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Besant, Walter
WESTMINSTER
Imprint: New York, Frederick A Stokes Company, 1895
Binding: Hardcover
Boards slightly bowed. Good repair job to both hinges. ; Top edge gilt. Home of the famous Abbey. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 398 pages, Very Good+. Illustr: Illustrated by Patten, William
Stock number: 8087.
$US 40.00 |
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Bessie, Alvah
THE SYMBOL
Imprint: New York, Random House, 1966
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Bookplate; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 305 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 7235.
$US 50.00 |
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Betjeman, John
SUMMONED BY BELLS
Imprint: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1960
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
Slight tanning to DJ and with light chipping; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 97 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 19120.
$US 30.00 |
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Bettiza, Enzo
QUI MOSCA
Imprint: Touring Club Italiano, N.D.
Binding: Hardcover
In Italian. Portrait of the city with beautiful photographs, mostly photogravures ; Grandi Citta Del Mondo; Photographs; 4to, Very Good+
Stock number: 608.
$US 50.00 |
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Bewley, Christina
MUIR OF HUNTERSHILL
Imprint: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Thomas Muir campaigned relentlessly for civil rights for his fellow Scots which got him deported to Australia, from where he escaped on a ship bound for America. Eventually he returned to Europe where he continued his campaign for constitutional reform ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 212 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 16357. ISBN: 0192117688
$US 30.00 |
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Bey, Amine Youssef
INDEPENDENT EGYPT
Imprint: London, John Murray, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Orange boards discolored in front. Previous owner's inscription in front endpaper. Front hinge weakening ; History of Egypt for the twentieth century up to the outbreak of WW2. Mr. Bey was an Egyptian nationalist, yet relatively sympathetic to the position of the British colonialists ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 1940 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 3785.
$US 50.00 |
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Bibby, Geoffrey
DES CAVERNES À L'EUROPE DES VIKINGS
Imprint: Librairie Plon
Binding: Flexible cloth
DJ with small open tears; Profusely illustrated. Nd. [1950s] ; 8vo; 474 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 17618.
$US 50.00 |
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Bibby, Geoffrey
LOOKING FOR DILMUN
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1969
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to slightly faded DJ with one small closed tear; Discovering the oldest known culture in the world. Stated first edition; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 383,viii pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 14464.
$US 30.96 |
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Bierman, John
DARK SAFARI The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
Binding: Hardcover
8vo; 401 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stock number: 18473. ISBN: 0394583426
$US 30.00 |
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Bigelow, Frances Hill
HISTORIC SILVER OF THE COLONIES AND ITS MAKERS
Imprint: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Browning to endpapers. Binding slightly loose in a couple of spots ; Originally published in 1917, this is the fourth reprinting of the standard reference to colonial silver; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 476 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 8311.
$US 90.00 |
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Bigelow, John
MEMOIR OF THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF JOHN CHARLES FREMONT
Imprint: New York, Derby & Jackson, 1856
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Foxing & browning throughout. Wear to extremities; Biography of John C. Fremont, who, in the pantheon of exploration, was slightly unusual in that his explorations were wholly within the US. Elected to the US Senate, he was nominated for the presidency but lost the election of 1856. One of America's overlooked statesmen; B&W Illustrations; 12mo; 480 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 11698.
$US 120.86 |
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Billings, John D.
HARDTACK AND COFFEE Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life
Imprint: New York, Time Life, 1982
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Full leather binding. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Three dimensional pictorial decoration to front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers; Collector's Library of the Civil War; 8vo; 408 pages, Near Fine
Stock number: 9034. ISBN: 0809442094
$US 30.93 |
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Billings, Warren M. [editor]
THE OLD DOMINION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY A Documentary History of Virginia 1606-1689
Imprint: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1976
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
Chipping and small open tears to price clipped DJ; Documents and other source materials make up this detailed history of colonial Virginia, many of which are seen here for the first time; 8vo; 324 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 16622. ISBN: 080781234x
$US 25.00 |
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Bird Bishop, Isabella
SIX MONTHS AMONG THE PALM GROVES, CORAL REEFS, AND VOLCANOES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing and scuffing. One small bump to spine. Bookplate. Front free endpaper missing corner. Neat underlining to very few pages ; 8vo, Very Good
Stock number: 17167.
