The Common Muse: An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Poetry, XVth-XXth Centuries
by de Sola Pinto, V.; Rodway, A.E
New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Former library copy - usual marks. One page loose but included, hinges weakening. 1957 Hard Cover. xii, 470 pp. With an introduction and notes. A collection of popular British ballad poetry from the 15th through 20th centuries.
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Voyage de Deux Artistes en Italie
by De Spinola, M.H
Limoges: Chez Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. Nicely rebound in beige cloth with gilt titles and new endpapers. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1838 Hard Cover. 283 pp. 12mo. 6 5/8 x 4 3/8. French text. Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate in text. A 19th century Italian travelogue which includes descriptions... Read More
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My Years with Xerox: The Billions Nobody Wanted
by Dessauer, John H
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1971. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Reprint. Minor wear along edges, jacket lightly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. xv, [7], 239, [3] pp. 8vo. The fabulous success story of Xerox might never have happened if John H. Dessauer had not prevailed upon his associates to share his faith in an obscure,... Read More
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Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome
by D'Este, Carlo
New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Reissue. Laminate starting at base. 2008 Trade Paperback. 608 pp. Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles... Read More
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Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
by D'Este, Carlo
New York: John Macrae / Owl Book, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x9. First printing. Remainder mark, pages lightly toned. 2003 Trade Paperback. xi, 848 pp. "From the bestselling author of Patton: A Genius for War comes a compelling new account of the transformation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, from apprehensive soldier to one of our greatest heroes. In the... Read More
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How to Write and Give a Speech
by Detz, Joan
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 88x9x131. Second edition. Edges worn. 1992 Trade Paperback. xvi, 204 pp. How to Write and Give a Speech gives sound advice on every aspect of researching, writing, and delivering an effective speech, including: The 3-step, never-fail formula for a successful speech, The 4 best ways to... Read More
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Tales of Faraway Folk
by Deutsch, Babette; Yarmolinsky, Abraham
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Lorentowicz, Irena. Reprint. A few minor chips and minor tears to jacket edges. Ink name on front endpaper, crayon note on half-title page. 1952 Hard Cover. x, 68 pp. Pictures by Irena Lorentowicz. On the shores of icy seas, at the edge of forests where... Read More
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The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Deutsch, Sandra McGee; Dolkart, Ronald H
Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1993. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x8. First printing. Spine and front cover faintly faded. 1993 Trade Paperback. xix, 205 pp. In The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins scholars of Argentine and Latin American history chart the growth of the Right from its roots in 19th-century European political theory through to... Read More
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Across the Wide Missouri
by DeVoto, Bernard
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 1x5x8. Miller, Alfred Jacob; Bodmer, Charles. Reprint. Spine creased. 1975 Trade Paperback. xxi, 450 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More... Read More
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Across the Wide Missouri, with an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection
by DeVoto, Bernard; Porter, Mae Reed
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Miller, Alfred Jacob; Bodmer, Charles; Catlin, George. Very good in worn jacket. Multiple tears and chips to jacket edges, jacket previously mended with tape in multiple places. 1947 Hard Cover. xxvii, 483 pp. Includes section of 19 color plates by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin. Winner... Read More
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Human Life; or, Practical Ethics, in Two Volumes (Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature, Vol. XII and Vol. XIII)
by De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht; Osgood, Samuel; Ripley, George
Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe and Company, 1842. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Endpapers foxed, a few other lightly foxed pages. 1842 Hard Cover. xxii, 368; viii, 409 pp. Two volume set. Translated from the German of De Wette by Samuel Osgood. De Wette was a theologian and Biblical scholar. Osgood was a Harvard and Cambridge Divinity School grad,... Read More
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The Last Samurai
by DeWitt, Helen
New York: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x6x9. First edition. Corners slightly pushed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2000 Hard Cover. viii, 530 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. "Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother... Read More
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The Last Samurai
by DeWitt, Helen
New York: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6x6x9. First edition, first printing. A couple minor creases to fore edge of a few pages, endpaper does not sit nicely along front hinge causing it to open a bit noisily. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2000 Hard Cover.... Read More
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How He Made His Fortune (Prize Series, 1889)
by De Witt, Julia A.W
Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1889. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Owner bookplate on front endpaper (Julia Bryant Toohy, daughter of author William Cullen Bryant), faint stain to top and bottom marginal edges, rear board lightly soiled. 1889 Hard Cover. 317 pp. 8vo. A story relating to the Molly Maguires, with a good amount... Read More
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Archibald Wavell (Osprey Command, No. 28)
by Diamond, Jon
New York: Osprey, 2012. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 7x0x9. First edition. A fine copy. 2012 Soft Cover. 64 pp. Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II. In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941, he was the only British theatre commander actively engaging Axis forces. At a... Read More
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Diamond, Jared
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Reprint. Light pencil mark on page base, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1999 Trade Paperback. 494 pp. Black-and-white plates, illustrations and maps. "In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped... Read More
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Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
by Diaz, Jaquira
North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 92x17x136. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "To Michael, Thanks so much for reading! With much love," Jacket spine base bumped. 2019 Hard Cover. 321 pp. "While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira... Read More
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Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
by Dibdin, Michael
New York: Pantheon, 2000. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x9. First American edition. Edges lightly foxed. 2000 Hard Cover. Despite his best efforts to please everyone and keep out of trouble, the veteran Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen has made more enemies than friends over the years. Now it's payoff time. After his last case,... Read More
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A Small and Remarkable Life
by DiChario, Nick; Resnick, Mike
Calgary: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x5x8. First paperback printing. An exceptional copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. 238 pp. Introduction by Mike Resnick. The much-anticipated first novel by Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Nick DiChario puts a spin on the story of being stranded on an alien planet, cut off from your own... Read More
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Ubik
by Dick, Philip K
New York: Mariner Books, 2012. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. New. Reprint. Fine. 2012 Trade Paperback. 227 pp. Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. "From the stuff of space opera, Dick... Read More
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Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions; Mugby Junction
by Dickens, Charles
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchintz, 1867. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Custom bound with owner initials on spine. Boards rubbed, pencil name on front free endpaper verso. 1867 Hard Cover. 354 pp. Originally published in 1865, Doctor Marigold was extremely successful, as were Dickens's public performances of a play based on the story--fascinating and easy to read. Doctor (it is... Read More
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Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics)
by Dickens, Charles; Cardwell, Margaret; Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert
UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 7x1x5. New. Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. lvi, 482 pp. Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past -... Read More
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics
by Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie
New York: Fall River Press, 2012. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x2x9. Reissue. An exceptional copy. 2012 Hard Cover. viii, 760 pp. Includes: Introduction; The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man); Other Christmas Stories: The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, A Christmas Tree, What... Read More
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes, in 2 Volumes (The Works of Charles Dickens in 34 Volumes, Volume VI & Volume VII) (Gadshill Edition)
by Dickens, Charles; Lang, Andrew
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spines toned with small tears and minor loss to crowns, front hinge of second volume weakening, ink name on front endpaper. 1897 Hard Cover. xx, 505; viii, 509 pp. Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang, frontispiece and plates from original illustrations. The Life and Adventures of Martin... Read More
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, in 2 Volumes (The Works of Charles Dickens in 34 Volumes, Volume XII & Volume XIII) (Gadshill Edition)
by Dickens, Charles; Lang, Andrew
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spines toned, cloth along spine head torn. 1897 Hard Cover. xvii, 429; 415 pp. Two volume set. Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang, frontispiece and plates from original illustrations. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel... Read More
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