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19926990New York: Simon & Schuster 1992. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 1117 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $30.00 intact on front flap. Signed by McCullough on the title-page. A sharp copy with a tiny spot to top gutter else a fine copy in nearly every respect. WINNER of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for best biography. Basis for the HBO miniseries of the same name that featured Gary Sinise as President Harry Truman. Simon & Schuster hardcover
19926682New York: Simon & Schuster 1992. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 1117 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $30.00 intact on front flap. Signed by McCullough on the title-page. Foxing to top gutter. Clear glue resideue to FFEP from a neatly removed previous owner label. WINNER of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for best biography. Basis for the HBO miniseries of the same name that featured Gary Sinise as President Harry Truman. Doubleday Bookshops autographed books sticker to front cover as shown. Simon & Schuster hardcover
021720018Script Format reprint. Like New. / I HAVE MORE TITLES LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER TITLES / THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS /SHIPS WITHIN 24HRS!! unknown
198634040New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 038529509X . A bright first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike lightly rubbed dust-jacket; Truman Capote: Dear Heart Old Buddy is the story of Truman Capote's lifelong friendship with Harper Lee. The book is a candid and revealing look at the writer's life and career.; 8vo . Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence hardcover
1980018525Boston Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co. 1980. NOT a library discard. Very Fine condition. Bright shiny clean square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp and unmarked. Identified here are all editions of Capote's writings books short stories excerpts television plays films stage plays manuscripts etc. The secondary bibliography describes and annotates almost 1350 writings about him. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/No jacket as issued. 8vo. xv 287pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. G. K. Hall & Co. Hardcover
1898103651Chicago and Philadelphia: J. H. Moore & Co. 1898 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Edition. "Containing full accounts of the lives and heroic deeds of about half a hundred illustrious men and women who have made our country great and our flag respected throughout the world. From the time of George and Mary Washington to Admiral Dewey and Frances Willard. Illustrated with magnificent full-page photogravure portraits and a wealth of other fine engravings." 406 pages. Moderate corner wear minor foxing. J. H. Moore & Co. hardcover
1969844j1402USA: Fawcett. Good. 1969. First Edition. Features: Lyndon Johnson discusses his failure with American youth; The Navy's New "Caine Mutiny" aboard the USS Vance; Robin Knox-Johnston is halfway around the world sailing solo; Russ Meyer - King of the Nudie - article with color photos; Firemen's Muster in New England; Has Jean-Claude Killy Sold Out; What Will Your Employer Say About Your Hair; Despite Wilt the Stilt Jerry West and Elgin Baylor the Los Angeles Lakers are a high-scoring catastrophe; Student Guide to Spring Break Action 1969; Great colour fashion photos feature spring break beachwear and evening attire; Peter Barrett writes about trophy hunting; Article on metal casino tokens with great colour photos; Fantastic full-page color-photo ads. Name on address label blacked out otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; 4to . Fawcett unknown
2014121889Penguin 2014. First Edition Collectible . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 276pp. Inscribed "thank you for joining bodylab com" and signed by Jennifer Lopez on dedication page; no mention of previous owner. Stated First Printing November 2014 with complete number line. Photos by Ana Carballosa. Pages are clean unmarked. Binding is tight and secure. Front board has a bump to upper corners light rubbing to extremities. Unclipped pictorial DJ has light rubbing to corners. Looks nice in added protective mylar ocvering. Nice copy. <br/> <br/> Penguin hardcover
200045486London: Faber and Faber. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0571192165 . A handsome first British edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Peter Carey directly on the half title page. Map of Ned Kelly's Australia laid in; True History of the Kelly Gang recounts the story of Ned Kelly a Jesse James-esque desperado of the Australian frontier. Booker Prize Winner; 8vo; 10 1-8 9-349 350 8 pages; Signed by Author . Faber and Faber hardcover
