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New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Ninth Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Vintage Dust Jacket protected in an archival sleeve. Black cloth binding with turquoise blue imprint of a donkey on the front (Democrats), blue and gilt lettered on spine. Clean and unmarked with corners lightly rubbed; solid, tight, and square. Internals quite clean, no markings of any kind, pages age-toned. 3-4 small colorless spots on fore-edge of text block. Victor Lasky has marshalled facts, studied the opinions and comments of political experts from both the right and left, and drawn on his own experience as a veteran political observer to write this first full-scale study of John F. Kennedy. 653 pp with Appendices, Sources and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 x 1.75 inches. 1963, Macmillan Company, 1963.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Charles Scribners Sons, 1912. Published October, 1910; This is the Fourth Impression, April, 1912. Small forest green cloth bound book with gilt titles to front and spine. Nice appearance with faint small smudges near upper corner, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. Pages 88-89 have spots in the gutter and half-moon light stain at lower edge across both pages, center--otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked, lightly tanned. John Galsworthy, 1867-1933, was an English Author noted for his satire on the British upper-middle class, late 19th-early 20th century.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Fourth Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Gray cloth spine with copper titles, gray boards, very clean and unmarked, faint crease to upper corner, whipser of wear to lower edge, tight, solid and square . Internals in Fine Condition--clean, no marks, no creases. b/w photographs. The life of Jack Kennedy, former U.S.President, his family, personal life, beliefs, politics. 479 pages with Notes and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2011, Simon & Schuster, New York.,

USA: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The life of American actor, film director and writer, Jack Nicholson, one of the most nominated male actors in the history of the Academy Awards. Red rem mk dot on the lower edge of the text block, otherwise fine. Illustrative plates. Burgundy half-cloth with gilt titles, tan textured boards; very clean, tight, solid, unmarked. Interior is Fine. Jacket in VG Condition with a little rumpling along edges, not price-clipped. 478 pages with Notes, Filmography and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher: W W Norton & Co, New York and London, 1994.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Random House, 2016. First English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. Black quarter cloth w/silver titles, gray boards. Binding solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. A collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present. Trillin takes on issues that are as relevant today as they were when he wrote about them. 275 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 2016, Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A.

New York, New York: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Second Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Very nice volume in ivory half cloth and red boards, clean, spotless, tight & solid, square with sharp corners, No edgewear. Only defect is colorless spotting on top edge and fore edge of page block. Internals clean, unmarked, uncreased. Jacket is spotless, unclipped, very slight wrinkling along top edge. Max Byrd reveals the private life of one of history's most beloved and elusive figures-- a Senator, the 7th President of the United States, a General--Old Hickory-, a slave owner, land speculator, and Indian fighter. 421pages. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Grp, New York, 1997.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. American Problem Studies Book. Clean and unmarked, sight edgewear all around edges. Interior clean, no underlining, no highlighting, no marginalia. Tight glued binding. Andrew Jackson, American folk hero, general, statesman, US President--a controversial figure in American history. Some see him as the disciple of Jefferson who led the forces of democracy to a victory over privilege and autocracy; some as a demagogue intent on exploiting the credulity of the masses to enhance his power. Which is it? 122 pages. 6.4 x 9.25 inches. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1962.

USA: St Martins Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book As New with a Very Good + Dust Jacket. Very clean and unmarked book, looks new. Rough cut. Internals immaculate. Endpapers with a drawing of each author. Jacket is clean with no edgewear, small scuff on front near top edge, not price-clipped. "Jacob's Hands" is the collaborative effort of two geniuses in their fields, novelist/essayist Aldous Huxley and playwright/novelist Christopher Isherwood, whose stories of Berlin inspired "Cabaret". This fable was originally written for the screen and had never been published before-it was found in a trunk on the Huxley estate for five decades before being discovered in 1997. 141 pages. 7.5 x 5.5 inches. St Martins Press, New York, 1998.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. A story of the Civil War and the people, black and white, of one Virginia plantation and their destinies. Clean, unmarked, tight and solid volume with faint wear to corners. Small 'g' on endpaper, otherwise internals are in Fine Condition. Bright and clean jacket has a tear to the rear upper corner and the rear spine head corner. 525 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1998, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Hyperion, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in a Slipcase, both As New. Both with same illustration of Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. Foreword by Caroline Kennedy. Interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964, Introduction and Notations by Michael Beschloss. Illustrations throughout. 368 pages, indexed. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2011, Hyperion, New York, New York, U.S.A.

