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American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co: 2004

Seller ID: 600136

ISBN: 0060562544

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Cream boards embossed wih publisher logo and black boards imprinted in gold. Stated First Edition with full number line. Fresh, tight, unread book. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 292 pages. Examines Hillary Clinton's roles as First Lady and as a senator representing New York.
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Jesse James Lived and Died in Texas

By: Duke, Betty Dorsett

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Austin, TX, Eakin Press: c1998.

Seller ID: 606786

ISBN: 1571682872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

208 pages
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Eggs In My Pocket

By: Fenoglio, Mary Elizabeth

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Florence, TX, Synergy Solutions, Inc.: 2008

Seller ID: 605799

ISBN: 061517082X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

240 pages. A collection of essays selected from a long-running column in The Williamson County Sun Newspaper in Georgetown,Texas, Eggs In My Pocket paints a series of vivid, often touching pictures of everyday life on a three-generation family farm. Readers who have experienced, or longed to experience, life in a rural setting with animals will enjoy the tales told here, from the saga of Miss Kitty the hen to adventures in the goat barn, with a little "pasture wisdom" thrown in for good measure. Parents and grandparents will recognize themselves and their children in the family oriente...
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Howard Hughes in Las Vegas

By: Garrison, Omar

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Lyle Stuart: 1970

Seller ID: 604739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Mild edgewear with two short edge tears; puncture tear to spine of dj . Protected in a removable archival cover. . 293 pages. Why did Howard Hughes, America's richest and most baffling industrial genius, suddenly go on a colossal spending spree in Las Vegas? What is befind the whirlwind purchase of multimillion dollar hotels and casinos; real estate, airports, raw land and mining claims? Why, at the age of 62, after achieving near miracles in the world of aviation, electronics and motion picture production, does he suddenly embark on a new career of such magnitude that it would challenge a man...
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Bashful Billionaire: An Unauthorized Biography of Howard Hughes

By: Gerber, Albert B.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Lyle Stuart: 1967

Seller ID: 604740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Price-clipped. Protected in a removable Brodart cover.. 384 pages. This is the biography of an enigmatic, fascinating, mysterious, contradictory, multifaceted man who is so elusive that his photograph purportedly has sold at $1,000 a print. It is a strange saga of a diligent, inventive, ambitious, lad who parlayed a million dollars into a billion and a half - and lost money every step of the way. It is the story of a daredevil, industrial magnate, innovator, promotional wizard and lover of women...... Howard Hughes.
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The Tongs and the Bones: The Memoirs of Lord Harewood

By: Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles

Price: $27.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1981

Seller ID: 605732

ISBN: 0297779605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Price-clipped; previous owner's blind-stamp on both free end pages. light edgewear to dust jacket. Genealogical table on end pages . 334 pages
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Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography.

By: Jones, Howard Mumford

Price: $13.75

Publisher: Madison, Univ of Wisconsin Press: 1979

Seller ID: 600217

ISBN: 0299077705

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Index. . 292 pages
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Foley & Lardner: Attorneys At Law 1842-1992

By: Langill, Ellen

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Madison, WI, Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 1992

Seller ID: 600011

ISBN: 0870202677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Green cloth boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold on cover and spine. llus. , index. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 245 pages. Lists the names of all the partners from the company's inception as Finch & Lynde.
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Nine Years In The Saddle

By: Lee, James V.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Salado, Salado Press: 1999

Seller ID: 602874

ISBN: 0966387007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed "To Dan Happy Trails!" and SIGNED by the AUTHOR 12/22/00.. 0.39 x 8.12 x 5.94 Inches. 140 pages. Signed by Author. Nine Years In The Saddle is a true-story western about the colorful years in the Southwest of a cowboy during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It tells the true story of a young man who scratched out a living in hard times by herding cattle, hunting mountain lions, and selling bootleg booze during Prohibition. You will be delighted with the humor and entranced by the real-life feats of adventure and danger of Dud Lee and his companions.
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Ruffles & Flourishes

By: Liz Carpenter; Gould (Foreword), Lewis L.; with a new preface by the author

Price: $7.95

Publisher: College Station, TX, Texas A&M University Press: 1993.

Seller ID: 608096

ISBN: 089096548X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Evenly sunned on the spine . Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page . 346 pages. Signed by Author
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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

By: Maraniss, David

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1999

Seller ID: 607654

ISBN: 0684844184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

18 pages of black & white photographs. . 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches. 544 pages. When Pride Still Mattered is the quintessential story of the American family: how Vince Lombardi, the son of an immigrant Italian butcher, rose to the top, and how his character and will to prevail transformed him, his wife, his children, his players, his sport, and ultimately the entire country. It is also a vibrant football story, abundant with accounts of Lombardi's thrilling life in that world, from his playing days with the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham in the 1930s to the glory of coaching the Green B...
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

By: Myron, Vicki And Witter, Bret; Witter, Bret

Price: $6.84

Publisher: New York, Grand Central Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 603878

ISBN: 0446407410

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

288 pages. Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer...
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The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang

By: Newton, Willis; Newton, Joe; Stanush, Claude; Middleton, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Austin, TX, State House Press: 1994

Seller ID: 608116

ISBN: 1880510162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

No spine crease.. 332 pages. Portrays the misdeeds of the notorious early twentieth-century bank and train robbers. The Newtons' story was made into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, and Julianna Margulies. "Bonnie and Clyde was just silly kids bound to get themselves killed. We wasn't at all like them. We wasn't thugs. All we wanted was the money, just like doctors, lawyers and other businessmen. Robbing banks and trains was our way of getting it. That was our business." Willis Newton (from the book)
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The Dunsmuir Saga

By: Reksten, Terry

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Douglas & McIntyre: 1991

Seller ID: 605458

ISBN: 0888947429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Lower corners lightly bumped . Genealogical table. Black cloth with title and author imprinted in gold on spine . 290 pages. The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning author Terry Reksten brings the members of the Dunsmuir family and their colourful saga to life with her lively writing, vivid anecdotes and careful research. A selection of...
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To Be a Man: Johnnie Wilson, Jr.

By: Rothenberg, Susan Gluck

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gambier, OH, Xoxox Press: 2004

Seller ID: 602563

ISBN: 1880977125

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

. 112 pages. In this gripping narrative, one man's life story is intertwined with that of a woman who found him, late in his life, and devoted herself to receiving his words and handling them with profound care. Both stories - that of the man, and that of her careful work - are presently here simply and truly, in sure voice, with impressive intelligence and grace.
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Milk, Meat Biscuits, and the Terraqueous Machine: The Story of Gail Borden

By: Wade, Mary Dodson

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Austin, TX, Eakin Press: 1987

Seller ID: 607250

ISBN: 0890156050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Bookplate on free front end page. Inscribed, dated, and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on free front end page . 49 pages. Signed by Author
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Oil Man: The Story Of Frank Phillips & The Birth Of Phillips Petroleum

By: Wallis, Michael

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Griffin: 1995

Seller ID: 607827

ISBN: 0312131356

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

1.4 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches. 480 pages. A rich, rousing gusher of a biography that captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.

Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the greatest self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. Here in Oil Man, Michael Wallis, the best-selling historian of the West, present Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J.Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the finals days of America's frontier West through...
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A Girl from Texas: The Life, Loves and Battles of Ruth Conerly America's Extraordinary Artist

By: Wolf, S. E.

Price: $25.95

Publisher: Antigua Odisea Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 607392

ISBN: 0977022536

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page; bent corner on front cover. 350 pages. Signed by Author
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