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John Hersey
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Hersey, John.
The Child Buyer.
Publisher: New York Vintage [1989]. Edition: 1st Vintage Books printing. 0-394-75698-3. 258pp. Softcover. Fine in pictorial wraps (corners crisp, no creases, no markings).
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Item number: 2224.
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Hersey, John Richard, 1914-1993
Life Sketches
Publisher: N.Y., Knopf, 1989.. Book club edition. xi, 377 p., portrait photos; dj; ink owners name, else VG+. Stock#101,119. American literature; biography.
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Item number: 101119.
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Hersey, John Richard, 1914-1993
A Bell for Adano
Publisher: NY, Knopf, 1945.. 269 p.; 19 cm. Novel set in Sicily after the Allies captures it in 1943. Stock #28,986. Good+/dj chipped, torn. American literature of World War II; Italy; fiction.
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Item number: 29896.
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Hersey, John Richard, 1914-1993
The Wall
Publisher: N.Y., Knopf, [1950]. Book club dot on rear cover. 632 p.; green cloth covers, spine stamped in gold; spine faded, no dj; good+. Historical fiction of World War II. Stock #101,117. American literature.
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Item number: 101117.
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Hersey, George L.
The Evolution of Allure. Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [c1996]. 219 p., index, illus.; 24 cm. Contents include Sperm Competition; Clothes as Genital Maps; Magdalen and Theresa; Polykleitos, Praxiteles, and Vitruvius; Canons and Number: Alberti, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, and Lomazzo; William Wetmore Story and the Seal of Solomon; Aryanism; Aryan Art: Frederic Leighton; Semitic Art: The Etruscans, Cimabue, and Michelangelo; Two Afro-Aryan Heroines; Selecting Scientifically: Lavater, Ammon, Virchow, and Kretschmer; Endomorphs, Mesomorphs, Ectomorphs, and W. H. Sheldon; Breeding Baroque Bodies: Guido Reni; Women, Ornament, and Degeneration; Morelli and Lombrosan Connoisseurship; Erotomania: Verlaine and Rodin; Brain Decay: Whistler, Boldini, and J.W. Alexander; Paul Schultze-Naumburg: Rubens and Rembrandt; Jacob Epstein and Racial Treachery; The 120-Year Reich; Augmentation: Hercules and Batman; Exchange: Arnold, Diana of Ephesus, Kristy Ramsey, and Hannah Höch; Dimorphism: The Incredible Hulk, His Friends, and the Sage Grouse; Selected Bibliography. Color pictorial dj; VG+. stock#21345.
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Item number: 21345.
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Hersey, George L.
High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican. An Interpretive Guide.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press [c1993]. xiii, 305 p., index, 235 illus.; 23 cm. Contents include The New St. Peter's; The Cortile del Belvedere and Museums; The Stanze; The Sistine Chapel and the Last Judgment; The Logge; The Tragedy of the Tomb; Chronology. Pictorial paper covers; bookplate; VG+. stock#21395.
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Item number: 21395.
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Hersey, John Richard, 1914-1993.
The War Lover.
Publisher: N.Y., Knopf, 1959. Book club edition. 404 p. ‘This long, eventful and agonizingly suspenseful novel shows what... secret, hidden fear can do to even one of those seeming heroes, a war lover.' Dj edges worn, spine darkened, small tear in front; good+. 101118.
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Item number: 101118.
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Hersey, Harold Brainerd. Elliott Dold, illustrator.
Night.
Publisher: Privately Printed for subscribers only, 1923.. Unpaged [171 pp.]. 8vo. Black pebbled cloth (hardback). First edition. Illus. with forty-four full-page drawings and nineteen decorations. Signed by the author with a long personal inscription and dated in the year of publication. Harold Brainerd Hersey (1893-1964) was a poet and pulp editor. Elliot Dold was known primarily as a pulp magazine artist especially of Science fiction though these De mode erotic representations are reminiscent of Beardsley. Light rubbing to boards else a near fine copy.
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Item number: 20385.
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HERSEY, John
White Lotus
Publisher: No information given. 691 p . Taiwanese pirated ed. Fine in near fine d.w.
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AUD 13.66 | CAD 13.38 | EUR 8.41 | GBP 7.57 | JPY 1,136.36 | MXN 162.34 | ZAR 94.70 |
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Item number: 3957.
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Hersey, John.
The Wall.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. New York.. First Edition, 1950. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt at spine, blindstamped front cover, in period dustjacket [design by Salter]. Fine/Near Fine. Jacket has minute edgewear and tiny chipping at hea d of spinefolds. Unfaded and bright copy. Hersey's ambitious 632pp novel of the Warsaw ghetto.
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Item number: 5308XX00AA.
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Hersey, John.
