Biografia

Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson: An Idyll of Chicago

John Bright · 1930 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, JOnathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 302p. A brown cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Edges are wearing through and just starting to fray. The binding is slightly cockeyed, but still tight. Owner's bookplate on front p...

Unrepentant Radical: An American Activist's Account of Five Turbulent Decades

Sidney Lens · 1980 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Boston, Beacon Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 438p. A hardcover book in good condition with a like dustjacket. The jacket is dampstained, but intact. The staining has bled through onto the last several pages of the book. Pages 159-198 are slightly bent ...

Royal Bob: The Life of Robert G. Ingersoll

C.H. Cramer · 1952 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 314p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. The jacket was taped to the book itself, but the tape has since detached, leaving light stains on the edges of th...

The Promised Land

Mary Antin · 1912 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 373p. A tan cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges rubbed and corners bumped; otherwise clean and tight. The Belarusian author's autobiography, focusing on her experience as an immigr...

Himself! the Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley

Eugene Kennedy · 1978 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Viking Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 288p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a like dustjacket. Light foxing on top edge; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is very lightly shelf-worn, but intact. Illustrated with four secti...

Daniel E. Morgan, 1877-1949: The Good Citizen in Politics

Thomas F. Campbell · 1966 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Cleveland, The Press of Western Reserve University, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 196p. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is barely rubbed and worn --- essentially ...

Stormy Years: The Autobiography of Carter H. Harrison, Five Times Mayor of Chicago

Carter H. Harrison · 1935 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 361p. A dark blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine faintly sunned and edges barely rubbed. Pages a bit toned with age, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The me...

Father Flanagan of Boys Town

Fulton Oursler and Will Oursler · 1949 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 302p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a near-fine dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is barely rubbed and has one half-inch closed tear at the top of the back panel;...

Maybelle": Mrs. O.O. Mcintyre As We Knew Her

Laura E. Kratz · 1996 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Gallipolis, OH, French City Press, Inc, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 102p. A softcover book in fine condition. Biography of Maybelle Hope Small McIntyre (1884-1985), wife of New York newspaper columnist Oscar Odd McIntyre. As New .

Sam Giancana: The Rise and Fall of a Chicago Mobster

Susan McNicoll · 2018 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

London, Arcturus, 2018. Paperback. 192p. A softcover book in near-fine condition. Spine lightly creased; otherwise clean and tight. Very Good .

The Comte de St. Germain

Isabel Cooper-Oakley · 2020 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Paperback. 149p. A softcover book in fine condition. The story of an 18th-century adventurer and polymath who circulated among European high society, claiming to be descended from Transylvanian aristocracy. This is a low-budget paperback reprint, ca. 2020 (originally published...

American Pastor in Rome

James F. Cunningham · 1966 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966. Hardcover. 285p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Tape stains on edges of cover and on endpapers. Convent stamp inside; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly wrinkled and sunfaded, but intac...

Stone in the King's Highway: Selections from the Writings of Bishop Francis Xavier Ford (1892-1952)

Francis Xavier Ford; Raymond A. Lane · 1953 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

New York, McMullen Books, Inc, 1953. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 297p. Ex-library. A hardcover book in good reading condition with dustjacket. The jacket is taped to the book itself and has lots of tears along the edges, some of which have been repaired with tape. Label on spine;...

The Pagoda and the Cross: The Life of Bishop Ford of Maryknoll

John F. Donovan · 1967 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 223p. Ex-library. A golden-yellow cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. This copy once belonged to the Maryknoll Seminary in New York. Spine lightly tanned. Label on spine; stamps, boo...

In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jagerstatter

Gordon C. Zahn · 1964 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

New York, Holt, Rinhart and Winston, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 277p. Ex-library. A red hardcover book in good reading condition. Edges rubbed and corners wearing through. Label on spine; stamps, bookplate, call number, and card pocket inside. Otherwise, t...

God's Jester: The Story of the Life and Martyrdom of Father Michael Pro, S.J.

Mrs. George Norman · 1930 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, Benziger Brothers, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 226p. Ex-library. A red cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Edges rubbed and spine faded. Light spotting and smudges on spine and front cover. Label residue on spine; stamps, bookplate, ca...

Miguel Augustin Pro of the Society of Jesus: Martyr of Christ the King, Executed in Mexico November 23, 1927

Antonio Dragon · 1930 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Montreal, The Messenger Press, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 219p. Ex-library. A hardcover book bound in marbled red cloth. Good, sturdy reading condition. Mild shelf wear, and label residue on spine. Gilt spine text has grown dull with age. Stamps, bookplate...

Father Mcshane of Maryknoll: Missioner in South China

James Edward Walsh · 1932 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York, Lincoln Mac Veagh, Dial Press Inc, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 227p. Ex-Maryknoll Seminary library copy. A blue cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. This copy comes was once in the library of the Maryknoll Seminary in New York. Spine fa...

All the Day Long

Daniel Sargent · 1941 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, Longmans, Green & Company, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 259p. Ex-library. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A light brown cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Corners and spine edges are heavily worn; entire spine has been reinforced with clear t...

Three Days to Eternity: Being the Story of Father Sandy Cairns, Maryknoll Missioner and Modern Apostle

Richard Reid and Edward J. Moffett · 1956 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Westminster, MD, The Newman Press, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 180p. Ex-library. A red hardcover book in good reading condition. Edges rubbed and head of spine covered in clear tape. Label on spine; bookplate, stamps, call number, and card pocket inside. Ot...