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The Last Metro. Francois Truffaut, Director. Mirella Jona Affron and E. Rubinstein, Editors. (Rutgers Films in Print, Vol. 2)

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 008840

ISBN: 0813510651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 200p. A near fine copy.
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The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia. Translated with an Introduction By John T. Alexander

By: Anisimov, Eugenii V

Price: $33.50

Publisher: Armonk, N.Y., M. E. Sharpe: 1993

Seller ID: 001695

ISBN: 1563240475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:1-56324-047-5. 327p. A fine copy in a fine d.w.
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Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam

By: Arun Tiwari

Price: $40.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Sangam Books Ltd: 2000

Seller ID: 025920

ISBN: 8173711461

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

180pgs, color and black and white photos. author signature on front endpaper. one line is highlighted, a few pages dogeared,othewrise clean, intact. Kalam was elected as the 11th President of India in 2002, widely referred as the "People's President", and served one term.
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Footprints

By: Astor, Brooke

Price: $175.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Doubleday: 1980

Seller ID: 025073

ISBN: 038514377x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

375pgs.photos. Pale Green Cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. light spine edgewear, otherwise near fine copy. Author inscription on front endaper. "To dear Dick with admiration and affection Brooke June 18.1980".(Book was previously owned by Brooke Astor's chauffeur) Autobiography of philanthropist, socialite, whose estate was tampered by her only son, Anthony Marshall.
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Autobiography at the Trigger: Poems. Introduction and Translations By Timothy J. Rogers

By: Astrada, Etelvina

Price: $45.00

Publisher: York, South Carolina., Spanish Literature Pubns Co.: 1984

Seller ID: 011251

ISBN: 0938972049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

136p. A near fine copy, no d.j. English and Spanish on opposite pages.
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And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir (Plus a Framed Color Print of Joan Baez)

By: Baez, Joan

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Summit Books: 1987

Seller ID: 028539

ISBN: 0671400622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

378pgs. photos. Beige boards, red spine with gilt lettering on the spine. Author inscription on the front free endpaper.Also laid in is a small glossy photo of Joan Baez, with a handwritten letter from Joan Chandoz Baez, the author's mother, dated 3/12/93.. She is writing to Robert Fink, whose family were probably friends with the Baez family during Joan's growing up. Light soiling to the front panel, otherwise near fine. Unclipped pictorial jacket is like new, except for a small yellow sticker on the upper right hand corner of the front panel. in mylar sleeve. Accompanying this unique copy i...
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Josephine: The Hungry Heart

By: Baker, Jean-Claude and Chris Chase

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1993

Seller ID: 017370

ISBN: 0679409157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

xxiii, 532p. Half cloth paper-covered boards. A fine copy, in a very good d.j. which has a 3/4" tear at the bottom of the back panel.
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I Go With Custer The Life and Death of Reporter Mark Kellogg

By: Barnard, Sandy

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Bismarck, ND, Bismarck Tribune: 1996

Seller ID: 026892

ISBN: 0962885711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

240 pp. Patterned black and red faux leather with gold lettering on front and spine. SIGNED by author on Title page. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on ffep and dated 10/19/96. Binding and text block are square, clean and tight. Illustrated jacket is rubbed and creased on the extremities with closed tears at spine ends that are neatly healed by the mylar sleeve. Spine is rubbed. Mark Kellogg was the only ewspaper reporter to ride into battle with the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Big Horn. A rare glimpse into the final days of Lt. Col. George Custer and what were to be Kellogg's last day...
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Halcyon Days: An American Family Through Three Generations

By: Boegner, Peggie Phipps and Richard Gachot

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York., Harry N Abrams Inc: 1987

Seller ID: 027603

ISBN: 0810910640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

280pgs. Royal Blue Cloth, embossed gilt lettering. Patterned endpapers. More than 300 Black and white photographs. Inscription by co-author Richard Gachot on the half-title page. As new in pictorial jacket, which has a couple of superficial scratches on the rear panel. Through previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs, and more than 300 striking sepia-toned photographs, the authors reveal the rarefied world of steel mogul Henry Phipps Jr. (18391934) and his oldest son Jay, who died in 1958. Included are pictures of sumptuous architecture, gardens and period clothing, as well as excerp...
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Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973

