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John Adams

by David McCullough

Simon & Schuster,  2001

hardcover

new condition

751  pages

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

Gandhi - His Life and Message for the World

by Louis Fischer

Mentor Book, 1954

vintage paperback - 8 pages of photos

192 pages

good condition

quote written on last page

our price:   $3.65 plus media mail shipping

Captain Mac - The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan - Arctic Explorer

by Mary Morton Cowan

Calkins Creek, 2010

hardcover, 208 pages

good condition - excellent interior pages

dustjacket has some wear

address sticker removed from first page

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Edison

by Matthew Josephson

McGraw Hill, 1959

hardcover - former library book

511 pages

fair condition - cover shows wear and age

some staining on outer edge of pages

interior pages - good reading copy

our price:   $5.50 plus media mail shipping

Einstein - The Life and Times

by Ronald W. Clark

Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971

hardcover

excellent condition - no dust jacket

719  pages

$4.50 plus media mail shipping

Mary Queen of Scots and the Isles

by Stefan Zweig

Viking Press, 1935

antique hardcover, no dust jacket

366  pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

The Story of Martha Washington -Great Events in the Life Of Martha Washington

by Jeanette Covert Nolan

Grosset & Dunlap, 1954

THIS BOOK IS MISSING COVER but still

provides good reading copy

vintage book - great b&w illustrations
175 pages are without markings and are all intact

stains on page #3

$1.95 plus media mail shipping

Steel Titan - The Life of Charles M. Schwab

by Robert Hessen

University of Pittsburg Press, 1975

good “like new” condition

softcover, 350 pages   

our price:   $8.95  plus media mail shipping

Out of Darkness - The Story of Louis Braille

by Russell Freedman

Clarion Books, 1997

very good condition

former library book

hardcover, 81 pages   

our price:   $3.95  plus media mail shipping

Long Walk to Freedon - The Autobiography of

Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

Little Brown & Company, 1995

good condition

softcover, 638 pages   

our price:   $4.95  plus media mail shipping

Young Mandela - The Revolutionary Years

by David James Smith

Little, Brown & Company, 2010

First American Edition stated

hardcover -  407 pages

NEW BOOK!!!!

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Alexander Hamilton - The Outsider

by Jean Fritz

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2011

hardcover -  144 pages

NEW BOOK!!!!

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

Love, Eleanor - Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

by Joseph P. Lash

Doubleday & Company, 1982

hardcover -  534 pages

former library book

interior pages - good condition

dustjacket shows wear

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Abe Lincoln - Frontier Boy

Stories Children Can Read

by Augusta Stevenson

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932

vintage hardcover -  187 pages

former library book

interior pages - good condition

spine and corners shows wear

$15.95 plus media mail shipping

Living for Change - An Autobiography

by Grace Lee Boggs

University of Minnesota Press, 1998

softcover -  303 pages

very good condition

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

I Am Malala

The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By The Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

Back Bay Books, 2015

softcover -  330 pages plus 14 pages of Reading

Group Guide

good condition

$4.95 plus media mail shipping

I Am Malala

How One Girl Stood Up for Education and

Changed the World

Young Readers Edition

by Malala Yousafzai

Little Brown & Company, 2016

softcover - 240 pages

good condition

$4.95 plus media mail shipping