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Burbank the Infidel

By: Lewis, Joseph

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Freethought Press Association: 1930

Seller ID: 16676

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

48 pages; 4to (10.25") 26 cm; Hardcover, gray-blue cloth, white title label on front, 48 glossy pages numbered to 29, memorial sonnet, 4 facsimile documents, 8 b/w photos with captions. Includes Burbank's responses to a questionnaire about his personal religious (or rather atheistic) and scientific beliefs. ; Limited edition of 1500 stated. This unit not numbered. ; This wonderful old book is a memorial tribute to the great botanist Luther Burbank, and includes the speech given at the planting of his memorial tree in Central Park (1927) by the Freethinkers Society of New York, of which Burbank...
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Biography of Sa'id Mohsin : Co-Founder of Organization of Combatants of the People of Iran

By: Liberation Movement

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Liberation Movement of Iran Abroad: 1976

Seller ID: 20013

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

52 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; White softcover booklet, [iv] + 42 + 6 pages, endnotes, b/w portrait photo of Sa'id Mohsin. English throughout, except a few short passages in parallel Arabic and English. ; 1st edition, 1976, stated. Complete subtitle: 'Co-Founder of Organization of Combatants of the People of Iran, Sazeman Mujahedeen Khulk Iran, Text of Defense in Military Court 1972, by Liberation Movement of Iran Abroad, January 1976.' ; Almost no wear, but covers are spotted, lower tip stained throughout, not affecting any text. Quite scarce.
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Story of My Life, the : Or, the Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years

By: Livermore, Mary A.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: A. D. Worthington & Company: 1898

Seller ID: 20029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

730 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Ex-Library; Hardcover, red cloth, gilt lettering, green floral endpapers, 730 + 4 pages, 122 b/w photos and engravings. ; Copyright 1897. This printing 1898. ; One of America's most famous women of 19th century, Mary Livermore gained fame as army nurse during Civil War, spent 25 years as national lecturer and activist for temperance and women's rights, became known as Queen of the Platform. She and her husband, the Rev. Daniel Livermore, were outspoken Universalists. ; Library marks cover rear endpaper and copyright page. Library number painted on heel. Front endpape...
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My Story of the War : A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army

By: Livermore, Mary A.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: A. D. Worthington & Company: 1892

Seller ID: 20932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

700 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, red cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt decor on spine, 700 pages, tan floral endpapers, 14 full-page steel engravings, 8 color plates showing remnants of battle flags of North and South. ; Copyright 1887. This printing 1892. Memoirs of one of most famous women of 19th-century America: Mary Livermore was nurse, administrator, suffragist, newspaper editor, lay preacher, longtime superintendent of Chicago Sanitary Commission (civil war relief org) organizer of over 2000 soldier aid societies, wife of Rev. Daniel Livermore, noted Universalist. ...
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A. Powell Davies and His Times

By: Marshall, George N.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Skinner House Books: 1990

Seller ID: 20028

ISBN: 1558961720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

263 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, brown cloth, [x] + 263 pages, index, bibliography, chapter endnotes, 8 b/w photos. ; Biography of one of the most well known Unitarian ministers of the 20th century, a founding member of Americans for Democratic Action, a staunch defender of liberal religion, free speech and racial integration, and instrumental in the downfall of Joseph McCarthy. ; Book shows no defects. Jacket has four small edge tears, not affecting any text.
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Matilda R. Wilson : Mistress of Meadow Brook Hall

By: Marzolf, Marion, and Marianne Ritchie

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Meadow Brook Hall: 1983

Seller ID: 21872

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

52 pages; 16mo (6") 16 cm; White oblong softcover, [ii] + 52 + 2 pages, tan paper throughout, bibliography, endnotes, 24 b/w photos and illustrations. ; Biography of Matilda Rausch Dodge Wilson, philanthropist, primary designer of famous Meadow Brook Hall (massive family mansion, Rochester, Michigan) widow of auto maker John Dodge, wife of lumber magnate Alfred Wilson. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. Appears unread. Scarce.
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Nicholas and Alexandra

By: Massie, Robert K.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company: 1969

