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How Did They Die? Volume 2

DONALDSON, NORMAN & BETTY · 1990 · John Thompson Books

CA$7.00 (€4.45 | $4.91 | £3.71 | ¥784)

United States, St. Martins. 1990, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0-312-92154-3) Paperback. Solid with light wear on the covers. Very Good +.

They Always Take Their Secerets to a Druggist

ZANE, HARRY · 1963 · John Thompson Books

CA$6.50 (€4.13 | $4.56 | £3.45 | ¥728)

United States, Signet D2353. 1963, 1st Printing. Paperback. Ill.: Berg, Dave. Solid with a light spine roll and about one inch splits along the bottom edge of both covers and the spine. Good +.

Ibsen

Gosse, Edmund · 1907 · Brookline Village Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. Hardcover. xiii, 266 p. [7] leaves of plates : ill. facsim. ports. ; 20 cm. very good condition, spine darkened Literary Lives series.

W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet

Osborne, Charles · 1995 · The Glass Key

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London, Michael O'Mara, 1995. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp vii + 344 + 16pp b&w plates. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the half-title else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Light creasing an...

Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters

Norman, Jesse · 2019 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London, Penguin Books, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 2nd printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp xxi 381 + 8pp colour plates. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Near fine .

Isaac Newton

Gleick, James · 2003 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Fourth Estate, 2003. First Edition. Hardback. First impresseon. Pp xii + 289 with b&w illustrations throughout. White cloth boards stamped in metallic blue on the spine. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tight...

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Four Volumes, Complete)

SANDBURG, CARL · 1939 · Round Table Books, LLC

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1939. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Four volumes, complete. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spines, blind-stamped lettering on covers, fore-edges deckle. Illustrated with 426 photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons,...

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Four Volumes, Complete)

SANDBURG, CARL · 1939 · Round Table Books, LLC

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1939. First Trade Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Four volumes, complete. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spines, blind-stamped lettering on covers, fore-edges deckle. Profusely illustrated with 426 half-tones from photographs,...

Lord Randolph Churchill By Lord Rosebery.

ROSEBERY, ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE EARL OF 1847-1929 [AUTHOR] . · 1906 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London : Arthur L. Humphreys 1906 . 0. This fascinating biographical work offers an in depth understanding regarding Lord Randolph Churchill, the British statesman and founder of the National Union of the Conservative Party, written by the former Prime Minister and British Lib...

As Cooks Go

Jordan, Elizabeth · 1950 · Rainy Day Books

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Book Good Good Faber and Faber Great Britain Book has light wear, overall clean and tight. Dust jacket has several tears.

The Man Who Built a City - A Life of Sir Christopher Wren

Weir, Rosemary · 1971 · Rainy Day Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.89 | ¥3,354)

Ex-Library Good Good Farrar, Straus & Giroux Usual library marks, else nice condition.

Thomas Jefferson: a little journey. By Elbert Hubbard; and an address by John J. Lentz, being two attempts to help perpetuate the memory & pass along the influence of the great American.

HUBBARD, Elbert. · 1906 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

East Aurora, N.Y.: Roycrofters, 1906 20cm. [iv], 105[3]pp, portrait frontis with guard, decorated capitals, printed in red and black on HMP. Original limp reversed calf, calf gilt label to front wrap, yapp edges, top edge gilt o/w uncut, watered silk paste down endpapers, int...

Sift memories of childhood.

Sail, Lawrence · 2010 · Aucott & Thomas

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Impress Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, small format, tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. viii + 168 pages, colour frontispiece. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser SIGNED/Inscribed

Chic Scott · 2009 · Denton Island Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Assiniboine Publishing, 2009. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Near Fine. Inscribed by Author. SIGNED by the author, and inscribed to the previous owner. Bumping to lower edge of front board, top corner clipped from fly leaf to which is affixed the previous owner'...

Soar SIGNED/Inscribed

Simon Woolley · 2022 · Denton Island Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Manilla Press, 2022. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781786581174 Inscribed by Author. SIGNED by the author, and inscribed to the previous owner. First Edition. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages. A well-kept copy. [A] self-deprecating, often hilarious, and bru...

A Visible Man

Edward Enninful · 2022 · Denton Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Bloomsbury, 2022. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781526641533 First Edition, first printing. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; light shelfwear to jacket. A nice, presentable copy. Edward Enninful inspires a whole new generation to show us anything is possibl...

We Barrymores

BARRYMORE, LIONEL (AS TOLD TO CAMERON SHIPP) · 1951 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, black lettering on spine and cover, family tree on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Some wear and rubbing on spine, former owner's signatute on ffep, otherwise ...

Portrait of a Sea Urchin Caribbean Childhood

HUMFREY, MICHAEL. · 1979 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£11.95 (€14.33 | $15.79 | ¥2,522)

United Kingdom: Collins Harvill, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002626446. Very Good 1st Edition hardcover in Good dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards bumped and rubbed to spine ends. Edges very lightly foxed. Internally, prior owner signature to half-title page. Some ...

Wilfred Grenfell

Moore, Tom · 1980 · Rainy Day Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Book Good. Fitzhenry and Whiteside Very light wear.

Vietnam After 1975 - Bamboo Gulags and Subtle Genocide

Vinh, Pham Kim · 1982 · Rainy Day Books

$31.00 (€28.13 | £23.46 | ¥4,951)

Book Good. Self-published Signed by the author. Clear plastic is taped over the covers. Light wear overall.