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Price: $45.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003023
Two volumes issued as complete in 1916. Sales flyer from Houghton Mifflin describes this set and other biographies. Illustrated with b&w photgraphs and a color frontis in each volume, Indexed. Green boards with gold lettering on the spines and front, top edges gilt. Plain jackets, with lettering on the spines indicate that the set was priced at $3.00. Jackets have edgewear and a piece torn out of each, now protected in mylar, jacket spines are darkened. View more info
By: Bok, Edward W.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons: 2000
Seller ID: 004198
The Lakeside Press, dark brown cloth with gold lettering, top edge gilt. 459 pages with a full list of the Lakeside Classics, by year, in the back. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Co.: 1901
Seller ID: 000847
Three volumes, bound in green cloth with giilt on front covers and spines. 'about 100 illustrations by Herbert Railton and many portraits'. Maps on endpapers, clean set, no markings. Front hinge cracked on volume 1 and ffep along with frontis portrait, loose.. Front hinge starting on volume 3. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1929
Seller ID: 002181
Translated by Charles Miner Thompson and John Heard Jr.. A clean, firmly bound set. Former owner's person bookplate and small bookstore stamp inside front cover of each. B&W frontis portrait in volume one. Boards are blue with gold lettering. Jackets are plain with lettering and decoration on spines. Jacket of volume one has a 1/2 inch chip at the top and a vertical tear of 1 1/2 inches, now in mylar. View more info
By: Coote, Stephen
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New Providence, NJ, U.S.A., BPR Publishers: 2000
Seller ID: 001491
Biography, Indexed, Bibliography. Black binding with gold letting on spine. View more info
By: Curie, Eva
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 000444
As new copy, bound in full leather with gold decorative embossing. End papers are silk, gilt edges, ribbon bookmark. Easton Press bookplate, unmarked and tucked inside waiting for an owner. View more info
By: Desfonds, Odette
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Paris, France, A. Michel: 1993
Seller ID: 002995
French language edition. View more info
By: Gilmore, Mikal
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Doubleday: 1994
Edition: Advance Reading Copy
Seller ID: 006395
Special Bookseller's Preview Edition, 105 pages, photograph on front board, black slipcase, publisher's letter bound in. promotional flyer laid in. View more info
By: Hearth, Amy Hill
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Atria Books: 2008
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 005501
An oral history of the life of Marion 'Strong Medicine' Gould, presented by the author of "Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years". View more info
By: Hedrick, Joan D.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A., Univ of North Carolina Pr: 1982
Seller ID: 003598
2 small nicks on jacket, now protected in mylar. A biography and study of Jack London's inner life, as revealed by his art. B&W photos View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1914
Seller ID: 001830
Beautiful copy, illustrated with 17 photographs. Bound in dark red buckram, gilt top edge. pages clean and bright, unmarked, tightly bound. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Selmar Hess: 1894
Seller ID: 006156
Each volume 9 1/2" x 12", bound in dark brown buckram with 3/4 leather. marbled endpapers. Bright gold lettering on front of each, gold lettering on spines, leather is rubbed and deteriorating on spines and corners. Interiors contain full page b&w photogravures, wood-engravings and typogravures, each with a tissue protector which is printed with the subject of the illustration. Volume 1 has a 3" loss of leather on the spine and a 1" x 1 1/2" chip... View more info
By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $30.00
Publisher: East Aurora, New York, Roycrofters: 1899
Seller ID: 005699
Number 55 of 925 copies that were printed and specially hand illumed, Elbert Hubbard's signature. Title page plus 5 initial blocks, beautifuuly done in color. B&W frontis portrait of Johnson, tissue guard is loose. Brown suede binding is lightly soiled with worn edges, gold lettering on the front. Silk endpapers, blank endpapers are browning, ribbon marker is detached. Neat gift inscription on ffep dated 1900. There is also a photograph tucked inside, which I presu... View more info
By: Hunt, John Dixon
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, United Kingdom, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ): 1998
Seller ID: 001492
512 pages, b&w drawings & photgraphs, indexed. View more info
By: Johnson, Nancy
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Sibyl: 1995
Seller ID: 000811
defining Success explores the questions surrounding women's paths to success. Author Nancy Johnson talked with ordinary women who have achieved success in a variety of walks of life. Traditional definitions of success -- money, prestige, power -- are not found here. Rather, highly personal definitions emerge. With refreshing candor, much humor, penetrating intelligence, and tremendous grace, these 24 remarkable women tell their stories. Heartwarming, these stories will i... View more info