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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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Edwin Edwards, Governor of Louisiana

By: Honeycutt, Leo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Lisburn Press: 2010

Seller ID: 11344

ISBN: 0578041472

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean, sharp copy. 621 pages with Index and Endnotes. Illustrated with a section of color photos. From the dust jacket: "Branded a crook, profiled three times by 60 Minutes, slammed in East Coast newspapers, Edwards embraced a maverick, gambling, womanizing reputation with comedic relish. But one day the laughter ran out. Was he a crook? Or did the feds seek to silence him? Here is an unvarnished, inside truth about American politics, the media, the punsters, campaign hacks, federal agents and the fickle public. This will answer many questions about why the system is so screwed up and why the ...
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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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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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My Young Friends: The Queen's Young Family

By: JAYNE FINCHER' 'VALERIE GARNER

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON: 1989

Seller ID: 11417

ISBN: 029779518x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Previous owner purchase date on the front endpaper. 117 pages with Bibliography. More than 100 color portraits by Royal photographer Jayne Fincher. "The lives, careers and characters of these young working royals: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones and Viscount Linely, Lady Helen Windsor and George, Earl of St Andrews, Marina and James Ogilvy, Prince Edward and Sarah, the Duchess of York, James Ogilvy and sister Marina, William, Harry, and Beatrice and their first cousins Peter and Zara.
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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

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