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By: N/A
Price: $35.00
Publisher: A.C. Armstrong and Son: 1895
Seller ID: 2202686
Minor staining to edges, spine cocked, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor foxing to pages, minor pencil marginalia.No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 1895 Hard Cover. vii, 338 pp. This book is written especially for boys, in the hope that Mackay's example may lead many of them to think of Africa, and devote their lives to its moral and spiritual regeneration. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Henry Ford Museum: 1960
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2208626
Second edition. Very faint crease to rear wrapper, faint stain to bottom corner of last half of pages. 1960 Stapled Binding. vi, 64 pp. A brief history of the life of Henry Ford. Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, h... View more info
![Image for The Cambridge of 1776: Wherein is [Set] Forth an Account of the Town, and of the Events it Witnessed: With Which Is Incorporated the Diary of Dorothy Dudley, Now First Published; Together with an Historicall Sketch; Severall Appropriate Poems; Numerous Anecdotes, Patriotick, Weighty, Indifferent, and Diverting; Many References to the Renowned University; and Descriptions of the People of the Olden Time. All of Which is Adapted to the Furtherance of Good Manners, Virtue, Piety, Intelligence, Love of Country, and Admiration of Cambridge.](/assets/images/product/2276027.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Ladies Centennial Committee: 1876
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276027
First edition. Light stain along bottom page edges, minor loss to spine head, pencil name and address on second blank. 1876 Hard Cover. v, 123 pp. CONTENTS: Sonnet--Dorothy Dudley, by William D. Howells; Sketch of the History of Cambridge from Its Settlement in 1631 to 1776, by David Greene Haskins, Jr.; The Influence of Cambridge in the Formation of the Nation, by Andrew P. Peabody; Extracts from the Diary of Dorothy Dudley, from April 18th, 1775, to July 19th, 1776; Th... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: D.W. Evans & Company: 1860
Seller ID: 1889109
Binding slightly shaken, a few pages lightly foxed, ink name & date on front endpapers. 1860 Hard Cover. xi, 407 pp. 8vo. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles & decoration on spine. An interesting study of American heroes, notable for being among the last publications profiling military generals before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Includes biographies of: Jacob Brown; Edmund Pendleton Gaines; William Henry Harrison; Andrew Jackson; Alexander Macomb;... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press:
Seller ID: 2272307
Near Fine. 20 pp. Two original essays and a reproduction of one of the greatest of all the battlefield paintings, keyed to actual battlefield episodes. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: 2002
Seller ID: 2262606
Minor spot on rear wrapper. 2002 Stapled Binding. 40 pp. A publication of the Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, New York State Archeological Association. The subject of this issue is the excavation of the Joseph Smith, Sr. log cabin, located a short distance of 2 miles south of Palmyra, N.Y., off Highway 31 between Rochester and Syracuse. Joseph Smith's son Joseph Jr. is, of course the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon ... View more info
By: (IIT) The School of Imaging and Information Technology; Buchiere, Jessica
Price: $5.00
Publisher: TMD: 2008
Seller ID: 2204640
A fine copy. Titles are bound in inverse order. 2008 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Titles are bound in inverse order. Stories illustrated in color with computer generated images and photographs. Biographies for a intended for older children.Keywords: IIT SCHOOL IMAGINING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JESSICA BUCHIERE ROCHESTER FREEDOM HEROES FREDERICK DOUGLASS SUSAN B ANTHONY BIOGRAPHY CHILDREN ACTIVISTS NEW YORK HISTORY SOCIOLOGY RACE RACISM WOMENS STUDIES View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Archibald Constable and Co Ltd: 1903
Seller ID: 2263572
Edges rubbed, hinges beginning to loosen, ink name on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 333, [3] pp. 8vo. A biographical account of the family behind Punch magazine, who were contemporaries of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. View more info
By: A Late Inmate of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics at Gartnavel; Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Fireside Press, London / The Windmill Press: 1947
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2056725
First thus. Page ridges a bit foxed, 2 inch stain on front board, jacket edges rubbed with a few chips. 1947 Hard Cover. xii, 116 pp. 8vo. An autobiography of mental illness by an inmate in a Scottish insane asylum, notable for the clarity of the author's insight into his own condition. Reissued with a new introduction by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. View more info
![Image for An Answer to John Robinson of Leyden, Now First Published from a Manuscript of A.D. 1609 (Harvard Theological Studies Series Volume IX [9])](/assets/images/product/2006047.jpg)
By: A Puritan Friend; Burrage, Champlin
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2006047
First edition - a paperback original. An exceptional copy. 1920 Trade Paperback. xiii, 94 pp. Printed wrappers. The first appearance in print of an early 17th century manuscript written in response to the religious teachings of John Robinson, part of whose congregation became the group we now know as the Pilgrims. Text from Bodleian MS. Jones 30 at Oxford. Robinson, John (1575/6? - 1625), Church of England clergyman and separatist theologian, was born at Sturton, Notting... View more info
By: A Soldier Doctor; H.M.G.; M.M.H.; Kendall, Frederick W.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200879
First edition. Partial cup ring stain on front board, edges toned and a bit rubbed. 1919 Hard Cover. 103 pp. Memoirs of a former American Civil War soldier, transcribed by an amanuensis during World War I. An interesting mix of spirit writing and military history. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1903
Seller ID: 2202470
Front hinge weakened, ink name & date on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 360 pp. Original blue cloth, white borders, gilt titles. Frontispiece of Revolutionary War battle by Paul Hardy. A biography of President George Washington, from Abbott's Lives of the Presidents. View more info
By: Abbott, Jacob
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Altemus: 1900
Seller ID: 2162604
Very light rubbing to boards. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A guide to the controversial ruler of England, beheaded during the English Revolution. View more info
By: Abbott, Jacob
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1902
Seller ID: 2203418
No jacket. A very nice copy. 1902 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 328 pp. With engravings. A biography of Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.Keywords: JACOB ABBOTT JOSEPHINE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE MAKERS OF HISTORY BIOGRAPHY View more info
