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Author: Auden, W.H. Status: Available
Title: Collected Shorter Poems 1930-44
Description: Ed: 4th prt, publ by: Faber, 1959, format: HB, Condition: 8vo. Nr. Fine. Ex-library. Glue stain from removed envelope on BEP. Library stamps on F/BEPs . DJ: none, O.p.
Item No: 744 Price: $15.00 ship surface
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Author: Auden, W.H. & Isherwood, C. Status: Available
Title: Dog Beneath the Skin, the Or Where is Francis
Description: Ed: reprint, publ by: Faber, 1948, format: TPB, Condition: Very Good+. No defects . DJ: n/a,
Item No: 2481 Price: $12.00 ship surface
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Author: Audubon, John James Status: Available
Title: Delineations of American Scenery and Character
Description: Ed: 1st thus, publ by: Baker, 1926, format: HB, Condition: 8vo. Reading copy. Ex-library. Some fraying on edges and corners. Front hinge cracked. Back hinge weak. . DJ: none, These are chapters describing the famous naturalists extensive traveller throughout early 19th century America. No bird paintings. Introduction by Francis Herrick.
Item No: 2635 Price: $15.00 ship surface
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Author: Auerbach, Nina Status: Available
Title: [Terry] Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time
Description: Ed: 1st, publ by: Norton, 1987, format: HB, Condition: 8vo. Ex-Library copy. Very Good. Hinges reinforced with tape. . DJ: Very Good. Mylar Protected, The brightest English actress of her time (turn of the century). A rival of Sarah Bernhardt and a life of art, high society and scandal
Item No: 1866 Price: $12.00 ship surface
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Author: Aurand Jr., A. Monroe Status: Available
Title: Historical Account of the Mollie Maguires
Description: publ by: Aurand Press, u/d, format: PAM, Condition: Good. Green paper covers. Ink (?) stain of about 1in on front cover. . DJ: n/a, subtitled ''The true illustrated story of the orgin, depredation and dedcay ofa Terrorist Secret Organization in the Pennsylvania Coal Fields During and Following the Civil War''. MMs were a militant Irish labor organizationwho did not hesitate to use murder as a weapon.
Item No: 1265 Price: $12.00 ship surface
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Author: Aurelius, Marcus Status: Available
Title: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Description: publ by: Peter Pauper Press, 1957, format: HB, Condition: Some water-staining on back . DJ: none, reflections of one of the more civilized of the Roman emperors. Translation by George Long. Illustrations by Paul McPharlin.
Item No: 3035 Price: $7.00 ship surface
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Author: Ausubel, Nathan Status: Available
Title: Treasury of Jewish Folklore, A
Description: Ed: 13th prt, publ by: Crown Publishers, 1948, format: HB, Condition: 8vo. Fair. FEP has small (1' x 3') rectangle neatly cut out. Front hinge split. Fraying a spine ends . DJ: none, A collection of very short jokes, sketches, stories and other forms of Jewish humour. Featuring many Chelm stories, Hershelle Ostropolyer stories, Rabbis going from Minsk to Pinsk, plus folksongs, etc.
Item No: 1838 Price: $12.00 ship surface
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Author: Ayling, George Status: Available
Title: [George the Third]
Description: Ed: 1st, publ by: Collins, 1972, format: HB, Condition: 8vo.Very Good. Brown cloth covers. Ends of spine bent over. Faint water stain on back cover. Endpages, hinges as new. . DJ: none, Biography of the King who lost the American colonies. O.p.
Item No: 994 Price: $14.00 ship surface
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Author: Babel, Isaac Status: Available
Title: Lyubka the Cossack and Other Stories
Description: Ed: 1st prt?, publ by: Signet, 1963, format: PB, Condition: Good. Covers are badly creased. PO's name, date, inscription on FEP . DJ: n/a, Author was born in turn of the century Odessa. Became a Red Army commander in the border war against Poland. Eventually was killed in Stalin's persecution of Jewish writers in 1948. These stories are from the collections ''Old Odessa'' , ''Red Calvary'' and ''Afterward''
Item No: 1847 Price: $6.00 ship surface
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Author: Babel, Isaac Status: Available
Title: Lonely Years The, 1925-1939
Description: Ed: 1st, publ by: Noonday, 1964, format: TPB, Condition: Very Good. Some fraying on edges of spine . DJ: n/a, Contains nine previously unpublished stories of this Soviet-Jewish author as well as an introduction by his daughter, private letters and documents of his role as a public figure in the 1930s.
Item No: 1854 Price: $8.00 ship surface
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