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Faith in God and Generals: An Anthology of Faith, Hope, and Love in the American Civil War

By: Baehr, Ted; Wales, Susan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Broadman & Holman Publishers: 2003

Seller ID: 2172707

ISBN: 0805427287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 2003 Hard Cover. Ron Maxwell, producer of the acclaimed movie Gettysburg and director of Gods & Generals, has encouraged the creation of this anthology that captures and explores one of the major themes of Gods & Generalsdevout, godly men and women on both sides of the Civil War fervently believed that their cause was not only just but that they enjoyed God's favor.
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Colonel Greatheart

By: Bailey, H.C.; Ralph, Lester

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1908

Seller ID: 2204119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper. 1908 Hard Cover. 472 pp. This is an unusual story of the English Civil War. There is a good account of the Battle of Newbury, and many historic figures appear: Cromwell (very prominent), Ireton, Prince Rupert, Charles I, Fairfax, and Lambert. The setting for this tale of men and arms is taken from the stirring days of the Bavaliers and the Roundheads, of Puritans and the so-called malignants; but the machines of war are rather in the background, while in the spotlight is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a marker of destinies. The story tell...
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Whistle For Good Fortune: In which it is shown how six from six makes six and one to carry, with other riddles here and there along the way

By: Bailey, Margery

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1940

Seller ID: 2198574

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. 1940 Hard Cover. 237 pp. 8vo. Children's book of vaguely nonsensical fables, with many illustrations by Alice B. Preston.
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Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff

By: Bailey, Richard W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2309324

ISBN: 0472113372

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2003 Hard Cover. x, 281 pp. This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed life of the notorious nineteenth-century thief, murderer, professional impostor, and would-be philologist Edward Rulloff, who was condemned to die and hanged for his crimes. The life of Rulloff is a sordid account of misguided genius and abysmal consequences. Those who loved him courted disaster, and, in every case, the courtship flowered into catastrophe. Richard Bailey's narrative, calm and impartial yet spiked with wit and suspense, captures perfectly th...
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Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans

By: Baime, A.J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston / New York, Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt: 2009

Seller ID: 2309631

ISBN: 0618822194

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition.Light stain on fore edge and on spine base. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 2009 Hard Cover. xv, 304 pp. By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort, and Ford didn't offer what these young drivers wanted. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari lorded over the European racing scene, crafting beautiful, fast sports cars that epitomized style. Baime tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young v...
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The Empty Glass: A Novel

By: Baker, J.I.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Rider Press: 2012

Seller ID: 2201987

ISBN: 0399158197

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page ridges faintly toned. Near Fine. 2012 Hard Cover. 324 pp. In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and still clutching a telephone. There he discoversThe Book of Secrets- Marilyn Monroe's diary - revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as The General. In the following days, Ben unravels a wide-ranging cover-up and some heartbreaking truths about the fragile, luminous woman behind the celebrity. Soon the si...
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Pollie Who Did as She Was Told

By: Baker, Margaret

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1934

Seller ID: 2307391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Only 6 in OCLC. No jacket. Boards lightly foxed. 1934 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Mary Baker. A children's story about a woodcutter and his family.
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Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman

By: Bangs, John Kendrick

Price: $40.00

Publisher: ., Harper & Brothers: 1905

Seller ID: 2171959

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Front hinge starting, light stain to top margin, spine toned, boards lightly soiled. 1905 Hard Cover. v, [3], 179, [1] pp. 16mo. One of two story collections written by Bangs as follow-ups to E.W. Hornung's popular series featuring anti-hero Arthur J. Raffles, a safe cracker. Hornung was the brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Raffles series was second only to Sherlock Holmes in popularity during his lifetime.
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The Wonder Spot

By: Bank, Melissa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2005

Seller ID: 2270869

ISBN: 0670034118

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 324 pp. Struggling with ambivalent feelings toward the passions and identities that are important to other members of her Jewish Pennsylvania family, Sophie Applebaum makes observations about her family life over the course of twenty years. By the author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing.
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

By: Bank, Melissa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1999

Seller ID: 2270870

ISBN: 067088300X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 274 pp. A witty and incisive debut novel follows the life lessons of Jane, from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, as she makes her way through love, sex, relationships, and workplace perils, prompted by dubious advice from a pop-psych guide to life.
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Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball

