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Bob Dylan : An Intimate Biography

By: Scaduto, Anthony

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1971

Seller ID: 21653

ISBN: 0448020343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

280 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, tan cloth, dark green endpapers, [viii] + 280 pages, index, discography, 1 b/w photo in text, 11 b/w photos on glossy plates with captions. ; Blurb: 'The first full dimensional biography of America's most popular, most controversial, most influential and most elusive cultural hero.' ; Book shows only minor wear to tips. Jacket shows moderate wear at tips and at heel and crown. No marks, no other defects.
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Saint of the Atom Bomb, The

By: Schilliger, Josef

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Newman Press: 1955

Seller ID: 22038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

144 pages; 8vo (8.25") 17 cm; Hardcover, green boards, [vi] + 144 pages. ; Translated by David Heimann. From blurb: "The absorbing, true story of the Japanese scientist, patriot and Catholic, Dr. Paul Nagai, who was caught in the atomic holocaust of Nagasaki 1945. His tireless work among the survivors, in spite of grave personal risks and injuries, earned him a citation from the Pope." ; Book shows no sign of wear. Light age-toning to endpapers. No other defects. Jacket shows light rubbing and minor edgewear.
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Motion Toward Perfection : The Achievement of Joseph Priestley

By: Schwartz, A. Truman, and John G. McEvoy

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Skinner House Books: 1990

Seller ID: 20853

ISBN: 1558960104

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

277 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Gray softcover, [xxvi] + 277 pages, index, chapter endnotes, 10 chapters by various experts, 28 full-page b/w illustrations. ; Scientist, theologian, pioneer preacher, the Rev. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) discovered oxygen, invented the eraser, discovered photosynthesis, wrote about the Corruptions of Christianity, founded one of the first Unitarian congregations in North America, and much more. ; Only a whisper of shelfwear. Appears unread.
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Commemorative Souvenir Journal, Mary Carter Smith Proclaimed Mother Griot : 12th National Festival of Black Storytelling

By: Smith, Mary Carter

Price: $27.00

Publisher: National Association of Black Storytellers: 1994

Seller ID: 19390

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

32 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Softcover booklet, 32 pages, 13 b/w photos. Front cover inscribed and SIGNED by Mary Carter Smith. Text includes 1-page bio and 31 pgs of tributes including one from Bill Clinton. ; Tribute to famed storyteller Mary Carter Smith, known as Mother Mary, proclaimed Griot (African storyteller) of the State of Maryland and Mother Griot of the National Association of Black Storytellers. ; Rear cover, which is blank, shows stray inkmarks, very faint. No other defects apart from autograph. Quite scarce. ; Laid in: 1) additional page with four more tributes, as issued. 2) Mary...
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Arthur Rimbaud : A Critical Biography

By: Starkie, Enid; Illustrated by Giraudon

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Directions: 1961

Seller ID: 15007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

491 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, white boards, 2 indexes, bibliography, endnotes, 3 appendixes. ; New edition stated. Cover photo by Giraudon. ; Book shows a touch of shelfwear, otherwise crisp, appears unread. Jacket unclipped, but rubbed, creased, with several small edge chips not affecting any text.
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Remembering Hastings Street : Growing Up in the 1920s (Detroit History)

By: Surowitz, Louis

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Louis Surowitz: 1992

Seller ID: 21964

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

136 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Brown softcover, 136 pages, 1 b/w map, 2 line diagrams, 18 medium-quality b/w photos. ; Memoirs growing up on Hastings street, a Jewish neighborhood in Detroit, in the 1920s. Lots of local color. ; Small pricesticker inked out on rear. No other defects. ; Two items laid in: 1) sheet of paper from author soliciting other people's memories of living on Hastings street. 2) three large pages from The Detroit Jewish News with stories about living on 12th Street in the era of the Purple Gang and Prohibition.
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Edward Goodrich Acheson : Inventor, Scientist, Industrialist, a Biography, Illustrated

