This Day In History: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? approved (1966)

1966 : Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? approved
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	1. BATCHELOR, John. Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels. NY Cambridge University Press 1991 0521311357 Paperback First paperback edition. Fine in pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0521311357. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. HARPER, Howard. Between Language and Silence: The Novels of Virginia Woolf. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982 0807109967 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. NOBLE, Joan Russell (editor). Recollections of Virginia Woolf (by Her Contemporaries). NY William Morrow 1972 068800007X Hardcover First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 068800007X. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. WOOLF, Virginia. Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume I: 1904-1912. San Diego Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986 0151290555 Hardcover Edited by Andrew McNeillie. First American printing. Near fine in a near fine (areas of light sun fading) dust jacket. ISBN: 0151290555. Price: 22.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

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	1. WOOLF, Virginia. Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume I: 1904-1912. San Diego Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986 0151290555 Hardcover Edited by Andrew McNeillie. First American printing. Near fine in a near fine (areas of light sun fading) dust jacket. ISBN: 0151290555. Price: 22.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. WOOLF, Virginia. London Scene: Five Essays. NY Random House 1982 0394528662 Hardcover Fine First American printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394528662. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. WOOLF, Virginia. On Being Ill. Ashfield Paris Press 2002 1930464061 Hardcover Fine Introduction by Hermione Lee. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1930464061. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. WOOLF, Virginia. Room of One's Own. NY Harcourt, Brace & World 1965 Hardcover A later printing of this edition. Near fine in a very good (age toning with a few spots of light soiling), price clipped dust jacket. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day In History: Pirate to be reckoned with makes her mark

1714 : A pirate to be reckoned with makes her mark
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	1. BERNARD, April. Pirate Jenny. NY Norton 1990 0393028216 Hardcover Fine The author's first novel. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0393028216. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. BETHLEN, Julianna. Ghost Pirate: A Spirited Hologram Book. NY Dial Books 1995 0803719582 Hardcover Fine Illustrated by Brian Lee. First printing. About fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. ISBN: 0803719582. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. BULLA, Clyde Robert. Pirate's Promise. NY Crowell 1958 Hardcover Illustrated by Peter Burchard. First printing. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine (minor edge wear) dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. FORBES, Rosita. Sir Henry Morgan: Pirate & Pioneer. London Cassell 1948 Hardcover With four illustrations and map endpapers by J. S. Goodall. First edition. Previous owner's name on front paste-down, else very good in a very good (edge worn with a couple of small chips and short tears) dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. HOMER, Larona. Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stories of the Pine Barrens. Wallingford Middle Atlantic Press 1979 0912608102 Hardcover Fine Illustrated by William Sauts Bock. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0912608102. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. MCCULLY, Emily Arnold. Pirate Queen. NY Putnam 1995 0399226575 Hardcover Fine Illustrated by the author. Second printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0399226575. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. PHILIP, Neil. Pirate Princess and Other Fairy Tales. NY Scholastic 2005 0590108557 Hardcover Fine Illustrated by Mark Weber. First printing. SIGNED by the illustrator. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0590108557. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	8. SOUTHWORTH, John V. D. Pirate from Rome. NY Crown 1965 Hardcover First edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine (short closed edge tear at the base of the front panel, trace edge wear) dust jacket. A clean, bright, nicely preserved copy. Price: 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	9. THOMPSON, Julie and MACINTOSH, Brownie. Pirate's Life for Me!: A Day Aboard a Pirate Ship. Watertown Charlesbridge 1996 0881069329 Hardcover Fine Illustrated by Patrick O'Brien. Second printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0881069329. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	10. ZACKS, Richard. Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd. NY Theia (Hyperion) 2002 0786865334 Hardcover First printing. Very near fine in like dust jacket. ISBN: 0786865334. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day In History: Tolstoy goes on a pilgrimage (1881)

1881 : Tolstoy disguises himself as a peasant and leaves on a pilgrimage
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	1. BUNIN, Ivan. Liberation of Tolstoy: A Tale of Two Writers. Boston Northeastern University Press 2001 0810117525 Hardcover Edited, translated from the Russian, and with an introduction and notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Vladimir T. Khmelkov. First edition thus. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. ISBN: 0810117525. Price: 40.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. KERR, Walter. Shabunin Affair: An Episode in the Life of Leo Tolstoy. Ithica Cornell University Press 1982 080141461X Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket First edition. About fine in a very near fine dust jacket that has a bit of light soiling on the rear panel. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. MOONEY, Jr., Harry J. Tolstoy's Epic Vision: A Study of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tulsa University of Tulsa 1968 Paperback First edition (paperback). Upper portion of front free endpaper clipped, else very good in printed wraps. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. TOLSTOY, Leo. Last Diaries. NY Putnam 1960 Hardcover Translated from the Russian by Lydia Weston-Kesich. Edited by Leon Stilman. Age toning to pages, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. TOLSTOY, Leo. Law of Love and the Law of Violence. NY Rudolph Field 1948 Hardcover Near Fine Translated from the Russian by Mary Koutouzow Tolstoy. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else near fine in tan cloth. No dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. TOLSTOY, Leo. Lift Up Your Eyes: The Religious Writings of Leo Tolstoy. NY Julian Press 1960 Hardcover Introduction by Stanley R. Hopper. Translated from the Russian. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine (trace edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. TUNG, Rosemary Jones. Portrait of Lost Tibet. NY Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1980 0030504511 Hardcover Black and white photographs throughout by Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan. First printing. Slightly cocked, else near fine in a near fine (edge loss along the top of the front panel) dust jacket. ISBN: 0030504511. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	8. ZWERIN, Anne (translator). Magic Pear and Other Legends and Fables from Russia and Other Lands. Hicksville Exposition Press 1975 0682482935 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Various authors, including Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian. First edition. Very near fine in like (a trifle edge worn at the spine base and crown) dust jacket. Price: 40.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day in History: Robert Kennedy Buried (1968)

