On these two pages you will find the 646 biographies that are in our computers as of March 27, 2008. You will find this list sorted by who the book is about (annotated at the beginning of the listing) - except at the beginning are a few (25) titles that are general (or I forgot to catalogue the subject in a special field), and not just on one individual. This page covers last names from A-H, and the second pages continues with I-Z. Enjoy browsing, and remember that it is easy to place an order.
1. Audax, MEN IN OUR TIME - 9 MEN AGAINST HITLER, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, (1940) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 217pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Biography of nine men against Hitler: Neville Chamberlain; Winston Churchill; Lord Halifax; Sir John Simon; Anthony Eden; Leslie Hore-Belisha; Duff Cooper; Sir Kingsley Wood; and Sir Samuel Hoare., (Order No: 38516 ), $15.00
2. Amory, Cleveland; Blackwell, Earl; and, Probst, Marian (edited by), CELEBRITY REGISTER - AN IRREVERENT COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN QUOTABLE NOTABLES, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1963) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 677pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A complete dossier of over 2,800 people in every form of endeabor from politics to poetry, from business to baseball, from the military to the movies and from science to Society., (Order No: 50987 ), $12.50
3. Bullock, Alan and Woodings, R. B. (editors), TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURE: A BIOGRAPHICAL COMPANION, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1983) 1st ed, 865pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060152486 An indispensable source of information about some two thousand men and women who have contributed to every aspect of modern thought and culture, from architecture to zoology., (Order No: 13344 ), $10.00
4. Brendon, Piers, EMINENT EDWARDIANS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1980 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 255pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 039529195X The cast of characters include: Lord Northcliffe, the creator of modern journalism, who became the victim of his own megalomania; Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister and anti-Semitic aristocrat who inspired the Declaration that changed the face of the Middle East; Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the "Suffragette Queen," whose personal gentility contrasted oddly with her militant activities as a feminist; General Baden-Powell, hero of the siege of Mafeking and the quite peculiar leader under whom the boy Scout movement spread around the globe., (Order No: 14275 ), $4.00
5. Bliven, Bruce, THE FINISHING TOUCH, Dodd, Mead, & Company, New York, (1978) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 215pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0396075347 A PORTRAIT GALLERY OF PERFECTIONISTS AND THEIR TRIUMPHS, INCLUDING THE REBUILDING OF AVERY FISHER HALL., (Order No: 28213 ), $6.00
6. Buskett, Nancy (edited by Cynthia Grey), FINGERS THAT SEE, The Stuff Printing Concern, Seattle, WA, 1914, B&W frontis, 188pp, good, maroon cloth spine, light edgewear (hardcover), The story of a blind girl., (Order No: 38518 ), $25.00
7. Benabou, Marcel (translated by Steven Rendall), JACOB, MENAHEM, AND MIMOUN: A FAMILY EPIC, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1998), 224pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803212852 Originally published in French as JACOB, MENAHEM ET MIMOUN: UNE EPOPEE FAMILIALE., (Order No: 44475 ), $7.50
8. Chadwick, Whitney and de Courtivron, Isabelle (edited by), SIGNIFICANT OTHERS: CREATIVITY & INTIMATE PARTNERSHIP, Thames and Hudson, London, (1993), 76 B&W ill., 256pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), This volume features such celebrated duos as Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Anais Nin and Henry Miller, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg., (Order No: 30752 ), $2.75
9. Canfield, Cass, THE SIX: PORTRAITS OF THE MEN WHO DEVELOPED OUR EARLY REPUBLIC INTO THE NATION LINCOLN UNITED, Micawber, Classic Press, Prescott, AZ, (1983), B&W illustrations, 104pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0068588017 Portraits of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson, and, Martin Van Buren., (Order No: 38234 ), $12.50
10. Ciccone, F. Richard, CHICAGO AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY, Contemporary Books, Lincolnwood, IL, (1999) 1st ptg, 456pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0809226758 The fascinating stories of the 100 Chicagoans who had the greatest impact on America in the twentieth century., (Order No: 38567 ), $10.00
11. DISTINGUISHED SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS OF OUR DAY CONTAINING BIOGRAPHIES OF PROMINENT AMERICANS NOW LIVING, Successful Americans, Chicago, IL, 1911, 590pp, good++, brown cloth, aeg (hardcover), "The Founders, Makers and Builders of our Great Republic ... Edited from Standard Biographical Works and original sources." Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 51958 ), $40.00
12. Drake, Francis S., DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, INCLUDING MEN OF THE TIME; ..., James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA, 1872 1st ed, 1019pp, good+, 3/4 leather (hardcover), "...Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes, of Native and Foreign Birth, who have been Remarkable, or Prominently Connected with the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Politics, or History, of the American Continent. Giving also the Pronunciation of Many of the Foreign and Peculiar American Names, A Key to the Assumed Names of Writers, and a Supplement.", (Order No: 52771 ), $100.00
13. Elwin, Warwick (edited by), SOME XVIII CENTURY MEN OF LETTERS - BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY THE REV. WHITWELL ELWIN - VOLUME I, Kennikat Press, Port Washington, NY, (1970), 508pp, very good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0804609500 First published in 1902., (Order No: 43000 ), $10.00
14. Fraser, Antonia (introduced and edited by), HEROES & HEROINES, A & W Publishers, Inc., New York, (1980), B&W illustrations, 263pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0894790706 A series of essays by five historians. The subjects range from heroes and heroines of the age of myth and legend (Heracles, Thor, Odin); to men and women from Classical and Biblical times (St. Paul and Cleopatra); to the age of Chivalry (Roland and Joan of Arc); to the age of Patriotism (George Washington, Florence Nightingale); and finally, the Modern Age (Charles Lindbergh, Rosa Luxemburg and Martin Luther King)., (Order No: 14303 ), $10.00
15. Funt, Marilyn, ARE YOU ANYBODY? CONVERSATIONS WITH WIVES OF CELEBRITIES, The Dial Press, New York, (1979) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 339pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), signed by author, ISBN 0803704453 Marilyn Funt asks women who were married to famous men how they coped with their unique status., (Order No: 30013 ), $5.00
16. Farrar, Frederick W., MEN I HAVE KNOWN, John D. Morris and Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1897), B&W illustrations, 292pp, good, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), The author writes about men of eminence whom he has known., (Order No: 45681 ), $7.50
17. Johnson, Allen (edited by), DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY - 20 VOLUME SET COMPLETE WITH INDEX, SUPPLEMENT ONE AND SUPPLEMENT TWO, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928, good, maroon cloth, (hardcover) light fade to spines, Nice clean and tight set with light fading to the spines as usual. 20 volumes (complete) with Index; Volume XXI - SUPPLEMENT ONE (To December 31, 1935), 1944, 718pp; and Volume XXII - SUPPLEMENT TWO (To December 31, 1940), 1958, 745pp., (Order No: 1687 ), $295.00
18. Leibowitz, Herbert, FABRICATING LIVES: EXPLORATIONS IN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989 1st ed, 12 B&W ill., 386pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394574281 In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, the author explores the self-portraits of eight Americans whose lives span almost two centuries and encompass a stunning range of personality and circumstances: Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Edward Dahlberg., (Order No: 10600 ), $3.00
19. Meteyard, Eliza (with two letters signed by Meteyard), A GROUP OF ENGLISHMEN (1795 TO 1815) BEING RECORDS OF THE YOUNGER WEGEWOOD AND THEIR FRIENDS ..., Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1871 1st ed, frontis, 416pp, ads, good+, purple cloth (hardcover) light edgewear on cloth, signed, "...EMBRACING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND A FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH." An exceptionally unique copy with a presentation inscription on the black leaf preceeding the half-title page. This presentation inscription is dated Oct. 21, 1871. IN ADDITION, tipped in is a 3 page letter signed (with envelope) by Meteyard presenting this copy to its original owner. AND, there is a 4 page letter tipped in dated May 4, 1873 signed by Metyard, AND laid in is a 4 page letter signed by Meteyard dated March 10, 1874 (with its envelope tipped in). A TOTAL OF 3 LETTERS SIGNED, AND SIGNED INSCRIPTION IN THE BOOK. This volume is the scarce addition to Meteyard's classic work on the Life of Wedgwood. Eliza Meteyard (1816-1879) is the authority on the Wegewood family and their works. In this book she attempts to prove that Thomas Wedgwood was the inventor of photography. Photography expert, Gernsheim later discredits this claim proving fact over fancy. There is some fading to the purple cloth as is typical, and light wear at the top and bottom of the spine. A exceptionally nice clean and tight copy internally, and inscribed following publication with 3 ALSs by Meteyard tipped or laid in., (Order No: 48743 ), $575.00
20. Orcutt, William Dana (pen-and-ink portrait sketches by Dwight C. Sturges), CELEBRITIES OFF PARADE, Willett, Clark & Company, Chicago, 1935, ill. by Dwight C. Sturges, 288pp, very good, black cloth spine (hardcover) in good slipcase, Three hundred copied of this Limited Edition have been printed and are inscribed by the Author. Of the two hundred and seventy eight copies which are for sale, this is Copy 213. Contents include: Mary Baker Eddy; George Bernard Shaw; Theodore Roosevelt; Pope Pius XI; Mark Twain; and others., (Order No: 54017 ), $20.00
21. Pond, J. B., ECCENTRICITIES OF GENIUS: MEMORIES OF FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PLATFORM AND STAGE, Chatto & Windus, London, 1901, 91 B&W portraits, 564pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), Contents divided into: Orators; Pulpit Orators; Women Lecturers and Singers; Humorists; Explorers, Travellers, and War Correspondents; Actors and Dramatic Critics; Literary Lecturers; Miscellaneous; Author Readers and Lecturers; and, General Survey of the Lyceum Field., (Order No: 37063 ), $75.00
22. Perling, J. J., PRESIDENTS' SONS - THE PRESTIGE OF NAME IN A DEMOCRACY, The Odyssey Press, New York, (1947) 1st ed, 451pp, good, soiled tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket few pencil mark, (Order No: 45476 ), $12.50
