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REMBRANDT: Zijn leven, zijn schilderijen. Een nieuwe biografie met alle beschikbare schilderijen in kleur afgebeeld.
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REMBRANDT: Zijn leven, zijn schilderijen. Een nieuwe biografie met alle beschikbare schilderijen in kleur afgebeeld.

by Schwartz, Gary

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Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
1984
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9789061790570
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Maarssen, Netherlands: Gary Schwartz Publisher, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover, large format folio size volume bound in brown faux leather lettered in gold, in non priced, non clipped dust-jacket. Dutch edition, text in Dutch. 380 pages. Includes bibliographical references and index. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of 345 paintings by Rembrandt in color and additional… Read more about this item
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Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
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Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth

by Sereny, Gitta

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Used - Near Fine
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Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
1995
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780394529158
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New York: Knopf, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 757 pages. Includes: References (Bibliography); Notes, Index. Illustrated with photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with no other printings listed. The definitive biography of the man who organized and ran the… Read more about this item
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Biography
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Biography

by Bent, Silas

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Used - Good
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No Jacket
Published
1932
Binding
Hardcover
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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1932. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth, no dust-jacket. 386 pages. Bibliography, Notes, Index. Illustrated with frontispiece and four pages of black and white photographs. Published circa 1932. No previous ownership marks. Cloth rubbed; worn along top of spine.… Read more about this item
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The Mothers Of Great Men And Women And Some Wives Of Great Men
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The Mothers Of Great Men And Women And Some Wives Of Great Men

by Holloway, Laura C.

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Used - Near Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1883
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Publishers, 1883. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, decorative publisher's binding in green diagonal ribbed cloth; central panels with decorative borders with flowers and two acorns, dots all over, lettered panel at foot, circle with pattern within at head, lettering within heading, all within decorative rule… Read more about this item
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Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs
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Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs

by Speer, Albert

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Used - Fine
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Fine
Edition
First Edition Thus
Published
1995
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780883659243
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New York: Galahad Books, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's uncut, unpriced dust-jacket. 596 pages. Includes an Afterward; Notes and Index. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First Galahad Books edition thus. No previous ownership… Read more about this item
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Noah Webster (American Men of Letters)
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Noah Webster (American Men of Letters)

by Scudder, Horace E.

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Used - Near Very Good
Jacket Condition
Not Issued
Edition
Reprint
Published
1899
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 302 pages. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in th American Men of Letters series, edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Reprint. No previous ownership marks. … Read more about this item
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Woodberry, George Edward

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Used - Near Very Good
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Edition
First Edition
Published
1902
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 302 pages. Top edge gilt. Index. Publisher's catalog appended. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in the American Men of Letters series, edited by Charles Dudley Warner. … Read more about this item
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The World of Serge Diaghilev
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The World of Serge Diaghilev

by Spencer, Charles

Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1974
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780809283057
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Chicago IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth in publisher's price-clipped dust-jacket, 173 pages. With contributions by Philip Dyer and Martin Battersby. Profusely illustrated throughout with 179 black and white and 23 color photographs. First American edition. Russian born, Serge Diaghilev… Read more about this item
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Bayard Taylor (American Men of Letters)
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Bayard Taylor (American Men of Letters)

by Smyth, Albert H.

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Used - Near Very Good
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Not Issued
Edition
First Edition
Published
1896
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1896. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 320 pages. Top edge gilt. Three part bibliography of Bayard Taylor, Index. Publisher's catalog appended. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in the American Men of Letters series, edited… Read more about this item
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Men of Letters)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Men of Letters)

by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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Used - Near Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1902
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 336 pages. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in th American Men of Letters series. First edition. Previous owner's signature and date (1903) and small bookseller's… Read more about this item
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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles

by Keneally, Thomas

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Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
2002
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780385501392
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Doubleday, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 397 pages. Includes: Notes (Bibliographical References; Bibliography, Index. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket, protected by clear… Read more about this item
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William Hickling Prescott
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William Hickling Prescott

by Ogden, Rollo

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Used - Good
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Not Issued
Edition
First Edition
Published
1904
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 239 pages. Top edge gilt. Index. Publisher's catalog appended. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in the American Men of Letters series, edited by Charles Dudley Warner. First… Read more about this item
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Golden Light: The 1878 Diary of Captain Thomas Rose Lake
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Golden Light: The 1878 Diary of Captain Thomas Rose Lake

by Kirk, James B. II; Lake, Thomas Rose

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As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Edition
First Edition
Published
2003
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780945582854
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Harvey Cedars, New Jersey: Down The Shore Publishing, 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, brown boards in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 322 pages. Foreword by John T. Cunningham. Appendices, Selected Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with photographs, maps and engravings. First edition, stated first printing with full… Read more about this item
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Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them
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Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them

by MacNaughton, Wendy; Fitzgerald, Isaac

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As New
Edition
First Edition
Published
2014
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9781620404904
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New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2014. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, case-bound in color printed paper covered pictorial boards. no dust-jacket as issued. 133pages. Introduction by Cheryl Strayed. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, some highlighted with color. Stated first US edition, first printing with full number line.… Read more about this item
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

by Yaffe, David

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Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition
Very Good+
Edition
First Edition
Published
2017
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780374248130
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New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2017. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, light gray boards in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 420 pages. Notes, Index. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. No… Read more about this item
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The Hemingway Women: Those Who Loved Him- The Wives And Others
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The Hemingway Women: Those Who Loved Him- The Wives And Others

by Kert, Bernice

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Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1983
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780393017205
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 555 pages. Bibliographic References, Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A… Read more about this item
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The Byron Nelson Story
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The Byron Nelson Story

by Nelson, Byron; Olman; Morton W.; Pileggi, Sarah

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Used - Fine
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Not Issued
Edition
Limted/numbered/signed
Published
1980
Binding
Hardcover
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Cincinnati, , Ohio: Old Golf Shop, Inc., 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limted/numbered/signed. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, full brown leather lettered in gold on spine with single gold rule border and blind-stamped portrait on front cover, in original publisher's moderately soiled slipcase. 140 pages. Contents include special article about Byron Nelson by Sarah Pileggi, newspaper… Read more about this item
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

by Yen Mah, Adeline

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Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
Second Printing
Published
1998
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780471247425
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New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 278 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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Madonna: Unauthorized
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Madonna: Unauthorized

by Andersen, Christopher P.

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
1991
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780671735326
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 350 pages. Sources and Chapter Notes. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. Private gift inscription (Christmas 1993) on front free end-paper, else… Read more about this item
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The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman
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The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman

by Allen, Gay Wilson

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Used - Very Good
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No Jacket
Edition
First Edition
Published
1955
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Macmillan, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in two-tone dark and light green cloth, no dust-jacket. 616 pages. Bibliographical References, Appendices, Index. Illustrated with maps and photographs. First edition, stated first printing. Still the definitive critical biography of the man and his work. … Read more about this item
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