Clean, attractive book with no names or wriiting.. No bumps to boards, vey clean pages. designed without dustkjacket. Originally published in 1894 by J.H. Beers, Chicago. Bound here in strudy buckram and measures 7"x10" with 515 pages and a 57 page index. Very good reference for Huron and Lorain genealogy. Illustrated with portraits. This is VOL&UME I ONLY. If you are looking for a specific name please inquire and I will look for you. The book is not designed alphabetically. View More...
Tightly bound and very clean with nice beveled edge to both boards. Brown cloth shows small bit of wear to corners and to crown and tail of spine, but no cracking to hinges, either fornt or back. Pages are also very clean with very light overall foxing to two blank pages at fornt and back. Eells was a 19th century American philosopher, essayist ,and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Book offers biographical information, the story of the fraternity, a copy of an address given by him at Miami University on the study of the classi... View More...
Very handsome small book with a pleasing design to spine and front board. The binding is tight and there are no cracks to gutters and no names or writing. Hortense was the daughter of Josephine and the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The book is illustrated witholut with fill page steel engravings. Book measures 5" x 7" and has 379 pages plus a couple pages advertising Abbott books. View More...
ITEM # 6045 VACHEL LINDSAY ADVENTURER BY ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY PUB 1929 BY LUCAS BRO. 164 PGS 5 X 7 3/4 HARD BACK THE LIFE AND WORKS OF A POET BOOK VERY GOOD CONDITION , ITS TWO FAULS ARE A GIFT INSCRIPTION ON FFEP AND LIMITED FOXING CONFINED TO PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1929 EDITION , NOT A REPRINT [ BIO ] View More...
ITEM # 5988 THE LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD EDITED BY ALFRED AND ANNABELLE TERHUNE PUB 1980 BY PRINCETON U . 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 HARD BACK VOL 2 , 3, 4, ONLY OF A 4 VOL SET FITZGERALD A POET AND TRANSLATOR WAS WELL AND WIDELY KNOWN IN WORLD LITERARY CIRCLES IN THE LATE 1800'S. HERE ARE WARM PERSONAL LETTERS TOO AND FROM TENNYSON , THACKERAY ,CARLYLE AND MANY OTHER WRITERS OF HIS DAY ALL 3 VOL IN FINE NEAR NEW CONDITION [ BIO ] View More...
Crisp, clean book with no bumps to boards, no names or writing and no remiander mark. The pages and page edges are also pristine. The dustjacket is likewise clean with no bumps and no tears. There was never a printed price on either the front or back flap. I have covered the jacket with a brand new mylar cover. The book weaves both the biograpihes of Oskar and Alma, his art, and her music. Kokoschka loved her all of his life. She, on the other hand, was married to composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as ofseveral other prominent men, notably pa... View More...
THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE , A FRENCH LIBERAL PLAYED IMPORTANT ROLLS IN SHAPING THE DESTINIES OF NATIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTICDURING THE 1700'S THIS IS THE BIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WHO WAS A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOOK IS SOLID BRIGHT AND TIGHT D.J. IN MYLAR A CHIP LOWER FRONT AND TOP OF SPINE View More...
Book is like new with no defects of note. No names or writing, no chips or tears, no bumps to boards, no remainder marks and no creasing. The dustjacket will arrive in a band new mylar cover. The jacket shows no price-clip printed on the front flap. This is the story of Malcolm Kerr, an American scholar of Middle East Studies who took a job as president of the Americna University of Beirut. Seventeen months later he was assassinated leaving his wife and children in Beirut There is much to her sad story, plus much about Islam and the diversity of Lebanon's religous groups. For awhile the auth... View More...
ITEM # 5836 MADAMI BY ANNE EISNER PUTNAM PUB 1954 BY PRENTICE HALL 303 PGS 6 X 81/4 HARD BACK THE STORY OF THE AUTHORS YEARS LIVING AMONG THE AFRICAN PIGMIES . MANY B & W PHOTOS BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN AND BRIGHT , NO MARKS OR TEARS D.J. , IN MYLAR HAS SOME SMALL CHIPS [ BIO ] View More...
ITEM # 8334 ONE MAN TANGO BY ANTHONY QUINN WITH DANIEL PAISNER PUB 1995 BY HARPER COLLINS 388 PGS 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 HARD BOUND AN 1ST ED . UP CLOSE LOOK AT THE LIFE OF ANTHONY QUINN , ACTOR, PAINTER ,SCULPTUR FREND OF THE BIG NAMES OF HOLLYWOOD . I BOOK AND D.J. FINE CONDITION ,CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT [ BIO ] View More...