Seller ID: 21024

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

601 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Paperback, color portrait on front, [xx] + 601 + 3 pages, all edges green, index, bibliography, endnotes, 29 rare b/w photos with captions. ; Copyright 1967. This is 3rd printing, 1969. ; Highly lauded and fascinating biography of totally clueless Last Tsar of Russia and his family. Basis of Academy-Award-winning film of 1971. ; Top edge faded, lower tip discolored, school name stemped inside front cover, spine lightly creased but intact and readable. ; Dell Series; Vol. 6358
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In Between : Memoir of an Integration Baby (Unitarian Universalism, Black History)

By: Morrison-Reed, Mark D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Skinner House Books: 2010

Seller ID: 21842

ISBN: 1558965416

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

288 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Softcover, [xvi] + 272 pages, family tree diagram, endnotes. ; Copyright 2009. This is 5th printing, 2010. Foreword by William G. Sinkford. Memoirs of noted African American Unitarian Universalist minister and historian whose ancestry goes back into slavery. ; No marks, no defects.
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Where the Indus is Young : A Winter in Baltisan

By: Murphy, Dervla

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Readers Union: 1978

Seller ID: 20504

ISBN: 071953335X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

266 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, [viii] + 266 pages, index, bibliography, glossary, appendix, b/w map of Baltistan showing author's route, 7 b/w photos with captions. ; Copyright 1977. This edition 1978. ; Author (Irish) describes winter trek of herself and her six-year-old daughter through Baltistan, a region in the remote Karakoram Mountains in northern India. ; Book has no marks or major defects, however, text pages are starting to yellow from age. Jacket shows light wear and rubbing, spine faded but readable.
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Use and the Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation, the : Written by Herself

By: Nation, Carry A.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Carry A. Nation: 1908

Seller ID: 12184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

414 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, 414 pages, a few b/w photos with captions including frontispiece portrait of author, several poems in tribute of Carrie Nation, anti-masonic chapter by Edmond Ronayne, M. W. Moore and others. ; Revised Edition, Ten Thousand Copies, stated. ; Image shows frontispiece, as printed. ; Carrie Amelia Nation, lived 1846-1911, leader in Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and American anti-saloon movement and she had no love of tobacco or freemasons either. Much info on her smashing of liquor stores, stills, saloons, etc, and being thrown in ...
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Black Elk, Lakota Visionary : The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition

By: Oldmeadow, Harry, with Charles Trimble

Price: $9.00

Publisher: World Wisdom: 2018

Seller ID: 21635

ISBN: 1936597608

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

256 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Tan softcover, [xxii] + 224 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes, 3 appendices, 12 b/w photos and one full-color illustration on 8 glossy plates. ; Foreword by Charles Trimble. New in-depth biography of famous Native American (Lakota Sioux) holy man. ; No defects of any kind.
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Iron Hunter, the : (1st Edition, 1919)

By: Osborn, Chase S.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company: 1919

Seller ID: 16322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

316 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Hardcover, red-brown cloth, gilt lettering, decor in black and cream, 316 pages, 4-pg publisher catalog in rear, 11 b/w photos on unnumbered glossy plates. ; 1st edition, published May, 1919, stated. No other printings. ; Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) was governor of Michigan 1911-1913. Before he went into politics he was an iron prospector in the Upper Peninsula and a newspaper reporter and owner. As governor he passed the worker's compensation law and eliminated the state deficit. This scarce political memoir has the author's own bookplate on front endpaper. ; Bo...
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Lucinda Hinsdale Stone : Her Life Story and Reminiscences

By: Perry, Belle McArthur

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Blinn Publishing Company: 1902

Seller ID: 20026

ISBN: 1165045591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

369 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering, [xiv] + 369 pages, b/w illustration of Hinsdale coat of arms in text, b/w portrait photos of Lucinda Stone and her husband Dr. James Andrus Blinn Stone on glossy plates. Text includes tribute from the Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane, pioneer woman minister of Peoples Church of Kalamazoo. ; Amazonuyers please note: This is an actul book from 1902. We are sorry that Amazon forces us to list it on a page for fake books. ; Written by Belle McArthur Perry, president, Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs. Introduction by Ellen...
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Highlights in the Life of Thomas A. Edison : 1847-1931

By: Player, Cyril Arthur

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Detroit Edison Company: 1947

Seller ID: 20824

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

23 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Ivory-white softcover booklet, title and portrait of Edison embossed on front, 23 glossy pages, deckle fore-edge on front cover, list of medals and honorary degrees, 9 sepia-toned photos with captions. ; Very nice promotional item from Detroit Edison Electric Company, 1947. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. Slight rustiness to staples. No other defects. Scarce.
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Walking with Presidents : Louis Martin and the Rise of Black Political Power (Signed)

