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Waiting For The Wind SIGNED

By: Broach, Claude Upshaw

Price: $28.00

Publisher: NC, The Seebro Company: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 38108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Burgundy hardcover has gold gilt lettering with negligible wear. Unclipped dj has lightly sunned spine, a small crease along upper edge with two 1/16" closed tears, upper tip is lightly worn and foot of spine has light creasing. Title page has "For Sydney Underwood, with best wishes, and a lively hello to Elizabeth & Bryan, Claude U. Broach". 138 pages of tight & bright text with no tears or blemishes. In these brief essays, you willl find a broad slice of life-stories with courage, humor, pathos, and thoughts to stretch your mind, a potpourri of memories and commentary on issues o...
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The Nibelungen Lied

By: Carlyle, Thomas

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons:

Edition: Possible First

Seller ID: 27786

Binding: Limp Covers

Condition: Very Good

Red limp cloth covers with gilt embellishments on frt board and backstrip. Carlyle's essay on the classic German poem. A volume in the Ariel Booklets series. 150 pp. Name/date 1937 on fep. Inner hinge cracked at second blank endpaper, sewing exposed but page block tight and bright. Crisp, clean copy.
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The Illustrated Souvenir A Gift Book for the Holidays with Forty-Two Engravings

By: Compilation Authored

Price: $28.00

Publisher: MA, Stone and Pratt: 1852

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

1852 only printing listed. Royal blue cloth with ornate gilt floral and scrolling leaf designs all over covers and backstrip. Corners bumped and worn, spine ends rubbed with loss, small 3/4" split in bottom of front gutter, inner hinge paper cracked, page block tight and holding fine. Tissue guarded frontis present, gift dedication on fep. Small white paint dot on foot of rear board, backstrip dulled but quite legible. Endpapers foxed 190 pp. Poems, essays, full page collectible engravings, and musical notation of ballads for the family to sing.
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Ugly A Hospital Dog Told By Himself And Recitations and Readings

By: Dabbs, George II. R., M.D.

Price: $17.00

Publisher: London, Charles William Deacon & Co.: 1902

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 34900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Nice solid copy in soiled cream linen cloth boards. 200 pp text crisp and unmarked. Part 1 has the reminiscences of a very talented bulldog with privileged access to wards and beds in a pre-E-coli. age. Part 2 is an assembly of short essays by a gifted and prolific writer on diverse subjects.
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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War SIGNED

By: Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers

Price: $50.00

Publisher: IL, Open Court: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 33786

ISBN: 0812693116

Binding: Cloth Boards

Condition: Very Good +

1st edition hardcover with sharp tips and spine ends. Signed by author fep. Several of the interior pages are wavy at foot due to possible water damage. Not stained, musty or moldy. 421 pp text is crisp and tight. This book combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author survey...
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A Gift To America Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection

By: Ishikawa, Chiyo; Orr, Lynne Federle; Shackleford, George T.M.; Steel, David; Essays By Marilyn Perry & Edgar Peters Bowron

Price: $9.00

Publisher: NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 31337

ISBN: 0810925621

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

No names, tears, soil or marks. 304 pp. Special museum publication. Negligible wear to tips of glossy uncreased illustrated soft covers. A background to the Kress collection introduces this fully illustrated, descriptive catalogue of 57 paintings. Artists featured include Tiepolo, Batoni, Canaletto, Claude Lorrain, and Rubens. With bibliography, indices of works in the exhibition by artist, and by location.
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The Private Collection of Edgar Degas A Summary Catalog

By: Ives, Colta; Stein, Susan Alyson; Steiner, Julie A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, The Metropolitain Museum of Art: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 31338

ISBN: 0870998374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine 1st edition hardcover in near fine dj. No names, tears, soil or marks. Dark green cloth boards sharp and straight. 142 pg text as new. One 1" closed tear to lower edge of dj front panel, now in new mylar and displays beautifully. This volume represents a reconstruction of Edgar Degas' private collection of over 5000 paintings, drawings and prints, which came to light at his death in 1917 and has long since been dispersed. The book also contains 11 essays about the artist and his passionately held ideals.
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The Museum Of The Horse Domaine de Chantilly

