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Chrysler, Walter P. Life of an American Workman
New York Privately Printed 1937 First Edition Hardcover Signed by Author
One of 500 copies. Bound by Jas. MacDonald of New York in full red leather stamped in gold on the cover and the spine. Signed and inscribed by Chrysler on the flyleaf: "To: / John P. Grier / with my friendship / and affection / WP Chrysler 1/10/38". Light wear to extremities. A nice presentation copy. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
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1500.00 USD
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Durant, Margery My Father.
New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1929 First Edition Hardcover Signed by Author
Limited to 50 signed copies privately printed for the author. xii, 337pp. Full federal blue morocco stamped in gold on the front panel, lettered and ruled in gold on the spine panel, gilt inside dentelles, top edge gilt. Signed by Margery Durant on the limitation page. Laid in is a hand lettered card with a dedication and signature by the author to George Winslow Plummer, whose bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown endpaper. Tiny tear to the title page. A bright, fine copy in a fine cloth dustjacket. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
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2000.00 USD
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Edwards, Jonathan An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New- Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, Octob. 9th 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age; Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published.
Boston Printed for and Sold by D. Henchman 1749 First Edition Hardcover
xii, [18], 316pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary full sheepskin. Boards and spine are extremely worn, lacks the front free endpaper, previous owner's name on title and preface, foxing and several old stains, small loss to one leaf with the subscribers names. A fair copy. Evans 6311. Howes E56. Sabin 21927. ; Octavo
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900.00 USD
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Harvey, Peter Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. (Signed by Webster.)
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1877 First Edition Hardcover
x, 480pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the covers and lettered in gold on the spine. With a slip signed by Webster affixed on the verso of the flyleaf, his cabinet card, a long newspaper article affixed to the recto of the frontispiece, last page and blank, and an extra portrait tipped in on the preface. Mild edge wear, front hinge weak, front free endpaper missing. A very good copy. ; Octavo; Signed by Biographee
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400.00 USD
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Kelly, Ebenezer Beriah Ebenezer Beriah Kelly: An Autobiography.
Norwich, CT Published by the Author 1856 First Edition Hardcover
100pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the front panel. Fading and tear to spine panel, some fading on the covers, mild scattered foxing throughout, name on front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy. Howes K61. Sabin 37306.; Octavo
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300.00 USD
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Leigh, Janet There Really Was a Hollywood.
Garden City, NY Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1984 First Edition Hardcover Signed by Author
Cloth backed boards. Signed and inscribed in the year of publication by Janet Leigh on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with light edge wear and a few small chips. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
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150.00 USD
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Madame Manson Memoirs of Madame Manson, Explanatory of Her Conduct, on the Trial for the Assassination of M. Fualdes. Written by Herself, and Addressed to Madame Enjalran, Her Mother. With a Portrait. Translated from the French, and Accompanied by an Abstract of the Trial; and a Concise Account of the Persons and Events Alluded to in the Memoirs by the Translator.
London Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy 1818 First British Edition Hardcover
252pp. Original boards, paper label affixed to the spine. Frontispiece. With the bookplate of Arthur Wing on the front pastedown endpaper. Fairly consistent wear to the edges, front joint almost completely split, previous owner's name on the front pastedown endpaper. A good copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo
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200.00 USD
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Nixon, Richard The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1978 0448143747 / 9780448143743 First Edition Hardcover Signed by Author
Blue cloth stamped in gold on the cover and the spine. Light wear to spine ends, mild foxing to top edge. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with mild edge wear. Signed and inscribed by Nixon on the flyleaf: "To Barbara Wheaton-Smith / with best wishes / from / Richard Nixon / 5 -20 '82". With b&w; photographs. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
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450.00 USD
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Roosevelt, Theodore Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail.
New York The Century Co. (1888) First Edition Hardcover Illustrated by Remington, Frederic
180pp. Original light brown pictorial cloth stamped in gold and darker brown on the front panel and the spine panel, and in darker brown on the rear panel, all edges gilt. Binding by George Wharton Edwards, signed on the front panel. Frontispiece and illustrations by Frederic Remington. The upper corner of the frontispiece is partially torn, a hint of foxing to endpapers. A bright, near fine copy. Howes R432. ; Quarto
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2000.00 USD
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Sensier, Alfred La vie et l'oeuvre of J.-F. Millet.
Paris A. Quantin 1881 First Edition Hardcover
xi, 402pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Orange cloth over marbled boards, spine with leather label lettered in gold. Engraved portrait frontispiece, inserted plates and in-text illustrations. Light wear to extremities, a couple of tiny tears to the last few leaves, mild scattered foxing. A very good copy. In the French language. ; Quarto
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600.00 USD
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Shakespeare, William; Chalmers, Alexander The Plays of William Shakspeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Stevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare.
London Longman and Co. 1856 First Edition Hardcover
New Edition. Complete in eight volumes. Beautiful yellow ochre polished calf, sides ruled in gold with gilt coat of arms, spines in compartments with intricate gilt decorations and red and green calf labels lettered in gold, edges decorated in gold, inner dentelles in blind, marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece and inserted plates with illustrations in volume one, inserted plates in the others. Contemporary inscription on the verso of the free endpaper of volume one: "To John Baskerville on his leaving Eton, with the sincere good wishes of C. Wolley, ?, 1857." A few light scuffs to covers. A near fine set. ; Octavo
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2500.00 USD
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