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New York: Stein & Day. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0812814436 . Hardcover. Condition: F/F. 1st Edition. Brown paper covered boards, lettered in black. New/as issued, dust jacket now in mylar. 1st ed. 79 pp., color + sepiatone plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.; 8vo ; 79 pp. pages .

New York: Walker and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt title lettering to front cover. Pp xii[i], 178. Illustrations in black and white and color. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. Full page color frontis. The cloth is faded along the edges as is the dust jacket. There is some shelf wear to both as well; remains a clean, attractive copy. Not price clipped. Fuertes is acclaimed to be America's greatest painter of birds. This volume was published to accompany the the exhibit of his work prepared under the auspices of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, which toured major American museums in the mid 1980's. ; Thin 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Washington (DC): Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. Presumed First Edition, first printing. Blue cloth with gilt title block and lettering. Decorative endpapers with gilt floral pattern. 10.5" X 7". 210 pages. Double frontispiece with original tissue guard. Thirty-six illustrations, some in color, with original tissue guards. Of some interest are the newspaper articles laid in dated 1953 on the subject of John Paul Jones and the: mystery of the "missing months," the history of the American Flag; and a newspaper photograph and caption of Jones' official residence. Worn edges and corners; former owners name written inside otherwise a clean, straight copy. .

Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover VG/VG DJ Blue Cloth Shelf wear and faded dust jacket "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58." ; 8vo ; 485 pp pages .

Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: VG Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Michiko Honjo (illustrator). 246pp. DJ edgeworn with loss to bottom of spine and corners. Now in removable mylar protective jacket.; 8vo ; 246 pp pages .

New York: Funk & Wagnall. Good. 1905. Hardcover. First Edition. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering with two pictorial past-ons. Cover design by Charles Graham. 359 pages. Illustrated by Bart Haley. Frontispiece portrait of Wilder with auto pen signature. Scattered foxing within, the cover is worn on all extremities and is missing part of the portrait portion of the cover past-on. An exhaustive list "The People, Stories About Whom Appear" reads like a Who's Who of the entertainment-world-and-friends of the 1900's including Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sir Henry Irving, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Steele MacKaye, Frank Lawton and many more. Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1859 –1915) was an American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist. Though nearly forgotten today, Wilder was heralded in his lifetime and did not let his dwarfism be an excuse for cheap entertainment. .

Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 656 pages. Index. Illustrated. Soft ends and some light yellowing; the dustjacket has a tear at the spine head and worn edges & corners, it is not price clipped but there is a ink pen mark. Galbraith (1908-2006) was an economist, intellectual and the Ambassador to India from 1961-1963. In India, he became a confidant of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and extensively advised the Indian government on economic matters. India was considered by President John F. Kennedy to be not just important in its own right, but because an Indian diplomat always served as the chief commissioner of the International Control Commission (ICC), and thus in this way, Galbraith came to be involved in American policy towards Southeast Asia from his perch as an ambassador in New Delhi. Because of his recommendation, First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy undertook her 1962 diplomatic… Leer más

Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. xxi, 427 pages, plus [32] pages of black and white photographs. Index. A handsome copy with sharp corners. Decorative black and orange endpages. The book jacket is worn with creases and small tag missing on the lower edge. There is a moisture stain on the cover. The text pages are toned along the edges; preliminaries have light foxing. Section titles: Letters of the Ridgely family, 1751-1799 -- Jacob and Janet Jones -- The romance of Mary Vining & General Anthony Wayne -- Letters of the Ridgely children. Chancellor Nicholas -- Williamina -- George Wemyss --Mary --Ann --Letters of the Ridgely family, 1803-1850 --A letter to my grandchildren --Moore chart --Ridgely chart --Chronological list -- ; 8vo .

New York: E.P. Dutton& Co.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. No price on jacket, as issued. 169 pages. Illustrated with 13 black and white photographs. Some spotting on the lower edge of both panels. The dust jacket is worn at the fold and along the edges. An attractive copy now in an archival clear cover. A memoir of the real Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. "Now in his fifties, Christopher Milne looks back at the child forever enshrined... and at the boy growing up for who that child became a burden. ... A preceptive author himself, Mr. Milne has created a book whose appeal will not by confined to lovers of his father's work." Jacket flap. ; 8vo .

