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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in like new condition with no discernible wear but is price clipped. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Traces the lives of the many Jewish immigrants who escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe between the years 1882 and 1915 and stayed to prosper in the New World."; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 392 pages.

RED CLOTH. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE. FIRST EDITION (STATED). NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA, 1977. Xi, 271 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The story of the cryptographer, William Friedman, who was given Japanese code interceptions in the late 1930s. The Japanese code "Purple" was used by Japan's diplomatic corps and the Navy. Labelled as unbreakable, Friedman managed to decode the Japanese system on the eve of WWII, enabling America to valuable information throughout the War. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Frontenae Edition. Octavos. Two volumes. Vol. I: [1], xxiv, 381 pages, [1]. Fronrispiec, folding map, illustrations. Vol. II: [1], xi, 483 pages, [1]. Blue cloth hardcovers with faded paper title labels on the spines. Top edge gilt. Foredge untrimmed. 2 tipped in small paper labels 'Foninae Edition Volume XV.' with title located between the rear end blank paper and flyleaf.

/various, illustrators. (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good; no names or other marks, extrems rubbed and bumped, not worn through, a few light spots on back; first few pages including frontis tissue and title page lightly foxed overall, a bit of foxing on last two or three pages, otherwise pages are toned but nice. Juvenile hardback. A leisurely story about a family of seven children who live in a rambling village house. A very pretty book. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /various, illustrators.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The author offers a uniquely fascinating defence of flagellatory impulse ,tracing the history of the phenomenon from its earliest days . 8vo. Pp ,x, 323,[1]. 16 pages of plates and illustrations. Original black cloth covered boards in very good unclipped unmarked Dust wrapper. An explicit book but very informative.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Little Brown and Co. , Boston, MA, 1971. 488 pgs. Well illustrated with black-and-white photographs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the heel of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This fabled essay about the making of, the inspirations of, the long life of, Citizen Kane, that greatest of all movies, is a delicious buffet of film analysis, Hollywood history, biography, American history, and much, much more. Kael s analysis of the film is deep and contextual. She looks at the films that came before and after it, at the trends in society in media, at radio, at dialogue. She investigates the Hearst connection, she traces rosebud to a combination of Citizen Kane script author Herman Mankiewicz s boyhood sled and boyhood bicycle which was stolen and mourned. She never misses an opportunity to throw in a good joke or anecdote about famous Hollywood personalities. Her observations are witty and brilliant; an example: "The movie industry is always frightened, and is always proudest of films that celebrate courage. " This is a book which will enrich your appreciation for "Citizen Kane" even as it can stand on its own as a great book on Hollywood. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

/MA, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good jacket; no names, tight and straight with clean boards and pages, in jacket with a bit of wear to ends, two pinprick holes, slightly faded spine; unclipped 1.75. Picture Book hardback. William's friends go to elaborate ends to keep him from getting up and seeing his shadow on Ground Hog day. (William prefers to think of himself as a woodchuck). ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /MA, illustrator.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little Brown and Co, Boston and New York, 1942. 292 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (edges of the DJ are tape stained). Bound in red cloth with black titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (tape residue present). Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the front board and offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Breakfast with the Nikolides: As the Nazi juggernaut rolls through occupied France, Louise Poole is forced to flee Paris with her two daughters and return to East Bengal and the husband she left. Despite Louise s hatred of rural India, eleven-year-old Emily is intrigued by her exotic new home, left free to explore and enjoy the hospitality of her glamorous neighbors, the Nikolides. But as the cracks in her parents marriage become more obvious, an act of thoughtless cruelty ultimately shatters the tenuous bonds of family, violently disrupting the lives of the Pooles and the community. Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. A few of her works were co-written with her older sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1952. 306 pgs. First US Edition/First printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip to the top edge of the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (crown of the spine sunned and faded). Small stain present to the margin of the first page of text. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his apprenticeship as midshipman to face new responsibilities thrust upon him by the fortunes of war between Napoleon and Spain. Enduring near-mutiny, bloody hand-to-hand combat with Spanish seamen, deck-splintering sea battles, and the violence and horror of life on the fighting ships of the Napoleonic Wars, the young lieutenant distinguishes himself in his first independent command. He also faces an adventure unique in his experience: Maria. E-285; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages.

