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Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc

By: Brooks, Polly Schoyer

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co.: 1990

Seller ID: 01103256

ISBN: 0395981387

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

From School Library Journal: A scholarly, well-written biography of France's great heroine, Beyond the Myth is thorough, interesting, and full of detail about this remarkable woman and the time in which she lived. In addition to an historical introduction, Brooks also discusses various interpretations of Joan's visions, and then makes her own thoughtful analysis. The book also contains a comprehensive, annotated bibliography.
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Lee of Virginia

By: Brooks, William E.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City, Garden City Publishing Co.: 1932

Seller ID: 01110977

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gilt titles on blindstamped gray cloth. 361pp. Dust jacket is heavily worn but presentable within Brodart sleeve.
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Corridors of Light

By: Brown, Eleanor G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Yellow Springs, The Antioch Press: 1964

Seller ID: 00030590

Binding: Hard Cover (x-lib)

Condition: Very Good

The autobiography of the first blind woman to receive a Ph. D. from Columbia University, who taught for 40 years in the Dayton, Ohio, school system. Owner's address label ffep. Only library markings are two small deaccession hadstamps on end papers, a donation that never entered the system.
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Corridors of Light

By: Brown, Eleanor G.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Yellow Springs, The Antioch Press: 1964

Seller ID: 01007500

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The autobiography of the first blind woman to receive a Ph. D. from Columbia University, who taught for 40 years in the Dayton, Ohio, school system.
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Corridors of Light

By: Brown, Eleanor G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yellow Springs, The Antioch Press: 1964

Seller ID: 00030591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The autobiography of the first blind woman to receive a Ph. D. from Columbia University, who taught for 40 years in the Dayton, Ohio, school system. Owner's address label fep. Author's signature, written on a braille strip, on ffep.
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PB: The Paul Brown Story

By: Brown, Paul, with Jack Clary

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1980

Seller ID: 01128243

ISBN: 0689109857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley

By: Brown, Peter Harry, and Pat H. Broeske

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sigler Printing & Publishing: 1998

Seller ID: 01112072

ISBN: 0451190947

Binding: Thick mass market paperback

Condition: VG+

H.L. Hunt

By: Brown, Stanley H.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Playboy Press: 1976

Seller ID: 01057413

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage

By: Bruce, Evangeline

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Kensington Books: 1996

Seller ID: 01090383

ISBN: 1575660563

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine (small fault)

New York Times: "Provides a colorful richly textured dual portrait of the flamboyant French emperor, his sensual Creole wife, and the turbulent social, political, and cultural world in which Napoleon and Josephine lived." 555pp. Soft bend on first three pages.
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Peaks of Hazard

By: Bruce, Sir Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.:

Seller ID: 01060489

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (fault)

Gilt titles on dark green cloth. No date, 1929 gift inscription ffep. Slight loss at base of spine.
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Wright & Wright, Printers: The Other Career of Wilbur and Orville

By: Brunsman, Charlotte K., and August E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kettering, The Trailside Press: 1989

Seller ID: 01015255

Binding: Stapled Pictorial Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by both authors on Preface page.
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The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan

By: Bryan, William Jennings, and Mary Baird Bryan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 01085624

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (faults)

Gilt titles on deep blue cloth. 560pp. Signed by Mrs. Bryan on dedicated page. Apparently once housed within a sleeve to which the spine and back cover edges adhered, resulting in surface spotting and pulls along the spine, rear spine edge and top edge of back board. An otherwise tight and clean copy, presentable within new clear acetate wrapper.
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A New Day: A Triumphant Story of Forgiveness, Healing, and Recovery

By: Bryant, Anita

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nashville, Broadman Press: 1992

Seller ID: 01068585

ISBN: 0805453520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Author's inscription ffep.
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The Hornes, an American Family

By: Buckley, Gail Lumet

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1986

Seller ID: 3818

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lena Horne's daughter's account of her family through eight generations, from slavery to fame and success. X-lib with usual markings.
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Ernest

By: Buckley, Peter

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: 1978

Seller ID: 01011396

ISBN: 080372392X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lavishly illustrated biography of Ernest Hemingway.
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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon

By: Buckley, Veronica

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Picador: 2010

Seller ID: 01099170

ISBN: 0312430051

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good (fault)

Bumped on bottom front edge.
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Hugh Laurie: The Biography

By: Bunko, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, John Blake: 2011

Seller ID: 01127856

ISBN: 184358364X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (fault)

Crease on bottom outside corner of front cover. Label remnant on back cover.
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Jungle Child

By: Burke, Norah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Co.: 1956

Seller ID: 01091701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Herbert Hoover: A Public Life

By: Burner, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norwalk, The Easton Press: 1996

Seller ID: 01115881

Binding: Full Leather Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Ornate gilt titles on brown leather. 433pp, gilt-edged. Bound-in satin ribbon bookmark. Bookplate of the author Ed Wingham on half-title page.
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Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas

By: Burns, Edward, ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Liveright. 1973. 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 3635

NF in NF dust jacket
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