1956336H0936USA: Fawcett 1956. Magazine. Illus. by Helck Peter cover; Galli Stan; Glanzman Louis; Bingham James; Monroe C.E. Jr. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 124 pages. Contents: James Wilkinson - America's most honored traitor; Mystery Killer Ship; Can a Tiger Whip a Bull; Betting on Horse Races through the Mail!; College Football is for Boys Alan Ameche explains how much more difficult it is to play professionally; Pioneer Airmen Glenn L. Martin and Lary Bell; Big-bore rifles for downing a charging rhino; Chrysler's design challenge to reduce the height of its cars by five inches; Blowguns - quick quiet and deadly article iwth color photos; Turkeys west of the Pecos; Castration - Man's greatest hidden fear; Men's fall coats; Science studies your whiskers; and more. Champion Spark Plug ad features photo of Bobby Unser at the 1956 Pikes Peak Hill-Climb. Unmarked with heavy. A worthy reference copy. Fawcett Paperback
1961844j1406USA: Fawcett Publications Inc. Good. 1961. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Jake LaMotta's Own Story - "Honest Fighters Finish Last" - book-length feature with great photos; Ben Hogan - Super Salesman of Sin; Air Pollution - The Silent Killer That Stalks Our Streets; A Fine Kettle of Fishing Gear; Patrick Murphy Malin - Head of the ACLU - The Lawyer You Didn't Know You Had; I Found Steelhead Shangri-La; Fishing's Biggest Torture Test; Argentina - Fantastic Trout Frontier; Don't Let Them Take Your Guns Away; Big Boom in Small Planes; Faurot Inc. - Outfitters to Gang Busters; Clutter-Conquering Cabinet for Tube Tape and Turntable; Noosing a Nuisance - capturing Moray eels; Death for a Dancing Doll; Great vintage ads; and more. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage example.; 4to . Fawcett Publications, Inc. unknown
156541Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1997. Trade paperback 502; 588pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 2 volumes. Photographs illustrations notes bibliography index. Biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Vol. 1 The Magnificent Obsession. Vol. 2 The Heroic Delusion. Locale: Canada. Prime Ministers Prime Ministers--Canada. McClelland and Stewart Paperback
123559Toronto: Penguin 0-670-89293-9 2000 1st edition. Square 4to 160pp. Near fine. Glossy black boards in a near fine pictorial box. Photographs. Contributors include Catherine Annau The Sphinx 1984 to 2000 Alison Gordon Into Power 1949 to 1968 J.L. Granatstein The Contrarian 1919 to 1949 Peter Gzowski Watch Me 1968 to 1974 Anne Kingston Domestic Malaise 1974 to 1980 Mordecai Richler I'm Back 1980 to 1984. Prime Ministers. Penguin Hardcover
1997295461997. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1997/Gd. condition/64 pages - Discusses a picture-perfect quaterback Troy Aikman and how he established himself in rapid fashion as one of the top passers ever to play the game. AI9295 46 hardcover
1927001472NEW YORK: EUGENE V. CONNETT FOR ANGLERS CLUB OF NEW YORK 1927 NICE LOOKING BOOK WITH TEXTURED COVER LIMITED EDITION 19 OF 423. FRONTISPIECE IS BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK PORTRAIT OF FRANK FORESTER. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. WONDERFUL DETAIL AND INFORMATION BY FORESTER. GREAT BOOK THE THE FISHERMAN AND LOVER OF THE OUTDOORS. Henry William Herbert April 7 1807 May 17 1858 pen name Frank Forester was an English novelist poet historian illustrator journalist and writer on sport. Starr writes that "as a classical scholar he had few equals in the United States . . . his knowledge of English history and literature was extensive; he was a pen-and-ink artist of marked ability; as a sportsman he was unsurpassed; his pupils idolized him." Catasauqua Creek is a ENESSW oriented creek draining 6.6 miles 10.6 km straight line distance from springs of the Blue Mountain barrier ridge several miles below the Lehigh Gap in the ridge-and-valley Appalachians located upriver & opposite from Allentown in Lehigh and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE. EUGENE V. CONNETT FOR ANGLERS CLUB OF NEW YORK hardcover
151772Toronto: W.S. Johnson 1910. Hardcover 255pp. Very good no dust jacket. Signed with inscription by the author. Dark cloth with illustration and title in gilt. Frontispiece map illustrations. The top and bottom of the spine are worn away. Biography of John A. MacDonald. Locale: Ontario; United States. Canada Fenian Brotherhood Fenian Raids War. W.S. Johnson Hardcover
1996009066Old Tappan New Jersey U.S.A.: Free Pr 1996. 524pp/illus/map. Biography of leaser of Red Army during the Russian Revolution. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Free Pr hardcover
19765760377Harvard University Press 1976. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN:0674910060 Harvard University Press hardcover
