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...Where Love Begins

By: Helga Sandburg

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Donald I. Fine: 1989

Seller ID: 5498

ISBN: 1556111347

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 368 pages; b&w photographs. Publisher's review slips laid in. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket, with original price. "A portrait of Carl Sandburg and his family as seen through the eyes of his youngest daughter.
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A Boy of the Great North West; The Rousing Experiences of a Young Canadian Among Cowboys, Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders, Fishermen and Indians

By: Robert Watson

Price: $52.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, Graphic Publishers Limited: 1930

Seller ID: 1309

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Duodecimo, 7 3/4" tall, 259 pages, illustrated cloth, with many intertextual black and white photographs. A very good, clean hardcopy with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, a slight cant to spine, paper clean and just slightly yellowed. Previous owner's name plate (large sticker) on front endpaper. In a good+, clean dust jacket with small chips at the fore-tips. Scarce with dust jacket.
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A Camp Without Walls: the Journey of an Italian Survivor of a Nazi Labor Camp and His Family's Plight from World War II to the Present

By: Maria Lombardo [Salvatore Lombardo]

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Roma, Italy, Italy Italy Enterprises: 2001

Seller ID: 26011

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Fine/Fine

Quarto, 12" tall, 240 pages; with 47 pages of annotated photographic illustration; illustrated boards. A fine, clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight. paper white. In a fine dust jacket.
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A Catalog of Thoreau's Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library: Thoreau Society Booklet 28.

By: Henry David Thoreau; edited by Macia Moss

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Geneseo, New York, The Thoreau Society: 1976

Seller ID: 17074

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Quarto 8 1/2" x 11", 13 text pages + 24 black and white screen photographic reproductions + one four fold pull out page, stiff wraps, wire saddle stitch. A very good, clean solid copy with slight fading to the cover sheet, interior fine. This is a reproduction of a selection of Thoreau's survey's from 1846 to 1860, including Walden Pond, the house lot of his parent's home where he lived, Bronson Alcott's Orchard home, Nathanial Hawthorn's home, and the Concord River from East Sudbury to Billerica Mills (fold out). Material chosen by Marcia Moss not available in reprint elsewhere at the time of...
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A Claim in the Hills

By: James Wickenden; illustrated by Ralph Thompson

Price: $5.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Rinehart & Company: 1957

Seller ID: 25996

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 275 pages, green quarter-cloth over brown boards. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers. A very good, clean hardcover edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good, edgeworn dust jacket with chips at the folds and at the ends of the backstrip, with the original price.
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A Commemorative Sketch of Rev. E. P. Wild, D.D., Pastor of the Congregational Churches at Craftsbury, Newport and Manchester, Vermont; with Selections from His Writings in Prose and Verse

By: [Edward Payson Wild] Preface by Payson S. Wild

Price: $36.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Privately Printed: 1892

Seller ID: 9200

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 175 pages, grey cloth with top edge gilt and gilt lettering on front cover, "Edward Payson Wild, D.D.". A very good, clean, sound volume with rubbing to the cloth at ends of the backstrip and at fore-corners, light soiling at bottom of front panel, sporadic foxing to fore-edge and endpapers, paper clean and lightly yellowed. Memorial volume of prominent figure in Vermont including biographical sketch and selections from his sermons and poetry. Wild was Pastor at three Vermont Congregational Churches.
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A Crack in the Wall; Growing up under Hitler

By: Horst Kruger; translated by Ruth Hein

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Fromm International Publishing: 1982

Seller ID: 38522

ISBN: 0880640006

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine / Very Good

Translated from the German by Ruth Hein. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 242 pages gray cloth. A near fine, clean hardcover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white, and with light foxing to the fore-edges. In a very good dust jacket with chipping at the folds, with original price.
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A Daughter of Napoleon; Memoirs of Emilie De Pellapra, Comtesse De Brigode, Princess De Chimay

By: Emilie De Pellapra, Comtesse De Brigode, Princess De Chimay; Princess Bibesco (introduction); Frederic Masson (Preface); Katherine Miller (translated)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1912