$US 250.00 |
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Bird, Frederick L.
A STUDY OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK AUTHORITY
Imprint: New York, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities with spotting and slight dampstaining to boards; Stats, analysis, and som b&w pics covering the history and then-current operations of the Port Authority; 8vo; 191 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 14757.
$US 65.00 |
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Birrell, Augustine
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON A Character Sketch with a Small Selection from Letters Addressed to Him and Bibliographical Notes on a Few of the Books Formerly in the Rowfant Library
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920
Binding: Hardcover
Nice contemporary bookplate; Scarce. With etched frontispiece ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 206 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 7075.
$US 90.00 |
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Bishop, Joseph Bucklin
A CHRONICLE OF ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY YEARS The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York 1768-1918
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918
Binding: Hardcover
Minor rubbing to extremities. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded ; Dark red boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 311 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 2951.
$US 60.00 |
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Bishop, Joseph Bucklin
UNCLE SAM'S PANAMA CANAL AND WORLD HISTORY Accompanying the Panama Canal Flat-Globe
Imprint: New York, World Syndicate Company, 1913
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing and light soiling; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 234 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 9687.
$US 30.00 |
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Bishop, Nathaniel H.
VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOE A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5
Imprint: Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1978
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light rubbing to boards. Hinges professionally repaired. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; It sounds like a crazy idea then and now both the route (from Quebec to Florida) and the means of transport. There was some glue involved with the canoe as it was made out of papier maché. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 19226.
$US 225.00 |
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Bisland, Elizabeth
AT THE SIGN OF THE HOBBY HORSE
Imprint: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910
Binding: Hardcover
DJ browned, frail and torn; Essays on various subjects notable for run-on sentences ; Ex-Library; 8vo; 254 pages, Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket
Stock number: 12017.
$US 40.00 |
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Bisland, Elizabeth
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN [TWO VOLUMES]
Imprint: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Previous owner's notes on front endpaper. Light rubbing to extremities. Illustrations missing, frontispieces present. Vol. 1: front hinge weakening; Brown boards with blindstamped vignette to front and gilt spine lettering ; 8vo; 475, 560 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 1272.
$US 75.00 |
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Bixby, William
SOUTH STREET New York's Seaport Museum
Imprint: New York, David Mckay, 1972
Binding: Hardcover
DJ a bit browning along spine ; B&W Illustrations; 4to; 114 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 2578.
$US 20.00 |
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Bixby, William
SOUTH STREET New York's Seaport Museum
Imprint: New York, David McKay Company, Inc., 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to DJ with sticker residue to front flap. Rear board slightly sunned. Top corners slightly bumped; The story of the great days when South Street was lined with all types of sailing ships ; B&W Illustrations; 4to; 114 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 15805.
$US 25.00 |
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Black, Adam & Charles
BLACK'S GUIDE TO WARWICKSHIRE
Imprint: Edinburgh, A & C Black, 1879
Edition: Fifth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Small tear to spine covering and top spine. Boards with light wear to extremities. Front hinge started with webbing showing, but holding strongly. Very few pages in advertising section have been trimmed due to a small binding error ; With numerous maps, plans, and drawings. Quite rare ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; vi, 215, 112 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 12334.
$US 100.00 |
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[A & C Black]
BLACK'S TOURIST'S GUIDE TO IRELAND
Imprint: Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1888
Edition: Twentieth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on half title page and occasional travel notes; The Black's Tourists's Guides are wonderfully detailed Baedeker clones with an extensive ad section at rear and with numerous fold-out maps and many sketches and plenty of other illustrations. They are quite rare ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 354, 123, pages, Very Good
Stock number: 19418.
