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New York: The Frick Collection, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 382 pp including index. This biography includes contents on ancestry, boyhood, beginning business in coke, a triumph of faith and courage, interlude, enter the carnegies, "the man" in steel, homestead, the state intervenes, attempted assassination, politics, "the laird" and "the man", victory's cost and gain, oliver and frick, negotiations, Mr. Frick receives his resignation, te final dramatic break, Mr. Frick wins his fight, the unites states steel corporation, a capitalist, public affairs, the patriot, an art collector, benefactions and bequests, personality..

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 11. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry Demarest LLoyd, 169pp, including index, Frontis,previous owner's signature and stamp on FEP, blind-stamp on title page and p 99, 8vo, very good, title in gilt lettering.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co., 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 472 pages including preface, index, sources and chapter notes, and bibliography. Jackie after Jack, Portrait of the Lady..

U.S.A.: Park Lane Press, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From the sheltered beaches of East Hampton, Long Island, to the spotlight of John F. Kennedy's Camelot, the life of one of the world's most admired women is revealed. Ladowsky uncovers the roots of Jacqueline Bouvier's sometimes idyllic, sometimes troubled childhood and shows how this "Debutante of the Year" developed into the strong woman who charmed a nation. 30 photos..

London: John Murray, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. 8vo. John Murray 1954. 324 pp. including index. Illustrated dustjacket includes Mylar protective covering taped to board. Sunned. Previous owner's attractive nameplate on inside front free endpaper..

Amazon: Xlibris, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Soft Cover. Signed By Author To His Friend On Fep .

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 270Pp. Including Notes, References And Index, .

St Petersburg, Fl: Booklocker.com, Inc., 2019. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. By Author. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st edition, hard cover, dust jacket, signed, Ever since Paul Eitner was a young boy in Germany, he dreamed of one day meeting a real cowboy and possibly becoming one himself. Pauls dream continued to grow, and it stayed with him as his family immigrated to New Jersey, eventually carrying him far west to Miles City, Montana. When Paul went west searching for his beloved cowboys, he found much more than he bargained for, including trouble. One fateful day, unrequited love led to tragedy, and that tragedy landed Paul in Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. Prison bars would have spelled the end of the adventure for any normal man, but Deer Lodge would instead be only the start of many more for Paul..

Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press/ 1987, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New, hb, dj, 748pp. including notes, afterward and index. Volume 2. only. Books 30-44 .The Coole Edition. Offering valuable insights into Irish literary history, this second volume of the journals of Lady Gregory completes the typed version of her diaries and adds the unedited text of the manuscript diary she kept from November 1930 until two weeks before her death. It describes her continuing efforts to get the Lane Pictures returned to Ireland; the passing of Coole into the hands of the Irish Forestry Department; Abbey Theatre problems; the conflict over Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and break with him over the refusal of The Silver Tassie; Denis Johnston's connection with the Abbey as producer and playwright (with illuminating insights into the Abbey's refusal of The Lady Says 'No!'); and other controversial matters.… Leer más

U.S.A.: Viking Adult, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket 212 pp including notes and references. A very graphic autobiography of a polish jew who survived horrific conditions from 4 invading armies and cruel oppressors..

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. with Portraits and facsimiles in two Volumes, Green linen hardcovers, Gilt border and titles in Gilt on spines, Edges untrimmed Previous owners name in pencil on inside of front board vol. one 574 pp and Vol. two 571 pp including facsimile letter and index. Lightly soiled and sunned, still a clean and tight set internally and attractive set externally..

UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "Here are the day to day records of a genius who knows that he is negligent, extravagant, proicrastinating, even shifty, but is sure he means well". Three Volumes Complete set. Vol. One, 271pp. to 1793. Vol. Two, 311pp to 1806-07, Vol. three 417pp including appendix and index. Previous owners attractive bookplate and signature on FEP. The dust jackets are in protective mylar covers..

U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "In the letters of Dorothy Wordsworth we find William's exquisite sister and a unique picture of the circle in which she moved. In this selection, Alan G. Hill presents seventy complete letters drawn from the new and enlarged edition of The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, of which he is General Editor. They have been chosen to provide a portrait of the writer and her milieu and can be read as a continuous narrative, following the course of her life from youth until the onset of her last tragic illness". Hardcover. 8vo. Pink cover with Mylar protective covering. Slightly sunned. 200 pp. including index and acknowledgements. Previous owner's attractive nameplate on front inside free endpaper..

U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "William Shenstone (1714-63), English poet, best known for his Pastoral Ballad and The School- Mistress, has appealed to many generations of persons of diverse tastes- as poet, as landscape gardener, as representative country gentleman of the eighteenth century, as prose stylist, as literary precursor of the Romantic Movement, and finally as a well-connected man of his times, whose writings, and especially whose letters, throw a great many illuminating sidelights upon the work and lives of his greater contemporaries". Hardcover. 8vo. Edited by Duncan Mallam. University of Minnesota Press 1939. 473 pp. including index. Slightly sunned. Includes Mylar protective covering. Previous owner's attractive nameplate on front free endpaper..

New York: Knopf, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "a publishing event! the first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable noel coward, a unique and irredidtible portrait of a society and age-from the blitz to the ritz and beyond".

Newhaven And London: Yale University Press, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good Hardcover In A Very Good Dust Jacket. Gathers Van Vechten's Letters To Writers, Publishers, Composers, Actors, Critics, Artists, Editors, And Friends.

New York: Russel & Russel, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy blue with title printed in gilt on spine. Russel & Russel 1968. 516 pp. including index. Previous owner's attractive nameplate on inside front board..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two Volumes, Dark red covered boards. Edges untrimmed. Illustrated with photo-grauves, and tissues Large 8vo measuring 8 1'2 by 6 inches. (22by 14mm) Vol. one is 394 pages plus 6pp of Ads. Pages unopened. Vol. two is 343 pages including index. Set is VERY GOOD..

New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. the biography of john price durbin. this has been rebound using the originial front, rear, and spine on the new binding. end papers are renewed..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 84 pp, very good condition, hardcover cloth, no marks, no tears, black and white plates.