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Born Free: A Lioness of the Two Worlds.

By: Adamson, Joy

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Pantheon Books: 1960

Seller ID: 007188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition - First Printing. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Some aging discoloration on inside front and back covers. No DJ. Inscription inside front cover. --- Illustrated with B/W photos throughout. --- The author captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people, the animals, the land itself.
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Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes.

By: Addams, Jane

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 010251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A limited Edition of Undetermined Size. Illustrated with photographs of Hull House and the immigrant experience. ------ Gift Quality; No flaws or blemishes to this unopened book. ------ In her autobiography Twenty Years at Hull-House, Addams recounts her domestic activism as the founder of the second and most innovative settlement house in the U.S. Originally conceived in 1889 as a space where women of privilege could share their knowledge in humanistic fields such as art, literature, and music with the less fortunate, Hull House rapidly transformed into a community support system where workin...
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Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997

Seller ID: 010576

ISBN: 0385487223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. ------- An intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. ------- The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with rare photographs and handwritten manuscripts and letters
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Image for John F. Kennedy and the Young People of America. Compiled and Edited from the Thousands of Letters Written to the President and Mrs. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy and the Young People of America. Compiled and Edited from the Thousands of Letters Written to the President and Mrs. Kennedy.

By: Alder, Bill

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 012427

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has age-toned on the white sections of the rear and spine. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 146 pages. First Edition, First Printing.
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The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit

By: Andrew Dietz

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, Ellis Lane Press: 2006

Seller ID: 010381

ISBN: 0977196801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED by the author on the title page without personalization. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 576 pages with sources. ----------- A self-made art expert who traveled the world and amassed a collection for himself, Arnett developed an interest in rural African-American folk art made by self-taught men such as Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, both from Alabama. [PW] ----- William Faulkner, meet Tom Wolfe....a splendid, surreal portrait of an art world gone mad. [John Helyar]
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

By: Anthony Ray Hinton

Price: $19.95

Publisher: London, Rider & Co: 2018

Seller ID: 010696

ISBN: 184604572X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. --------- Both [Nelson Mandela and Ray Hinton] emerged from their incarceration with a profound capacity to forgive. The Sun Does Shine is amazing and heartwarming' Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Hinton is an example to us all of the power of the human spirit to rise above complete injustice. His book will inspire people to never accept the unacceptable.
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

By: Applegate, Debby

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2006

Seller ID: 006007

ISBN: 0385513968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings-especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century's bestselling book Uncle Tom's Cabin.

But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father Lyman's Old Testament-style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament-based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of mo...
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Up From Methodism

By: Asbury, Herbert (1889 - 1963)

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1926

Seller ID: 012489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

'A Memoir of a Man Gone to the Devil'

Herbert Asbury, great-great-nephew of Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Church uses the taunting title, playing on Booker T. Washington's early-century bestseller Up from Slavery, gives an idea of what Asbury thought he had escaped.

In his mocking humor and plain-spun language, used to evoke a bygone South suffocating in its fear of pleasure and damnation, Asbury reveals his debt to another son of Missouri, Mark Twain. [goodreads]

He may be best know for the book behind Martin Scorsese's film Gangs of New York. ...
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Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America

By: Atkinson, Jay

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Wiley: 2010

Seller ID: 010977

ISBN: 0470237694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED by the author no inscription. Gift Quality; No flaws or blemishes. First Edition First Printing. ---------- Jay Atkinson sets out to re-create Kerouac's journeys of the late 1940s, depicting the travels of the author and his longtime friends as they retrace the five major trips Jack Kerouac took with his pals. Writing with a novelist's eye and ear, Atkinson creates a compelling portrait of North America: its roaring blues bars and nightclubs, empty country roads, and remote prairie towns and byways as well as the enduring warmth and humor of its citizens.
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The Lives of The Poets Laureate. With an Introductory Essay on The Title and Office.

