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The Life and Times of the Late Duke of Wellington Comprising the Campaigns and Battle-Fields of Wellington and His Comrades, the Political Life of the Duke and His Contemporaries, and a Detailed Account of England's Battles by Sea and Land, from the Commencement of the Great French Revolution to the ..

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The London Printing and Publishing Company: N.D.

Seller ID: 9936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Quarterbound leather with marbled paper with faded gilt titles on spine. Six rolled bands on spine with faded gilt. Some edge, corner and surface wear, but square and securely bound. Overall an attractive copy. ; B&W Engravings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 364 pages; No date but ca. 1860. Volume IV only.
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Shakespeare: the Biography

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Nan A. Talese Doubleday: 2005

Seller ID: 8313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket appear to be New and unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 572 pages; Fine, if speculative, biography of Shakespeare by acclaimed novelist Acroyd.
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Marie d'Agoult: The Rebel Countess

By: Bolster, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 14362

ISBN: 0300082460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is about fine with small ding on front upper right corner, probably a publishing defect. Plus, there is a remainder mark on the top foredge. Jacket has very light shelf wear. D'Agoult is famous for her relationship with Franz Liszt and her writing under the pen name, Daniel Stern. Balzac's novel, Beatrix, was based on d'Agoult's affair with Liszt. First Edition First Printing. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 278 pages
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Diane Arbus: A Biography

By: Bosworth, Patricia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1984

Seller ID: 14341

ISBN: 0394504046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Book has only light general wear and one small stain on the front top left. Remainder mark on top foredge. Square and securely bound. Jacket has several small chips and tears, mainly on the top edge along with soiling/toning. This is an excelent biography of Arbus. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 366 pages
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The Murder of Jim Fisk: For the Love of Josie Mansfield

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 2011

Seller ID: 16477

ISBN: 030774325X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

This is a new and unused copy with a red remainder line on the bottom edge. This book is an entertaining biography of one of the 19th centuries most colorful characters, now almost forgotten. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 206 pages
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Leonard Bernstein

By: Briggs, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The World Publishing Company: 1961

Seller ID: 12375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Book has only very light, general wear and very light aging. There is a large gift inscription (large handwriting, taking up most of page) on the ffep. Jacket has some edge and corner wear but is still attractive. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages; Early biography of Bernstein.
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Vol. II

By: Chambers, Robert (ed.) (Revised by Thomas Thomson)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Blackie and Son: 1870

Seller ID: 14446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Quarterbound black leather with black pebbled cloth some edge, corner and surface wear with some damage and loss at top of spine. Hinges appear to have been re-glued. Book is square and binding is secure. Solid, useful copy of Vol. 2 only. ; B&W Portraits from Steel Engravings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 548 pages
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Majakovskij E Lili Brik : Una Storia d'Amore

By: Charters, Samuel and Ann Charters (Gaetano Baerile trans.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sweden, Dall'Oglio Editore: 1980

Seller ID: 12164

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Red wraps with white titles and photo of Mayakovsky and Brik. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 391 pages; This book is in Swedish. The title in English is The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, A Love Story. The rest of this work is in Swedish. Samuel Charters has signed on the ffep with an inscription to Robert Hawley, the founder of the Oyez Press which pubished some of Charters' work. Charters also says he is signing for his wife, Ann. ; Signed by Author
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A Country Year : A Chronicle

By: Charters, Samuel B.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Oyez Books: 1992

Seller ID: 12160

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pictorial wraps with black background and white titles. Square and securely bound with uncracked and uncreased spine. Some minor shelf wear at corners but book appears to be unread . ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages; This copy is signed on the title page by Charters. It is further signed with a long, heartfelt inscription to Robert Hawley who ran the Oyez Press for many years and published some of Charters' work. This book seems to have been a long term project for Charters and Hawley. Nice signatures and associations. We also have a signed proof copy of this book. Charters is most famou...
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A Country Year : A Chronicle

By: Charters, Samuel B.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley, Oyez Books: 1992

Seller ID: 12161

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Paper pasted to cardboard, but not very securely. Light edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages; This copy is signed on the half title page by Charters to Robert Hawley who ran the Oyez Press for many years and published some of Charters' work. This book seems to have been a long term project for Charters and Hawley. The proof copies were printed for Robert Hawley and friends. The inscription says this is the first copy. Charters is most famous for his writing on music, especially blues and early jazz, but he is also a prolific poet, novelist, essayist and translator of Swedish. This ...
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My Father Mark Twain

By: Clemens, Clara

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1931

Seller ID: 13339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Dark blue cloth with quite faded titles on spine and some very light, almost unnoticeable, spotting, Embossed profile of Twain on front. Also on front, someone, at some time, wiped something off the cover and left a light area that shows when the cover is angled to the light. Otherwise the book has only light wear and light aging along with bumped corners. Square and securely bound. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive copy that looks much better than parts of the description sound. Please see scan. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 291 pages; Clara Clemens mem...
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Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen From Alfred the Great to the Latest Times, on an Original Plan

By: Cunningham, George Godfrey (ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Glasgow, A. Fullarton and Company: 1837

