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The Life of DANIEL DANA, D. D. By Members of His Family with a Sketch of His Character by W. B. Sprague, D. D.

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, J. E. Tilton and Company: 1866

Seller ID: 2088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Brown cloth, blindstamped covers, gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Daniel Dana. Same date on title and copyright pages. Scarce.; 5" x 7-3/4"; vii, 279 pp; Spine worn at top, bottom and front edge with some small losses, worn corners, worn board edges, ownership stamp on reverse of frontispiece and at rear, somewhat foxed on title page and frontispiece from tissue insert, slight foxing of last two unprinted leaves, text otherwise in VG condition without tears or writing, solid hinges.
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The LIFE of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. including A Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides (Set, complete in ten volumes)

By: Boswell, James

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn: 1846

Seller ID: 4374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

New Edition, with numerous additions and notes, by The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P. to which are added, Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana, by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and Others. An notes by various hands. Also, upwards of Fifty Engraved Illustrations. Volumes are uniformly bound with blue leather spines and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, spines with elaborate gilt decorations and five raised bands, two brown leather spine labels with gilt lettering,top edge gilt, the aforementioned illustrations on plates, each volu...
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FELIX PAUL GREVES KARRIERE / Frederick Philip Grove in Deutschland

By: Martens, Klaus

Price: $30.00

Publisher: St. Ingbert, Röhrig UniversitätsVerlag: 1997

Seller ID: 3273

ISBN: 3-86110-128-9

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light pink wraps with French fold flaps, covers illustrated with wrap-around grouping of photographs, illustrated with photographs, text in German. ; 6-3/4" x 9-1/2"; 407 pp; Covers lightly soiled and creased at corners, pages clean and unmarked, some are slightly creased at upper right.
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Oliver Goldsmith

By: Neal, Minnie Mills

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Pageant Press: 1955

Seller ID: 6269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Gray cloth, brown lettering to spine. Cream dust wrapper illustrated with portrait of Goldsmith. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 86 pp; The author's "first serious, full length biography" (jacket rear flap). Uncommon, especially in dust jacket. ; Little wear to book. Jacket edgeworn with closed tears but minimal losses, several spots of brown staining, not price clipped ($2.50), in clear protective cover.
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less [signed]

By: Ryan, Terry; Suze Orman (Foreword)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: (2001)

Seller ID: 4877

ISBN: 0-7432-1122-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Red cloth boards, white cloth spine lettered in silver, frontispiece photograph of author, additional b&w illustrations. White and red illustrated dust jacket. This title bound with the half-title page following the Contents; this copy with the inked signature of the author thereon, uncommon thus.; 5-3/4" x 8-3/4"; 351 pp; Signed by Author; Ex-library (withdrawn from Oakland Public Library), with several markings on front free endpaper and three labels affixed to dust jacket. Book has wear at corners, vintage clear jacket cover is taped to the book boards. Spine is cocked, book has dam...
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Screaming Eagle Memoirs of a B-17 Group Commander

By: Smith, Dale O. [Major-General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1990

Seller ID: 2458

ISBN: 0-912697-99-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Red paper boards, blue cloth spine with gold lettering, tan endpapers, illustrated. Pictorial dust jacket. This copy bears a presentation inscription on the FFEP penned and signed by the author and dated in the year of publication. ; 5-1/2" x 8-3/4"; x, 241 pp; Signed by Author; Faint spotting to page edges, otherwise only the slightest of wear to both book and jacket. Jacket not price clipped, retaining the original $18.95 price, in clear protective cover.
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Category: Biography

The Life of DANIEL DANA, D. D. By Members of His Family with a Sketch of His Character by W. B. Sprague, D. D.

The LIFE of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. including A Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides (Set, complete in ten volumes)

FELIX PAUL GREVES KARRIERE / Frederick Philip Grove in Deutschland

Oliver Goldsmith

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less [signed]

Screaming Eagle Memoirs of a B-17 Group Commander