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Garraty, John Arthur.
Silas Wright.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 426 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Review slip pasted inside front cover.
Silas Wright, 1795-1847, held public offices in New York State, and was
governor from 1845 to 1846. He lived and is buried, in Canton, N.Y. Very good
hardcover. #28456. $30
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Gold, Arthur, and Robert Fizdale.
The Divine Sarah: A Life of Sarah Bernhardt.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1st edition, 1st printing. x, 352 pages.
Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Color and black-and-white illustrations.
Dated and signed by author Robert Fizdale.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0394528794. #27117.
$17.50
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Grimes, Lalla Rookh.
Portrait of a Leader: Dean Boris Yavitz.
New York?: Lalla Rookh Grimes, 1998. 80 pages.
'This work grew out of my interest in issues raised in a course on leadership
in higher education taken in 1993 as part of graduate studies at Teachers
College, Columbia University. Having served in academic administration at
Columbia Business School for nearly twenty years at that time... I came to
realize that, in serving as Assistant to Dean Boris Yavitz from 1975 to 1982, I
had worked with a most extraordinary educational leader.' - Preface. Very good
stiff wrappers. #22587. $20
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Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Herbert
Ronald Ferleger, editors.
Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia.
Foreword by William Allen White. New York: Roosevelt Memorial Association,
Roosevelt House, 1941. xiii, 674, [4] pages Frontispiece portrait. Endpaper
illustrations.
An encyclopedia of the ideals, principles, convictions, thoughts, views, and
opinions excerpted from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt. Very good pictorial
hardcover. #23759. $90
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Heller, Michael.
Living Root: A Memoir.
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 1st printing. viii,
117 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Signed by the author on
the title page. SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture.
Very good hardcover. ISBN 0791446336. #25064. $20
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Hewes, Lauren B., and Celia Y.
Oliver.
To Collect in Earnest: The Life and Work of Electra Havemeyer
Webb.
Edited by Eloise Bell. Shelburne, Vermont: Shelburne Museum, 1997. 62 pages.
Bibliographical references. Photographs.
Very good hardcover. ISBN 0939384213. #22841. $17.50
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Hill, Edward.
My Daughter Beatrice: A Personal Memoir of Dr. Beatrice
Tinsley, Astronomer. By her father, Edward Hill.
New Zealand?: Author, 1982? 98 pages. Typescript offset printing.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #24643. $15
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Hsia, Y. Edward, Kurt Hirschhorn,
Ruth L. Silverberg, and Lynn Godmilow.
Counseling in Genetics.
Foreword by Barton Childs. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1979. xxiii, 347 pages.
Index. Bibliographical references.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0845102052e. #25646.
$20
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Jones, Bart.
Hugo: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual
Revolution.
Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press, 2007. 1st edition. xii, 570 pages.
Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Dated, inscribed and signed by
the author.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1586421352. #28171.
$35
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Kaplan, Fed.
Dickens: A Biography.
Foreword by George J. Worth. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1991.
Collector's Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather. 607 pages. Index.
Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Color frontispiece. Easton Press
Library of Great Lives. A biography of Charles Dickens.
Very good hardcover, green leather binding with gilt decorations on front and
rear covers and on spine; silk endpapers; all edges gilt. #28080. $37.50
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Kazda, Stanislav, and Victor H.
Denenberg, editors.
The Post-Natal Development of Phenotype. Proceedings of a
Symposium held in Liblice, near Prague, Czechoslovakia, September 18-22, 1967.
Prague: Academia; London: Butterworths, 1970. 420 pages. Index. Bibliographical
references. Illustrations.
Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges,
stamp inside front cover; barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear
cover. #28252. $200
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Kramer, Jean, and Irving Schwartz,
editors.
At the Center of a Life: The Remembered Past of Contemporary
Brookliners.
Brookline, Massachusetts: Brookline Archive of Living History, Project of the
Brookline Adult and Community Education Program, 1988. xxi, 153 pages.
Photographic portraits. Dated, inscribed and signed by one of the contributors,
David Bland.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #24739. $15
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Kronhaus, S. (Sam), and Merrill Lloyd
Finley.
Upside-Down Crown Prince.
New York: Carlton Press, 1966. 184 pages. Photographs. Inscribed, dated and
signed by the author. A Reflection Book.
The author was born in 1896 in the land of the Cossacks at Rostov, Don. Later
served as an officer in the Mongolian Wild Cossack Division. Eventually he
moved to the United States. Good hardcover. #23392. $50
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Kulkarni, V. B.
The Indian Triumvirate: A Political Biography of Mahatma
Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Pandit Nehru.
Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1969. 1st edition. 728 pages. Index. Portraits.
Good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #22481. $30
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Larkin Loening, Sarah.
Vignettes of a Life.
Preface by Edward C. Glanz. New York: Vantage Press, 1983. 1st edition. viii,
110 pages.
'Sarah Larking Loening has been an author, poet, wife, and mother. She had
driven an ambulance in France after World War I, served as a hospital and
community leader in human welfare, raised and trained prize-winning Labrador
retrievers for field trials, raised and has written about bees, and played her
own pipe organ.' - Rear jacket panel. She also spent much of her life on the
south fork of Long Island, New York. Very good hardcover in slightly worn,
chipped and rubbed dust jacket. ISBN 0533053501. #27262. $25
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Lea, Henry A.
Wolfgang Hildesheimers Weg als Jude und Deutscher.
Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart, 1997. 1st
printing. x, 411 pages. Index. Bibliography. Front cover portrait. Dated,
inscribed and signed by the author. Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 338.
A biography of Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 1916-1991. Text in German. Very good
stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Small black mark on top edge.