By: Austin, Wiltshire Stanton & Ralph, John

Price: $24.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1853

Seller ID: 008856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; vi,[1],428p. 22cm. --------- Biographical sketches of the authors and their chief works: Ben Johnson; Sir William Davenant; John Dryden; Thomas Shadwell; Nahum Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Rev. Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Rev. Thomas Warton; Henry James Pye; Robert Southey; and William Wordsworth. ------- Publisher's green cloth blind-stamped border design with gilt emblem in center. Spine with five blind-stamped decorative designs and titles in gilt. Bindings tight and square with rear hinge starting. Text clean, light even toning. Moderat...
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans

By: Bailey, John

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 2004

Seller ID: 010667

ISBN: 0871139219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price. First Edition, First Printing. ----------- This diligent researcher and gifted storyteller has crafted an eye-opening portrait of a mysterious woman, and "tells her engrossing story… with polish and verve, weaving history and mystery neatly together (Miami Herald).
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The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes

By: Bantock, Nick

Price: $24.95

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle: 1993

Seller ID: 010686

ISBN: 1895714036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The author is a creator of pop-up books. This is in the theme with decorated envelopes, illustrated letters, postcards, and very creative artwork. "Impossible to stop until the book's end." -------- No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.
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Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $12.95

Publisher: U.S.A., Boydell Press: 1996

Seller ID: 007850

ISBN: 0851151450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Book looks new. Bindings tight and square. Free endpage has an excised corner, probably previous owner's name. Noticed a few light pencil marks in margins. . 298 pages. Extensive index, Bibliography, Chapter notes.

Edward, prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history, victor of three great battles and a model of chivalry and courtesy.

A concluding chapter examines how the legend of the Black Prince (and his curious nickname) came into being. By separating the image and the reality, a clearer picture of the prince emerges.
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Gossip of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

By: Beresford, John

Price: $19.95

Publisher: London, Duckworth: 1927

Seller ID: 007377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Studies of the human side of history whose subjects include John Donne the younger, Anne Hyde, & Gossip of the reign of Queen Anne. etc.

Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, Spine is sun-faded. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 208 pages + publishers adverts. Part of the New Reader's Library series.
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The Life of Henry Moore

By: Berthoud, Roger.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York:, E. P. Dutton: 1987

Seller ID: 004231

ISBN: 0525245634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Carefully used. Bindings tight and square, Text clean. ---Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the 20th century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this handsomely illustrated second edition of The Life of Henry Moore, Roger Berthoud charts Moore's transition from controversial young modernist to celebrated pillar of the art world establishment.
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My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

By: Betts, Kate

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Spiegel & Grau: 2015

Seller ID: 007992

ISBN: 0679644423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. First Edition, First Printing. ----- A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style
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The Livingstone Touch

By: Birkinshaw, Philip

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa, Purnell and Sons: 1973

Seller ID: 006686

ISBN: 0360001637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling to dust jacket and inset map; Still Gift Quality. --- First Edition - First Printing --- Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve. ----- Illustrated with B/W drawings.Fold-out map drawn by Livingstone unique in that many place names are no longer used. -- A selection of writings by David Livingstone selected to present a man who fell in love with Africa and did not condescend as many Europeans of the time did. -- 4to; 10.25 inches tall, 182 pages.
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Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York

By: Birmingham, Stephan

Price: $21.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1967

Seller ID: 009464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's navy cloth, titles stamped in gilt with green ornament. 24.5 cm; 9.5 inches tall; 404 pages with index. Endpages decorated with "simplified' Family Business Tree'. ------ Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Top of cloth a bit sunned. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has moderate handling, no chipping or tears. ------ Working with diaries, letters, and personal reminiscences supplied by members of interwoven families--Loeb, Lehman, Straus, Seligman, and Guggenheism, among...
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A Day In The Life of President Kennedy

By: Bishop, Jim

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York: , 1964, Random House: 1964

Seller ID: 012373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The story of a typical day in the White House, as John F. Kennedy lived it. A historic document which sheds new light on the martyred president as a human being and as a world leader.

Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 108 pages. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has light edge wear. First Edition, First Printing.
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Three Nights in August

By: Bissinger, Buzz

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2005

Seller ID: 009612

ISBN: 0618405445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First Edition, First Printing.No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 23.5 cm.; 9.25 inches tall; 280 pages with index. -------- Focusing on a St. Louis Cardinals-Chicago Cubs World Series, 3 NIGHTS IN AUGUST explores the world of baseball through the eyes of Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa. Buzz Bissinger depicts the intensity of La Russa's responsibilities, ranging from the decision to retaliate when a batter is hit by a pitch to dealing with the unexpected death of pitcher Darryl Kile.
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