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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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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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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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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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Working and Thinking on the Waterfront

By: Hoffer, Eric

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1969

Seller ID: 02098

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Diary of a San Francisco Longshoreman, 1958-1959.
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Caroline: A Biography of Caroline of Brunswick

By: Holme, Thea

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1979

Seller ID: 06034

ISBN: 024110162X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light reading and shelf wear, no tears or stains, but some toning to jacket. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. 245 pages, including References, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated. The "scandaloous" wife of George IV, Caroline lived from 1768-1821.
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The Clocks of Columbus ; the Literary Career of James Thurber

By: Holmes, Charles S.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1972

Seller ID: 01303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

A lightly bumped, clean copy. [xiv] 360 pp, including Selected Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black & white photos and some of Thurbers drawings.
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Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography, Two-Volume Set

By: Holroyd, Michael

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1968

Seller ID: 01334

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Two-volume set in slipcase. Volume I: The Unknown Years, 1880-1910; Volume II: The Years of Achievement 1910-1932. Both volumes have small amounts of damage and darkening to the dust jacket spines. Additionally, Volume II has several tiny spots on the fore-edge of the page block. Comes with publisher's slipcase, which has mild wear.
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Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1: 1856-1898 - The Search for Love

By: Holroyd, Michael

Price: $8.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1988

Seller ID: 08406

ISBN: 0701133325

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

486 pages with Index. Photos and pictorial endpapers.
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Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors: Alfred Tennyson

By: Hubbard, Elbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: East Aurora, New York, The Roycrofters: 1901

Seller ID: 06979

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edition not stated, assumed first. Rubbing to spine and extremities, bumping, and a very faint, small stain to the front cover. Cloth spine and paper-covered boards with a paper label (title & author) wrapped across the spine onto the covers. Label shows minor amount of paper loss and a bit of soiling. Rough-cut pages, numbered 53 to 74. Frontispiece image of Tennyson (etching by Rajon) with tissue guard. Title page and ornamental design by Samuel Warner.
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Rock Hudson: His Story

By: Hudson, Rock; Davidson, Sara (SIGNED)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co: 1986

Seller ID: 05699

ISBN: 0688064728

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Nibbling to the fore-edge of the page block. Signed by Davidson on the half-title page. 311 pages with Chapter Notes and Credits. Black & white photos.
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My Life's Ride to the Bar J Chuckwagon

By: Humphrey, Babe (with Bob Christensen)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Wilson, Wyoming, Self Published: 2010

Seller ID: 08854

ISBN: 978057805895

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed inside the front cover by Humphrey and other band members. 312 pages with Index and numerous black and white photos. The author's memoir of a life in Western entertainment and his Bar J Chuckwagon on an old cattle ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. From their website: "The Bar J Chuckwagon takes you back to the spirit of the old west with a relaxing atmosphere, rib stickin' meal and authentic cowboy entertainment."
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs