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Bruce, Honey; Benenson, Dana
Honey: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady
Playboy Press 1976. Stated first edition. Unmarked copy in quarter red cloth binding lightly rubbed. 309pp. Unclipped lacket 10.95 is moderately rubbed and slightly scuffed. Now in a new mylar cover. Lenny claimed that out of the 1000 women he had known carnally she stood apart. She was the only one he would ever admit he loved. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Playboy Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072469
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Gish, Lillian
Lillian Gish: The Movies Mr. Griffith and Me
Prentice-Hall 1969. 2nd printing. Signed by Gish with a gift note in another hand on front flyleaf. Endpapers toned. Full two-toned cloth binding. 388pp. Photos. Very nice jacket in a protective mylar cover. Signed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Prentice-Hall Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072523
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Lewis, Damien
Agent Josephine: American Beauty French Hero British Spy
PublicAffairs 2022. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked with gently bumped lower corners. 466pp. In a very nice jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. PublicAffairs Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072557 ISBN : 154170066x 9781541700666
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Bond Ruskin
Classic Ruskin Bond Vol 2: The Memoirs
Penguin Books 2012. Unmarked copy that shows some reader's use and handling. 766pp. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Penguin Books Paperback
Référence libraire : 072567 ISBN : 0143419072 9780143419075
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Gottlieb, Polly Rose
The Nine Lives of Billy Rose.
New York: Crown Publishers 1968. 1st printing. Square and unmarked. Full cloth binding. 290pp. Photos. Unclipped jacket is rubbed and moderately shelf worn. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Crown Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072585
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Tomalin, Claire
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2003. 1st printing. Name inked on front flyleaf. Upper corners gently bumped. 470pp. Unclipped jacket is shelf rubbed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072610 ISBN : 0375411437 9780375411434
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Rice, Edward E.
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton : A Biography
Da Capo Press 2001. Tight and unmarked. xx 664pp. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Da Capo Press Paperback
Référence libraire : 072608 ISBN : 030681028x 9780306810282
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Scurr, Ruth
John Aubrey My Own Life
New York Review of Books 2015. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked F/NF. 518pp. In a very nice jacket. An extraordinary book about the first modern biographer. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. New York Review of Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072629 ISBN : 1681370425 9781681370422
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Thye Keith
The Further Life of Rusty Kenneficke: The Second Book of the Rusty Kenneficke Trilogy
Seattle: Classic Day Publishing 2020. Tight and unmarked Near Fine. Glossy pictorial boards. 309pp. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Classic Day Publishing Hardcover
Référence libraire : 072033 ISBN : 1598492772 9781598492774
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Cohen-Solal, Annie
Sartre: A Life
London: Heinemann 1987. 1st printing. Unmarked copy showing some reader's use and handling. 591pp. Unclipped jacket is lightly rubbed and in a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Heinemann Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071644 ISBN : 0434140201 9780434140206
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Choo, Richard Ronald
Her Hidden Story
Denver: Outskirts Press 2005. Square and unmarked in full cloth binding. Nicely inscribed by author on verso of Contents page. 88pp. Jacket shows slight rubbing. Inscribed and Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Outskirts Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071856 ISBN : 159800039x 9781598000399
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Druxman, Michael B
Basil Rathbone : His Life and His Films
A. S. Barnes and Company 1976. 2nd printing. Prior owner's name inked on front flyleaf and several small newspaper clippings taped there. Otherwise a square tight clean copy. 359pp. Photos throughout. Jacket is moderately rubbed along edges. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. A. S. Barnes and Company Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071426 ISBN : 0498014711 9780498014710
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Mellow James R.
Charmed Circle : Gertrude Stein & Company
Praeger Publishers 1974. Quarter cloth binding Book Club hardcover in a jacket. Prior owner's embossed stamp on half title page. 528pp. Dust jacket is shelf rubbed offered in a new mylar cover. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Praeger Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071427
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Brothwell, D. R. (ed.)
The Skeletal Biology of Earlier Human Populations Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology Volume 8
Pergamon Press 1968. Full green cloth binding. Institutional ink-stamped address on front flyleaf. 288pp. Illustrations. 2 fold-out charts. Jacket is shelf rubbed hand-soiled. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071477
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Jin Ha
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai Li Po
Pantheon Books 2019. 1st printing. Small remainder dot on bottom page edges else a fine crisp copy. 301pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Pantheon Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071590 ISBN : 1524747416 9781524747411
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Fraser, Caroline
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Metropolitan Books 2017. 3rd printing. Tight and unmarked. 625pp. In a very nice jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Metropolitan Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071528 ISBN : 1627792767 9781627792769
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Fraser, Caroline
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Metropolitan Books 2017. 10th printing. Unmarked copy showing slight reader's use and handling. 625pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Metropolitan Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071529 ISBN : 1627792767 9781627792769
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Kumar, Satish
Path Without Destination: An Autobiography
Eagle Brook 1999. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked NF/NF. 309pp. Very nice unclipped dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. A life-long Jainist and peace activist. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Eagle Brook Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071155 ISBN : 0688164021 9780688164027
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Fraser, Caroline
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Metropolitan Books 2017. 9th printing. Unmarked square copy showing only light reader's use and handling. 625pp. In a very nice jacket. This title won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2018. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Metropolitan Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071308 ISBN : 1627792767 9781627792769
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Lee Thomas H.
Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Harvard University Press 2013. 1st printing. Inscribed by Lee on title page. Very slight wear NF/NF. 383pp. Unclipped jacket now in a new mylar cover. Inscribed and Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Harvard University Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071382 ISBN : 0674724976 9780674724976
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Park, Tweety (Alex Woodard)
Manifesting is for Pussies
Self Published No date circa 2020. Clean tight and unmarked softcover. 215pp. Tweety as Alex has toured nationally behind five critically acclaimed albums earning prestigious industry nods and sharing the stage with some of todays most popular acts. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall. Self Published Paperback
Référence libraire : 070987 ISBN : 0983988625 9780983988625
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Merriam, George C.
The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles Two Volumes
Scholarly Press 1970. 2 Volume Set. Facsimile reprint of The Century Co. edition of 1885. Full yellow cloth bindings. A slight bit of foxing to page edges. Clean and unmarked inside. 419 519pp. Samuel Bowles III 1826 - 1878 was an American journalist born in Springfield Massachusetts. Beginning in 1844 he was the publisher and editor of the Springfield Republican a position he held until his death in 1878. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Scholarly Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071011 ISBN : 0403002206 9780403002207
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Singletary, Milly
Hilo Hattie: A Legend in our Time
Milly Singletary 1979. #197 of 500 copies. Square and unmarked hardcover in a jacket. Front flyleaf has a small cluster of pale spots on it. 189pp. Photos. Jacket has some edge wear small chips along upper edge. Now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Milly Singletary Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071029 ISBN : 0960125655 9780960125654
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Keller, Helen
Ths Story of My Life
Doubleday Doran & Company 1936. Early printing uncommon edition. Square and unmarked in full green cloth binding. Endpapers toned. 441pp. "With Her Letters 1887-1901 and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan" by John Albert Macy. Illustrated. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shelf rubbed. Now in a new mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Doubleday, Doran & Company Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071037
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Obama Barack
Dreams from My Father
New York: Crown Publishers 2004. 13th printing of the Reprint Edition. Unmarked copy showing some reader's use and handling. 442pp. Jacket lightly rubbed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Crown Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071081 ISBN : 0307383415 9780307383419
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Muchnic, Suzanne
Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture
Norton Simon Museum 2019. NEW book still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Norton Simon Museum Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071125 ISBN : 0989195643 9780989195645
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Smith, Jean Edward
Grant: A Biography
American Political Biography Press 2014. NEW copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This is the definitive birth-to-death scholarly biography of President Ulysses S. Grant. This book is part of the American Political Biography Press Presidential Signature Series. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. American Political Biography Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 071136 ISBN : 0945707428 9780945707424
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Stern Isaac; Potok Chaim
My First 79 Years
Alfred A. Knopf 1999. 1st printing. Unmarked hardcover showing some reader's use and handling. 317pp. Unclipped jacket is shelf rubbed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070749 ISBN : 0679451307 9780679451303
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Gelderman, Carol
Mary McCarthy : A Life
St. Martin's Press 1988. 1st printing. Unmarked hardcover in quarter cloth binding. 430pp. Unclipped jacket is lightly rubbed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. St. Martin's Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070750 ISBN : 0312005652 9780312005658
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Karcher, Carolyn L.
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child New Americanists
Duke University Press 1994. Clean and unmarked. Lacking jacket. Gently bumped upper corners. Full cloth binding. xxv 804pp. Heavy book: No international or priority orders. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. Duke University Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070786 ISBN : 0822314851 9780822314851
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Thompson, E. P.
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
Stanford University Press 1988. Shows some light shelf wear. Prior owner's address ink-stamped on first page. 829pp. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Stanford University Press Paperback
Référence libraire : 070912 ISBN : 0804715092 9780804715096
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Hayward, Oliver S., Putnam, Constance E.
Improve Perfect & Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education
Hanover: University of New England 1998. 1st printing. Signed by Putnam on title page with also a long inscription by her on half title. A crisp clean copy in quarter cloth binding. xxxiv 362pp. ``This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools Yale Vermont and Bowdoin and progenitor of a long line of physicians.". Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. University of New England Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070923 ISBN : 0874518601 9780874518603
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Norman, Philip
Wild Thing: The Short Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
Liveright Publishing Corporation 2020. 2nd printing. Crisp and unmarked. 391pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Liveright Publishing Corporation Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070938 ISBN : 1631495895 9781631495892
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Wolfe, Bertram D.
