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Most of the biographies here are older hardcovers about writers, artists, jazz musicians, politicians and scientists. The subject links below go straight to military lives, sports figures, women or a single country.



 

Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A life of Diego Rivera


Marnham, Patrick

Hardcover. London, England, Bloomsbury, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, printed on back side with a Diego painting. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Edges have a slight touch of tanning from age. In beautiful condition, looks bare read.

Record # 32137


Price: $23.00 

 

Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties: A Memoir (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Kunin, Madeleine May

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Green Writers Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight.

Record # 32148


Price: $23.00 

 

Stanley, The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer


Jeal, Tim

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st paperback, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 570 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight. Just a touch of tanning to top edge, otherwise edges and pages clean and unmarked. In excellent shape. Henry Morton Staley was the most dazzling

Price: $15.00 

 

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China


Chang, Jung

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st U.S.A., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In nearly new condition. In this ground-breaking biography, Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumenal obstacles to change China.

Record # 32157


Price: $15.00 

 

Poppie Nongena: The Internationally Acclaimed Story of One Woman's Struggle Against Apartheid


Joubert, Elsa

Hardcover. New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st U.S.A., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. A small bump to top edge of front cover board. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on back cover. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In great shape. A story of a woman's struggle to keep her family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings.

Record # 32163


Price: $15.00 

 

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky


Spender, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 417 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Brown cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Arshile Gorky was one of the most intriguing figures in modern art and was at the center of the New York art world in the twenties, thirties, and forties.

Record # 32177


Price: $25.00 

 

Benjamin Robert Haydon: Historical Painter


Olney, Clarke

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate and stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages and edges have slight tanning from age. Pages otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. The author's purpose is to evaluate Haydon's place in the history of art, to indicate his importance as a pioneer in social concepts of art, and to describe his success and failure as a painter and as a man.

Record # 32183


Price: $23.00 

 

William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends


Henderson, Philip, Allan Temko (Forward)

Hardcover. New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. With 82 b/w illustrations and 8 color plates. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Decorated cover boards. Pages slightly tanned, edges have light foxing. No rips. Binding tight. Spine straight. In very good condition. Very attractive old book. Henderson is the editor of the Morris family letters and has written the first full-length portrait of Morris since Mackail's heavily censored 'official biography' of 1899.

Record # 32192


Price: $23.00 

 

Lardner on Baseball


Lardner, Ring, Jeff Silverman (Editor)

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, The Lyons Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cream cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Light remainder mark on bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A look at the life of the sports journalist and fiction writer.

Record # 32198


Price: $19.00 

 

Moon Man, The: A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay


Webster, E.M.

Hardcover. Berkely, Univeristy of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading to dj spine (see image), very good condition. Binding tight, spine straight. Red endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape.

Record # 32202


Price: $23.00 

 

Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story 1900-1971


Jones, Max, John Chilton

Hardcover. Boston. MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine, covers excellent. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Label residue to front flyleaf. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. In excellent shape. Jones and Chilton bring "Satchmo" to life in this authorized biography. It's the story of how it really was for Louis Armstrong who grew up with less than nothing, and yet went further and lasted longer than most of his contemporaries.

Record # 32211


Price: $25.00 

 

Life and Death of Mozart, The


Levey, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Hardcover. b/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, light blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Top edge has a touch of tanning from age and a small drip of soil. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight.

Record # 32212


Price: $15.00 

 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: An Authorized Biography


Chernow, Burt, Wolfgang Volz (Epilogue

Softcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st paperback, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Remainder marks on top edge. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In great condition. A look at the backgrounds of these artists and what's behind their temporary masterpieces.

Record # 32226


Price: $15.00 

 

Vision of Eden, A: The Life and Work of Marianne North


Brenan, J.P.M. (Preface), Anthony Huxley (Foreword), Brenda E. Moon (Biographical Note)

Hardcover. New York, NY, Holt, Rinehart adn Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Color frontispiece and color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Top edge has just a little bit of foxing. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. In very nice condition. The first collection in book form of Marianne North's fabulously detailed and exotic botanical paintings, also contains excerpts from her autobiography and vivid travel memoirs.

Record # 32232


Price: $25.00 

 

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man


Bramly, Serge

Softcover. London, England, Penguin Books, 1st paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. Softcover. Wrapper in good shape, no rips, not discolored. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have the slightest touch of tanning from age. Still clean copy, in very good condition. With the aid of Leonardo's own notebooks, together with accounts by contemporaries, Bramly has produced a comprehensive portrait of the life, work and times of the artist.

