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Little Brown and Company, Boston 1972. VG/VG- Mustard hardboards with gold gilt titles on spine. Clean tight edition with no marks, no stickers, no po name. Kelly Green DJ shiny dj with full black and white photo of JFK on front as well as back of cover. Fully indexed with a variety of historical facts about John F Kennedy's personal and political life. Written by his two closest confidants. "Through the eyes of these firsthand observers we witness insights into Kennedy the man - the tension and agony of the Cuban missile crisis, his love of Irish songs and Gaelic poetry, the machinations leading to the selection of Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate in 1960, the witty and truly personal replies he wrote to curious schoolchildren's questions, the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev.

Hafner, 1952, A Facsimile Reprint of the FIRST EDITION NF/VG. Hardcover has boards with geometric design , green spine with gold gilt titles. Binding is tight, clean interior of book. No marks, no stickers, no bookplates, no p.o's signature. Inside front and back cover depicts a map of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836. Fifteen scarce (15) breathtaking wood cut plates on back pages of book. Dust Jacket has a sketch of the ship and shows average shelf ware of a book over 60 years old- tears at top and bottom spines,corners and edges bumped. 615 pgs. + 15 full page platesOn October 6, 1836, Charles Darwin, then a young Geologist of twenty-five, returned to England after a five-year voyage around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle. This memorable voyage of exploration and research was particularly important in Darwin's intellectual development. When he set out Darwin was still under the influence of the Biblical Idea of creation. As the trip progresses, the reader of the Journal of Researches becomes… Read More

Junket
First Scholastic Edition
Beautiful, nearly perfect copy. Never read.

When the Mc Donegal children discover that Junket is a trained dog, they are overjoyed.
But Junket shows them he can do a lot more than a few tricks.

VG/none
Dark red covers.

Cabell's most famous book. He is known as a prolific writer of fantasy novels.
"Jurgen is a pawnbroker caught between romantic and cynical world views: a would be poet. He wished to be rid of a nagging wife, he finds himself the poorer for it, and sets out to make good his loss. His quest ranges through various scenarios borrowed from history, myth and fiction involving many allegorical figures." BARRON 3-67