Seller ID: 40580

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good -

Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, xv + 166 pages + plates, paper titles on decorative cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat hard cover first edition overall with moderate shelf wear, fore-corner tips through to boards; hinges and binding solid, BUT paper lightly yellowed, with foxing to the fore-edges and on the endpapers. Without dust jacket .
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A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan

By: Michael K. Deaver ; With a Foreword by Nancy Reagan.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: New York, New York, HarperCollins Publishers: 2001

Seller ID: 10566

ISBN: 0060197846

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall. x, 228 pages. A fine clean neat hardcover first edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, pages white. In a fine unclipped dust jacket.
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A Different Valor: General Joseph E. Johnston C.S.A.

By: Gilbert Govan & James Livingwood

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Konecky & Konecky: circa 1993

Seller ID: 46503

ISBN: 0914427814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 470 pages, tan boards. A fine, clean, neat, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear one corner tip slightly bumped; hinges and binding tight, paper lwhite. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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A Discourse, on the Occasion of the Death of William Henry Harrison, Ninth President of the United States, Delivered at Roxbury, April 16th, 1841.

By: George Putnam

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, William Crosby & Co.: 1841

Seller ID: 6364

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Good

Ex-library with stamp on title page, but no other marks present. Octavo, 30 pages. A good, clean, pamplet without original wraps, disbound from a volume of variously published works collected by a previous owner, binding residue present as well as thread holes, but all four signatures complete, paper only lightly yellowed with the moderate discoloration of scattered foxing throughout.
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A French Volunteer of the War of Independence

By: The Chevalier de Pontgribaud; translated by Robert B. Douglas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1898

Seller ID: 39679

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Possible first printing but lacks the 'I', or any other number on the last page. Sold as an original reading copy only. Octavo, 7 7/8" tall; xvi + 294 pages + ads. Silver titles on decorative yellow cloth. A good, sturdy copy over all with minor rubbing to to the extremities, back strip cloth darkened, back cover cloth foxed at the fore-margin; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, BUT there is a dampstainto the upper fore-corner visible in the upper margin of most interior pages (text not affected).
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A German Pompadour; Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg; a narrative of the Eighteenth Century.

By: Marie Hay

Price: $15.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1906

Seller ID: 13951

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9" tall, 358 pages, decorative green cloth; top edge gilt. A very good, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear with some fading to color of cover cloth; foxing to the endpapers, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with occassional light sporadic foxing, and the previous owner's book plate on the front endpaper. A nice reading copy.
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A House by the Shore: Twelve Years in the Hebrides [signed]

By: Alison Johnson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, England, Victor Gollancz: 1986

Seller ID: 36451

ISBN: 0575038683

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good / Very Good

Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 215 pages, black boards. A very good+, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, spine slightly canted; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with light foxing at the fore-edges. In a very good, clean dust jacket with light wear at ends of the backstrip, a 1/2" tear, with original price.
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A House in St. John's Wood: in search of my parents [Stephen Spender / Natasha Spender]

By: Matthew Spender

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux: 2015

Seller ID: 44075

ISBN: 0374269866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 436 pages, gray boards + b&w photograph plates. A fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price present.
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A House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian Childhood

By: Joan Colebrook

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux,: 1987

Seller ID: 5410

ISBN: 0374173109

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 256 pages. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, light edge worn dust jacket, with original price.
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A Kangaroo in the Kitchen; and other adventures of an American Family Down Under

By: Ethel Sloan

Price: $5.20

Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobbs-Merrill: 1978

Seller ID: 27108

ISBN: 0672523787

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 198 pages, blue boards. A very good+, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear but spine slightly canted, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with the previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good+ clean dust jacket with minor wear and with the price clipped.
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A Letter to Robert Frost and others.

By: Robert Hillyer

Price: $5.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1937

Seller ID: 28734

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 69 pages, maroon cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor exterior shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. Without dust jacket.
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A Life Full of Holes: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi taped recorded by Paul Bowles.

