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(SIGNED EDGAR WALLACE!)The Books Of Bart

By: edgar wallace

Price: $300.00

Publisher: london, ward locke: 1929

Seller ID: 92337784

Binding: hardcover

Condition: good plus

marvelous true Edgar Wallace(author of King Kong) 256 page first edition signed by autghor on the half title page from 1929 London publishing. No writinG OR marks etc.
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A Gallery of Women (2 volumes)

By: Theodore Dreiser

Price: $85.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Horace Liveright: 1929

Seller ID: 100000375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES NUMBERED 512 AND AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE OVER NUMBERED PAGE. IN VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT HARDCOVERS AND OFFERED AT A GREAT PRICE!
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ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES

By: Ernest Hemingway

Price: $150.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, SRIBNERS: 1950

Seller ID: 5000017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1950 FINE/VERY GOOD, NEAR FINE CLEAN HARDCOVER ,308 PAGES WITH HEMINGWAY PHOTO ON BACK PANEL,ONLY FORMER OWNER'S BOOKPLATE INSIDE ELSE TIGHT AND SQUARE, JACKET HAS MINOR EDGE WEAR. A NICE COPY FOR ANY BOOK SHELF.
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AN ESSAY ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1778!) VOLTAIRE

By: VOLTAIRE

Price: $300.00

Publisher: edinburgh london, w. gordon and w. creech: 1778

Seller ID: 540923212

Binding: hardcover

Condition: good+

fabulous original leather bound 1778 hardcover from Voltaire(translated from Italian with commentary) on his theorems on crimes and punishment from 1778! In brown calves skin leather in good condition for age . Five raised bands on spine with red title label and gilt ruled along all five bands. Very rare 1778 original printing!
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

By: Voltaire

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, W. Gordon and W. Creech: 1778

Seller ID: 100000295

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

full calf leather binding,five raised bands, red label laid in compartment. A wonderful first of this fabulous work with light wear to case, staining to edges of endpapers only, missing front free endpaper,text block clean, binding tight.
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ANTHONY ADVERSE

By: Hervey ALLEN

Price: $25.00

Publisher: FARRAR RINEHART: 1933

Seller ID: 100000047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1224 PAGE-VERY GOOD NO JACKET CLEAN TIGHT NO MARKS ONLY NAME LABEL INSIDE-VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR. ATTRACTIVE BOOK
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Arms of Krupp

By: William Manchester

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Little Brown: 1968

Seller ID: 100000273

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

fine/vg a nice clean copy of this extroadinary 820 page work on the worlds greatest arms maker!
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Artic Passage

By: William Hunt

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Scribners: 1975

Seller ID: 100000222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

stated first-fine/vg- a very bright clean attractive first printing in very good clean jacket unclipped!
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Bethel Merriday

By: Lewis, Sinclair

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Doubleday: 1940

Seller ID: 838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine/vg 1940 in near fine clean 390 page hardcover with good unclipped jacket!! A wonderful first from lewis
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Catch 22 (first printng)

By: Joseph Heller

Price: $800.00

Publisher: NEW Jersey, Simon and Schuster: 1961

Seller ID: 100000411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated first printing in very good clean bright tight square first edition. With price clipped original jacket showing a young Heller.For those who want a better 50 year old first printing book! A true piece of history!
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cole:a biographical essay

By: kimball/gill

Price: $30.00

Publisher: new york, holt rinehart winston: 1971

Seller ID: 389903

1971 first edition in very good clean 289 page hardcover loaded with fabulous photos and very good jacket-lights up any book shelf
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Disraeli

By: Robert Blake

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, ST. Martins: 1967

Seller ID: 100000274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine/g a very nice hardcover and jacket.
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Education of a General 1880-1939

By: GEORGe C. Marshall

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, The Viking Press: 1963

Seller ID: 100000327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine/- a bright attractive clean tight hardcover that appears new looking. A wonderful looking first edition!
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EINSTEIN A THE LIFE IAND TIMES

By: Clark RONALD

Price: $20.00

Publisher: WORLD: 1971

Seller ID: 1000000072

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

FINE/NG-AN EXCELLENT HARDCOVER COPY 718 PAGES -NO MARKS TEARS, NAMES.ETC.
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Frank Norris Novels and Essays

