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A Mirror for Greatness: Six Americans

By: Bliven, Bruce

Price: $5.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: 1975

Seller ID: 2200896

ISBN: 0070059047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket price clipped. 1975 Hard Cover. 251 pp. 8vo. Biographical sketches of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, placing each within their historical context and showing how their contributions to politics, literature, and social activism affected American civilization.
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No Man Tells Everything: Stories of Character and Surprise

By: Block, Libbie; Duggan, Pat

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1959

Seller ID: 2304462

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A few small tears to jacket edges, jacket lightly toned. 1959 Hard Cover. 360 pp. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of the remarkable works of Libbie Block. Within this book are the characters, the places, and the incidents which typify this exciting talent--the little girl who ran a bawdyhouse out of town; Mr. Sweetree, a fantastic man who practiced fascism, communism, and perfect democracy, all at the same time; the marriage that didn't work out, for reasons that prove a mystery to the husband's mother.
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 2271002

ISBN: 0375502688

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 163 pp. A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms wi...
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Come to Me: Stories

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1993

Seller ID: 2271003

ISBN: 0060182369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 177 pp. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.
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Love Invents Us: A Novel

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Random House: 1997

Seller ID: 2271004

ISBN: 0679441093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. This stunning novel by National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom, author of Come to Me, follows the passions of Elizabeth Taube from childhood to middle age, as she finds herself through love--good, bad, and dangerous.
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Louis XIV

By: Bluche, Francois; Greengrass, Mark - translator

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Franklin Watts: 1990

Seller ID: 2296801

ISBN: 0531151123

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. xvi, 702 pp. Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as the Sun King was King of France and of Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the longest documented reign of any European monarch. Louis began personally governing France in 1661 after the death of his prime minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the theory of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin and lack of temporal restraint of monarchical rule, Louis c...
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The Crane Wife

By: Bodkin, Odds

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company: 1998

Seller ID: 2303011

ISBN: 0152014071

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. An excellent copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. When Osamu, a lonely sail maker, nurses an injured crane one blustery night, he never suspects that this simple act of kindness will change his life forever. Weeks later a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep, seeking shelter from a storm. Osamu again offers his help, and soon the sail maker and the stranger fall in love and marry. But when he learns of his wife's gift for making magic sails, ambition replaces compassion--and Osamu risks losing the great happiness he has found. With majestic ...
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel

By: Bolano, Roberto; Wimmer, Natasha (Translator)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007

Seller ID: 2305620

ISBN: 0374191484

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap creased. 2007 Hard Cover. 577 pp. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolao tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own.The Savage Detectivesis an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1983

Seller ID: 2304604

ISBN: 0394402294

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Small tear to jacket spine head. Light stains on page ridges. 1983 Hard Cover. xvi, 745 pp. An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.
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Histoire De La Philosophie Cartesienne, in Two Volumes [FRENCH TEXT]

By: Bouillier, Francisque

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Durand, Libraire: 1854

Seller ID: 2304652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Former library copies - usual marks. 1854 Hard Cover. Two volume set. French text. Maroon morocco spines over matching cloth boards, gilt titiles. An assessment of the philosophical writings of Rene Descartes.
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The Blue Duchess

By: Bourget, Paul; Tristan, Ernest

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London / New York, Greening & Co. / Brentano's: 1908

Seller ID: 2303648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards lightly toned, minor pencil marks. 1908 Hard Cover. 288 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Bourget was born in the cathedral city of Amiens about fifty years ago, but there are a number of other interesting things to say about him. Like so many famous authors, he began, in 1873, with verse. Probably the verse did not bring him the instant fame that we all desire with our first book, for he soon turned to prose, which of course as Saltus has hinted, is more difficult. Again, it is probable that verse and prose are not really so very far apart, but are related, as an angel is relat...
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Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2294644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, minor surface tears to jacket spine which do not obscure text, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor ink marginalia, ink notes on rear free endpaper,. 1950 Hard Cover. xiii, 535 pp. Rescued from obscurity in this the first English biography, Pierre Vergniaud, genius and orator, whose eloquence held the violence of the French Revolution in check from 1791-93, is here given his due. On the one hand he fought the excesses and inequities of the regime, on the other the terrorism of the Re...
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The Revolution of Little Girls

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: 2271005

ISBN: 0679400907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated (June 3, 1991) by author without inscription. A nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the w...
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Mourning the Death of Magic: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 2271006

