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By: Allen, Charles
Price: $4.95
Publisher: London, Futura: 1984
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11585
ISBN: 0708824943
Condition: Very Good; Pictorial trade paperback, front cover crease; clean pages; tight binding; glossary; illustrated.
Concluding the trilogy begun with Plain Tales from the Raj and Tales from the Dark Continent. Edited by Allen. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 319 pages View more info
By: Allen, Charles
Price: $4.95
Publisher: London, Futura: 1975
Edition: First Edition Thus; 5th Printing
Seller ID: 13055
Condition: Very Good; Pictorial trade paperback, amall front cover crease; clean pages; tight binding; glossary; illustrated. Edited by Allen.
One of the trilogy begun including Tales from the Dark Continent and Tales from the South China Seas. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 287 pages View more info
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Martha's Vineyard, MA, Kendron Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 9321
Condition: Very Good; Pictorial paperback; clean pages; tight binding; illustrated.
A journal dictated to her children as she lay dying of cancer. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 124 pages View more info
By: Bird, Kai & Martin J. Sherwin
Price: $495.00
Publisher: Knopf: 2005
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 12922
ISBN: 0375412026
Condition: Very Good; Blue hardcover with maroon cloth spine and silver titles; DJ light crease on spine tail and Winner of the ulitzer Prize sticker on front panel; clean pages; tight binding.
SIGNED on the title page by both authors, with dedication "To Curtis and Joan, Lovers of history! Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin another Jean Mayer fan! "; 9.30 X 6.50 X 1.70 inches; 721 pages View more info
By: Carroll, James
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1996
Edition: First Edition; 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 11628
ISBN: 039577926X
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Gray hardcover with red spine and gilt titles; clean pages; tight binding; illustration.
A National Book Award winner, and as you read it, you know you will never forget. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages View more info
By: Churchill, Winston Spencer
Price: $8.95
Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1989
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 3596
ISBN: 1555841686
Condition: As New in Very Good dust jacket; Plum hardcover with cloth spine and gilt titles; clean pages; tight binding.
The grandson of Winston Churchill's autobiography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages View more info
By: Evans, Karin
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, J P Tarcher: 2001
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11283
ISBN: 1585421170
Condition: Very Good+; Pictorial paperback; clean pages; tight binding.
"A cross-cultural adventure of the soul" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages View more info
By: Eyland, Seth (Pseudonym Of David Edward Cronin)
Price: $495.00
Publisher: New York, S. W. Green's Son: 1894
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12855
Condition: Good; Not a REPRINT. Original brown cloth hardcover with blind embossed decoration and gilt spine titles, bumped, rubbed and weak attachment of spine; hinge cracked (could use some loving, professional repair) and title page loose; clean pages. A rare, original book.
"...he has now written a chatty and highly personal autobiography, which suffices also to give in some measure a picture of his times." The Literary World Vol 15, 1894. Cronin (1839-1925) enlisted in the Army at the beginning of the Civil War and became an artist for Harper's Weekly. He was know as a painter, illustrator and journalist. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 336 pages View more info
By: Fifield, Adam
Price: $4.95
Publisher: William Morrow: 2000
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12964
ISBN: 0380976803
Condition: As New in Very Good+ dust jacket; White hardcover with black spine and silver titles; clean pages; tight binding.
"...an unusual story that combines classic coming-of-age events with the sad history of a young refugee from the devastated Cambodia of the last decades. Soeuth--the refugee--came to live with the Fifield family at the age of 14. Adam, the family's eldest son, narrates the story in conversational slang; reading this book is like listening to an old friend tell his surprising life story. ; 9.40 X 6.10 X 1.20 inches; 336 pages View more info
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.: 1884
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12840
Condition: Very Good; Blue hardcover with black embossed decoration and gilt titles, spine head frayed; clean pages; tight binding.
A typical 19th century political biography for the 1884 presidential campaign with political details of the time. Full title: Early Life and Public Services of Hon. Grover Cleveland, the Fearless and Independent Governor of the Empire State, and Candidate for President of the United States, Reciting the Annals of His Successful Career from Obscurity to the Eminent Position which He Now Holds in the Administration of the People. Also, the Life of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Candidate for Vice-President; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 297 pages View more info
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton and Mifflin: 1899
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12971
Condition: Very Good; Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles and decoration, rubbed; scant penciled marginalia; index.
