No dust jacket.  Cover is faded from the sun.  Interior is in very good condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

Mary Poppins and Mary Pippins Comes Back

Pretty Simple Journals

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Gratitude Journal

Good Days Start with Gratitude: a 52 Week Guide to Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

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Lily Tuck

Does jacket is a little wavy.  There is an inscription on the first page.  Otherwise, in very good condition.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"Tuck is a genius."--Los Angeles Book Review Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. WithThe Double Life of Liliane, Tuck writes what may well be her crowning achievement to date, and, significantly too, her most autobiographical work. As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who resides in New York, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents. What unfolds is an astonishing and riveting metanarrative: an exploration of self, humanity, and family in the manner of W.G. Sebald and Karl Ove Knausgaard. Told with Tuck's inimitable elegance and peppered with documents, photos, and a rich and varied array of characters,The Double Life of Liliane is an intimate and poignant coming of age portrait of the writer as a young woman.

The Double Life of Liliane

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Michael Lewis

An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

When Michael Lewis became a father, he decided to keep a written record of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children. This book is that record. But it is also something else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing account of ordinary daily household life ever recorded, from the point of view of the man inside. The remarkable thing about this story isn't that Lewis is so unusual. It's that he is so typical. The only wonder is that his wife has allowed him to publish it.

Home Game

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Dust Jacket has some wear. Book itself is in excellent condition. 

Anti-Memoirs

Does jacket is worn book itself is an excellent condition especially for a 1967 book. 

A Night of Watching

Stuart Gibbs

In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson's a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he's faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan, who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who's hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.

Spaced Out

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Book is from 1930 and shows its age. Cover is worn and pages are tanned with age.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A story of American Girlhood vividly portraying the spirit of Hope liberty and Justice

Mary Lee at Washington 

Book is intact with no writing or rips. One page is cracking from the binding.see pictures. Pages are tanned with age. This would be a great gift for somebody born in 1964.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Seventy Ninth Year of Issue

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1964 

A. G. Dickens

Cover is curled but inside is in great condition with no writing rips or highlighting. Last few pages had edges ripped off when printed see picture.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Henry VIII officially brought the Protestant Reformation to England in the 1530s when he severed the English Church from the Papacy. But the seeds of the movement, according to A.G. Dickens, were planted much earlier. The English Reformation, first published in 1964, follows the movement from its late medieval origins through the settlement of Elizabeth I in 1559 and the rise of Puritanism.

English Reformation

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Konrad Lorenz

Julian Huxley

Dust jacket Is worn. Disappears to be a third printing of a first edition from 1952.

Science

The human side of birds and animals delightfully described by a world, famous naturalist

A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. It is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!

King Solomon's Ring

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Dust jacket is in rough shape, but itself is in good condition

The Challenge of Anne Boleyn

Dust cover has minor wear.  Book is an excellent condition. This is a first printing.

A Political Biography

DeGaulle

Linda Wallner

A step-by-step project book

Equipment - Molding with clay - Pottery without a wheel - The coiling technique - Slab building - Throwing and the wheel - Firing.

Introduction to Pottery

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Herman Kinder

Werner Hilgemann

First book is in fair to good condition. Second book is in excellent.

From the Stone Age to the American Bicenrennial

This second volume covers key events from the French Revolution to the American Bicentennial. It chronicles the discoveries, battles, inventions, political movements, treaties, elections, births, assassinations, coups, and coronations that have shaped our modern world.

The Anchor Atlas of World History Vol I&II

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Angela Lambert

Does jacket has somewhere book itself as an excellent condition

A Social History of the Illustrious, Irreverent, Intimate Group of British Aristocrats Known As "the Souls"

Thius book describes the rise, and fall, of the Souls, an elite groups that flourished in England from the 1880s until the First World War. Its members included Arthur Balfour, George Curzon, Willy Grenfell, George Wyndham, Alfred Lyttelton, Harry Cust and Hug, Lord Elcho. Some of its most influential members were women: Margot Asquith and the Tennant sisters, Ettie Grenfell, Lady Elcho and the Duchess of Rutland. The Souls adorned and scandalized society, cultivating an enjoyment of books, games, leisure and hsopitality in London and on country-house weekends. Above all they enjoyed each other. Unconventional and high spirited, they brough elegance, wit and exuberance of sentiment to all the engaged in, from the creation of thei own special language to their endless flirtations and complicated love affairs. The arrival of World War I say many of them off to fight for England and many died. The frivolity of their earlier lives was over.--From the dust jacket.

Unquiet Souls

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Kenneth Baker

Slight wear, uncover and pages tanned with age.  Otherwise, in great condition.

The Faber Book of English History in Verse

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Jan Morris

Cover and corners have wear.  Previous owners name written in pencil on first page.

An Imperial Retreat

The final part of Morris's threevolume portrait of Britain's retreat from imperial glory begins with Queen Victoria's jubilee and ends with Churchill's funeral

Farewell the Trumpets

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Cover is a bit worn, especially around the corners, but the book itself is in good condition no writing rips or highlighting

Climax of an Empire

The second in the trilogy, this work captures the British empire at its dazzling climax-the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity and splendor. Portrays the British at the height of their vigor, imposing their traditions and tastes on peoples of the world.

Pax Britannica

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Christopher Haigh

The Reign of Elizabeth I

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John Darwin

Pages tended with age otherwise in excellent condition

The Historical Debate

Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest extent as late as 1921, was transformed into more than fifty sovereign states. Why did this great transformation come about? Had Britain simply become too weak in a world of superpowers? Had the pressure of colonial nationalism suddenly become overwhelming? Or had the British themselves decided that they no longer needed an empire, and that interests were better served by joining the rich man's club of Europe? In this short book, these and other theories are examined critically. The aim is not to present a detailed narrative of Britain's imperial retreat but to introduce the reader to the current state of debate in a rapidly expanding subject.

The End of the British Empire

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Arthur Marwick

New addition, fully updated to cover Society and lifestyles in the 1980s

High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text. 'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls.. it is astonishing how much he gets in' Times Educational Supplement 'An enjoyable, readable, usable achievement which leads the field' John Vincent, Sunday Times

British Society since 1945

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Jon Meacham

An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Examines the complex relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and its influence on the course of World War II, examining their individual attempts to manage and influence each other.

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