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All Aboard: Lucky in War, Lucky in Peace, Lucky in Love

By: Godbold, James M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, Iuniverse Inc: 2003

Seller ID: 04902

ISBN: 0595288650

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed on the inside cover "Semper Fidelis, James M. Godbold." Memoir of a retired Marine Corps colonel, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was a decorated Marine pilot from McComb Mississippi, winning two Distinguished Flying Crosses and numerous Air Medals in the Pacific Theater. After his military service, he became a nationally known photojournalist and was named the first Director of Photography at National Geographic Magazine. He later published newspapers in Illinois and Texas.
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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Jewish Encounters Series)

By: Goldstein, Rebecca

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Schocken / Nextbook: 2006

Seller ID: 10556

ISBN: 0805242090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light pencil underlining scattered throughout the text. If not for that, the book would be graded Fine. A sharp copy. 287 pages. From the dust jacket: "In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themsel...
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World

By: Goldstone, Lawrence; Goldstone, Nancy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Books: 2002

Seller ID: 02321

ISBN: 0767908368

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

"Bound Galley - Not for Sale" printed on front and rear covers. Couple of very mild creases on the front cover. Facinating story of Michael Servetus, both a scientist (discovered blood circulation) and a religious free thinker, who was burned at the stake with the last known copy of his scholarly work, the Christianismi Restitutio. However, three copies are known to have survived his execution. The authors trace those three copies through the centuries. 350 pages with Index section, which is blank for this publication.
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Charles, Duke of Orleans: Poet and Prince

By: Goodrich, Norma Lorre

Price: $4.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1963

Seller ID: 21011101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Mild wear to boards. Edge wear and chips to the dust jacket. Price is clipped. 340 pages, including List of Sources. Illustrated with two genealogical charts. [ret]
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Sidney Hillman: Great American

By: Gould, Jean

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1952

Seller ID: 11091

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Blue cloth with a bit of damage (insect nibbling), otherwise clean, square, and tight. Edge-worn dust jacket in a protective Mylar sleeve now. Biography of labor leader Hillman and the story of the trade union he headed--Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. 85 pages with Bibliography.
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People, Places and Things, Volume One: People

By: Grigson, Geoffrey and Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (General Editors)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: London, The Grosvenor Press: 1954

Seller ID: 06032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some shelf wear and spotting to the bottom edge. Jacket chipped at the spine ends and upper corners. Protected in a Mylar cover. "A volume of the good, bad, great & eccentric who illustrate the admirable diversity of man." Alphabetical listing of historically significant people. 469 pages with 160 black & white and 16 color illustrations.
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Windsor Revisited

By: H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1960

Seller ID: 11420

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dark gray, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Mild edge wear and a gift inscription to the previous owner. 216 pages with black and white photos. A Windsor family memoir by H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry American Wallis Simpson.
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In the Arms of Grace: One Child's Journey

By: Hai, Christi

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, UniVoice International, Inc.: 2001

Seller ID: 10140

ISBN: 0970888104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

277 pages with photographs. SIGNED by the author to the previous owner: "Life according to this orphan is… Love Intensely Forgive Eternally! Blessings, Chai 11-29-01." From the publisher: "In the Arms of Grace is the powerful story of a modern woman warrior and her battle for physical, emotional and spiritual victory. As a Vietnamese and an American, she provides a link between the two nations through her life experiences. From her days as an orphan in Vietnam, when she sang and danced for American G.I.s, to her "ideal" life of having it all in the United States, LeChristine Hai constantly s...
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Without a Map

By: Hall, Meredith

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press: 2007

Seller ID: 10004

ISBN: 0807072745

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Unread copy signed by the author ("For Jackie..."). From the publisher: "Meredith Hall grew up bonded to her insular New Hampshire community, comforted by the hallmarks of belonging: perfect attendance in Sunday school, classmates who seemed more like cousins, teachers who held her up as a model student, a mother who loved her unconditionally. Then, at sixteen, she became pregnant, and all at once those who had held her close and kept her safe turned their backs." "The same day in 1965 that Meredith was expelled from school, her mother told her "You can't stay here."...
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Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960

By: Hammett, Dashiell; Edited By Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Counterpoint: 2001

Seller ID: 01921

ISBN: 1582430810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

650 pages with Appendix (Hammett's Reading) and Index. Black and white photos.
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George Eliot's Midlands: Passion in Exile