By: Carroll, Jim

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1987

Seller ID: 029948

ISBN: 0140085025

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

184 pp. Pictorial cover with black and white image and colorful background shows no signs of use. There is no chipping or any sign of previous use. Signed by the author on the inside cover page.
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Mysticism and Kingship in China : The Heart of Chinese Wisdom

By: Ching, Julia

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 026864

ISBN: 0521462932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xxi, 302p. Dark Blue Boards. Internally fine copy. Front board is bent down the middle, causing bowing . This is a quite serviceable copy. n this book, Julia Ching offers a survey of over 4,000 years of Chinese civilization through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of trance states and communication with spirits. Over time, the sage-king myth became a model for the actual ruler. As a paradigm, it was also appropriated by private individuals who st...
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Etienne - Jules Marey : A Passion for the Trace

By: Dagognet, Francois

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY, Zone Books: 1992

Seller ID: 008717

ISBN: 0942299647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Cloth. First Edition in English. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" (Oblong). 204p. A fine copy in a very good d.j. which has a little edgewear. First published in French in 1987.
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FDR: The New Deal Years 1933-1937

By: Davis, Kenneth S.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1986

Seller ID: 029345

ISBN: 0394527534

Condition: Near Fine

756pp. Blue boards, white lettering on the spine. Like new copy. Price-clipped pictorial jacket has light wear to the upper edges of the jacket. in mylar sleeve. This is the third volume of a four volumes set on FDR, which begins in of of the darkest hours of the republic. Gripped by economic depression, the American peopel wre demoralize. Newly created agencies, NRA, AAA, TVA, WPA and others pushed the American economy toward full recovery.
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Peter Cushing: The Gentle Man of Horror and His 91 Films

By: Del Vecchio, Deborah and Tom Johnson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company: 1992

Seller ID: 022636

ISBN: 0899506542

Binding: Cloth

xx, 465p. A fine copy, no d.j.
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Truth is Stranger Than Publicity

By: Delmore, Alton

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee, The Country Music Foundation Press: 1977

Seller ID: 029644

ISBN: 0915608057

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

188 pp. Book looks essentially new. Tan boards with black line illustration and black and white photo on cover. Small text with large margins throughout.
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The Truth about Rudolf Hess. Foreword By Lord Bulloch

By: Douglas-Hamilton, James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 018937

ISBN: 1851585389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

256p. A very good copy, with moderate bumps to the lower forecorners of the covers, in a very good d.j. which has a near one-inch tear at the top of the front panel. This copy is signed by the author and inscribed by Eugene Pogatch who newly translated some of Albrecht Haushofer poems which are in this book. Laid-in the book is a photocopy of a letter from Lord Bullock to Dr. Pugatch. The inscription reads: "For John Waters / "Good Friend" / with warmest regards / Eugene Pugatch / Summer, 1993."
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Surf's Up!: The Beach Boys on Record, 1961-1981 (Rock & Roll Remembrances)

By: Elliott, Brad

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, Popular Culture, Ink.: 1991

Seller ID: 029001

ISBN: 1560750227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

494pp. Aquablue pictorial boards., illus. As new copy, unmarked appears unread in a mylar sleeve. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the Beach Boys this is an extensive discography including session logs, chart positions, bootleg information.
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Gentleman: The William Powell Story

By: Francisco, Charles

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, St Martins Pr: 1985

Seller ID: 027932

ISBN: 0312321031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

248pgs photos. Dark Blue boards. Author inscription on the front free endpapers. liftoff on the front pastedown with slight loss of fabric on the lower spine. Internally clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket (photos of William Powell on the front and rear) is bright with a touch of edgewear. A tribute to actor William Powell details his short-lived marriage to Carole Lombard, tragic romance with Jean Harlow, forty-year marriage to Diana Lewis, and his remarkable film career. Scarce with author signature and inscription.
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