Biography from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
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Safta's Diaries
by Bina Appleman with Shera Aranoff Tuchman Translator)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 2011
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- 9781602801684
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$72.00
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2011 hardcover as pictured. The edited diaries of Bina Appleman, a woman born in Imperial Russian Poland, was separated from her family who eventually emigrated alone to the United States at 17. Includes 68 pages of photographs and illustrations. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
$72.00
Sasha Pechersky
by Selma Leydesdorff
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- Used - Good
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 2017
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- 9781412865258
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$61.00
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2017 hardcover as pictured. This is the story of a forgotten hero which reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world. In 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a… Read more about this item Item Price
$61.00
Isaac Shelby - Kentucky's First Governor & Hero of Three Wars
by Sylvia Wrobel and George Grider
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 1974
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$19.00
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1974 hardcover as pictured. The story of Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky and veteran of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Number 699 of a limited edition. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal shelf wear. Inscribed and signed by author on FFEP. Text is lightly tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust… Read more about this item Item Price
$19.00
Olaf Stapledon - Speaking for the Future
by Robert Crossley
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1994
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- 9780815602811
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$24.00
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1994 hardcover as pictured. A biography of William Olaf Stapledon, best known as a writer of mid 20th century science fiction. Binding is firm, boards clean. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Would be as new except for slight shelf wear and one inch ink mark on lower edge of text block. Your purchase helps… Read more about this item Item Price
$24.00
the living museum
by Samuel Cauman
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 1958
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$54.00
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1958 hardcover as pictured. An interesting description of the forces that shaped and transformed the Western concept of art in the first half of the 20th century, this is the story of Alexander Dorner's championship of modern art. Includes many b&w illustrtions and a forward by Walter Gropius. This copy is has seen some use but remains very readable. Binding… Read more about this item Item Price
$54.00
George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals
by J W Cross (Editor)
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- Used - Good
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1885
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$37.00
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1885 two volume hardcover set as pictured. These are volumes 1 and 3 of the 3 volume biography of Mary Ann Evans otherwise known as George Eliot. The books are based on her letters and journal writing and edited by her husband. The books are beautifully made and in good shape given their age. The are from a private library… Read more about this item Item Price
$37.00
More Lives Than One
by Claude Bragdon
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1942
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- 9780766102637
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$100.00
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Circa 2000 softcover as pictured. This is the autobiography of Claude Bragdon, renowned Rochester, New York architect, designer and Theosophist. Features chapters on his several careers and interests including a long section on the occult. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are rubbed with a few stains. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library.… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
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Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades
by Bruce Kellner
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- Used - Good
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- 1968
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$26.00
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1968 hardcover as pictured. A nicely made book in good condition. Carl Van Vechten as one of America's most distinguished men of letters. This book traces his life from la belle epoque through the roaring twenties. Binding is firm. Head and tail bands. Embossed maroon cloth boards are clean with only slight shelf wear. Warmly inscribed and signed by the… Read more about this item Item Price
$26.00
Clown
by Emmett Kelly with F. Beverly Kelley
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- Used - Good
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1996
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- 9780899668123
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$42.00
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1996 hardcover as pictured. A biography of the world famous circus clown, actor and writer. Binding is firm. Boards are clean with minimal shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes several pages of photographs. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR Item Price
$42.00
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Dear Nannie... Yours Devotedly, Charlie
by Gail McMillan and Jean Robbins (Editors)
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- Used - Good
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- Unjacketed
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- 2013
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$36.00
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2013 hardcover as pictured. This is a wonderful book following the life of Nannie Figgat nee Godwin through the late 19th and early 20th centuries using her letters, diary and recipe book to document life in Fincastle, Virginia. Includes many photographs and illustrations as well as a number of mid nineteenth century recipies. Binding is firm. Head and tail bands.… Read more about this item Item Price
$36.00
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In The Footsteps of Arminius