Record # 32234


Price: $15.00 

 

Texas Cowboy, A: Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1st Thus, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 198 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations by Tom Lea throughout. With Biographical Study & introduction by J. Frank Dobie and drawings by Tom Lea. Has original dust jacket, unclipped, has a touch of age wear. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Bump to back cover board bottom. In great shape for its age. Originally published in 1885 as a paperback, this reissue is Siringo's chronicle of his years as an "itching-footed" boy, cow hand, range detective, and adventurer and is told with enormous gusto and relish.

Record # 32242


Price: $25.00 

 

Thomas Jefferson: A Life


Randall, Willard Sterne

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 708 pages. Hardcover. Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Edges have some light smudges. In very good condition. A single-volume Jefferson biography that captures the public and private man as well as the tumultuous age in which he lived.

Record # 32257


Price: $15.00 

 

Ike: An American Hero


Korda, Michael

Hardcover. New york, HarperCollins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 779 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover author initials. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great condition. Korda paints a fresh, frank, revealing, and admiring full-length portrait of America's greatest soldier

Price: $19.00 

 

From the Green Mountains to the Prairies


Barker, Frances Long

Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.

Record # 32281


Price: $25.00 

 

Sermon, Memorial Papers and Resolutions in Memory of Rev. Alfred B. Swift of Enosburgh, Vermont with a Biographical Sketch.


Burlington Free Press

Softcover. Burlington, VT, Burlington Free Press Association, 1st, 1884, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Softcover pamphlet, stitch binding (loose). Tanning to covers and pages from significant age. Some very minor moisture staining to bottom of pages (see image). Very light (erasable) pencil in some places. Spine has been taped to secure stitch binding (see image). Previously exhibited at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (proprietary stamp to front cover). Booklet compiled to take a look at the considerable life of Swift, as well as an overview of his memorial service and sermon within.

Record # 32283


Price: $25.00 

 

Man of the Crowd, The: Edgar Allan Poe and the City


Peeples, Scott, Michelle Van Parys (Photographs)

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st edition, 2020, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 206 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition, like new. Featuring evocative photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings.

Record # 32316


Price: $19.00 

 

Georgie and Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, The Untold Story


Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in dark green cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Like new, looks barely read. Based on an extensive collection of original material in the form of diaries, notebooks, letters, manuscripts, and photographs, most of which have never before been seen, Georgie & Elsa provides a unique insight into one of the few true geniuses of literature.

Record # 32318


Price: $23.00 

 

Stranger at the Party


Lawrenson, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.

Record # 32327


Price: $23.00 

 

Stanley Morison


Barker, Nicolas

Hardcover. Cambrdige, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st edition, 1972, 566 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tears (taped) at the edges from agewear (see image). Top edge dyed. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. Barker has written an account of Morrison's life at once balanced and humane with a rare degree of insight into his complex and fascinating character.

Record # 32330


Price: $23.00 

 

Bin Ladens, The: An Arabian Family in the American Century


Coll, Steve

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 671 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has small tear (3/4") at top of spine, otherwise excellent shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page and edges clean and bright. Meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations.

Record # 32335


Price: $15.00 

 

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy


Greene, Naomi

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Light (erasable) pencil notes/underlining in a few places. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, has some chipping on front cover, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Front cover board has a bump/dent and some fading (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made Pasolini one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era, at the center of political and cultural debates still vital to our time.

Record # 32369


Price: $23.00 

 

World's Fastest Man, The: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor America's First Black Sports Hero


Kranish, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st Edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Tan cover boards. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Like new, looks barely read. The amazing, little-known story of Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous cyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.

Record # 32406


Price: $25.00 

 

Duke of Flatbush


Snider, Duke, Bill Gilbert

Hardcover. New York, Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Group, 1st Edition, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. White cove boards, blue quarter cloth. Some foxing to top edge and boards. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In great condition. From the sandlots of Compton, CA to the most exciting team professional baseball ever fielded, Duke Snider's 18 years in the major leagues encompass a glorious era of baseball that will never be seen again.

Record # 32439


Price: $15.00 

 

Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder


Hawk, Tony, Sean Mortimer

Hardcover. New York, ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In excellent condition. With brutal honesty, Tony recalls the stories of love, loss and determination that have shaped his life, he takes a look back at his experiences with the skateboarding legends of the 70's, 80's and 90's, and tells the real history of skateboarding.

Record # 32446


Price: $15.00 

 

Vision of Eden, A: The Life and Work of Marianne North


Brenan, Professor J.P.M. (Preface), Anthony Huxley (Foreword)

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, in clear brodart, very good. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Life and work of the great artist of botanical paintings.

Record # 33422


Price: $23.00 

 

Warrior: Frank Sturgis

Hardcover. New York, Forge, 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Some underlining on a few pages, otherwise pages clean and bright. Edges clean. Binding tight, spine straight. Frank Sturgis was known as the Watergate burglar, but that was truly his least perilous mission. He was well versed in a life of shadows, using over 30 aliases and code names. His is a shocking and unbelievable story.

