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Viking. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670066486 . White cloth covers, black titles to the spine and a smashed cassette blind Imprint to the front cover. In As New condition with very light bumping to the spine ends. A First Edition, First Printing. The DJ is unclipped wth light cover scuffing but Very Good++. "In 1982 the Commodore 64 computer was introduced, Ronald Reagan survived being shot, the Falkland War started and ended, Michael Jackson released, Thriller, Canada repatriated its Constitution, and the first compact disc was sold in Germany. And that’s not all. In 1982 I blossomed from a naive fourteen-year-old trying to fit in with the cool kids to something much more: a naive eyeliner-wearing, fifteen-year-old trying to fit in with the cool kids." ; 8.40 X 5.50 X 1.10 inches; 384 pages .

Viking. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670066486 . Signed by the author on the title page. White cloth covers, black titles to the spine and a smashed cassette blind Imprint to the front cover. In As New condition with very light bumping to the spine ends. A First Edition, First Printing. The DJ is unclipped wth light cover scuffing but Very Good++. "In 1982 the Commodore 64 computer was introduced, Ronald Reagan survived being shot, the Falkland War started and ended, Michael Jackson released, Thriller, Canada repatriated its Constitution, and the first compact disc was sold in Germany. And that’s not all. In 1982 I blossomed from a naive fourteen-year-old trying to fit in with the cool kids to something much more: a naive eyeliner-wearing, fifteen-year-old trying to fit in with the cool kids." ; 8.40 X 5.50 X 1.10 inches; 384 pages; Signed by Author .

Pocket Books / MTV Books. Very Good. 2001. Mass_Market. 0743451406 . Mass Market in Very Good+ condition. Tightly bound and unmarked with a color photo section. Cover edge wear and rubbing. "Intro; Dedication; Introduction; 1 | Rock the Boat; 2 | The (Very) Early Years; 3 | Age Ain't Nothing But a Number; 4 | Soul Searching; 5 | One in a Million; 6 | Siren of the Small Screen; 7 | Are You That Somebody?; 8 | The Queen of the Damned; 9 | Aaliyah and Damon: A Love Story; 10 | The Last Album; 11 | More Than a Woman; Epilogue; Copyright." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 208 pages .

Editions Du Bien Public. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Burgundy Hardcovers / darker burgundy spine covering. In Very Good condition. A name written on the front end paper and two pages with notes on them, otherwise unmarked. Tightly bound. Some corner and spine end bumping. "Aaron Philip Hart , Moses Uri ben Ezekiel; August 16, 1724 – December 28, 1800) was a businessman in Lower Canada and one of the first Jews to settle in the colony. He is considered the father of Canadian Jewry. He was one of the founding members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal (Shearith Israel) , a wealthy man with numerous landed estates, and the married father of four sons, including the future politician Ezekiel Hart, and four daughters. "; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 194 pages .

Toronto, Ont: The Copp Clark Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Paperback. Red textured soft cover copy with yellow lettering on spine and cover, part of the School Edition seires of the 20s. Nice, clean interior with a solid binding. Some edgewear with a slight turnup of the corners, a little wear on the spine end. "Drinkwater writes in the Note: In using for purposes of drama a personality so wide and recent a fame as that of Abraham Lincoln, I feel that one or two observations are due to my readers and critics. First my purpose is that not of the historian but of the dramatist. The historical presentation of my hero has been faithfully made in many volumes...Secondly, my purpose is, again, that of the dramatist, not that of the political philosopher...My concern is with the profoundly dramatic interest of his character and with the inspiring example of a man who handled war nobly and with imagination." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 130 pages .

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback. The spine is scuffed with creasing and wear. The covers have some creasing and wear. Price of 25c on front cover. There are notes on the end papers and half title page. The interior text has a few pages of notes, the rest of the pgs are clean with a solid binding. "This is one of the finest single-volume biographies ever written on Lincoln," wrote independent Lincoln scholar Michael Burkhimer in 2003. This classic is number 13 of Burkhimers 100 Essential Lincoln Books. "; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 497 pages .

Anchor Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 2010. First Trade Edition. Trade. 0307740986 . Trade Paperback in Fine condition. Tight, bright, unmarked, in Fine condition. "The bestselling author of "Bringing Down the House" pens the incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what happened afterward--a real-life adventure filled with unimaginable wealth, sex, exotic locales, six-foot-five identical-twin Olympic rowers, and betrayal. ; 1 x 7.8 x 5.1 Inches; 272 pages .

Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine. Very Good+ with a solid binding and a clean, unmarked text. Light spine end bumping. The DJ is pirce clipped, Very Good with cover rubbing, some staining to the covers with no tearing along the edges. First Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages; Box 51/ shelved .