/BP, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Poor; no names or other marks, loosening, the rounded spine cloth is missing, the brown webbing still glued to signatures, hinges cracked on half title opening and last page; illustrated endpapers not affected; otherwise very good, light, even soil to boards, corner tips rubbed, nice cover plate, clean flat pages, and 14 plates on heavy coated paper. Small hardback. The Tale of Mr. Tod, a story of two disagreeable people, a fox and a badger, contains fewer paintings, more drawings, and a longer text than Potter's previous books in this series, but remains, as she wished, a small Peter Rabbit Book. Beautiful plates. ABE Heritage Seller, since 1996: Search ABE Keyword: oldchildrensbooks. Conservative AB condition grading, secure packing, international shipping. /BP, illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company. 1947. 324 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Jewish physician and pioneering psychiatrist, Wulf Sachs first met the man he calls "John Chavafambira" in a Johannesburg slum. The year was 1933, and Sachs wanted to learn whether psychoanalysis was applicable across different cultures. John, as he is called throughout, was a Manyika healer-diviner eager to learn the methods of European medicine. For the next two-and-a-half years Sachs psychoanalyzed John by means of free association. The result is Black Hamlet--a narrative, even novelistic, reconstruction of one black South African's life set against the background of two worlds in collision. E-68; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown, and Co. 1944. 69 pgs. Maps. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ in G shape with shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Boards in VG shape with light wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name and address present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The headaches of country living, humorously presented by Lawson in ABC format (with one headache for each letter. ) E-15; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 69 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1909. Xiv, 319 pgs. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates and 1 map. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) a Harvard educated American translator and folklorist, who worked for the Smithsonian, and was said to know seventy languages. He was perhaps best known for his English translations of Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical novel With Fire and Sword in 1888 and Quo Vadis in 1897. This volume is the result of his travels in Siberia where he studied the religion, myths and folklore and this became a source of material for the cultural context of Siberian shamanism. E-177; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, NY. 1967. 322 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Although unfinished prior to C. S. Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis introduces Hornblower to the makings of a spy. Through fortuitous circumstances and quick wittedness, Hornblower, in action with a man who replaced him and then who immediately sunk the ship Hornblower had commanded for two years in the same waters, fought a ship battle and obtained a very special French secret document. These orders from Napoleon form the basis of the following actions by the British Admiralty which Hornblower must carry out, his first acts of espionage in his efforts to bring victory to England. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 399 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1946. 322 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped along the top edge and crown of the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hornblower is tasked with a dangerous rescue mission in this "enthralling" chapter (New York Times) in C. S. Forester's beloved naval adventure series. Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his entire life, Hornblower finds himself assigned an especially dangerous and dubious new task: to rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew in the Bay of the Seine. This risky adventure, coinciding with reports that the tide of war may be turning -- as Wellington has swept over the Pyrenees and the Russians have reached the Rhine -- propels Hornblower toward the heart of the French Empire, toward a fateful reunion with old friends, and toward the harrowing but glorious conclusion of his own battle with Napoleon. E-285; 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.7 Inches; 318 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tenth Edition. Leather. 8vo. Published by Little, Brown and Co. , Boston, MA 1930. 1454 pages. 10th Edition. Bound in full brown leather with gilt rule and designs present to the boards andstamped gilt titles and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. John Bartlett's timeless collection of quotations from many of the finest luminaries of English prose and poetry are presented here. The book begins with a presentation of the King James Bible, beginning with the Old Testament. Many of the most inspiring and memorable verses from across the Biblical canon are present. This is followed by the New Testament, with a number of the most evocative and spiritually rich gospel quotations listed. After the Bible comes Shakespeare's plays - listing each play in turn, Bartlett presents the finest lines from each. The great wisdom and expression for which William Shakespeare is renowned finds ample demonstration, with tragedies such as Macbeth and comedies such as Twelfth Night among the plays Bartlett draws upon. John Bartlett (June 14, 1820 December 3, 1905) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death. EB; 9.29 X 6.14 X 2.13 inches; 1454 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. New York Graphic Society, New York. 1980. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 157 Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed by Arnoold Newman on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 175 black and white portraits of artists including many of the greats of the 20th Century. EB; 11.3 X 10.4 X 0.8 inches; 157 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1951. 277 pgs. Book Club Edition. DJs have shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn especially to the spine ends). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J. D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. EB; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown, and Company. 1932. 293 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ present but lacking half the spine and with chips and missing pieces present to the extremities of the DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. A generously illustrated "glimpse into the not far-distant future" by the designer of the 1939 New York World's Fair "Futurama." Norman Melancton ("Big Norm") Bel Geddes (April 27, 1893 May 8, 1958) was an American theatrical and industrial designer. E-143; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 293 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1953. 325 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hornblower leads a ship into the Mediterranean in this "intense and exciting" installment (New York Times) of C. S. Forester's beloved naval adventure saga. In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester's most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike. EB; 8.1 X 5.4 X 1.2 inches; 325 pages.

Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, and James Loring & Co.; New York: Dayton & Saxton, and E. & G.W. Blunt; Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, (1841). First edition (BAL 4435). Full leather, illustrated with 5 inserted plates. Dana, 1815-1882, wrote this useful manual based on his experience as a common sailor, memorialized in his "Two Years Before the Mast, 1840". There were many reprints - at least 12 in English in the 19th century. Expertly re-backed some time ago with matching leather and a spine label - the label now absent, new endpapers, retaining the two final blanks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 2012. 385 pgs. Illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Jerry West on the title page and Jonathan Coleman on the dedication page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine . Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day. Now, for the first time, the legendary Jerry West tells his story -- from his tough childhood in West Virginia, to his unbelievable college success at West Virginia University, his 40-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and his relationships with NBA legends like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant. Unsparing in its self-assessment and honesty, West by West is far more than a sports memoir: it is a profound confession and a magnificent inspiration. EB; 6 X 1.25 X 9 inches; 352 pages.

Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, and James Loring & Co.; New York: Dayton & Saxton, and E. & G.W. Blunt; Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, (1841). First edition (BAL 4435). Original full leather, leather spine label lettered in gilt, spine ruled in gilt, illustrated with 5 plates. With the elaborate ownership stamp of Russell Sturgis on the title, a later signature on a flyleaf, dated 1878, and a pencil drawing of a sailing ship (The Agnes) on the rear pastedown. This is likely the sea-faring Russell Sturgis (1805-1887), born to a family of merchants in the China trade. After several voyages and residencies in the East, and after the death of his wife, in 1844 he retired to Boston to care for his children. After re-marrying he decided, in 1851, to return to the East and steamed for England on the first leg of the voyage. He arrived too late for the connecting steamer, and while waiting in London was offered a partnership by the senior member of Barings Bank. He accepted, eventually became the head of the firm, and never returned to the United States (Wikipedia). Leather worn, front joint separating about 1 1/2 inches from the top. Label chipped with loss of two letters the last "s" in Seaman's and the "d" in Friend. Some damp-staining of the paper near the front and the back. Some gatherings loosening. A Good copy.