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New York, New York:: Harper & Row,. 1983.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 344 pages, red cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price. more information

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London, England:: Macmillan & Co.,. 1941.. Third printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, xv + 354 pages, full red cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, spine slightly canted, hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. In a good edge worn dust jacket, with chipping and creasing at the folds. more information

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London, England:: Hamish Hamilton,. 1960.. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 260 pages, green cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed, with the original copyright notice inked out by the publisher. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket, back strip darkened, with moderate edge wear and rubbing at the folds. Originally a series of New Yorker articles. more information

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New York, New York:: Stein and Day,. 1976.. First American edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xxv + 166 pages, black quarter-cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good, edge worn dust jacket with the original price . more information

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Princeton, New Jersey:: American Philosophical Society / Princeton University,. 1950.. First edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Sextodecimo, 9 1/2" tall, xx + 380 pages decorative blue cloth, sewn binding. A very good, sturdy hard cover edition with minor shelf wear and light exterior soiling, some color fading to the cloth edges ;hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. more information

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New York, New York:: Random House,. 1977.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 306 pages, brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear but some light discoloration to the exterior edges of the cover cloth; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket with original price. more information

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New York, New York:: Viking Press,. 1932-33... First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Good/Good. 3 vols. Large octavo, green cloth., a very good, sturdy hard cover first edition set, spines slightly canted, cloth edges color faded, fore corner tips worn through to boards; hinges and bindings solid, paper lightly yellowed, some foxing to endpapers. All dustjackets are very faded along spine and edges with considerable chipping and tearing to top and bottom edges, and some tape marks. This a a nice reading copy. more information

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London, England:: Heinemann.,. 1936.. First edition. Hardcover--cloth. Good/Good. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 329 pages, orange boards.A good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, one corner bumped, fading to the cloth color from light foxing; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a good, moderately edge worn dust jacket with chipping at the top and bottom of the back strip. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Houghton Mifflin Company,. 1996.. First printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 216 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket. more information

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Jerusalem, Isreal:: Jerusalem Post/Carta,. 1981.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9" tall, 256 pages. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper white. In a very good, slightly faded and edge worn dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper. more information

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New York, New York:: Regan Books,. 2001.. First printing. Hardcover--paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xiii + 361 pages, black paper over boards; b&w photographs. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket, and with original price. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Houghton Mifflin,. 1996.. First printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 225 pages, black quarter cloth. A fnear ine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with original price. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Houghton Mifflin,. 1905.. Eighth printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Octavo, 8 " tall, x + 462 pages + 11 black and white plates with frontispiece, gilt tiles and top fore-edge, decorative blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover edition overall with moderate exterior shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, slight foxing to the exterior fore-edges; interior clean, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a fair dust jacket, edge worn with chipping at the folds. more information

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Washington, DC:: Regnery Publishing,. 1988.. First printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 294 pages, maroon quarter cloth. A fine, clean, neat, (unread) unread hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket. more information

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Dallas, Texas:: Taylor Publishing,. 1996.. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 230 pages (includes photographs), blue cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with original price. more information

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Los Angeles, California:: J.P. Tarcher / St. Martin's,. 1980.. First printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Near Fine/Very Good. "The inspiring story of Bill Thomas's triumphant nine-year fight for survival in a state hospital for the criminally insane." Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 350 pages, orange quarter cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a bery good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price. more information

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New York, New York:: Warner Books,. 1997.. First printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 182 pages. A fine clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white, in a fine dust jacket. more information

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Privately Printed,. 1968.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 92 pages, gray cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cove with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear and some chipping at the folds. Memoir of immigrant who built a business empire in the textile business, making lace. more information

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New York:: Atheneum,. 1994.. First printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 254 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. more information

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New York, New York:: Dodd, Mead & Company,. 1971.. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xiv + 210 pages, green cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, edge worn dust jacket, with the price clipped. more information

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Paris, France:: Lapina et Fils.,. 1929.. First edition, limited.. Original Wraps. Very Good. French text. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 39 + 98 + [4] pages + 14 plates; paper with French-old paper dust jacket, with frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Part of Collection Les Images Du Temps, Aux Editions Lapina VIII. Facsimile handwritten 'Apologie pour Mm. Hanska' tipped in after title page. No. 1008 of 1,100. A very good, clean, tight copy with the minor defects of slight chipping at the top and bottom edges of the back strip paper over the spine, and some light foxing to the endpapers. The paper itself with moderately yellowed. The original glassine is yellowed but still present more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Little Brown,. 1959.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 235 pages, green cloth.~ A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good but soiled dust jacket with moderate edhe wear, the back strip darkened. Collection of autobiographical essays ranging over years from 1937-1951. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Little, Brown & Co.,. 1959.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 235 pages, green cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with littleshelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a very good dust jacket with little edge wear and light yellowing. more information

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New York:: Oxford University Press,. 1956.. First edition. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 292 pages, full green cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight. paper just lightly yellowed. In a very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear. A biography of Oakey Hall who was elected mayor of New York in 1868 during the corrupt Tweed era. more information