Hart presents Chase "as the central figure in three episodes which are of great historic importance, --the Western political anti-slavery movement, the financial measures of the Civil War, and the process of judicial reconstruction." ; American Statesmen, Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 465 pages View more info
Price: $174.95
Publisher: Boston, Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Company: 1895
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 13539
Condition: Very Good; THIS IS NOT A REPRINT. Dark green cloth hardcover with gilt titles, lightly rubbed; frontispiece with tissue guard; clean pages, gilt top edges; tight binding; maps; former owner's name on ffep.
A fine biography of a somewhat liberal 19th century missionary who was involved in education, newspaper publishing and was an outspoken critic of conservative forces in the Kingdom of Hawaii. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages View more info
By: Keller, James and Meyer Berger
Price: $8.95
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1944
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 122
Condition: Very Good- in Poor dust jacket; Light blue cloth hardcover with silver titles; SIGNED by author James Keller on ffep; clean pages; tight binding; DJ chipped and repaired with cello tape.
Written during Waorld War II, these are the stories of Marryknollers at work in China, Japan, the Philippines and South America, many caught in the tide of war. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; Signed by One Author View more info
By: King, Elizabeth
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Falmouth, ME, Kennebec River Press: 1992
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 7933
Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket; Green cloth hardcover with gilt titles; bottom of pages wrinkled from moisture, but does not affect text; tight binding; illustrated; index.
The biography of a Maine family. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pages View more info
By: Larsen, Wendy Widler and Tran Thi Nga
Price: $7.95
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1986
Edition: First edition, as stated; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11356
ISBN: 0394549856
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Rust hardcover with purple cloth spine and copper decoration and spine titles; faux marble end papers; clean pages; tight binding.
As clear and strong a story of Vietnam you will ever read. "If you weren't there, these prose poems are merely gorgeous . If you were, they are heartbreaking." Nicholas Proffin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages View more info
By: Larsen, Wendy Widler and Tran Thi Nga
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1986
Edition: First edition, as stated; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11357
ISBN: 0394549856
Condition: Very Good; Rust hardcover with purple cloth spine and copper decoration and spine titles; faux marble end papers; clean pages; tight binding. Remainder mark on top page edges.
As clear and strong a story of Vietnam you will ever read. "If you weren't there, these prose poems are merely gorgeous . If you were, they are heartbreaking." Nicholas Proffin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages View more info
By: Lenin, V. I.
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Peking, Foreign Languages Press: 1970
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12757
Condition: Very Good; Pictorial paperback; clean pages; tight binding.
A classic originally written in 1913. This edition is from an English translation published in Moscow in 1951 ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 63 pages View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Sons: 1935
Edition: First Edition Thus; Later Printing
Seller ID: 14560
Condition: Very Good-; Fawn cloth hardcover with gilt spine titles with Ravilious-designed icon blind embossed on front board, rubbed, spine sunned; tight binding; clean pages; scallop design endpapers; index.
269 in Everyman's Library. Since this printing was issued in the "Biography" category, one would expect it to be bound with rose cloth; however, this copy with scalloped design endpapers (1935) is bound in "fawn" cloth, which was supposed to be reserved for books in the "science" category. ; Everyman's Library Series; Vol. 269; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 593 pages View more info
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton and Mifflin: 1899
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12979
Condition: Very Good-; Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles and decoration, rubbed, hinges cracked; penciled marginalia; index.
Lodge, of course, sings the praises of Mr. Webster. ; American Statesmen, Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 372 pages View more info
By: Marquis Of Lorne
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1892
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12845
Condition: Very Good; Brown cloth hardover with gilt titles, som mottling, especially on the rear board; frontispiece with tissue guard shows foxing; clean pages; tight binding.
The author, John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG KT GCMG GCVO VD PC (1845 – 1914) ,...was a British nobleman and the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He was married to the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. ; The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria, Edited by Stuart J. Reid Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 240 pages View more info
