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By: Allen, Charles
Price: $4.95
Publisher: London, Futura: 1984
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11585
Concluding the trilogy begun with Plain Tales from the Raj and Tales from the Dark Continent. Edited by Allen. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 319 pages View more info
By: Allen, Charles
Price: $4.95
Publisher: London, Futura: 1975
Edition: First Edition Thus; 5th Printing
Seller ID: 13055
One of the trilogy begun including Tales from the Dark Continent and Tales from the South China Seas. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 287 pages View more info
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Martha's Vineyard, MA, Kendron Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 9321
A journal dictated to her children as she lay dying of cancer. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 124 pages View more info
By: Bird, Kai & Martin J. Sherwin
Price: $495.00
Publisher: Knopf: 2005
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 12922
SIGNED on the title page by both authors, with dedication "To Curtis and Joan, Lovers of history! Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin another Jean Mayer fan! "; 9.30 X 6.50 X 1.70 inches; 721 pages View more info
By: Carroll, James
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1996
Edition: First Edition; 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 11628
A National Book Award winner, and as you read it, you know you will never forget. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages View more info
By: Churchill, Winston Spencer
Price: $8.95
Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1989
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 3596
The grandson of Winston Churchill's autobiography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages View more info
By: Evans, Karin
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, J P Tarcher: 2001
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11283
"A cross-cultural adventure of the soul" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages View more info
By: Eyland, Seth (Pseudonym Of David Edward Cronin)
Price: $495.00
Publisher: New York, S. W. Green's Son: 1894
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12855
"...he has now written a chatty and highly personal autobiography, which suffices also to give in some measure a picture of his times." The Literary World Vol 15, 1894. Cronin (1839-1925) enlisted in the Army at the beginning of the Civil War and became an artist for Harper's Weekly. He was know as a painter, illustrator and journalist. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 336 pages View more info
By: Fifield, Adam
Price: $4.95
Publisher: William Morrow: 2000
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12964
"...an unusual story that combines classic coming-of-age events with the sad history of a young refugee from the devastated Cambodia of the last decades. Soeuth--the refugee--came to live with the Fifield family at the age of 14. Adam, the family's eldest son, narrates the story in conversational slang; reading this book is like listening to an old friend tell his surprising life story. ; 9.40 X 6.10 X 1.20 inches; 336 pages View more info
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.: 1884
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12840
A typical 19th century political biography for the 1884 presidential campaign with political details of the time. Full title: Early Life and Public Services of Hon. Grover Cleveland, the Fearless and Independent Governor of the Empire State, and Candidate for President of the United States, Reciting the Annals of His Successful Career from Obscurity to the Eminent Position which He Now Holds in the Administration of the People. Also, the Life of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks,... View more info
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton and Mifflin: 1899
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12971
Hart presents Chase "as the central figure in three episodes which are of great historic importance, --the Western political anti-slavery movement, the financial measures of the Civil War, and the process of judicial reconstruction." ; American Statesmen, Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 465 pages View more info
Price: $174.95
Publisher: Boston, Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Company: 1895
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 13539
A fine biography of a somewhat liberal 19th century missionary who was involved in education, newspaper publishing and was an outspoken critic of conservative forces in the Kingdom of Hawaii. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages View more info
By: Keller, James and Meyer Berger
Price: $8.95
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1944
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 122
Written during Waorld War II, these are the stories of Marryknollers at work in China, Japan, the Philippines and South America, many caught in the tide of war. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; Signed by One Author View more info
By: King, Elizabeth
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Falmouth, ME, Kennebec River Press: 1992
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 7933
The biography of a Maine family. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pages View more info
By: Larsen, Wendy Widler and Tran Thi Nga
Price: $7.95
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1986
Edition: First edition, as stated; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11356
As clear and strong a story of Vietnam you will ever read. "If you weren't there, these prose poems are merely gorgeous . If you were, they are heartbreaking." Nicholas Proffin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages View more info
By: Larsen, Wendy Widler and Tran Thi Nga
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1986
Edition: First edition, as stated; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 11357
As clear and strong a story of Vietnam you will ever read. "If you weren't there, these prose poems are merely gorgeous . If you were, they are heartbreaking." Nicholas Proffin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages View more info
By: Lenin, V. I.
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Peking, Foreign Languages Press: 1970
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12757
A classic originally written in 1913. This edition is from an English translation published in Moscow in 1951 ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 63 pages View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Sons: 1935
Edition: First Edition Thus; Later Printing
Seller ID: 14560
269 in Everyman's Library. Since this printing was issued in the "Biography" category, one would expect it to be bound with rose cloth; however, this copy with scalloped design endpapers (1935) is bound in "fawn" cloth, which was supposed to be reserved for books in the "science" category. ; Everyman's Library Series; Vol. 269; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 593 pages View more info
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Boston, Houghton and Mifflin: 1899
Edition: First Edition Thus; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12979
Lodge, of course, sings the praises of Mr. Webster. ; American Statesmen, Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 372 pages View more info
By: Marquis Of Lorne
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1892
Edition: First Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 12845
The author, John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG KT GCMG GCVO VD PC (1845 – 1914) ,...was a British nobleman and the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He was married to the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. ; The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria, Edited by Stuart J. Reid Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 240 pages View more info