New York: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Better than very good in unclipped, bright jacket with toned flap edges and moderately light wear along the edges including short tears. Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972. A Jewish intellectual and writer, he is best known for his work You Gentiles, published in 1924. Most of his work concerns Judaism or the Jew's role in history and modern society. Samuel conducted nearly 20 years of NBC radio broadcasts with Columbia University’s Mark van Doren on the Bible. ; 8vo ; 326 pages .

New York: Peter Pauper Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1965. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Frederic W. Goudy was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley. This is a clean, tight, unmarked copy of the book--Near Fine save for very mild shelf wear. ; 8vo ; pp 68 pages .

New York: David Lewis. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Light edge soil and soft ends. The Dj is slightly toned along the spine. ; 8vo .

New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 533 pages. Index. Clean straight copy, light edge soil. Dust jacket is lightly worn along the edges. Describes each first lady and her contributions to her husband's administration and to the history of the period, followed by anecdotes depicting the woman and her characteristics.; 8vo ; Norco .

Zondervan Publishing House. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Signed by Author . Signed by Author Hardback F/VG Blue cloth stamped gilt border and title on spine, Shelf wear on jacket, Clear protective cover. ; 8vo ; 124 pp pages .

Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 1416538933 . Signed by author. Later printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Light shelf wear; otherwise a clean, tight copy. "An excellent, in-depth study of immigration policies gone amok." -- Library Journal. "This is a penetrating, fair, and refreshingly personal examination of the passions that fuel the immigration controversy in this country. Helen Thorpe measures the arguments on both sides of this national debate against the actual human costs imposed by the status quo. This book will find a central place in this debate." -- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 387 pages .

Windsor-Brooke Books, LLC. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 0967673712 . Signed by the author on the title page. 255 pages. Index. Minor edge wear and a single small spot on inside the cover. The dust jacket is bright with minor edge wear; it is not price clipped. Sasson lived in Saudi Arabia from 1978-1990 and writes through her real-life friend, Princess Sultana, of the lifestyles and abuses, of the super-wealthy royals in oil-rich Saudi Arabia. The Princess Sultana, who after witnessing the gang rape of a young servant girl by her nephews, forms a "circle of protection." The result was suprisingly effective. "Thus, her tale of decadent opulence becomes a political rallying cry that she hopes will spread the word and inspire many ""Sultana's circles"" to alleviate the plight of women everywhere, one woman at a time." (Publisher Weekly) ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages .

Zondervan. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 0310461901 . Signed by Author inscribed to Brandon Hardcover; purple boards with black cloth spine, in the original dust jacket. Fine condition without markings. In Fine dust jacket. " The author, bronze medalist in the Barcelona Olympics, describes his troubled childhood, and recounts how his faith and the support of friends and family helped him to find success. " ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 233 pp. pages .

Watson Land Co.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. Signed by Author . Signed by Author Hardcover; brown cloth boards in the original dust jacket. Very Good condition In Good dust jacket. Jacket edges dust soiled ; 8vo ; 520 pp. pages .

Regnery Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 1596980060 . Signed by Author inscribed to Gary Rishardson First Edition. A first Printing, Hardcover; red boards in the original dust jacket. Fine condition In Fine dust jacket. " With dramatic storytelling and hard-hitting facts, former Marine, Capitol Hill lawyer, and Reagan Administration official William Pendley puts human faces on Westerners' historic and often precedent-setting fights against big government." ; 9.0 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 256 pp. pages .

Patton House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 0967060613 . Signed by Author First Edition. A first Printing, Hardcover; black cloth boards in the original dust jacket. Fine condition without markings. In Fine dust jacket. " The story of a daughters lifelong search for her MIA father in Vietnam. A compelling story. " ; 8.9 X 6.4 X 2.1 inches; 528 pp. pages .