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera
New York: Stein and Day 1963. 1st printing. Square and unmarked. 457pp. Many photos in b&w. Jacket is rubbed and quite dulled as is common for the title. Now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Stein and Day Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070931
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Gresham Perry E.; Jose Carol
The Sign of the Golden Grasshopper: A Biography of Sir Thomas Gresham
Ottawa IL: Jameson Books 1995. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked F/NF. Quarter cloth binding. 355pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Jameson Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070393 ISBN : 0915463717 9780915463718
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O'Brien, Conor Cruise
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke
University of Chicago Press 1992. Square and unmarked showing some light use and handling. 691pp. In a very nice jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. University of Chicago Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070404 ISBN : 0226616509 9780226616506
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Kagan, Frederick W.
The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe 1801-1805
Da Capo Press 2006. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked NF/NF. xxiv 774pp. Very nice unclipped jacket now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Da Capo Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070429 ISBN : 0306811375 9780306811371
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Sanborn, Helen J.
Anne of Brittany: The Story of a Duchess and Twice-Crowned Queen
Boston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1917. Full red cloth binding rubbed at corners. Gilt upper page edges. Good only copy with ink lines in margins of about a dozen pages. Hinges firm. xxv 252pp. A very scarce text. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070438
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Hollway Calthrop H. C.
Petrarch: His Life and Times
New York: Cooper Square Publishers 1972. Reprint Edition. Clean square and unmarked. Full cloth binding. 319pp. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Cooper Square Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070461
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Manchester, William
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940
Little Brown and Company 1988. 1st printing. Clean and unmarked VG/VG. Full black cloth binding lightly rubbed. xxvi 756pp. Photos. Unclipped jacket is moderately rubbed; offered now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Little Brown and Company Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070476 ISBN : 0316545120 9780316545129
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Robinson, Edgar Eugene; Bornet, Vaughan Davis
Herbert Hoover: President of the United States
Herbert Institute Press 1975. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked in full cloth binding F/VG. xii 398pp. photos. Jacket is lightly rubbed. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Herbert Institute Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070543
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Horner-Miller, Larada
Just Another Square Dance Caller: Authorized Biography of Marshall Flippo
Horner Publishing Company 2020. 1st printing. Inscribed by Horner-Miller on title page. A crisp copy in full blue cloth binding. 576pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. Dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. Inscribed and Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Horner Publishing Company Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070577 ISBN : 0996614435 9780996614436
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Burns, Alfred
From Austria to Hawaii: Odyssey of a Classicist
Peter Lang 1994. Near Fine hardcover tight and clean in glossy printed boards. Inscribed on half title page by Burns. 292pp. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Peter Lang Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070638 ISBN : 0820424005 9780820424002
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Pritchett, V. S.
A Cab at the Door: A Memoir
New York: Random House 1968. 1st printing. A square clean copy in full cloth binding. A date ink-stamped on rear pastedown otherwise unmarked. 244pp. Unclipped jacket is shelf rubbed and in a protective mylar cover. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Random House Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070664
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De Camp, L. Sprague, Catherine Crook de Camp, Jane Whittington Griffin
Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard
Bluejay Books 1983. 1st printing. Tight and square with prior owner's name ink-stamped on rear pastedown. Full cloth binding. 402pp. Unclipped jacket in a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Bluejay Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070688 ISBN : 0312940742 9780312940744
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Lewis, D. B. Wyndham
Francois Villon: A Documented Survey
New York: Literary Guild of America 1928. Prior owner's name and inventory number on both front endpapers. Full cloth binding with toned title label on spine. 407pp. Biography of a French poet. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Literary Guild of America Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070103
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Weintraub, Stanley
Disraeli: A Biography
E. P. Dutton 1993. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked NF/NF. Quarter cloth binding. 717pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. E. P. Dutton Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070218 ISBN : 0525936688 9780525936688
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Obama, Barack
Dreams from My Father
New York: Crown Publishers 2004. 12th printing of the Reprint Edition. Tight and unmarked. 442pp. Very slightly rubbed unclipped jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Crown Publishers Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070274 ISBN : 0307383415 9780307383419
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Danchev Alex
Georges Braque: A Life
New York: Arcade Publishing 2012. Tight square and unmarked NF/NF. Slightly handled. 440pp. Illustrations. Dust jacket in a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Arcade Publishing Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070272 ISBN : 1611454964 9781611454963
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Mayer, Robert
Notes of a Baseball Dreamer: A Memoir
Houghton Mifflin Company 2003. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked F/NF. 321pp. Unclipped jacket slightly shelf rubbed. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
Référence libraire : 070340 ISBN : 0618329617 9780618329618
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