By: Szymanowitz, Raymond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Vantage Press: 1971

Seller ID: 20813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

628 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Hardcover, gray cloth, red endpapers, 628 pages, index, bibliography, footnotes, appendix list of patents, 22 b/w photos and facsimiles on glossy plates with captions. ; Extensive biography of pioneer of electrochemistry, inventor of carborundum, graphite, synthetic diamonds, etc, and holder of 70 patents. ; Small sticker on jacket rear panel with library barcode. No other library marks. Jacket shows light shelfwear to heel and crown. Otherwise appears unused. Scarce.
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Edward Goodrich Acheson : Inventor, Scientist, Industrialist, a Biography, Illustrated

By: Szymanowitz, Raymond

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Vantage Press: 1971

Seller ID: 20814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

628 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Hardcover, gray cloth, red endpapers, 628 pages, index, bibliography, footnotes, appendix list of patents, 22 b/w photos and facsimiles on glossy plates with captions. ; Extensive biography of pioneer of electrochemistry research, inventor of carborundum, graphite, synthetic diamonds, etc, holder of 70 patents. ; No defects to book. Jacket has two small closed tears, several spots to rear panel, but everything is readable. Scarce.
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Story from Michigan, a : The Life and Times of Clarke E. Davis

By: Thomas, Arthur L.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Published by Author: 1970

Seller ID: 11542

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

212 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; White softcover, green lettering, a few endnotes. Errata slip laid in, as issued. Foreword by Benjamin H. Thurman. ; Biography of Clarke Edwin Davis, born 1888, lived and died in Michigan with stints in Utah and in New York, PhD, professor of chemistry, pioneer researcher into properties of food substances, food safety, etc, at National Biscuit Company, improved manufacturing methods of biscuits, crackers, fig newtons, chocolate, etc; as vice president Virginia Dare Extract Company invented new methods of manufacturing flavor extracts, leader in American Chemical S...
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Beau Sabreur, a : Maurice de Saxe, Marshal of France, His Loves, His Laurels, and His Times, 1696-1750

By: Trowbridge, W. R. H. (William Rutherford Hayes)

Price: $34.00

Publisher: Brentano's: 1910

Seller ID: 16668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

351 pages; 8vo (8.75") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark red cloth, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, illustration on front in white and gilt of armored Cupid-like figure with tilting lance skewering crown, laurel and heart; similar character in gilt on spine; 351 pages, index, bibliography, footnotes, 39 b/w portraits and illustrations on glossy plates, with captions. ; Originally published 1909 by London: T. Fisher Unwin. This is 1st US edition, 1910. Detailed and well-written biography of the Marshal (supreme general) of France 1743-1750 who provided the French crown with many decisive victories in the W...
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Raised from the Dead : The Personal Testimony of America's First Evangelical Anchorman (Signed)

By: Turner, Frank, with Robert McTyre

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Zoe Life Publishing: 2007

Seller ID: 21923

ISBN: 1934363278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

300 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark red cloth, 300 pages, 27 b/w photos. Title page inscribed and SIGNED by author. ; Cover art by Chamira Jones. Memoirs of longtime Detroit television news anchor who overcame childhood abuse and crack addiction through Jesus. ; Book and jacket show no sign of use. No marks or defects apart from autograph.
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From the Oxcart to the Space Shuttle : Autobiography of Clarence Simeon Way

By: Way, Clearence Simeon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Clarence Simeon Way: 1986

Seller ID: 22301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

148 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark red textured buckram cloth, [iv] + 148 pages, 18 short poems including hymn texts by author, 3 b/w photos with captions. Title page signed by author. ; Local poet and wit of Charlevoix, Michigan, 1899-1987, very active in Assembly of God congregation. ; Owner name penned on front endpaper in a shaky hand. No other defects. No jacket as issued. No connection to space program.
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Seven Sons : Millionaires and Vagabonds