ISBN: 0025142704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. An intensely powerful, understated novel about contemporary Southern life, the struggle of the new generation with themselves, their past, and their region.
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-Home Tales

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2271007

ISBN: 039451050X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 159 pp. This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her alte...
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Terminal Velocity

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 2271009

ISBN: 0679430083

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . . So begins Blanche McCrary ...
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Ghost Ship of the Confederacy: The Story of the Alabama and Her Captain, Raphael Semmes

By: Boykin, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls: 1957

Seller ID: 2304915

ISBN: 1131494067

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia. 1957 Hard Cover. xi, 404 pp. Raphael Semmes (September 27, 1809 August 30, 1877) was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Until then, he had been a serving officer in the US Navy from 1826 to 1860. During the American Civil War, Semmes was captain of the cruiser CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in maritime history, taking 65 prizes. Late in the war, he was promoted to rear admiral and also acted briefly as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. His appointment or arrangement to ...
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Without a Hero and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking: 1994

Seller ID: 2274266

ISBN: 0670849634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 238 pp. Fifteen darkly satirical stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of If the River Was Whiskey feature a couple in search of the last toads on earth, and a real-estate wonder boy on safari.
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Water Music: A Novel

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281544

ISBN: 0316104671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 437 pp. Author's first novel. Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music—a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic...
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African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor--From Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond

By: Boyles, Denis

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1988

Seller ID: 2295950

ISBN: 1555840345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Top edge very faintly foxed. 1988 Hard Cover. xi, 225 pp. Offers a series of portraits of the white tribe in Africa that demonstrates the great European spirit of adventure in figures past and present, including Blixen, Rhodes, Markham, and Ian Smith.
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Classic Airplanes

By: Boyne, Walter J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Publications International, Ltd.: 2001

Seller ID: 2299507

ISBN: 0785345248

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor general wear. 2001 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Men and women have looked to the skies and dreamt of flight since prehistory, but it was not until 1903 that powered, sustained flight become a reality. Today, aviation technology encompasses a myriad of disciplines, from aerodynamics to weapons systems. And then there are the numberless human factors: the creative urge, political and military dominance, national pride, and the economic gambles of the enormous corporations that manufacture combat and civil aircraft. Above all else, though, is that dream of flight - a dream t...
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Modern Tendencies in World Religions

By: Braden, Charles Samuel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1933

Seller ID: 1842729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Includes original jacket. Page ridges faintly foxed, front jacket flap corners clipped (price still present), jacket lightly toned with minor wear to corners. 1933 Hard Cover. 343 pp. A 1933 comparative study of world religions and how the modern world affects them. Includes chapters on Hinduism, Japanese & Chinese religions, Islam, Russian religions, and Judaism. Also includes an appendix and suggestions for further reading.
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The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel

By: Bradley, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 2274256

ISBN: 0060104910

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 432 pp. The son of a moonshiner and the grandson of a slave, a brilliant but bitter Black historian wades through the dark secrets of his heritage to reconstruct and, finally, to accept his family's tragic history.
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Wonders of the West: A Novel

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1993

Seller ID: 2270801

ISBN: 0449906566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s Los Angeles, teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast.
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The Incantation of Frida K.

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2270802

ISBN: 1583224696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. I was born in rain and I will die in rain, begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds o...
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

By: Brock, Pope

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Crown Publishers: 2008

Seller ID: 2196232

ISBN: 0307339882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Rear jacket flap stained. 2008 Hard Cover. 324 pp. In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers. It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly turned “Dr.” Brinkley into America’s richest and most famous surgeon. His notoriety captured the attention of the great quac...
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24 Hours

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1930

Seller ID: 2265826

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from jacket spine base, with minor loss from other jacket corners, jacket toned. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. Inspiration for the film starring Clive Brook and Kay Francis, directed by Marion Gering. Originally published serially as Shattered Glass; this edition released simultaneously with a signed, limited edition of 500 copies (this copy is not signed). Bromfield was also known for his scient...
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March: A Novel

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Viking: 2005

Seller ID: 2200373

ISBN: 0670033359

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. 8vo. March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a parallel novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. - Wikipedia
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Viking: 2011

Seller ID: 2274239

ISBN: 0670021040

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bottom corner lightly bumped. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 306 pp. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curi...
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Viking: 2011

Seller ID: 2296790

ISBN: 0670021040

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor general wear to jacket. Two faint smudges on front board, pencil name on front free endpaper. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 306 pp. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Grea...
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