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Antonio Gramsci
by Giuseppe Fiori
Tom Nairn‘s many books include The Break-up of Britain, Faces of Nationalism, After Britain, and The Enchanted Glass. He writes for, among others, New Left Review and the London Review of Books.
Sports Biography Books & Ephemera
My Life
by Clinton, Bill
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0375414576 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, author's name blind-stamped on cover. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. Includes extremely detailed Index. This is an unmarked, seemingly unread copy. . Page edges show little shelf-wear, top front corner gently bumped, else, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has some creases top edge, cover has...
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$25.00
Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 -1st Edition/1st Printing
by Ward, Geoffrey C
Paulo, Singapore, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0060154519 . First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition, top and bottom edges lightly sunned in alike dustjacket, minor wear to top edge; Drawing upon thousands of original documents, many of them never before examined, the former editor of American Heritage magazine presents an entirely new picture of Franklin Roosevelt's early life and of the forces...
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$50.00
Kinnock
by Leapman, Michael
London: Unwin Hyman, 1987. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A biography of Neil Kinnock who was elected leader in 1983 of the party, which was soon engulfed in problems from a miners' strike, rebellion by local councils and the rise of the 'Loony Left'. Yet by 1987 Labour was regularly achieving 38% in opinion polls and from a party split by disputes between right and left, Kinnock had welded together a force with a real chance of coming to power. The author has followed...
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$10.13
Churchill : The Rise to Failure 1874-1915
by Morgan, Ted
London: Triad/Panther Books, 1984. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers, faint crease to arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 672pp. Biography of the early years of Winston Churchill as his career seemed doomed to failure.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 7.75 x 5 inches.
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$7.92
Beyond The Limits
by Stacy Allison with Peter Carlin
In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.At 29,028 feet, Mount Everest is the world's highest, most challenging mountain, looming in our imagination as a monument to the impossible; for every three climbers who reach its elusive summit, one dies trying. But for one moment in 1988, Stacy Allison stood alone on this mythic peak - the only spot on Earth where she couldn't climb any higher. At that moment, Allison became...
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$13.24
The Real War
by Nixon, Richard M
New York: Warner Books. Fine. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 044651201X . A beautiful edition limited to 2,500 copies in Fine condition, minor scraping to bottom, SIGNED by author and former US President Richard M. Nixon on the limitation page, this copy being copy 718 of 2,500; The Real War, written in 1979, was a rallying cry for a declining and struggling United States. President Nixon spells out the realities of the Cold War conflict, the nature of the Soviet adversary, and the...
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$700.00
Six Minutes in May - How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
by Shakespeare, Nicholas
London: Harvill Secker, 2017. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. viii + 508 pages. 35 illustrations. Norway campaign map. Endpapers Neville Chamberlain speaking in the Norway debate, 7 Mayj 1940. London, early May 1940: Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over the helm, but in this book the author shows how easily...
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$15.20
An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections.
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, green paper-covered boards. Fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
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$300.00
John Zimmerman & Mark Kauffman with a Special Section by Neil Leifer: Photographing Sports: Capturing the Excitement of People in Action.
by Zimmerman, John, Mark Kauffman and Neil Leifer
New York: Alskog / Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Inc. 1975. First edition / First printing. Black boards. Fine in a price-clipped about fine dust jacket. Masters of Contemporary Photography Series.
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$35.00
Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday.
by OHNO, Apolo. With Alan Abrahamson
New York: Atria, 2010. Signed by the Olympic Champion Apolo Ohno on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, light blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of 2 Olympic Gold Medals. 2 Olympic Silver Medals and 4 Olympic Bronze Medals for Speed Skating.
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$35.00
China Diary: Senator and Mrs. Magnuson's Journey to the People's Republic of China
by Jermaine Magnuson
N/A, N/A, 1974? . Hardcover . VG/none. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited edition, numbered 16 of 100. Bit of soiling.
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$40.00
Ain't Gonna Study War No More
by Milton Meltzer
NY, Harper & Row, 1985, 3rd . Hardcover . VG+/VG+. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. DJ in in new Brodart protecter.