By: Jodidio, Philip

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Munich, London, NY, Prestel: 2013

Edition: 1st English Trade Edition

Seller ID: 46305

ISBN: 3791352989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Brand new, gift quality, oversized hardcover in smooth merlot colored paper over hard boards with sharp tips and spine ends. Measures 11.25" x 9.75" x 7/8" . 176 pp text is flawless, crisp, unmarked, unread book in gorgeous, unc-clipped, full color glossy photo dj of 8 race horses on grass, coming around the final turn with the Museum in the background. DJ protected in new mylar to keep it looking like new always. Published to commemorate the reopening of an equestrian museum, this book celebrates the grandeur of the horse. One of France's most visited monuments, the Chateau...
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Valley Horses Volume II Genesee Valley Hunt

By: Kelley, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Sanders Newspapers: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 44690

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

59 pg stapled booklet with faint tiny soil spot on rear cover, tiny indentation on frt cov near title, else fine. Rare 59 pp work by woman author sportswoman "Michael" Kelley and is a collection of her weekly newspaper columns. Lively personal essays on the chase. Her second work, following the first volume printed in 1975. Illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings by Custer Cassidy, John Tickner, and clip art (b/w vignettes) from the Chronicle of the Horse. Collectible copy.
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The Complete Book of Erotic Art Volumes 1 and 2

By: Kronhausen, Drs. Phyllis and Eberhard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Bell Publishing Company: 1978

Seller ID: 46794

ISBN: 051724893X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Straight, square 10th printing hardcover in quarter-bound rust paper covered boards with a black cloth covered backstrip. Head of spine cloth barely crushed, board tips still sharp. 270 pp text is crisp, unmarked and profusely illustrated primarily with 781 b/w plates and 81 color plates on glossy stock scattered throughout this work. The unclipped, black background dust jacket is now in protective archival mylar shows a crescent shaped closed tear at the head of spine area on frt cover, the upper and lower dj flap fold tips show a hint of color loss and the front dj flap has a diagonal crea...
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Fed Up And Hungry Women, Oppression and Food

By: Lawrence, Marilyn Editor; Foreword By Susie Orbach

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, Peter Bedrick Books: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28731

ISBN: 0872261727

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

1st edition paperback with rubbed spine ends & corners, sticker rems on rear cover, 236 pp text is tight, bright and unmarked. A stimulating and positive collection of essays by woman who have had direct experience, personal or professional, of anorexia nervosa, bulimia and compulsive overeating. Analyzing the complex social forces which dominate women's lives and affect their relationship with their bodies, the authors insist that it is not the medical establishment which offers the chance for women to reclaim their bodies, but the unique insights offered by the women's liberation movement ...
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The Oregon Trail

By: Parkman, Francis; Edited From His Notebooks by Mason Wade

Price: $38.00

Publisher: CT, Heritage Press: 1971

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 38648

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1971 reprint of the Heritage Club's 1943 Edition. Magnificent light brown leather boards with gilt lettering and illustrated front board. Peach paper colored slipcase *very* lightly soiled and rubbed. 297 pages of pristine text and illustrations. Promo leaflet for The Sandglass, Number VI-R:41, another Heritage Club offering laid in. The story of a young man of privilege who left the comfort of his Boston home and set off on an arduous and unforgettable journey to the untamed West. This timeless account of Parkman's travels and travails affords the reader a vivid portrayal of the rough fr...
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Mama Pajama Tells A Story A Collection of Writings About Dogs and Their Servants TWICE SIGNED

By: Renzulli, Patience C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: IN, Authorhouse: 2007

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 42602

ISBN: 1434306240

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Double signed on title page by author, simple first/last name, then another time, dedicated To Jan, All the best, Patience Renzulli. If you have ever loved a dog you will adore this book. The first edition of this little book sold out, creating fans all over the world. This edition adds over thirty-five new writings, destined to become classic favorites. 286 pp. The author takes the everyday mundane flux of living with her beloved dogs and writes essays that have her readers laughing, crying, nodding their heads, and hugging their dogs. The stories have heart, and a wry sense of humor, and ab...
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The Drunken Boat and Other Poems (Le Bateau Lvre) Translator's Presentation Copy