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New York, New York:: Viking Press,. 2004.. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 421 pages. A fine, clean sturdy hard cover with little shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: McGraw-Hill,. 1984.. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xviii + 609 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a near fine, lightly edge worn dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: Harper & Brothers,. 1912.. First printing. Decorative Cloth. Good. Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 43 pages, decorative olive cloth. A good, sturdy hard cover first edition with general shelf wear and rubbing at the extremities, fore-corner tips through to boards; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket. more information

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New York,:: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.,. 1963.. First American Edition Trade. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - 9 1/3" Tall. 428 pages, black and brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat first American edition translated from the Danish. A neat clean copy with minimal shelf wear in a very good, slightly edge worn dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,. 2004.. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 374 pages, boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with original price. more information

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New York, New York:: Doubleday,. 2001.. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xxi + 343 pages, blue and gray boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white with a remainder mark on the bottom fore-edge. In a near fine dust jacket lightly worn with the original price. more information

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Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company,. 1969.. Early Printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xiii + 415 pages, green and beige cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good dust jacket with the price clipped. more information

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New York, New York:: Clarkson Potter,. 1992.. First printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 714 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket. . Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. more information

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London, England:: Hutchinson & Co.,. 1970.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 272 pages, maroon cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf-wear; hinges and binding tight, paper just slightly yellowed. In a very good dust jacket with minor edge wear and chipping at the folds, colors bright. more information

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New York, New York:: Harcourt, Brace & World,. 1967.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by the author and inscribed on the front endpaper. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 342 pages, brown cloth. A near fine, clean, sturdy hard cover with light shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding solid, papr lightly yellowed. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: Albert & Charles Boni,. 1927.. First Trade Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Good. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 285 pages, black cloth. A good hard cover with minor shelf wear and soiling; hinges and binding sturdy, without dustjacket. A nicereading copy more information

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Cambridge, MA:: Harvard University Press,. 1952.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, vii + 188 pages, yellow cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket. The story of the four Forsyth brothers left a few million dollars to open a free dental infirmary for children. more information

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New York:: Harper & Brothers,. 1926.. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good. Signed by the author and inscribed 'to Vilhjalmur Stefansson (the Arctic explorer) with pleasant memories and all good wishes Rollo Walter Brown May 13, 1926'. on the front endpaper. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, xii + 331 + 4 ads, red cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the extremities, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. . I The front panel of the dust jacket and part of the flap blurb are pasted in on the front pastedown and free endpaper respectively. Covers show light shelf wear with minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Front endpaper browned (proably from paste in). Interior quite bright and binding is firm. more information

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London, England:: Dropmore.,. 1946.. First edition thus. Decorative Boards. Very Good. "Of this book, 550 copies have been printed and numbered 1 to 550. Of these, Nos. 1 to 50 are signed by the Author and specially bound. This is copy No. 118."Quarto, 10 1/2" tall, 84 pages, laid paper, blue cloth. A very good copy over all, interior fine, but ther are two finger print marks on page margins, hinges tight, paper cream white, exterior lightly worn and lightly soiled. Lacking dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: Broadway,. 2006.. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 276 pages, boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover edition with light shelf wear, but a slight bump to the cover fore- edge and the slight hint of a dampstain to the top fore-edge corner not visible in the interior; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear and with the original price. more information

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Berlin, Germany:: Buchergilde Gutenberg,. 1938.. First edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Text in German. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 319 pages, brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a good dust jacker with moderatel wear and some chipping at the folds. more information

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New York, New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,. 1999.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 2/3" tall, 253 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,. 1909.. First American edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Octavo 9" tall, xv + 375 pages, blue cloth, gilt titles and top edge. A very good, solid, shelf worn hard cover; hinges, binding sturdy, paper lightly yellowed, previous owner's private library bookplate on the front endpaper, marking on the spine, and slip pocket on the rear endpaper. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Little, Brown & Co.,. 1994.. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xxii + 644 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine lightly worn dust jacket, with original price. more information

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London, England:: Andre Deutsch,. 1976.. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 239 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, slightly worn dust jacket. more information

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Bloomington, IN:: Indiana University Press,. 1995.. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 291 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket. more information

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Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, Page & Company,. 1927.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 293 pages, purple cloth, gilt titles. A very good, solid hard cover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: Macmillan Company,. 1933.. First printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good. Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 144 pages, red cloth, gilt titles. A very good, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear but some discoloration at several plces on the edges; hinges and binding sturdy, paper lightly yellowed. Lacking dust jacket. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts:: Beacon Press,. 1998.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Publisher's review slip laid in. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 262 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket. more information

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New York, New York:: St. Martin's Press,. 1991.. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, x + 186 pages, brown boards. A near fine clean neat hard cover edition with little shelf wear but one corner bumped; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, lightly worn jacket with the original priceprice. Originally published in 1895. more information

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Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, Doran & Co.,. 1943.. Early Printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8" tall, 118 pages, blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a good, color faded dust jacket with chipping at the folds and back strip. more information

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