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No dust jacket. Mild wear. Owner's bookplate sticker inside the front cover. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with a sectionof phtographs after page 118.

Before there was Frank Abagnale, there was the Great Imposter, Fred Demara. This is his biography. Was made into a movie of the same title, starring Tony Curtis, in 1961. No dust jacket. Gray fabric has some faint stains and shows wear at the corners and head and tail of the spine. The deckle-edged pages… Read more about this item

Stated first edition. Blue fabric covered boards with black signature on the front cover and gilt in a black box on the spine. Some stains on the rear cover. Fabric is worn through at two corners. Illustrated with a collection of photographs. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with age-related tanning.

Yellow fabric with gilt print, showing wear at the lower corners and the base of the spine. Some soiling to the cover. No dust jacket. Richly illustrated, with a color plate at the beginning of each chapter and illustrated endpapers. Appears to have been some water incursion, but the effects are minor. Written by Dickens… Read more about this item

First edition. A biography of one who has been called the "father of modern advertising". A riches-to-riches story (his father was president of a number of banks in Galveston, TX), Lasker was quite influential in the advertising game from the end of the 19th century through the first five decades of the 20th. No dust jacket. The black fabric covers show… Read more about this item

Former library book (Campbell Union High School, Campbell, CA). Library stamp on the title page. The spine has been reinforced or repaired with librarian's tape. The olive fabric covering the boards has worn through at the corners and has a few stains on the front. The pages are mostly clean and tight, with a few small stains and a scattering… Read more about this item

Mild wear around the edges of the cover. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with a crease on the lower right of the title page. This is a museum book published in conjunction with a tour of van Gogh's works from the Netherlands in 1958-59, visiting museums in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle. Now… Read more about this item

George Cavendish was in Cardinal Wolsey's employ from 1526 until the Cardinal's death in 1530. Cavendish then retired to write this biography, completed about 1557, but not published until 1641, credited at that time to George's brother William. This 1852 edition corrects that and other errors from earlier publications. This volume has been expertly rebound in leather. New material was added… Read more about this item

First edition. No dust jacket. Green fabric covered boards with two-color stamped decoration and print on the front and spine. Fabric over the spine is a bit faded and shows a little mild wear at the top and bottom. The pages are clean and tight. and there is one hinge split in the rear (see photo #5), showing binding fabric,… Read more about this item

In 1916, two young women, bored of the society scene in Auburn, NY, went west to take teaching jobs in the wilds of Northwest Colorado. Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood sent many letters home extolling their adventures in the Wild West. This biography/history was constructed from those letters by Dorothy's granddaughter. The book shows a little wear at the corners… Read more about this item

A true story of some evangelists who ran afoul of an old religious law in Greece, and the consequences of their actions. The book shows very little wear other than tanned pages. The spine is square and uncreased and the pages are clean and tight.

Stated first edition. (Not a part of the limited edition release.) The book shows very little wear. Black fabric covered boards with gilt print on the slightly concave spine. The dust jacket is unclipped with minor wear at the corners of the spine and one 12 mm tear at the upper rear edge. A fairly… Read more about this item

First edition, complete number line. The book shows very little wear. Black fabric covered boards with gilt print on the spine, with the slightest amount of shelf-wear at the base of the spine. The pages are clean, tight and bright, with three black marker strokes on the upper page edges. The dust jacket is fully intact, with a tiny amount… Read more about this item

First American edition. The book shows a little shelf-wear at the base of the spine and the lower corners, and little else. Red fabric covered boards with gilt print on the spine and a gilt replica of Waugh's signature on the front. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with dozens of illustrations. The clipped dust jacket… Read more about this item

First edition. No dust jacket. The autobiography of a prominent British Shakespearian actress of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. There is a water stain on the lower right front corner of the book (see photo #1), but no sign that the water reached the pages. The blue fabric covered boards show mild wear for a book well over… Read more about this item

Stated first edition. No dust jacket. A biography of Shakespeare the man rather than the legend. Tries to portray the playwrite and he was seen by his fellow Londoners. Little wear to the book. Red fabric covered boards with embossed image on the front and gilt print on the spine. The fabric is faded over the spine and there is… Read more about this item

First edition. Very little wear. Pink fabric covered boards with gray print on the spine. No significant wear to book or jacket. Richards isan American activist who served as the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund from 2006 to 2018. She is also the daughter… Read more about this item

Trade paperback. A biography of Virginia Woolf's sister, perhaps the least known of the Bloomsbury group. The book shows very little wear. There is a black marker line across the top page edges. The spine is square and creaseless, and the pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated with many photographs. Relatively scarce.

This book shows a fair amount of wear. Navy blue fabric covered boards, with gilt print on the front and spine. Fabric is worn through at the corners. There are splits in the endpapers front and back, showing the binding fabric. The deckle-edged pages are still tight and clean except for the frontispiece page, which is… Read more about this item

First edition. Little wear to the book or the dust jacket, other than a small impact mark at the base of the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated with a collection of photographs.