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Hardcover:

9780374117016 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 17, 2015, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9780374536534 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 22, 2016, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Every American is intimately familiar with Benjamin Franklin, one of the seminal Founding Fathers and the first international American celebrity. Over 200 years after his death, Americans still hold out Franklin as an example of the American Dream, a self-made man whose varied interests brought about changes in science, printing, and, of course, politics...read more

Hardcover:

9781841593661, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Gardners Books, June 4, 2015, cover price $18.20
9781110408368, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Bibliolife, June 30, 2009, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434495525, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Wildside Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $24.95
9781602069602, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Cosimo Inc, November 30, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States.
9781592247653, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Wildside Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This isn't a tale of Ben Franklin the revolutionary -- the text comes to its end long years before that -- but it does give a fascinating portrait of the man who would become one of America's founding fathers.
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Paperback:

9781522860181, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Createspace Independent Pub, December 20, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: It sounds like a joke, but if you look up Autobiography in Wikipedia you get the front cover of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography-that's how famous it is.
9788490018361 | Gardners Books, December 3, 2015, cover price $16.35
9781519447777 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 23, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Franklin told the story of his life, as he himself says, for the benefit of his posterity.
9781519273390, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 13, 2015, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Every American is intimately familiar with Benjamin Franklin, one of the seminal Founding Fathers and the first international American celebrity.
9781519222718 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
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Miscellaneous:

9781598955880 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, December 11, 2006), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781633798915, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, April 28, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written.
9781400101689 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 30, 2005), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia.
9781400151684 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 30, 2005), cover price $19.99
9781584724056, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Abridged edition (In Audio, December 1, 2003), cover price $24.00
9781584723813, titled "The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" | Mp3 una edition (In Audio, March 31, 2003), cover price $14.95
4 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781572700437, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Unabridged edition (Audio Partners, October 1, 1997), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The memoirs of one of America's Founding Fathers spans eighteen years of his life and covers his career as a printer, scientist, and statesman.
9780694503865, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, January 1, 1972), cover price $22.00

Library:

9780531001592 | Franklin Watts, December 1, 1970, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer.

Prebinding:

9780613124737, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: The American statesman, philosopher, and scientist records his life, career, and philosophy

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Paperback:

9780449126509, titled "A Rag and a Bone and a Yank of Hair" | Fawcett Books, February 1, 1985, cover price $2.25 | also contains A Rag and a Bone and a Yank of Hair | About this edition: Book.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781622319169 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, November 17, 2015), cover price $34.99

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Product Description: All individuals included in this book are listed in the published literature. Scientists included in this book represent the fields of biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, dentistry, engineering, entomology, genetics, geology, mathematics, medicine, nursing, physics, psychology, sociology, zoology, and inventions...read more

Hardcover:

9781634836364 | 2 edition (Nova Science Pub Inc, October 30, 2015), cover price $295.00 | About this edition: All individuals included in this book are listed in the published literature.

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Product Description: Working extensively as both artist and scientist, Aldo Giorgini (1934–1994) was one of the first computer artists to combine software writing with early printing technologies. His innovative process involved producing pen-plotted drawings that were embellished by painting, drawing, photography, and screen printing...read more

Paperback:

9781557537072, titled "Cybernethisms: Aldo Giorgini’s Computer Art Legacy" | Purdue Univ Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Working extensively as both artist and scientist, Aldo Giorgini (1934–1994) was one of the first computer artists to combine software writing with early printing technologies.

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Product Description: Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France...read more

Hardcover:

9780415531962 | Routledge, October 10, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France.

Paperback:

9780415532006 | Routledge, October 13, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France.

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Product Description: This biography highlights the achievements of America's firstprofessional degreed female scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards(1842--1911). The book takes the reader from Richards's childhoodon a Massachusetts farm where she was schooled at home, to herinternationally renowned successes in multiple branches ofscience...read more

Hardcover:

9781118923832 | Tms, July 8, 2014, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: This biography highlights the achievements of America's firstprofessional degreed female scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards(1842--1911).

Paperback:

9780345366931, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | also contains James Beard''s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking

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Product Description: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you’re dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” – Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin narrated and lived the Great American Success Story. As America’s prototypical polymath, he excelled―and even defined―a number of professions including printer, writer, postmaster, scientists, inventor, public citizen, politician, and diplomat...read more

Paperback:

9781934389485 | Red Wheel/Weiser, October 1, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you’re dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

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Product Description: In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought―the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement―the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield―as an opportunity to explore the meaning of the beginnings of modern science and rationality on one hand and evangelical religious enthusiasm on the other...read more

Hardcover:

9781421403113 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 11, 2011, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought―the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

Paperback:

9781421403120 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 7, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought―the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

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Product Description: In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard’s Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America’s first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution...read more
By Isabelle Bour (editor)

Paperback:

9781587299827 | Univ of Iowa Pr, May 8, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was the most famous American in the world.