23. Parton, James; Taylor, Bayard; Kendall, Amos; Mayo, E. D.; Patten; J. Alexander, SKETCHES OF MEN OF PROGRESS, NY & Hartford Publishing Co., New York, 1870-1871, B&W illustrations, 754pp, good, original brown cloth (hardcover) light wear to cloth, EMBELLISHED WITH HANDSOME STEEL PORTRAITS BY RITCHIE, PERINE, AND HALL. This volume is now offered to the public, containing biographical sketches, and steel engravings, of many prominent Americans who are entitled to appreciative memoirs--statesmen, lawyers, financiers, manufacturers, merchants, and inventors, who by their own unaided talents and efforts have risen from comparatively humble circumstances to some of the highest and most responsible places in this republic., (Order No: 54089 ), $85.00
24. Socha, Rudy and Darrow, Carolyn, ABOVE & BEYOND: FORMER MARINES CONQUER THE CIVILIAN WORLD, Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY, (2003), B&W illustrations, 256pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1563119498 This volume features profiles of 88 former Marines who have impacted the civilian world., (Order No: 48500 ), $20.00
25. White, Andrew Dickson, SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON, The Century Club, New York, 1919, 552pp, very good, 3/4 leather, teg (hardcover), First published in 1910. Biographies of: Sarpi; Grotius; Thomasius; Turgot; Stein; Cavour; and, Bismarck. Exceptionally nice leather bound edition with raised bands and gilt tooling - clean and tight and handsome., (Order No: 52555 ), $60.00
26. ( Abelard ), Moncrieff, C. K. Scott (translated from the Latin by), THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE, Guy Chapman, London, 1925, 211pp, good, blue buckram cloth w/very light edgewear (hardcover), Limited to 750 copies., (Order No: 38684 ), $125.00
27. ( Adams ), Adams, Ramelle (with a speech by Thomas Boylston Adams), A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOHN ADAMS, Ramelle Adams, n.p., (1996), B&W and color illustrations, 84pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover), With a Speech by Thomas Boylston Adams Delivered at the Hague on April 19, 1982 Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Reception of John Adams as First Minister to the Netherlands., (Order No: 23850 ), $27.50
28. ( Adams ), Arvin, Newton (edited with an introduction by), THE SELECTED LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS, Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, (1951), 279pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume, with a critical introduction by Newton Arvin, presents a selection of over a hundred of Adams's best letters, extending from his studious youth in Germany to his last years in Washington during the First World War., (Order No: 48529 ), $5.00
29. ( Adams ), Adams, John Quincy (begun by); Adams, Charles Francis (completed by), THE LIFE OF JOHN ADAMS: REVISED AND CORRECTED - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1871, good, brown cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with minimal markings, Volume I, 499pp; and Volume II, 416pp. Uncommon set., (Order No: 52520 ), $185.00
30. ( Adams ), Contosta, David R. (edited by Oscar Handlin), HENRY ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1980) 1st ptg, 159pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316154008 This biography examines the restless, creative life of American historian and essayist Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), a man whose enduring critical fascination with the American experiment provides a unique perspective from which to view the United States in transition between the Civil War and World War I., (Order No: 14428 ), $5.00
31. ( Adams ), Grant, James, JOHN ADAMS: PARTY OF ONE, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (2005), 530pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 0374113149 Grant sketches a poignant portrait of a doughty, stubborn, and many-sided man who defies easy generalizations., (Order No: 52365 ), $7.00
32. ( Adams ), Harbert, Earl N., THE FORCE SO MUCH CLOSER HOME: HENRY ADAMS AND THE ADAMS FAMILY, New York University Press, New York, 1977, 224pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814733751 Combining intellectual history and literary criticism, Harbert examines the family as a formative influence on Henry Adams, and as a key to the explication of his early essays, biographers, and novels, including THE HISTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF JEFFERSON AND MADISON and THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS., (Order No: 31496 ), $7.50
33. ( Adams ), Miss Adams (Abigail Adams Smith); Edited by her daughter (Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt), JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MISS ADAMS, DAUGHTER OF JOHN ADAMS, SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ..., Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1841, B&W illustrations, 247pp, good, faded green cloth (hardcover) foxing throughout, "Written in France and England, in 1785.", (Order No: 52519 ), $50.00
34. ( Adams ), Peabody, Charles Newton, ZAB: (BREVET MAJOR ZABDIEL BOYLSTON ADAMS 1829-1902 PHYSICIAN OF BOSTON AND FRAMINGHAM), Francis A. Countway Library, Boston, MA, 1984, B&W illustrations, 255pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), This volume recounts the life of a medical student and practitioner in Boston at the middle of the nineteenth century and his subsequent experiences in the Civil War., (Order No: 49484 ), $17.50
35. ( Alcorn ), Pereyra, Lillian A., JAMES LUSK ALCORN: PERSISTENT WHIG, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1966), B&W illustrations, 237pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Sheds revealing light on the ambiguous situation in which a considerable segment of the Southern population found itself during the turbulent era of the Civil War and Reconstruction., (Order No: 38708 ), $12.50
36. ( Allen ), Allen, Dorothy (preface by Sir Carleton Allen), SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Oxford University Press, London, 1960, B&W illustrations, 184pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Includes accounts of Lady Allen's journeys with her husband to India, South Africa, and America; of her experiences as an amateur actress and singer; of the many distinguished visitors whom she entertained at Rhodes House; and of the social work which culminated in tireless service to evacuees and soldiers during the Second World War., (Order No: 34435 ), $6.50
37. ( Allen ), Allen, Katharine G., EDWARD ELLIS ALLEN, Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1940, B&W ill., 154pp, good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 34868 ), $20.00
38. ( Allen ), Hirsh, John C., HOPE EMILY ALLEN: MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP AND FEMINISM, Pilgrim Books, Norman, OK, (1988), B&W frontis, 181pp, very good+, tan cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0937664804, (Order No: 38192 ), $6.00
39. ( Allen ), Payne, Darwin (Lynes, Russell foreword by), THE MAN OF ONLY YESTERDAY - FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1975) 1st ed, 340pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060132965 "A biography of the former editor of Harper's Magazine, author and interpreter of his times.", (Order No: 14098 ), $6.00
40. ( Altgeld ), Barnard, Harry, EAGLE FORGOTTEN: THE LIFE OF JOHN PETER ALTGELD, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1938) 1st ed, 496pp, good, red cloth w/light/wear fade to spine (hardcover), "The biography of John Peter Altgeld whose courage makes him an inspiration to those who still believe in the American dream." First published in 1938, this is the story of one of the great underground Americans., (Order No: 16008 ), $10.00
41. ( Ames ), Ames, Charles Gordon (epilogue by Alice Ames Winter), CHARLES GORDON AMES: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1913, B&W frontis, 230pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) lacks FFEP, The story of Charles Gordon Ames' religious life., (Order No: 52721 ), $12.50
42. ( Ames ), Ames, Fisher (compiled by a number of his friends), WORKS OF FISHER AMES TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER, T. B. Wait & Co., Boston, MA, 1809, B&W frontis, 519pp, good+, full leather (hardcover), Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 54261 ), $60.00
43. ( Annenberg ), Ogden, Christopher, LEGACY: A BIOGRAPHY OF MOSES AND WALTER ANNENBERG, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1999) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 615pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0316633798 An epic saga of how Moses and Walter Annenberg built a vast publishing empire and one of the nation's greatest family fortunes. Very warmly inscribed by the author with the review press release laid in., (Order No: 36219 ), $7.50
44. ( Anthony ), Anthony, John Williams (edited by Ryan Anthony), FROM MY EARLY DAYS, Elizabeth Youngblood Anthony, Tucson, AZ, (1998), B&W and color illustrations, 189pp, good, black cloth (hardcover), "Wherein is recalled a little of what it was like growing up in New England and the West a generation ago, lightly leavened by charismatic characterizations of a panoply of pertinent progenitors, relevant relatives, fortuitous forebears, consanguineous collaterals and antiquated antecedents, abetted by assorted additional atropheid ancestors.", (Order No: 38223 ), $30.00
45. ( Ashby ), Ashby, William M., TALES WITHOUT HATE, Newark Preservation, Newark, NJ, 1996, B&W illustrations, 221pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0964291657 Ashby was one of New Jersey's most prominent African-American leaders, here are the collected accounts of the seemingly incidental details of racial interaction., (Order No: 37797 ), $35.00
46. ( Asquith ), Asquith, Margot, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARGOT ASQUITH, Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, (1920), B&W illustrations, 302pp, good, light brown cloth (hardcover) small bump bottom corners, (Order No: 40370 ), $6.50
47. ( Astor ), Grigg, John, NANCY ASTOR: A LADY UNASHAMED, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1980) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 192pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316328707 The author captures the pioneering spirit of this remarkable woman. Grigg had the generous cooperation of the Astor family and access to family photograph albums and papers in the preparation of this revealing biography., (Order No: 14728 ), $5.00
48. ( Astor ), Sinclair, David, DYNASTY: THE ASTORS AND THEIR TIMES, Beaufort Books, Inc., New York, (1984), B&W illustrations, 426pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0825302234 A penetrating analysis, based on research on both sides of the Atlantic, which reveals clearly why the name of Astor remains an international symbol for riches, glamor, and power., (Order No: 4907 ), $5.00
49. ( Astor ), Smith, Arthur D. Howden, JOHN JACOB ASTOR: LANDLORD OF NEW YORK, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1929 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 296pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with minimal markings, "Interesting, better than some of the Astor biographies; accepts old legends about Astor." Larson 334., (Order No: 33313 ), $8.50
50. ( Astor ), Wilson, Derek, THE ASTORS 1763-1992: LANDSCAPE WITH MILLIONAIRES, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1993) 1st US, B&W illustrations, 439pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE, ISBN 0312097441 Author had access to private Astor papers never before seen by researchers, and has created a compelling portrait of a great family that has exercised an unmatched influence. CONDITION NOTE - rubber cement residue on pastedowns and rear free endpaper., (Order No: 2932 ), $10.00
