‎BIOGRAFIA‎

‎Barto, Martha Ford‎

‎PASSAMAQUODDY; Genealogies of West Isles Families;‎

‎Deer Island New Brunswick: Self Published 1975. Book. Fine. Paperbound. First Edition. 8 Vo. pict. paper wraps pp. vi 228; illustrated mapsmap on back wrap charts bibliography A comprehensive history of Passamaquoddy and the geneologies of all the families who settled in west isles between 1765 and 1860. The book covers in depth history of indians explorations to Canada and Passamaquoddy Bay settlement of the area from 1604 thru the arrival of the loyalists in 1783 the 59 year dispute over the boundary between U.S. and Canada a complete history of Deer Island including the Loyalists' strugggle for land over thirty years from Thomas Farrell and letters records pictures photographs and maps pertaining to West Isles. The geneological records of many of the 84 families covered are traced to the early seventeen hundreds from research into the records of Rhode Island New York Masssachusetts Maine and Nova Scotia. A work of scholarship published in a limited printing Size: 8 Vo. Self Published Paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1125559611

‎Kenny, Vincent S‎

‎Herman Melville's Clarel; A Spiritual Autobiography‎

‎Archon Books 1973. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:0208012265 Archon Books hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2281370 ISBN : 0208012265 9780208012265

‎Ford, F M‎

‎A Mirror to France‎

‎Duckworth & Co 1926. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN: Duckworth & Co hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2285133

‎Wolfe, Bertram D‎

‎A Life in Two Centuries‎

‎Stein and Day 1981. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:0812825209 Stein and Day hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 5798128 ISBN : 0812825209 9780812825206

‎Dreyer, J L E‎

‎Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century‎

‎A & C. Black Ltd. 1890. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt title and stamp to spine. Moderate external wear and soiling spine darkened with some small tears to its head and tail. Secure binding pencil underlining throughout but pages otherwise clean. With portrait and illustrations. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: A & C. Black Ltd. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2285418

‎Stanford, C V‎

‎Studies and Memories‎

‎Archibald Constable & Co 1908. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN: Archibald Constable & Co hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 3990838

‎Priest, Joan‎

‎The Thiess Story.‎

‎Brisbane: Boolarong Press 1987. viii 279pp index num bw ills. Green cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket light foxing endpapers and top edge. Biography of Leslie Thiess and the mining company he built. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Boolarong Press Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 056452 ISBN : 0864390335 9780864390332

‎(Johnson) White, William S‎

‎The Professional: Lyndon B. Johnson‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Fifth printing. Johnson's signature in black marker on front free endpaper. It has the dot partly on top of lower part of the J. The signature in this book looks real but was often by autopen or secretary so we cannot verify. Analysis of LBJ up to his first year as president by his long-time journalist friend. Orange cloth boards with gold stamped printing front and spine. A nick on top board edge and slight rubbing at corners Dust jacket with price intact has a 1" and some smaller tears rubbing of finish. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 16537

‎McFarlane, Leslie‎

‎Ghost of the Hardy Boys‎

‎Toronto & New York: Methuen 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Autobiography of one of the ghost writers of the Hardy Boys and other juvenile fiction books. Light edgewear on boards & spine tips Damp spots on page top edges. Bright pictorial dust jacket has wear on the rear panel. Original price intact on the jacket flap. <br/><br/> Methuen hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 17942 ISBN : 084670157x 9780846701576

‎A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form‎

‎The Hero of Herat‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1330933710.G ISBN : 1330933710 9781330933718

‎With a Biography of Swedenborg‎

‎Catalogue of the Library of the New Church Society Henry Street Bath‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1333975007.G ISBN : 1333975007 9781333975005

‎An Unconventional Biography‎

‎Benjamin Disraeli Vol. 2 of 2‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1333713711.G ISBN : 1333713711 9781333713713

‎Its History and Its Biography‎

‎The Irish Nation Vol. 3‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1334090858.G ISBN : 1334090858 9781334090851

‎With Biographies of Bradshaw, Ireton, Harrison, an‎

‎The Trials of Charles the First and of Some of the Regicides‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1334157235.G ISBN : 1334157235 9781334157233

