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The Whispering Gallery: Leaves from the Diary of an Ex-Diplomat

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Boni & Liveright: 1926

Seller ID: 014676

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean light brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine and gold lettering and title box on cover. Spine slightly faded. No surface wear or bumping. Small previous owner's name/date neatly penned on front free endpaper. Pages are clean and bright; no writing or marks. Illustrated with many beautiful portraits. 288 pgs.
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The Glass of Fashion - Some Social Reflections

By: A Gentleman with A Duster

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1921

Seller ID: 024088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Very light soiling, small spot of wear-through to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Many additional illustrations. 176 pages.
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

By: Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi (Translators)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin: 1920

Seller ID: 027046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition. Clean brown paper-covered boards with beige cloth spine. Gold Japanese lettering on cover, gold lettering in English on spine. Small spots of wear-through to lower corner tips, very small spots of wear to lower spine corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with previous owner name ink-stamped at top of front free endpaper and front paste-down. With an Introduction by Amy Lowell. Illustrations in black and white and full color, including lovely color frontispiece with clean tissue guard. 201 pages with Appendix.
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Change! 71 Glimpses of the Future

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1981

Seller ID: 014800

ISBN: 0-395-31545-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Clean green cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 201 pgs. Clean silver dustjacket is not price clipped, no chips, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Essays on the future in space, science, aging, the environment, sexuality and more by the great Isaac Asimov. 8vo. Science.
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The Big City, or the New Mayhew

By: Atkinson, Alex and Ronald Searle

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller, Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 024230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean blue paper covered boards with black lettering on cover, clean unfaded black cloth spine with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Wonderful illustrations by Ronald Searle. 111 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, a few very tiny closed edge tears, small price clip on front inside flap at lower corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. What REALLY goes on in the big ci...
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Trial Poems

By: Berrigan, Daniel and Thomas Lewis

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press: 1970

Seller ID: 028650

ISBN: 0807066664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Large, clean hardcover book in original dust jacket. Size approx. 10-3/4" x 13-1/4". Clean cream-colored boards with black lettering, silver bars on cover, black faux leather spine. Very small spots of wear-through at lower corner tips. Binding is tight, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Dust jacket has chipping and short closed edge tears, fading and chipping to spine; photos and brief biographies of authors on rear panel, not price clipped (ink line through price of 17.50 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival q...
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The Making of Society

By: Bierstedt, Robert (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1959

Seller ID: 027438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Modern Library No. 183 in unclipped jacket. Toledano binding no. 8. Dark blue cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with top stained upper text block edges, clean Kent style endpapers. Small previous owner name neatly stamped inconspicuously on title page. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Bierstedt. Revised Edition. 557 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (1.95 on front inside flap), slight edge wear at top and bottom spine edges, no tears. 403 titles...
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Friday Night Lights - A Town, a Team, and a Dream

By: Bissinger, H. G.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.: 1990

Seller ID: 018507

ISBN: 0201196778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing ("First Printing, July 1990" with letter line beginning with "A"). Clean unfaded black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 357 pgs. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears; mere hint of light surface rubbing. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Book documents the coach and players of a high school football team of Ode...
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Emissaries: The Overseas Work of The American YWCA 1895-1970

By: Boyd, Nancy

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., The Woman's Press: 1986

Seller ID: 016925

ISBN: 0-9614878-0-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. Clean unfaded red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 337 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Clean unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped, has several closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Between 1895 and 1970 9ver 800 professional female staff served overseas as educators, social workers, public health experts, camp directors, managers of hostels, and agricultural advisors. All served ...
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A Few Brass Tacks

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1946

Seller ID: 020813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

"First Edition" stated on copyright page, in original jacket. Clean black cloth boards with gold title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 303 pp. Clean dustjacket is price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap, clean (age-toning to white rear panel), shallow chipping to top spine edge, fading to red background on spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Louis Bromfield's essays on the political, economic and social problems of the time ...
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No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society

By: Brown, Richard Maxwell

Price: $25.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Oxford University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 024171

ISBN: 0195045106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED by author. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, unchipped metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Signed by author on front free endpaper: "For John Baldwin, Always my Best, Dick Brown - April 16, 1992." 268 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An engrossing account of the idea of self-defense emerged, focusing in particular on the g...
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Paradise Planters: The Story of Brook Farm

By: Burton, Katherine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.: 1939

Seller ID: 008383

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 336 pgs. with index. 8vo. Sociology.
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The Emperor of Ocean Park

By: Carter, Stephen L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 015567

ISBN: 0-375-41363-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition, signed by author. Clean unfaded red boards with black spine, bright silver lettering on spine. Hint of slightest surface wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. No other marks, writing or bookplates. 657 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author's first novel which won great reviews, this is a novel of suspense as well as a work of astute social observation. Set in two privileged worlds: the upper c...
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The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide

By: Conniff, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York/London, W. W. Norton: 2002

Seller ID: 011106

ISBN: 0-393-01965-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean beige boards with rust red spine, silver lettering on spine. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 344 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Are the rich really different from you and me? According to this book, they are indeed, and this is addressed with some humor. 8 vo.. Society.
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Growing Up Black

By: David, Jay (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1968

Seller ID: 008396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean gray boards with black cloth spine, red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. Red endpapers. Small inscription on front free endpaper. 256 pgs. Clean dustjacket is price clipped, has some corner wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Black Interest.
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What We Wore: an Offbeat Social History of Women's Clothing, 1950 to 1980

By: Ellen Melinkoff

Price: $20.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: 1984

Seller ID: 026373

ISBN: 0688022286

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean first printing (Quill edition). Softcover with no chipping, creasing or curling. Size approx. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Pages and edges are clean, with no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. 203 pages.
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The Monochrome Society

By: Etzioni, Amitai

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton/Oxford, Princeton University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 015417

ISBN: 0-691-07090-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean beige cloth boards with metallic lettering on spine. No fraying or wear; tiny bump to one corner tip. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean black endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 309 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Social Conditions.
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Walking to Listen - 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story At A Time

By: Forsthoefel, Andrew

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury: 2017

Seller ID: 025214

ISBN: 1632867001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean bright yellow-gold boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 371 pages + Bibliography and "About the Author." Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no fading, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, ...
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Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

By: Garreau, Joel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York - London - Toronto - Sydney - Auckland, Doubleday: 1991

Seller ID: 014971

ISBN: 0-385-26249-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in dust jacket. Very clean black boards with gilt lettering on black cloth spine. No surface wear or bumping. Binding is tight and square. Pages, edges and endpapers are very clean, crisp and bright; no writing or marks. Illustrated endpapers. 546 pgs. with index. Clean, bright dustjacket is price clipped, very light hint of bumping to spine edges. No chips, tears or creases. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Large 8v0. Urban Development.
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A Modern Demonology

By: Getlein, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.: 1961

Seller ID: 009849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean charcoal gray cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean red illustrated endpapers. 236 pgs. Illustrations throughout.
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Category: Society