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The Carpenter's Apprentice: The Spritual Biography of Jimmy Carter
by Ariail, Dan & Cheryl Heckler-Feltz
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 2nd ptg
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780310200123
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$21.99
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Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards, brown spine with gold foil titles, 176 pp, 14 b & w photos in text, sources. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to Ariail, who was Carter's pastor and friend, "You can never adequately grasp Carter himself unless… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.99
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters
by Pym, Barbara (Ed. Hazel Holt & Hilary Pym)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Published
- 1984
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780525242345
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$31.99
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New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pumpkin boards, white cloth spine with gilt titles, [2 ff], xvii, 358 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, publishing history, index. Very slight edge wear. DJ price-clipped, spine sunned but legible, slight edge wear & small nicks; in… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie
by Robyns, Gwen
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- Early printing
- Published
- 1978
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385126236
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Title page date matches copyright date. Speckled white boards, blue spine with gilt titles, xv, 247 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, index. Remainder spray on bottom edge. DJ has small tear at tail… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Literary Life: A Second Memoir
by McMurtry, Larry
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- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Trade
- Published
- 2009
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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New York, London, Sydney & Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2009 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. This first trade edition was preceded by a limited edition. Black boards, foil titles on spine, [ix], 175 pp. Minimal overall wear, mylar jacket cover taped to boards by library, anti-theft sticker on rear paste-down;… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
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Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy
by Rollyson, Carl
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780312000493
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$26.99
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pink boards, natural linen spine with gilt titles, xxii, 613 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, end notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Through newly discovered diaries, letters, state department files, and interviews… Read more about this item Item Price
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Passion for Excitement: The Life and Personality of the Incredible Lord Byron
by Bigland, Eileen
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- G
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange-red cloth, gilt titles on spine, top edge dyed pale grey, 317 pp, frontispiece, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge. DJ complete but rather tired-looking, tears up to 2 cm long, small chips; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
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Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song
by Gould, Jean
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 5th ptg
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Peacock blue boards, gilt titles on spine, xiii, 302 pp, index. Date & one-word note on recto of ffep. DJ has several tears to 2 cm with creasing; in Brodart archival cover. Rear flap of DJ and a card… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bernard Shaw (Vol. 1: 1956-1898, The Search for Love)
by Holroyd, Michael
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780394525778
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$26.99
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New York: Random House, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, black cloth spine with foil titles, pictorial endpapers, viii, 486, [1] pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, bibliographical notes, index. Bottom corners bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Michael Holroyd counterpoints… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends
by Ervine, St. John
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- G
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$26.99
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, xi, 628 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, footnotes, index. Boards faded. DJ has quite a few tears 4 to 6 cm, a 3 cm chip, other smaller defects, but… Read more about this item Item Price
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Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship
by Anderson, Margaret Bartlett
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York, Chicago & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full light brown cloth with white, black & brown titles on spine, xiv, 224 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, index. Slight shelf wear, else fine, a review of a collection of Frost's criticism &… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
Always the Young Strangers
by Sandburg, Carl
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- BCE
- Published
- 1952
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, foil titles, pictorial endpapers, top edge dyed green, 445 pp, index. Lightly bumped, previous owner's name on ffep. Carl Sandburg's autobiography. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . Near Fine/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm. Item Price
$20.99
Dictionary of International Biography: A Biographical Record of Contemporary Achievement.... (Fourth Edition, 1967-1968)
by Kay, Ernest (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$26.99
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London: Dictionary of International Biography Company, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth-textured boards with gilt titles, xv, 614, [14] pp, 1 color plate. DJ has a couple of small blemishes along bottom edge, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Over 10,000 capsule biographies. This copy is from the estate… Read more about this item Item Price
$26.99
Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
by Rosenthal, Elizabeth J.
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2008
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781599212944
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$21.99
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Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2008 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, brown spine with gilt titles, green endpapers, vi, 437 pp, 8 ff photo plates (5 ff in color & 3 ff b&w), index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This biography of the noted ornithologist and founder of the Peterson's… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.99
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography
by Brogan, Hugh
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 2nd ptg
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781861975096
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$32.99
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London: Profile Books, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gold foil titles on spine, [xi], 724 pp, 3 maps, 4 ff b & w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Top corner of front board bumped, otherwise fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The DJ blurb has this to say about… Read more about this item Item Price
$32.99
Boswell's Life of Johnson including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales (6 Volumes)
by Boswell, James (Ed. by George Birkbeck Hill)
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$134.49
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New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. National Edition. No date, but Hill's preface is dated 1887. Six volumes in full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt. Two leaves of preface of volume 1 have large (about 7 cm) tears, otherwise very good.… Read more about this item Item Price
$134.49
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bryson, Bill
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780767919364
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$15.99
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New York: Broadway Books (Random House), 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard-yellow boards, blue spine with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, xiii, 270, [3] pp, photos in text. Large beverage stain along top edge looks rather ugly from above, but affects only the outer margins of some pages while reading, little wear otherwise.… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.99
Autobiography of Mark Twain (Volume 1)
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] (Harriet Elinor Smith et al., Eds.)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 4th ptg
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780520267190
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$43.59
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Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2010 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Off-white boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, burnt-orange endpapers, xix, 736, [3] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. 4th ptg. .… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thornton Wilder: His World
by Simon, Linda
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1979
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385128407
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$40.99
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, xiii, 298 pp, Extensively annotated in the handwriting of Minneapolis playwright and director Waring Jones. Price-clipped DJ is torn & creased at head of spine, otherwise has very little wear;… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.99
The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers
by Kenney, Catherine
- Condition
- Used - Ex-Library
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780873384100
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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Kent, OH & London: The Kent State University Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xvii, 309 pp, frontispiece, notes, bibliography, index. Lightly used branch library copy has minimal library markings consisting of three stickers including a "Withdrawn" sticker; a bump to bottom edge… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Time Remembered
by Read, Miss (Dora Saint)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395428566
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, pictorial endpapers, x, 102 pp, 68 illustrations in text. DJ has very slight corner wear; in Brodart archival cover. Novelist Miss Read recalls her three years as a pupil at a village school in Chelsfield,… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99