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The Making of the President 1960

The Making of the President 1960

by Theodore H. White

Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Dust Jacket
Edition
First Edition, eleventh printing
Published
1961
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Atheneum, June 1961. Hardcover. First Edition, eleventh printing, September 1962. Very Good book / no jacket. Prior owner's name, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight and sound, ends bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 400 pages. Winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize.
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Collection of Stabroek News newspapers from Guyana's Historic October 1992  Election
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Collection of Stabroek News newspapers from Guyana's Historic October 1992 Election

by David DeCaires

Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
October 1992
Binding
Tabloid Newspapers
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Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana Publications Inc., September-October 1992. Tabloid-size Newspapers. A selection of Stabroek News newspapers from Guyana's historic October 1992 Election
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Paul Scharre

Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Published
February 2023
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780393866865
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, February 2023. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight, top edge slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright, slight wear to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 473 pages. This is the story of the next great power rivalry: the struggle to control… Read more about this item
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Cultural Atlas of China

Cultural Atlas of China

by Caroline Blunden; Mark Elvin

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Published
1983
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780871961327
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New York: Facts On File, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with a short tear at spine head. Not from a library. 240 pages. Illustrated in color. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Published
September 2012
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780345408778
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New York: Random House, September 2012. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 639 pages. A masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of… Read more about this item
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1971
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Macmillan, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition / first printing (stated). Very Good book in a Good jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound. Jacket has tears and creases. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xv + 621 pages.
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A Thousand Days. John F. Kennedy in the White House

A Thousand Days. John F. Kennedy in the White House

by Arthur M. Schlesinger

Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
Book Club Edition
Published
1965
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1965. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering in red title bands and boxes to spine and front cover. No ISBN in book. A Very Good in a Good Jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound, ends bumped. Jacket clean with edge wear and chipping. Not from a library.… Read more about this item
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

by Alex Storozynski

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Published
August 2010
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780312625948
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New York: St. Martin's Griffin / Thomas Dunne, August 2010. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 400 pages. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed… Read more about this item
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Children of Siberia - Memoirs of Lithuanian Exiles : Supplemented translation of the Lithuanian edition

Children of Siberia - Memoirs of Lithuanian Exiles : Supplemented translation of the Lithuanian edition

by Irena Kurtinaityte Aras (ed); Vidmantas Zavadskis (ed); Zivile Gimbutas (trans); Vita Markevicius (trans); Izolda Geniusiene (trans)

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Published
2013
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9789955037705
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Kaunas, Lithuania: Naujasis Lankas, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. No remainder mark. Not from a library. 327 pages. A collection of memories of sixteen Lithuanians, exiled to Siberia in their infancy or childhood - young victims of Stalin's genocide. 327 pages.
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

by Karen Abbott

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Published
June 2008
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780812975994
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New York: Random House, June 2008. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light tanning and slight reading wear to lower corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 400 pages. Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in… Read more about this item
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Empire : The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

Empire : The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

by Niall Ferguson

Condition
Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition
Very Good+
Edition
First American Edition
Published
April 2003
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780465023288
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New York: Basic Books, April 2003. Hardcover. First American Edition / full number line. Very Good+ book in a Very Good+ jacket. Unmarked. Spine ends bumped. Reading wear to edges. No tears or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxix+392 pages. Illustrations, maps.
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All the President's Men

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward

Condition
Used - Very Good+
Published
June 1994
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780671894412
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New York: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, June 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 349 pages. The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story. This is… Read more about this item
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Published
September 2006
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780618773473
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Mariner, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 340 pages. Winner of the National Book Award. A vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history.
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Fear and Loathing : On the Campaign Trail '72
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Fear and Loathing : On the Campaign Trail '72

by Hunter S. Thompson

Condition
Used - Very Good-
Edition
Popular Library
Published
1973
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN
9780445082489
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New York: Popular Library, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. No additional printings listed. "FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK" noted on back cover. Very Good-. Creases to cover and spine. Interior unmarked but tanned. No ownership or library markings. Not clipped. 505 pages. Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering… Read more about this item
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A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America

A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America

by James Horn

Condition
Used - Fine
Published
September 2006
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780465030958
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New York: Basic Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 337 pages. Contents: Two worlds -- The "pearl and the gold" -- Smith's epic -- Innocence lost -- "Virginea Britannia" -- War and retribution -- Redeeming Pocahontas -- For "The good… Read more about this item
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

by Garry Wills

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Published
June 1993
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780671867423
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New York: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, June 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 317 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A former professor of Greek at Yale University, Wills painstakingly deconstructs Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and discovers heavy influence from… Read more about this item
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Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe
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Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe

by Thulani Davis

Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
Published
2023
Binding
Hardback
ISBN
9781649803160
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$39.95

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New York: Assouline, 2023. Hardcover. Pictorial linen over boards. New in original shrinkwrap. 240 pages. 9.8 x 10.9 x 1.3 inches. 3.75 pounds. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. A lavishly illustrated exquisite coffeetable book from Assouline that accompanies George C. Wolfe's film "Rustin" produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground. Bayard Rustin is… Read more about this item
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Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster

Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster

by Pavel Sudoplatov; Anatoli Sudoplatov; Jerrold L. Schecter; Leona P. Schecter; Robert Conquest (foreword)

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
1994
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780316773522
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Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clipped, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxiii + 509 pages. This secret policeman's memoir contains explosive material. The atomic bomb secrets… Read more about this item
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First Man : The Journey, complete five volume set in pictorial slipcase
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First Man : The Journey, complete five volume set in pictorial slipcase

by Damien Chazelle

Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
Published
2018
Binding
Box Set
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$79.95

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Universal City, California: Universal Pictures, 2018. Five-volume Paperback Set in Thick Pictorial Board Slipcase. New in original shrinkwrap. Sent to members of the entertainment industry to promote the movie for awards consideration. 11.5 x 9.4 x 2 inches. Six pounds. Heavy item: Large extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Contents: Book One : The Mission : Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay Book… Read more about this item
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable

Condition
Used - Very Good+
Published
December 2011
Binding
Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780143120322
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New York: Penguin, December 2011. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight with a light crease. Covers clean with reading wear to corners and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 592 pages. The definitive biography of Malcolm X, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a… Read more about this item
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