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David Cecil A Portrait of Jane Austen David Cecil, A Portrait of Jane Austen, New York, Hill And Wang, 1979. Tan cloth with gold lettering on spine, 208 pp with index, many color and bw illustrations; illustrated DJ. VG /G: corners and spine lightly bumped, crisp, stain on p. 59; DJ lightly bumped on edges, very small tear at top of spine. Price: $12.00 |
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Walter Cronkite A Reporter's Life stated first edition. Ex-Lib, G/G: one library stamp on ffep, clean, tight except photo pages in center loose. DJ bumped on edges, price clipped, a little ink on front flap. Price: $7.99 |
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Carter, Jimmy An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood GOOD : corners very lightly bumped, cover a little dingy, unmarked. Price: $5.99 |
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Miep Gies Anne Frank remembered BCE. 220 pp, bw photos with sepia frontispiece photo of Anne Frank. G/G: po name in marker on pastedown, page edges yellowing; DJ light yellowing at top and spine, small tears at top edge and spine, small soiled spot next to letter E on cover. Price: $7.99 |
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Alice Curtis Desmond Barnum Presents: General Tom Thumb Alice Curtis Desmond, Barnum Presents: General Tom Thumb, New York, Macmillan, 1954, stated First Printing. Blue cloth hc with red design, viii, 236 pp including an afterword of sources, 16 pp of bw pictures; red and white DJ with photo of Tom Thumb and P.T. Barnum. Good/Fair: corners worn, mesh showing at p. 152, po inscription on ffep; DJ chipped especially at spine, foxing, corner clipped. Price: $22.50 |
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Bob Schieffer Bob Schieffer's America copyright 2008. Ex-Lib, G/G: stamps and stickers, clean, a few small creases on page corners; DJ pasted to endpapers, sticker residue on front. Price: $7.99 |
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Fitzroy MacLean Bonnie Prince Charlie VG /G: crisp, unmarked, slight dent in edges of middle pages; DJ has minor bumping/creasing, gouged place on back. Price: $7.99 |
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Robert Morgan Boone: A Biography - Signed Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography, Algonquin, 2008. First paperback edition. 8vo, 566 pp including index, bibliography and chronology. Signed by author on title page. VG: light bumping on corners, tight, pages clean. $25.00. Price: $25.00 |
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James Boswell Boswell's Life of Johnson - Vol. 1 James Boswell, introduction by Sir Sidney Roberts, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume I, London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1960 reprint of 1949 edition. Original work published 1791. Mmpb with abstract profile on orange background, xxii, 644 pp with ads. VG: corners and edges bumped with light wear, light creasing and smudges on front, interior clean, pp 292-294 creases otherwise crisp, no markings. Price: $9.95 |
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Henri Troyat, Joan Pinkham Catherine the Great Henri Troyat, translated by Joan Pinkham, Catherine the Great, New York, E. P. Dutton, 1980. BCE, VG/G: clean and unmarked, corners lightly bumped; DJ has tear at front fold, small tears at top and bumping at edges. Price: $8.99 |
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