By: Poinsett, Alex; Illustrated by Gertrude Martin

Price: $44.00

Publisher: Madison Books: 1997

Seller ID: 21850

ISBN: 1568330936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

251 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, [xvii] + 251 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes, 36 b/w photos on glossy plates. Half-title page warmly inscribed, dated and SIGNED by author, Alex Poinsett. ; Biography of Louis Emanuel Martin Jr, known as the Godfather of Black Politics, journalist, civil rights activist, first editor-publisher of Michigan Chronicle (influential African American newspaper) and advisor to three US presidents. Photos by Gertrude Martin and others. ; Owner name penned on bottom edge, otherwise no defects to book apart from autograph. Jacket shows light edgewear, minor ...
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William Kuenneth Schubert : (Signed)

By: Regina, Karen, and Beatrice Katz

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: 2010

Seller ID: 16566

ISBN: 0998356468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

219 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, blue cloth, silver lettering, 219 pages, blue patterned endpapers, 4 appendixes, 18 high-quality b/w photos on glossy plates, with captions. ; Biography of William K. (Bill) Schubert, pioneer of pediatric research, named a Great Living Cincinnatian, who rose in 1983 to become chief executive officer of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. ; Owner name (Eugene V. Perrin, noted pathologist and medical researcher) penned on title page in small letters. Front flyleaf inscribed 'To Eugene' and dated 8-29-10 and SIGNED by Dr. Bill Schubert. Book show...
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Samuel Gridley Howe : By his Daughter Laura E. Richards

By: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

Price: $12.00

Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company: 1935

Seller ID: 16565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

283 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Hardcover, black cloth over spine and tips, gray boards, [xiv] + 283 pages, gray title label on spine, index, 3 appendixes, 9 full-page b/w illustrations including frontispiece portrait on glossy plate. ; Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was a major figure in 19th-century America. He was best known as founder and president of the Perkins Institute, first US school for the blind. With his famous wife, Julia Ward Howe, author of Battle Hymn of the Republic and creator of Mother's Day for peace, he edited the anti-slavery paper 'Boston Commonwealth'. A Unitarian, he was ...
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My Parents : A Differing View

By: Roosevelt, James, with Bill Libby

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Playboy Press: 1976

Seller ID: 21942

ISBN: 0872234762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

369 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, dark blue-black cloth, [xiv] + 369 pages, index, 25 b/w photos on glossy plates, with captions. ; Written by eldest son of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. ; Small remainder marks, one on top, one on bottom, otherwise no defects to book. Jacket shows light edgewear, small old pricesticker on front inner flap. ; Laid in: 1) clipping about Elliott Roosevelt's book, An Untold Story, 1973. 2) clipping from Biography mag, Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the World, 1997, with 8 b/w photos. 3) clipping, b/w photo of FDR, Eleanor and their five young children.
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Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, Complete in 8 Volumes

By: Russell, John

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans: 1851

Seller ID: 22210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

8vo (8") 21 cm; Set of 8 hardcover vols, brown leather over spines and tips, richly marbled boards and edges and endpapers, about 350 pages per vol, 2 b/w engravings per vol, extensive index in last vol. ; Edited by Lord John Russell, future prime minister of England. Vol-1, 1853. Vol-2, 1853. Vol-3, 1853. Vol-4, 1853. Vol-5, 1854. Vol-6, 1854. Vol-7, 1856. Vol-8, 1856. ; The mighty Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was a hero to both Catholics and Protestants, an actor, literary critic, keen political satirist, and Ireland's greatest lyric poet. ; We have graded this set Poor. While no boards are miss...
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Lotta : Lotta Hitschmanova and the Unitarian Service Committee Story

By: Sanger, Clyde

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Stoddart Publishing Company: 1986

Seller ID: 20176

ISBN: 0773720723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

266 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, black cloth, green endpapers, [xiv] + 266 pages, index, footnotes, 4 appendixes, 33 b/w photos on glossy plates with captions. ; Remarkable true story of amazing Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990) a petite woman who single-handedly founded and operated Canadian branch of Unitarian Service Committee for 37 years, a worldwide social welfare organization through which she established countless successful programs Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Botswana, and more, earned Order of Canada and dozens of similar accolades from other nations. ; Very small rem...
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Category: Biography