By: Barbour, Ralph Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., D. Appleton and Company: 1910

Seller ID: 2186583

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Bottom right front corner of cover stained, front paste-down endpaper torn away from binding, rear hinge loose. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. A story of boarding school and baseball.
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Poems of Places and People

By: Barker, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1971

Seller ID: 2263253

ISBN: 0571095135

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author ('to Mike, George Barker') on front endpaper. Top edge faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with tiny sticker remnant on spine base. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 80 pp. 8vo. Barker was part of the New Apocalyptics movement, and his affair with Elizabeth Smart inspired her novel By Grand Central Station. George Barker's new collection contains, among other things, elegies on people he has admired or loved and accounts of places -- and the people in them -- that have a personal significance for him. These poems are fr...
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In Memory of David Archer

By: Barker, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1973

Seller ID: 2263256

ISBN: 0571103987

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('George Barker for Mike'). Top edge faintly foxed, three tiny spots on fore-edge, tiny sticker on jacket spine base. 1973 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 77, [1] pp. 8vo. Barker was part of the New Apocalyptics movement, and his affair with Elizabeth Smart inspired her novel By Grand Central Station. George Barker's new collection of poems is inspired again principally by both places and people. In particular, of course, it is inspired by the memory of his friend, David Archer, bookseller and publisher, ...
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History of the Rhode Island Combat Units in the Civil War (1861-1865)

By: Barker, Harold R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: ., Self-Published: 1964

Seller ID: 2185079

ISBN: 0917012445

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed. Very Good. 1964 Hard Cover. A history of all active units based out of Rhode Island during the Civil War.
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The World is My Oyster, Volume 1: From Iceland to The South Pacific

By: Barker, Thomas B.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Rochester, Thomas B. Barker / Mercury Print Productions: 2009

Seller ID: 2199604

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Includes original jacket. Brand new from author. 2009 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 100 pp. Oblong. 8 3/4 x 11 3/8. A stunning collection of landscape and wildlife photography taken by the author during his travels.
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Delicious Satisfying Elegant Simple

By: Barker, Thomas B.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Webster, New York, Thomas B. Barker: 2017

Seller ID: 2279027

ISBN: 1981135863

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2017 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 59 pp. Tom Barker has been cooking for over 50 years. This is a collection of his favorite recipes in a fully illustrated format. Everything from a simple breakfast to formal dinners is here for you to prepare and enjoy. Make an elegant lobster stew or just an old fashioned hamburger. Follow his cooking tips and practical advice to create melt in your mouth bacon or how to chop an onion without injuring your fingers. This book is based on his years of experience making meals that are truly deli...
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Kentucky's Pioneer Lithotomists

By: Barkley, A.H.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, C.J. Krehbiel & Company, Publishers: 1913

Seller ID: 1960165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed & signed ('To Cap. F. Houston Shaw with the compliments of the author, A H Barkley, 4-16-19') on title page, with an additional credential ('FACS.') added by author next to his name. Boards faintly rubbed. 1913 Hard Cover. 159 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles & gilt triple rule, double blind-stamped rule on front board. A biographical account of several doctors in Kentucky focusing on the practice of lithotomy. Lithotomy is the surgical removal of calculi (i.e., stones formed in hollow organs such as the kidney). Doctors featured are from the 18th and 19t...
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The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain

By: Baron-Cohen, Simon

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 2003

Seller ID: 2287669

ISBN: 0738208442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. xiii, 271 pp. We all appreciate that there are differences in the typical psychology of men and women. Yet underlying these subtle differences, Simon Baron-Cohen believes, there is one essential difference, and it affects everything we do: Men have a tendency to analyze and construct systems while women are inclined to empathize. With fresh evidence for these claims, Baron-Cohen explores how these sex differences arise more from biological than cultural causes and shows us how each brain type contributes in various ways to what ...
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Lucid Stars

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Delta Fiction: 1988

Seller ID: 2270874

ISBN: 0440550009

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. Wrappers very lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1988 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 328 pp. Author's first book. Penny Webb falls in love with Benjamin Day, but when their marriage fails, Penny must adjust to a new kind of family life.
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The Forms of Water: A Novel

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1993

Seller ID: 2270875

ISBN: 067179521X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 292 pp. Brendan Auberon, an eighty-year-old man living in a nursing home, longs to see his two hundred acres of wooded land before it is flooded to provide water for Boston, and he persuades his nephew, Henry, to help him realize his dream.
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The Middle Kingdom: A Novel