51. ( Atkins ), Wilson, John Harold, THE ORDEAL OF MR. PEPYS'S CLERK, Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, (1972), 143pp, index, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814201660 Sam Atkins, an engaging young clerk on the staff of Mr. Samuel Pepys during the time that the famous diarist first served as secretary to the Lord High Admiral of England, rose from obscurity to fame on one memorable, terrifying occasion. In an account of his ordeal that does full justice to Sam the human being, he emerges as the simple man of courage who rises, with dignity and grace, to meet the challenge of fateful circumstances that are not of his creation and that lie totally beyond his control., (Order No: 15330 ), $5.00
52. ( Atkinson ), Williamson, Harold Francis (introduction by F. W. Taussig) - presentation card signed by author, bookplate signed by author, EDWARD ATKINSON: THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN LIBERAL, 1827-1905, Old Corner Book Store, Inc., Boston, MA, 1934, B&W frontis, 304pp, very good, dark green cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB historical soc., "...Mr. Atkinson made interesting, and in many cases significant, contributions to the economic and political history of the United States. As treasurer and financial agent for several important cotton textile mills between 1850 and 1878, Mr. Atkinson became generally recognized as an authority upon the various phases of the cotton industry.", (Order No: 30811 ), $35.00
53. ( Ayer ), Babst, Earl D.; Wood, Jarvis A. (introduction by), F. WAYLAND AYER FOUNDER - THE BUSINESS PIONEER, N. W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia, 1923, 80pp, very good+, flexible leather, teg (hardcover) in original box, "Herein you may read of F. Wayland Ayer as his purposeful and dutiful life revealed him to other men: as a business pioneer, a farmer, a religious leaders, a friend, a Christian statesman.", (Order No: 49451 ), $40.00
54. ( Baird ), Dall, William Healey, SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD: A BIOGRAPHY, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1915, B&W illustrations, 462pp, very good+, green cloth, teg (hardcover), INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH AUDUBON, AGASSIZ, DANA, AND OTHERS. The chief aim of the biographer is to show the man as he lived and worked; with glimpses of his relations to his contemporaries, to the promotion of science, and to great, and as yet hardly appreciated, public services. Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 53432 ), $70.00
55. ( Baker ), THE CHRISTIAN LAWYER: BEING A PORTRAITURE OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF WILLIAM GEORGE BAKER, Carlton & Porter, New York, 1859, 320pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) edgewear - tight copy, (Order No: 53478 ), $25.00
56. ( Bamberger ), Zucker, Stanley, LUDWIG BAMBERGER: GERMAN LIBERAL POLITICIAN AND SOCIAL CRITIC, 1823-1899, University of Pittsburgh Pr., Pittsburgh, PA, (1975), B&W frontis, 343pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0822932989 Bamberger's extensive activities provide the observer with insights into the strength and weakness of German liberalism and offer a penetrating view of German society in the second half of the nineteenth century., (Order No: 48648 ), $25.00
57. ( Bancroft ), Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis, LETTERS FROM ENGLAND, 1846-1849, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1904 1st ed, 24 B&W ill., 224pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) light fade to spine, "Most of the letters are in the form of a diary and were addressed to immediate relatives, and none of them were written for publication; but owing to the standing of Mr. Bancroft as a man of letters, as well as his official station, the writer saw London life under an unusual variety of interesting aspects.", (Order No: 18293 ), $10.00
58. ( Bancroft ), Nye, Russel B., GEORGE BANCROFT: AMERICA'S FIRST GREAT HISTORIAN, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1964), 212pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), George Bancroft, the subject of this critical biography, believed that the American social and political system represented the highest point yet reached in mankind's quest for the perfect state. Bancroft's greatest achievements lie in his pioneering studies of the colonial period, foreign relations, and the importance of the frontier in United States history. The Great American Thinkers Series., (Order No: 14220 ), $10.00
59. ( Barbour ), Barbour, Thomas, NATURALIST AT LARGE, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1943 1st ed, B&W and color illustrations, 314pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 52623 ), $7.00
60. ( Barker ), Burdon, C. C., DR A. C. BARKER, 1819-1873: PHOTOGRAPHER, FARMER, PHYSICIAN, John McIndoe, Dunedin, (1972), B&W ill. follow text, 88pp of text, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A portrait of the doctor and a fascinating picture of life in Christchurch, New Zealand, in its earliest days and of an English society re-established 12,000 miles across the oceans., (Order No: 24380 ), $25.00
61. ( Bartlett ), Bartlett, John Henry, SKETCHES FROM MY SCRAP BOOKS AND DIARIES, Samuel R. Blaisdell, Portsmouth, NH, [1948], B&W illustrations, 122pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), "Not in sequence, nor in any completeness or exaltation have I attempted to cover all my experiences in life, but simply sketches that troop into my mind as I look back on many busy, and sometimes hectic, years of living, mostly happy, among friendly people and kin, and in a wonderful country and state." Bartlett was Governor of New Hampshire from 1919-1920., (Order No: 45725 ), $12.50
62. ( Batlle ), Vanger, Milton I., JOSE BATLLE Y ORDONEZ OF URUGUAY: THE CREATOR OF HIS TIMES, 1902-1907, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1963, B&W ill., maps, 320pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This book tells how a working politician in the Colorado Party was narrowly elected president, how he fought the opposing Nationalists and won a civil war which made him a hero to his party, how he ratified his victory by having his partisans elected to the legislature and then began to present and enact political and social reforms. The book concludes with Batlle's triumphant departure for Europe at the end of his administration- the way well prepared for his later re-election., (Order No: 13534 ), $15.00
63. ( Baudelaire ), Loving, Pierre, GARDENER OF EVIL: A PORTRAIT OF BAUDELAIRE & HIS TIMES, Brewer and Warren, Inc., n.p., n.d. (c1920s), 400pp, good+, black cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 36380 ), $15.00
64. ( Beard ), Beale, Howard K. (editor), CHARLES A. BEARD, University of Kentucky Press, (1954), 312pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An appraisal by Eric F. Goldman, Harold J. Laski, Howard K. Beale, Walton Hamilton, George Soule, Merle Curti, George R. Leighton, Richard Hofstadter, Max Lerner, Luther Gulick, George S. Counts, and Arthur W. Macmahon. "What has bound the contributors to this volume together has been a respect for Charles Beard the scholar, a sense of obligation to Beard the provoker of thought, an admiration for Beard the devoted public man, in some instances a sense of having been profoundly influenced by Beard or his writings, and in the case of all of us who knew him personally an abiding affection for a great human being.", (Order No: 8980 ), $15.00
65. ( Becket ), Winston, Richard, THOMAS BECKET, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1968 2nd ptg, 413pp, index, very good, blue cloth spine (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 53775 ), $3.00
66. ( Beckett ), Schwartz, James E. (edited by), THE VINTAGE WILLIAM BECKETT, privately printed, n.p., [1991], B&W illustrations, 119pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), Contents include: Political and Economic Philosophy; Hamilton History; Youth and Education; Milestones; Tributes., (Order No: 41860 ), $15.00
67. ( Beecher ), Knox, Thomas W., LIFE AND WORK OF HENRY WARD BEECHER, Bradley & Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1887, B&W illustrations, 544pp, very good, decorated maroon cloth (hardcover) clean & tight copy, AN AUTHENTIC, IMPARTIAL AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF HIS PUBLIC CAREER AND PRIVATE LIFE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. REPLETE WITH ANECDOTES, INCIDENTS, PERSONAL REMINISCENCES AND CHARACTER SKETCHES. DESCRIPTIVE OF THE MAN AND HIS TIMES., (Order No: 27620 ), $14.50
68. ( Beecher ), Merideth, Robert, THE POLITICS OF THE UNIVERSE: EDWARD BEECHER, ABOLITION, AND ORTHODOXY, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, (1968), 274pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826511236 The first study of the life of Edward Beecher (1803-95), scion of the fabulous Beechers of Boston., (Order No: 11578 ), $6.00
69. ( Beerbohm ), Behrman, S. N., CONVERSATION WITH MAX, Hamish Hamilton, London, (1960), B&W illustrations, 260pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is an informal, intimate portrait of Sir Max Beerbohm, novelist, essayist, critic, and supreme cartoonist, written by a famous playwright and wit., (Order No: 20066 ), $7.50
70. ( Bell ), Toward, Lilias M., MABEL BELL: ALEXANDER'S SILENT PARTNER, Methuen, Toronto, (1984), B&W ill., 220pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0458980900 Told primarily through Mabel's letters to her husband and others, this volume portrays a remarkable woman and a remarkable marriage., (Order No: 34897 ), $15.00
71. ( Bell ), Waite, Helen E., MAKE A JOYFUL SOUND: THE ROMANCE OF MABEL HUBBARD AND ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL - AN AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, Macrae Smith Co., Philadelphia, (1961), B&W illustrations, 285pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The personal factors behind the great inventions and discoveries that change the world are often overlooked, to history's loss, and nowhere has this been more true than in the case of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor, experimenter in genetics and aerodynamics, great-hearted friend and teacher of the handicapped., (Order No: 3214 ), $4.00
72. ( Berenson ), Strachey, Barbara and Samuels, Jayne (editors), MARY BERENSON: A SELF-PORTRAIT FROM HER LETTERS & DIARIES, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1983) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 319pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 039301827X Through letter writing and keeping a diary, Mary Berenson described a rich life and herself. What emerges is a portrait of a fascinating age and an amazing woman, modern, independent, intelligent, irascible, and faithful to her husband, Bernard., (Order No: 14572 ), $4.00
73. ( Berg ), Grun, Bernard (edited, translated and annotated), ALBAN BERG: LETTERS TO HIS WIFE, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1971), B&W illustrations, 456pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, Contents include: Part One--1907-1911; Part Two--1911-1920; Part Three--1921-1935; Postscript; Index., (Order No: 53598 ), $12.50
74. ( Berman ), Berman, Leonid (preface by Virgil Thomson), THE THREE WORLDS OF LEONIC, Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, New York, (1978), B&W illustrations, 275pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0465086187, (Order No: 47003 ), $4.00
