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The Carpenter's Apprentice:  The Spritual Biography of Jimmy Carter

The Carpenter's Apprentice: The Spritual Biography of Jimmy Carter

by Ariail, Dan & Cheryl Heckler-Feltz

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Used - Fine
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Fine
Edition
2nd ptg
Published
1996
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780310200123
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Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards, brown spine with gold foil titles, 176 pp, 14 b & w photos in text, sources. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to Ariail, who was Carter's pastor and friend, "You can never adequately grasp Carter himself unless… Read more about this item
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A Very Private Eye:  An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

by Pym, Barbara (Ed. Hazel Holt & Hilary Pym)

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First US Edition
Published
1984
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780525242345
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New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pumpkin boards, white cloth spine with gilt titles, [2 ff], xvii, 358 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, publishing history, index. Very slight edge wear. DJ price-clipped, spine sunned but legible, slight edge wear & small nicks; in… Read more about this item
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie

by Robyns, Gwen

Condition
Used - VG
Jacket Condition
VG
Edition
Early printing
Published
1978
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780385126236
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Title page date matches copyright date. Speckled white boards, blue spine with gilt titles, xv, 247 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, index. Remainder spray on bottom edge. DJ has small tear at tail… Read more about this item
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Literary Life:  A Second Memoir

Literary Life: A Second Memoir

by McMurtry, Larry

Condition
Used - VG
Jacket Condition
VG
Edition
First Trade
Published
2009
Binding
Hardcover
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New York, London, Sydney & Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2009 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. This first trade edition was preceded by a limited edition. Black boards, foil titles on spine, [ix], 175 pp. Minimal overall wear, mylar jacket cover taped to boards by library, anti-theft sticker on rear paste-down;… Read more about this item
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Lillian Hellman:  Her Legend and Her Legacy
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Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy

by Rollyson, Carl

Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
1988
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312000493
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pink boards, natural linen spine with gilt titles, xxii, 613 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, end notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Through newly discovered diaries, letters, state department files, and interviews… Read more about this item
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Passion for Excitement:  The Life and Personality of the Incredible Lord Byron
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Passion for Excitement: The Life and Personality of the Incredible Lord Byron

by Bigland, Eileen

Condition
Used - VG
Jacket Condition
G
Edition
First Edition
Published
1956
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange-red cloth, gilt titles on spine, top edge dyed pale grey, 317 pp, frontispiece, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge. DJ complete but rather tired-looking, tears up to 2 cm long, small chips; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping… Read more about this item
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Robert Frost:  The Aim Was Song
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Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song

by Gould, Jean

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
5th ptg
Published
1964
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Peacock blue boards, gilt titles on spine, xiii, 302 pp, index. Date & one-word note on recto of ffep. DJ has several tears to 2 cm with creasing; in Brodart archival cover. Rear flap of DJ and a card… Read more about this item
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Bernard Shaw (Vol. 1:  1956-1898, The Search for Love)
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Bernard Shaw (Vol. 1: 1956-1898, The Search for Love)

by Holroyd, Michael

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First US Edition
Published
1988
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780394525778
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New York: Random House, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, black cloth spine with foil titles, pictorial endpapers, viii, 486, [1] pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, bibliographical notes, index. Bottom corners bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Michael Holroyd counterpoints… Read more about this item
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Bernard Shaw:  His Life, Work and Friends
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Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends

by Ervine, St. John

Condition
Used - VG
Jacket Condition
G
Edition
First US Edition
Published
1956
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, xi, 628 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, footnotes, index. Boards faded. DJ has quite a few tears 4 to 6 cm, a 3 cm chip, other smaller defects, but… Read more about this item
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Robert Frost and John Bartlett:  The Record of a Friendship
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Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship

by Anderson, Margaret Bartlett

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
No dj
Edition
First Edition
Published
1963
Binding
Hardcover
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New York, Chicago & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full light brown cloth with white, black & brown titles on spine, xiv, 224 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, index. Slight shelf wear, else fine, a review of a collection of Frost's criticism &… Read more about this item
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Always the Young Strangers