By: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi and Paul Bowles

Price: $36.00

Publisher: London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1964

Seller ID: 26452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 8" tall, 310 pages. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear and slight soiling to the fore-edges; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with the copyright notice marked out by the publisher (for American distribution). In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price.
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A Life I Did Not Plan; an autobiography [signed]

By: Roy J. Clampitt

Price: $11.60

Publisher: Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace-Homestead: 1966

Seller ID: 11428

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Signed by the author on verso of front endpaper. A very good+, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a good, moderately worn dust jacket with chipping at the folds.
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A Life of Our Lord for Children

By: Marigold Hunt

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Sheed & Ward: 1939

Seller ID: 40943

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, [ix] + 162 pages, yellow cloth. A very good, clean sturdy hard cover first edition over all with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with the previous owner's inscription on the dedication page and name on the from endpaper, with light foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. In a good edge worn dust jacket, with light soiling and color fading; original price present.
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A Life of Song

By: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Price: $5.20

Publisher: Corte Madera, California, Anro Communications: 1987

Seller ID: 26695

ISBN: 0930623029

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine/Fine

Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1929. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 181 pages, green cloth. A fine, clean, neat hardcover with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper clean, cream white, with slight foxing at the fore-edges. In a fine dust jacket with price clipped.
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A Life of William Shakespeare

By: Sidney Lee

Price: $15.20

Publisher: London, England, Macmillan Company: 1898

Seller ID: 36852

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, xxv + 476 pages, maroon cloth with gilt titles and top-edge; with b&w illustrations. A very good, clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, corners and spine ends rubbed, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with previous owner's name on the front endpaper.
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A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin / Starting out in the Thirties (two volumes sold together)

By: Alfred Kazin

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Harper Collins (Harpercollins) / Atlantic Monthy/Little Brown: 1996 / 1965

Seller ID: 40046

ISBN: 006019037X

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth / Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine and Very G

2 individual vols. 1: Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 341 pages, black quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price. / 2: Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 246 pages, green cloth. A very good, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with light foxing to the endpapers, and a few pen markings. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, chipping at the foldswith the original price.
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A Lifetime In Every Moment; A Memoir

By: Joseph F. Littell

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin: 1995

Seller ID: 18709

ISBN: 0395737923

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, x + 302 pages, brown quarter cloth; b&w photographs. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with original price.
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A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Price: $4.40

Publisher: New York, New York, Doubleday: 1998

Seller ID: 29407

ISBN: 0385477937

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 273 pages, gray boards. A near fine, clean hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price.
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A Little Nut-Brown Man : My Three Years With Lord Beaverbrook

By: C. M. Vines

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, England, Readers Union - Leslie Frewin: 1969

Seller ID: 41526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good / Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 279 pages, blue boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed, but foxing to the fore-edges. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket.
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A Marriage Made in Heaven: A Love Story in Letters

By: Vatsala and Ehud Sperling

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, Ten Speed Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2009

ISBN: 1580081827

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, ix + 276 pages, plum colored cloth; photographs. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with rubbing to the cloth at the edges, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the folds, with original price.
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A Memoir of Harriet Ware, First Superintendent of The Children's Home in the City of Providence

By: Harriet Ware

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island, George H. Whitney: 1850

Seller ID: 9237

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Duodecimo, 7 1/4" tall, 151 pages, red cloth, full gilt edge and decorations. A good, clean, hardcover with fraying to the cloth of the backstrip edges, fore-tips worn through; hinges and binding sound, gilt dimmed on backstrip yet quite bright on fore-edges and front/back panels; paper slightly yellowed with light foxing to the endpapers. Memoir of independent woman who established schools in impoverished areas. Illustration of author on frontispiece. Ex-school library copy with library stamp on back of title page only.
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A Memoir of Horace Binney, Jr. (read at a meeting of the Union League of Philadelphia, June 1, 1870)

By: Charles J. Stille

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Henry B. Ashmead, Book and Job Printer: 1870

Seller ID: 45384

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

An ex-library copy with small markings on the title page and cover. A good copy over all with significant shelf wear and chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and bottom fore-edges. Scarce.
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Category: Biography