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Traitor To His Class
by H W Brands
H. W. BRANDS is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Andrew Jackson, Lone Star Nation, and The Age of Gold, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Grant
by Ron Chernow
Ulysses S. Grant’s life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don’t come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business... Read more about this item
Once Upon a Secret
by Mimi Alford
Mimi Alford lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, Dick. Together they have seven grandchildren. This is her first book.
The Passage Of Power
by Robert a Caro
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and for Best Biography, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best...
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American Biography Books & Ephemera
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
by Jon Meacham
Stated First Edition. Complete number line.
Book is in Near Fine condition, with very light bumping to cover corners. Text pages clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with very light edgewear to jacket. Corners very lightly bumped.
Book is in Near Fine condition, with very light bumping to cover corners. Text pages clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with very light edgewear to jacket. Corners very lightly bumped.
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SGD 48.25
A John F. Kennedy Memorial Miniature
by John F. Kennedy
New York: Random House, 1966 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. 4 miniature volumes in slipcase; spines are sunfaded; all have po stamp on copyright page; o/w books are clean & tight; slipcase worn at corners and has some scuffs, but no tears.
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SGD 27.57
The White House Years (Two Volume Set); Mandate for Change: 1953-1956 and Waging Peace: 1956-1961
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Signed limited edition. Matching set, both volumes #1276 of 1500. Signed "Dwight D. Eisenhower" on tipped in blank following colophon page. Mandate for Change is copyright dated 1963 and stated Limited Edition, Waging Peace is copyright dated 1965 and stated First Edition.Both books are in Near Fine condition, with only visible fault some very light foxing beginning on top of page edges near spines of both volumes.Both slipcase corners lightly bumped/worn. Top of Mandate for Change slipcase has prior...
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SGD 2,619.53
How Washington Prayed
by William J. Johnstone
New York et al: Abingdon Press, 1932 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG in VG DJ; blue boards, gilt lettering with beautiful bright gold embossed cameo of Washington on front board; epp lightly tanned, edges lightly foxed, po stamp on ffep; o/w clean & tight; DJ is soiled, now in protector, tiny open tears (1/4" or less) at top and bottom of spine.
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SGD 48.25
The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Meserve and Carl Sandburg
Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1944 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Signed by both authors on the title page. No jacket other than remnants of the flap that have been pasted to the ffep. There is also a rusty paperclip scar affecting 4 pages (2 front and back) more or less. Slipped inside the book is "A souvenir of the Meeting of The Civil War Round Table of New York November 1, 1953" and a personal letter handwritten and signed by Meserve, dated 1953. The souvenir...
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SGD 620.42
James Madison - The President (1809-1812)
by Irving Brant
Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1956 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. red boards with gilt lettering; top edge red; bottom corners lightly bumped, o/w near fine - clean & tight.
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SGD 275.74
Virginia Born Presidents
by Garland Pollard
American Book Co., 1932 Book. Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Good/none..
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SGD 62.04
A Narrative of the Life of James Monroe with a Chronology
by Daniel Preston
Greenwood Pub Group, 2001 Book. Very Good. Stapled Wraps. 54 pp. Small spot where price-sticker was removed from rear cover, o/w clean and tight.
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SGD 13.79
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by William Dean Howells
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1960 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Prior owner name and note on ffep; facsimile edition of 1860 publication with handwritten corrections/notes by Lincon; some very light soiling to epp; o/w clean & tight.
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SGD 55.15
The Presidency of James Monroe
by Noble E. Cunningham
Lawrence, Kansas: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1996 Book. Fine. Hardcover. light shelfwear to DJ.
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SGD 20.68
The Perry Pictures of our Thirty-Five Presidents
by Olive M. Spring (biographer)
Malden, MA: Perry Pictures, Inc Book. Near Fine. Slipcased Hardcover. Unbound 10" x 12" Portraits/Photos of Presidents through Lyndon Johnson; all pristine except for Lincoln, who has a tack hole at top and light water damage on lower right corner; in burgundy box; includes paper pamphlet of short bios by Olive M. Spring (laid in).