75. ( Bernstein ), Klein, Carole, ALINE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1979) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 352pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060124237 The first biography of Aline Bernstein, famed stage designer and mistress of Thomas Wolfe., (Order No: 33347 ), $4.50
76. ( Bingham ), Chandler, David Leon, THE BINGHAMS OF LOUISVILLE, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1987) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 292pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517568950 'The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes'. Story of a controversial American dynasty that on the eve of publication was suddenly and mysteriously canceled. In 1916, Robert Worth Bingham married Mary Lily Kenan, the widow of Henry Flagler, the Standard Oil tycoon. Robert and Mary had had an affair twenty years earlier, and married after their spouses had fatal accidents ten days apart., (Order No: 1992 ), $3.50
77. ( Bingham ), Metcalf, Henry Harrison (edited by), MEMORIAL OF HON. HARRY BINGHAM, LL.D.: LAWYER, LEGISLATOR, AUTHOR, Privately Printed, Concord, NH, 1910, B&W illustration, 505pp, very good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), Contents include: Biographical Sketch; Press Tributes; Bar Eulogies; Political Writings; Legislative Service; Addresses; Argument; Correspondence; Appreciation., (Order No: 40047 ), $25.00
78. ( Bismarck ), Bismarck, Herbert (Prince) (edited by), THE LOVE-LETTERS OF PRINCE BISMARCK -- VOLUME II ONLY, William Heinemann, London, 1901, frontis & two illustrations, 197pp, ads, good, red cloth (hardcover) wear and staining to cloth, Volume Two ONLY of this set, with wear and staining to cloth covers., (Order No: 50475 ), $12.50
79. ( Bismarck ), Hesekiel, George (introduction by Bayard Taylor), BISMARCK: HIS AUTHENTIC BIOGRAPHY. INCLUDING MANY OF HIS PRIVATE LETTERS AND PERSONAL MEMORANDA ..., Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York, (1877), B&W ill., fold-out map, 641pp, good, decorated red cloth (hardcover) light wear to cloth, "...Giving Curious Researches into his Ancestry; Lively Incidents of his Youth and Student Life; and a Full Account of his Social Surroundings and the Growth of his Official and Public Career; to which has been added a review of Bismarck's Influence in Recent European Politics, the Russo-Turkish War, Etc." Internally a very nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 52923 ), $100.00
80. ( Black ), Ball, Howard, HUGO L. BLACK: COLD STEEL WARRIOR, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996, B&W illustrations, 305pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195078144 Howard Ball draws from Black's extensive files in the Library of Congress and on interviews with his colleagues on the Court, his law clerks, and his family to illuminate the enigmatic career of a man who became one of the twentieth century's most vigilant defenders of freedoms and liberty., (Order No: 53087 ), $6.00
81. ( Bleustein-Blanc ), Bleustein-Blanchet, Marcel (preface by David Ogilvy; translated by Jean Boddewyn), THE RAGE TO PERSUADE: MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH ADVERTISING MAN, Chelsea House, New York, 1982, B&W illustrations, 165pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0877543631 The fascinating memoirs of Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, the man who founded France's largest advertising agency, Publicis; invented French radio advertising; introduced Edith Piaf to the French public; broke the news of the Anschluss in 1938; fled the Gestapo, fought with the Free French and flew with the U.S. Air Force during World War II; rebuilt Publicis from scratch after the war, at age 38; popularized maternity dresses in France; established the Vocation Foundation, France's "Nobel Prize for youth," and, rebuilt Publicis from scratch in 1972, at age 66, after it was destroyed by fire., (Order No: 52297 ), $85.00
82. ( Blunt ), Mason, Francis (edited by for The Manchester Historic Association), CHILDISH THINGS: THE REMINISCENCE OF SUSAN BAKER BLUNT, Thompson & Rutter Inc., Grantham, NH, 1988, B&W illustrations, 88pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0936988142 The author was born in 1828, and in 1913, as an eighty-five year woman, wrote down her childhood memories of growing up in the Merrimack, New Hampshire area., (Order No: 52867 ), $15.00
83. ( Bok ), Bok, Edward W., TWICE THIRTY: SOME SHORT AND SIMPLE ANNALS OF THE ROAD, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925, B&W frontis, 539pp, ads, good, gray cloth spine, paper covered boards w/light wear, "This book is written for and addressed to:--my sons William Curtis Bok (at twenty-seven) and Cary William Bok (at twenty). Your mother has proposed that I should put down for you some of my more significant experiences.", (Order No: 34885 ), $10.00
84. ( Bonaparte ), Babelon, Jean-Pierre and D'Huart, Suzanne (commentaries by) (translated from the French and introduced by Alex de Jonge), NAPOLEON'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, Paddington Press Ltd., New York, (1977), B&W illustrations, 112pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 044822190X "A facsimile edition of the original document, together with its codicils, appended inventories, letters and instructions, preserved in the French National Archives.", (Order No: 15243 ), $10.00
85. ( Bonaparte ), By the Author of "Waverley," &c., [Scott, Sir Walter], THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, J. & B. Williams, Exeter, Scotland, 1828, very good, rebound in 1/2 red leather, marbled boards (hardcover, Two Volume Set Complete: Volume I, 494pp; and, Volume II, 414pp, Appendix. Very nice clean and tight and bright set., (Order No: 53237 ), $100.00
86. ( Bonaparte ), Tarbell, Ida M., A LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE WITH A SKETCH OF JOSEPHINE, McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1901 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 485pp, good, red cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 50216 ), $10.00
87. ( Bonney ), Bonney, Sherman Grant, CALVIN FAIRBANKS BONNEY, HARRIOTT CHENEY BONNEY, A TRIBUTE, The Rumford Press, Concord, NH, (1930), B&W illustrations, 320pp, good++, red cloth, teg (hardcover), Limited Edition of which this is No. 167. "This book is published as a tribute to the memory of Calvin Fairbanks Booney and Harriott Cheney Bonney, by their son, who appreciates fully that no written words can express a true sense of his grateful obligation to them." Much on Cornish and Manchester New Hampshire and Cornish, Maine., (Order No: 53171 ), $12.50
88. ( Borrow ), Hopkins, R. Thurston, GEORGE BORROW: LORD OF THE OPEN ROAD, Jarrolds Publishers Ltd., London, [1922], ill. by C. M. Nichols, 254pp, good, dark blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, Contents include: Characteristics; Biographical; Some New Stories of Borrow; A Celtic Twilight; The Magic of Lavengro; New Reminiscences of George Borrow; Treasures in Words; John Thurtell and Bampfylde-Moore-Carew; Isopel Berners; Borrow House at Norwich and Conclusion; The Lure of the Open Road., (Order No: 52655 ), $20.00
89. ( Borrow ), Shorter, Clement King, GEORGE BORROW AND HIS CIRCLE: WHEREIN MAY BE FOUND MANY HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF BORROW AND HIS FRIENDS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1913, B&W illustrations, 450pp, good, dark blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 52688 ), $12.50
90. ( Boswell ), Boswell, James (edited by Mark Harris), THE HEART OF BOSWELL: SIX JOURNALS IN ONE VOLUME - "HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF JAMES BOSWELL", McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1981) 1st ptg, 407pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0070267758 This book abridges the first six volumes of the Yale series. Here we follow Boswell to the completion of those tasks he had more or less assigned to himself: to meet Mr. Johnson, to study law, to vie with his father, to travel over Europe, to confront M. Rousseau, to confront M. Voltaire, to rescue Corsica, to become a published author, and to find a wife., (Order No: 23516 ), $5.00
91. ( Boswell ), Pottle, Frederick A., JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS 1740-1769, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1985) 1st ptg, 607pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0070505780 First published in 1966. Frederick A. Pottle has devoted a lifetime to the study of Boswell and he is the acknowledged authority on the subject. From this imaginative study emerges a man we can know almost perfectly: a paradoxical character, shrewd of head and foolish in behavior, vain and disarmingly honest, sensual and pious, charming and exasperating, self-indulgent and warm-hearted, who somehow in the Age of Enlightenment managed to think and write like a man of the twentieth century., (Order No: 14216 ), $4.50
92. ( Boswell ), Pottle, Frederick A. and Bennett, Charles H., BOSWELL'S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D., The Viking Press, New York, 1936 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 435pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 26303 ), $5.00
93. ( Bourne ), Bevan, Joan C. and Pacelli, Maria A., THE QUINTESSENTIAL CANADIAN ANAESTHETIST, WESLEY BOURNE: A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MCGILL ANESTHESIA, McGill University Libraries, Montreal, 1996, B&W illustrations, 139pp, very good, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0771704852 The authors vividly recount the various phases of Wesley Bourne's life., (Order No: 38236 ), $35.00
94. ( Boyle ), Spanier, Sandra Whipple, KAY BOYLE: ARTIST AND ACTIVIST, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1986), B&W illustrations, 262pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 080931276X This first critical assessment of Kay Boyle's long career is both a portrait of the artist and a perceptive appraisal of her work., (Order No: 44286 ), $6.50
95. ( Bradford ), Brooks, Van Wyck (edited by), THE LETTERS OF GAMALIEL BRADFORD, 1918-1931, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1934, B&W frontis, 377pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), These letters add in many important ways to the picture of Mr. Bradford's character and career which he so amply rendered in his Journal., (Order No: 26335 ), $7.00
96. ( Brecher ), Brecher, Kenneth S., TOO SAD TO SING: A MEMOIR WITH POSTCARDS, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, (1988), B&W and color illustrations, 118pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151904936 Kenneth Brecher has compiled a unique album of memories, a visual autobiography as obviously truthful as it is imaginative., (Order No: 45184 ), $8.50
97. ( Brittain ), Brittain, Harry, HAPPY PILGRIMAGE, Hutchinson & Co., London, n.d., 106 B&W ill., 355pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 23814 ), $12.50
98. ( Bruce ), Anderson, Verily, THE LAST OF THE ECCENTRICS: A LIFE OF ROSSLYN BRUCE, Hodder and Stoughton, London, (1972), B&W illustrations, 320pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 53337 ), $10.00
99. ( Brust ), Brust, Harold (introduction by Ian MacPherson), "I GUARDED KINGS" THE MEMOIRS OF A POLITICAL POLICE OFFICER, Hillman-Curl, Inc., New York, (1936), B&W illustrations, 288pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) edgewear, light fade to spine, (Order No: 50037 ), $6.50