Record # 33423


Price: $15.00 

 

Majesty of Colour, The: A Life of Sir John Bates Thurston. Volume One: I, the Very Bayonet


Scarr, Deryck

Hardcover. Canberra, Australia, Australian National University Press, 1st Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 370 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Some light foxing to top edge and very light tanning to pages from age. Dr. Scarr has delved into diaries, private letters, official correspondence and newspapers to reconstruct the colorful life story of Thurston. Volume one only.

Record # 33476


Price: $23.00 

 

Sugar Ray Leonard and Other Noble Warriers.


Toperoff, Sam

Hardcover. NY., McGraw Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 51231


Price: $18.00 

 

Pages From a Cold Island


Exley, Frederick

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51992


Price: $25.00 

 

Day at the Beach, A - Recollections


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52912


Price: $18.00 

 

Hand to Mouth - A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light remainder line to top edge

Record # 52956


Price: $20.00 

 

Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton


Mott, Michael

Paperback. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, rep wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 690 pages with index

Record # 53001


Price: $15.00 

 

Perfect Stranger, The - A Memoir


Kauanagh, P. J.

Hardcover. St.Paul, MN , Graywolf Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53026


Price: $18.00 

 

Factory of Facts, The


Sante, Luc

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 53070


Price: $20.00 

 

Paul Cezanne


Rewald, John

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st US, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Several pages with underlining. Chunk gone from dj otherwise

Record # 53572


Price: $18.00 

 

Catherine de'Medici


Willisamson, Hugh Ross

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color, black & white. 288 pages

Record # 53750


Price: $28.00 

 

Pancho Villa


Lansford, William Douglas

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Sherbourne Press, 1st , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Spine with slight slant. Dj with small hole in spine

Record # 53867


Price: $28.00 

 

Way of Hope, A - An Autobiography


Walesa, Lech

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53907


Price: $15.00 

 

Joe Louis - The Great Black Hope


Bak, Richard

Hardcover. Dallas, Taylor Pub., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53978


Price: $18.00 

 

Phantom Father, The - A Memoir


Gifford, Barry

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 54092


Price: $18.00 

 

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (2 vols)


Huxley, Leonard

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, unk., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Very clean, tight copies.

Record # 54273


Price: $36.00 

 

George Bellows - Painter of America


Morgan, Charles H.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white, a few color plates. 342 pages

Record # 54387


Price: $30.00 

 

Mary Cassatt


Carson, Julia M. H.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 193 pages. Dj with edgewear, nick & closed tears to rear panel

Record # 54396


Price: $20.00 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci - Aspects of the Renaissance Genius


Philipson (Ed.), Morris

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of scholarly essays on the man, his time and art

Record # 54399


Price: $25.00 

 

Frederick the Great - The Ruler, the Writer, the Man


Gooch, G. P.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, A tad musty, cover edges, spine faded. Previous owner's signature front end paper, otherwise clean, tight. Black & white photos, maps. 376 pages

Record # 54639


Price: $15.00 

 

Gal - A True Life


Bolton, Ruthie

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 54827


Price: $18.00 

 

Captain Cook


MacLead, Alistair

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white photos.

Record # 54831


Price: $18.00 

 

Dr. Spock - An American Life


Maier, Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54838


Price: $18.00 

 

Outside Passage - A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood


Scully, Julia

Paperback. NY, Random House, ARC wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54992


Price: $15.00 

 

Clare Boothe Luce


Sheed, Wilfrid

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55264


Price: $20.00 

 

New Biographies of Illustrious Men


Macaulay, et al., Thomas Babington

Hardcover. Boston, Whittemore Niles & Hall, 1st US, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orig. brown cloth covers worn. internally VG

Record # 55269


Price: $15.00 

 

Buffalo Nickel


Salas, Floyd

Hardcover. Houston, Arte Publico Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pub. stamp on top edge. Dj with edgewear, chips

Record # 55472


Price: $18.00 

 

In Search of Bisco


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light corner wear to dust jacket, corner chip, price clipped. Two pages with creases otherwise very good.

Record # 55496


Price: $30.00 

 

Daniel Boone


Bakeless, John

Hardcover. Harrisburg, Stackpole Co., rep., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. dj chipped

Record # 55593


Price: $20.00 

 

Bolivar the Liberator


Paine, Lauran

Hardcover. NY, Roy, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55597


Price: $18.00 

 

Nola A Memoir of Faith, Art and Madness


Hemley, Robin

Hardcover. St. Paul, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Some edge wear to fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 55600


Price: $20.00 

 

View from Alger's Window, The - A Son's Memoir


Hiss, Tony

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 55607


Price: $18.00 

 

Cissy - The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson


Martin, Ralph G.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dj price clipped

Record # 55614


Price: $15.00 

 

Charles of Orleans - Prince & Poet


McLeod, Enid

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with short tears, edgewear

Record # 55618


Price: $18.00 

 

Mary Curzon


Nicolson, Nigel

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The story of an American socialite who married into a high position in the British Government. Dj with close tear to rear panel

Record # 55620


Price: $18.00 

 

Lion of the Forest - James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer


Cole, Jr., Charles C.

