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![Image for 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]](/assets/images/product/2296441.jpg)
By: 75th Infantry Division; Zitin, Willard
Price: $750.00
Publisher: The 75th Infantry Division / Army & Navy Publishing Company: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2296441
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... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270613
ISBN: 0394568249
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps lightly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 257 pp. A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270618
ISBN: 0394523350
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. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270620
ISBN: 0394536339
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. View more info
![Image for Sir Christopher Gardiner, Knight: An Historical Monograph. [From Vol. XX. of the Proc's of the Mass. Hist. Soc.], With Additions](/assets/images/product/2007291.jpg)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: John Wilson and Son, University Press: 1883
Seller ID: 2007291
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 ... View more info
By: Adams, Patch; Mylander, Maureen
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Healing Arts Press: 1993
Edition: 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2301622
ISBN: 089281442X
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. Signed by author with inscription. A very nice copy. 1993 Trade Paperback. xiv, 208 pp. Meet Patch Adams, M.D., the revolutionary doctor who has challenged the foundations of modern medicine not only by making healthcare personal, but also by making it free. In 1971, Adams and a few colleagues founded the Gesundheit Institute, a free hospital in West Virginia, dedicated to an unorthodox view of medicine and of the patient- doctor relationship: one employing laughter, listening, and mutual respect. Adams' vision heralds a brighter future, one that offers the possibility of affor... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2265815
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bookplate signed by Albright without inscription affixed to front endpaper. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 339, [1] pp. 8vo. Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America’s approach to the world. Drawing upon her experiences while in office and her own deepest beliefs about morality, the United States, and the present state of world affairs, a woman noted for plain speaking offers her thoughts about the mos... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Miramax Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2287956
ISBN: 0786868430
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed on bookplate with inscription, Best wishes. Very minor surface tear on front jacket panel. Remainder mark. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 562 pp. Albright proposes to combine the personal with policy in these memoirs, a sensible narrative strategy, considering her emblematic struggles as a working mother breaking through the glass ceiling of the foreign policy establishment to become U.N. ambassador and secretary of state. View more info
By: Alexander, Scott
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Rhino's Press: 1995
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2301003
ISBN: 0937382027
Condition: Very Good
SIGNED by author. Light edge wear. 1995 Trade Paperback. A guide to self-empowerment by doing the opposite of common sense. View more info
By: Ali, Monica
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270791
ISBN: 038560484X
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 ... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Antheneum: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200690
ISBN: 0689121024
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. 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 Ara... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200656
ISBN: 006019491X
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... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200658
ISBN: 0060172533
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... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200659
ISBN: 0060172533
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. View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200660
ISBN: 0066211611
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... View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270795
ISBN: 0525939210
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. View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270796
ISBN: 0525941673
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. View more info
![Image for Twelfth [12th] U.S. Infantry 1798-1919: Its Story by Its Men](/assets/images/product/2201686.jpg)
By: Aloe, Alfred; Gordon, Clifton R. (Preface); Taft, William Howard (Foreword)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Members of the Twelfth U.S. Infantry / The Knickerbocker Press: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201686
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed, inscribed & dated May 1st 1919 by Clifton R. Gordon, a member of the 12th infantry, and the author of the preface. Light 1 inch smudge on front board, front & end matter lightly foxed. xvi, 425 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. Black & white photographs throughout, several woodcuts. Frontispiece of 12th infantry commander Alfred Aloe. View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198566
ISBN: 0375824251
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198567
ISBN: 0679893091
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $1,750.00
Publisher: Kat Ran Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator
Seller ID: 2195946
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200719
ISBN: 1565121570
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Jacket faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 309 pp. Yolanda Garcia has managed to put herself at the center of many lives. Each part of this novel is told from the viewpoint of one of those first tangled in her web and now frozen in the spotlight her literary fame has generated. While everybody from her three sisters to her third husband attempts to sort out Yo's character, motivations, and behavior, Yo herself never speaks on her own behalf, even though, in her native Spanish, her nickname... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200720
ISBN: 0945575572
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 ... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200723
ISBN: 0375827609
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200725
ISBN: 1565124065
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200739
ISBN: 1565120388
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Top corner edge of jacket near spine bumped, jacket lightly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 325 pp. It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dicta... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200751
ISBN: 1565121937
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200755
ISBN: 0375815449
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... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200756
ISBN: 0525939229
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 ... View more info
![Image for How Tia Lola Came To [Visit] Stay](/assets/images/product/2200758.jpg)
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200758
ISBN: 0375802150
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... View more info
