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The Rockefeller Billions The Story of the World's Most Stupendous Fortune

By: Abels, Jules

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1965

Seller ID: AL0300032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and intact throughout with penciled price to front endpaper. Dust jacket with some edge wear, price clipped. 399 pages.
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Harold the Webbed Or the Young Vykings": Being Volume Two of the Life and Works of Trader Horn

By: Alfred Aloysius Horn, Ethelreda Lewis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1928

Seller ID: AB0200008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Subtitled: " ...the works written by Alfred Aloysius Horn at the age of seventythree, & the life with such of his philosophy as is the gift of age and experience.." Text and pages are clean and intact. Green cloth cover rubbed and edgeworn with faded spine lettering. Frontispiece photograph of Horn. Nice maps as eps. A small dealer sticker on rear ep. 275 pages.
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Vagabond Prophet: A Novel of Nostradamus & His Time

By: Allene Symons

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Bell Publishing Company: 1987

Seller ID: AT0300017

ISBN: 051764116X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean, unmarked and intact throughout. Pages with minimal edge wear, light edge smudges. DJ unclipped with slight rubbing and edge wear. 187 pages.
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James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity

By: Ammon, Harry

Price: $49.99

Publisher: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia: 1990

Seller ID: AL0400004

ISBN: 0813912660

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing thus, 1990 Trade Paper. Tight and unmarked. Minimal spine creasing. Near Fine.
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AntiMemoirs

By: Andre Malraux, Terence Kilmartin, translator

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: 1968

Seller ID: AK0600006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean throughout with penciled price on fep. DJ with rubbing and wrinkles. Book Club Edition.
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The Life Story of Wolfe Tone

By: Aodh De Blacam

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Dublin Ireland, The Talbot Press, Ltd.: 1935

Seller ID: AH0400035

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Text clean and intact. Slight edge wear and spotting to pages. Notes on front pastedown. Looseness to spine at binding near front hinge. Cover rubbed and worn with dampstain damage. Color has run and spotted with bleeding to eps. Tile and lettering on spine intact and legible. 225 pages. CRLS
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Henry Pomeroy Davison (Henry P. Davison)

By: Bankers Trust Company

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Bankers Trust Company: 1922

Seller ID: AV0300008

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

A small paperbound "Memorial adopted by the board of directors of the Bankers Trust Company on June 13, 1922." Frontispiece of Davison. Appx 7 pages of text plus some lists of board members and descriptions of a special board meeting.
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Me and the Orgone: One Man's Sexual Revolution

By: Bean, Orson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australia, Angus and Robertson: 1972

Seller ID: AX0500015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed and signed (apparently by author: "Orson") on front blank endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. Pages intact and fresh with some bending to corners. Dust Jacket with a lot of edge rubbing and moderate edge tears. 119 pages.
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Thank You, Guy Bailey

By: Beckley, John L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Caldwell NJ, John Beckley: 1976

Seller ID: AM0200001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A nice copy of this privately printed testimonial. Penciled price and notes to blank front pages. Interior otherwise clean and pages intact. Cover with light wear. Please see image. 133 pages.
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The Life of John Marshall: In Four Volumes

By: Beveridge Albert J.

Price: $63.65

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1919

Seller ID: AC0300018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

4 Volume set. Ex-library. Green cloth covers with scuffs, edgewear, corner bumps, light stains, and letter "B" inked on spines. Interior with some library marks, stamps and card pockets. Pages with edge wear snd age toning. Otherwise generally clean and intact. Please see images. 506, 594, 644 and 668 pages. Houghton Mifflin (1919). The Life of John Marshall: In Four Volumes: Volume 1: Frontiersman, Soldier Lawmaker 1755-1788; Volume II: Politician, Diplomatist Statesman 1789-1801; Volume III: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815; Volume IV: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835
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With a Feather on My Nose: The Story of a Gay Redhead Who Became a Famous Actress and Married Flo Ziegfeld

By: Billie Burke; Cameron Shipp

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.: 1949-01-01

Seller ID: AF0100040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust jacket with some edgewear overall and some sunfading to spine. Upper end of DJ spine quite rubbed/scuffed/wounded. Name and price marked to front free endpaper. Pages with some age toning and edgewear overall. Pages clean and intact throughout. Please see image. 272 pages.
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Call Me Lucky

By: Bing Crosby

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1953

Seller ID: AG0400038

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Slight pencil mark from deal on fep. Age toning. Pages intact. Cover and edge wear. Second printing thus. 228 pages.
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The True Story of Abraham Lincoln, The American: Told for Boys and Girls

By: Brooks, Elbridge S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: 1896

Seller ID: AK0200016

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Text clean and pages intact. Binding sound. Green cover with stains and mottling to rear. Front with some spots and edgewear. Illustrated 239 pages.
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Widowed

By: Brothers, Joyce

Price: $5.78

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992

Seller ID: AK0100020

ISBN: 0345374002

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Clean and intact with some age toning and general wear to edges. Cover with some scuffs, smudges and creases. 216 pages
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Lincoln: The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century