‎Toland, John (1912-2004). American writer and historian, known for his biographies of Adolf Hitler, American prohibition era gan‎

‎AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the historian JOHN TOLAND relating to City Center Producer Jean Dalrymple how Robert Benton inaccurately lifted material from his book "The Dillinger Boys" for the movie "Bonnie & Clyde".‎

‎<p>Danbury Connecticut September 21 1984. 1984. Fine. - Over 70 words penned on his personal 3-1/2 high by 5-1/2 inch wide postcard stock with his name printed at the top and framed by a blue border. Writing to City Center producer Jean Dalrymple the historian John Toland relates that he "never met Benton" who co-wrote the 1967 screenplay for "Bonnie and Clyde" with David Newman and Robert Towne. He continues that "he & his partner admitted they lifted material from 'The Dillinger Boys'. Years ago I wrote a piece in the Sunday N.Y. Times Magazine section 'The Sad Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde' chiding them for corrupting my material & making B & C look like great people when in fact they were Crumbs de la Crumbs." Signed "John". Addressed to Jean Dalrymple and postmarked on the verso. Near fine.</p><p>The American writer and historian John Toland 1912-2004 is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler and his history of World War II-era Japan "The Rising Sun" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Toland was also the author of "The Dillinger Boys" an account of the depression-era bank robbers and gangsters particularly Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger as well as Baby Face Nelson Ma Barker Machine Gun Kelly and Bonnie and Clyde. Toland was also the author of 26 plays as well as novels.</p><p>The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> Danbury, Connecticut, September 21, 1984.‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 100963

‎Grosart, AB (ed) A B‎

‎The Lismore Papers: Selections from the Private and Public or State Correspondence of Sir Richard Boyle First and 'Great; Earl of Cork. Never Before Printed. Volume 1-5‎

‎Printed for private circulation. 1887. Volume 1-5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Second series. Limited ed. of 100 copies and 10 editors copies. Approx. 18 x 24cm. Black cloth binding with chipped typed label on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and minor exterior wear only. Frontispiece with tissue guard in 4 vols. Binding tight and pages clean. A few volumes have unopened pages. Marginal pencil marking in vol 5. Minor foxing. Untrimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item6750grams ISBN: Printed for private circulation. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 4945968

‎Clapper, Olive Ewing‎

‎Washington Tapestry‎

‎Whittlesey House. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1946. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover. There is an image from the rear DJ pasted to front pastedown as well as Mrs. Clapper's inscription dated June 1946. Inserted at the beginning of page 20 are two letters from Ms. Clapper to Holbrook Smith c/o Roosevelt & Son. She worked in Washington DC during the presidency of Roosevelt as did her husband who was killed in WWII. Good political observations of the time. Title on spine is faded. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; 33191 . Whittlesey House hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 33191

‎Montgomery, L M (Lucy Maud) (edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston)‎

‎THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L. M. MONTGOMERY: Volume I: 1889 - 1910; Volume II: 1910 - 1921; Volume III: 1921 - 1929‎

‎Toronto: Oxford University Press 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions. 8vo. xxiv xx xxv 424 443 443 pp. Please note these are somewhat heavy books and depending where in the world you are the shipping will likely be higher than normal. All three books have lavender boards with lavender endpapers; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. All three are illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs. All three books have light wear at the corners; Book One has a small piece of paper over the previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; the other two books are without interior markings; books One and Two have a bit of fading on the spines; some darkening around the edges of the text block. To be clear the books here are the first three volumes of Lucy Maud Montgomery's journals. Oxford University Press Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 228459

‎Alberts, Robert C‎

‎Good Provider: H.J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties‎

‎Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0395171261 . This first full-scale biography of H.J. Heinz is a product of sound scholarship and an important contribution to American social history. It is based upon a mass of family diaries letters documents scrapbooks and other papers made available for this work. 297 pages including index and many interesting archival black and white photographic plates. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which bears a one inch tear to bottom edge of back panel. Nice copy of this interesting and nostalgic work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Alberts Robert C. Good Provider: H.J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties 297 pages including index and many interesting archival black and white photographic plates. This first full-scale biography of H.J. Heinz is a product of sound scholarship and an import . Houghton Mifflin hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 46501111 ISBN : 0395171261 9780395171264