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Product Description: This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders. Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the field Pays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, journalism, colonial American society, and themes of race, class, and gender Places Franklin in the context of recent work in political theory, American Studies, American literature, material culture studies, popular culture, and international relations...read more

Hardcover:

9781405199964 | Blackwell Pub, August 23, 2011, cover price $228.95 | About this edition: This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.

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Product Description: Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U.S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancement of Science and also led what was at that point the nation’s largest scientific enterprise, the U...read more

Paperback:

9783593393551 | Campus Verlag Gmbh, April 15, 2011, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century.

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Product Description: When a fiery meteor crash in 1807 lit up the dark early-morning sky in Weston, Connecticut, it did more than startle the few farmers in the sleepy village. More importantly, it sparked the curiosity of Benjamin Silliman, a young chemistry professor at nearby Yale College...read more

Hardcover:

9781616142247 | Prometheus Books, November 1, 2010, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: When a fiery meteor crash in 1807 lit up the dark early-morning sky in Weston, Connecticut, it did more than startle the few farmers in the sleepy village.

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By Edward T. Haslam (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780979988677 | Trine Day, September 16, 2010, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9781936296378 | Trine Day, October 22, 2011, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: The first full-scale biography of Franklin in over 60 years! This fully documented account of the most versatile man of his age paints a lively portrait of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as an emissary in London trying to prevent the Revolutionary War; and the statesman who served as the US representative in Paris during the war, intriguing for French aid and American victory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780785818441 | Castle, January 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The first full-scale biography of Franklin in over 60 years!
9780756776138 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1983, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This fully documented account of the 'first American' gives a detailed & lively picture of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as emissary in London trying to prevent the American War of Independence; the statesman who, when war came, served as the U.
9780394502229 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1983, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Franklin: A Biography

Paperback:

9781842122723 | Phoenix, October 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The first full-scale biography of Franklin in over 60 years!
9780306803680 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This fully documented account of 'the first American' gives a detailed and lively picture of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as emissary in London trying to prevent the American War of Independence; the statesman who, when war came, served as the United States representative in Paris, intriguing for French aid and American victory.

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Product Description: A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father.Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician...read more

Paperback:

9780451469885 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, August 5, 2014), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father.
9780451528100 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, September 1, 2001), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: In this three hundredth anniversary edition, essays by one of the Founding Fathers of the United States discuss scientific experiments, inventions, politics, and life, and accompany his account of his childhood, education, and accomplishments, as well as additional writings from his wife and son.
9780451524973 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, June 1, 1961), cover price $4.95 | also contains From the Car Behind

Prebinding:

9780833503497 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.95

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Details the basic techniques of cooking with recipes that apply the principles of roasting, broiling, braising, sauteing, and baking

Hardcover:

9780762406135, titled "James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking" | Running Pr Book Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Details the basic techniques of cooking with recipes that apply the principles of roasting, broiling, braising, sauteing, and baking
9780517118603, titled "James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking" | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1994, cover price $9.99 | also contains Leadership | About this edition: A complete cooking course for the beginner demonstrates the fundamental principles of good culinary practice while offering three hundred simple recipes and variations.
9780517695258, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Weathervane, May 1, 1990, cover price $9.99
9780394484938, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Random House Inc, March 1, 1977, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Detailed commentaries on all the basic techniques of cooking are followed by recipes that lavishly apply the principles of boiling, roasting, broiling, braising, sauteing, frying, and baking

Paperback:

9780345366931, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | also contains The Remarkable Life and Career of Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer in Science and Technology
9780394724751, titled "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking" | Random House Inc, April 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: " For the first time James Beard gives us the fundamentals that he teaches in his famous classes- the hows, the whys, the techniques, the BASICS as well as the subtle nuances of good cooking.

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Product Description: Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William. Apart from hurried additions when he was in his eighties, his story halts at 1757. Tracing his footsteps centuries later, Franklin's most celebrated biographer completes the last twenty-five years of the autobiography by drawing on Franklin's most personal and insightful letters and writings--even making additions within the interrupted Autobiography to give us the expository memoir that Franklin intended...read more
By Esmond Wright (editor)

Hardcover:

9780674066540 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Picking up where Franklin's own autobiography leaves off, this profile of an American statesman discusses his foreign service, his embassies to England and France, and his scientific experiments

Paperback:

9780674066557 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William.

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A self-portrait by the late master of science fiction and popular scientific thought looks back on his life and career, discussing his writings, religious beliefs, friendships and personal relationships, and innovative ideas. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780385417013 | Doubleday, April 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A self-portrait by the late master of science fiction and popular scientific thought looks back on his life and career, discussing his writings, religious beliefs, friendships and personal relationships, and innovative ideas

Paperback:

9780553569971 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A self-portrait by the late master of science fiction and popular scientific thought looks back on his life and career, discussing his writings, religious beliefs, friendships and personal relationships, and innovative ideas.

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