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Francis Butler Simkins, 1897-1966: Historian of the South

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The State Printing Company: 1967

Seller ID: 2303057

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription. Smudge on front wrapper, ink name on front wrapper. 1967 Soft Cover. 85 pp. A pamphlet published by his family in memory of the Edgefield Native who spent his teaching career at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia. Francis Butler Simkins (December 14, 1897 – February 8, 1966) was a historian and president of the Southern Historical Association. He is best known for his highly praised history of the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina, that gave fair coverage to all sides, and for his widely used textbook The South, Old and New (1947) and his monographs...
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Photographic Cavalcade: Pictorial History of the 75 Infantry Division, 1944-1945 Campaigns: Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, Colmar - Volume One [1]: European Theatre of Operations: England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany [75th]

By: 75th Infantry Division; Zitin, Willard

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, The 75th Infantry Division / Army & Navy Publishing Company: 1946

Seller ID: 2296441

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original platoon photograph signed by dozens of members of the 75th Infantry Division (and noting their home towns) laid in, along with a Remember Pearl Harbor soldier 'diary' detailing the service of a soldier in the division. A couple faint spots to boards, otherwise an excellent copy. Soldiers who signed included: Pearson C. Schiller; Sgt. Chitwood; Domenico J. Scatena; George T. Wingard, Jr.; Mike Stirling, Jr.; Paul Toman; Joe LaPointe; Lowell E. Murphy; 'myself' (probably Nathan Hena, who signed the Pearl Harbor sheet); Jack M. Reese; Robert N. Dugal; Joseph A. Buzogany; Robert T. Berkeb...
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Navajo Code Talkers: America's Secret Weapon in World War II

By: Aaseng, Nathan

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company: 2000

Seller ID: 2304126

ISBN: 0802775896

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by six Code Talkers (three on flyleaf, three on enclosed pamphlet from University of Rochester event), with photographs of signing laid in. Sticker on rear wrapper. 2000 Trade Paperback. v, 114 pp. On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers-a group of Navajos communicating in a code based on the Navajo language. This code, the first unbreakable one in U.S. history, was a key re...
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To See You Again: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2270618

ISBN: 0394523350

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 304 pp. Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments.
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Return Trips: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1985

Seller ID: 2270620

ISBN: 0394536339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest.
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Sir Christopher Gardiner, Knight: An Historical Monograph. [From Vol. XX. of the Proc's of the Mass. Hist. Soc.], With Additions

By: Adams, Charles Francis

Price: $40.00

Publisher: John Wilson and Son, University Press: 1883

Seller ID: 2007291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1883 printing. Rebound in red cloth, retaining original coral printed wrappers. Signed by author on front wrapper. Front wrapper loosening, boards lightly rubbed, bookplate of Charles Edwin Stratton on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 36 pp. 8vo. A monograph originally published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, detailing the story of Christopher Gardiner and his flight from the consequences of a rather duplicitous romantic life. It became well-known enough that Longfellow based a poem on it, entitled The Landlord's Tale: The Rhyme of Sir ...
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Brick Lane

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 2270791

ISBN: 038560484X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. 413 pp. Author's first book. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls ...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: A Line-for-Line Translation in the Rime-Form of the Original -- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso [La Divina Commedia]

By: Alighieri, Dante; Anderson, Melville Best

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, World Book Company: 1921

Seller ID: 2304803

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #87 of 390 copies. Hand-numbered and signed by translator on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine base lightly stained, spine toned, bottom seam of slipcase reinforced on interior edge, 1 inch split to top slipcase seam. 1921 Hard Cover. xiii, [3], 449, [1] pp. Tall 8vo. The complete Divine Comedy, comprising the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, in one volume, translated into English verse by Melville Best Anderson with notes and elucidations. Printed on hand-made paper.
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The Stories of Eva Luna

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Antheneum: 1991

Seller ID: 2303972

ISBN: 0689121024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket toned. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. The Stories of Eva Luna (Spanish: Cuentos de Eva Luna, 1989) is a collection of Spanish-language short stories by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. It consists of stories told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna. The literary critic Barbara Mujica wrote: The Chilean author presents her stories through the age-old device used by Scheherazade: the narrator tells them to her lover to entertain him. Like the famous Arabic tales, ...
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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999

Seller ID: 2200656

ISBN: 006019491X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 399 pp. 8vo. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquin takes o...
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Paula

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 1995

Seller ID: 2200658

ISBN: 0060172533

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Board edges lightly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. 8vo. With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma, Paula is the colorful story of Allende's life--from her early years in her native Chile, through the turbulent military coup...
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The Infinite Plan

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 1993

Seller ID: 2200659

ISBN: 0060172533

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 382 pp. 8vo. Gregory Reeves, the son of a self-styled preacher, struggles to overcome his childhood of poverty and neglect and to take control of his destiny. By the author of House of the Spirits.
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Portrait in Sepia

