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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: New York, 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: Boston, 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 Musica funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyles 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 Londons seamy gutters and Scotlands scenic highlandsto...
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After the Plague, and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T.C. [Coraghessan]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001

Seller ID: 2199485

ISBN: 0670030058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed. 2001 Hard Cover. 303 pp. Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. InAfter the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here, nine of which have appeared inThe New Yorkerand three inThe O...
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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: New York, 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: Illinois, 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: New York, 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 Auto Boys' Outing

By: Braden, Jas. A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1909

Seller ID: 2307177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pencil name on front jacket panel, light general wear to jacket. 1909 Hard Cover. 252 pp. Illustrated by Arthur DeBebian. The story of young boys and their automobile adventures.
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The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel

By: Bradley, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, 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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Historical Documentary of the Ukrainian Community of Rochester, New York

By: Bratush, James D.; Smerychynska, Anastasia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, James D. Bratush: 1969

Seller ID: 2306549

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Near fine book in fair jacket. A few minor tears to jacket edges, small chip to jacket spine base, front jacket panel lightly stained. Smudge on top page ridge. 1969 Hard Cover. xix, 581 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; Map of the Ukraine; Part One: History of Ukrainian Settlement in Rochester, New York; Part Two: The Preservation of a Cultural Heritage; Part Three: The Ukrainian Civic Center of Rochester, New York; Part Four.
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Wonders of the West: A Novel

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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 Bravermans 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 of h...
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Gide

By: Bree, Germaine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2276940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket, small tear to inner front board, minimal pencil underlining. 1963 Hard Cover. An engaging literary criticism of the controversial French novelist and thinker.
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The Day Jesse James Was Killed

By: Breihan, Carl W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers: 1961

Seller ID: 2195335

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author. Pages heavily toned Jacket heavily toned, jacket edges heavily rubbed, bottom right front corner of jacket taped. 1961 Hard Cover. xxvi, 235 pp. a wealth of material never before published, which casts new light on many aspects of the James' activities and motives, gleaned from rare newspaper accounts of the day, letters and photographs obtained from members of the James family and personal reminiscences of their friends and neighbors. Black and white photographs included.
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Cruise of the Raider HK-33

By: Brennecke, H.J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1954

Seller ID: 2307394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine head, spine base and front joint rubbed. 1954 Hard Cover. xi, 241 pp. The adventures of Captain Kruder... the Count von Luckner of World War II. Illustrated with photographs. ...written by a leading German naval correspondent with the help of HK-33's survivors. The adventures of the Pinguin, a German freighter converted to war use, are unique in the history of naval warfare.
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Vexed and Troubled Englishman 1590-1642: The Beginnings of the American People

By: Bridenbaugh, Carl

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2307493

ISBN: 0195004930

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Multiple tears to jacket edges, ink notes on front free endpaper, some underlining and marginalia, some pages dog-eared. 1968 Hard Cover. xix, 487 pp. The hardships of everyday life which led to mass emigration are the focus of an investigation into the local histories of seventeenth-century England.
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Cronkite

By: Brinkley, Douglas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2012

Seller ID: 2261561

ISBN: 0061374261

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light rubbing to jacket. 2012 Hard Cover. xi, 819 pp. For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in America. Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines of World War II, and later, in the emerging medium of television, as a host of numerous documentary programs and as anchor of the CBS Evening News, from 1962 until his retirement in 1981. Yet this very public figure, undoubtedly the twentieth century's most revered journalist, was a remarkably private man; few know the full story ...
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Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War

By: Brock, Peter

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2200927

ISBN: 0802058795

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 1991 Hard Cover. x, 385 pp. As long as governments engage in warfare, there will be citizens who organize to resist. The roots of nonviolent activism in Western society are deep, going back centuries in Europe and crossing over to North America more than three hundred years ago. Peter Brock traces the history of a long line of Christian sects that have rejected both the violence involved in war and the violence involved in the administration of the state, concluding the story with the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Among the earliest of these groups to emerge were the mediev...
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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: New York, 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. BrinkleyAmericas most brazen young con manarrived 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 Americas richest and most famous surgeon. His notoriety captured the attention of the great quackbuster Morris Fishb...
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Changing of the Guard: Power and Leadership in America

By: Broder, David S.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1980

Seller ID: 2191599

ISBN: 067124566X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket toned, jacket flaps previously taped to endpapers. Very Good. 1980 Hard Cover. 512 pp. This book offers short political biographies of numerous individuals who were selected by Broder, a journalist for a kind of Who's Who among young politically involved leaders in America. He makes no pretense about including every eligible person. The vignettes in this sampling are based on interviews. There are separate chapters focusing on women, Hispanics and Blacks, groups Broder says that are increasingly represented in leadership positions. He also gives particular attention to pe...
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A Good Woman

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2205830

ISBN: 1125606487

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, spine slightly cocked, ink name and date to front paste-down endpaper. 1927 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. The four novels taken together can be considered a series, but need not be read as such. Bromfield was also known for his scientific farming innovations.
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24 Hours

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, 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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Song of Love: The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier, 1909-1915

By: Brooke, Ruper; Olivier, Noel; Harris, Pippa

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 2306576

ISBN: 0517590905

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1991 Hard Cover. xxviii, 302 pp. A six-year correspondence between the World War I poet and his schoolgirl muse, Noel Oliver, edited by Oliver's granddaughter, provides a glimpse of Edwardian England as it reveals the true and enduring nature of young love.
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March: A Novel

By: Brooks, Geraldine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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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The Elf Queen of Shannara (Book Three of the Heritage of Shannara)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey / Ballantine Books: 1992

Seller ID: 2284417

ISBN: 0345362993

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 403 pp. Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men! the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one in the Esterland knew of them -- except, finally, the Addershag. The blind old woman had given instructions to find a place on the coast of the Blue Divide, build a fire, and keep it burning f...
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Antrax (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 2)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey / Ballantine Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2285461

ISBN: 0345397665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine slightly cocked. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 375 pp. A new novel by Terry Brooks is always a cause for celebration. For more than twenty years, the New York Times bestselling author of the classic Shannara epic has proven himself one of the modern masters of fantasy, winning the hearts and minds of devoted readers around the world. In his last acclaimed novel, Ilse Witch, a brave company of explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. Yet perhaps Boh and his team were lured there...
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Morgawr (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 3)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey / Ballantine Books: 2002

Seller ID: 2285462

ISBN: 0345435729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very faint stain on bottom page ridge. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 401 pp. New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks became the master of epic fantasy with the publication of his legendary debut, The Sword of Shannara. Since then, each new novel in the Shannara saga has brilliantly built upon and deepened the world of breathtaking magic, adventure, and intrigue he created. In The Voyage of the Jerle Shannarahis third enchanting serieshe literally took his legions of loyal readers soaring to new heights as a colorful contingent of character...
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Straken (High Druid of Shannara, Book 3)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey / Ballantine: 2005

Seller ID: 2285467

ISBN: 0345451120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 368 pp. The High Druid of Shannara trilogy draws to a thrilling close as a young hero nears completion of his trial by fire, a banished ruler fights for her life in a wilderness of dread, and forces of darkness and light square off in a battle unto death for the right to absolute rule. Prepare to be spellbound by the masterly hand of bestselling legend weaver Terry Brooks, conjuring at the peak of his skills.
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