by William F. Warren
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Unjacketed
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- Assumed first
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- 1888
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$100.00
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1888 hardcover as pictured. A nicely made small volume being a ahort biography of the Dutch theologian, Jacobus Arminius/Jakob Hermanszoon (1560-1609). Binding is intact though the front hinge is cracked at title page. Brown cloth boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled and show some fraying at spine and corners. Patterned endpapers. Previous owners' plates on FEP. Includes an engraved… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
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Taking Flight
by Raquel Ramsey & Tricia Audrand
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 2020
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- 9780700629800
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- 1
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$17.00
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Taking Flight follows Nadine Ramsey as she becomes one of 1,102 women to join the Women's Airforce Service Pilots. Published 2020, jacketed hardback, jacket as shown with this listing. Would be listed as new but for minor shelf wear. Your purchase helps our small village library. pi (AR) Item Price
$17.00
Encyclopedia of American Biography
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1940
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$37.00
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1940 three quarter bound hardcover as pictured. A collection of short biographies of prominent citizens, many with beautiful full page b&w or sepia portraits. Blue cloth and leather boards are rubbed and scuffed with moderate wear of the leather at head and tail of spine, hinges and at corners. Printed endpapers with linen reinforced hinges. Text block is wavy and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Little Visits With Great Americans - Two Volume Set
by Orison Marden (Editor)
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1905
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$40.00
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1905 two volume hardcover set as pictured. A collection of short biographies of financially successful Americans. Maroon cloth boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled and show wear at edges with slight fraying at corners. Marbled endpapers. Bindings are intact though the tipped in frontispiece and title page have come loose from volume 1. Hinges lightly cracked. Gilt top edge… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
The Trail Led North
by Martha McKeown
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 1949
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$15.00
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1949 hardcover as pictured. The biography of a man who went north to the gold rush as told to his niece. Ex-library with usual markings. Binding is intact. Maroon boards show edge wear. Front hinge cracked. Text is tanned with a few pages stained. Dust jacket has a few tears and is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Your purchase… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Genteel Partisan: Manton Marble,: 1834-1917
by George T McJimsey
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- Used - Good
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- Stated First Edition
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- 1971
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- 9780813811055
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$15.00
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1971 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Yellow cloth boards are clean with minimal shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and lightly soiled, protected by a plastic sleeve. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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$15.00
The Life Of The Blessed Lord And Savior Jesus Christ And The Lives And Sufferings Of His Holy Evangelists And Apostles
by John Fleetwood
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1862
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$41.00
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1862 leather bound hardcover as pictured. A nicely made edition that has seen moderate wear. Binding is intact. Embossed boards with gilt stamping are rubbed and scuffed with gently bumped corners. Mottled endpapers. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait and many other illustrations. Several tissue guards have been torn out. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village… Read more about this item Item Price
$41.00
Great Lives: A Course Of History In Biographies
by J I Mombert
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1886
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$23.00
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1886 hardcover as pictured. Binding intact. Tan cloth boards with brown and gold stamping are soiled with moderate edge wear and bumped corners. Both hinges cracked. Stamp and writing on front endpapers. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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$23.00
In The Arena
by Richard Nixon
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- Used - Good
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- Unjacketed
- Published
- 1990
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$18.00
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1990 leather bound hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Gray boards with gold stamping and raised bands on spine are clean and show only slight shelf wear. Patterned endpapers. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Gilt edge of text block, ribbon marker. Text clean and unmarked. would be as new aside from slight shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
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Flower, Fruit And Thorn Pieces - Volumes 1 And 2
by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- unjacketed
- Edition
- Leisure Hour Series
- Published
- 1877
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Cazenovia, New York, USA
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$30.00
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1877 two volume hardcover edition as pictured. Bindings are firm. Embossed tan boards with black and gold stamping are lightly soiled and show some edge wear with slight fraying head and tail of spines and at corners. Endpapers and texts are tanned but appear otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jackets. A handsome set. your purchase helps support our small… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