A Single Pebble.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. New York.. First Edition, 1956. Cream cloth, dustjacket. About Fine in price-clipped jacket. Clean and neat with just a touch of wear to points. 181pp novel set in China, was made into a fair movie starring Stev e McQueen.
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AUD 43.72 | CAD 42.83 | EUR 26.90 | GBP 24.23 | JPY 3,636.36 | MXN 519.48 | ZAR 303.03 |
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Item number: 6639XA000H.
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Hersey, John.
The War Lover.
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf.. First Edition, 1959. Blue cloth boards, blue dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. Tiny chip professionally repaired to rear lower flapfold. 404pp war novel, by the Author of Hiroshima, A Bell For Adano, A Sing le Pebble and The Wall. Adapted successfully for the screen, starring Steve McQueen in the title role.
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Item number: 7336XA000B.
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Hersey, John.
Hiroshima.
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf.. First Edition, 1946. Blue cloth boards, in brown white and black dustjacket. About Fine/Good+. Mild damp-ring front panel barely affecting front board. Jacket lightly edgeworn, spine panel faded somew hat. 118pp, a famous account of the devastation caused by the dropping of an atomic bomb in this dense Japanese city, seen through the eyes of several of its inhabitants. It appeared originally in The New Yorker, which devoted an entire issue to it, and was in large measure responsible for the negative world reaction to the use of atomic bombs, at the beginning of the atomic era and the Cold War. Hersey's First Book.
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AUD 40.98 | CAD 40.15 | EUR 25.22 | GBP 22.71 | JPY 3,409.09 | MXN 487.01 | ZAR 284.09 |
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Item number: 7391XA000F.
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Hersey, John.
A Bell For Adano By Paul Osborn.
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf.. First Edition, 1945. Rust colored linen cloth boards stamped in gilt at spine, in tan paper dustwrapper. Fine/Good. Jacket is rubbed, with tears extending from ends of spine inward, not affecting the lettering. Not price-clipped. A dramatization by Paul Osborn, of the novel by Hersey in a production of December 1944 that starred Frederic March and Everett Stone at the head of the cast. 111pp. The novel was also made into a popular movie.
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Item number: 8787XB000F.
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Hersey, George L. / Blanche K. Baughman
A Catalogue Of Paintings By John F. Francis
Publisher: Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University, 1958. 24 p. illus., 23 cm. An exhibition of 35 paintings by Philaelphia-born artist, portraitist. Stock# 31,165. Vg/ wrappers.
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Item number: 31165.
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Hersey, John
THE WAR LOVER
Publisher: Knopf NY 1959. Full-bound embossed blue cloth, gold gilt lettering, deckle edge; spine and edges sunned, small rub upper front board, 1" scrape rear board. Tight , square, clean, reading copy. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) No Jacket Hard Cover Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Item number: 869.
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Hersey, John
TOO FAR TO WALK
Publisher: Knopf NY 1966. Full-bound in black, white lettering, te stain yellow, deckle edge, dj mild chipping sp extremities w/several sml cts along edges, sml hole dj spine, in protective mylar cvrs. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Good+ Hard Cover Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Item number: 640.
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Hersey, John
UNDER THE EYE OF THE STORM
Publisher: Knopf NY 1967. NF/VG Decorated green bds, deckle edge, spine extremities mildly bumped, 1/8" hole in dj spine, edgewear, dj in protective mylar cvrs. BCE Very Good Hard Cover Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Item number: 122.
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Hersey, John
THE CALL, An American Missionary In China
Publisher: Knopf NY 1985. Full-bound blue cloth, silver titles; deckle edge, map endpapers; faint spotting top edge, small color bleed from front board on blind side of dj upper corner, dj in protective Mylar cvrs. First Trade Edition Very Good+ Hard Cover Very Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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AUD 10.91 | CAD 10.69 | EUR 6.71 | GBP 6.04 | JPY 907.27 | MXN 129.61 | ZAR 75.61 |
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Item number: 110.
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Hersey, John
THE WALL
Publisher: Modern Library NY 1967. Full-bound gray cloth, white titles, gray embossed accents, minute curling to spine end cloth, dj has faint rubbing along hinges, faint pink spotting lower rear panel, in protective Mylar covers. First Modern Library Edition G98 Near Fine Hard Cover Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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AUD 54.64 | CAD 53.53 | EUR 33.62 | GBP 30.28 | JPY 4,545.45 | MXN 649.35 | ZAR 378.79 |
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Item number: 2936.
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Hersey, John.
Hiroshima.
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.. Sm. 8vo. Cloth (hardback). Book Club edition. A very good copy. No dust jacket.
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Item number: 23823.
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Hersey, John
Antonietta
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 1991. f/f, first edition
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Item number: 805.
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HERSEY, JOHN.
Hiroshima.