‎Lehmberg, Stanford E‎

‎Sir Thomas Elyot: Tudor Humanist‎

‎Austin TX: University of Texas Press. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sir Thomas Elyot c. 1490 - 26 March 1546 was an English diplomat and scholar. He was a supporter of the humanist ideas concerning the education of women writing in support of learned women he published the "Defence defense of Good Women." In this writing he supported Thomas More and other humanist authors' ideals of educated wives who would be able to provide intellectual companionship for their husbands and educated moral training for their children. As a prose writer Elyot enriched the English language with many new words. Dampstain on spine of DJ permeating somewhat less to spine of book; DJ chipped and lightly rubbed now in new Mylar. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 218 pages; 26880 . University of Texas Press hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 26880

‎Toland, John (1912-2004). American writer and historian, known for his biographies of Adolf Hitler, American prohibition era gan‎

‎TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the American Writer of histories of World War II JOHN TOLAND to his friend City Center Producer JEAN DALRYMPLE apologizing that he and his family would love to have lunch with her but they are leaving for California Japan and Germany.‎

‎<p>February 1 1971. 1971. Fine. - Over 35 words typed on his 1-1/2 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide personal stationery. The historian John Toland writes to his friend Jean Dalrymple that he and his family are leaving in a couple of days: "We would love to have lunch with you. But it will have to wait awhile. We're leaving in two days for California and then Japan - and Germany. We'll be back in May and will phone you." Signed "John T." Folded for mailing else fine.</p><p>The American writer and historian John Toland 1912-2004 is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler and his history of World War II-era Japan "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936�1945" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Toland was also the author of "The Dillinger Boys" an account of the depression-era bank robbers and gangsters and "Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath"</p><p>The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> February 1, 1971.‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 100965

‎Anderson, Don‎

‎Oil Seekers - A Celebration of What it Was Like‎

‎Canada: Self-Published. Good. 1997. First Edition. Paperback. 107 pages. "To all my oilfield friends and even those that are not. this book is written so that families descendants relatives friends historians a few companies wealthy people and politicians understand a little of what kind of people it took to build an industry in Canada under conditions not seen in too many places." - from Dedication page. Black and white illustrations from photos. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting informative and entertaining work.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Oil Drilling Canada Alberta History Biography Genealogy . Self-Published paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 322G0659

‎Long, Huey Pierce‎

‎My First Days in the White House‎

‎Harrisburg: The Telegraph Press 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. The "Kingfish's" novel about his expectations of what his first year as president would be 1937 including his cabinet his battles with financiers and plans for reconstruction of the federal government. 146 pages Verso of Foreword page in cursive "Illustrated with full page sketches by Cleanthe New York Paris". Stated First edition September 1935 the same month Long was assassinated. Bright red leather-like boards. Dust jacket spine faded to light orange but print is bright. Soil and small edgewear on jacket spine tips & corners. Price of $1.50 is present on dust jacket flap. Clean and unmarked. <br/><br/> The Telegraph Press hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 16719

‎Bisset, Major-General‎

‎SPORT AND WAR OR RECOLLECTIONS OF FIGHTING AND HUNTING IN SOUTH AFRICA FROM THE YEARS 1834 TO 1867 WITH A NARRATIVE OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VISIT TO THE CAPE.‎

‎London: John Murray 1875. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xviii 1 268pp frontis. of the Duke of Edinburgh 14 b/w illustrations 1 folding map at the rear. Page block gilt 3 edges bound in red cloth/boards with black and gilt titles on dec. Internal cracking noted in two places but binding secure. Library stamp on the title page no other library marks and overall a very nice copy of the rare first edition. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 182270

‎Dumfermline, James Lord‎

‎LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY K.B. 1793-1801 A MEMOIR BY HIS SON‎

‎Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas 1861. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. v 328pp 20-page Publisher's Catalogue. Rebound in red cloth/boards with gilt title to the spine and name of a previous owner to the bottom of the front cover. Bookplate of a former owner on the free front endpaper. A very nice copy. <br/> <br/> Edmonston and Douglas hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 182421