$US 150.00 |
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Black, Elizabeth Walker
HOSPITAL HEROES
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Spine faded. Slight wear to extremities. Binding not tight; Mobile and temporary hospitals during the fierce fighting during World War I ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 223 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 14164.
$US 50.00 |
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[A & C Black]
A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE
Imprint: Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1885
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Spine ends rubbed. Bookplate; A handsome true first edition of this classic. Medium brown boards with gilt spine lettering. Binding tight; 12mo; 255 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 3925.
$US 250.00 |
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Black, C. B.
THE RIVIERA Or the Coast from Marseilles to Leghorn Including the Interior Towns of Carrara, Lucca, Pisa and Pistoia
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1892
Edition: Eighth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light wear to extremities. Hinges weakening ; With 13 maps and nine plans ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 154 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 12187.
$US 75.00 |
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Black, C. B.
TOURAINE AND BRITTANY
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1909
Edition: Fourteenth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to extremities. Bookplate and partly erased owner's name to first blank page; With twelve maps and fourteen plans. Numerous b&w photographs. The maps are very detailed and pretty - many of them in colors; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 204 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 12206.
$US 125.00 |
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Blackburn, Henry
ARTISTIC TRAVEL A Thousand Miles Towards the Sun; in Normandy, Brittany, Pyrenees, Spain & Algeria
Imprint: London, Sampson Low, 1892
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Front hinge started. ; Profusely illustrated. ; Lithograph; 8vo; xiii,320 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 487.
$US 175.00 |
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Blaikie, W. Garden
The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from His Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family
Imprint: New York, Fleming H. Revell Company
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light wear to extremities. Spine sunned. Bookplate. ; 8vo, Very Good
Stock number: 18448.
$US 30.00 |
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Blaine, James G.
TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS [TWO VOLUME SET] From Lincoln to Garfield with a Review of the Events Which Led Up to the Revolution of 1860
Imprint: Norwich, CT, The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1884,1886
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to extremities. Spine ends chipped with small parts missing. Paper guards for illustrations browned and brittle, with the guard to the volume 2 frontispiece detached but present. Volume two binding not tight and hinges started; Memoir of the former Speaker of the House, Senator, and by two-time Secretary of State Blaine, who also narrowly missed the Presidency, being defeated by Chester Arthur in a very close election in 1884. Focusing on the run-up to the Civil War (1861-1865) ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 646,724 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 16152.
$US 200.00 |
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Blair, Gwenda
ALMOST GOLDEN Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News
Imprint: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1988
Binding: Hardcover
DJ price clipped. Pages a bit browned ; 8vo; 352 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 17837.
$US 20.00 |
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Blake, A. H.
LONDON CAMEOS
Imprint: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Wear and chipping to DJ with spine sunned. Previous owner's name in front free endpaper; Charming guide with picture and description of landmark on facing pages ; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 255 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 11250.
$US 35.00 |
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Blake, Jody; Lasansky Jeannette
RURAL DELIVERY Real Photo Postcards from Central Pennsylvania 1905-1935
Imprint: Union County Historical Society, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 136 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 17498. ISBN: 0271016264
$US 45.00 |
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Blake, W T
TRAVELS OF A WHITE ELEPHANT
Imprint: New York, Taplinger Publishing Company, 1960
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with one corner lightly bumped. ; The travel writer and aviator is writing about his trips to Morocco, Russia, Rhodesia, Victoria, Iguazu, Niagara, Dalmatia, Greece, Cyprus, The Balkans, The Andes, Titicaca, Tiahuanaco, Casamira, Siam, Germany, Denmark. This book was inspired by a BBC broadcast from 1958 ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 256 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 19706.
$US 35.00 |
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Blanchard, Raoul; Faucher, D.; Faucher, J.
Cours de Géographie Cours élémentaire
Imprint: Paris, Librairie Gedalge
Edition: Sixth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Profusely illustrated school book; 8vo; 56 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 18686.