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$15.00
Bonnie Prince Charlie
by Maclean, Fitzroy
London: Guild Publishing, 1988. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light creasing to upper front edge. 386pp. An authoritative biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie which throws new light on the life of this legendary figure. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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$6.27
Play Baseball The Ripken Way.
by RIPKEN, Jr., Cal and Bill Ripken with Larry Burke
New York: Random House, 2004. Signed by Cal Ripken, Jr. and Bill Ripken on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, red paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket with promotional postcard and bookmark laid in. Baseball's "Iron Man." Hall of Famer first ballot inductee. Cal Ripken holds the all time record for consecutive games played at 2,632. 19 time All-Star. Two time American League MVP. Winner of two Gold Glove Awards.
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$75.00
The Life and Times of Thomas Spence
by Ashraf, P. M
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nick/crease to lower front corner. 212pp. Biography of Thomas Spence, born in Newcastle in 1750 who made a big contribution to radical and working class thinking and who was well ahead of his time.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8.5 x 6 inches.
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$15.14
Life and Public Services of Hon. Benjamin Harrison
by Wallace, Ge. Lew
Edgewood Publishing Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Cloth. Brown boards with gold lettering is scuffed with corners worn, text is acid toned; A biographical sketch, co-authored with Hon. Murat Halstead; 8vo; 530 pages .
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$80.00
August and Rab - A Memoir
by Butler, Mollie
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. A VG+ unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. A captivating memoir which describes an unusually full and adventurous life, shared for the most part with two famous men; the Arctic explorer August Courtauld and the stateman R.A. (Rab) Butler. Mollie Montgomerie became engaged in 1930 to her childhood friend August Courtauld, their honeymoon was spent camel trekking in the remote Sudan, and she was one of the first women to visit eastern...
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$8.87
The Path to Power
by Margaret Thatcher
London: HarperCollins, 1995. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting to spine and minor traces of storage. 656pp. Margaret Thatcher's own account of her early years before she became Prime Minister and her thoughts and feelings as she left Downing Street in 1990 and about the course Britain, Europe and the rest of the world took over...
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$9.18
Burgess and MacLean
by Purdy, Anthony and Sutherland, Douglas
London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked navy cloth boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny tears and nicks to edges and a little rubbing. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 191pp. An account of the story of Burgess and Maclean, the British diplomats who were spys for the Russians, including the story of their previous lives.. First...
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$8.55
DISRAELI
by Bradford, Sarah
NY: Stein & Day. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. 1st American Edition (stated). First Printing. Hard Cover. 0812828992 . Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth ovr black boards, gilt lettering on spine, publisher's mark blind-stamped on cover. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs. Includes extensive Notes, Bibliography and Index. . This is an unmarked copy in excellent condition except for a small bump on the bottom of the front board, else fine+. The dust jacket, now...
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$15.00
Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Lerner, Ralph
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0807821365 . A stunning first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; This book provides a fresh, new perspective on the politics of the Enlightenment, by examining the contrasting views of two of its most celebrated proponents, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Revolutions Revisited...
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$60.00
Masters of Breeding and Racing
by Victor Vansalen
Antwerp: Hermans' International Publications. 1st printing (1991). 480pp. VG/VG copy, some minor fading to jacket near front fore edge otherwise excellent, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1991.
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$316.70
Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes on the Life and Contributions of Carl T. Hayden - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Ninety-Second Congress
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with bumped corners and other general wear to the boards; Memorial addresses and tributes in the Congress of the United States to the late Carl T. Hayden, Senator from Arizona; 8vo; 174 pages .
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$60.00
Bradman
by Michael Page
In good condition - dust jacket has fading on spine - has slight yellowing to pages - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The 'birthday biography' of Sir Donald Bradman, based on his lifetime collection of personal material and on interviews with the great batsman.On 27 August 1983 it became seventy-five years since 'The Don' was born into a farming family at Yeo Yeo, New South Wales. The biography is proudly presented as a commemorative tribute...
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$13.24