William Abrahmans / Dutton Adult. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0525248463 . Purple hard covers with white cloth spine covering. Very Good++, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text. Subscription note on the front free end paper. First Edition, stated First Printing, May 1990. Small black remainder mark to the bottom edge . The DJ is unclipped, creasing to the back cover top edge, Good+. "Painter Cassatt and dancer Duncan, two turn-of-the-century artists of great accomplishment never met. They shared little in terms of background, lifestyle, or artistic concerns, though both spent much of their lives in Europe, and each took a trip to Egypt." ; B&W Photographs; 1.5 x 9.5 x 6.3 Inches; 403 pages .

London, England: Penguin Classics. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1973. Trade Paperback. 0140442863 . Trade Paperback in very good ++ condition. Glossy covers with a solid binding and a bright & unmarked interior. Very minor rubbing to the edges, and small smudge on the front cover. "This title includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's "Lives" which covers the rise of Macedonia. This title includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's "Lives" which covers the rise of Macedonia. " ; Penguin Classics, L286; 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 Inches; 443 pages .

Mentor / New American Library. Very Good. 1964. Paperback. Mass Market in Very good condition. Squared, a sound binding, pages are clean & unmarked. There is cover and spine hinge wear, cover rubbing. Basic writing of Da Vinci, More, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Copernicus, Montaigen, Kepler, Galileo, Giordano Bruno...; 7.0 X 4.1 X 0.6 inches; 283 pages .

Little, Brown. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Soft Cover. Orange textured soft covered copy. Edgewear, and light sticker scar on the front top corner. Some wear to the spine hinge. Small red mark on the half title page, otherwise very clean, tightly bound, and unmarked. Undated, copyright 1945, coulf be the 1960s. "One of the most insightful studies of American politics during the Jacksonian Era. "; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 577 pages .

Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671216597 . Brown cloth boards / gilt titles to the spine. First Edition. There is light wear to the spine ends and corners with sunning to the spine ends. A black remainder mark on the bottom edge. Tightly bound with an unmarked interior. The DJ is unclipped with spine sunning, scuffing and edgewear, but in very good condition. "The marriage of H. M. Queen Victoria to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg was a love affair for twenty-one years of happiness and produced nine children, whose descendants peopled the thrones of Europe." ; Remainder; B&W Illustrations; 1.5 x 9.3 x 6 Inches; 378 pages .

Robson Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2003. Trade Paperback. 186105517x . Trade Paperback in very good++ condition. Light bump to the front bottom corner. "Albert Finney has been a film and stage star for over 40 years, ever since first taking the movie and theater worlds by storm in 1960 with his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Billy Liar. "; B&W Photographs; 0.79 x 8.64 x 5.56 Inches; 244 pages .

New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0393040860 . First Edition. Only mark is the previous owner's blind stamp and date on front free-end paper. Almost fine. Minor edgewear on DJ, unclipped. Protected by a Brodart jacket cover. "This astonishing biography of Alfred Kinsey, the man who launched the sexual revolution, is graphically frank about his decidedly out-of-the-mainstream sexual practices (including masochism and voyeurism) , yet historian James Jones doesn't exploit the material for titillation. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 937 pages .

London, England: Jonathon Cape. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Blue textured covers with gilt titles to the spine. A Very Good book, the binding is tight and the inteiror is clean & unmarked. Wear to the spine ends and corners. Frontispiece of Alice Meynell, dated 1877. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages .

Orion. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. A Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked text. Small crease to the front cover ane moderate spine creasing. "Alistair Cooke, for 52 years the unmistakable voice of BBC's "Letter from America", was 90 in 1998. Drawing upon correspondence, private papers and the reminiscences of family and friends, this is the biography of one the most famous names in British broadcasting history. "; 7.72 X 5.04 X 1.81 inches; 656 pages .

St. Martins. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. 0029766605 . Black Hardcovers, bold gilt title to the spine. In Very Good+ condition, the binding is tight and the pages are unmarked. Sharp corners, with some spine end bumping and spotting to the top edges. "All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. "; 8.2 X 5.7 X 1.5 inches; 378 pages .

Dutton. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 052597119X . First Edition. Brown Hardcover in Fine condition with a sound binding, clean & unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+, unlcipped, light cover edgewear and rubbing. "Karl Hartland came to England as a victim of Nazi persecution, belonging nowhere and suspicious of everyone . But the first real English school he attended accepted him unquestioningly and made him want desperately to be an Englishman." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206` pages .

Alexandria, Virginia: American Conservative Union. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. Trade Paperback. A smaller Trade Paperback in very good condition. Cover shows some scuffing and edgewear, with a small sticker scar to the front cover. Well bound with an unmarked interior. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 92 pages .