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The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental in South America as Told By Himself
Hudson, W. H. [ with an Introductory Note By Theodore Roosevelt ]
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Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.Works on Paper
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A lovely copy.
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Current Disarmament Proposals - As of March 1, 1964 (Preliminary Edition)
Harry B. Hollins, Chairman, Managing Committee of the World Law Fund (Introductory Note); The Hon. Justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court of the United States (Foreword)
Language: English
Published by World Law Fund, New York, NY, 1964
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. World Law Fund, New York. 1964. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Preliminary Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on FFFP and Peace Research stamp on front wrap and half title page. Book Condition: Very Good; edge bumping; suntanned spine; age tone…d wraps. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 195 pp 8vo. This is an initial reporting on disarmament proposals from the Soviet Union and the USA only. This volume presents the proposals in a readable, easy-to-understand way to help develop a firm underpinning of the law in matters of disarmament. A clean very presentable copy.
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Language: English
Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1942
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- First Edition
Seller: RG Vintage Books, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.RG Vintage Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition - January, 1942. George Grady Press, New York. Tight hardcover in good condition. 4to. Light gray woven cloth boards & backstrip with gold Rembrandt signature on the front board & gold lettering on the backstrip. The entire book iis printed on coated stock. 84 Full-Page Blac…k & White Plates of Rembrandt works of art as well as close-ups of features of some of them. There is a multi-page list of the 84 Plates with information about each Plate. This book is clean & very tight. The outside edge of the boards has a 1/2" band of light discoloration. The gold signature on the front board is very bright. The backstrip has a little edgewear on the top & bottom. The lettering on the backstrip is very bright. The half-title page has a light moisture stain. The leaves are in very good condition with no markings. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request.
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Language: English
Published by The Sheldon Press, 1951
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Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.Shelley and Son Books (IOBA)
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very Good -. Reprint. Black and beige paper cover. Stapled together. 45 pp. Front cover has a few dampstains. Slight foxing inside, but text is mostly clean. Text body is clean and free from underlining, highlighting, or notes. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Language: English
Published by NY & Boston. 1985. American Heritage Pess/ distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985
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- First Edition
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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big thick black embossed cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. a little wrinkling & chipping along the top, 1cm tear spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, sto…re stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing (nap) . ix+832p. world history. american history. politics. biography.~ For thirty years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. Now, for the first time, the editors have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result~by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying~is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilization from the first settlements to the fall of Richard Nixon. A Sense of History proves that the best history is always the best reading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and public figures of recent years. A few of the illustrious authors included in this rich compilation are: Barbara W. Tuchman on Teddy Roosevelt's Mideast crisis /Alfred Kazin 's study of why Americans have always feared the city /Malcolm Cowley on Nathaniel Hawthorne in love /Edward Hoagland's haunting evocation of the real Johnny Appleseed /Bruce Catton on the Civil War, of course, but also on baseball /Louis Auchincloss on Henry Adams's unlikely sojourn in the South Seas /John Kenneth Galbraith dissecting the Great Depression /William Manchester recalling a hair~raising World War 11 hoax /Robert Silverberg's inquiry into the mystery of the mound builders /Stephen B. Oates on the grim career of Nat Turner /Wallace Stegner's luminous memoir of his Western boyhood /Francis Russell's meticulous reconstruction of the crime that sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the chair /David McCullough's surprising profile of Harriet Beecher Stowe/ Hughes Rudd's perilous World War II sojourn as a spotter pilot.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN THE SETTLEMENTS ON CUMBERLAND RIVER & THE TERRITORY.
Hall, James, 1744-1826. Noel Polk, 1943-2012 (Introductory Note, Index).
Language: English
Published by Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1976., 1976
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Ex-private school library copy. Reprint (first published 1801). x, [2], 76 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket. Reddish-brown cloth lightly rubbed and soiled; library shelf number handwritten in white ink at lower spine; impression of removed tape at boards' lower spine corners ; slight scuffing at spine ends… and along boards' bottom edges. Light foxing to text block edges; two small dark stains at upper fore-edge with leaves fractionally affected at margins. School library stamps/markings on endpapers and pages v, 15, and 19; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Modern reprint of the original edition with the addition of an Introductory Note and Index by Southern literature scholar and renowned Faulkner specialist Noel Polk. {MS-Shelf#3} ISBN 0871522152.
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Published by The William Benton Museum of Art / The University of Connecticut, 1977
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Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.Structure, Verses, Agency Books
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Short artist exhibition catalog bound in illustrated, printed wraps, sunned a bit and lightly soiled. 86 pp. of 143 works by Kokoschka, with an Introductory Note by Jaroslaw Leshko, with Acknowledgments by Stephanie Terenzio, Joseph Gropper provides a Collector's Note, and complete… with references. The Austrian artist, poet and playwrite grounded the Viennese Expressionist movement, and these several score duotone reproductions of his works, quite nice, evince his literary and aesthetic bent.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
HOLD FAST BY YOUR SUNDAYS.
By the author of "Deepdale Vicarage" with introductory note by Charles Bullock.
Language: English
Published by London, 1889
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams)
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Add to basketCondition: VERY GOOD. New edition. Frontisplate with tissue guard and illustrations at the heading of each chapter. 123 pp plus 13 pp publisher's advertisements. Very good in dark blue pictorial cloth with gilt title to cover and spine on bevelled boards (previous owner's name, offsetting to front endpaper).