100. ( Bryan ), Koenig, Louis W., BRYAN: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1971), 736pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 3369 ), $5.00
101. ( Bryant ), Brown, Charles H., WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1971) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 576pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684123703 This is a modern biography of William Cullen Bryant, a major poet and a newspaper editor of great distinction--a man who lived at the center of American intellectual and political life throughout much of the nineteenth century., (Order No: 25984 ), $5.00
102. ( Buckle ), Huth, Alfred Henry, THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1880, 502pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover) faded spine, light dampstain, "If biography be a form of literature of any worth, then surely the story of the life of Henry Thomas Buckle needs no apology. His works have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian, and have, in addition, been reprinted in America; his first volume went through three editions in a little over three years, and yet before this he had never printed one line. There is hardly another instance in history of so great a leap from complete literary obscurity to the highest pinnacle of literary fame." NOTE - Light dampstain on the foreedge of a some pages., (Order No: 53347 ), $30.00
103. ( Bull ), Smith, Mortimer, THE LIFE OF OLE BULL, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1943, B&W illustrations, 220pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This is the first full- length biography in English of the Norwegian violinist and patriot whose fame in nineteenth century America rivalled that of Jenny Lind., (Order No: 4729 ), $15.00
104. ( Bulwer-Lytton ), Escott, T. H. S., EDWARD BULWER, FIRST BARON LYTTON OF KNEBWORTH: A SOCIAL, PERSONAL, AND POLITICAL MONOGRAPH, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1910, B&W frontis, 348pp, good, blue cloth w/some light wear (hardcover), "This constitutes a memorial of Bulwer-Lytton more finished, genuine, and even trustworthy than any professedly autobiographical matter which he may have left behind him.", (Order No: 40033 ), $35.00
105. ( Burritt ), Burritt, Elihu (with a memoir by Mary Howitt), THOUGHTS AND THINGS AT HOME AND ABROAD, Phillips, Sampson, and Co., Boston, 1854, B&W frontis, 364pp, good, original brown cloth (hardcover) light edgewear, "Among the many remarkable men of this remarkable age, most of whom we hope to present from time to time to our readers, no one seems to be more worthy of notice than Elihu Burritt. Elihu Burritt is not merely remarkable for his knowledge of languages--a knowledge which is perfectly stupendous, and which having been acquired under circumstances which at first sight would seem to present insuperable barriers to anything beyond the most ordinary acquirements, may naturally excite our surprise and admiration--but he is remarkable in a high moral degree; and this it is, combined with his great learning, which entitles him to our love and reverence." Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 18951 ), $65.00
106. ( Burton ), Crissey, Forrest; (introduction by Herbert Hoover), THEODORE E. BURTON: AMERICAN STATESMAN, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, (1956) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 352pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Time after time Burton's Cleveland constituents sent him to represent them in Congress, bestowing on him the honor of being elected first to the House of Representatives (in 1888), then to the United States Senate, then again to the House, and then again (in 1928) to the Senate. In all, thirty of the seventy-eight years of this great American's life were spent in one or the other branch of Congress., (Order No: 14321 ), $6.00
107. ( Burton ), Rice, Edward, CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON, HarperPerrenial, New York, (1991), 34 B&W illustrations, 522pp, good, wraps (softcover) small stain on foreedge, ISBN 0060973943 A biography of the secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mecca, discovered the Kama Sutra, and brought the Arabian Nights to the West., (Order No: 10972 ), $3.50
108. ( Buxton ), Buxton, Willis G., VACATION DAYS, W. B. Ranney Co., Printers, Penacook, NH, (1922), B&W frontis, 216pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 49851 ), $9.50
109. ( Byrne ), Byrne, Jane, MY CHICAGO, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1992) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 384pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393030733, (Order No: 38384 ), $5.00
110. ( Byron ), Moore, Thomas, LIFE AND JOURNALS OF LORD BYRON - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Lebel, Truttel & Wrutz, Hamburg, 1830 - 1831, good, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) clean & tight set, Volume I, 1830, 566pp; and Volume II, 1831, 593pp followed by a 19 page appendix. Uncommon re-printing of the first edition., (Order No: 51823 ), $150.00
111. ( CA ), Page, James R., I. N. VAN NUYS, 1835-1912, The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA, Van Nuys, B&W illustrations, 34pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover), "This story about Mr. I. N. Van Nuys has been written for members of the Van Nuys family and their friends. It is mainly a personal narrative drawn from my memory and family records.", (Order No: 29688 ), $30.00
112. ( Cain ), Cain, Gordan, EVERYBODY WINS! A LIFE IN FREE ENTERPRISE, Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1997), B&W illustrations, 342pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0941901149 A case study in American business enterprise told though the life of an extraordinary man. This book chronicles how chemical engineer Gordan Cain effected a turnaround in the commodity chemicals industry through the strategies of innovative management, employee stock ownership, and leveraged buy outs., (Order No: 53697 ), $7.00
113. ( Campbell ), Campbell, Sir Gerald, OF TRUE EXPERIENCE, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1947, 259pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 35945 ), $5.00
114. ( Capito ), Kittelson, James M., WOLFGANG CAPITO FROM HUMANIST TO REFORMER, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1975, 258pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 9004043128 This book is a study of Capito's transition from humanist to reformer., (Order No: 47361 ), $50.00
115. ( Carlyle ), Burdett, Osbert, THE TWO CARLYLES, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1931, B&W illustrations, 309pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The story of Thomas and Jane Carlyle., (Order No: 26038 ), $7.50
116. ( Carlyle ), Carlyle, Alexander, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. DR. ALEXANDER CARLYLE - MINISTER OF INVERESK, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1860 2nd ed, engraved frontis is stained, 576pp, good+, 3/4 leather, teg, marbled boards (hardcover), "Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of His Time.", (Order No: 45007 ), $45.00
117. ( Carnegie ), Hacker, Louis M., THE WORLD OF ANDREW CARNEGIE: 1865-1901, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, (1968) 1st ed, 473pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), History of Carnegie's times. Not only economic history at its best, but also includes vivid portrayals of the men who built the industrial empires., (Order No: 2904 ), $14.50
118. ( Carson ), Marjoribanks, Edward (preface by Rt. Hon. Viscount Hailsham), CARSON THE ADVOCATE, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1933) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 455pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, The life of Lord Carson., (Order No: 52005 ), $8.00
119. ( Castlereagh ), Bartlett, C. J., CASTLEREAGH, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1966) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 292pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), A new biography of the British Foreign Secretary who designed the Concert of Europe., (Order No: 43720 ), $4.50
120. ( Channing ), Brown, Arthur W., ALWAYS YOUNG FOR LIBERTY: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1956), 268pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Modern Americans should meet Dr. William Ellery Channing, the best known figure in American public life in 1842, who in his own words was Always Young for Liberty. A memorable biography based on research in original sources by Arthur W. Brown., (Order No: 34952 ), $5.00
121. ( Chase ), Hart, Albert Bushnell, SALMON PORTLAND CHASE, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, 1899, 465pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with minimal markings, AMERICAN STATESMEN series edited by John T. Morse., (Order No: 52504 ), $7.50
122. ( Chase-Lyon ), Walker, Helen, PRESENTING MRS. CHASE-LYON, The Devin-Adair Company, New York, (1926), 225pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) 2 small chips on jacket, Our charming, socially ambitious American hostess--a delightful character whose values are regulated by the Social Register (supplemented--we whisper it--by the Cash Register)., (Order No: 45690 ), $15.00
123. ( Chateaubriand ), Painter, George D., CHATEAUBRIAND, A BIOGRAPHY: VOLUME I (1768-93) THE LONGED-FOR TEMPESTS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978 1st Amer, 21 B&W ill., 2 maps, 327pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394426584 The first of a three-volume portrait of the extraordinary Frenchman, Francois-Rene, Chevalier de Chateaubriand, who first lived out to the full our vision of the Romantic Hero, and then stamped it indelibly on the nineteenth-century imagination in the books he wrote. This volume includes the background and early years of the passionate young aristocrat., (Order No: 14052 ), $5.00
124. ( Chateaubriand ), Sieburg, Friedrich (translated from the German by Violet M. Macdonald), CHATEAUBRIAND, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1962), B&W ill., 352pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is the story of a great romantic writer, whose best work was his own life., (Order No: 35700 ), $5.00
125. ( Chesterfield ), Earl of Chesterfield (with topical headings and a special introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh), LETTERS TO HIS SON BY THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD ON THE FINE ART OF BECOMING A MAN OF THE WORLD AND A GENTLEMAN - TWO VOLUME SET, Dingwall-Rock, Ltd., New York, 1925, good+, black cloth, teg (hardcover) small cut spine Volume II, Two Volume Set: Volume I, 408pp; and, Volume II, 435pp., (Order No: 50804 ), $12.50
126. ( Choate ), Strong, Theron G., JOSEPH H. CHOATE: NEW ENGLANDER, NEW YORKER, LAWYER, AMBASSADOR, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1917 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 390pp, good, brown cloth, teg (hardcover) library bookplate only, Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 49156 ), $6.00
127. ( Chukovskaya ), Chukovskaya, Lydia (translated by Eliza Kellogg Klose), TO THE MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD, Northwestern University Pr., Evanston, IL, (1988), B&W illustrations, 168pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810107899 Lydia's loving chronicle of growing up beside the Gulf of Finland with her father, Kornei Chukovsky, helps us to understand the sources of her strength and her belief in the power of the written word., (Order No: 43076 ), $7.00