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1991

Seller ID: 2270876

ISBN: 0671729608

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. Grace Hoffmeier travels to China with her husband, Walter, for the 1986 Beijing International Conference, where she falls out of love with him and in love with Chinese culture.
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The Pelham Murder Case

By: Barrett, Monte

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago, The White House Publishers: 1930

Seller ID: 2304374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Front hinge broken. 1930 Hard Cover. 255 pp. Maroon boards. A crime that baffled police and criminologists alike.
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Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera

By: Barth, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1994

Seller ID: 2274268

ISBN: 0316082627

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 398 pp. The novelist presents a fictionalized account of his life, staged as an operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves.
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The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

By: Barth, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1984

Seller ID: 2281613

ISBN: 0399129979

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xx, 281 pp. The distinguished author speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future, looks back upon his own novels, and comments upon various aspects of writing.
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Sabbatical: A Romance

By: Barth, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1982

Seller ID: 2281616

ISBN: 0399127178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Quarter-inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel, jacket faintly toned. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 366 pp. The story of a young associate professor of early American literature and her husband, a fifty-year-old ex-CIA officer, and their life aboard a cruising sailboat.
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Max Factor's Hollywood: Glamour, Movies, Make-Up

By: Basten, Fred E.; Salvatore, Robert; Kaufman, Paul A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: California, General Publishing Group: 1995

Seller ID: 2307577

ISBN: 1881649067

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1995 Large Hardcover. 287 pp. For most of the 20th century, the name Max Factor has been synonymous with beauty, glamour, and style. This book goes behind the name to show how a mild-mannered Russian immigrant became a legend. Hundreds of rare archival photos showcase the timeless beauty of legends such as Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Harlow, and Carole Lombard. 200 photos.
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The World of Robert Bateman

By: Bateman, Robert; Derry, Ramsay

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1985

Seller ID: 2267905

ISBN: 0394546547

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1985 Large Hardcover. Showcasing his message of environmental protection, this testament to Robert Bateman's important work as an artist and conservationist features early paintings, most of which have never before been collected. Alongside the images, the artist comments on the pictures, offering the reader detailed explanations of how he uses art to relay meaning and beauty from the worlds of nature and wildlife. Also providing the different stages of a painting, from conception to completion, this gorgeous collection shows an artist at work - a rare insight in...
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Image for The Miraculous Horde and Other Stories: Part One - Spain: Monastery With Curled Clouds, The Miraculous Horde, Jarama Ballad, Brunete Ballad, The Yoke, 43rd Division; Part Two - Mexico: The Haunted Man, Burning Corn

The Miraculous Horde and Other Stories: Part One - Spain: Monastery With Curled Clouds, The Miraculous Horde, Jarama Ballad, Brunete Ballad, The Yoke, 43rd Division; Part Two - Mexico: The Haunted Man, Burning Corn

By: Bates, Ralph

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1939

Seller ID: 2290578

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine and boards toned, rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1939 Hard Cover. 315 pp. A historical novel of the Spanish Civil War, published in London the year the war concluded. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ralph Bates (November 3, 1899 November 26, 2000) was an English novelist. He is best known for his writings on preCivil War Spain.
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Landscape Plants for the Southeast

By: Batson, Wade T.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2266618

ISBN: 0872494330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 1984 Hard Cover. xxi, 406 pp. Each species is illustrated by at least one drawing, usually of the flower and leaf. This volume is invaluable for homeowners selecting plants for the yard, for plant enthusiasts trying to identify the plants they encounter, and for nurserymen and professional landscapes.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Marvel)

By: Baum, L. Frank; Shanower, Eric; Young, Skottie

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Marvel: 2010

Seller ID: 2307393

ISBN: 0785145907

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2010 Trade Paperback. The premier American fantasy adventure gets the Merry Marvel treatment! Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Eric Shanower (Age of Bronze) teams up with fan-favorite artist Skottie Young (New X-Men) to bring L. Frank Baum's beloved classic to life! When Kansas farm girl Dorothy flies away to the magical Land of Oz, she fatally flattens a Wicket Witch, liberates a Scarecrow and is hailed by the Munchkin people as a great sorceress...but all she really wants to know is: how does she get home?
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