Language: English
Published by Anson D. F. Randolph & Co, New York, 1880
- Hardcover
Seller: Libris Hardback Book Shop, Rockingham, VA, U.S.A.Libris Hardback Book Shop
Contact seller5-star sellerCloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, corners and spine ends somewhat bumped and worn, cover shows significant rubbing. Page edges somewhat tanned. Ex-college-library with a few neat indications, no card pocket. Binding tight, pages lightly tanned but clean, a few pencil marks. 166 pa…ges. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.
Published by The Book-Keeper Publishing Company, Limited, Detroit, 1904
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Normal wear; light for its age; a decent readable copy. Book.
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1954
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Very Good -. DJ has edge scuffs and fading. A discussion on the values of religion. 127 pages. Book.
Published by Moretus Press, New York, 1977
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Private bookplate on fly leaf..
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1949
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Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United KingdomG. & J. CHESTERS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.x, 201 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket. From a school but there's only a small stamp on the ffep that shows this.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1952
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Book cover spine is faded. Book cover has slight edge wear, with a couple marks on front cover. The first few pages have slight indentations along side edge.
Published by Papers on Language and Literature, 1966
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.James Cummings, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.
Sanchi and its Remains, with Forty Plates | with an introduction by Sir Alexander Cunningham
F. C. Maisey; Frederick Charles Maisey; F.C. Maisey; FC Maisey; Sir Alexander Cunningham (introductory Note)
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Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United KingdomMajestic Books
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Condition: New. pp. 198.
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Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1980
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Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.Cat's Cradle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Stapled binding is sound. Light rippling to all pages, which are clean but slightly age-darkened. Wraps have general wear. Issue marks the opening of the Metropolitan's American Wing in June 1980. 11.0" tall; 52 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
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Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007
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Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.Cat's Cradle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft Cover. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wrappers. Clean and bright pages. Publication showing acquisitions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 2006 and 2007. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 68 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
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Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001
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Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.Cat's Cradle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft Cover. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wrappers. Clean and bright pages. Publication focusing on the museum's acquisitions in 2000 and 2001. Categories include the ancient world, Islam, medieval Europe, Renaissance and Baroque Europe, Europe 1700-1900, North America 1700-1900, modern art, Africa, Oceania, and t…he Americas, and Asia. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 88 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
Silver Wings A History of the United States Air Force
Boyne, Walter J. & James H. Doolittle; Lee Ewing (Introductory Note by)
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Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.KULTURAs books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Blue boards, pristine, sharp and square, As New. Protected, price unclipped, dust jacket clean and bright. As New. Book is firm in binding, b&w and color photographs, 3 lines highlighte on page 165, ex-libris plate on front end paper.… 336 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W and Color photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 336 pages.
Language: English
Published by The Modern Library/Random House, Inc., New York, 1945
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Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
Contact seller5-star sellerDecorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Copyright 1945. 436 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. First free end page torn in half. Light foxing on page edges.
Original Letters, etc. of Sir John Falstaff & His Friends
James White (text); Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr. (introductory note)
Published by New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924
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Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. No. 406 of 720 copies. 12mo. volume bound in burgundy-colored cloth with black leather spine label in publisher-issued slipcase. Frontispiece illustration. Condition: bottom of slipcase missing; slipcase is rubbed & worn; spine of book is sun-faded and a bit soiled; el…se very good. 154 pages.
Published by The Book-Keeper Publishing Company, Detroit, 1904
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Seller: P.C. Schmidt, Bookseller, Kettering, OH, U.S.A.P.C. Schmidt, Bookseller
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. a solid copy; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR ----- Size: 6 x 8". Illustrated with Photographs (illustrator). Signed by Author.
Current Disarmament Proposals - As of March 1, 1964 (Preliminary Edition)
Harry B. Hollins, Chairman, Managing Committee of the World Law Fund (Introductory Note); Mr. Hon. Justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court of the United States (Foreword)
Language: English
Published by The World Law Fund (Formerly the Fund for Education Concerning World Peace Through World Law), New York, 1964
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Preliminary Edition. 195 pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear and use. Cover pages sligbhtly browned. Previous owner's name written on top of front cover page.
Language: English
Published by Players Academy Press, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1986
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. first edition. Red cloth, 109 pages, 8 in tall. Three Chekhov comedies translated by John Alan Wyatt: On The Harmfulness of Tobacco; The Bear; The Proposal. Illustrated with Ted Boerner's costume renderings and with scenes from the comedies performed by the American Players Theatre near Spr…ing Green, Wisconsin. This first edition is limited to 500 unnumbered copies.
George Washington and Agriculture
A Classified List Of Annotated References With An Introductory Note
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Published by Moretus Press, New York, 1977
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "A Birth Day For Jay - Hooray, Hooray! From Richard [in a different hand 'and Lisa'] March 14, 1987". Signed with first name only.
Published by Friends of the Richmond Public Library, Richmond, VA, 1962
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.
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Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Wraps. Condition: Fine. 8vo, 81 pp. Facsimile reprint. Unread.
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Language: English
Published by Edwards & Broughton, Printers and Binders, Raleigh, NC, 1914
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Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.Pages Past--Used & Rare Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 15 pages. Softcover staple bound in grey wrappers. The binding shows light to moderate wear and tere is some bumping at the fore edge. The spine is splitting at the headcap. Complete with the color flag frontis. Text is clean. Although a slim publication, the work contains a couple of pa…ges on the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775" and the "Halifax Independence Resolutions April 12, 1776".
