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Notes on Joseph Conrad

By: Symons, Arthur

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Myers & Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 10929

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild shelf wear, paper clip marks to a few pages. Browned endpapers. Dust jacket is missing most of the spine and has large chips and paper loss at the corners and top edge. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 38 pages. Frontispiece photo of Joseph Conrad.
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City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy

By: Teachout, Terry

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Poseidon: 1991

Seller ID: 02511

ISBN: 0671683519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Previous owner name on front free endpaper. The author's memoir of growing up in a small town (Sikeston, Missouri) and moving to a big city (New York).
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Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency

By: terHorst, Jerald F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Third Press Joseph Okpaku Publishing Company, Inc.: 1974

Seller ID: 10200

ISBN: 0893881910

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Shelf wear and some edge wear to book and jacket. Clean copy, no writing or marks. Biography of President Gerald Ford, through his ascension to the presidency upon Richard Nixon's resignation and Ford's pardon of Nixon. Also offers an analysis of the Watergate scandal and its effect on the presidency. 245 pages with Bibliography and Index. Black and white photos.
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Robert Frost : The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938

By: Thompson, Lawrance

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Company: 1970

Seller ID: 02450

ISBN: 0030845300

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild edge wear to book and jacket. Light foxing to page edges. A few closed tears to jacket. Clean inside--no writing, marks or stains.
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Robert F. Kennedy: The Brother Within

By: Thompson, Robert E. and Hortense Myers

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1962

Seller ID: 05459

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Light wear to book, jacket chipped and edge-worn. 224 pages with black & white photos. The first book to evaluate Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General, in terms of his own talent and experience, not as his brother's shadow (President John F. Kennedy).
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The Crime of Mary Stuart

By: Thomson, George Malcolm

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 11124

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Foxing to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket has bit of soil and some rubbing wear along the spine. 176 pages with Appendixes, Bibliography, and Index. "Was she martyr or murderess... ambitious queen or a woman in love? The true story of this beautiful and tragic queen has always been clouded by controversy and mystery. Now a British historian and author tells the complete story of Mary Queen of Scots, in a dramatic, richly detailed, accurately documented book."
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Ned Ward of Grubstreet: A Study of Sub-Literary London in the Eighteenth Century

By: Troyer, Howard William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1946

Seller ID: 09999

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Stalin; the Man and His Era

By: Ulam, Adam B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1973

Seller ID: 06480

ISBN: 0670666831

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares

By: Valladares, Armando

Price: $24.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1986

Seller ID: 09280

ISBN: 0394534255

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Mola Nostra Come Eravamo, Volume 2

By: Ventura, Mario

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Mola di Bari, Realta Nuove: 1996

Seller ID: 11176

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Italian language text. Abrasions with small amounts of paper loss along the spine. 153 pages with Suggested Reading and Index. Illustrated. Volume 2 of the author's memoir of his city, Mola di Bari in Southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea. Inscribed by the author to the previous owner of the book.
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Hugh Robinson: Pioneer Aviator

By: Vergara, George L.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Gainesville, Florida, University of Florida Press: 1995

Seller ID: 04168

ISBN: 0813013615

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

136 pages, with Index and a selection of books for further reading. Illustrated with black and white photos.
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The Rebel

By: Villegas De Magnon, Leonor; Lomas, Clara

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, Arte Publico Press: 1994

Seller ID: 06424

ISBN: 1558850562

Binding: Soft Cover

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...
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Taken on Trust

By: Waite, Terry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1993

Seller ID: 03053

ISBN: 0151878498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

370 pages with Index, black and white photos.
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V. Sackville-West

By: Watson, Sara Ruth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 07434

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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So It Was

By: Wenner, Michael A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Durham, UK, The Pentland Press: 1993

Seller ID: 05475

ISBN: 1858210275

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Royal Family: An Informal Portrait

By: White, Ralphe M. and Graham Fisher

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 11411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear to book and jacket. Bookstore label an some penciled notes on the rear endpapers. 275 pages with black and white photos.
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The Private Life of Mr. Pepys

By: Wilson, John Harold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy: 1959

Seller ID: 02542

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters Series)

By: Wilson, Jonathan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Schocken / Nextbook: 2007

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."
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Thomas Beckett

By: Winston, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1967

Seller ID: 06030

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Frank O'Connor : An Introductory Study

By: Wohlgelernter, Maurice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1977

Seller ID: 01861

ISBN: 0231041942

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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