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Product Description: A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story.   Born to a small-town California ranching family, the youngest of eight, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality right across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees...read more
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9780345526489 | Ballantine Books, May 15, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind.

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9780802778857 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, January 31, 2012), cover price $17.00

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Product Description: In the waning days of his presidency, in January 1801, John Adams made some historic appointments to preserve his Federalist legacy. Foremost among them, he named his secretary of state, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court-neither of them anticipating that Marshall would soon need to decide the most crucial case in Supreme Court history-Marbury vs...read more
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9780802714886 | 1 edition (Walker & Co, September 2, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The story of the landmark case that put the “Supreme” in Supreme Court.

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9780802717597 | Walker & Co, January 4, 2011, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In the waning days of his presidency, in January 1801, John Adams made some historic appointments to preserve his Federalist legacy.

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The authors recount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting
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9780312156824 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The authors recount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting

Paperback:

9780312187682 | Griffin, April 15, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The authors rrecount how they became interested in collecting books and describe the interesting people they have met in the course of their collecting

Miscellaneous:

9780312207496 | St Martins Pr, December 31, 2010, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: 1534, Paris. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges—the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science—is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I...read more
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9780802719867 | 1 edition (Walker & Co, May 11, 2010), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 1534, Paris.

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Looks at the life and times of Michael Servetus, a freethinking sixtenth-century scientist and theologian who authored a work of biblical scholarship that refuted orthodox Christianity, that led to his execution for heresy.
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9780767908368 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Looks at the life and times of Michael Servetus, a freethinking sixtenth-century scientist and theologian who authored a work of biblical scholarship that refuted orthodox Christianity, that led to his execution for heresy.

Paperback:

9780767908375 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents an intriguing study of the life and times of Michael Servetus, a freethinking sixteenth-century scientist and theologian, who is credited with discovering human circulation and who authored the Christianismi Restitutio, a work of biblical scholarship that refuted orthodox Christianity and a book that led to Servetus's condemnation and execution for heresy.

Miscellaneous:

9780307489241 | Broadway Books, December 10, 2008, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: The year is 1889. In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, physicians uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one doctor, Ephraim Carroll, strongly suspects that he knows the woman’s identity…and the horrifying events that led to her death...read more
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9780593058893 | Transworld Pub, April 7, 2008, cover price $22.90
9780385341349 | Delacorte Pr, January 29, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Nineteenth-century Philadelphia physician Ephraim Carroll draws on the new techniques of forensic medicine to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful young woman and the horror that led to her death.

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9780385341356 | Reprint edition (Delta, February 24, 2009), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The year is 1889.
9780385665100, titled "Anatomy of Deception" | Doubleday of Canada, February 24, 2009, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist and Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club, this mesmerizing forensic thriller thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer.

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9780739359150 | Abridged edition (Random House, January 29, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Nineteenth-century Philadelphia physician Ephraim Carroll draws on the new techniques of forensic medicine to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful young woman and the horror that led to her death, in a historical thriller populated by such real-life characters as pioneering physicians William Osler and William Stewart Halsted and painter Thomas Eakins.

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Documents the heated debates about slavery in 1787, revealing how the Constitution was irrevocably shaped and compromised by issues involving the definition of treason, the disposition of land, taxation, and other factors in which slavery played an integral role, in an account that cites the contributions of specific delegates and founding leaders. Reprint.
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9780802714602, titled "Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits And the Struggle for the Constitution" | Walker & Co, October 20, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Documents the heated debates about slavery in 1787, revealing how the Constitution was irrevocably shaped and compromised by issues in which slavery played an integral role.

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9780802715074 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, October 3, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of the daily debates and back room conferences in inns and taverns through July and August of the 1787, to reveal how tenuous the Constitution was, and how an agreement between unlikely collaborators got the delegates to agree.

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An accessible study of the baffling mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, discovered in 1912, examines the theory that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century astronomer, was the author of the book, which is written in an indecipherable language and code that remains unsolved and contains odd illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, and more. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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9780767914734 | Doubleday, February 1, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A study of the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, discovered in 1912, examines the theory that thirteenth-century astronomer Roger Bacon was the author of the book, which is written in an indecipherable language and code that remains unsolved.

Paperback:

9780767914727 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, February 14, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An accessible study of the baffling mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, discovered in 1912, examines the theory that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century astronomer, was the author of the book, which is written in an indecipherable language and code that remains unsolved and contains odd illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, and more.

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The leaders of a parent-child book group and authors of Out of the Flames share their secrets for transforming children into dynamic and enthusiastic readers, offering suggestions on what books parents should read with their children and explaining how to talk to children about literature. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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9780812970289 | Ballantine Books, May 17, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The leaders of a parent-child book group share their secrets for transforming children into dynamic and enthusiastic readers, offering suggestions on what books parents should read with their children and explaining how to talk to children about literature.

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9781417674718 | Turtleback Books, May 3, 2005, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: The leaders of a parent-child book group share their secrets for transforming children into dynamic and enthusiastic readers, offering suggestions on what books parents should read with their children and explaining how to talk to children about literature.

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Two savvy antiques collectors reveal one of the dirty secrets of the book collecting world, the art of forgeries, illustrating how a New England forger managed to fool collectors and how many of these collectors and booksellers ignore the suspicious books. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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9780312262686 | St Martins Pr, June 20, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Writings on the world of books and book collecting include a personal tour of the Library of Congress, trips to the Folger Shakespeare Library and Yale's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and stories of famous forgeries.

Paperback:

9780312304287 | Reprint edition (Thomas Dunne Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Two savvy antiques collectors reveal one of the dirty secrets of the book collecting world, the art of forgeries, illustrating how a New England forger managed to fool collectors and how many of these collectors and booksellers ignore the suspicious books.

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Product Description: More than a sequel, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore is a companion piece for Used and Rare. A delight for the general reader and book collector alike, it details the Goldstones' further explorations into the curious world of book collecting...read more
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9780312263959 | Griffin, May 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: More than a sequel, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore is a companion piece for Used and Rare.

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A companion work to Used and Rare follows the authors as they continue to explore the world of book collecting and to share their experiences as they discover new places to find and buy rare literary works.
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9780312205874 | Thomas Dunne Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Follows the authors as they explore the world of book collecting and shares their experiences as they discover new places to find and buy rare literary works

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Product Description: The year is 2020. Glynnis Rodman, brilliant and beautiful, a senior executive at MicroLink, one of the country's most powerful cyber companies, has been found dead in her apartment after an S&M encounter with a stranger. Veteran senior investigator Phil Gagliardi Jr...read more
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9780312186418 | St Martins Pr, April 15, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In the year 2020, when detection, like most other human activities, is entrusted to microchips, investigator Phil Gagliardo jr.

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9780312292478 | Griffin, May 1, 1998, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: The year is 2020.

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New York City lawyer Herbert Whiffet is hired to defend the rights of a homeless man who has claimed the sidewalk in front of a delicatessen, then also finds himself representing the family of Lawanda de Bourbon, the stunning young consort of a ruthless gang leader, after the girl is gunned down by a rookie patrolman
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9781877946134 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, April 1, 1992, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: New York City lawyer Herbert Whiffet is hired to defend the rights of a homeless man who has claimed the sidewalk in front of a delicatessen, then also finds himself representing the family of Lawanda de Bourbon, the stunning young consort of a ruthless gang leader, after the girl is gunned down by a rookie patrolman

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