June 8, 1968 : ROBERT KENNEDY BURIED

Three days after falling prey to an assassin in California, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, just 30 yards from the grave of his assassinated older
brother, President John F. Kennedy.

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1. JANSEN, Godfrey. Why Robert Kennedy Was Killed: The Story of Two Victims. NY Third Press 1970 Hardcover First printing. Previous owner's blind-stamp on front free endpaper, else fine in a near fine (light edge wear at the spine ends) dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush
US first lady (1989–93), born in Rye, New York, USA. She studied at Smith College and left to marry George Bush in 1945. She was actively involved in programmes to increase literacy, and was also honorary chairman of the Leukaemia Society. biography.com/search/article.do?id=9232727

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1. ROSEBUSH, James S. First Lady, Public Wife: A Behind-the-Scenes History of the Evolving Role of First Ladies in American Political Life. Lanham Madison Books 1987 0819164976 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket First printing. SIGNED by the author. Fine in a dust jacket that would also be fine save that it is price clipped. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters
Tennis player, born in Bilzen, Belgium. At age 15, she became the youngest national A champion. A professional from 1998, by the end of 2003 she had won 19 titles, including the Australian and French Opens (2000), and reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon (2003) and the finals of the US and French Opens (2003). At... biography.com/search/article.do?id=13573128

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	1. ALLABY, David. Wimbledon of the North: 100 Years at the Northern. Didsbury E. J. Morten 1981 0859720470 Hardcover First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0859720470. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. ARMSTRONG, Steve. Clay Courts of Norwich. Pompano Beach Exposition Press of Florida 1985 0682401846 A history of public tennis court facilities in Norwich, Connecticut. Black and white photographs. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Ink notations on rear free endpaper, else near fine in a very good (minor shelf wear and rubbing) dust jack et. ISBN: 0682401846. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. ASHBERY, John Tennis Coart Oath. Middletown Wesleyan University Press 1962 Paperback First edition (paperback). Light age toning, else very good in illustrated wraps. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. BIRACREE, Tom. Althea Gibson. Los Angeles Melrose Square Publishing Company 1990 087067563X Paperback Black and white photographs. First (mass market) paperback edition. Light corner crease to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 087067563X. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. COSBY, Bill. Bill Cosby's Personal Guide to Tennis Power, Or - Don't Lower the Lob, Raise the Net. NY Random House 1975 0394730569 Paperback Photographs by Richard Meek. A paperback original. First printing. Hole punched through upper corner of front cover, else near fine in oversized pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0394730569. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. KRIPLEN, Nancy. Dwight Davis: The Man and the Cup. Boulder Lexicon V 2000 0960328637 Hardcover Fine First American printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0960328637. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. NAVRATILOVA, Martina with CARILLO, Mary. Tennis My Way. NY Scribner's 1983 0684180030 Hardcover Fine Black and white photographs. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0684180030. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA. His irregular education included briefly studying civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and after five years in Louis Sullivan's
office he started his own Chicago practice (1893). His early work spearheaded the Prairie School; he designed houses... Read Full Biography Article: biography.com/search/article.do?id=9537511

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	1. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Natural House. NY Horizon Press 1954 Hardcover 116 black and white photographs. First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (two very small chips, minor edge wear) dust jacket. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Testament. NY Bramhall House 1957 Hardcover With 210 black and white illustrations. First printing thus. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear) dust jacket. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

	3. HANKS, David A. Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection. NY Dutton 1989 0525482962 Paperback Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First paperback printing. SIGNED by the author, additionally INSCRIBED by Thomas S. Monaghan, the founder and president of Domino's Pizza, who contributes the preface. About fine in oversized pi ctorial wraps. ISBN: 0525482962.; Signed by Author Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. KAUFMANN, Jr., Edgar. Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House. NY Abbeville Press 1986 0896596621 Hardcover Introduction by Mark Girouard. Color photographs throughout. Twelfth printing. Previous owner's name on half-title page, else fine in a very near fine (small scratch on spine) dust jacket. ISBN: 0896596621. Price: 40.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg
Poet of the 'beat' movement, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Columbia University, where he became friendly with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and others of the movement. Howl (1956), his epic poem, was a significant success, and launched him on a high
profile career as a public speaker against... biography.com/search/article.do?id=9311994