By: Rimbaud, Arthur, Translated by Robert Scholten

Price: $37.00

Publisher: Lexington, KY, Xlibris: 2012

Edition: 1st Edition

Inscription: Signed by Translator

Seller ID: 46298

ISBN: 1479728357

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Gift quality glossy softcover with translator's presentation note on half title page: For Mary with love Rob Scholten. ISBN: 9781479728350. 65 poems printed in both French and English. Cute photo-shopped cover image of a white origami paper boat being tossed by the waves of the ocean. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), raised in northern France, burst upon the literary scene in Paris in the sixteenth year of his life at the time of the Franco-Prussian war. His poems speak of his memories, joys, disappointments and agonies, of love and an abhorrence of war and violence, of the French Revolutio...
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Horse People Writers and Artists on the Horses They Love

By: Rosen, Michael J.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, Artisan: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28206

ISBN: 1885183933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine 1st edition hard cover in fine dj. Burgundy glossy boards pointed, text is clean, bright, and free of marks. Binding is tight and secure. DJ in mylar display beautifully. Lovely coffee table or gift book. Collection of essays and art by authors and artists celebrating their equine companions. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and artwork. 159 pp.
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The Persian Gulf At The Millennium: Essays In Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion

By: Sick, Gary G.; Potter, Lawrence G.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: NY, St. Martin's Press: 1997

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 44773

ISBN: 0312175671

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

1st edition glossy paperback with some highlighting in first half of text. No names or tears. 345 pp plus index. In The Persian Gulf at the Millennium, the most prominent Gulf specialists from both the Western world and the Persian Gulf are brought together to look at this extraordinarily active and influential part of the world. The scholars identify and examine the issues that have the potential to affect future developments in the region, including ongoing rapid demographic changes, the relationship of the oil market to political stability and progress, the resurgence of Islam as a polit...
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E.B. White The Elements of a Writer

By: Tingum, Janice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: MN, Learner Publications Company: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 37464

ISBN: 0822549220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1st edition glossy pictorial boards with sharp tips and spine ends, bound in slick reinforced binding w/illustrations including author's photograph on frt board and frt panel of unclipped, unpriced dust jacket in brand new mylar. DJ shows glare from scanner, there is no white mark on dj. 128 pages of tight & bright text with no writing, tears, soil or blemishes. The story of the life of E.B. White (author of Charlottes Web) with quotes from White's own work.
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Basic Aerospace Doctrine of the United States Air Force Air Force Manual 1-1 Volume II March 1992

By: USAF

Price: $25.00

Publisher: DC, U.S.A.F.: 1992

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 46165

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition paperback in illustrated card covers with a closed 1/4" tear on fore-edge of frt cover, now with tape, else as new. 308 pp text flawless. No author credited. Volume II of Basic Aerospace Doctrine of the United States Air Force consists of an overview followed by essays supporting the basic doctrinal statements found in volume I. A glossary and appendices are also included.
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Coming Home Series Edward Troye (1808-1874)

By: Wolfe Martha, Pfeiffer Claudia, Johnson Manuel H.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Middleburg, VA, National Sporting Library & Museum: 2014

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 47096

ISBN: 0979244161

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Brand new, pristine condition 1st printing of the 1st edition in illustrated glossy paper covers with black lettering on grey spine. 144 pp. with 42 color plates. A landscape format book is 8 1/5" tall x 9 2/8" long x 3/8" wide. This volume contains two separate exhibitions: 1. Edward Troye and His Biographers: The Archives of Harry Worcester Smith and Alexander Mackay-Smith (October 2014-February 2015 at Forrest E. Mars, Sr. Exhibit Hall) and, 2. Faithfulness to Nature: Paintings by edward Troye (October 2014 to March 2015 at the National Sporting Library and Museum). Includes...
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Keyword:ESSAYS