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The Edge of the Woods: A Memoir
by Watson, Hildegarde Lasell
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- Used - Very Good
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- None
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- 1st
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$35.00
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Lunenburg VT: Stinehour Press, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and color label on front cover. 165 pages, b&w photos. Hildegarde Lasell was a concert singer. "Miss Lasell sang with refinement and cultivation," commented a reviewer in 1936, "she is obviously a serious student of the meaning and values of the music she… Read more about this item Item Price
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Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward
by Oliver Soden
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2023
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- Hardcover
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- 9781474612807
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$25.00
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 634 pages, color, b&w illustrations. The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Twelve Little Cakes
by Dominika Dery
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2004
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- Hardcover
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- 9781573222839
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$12.00
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NY: Riverhead, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 349 pages. A heartwarming memoir describes growing up in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s as the child of dissidents involved with the failed Prague Spring uprising in a loving family--her mother, the disowned daughter of two Party elite parents; her inventor and cab driver father;… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Future a la Carte
by Theresa A. Morse
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 1955
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- Hardcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$18.00
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NY: David McKay, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ruth Sheetz. Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket. 167 pages illustrated by Ruth Sheetz. The Morse's became innkeepers on Martha's Vineyards, leaving city life in New York. This is the story of Beach Plum Inn. Light tanning to front fly leaf where newspaper clipping was laid in, otherwise… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
by Marquis, Alice Goldfarb
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9780878467013
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$50.00
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Boston, MA: MFA Publications , 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to edges of cover boards. Record # 354718 Item Price
$50.00
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (SIGNED COPY)
by Lobel, Anita
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9780688159351
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$35.00
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New York: Greenwillow Books, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures in center. Tight copy. Record # 354645 Item Price
$35.00
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
by Riesman, Abraham
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 2nd pr.
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- 2021
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- Hardcover
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- 9780593135716
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$28.00
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NY: Crown, 2021. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. 394 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became… Read more about this item Item Price
$28.00
Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake
by Peake, Ernest Cromwell
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2014
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- Hardcover
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- 9780712357418
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$25.00
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London: British Library, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Ernest Cromwell Peake arrived in the Hankow region of inland China in 1899, the first medical missionary to attempt to bring modern medicine to the rural Chinese. Black and white images throughout.… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares (SIGNED COPY)
by Valladares, Armando
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1st
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- 1986
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- Hardcover
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- 9780394534251
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Knopf, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 380 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, translated by Andrew Hurley. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small water stain on top and bottom spine edge, otherwise, internally very clean and tight copy. Record # 456654 Item Price
$30.00
Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris
by Yvette Paris
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780879756390
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- 1
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$15.00
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Buffalo NY: Prometheus Books, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages, b&w photos. "At night she was a loving wife and mother. During the day, she'd put her children on the school bus, pack her sequined G-strings and feather boas, and leave for New York City - to take her… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Marilyn, August 1953: The Lost LOOK Photos (Calla Editions)
by Curator, Brian Wallis Chief
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st thus
- Published
- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9781606600115
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- 1
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$35.00
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NY: Calla Editions, 2010. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 119 pages. Hardcover. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture this: A master photographer shoots the most breathtaking movie star of her time high in the Canadian Rockies in the summer of 1953. And the negatives are filed away for nearly 60 years —… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography
by Newhall, Beaumont
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780821219041
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$40.00
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US: Bulfinch , 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 264 pages includes index. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A graceful, lively memoir by photography's first historian, with accounts of his friendships with many of the century's great photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Newhall (1908-93) wrote… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Murrow: His Life and Times
by A. M. Sperber
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- reprint
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- 1986
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- Hardcover
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- 9780881910087
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- 1
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$12.00
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NY: Freundlich Books, 1986. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 795 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy. 'A work of immense historical proportions - a biography of America's first and possibly greatest broadcast journalist.' Notes on primary manuscript sources, index, bibliography. The definitive biography of… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
The Strenuous Life: The Oyster Bay Roosevelts in Business and Finance
by Cobb, Wm. T.
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- Used - Very Good
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- None
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- 1st
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- 1946
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- Hardcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$18.00
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NY: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 99 pages, b&w photographs, genealogical chart on front end paper. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light rubbing to corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 385176 Item Price
$18.00
Drawing Sexy Women: Autobiographical Sketches
by Thorne, Frank
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2000
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- Hardcover
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- 9781560973782
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- 1
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$20.00
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Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Frank Throne. 83 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Frank Thorne throughout. Record # 368673 Item Price
$20.00
Back With the Tide: Memoirs of Ellen Douglas Bellamy
by Bellamy, Ellen Douglas And Seapker, Janet K. [Editor]
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- Used - Very Good
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- None
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- reprint
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- 2002
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- Softcover
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- 9780967303727
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$18.00
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Wilmington NC: Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts, 2002. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 52 pages, b&w illustrations. A politically incorrect view of the Antebellum South from the view of a girl that lived through it. Clean copy. Record # 385071 Item Price
$18.00
American Character The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
by Thompson, Mark
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9781559705509
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- 1
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$18.00
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NY: Arcade Publishing, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 372 pages with b&w illustrations, index. The life of Western maverick Charles Fletcher Lummis is laid bare in this entertaining biography of the journalist, photographer, poet, and Native American rights advocate who spent most of his life fighting injustice in the West. Mild… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist
by Magnus, Philip
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1st us
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- 1959
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$12.00
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NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959. 1st us. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) , English soldier and statesman. The commander of the Anglo-Egyptian army from 1890, he helped to win back the Sudan for Egypt, and was made a peer. After the… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
by Sereny. Gitta
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- Used - Very Good
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- None
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- reprint
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- 1996
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- Softcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$12.00
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London: Picador , 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 757 pages, b&w illustrations. Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him and Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Big City, Little Boy
by Komroff, Manuel
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1st
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- 1953
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- Hardcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$15.00
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NY: A. A. Wyn, 1953. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 181 pages. Autobiographical story of young Manuel, growing up near his grandfather's cigar store (complete with wooden Indian) on the corner of 50th St. & Third Ave. The years from 1890- 1910 included The Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, airplanes, cars, movies &… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00