ISBN 3880993432. #26777. $70
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Lear, Linda.
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature.
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. 1st printing. xv, [3], 634 pages. Index.
Bibliographical references. Photographs. Dated, inscribed and signed by the
author.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0805034277. #28398.
$27.50
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Liptzin, Sam.
Tales of a Tailor: Humor and Tragedy in the Struggles of the
Early Immigrants against the Sweatshop.
Translation by Max Rosenfeld. Illustrated by William Gropper. New York: Sam
Liptzin Book Committee; Printed by Prompt Press, 1965. 272 pages.
Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author.
Good hardcover in slightly worn and stained dust jacket; endpapers slightly
stained. #28063. $27.50
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McCray, Florine Thayer.
The Life-Work of the Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1889. vii, 440 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
A biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Good pictorial hardcover; edges and
corners slightly frayed and worn, front hinge starting. #27797. $80
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McDaniel, Joe S.
31206: The Boys of Willingham High, 1958-1970.
Foreword by Ed Grisamore. Macon, Georgia: Indigo Custom Publishing, 2005. 2nd
printing. 421 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Dated,
inscribed and signed by the author.
An in-depth look at the lives of 25 successful sons of Willingham High School
in South Macon, Georgia. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
ISBN 9780976287568. #28043. $25
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McNay, Ralph E.
The One-Shot Chicken Club and Other Stories.
New York: Vantage Press, 1992. 1st edition. 89 pages.
The first part contains a compendium of stories of what farm life was like in
Iowa in the 1930's. In Part II Mr. McNay relates some of the thought he's
gleaned from the great stream of information that rushes past all of us over
the course of a lifetime. The author spent his early years on a farm in
Greenfield, Iowa, until the age of ten, when he moved to Colorado with his
family. He became a research chemist. Very good hardcover in very good dust
jacket. ISBN 0533096995. #27369. $15
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Manea, Norman.
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Translated by Angela Jianu. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. 1st
printing. ix, 385 pages. Signed by the author with his initials in black
felt-tip pen on the half-title page.
The biography of the Romanian-born Jewish novelist Norman Manea, who spent time
during World War II in a Nazi concentration camp. Very good hardcover in very
good dust jacket. ISBN 0374282560. #22205. $85
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Maramba, Asuncion David, editor.
Six Modern Filipino Heroes: Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.; Jose W.
Diokno; Estelita G. Juco; Gaston Z. Ortigas; Joaquin P. Roces, Lorenzo M.
Tanada.
Manila, Philippines: Anvil Publishing, 1997. 3d printing. 271 pages.
Bibliographical references. Photographs. First published in 1991.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Unrelated gift inscription on
blank front flyleaf. ISBN 9712703258. #26457. $20
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Mills, Abbot.
As I Remember.
Foreword by Sharon Ann Saunders. Scottsdale, Arizona: Diamond Books, 2001. 1st
printing. 216 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Abbot Mills, born in Portland, Oregon, takes us on a fascinating tour of his
life through a series of 'mini-documentaries.' He shows us what it was like to
grow up in Portland in the '30s, his challenges in attempting to acquire an
education, his tour of duty during WWII in the South Pacific, and his first
career as a still photographer and TV documentary cameraman during the days of
exciting development in the world of film' - Rear cover. There is no index. The
book consists of a autobiographical essays and some photographs on a number of
topics, such as life, marriage, children, alcoholism and career, including the
Ladies Home Journal, and Drew Associates in passing. Very good stiff pictorial
wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 1885500750. #25072. $20
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Milton, John.
The Life Records of John Milton. Volume IV, 1655-1669.
Edited by J. Milton French. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,
1956. 482 pages. Index. Frontispiece. Publisher's compliments laid in.
Good cloth-covered hardcover in worn, soiled, and frayed dust jacket. #18950.
$35
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Molitoris, H. P., M. Hollings, and H.
A. Wood, editors.
Fungal Viruses. XIIth International Congress of Microbiology,
Mycology Section, Munich, 3-8 September, 1978.
Berlin & New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979. xiv, 194 pages. Index.
Bibliographical references. 78 Figures. Proceedings in Life Sciences. German
ISBN 3540094776.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Fungal Viruses, including Abstracts of Papers
of the Symposium on Extrachromosomal Vectors in Fungi and Abstracts of posters
on Fungal Viruses. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore
and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover; barcode inside rear cover;
bookplate removed from blank front flyleaf. ISBN 0387094776. #28257.
$35
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Mydans, Carl.
More than Meets the Eye.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. 1st printing. ix, 310 pages. Dated,
inscribed to fellow photographer Tony Triolo, and signed by the author.
Very good hardcover. #25596. $75
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Necheles, Ruth F.
The Abbe Gregoire, 1787-1831: The Odyssey of an Egalitarian.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. xviii, 333
pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Contributions in Afro-American and
African Studies, 9. A Negro Universities Press Publication.
A study of Henri-Baptiste Gregoire, 1750-1831. Good hardcover. Exlibrary:
spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover;
barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear cover; pencil marginalia
throughout. ISBN 0837133122. #27144. $35
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New York State. Legislature.
Proceedings of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New
York, in Relation to the Death of General John A. Logan, Held at the Capitol
February 23, 1887.
Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers, 1888. Small 4to (medium-large
book). 70, [1] pages. Frontispiece portrait. On front cover: In Memoriam. John
A. Logan.
Eulogies for John Alexander Logan, 1826-1888, a Civil war general, who
represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Very good hardcover; cloth with silver memorial scroll device on front cover;
front hinge starting.. #27799. $45
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