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The Perfect Tribute
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.. Gilt-stamped cloth, 8vo, 66 pages, black-and-white photo frontispiece of Abraham Lincoln, with original tissue overlay. The story of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and his encounter with a mortally wounded Confederate soldier. Good condition (elegant typography and decorated pages; spine worn at tail).. Hardcover. (more information)
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And a Voice to Sing with: A Memoir
New York: Summit Books, 1987.. Cloth, 8vo, 378 pages. With black-and-white photos from the beloved singer's career; a collectible copy. First edition. As new, in Mylar.. ISBN: 0671400622. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Inside "Variety": The Story of the Bible of Show Business
Madrid: Ars Millenii, 2000.. Decorated cloth binding, 8vo, dust jacket, 563 pages, bibliography, endnotes and references, 55 black-and-white photos. A fascinating view into the world of show business journalism, by a former Variety bureau chief. Limited numbered edition. As new.. ISBN: 8493021156. Hardcover. (more information)
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The Booze Reader: A Soggy Saga of Man in His Cups
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.. Cloth, 8vo, 288 pages, index, bibliography, black-and-white illustrations. Fact-filled, often amusing history of alcoholic beverages, with chapters on everything from "Famous Public Drunks" to "The Spagyrical Art." First edition. Good condition, in good dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929.. Cloth, 8vo, 351 pages, black-and-white illustrations. Remarkable achievers portrayed range from Alexander the Great to Isadora Duncan. First edition. Fair condition (previous owner's name and bookplate residue on endpapers; boards rubbed and worn; spine frayed and torn); no dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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The Ackerley Letters
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.. Cloth, 8vo, 354 pages, index; introduction by the editor; black-and-white frontispiece of Ackerley with a reproduction of an extract from a handwritten letter. Correspondence of the British writer and editor; with much detail on the Alsatian dog Queenie and on Ackerley's friendship with E. M. Forster. First American edition. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Of Making Many Books: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946.. Cloth, 8vo, 347 pages, detailed index. A celebration of the publisher's first century. First edition. Very good condition (publisher's bookplate inside front cover); no dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Behind the Doctor
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.. Cloth, 8vo, 458 pages plus index, annotated bibliography; with illustrations from contemporary sources, portraits, photographs, and original drawings by James E. Bodrero and Ruth Harris Bohan. A physician looks at the history of his profession. First edition. Fair condition; no dust jacket (text portion is pasted on free endpaper).. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Antiques: How to Identify and Collect Them
New York: Castle Books, 1970.. Blue-cloth binding, 4to, 201 pages, index, black-and-white and color illustrations. Expertise from the founder of Antiques Yearbook; especially valuable for the novice collector. Very good condition (sticker residue mars small area of free endpaper), in good dust jacket.. Hardcover. (more information)
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Kabloona
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., 1941.. Cloth, 8vo, 339 pages plus 32 pages of captioned black-and-white photos, endpaper maps; also illustrated with drawings by the author. Powerful record of a journey into Canada's Arctic regions. First edition. Good condition; no dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Managing in Turbulent Times
New York: Harper & Row, 1980.. Cloth, 8vo, 239 pages, index. A classic on industrial management. 16th printing, good condition (corner clipped on contents page); no dust jacket.. ISBN: 0060110945. Hardcover. (more information)
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I Write as I Please
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935.. Cloth, 8vo, 349 pages, index, endpaper maps. Autobiography; Duranty was New York Times correspondent in Moscow in the 1920s. Fair condition (edgewear; corners bumped; boards rubbed); no dust jacket.. Hardcover. (more information)
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Flying Saucers -- Serious Business
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1966.. Cloth, 8vo, 319 pages, black-and-white photos. First edition. Very good condition, in fair dust jacket (minor tears).. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Ring Lardner
Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.. Cloth, 8vo, 409 pages, index, list of Lardner's published works, endpapers illustrated by numerous black-and-white photos. A biography of the popular American author. First edition. Good+ condition; no dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Life in Medieval France
London: Phaidon Press, 1957.. Cloth, 4to, 254 pages, index, select bibliography. Study of feudal society, town and monastic life, pilgrimage, education, and other aspects of France in the early Middle Ages. Revised and newly illustrated edition of the classic first published in 1925. With numerous color illustrations, notes on the artwork, and a map of medieval France. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket (price clip) in Mylar.. Hardcover. (more information)