By: Webb, Theodore A.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Trafford Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: 20074

ISBN: 1552122557

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

392 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Tan softcover, [viii] + 392 pages, bibliography, endnotes, over 100 medium-quality b/w photos and illustrations. ; Sprawling yet fascinating biography of the seven famous Washburn sons, among them an inventor, an Ambassador to France, a Governor of Maine, a US Senator and a Civil War General. ; A touch of edgewear only. Quite scarce.
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Character and Characteristic Men

By: Whipple, Edwin P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Company: 1891

Seller ID: 21164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

324 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, dark green endpapers, [x] + 324 pages, top edge gilt, 12 inspirational and intellectually stimulating essays and lectures. ; Originally published 1866. This edition 1891. Dedicated to memory of Rev. T. S. King, savior of California. ; Topics include: Eccentric character. Intellectual character. William Makepeace Thackeray. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Edward Everett. Thomas Starr King. Louis Agassiz. Washington and the principle of revolution. More. ; Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886) was a popular lecturer, longtime journalist, author of many books...
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Abigail Adams : A Biography

By: Whitney, Janet

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Konecky & Konecky: 2002

Seller ID: 20348

ISBN: 1568523750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

357 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, lavender boards, [xvi] + 357 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes, family tree diagram, 4 b/w illustrations. ; Copyright 1947, this is an unabridged facsimile edition, 2002.; No defects to book or jacket. Appears unread.
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Life of Rev. Hosea Ballou, Volume 1 : With Accounts of His Writings, and Biographical Sketches of His Seniors and Contemporaries in the Universalist Ministry

By: Whittemore, Thomas

Price: $46.00

Publisher: James M. Usher: 1854

Seller ID: 20200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

420 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; This is vol-1 ONLY of a four-vol set. Hardcover, dark brown cloth, gilt title on spine, 420 pages, pale pink endpapers, b/w portrait frontispiece engraving of Ballou, footnotes throughout. ; The Rev. Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) was one of the most important Universalist preachers in US history. He was vice president of the Universalist Church of America 13 years and president 13 years. His book, A Treatise on Atonement, 1805, was the first publican to establish a complete Universalist theology and it also set forth a unitarian view of Jesus. The Rev. Thomas Whittemore, ...
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American Popular Song Lyricists : Oral Histories, 1920s-1960s

By: Whorf, Michael

Price: $25.00

Publisher: McFarland & Company: 2012

Seller ID: 18067

ISBN: 0786465387

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

239 pages; 4to (10") 26 cm; Pale green softcover, [xii] + 227 pages, index, bibliography, appendix, about 40 b/w photos and illustrations in text, with captions. ; Written by longtime WJR Radio Detroit broadcaster, producer, and writer, winner of Peabody Award for excellence in journalism, who, over his 39-year career, interviewed hundreds of notables. Here are concise bios and fascinating interviews of 39 top American lyricists of the 1920s-1960s in their own words. ; Only a whisper of shelfwear. No marks or defects. Scarce.
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Life of Courage, a : Sherwin Wine and Humanistic Judaism

By: Wine, Sherwin, with Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry T. Cook, Marilyn Rowens

Price: $16.00

Publisher: International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism;: 2003

Seller ID: 18863

ISBN: 096732596X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

318 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Softcover, 318 pages, bibliography, numerous sidebars, 9 b/w photos. ; Compiled by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry T. Cook, and Marilyn Rowens, with contributions from Adam Chalom, Tamara Kolton, Miriam Jerris, Judith Goren, Shulamit Aloni, Yaakov Malkin, Peter Schweitzer, Felix Posen, Ed Doerr, Charles R. Paul and more. ; Humanistic Jusaism was organized by Rabbi Sherwin Wine in the 1960s in Michigan and has spread to encompass approximately 30 congregations. ; Only a touch of wear. ; With this item you will also get: 1) Sabbath Services in the Spirit of Humanistic Judai...
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Category: Biography