The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
by Brotton, Jerry
New York: Penguin Books, 2017. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. First printing. Remainder mark on page base, edge wear. 2017 Trade Paperback. 338 pp. We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant... Read More
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The Prince and the Lily: The Story of Lillie Langtry, the Greatest International Beauty of Her Day
by Brough, James
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 20x20x20. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, edges foxed. 1975 Hard Cover. 352 pp. Edward VII, Price of Wales, heir to the throne, lover of race horses and gaming life, and regal admirer of the Victorian world's most beautiful women. Mrs. Lillie Langtry, one of the... Read More
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Scylla or Charybdis? A Novel (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 177
by Broughton, Rhoda
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x4x1. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, rear board creased, bookplate and ink stamp on front endpapers. 1895 Hard Cover. 272 pp. 12 pages of publisher ads follow text. In classical mythology, Scylla was a horrible six-headed monster who lived on a rock on one side... Read More
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Manchild in the Promised Land: A Modern Classic of the Black Experience
by Brown, Claude
New York: Signet, 1965. 15th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 4x0x6. 15th printing. Faint toning, light edge wear. 1965 Mass Market Paperback. During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write his autobiography.... Read More
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Brown, Daniel James
New York: Penguin, 2014. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 1x5x8. Faint scuff to rear wrapper. 2014 Trade Paperback. 403, [1] pp. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from... Read More
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C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill
by Brown, Anthony Cave
New York: Macmillan, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x2. First edition. Jacket base stained, jacket flap price-clipped. page base stained. 1987 Hard Cover. 830 pp. The only journalist ever to interview "C" presents a definitive, illustrated biography of the British spymaster and a chronicle of his legendary career.
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Boswellian Studies: A Bibliography
by Brown, Anthony E
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Third edition, revised. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket a bit toned. 1991 Hard Cover. xiii, 176 pp. A bibliography of well-known published works relating to James Boswell, including editions of his Life of Johnson. Its scope also extends to take in many works that are... Read More
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Haunted Plantations of Virginia
by Brown, Beth
Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 2009. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. A fine copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. 160 pp. Haunted Plantations of Virginia spotlights 20 historic homes and the author's explorations of the ghostly encounters reported at each. Find out why the tales of murder, suicide, hidden fortune, and heartbreak at these sites cause spirits to linger.
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The Body (G2488)
by Brown, Carter
New York: Signet, 1964. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x4x0. 3rd printing. Pages toned, edge wear. 1964 Mass Market Paperback. Al Wheeler, and unconventional copy, must solve a case involving dead call girls.
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The Indian Races of North and South America. Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character. with Numerous and Diversified Color Illustrations, Entirely New, Many of Which Are from Original Designs, Executed in the Best Style of the Art, by the First Artists in America
by Brownell, Charles de Wolf
New York: The American Subscription House, 1857. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Reback with new end sheets, small portion of original backstrip laid down. Edges rubbed, leather dried out, faint spots and smudges to a few pages. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. 1857 Half-Leather. 640 pp. (last page misnumbered 720). Includes 33 hand-colored plates.... Read More
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Digital Fortress
by Brown, Dan
New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x1x6. Spine creased, edges worn. 2004 Mass Market Paperback. 429 pp. "When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power.... Read More
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The Da Vinci Code
by Brown, Dan
New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Top edge of jacket bumped, front jacket flap creased. Ink name on front free endpaper. 2003 Hard Cover. 454 pp. While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered... Read More
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The Da Vinci Code
by Brown, Dan
New York: Doubleday, 2003. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Reprint. Faint stain to jacket spine base, corners bumped, binding shaken but holding firmly. 2003 Hard Cover. 454 pp. While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near... Read More
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The Wolf in the Southwest: The Making of an Endangered Species
by Brown, David E.; Gish, Dan Miles; McBride, Roy T.; Nunley, Gary Lee; Scudday, James F.; Shaw, Harley