By: Frank Norris

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Library of America: 1986

Seller ID: 100000200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

stated first printing in fine clean hardcover, no jacket -simply new looking inside and out with slip box case cover. -for those who demand the best quality.
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Frederick Remington Artist of the Old West

By: Harold mcCracken

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Lippincott: 1947

Seller ID: 100000064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

stated first edition in near fine hardcover and jacket-only tape shadow on inside ffep otherwise clean and bright with over 80 reproductions and 32 in full color! A work of art unto itself!
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FRON EVEREST TO THE SOUTH POLE

By: GEORGe LOWE

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ST. Martins Press: 1959

Seller ID: 100000052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

X-LIBRARY FIRST EDITION IN ATTRACTIVE DUST WRAPPER 218 PAGES-THAT BESTS ANY PAPERBACK
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George Catlin and the Old Frontier

By: Harold mcCracken

Price: $35.00

Publisher: DIAL PRESS: 1959

Seller ID: 100000068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

stated first edition in fine clean hardcover and jacket protected by mylar sleeve-contains 36 paintings and 136 black and whites- awork of art in itself!
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HOPES AND DREAMS THE STORY OF BARACK OBAMA

By: Steve Dougherty

Price: $110.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, BLACK DOG AND LEVENTHAL: 2007

Seller ID: 100000254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

F/F - first edition hardcover-PROTECTED IN MYLAR COVER A PIECE OF HISTORY!
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James Boswell the early Years 1740-1769

By: Frederick A. Pottle

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Mcgraw Hill: 1966

Seller ID: 100000225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine/fine/ stated first, fine clean unmarked bright hardcover and jacket-the best to be found! 606 pages
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Knights of the Black Cross

By: Joseph V. Mizrahi

Price: $30.00

Publisher: California, Sentry Books: 1972

Seller ID: 100000262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

bright clean near fine hardcover with outstanding photos. The planes and the aces who flew them are totally fascinating.
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LAWRENCE & OPPENHEIMER

By: NuEL PHARR DAVIS

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Simon and Schuster: 1968

Seller ID: 100000249

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

FINE/VG+ SUPERB 1968 HARDCOVER AND JACKET 384 PAGES THAT SURE BEATS A PAPERBACK!
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LiVES OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICERS VOL. II

By: J. FENIMORE COOPER

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, CARNEY AND HART: 1846

Seller ID: 100000394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A VERY GOOD PLUS HARDCOVER WITH GILT SYMBOLS AND DARK CLOTHE HARDCOVER. 246 PAGES WITH VERY LITTLE FOXING THROUGH OUT. AN ATTRACTIVE BOOK FOR IT'S AGE AND AN EARLY INTRINSIC WORK ON OUR COUNTRY'S NAVAL HISTORY!
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MAcARTHUR ON WAR

By: Frank C. WALDROP

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, DUELL SLOAN: 1942

Seller ID: 100000265

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

VERU GOOD TIGHT HARDCOVER,420 PAGES, LOADED WITH MACARTHUR'S TAKE ON WAR.
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Mission Escape

By: Sydney Smith

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, DAVID MCKAY: 1969

Seller ID: 100000245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

stated first american edition in superb fine clean hardcover and jacket 236 pages book looks new
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Monsieur Vincent

By: Henri Daniel Rops

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hawthorn: 1961

Seller ID: 100000060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

gg/vg-x-library nice clean tight interrior-better than a paperback-stated first printing
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OSCAR WILDE HIS LIfE AND CONFESSIONS (2 VOLUMES

By: Frank HARRIS

Price: $60.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, AuTHOR PUBLISHED: 1918

Seller ID: 100000378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

MARVELOUS 1918 TWO VOLUME hardcovers in very good clean condition first printings! WOW
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Personal MEMOIRS OF U.S. GRANT

By: grant

Price: $400.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Webster: 1885

Seller ID: 1435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1885 first printing two volume set in rare sheepskin bindings with rare blue and red labels on the spine tooled in gold. All pages clean with fairly tight binding for 130 year old books! Decorate marbled endpages with all page edges marbled also. All plates and diagrams with Grant's letter and facsimile signature. This is a real wow for any collector!
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