Hardcover. Lexington, Univ. of Kentucky, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 271 pages

Record # 55630


Price: $25.00 

 

Hilter of History, The


Kukacs, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 5th pr., 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 55634


Price: $18.00 

 

Pocahontas


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white plates. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Remainder stamp bottom edge 383 pages

Record # 55642


Price: $20.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

 

Baber - First of the Moguls


Grenard, Fernand

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st US, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 56151


Price: $15.00 

 

Albert Speer - His Battle with Truth


Sereny, Gitta

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, Book Club, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, States 1st but no dj flap price

Record # 56181


Price: $25.00 

 

Walter Reuther - Autocrat of the Bargaining Table


Dayton, Eldorous L.

Hardcover. NY, Devin-Adair, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dj worn, spine faded. 280 pages

Record # 56207


Price: $15.00 

 

Mayor Who Mastered New York, The - The Life and Opinions of William J. Gaynor


Thomas, Lately

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 516 pages

Record # 56211


Price: $30.00 

 

Sir Philip Sidney - The Shepherd Knight


Howell, Roger

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56388


Price: $15.00 

 

Crusader for Freedom - A Life of Lydia Maria Child


Clifford, Deborah Pickman

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56398


Price: $20.00 

 

Sound of Sleat, The - A Painter's Life


Schueler, Jon

Hardcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 19 ?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Mauda Salversen Cousineay. Black & white, color photos.

Record # 56613


Price: $20.00 

 

Between Worlds - The Autobiography of Leo Lionni


Lionni, Leo

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Illust. in color, black & white. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 56615


Price: $15.00 

 

Somehow a Past - The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley


Hartley, Marsden

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Susan E. Ryan. Not issued with dust jacket.

Record # 56619


Price: $25.00 

 

Confessions of a Caricaturist, The (Vol I)


Furmiss, Henry

Hardcover. London, Fisher Unwin, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol I only. Profusely illust. by author. Spine & edges are faded otherwise VG 302 pages

Record # 56621


Price: $35.00 

 

Loser and Still Champion - Muhammad Ali


Schulberg, Budd

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Rep., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. Dj with light edgewear

Record # 56746


Price: $18.00 

 

With All Its Faults - A Candid Account of Forty Years in Advertising


Cone, Fairfax M.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 335 pages. Black & white illust. Dj with chips, edgewear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 56777


Price: $20.00 

 

Insisting on the Impossible - The Life of Edwin Land, Inventor of Instant Photography


McElheny, Victor K.

Hardcover. Reading, MA, Perseus, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos. 510 pages

Record # 56778


Price: $28.00 

 

Einstein - The Life and Times


Clark, Ronald W.

Hardcover. NY, World Pub., Book Club, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56821


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters of Lincoln Steffens, The (2 Vols.)


Winter, Ella and Granville Hicks (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, otherwise

Record # 56996


Price: $35.00 

 

Julius Caesar and the Grandeur That Was Rome


Thaddeus, Victor

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust by W.D. White

Record # 57002


Price: $50.00 

 

Margaret Bourke-White - A Biography


Goldberg, Vicki

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 426 pages.

Record # 57350


Price: $28.00 

 

Sketches From a Life


Kennan, George F.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 5th pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 57669


Price: $23.00 

 

Eagle Forgotten - The Life of John Peter Altgeld


Barnard, Harry

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & whtie illust. Spine cloth faded

Record # 57675


Price: $31.00 

 

King of the World - Mahammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero


Remnick, David

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, black & white photos.

Record # 57686


Price: $19.00 

 

Devil Soldier, The - The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the Most Honored and Controversial American in Chinese History


Carr, Caleb

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 366 pages.

Record # 58107


Price: $50.00 

 

Elliott Coves - Naturalist and Frontier Historian


Cutright, Paul Russell and Michael J. Brodhead

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Illinois, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 509 pages.

Record # 58111


Price: $30.00 

 

Pultizer


Swanberg, W.A.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 462 pages. Dj with light edgewear

Record # 58124


Price: $20.00 

 

Carlos - Portrait of a Terrorist


Smith, Colin

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 58133


Price: $12.00 

 

William Allen White - The Man From Emporia


Rich, Everett

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, Unk., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 58149


Price: $18.00 

 

Carl Gustav Jung


McLynn, Frank

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 58210


Price: $20.00 

 

Erik H. Erikson - The Growth of His Work


Coles, Robert

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly, 2nd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 58220


Price: $18.00 

 

Magellan - And the First Circumnavigation of the World


Cameron, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in black & white, color. 224 pages

Record # 58221


Price: $18.00 

 

Passionate Pilgrim - The Extraordinary Life of Alma Reed


May, Antoinette

Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in black & white. 283 pages.