By: Brown, Charles Reynolds

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1922

Seller ID: AW0100003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Text clean and pages intact with some age toning and spotting. Red cloth cover rubbed with some edge wear. Small volume, 12 X 18 cm. 77 pages.
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Grant Takes Command

By: Bruce Catton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1969

Seller ID: AF0500029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and unmarked throughout. Blue cloth cover with slight wear, otherwise Near Fine. Printing/Edition not indicated (1969, possible BC). 556 pages.
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Philippine Duchesne,: Frontier missionary of the Sacred Heart, 1769-1852

By: Callan, Louise

Price: $114.00

Publisher: Newman Press: 1957

Seller ID: AS0400037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1957 First Edition. 805 pages. Red cloth cover with very light wear and some minor fraying to ends of spine. Pages age toned with minor wear, including age darkening to top edges. Inked name of previous owner to tile page (Sisters of Mercy, Santa Ana, Calif.). Otherwise clean and intact throughout. Please see image.
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John Galsworthy: A Biography

By: Catherine Dupré

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.: 1979

Seller ID: AN0500024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Text and pages clean and intact. Remainder dot on bottom edge. DJ worn with edge tears and curling. 315 pages.
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Mr. Pepys of Seething Lane

By: Cecil Abernethy

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, McGrawHill Book Company, Inc.: 1957

Seller ID: AB0400019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Text clean and intact. Slight looseness to binding at rear hinge. Red cloth cover rubbed with some bumping and small spots. 384 pages.
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The "Maine": An Account of Her Destruction in Havana Harbor, The Personal Narrative of Captain Charles D. Sigsbee

By: Charles D. Sigsbee

Price: $105.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1899

Seller ID: AN0300009

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Ex-Library with stickers, card pocket and stamps. Split to binding near front hinge, poorly repaired with tape. Other looseness to binding. Text with minor pencil marks and small smudges. Cover rubbed, edgeworn and faded. 270 pages.
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Churchill, Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran

By: Charles McMoran Wilson Moran, Sir Winston Churchill,

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1966

Seller ID: AB0400014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small penciled dealer notes to eps. Text and pages intact and unmarked. DJ rubbed with creases, edge wear and chipping (including a moderate, appx half inch chip/tear to top front). 877 pages. Book Club Edition.
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Walter de la Mare: A Walck Monograph

By: Clark, Leonard

Price: $10.80

Publisher: Walck: 1961-01-01

Seller ID: AP0600088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Ex-library with marks/stamps to endpages, title page and page edges. Dust jacket quite wrinkled and worn. Tape marks and some stamps to endpages. One blank rear endpaper missing. Pages with some edgewear but otherwise clean. 81 pages.
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Daniel Webster, Volume II, 18301852

By: Claude Moore Fuess

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown and Company: 1930

Seller ID: AC0400006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Text and pages clean, tight and intact with some age toning and edge wear. Green cloth cover worn, spotted, rubbed and with some tearing to top of spine. 465 pages.
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The Private Franklin

By: ClaudeAnne Lopez, Eugenia W. Herbert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton: 1975

Seller ID: AK0600026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and unmarked throughout with penciled price inside cover on first page. DJ intact and unmarked with some rubbing and edge wear. 271 pages. Book Club Edition.
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The Life of Captain Alonso de Contreras, Knight of the Military Order of St. John, Native of Madrid

By: Contreras, Alonso de

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: n.d.

Seller ID: AS0200005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Text clean and pages intact with minor edgewear. Oranges cover with some edge wear and darkening to the spine title. Spine with a slight tilt. Binding intact. No Dust jacket. A scarce edition.
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Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M., for Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, Vt., and Late in Granville, New York

By: Cooley, Timothy Mather

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1837

Seller ID: AK0100003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Foxing to pages. Binding and pages intact. Cover worn with edgewear and fraying, including wear to spine ends. Otherwise intact. 345 pages.
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Strange, But True: Life and Adventures of Captain Thomas Crapo and His Wife

By: Crapo, Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Bedford MA, Capt. Thomas Crapo, Publisher: 1893

Seller ID: AS0800017

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pages with some staining. Binding weak near front. Otherwise intact. Writing to front endpapers. Brown cloth cover worn but intact. Self published memoir of a captain and his wife who sailed across the Atalntic in a dory. Printed by Frank Wood in Boston. All plates present. 151 pages. Please see image.
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Lady Sarah Lennox

By: Curtis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putman's Sons: 1946

Seller ID: AC0200002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Some foxing to eps and edges. Clean and intact otherwise throughout pages and text. Pages and binding intact. Red cloth cover with rubbing and edge wear. Title quite rubbed. 346 pages.
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Disraeli and Gladstone a Duo-Biographical Sketch

By: D. C. Somervell

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing: 1926

Seller ID: AN0300020

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Ex School Library copy. Some marks to endpapers, and tape marks on spine. Text clean and unmarked. Pages intact with some edge spotting and slight bends. Blue cloth cover intact with some wear. 319 pages.
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Great Books

By: David Denby

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1996

Seller ID: AG0500035

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Price in pencil. Unmarked otherwise. Pages with some edge spotting and tiny corner bends. DJ with minimal rubbing and some edge wear. First Printing, First Edition. 492 pages.
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