Silver City, New Mexico: High-Lonesome Books, 2002. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x0. Second edition, with new foreword, preface, and epilogue. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2002 Trade Paperback. xii, 195, [11] pp. Using primary source material of biologists, hunters, and trappers, the author traces the extirpation of the wolf in the American... Read More
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Fingerprints: Fifty Years of Scientific Crime Detection [Finger Prints]
by Browne, Douglas G.; Brock, Alan; Cherrill, Frederick R
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with light creases along base of front panel and shallow chip from base of rear panel. 1954 Hard Cover. 260 pp. In addition to being a history of the comparatively modern science of fingerprinting, this... Read More
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Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia; or, Urne-Buriall (New York Review Books Classics)
by Browne, Thomas; Greenblatt, Stephen; Targoff, Ramie
New York: New York Review Books (nyrb), 2012. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x7. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. xli, 170 pp. Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful... Read More
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Secondary-School Administration: Its Practice and Theory - A Case and Problem Book
by Brown, Edwin J
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine toned, boards stained. 1938 Hard Cover. xx, 351 pp. Includes: Part I. The Principal and His School: The Meaning of Administration - Making the Schedule and Planning the Principal's Working Calendar - The School as a Unit of Society - Organization and Development of the Out-of-Class Activities... Read More
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From Day to Day with the Brownings
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett & Robert; Rice, Wallace and Frances
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1911. Soft Cover. Good. 0x0x0. Includes portion of onion-skin jacket, and publisher's original box. Edges toned. 1911 Soft Cover. 127 pp. Persian ooze binding, which resembles suede. A collection of poetry for throughout the year, selected from the works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sonnets from the Portuguese (The Heritage Press)
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Untermeyer, Louis
New York: The Heritage Press, 1948. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Angelo, Valenti. Includes slipcase and publisher's Sandglass Number IX:16. Very good in good slipcase. Bottom slipcase seam beginning to split, slipcase corners rubbed, a few small spots on slipcase, spine toned. 1948 Large Hardcover. xiv, 110, [4] pp. 8vo. Illustrated by Fred A. Mayer. "Browning's most famous... Read More
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The Unknown Indian
by Browne, Gertrude Bell
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Vernon, David Thomas. First edition. Lacks jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1930 Hard Cover. 299 pp. Illustrated by David Thomas Vernon. As we follow the story of Tan-ta-quid-geon we see the picturesque daily life of the primitive Indians, not only of... Read More
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Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance
by Brownlee, Jason
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2012 Trade Paperback. xv, 279 pp. When a popular revolt forced long-ruling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign on February 11, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the victory of peaceful... Read More
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Hardy's People: Figures in a Wessex Landscape
by Brown, Joanna Cullen
London: Allison & Busby, 1991. Soft Cover. Good. 9x7x1. Spine creased and faded, minor wear to corners. 1991 Soft Cover. 344 pp. Selections from Hardy describe rural English life.
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Essays on the Characteristics [of Lord Shaftesbury]
by Brown, John
London: Printed for C. Davis against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1751. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rebacked, retaining original boards, boards rubbed with some loss and some new leather added along edges, handwritten biographical sketch of author on rear endpapers, owner bookplate, bookseller plate, and owner blind stamp on front endpapers. 1751 Full-Leather. viii, 406 pp. 8vo. Contains a... Read More
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Jane Austen's Novels: Social Change and Literary Form
by Brown, Julia Prewitt
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Smoke odor, otherwise a very good copy in a very good jacket. 1979 Hard Cover. 185 pp. "Analyzes Austen's novels in terms of their structure, ironic comedy, satiric realism, and their perception of the cultural significance of marriage." Includes a general introduction to her novels, chapters... Read More
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Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion
by Brown, Maegan
New York: The Quarto Group, 2019. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 8x0x10. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2019 Large Hardcover. 167, [1] pp. Make mealtimes, special occasions, and holidays extra memorable with these 50 delicious, inspiring, family-friendly, and easy-to-recreate snack boards. Visually exciting and deliciously enticing, these snack boards by Maegan Brown (aka... Read More
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