Record # 58222


Price: $15.00 

 

My Own River Kwai


Boulle, Pierre

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in brodart, shows chipping, and rips. The author's own true adventures as a secret agent in the Far East during WW II. Light fading to cover boards. Gilt "PB" initials on front cover.

Record # 58240


Price: $15.00 

 

Apes, Angels & Victorians - A Joint Biography of Darwin & Huxley


Irvine, William

Hardcover. London, Reader's Union, Rep., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, College bookplate on front end paper, tear to rear fly leaf otherwise VG. 278 pages.

Record # 58682


Price: $15.00 

 

Nimitz


Potter, E.B.

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 8th, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Full-scale biography of the Fleet Admiral. Black & white illust. 507 pages. Light "waviness" to pages - still excellent reading copy.

Record # 59324


Price: $20.00 

 

That Great Lucifer - A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh


Irwin, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 320 pages.

Record # 59329


Price: $18.00 

 

Travels With Henry


Valeriani, Richard

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Behind the scenes with Henry Kissinger by the NBC correspondent for the U.S. State Dept. Black & white photos, cartoons. 400 pages.

Record # 59737


Price: $18.00 

 

Isabelle - The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt


Kobak, Annette

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 258 pages. Light scrape to top edge of boards otherwise VG

Record # 59961


Price: $20.00 

 

Uncompromising Heart, The - A Life of Marie Mancini - Louis XIV's First Love


Mallet-Joris, Francoise

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from French by Patrick O'Brian. 274 pages. Dj with light wear, closed tears.

Record # 60125


Price: $15.00 

 

Audubon, By Himself


Ford (Ed.), Alice

Hardcover. NY, Natural History Press, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with heavy edge wear to dust jacket, now covered in brodart. A profile of John James Audubon from his selected writings.

Record # 60126


Price: $15.00 

 

Adams Family, The


Adams, James Truslow

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 364 pages.

Record # 60128


Price: $18.00 

 

Queen Victoria - Born to Succeed


Longford, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white illust. 635 pages. Dj worn, torn

Record # 60129


Price: $20.00 

 

Timothy Dwight 1752-1817 - A Biography


Cuningham, Charles E.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white plates. 403 pages. Dj with wear, chipping.

Record # 60130


Price: $25.00 

 

By the Evidence - Memoirs 1932-1951


Leakey, L.S.B.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 2nd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 276 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60132


Price: $15.00 

 

David Livingstone - His Life and Letters


Seaver, George

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 650 pages. Light wear to dj.

Record # 60246


Price: $20.00 

 

Road from Coorin - Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey into Adulthood


Conway, Jill Ker

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages.

Record # 60681


Price: $19.00 

 

Lone Star - The Life of John Connally


Reston, Jr., James

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 691 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ligth foxing to top page block, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white photos.

Record # 60725


Price: $25.00 

 

Oral Roberts - An American Life


Harrell, Jr., David Edwin

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana Univ. Press, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 612 pages.

Record # 60730


Price: $25.00 

 

Builder, The - A Biography of Ezra Cornell


Dorf, Philip

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of the telegraph magnate, founder of Cornell University. Lib stamp to front fly leaf. Light residue to rear fly leaf otherwise VG

Record # 60733


Price: $23.00 

 

Allan Pinkerton - The First Private Eye


Mackay, James

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 256 pages.

Record # 60735


Price: $25.00 

 

Allan Pinkerton - The First Private Eye


Mackay, James

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 256 pages.

Record # 60736


Price: $25.00 

 

Alistair Cooke - A Biography


Clarke, Nick

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 346 pages.

Record # 60944


Price: $20.00 

 

Lees of Virginia, The - Seven Generations of an American Family


Nagel, Paul C.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 332 pages.

Record # 60951


Price: $10.00 

 

Churchill: The End of Glory - A Political Biography


Charmley, John

Paperback. NY, Harcourt Brace, Rep. wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Trade paperback edition. 742 pages.

Record # 60952


Price: $12.00 

 

Joan of Arc - The Image of Female Heroism


Warner, Marina

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 349 pages.

Record # 60956


Price: $18.00 

 

Vicky - A Biography of Victoria C. Woodhull


Marberry, M.M.

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white frontis, 344 pages. Dj with light edgewear, rubbing, price clipped.

Record # 60958


Price: $18.00 

 

My Own, My Country's Time - A Journalist's Journey


Royster, Vermont

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A memoir by a longtime editor of the Wall St. Journal.

Record # 61079


Price: $20.00 

 

Puzzle People, The - Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon


Starzl, Thomas E.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, PA, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.364 pages.