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	1. GINSBERG, Allen. Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems, 1986-1992. NY HarperCollins 1994 006016770X Hardcover First edition. SIGNED, dated in the month of publication, and initialed by the author. Fine in a near fine (sun fading along the spine), price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 006016770X. Price: 65.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. GINSBERG, Allen. Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971. San Francisco City Lights 1972 Paperback Near Fine The pocket poets series #30. A paperback original. First edition. White wraps with black lettering. Spine is lightly creased, upper corner of the front panel also has a light crease, else very near fine. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Larry McMurtry is born (1936)

1936 : Larry McMurtry is born

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	1. MCMURTRY, Larry. Cadillac Jack. NY Simon and Schuster 1982 0671454455 Hardcover Fine First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0671454455. Price: 75.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. MCMURTRY, Larry. In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas. Austin Encino Press 1968 Hardcover First edition (no later printings indicated), second state ("skycrapers" error on page 105, line 12, among others, is corrected). Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper, bumped at the base of the spine, trace foxing on top edge, e lse very good in a very good (two tiny chips, very light damp mark in the lower corner of the front panel) dust jacket. Price: 500.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. MCMURTRY, Larry. Last Picture Show. NY Simon and Schuster 1989 0671676040 Hardcover Fine A reprint of the 1966 Dial Press edition. First printing thus. About fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0671676040. Price: 35.00 USD

This Day in History: Eugene O'Neill wins Pulitzer Prize (1920)

1920 : Eugene O'Neill wins Pulitzer Prize

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	1. O'NEILL, Eugene. Ah, Wilderness! NY Limited Editions Club 1972 Introduction by Walter Kerr. Illustrated by Shannon Stirnweis. This copy is number 22 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. O'NEILL, Eugene. Iceman Cometh. NY Limited Editions Club 1982 Introduction by Irma Jaffe. Illustrated with drawings and an original lithograph by Leonard Baskin. This copy is number 22 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator. Publisher's Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a fine slipc ase. Price: 95.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. O'NEILL, Eugene. Moon for the Misbegotten. NY Random House 1974 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Book club edition. Fine in a very near fine (tiny closed tear at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. Price: 12.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. O'NEILL, Eugene. Touch of the Poet. New Haven Yale University Press 1957 Hardcover First printing. Fine in a near fine (light impression from a removed sticker on the front panel), price clipped dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. O'NEILL, Eugene. Unfinished Plays: Notes for The Visit of Malatesta, The Last Conquest, Blind Alley Guy. NY Continuum 1988 0804426740 Hardcover Edited and annotated by Virginia Floyd. First edition. Fine in a near fine (slight sun fading along the spine) dust jacket. ISBN: 0804426740. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Dashiell Hammett (1894)

1894 : Hard-boiled mystery writer Dashiell Hammett is born

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1. HAMMETT, Dashiell. Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels. NY Random House 1956 Hardcover Edited and with an introduction by Lillian Hellman. Book club edition. Near fine in a near fine (a bit sun faded along the spine) dust jacket. Price: 10.00 USD

This Day in History: Vietnam War (1965 & 1971)

Vietnam War
1965 : Australian troops depart for Vietnam

1971 : North Vietnamese seize Snoul, Cambodia

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	1. HENDIN, Herbert and HAAS, Ann Pollinger. Wounds of War: The Psychological Aftermath of Combat in Vietnam. NY Basic Books 1984 0465092594 Hardcover First printing. Fine in a near fine (tiny nick at the base of the front panel) dust jacket. ISBN: 0465092594. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. LENS, Sidney. Vietnam: A War on Two Fronts. NY Lodestar Books (Dutton) 1990 0525673202 Hardcover First printing. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in a very near fine (slightly sun faded along the spine) dust jacket. ISBN: 0525673202. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. LIFTON, Robert Jay. Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans: Neither Victims nor Executioners. NY Simon and Schuster 1973 0671215450 Hardcover Fine First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0671215450. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. MASLOWSKI, Peter and WINSLOW, Don. Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2004 0803232446 Hardcover First edition. Publisher's press release laid in. Open tear to the endpaper at the top of the front paste-down, else fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 0803232446. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. NEWMAN, John. Vietnam War Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works About Americans Fighting in Vietnam. Metuchen Scarecrow Press 1982 0810815141 Hardcover First edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else near fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket. ISBN: 0810815141. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. ROTTMANN, Larry, BARRY, Jan, and PAQUET, Basil T. (editors). Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Brooklyn 1st Casualty Press 1972 Paperback Second printing (paperback). INSCRIBED by Michael Uhl, one of the contributors. Near fine in olive green, printed wraps. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart