Biografia

Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905

WARD, GEOFFREY C. · 1985 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Book-Of-The-Month Club. 1985, Book Club Edition. Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Hardcover, Former owner's blind-embossed seal on half title/portrait page. Else textblock appears unread, b&w photographs. All page edges are straight and soun...

Lincoln in Story: The Life of the Martyr-President Told in Authenticated Anecdotes

PRATT, SILAS G. (EDITOR) · 1901 · Clausen Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, D. Appleton and Company. 1901, First Edition. Embossed Cloth, 12" Tall By 9.25" Wide. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations and Photos. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy with the usual stamps, stickers and labels, else textblock is very clean and tight. Binding slig...

Ishi in Two Worlds. A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.

KROEBER, THEODORA. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. 1st edition. The life and death of a California Indian tribe and the story of Ishi, its last survivor, who emerged from the stone age into the modern world in 1911. Pp.258, portrait frontispiece + 32 pages of black & white photo ...

Lord Roberts KG. VC.

WHEELER, CAPT. OWEN. · 1915 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd, 1915. 1st edition. Lord Frederick Roberts (1832-1914) was one of the most distinguished commanders of the British Empire. He served in the Indian rebellion, the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War before leading British Forces ...

Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist

Townsend Luddington · 1992 · Denton Island Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Little, Brown, 1992. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780316535373 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; slight wear to jacket edges, top corner snipped from flyleaf. See my images for book's contents. This is an extraordinarily well-written biography which sensually absorbs you...

Boswell's Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions

OBER, WILLIAM B. · 1979 · Clausen Books

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press. 1979. (ISBN: 0809308894). Brown Cloth, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Plates. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, and labels. Textblock is very cle...

Young Man of Caracas

YBARRA, T.R. · 1941 · Clausen Books

$8.95 (€8.12 | £6.77 | ¥1,429)

NY, Ives Washburn Inc. 1941, Book Club Edition. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover, Book of the Month flyer pasted to fep, owner's book plate and notations on ffep; blue cloth boards bumped at corners, moderately edge worn; mylar-protected dj has owner notations ins...

Exile Ends in Glory: The Life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C. S.O.

Thomas Merton · 1948 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Milwaukee, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 311p. A cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine barely tanned. Monastery label on front cover and stamp on title page, but otherwise clean and tight. Very Good .

Philip Melanchthon: Reformer without Honor

Michael Rogness · 1969 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Minneapolis, Augsburg Publishing House, 1969. Hardcover. 165p. A teal cloth hardcover ex-library book in original binding. Faint label residue on spine. Labels and stamps on endpapers. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. The biography of a lesser-...

Through My Gift: The Life of Frances Schervier

Theodore Maynard · 1951 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1951. Hardcover. 318p. Ex-church library copy of a light blue-green cloth hardcover book in good condition. Usual library markings inside and on spine. Edges and spine lightly sunned. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. ...

The Real Sarah Bernhardt: Whom Her Audiences Never Knew: From Material Supplied by Mme. Pierre Berton

WOON, BASIL · 1928 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

NY: Boni & Liveright, 1928. 1st Edition. Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and borders, and blind-stamped medaqllion and borders on cover, fore-edge deckle, printed endpapers. Illustrated with 16 full-page B&W phot...

Keeping Mum - The Cotton Family Letters 1940-1945

Small, Mary Cotton; Gaube, Paula · 2018 · Rainy Day Books

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,179)

Book Very Good. Editworks Online Design A very clean tight copy.

The Cure for Sleep SIGNED

Tanya Shadrick · 2022 · Denton Island Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781474618076 Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, corner creasing to top of pp.32-36; clean bright jacket. 'Such a bold, brave, and beautiful story about birth, ...

Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra

John Szwed · 1997 · Denton Island Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Payback Press, 1997. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780862417222 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages,lightly age browned at the edges, age spotting to upper closed text block, slight wear to cover edges, wear to one of the silver stars on front cover. The definitive biography...

The Quest Of Alain-Fournier

Robert Gibson · 1953 · Dodman Books

£8.25 (€9.89 | $10.90 | ¥1,741)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st Edition, Excellent study of the short life and single novel of renowned French author. In general good order throughout. Stock s little toned. Light edgewear only to smart blue boards with bright silver titling to spine. 8vo. xiii, 293pp, Good, Fai...

How I Changed My Mind.

BARTH, KARL. (1886-1968). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press,1969. "With earnestness and wit and remarkable lack of self-consciousness, he talks about three decades of his relationship to the changing political and theological scene..In the Introduction and Epilogue, John D. Godsey, a former student of ...

Karl Barth. His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts.

BUSCH, EBERHARD. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: SCM, 1976. 033400077. 1st British edition. "Using as far as possible Barth's own words, and drawing extensively on unpublished letters and other informal documents..depicts Barth's life as Barth himself saw it, in more detail than has ever been available before. Barth'...

Stars in My Sky: Maria Montessori, Anais Nin, Frances Steloff

Harms, Valerie · 1976 · Rainy Day Books

$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.78 | ¥3,753)

Book Very Good Good Magic Circle Press/Walker & Company Book is very clean and tight, dust jacket has edge wear.

May I Talk to John Howard

Wilton, Jean B. · 1973 · Rainy Day Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Book Good Good Book has light wear, dust jacket wear is heavier. Signed by either Hobden or his wife.

Lady On A Pedestal

Gordon Bartsch · 2013 · Rainy Day Books

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.14 | ¥17,967)

Book Very Good Very Good Epix Design Inc Slight bump to corners else a very clean tight copy. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear.