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By: Maathai, Wangari
Price: $140.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf.: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 19463
ISBN: 0307263487
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo - 23.5 x 16 cm.; xvii - 314 pp. Beige paper over boards with azure cloth on spine with gilt lettering. Boldly signed in a black marker (first name only) by the author on the half title page with previous owner's name inscribed above by Wangari. Stated first edition on the copyright page. The board tail edges show the mildest of shelf wear and the unclipped dust jacket has a trace of shelf wear on the top edge.; Signed by Author View more info
Price: $25.20
Publisher: New York., Harper & Row.: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 32629
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; viii - 228 pp. Translated from the Polish by Maria de Gorgey. Index. Memoirs of Mieczslaw (1922-1974), a Polish diplomat who worked for an end to the war in Vietnam as a go-between for Diem of South Vietnam and the government in Hanoi and who became too "anti-socialist" for the Communist government of Poland and was eventually exiled. "A valuable account of iron curtain diplomacy, his book is also a penetraing personal chronicle by a European intellectural who cuts to the heart of the moral questions without moralizing. . ." Green cloth-covered boards sunne... View more info
By: McCord, James B. with John Scott Douglas.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York., Rinehart & Company.: 1951
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 26828
Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; (6) - 308 pp. Black cloth over boards with copper gilt and red lettering on the spine. First publshed in 1946, this is a later printing. Black and white frontis photograph of Dr. McCord. Signed by the co-writer, John Scott Douglas, with a personal inscription on the front free end paper. The book shows mild wear to the spine tips and has a 'ding' in the tail edge of the front board. Sticker ghost on the top fore corner of the front free end paper. Otheriwse the book is clean with tight binding. The clipped dust jacket is worn on the head and tail edges, more so on the head... View more info
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Paris, France, Editions Seghers: 1960
Seller ID: 1891
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
8vo 21 x 13.5 cm.; 413 pp. Plus 19 pages of notes. The text is in French, translated from the Russian by M. Dumesnil de Gramont. Light grey cloth over boards with green lettering on the spine and front board. Illustrated with several black and white reproductions. This is volume 28 in a collection of biographies issued by Seghers. DJ (in Brodart) is edge worn with small closed tears, chips and creases. View more info
By: Migot, Andre.
Price: $6.40
Publisher: Paris, France., Culture, Art. Loisirs. CAL.: 1965
Seller ID: 21818
Condition: Near Fine
12mo - 17.5 x 15.5 cm.; 309 pp. The text is in French. Pictorial cloth covers. Photographic end papers. White ribbon book mark set into the headband. Profusely illustrated. The head edge of the text block is lightly foxed, otherwise very clean and solid. View more info
By: Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth.
Price: $8.10
Publisher: London, UK., SCM Press: 1997
Seller ID: 3257
ISBN: 033402708X
Condition: Near Fine
8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; xix - 188 pp. One of the pioneer figures of feminist theology and wife of Jurgen Moltmann. She tells her own story of a childhood in Nazi Germany, her studies, marriage and the development of her own career. An as-new and unused book. View more info
By: Moore, George.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York., Boni and Liveright.: 1923.
Seller ID: 21788
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
8vo - 22.5 x 14 cm.; xvi - 283 pp. Aqua blue papers over boards with an off white parchment on spine, black lettering on a paper label on the upper spine. Volume X of the Collected Works of George Moore in the Carra Edition, a subscription only edition of 1000 sets with 21 volumes in the set with only the first volume being numbered. Tissue, with caption, protected frontis reproduction "Homage to Manet". Small closed tear on the reverse of this page (half title page) where the frontis image is attached. All text block edges are untrimmed. Moderate shelf wear to the externals, the spine... View more info
By: Moravec, Ivo.
Price: $5.85
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland & Stewart Ltd.: 1997
Seller ID: 4544
ISBN: 0771065000
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 243 pp. Beige paper over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Moravec's story of the flight with his family from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1983 plus some added tales of other refugees they met in the months they were housed in a rundown hotel in Vienna. ". . . filled with keen intelligence, unforgettable characters, and a buoyant sense of fun . . ." Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. View more info
Price: $11.25
Publisher: New York., Vantage Press.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4467
ISBN: 533049245
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 20 x 13.5 cm.; vii - 211 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Starts with some brief genealogical information about the Moores and the Nuckers and then relates her life of travel as she and husband, Delmas, travel first to China as members of the UN Rehabilitat ion and Reconstruction Administration then to Alaska, the South Pacific and Afghanistan. Signed on the title page by the author. Some slight shelf wear and a hint of foxing on the text block edges. The dust jacket is scuffed with edge wear (small chips, nicks and creases).; Signed by Author View more info
By: O'Brien, P. J.
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Universal Book and Bible House: 1935
Seller ID: 20249
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; Red cloth over boards with black lettering and line decorations on the front and back boards. An assortment of pages excerpted from the larger book with 32 pages of black and white photographs including the frontis. Nine pages at the back comprising the salesman's "talking" sheet for the larger book and order records, all blank. The externals show mild wear with some spotting on the back. The end papers are slightly tanned, otherwise a clean interior. No dust jacket present and most likely none was issued. View more info
By: O'Brien, Terry.
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Kearney, Nebraska, Self published.: 2001
Seller ID: 32336
ISBN: 0968855008
Condition: Near Fine
8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; (6) - 259 (3) pp. Terry O'Brien (1949 -2008) writes a gentle, whimsical story of coming to know God's love for him. An interesting life - "Beginning with a near homicide, and a crisis of faith at age seven when he was faced with a commitment to the fires of martyrdom, his journey carries him to a racist incident in California, adventures in a Inuit settlement in Arctic Canada, life with his brother as the only white boys in a government residential school for Indians and Inuit, his adolescent struggles with alcohol, religion and girls", his adult years of deep dark... View more info
Price: $7.65
Publisher: London, UK., Hodder & Stoughton.: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2037
ISBN: 0340128976
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 19.5 x 13 cm.; 126 pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. The story of a London call-girl who reformed through the love and care of others. Fore edges of both boards have a slight bump near the bottom. The dust jacket (unclipped and in Brodart) shows minor edge wear - small chips. View more info
By: Ponafidine, Emma Cochran (Mme. Pierre Ponafidine)
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, New York., Blue Ribbon Books.: 1931
Seller ID: 30338
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; 312 pp. Subtitled: An Intimate Record of Personal Experiences Before, During and After the Bolshevist Revolution. A firsthand insight by an American lady married to a Russian of life in Russian as the nation went through extraordinary change. Frontis photos of author. The text block head edge is stained red as issued. Red cloth-covered boards have light wear, as does the text block edges, former owner's name on front free endpaper, bit of soiling in text; binding sturdy. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted. View more info
By: Porter, Anna.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Doubleday: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18341
ISBN: 0385259565
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; viii - 324 pp. Blue paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. Porter recounts the stories learned from her grandfather , Vilmos Racz known affectionately as Vili, told to her while she was growing up in Budapest during the 1950's and 40's. View more info
By: Read, Donald and Eric Glasgow.
Price: $13.50
Publisher: London, UK., Edward Arnold.: 1961
Seller ID: 30492
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 160 pp. Green cloth over boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Black and white frontis portrait of O'Connor. Five page bibliography and a 4 page index. Slight darkening (dust soiling) of the head edge of the text block, otherwise the book appears to have been used very little if at all. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear to the spine tips and fore corners with some light soiling on the back panel. View more info
Price: $8.10
Publisher: Berkeley, California., University of California Press: 1974
Seller ID: 11069
ISBN: 0520024435
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 20 x 12.5 cm.; xi - 201 pages. Tan coloured cloth ovr boards with gilt lettering on a red spine panel. From the dust jacket: ". . . . the blind and defeated poet had become deeply suspicious of reason and idealism, turning to a pragmatic reconciliation with human irrationality and fallibility. This shift in attitudes underlies and largely defines Milton's achievements in his last three great works . . . .". Faint erasure ghost on the front free end paper, very slight soiling to the dust jacket. The book appears to have been used fvery little if at all. View more info
By: Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie Rowse).
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, UK., Weidenfeld and Nicolson.: 1979
Seller ID: 18298
ISBN: 0297776665
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 215 pp. A prolific writer, Rowse (1903-1997), was best known as a Cornish historian and Poet and a Shakespearean scholar. This is his life in the 1930s, based on his diaries and journals - a Marxist, a Labour Party candidate, a friend of Adam von Trott who became a famous figure of the German Resistance, among other events and people. Index. Text is tight and clean. Dust jacket has minor general wear. View more info
By: Sanford, Roger.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland., America House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9607
ISBN: 1588518892
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 208 pp. A semi-autobiographical novel about a hard-luck young lad and his journey through life, eventually returning to the island of his dreams where he lives happily ever after. Black remainder mark on the head edge. Minor wear to the cover edges. Stated first printing. View more info
By: Schmidt, Gary D.
Price: $5.40
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan., William B. Eerdmans: 2002
Seller ID: 8513
ISBN: 0802851487
Condition: Near Fine
8vo - 23 x 17.5 cm.; xi - 200 pp. A biography of William Bradford, the founder of Plymouth Colony, and written for younger readers - "Eerdmans Books For Young Readers". Illustrated with maps, paintings and historical illustrations. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York., Doubleday & Company.: 1951
Seller ID: 32191
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 330 pp. Slaughter (1908-2001) was a prolific American novelist, physician and Christian. Grey cloth-covered boards have a bit of soiling, minor edgewear. Mapped endpapers. Text is clean, binding sturdy. Dust jacket lightly soiled with chipping and closed tears, flap has original price of $3.50 T.R.T.B. View more info