128. ( Churchill ), Gilbert, Martin, WINSTON CHURCHILL: THE WILDERNESS YEARS, Macmillan, London, (1981), B&W illustrations, 279pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0333325648 This is the story--published in association with the ITV series of the same name--of the ten remarkable years up to the Second World War during which Churchill remained alone and abused in the political wilderness., (Order No: 21277 ), $7.50
129. ( Churchill ), Hough, Richard, FORMER NAVAL PERSON: CHURCHILL AND THE WARS AT SEA, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, (1985), B&W ill., B&W map, 244pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0297787063 This valuable contribution to Churchilliana by one of the best-known and most experienced naval historians of today is concerned with the whole of Churchill's stormy association with the navy, and latterly with his remarkable relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, which resulted in their momentous achievements during the Second World War., (Order No: 20261 ), $14.50
130. ( Churchill ), Morgan, Ted, CHURCHILL: YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY, 1874-1915, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1982) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 607pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671253034 The intimate account of how one of the most important and complex figures our our century was formed--Sir Winston Churchill., (Order No: 20778 ), $5.00
131. ( Churchill ), Rowse, A. L., THE EARLY CHURCHILLS: AN ENGLISH FAMILY, Dorset Press, New York, (1990) 1st ptg, 378pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880295872 First published in 1956. Includes: Sir Winston Churchill I; John, First Duke of Marlborough; Sarah, First Duchess of Marlborough; Arabella Churchill; and Admiral George Churchill., (Order No: 49086 ), $5.00
132. ( Clark ), Bradley, David, JOURNEY OF A JOHNNY-COME-LATELY, Dartmouth Publications, Hanover, NH, 1957, B&W frontis, 213pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) warmly inscribed by author, The story of John Clark., (Order No: 40293 ), $12.00
133. ( Cleopatra ), Hughes-Hallett, Lucy, CLEOPATRA - HISTORIES, DREAMS AND DISTORTIONS, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1990), B&W illustrations, 338pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 0060162163 A in-depth look at the ways people have looked at and dreamed about Cleopatra., (Order No: 43100 ), $7.00
134. ( Clifford ), Clifford, Philip Greely, NATHAN CLIFFORD DEMOCRAT (1803-1881), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1922 1st ed, 356pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 51106 ), $12.50
135. ( Cobbett ), Cobbett, William (introduction by G. D. H. Cole), LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE: WITH OTHER RECORDS OF HIS EARLY CAREER IN ENGLAND & AMERICA, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927, color frontis, 164pp, good+, brown cloth spine (hardcover), This is Number 938 of 1800 copies. Contents include: Preface to the Life and Adventures; The Life and Adventures; Preface to the Scare-Crow; The Scare-Crow; Remarks of the Pamphlets lately published against Porcupine; Talleyrnd: A Spy; Farewell to America; The Court-Martial; and, A Retrospect., (Order No: 53713 ), $15.00
136. ( Cobbett ), Osborne, John W., WILLIAM COBBETT: HIS THOUGHT AND HIS TIMES, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1966), 272pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), William Cobbett (1763-1835) was one of the greatest popular journalists of all time, and a member of parliament., (Order No: 36801 ), $12.00
137. ( Coit ), Destler, Chester McArthur, JOSHUA COIT: AMERICAN FEDERALIST 1758-1798, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, (1962) 1st ed, 191pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Joshua Coit was a New England gentleman who reached his majority during the American Revolution. After attending Havard College he chose the law as his profession. He contributed to the development of a federalist policy for Connecticut, and after achieving prominence as a legislator, he was sent to Congress in 1793., (Order No: 50583 ), $10.00
138. ( Collingwood ), Collingwood, G. L. Newnham, A SELECTION FROM THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD: INTERSPERSED WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE, G. & C. & H. Carvill, New York, 1829 1st Amer, fold-out map w/portrait, 422pp, good, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) spine wear, "First American from the Fourth London Edition." Admiral Collingwood swiftly rose through the British Naval ranks first during the American War of Independence and the the Napoleonic Wars. He achieved his greatest notoriety as Lord Nelson's second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar. He was awarded a peerage, but died at sea in 1810. CONDITION NOTE - Nice clean and tight copy. Leather on spine is cracked with some tears from being dried out over time., (Order No: 50163 ), $125.00
139. ( Columbus ), David, Maurice, WHO WAS "COLUMBUS"?: HIS REAL NAME AND REAL FATHERLAND, A SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY AMONG THE ARCHIVES OF SPAIN, The Research Publishing Co., New York, (1933), B&W illustrations, 118pp, ill., good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), REVEALING FOR THE FIRST TIME THE TRUE NATIONALITY, RELIGION AND NAME OF THE DISCOVERER OF AMERICA WITH PROOF IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING FROM THE ARCHIVES OF SPAIN, (Order No: 49178 ), $12.50
140. ( Columbus ), Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, COLUMBUS: AND THE CONQUEST OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, Saturday Review Press, New York, (1974), 16pp color ill.,100 B&W ill., 224pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841503303 The author shows how the idea of the discovery of a new continent took root among contemporary geographers and how Columbus himself correctly identified the new-found hemisphere. Not omitting the defects in the explorer's education which led him to reverse some of his best conclusions about the nature of the New World, the author does justice to Columbus's successes as an explorer and his contributions as one of the earliest colonisers among the Indians., (Order No: 14266 ), $7.50
141. ( Columbus ), Granzotto, Gianni, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: THE DREAM AND THE OBSESSION, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1985 1st ed, 300pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0385196776, (Order No: 2715 ), $3.00
142. ( Columbus ), Landstrom, Bjorn, COLUMBUS: THE STORY OF DON CRISTOBAL COLON ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN AND HIS FOUR VOYAGES WESTWARD TO THE INDIES, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1967), B&W and color ill., 207pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), From the title page, "according to contemporary sources, retold and illustrated by Bjorn Landstrom." The author has reproduced faithfully and imaginatively the narrative and visual glories of the great discoverer's odyssey., (Order No: 14437 ), $5.00
143. ( Columbus ), Seelye, Elizabeth Eggleston (edited with an introduction by Edward Eggleston), THE STORY OF COLUMBUS, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1892 1st ed, 99 ill. by Allegra Eggleston, 303pp, very good, decorated gray cloth (hardcover), Delights of History series edited by Edward Eggleston., (Order No: 36395 ), $20.00
144. ( Columbus ), Taviani, Paolo Emilio, COLUMBUS - THE GREAT ADVENTURE: HIS LIFE, HIS TIMES, AND HIS VOYAGES, Orion Books, New York, (1991) 1st Amer, 273pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517584743 Review press release and photo laid in., (Order No: 9269 ), $7.50
145. ( Congreve ), Lynch, Kathleen M., A CONGREVE GALLERY, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1951, B&W illustrations, 196pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author, The following essays throw light on the personality, background, and times of William Congreve., (Order No: 18546 ), $5.00
146. ( Coolidge ), Whiting, Edward Elwell, CALVIN COOLIDGE: HIS IDEALS OF CITIZENSHIP AS REVEALED THROUGH HIS SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, W. A. Wilde Company, Boston, MA, 1924, frontis, 391pp, very good+, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 52476 ), $8.00
147. ( Cork ), Cork, Kenneth with Barty-King, Hugh, CORK ON CORK: SIR KENNETH CORK TAKES STOCK, Macmillan, London, (1988), B&W illustrations, 267pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0333444795 In the whirl of 'retirement', Sir Kenneth has found the time to tell the remarkable tale of his times and to tell it with a twinkle in his autobiographical eye., (Order No: 39257 ), $12.50
148. ( Cortes ), Ober, Frederick A., HERNANDO CORTES: CONQUEROR OF MEXICO - HEROES OF AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1905, B&W illustrations, 292pp, good, purple cloth (hardcover) fading to spine and boards, (Order No: 46574 ), $30.00
149. ( Crawford ), Crawford, Isabel, JOYFUL JOURNEY - HIGHLIGHTS ON THE HIGH WAY - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Judson Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1951) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 176pp, good, red cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 43642 ), $10.00
150. ( Cree ), Cree, John K.; and, Ninde, H. S. (edited by), THOMAS KIRBY CREE - A MEMORIAL, Association Press, Carrollton, TX, (1914), B&W illustrations, 200pp, good+, dark green cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB no external marks, (Order No: 51959 ), $20.00
151. ( Crispi ), Stillman, W. J., FRANCESCO CRISPI: INSURGENT, EXILE, REVOLUTIONIST AND STATESMAN, Grant Richards, London, 1899, B&W illustrations, 286pp, good+, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 36525 ), $25.00
152. ( Croyden ), Croyden, Margaret, IN THE SHADOW OF THE FLAME - THREE JOURNEYS, Continuum, New York, (1993), 169pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, ISBN 0826406289, (Order No: 50057 ), $5.00
153. ( Cullen ), Robinson, Judith, TOM CULLEN OF BALTIMORE, Oxford University Press, London, 1949, B&W illustrations, 435pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Here is the story of a remarkable man--surgeon, pathologist, and Canadian., (Order No: 45223 ), $7.50
154. ( Curie ), Giroud, Francoise (translated by Lydia Davis), MARIE CURIE: A LIFE, Holmes & Meier, New York, (1986), 24 B&W ill., 291pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841909776 Perhaps the most illustrious woman of her era, Marie Curie is well-known for her Nobel Prizewinning research in physics and chemistry and for her discovery, with her husband Pierre Curie, of polonium and radium. The author presents the other side of Curie, her life. Translated by Lydia Davis., (Order No: 13312 ), $7.50
155. ( Curtis ), Curtis, Corinne R., ROOMS, Vantage Press, New York, (1979) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 218pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533033276 "How many of us remember the houseswe grew up in, their rooms and the living that took place in them? Corinne Rousseau Curtis remembers heers, and offers a pleasant and nostalgic view of what it was like for a young gidrl to grow up in the Bronx in the early 1900s.", (Order No: 50593 ), $12.50
156. ( Curzon ), The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, TALES OF TRAVEL, George H. Doran Company, New York, (1923), B&W illustrations, 405pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) light fade to spine, (Order No: 52513 ), $25.00
