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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES  The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon
University of Oklahoma Press First Thus . Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Top edge stained light blue with some fading of this. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear and one tiny closed tear; in a clear protective cover. From the original in the collection of Henry Bradley Martin. Transcribed and with an introduction and notes by Alice Ford. Extending from April 26,1826, to December 31,1826, this journal covers the most fateful months of Audubon's poignant career - his journey to England and Scotland in connection with the publication of The Birds of America. Well illustrated.
USD 42.50 [Appr.: EURO 28.5 | £UK 25.75 | JP¥ 3751] Book number: 2688
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BANFILL, B.J.  Labrador Nurse
Macrae Smith . Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Slight corner wear of binding. Small spot on one page. Book is tight and bright. A chronicle of three years experience nursing in remote Labrador.
USD 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 | £UK 4 | JP¥ 574] Book number: 1507
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BRADLEE, BEN  A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
Simon & Schuster Second Printing . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post. Illustrated. ISBN: 0684808943
USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1280] Book number: 4889
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O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY AND H. ALAN DAY  Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
Random House First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unnmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In this beautiful, illuminating, and unusual book, Sandra Day O'Connor, with her brother, Alan, tells the story of the Day family and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B Ranch in Arizona. Illustrated. ISBN: 0375507248
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 6319
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CONWAY, JILL KER  The Road from Coorain
Vintage . Very Good Trade Paperback. Gentle creasing of back wrap. One sentence underlined on a latter page. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A woman's exquisitely clear-sighted memoir of growing up Australian. Jill Ker Conway is a noted historian, specializing in the experience of women in America, and was the first woman president of Smith College. ISBN: 0679724362
USD 5.95 [Appr.: EURO 4 | £UK 3.75 | JP¥ 525] Book number: 4809
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CONWAY, JILL KER  True North: A Memoir
Alfred A. Knopf First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. ISBN: 0679420991
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 5469
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CONWAY, JILL KER  A Woman’s Education
Alfred A. Knopf First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Corner creasing of a few leaves and tiny spots of several pages. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ price-clipped: in a clear protective cover. The third book in her continuing memoir - following The Road from Coorain and True North - deals with her years as the first woman president of Smith College. ISBN: 0679421009
USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 | £UK 3.75 | JP¥ 530] Book number: 7240
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CRONKITE, WALTER  A Reporter's Life
Alfred A. Knopf First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed corner tear - else Fine; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. The personal and professional odyssey of the original "anchorman". Illustrated. ISBN: 0394578791
USD 13.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 | £UK 8.25 | JP¥ 1191] Book number: 3899
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DANIEL, CLIFTON  Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: A Memoir
Arbor House First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book has very slight edge spotting - else Fine. It is tight and bright. DJ has slight corner wear with one tiny closed tear; in a clear protective cover. The memoirs of the distinguished foreign correspondent and later managing editor of The New York Times. Married Margaret Truman. Illustrated. ISBN: 0877955980
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 2113
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DANIEL, CLIFTON  Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: A Memoir
Arbor House First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book has very slight edge spotting and a gift inscription on front endpaper. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear; in a clear protective cover. The memoirs of the distinguished foreign correspondent and later managing editor of The New York Times. Married Margaret Truman. Well illustrated ISBN: 0877955980
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 2433
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DAVIDSON, KEAY  Carl Sagan: A Life
John Wiley & Sons . Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. This highly acclaimed life story offers remarkable insight into one of the most influential, provocative, and beloved figures of our time - a complex, contradictory prophet of the Space Age. Illustrated. ISBN: 0471395366
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 6239
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DHONDY, FARRUKH  C. L. R. James: A Life
Pantheon First American Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A critical appreciation of the West Indian historian and political activist who played a towering role in the cause of Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century. ISBN: 0375421009
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 6698
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ELDERS, DR. JOYCELYN AND DAVID CHANOFF  Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America
William Morrow First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Tiny corner creasing of two leaves. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Joycelyn Elders, M.D. is that rare find: a book that is not just a political memoir chock-full of inside information about the Clinton administration, but one that shares in poignant detail the triumphant rise of a role model and a truly inspirational African-American woman. Illustrated. ISBN: 0688147224
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6097
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GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH  A Life in Our Times: Memoirs
Houghton Mifflin First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Buckram binding with gilt lettering. Book has very slight, very faint, fore-edge spotting - else Fine. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear and several tiny closed tears; in a clear protective cover. The world famous economist, author of The Affluent Society, ambassador, and holder of various other high government posts presents his fascinating memoirs.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 2641
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GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS  Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Simon & Schuster . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author writes about growing up in New York. Illustrated.
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 3272
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GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS  Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Simon & Schuster . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author writes about growing up in New York. Illustrated. ISBN: 0684847957
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 7238
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GRAHAM, KATHARINE  Personal History
Vintage . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story... Illustrated with many photographs. ISBN: 0375701044
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 794] Book number: 6065
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HAMZA, KHIDHIR WITH JEFF STEIN  Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
Simon & Schuster . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In a white-knuckle thriller, Khidhir Hamza, who spent twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, recounts his life in Saddam Hussein's inner circle and his daring flight to the West. ISBN: 0743211359
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 794] Book number: 6233
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HOCKENBERRY, JOHN  Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
Hyperion Second Printing . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. John Hockenberry's Moving Violations is one of the most entertaining, provocative, unexpected, outspoken, and occassionally outrageous books in recent memory. It is a story of obstacles - physical, emotional, and psychic - overcome again, and again, and again. ISBN: 0786860782
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 5541
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JOYCE, ED  Prime Times, Bad Times
Anchor . Very Good Oversized Trade Paperback. Gentle creasing of spine. Mild edge and corner wear. Closed tear of last leaf. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. ISBN: 0385261020
USD 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 | £UK 2.75 | JP¥ 397] Book number: 1534
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LEE, WEN HO WITH HELEN ZIA  My Country Versus Me
Hyperion First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Los Alamos defense scientist, falsely accused of espionage in 1999, tells his story. Illustrated. ISBN: 0786868031
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6414
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LEVI, CARLO  Christ Stopped at Eboli
Time-Life . Near Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Slight tanning of pages - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight and unmarked. A masterful account of a year spent in political exile, in a backward southern Italian village in 1935, for opposing the Mussolini dictatorship. ISBN: 080943749X
USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 7158
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LEWIS, C.S.  A Grief Observed
Walker LARGE PRINT Edition . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Writing with love, humility and faith, the celebrated author C.S. Lewis submits an intensely personal account of the meaning of his wife's death. ISBN: 0802724701
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 3526
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MARTIN, JUSTIN  Greenspan: The Man Behind Money
Perseus Third Printing . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. This first-ever biography of Greenspan presents the celebrated Fed chairman as few know him - a man whose exceptional power is matched only by the mystery that surrounds him. Illustrated. ISBN: 0738205249
USD 14.25 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1258] Book number: 3996
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MARTIN, RALPH G.  Henry and Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces
G.P. Putnam's Sons First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A small area on front endpaper where a written name has been scribbled out and a small, neat signature on title page. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. ISBN: 0399136525
USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 750] Book number: 1571
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