Seller ID: 11130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Full leather with thin gilt border on front and back and faded gilt titles on spine which has four rolled bands. Book has some edge, corner and surface wear but is square with a secure binding. Front hinge seems to have been reinforced at some point, probably with glue and some sort of binding paper which has caused the ffep and the front pastedown to adher slightly in the gutter. Still a solid copy. ; Vol. 3; B&W Engraved Portraits; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 478 pages; This vlume starts with Charles II but includes a number of famous names like Andrew Marvell, Ben Jonson, William Harvey and ...
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Skouras: King of Fox Studios

By: Curti, Carlo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1967

Seller ID: 15002

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Some general light edge, corner and surface wear with light reading creases on spine. Also, light general aging with typical Holloway House page toning. Solid, very good copy. This book touts itself as the "UNAUTHORIZED" biography of Spyros Skouras, longtime head of Fox Studios, who made Marilyn Monroe a star and produced Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor. Fun to read. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages
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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Historian of the Old South

By: Dillon, Merton L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 9303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Red cloth with silver lettering on spine. Book has only very light wear. Jaclet, with photo of Phillips, has some edge and corner wear along with minor tears and scuffs. Still attractive. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; Standard biography of pioneering Southern historian Phillips. Signed by author on title page. ; Signed by Author
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Vicisitudes in the Wilderness; Exemplified in the Journal of Peggy Dow

By: Dow, Peggy

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Norwich, CT, William Faulkner, Printer: 1833

Seller ID: 6291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Leather boards have wear to edges and corners, spine is scuffed, small tears at head, frontispeice has portraits of the Dows, but it is loose at the bottom. Inside foxed, last few pages have corners torn at bottom, back free endpapers torn out, endpapers stained. Book is still tightly bound. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 214,252 pages; The book includes Reflections on Matrimony by Lorenzo Dow and Biography and Miscellany published by Lorenzo Dow in 1834. There is also a wonderful ad for Lorenzo Dow's Family Medicine, a cathartic.
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Columbus Roberts: Christian Steward Extraordinary

By: Dowell, Spright

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Nashville, Broadman Press: 1951

Seller ID: 6073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Corners bumped, some stains on cloth boards, former owner's bookplate on endpaper, light age-toning and minor foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 171 pages; By former President of Auburn University and Mercer.
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Trumpeter's Tale The Story of Young Louis Armstrong

By: Eaton, Jeanette

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, William Morrow and Company: 1955

Seller ID: 7951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Orange boards with light toning, staining or soiling. Light edge and corner wear. Square and securely bound. Attractive copy. ; B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; I think this biography of young Louis Armstrong is from a series of biographies that Morrow did in the 1950's of famous Americans. I remember doing many book reports on what we called the "orange books" Our library stocked these.
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Ring Lardner

By: Elder, Donald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday and Co.: 1956

Seller ID: 8671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Book has only very light, general wear. Dustjacket has numerous small scuffs, edge and corner wear, along with small chips and tears. There is also a hole (dime-sized) where a sticker was removed (just below the "R" in Lardner. Jacket looks better in mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 409 pages; Excellent biography of writer Ring Lardner.
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Otis! The Otis Redding Story

By: Freeman, Scott

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2001

Seller ID: 10984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book appears to be new and unread in a near pristine jacket. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 261 pages; Signed with long inscription on half-title to Jackie who, from the inscription, helped Freeman with this book. ; Signed by Author
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Jubilee Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr.

By: Fuller, Robert H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1928

Seller ID: 16475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only very light, general wear and expected aging. Jacket has minor wear at spine ends and a light stain halfway down the front edge. This is an entertaining biography of one of the 19th centuries most colorful characters, now almost forgotten. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 566 pages
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The Birdman of Alcatraz The Story of Robert Stroud

By: Gaddis, William

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York City, Random House: 1955

Seller ID: 7404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Book has some aging and corner bumps, otherwise a solid, square, securely-bound copy. Dustjacket has some edge and corner wear including small chips at top of spine. Former owner's name written in ink on ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages; Famous biography of Robert Stroud, imprisoned in solitary confinement in Alcatraz. Stroud became a recognized expert on birds. The famous movie starring Bert Lancaster was based on this book.
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Freud: A Life for Our Time

By: Gay, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1988

Seller ID: 10848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is almost new except for mild aging and a small printing flaw at top of front pastedown (paper folded). Jacket has only light shelf wear. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 810 pages
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Jack's Book

By: Gifford, Barry and Lawrence Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, St. Martin's Press: 1978

Seller ID: 7838

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Some edge and corner wear. Old diagonal creases on top right corner. Scuff on bottom right corner. Book is square and securely bound. Solid copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; Oral history of Jack Kerouac's life, prepared by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee, who interviewd many of the generation that new Kerouac.
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Bill Clinton an American Journey

By: Hamilton, Nigel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Random House: 2003

Seller ID: 6620

ISBN: 0-375-50610-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Top right front corner slightly bumped, DJ has light crease there. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 784 pages
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James A. Michener a Biography

By: Hayes, John P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1984

Seller ID: 9270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book has only very light shelf wear. Jacket has minor edge and corner wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; Quality biography of Michener.
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