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Purcell, Mary.
Don Francisco.
Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1952. 1st printing. viii, 359 pages. Bibliography.
Endpaper maps. Inscribed and signed by the author.
A biography of St. Francis Xavier. Good hardcover. #18159. $15
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[Rabi, I. I.]
A Celebration of Thanksgiving for the Life of I. I. Rabi.
New York: Letterpress printing by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Bound by Claudia
Cohen, 1988. 77 pages. Portrait. Illustration.
The memorial service was held at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, on
February 11, 1988. Eulogists: Michael I. Sovern, Malvin A. Ruderman, Robert F.
Bacher, Edoardo Amaldi, A. Sigard Eklund, Herman Pollack, William A.
Nierenberg, Solly Zuckerman. Very good hardcover. Stain on rear cover. #17832.
$15
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Raisglid, George A.
Uprooted: The Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor.
East Setauket, New York: George A. Raisglid, 1996. 4to. iv, 319 pages.
Bibliography. Illustrations. Copyright 1992. Published with the assistance of
the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The author was born and raised in Poland, escaped to the Soviet Union during
World War II and served briefly in the Soviet Army. He emigrated to the United
States. Part of the book is based on 28 letters written by the author's mother
from Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1940 before her deportation from the ghetto. Very
good pictorial stiff wrappers. #20337. $60
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Rose, Francis.
Saying Life: The Memoirs of Sir Francis Rose.
London: Cassell, 1961. 1st printing. xiii, 416 pages. Index. Photographs.
Illustrations.
'The life story of a major painter of our time, and a page from history.' -
Front jacket panel. Good hardcover in slightly frayed and worn dust jacket;
lower margin of front board and spine discolored. #25025. $40
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Roubickova, Eva.
We're Alive and Life Goes On: A Theresienstadt Diary.
Translated by Zaia Alexander. Foreword by Virginia Euwer Wolff. New York: Henry
Holt, 1998. 1st edition, 1st printing. xiv, 189 pages. Photographs. Dated,
inscribed and signed by the author on half-title page.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0805053522. #26028.
$22.50
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Sakell, Achilles N.
A Ripple on the Seas.
Foreword by U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes. New York: Vantage Press, 1986. 1st
edition. xxiii, 301 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Review copy slip
laid in.
Memoirs of the Greek-American diplomat who first worked in the Office of War
Information and later at the U.S. State Department. It is the author's
contribution to the free world's struggle against oppression and tyranny. Very
good hardcover in slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. ISBN 0533063485.
#24066. $27.50
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Saleski, Gdal.
Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race: Biographical Sketches of
Outstanding Figures of Jewish Origin in The Musical World.
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1927. xiv, 463 pages. Portraits.
Good hardcover. Edges and corners slightly rubbed. Bookplate or pocket removed
inside rear cover. #20125. $50
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Sansalvadore, Giovanna.
Giorgio Manganelli: Librarian of the Possible.
Johannesburg, South Africa: University of the Witwatersrand, 1990. 4to (large
book). vii, 213 pages. Bibliography. A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
'Manganelli's position amongst the writers of the avant garde has always been
somewhat problematic. Manganelli was amongst the writers who met in Palermo in
the founding of Gruppo 63. However, his later course was an idiosyncratic
development of some of the ideas mooted by the group.' - Preface. Text in
English, with many quotations in Italian. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover)
with plastic strip binding. #22951. $50
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Schonberg, Harold C.
Horowitz: His Life and Music.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st printing. 427 pages. Index. Discography.
Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author, '28 XII 92 / To Beverly L* /
from / Harold C. Schonberg / [some musical notes]'.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0671725688. #18761. $40
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Sheaffer, Louis.
O'Neill, Son and Playwright.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1968. 1st edition. xx, 543 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Pencil underlining and marginalia
throughout. #23502. $15
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Sigo, Art.
Born at the Right Time. Memories: Farm, Home, Family, Town.
Remington, Indiana.
Remington, Indiana: Art Sigo, 1994. 329 pages. Photographs. Dated and signed by
the author.
Autobiographical and biographical reminiscences of the Sigo family and
Remington, Indiana. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers. #21798. $25
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Simpson, Eve Blantyre.
Sir James Y. Simpson.
Designs and ornaments by Joseph Brown. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant Anderson
& Ferrier, 1896. 160 pages. Famous Scots Series.
A biography of the author's father. Very good pictorial red hardcover. Name and
date in ink on title page. #19602. $12.50
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Stewart, James B.
Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September
11th.
Epilogue by Susan Rescorla. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 1st printing. 321
p. Index. Bibliographical notes. Photographs. Signed by the author on title
page.
The story of Rick Rescorla, in charge of security for Morgan Stanley,
successfully got 2,700 of its employees out of the World Trade Center's South
Tower on September 11. Then, thinking perhaps of the soldiers who had died in
his arms and of Susan Greer--the woman who 'had made his life'--he went back
and began climbing the tower stairs, looking for stragglers. - Front and rear dust
jacket panels. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0743240987. #22762. $60
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Strauch, Rudi.
Sir Nevile Henderson: Britischer Botschafter in Berlin von 1937
bis 1939. Ein Beitrag zum diplomatischen Vorgeschichte des zweiten Weltkrieges.
Bonn: Ludwig Rohrscheid Verlag, 1959. 384 pages. Index. Bibliography. Bonner
Historische Forschungen, 11.
Good hardcover, bound in library buckram. Exlibrary: spine title and call
number, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamps inside front cover; stamp
and pocket inside rear cover; small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25898.
$30
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Stuart, Lyle.
The Secret Life of Walter Winchell.
New York: Boar's Head Books, 1953. 253 pages. Dated, inscribed and signed by the
author.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #22599. $30
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Taylor, Thomas.
Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More: With Notices of Her Works, and
Sketches of Her Contemporaries.
London: Joseph Rickerby, 1838. 12mo (small book). xi, 422 pages. Frontispiece
portrait.
Blind-stamped original cloth with gilt spine title. Cover, edges and corners
are worn; label removed from inside front cover; may be lacking a front
endpaper. Otherwise a nice, tight volume. #21662. $40
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Thatcher, Margaret.
The Path to Power.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. 1st printing. xiv, 656 pages. Index.
Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Small hole in page 631/32 appears
to be result of a manufacturing error. ISBN 0060172703. #25771. $125
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Tinker, Chauncey Brewster.
Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer, Based
Largely on New Material.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922. Small 4to (medium-large book). 266 pages. Index. Photographs.
Illustrations. Signed by the author on title page.
Very good hardcover. Top edge gilt. Front and bottom edges uncut. Partially
unopened. #21754. $20
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United States. 62d Congress, 3d
session, 1912-1913.
Henry Harrison Bingham (Late a Representative from
Pennsylvania) Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives and
the Senate of the United Sates, Sixty-second Congress. Proceedings in the
House, May 19, 1912. Proceedings in the Senate, February 27, 1913.
New York: Joint Committee on Printing / Government Printing Office, 1913. Small
4to (medium-large book). 52 pages. Portrait.
Good buckram with gilt title. Corners and edges slightly worn. Some foxing.
Unrelated pencil scribbles inside front cover and pencil names on front
flyleaf. #21367. $20
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Villiers, Alan.
Pioneers of the Seven Seas.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. 1st printing. ix, 220 pages. Index.
Photographs. Illustrations.
Very good hardcover in worn, torn, and chipped dust jacket. #19598. $25
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Von Ruhland, Paul John.
A Search into Destiny.
New York: Vantage Press, 1991. 1st edition. xxi, 150 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations.
'Made up most of the author's own personal reflections and observations both as
a soldier in Hitler's army in World War II and as an immigrant who came to the
U.S. after Hitler's defeat, von Ruhland gives us contrasting accounts of a
fascinating life--as a soldier in Hitler's army and as a citizen in a country
he formerly regarded as the enemy.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover
in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0533089433. #23388. $130
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Vorobev, Marevna.
Life in Two Worlds.
Translated by Benet Nash. Preface by Ossip Zadkine. London, New York:
Abelard-Schuman, 1962. 1st printing. 310 pages. Index. Photographs.
Illustrations. Frontispiece drawing by Zadkine.
Subtitled on front jacket: A true chronicle of the origins of Montparnasse.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket; stamp and some
writing on rear flyleaf. #25801. $25
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Ward, Duren J. H. (Duren James
Henderson).
Memorial Lizzie Cheney-Ward, 1862-1933.
Denver, Colorado: The Author, 1933. 16mo (small book). 31, [2] pages.
Frontispiece portrait. Laid in: 'Long Range Thinkers,' 2 pages (1 leaf), by
Duren J. H. Ward. Folding picture postcards of Fairmount Mausoleum bound in
rear.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), blue paper with gilt lettering on stiff
cardboard stock, with the blue paper partially rubbed and worn, especially on
rear cover. Internally sound. #26412. $25
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Waterford, Helen H.
Commitment to the Dead: One Woman's Journey toward
Understanding.
Foreword by Alfons Heck. Frederick, Colorado: Renaissance House, 1993. Revised
edition. 180 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Inscribed, dated
and signed by Helen Waterford on half-title page.
Very good large pictorial trade paperback (soft cover). ISBN 0939650622.
#23334. $15
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Weiss, David W.
Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 1st printing. xii, 189 pages.
Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author on blank front flyleaf. Jewish
Literature and Culture.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0253335841. #23371.
$17.50
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Widgoff, Leo.
Reflections, A Memoir.
Haverhill, Massachusetts: Privately Printed, 1990. 300, [6] pages. Photographs.
Genealogies. Inscribed and signed by the author's daughter, Bernice Widgoff
Kliman.
The author was born in Ukraine, circa 1894, and died in April 1966. Very good
pictorial softcover. #20535. $17.50
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Williams, Lou.
A Dropout from the Bayou Country: An Autobiography.
Foreword by Frank W. Wilson. New York: Vantage Press, 1975. 1st edition. 272
pages. Bibliography. Photographs.
Born in New Orleans, the author sold typewriters in the early 1900's, and
Portland cement, among many other activities. Very good hardcover in slightly
worn dust jacket. ISBN 0533016746. #26116. $15
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Yardley, Jonathan.
Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley.
New York: Random House, 1997. 1st Edition. xxx, 255 pages. Frontispiece
(portrait). Signed by Exley.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket (slight tear along top of front
cover along edge). ISBN 0679439498. #18525. $40
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Yui, Pong.
Virgin Conception of Child.
No Place: No Publisher, 1982. 144 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Inscription in Chinese on blank front flyleaf, probably a personal gift
inscription.
An autobiographical account of a native son of China. The author writes of the
memorable years of his life in his native land, laying bare his innermost
thoughts and sentiments as well as the deep imprints his country's ancient
culture has left on him. - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in very good
dust jacket. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. Slightly soiled on some
blank rear pages. #23939. $20
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Zebel, Sydney H.
Balfour: A Political Biography.
Cambridge: University Press, 1973. 1st printing. vii, 312 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Conference on British Studies, Biographical Series.
A biography analyzing the long political career of Arthur James Balfour,
1848-1930, the Conservative British politician who became the first Earl of
Balfour. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and sunned dust jacket. Small
colored felt-tip mark on top edge. ISBN 0521085365. #24969. $25
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