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 2001

Seller ID: 2200660

ISBN: 0066211611

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. 8vo. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile -- a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune. Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora d...
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

By: Allison, Dorothy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dutton: 1995

Seller ID: 2270795

ISBN: 0525939210

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 94 pp. An autobiographical narrative by the author of Bastard out of Carolina explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred while illuminating the rural poverty of the South.
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Cavedweller: A Novel

By: Allison, Dorothy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dutton: 1998

Seller ID: 2270796

ISBN: 0525941673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 434 pp. From the author of Bastard Out of Carolina comes another compelling novel about four women whose lives converge unexpectedly and force all of them to come to terms not only with their past, but their future.
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A Gift of Gracias

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005

Seller ID: 2198566

ISBN: 0375824251

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2005 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. [40] pp. After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria's parents once ate in their homeland, Valencia, Spain. That very day Maria and her family plant the seeds that soon yield a magnificent orange grove and save the farm. But who wa...
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The Secret Footprints

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 2198567

ISBN: 0679893091

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. [40] pp. The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a bold and brave ciguapa, can't help but be curious--especially about a boy she sees on the nights when she goes on the land to hunt for food. When she gets too close to his family and is discovered, she le...
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Seven Trees: Limited Fine Press Edition

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: North Andover, Kat Ran Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2195946

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, hand numbered #35 on limitation page, and signed by Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner. Faint stain on rear panel of clamshell case. Original mailing envelope from Kat Ran Press containing a duplicate prospectus laid in. 1998 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Folio in publisher's clamshell case with prospectus. One of 65 copies, only 50 of which were available for sale. Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner have worked separately to create the combined suite of poems and prints, Seven Trees. This second offering from the Kat Ran Press is the firs...
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1991

Seller ID: 2200720

ISBN: 0945575572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Near fine. Jacket toned. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 290 pp. The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the palacio of the dictator’s daughter. So when Dr. García’s part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee. They arrive in New York City in ...
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Finding Miracles

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: 2200723

ISBN: 0375827609

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 264 pp. Milly Kaufman is an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont—until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted child from Pablo’s native country. As their relationship grows, Milly decides to undertake a courageous journey to her homeland and along the way discovers the story of her birth is intertwined with the stor...
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The Woman I Kept to Myself: Poems

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2004

Seller ID: 2200725

ISBN: 1565124065

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 155 pp. The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez’s clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the...
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Something to Declare: Essays

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1998

Seller ID: 2200751

ISBN: 1565121937

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 300 pp. In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family fled the Dominican Republic. Her father participated in a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and exile to the United States was the only way to save his life. The family settled in New York City, where D...
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Before We Were Free

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 2200755

ISBN: 0375815449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 167 pp. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom...
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The Other Side (El Otro Lado): Poems

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dutton: 1995

Seller ID: 2200756

ISBN: 0525939229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Promotional postcard laid in. Near fine. Jacket lightly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 155 pp. English text. Characterized by respect for the past, delight in the sensory details of the present, and tentative but cherished hope for the future, a collection of poems culminates in the title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic. Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls ...
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How Tia Lola Came To [Visit] Stay

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2001

Seller ID: 2200758

ISBN: 0375802150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Jacket lightly toned. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 147 pp. Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami. Like her stories for adults, Julia Alvarez’s first middle-grade book sparkles with magic as it illuminates a child’s experiences living in two cultures. Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a D...
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In the Name of Salome: A Novel

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2000

Seller ID: 2200759

ISBN: 1565122763

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Near Fine. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 357 pp. In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another. Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salome Uren...
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Homecoming: Poems

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Grove Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2201052

ISBN: 0394620526

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. Signed by author without inscription. 1984 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 93 pp. Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and Th...
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Saving the World: A Novel

By: Alvarez, Julia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2006

Seller ID: 2270790

ISBN: 156512510X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 368 pp. Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him ...
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Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years

By: Anderson, Terry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Crown Publishers: 1993

Seller ID: 2201098

ISBN: 0517593017

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good in good jacket. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page ('Nancy, God Bless, Terry Anderson'). Minor score to top jacket edge repaired with tape on reverse, jacket spine head lightly stained (only visible on reverse). 1993 Hard Cover. 356 pp. In March 1985, Terry Anderson was swept up in the violent conflict of a turbulent era. At the mercy of Shiite captors for nearly seven years, he lived in chains, wondering fearfully if each day would be his last. But his spirit soared beyond captivity, and he never gave up. Nor did those who loved him. And now, a free man...
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Vinegar Hill

By: Ansay, A. Manette

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Viking: 1994

Seller ID: 2270788

ISBN: 0670852538

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 240 pp. Ellen Grier returns with her husband and children to their Midwestern Catholic hometown to live with her narrow-minded in-laws, coping with the family's eccentricity and confronting a hidden secret festering in her husband's past.
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