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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's
New York: Harper & Row, 1972.. Cloth, 8vo, 418 pages, index, source notes, maps, 24 pages of black-and-white illustrations. First edition. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket.. ISBN: 0060113723. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
New York: Villard Books, 1989.. Hardcover, 8vo, dust jacket, 196 pages. Wisdom for everyday life. Later printing. Near fine condition.. ISBN: 0394571029. Hardcover. (more information)
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The Stillmeadow Road
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1962.. Cloth, 8vo, 287 pages; illustrated by Edward Shenton. Memoir of the author's New England valley home and her Stillmeadow cocker spaniels. 1st edition/2d impression. Fair condition; no dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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News Is a Weapon
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.. Decorated cloth, 8vo, 268 pages; introduction by Elmer Davis. A journalist's look at the effect of wartime news on the public. First edition. Very good condition, in good+ dust jacket (scuff; some fading).. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Wild Cow Tales
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.. Cloth (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, 306 pages; illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. Stories of the author's adventures as a cowboy and horseman in the U.S. West. 14th printing (March 1982), very good condition (ex-library, but little evidence remains; tiny green sticker on free endpaper), in good dust jacket in Mylar.. Hardcover. (more information)
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Jade: Stone of Heaven
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.. Decorated cloth, 8vo, 256 pages, bibliography, color and black-and-white photos. A history of jade, and a study of its timeless allure. First edition. Very good condition, in good+ dust jacket in Mylar.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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Better Health with Culinary Herbs
New York: Weathervane Books, 1971.. Gilt-stamped hardcover, 8vo, 163 pages, index. With recipes for everything from herbal salad dressings to sachets and cosmetics. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket.. Hardcover. (more information)
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ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics, June 1968.. Wraps, 12mo, 256 pages. Contributions by Hayakawa, Sherri Cavan, Katherine Domeny, Albert Long, Jerold Lowenstein, William Simon, John H. Gagnon, Emilie Glen, William J. Lewis, Leonard Wolf, Frances Hall, Lester A. Kirkendall, Karel F. Botermans, Nancy A. Bawden, and John Keel. Good condition (inscribed by Hayakawa and the book's previous owner).. Soft cover. (more information)
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How to Survive in Your Native Land
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.. Cloth, 8vo, 192 pages. An exploration of education and the art of teaching; fine prose. 3d printing, good+ condition (previous owner's name in red ink on free endpaper), in good dust jacket.. ISBN: 0671208640. Hardcover. (more information)
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The Making of Charles Dickens
New York: Harper & Row, 1967.. Cloth, 8vo, 321 pages, index, endnotes, black-and-white illustrations. Emphasis in this absorbing biography is on Dickens's childhood and youth. Later printing, good+ condition (minor stains on endpapers), in good+ dust jacket (price clip).. Hardcover. (more information)
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Heads and Tales
New York: Bonanza Books, 1936.. Cloth, 8vo, 416 pages, index, numerous black-and-white illustrations. A sculptor's world travels, on behalf of the Field Museum of Chicago, blending anthropology, biography, and travel. Reprint edition. Good condition, in good dust jacket (chips; small tears) in Mylar.. Hardcover. (more information)
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Ivory Apes and Peacocks
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.. Cloth (gilt-stamped front cover and spine; gilt top edge), 12mo, 328 pages; frontispiece by Valloton. Essays on poets, painters, composers, and dramatists, including Conrad, Whitman, Tolstoy, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Schoenberg, and Wedekind. Good+ condition; no dust jacket.. Hardcover. (more information)
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The Story of Louis Sherry and the Business He Built
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1929.. Hardcover with gilt vellum binding, 8vo, 43 pages, 3 full-page line illustrations. A tasteful history of the great confectioner. First edition. Good condition (slightly sunned); no dust jacket.. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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On Living in a Revolution
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944.. Cloth, 8vo, 242 pages. A collection of essays by the scientist and thinker "on the vital problems of our day." First American edition. Good condition (pages browning), in fair to good dust jacket (price clip; minor chips and overall wear).. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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My Father and Myself
New York: Coward-McCann, 1968.. Cloth, 8vo, 219 pages, black-and-white frontispiece of the author and his father. Autobiography at its best. First American edition. Very good condition, in good dust jacket (price clip; slight wear; a few chips).. F. Hardcover. (more information)
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