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Half-Life of a Zealot

By: Hunt, Swanee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A., Duke Univ Press: 2006

Seller ID: 07452

ISBN: 0822338750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

400 pages with Index and black and white photos. Inscribed to a previous owner of the book. Memoir of the daughter of Texas oilman, H.L. Hunt. She was ambassador to Austria (1993-1997) and founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, among many other positions and accomplishments in philanthropy and helping others around the world.
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American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country

By: Hutchison, Kay Bailey (SIGNED)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc.: 2004

Seller ID: 03683

ISBN: 0060566353

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed and dated (2005) by Senator Hutchison on the title page. 384 pages, 11 chapters covering various fields, such as education, aviation, sports, art, public service, etc. Each chapter features women in history as well as present day, representative of their respective fields.
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The Carters of Plains

By: Hyatt, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Huntsville, Alabama, The Strode Publishers, Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 03605

ISBN: 0873971175

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear. Jacket rubbed, chipped along top-edge rear panel. 320 pages, numerous photos of President Carter and the whole family from Plains, Georgia.
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Shig: The True Story of an American Kamikaze

By: Imamura, Shigeo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore, American Literary Press: 2001

Seller ID: 10999

ISBN: 1561676608

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

221 pages, Appendixes, black and white photos. The author, an American citizen from San Francisco, moves to Japan and volunteers as kamikaze pilot in World War II. He survived to become a respected educator in both Japan and the United States. He was a pioneer in teaching English to Japanese students and in training Japanese teachers of English.
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The Life and Cases of Mr. Justice Humphreys

By: Jackson, Stanley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1952

Seller ID: 05865

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Spine is faded. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. 239 pp., Index, black & white photos.
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Anthony Eden : A Biography

By: James, Robert Rhodes

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1987

Seller ID: 08632

ISBN: 0070322856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very slight toning to page edges and the jacket has light creasing at the bottom edge of the rear panel. otherwise about fine. 665 pages, with Select Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with photos.
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Love, Janis

By: Joplin, Laura

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 1992

Seller ID: 00687

ISBN: 0679416056

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Light soiling or stain in a few spots along fore-edge and bottom-edge. Biography of rock star Janis Joplin by her younger sister. Many black & white photos. The following items are laid in: A Review copy form from Random House; a letter from Villard Books to Editors and Producers announcing the new book and the author's tour; a tour schedule for the author with suggested questions for an interview; and a Villard Books press release.
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Al Smith, Hero of the Cities: A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkins

By: Josephson, Matthew and Hannah

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1969

Seller ID: 02586

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

505 pages, illustrated with photographs. Biography of the New York governor, who was defeated in the presidential election of 1928 and left his succesor to Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a working government and blueprint for social reform that Roosevelt would later put to use as President.
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Oscar Wilde

By: Jullian, Philippe

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Academique Perrin: 1967

Seller ID: 04965

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear to book and jacket. French language text. 408 pages, illustrated with drawings throughout, plus 16 pages of black & white photos.
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Cherry

By: Karr, Mary

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2000

Seller ID: 02698

ISBN: 0670892742

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

On a Killing Day: The Bizarre Story of Convicted Murderer Aileen "Lee" Wuornos

By: Kennedy, Dolores (with Robert Nolin)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chicago, Bonus Books: 1992

Seller ID: 02830

ISBN: 0929387759

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

283 pages. Photos. Story of Florida prostitute and convicted serial killer Aileen "Lee" Wuornos. Her story was the basis for the 2003 film, Monster, in which Charlize Theron portrayed Wuornos in an Oscar-winning performance.
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General Smuts

By: Kiernan, R.H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Company Ltd: 1943

Seller ID: 08485

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Light shelf wear. Foxing to the edges of the page block, as well as the first several and last several pages. Previous owner name and date on the front free endpaper. 176 pages with nine illustrations and two maps.
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Doris Lessing : A Biography

By: Klein, Carole

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Duckworth: 2000

Seller ID: 05717

ISBN: 0715629514

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The Diary of Nina Kosterina

By: Kosterina, Nina (English Translation, Introduction by Mirra Ginsburg)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1968

Seller ID: 08323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild to moderate edge wear and light foxing to top edge of page block. Spine cocked a bit. Clean interior, no writing or marks. 192 pages. Extending from 1936-1941, this is the diary of a young girl growing up in the middle of the Stalinist purges and trials to the early days of World War II.
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Nijinsky

By: Krasovskaya, Vere

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Schirmer Books: 1979

Seller ID: 07099

ISBN: 0028718704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket chipped and edge-worn in places. 374 pages. with Notes and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos.
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What The Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered

By: Lane, Patrick

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Trumpeter: 2005

Seller ID: 08044

ISBN: 1590302540

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Signed on the title page by the author. Fine, unread copy of the Canadian poet's memoir, first published by McClellan & Stewart in Toronto.
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Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection

By: Lansdown, Richard (Editor)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2015

Seller ID: 09485

ISBN: 0198722559

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Lower corners mildly bumped. Small, light smudge to the top edge of the page block. 518 pages with Index. A new selection from Leslie A. Marchand's twelve-volume edition, edited by Richard Lansdown.
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A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell

By: Larsen, Stephen; Larsen, Robin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1991

Seller ID: 05714

ISBN: 0385266359

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Jacket is price-clipped.
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The Book-Peddling Parson: An Account of the Life and Works of Mason Locke Weems Patriot, Pitchman, Author and Purveyor of Morality to the Citizenry of the Early United States of America

By: Leary, Lewis

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books: 1984

Seller ID: 08203

ISBN: 0912697091

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Slight amount of sticker shadow on the rear panel of the dust jacket, otherwise fine. A very nice, clean copy. Account of the Episcopal minister-turned-book peddler in Early America. Parson Weems supposedly wrote the story of George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and refusing to lie about it. When Weems could not find such morality in others' books, he produced his own.
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Echoes from the Hills

By: Lennox, Gladys Rosa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Stockwell: 1978

Seller ID: 02486

ISBN: 0722311761

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to book. Jacket edges and spine darkened, foxed. 176 pp, illustrated.
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