By: Handley, Graham

Price: $15.00

Publisher: United Kingdom, Allison & Busby: 1991

Seller ID: 05804

ISBN: 0850319978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Previous owner signature and embossed address at bottom of front free endpaper. 252 pages, with References, Selected Bibliography, and Index, followed by publisher ads for books. A study of the effects of a scandalous love affair between Maraian Evans (aka George Eliot) and a married man, which resulted in banishment from her homeland and a nucleus of ideas for her fiction.
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The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni)

By: Hanna, Warren L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Norman Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press: 1986

Seller ID: 11121

ISBN: 0806119853

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. Mild edge wear to the dust jacket. Laid in at the back of the book is a two-page article on Schultz and his home, 'Apuni Oyis' or Butterfly Lodge in Greer, Arizona, where Schultz also lived. 382 pages with Biographical Postscripts, Appendix, Bibliography and Index Illustrations and maps. Recounts the life of the New York-born writer and explorer, James Willard Schultz (1859-1947), who lived among the Blackfeet Indians of Northwestern Montana during the late 1800s. Schultz married a Blackfoot woman and they had a son, Lone Wolf, who became a well-...
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What Matter I

By: Harper, J.B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Australia, The Ivanhoe Grammar School: 1964

Seller ID: 06201

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Shelf wear and light spotting to the page edges. The jacket has chipping and a few small edge tears. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. A former student of the Ivanhoe Grammar School in Australia tells the history of the school and its founder Reverend Sydney Leonard Buckley as the school celebrated its 50th anniversary. 130 pages, with five Appendices. Illustrated with many black and white photographs.
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Rose: My Life In Service

By: Harrison, Rosina

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking: 1975

Seller ID: 11290

ISBN: 0670608149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Mild shelf wear and a slanted spine. The dust jacket has some edge wear and a few short tears. Protected in a Mylar sleeve now. 237 pages with black and white photos. Recollections of life in one of England's grandest households by the personal maid to Nancy, Lady Astor.
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Robert Burns: The Man and His Work

By: Hecht, Hans; Translated by Jane Lymburn into English

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Darvel, United Kingdom, Alloway Publishing, Limited: 1988

Seller ID: 02147

ISBN: 0907526047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book was purchased at the Burns Cottage, Alloway according to a slip of paper signed by the curator and laid in the book with a brochure from the Burns Heritage Trail. 301 pages with Appendix (Heron's Memoir of Burns), Bibliography and Indices (A: Names and Places, B: Titles of Poems, Songs and Tunes).
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Prime Ministers of Britain: From Robert Walpole to James Callaghan

By: Hellicar, Eileen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, David & Charles: 1978

Seller ID: 11408

ISBN: 0715374869

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Bookstore price sticker on the front flap of the jacket. 159 pages with Index. Brief bios of the Prime Ministers accompanied by portrait drawings by Shirley Curzon.
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Marbot: A Biography

By: Hildesheimer, Wolfgang; Translation to English from the German by Patricia Crampton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller: 1983

Seller ID: 10242

ISBN: 0807610720

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear to book and jacket. Very Good to Near Fine. 246 pages with Index of Personal Names. Biography of Sir Andrew MArbot (1801-1831) and his pioneering work in art criticism during the great age of Romanticism.
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Dear God, Pourquoi? (Why Did You Born Me in Texas?)

By: Hill, John Hugh

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1985

Seller ID: 04676

ISBN: 0533064007

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Light rubbing to jacket and a couple of tiny chips.
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The Fateful Voyage of Captain Kidd

By: Hinrichs, Dunbar Maury

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bookman Associates, Inc.: 1955

Seller ID: 03690

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bumping, edge wear and chipping to jacket. Protected now in a new Brodart cover. Factual account of the career of Captain Kidd. The fateful voyage refers to the three-year mission of the Adventure Galley to suppress piracy in the Indian Ocean. The mission failed and Kidd was subsequently brought to trial, branded a scapegoat and murderer, and executed. 203 pages, with Footnotes, Bibliography, Appendix, and Index.
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Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint--the Inventive Genius of Operation Auca

By: Hitt, Russell T.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1959

Seller ID: 07915

ISBN: 1572930225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Moderate shelf wear, jacket has some chips and creases and is in a clear Mylar cover. Story of Christian missionary Nate Saint and his work with the Waodani (Auca) Indians of Ecuador and his death at their hands. 303 pages, illustrated with a section of black & white photographs as well as endpaper photos.
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