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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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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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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 Through previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs, and more than 300 striking sepia-toned photographs, the authors reveal the rarefied world of steel mogul Henry Phipps Jr.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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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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First Glance: Childhood Creations of the Famous

By: Kupferberg, Tuli and Sylvia Topp

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Maplewood, N.J., Hammond Inc.: 1978

Seller ID: 012693

ISBN: 0843734035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

192p. A fine copy, in a near fine d.j. with some minor scraping along the fore-edges.
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The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia

By: Kurian, George Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Amherst, N.Y., Prometheus Books: 2002

Seller ID: 022911

ISBN: 1573929271

Binding: Hardcover

420p. A fine copy, no d.j.
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My Lives Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Lewens, George

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y., Lewens Publishing: 1992

Seller ID: 012754

ISBN: 0963133608

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

160p. A fine copy. Gulag experiences.
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How the Laser Happened Adventures of a Scientist

By: Townes, Charles H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: N,Y., Oxford University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 029547

ISBN: 0195122682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

200 pp. Green boards. Like new, only sign of use is name of previous owner in the top right of inner cover page. Unclipped pictorial jacket. Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a pioneer in the study of gas clouds in galaxies and around stars. Throughout his career he has also been deeply engaged with issues outside of academic research. He worked on applied research projects for Bell Labs...
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Hunters of the Reich: Day Fighters

By: Williams, David P

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Bristol. England, Cerberus: 2002

Seller ID: 012163

ISBN: 1841451118

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

232p. + [3]p. at the end showing patches, medals, and a goblet, all in color. A fine copy, in a fine d.j. This is a special limited edition which has a large bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper which has the signatures of three German fighter aces (Heinz Marquardt, Horst Petzschler, and Willi Unger. There is a space for the signature of Hans-Ekkhard Bob, but no signature) and the signature of the author.
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