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The Implosion Conspiracy
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New York: Doubleday, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 495 pages with 21 photographs. DJ is price clipped, slight shelving wear, one small chip at top of spine. Dust Jacket is covered with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. The account of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case. Accused of betraying the secret of the triggering device of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, the book covers the trial and execution in detail. Sm4to. ... more information
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Price: $19.50
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Infiltration
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New York: MacMillan, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 384 pages with index, maroon paper boards, biege cloth spine stamped in bronze gilt. Dust Jacket is covered with clear mylar (Brodart) protector. Front corners just slightly bumped, DJ slightly shelf rubbed. An account of how Heinrich Himmler schemed to build an SS industrial empire during World War II. Sm4to. ... more information
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Price: $15.00
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John Adams
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New York: Doubleday, 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 2 volume set in slipcase. Slipcase is slightly worn, with chipping on front edges. Books are fine with VG dustjackets that the red in "John Adams" has sun faded. Winner of the Kenneth Roberts Memorial Award. This was the first biography of Adams written after his letters and papers became available. BOMC report by John Mason Brown laid in. Sm4to. ... more information
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Price: $50.00
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Intrepid's Last Case
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New York: Random House Inc, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -. 321pp;blue paper bds w/white cloth spine. DJ is rubbed front and back, protected by mylar cover. Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide best-seller A Man Called Intrepid. Sm4to. ... more information
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Price: $8.00
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The Life of Andrew Jackson
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New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Originally published as seperate volumes in 1933 and 1937. Red cloth boards, top and spine edges sun faded, spine sun faded. Endpaper maps, frontispiece, B/W illustrations, 972 pages. A Pulitzer Prize winner when first published, this combination edition is a definitive study of the soldier/statesman who became the seventh US president. Sm4to. ... more information
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Price: $30.00
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The Losers
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New Rochelle, Ny: Arlington House, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good -. 615 pages, index, black cloth bds spine stqamped in gold. Dust Jacket is covered with clear mylar (Brodart) protector, is shelf rubbed front and back with small chips missing from top and bottom of spine. From DJ front flap..."The Losers may well stand as the most copmplete and important book yet published about the Communist subversion of Cuba and Latin America." Sm4to. ... more information
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Mayday! Mayday!
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New York: Donald I. Fine, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket is covered with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. A concise history of the Coast Guard, recounting missions from the early days of the service to the present. 16 pages of photographs. Sm4to. ... more information
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Montcalm, The Marvelous Marquis
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New York: Vantage, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good+. 178pp., frontispiece, bibliography, index, red cloth. Book is tight and square, with a previous owner's address label on the front pastedown. DJ is worn along edges and large chip missing from front lower left corner (see scan). Dust Jacket is protected with clear mylar cover. Dust Jacket is protected with clear mylar cover. 8vo. ... more information
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Price: $25.00
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The Naked Capitalist
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Salt Lake City, UT, 1970. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 144pages, index, B/W photos. Lightly soiled/sunned along spine and upper front cover. A presumed first printing. Opening snetence ..."I think the Communist conspiracy is merely a branch of a much bigger conspiracy!" 8vo. ... more information
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The Oxford History of the American People
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. blue cloth boards stamped in black and gilt, 1150 pages. Spine is sunfaded and bumped top and bottom. Corners slightly bumped. Many photographs, maps and index. Sm4to. ... more information
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Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
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James Welch, a Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Indian, uses the story of his involvement in the making of a documentary film about ... read more
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 320 pages with many photos. Maps on endpapers. Black boards with maroon spine. DJ in clear mylar cover. Nonfiction account of the Battle of Little Bighorn from the Plains Indians point of view. Sm4to. ... more information
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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This celebrated historical epic ends with the eruption of the volcano in Pompeii.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 513 pages w/color plates; grey paper boards w/blue spine. DJ slightly worn along edges with tiny chips in several places. Dust Jacket is covered with clear mylar (Brodart) protector. Sm4to. ... more information
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Price: $18.00
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Pushkin: A Biography
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This biography of Pushkin (1799-1937), whose importance to Russian literature equals Shakespeare's to English literature, con... read more
New York: Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 727 pages, with index, B&W paltes. Maroon paper boards/black paper spine. Dust Jacket is covered with clear mylar (Brodart) protector. Pushkin is Russias greatest and best-loved poet: a romantic, enigmatic figure who, during a brief but turbulent life, changed Russian literature forever with his vital and passionate verse. Many of his worksincluding The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, and his extraordinary novel in v... more information
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A Popular History of the Reformation
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New York: Hanover House, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 343 pages, with index, green cloth boards, stamped in gilt on spine. Corners slightly bumped and bottom of spine very slightly frayed. DJ spotted with medium sized chip at bottom front corner, small chips at other corners, top and bottom of spine. Shelf rubbed with small tears that were repaired on the verso. DJ is covered with clear mylar (Brodart) protector. 8vo. ... more information
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History of Rome
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New York: American Book Co.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Circa 1880's. Used in Boston Public Schools. Cover is soiled. Binding broken. 127 pages with ads. 16mo. ... more information
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The Day Kennedy Was Shot
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -. 5th printing; 713 pages; index, source material list; black cloth boards and spine. Endpaper maps. Slightly sunned along edges on both book and DJ. DJ lightly worn at top of spine. Dust Jacket is protected with clear mylar cover. Sm4to. ... more information
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Prince Dracula Son of the Devil
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Dust Jacket is covered with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Author gives us the historical Dracula, a prince whose military exploits and diabolical cruelty made him one of the strangest figures in history. Sm4to. ... more information
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The Last Spike : The Great Railway, 1881-1885
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Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 478 pages, maps. DJ slightly creased with signs of shelf wear, now protected with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years. Sm4to. ... more information
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First Seal
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New York: Pocket Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Dust Jacket is covered with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Sm4to. ... more information
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Combined operations; The Official story of the Commandos
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New York: MacMillan, 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Dust Jacket is covered with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Foreword by Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Cheif of Combined Operations. Red on the spine has faded from sun. Small crease at bottom of spine, very small chip at top, rest is very good. This is an astonishing, absolutely absorbing account of the accomplishments of those picked men from the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the royal Air Force, known as the Commandos during WWII.... more information
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