Publisher: New York, NY Bantam 1956. VERY GOOD Paperback (1529) "The August morning was perfectly clear and still when.. at 8:15 am a tremendous flash of light - whiter than any white ever seen - cut across the sky.. it was like 'a shee t of sun. . ."
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Item number: 1809.
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Hersey, John
Here to Stay
Publisher: Bantam 1964. Mass Market Paperback Very Good
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Item number: 07021059.
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George L. Hersey
The Evolution of Allure
Publisher: Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. MINT/MINT.
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Item number: 011732.
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Hersey, John (John Richard), 1914-1993.
Hiroshima.
Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Book club edition. First published 31 August 1946 in The New Yorker (entire issue). 118 p., 19.5 cm. In writing of the six people who survived the bomb Hersey brings human scale to the unimaginable. Book club edition, with maroon dot near Knopf Borzoi on rear cover. Olive-green cloth stamped in maroon; printed maroon dj has small chips; VG. stock#41556.
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Item number: 41556.
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John Hersey
Hiroshima
Publisher: Bantam New York 1966. Near Fine Paperback MP2
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Item number: 016109.
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Hersey, John, Illustrated by: Mardon, Allan
The Walnut Door
Publisher: The Franklin Library Franklin Center, PA 1977. Book is fine in brown grained leather boards with gilt design and lettering...silk ribbon bookmark of same color sewn in...decorative spine with raised bands...moire endpapers...text is tight and clean...appears unread...former owner's library stamp with name on front free endpaper...all edges gilt...227 pages, crisp with sharp edges and corners...no annotations...an extraordinary find in this excellent condition for the collector or library. Limited First Edition, Thus No Dust Jacket Hard Cover Fine
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Item number: 008827.
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HERSEY, J.,
The Wall. A Novel. First U.K. edn.
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1950. Stout 8°. Orig, cloth, title-label with gilt title on spine, dustjacket. 632pp. Novel based upon the history of the Jewish uprising against Nazi troops, in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, second world war. FIRST U.K. edn., in orig. cloth WITH dustjacket. Good to very good copy. (dustjacket frayed at extremities, incl. spine-ends, skilfully restored where possible, with some occasional tiny parts gone, private inscription in ms. in ink on verso of front boards, NOT disturbing however).
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Item number: 45734.
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Hersey, John
Antonietta
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York 1991. Near Fine/Fine. Spine ends lightly worn. 1st Ed. Quarter Cloth 304+ pp. 8vo.
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Item number: BOOKS017034I.
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John Hersey, Illustrated by: Herbert Tauss
The Call
Publisher: Franklin Library Franklin Center, PA 1985. NF,8vo,hb 697pp.Signed introduction by author. Navy blue leather boards and spine, gilt decoration and lettering, all edges gilt, 1 5/8" thick, marbled endpapers, silk marker ribbon. Signed by Author Signed First Edition
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Item number: 16234.
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John Hersey, Illustrated by: Gary Kelley
A Bell for Adano
Publisher: Franklin Library Franklin Center, PA 1986. F,8vo,hb,335pp illus.Green full leather boards and ribbed spine, gilt decoration and lettering, 1-1/14" thick, all edges gilt, silk marker ribbon, marbled endpapers, no sign of prior owner, editor's message bound in, flawless. Pulitzer Prize Classics
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Item number: 14581.
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Hersey, John, Illustrated by: James Baker
Blues
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 1988. Copy has lightly bumped endspines and corners with the bright DUST JACKET showing the same. First British Edition VG Hard Cover VG 8vo
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Item number: 50823.
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Davis, William Hersey
Beginner's Grammar Of The Greek New Testament
Publisher: Harper & Brothers New York 1923. 269 pp., a few pages have a number of notations and some underlining and one page has a tear otherwise the pages are in good condition, a lot of writing on the endpapers and the previous owner's name on stickers on the endpapers and written on the half-title page, front cover a little loose, wear at the edges of the of the covers and more so at the top and bottom of the spine and the tips of the corners, front and back covers noticeabley rub-soiled and spine sun darkened - spine color mostly dark green, black - CR Cloth Hard Cover Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Item number: 23835.
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Hersey, Jean, Illustrated by: Rosse, Allinora
Wild Flowers to Know and Grow
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. Princeton, NJ 1964. HB. Very Good/Very Good. Sm8vo from 7-1/2" to 8" Tall. xii, 235 pp, green papercovered boards w/silver lettering, dj wht w/green-blu lettering w/green-blu illustrated front. Book shows how to identify, grow & protect wild flowers. Very Good Hard Cover Very Good Sm8vo 7-1/2" to 8" Tall
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AUD 16.68 | CAD 16.34 | EUR 10.26 | GBP 9.24 | JPY 1,387.27 | MXN 198.18 | ZAR 115.61 |
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Item number: 023698.
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