By: U.s. Grant

Price: $600.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Webster: 1885

Seller ID: 100000433

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Near fine clean bright condition 130 year old books.PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U.S.GRANT. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., Very Good Originals! 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First printing edition of both volumes in original beautiful bindings with leather gilt trimmed . With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontis portraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards. Fine clean interrior. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile.An unusually well preserved set in very good condition for 130 year old books! An important historical memoir of the Civil War!
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant 2 Volumes first edition 1885

By: U.s. Grant

Price: $500.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Webster: 1885

Seller ID: 100000334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1885 Volume I & Volume II two volume first printing set in original first issue set. . First volume is original calf skin with blue and red labels on spine. Near fine clean interrior and text. Marbled endpapers with Grant's dedication and signature on prelim.This would light up any Civil war book shelf! Published by Charles L. Webster & Company 1885 & 1886 Vol I 584 pages, Vol II: 647 pages 8vo, with gilt lettering & emblem on spine, flocked end papers, Fold-out letter intact & in very good condition, contains numerous drawings. Both volumes clean & tight, square, with firm binding.
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Rabble in Arms

By: Kenneth Roberts

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1947

Seller ID: 100000071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine/vg-The story of our fight for independance from the British. Fine clean hardcover and very good jacket of Washington leading troops- 588 pages including endpaper maps of the theater of operations 1775-1776-1777.
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ROOTS

By: Alex HALEY

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Doubleday: 1974

Seller ID: 100000247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

FINE'VG A QUALITY CLEAN BRIGHT TIGHT HARDCOVER AND VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED JACKET WITH HALEY'S PICTURE ON REAR PANEL WOW
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Scotland's gift golf

By: Charles blair McDonald

Price: $850.00

Publisher: new york, scribner's: 1928

Seller ID: 10099467665333

Binding: hardcover

1928 fabulous first edition with all full color plates and photo lithographs . This is the true first edition in very good hardcover with red clothe binding in superb clean unmarked interrior with only light wear to spine tips and and very light cover wear. No jacket was issued with this hardcover Blair Mcdonald was instrumental in the early stages of golf developement in the U.S. and abroad . A very good plus hard to find condition copy for the serious golf enthusiast who want the best!
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Scotland's Gift Golf

By: Charles Blair McDonald

Price: $500.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Charles Scribner's & Sons: 1928

Seller ID: 100000354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Very good clean tight 1928 first printing in red boards with wonderful color and black and white illustrations.
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ST. PETER

By: Michael GRANT

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Scribner: 1994

Seller ID: 100000041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

FINE/FINE-BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT FRESH CLEAN HARDCOVER AND JACKET-A STELLAR COPY
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The Arms of Krupp

By: William Manchester

Price: $85.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Little Brown: 1968

Seller ID: 100000252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine/fine. a very nice clean attractive hardcover STATED FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER 975 PAGES WITH TIME LINE OF KRUPP'S DYNASTY and VERY GOOD PLUS jacket,940 pages,endpaper time line.
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The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968

By: William Manchester

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Little Brown: 1968

Seller ID: 100000240

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

fine,vg. a superb clean bright hardcover and jacket with endpaper time line map of the krupp family.
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The Arms of Krupp: 1587-1968

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Little Brown: 1964

Seller ID: 3372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1968 TIGHT CLEAN (BOOK AND JACKET LOOK NEW!) STATED FIRST EDITION 942 PAGE THICK HARDCOVER WITH VERY RARE VERY GOOD PLUS JACKET MYLAR PROTECTED CONTAINING TIME LINES OF THE KRUPP DYNASTY AND PHOTOS-FABULOUS HARDCOVER WITH JACKET
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the audacity of hope-thoughts on reclaiming the american dream

By: barack obama

Price: $30.00

Publisher: new york, crown: 2006

Seller ID: 10045682

Binding: hardcover

Condition: fine

Very nice original year printng in near fine hardcover and jacket.375 pages-Read what the president's vision is!
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The Australian Crusoes or the Adventures of an English Settler and His Family in the Wilds of Australia

By: Charles Bowcroft

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Allen Brothers: 1869

Seller ID: 100000294

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

sixth printing of the first stated , good condition, 512 pages, very good for age, a romantic intrinsic work on Australia.
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The Books of Bart(Signed Edgar Wallace)