ITEM # 8456 LAURA AMERIC'S FIRST LADY , FIRST MOTHER BY ANTONIA FELIX PUB 2002 BY ADAMS MEDIA 248 PGS 6 X 8 3/4 HARD BACK AUTOGRAPHED BY AUTHOR AN INSIGHTFUL, COMPELLING WORK THAT FINALLY INFORMS US OF THE MAJOR EVENTS IN LAURA BUSH'S LIFE AND BRINGS US CLOSER TO DISCOVERING WHAT SHE IS REALLY LIKE SIGNED BY AUTHOR , BOOK AND D.J. , INMYLAR IN FINE AS NEW CONDITION [ BIO ] View More...
These books are exquisite nestled in a bright red slipcase. The boards are white and the jackets are colorful and beautiful with the works of Matisse. The only fault is a couple tears to top edge of the spine. It was taped on both back and front, but I placed it in a mylar cover which helped quite a bit. The second volume has a few tiny tears at the same place, but it was not taped. I used a bit of archival tape on the back only. The books and the slipcase are clean and attractive. There isa great deal to read and hundred of picturesto enjoy in both black and white and color. The author took ... View More...
ITEM #7775 PARTICULARS OF MY LIFE . AUTO BIOGRAPHY BT B.F. SKINNER PUB BY A. KNOPF 1976 1ST ED HARD BACK 319 PGS 6 3/4 X 9 1/2 THE DETAILED AND VERY PERSONAL STORY OF THIS FAMOUS AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITER AND BEHAVIORIST GIFT INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FFEP ,SEE PHOTO . BOOK AND DJ IN MYLAR ARE VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT .DJ FREE OF MARK CHIPS OR TEARS [ BIO ] View More...
ITEM # 5905 SUNSHINE A SLOW MIRACLE BY B.R. SCHMALZRIED PUB 1965 BY DAUGHTERS OF ST. PAUL 103 PGS 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 HARD BACK THE HEART WARMING STORY OF A FAMILY RAISING A MONGOLOID CHILD THE LANGUAGE IS OUT OF DATE BUT THE STORY IS STILL AS TOUCHING GIFT INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY AUTHOR BOOK AND D.J. IN MYLAR IN FINE CONDITION [ BIO ] View More...
Crisp, clean beautiful book with no fault of note. No tears or chips, no bumps, no names or writing. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. William Emerson was a celebrated poet before he converted to Catholicism, joined a religious order and became Brother Antoninus, and became a celebrated Catholic poet. But then in 1969 he left to marry the woman he loved. He remained a poet. 272 pages. View More...
DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY A.S. GILMAN INC. OF 623 EAST ST. CLAIR AVE IN CLEVELAND OHIO IN 1938 PROBABLY AS PROMOTIONAL GIFTS TO CLIENTS . GILMAN WAS A WELL KNOWN PRINTING FIRM AT THE TIME, ONLY 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED THE PUBLISHER SAW FRANKLIN AS THE PATRON SAINT OF PRINTERS AND CHOSE TYPE FACE USED BY HIM ORIGINALY 134 PAGES CLOTH COVERED BOARDS , PANNEL ON FRONT HAS A EMBOSED COPY OF FRANKLINS SIGNATURE OWNER BOOK PLATE INSIDE FRONT COVER AN INTERESTING PIECE OF PRINTING HISTORY AND CLEVELAND HISTORY View More...
ITEM # 8028 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY BENJAMIN THOMAS PUB BY BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB 1986 591 PGS 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 HARD BACK IN SLIP CASE A DETAILED BIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN ,SECTION OF B & W PHOTOS ,BOOK MARK RIBON BOOK ,DJ , AND SLIP CASE IN FINE CONDITION CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT SLIP CASE SOLID , NO SHELF WEAR [ BIO ] View More...
Book is beauiful in a low-key way. Boards are covered with brown paper and dark brown cloth at the spine.Tthe only defect to the book itself is a small "This Belongs To" sticker (unused) pasted on the top corner of the front free endpaper. The dustjacket is likewise nice save a tiny chip to the back corner. Jacket looks very handsome in a brand new mylar cover.. Malamud was the winner of two National Book Awards and a Pultizer. Here he includes speeches, interviews, notes on the nature of fiction, and illuminating discussions of novels, short stories, subject matter, reviison and the Jewi... View More...
Very nice, clean book in brand new protective mylar. Boards are unbumped and there are no names or writing other than having been SIGNED by Berton on title page with no inscription. Dated 1987. Dustjacket shows price-clipping and some toning to spine and to top of dustjacket, but there are no chips or tears. The acclaimed Candian historian offers up a lively, and at times funny, account of his first 27 years and sheds light on his contradictory nature. Handsome color portrait of Berton on back cover. 343 pages. Indexed. Illustrated with photographs at center of book. View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW copy. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. A compilation of letters and black and white photographs which together recount the experiences of the author as an army surgeon during WWII. Dr. Billings arrived in Europe in time to handle the casualities from the D-Day Normandy invasion and the German counteroffensive. 428 pages. View More...
