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Quayle, Dan
Standing firm : a vice-presidential memoir
402pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Mitchell, Elsie P.
Our Own Day
168 p., [5] leaves of plates : illus. ; 23 cm. hardcover Very good condition very good
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Ross, Martin H
Marrano
89 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback Very good condition
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Stobart, Tom
I take pictures for adventure
288pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
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Elder, William
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane
416p., illus. Engr. t.p. & 4 plates. Hardcover Fair condition. covers loose & edge worn
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Wooster, James Willet
Edward Stephen Harkness
vii, 152 p. : illus., ports. ; 24 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, good condition, leather covers detached
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Marquis Albert Nelson, editor
Who's Who in New England
Hardcover Good condition inner hinges cracked
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Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry)
John Heyl Vincent; a biographical sketch
319 p. port. Hardcover Very good condition
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Untermeyer, Louis
Bygones; the recollections of Louis Untermeyer
xi, 260 p. port. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Sheean, Vincent
Dorothy and Red
xii, 363 p. illus., ports., facsims. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition fair
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Holbrook, Sabra
A stranger in my land; a life of François Villon
166 p. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
Struggles and triumphs, or, Forty years' recollections of P.T. Barnum written by himself.
856 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. Hardcover Fair condition, lacking rear endpapers, backstrip repaired
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Morison, Elting Elmore
Turmoil and tradition; a study of the life and times of Henry L. Stimson
686 p. illus. 22 cm. Hardcover ex-library, good condition
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Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-
Reggie : a portrait of Reginald Turner
293 p. : illus., port. ; 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Davis-Goff, Annabel
Walled gardens : scenes from an Anglo-Irish childhood
255pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good
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Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
Stay me, oh comfort me : journals and stories, 1933-1941
349pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good
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Wade, Sally
The George Carlin letters : the permanent courtship of Sally Wade
304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good The comedy writer and wife of the late George Carlin shares previously unpublished letters, notes, and drawings created throughout his final decade, and traces their relationship from their first encounter in a Santa Monica bookstore to a note she discovered on the day he died. Contents A cute meet -- Four months later -- Geo moves into the 'hood -- Day-to-day stuff -- Serious lovers are from Jupiter -- Language file -- Wordplay -- Spot & Geo -- Time for romance -- Marriage of the King & Queen of Jupiter -- Jupiter Geo & Sal: the wedding album -- The lewd chapter -- Trouble in the bubble -- Relationship axioms from Jupiter -- Food & dining -- We're very mature-- for a couple fuckin' babies -- Goofy stuff -- Snapshots from New York -- Drug stuff -- Crystals, trolls, fairies & elves -- Gertie & Goofy -- Mom & Geo -- Mr. Stage Stud -- Poetry & artwork -- Current communications & the afterlife.
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Greenlaw, Linda
The lobster chronicles : life on a very small island
238pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j.
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Kessler, Ronald
The sins of the father : Joseph P. Kennedy and the dynasty he founded
480pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j.
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Rooyen, Deborah Van
Boat bastard : a love/hate memoir
261pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j.
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Spitz, Bob
Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
557pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. Contents: Paradise -- "On her way" -- Julia of the almost spring -- Only a butterfly -- Keeper of the secrets -- Paul -- A diamond in the rough -- Lucky to be alive -- Devouring Paris whole -- Lady sings the bleus -- What she'd gotten herself into -- A memorable feast -- Frenchy French -- This elephant of ours -- Julia's turn to bloom -- Taking everything in stride -- A monstrously busy life -- A law unto herself -- The mad women of La Peetch -- A household name -- We are not all eternal -- Looking forward -- Enough -- The end of an era -- No one gets out alive -- The beginning of the end -- The raft.
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Herold, J. Christopher
Mistress to an age; a life of Madame de Staël. With a new introduction by Rebecca West.
615p. Paperback Very good condition
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Maurois, André
Disraeli : A Picture of the Victoria Age, by André Maurois; translated by Hamish Miles. With a new introduction by Henri Peyre
369p. Paperback Very good condition
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Hellman, Lillian
Scoundrel Time
155p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Hellman, Lillian
An Unfinished Woman : A Memoir
284p. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Gelfand, Mark I.
Trustee for a city : Ralph Lowell of Boston
322pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, short gift inscription on flyeaf very good d.j.
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Gordon, Lyndall
Vindication : a life of Mary Wollstonecraft
562pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j.
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Bentinck-Smith, William & Stouffer, Elizabeth, eds.
More lives of Harvard scholars : a selection of biographies written by their colleagues ; collected and arranged by William Bentinck-Smith and Elizabeth Stouffer
226p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Gravel, Mike
A political odyssey : the rise of American militarism and one man's fight to stop it
287pp. 21 cm. Paperback Very good condition Signed by the author for Joshua
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Taylor, Andrew
The world of Gerard Mercator : the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
291pp. 21 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Freeman, Gillian
The story of Albert Einstein Famous Jews series
160 p. : port. ; 19 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Kamm, Josephine
The story of Sir Moses Montefiore Famous Jews series
156 p. : port. ; 19 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Pinto, Jacqeline Blairman
The story of Moses Mendelssohn : a biography for young people Famous Jews series
160 p. ; 19 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Crouse, Anna & Russel
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Landmark Books 85
184p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition fair d.j.
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Herriot, Edouard
The life and times of Beethoven, by Édouard Herriot; translated by Adelheid I. Mitchell and William J. Mitchell
399p. Hardcover Very good condition edge-worn d.j. "Index of Beethoven's works": p. 387-392.
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Thurman, Judith
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
495p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
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Wibberly, Leonard
John Barry, Father of the Navy
157p. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j.
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Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
Writing a woman's life
144pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Grant, Michael
Constantine the great : the man and his times
267pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Green, Peter
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography
617pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Hutton, Ronald
Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
554pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Pearson, John
The serpent and the stag
318pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Levi, Primo
Moments of Reprieve. Translated from the Italian by Ruth Feldman
172 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Rusk, John
The beautiful life and illustrious reign of Queen Victoria
1 p.l., 7-27, 41-511 p. incl. plates, ports. front., ports. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, paper tanned, spine faded
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Hough, Henry Beetle
Soundings at sea level
241pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Kramer, Jean & Schwartz,Irving, editors
At the center of a life : the remembered past of contemporary Brookliners. vol. 2
118p. Paperback Very good condition
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Miller, Francis Trevelyan
General Douglas MacArthur : Soldier-Statesman
313p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Lee, Clark & Henschel, Richard
Douglas MacArthur
370p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Gunter, Jon
The Riddle of MacArthur : Japan, Korea and the Far East
370p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
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Loth, David Goldsmith
Lorenzo the Magnificent
5 p. l., 3-329, [1] p. front., plates, ports. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
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