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The Inauguration of Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer and Semicentennial Ceremonies

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, William Marsh Rice University: 1963

Seller ID: 04797

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Light foxing or spotting to page edges. The book is about fine in all other aspects.
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From Gags to Riches: An Alibiography

By: ADAMS, Joey; Forewords by Frank Sinatra, Hon. Fiorello H. La Guardia, Toots Shor, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Earl Wilson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc.: 1946

Seller ID: 10371

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The first printing was October 1946 and this is the second printing from that same month. Mild wear to boards with a small tear to the top edge of the rear cover. The dust jacket has some edge wear and rubbing to the extremities and the rear panel. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. A Broadway entertainer and comedian's memoir with many stories about many entertainers he's known in his career (first half of the 20th century). 336 pages with 80 cartoon illustrations by 18 different artists, some of whom were celebrities themselves (Xavier Cugat, Zero Mostel, etc.). Four Forewords: Hon. Fiorello H...
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Alexander Woollcott: His Life and His World

By: Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Freeport, New York, Books for Libraries Press: 1970

Seller ID: 08843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light foxing/spotting to the top- and bottom-edge of the page block. Otherwise a clean, solid copy. Biography of American critic and commentator for the New Yorker, who was also a member of the Algonquin Round Table along with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and others during the 1920s. 388 pages with Index and black and white photos.
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White Knight in Blue Shades: The Authorized Biography of Marvin Zindler

By: Agris, Joseph

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, A-to-Z Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 09507

ISBN: 0971234809

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Just a trace of shelf wear, otherwise a Fine copy. 456 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed and signed to the previous owner by both the author and Marvin Zindler.
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White Knight in Blue Shades: The One and Only Authorized Biography of a True Texas Original... Marvin Zindler

By: Agris, M.D., Joseph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, A-to-Z Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 05362

ISBN: 0971234817

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

456 pp., numerous photos.
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Alan Paton: A Biography

By: Alexander, Peter F.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 05143

ISBN: 0198112378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

W.B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu

By: Alldritt, Keith

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Clarkson Potter: 1997

Seller ID: 04740

ISBN: 0517799898

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

388 pages, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Black & white photos.
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The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

By: Alun-Jones, Deborah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 2013

Seller ID: 08581

ISBN: 978050051677

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Gift inscription on the front free endpaper covers half the page, otherwise a clean, fine copy. 208 pages with Bibliography and Index. 75 illustrations, 12 in color. From the publisher: "In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which they drew inspiration. Each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the ...
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The World of Louisa May Alcott

By: Anderson, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 1995

Seller ID: 09605

ISBN: 0060951567

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Oversized book, 12 inches tall. A clean, flawless copy. 120 pages of text and photographs documenting the life and works of Louisa May Alcott.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life and Books

By: Anderson, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 1995

Seller ID: 09606

ISBN: 0060973463

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Oversized book, 12 inches tall. A clean, flawless copy. 119 pages of text and photographs documenting the life and works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Carlyle's First Love, Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman: An Account of Her Life, Ancestry and Homes, Her Family and Friends

By: Archibald, Raymond Clare

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head: 1910

Seller ID: 08546

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

A structurally sound copy with a good bit of scattered foxing, particularly around the endpapers and plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt (scratched and somewhat faded), while the fore-edge and bottom edge are untrimmed. Looks like a book plate was removed. 214 pages with 21 illustrations, including one in color, plus ads for related titles from the publisher.
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To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, the Doctor Poet

By: Baldwin, Neil

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1984

Seller ID: 04773

ISBN: 0689310307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Faint smudge or markings to fore-edge of the page block. Upper-corner of fornt free endpaper clipped. Rear panel of jacket has some wrinkling. 223 pages with Source Guide for Quoted Material, Bibliography, and Index. Black and white photos.
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One Life

By: Barnard, Dr. Christiaan & Curtis Bill Pepper

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan: 1970

Seller ID: 10147

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear, darkening to jacket along the spine and top-edge, The jacket also has a bit of edge wear. Clean copy, no writing or marks. 402 pages with Index. Autobiography of the famed South African heart surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967.
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At Ease in the White House: Social Life As Seen by a Presidential Military Aide

By: Bauer, Stephen M.; with Frances Spatz Leighton,

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A., Birch Lane Press: 1991

Seller ID: 06787

ISBN: 1559720611

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

324 pages, with Bibliography and Index. Black & white photos. Signed by the author on the front free endpapers.
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Hemingway in Key West

By: Bellavance-Johnson, Marsha

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ketchum, Idaho, The Computer Lab: 1987

Seller ID: 05239

ISBN: 092970908

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

32-page booklet, illustrated, and with a Bibliography. A brief guide to Hemingway's connections with Key West, Florida.
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Red: A Biography of Red Smith, the Life and Times of a Great American Writer

By: Berkow, Ira

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Times Books: 1986

Seller ID: 01810

ISBN: 0812912039

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Price-clipped jacket. The life and career of one of America's best sports journalists. 302 pages with index. Illustrated with black & wite photos.
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Second Diary of a Diplomatic Correspondent [Inscribed to Jacqueline Kennedy]

By: Bilainkin, George

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd: 1947

Seller ID: 11094

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition and publication date not indicated, but a letter from the author, which accompanies the book, indicates 1947 as the year the book was printed. The book shows just a trace of wear, the jacket has some chipping and rubbing. This copy either belonged to or was intended for Jacqueline Kennedy, while in the White House, because of the author's association, as a journalist, with her husband and father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. during the World War II era in Great Britain. A typed, signed letter from the author, addressed to "Her Excellency, Mrs. John Kennedy" is laid in at the front of ...
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Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic

By: Blaine, David

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 2002

Seller ID: 05989

ISBN: 0375505733

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

214 pages, illustrated. Magic history segues into Blaine's history. An interesting book packed with much information and images about the field of magic and David Blaine.
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John Martin 1789-1854: His Life and Works

By: Blaston, Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.: 1947

Seller ID: 06291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Wear to the corners and spine ends. The spine has a mottled appearance, perhaps the result of insect damage. Browning to the front endpapers. Interior clean, binding square and tight. 309 pages, including Appendices and Bibliographical Note, followed by a section of 25 plates, a sampling of Martin's work.
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I'll Tell Them I Remember You

By: Blatty, William P.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 01521

ISBN: 039307479x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to boards. Full-page gift inscription on front free endpaper. Jacket price-clipped, worn at corners and spine ends. Couple of tears on front panel. A book about the author's mother, his book The Exorcist, and life after death.
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs