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The Glory of Sail

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dodd Mead & Co.: 1966

Seller ID: 002014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

182 pgs. Blue-gray cloth book with white lettering, manufactured in France. Oversize with beautiful full page color illustrations of sailing vessels, as well as black & white illustrations. A thorough history of sailing, and a must for those who love ships, sailing and the sea. Slight discoloration to edges of cover and slight chipping to lettering. Binding firm and tight,no names or writing inside, all text very clean. Oversize. Sailing.
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Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Ontario, N.Y. 1947

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Shortsville, NY, Enterprise Press: 1947

Seller ID: 006693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean dark green cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Very little wear. Binding is tight, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 431 pgs. with index. Fold-out chart in rear showing towns & cities, real estate values, tax rates, etc. 8vo. Upstate New York.
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Cairo and How to See It

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cairo, Egypt, Les Editions Universitaires D'Egypte: 1954

Seller ID: 012706

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering on cover, silver advertising for Air France on rear board. Slight fading to cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight, pages are clean and bright. Small previous owner initials and date 1954 at top edge of front free endpaper. 187 pgs. with clean fold-out map of Cairo at rear of book (excellent condition). Illustrated with photographs of buildings and antiquities. "Welcome to Egypt" pamphlet from Air France in excellent condition also enclosed. Book details history of the area and important sites, architecture; itinerary...
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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

Edition: First

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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Speeches That Changed the World

By: (Miscellaneous) Simon Sebag Montefiore, Introduction

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Quercus: 2010

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 028898

ISBN: 1435151690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine Revised Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Size approx. 7-1/2" x 9-3/4". Clean glossy photo-illustrated boards (picturing Martin Luther King giving a speech) are clean and unworn. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean black endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs. Introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore. 224 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Wonderful speeches and biographies of the speech-givers, suc...
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River's Rim

By: Abbott, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J. B. Lippincott: 1950

Edition: First

Seller ID: 011804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean orange-brown cloth boards with black title box on spine. Very light surface wear to corners and spine edges, no fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. 254 pgs. Dustjacket is clean, not price clipped, has slight fading to spine, 1/16" loss at top and bottom of spine, very short closed edge tears & slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Historical Novel.
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The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1991

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027904

ISBN: 0394585747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First Edition (first printing, with correct number line) in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean teal boards with dark blue cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 249 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, very slight edge wear with one 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A splendid, spirited adventure among creatures of the animal world by one of the great nature wri...
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1987

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028700

ISBN: 0671625829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 247 pages. Clean dust jacket has slight age-toning, is not price clipped (14.95 on front inside flap), no chips, tiny nick to spine fold edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Dick Gently is a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lu...
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Years of Deadly Peril: The Coming of the War 1939-1941

By: Adams, Henry H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company: 1969

Edition: First

Seller ID: 012311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean maps on endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 559 pgs. with index. Illustrated with maps. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, hint of wear at spine edges of dustjacket, one tiny closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 Vo. World War II.
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An Old Boy Remembers

By: Adams, John Quincy, D.D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Ruth Hill, Publisher: 1935

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 011817

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean brown pebbled cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and SIGNED by Adah N. Adams (author's wife): This books is presented to Mrs. Charles R. Thomas as a memorial to the love and esteem felt for her by the author and his wife. - Adah N. Adams - Aug. 30th, 1940". 125 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has corner chips, shallow loss at top and bottom of spine, a few closed tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Delightful reminiscenses of a on...
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The Wines of America

By: Adams, Leon David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1973

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027799

ISBN: 0395154561

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean purple cloth boards with gold bunch of grapes on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 465 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, very slight rubbing to edges - enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The fascinating story of North American wines and winemakers from the 16th century to 1970's.
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Dead and Buried: the Horrible History of Bodysnatching

By: Adams, Norman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bell Publishing Company: 1972

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026845

ISBN: 0517135973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, First Printing (letterline on copyright page begins with "a") in clean dust jacket. Clean gray boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs.152 pages. Clean dust jacket has a few tiny edge nicks and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The horrible history of body-snatching, which reached its peak at the beginning of the 19th century. Fron Land's End to John o'Groats, people ...
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Some Famous American Schools

By: Adams, Oscar Fay

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Dana Estes & Company: 1903

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition decorated American trade binding (signed binding - monogram AMS on cover - Amy M. Sacker). Red cloth boards with orange, blue and black decoration on cover, small blue and black decoration on spine. Tiny spots of wear to corners. Some pages have very faint water mark to top or bottom page edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece photo of St. Paul's School with tissue guard. Many full page photographic illustrations of schools throughout the book. Preface by the author. 341 pages. Descript...
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The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers - And Their Founding of New Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony

By: Addison, Albert Christopher

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company: 1912

Edition: First

Seller ID: 022757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, first impression. Clean decorated American trade binding. Gray cloth boards with gold, white and black sailing ships and seagulls, gold lettering decorating cover; gold lettering and sailing ship on spine. Two very small (pin head size) spots to rear board. No fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top edges. Clean decorated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis portrait of Joseph Cotton with clean tissue guard (total of 48 illustrations). All pages have green decorative border, including index pages. 243 pages.
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The Way It Was

By: Aden, Bob

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Excelsior, MN, Old Log Theater: 1989

Edition: First

Seller ID: 019664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, in clean unchipped jacket. Clean brown cloth boards with brown lettering, photo decorated cover. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 145 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Clean jacket is unchipped, one tiny closed edge tear, photo of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An account of the Old Log Theater's early years.
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The Saving Remnant: An Account of Jewish Survival

By: Agar, Herbert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1960

Edition: First

Seller ID: 010800

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition in dust jacket. Blue-green cloth boards with blind-stamped design on cover, gold lettering on spine. Faint water mark along top edge of front board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name, address on front free endpaper. 269 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has corner chips and closed tears. Enclosed in new mylar cover.
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Inspiring Lives of Sixty Famous Men

By: Ahlers, Lena C.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago, Albert Whitman & Company: 1928

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in scarce dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with very clean unworn color paste-on illustration on cover. No fraying, fading or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. Illustrated by Benny Larsen. 288 pages. Clean color illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped (1.50 on front inside flap), has chips and closed edge tears, surface scrape at top edge from sticker removal (size of a nickel). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Brief, pointed biographical sketches, charmingly w...
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Meiji 1868 - Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Japan

By: Akamatsu, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1972

Edition: First

Seller ID: 025632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First U.S. Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean brown cloth boards with small silver decoration on cover, bright stamped silver lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Translated from the French by Miriam Kochan. 330 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, very slight age-toning, vertical crease to rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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New England and the Sea

By: Albion, Robert G.; Baker, William A.; Labaree, Benjamin Woods

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Published for the Marine Historical Association, Mystic Seaport, by Wesleyan University Press: 1972

Edition: First

Seller ID: 009225

ISBN: 0-8195-4052-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean gray cloth boards with red title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated with photographs, drawings & maps. 299 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.New England.
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My War With Japan

By: Alcott, Carroll

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1943

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 023497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, SIGNED by author, in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with burgundy lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Signed on front free endpaper by author: "Faithfully - Carroll Alcott - June 1943." Very small previous owner last name at top edge of front free endpaper. 368 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), has fading to spine, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. American newsman and r...
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Keyword:history