Historical

Very Good: $154.95 Hardcover

A Thousand Miles Up The Nile   (1888) by Amelia B. Edwards Description L.C. Page and Company, n.d. 1888. SECOND EDITION. (Preface to the Second edition dated "1888.") Heavy book, 8" x 5 1/2". Very good condition, original green textured cloth over wide cream cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt. Extensively ...

Near Fine: $124.95 Signed Hardcover

On Borrowed Time : How World War Ii Began   (1969) by Leonard Mosley Description Random House, 1969. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Excellent condition, original dust jacket in very good condition not price clipped.. A narrative account of the days between the Munich Agreement in 1938 and the outbreak of war in September 1939. ...

Fine: $109.99 Signed Hardcover

Germany's Capacity To Pay   (1923) by Constantine E. Mcguire, Harold G. Moulton Description McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. (Sponsored by The Institute Of Economics and the Carnegie Corporation; president, Robert Brookings.) FIRST EDITION. Very good condition, perhaps unread! Blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine. It's sub-title ...

Very Good: $139.95 Signed Paperback

Malcolm X   (1986) by Alex Haley Description Ballantine Books, 1986. Soft Cover edition. Autographed in book by author Alex Haley, classic 'autobiography' of Malcolm X, Haley's first book. Excellent overall condition. Signed and inscribed on the title page : "Oct 16 1989 To Brad - Alex ...

Very Good: $849.95 Leather

Chainbearer : Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts   (1845) by James Fenimore Cooper Description Richard Bentley, London, 1845. FIRST EDITION, first printing (preceding the US edition.) Complete matching three (3) volume set, each 5" x 7 5/8". Fantastic condition, fully bound brown morocco leather spine; w/elaborate gilt detailing; ornate and ...

Very Good: $499.95 Hardcover

A Farewell To Arms   (1929) by Ernest Hemingway Description Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929. First Edition. 8vo. , [8], 355pp. Hanneman A 8A; first issue, with Scribner's seal (and no "A") on title page verso, & with the legal disclaimer of the second printing. Original facsimile dust jacket, a beauty ...

Fine: $379.95 Signed

Jazz   (1992) by Toni Morrison Description Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. STATED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket, measures 5" x 8-1/2". First edition of Jazz that has been signed by its author Toni Morrison. Signed Toni Morrison editions escalate in value very rapidly. A ...

Very Good: $169.95 Magazine

The Next Outbreak Of Peace By Ernest Hemingway : Ken Magazine January 12, 1939 (Other)   (1939) by Ernest Hemingway, Arnold Gingrich Description Ken, Inc., January 12, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Great magazine with this manifesto: "A magazine of unfamiliar fact and informed opinion, filling in the shadows cast by coming events all over the world; equally opposed to the devleopment of dictatorship ...

Good: $179.95 Hardcover

Mingo And Other Sketches   (1884) by Joel Chandler Harris Description Ticknor and Company, Boston, 1884. FOURTH EDITION, stated. Perhaps most scarce of this already rare antique by Joel Chandler Harris. Mingo and Other Sketches originally published in 1884 by James Osgood. Would then eventually be published by the ...

Very Good: NFS Hardcover

Abraham Lincoln And Men Of War-time   (1892) by A.K. Mcclure, Dr. A. C. Lambdin Description The Times Publishing Company 1892. 4th Edition Dark blue boards with gilt stamped image of Lincoln on front and gilt title on front and spine. Personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration, with an introduction by ...

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