$US 25.00 |
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Bledlow, John
THE COTSWOLDS IN COLOUR A Collection of Colour Photographs
Imprint: London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1957
Binding: Hardcover
DJ darkened, price clipped and with light chipping; The famous English countryside in wonderful color photographs and brief description; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 95 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 18972.
$US 30.00 |
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Bliven, Bruce; Bliven, Naomi
NEW YORK The Story of the World's Most Exciting City
Imprint: New York, Random House, 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Light chipping to DJ. Binding loose first few pages (but holding together) ; Stunning pre twin-towers b&w photography; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 131 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 18637.
$US 30.00 |
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Bloom, Vera
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE WASHINGTON
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1944
Binding: Hardcover
Spine ends a bit rubbed; B&W Photographs; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 296 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 4408.
$US 15.00 |
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Blount, Roy, Jr
ONE FELL SOUP Or I'M Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life
Imprint: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1982
Binding: Hardcover; Third Printing
One small closed tear and very light chipping to DJ. Priceclipped; 8vo; 278 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 17700. ISBN: 0316100056
$US 30.00 |
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Blum, Daniel [editor]
THEATRE WORLD Season 1948-49
Imprint: New York, Greenberg, 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Light wear to extremities; Original owner's signature and note in front free endpaper (Edwin Talbott Thayer) A letter is tipped in from Vincent Price (signed 'Vincent') to Thayer for his contribution to the show they were in. Since neither man is mentioned in this volume, it must have been a show from a previous year. But the '48-'49 season was a good one all the same, with 'Death of a Salesman' and 'Anne of the Thousand Days' opening, and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Born Yesterday' held over. Lots of pics & info about the shows and actors of the time ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 224 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 11925.
$US 350.00 |
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Blunden, Edmund
THE BONADVENTURE A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923
Binding: Hardcover
Minor rubbing to extremities; Top edge gilt; 8vo; 245 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 851.
$US 25.00 |
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Blunt, Wilfrid
THE DREAM KING Ludvig II of Bavaria
Imprint: New York, The Viking Press, 1970
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear and small closed tears to price clipped DJ. Bookplate; Thrust, ill-prepared, onto the throne at age 18, King Ludvig was a patron of Wagner and a victim of intrigue within his own court ; B&W and Color Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 264 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 12370. ISBN: 0670284564
$US 15.00 |
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Blythe, Ronald
PLACES An Anthology of Britain
Imprint: New York, Oxford University Press, 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Compiler Blythe has gathered essays about what magic or mystery invest certain places with significance or meaning to an individual. Over forty writers weigh in on these places around the British Isles; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 231 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 16157. ISBN: 0192115758
$US 15.00 |
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Board Of Public Printing
INDIANA 1930
Imprint: Indianapolis, Board of Public Printing, 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremitites and with spine ends frayed ; Decorative boards with a brass lookalike seal of the State of Indiana. Profusely illustrated yearbook; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 172 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 9522.
$US 50.00 |
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Board Of Directors Of The Theatre Guild
THE THEATRE GUILD ANTHOLOGY
Imprint: New York, Random House, 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Front hinge a bit weak. Gilt spine lettering faded; 8vo; 973 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 2646.
$US 50.00 |
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Board Of Directors Of The Theatre Guild
THE THEATRE GUILD ANTHOLOGY
Imprint: New York, Random House, 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Binding weak in front. Spine faded; The Theatre Guild was formed in 1918 to further appreciation of theatre works. This anthology contains the works of Milne, Shaw, and Heyward, among others ; 8vo; 973 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 9498.
$US 50.00 |
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Bobrick, Benson
FEARFUL MAJESTY The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible
Imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with light wear and one small open tear ; Was Ivan the Terrible a cruel and dangerous tyrant, or a misunderstood leader in the modern sense? ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 398 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 15536. ISBN: 0399132562
$US 25.00 |
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Bocca, Geoffrey
THE GREAT RESORTS An Inside View
Imprint: New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1971
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with light shelfwear ; Irreverent look at some of the Europe's noted resorts ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 169 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 16169.
$US 15.00 |
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