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First Edition, First Printing. Fine; new unboxed deluxe edition of this important book. A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency. A stunning edition.
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Barack Obama: A Promised Land (Signed Deluxe Limited Edition, Sealed)
by BARAK OBAMA
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Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope (signed by President Obama)
by Barack Obama
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First Edition, Fifth Printing (Crown Publishers, New York, 2006). Signed by President Obama on the title page in black ink with his distinctive Capital B and O flourish. The second book written by Obama almost a decade after Dreams From my Father in 1995. Quickly topping the bestseller lists after it's release, the book bolstered the reputation of the then-Illinois senator, who declared his ultimately-successful candidacy for the presidency only a few months after publication. A wonderful collector's copy.Fine in a just about fine dust jacket. Internally fine, content clean and bright. Fine in publisher's black boards, gold titles stamped to spine, light brown endpapers. Dust jacket about fine with only the very slight edgewear. Octavo. 375 pp. An excellent copy.
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Becoming (signed by First Lady Michelle Obama)
by MICHELLE OBAMA
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First Edition, Later Printing. Signed by First Lady, Michelle Obama, on the pre-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The powerful, inspirational memoir of one of the most influential and accomplished first ladies ever to grace the White House and the public stage. Octavo. 427 pp. A lovely copy.
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The Things They Carried (signed)
by O'BRIEN, TIM.
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First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed on the title page by O'Brien. First state dust jacket with the slight offset. A fine clean copy, without flaw. As new. O'Brien's collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. Considered one of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature. Octavo. 273 pages. A beautiful copy.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
by OMAR KHAYYAM, ELIHU VEDDER
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. First Edition Thus. The highly sought after 1894 printing with illustrations by Elihu Vedder in Octavo size. A beautiful edition of the Rubaiyat, vividly illustrated by Elihu Vedder in 56 illustrations in panels that incorporate the poems of Omar Khayyam.The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048 - 1131), a Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two- line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for 'four') , meaning 'quatrains.'
From the moment of its publication, Vedder's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám achieved unparalleled success. Indeed, Vedder's presentation of the Rubaiyat is possibly the most important and influential… Read More
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The Young King and Other Fairy Tales (signed by John Updike)
by OSCAR WILDE, SANDRO NARDINI (ILLUSTRATOR)
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First Edition thus, with Introduction by John Updike, and signed by Updike on the title page. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Folio. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket with a little rubbing along the top extremities. Also issued in glossy boards without jacket, this issue is much less common. A very nice copy of this volume of Wilde's fairy tales, prepared for children.
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Pliny on Paper Making: Being an Extract from the Naturalis Historia of C. Plinius Secundus
by OSLEY, A.S.
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- Used - Pliny on Paper Making: Being an Extract from the Naturalis Historia of C. Plinius Secundus. First Edition, First Printing. From
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First Edition, First Printing. From a limited edition of 25 copies, this one is unnumbered. Near fine in original yellow cloth, mild spotting to spine. Translation of the only description in classical literature of the making of paper from papyrus. Pliny was killed in Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius on 79 A.D. Thin sextodecimo. 4.75 x 7.5 in. 14 pp. A lovely collector's copy.
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