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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A lovely copy.

big thick black embossed cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. a little wrinkling & chipping along the top, 1cm tear spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing (nap) . ix+832p. world history. american history. politics. biography.~ For thirty years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. Now, for the first time, the editors have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result~by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying~is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilization from the first settlements to the fall of Richard Nixon. A Sense of History proves that the best history is always the best reading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and public figures of recent years. A few of the illustrious authors included in this rich compilation are: Barbara W. Tuchman on Teddy Roosevelt's Mideast crisis /Alfred Kazin 's study of why Americans have always feared the city /Malcolm Cowley on Nathaniel Hawthorne in love /Edward Hoagland's haunting evocation of the real Johnny Appleseed /Bruce Catton on the Civil War, of course, but also on baseball /Louis Auchincloss on Henry Adams's unlikely sojourn in the South Seas /John Kenneth Galbraith dissecting the Great Depression /William Manchester recalling a hair~raising World War 11 hoax /Robert Silverberg's inquiry into the mystery of the mound builders /Stephen B. Oates on the grim career of Nat Turner /Wallace Stegner's luminous memoir of his Western boyhood /Francis Russell's meticulous reconstruction of the crime that sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the chair /David McCullough's surprising profile of Harriet Beecher Stowe/ Hughes Rudd's perilous World War II sojourn as a spotter pilot.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Short artist exhibition catalog bound in illustrated, printed wraps, sunned a bit and lightly soiled. 86 pp. of 143 works by Kokoschka, with an Introductory Note by Jaroslaw Leshko, with Acknowledgments by Stephanie Terenzio, Joseph Gropper provides a Collector's Note, and complete with references. The Austrian artist, poet and playwrite grounded the Viennese Expressionist movement, and these several score duotone reproductions of his works, quite nice, evince his literary and aesthetic bent.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, corners and spine ends somewhat bumped and worn, cover shows significant rubbing. Page edges somewhat tanned. Ex-college-library with a few neat indications, no card pocket. Binding tight, pages lightly tanned but clean, a few pencil marks. 166 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. DJ has edge scuffs and fading. A discussion on the values of religion. 127 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Private bookplate on fly leaf.;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.x, 201 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket. From a school but there's only a small stamp on the ffep that shows this.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Blue boards, pristine, sharp and square, As New. Protected, price unclipped, dust jacket clean and bright. As New. Book is firm in binding, b&w and color photographs, 3 lines highlighte on page 165, ex-libris plate on front end paper. 336 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W and Color photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 336 pages.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Copyright 1945. 436 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. First free end page torn in half. Light foxing on page edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated with Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. a solid copy; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR ----- Size: 6 x 8". Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. first edition. Red cloth, 109 pages, 8 in tall. Three Chekhov comedies translated by John Alan Wyatt: On The Harmfulness of Tobacco; The Bear; The Proposal. Illustrated with Ted Boerner's costume renderings and with scenes from the comedies performed by the American Players Theatre near Spring Green, Wisconsin. This first edition is limited to 500 unnumbered copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "A Birth Day For Jay - Hooray, Hooray! From Richard [in a different hand 'and Lisa'] March 14, 1987". Signed with first name only.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. 8vo, 81 pp. Facsimile reprint. Unread.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 15 pages. Softcover staple bound in grey wrappers. The binding shows light to moderate wear and tere is some bumping at the fore edge. The spine is splitting at the headcap. Complete with the color flag frontis. Text is clean. Although a slim publication, the work contains a couple of pages on the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775" and the "Halifax Independence Resolutions April 12, 1776".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. 85 Pp. + "Hand-List Of Illustrated Books By John Austen" At End. White Vellum Spine, Gilt, Over Green Boards, Gilt. Top Edge Gilt. #774 Of A Numbered Limited Edition. Near Fine, Slight Discoloration To Vellum As Usual, Gilt All Brilliant. Endpapers With Some Foxing, Pages And Illustrations Clean With No Foxing At All. Hinges Tight, No Fraying; Lightly Used But Undamaged. In A Glassine Dj, Very Worn, Tears, Small Chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (Syracuse, NY): Syracuse University Press, (1957). January 1957 Binding: Hardcover INCLUDES DJ.

First edition Fine and bright but for light sunning to spine edge stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. A nicely realized gathering.

Pamphlet. 31p., wraps, very good condition, 5x7.5 inches. On the FBI, police agents and the like.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Trade paperback, xiv + 134 pages; tiny traces of shelf wear, spine slightly age darkened, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. Drawings (illustrator). 1st Edition. 111 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Brown Boards, Gilt Lettering On Spine, Illustrated Paper Label On Front Cover. Pseudonymous Humorous Story By Sportswriter Malcolm Douglas Whitman. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With A Touch Of Rubbing At Ends Of Spine, Minute Tear At Each Corner Of Spine, Nearly Invisible Entirely Closed 3/16" Tear At Top Of Front Panel. No Fading, No Names Or Marks. Circa 1921 Original Bookseller's Label Of Brentano's, New York, On Rear Pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to., With photographs throughout. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 219 Pp. Orange Cloth Lettered In Black. First American Edition Stated. Very Near Fine In Very Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $3.50, No Fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Thus. xix + 367 pages. No dustjacket. Marbled boards with ornate deep yellow design, maroon hinges, spine & corenrs with very orante scrolling gilt design,sone fading to colour of spine, gilt titles. Wear to spine-ends with small creases/splits, light wear with tiny frays to corners, first few pages/title page feel a little loose as binding pulled at this point, remaider feels in order. Decorated end-papers, gilt to all page-edges. Text is very clean. A very attractive little volume. Undated - looks about 1890.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Trade Edition. 4to, 107 pp. Signed by publisher. Wrappers lightly handled and edgeworn with some creasing to back cover; corners lightly bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket as issued; In German and English. Illustrated hardcover binding. Writings from the Chief Rider of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna; Small 4to (7 X 0.31 X 10 inches); 123 pages.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Later printing. 8vo, 30 pp. A selection of poems. Wrappers darkened at edges and worn including a few tiny chips. ephemera.

Fair to good condition. Covers are very heavily faded. Spine tips and corners are worn. Spotting on endpapers. Name in pencil on half title page. 323 pages. Maps on endpapers.