157. ( D'Annunzio ), Winwar, Frances, WINGLESS VICTORY: A BIOGRAPHY OF GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO AND ELEONORA DUSE, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1956) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 374pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The story of two world-famous creatures of genius and passion: Gabriele d'Annunzio, "the faun of the Abruzzi," poet, novelist, playwright, amorist and wildly worshiped military hero--and Eleonora Duse, the incomparable actress., (Order No: 40352 ), $7.50
158. ( Da Vinci ), McCurdy, Edward (editor of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci), THE MIND OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1940, 360pp, very good+, light blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, First published in 1928. Faint bump top of book block., (Order No: 48783 ), $10.00
159. ( da Vinci ), Turner, A. Richard, INVENTING LEONARDO, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993 1st ed, 69 B&W ill., 268pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0679415513 From the distinguished Renaissance scholar A. Richard Turner, here is a brilliant, wide-ranging study of Leonardo da Vinci: his place in cultural history and his relevance to our twentieth-century way of perceiving and interpreting the world., (Order No: 9853 ), $10.00
160. ( Daley ), Sullivan, Frank, LEGEND: THE ONLY INSIDE STORY ABOUT MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY, Bonus Books, Inc., Chicago, IL, (1989) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 258pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0933893965, (Order No: 38385 ), $3.00
161. ( Dana ), Perry, Bliss, RICHARD HENRY DANA 1851-1931, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1933, B&W illustrations, 265pp, very good, black cloth, teg (hardcover), This is the biography of the third R. H. Dana., (Order No: 52918 ), $15.00
162. ( Daniels ), Daniels, Josephus, TAR HEEL EDITOR, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, 1939 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 544pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "The purpose of writing this story of a Tar-heel editor has been to put in durable form a plain account of what befell a Southern boy born amid the bursting of shells in a North Carolina town bombed by the Federal forces in the War of the Sixties; who spent his boyhood in a North Carolina democratic and Democratic town that had experienced none of war's material destruction; and who had devoted most of the years of his manhood to editing a newspaper in the capital of his native State.", (Order No: 27975 ), $12.50
163. ( Darwin ), Keynes, Randal, DARWIN, HIS DAUGHTER, AND HUMAN EVOLUTION, Riverhead Books, New York, 2002, B&W illustrations, 384pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1573221929 In a chest of drawers left by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes found the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of ten. Within the box were the notes Darwin kept as he cared for Annie through her final illness., (Order No: 52821 ), $8.00
164. ( David ), Black, Jeannette D. and Roelker, William Greene (preface by Lawrence C. Wroth), A RHODE ISLAND CHAPLAIN IN THE REVOLUTION - LETTERS OF EBENEZER DAVID TO NICHOLAS BROWN 1775-1778, RI Society of the Cincinnati, Providence, RI, 1949, B&W illustrations, 82pp, very good, green cloth spine (hardcover), These letters give us information about the life and activities of a chaplain in the Continental Army, and they contain some excellent descriptions of action in various theatres of the Revolutionary War in which Rhode Island troops played a part., (Order No: 51057 ), $30.00
165. ( Davie ), Kennedy, Ruby Jo Reeves (edited by), THE PAPERS OF MAURICE R. DAVIE, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1961, B&W frontis, 311pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This collection of Maurice R. Davie's papers sets forth the philosophy of a man devoted to scientific research and to the practical application of this research to the problems and questions of an ever-changing society. His short writings over several decades have contributed to four main areas of sociology: immigration and population; the city; refugees; and minority groups., (Order No: 14753 ), $7.50
166. ( Davis ), Downey, Fairfax, RICHARD HARDING DAVIS: HIS DAY, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933, B&W illustrations, 322pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 19154 ), $7.50
167. ( Davis ), Davis, Richard Harding (edited by Charles Belmont Davis), ADVENTURES AND LETTERS OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917, B&W and color illustrations, 417pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 19197 ), $10.00
168. ( de Gaulle ), Grinnell-Milne, Duncan, THE TRUIMPH OF INTEGRITY: A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DE GAULLE, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 334pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This careful study of de Gaulle answers the essential questions about him., (Order No: 30921 ), $6.00
169. ( De Gaulle ), Lacouture, Jean (translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian), DE GAULLE: THE REBEL 1890-1944, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1990) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 615pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 039302699X, (Order No: 52670 ), $7.00
170. ( de Rabutin ), de Rabutin, Marie (Marquise de Sevigne), LETTRES NOUVELLES OU NOUVELLEMENT RECOUVREES DE LA MARQUISE DE SEVIGNE, ET DE LA MARQUISE DE SIMIANE, SA PETITE-FILLE., Chez Lacombe, Libraire, Paris, France, 1773, 394pp, good++, original full calf w/raised bands (hardcover), "Pour servir de suite aux differentes editions des Lettres de la Marquise de Sevigne." Marie de Rabutin (Marquise de Sevigne 1626-96) of a nobel family, orphaned at 7, and raised from the age 10 by her uncle (then 29) Christophe de Coulanges, abbe de Livvy (known in the letters as Le Bien Bon). She was beautiful. This 1773 edition printed for the first time, the letters to Moulceau, Mme de Siamian - the granddaughter of Mme de Sevigne. This clean and tight original binding, spine with 6 compartments and gold fleur de lis stampings, with light wear to edges of spine., (Order No: 45017 ), $350.00
171. ( de Raiz ), Lewis, D. B. Wyndham, THE SOUL OF MARSHAL GILLES DE RAIZ: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES, HIS ABOMINABLE CRIMES, AND HIS EXPIATION, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1952, B&W illustrations, 209pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Marshal Gilles de Raiz (1404-40) is one of history's most eminent infanticides. The book is based chiefly on the documents pertaining to Gilles de Raiz's trial at Nantes in 1440, printed in their entirety in 1886 and providing a mass of evidence which speaks for itself., (Order No: 50832 ), $10.00
172. ( de Valera ), Fitzgibbon, Constantine (text by) (illustrative material by George Morrison), THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EAMON DE VALERA, Macmillan Publishing Co.,Inc, New York, (1973) 1st ptg, B&W photographs, 150pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), This book presents in text and pictures a remarkable recreation of the life and times of de Valera which, inevitably, has involved the visual and textual recreation of more than a century of Irish history., (Order No: 16383 ), $9.50
173. ( De' Medici ), Roscoe, William, THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI, CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT - THE SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED IN TWO VOLUMES: TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Printed for T. Cadell, London, 1825, frontis, good+, full leather, aeg (hardcover), A look at 15th and 16th century Italy. Volume I: 469pp; and, Volume II: 499pp. Very nice clean and tight set., (Order No: 54259 ), $45.00
174. ( Delorean ), Fallon, Ivan, and Srodes, James, DREAM MAKER: THE RISE AND FALL OF JOHN Z. DELOREAN, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1983), B&W illustrations, 455pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), BCE, ISBN 0399128212, (Order No: 1976 ), $4.00
175. ( Delorean ), Levin, Hillel, GRAND DELUSIONS: THE COSMIC CAREER OF JOHN DE LOREAN, The Viking Press, New York, (1983), B&W illustrations, 336pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 067026685X, (Order No: 4876 ), $2.50
176. ( Dempsey ), Dempsey, Lotta, NO LIFE FOR A LADY, Musson Book Company, Don Mills, Ontario, (1976), B&W illustrations, 207pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0773700293 The delightful and entertaining adventures of one of Canada's leading women journalists., (Order No: 35350 ), $8.00
177. ( Denham ), Denham, Sir James, MEMOIRS OF THE MEMORABLE, George H. Doran Company, New York, n.d. - c1920s, 17 B&W ill., 336pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 29926 ), $20.00
178. ( Denman ), Denman, D. R., A HALF AND HALF AFFAIR: CHRONICLES OF A HYBRID DON, Churchill Press, London, (1993), B&W illustrations, 359pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0902782282 Central to this life story is the creation of Land Economy as an academic discipline and the founding of the Tripos and Department of Land Economy at Cambridge University., (Order No: 38275 ), $20.00
179. ( Desmond ), Desmond, Alice Curtis, YANKEES AND YORKERS, The Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME, (1985) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 165pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) limited to 250 copies, This book covers over three centuries, starting with Desmond's own direct descent from William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony established in 1620, and concluding with seven chapters devoted to her own interesting life of which she writes about at the age of eighty-seven., (Order No: 25886 ), $15.00
180. ( DeVoto ), Bowen, Catherine Drinker; Mirrielees, Edith R.; Schlesinger, Arthur M.; and, Stegner, Wallace -- DeVoto, Berard, FOUR PORTRAITS AND ONE SUBJECT: BERNARD DEVOTO, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1963 1st ptg, B&W frontis, 206pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Includes; THE HISTORIAN by Catherine Drinker Bowen, THE WRITER by Edith R. Mirrielees, THE CITIZEN by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and, THE PERSONALITY by Wallace Stegner. Also with a bibliography of his writings prepared by Julius P. Barclay with the collaboration of Elaine Helmer Parnie., (Order No: 18355 ), $3.50
181. ( Dewey ), Dewey, Adelbert M., THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ADMIRAL DEWEY: FROM MONTPELIER TO MANILA, The Werner Company, Akron, OH, (1899), B&W illustrations, 559pp, good++, black cloth (hardcover) nice clean and tight copy, CONTAINING REPRODUCTIONS IN FAC-SIMILE OF HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF GEORGE DEWEY DURING THE ADMIRAL'S NAVAL CAREER AND EXTRACTS FROM HIS LOG-BOOK. EMBELLISHED WITH OVER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS. AUTHORIZED EDITION., (Order No: 53977 ), $12.50
182. ( Dewey ), Healy, Laurin Hall and Kutner, Luis, THE ADMIRAL, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., Chicago, (1944), B&W illustrations, 338pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "This book is both a complete life of Admiral George Dewey and a comprehensive history of the Navy, to which he made so large a contribution.", (Order No: 10949 ), $5.00
