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By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, William Marsh Rice University: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 04797
Condition: Very Good+
Light foxing or spotting to page edges. The book is about fine in all other aspects. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc.: 1946
Edition: Second Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 10371
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... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Freeport, New York, Books for Libraries Press: 1970
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 08843
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. View more info
By: Agris, Joseph
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, A-to-Z Publishing: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 09507
ISBN: 0971234809
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. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, A-to-Z Publishing: 2002
Edition: Fisrt Softcover Edition
Seller ID: 05362
ISBN: 0971234817
Condition: Fine
456 pp., numerous photos. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1994
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 05143
ISBN: 0198112378
Condition: Near Fine
By: Alldritt, Keith
Price: $9.50
Publisher: New York, Clarkson Potter: 1997
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 04740
ISBN: 0517799898
Condition: Fine
388 pages, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Black & white photos. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 08581
ISBN: 978050051677
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 ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 09605
ISBN: 0060951567
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. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 09606
ISBN: 0060973463
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. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, Steck-Vaughn: 1966
Edition: Facsimile Edition
Seller ID: 03935
Condition: Very Good
Some age toning around the extremities. Glassine cover, no slipcase. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1883 edition. Cover photos of Jesse James and his wife from the N.H. Rose Collection, courtesy of the Division of Manuscripts, University of Oklahoma Library. 96 pages, illustrated with the original drawings and color added by Carol Rogers. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 08546
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. View more info
By: Baldwin, Neil
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 04773
ISBN: 0689310307
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. View more info
By: Barnard, Dr. Christiaan & Curtis Bill Pepper
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan: 1970
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 10147
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. View more info
By: Bauer, Stephen M.; with Frances Spatz Leighton,
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A., Birch Lane Press: 1991
Edition: Second Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 06787
ISBN: 1559720611
Condition: Near Fine
324 pages, with Bibliography and Index. Black & white photos. Signed by the author on the front free endpapers. View more info
By: Bellavance-Johnson, Marsha
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Ketchum, Idaho, The Computer Lab: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 05239
ISBN: 092970908
Condition: Near Fine
32-page booklet, illustrated, and with a Bibliography. A brief guide to Hemingway's connections with Key West, Florida. View more info
By: Berkow, Ira
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Times Books: 1986
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 01810
ISBN: 0812912039
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. View more info
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Price: $350.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd: 1947
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 09896
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 ... View more info
By: Blaine, David
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 05989
ISBN: 0375505733
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. View more info
By: Blaston, Thomas
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 06291
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. View more info