By: Edgar Wallace

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock: 1929

Seller ID: 100000293

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed Edgar Wallace on the half title page. Book is in good condition wear to extremeties, foxing to page endpapers. A very rare signed copy of is work! not many found, 256 pages.
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The Bourne Identity

By: Robert Ludlum

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Marek: 1980

Seller ID: 100000321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

near fine/vg. only a name/date inside- a nice bright clean attractive hardcover with very good jacket.
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THE BURLESQUE NAPLEON

By: Philip W. Sergeant

Price: $1,595.00

Publisher: London, T. WERNER LAURIE: 1905

Seller ID: 100000217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1905 VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT MAROON HARDCOVER -GILT EMBOSSED LETTERING-FULLY ILLUSTRATED-DECKLED EDGES,GILT TOP PAGES , NO PLATES, MARKS,ETC., A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A SPECIAL PERSONAL LETTER IN FRENCH SIGNED BY JEROME BONAPARTE(ALSO INCLUDED IT'S TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH) FROM HIS YEARS AS TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR ! (HAS SPECIAL LAID IN POCKET BUILT IN BOOK FOR THIS LETTER) A ONE OF A KIND BOOK WITH RARE ORIGINAL LETTER FROM THIS HISTORICAL PERSON AND A N EXTREME ONE OF A KIND FIND
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The Burlesque Napoleon (1ST EDITION WITH SIGNED NAPOLEON LETTER)!

By: Sergeant, Philip

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: T. WERNER LAURIE: 1905

Seller ID: 5000072

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

very good/- ,383 pages, Story of Jerome Bonaparte,6 illustration including frontis,not x-library,NO PLATES, MARKS,ONLY STATEMENT OF HAND WRITTEN LETTER FRON JEROME BONAPARTE ON TIPPED IN POCKET HOLDER FOR THE LETTER ITSELF, gilt top pages,deckled page edges, red clothe, gilt lettering. Includes extremely rare letter from Jerome Bonaparte(then Governor) and signed by him that is laid in AND CAREFULLY TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH IN SEPERATE SHEET ..A one of a kind!
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The Catcher in the Rye

By: J.d. Salinger

Price: $400.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Little Brown: 1951

Seller ID: 100000412

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated august (7th) printing of the first edition original 1951 year 277 page hardcover.This was published one month after the first printing! This is a very clean unmarked book with bright attractive boards for age. No names ,writing,labels etc., and not a book club or other variant. Great price for this first year publishing especially in fine condition and great alternative to extremely expensive first edition. Comes with facsimile jacket to protect the book. AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF HISTORY!
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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession

By: Adolphus William Ward

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Goupil: 1903

Seller ID: 100000374

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Full leather bound large hardcover with wonderful plates tooled in compartment spine all page clean great price
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The First Battle, the Story of the Campaign of 1896

By: William J. Bryant

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Conkey: 1896

Seller ID: 100000414

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

very good/-, a very good clean 3/4 leahter 629 page hardcover with marbled page edges and raised bands tooled in compartment ofn spine.
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THE FORRESTAL DIARIES

By: Walter MILLIS

Price: $30.00

Publisher: VIKING: 1951

Seller ID: 100000045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

NEAR FINE /NEAR FINE-MARVELOUS COMPENDIUM IN VERY ATTRACTIVE HARDCOVER AND JACKET.NO MARKS ONLY NAME ON PRELIM
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The Fourth Corner

By: Lelah Jackson Edson

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Washington, Cox Brothers: 1951

Seller ID: 100000395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

1951 SIGNED BY AUTHOR EDSON AND NUMBER 1777 HARDCOVER FIRST PRINTING IN FINE HARDCOVER WITH VERY GOOD JACKET. ENDPAPER MAPS OF BRTISH COLUMBIAN AND NORTH WASHINGTON STATE. A SPENDID SIGNED COPY.
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The Killer Angels

By: Shaara

Price: $250.00

Publisher: NEW YORK, Mckay: 1974

Seller ID: 5000021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1974 second printing of the first edition in very good clean tigh hardcover and unclipped jacket with 8.95 price. The original 1974 book at a great price!
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Category: Biography