1947104-3767Paris: Deux-Rives 1947. Number 514 of an edition limited to 750 copies. Unbound signatures in a pictorial red and black-stamped portfolio in a beige chemise gilt-stamped and slipcase: all as issued. Quarto. 396pps. with 24 full-color lithographs and numerous smaller illustrations printed in brown. Also a thirteen page Preface 'Le Lyrisme de Henry Miller' by Henri Fluchere. First Edition with this artwork. All signatures and the portfolio are in Fine condtion clean and bright. The chemise is Near Fine with a couple of small scratches. The slipcase having taken whatever wear there is is in Very Good condition with moderate rubbing light soiling and light edge-chipping; it does appear however that the top of the slipcase had at one point been separated and re-glued. In all a very nice copy of an uncommon item. Text printed on heavy Marais stock. Typography by Marcel Schiffer of Paris using a Baskerville font. Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision photos can be emailed upon request. Limited Edition. Unbound. Illus. by Timar. Deux-Rives Paperback
19867513Quinlan Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0933341075 . Grey boards surround a tight clean copy SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. DJ has many small chips creases and closed tears as well as several small pieces missing from edges. DJ 95% whole and protected in an acid free mylar cover! ; Signed by Author . Quinlan Press hardcover
1952223h2087Saskatchewan: Self-Published. Good. 1952. First Edition. Paperback. "I am writing this story from records of an old diary and that of an old police book aided by a memory which is still very good. It is my desire to tell what actually happened without any attempt at fiction. I wish to give the reader some idea what a soldier's life was during the Boer War and also what a mounted policeman found to be his duties after hostilities ceased - in plain simple language to show the loss and futility of war to all concerned." - title page. At London Ontario in 1901 Bailey volunteered for a three year enlistment to serve in the Boer War and as a mounted policeman after the war. Upon returning to Canada he moved west and homesteaded at Milestone Saskatchewan for six years before relocating to west central Saskatchewan where he and his family farmed for thirty years. 93 pages of small font text. "Sample Copy" rubber stamped upon title page otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Moderate moisture-induced undulating to top edge. Moisture marks to fore-edge begin at title page and diminish until essentially disappearing by page 50. 22 x 15cm. Not listed in Dornbusch Cooke Arora or Peel. Very uncommon.; 8vo . Self-Published paperback
1932091987New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1932 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Rare. Book has some minor upper edge wear; frontis is loose but present; dust jacket has moderate wear including scuffs and edge chips. Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover
196274820Muchen: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung 1962. GER Presumed 1st edition INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and dated 1963 no other markings slight shelf soiling to the lower corner tips of pages Very Good in Good dust jacket with closed tears and small chip to head of spine panel. DJ is in mylar sleeve. White cloth lots of B&W photos; colour tipped in photo plates. This text is in German. Podhajsky became chief of the Academy of Classical Horsemanship better known as the Spanish Riding School of Vienna Austria. Founded in 1572 the school's main focus was the training of Lipizzan horses in the art of Classical dressage. Podhajsky was director of the school throughout World War II and continued in the position until his retirement in 1965. Podhajsky died following a stroke in 1973 in Vienna Austria. 3.0 JM LVR 200/c4. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung Hardcover
1981003495Evanston Illinois: TriQuarterly / Northwestern University 1981. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. No store stamp owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright clean tight unmarked copy. Pictorial wraps. Comprehensive Author-Title Index to the first 50 issues 1964-1981 of TRIQUARTERLY AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART WRITING AND CULTURAL INQUIRY. Indexes "all literary or documentary works and featured illustrations." Each entry is keyed as to category: fiction poetry essay drama artwork drawing photography. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine condition. 38pp. TriQuarterly / Northwestern University Paperback
2006055977Provincetown MA: Provincetown Arts Press 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. ix 169 pages. Hardcover with a blue and white dust jacket now in mylar. Light to moderate wear to the jacket. The book is sound and clean. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author as "Bob" on the title page. Lengthy personal inscription. "Once again to my dear friend T. H. with admiration and affection as time seems to move more quickly as distances seem to lengthen as in short. I grow old and you stay young. with all loving best wishes to you. / Bob The Octogenarian / 27 July 06". B.H. Friedman went as "Bob" to his friends. We have several books inscribed by Friedman to one of his friends in the literary and academic world. <br/> <br/> Provincetown Arts Press hardcover