Record # 61187


Price: $25.00 

 

Plain Mr. Knox


Whitley, Elizabeth

Hardcover. London, Skeffington, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color postcard of Knox's house laid-in. 223 pages. Dj with light edgewear.

Record # 61259


Price: $20.00 

 

Roosevelts, The - American Aristocrats


Churchill, Allen

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A lively narrative of the Roosevelt family from 1640 to 1960. Light pencil notations to several pages. 341 pages.

Record # 61261


Price: $12.00 

 

American Family, An - The Tafts 1678-1964


Ross, Ishbel

Hardcover. Cleveland, World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 468 pages.

Record # 61564


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Englishwoman's Love-Letters, An


N/A

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf otherwise VG. Top edge gilt.

Record # 61573


Price: $20.00 

 

Laughter and the Love of Friends - A Memoir 1945 to the Present Day


Wyndham, Ursula

London, Lennard Pub., 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages.

Record # 61902


Price: $20.00 

 

Hirshhorn - Medici From Brooklyn


Hyams, Barry

NY, Dutton, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 206 pages.

Record # 62056


Price: $20.00 

 

Education of a Yankee, The - An American Memoir


Hale, Judson

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 261 pages. Dust jacket with shelfwear.

Record # 62060


Price: $12.00 

 

Life and Speeches of Henry Clay - Vol. II


Clay, Henry

NY, Creeley & McElrath, Unknown, 1843, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. II only. Black & white frontis. 597 pages. Light foxing.

Record # 62064


Price: $35.00 

 

Lincoln Steffens - A Biography


Kaplan, Justin

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 380 plages. Dust jacket spine with light fading. Remainder line bottom edge.

Record # 62573


Price: $12.00 

 

Robert the Bruce - King of Scots


Scott, Ronald McNair

Hardcover . NY, Peter Bedrick, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Maps, 254 pages.

Record # 62936


Price: $12.00 

 

Victorian Viceroy - The Life of Robert, the First Earl of Lytton


Raymond, E. Neill

Hardcover. London, Regency Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY RAYMOND on title-page. Black & white illust. 312 pages + bibliography

Record # 63242


Price: $30.00 

 

Howard Hughes - The Secret Life


Higham, Charles

Hardcover. N Y, Putnams, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 368 pages.

Record # 63529


Price: $19.00 

 

Hefner - An Unauthorized Biography


Brady, Frank

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 231 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 64583


Price: $20.00 

 

No More Septembers


Glennon, Maurade

hardcover. New York, Doubleday & Co., Rep., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY GLENNON. Dust jacket with wear, light soil.

Record # 64584


Price: $12.00 

 

Guns, Gold and Caravans


Easton, Robert

hardcover. Santa Barbara, Capro Press, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The life of Fred Meyer Schroder, frontiersman and Soldier of Fortune. Black & white illust. 256 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 64950


Price: $20.00 

 

When LaGuardia Was Mayor - New York's Legendary Years


Heckscher, August

hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 448 pages. Dust jacket edgewear, closed tears.

Record # 64954


Price: $15.00 

 

Dark Safari - The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley


Bierman, John

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 401 pages.

Record # 65087


Price: $25.00 

 

My Wild Life


Chipperfield, Jimmy

NY, B.P. Putnam, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 219 pages. The Autobiography of a British animal trainer.

Record # 65578


Price: $15.00 

 

Ilya Ehrenburg - Revolutionary Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, Propaganist: The Extraordinary Epic of Russian Survivor


Goldberg, Anatol

NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Frontis drawing of Ehrenburg by Picasso. 312 pages.

Record # 65748


Price: $18.00 

 

Cortes - The Library of World Biography


Johnson, William Weber

Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis. 238 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 66300


Price: $15.00 

 

Frankie - Mrs. R. D. Randolph and Texas Liberal Politics


Crawford, Ann Fears

Austin, TX, Eakin Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title-page. Black & white illust. 143 pages.

Record # 66328


Price: $25.00 

 

Ursa Major - A Study of Dr. Johnson and His Friends


Vulliamy, C. E.

London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis. 340 pages. Cloth spine damaged, 2" tear in cloth, internally VG.

Record # 66330


Price: $19.00 

 

Benjamin Constant


Nicolson, Harold

London, Constable, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white plates. 290 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Remainder line bottom edge.

Record # 66332


Price: $23.00 

 

More Changes More Chances


Nevinson, Henry W.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The second English volume in Nevinson's autobiography. He was a journalist who traveled world-wide. Much in here about Russia, Africa & the Cocoa Islands, India & the coming of WW I. Black & white illust. 127 pages.

Record # 66333


Price: $38.00 

 

Last Changes Last Chances


Nevinson, Henry W.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nevinson's final volume of his 3-volume autobiography. This deals mainly with his WW I experiences in the front, the troubles in Ireland, a visit to the U.S. and more. Black & white illust. 361 pages.

