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WE STOOD ALONE

By: Adams, Dorothy

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Company: 1944

Seller ID: 3527

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings. A little corner wear.

Ex-Library; 284 pages; With Polish bird symbol in red with design at center front, frontispiece of Jan and Dorothy (Adams) Kostanecki dressing for costume ball at the British Embassy, 284 pages, photos throughout. Dorothy's diplomat-husband died in a plane crash, her father-in-law was executed by Nazis.
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PALESTRINA SAVIOR OF CHURCH MUSIC

By: Angoff, Charles

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Bernard Ackerman: 1944

Seller ID: 2450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; 64 pages
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THEY MADE A REVOLUTION: 1776

By: Archer, Jules

Price: $1.99

Publisher: Scholastic: 1973

Seller ID: 7459

ISBN: 0-590-44763-7

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket; Previous owners name stamped inside.

Scholastic Biography; 171 pages; Scholastic Biography about the leading Americans in the resistance movement in 1776.
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THE SECRET COUNTRY OF C. S. LEWIS

By: Arnott, Anne

Price: $2.95

Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: 1975,1976

Seller ID: 3239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket; Previous owners name blacked out inside. Sticker spot where removed from dust jacket.

123 pages; A biography of C. S. Lewis emphasizing his growth from boyhood into an author famed for both adult and children's books and his zeal in the Christian faith which he adopted as an adult.
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LENIN

By: Baker, Nina Brown

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vanguard Press: 1945

Seller ID: 442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Small sticker on dust jacket.

8vo; 257 pages
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JULES VERNE

By: Becker, Beril

Price: $4.48

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1966

Seller ID: 3177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Lives to Remember; Ex-Library; 224 pages; 3rd most translated writer of all time, Jules Verne was more than just a wonderful spinner of romantic tales. He was a man with so vivid an imagination that he perfected the inadequate inventions of his day. The self-taught student of science and engineering envisioned concepts of balloons, submarines, airplanes, that became the blueprints of today's machines.................
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TO FAR PLACES The Story of Francis X. Ford

By: Betz, Eva K.

Price: $8.49

Publisher: Hawthorn Books, Inc.: 1962, 1963

Seller ID: 2662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Light corner wear.

Has Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; Catholic Digest Junior Book Shelf; 188 pages
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THE TRUE STORY OF QUEEN VICTORIA British Monarch

By: Booth, Arthur H.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Children Press: 1961, 1964

Seller ID: 2075

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

The True Story Of; Ex-Library; 8vo; 143 pages
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GOD MADE THE COUNTRY

By: Booth, Edward Townsend

Price: $5.89

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1946

Seller ID: 4664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Ex-Library; 321 pages; "Lives of the great writers from Hesiod to Tolstoy prove that literature, like life itself, is rooted in the soil of the good earth." A history of the cultivation of the soil as seen through the eyes of writers through the ages starting with Hesiod and Virgil, continuing through Pope and the Wordsworths and ending with Thoreau and Tolstoy.
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ENGLISH NOVELISTS Britain in Pictures the British People in Pictures

By: Bowen, Elizabeth

Price: $2.24

Publisher: Collins: 1947

Seller ID: 1311

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; 8vo; 48 pages; Contains 8 plates in color and 16 illustrations in Black & White.
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THE WORLD OF WASHINGTON IRVING

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $2.95

Publisher: E. P. Dutton: 1944

Seller ID: 541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

8vo; 387 pages; Historical Consultant: Dr. John R. Dunning
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FAMOUS AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS

By: Cantwell, Robert

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co: 1956

Seller ID: 1751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Famous Biographies for Young People; Ex-Library; 8vo; 192 pages; Part of the Famous Biographies for Young People series. Chapters include James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson and Thoreau, Melville, Twain, Crane, O. Henry, Jack London, William Prescott, and Francis Parkman.
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QUEEN OF FRANCE A Biography of Marie Antoinette

By: Castelot, Andre

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1957

Seller ID: 2291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

434 pages; Front is b & w photo of famous painting of queen and 3 children. Gives eye witness accounts from French archives as much as possible.
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THE KINGDOM WITHIN

By: Caulfield, Genevieve

Price: $2.49

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1960

Seller ID: 6934

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Few x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; 278 pages
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PIONEER OF ALASKA SKIES The Story of Ben Eielson

By: Chandler, Edna Walker and Willoughby, Barrett

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Ginn & Company: 1959

Seller ID: 158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings. Edges taped and has a handmade jacket to protect.

Ex-Library; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 180 pages
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

By: Clarke, Fred

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Collier Books: 1966

Seller ID: 6352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

America in the Making; Ex-Library; 8vo; 216 pages
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OMAR NELSON BRADLEY The Soldiers' General

By: Colonel " Red" Reeder

Price: $6.49

Publisher: Garrard Publishing Company: 1969

Seller ID: 695

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Defenders of Freedom; Ex-Library; 8vo; 112 pages; From his youthful years at West Point, through his accomplishments during World War I I, to his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Bradley's life has been filled with courage, hard work, modesty and a sense of humor, all of which are portrayed clearly in this book.
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YANKEE DOODLE PAINTER

By: Colver, Anne

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1955

Seller ID: 3788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Borzoi Books; Ex-Library; 176 pages
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MADAME CURIE

By: Curie, Eve

Price: $4.49

Publisher: Garden City Publishing: 1937,1940

Seller ID: 2135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; Photographs; 8vo; 412 pages; This is an incredible biography of a scientist and the discovery of radium by Madame Curie and her husband who was also a scientist.
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HEROES AND GREATHEARTS AND THEIR ANIMAL FRIENDS

By: Dale, John T.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: D. C. Heath & Company: 1908, 1911

Seller ID: 6090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Few x-lib. Markings. Some corner/edge wear. Previous owners name inside. Small stain on cover. Split hinge but pages tight.

Ex-Library; 240 pages
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