By: Abbott, Jacob
Price: $5.00
Publisher: D.M. Maclellan Book Company:
Seller ID: 1679595
Front hinge repaired, pages toned. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 239 pp. A biography of Alexander the Great, detailing his life from birth, through various military campaigns, to his decline and death. During his life he conquered vast amounts of territory, and his name has become synonymous with military strategy. He was also tutored by the famous philosopher Aristotle in his youth. View more info
By: Accoce, Pierre; Quet, Pierre
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc.: 1967
Seller ID: 2205771
Ink stamp to front endpaper.Jacket lightly toned, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1967 Hard Cover. 250 pp. The most extraordinary story of Allied espionage yet to emerge from World War II. Is this man the master spy who turned Stalin into a military genius and laid the groundwork for Hitler's inevitable collapse?In World War II espionage, the Lucy spy ring was an anti-Nazi operation that was headquartered in Switzerland. It was run by Rudolf Roessler, a German refugee a... View more info
By: Ackerman, Diane
Price: $7.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276300
First edition. Front board lightly cocked. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 322 pp. Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awarenes... View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Anchor Books: 2006
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2275618
First printing. Ink name on blurb page, faint odor of smoke, minor general wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 572 pp. Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixtee... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270623
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned. Stain along page ridge, margin of title page, and rear endpaper. 1990 Hard Cover. xix, 216 pp. Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260644
First edition. Gilt on front board rubbed, ink name on front endpaper, minor pencil marginalia. 1926 Hard Cover. v, 275 pp. The author was a popular astrologer based in New York City; Aleister Crowley ghost-wrote her works on astrology. This is her autobiography. View more info
By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow
Price: $12.50
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273167
Lacks jacket. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1931 Hard Cover. x, x, 517, [1] pp. Introduction by James Truslow Adams. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed a... View more info
By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2278349
Includes original jacket. Copyright states 1931, but presence of ISBN, jacket style, and $2.95 list price indicate 1970-1975 printing. Jacket edges a bit rubbed. xvi, 517, [11] pp. Introduction by James Truslow Adams. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theor... View more info
By: Adams, Henry; La Farge, Mabel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202212
First edition. Light smudge along bottom edge of front board. 1920 Hard Cover. 133 pp. With A Niece's Memories by Mabel La Farge. The letters in this volume, begun from the South Seas, to a niece of fifteen, are offered in all humility... There is no attempt to offer a complete series of letters, but rather some are chosen to accompany or illustrate parts of the article A Niece's Memories,--used here as an introductory sketch--which in turn must supplement the letters.Ke... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266251
First edition. No jacket, light general wear, pages faintly toned. 1923 Hard Cover. xvi, 559 pp. Adams was descended from the Presidential family, and was the first appointed director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. William Shakespeare (/??e?ksp??r/ SHAYK-speer; 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2][3][4] He... View more info
By: Adams, Nehemiah
Price: $30.00
Publisher: S.K. Whipple and Company: 1857
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2260294
Second edition. No jacket, a few light spots to boards, ink note on front endpaper. 1857 Hard Cover. vii, 191, [4] pp. Reverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 – October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts,[1] in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. That same year, he was ordained as co-pastor, with Abiel Holmes, of... View more info
By: Adler, Jeremy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Overlook: 2004
Seller ID: 2176816
Very light edge wear. 2004 Trade Paperback. Renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler examines the life of the writer who probed the hostile side of modernity in darkly terrifying masterpieces that mirrored the turmoil of his own inner world. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscr... View more info
By: Adomites, Paul; Wisnia, Saul; Nemec, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Publications International, Ltd.: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263703
First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper. 1996 Large Hardcover. 216 pp. ...a collection of the sport's greatest players, managers, teams, games, ballparks, and so much more. ...With lively text and over 300 engaging photos... View more info
By: Agee, James
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2005
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203804
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 818 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of two novels, a novella, and three short stories by the American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, with chronology and notes following text. Also included are reproductions of the photographs from Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, depicting the impoverished s... View more info
By: Agee, James
Price: $13.50
Publisher: George Braziller: 1962
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2266778
Third printing. Jacket spine-head and spine-base lightly rubbed, front jacket flap creased. A few faint spots along top edge of boards. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. The present edition amounts to ninety some letters written over a period of thirty years to an Episcopalain priest who was not only the author's oldest friend, but, in a way, his foster father. James Rufus Agee (/?e?d?i?/ AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) wa... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Balboa Press: 2014
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2273834
SIGNED by author. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. When Alan Akana realized he had missed the gift of hearing many of his family's stories, his search for his history became a gift to all his readers. The Volcano is Our Home introduces us in a very personal way to the influences that shaped Hawaii from an isolated group of islands inhabited by remarkable people with a unique and beautiful culture into the tourist mecca known today by travelers from al... View more info
