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The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay: First Chief-Justice of the United States, Member and President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain, Member of Commission to Negotiate Treaty of Indepence, Envoy to Great Britain, Governor of New York, Etc. Volume III: 1782-1793.

By: Jay, John. [Johnston, Henry P., A.M., Editor].

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works Series 595, American Classics in History & Social Science 157, n.d. Facsimile 1890 edition.:

Seller ID: ess4956

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xxvi + 489 pp. Fine (As New).
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Grace.

By: Lacey, Robert.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1994). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 51727bd

Signed by the Author. Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), silver letters, 463 pp. Near-Fine, with faint foxing to page edges; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Long before she becaema princess, Grace Kelly was a legend, a fabled movie star whose aloof and aristocratic bearing belied a deep sensuality within. Grace the icon and Grace the woman were two very different creatures, and now celebrated biographer Robert Lacey has managed to unearth the secrets beneath her serene surface. In Grace, her presents the first balanced portrait of a complex, deeply conflicted actress, wi...
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Journal of J. L., of Quebec, Merchant.

By: Lees, John.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Detroit: Society of Colonial Wars of the State of Michigan, 1911.:

Seller ID: 70015s

Tall octavo, cream and red cloth, (hardcover), leather spine lable, gilt seal to upper cover, top edge gilt, uncut; fold-out maps: Cantonment of HisMajesty's Forces in North America, Cantonment of the Forces in North America 11th Oct. 1765; 55 pp. Near-Fine, with tiny spot to upper cover, very small tear to title page. From preface: In hunting through the manuscripts in the British Museum in London, I happened to light upon the original journal of John Lees, which is here given. It was particularly interesting to me because of the many references it contained of importance to the entire r...
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Patrick Henry: Patriot in the Making.

By: Meade, Robert Douthat.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1957.:

Seller ID: 4143s

First Edition. Octavo, burgundy cloth, gilt letters on black spinal label, 431 pp. Very Good+, with former owner's signiture and light foxing to endpapers, in a Very Good, edgeworn, dust jacket. Meade has uncovered colorful details about Patrick Henry's background, youth, temperament and beliefs...In this book, the patriot, orator, and champion of liberty becomes a living figure, walking through some of the most exciting pages of our history.'
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The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley. Edited by George William Curtis.

By: Motley, John Lothrop. [Curtis, George William, ed.]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.:

Seller ID: m2010

2 volume set complete. Octavo, green cloth, top edges gilt, uncut, x, 395 pp. + ix, 423 pp., ads. Very Good.
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James Truslow Adams: Historian of the American Dream.

By: Nevins, Allan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968.:

Seller ID: 60677bd

Octavo, light brown cloth (hardcover), 315 pp. Near-Fine, in a Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping.
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My American Journey.

By: Powell, Colin; with Joseph E. Persico.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, (1995). First Edition, Stated.:

Seller ID: 2006gls

Signed by Colin Powell. Octavo, navy blue cloth with white boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 643 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history -- but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, he himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of ...
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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland.

By: Riffenburgh, Beau.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Viking, (2013). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 51723bd

Octavo, gray cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 384 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The operatives of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling and renowned were McParland's cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency's cloak-and-dagger methods. Both acti...
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 9, 1861.

By: Senate and House of Representatives.

Price: $46.00

Publisher: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861.:

Seller ID: 17388scs

Octavo, paperbound (printed pink wrappers, 92 pp. Good+, with worn covers and foxing (age darkened spotting).
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A Vineyard in Napa. Foreword by Danny Meyer.

By: Shafer, Doug; with Andy Demsky.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, (2012). First Edition, Review Copy.:

Seller ID: 2251gls

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiii + 264 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: At the age of forty-seven, when he was a successful publishing executive living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of winemaking, began the journey that would lead him, thirty years later, to own and operate what distinguished wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. called one of the wo...
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Mark Twain - Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens & William D. Howells, 1869 - 1910. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson with the Assistance of Frederick Anderson. [Two Volume Set].

By: Smith, Henry Nash and William M. Gibson; Editors.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960.:

Seller ID: 50432bd

Two Volume Set. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), xxv + 454 pp; [vi] + 455-948 pp. Very Good, with former-owner inscriptions in each volume and light underlining in pencil to the first chapter of Volume I. From dust jacket: William Dean Howells once commented on the suggestion that his letters from Mark Twain be published, I think so too; they are wonderful; and if mine were printed with them, perhaps it would not hurt. This first comprehensive collection of a correspondence between two brilliant stylists reflects the development of this American literary friendship of nearly unparalleled ...
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A Dream and an Honor: The Life Story of Dr. Alan J. Snider.

By: Snider, Alan J., D.O.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Largo, Florida: Sun Coast Hospital Foundation, (1996).:

Seller ID: 4431bd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 84 pp, viii photographs. Fine.
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Henry Woodward of Carolina: Surgeon, Trader, Indian Chief. Illustrated by Hoyt Simmons.

By: Steele, William O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sandlapper Press, Inc., 1972. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 4953bd

Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), 96 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner stamp to ffep., in a Near-Fine dust jacket that has been price-clipped. From dust jacket: July 1666. Henry Woodward stood on a hot Carolina beach, watching the ship bearing his companions disappear over the horizon. A solitary Englishman, alone in the New World, his destiny in the hands of a savage Indian tribe -- what could the future hold? Adventure and discovery, daring missions and narrow escapes lay ahead for this brave English surgeon. Where no white man had ever been, Henry Woodward dared, living by his wits and ...
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Heads & headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers.

By: Stern, Madeleine B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1971). First Edition, Stated.:

Seller ID: es4210

Octavo, gold illus. cloth (hardcover), xx + 348 pp. Near-Fine, with foxing (age darkened spotting); in a tape-repaired, but otherwise very attractive , dust jacket. From dust jacket: Between the 1830s and the 1930s, members of the colorful Fowler family of New York were the leading exponents of phrenology -- character analysis based on te conformation of the skull. As the Fowlers -- primarily Orson, Edward, Charlotte, Lorenzo, and Lydia -- rode the crest of the prenologizing fervor that swept America, the heads of such notables as Mark Twain, clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wndell Holme...
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Purple Passage: The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie.

By: Stern, Madeleine B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1953). First Edition, stated.:

Seller ID: 61076bd

Octavo, purple cloth (hardcover), black spine label, silver letters,ix + 281 pp. Very Good+, with a few spots of light sunning to spine; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: Mrs. Frank Leslie was an extraordinary combination of eighteenth-century grande dame and twentieth-century executive, ablaze with diamonds and elaborately draped in a costume of the mauve decade. From her performance on the stage with Lola Montez to an amazing journalistic coup that changed the fortunes of a famous publishing house -- from her first mysterious m...
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Barnum.

By: Werner, M. R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1923). First edition.:

Seller ID: 71289bd

Octavo, blue cloth, viii, [[iv], 381 pp. Photos. Good; front hinge nearly broken, covers show rippling.
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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century.

By: Zachary, G. Pascal.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: The Free Press, (1997). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 61256bd

Octavo, white & gray boards (hardcover), 518 pp. Former-owner inscription; otherwise, Fine in a Fine (though price-clipped) dust jacket. From dust jacket: America is home to many scientific and technological visionaries, more in each passing century. In the 20th -- the American -- Century, no visionary stands taller than Vannevar Bush. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project, helped to create the military-industrial complex, conceived of a permanent system of government support for science and engineering and anticipated the personal computer and the Int...
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Category: American Biography