Always the Young Strangers

by Sandburg, Carl

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
No dj
Edition
BCE
Published
1952
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, foil titles, pictorial endpapers, top edge dyed green, 445 pp, index. Lightly bumped, previous owner's name on ffep. Carl Sandburg's autobiography. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . Near Fine/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.
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Dictionary of International Biography: A Biographical Record of Contemporary Achievement.... (Fourth Edition, 1967-1968)

Dictionary of International Biography: A Biographical Record of Contemporary Achievement.... (Fourth Edition, 1967-1968)

by Kay, Ernest (Ed.)

Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Published
1967
Binding
Hardcover
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London: Dictionary of International Biography Company, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth-textured boards with gilt titles, xv, 614, [14] pp, 1 color plate. DJ has a couple of small blemishes along bottom edge, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Over 10,000 capsule biographies. This copy is from the estate… Read more about this item
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Birdwatcher:  The Life of Roger Tory Peterson

Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson

by Rosenthal, Elizabeth J.

Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
2008
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9781599212944
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Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2008 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, brown spine with gilt titles, green endpapers, vi, 437 pp, 8 ff photo plates (5 ff in color & 3 ff b&w), index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This biography of the noted ornithologist and founder of the Peterson's… Read more about this item
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Alexis de Tocqueville:  A Biography

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography

by Brogan, Hugh

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
2nd ptg
Published
2006
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9781861975096
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London: Profile Books, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gold foil titles on spine, [xi], 724 pp, 3 maps, 4 ff b & w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Top corner of front board bumped, otherwise fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The DJ blurb has this to say about… Read more about this item
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Boswell's Life of Johnson including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales (6 Volumes)

Boswell's Life of Johnson including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales (6 Volumes)

by Boswell, James (Ed. by George Birkbeck Hill)

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Used - Good
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No dj
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Hardcover
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New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. National Edition. No date, but Hill's preface is dated 1887. Six volumes in full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt. Two leaves of preface of volume 1 have large (about 7 cm) tears, otherwise very good.… Read more about this item
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid:  A Memoir

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

by Bryson, Bill

Condition
Used - Fair
Jacket Condition
Fair
Edition
First Edition
Published
2006
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780767919364
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New York: Broadway Books (Random House), 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard-yellow boards, blue spine with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, xiii, 270, [3] pp, photos in text. Large beverage stain along top edge looks rather ugly from above, but affects only the outer margins of some pages while reading, little wear otherwise.… Read more about this item
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Autobiography of Mark Twain (Volume 1)

Autobiography of Mark Twain (Volume 1)

by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] (Harriet Elinor Smith et al., Eds.)

Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
4th ptg
Published
2010
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780520267190
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Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2010 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Off-white boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, burnt-orange endpapers, xix, 736, [3] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. 4th ptg. .… Read more about this item
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Thornton Wilder:  His World
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Thornton Wilder: His World

by Simon, Linda

Condition
Used - VG
Jacket Condition
VG
Edition
First Edition
Published
1979
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780385128407
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, xiii, 298 pp, Extensively annotated in the handwriting of Minneapolis playwright and director Waring Jones. Price-clipped DJ is torn & creased at head of spine, otherwise has very little wear;… Read more about this item
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The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers

The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers

by Kenney, Catherine

Condition
Used - Ex-Library
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
Published
1990
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780873384100
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Kent, OH & London: The Kent State University Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xvii, 309 pp, frontispiece, notes, bibliography, index. Lightly used branch library copy has minimal library markings consisting of three stickers including a "Withdrawn" sticker; a bump to bottom edge… Read more about this item
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Time Remembered

Time Remembered

by Read, Miss (Dora Saint)

Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First US Edition
Published
1987
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780395428566
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, pictorial endpapers, x, 102 pp, 68 illustrations in text. DJ has very slight corner wear; in Brodart archival cover. Novelist Miss Read recalls her three years as a pupil at a village school in Chelsfield,… Read more about this item
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