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New York: Scribner, [2000]. Octavo, blue backed white boards (hardcover), 478 pp. Fine (As New), in like, As New, dust jacket. Illustrated. ÒAbout town, written with all the authority and elegance such a subject demands, tells an endlessly fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New YorkerÕs archives...At his disposal are thou... more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1961. First Edition. 8vo, gray cloth, 224 pp. Photographs. Maps. Good. Book is slightly cocked and bent. Damp stain on bottom of front cover. Corners bumped. Back cover has three bumps. Bottom edge of cover is slightly worn. ... more information

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Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai [The Society for International Cultural Relations], 1967. 5th printing. Octavo, tan patterned boards, 55 pp. Color photo, b&w photos. Near-Fine. ... more information

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Koln: Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2000. Small, square octovo; softbound (color illus. wrappers); xvii, 831 pp. Color illus. throughout, maps, timelines, index, covering years 1000-2000 of German history. Fine. A remarkable volume with bright, glossy pages and a uniquely personal glimpse of German heritage and achievement. ... more information

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Boston: Boston Navy Yard, 1936. 4to, stiff printed wrappers with cut-out, 23 pp. Ports., tipped-in photo of the ship. Very Good with newspaper clippings tipped-in, along with an 8x10 photo of the launch and 6-page typed release from the US Navy, ÒSummary of War Record.Ó ... more information

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Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, 1964. . Octavo, paperbound (stiff printed wrappers), vi, 218 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. ... more information

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New York: Coward-McCann, [1947]. 1st edition. Octavo, red cloth with paper label, printed in red, unpaged. Illustrations, decorations. Fine in a badly chipped dust jacket. ... more information

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Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, [1973]. 1st edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, 122 pp. Illus. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket. ... more information

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Niagara Fall, Ont.: R. B. Harper/Henry Stewart Publishing, [1953]. . Quarto, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 56 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good. ... more information

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Buffalo, N.Y.: Henry Stewart, [1960]. 9th edition. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled, 56 pp. Photos, maps. Very Good. ... more information

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Richmond, Virginia: Wilbur Curtiss, 1839. 8vo, patterned green cloth; xi, 331 pp. An account of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by former Chief Justice Yates; a contemporary account of the Convention based upon YatesÕ notes. Good with with to the extremities. One of the reprints of Howes Y3. ... more information

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Athens: University of Georgia Press, [1985]. 1st edition. Octavo, cloth, 295 pp. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

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New York: Norton, [1959]. 1st edition. 8vo, cloth, xii, 275 pp. Color plates, illus. Fine in a dust jacket with a somewhat darkened spine. ... more information

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Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948. Professional Paper 214-C. Quarto, printed wrappers, stapled, 50 pp. Plates. Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Barnes & Noble, [1995]. 3rd printing. Folio, black boads, 159 pp. Color photos, illus., diagrams. Near-Fine with dust jacket. ... more information

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New York: The Dial Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo, yellow cloth & blue illus. boards (hardcover), 346 pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkening) to endpapers and page edges, bookplate, in a Very Good dust jacket with fading to edges and spine, shelfwear. ÒIn Gillian, Frank Yerby returns to the South to tell the story of a fascinating woman and of the people she loved and tried to destry. But Frank YerbyÕs spellbinding new novel is this and more. It is a quest for the truth about... more information

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New York: The Dial Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo, rose cloth (hardcover), xv, 476 pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner signature and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. ÒA woman caught in an inescapable web of evil; a woman fated to destroy: this is Fanny Turner of Frank YerbyÕs new novel of New Orleans at the turn of the century...A magnificent portrayal of a tortured woman, The Girl from Storyville is set in a world as in... more information

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Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd., [1949]. First English Edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), black spine label, gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 322 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges and former-owner stamp. [Courtesy of Georgia Authors Hall of Fame]: Born September 5, 1916, to Rufus Garvin and Wilhelmina Yerby, Augusta, GA native Frank Yerby began his literary career as a writer of fiction protesting the marginalization of African-Americans in American -- particularly Southern --... more information

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Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, [1993]. Sqaure quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, glossy full-color illus. pages, viii, 198 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, maps, and other illustrations capture the flavor of pre-restoration Williamsburg and regord how the town looked before one of AmericaÕs premier projects in historic preservation began. ... more information

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Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, [1988]. Oblong quarto, brown cloth, gilt letters and stamped decoration to upper cover, glossy pages, 198 pp. Fine, in a like dust jacket. ÔOld photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, maps, and other illustrations capture the flavor of Ôpre-restorationÕ Williamsburg and record how the sleepy town looked befor one of AmericaÕs premier projects in historic preservation began. Lovely full-color Ôafter&Otil... more information

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