Record # 66334


Price: $38.00 

 

Changes and Chances


Nevinson, Henry W.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nevinson's first volume of hie 3-volume autobiography: Growing up in Victorian England, years at Christ Church in Oxford & his early journalistic career as a war correspondent. Black & white illust. 360 pages. Light fade to gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 66335


Price: $38.00 

 

Tom Paine: America's Godfather 1737-1809


Woodward, W. E.

NY, Dutton, 2nd, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 359 pages. Small ink notation on front fly leaf.

Record # 66337


Price: $19.00 

 

Faces In a Mirror - Memoirs From Exile


Pahlavi, Princess Ashraf

NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Author is the twin sister of the former Shah of Iran. Black & white photos. 238 pages.

Record # 66339


Price: $15.00 

 

Bosie - Lord Alfred Douglas - His Friends and Enemies


Croft-Cooke, Robert

Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 414 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 66342


Price: $15.00 

 

French Rothschilds, The - The Great Banking Dynasty Through Two Turbulent Centuries


Loftman, Herbert R.

NY, Crown, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 405 pages. A slight warp to covers, dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 66343


Price: $19.00 

 

Fun While It Lasted


Conrad, Barnaby

NY, Random House, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 392 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, frayed at top of spine.

Record # 66560


Price: $19.00 

 

General Douglas MacArhur - Fighter For Freedom


Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Philadelphia, Winston, 3rd, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 280 pages. Bright copy.

Record # 66561


Price: $15.00 

 

Hilter - A Study in Tyranny - Completely Revised Edition


Bullock, Alan

NY, Harper & Row, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 848 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn.

Record # 66567


Price: $19.00 

 

Samurai and Silk - A Japanese and American Heritage


Reischauer, Haru Matsukata

Hardcover. Cambrdige, MA, Belknap/Harvard, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 371 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 66570


Price: $15.00 

 

Superior Person - A Portrait of Curzon and His Circle In Late Victorian England


Rose, Kenneth

NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st , 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 475 pages. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue to rear end paper, stickers on dust jacket spine. Dust jacket glued to inside covers. VG internally.

Record # 66574


Price: $19.00 

 

Children of the Roojme - A Family's Journey


Abinader, Elmaz

NY, Norton, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A chronicle of 3 generations of a family's immigration from Lebanon to America. Black & white illust. 303 pages.

Record # 66875


Price: $19.00 

 

Good Enough Daughter, A - A Memoir


Shulman, Alix Kates

NY, Schocken, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 254 pages.

Record # 67259


Price: $15.00 

 

Arches of the Year, The


Sutherland, Halliday

New York, Morrow, 5th pr., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Dust jacket edgewron, chipped.

Record # 67562


Price: $12.00 

 

Adventures of General Marbot


Thomason, Jr. (Ed.), John W.

NY, Scribners, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white illustrations by Thomason. 499 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper,.

Record # 67748


Price: $30.00 

 

Life of Henry Labouchere, The


Thorold, Algar Labouchere

London, Constable, 1st , 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis portrait. 513 pages.

Record # 67837


Price: $18.00 

 

Life Was Meant To Be Lived - A Centenary Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt


Lash, Joseph P.

NY, Norton, Unk1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos.. 198 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewea, short tears.

Record # 67924


Price: $15.00 

 

Rescue Squad - A Fireman's Fascinating Account of His Dangerous Job


Ferazani, Larry

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendix of vintage emergency response procedures. Small tear to top corner of dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight, copy.

Record # 68007


Price: $45.00 

 

Winchell - Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity


Gabler, Neal

NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 681 pages, black & white photos.

Record # 68051


Price: $20.00 

 

Mount Vernon Street Warrens, The - A Boston Story, 1860-1910


Green, Martin

NY, Scribners, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages.

Record # 68053


Price: $18.00 

 

Messengers of the Wind - Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories


Katz (Ed.), Jane

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Some Black & white illust. 317 plages.

Record # 68380


Price: $15.00 

 

Sand In My Eyes


Laune, Seigniora Russell, Illust. by: Paul Laune

Philadelphia, Lippincott, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. by Paul Laune. Memoir of homesteader couple in Oklahoma in 1893. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 68692


Price: $12.00 

 

William James


Allen, Gay Wilson

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 556 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, tape repair.

Record # 68947


Price: $20.00 

 

Around Our House


Giles, Henry & Janice Holt

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 348 pages. Clean, sharp copy. Unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 69206


Price: $60.00 

 

Martin Luther - A Biographical Study


Todd, John M.

Westminister, MO, Newman Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 290 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 69207


Price: $15.00 

 

Sakharov - A Biography


Lourie, Richard

Paperback. Waltham, MA, Univ. Press of New England, Uncorr. Proof Wraps, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Paperback proof.

