Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. Good +. xx1, [1], 355, [1] p.: frontispiece and 39 additional leaves of plates, many in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Beige cloth spine with printed paper spine label. Brown paper over boards. No dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. First edition, first issue, with "Piccadilly" on page 268, an errata slip tipped in, and no index present. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Richard Haughton. In Good+ Condition: spine is sunned; corners rubbed; old... more information

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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1924. Very Good +. xvii, [1], 190 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with printed paper label on spine; black title on front cover. No dust jacket. Front free endpaper bears the author's signature. Half title bears inscription from 1935. The subject was an economist and labor negotiator. In Very Good+ Condition: cover slightly soiled; head of spine and lower corners of boards slightly rubbed; pages are clean and tight. ... more information

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New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Fine. xvi, 878 p.: 30 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 21 cm. (8.5 inches). Paperback. Includes notes, bibliography of works cited, acknowledgments, and index. "Andrew Carnegie, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War, was America's first modern titan," at one point the richest man in the world, who, on retirement, "dedicated himself to giving away every penny of the wealth he had amassed... more information

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New York: Penguin Press, 2006. First Edition. Fine/fine. xiv, 878 p.: frontispiece, 32 unpaginated pages of illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Black paper over boards and spine, with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes notes, bibliography of works cited, acknowledgments, and index. No price listed. First Edition. "Andrew Carnegie, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War, was America'... more information

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London, Eng.: Henry Colburn, 1818. Near Fine -. Translated From the French. 2nd Edition. J. Gillet, printer, London. viii, 333, [1] p.; 21 cm. Red polished half morocco with red-and-gilt marbled paper over boards; spine richly tooled in gilt with six compartments between raised bands. Title in second compartment; date of publication at foot of spine. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers matching marbled paper over boards. Verso of front free endpaper stamped: Bound by Zaehnsdorf for John Wanama... more information

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Edinburgh: Caledonian Press, 1864. Fair. xvi, 279, [1], 62 p.: frontispiece and 7 additional leaves of lithographic plates (1 tinted, 1 color); 28 cm. Contemporary calf spine and corners, with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Printed for subscribers only. The chromolithograph, The Bundle of Sticks from Ancient Glass Windows at Birkwood, is by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen; the other plates were lithographed by Allan & Ferguson, Glasgow. Bookbinder's label on back... more information

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Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1952. Soft Cover. Good +. Based on the original musical play, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields." [4], 84 p.: frontispiece, 1 leaf with photos from an amateur production; 18 cm. Green wrappers printed in black. The frontispiece is a photo of Mary Martin as Annie Oakley. This version of the popular musical was intended for amateur production, by the removal of the musical numbers but the inclusion of "every line of the ori... more information

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New York: Rinehart & Company, 1920. Near Fine -/very good -. Wyeth, N.C. . [8], 328 p.: frontispiece photograph portrait of Buffalo Bill and 7 additional leaves of illustration by N.C. Wyeth; 20 cm. Beige cloth with red spine title and cover title: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography. Orange, black, and white illustrated dust jacket (in mylar cover) with title: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography. Front dust jacket flap states: Fifteenth printing. Front free endpaper inscri... more information

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Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. Hard Cover. Good +/fair. vi, 378 p.; 22 cm. Orange cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket (in mylar cover). Former owner's inscription on front fixed endpaper: "Ann Wyeth McCoy, Port Clyde, Maine. Summer 1947." The composer and painter Ann Wyeth (1915-2005) was the third daughter of artist N.C. Wyeth; she married the painter John W. McCoy. Book is in Good+ Condition: lacking front free endpaper and first leaf (half... more information

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New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. Fine/near fine. xiv, 306 p.: 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; speckled beige paper over boards with blind-stamped author's initials on front cover. Color illustrated dust jacket. Stated First American Edition. "Not long before his parents died in the 1980s, Michael Holroyd asked them to write some account of their early lives. Where they do overlap, these two documents differ dramati... more information

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Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2004. Fine. xvi, 224 p.: frontispiece, 41 in-text illustrations; 24 cm. (9.25 inches). Paperback with illustrated front cover. Includes notes, bibliography, and index. "Marcello Mastroianni is considered by many to be the epitome of the Latin lover, the consummate symbol of Italian masculinity." The author "reveals that beneath the image of hyper-masculinity lies the figure of the inetto, the Italian schlemiel at odds with and out of place in a... more information

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Government Printing Office, 1928. Near Fine. The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and The Congress of the United States From the First to the Sixty-Ninth Congress March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1927, Inclusive." 1740 p.: 6 leaves of photographs; 30 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; both boards have blind-stamped border. No dust jacket. In Near Fine Condition: corners are slightly rubbed; one upper corner bumped. Pages are clean and bright. ... more information

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Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4, [6], 284 p.; 19 cm. Original brown ribbed publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have blind-stamped center medallions and borders. Pale yellow endpapers. This is the second volume in the publisher's series De Quincey's Writings. The verso of the half title page states that a "third volume will shortly be issued." A 4-page publisher's catalog is bound in between the front endpapers, dated Oct.... more information

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Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration , 1993. Fine/very good +. Introduction by Roger D. Launius; edited by J.D. Hunley. NASA SP-4105. NASA History Office. xxxii, 389, [7] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Grey endpapers. T. Keith Glennan was the first administrator of NASA; this volume contains his record, largely made at the time, of the period from Jan. 1960 through Jan. 1961. It also contains an extensive app... more information

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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950. Very Good. James Boswell, a Scottish-born lawyer, diarist, author, rake, and keen observer of contemporary society, is best known as the author of the Life of Samuel Johnson. Both volumes are edited by Frederick A. Pottle and part of the Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Stated First Editions. Black cloth spines with gilt-stamped spine titles; blue paper over boards with dark blue-stamped coat of arms and initials of Boswell. Top page edges b... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Fine/fine. viii, [2], 239 p.; 22 cm. Gray cloth with blue printed spine title; illustrated dust jacket. Includes notes, bibliography, and index. No price listed. First Edition. "The most serious internal threat to the stability of France's Third Republic was General Boulanger's bid for power in 1888-89." Contrary to many interpretations, which placed Boulanger's campaign as the left-wing genesis for 20th-century fascism, this ... more information

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Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Fine/very good. DePol, John. With a Foreword by Will Irwin and wood engravings by John DePol. 34, [2] p.: wood engravings; 24 cm. Green cloth spine with green-and-white paper over boards printed from a pattern by John DePol. Printed paper spine label. Green endpapers. With original glassine dust jacket and Errata slip signed by Neil Shaver. This is number 115 of a limited edition of 125 copies hand-printed by Neil Shaver at the Yellow Barn Press. Contents: &q... more information

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London, Eng.: Longmans, Green and Company, 1984. Near Fine. xix, 506 p.: frontispiece, 4 double-page or full-page maps, 5 genealogical tables, 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. (9.25 inches). Paperback with illustrated front cover. Includes bibliography and index. First paperback printing. "George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628) is one of the dazzling figures of English history, whose spectacular career dominated the 1620s, when he achieved not only political ascendancy a... more information

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London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1833. Hard Cover. Good -. Translated from the German by Henning Gottfried Linberg. First English edition. xi, [1], 191, [1] p.; 19 cm. Dark green publisher's cloth embossed with a floral pattern. Printed paper spine label with title and price (3s. cloth). Dark green endpapers. Last page contains publisher's advertisement. Preface by Francis Lieber. Front fixed endpaper bears bookplate reading "Evolutio R. Pearl" [Evolvtio R. Pearl] with woodcuts of t... more information

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