliographic Note and Chronology of Chagall's life. "A portrait of one of the twentieth century's leading artists, Marc Chagall, reveals how his work reflects both a nostalgia for the vanished past and Jewish life in the early twentieth century, and his attraction to the secular goals and mores of modernism." View more info
By: Winston, Richard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 06030
Condition: Near Fine -
Trace of wear to book and jacket. Nice, clean copy. 413 pages, with Appnedix, Notes, and Bibliography. Index, pp. i-viii, follows. The life and times of Thomas Beckett (A.D. 1118-1170), statesman, soldier, martyr, and saint. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 01861
ISBN: 0231041942
Condition: Near Fine
Some light shelf wear. Jacket has a tiny, closed tear at top edge of front panel, light wear at the spine ends and flap folds. Critical biography of Irish author Frank O'Connor. 222 pages with Index, notes, and selected bibliography. Frontispiece photo of O'Connor. A nice association copy, warmly inscribed by the author to fellow author, Max Apple. View more info
By: Woolrich, W.R.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: San Antonio, Texas, Naylor Company: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 06245
ISBN: 0811104338
Condition: Very Good
Light shelf wear. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Jacket has a few small chips and a closed edge tear. A mechanical engineer's autobiography of life as a professional engineer, beginning in 1906, and the work that took him around the country and overseas. 74 pages, no illustrations. View more info
By: Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1985
Edition: Fifth Printing
Seller ID: 10614
ISBN: 0553050931
Condition: Near Fine
Price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of short edge tears. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Signed by Chuck Yeager (name only) on the front endpaper. 342 pages with Index. Black and white photos. Clean copy. "General Chuck Yeager was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound; a World War II flying ace in the US Air Force who later became a test pilot. He operated in the golden age of aviation - the daredevil, death-defying days of the true winged heroes." View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03441
ISBN: 0553050931
Condition: Near Fine
Light wear at the head of the spine. Very slight age toning. View more info