USA: St Martin's Press, 1982. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE in Very Good Condition with a Fair Vintage Dust Jacket in Archival Protective Cover. The story of the daughter of an English missionary to China who gets involved in the massacre of Christians in 1870. Her parents are killed and she is takrn into captivity as a concubine where she remains for many years. When she escapes, she finds she has little in common with the "arrogant, stuffy Europeans--" . The book is bound in ivory cloth over spine with bold, bright gilt titles, blue boards, very clean, unmarked, faint rubbing to some edges; tight, solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition, pages lightly toned. Clean jacket is edgeworn, chipped at spine head and heel. 630 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 1982, St Martin's Press, New New York, USA

New York: Soho Crime, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Soho Crime, 2011. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean gently used book with minor cover wear to extremities. Introducing the Sueno & Bascom Series set in the 1970s in South Korea. Nobody navigates the barely controlled chaos of Seoul's red-light district like these two investigators--or the byzantine ways of Army bureaucracy. when a young Korean woman is brutally murdered in that district, Sueno & Bascom, of the Military Police of the US 8th Army, are assigned to the case. 288 pages. 8vo. 2011, Soho Crime.

U.S.A: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. If you haven't met Lovejoy, it's time to do so--I'm sure you'll enjoy the experience. Binding of black half-cloth with bright and bold gilt titles on spine, green cloth-wrapped boards, spotlessly clean and unmarked, Tight, solid, square with sharp corners. Internals immaculate. Bright and colorful, unclipped jacket. Set in Hong Kong, Lovejoy at his most likable, wickedest and liveliest self. 273 pages. 9.5 x 6.4 inches. St. martin's Press, New York, 1988.

New York: Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. IISigned by Author. ISigned by Author Signed by Author Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. ix, 948 pages with Principal Sources, Notes, Index. 9.5 x 6.5 x 2.25 inches. Illustrations. Tan half cloth w/gilt titles, brown boards, very clean, tight, solid and square. Former owner name on endpaper. Internals as new. This monumental biography brings us the life of the renowned educator and scientist who led the U.S. government's effort to develop weapons of mass destruction, and whose own story mirrors America's transition from isolationism to global superpower at the dawn of the nuclear age. It portrays the political and diplomatic history of the forty or so years of America's ascendancy. In 1941, when he was president of Harvard University, he was science advisor to FDR and was given the assignment of determining whether or not the atomic bomb should or could… Read More

New York, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1984. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing of 1984 Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. James Boswell is most known as the renowned biographer of Samuel Johnson and the greatest diarist in the English language, but Professor Pottle's portrait shows him to be much underestimated. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, Boswell's own writings, and many other sources, he presents Boswell as a brilliant, complex, human and endearing man, also as shrewd, vain, foolish and disarmingly honest, warm and charming, a man you can feel you know today. Dr. Pottle is the leading authority on James Boswell. The book is bound in navy half cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on spine, blue boards. Very clean and unmarked, no edgewear, tight, solid, and square. Internals as new. Jacket is clean, bright, no edgewear, lightly rubbed. 606… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Good Condition. B/W photographic illustrations. Rem Mk, else Fine. Bound in black half cloth with silver titles, brown boards, very clean, no markings, no edgewear. Tight and solid and square volume. Internals as new. James Earl Jones, a boy who came from a family of farmers and sharecroppers in Mississippi who lived twelve to a house, became one of the great actors of our time. He has joined forces with biographer-scholar Penelope Niven to write a moving and memorable book about his remarkable life. 394 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.Scribner Publishing, New York, 1993.

Cambridge University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. 5x0x7. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean navy cover, minor wear to corners, tiny scuff to spine edge; pages toned, otherwise in fine condition. Includes Preface, Abbreviations, and Chronology. This precise and lucid introduction to this major work of world literature is a fine guide for the reader who is encountering Ulysses for the fist time and also has much to offer the experienced scholar. Vincent Sherry's discussion of style and structure are conducted with great tact and perception. His handling of Homeric parallels is especially interesting. An eloquent, historically-based analyses. 141 pages. 8vo. 1994, Cambridge University Press.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A: Chronicle Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Patricia Brabant. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Has not been used at all. Binding of Black smooth cloth w/white titles, clean, sharp corners, tight binding. Beautifully illustrated with full color full page illustration one side, recipe on the other. Also has information on rice, rice products, rice cookers, and "How To Cook The Perfect Rice"! 96 pages. 8.25 x 9.2 inches. 1988, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

USA: Perennial Classics/Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback Book in Good Condition. Classic 19th century English Literature originally published in 1847. A pasionate novel of an orphan who is hired as governess by Mr. Rochester, a melancholy man with a fierce temper. She grows into a woman who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society and asserts herself with dignity and defiance. It is ultimately a ttale of one woman's fight to claim her independence and slef-respect in a society that has no place for her. Cover clean with light edgewear; beginning of a crease to upper corner; no spine creasing; pages clean and free from any markings. Tight glued binding. 440 pages. 7.2 x 4.2 inches. Harper & Row, New York, 1965.

U.S.A: St Martins Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Gray cloth w/silver titles, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid. Bottom board edges and spine heel slightly rubbed. Internals in Fine Condition. Jacket is clean and bright with a touch of edgewear. Another fast-paced Ludlum suspenseful novel about a Nobel laureate, international financier and philanthropist, and billionaire, who have been kidnapped by a near mythical terrorist organization known as the Caliph. 547 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 2002, St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, USA