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New York: Living Books, 1966. No edition stated, 1966. Cloth binding, 323 pp. Biography of Alexander Korda, the Hungarian film-maker, who made over 150 films. He was the most colorful and perhaps the most outstanding of the long list of Hungarian film tycoons which includes Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Joe Pasternak, Michael Curtiz, Gabriel Pascal, Charles Vidor, Andrew Marton, Steve Sekely - to mention only a few. Dustjacket is sunned at spine, edgeworn at extremities. Near fine in very good dustjacket, pr... more information

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Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1817. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1817. No edition stated. 12mo. Quarter leather over marble boards. All edges trimmed. 424 pp. Tactius' Annals in Latin. Spine quite rubbed and dry, lacking labels, with some lengthwise cracking. Front hinge cracked. Solid reading copy in very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 mo.. ... more information

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Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1817. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1817. No edition stated. 12mo. Quarter leather over marble boards. All edges trimmed. 140 pp. Tactius' Germany in Latin with pull-out chart of the dynasties of the Caesars and two lengthy indices of the Caesar and words in the book. Spine quite rubbed and dry, lacking labels, with some lengthwise cracking. Front hinge cracked. Solid reading copy in very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 mo.. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 93 p. Taggard's collected poems. Inscribed and signed by the author to her friend Dorothy Glaser. Dampstaining to pages. Very good.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Macmillan, 1922. London: Macmillan, 1922. Reprint of first edition. 12mo. Hard cover binding, 123 pp. Some pages uncut. Laid paper. Previous owner name. Very good.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12 mo.. ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Reprint. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 252 pp. The financial bailout of 2008 with its winners and losers. A gripping story. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. ... more information

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Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2000. First Edition. Cloth binding, 173 pp. As an activist in Mexico in the '60s, Paco Ignacio Taibo II began a search for figures in leftist history that his generation could look up to. Today an internationally famous detective novelist An Easy Thing, etc., the writer has validated his quest with a novel-documentary, in which he reimagines a historical figure--a mysterious Spanish anarchist named Sebastian San Vincente. Casting himself... more information

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New York: St Martins Press, 2003. First American Edition, translated from the Spanish Retornamos como sombras by Ezra E. Fitz. Cloth binding, 455 pp. In 1991, Paco Taibo II wrote The Shadow of a Shadow, a book about four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City. The time is 1922, and the men are a motley group - a poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organizer, a lawyer who represents prostitutes, and a newspaper crime reporte... more information

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Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2000. Saint Paul: Consortium, 2000. First Edition. Cloth binding, 173 pp. As an activist in Mexico in the '60s, Paco Ignacio Taibo II began a search for figures in leftist history that his generation could look up to. Today an internationally famous detective novelist An Easy Thing, etc., the writer has validated his quest with a novel-documentary, in which he reimagines a historical figure--a mysterious Spanish anarchist named Sebastian... more information

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Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2000. First Edition. Cloth binding, 173 pp. As an activist in Mexico in the '60s, Paco Ignacio Taibo II began a search for figures in leftist history that his generation could look up to. Today an internationally famous detective novelist An Easy Thing, etc., the writer has validated his quest with a novel-documentary, in which he reimagines a historical figure--a mysterious Spanish anarchist named Sebastian San Vincente. Casting himself in ... more information

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University of Washington Press, 1982. First edition, second printing. Trade paperback, 361 pp. Previously used by student, this book has a few highlighted pages and some notes. However, it is a solid copy, clean except for defects noted. Not too many of these around, so we are listing it. Good condition.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Hiroshima, Japan: Yamabe Printing Company, 1969. Hiroshima: Yamabe, 1969. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Stapled wrappers. Signed by Harold C. Cooper, who wrote the foreword. 46 pp. Photographs and testimony of Hiroshima survivors on the twenty-four anniversary of the city's destruction by atomic bomb. Corners bent, a little shelfworn, lightly soiled. Good condition.. Signed - Association Copy. First Edition. Wrappers. Good. Illus. by Photographs. Oblong 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 359 p. Index. Bibliographical essay. Translated by Noah Jonathan Jacobs. The author offers a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the relationships of the Jews and Gentiles in Germany during the crucial decades before World War I. Fine in near fine dustjacket in mylar cover.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. First edition. 8vo. Orange cloth, rough cut pages, 247 pp. This book has both power and conviction. A gifted young poetess strives to complete with her talented brother whose genius is already a matter of record. When she falls in love, she is offered a chance to escape, but even that is lost when her dynamic brother includes her heart's desire in his radiant circle and she again becomes an outsider. Fine in a nea... more information

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New Haven CN: Yale University Press, 2005. First Editition. 11.50x9.00". Brand new. Hard cover binding, 337 pp. Benjamin Franklin In Search of a Better World was designed to accompany the traveling Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary exhibilition celebrating Franklin's 300th birthday; illustrated by more than 265 color images. Introduction by Walter Isaacson; afterword by Edmund S. Morgan. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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New Haven CN: Yale University Press, 2005. First Editition. 11.50x9.00". Brand new. Hard cover binding, 337 pp. Benjamin Franklin In Search of a Better World was designed to accompany the traveling Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary exhibilition celebrating Franklin's 300th birthday; illustrated by more than 265 color images. Introduction by Walter Isaacson; afterword by Edmund S. Morgan. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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New York: H. W. Derby, 1861. New York: Derby, 1861. Cloth binding, 408 pp. Engraved portrait of Lamb, protective tissue. Letters of Lamb from 1775 to 1834 with an accompanying life ending at Lamb's death. Although further volumes were written, and this is marked as Volume I, this appears to have standalone integrity. Includes letters to Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge. Spine cloth is fragmented, foxing to prelims, else tightly bound.. Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Fair. Illus. by Illustrated. 12mo - o... more information

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New York: H. W. Derby, 1861. New York: H.W. Derby, 1861. Early reprint. 12mo. Final memorials of Charles Lamb, consisting chiefly of his letters not before published, with sketches of some of his companions. Decorative cloth binding, 329 pp. Wear to spine along edge. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Chipping top of spine. Fair condition. . Early Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Antique ex-library. ... more information

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New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1985. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First edition. 8vo. Brown quarter cloth over rust colored boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine and front board, rough cut pages, 233 pp. This tale bears traits that readers of Elizabeth Tallent's stories will recognize: an unfailing generosity toward her characters, a precise depiction of complicated emotions, and a sensual evocation of the American Southwest. Price clipped, otherwise this book is in pristine condition. Ap... more information

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New York: The Mentor Association, 1919. New York: Mentor Association, 1919. 4to. Stapled wrappers containing 6 loose photographs of oil industry, followed by 13 additional pp. of photographs. Very good condition.. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to.. ... more information

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