Record # 69245


Price: $18.00 

 

Siberian Dream


Pantaeva, Irina

NY, Avon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, From poverty in Siberia to high fashion model in New York. A memoir.

Record # 69516


Price: $15.00 

 

Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz (6 vols.)


Bancroft (Ed.), Frederic

NY, G.P. Putnam, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib with bookplates, light stamping, residue.

Record # 69517


Price: $150.00 

 

Recollections of the Empress Eugenie


Filon, Augustin

NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st US, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 328 pages. Ex-lib with bookplates, light marking, residue to end papers.

Record # 69518


Price: $12.00 

 

Samuel Gridley Howe


Richards, Laura E.

NY, D. Appleton Century, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A biography by his daughter. Black & white illust. 283 pages. Ex-lib with bookplate, light marking. Dust jacket flap pasted to front fly leaf. Overall nice copy despite being ex-lib.

Record # 69520


Price: $18.00 

 

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - The Political Biography of an American Dilemma


Hamilton, Charles V.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lib stamp to front fly leaf, light residue to rear end paper otherwise not read

Record # 70687


Price: $15.00 

 

Luce - His Time, Life and Fortune


Kobler, John

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pgs

Record # 70770


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Public Services of Horatio Seymour Together with a Complete and Authentic Life of Francis P. Blair, Jr.


McCabe, Jr., James D.

NY, U.S. Publishing Co., 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pgs, back cover has severe damage to board with curve to top & water stain but pages unaffected & nice internally.

Record # 75033


Price: $45.00 

 

Louis XIV


Menegazzi, Claudio

Hardcover. Luxembourg, Hasso Ebeling, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A short pictorial biography. 77 pgs. Illustrated in color.

Record # 101064


Price: $12.00 

 

Apples & Oranges - My Journey Through Sexual Identity


Clausen, Jane

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 101162


Price: $15.00 

 

Henry R. Luce - A Political Portrait of the Man who Created the American Country


Herztein, Robert E.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 521 pgs.

Record # 101170


Price: $20.00 

 

Berthe Morisot


Higonnet, Anne

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illustrations. 240 pgs.

Record # 101187


Price: $15.00 

 

Prince of Pleasure - The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency


David, Saul

Hardcover. NY , Atlantic Monthly, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 484 pgs. B&w illust.

Record # 101199


Price: $22.00 

 

Period Piece


Raverat, Gwen

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, previous owner's notation on front end paper. Illust. with b&w sketches by the author/ artist. 282 pgs.

Record # 101206


Price: $12.00 

 

Edwardian Lady, The - The Story of Edith Holden


Taylor (Ed), Ina

Hardcover. London, M. Joseph / Webb and Bower, 3rd, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white Illustrations. Dust jacket, cover with light water stain. Internally very good. 207 pgs.

Record # 101231


Price: $20.00 

 

George Kukacz / Life, Thought and Politics


Kadarkay, Arpad

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 101376


Price: $30.00 

 

Simone Weil - A Modern Pilgrimage


Coles, Robert

Hardcover. Neading MA, Addison-wesley, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 101379


Price: $18.00 

 

Winston Churchill - A Pictorial Life Story


Longford, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many photos, black & white and color.

Record # 101391


Price: $18.00 

 

George Holmes Howison - Philosopher and Teacher / A Selection from his Writings with a Biographical Sketch


Buckham, John Wright and George Malcolm Stratton

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Binding cocked from storage.

Record # 101413


Price: $20.00 

 

Sir Henry Vane - His Life and Times (1613-1662)


Adamson, O.H and H.F Folland

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous price blacked out with marker on front end paper.

Record # 101415


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Michael Angelo [2 Vols)


Grimm, Herman

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 11th Ed, 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett. Very light library stamping. Rust colored bevelled covers. Clean tight copies.

Record # 101478


Price: $70.00 

 

Life Size - An Autobiography


Hexter, Maurice

Hardcover. W. Kenne bunk, ME, Phoenix, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photographs 180 pgs.

Record # 104919


Price: $15.00 

 

Some Nineteenth Century Scotsmen


Knight, William

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front hinge cracked, light bump to corner front cover. 456 pgs.

Record # 105533


Price: $25.00 

 

Princess in Paradise


Schmeckebier, Alexandra K.

Hardcover. Canaan NH, Phoenix, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations, 434 pgs. Ltd to 1500 copies.

Record # 105543


Price: $30.00 

 

Clothespins and Calendars - Recollections of the Past


Halfmann, Eunice K.

Hardcover. Canaan NH, Phoenix, 2nd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 92 pgs.

Record # 105546


Price: $20.00 

 

Houseboat of the Seine - A Memoir


Wharton, William

Hardcover. NY, Newmarket Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105814


Price: $18.00