Henry H. Bashford

Anthony Burgess

Robert Robinson

Book was bought new for private family library.  Does not appear to have been read.  Tight binding, clean pages.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

Augustus Carp, Esq:By Himself

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W. Donaldson

Book bought for private family library, like new condition.  Never read.  Tight binding.  Clean, unmarked pages, non-smoking home, one owner. 1992

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Henry Root’s Journal of a Fact Finding Mission

Root Into Europe

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John Paul Stevens

Book was bought new for private family collection.  Never read.  Like new  condition.  Clean pages, tight binding. Non-smoking home.  One owner.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Supreme Court Memoir

When he resigned in June 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens was the third-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history. As a lawyer and on the court, he worked with five chief justices: as a law clerk during Fred Vinson's tenure, a practicing lawyer when Earl Warren was chief, a circuit judge and junior justice during Warren Burger's term, a contemporary colleague of William Rehnquist, and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts. FIVE CHIEFS is his personal account of the workings of the court from his personal experiences with these men, and the controversial cases they deliberated over, from freedom of speech and affirmative action to capital punishment and sovereign immunity. Written with humility and grace, and packed with interesting anecdotes, FIVE CHIEFS is an unprecedented and historically significant look at the highest court in the United States.

Five Chiefs

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J. Maarten Troost

Brand new copy. Bought for private family library.  Never read.  Tight binding.  Clean crisp pages. One owner.  Nonsmoking home 

Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

The author discusses his two-year stay on a remote South Pacific island, a place where he anticipated a romantic paradise but instead experienced humorous misadventures and a host of environmental challenges.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals

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Book was bought new for private family library.  Never read.  Great condition,  tight binding clean crisp pages.  One owner.  Non- smoking home.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Merry Gentlemen and One Lady

Wilfred Thesiger

Book was bought new for private family collection.  Never read.  Tight binding.  Clean pages. Never read. Great condition.  Gentle shelf wear at most.

Wilfred Thesiger - My Life and Travels - An Anthology

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William Julius Wilson

Book was bought new for private family library.  Never read.  Tight binding. Shows minor shelf wear artist.  Clean, unmarked pages. One owner. Non-smoking home.

The World of the New Urban Poor

When Work Disappears

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Anthony Bailey

Book was bought for private family library and never read.  Tight binding.  Clean pages. Non-smoking home. Shows minimal shelf wear.  One owner.

A charming and well written account of one man's walk through Wales. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Walk Through Wales

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Hilary Spurling

Biography of Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling.  Bought new for private family library.  Never read.  Shows some shelf wear.  Tight binding.  Clean, unmarked pages. Photographs included


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Acclaimed literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This enduringly fascinating portrait of mid-20th-century Britain has never been out of print, inspiring TV and radio adaptations and elevating the author to The Times' list of fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Master novelist, well-connected socialite and keen-eyed social observer, Powell comes into focus as never before in this authoritative biography from one of our generation's greatest biographers.

Anthony Powell

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George Weller

Book was bought new for family library,  never read.  Clean pages.  Tight binding. Shows minimal shelf wear. Non-smoking home  First edition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents

Vivid and heart-stopping, the dispatches of World War II reporter George Weller are immortalized in a new collection--edited by his son--of wartime reports that give firsthand accounts of the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe. b&w photo insert.

Weller's War

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Renate Stendhal

360 photographs of Gertrude Stein, from personal and professional collection with corresponding text - portrait of the Mother of Modernism  - signed by editor as seen in photograph - excellent condition.  Never read.  Shows gentle shelfwear.

In Words and Pictures

"After an astonishing, playful essay, the book opens into a revelatory combination of quotes, quips and 360 photos of Stein and her wildly brilliant circle."--Elle

Gertrude Stein

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George E. Evans

Book was bought new for private family library.  Does not appear to have been read.  Purchased during trip to England. Tight binding.  Unmarked pages.  Does show gentle shelf wear of 35+ years.  One owner.  Non-smoking home.

An Autobiography

The Strength of the Hills

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Lawrence Goldstone

Nancy Goldstone

Book was bought for private family library and never read.  Tight binding.  Clean, unmarked pages. Non-smoking home. One owner.

Travels in the Book World

The authors rrecount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting

Used and Rare

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Noah Adams

Bought new for private family library.  Like new condition.  Never read.  Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages.  One owner.  Paperback with dust cover.  Non-smoking home. 

River Mornings, Radio Nights

Saint Croix Notes

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Roy Jenkins

Book was bought new and never read.  One owner. Bought for private family library. Shows minimal shelfwear at most. Non-smoking home.  Clean, unmarked pages. Tight binding.

Memoirs of a Radical Reformer

Jenkins has been a British cabinet minister, president of the European Commission, and is chancellor of Oxford University.

A Life at the Center

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Winner of Booker Prize.  Book was bought new for private family library.  Never read.  Shows gentle shelf wear. One owner.  Non- smoking home.  

Offshore

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Alan Clark

Book was bought new for private family library and does not appear to have been read. Original Price tag has been cut from inside flap but is visible on back.  Book shows gentle shelf wear at most. Tight binding. Clean pages. Non-smoking home.  If you have any questions, please ask.

The Private Diaries of Alan Clark

Already a best-seller in England, these scandalous diaries by a former cabinet minister reveal the inner workings of Britain's government under the reign of the Iron Lady.

Mrs. Thatcher's Minister

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The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill

The End of Obscenity

Amryl Johnson

Bought new and never read. Clean, crisp pages, unmarked. Non-smoking home. 

Sequins for a Ragged Hem

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Per Petterson

Anne Rosemary Born

Book was bought new and never read. Clean, unmarked pages.  Tight binding.Shows gentle shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Out Stealing Horses

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William Kennedy

Book was bought new and never read.  Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages.  Book shows gentle shelf wear and some yellowing off the edges.

Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.

Legs

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Peter H. Irons

Hard cover book and box of 6 cassette tapes of 23 live recordings of landmark Supreme Court cases in slipcover. Book and cassettes are in excellent condition.  Book was not read and cassettes have never been played.  Purchased as references for private library. Kept in non-smoking home.  Please ask if you have any questions.

Transcripts of 23 Live Recordings of Landmark Cases As Argued Before the Supreme Court

Until The New Press first published May It Please the Court in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Court since 1955 had been recorded. The original book-and-tape set was a revelation to readers and reviewers, quickly becoming a bestseller and garnering praise across the nation.


May It Please the Court includes both live recordings and transcripts of oral arguments in twenty-three of the most significant cases argued before the Supreme Court in the second half of the twentiethcentury. This edition makes the recordings available on an MP3 audio CD. Through the voices of some of the nation's most important lawyers and justices, including Thurgood Marshall, Archibald Cox, and Earl Warren, it offers a chance to hear firsthand our justice system at work, in the highest court of the land.


Cases included: Gideon v. Wainwright (right to counsel) Abington School District v. Schempp (school prayer) Miranda v. Arizona ("the right to remain silent") Roe v. Wade (abortion rights) Edwards v. Aguillard (teaching "creationism") Regents v. Bakke (reverse discrimination) Wisconsin v. Yoder (compulsory schooling for the Amish) Tinker v. Des Moines (Vietnam protest in schools) Texas v. Johnson (flag burning) New York Times v. United States (Pentagon Papers) Cox v. Louisiana (civil rights demonstrations) Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board (freedom of association) Terry v. Ohio ("stop and frisk" by police) Gregg v. Georgia (capital punishment) Cooper v. Aaron (Little Rock school desegregation) Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (public accommodations) Palmer v. Thompson (swimming pool integration) Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage) San Antonio v. Rodriguez (equal funding for public schools) Bowers v. Hardwick (homosexual rights) Baker v. Carr ("one person, one vote") United States v. Nixon (Watergate tapes) DeShaney v. Winnebago County (child abuse)


May It Please the Court...

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Book bought new and never read.  Tight binding.  Gold tipped pages.  Cover clean and intact.  Does show a couple of wrinkles and gentle shelf-wear. 

How and Where to Buy the Best Men's Clothes

Alan Flusser, one of America's foremost menswear designers, knows fine clothes and where to buy them. He shares all this in his insightful and elegantly written treatise for the man interested in savvy attire. Tuck this volume into a corner of your suitcase and you'll be armed with a connoisseur's knowledge of the dos and don'ts of buying and wearing quality clothes and how much they should cost, from dinnerwear to casual sportswear. Open Style and the Man and learn about: what to wear when you shop and why the difference between a $395 and a $1,000 suit (and how to make sure you're getting your money's worth) what two words to look for on a costly dress shirt's label why the folds in a cummerbund should always be worn facing upward how to recognize sports clothes capable of providing stylish longevity

Turn to the author's 200 favorite men's stores spanning seventeen cities in eight countries' both celebrated designer flagships and tiny shops known only to a privileged few and discover: the little-known New York store that sells shoes that offer instant "cachet" where the fashion set goes for the best T-shirt

In Style and the Man, Alan Flusser has created the perfect traveling companion for those men wishing to expand their sartorial knowledge as well as their wardrobe.

Style and the Man

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Book was bought new and never read. Shows minor shelf wear only.  Non-smoking home.

The Holocaust As History and Warning

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New Republic A “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The Washington Post, The Economist, Publishers Weekly In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on untapped sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think and thus all the more terrifying. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler’s than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was—and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning. New York Times Editors’ Choice • Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize; the Mark Lynton History Prize; the Arthur Ross Book Award

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