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SGD 34.47
The Eugenics of President Abraham Lincoln: His German-Scotch Ancestry Irrefutably Established from Recently Discovered Documents
by James Caswell Coggins
Dahlonega, GA: Confederate Reprints, 2001 Book. Fine. Soft cover. New reprint of original 1940 edition.
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SGD 41.36
You MIght As Well Live
by John Keats
In good condition. Pages are unmarked and clean. Spine is in good condition, though book is starting to slightly split, pages are intact. Cover shows small amount of shelf wear, small bend in back cover. Only markings are shown in photos.
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SGD 13.79
Appleton Cyclopaedia of American Biography
by James Grant Wilson/John Fiske (Editors)
6 volume set as pictured. All volumes leather bound with stamped spine. Boards are very worn and detached or loose in all volumes, Front board missing from volume 5. All volumes have been partially repaired with clear tape. Marbled endpapers missing from several volumes. Text block binding solid in all volumes. Text block with marbled edges. Text is age tanned but appears unmarked. Many tissue protected illustrations. Your purchase helps support our small village library s B3
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SGD 137.87
Action of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia Following the Wounding and Death of President McKinley September, 1901
Richmond & Lynchburg: J. P. Bell & Co., 1901 Book. Fair. Hardcover. Stapled w/flexible cloth covered boards, fair+ condition. Staples are detaching from cloth, cloth soiled around edges, inside clean and bright, tissue over front is intact.
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SGD 34.47
Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies
by Kristie Miller
Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: University of Kansas Press, 2010 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). NF in VG DJ (crease to spine of DJ; o/w no defects) flat signed on tp.
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SGD 34.47
Centenary Celebration Commemorating the Birth of General Ulysses Simpson Grant 1822-1922
by Deisler, Geo. F. & Shepard, Lee
Cincinnati, OH: Court Index Printers, 1922 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. VG+ Official Program & Souvenir Book of U.S. Grant birth centenary in Point Pleasant (Apr 27, 1922) Bethel (April 28) and Georgetown, Ohio (April 29th) back cover scuffed, interior clean & tight; full page pictures of President Harding, Gen John Pershing & Governor Harry Davis.
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SGD 275.74
The Face of Lincoln
by James Mellon
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 1979 Book. Good. Hardcover. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Good/no jacket; po name and stamp on top & front edge & ffep; covers shelf worn; clean & tight o/w
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SGD 82.72
Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches
by Ronald Reagan
Part of the Library of the Presidents collection. Book is in Near Fine condition. Couple of small soil marks at top of front cover. Easton Press bookplate has been placed inside front pastedown and has prior owner's name on it. Includes Collector's Notes page laid in. Some very light foxing beginning in endpapers. Text pages clean and tight, feel unread.
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SGD 248.17
A Time To Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
by Gerald R. Ford
Specially bound Easton Press Collector's Edition, Signed by President Gerald R. Ford. Book is in Near Fine condition. Some very light foxing in endpapers and on signature page and title page. Text pages clean and tight, feels unread. Cover has minor wear to front gilt detail. Gilt page fore-edge has three areas where the gilt has rubbed.
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SGD 124.08
From the White House Inkwell; American Presidential Autographs
by John M. Taylor
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1968 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG in Good DJ (DJ lightly chipped at top of spine & corners) Text clean & tight, boards very lightly bowed.
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SGD 27.57
The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Many Choice Anecdotes...1829
by Weems, M. L
The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable Sayings of the Great Man,Never Before Published by Any of his Biographers. M. L. Weems, Author of Life of Washington. Philadelphia: Published by Uriah Hunt...and Louisville, KY, Published by Morton & Co. 239 pp, 4-1/2" x 71/8". 1829.Early edition of M. L. Weems biography of Benjamin Franklin. First published in 1817 as "Life of Benjamin Franklin with Essays"...a bit different content. Considered one of the cornerstone biographies of...
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SGD 338.82