183. ( Dickey ), Griffith, Helen, DAUNTLESS IN MISSISSIPPI: THE LIFE OF SARAH A. DICKEY, 1838-1904, Dinosaur Press, South Hadley, MA, (1966) 2nd ed, B&W frontis, 174pp, very good, wraps (softcover) signed by the author, Sarah Dickey's life is the story of a Northern white woman in the second half of the nineteenth century, a woman dauntless in the face of almost insuperable obstacles. She possessed great courage and complete faith., (Order No: 48465 ), $12.50
184. ( Dighton ), Dighton, Adair, MY SPORTING LIFE, Richards, London, [1934], B&W illustrations, 240pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: Early Days in Cheltenham; More Stories of the Garden City; My Medical Days in Edinburgh; And More Medicine; Now Liverpool; My Debut on the Sporting Press; Coursing Days on the "Sporting Chronicle," Still Coursing; By the Back-Door Into Racing; Join the Life as "The Special Commissioner," "King Cob," Etc., Etc.; More of the Life and Some Stories; Studs and Their Owners; My Holy of Holies; Newmarket: The Headquarters of the Turf; Up North and in the Midlands., (Order No: 38670 ), $100.00
185. ( Disraeli ), Meynell, Wilfrid, BENJAMIN DISRAELI: AN UNCONVENTIONAL BIOGRAPHY, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1903 1st ed, 40 B&W illustrations, 520pp, good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), From the preface; "Disraeli the Man - Disraeli as son, brother, husband, friend - is the theme of this book. It is an informal study of Temperament; in its way, and in his own words, 'A Psychological Romance.' A record of his public acts - not attempted here, except so far as those acts illustrate his personality - would be nothing short of a History of the reign of Victoria.", (Order No: 24561 ), $17.50
186. ( Ditka ), Keteyian, Armen, DITKA: MONSTER OF THE MIDWAY, Pocket Books, New York, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 346pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671749994, (Order No: 39678 ), $6.50
187. ( Dix ), Wilson, Dorothy Clarke, STRANGER AND TRAVELER: THE STORY OF DOROTHEA DIX, AMERICAN REFORMER, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, (1975) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 360pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316544963, (Order No: 4628 ), $4.50
188. ( Dolibois ), Dolibois, John E., PATTERN OF CIRCLES: AN AMBASSADOR'S STORY, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, (1989) 2nd ptg, color frontis, B&W ill., 314pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0873383893 His life and career--as a soldier, an educator, as a representative of his country., (Order No: 38133 ), $6.00
189. ( Donnelly ), Ridge, Martin, IGNATIUS DONNELLY - THE PORTRAIT OF A POLITICIAN, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1962), B&W illustrations, 427pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Biography of one of the Midwest's most important political and intellectual leaders in the latter half of the nineteenth century., (Order No: 50584 ), $6.00
190. ( Doran ), Doran, George H., CHRONICLES OF BARABBAS, 1884-1934, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, (1935) 2nd ptg, 416pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: Part One--Which Is Rather Personal; Part Two--Which Concerns Publishers And Publishing Associates; Part Three--Which Concerns A Select London Group; Part Four--Which Concerns A Particular Group Of Very Friendly People; Part Five--Which Concerns Some Men In High Places; Part Six--Which Concern The Humourists And Other Ists; Part Seven--Which Concerns Men and Women Authors and Editors; Part Eight--Which Concerns The Ordained And The Unordained; Part Nine--Which Concerns A Series of Particular Events., (Order No: 46575 ), $5.00
191. ( Douglas ), Croft-Cooke, Rupert, BOSIE: LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS, HIS FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1963), B&W illustrations, 414pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Historically, Lord Alfred Douglas is known as the petulant, vicious, beautiful young man who was both Wilde's lover and his destroyer., (Order No: 26190 ), $5.00
192. ( Douglas ), Stevens, Frank E., LIFE OF STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS - STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS -- JOURNAL OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OCTOBER 1923 - JAN 1924, Illinois State Hist. Soc., Springfield, IL, 1924, B&W illustrations, 673pp, good+, wraps (softcover) light edgewear - clean and tight, DOUBLE NUMBER of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society - Vol. XVI, October 1923 - January 1924, Nos. 3-4. Massive and detailed biography of Douglas., (Order No: 44171 ), $40.00
193. ( Dreyfus ), Dreyfus, Jack, THE LION OF WALL STREET: THE TWO LIVES OF JACK DREYFUS, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W photos, 330pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0895264617 Dreyfus, Wall Street maverick and founder of the billion-dollar Dreyfus Fund, offers the story of his remarkable life, from his early years in Montgomery, Alabama, through college, the Coast Guard, and eventually to the New York Stock Exhange, where he created his formula for sharing America's wealth with millions of small investors. His second life involves his fight over depression., (Order No: 7402 ), $5.00
194. ( Drucker ), Tarrant, John J. (foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson), DRUCKER: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CORPORATE SOCIETY, Cahners Books, Inc., Boston, MA, (1976), 300pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0843607440 This book is the first full-scale study of Drucker's work, his influence, and his place in the business world and in society. It offers the reader an all-inclusive view of the man as a shaper of industrial society, of his influence on the structure of the corporation, and of his impact as a writer and philosopher., (Order No: 15447 ), $2.50
195. ( Du Pont ), Low, Betty-Bright; and, Hinsley, Jacqueline, SOPHIE DU PONT - A YOUNG LADY IN AMERICA: SKETCHES, DIARIES, & LETTERS 1823-1833, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (1987), B&W and color illustrations, 192pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810911361, (Order No: 47501 ), $5.00
196. ( Dupont ), Carr, William H. A., THE DU PONTS OF DELAWARE: A FANTASTIC DYNASTY, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, (1964) 6th ptg, B&W illustrations, 368pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Illustrated with genealogical charts, a map and photographs., (Order No: 2109 ), $6.00
197. ( Dupont ), Dutton, William S., DU PONT: ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942, 396pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 2559 ), $4.00
198. ( Dupont ), Mosley, Leonard, BLOOD RELATIONS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DU PONTS OF DELAWARE, Atheneum, New York, 1980, B&W illustrations, 428pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), BCE, ISBN 0689110553, (Order No: 4524 ), $5.00
199. ( Eastman ), O'Neill, William L., THE LAST ROMANTIC: A LIFE OF MAX EASTMAN, Oxford University Press, New York, 1978, B&W illustrations, 339pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195024052 Through an examination of Eastman's private papers, this book reveals the dynamics behind Eastman's several careers and political transformations, offering new insight into one of the most dashing and romantic writers of this century., (Order No: 14319 ), $7.00
200. ( Eden ), Eden, Sir Anthony, THE MEMOIRS OF SIR ANTHONY EDEN: FULL CIRCLE, Cassell, London, (1960), 6 B&W maps, 619pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This "volume" sets out the author's experience in national and international affairs in the years 1951-1957, during which period he was Foreign Secretary or Prime Minister., (Order No: 12773 ), $7.50
201. ( Edison ), Beasley, Rex (foreword by Herbert Hoover), EDISON, Chilton Books, Philadelphia, PA, (1964) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 176pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, In this book, Edison is seen in a conflict of moods as he proves, pushes, and shouts for the results he is determined to achieve., (Order No: 3663 ), $14.50
202. ( Edison ), Baldwin, Neil (with bookplate signed by the author), EDISON: INVENTING THE CENTURY, Hyperion, New York, (1995) 3rd ptg, B&W photos, 531pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0786860413 "The first biography of Thomas Edison to distinquish the myth from the complex and self-contradictory man, and the first to place him in the intellectual and cultural context of his times.", (Order No: 6312 ), $7.50
203. ( Edison ), Bryan, George S., EDISON: THE MAN AND HIS WORK, Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City, NY, (1926), B&W illustrations, 350pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), This volume endeavors to present the human interest inherent in Edison and at the same time it assumes that Edison cannot properly be separated from his work., (Order No: 29021 ), $5.00
204. ( Edison ), Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956); Thomas A. Edison, EDISON AS IN THOUGHT IN HIS LAB -- ORIGINAL COPPERPLATE ETCHING, 1915, fine, exceptional matting and framing, Original copperplate etching (approximately 8.5 inches by 7 inches) titled EDISON AS IN THOUGHT IN HIS LAB, framed beautifully in a 20.5 inch by 20 inch frame with inset title. Profile image of Edison with laboratory equipment behind him. His eyes are closed as if in thought. Signed in pencil by the artist Bernhardt Wall on the lower right, and signed in the etching "Wall 1915, Silver Lake." A pioneer etcher and producer of fine press books, it was in 1915 that Wall decided to make etching his vocation, making this one of his early works. Thomas A. Edison established a chemical plant in Silver Lake, New Jersey in 1914. When it burned on January 9, 1916, Edison said he would rebuild in 48 hours. An uncommon Edison or Wall item., (Order No: 52443 ), $495.00
205. ( Edison ), Conot, Robert, A STREAK OF LUCK, Seaview Books, New York, (1979), B&W illustrations, 565pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0872235211 Scholarly biography of Thomas A. Edison. Title comes from Edison's comment made July 26, 1869, 'I'll never give up for I may have a streak of luck before I die.', (Order No: 1905 ), $5.00
206. ( Edison ), Clark, Ronald W., EDISON: THE MAN WHO MADE THE FUTURE, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1977) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 256pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399119523 The author describes Edison's early untutored upbringing, his first inventions, and his struggles in the industrial jungle. His great achievement in perfecting the world's first system of incandescent lighting and his success in building the first phonograph are graphically described, as are his vital early contributions to what became the motion picture industry. His work for the U.S. Navy during the First World War and his efforts to make his country self-sufficient in rubber are only two among the many other episodes in the life of this archetypal American of the era., (Order No: 16064 ), $4.50
207. ( Edison ), Dyer, Frank Lewis and Martin, Thomas C., EDISON: HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1910 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vol, 989pp, good+, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) light edgewear, First authorized biography of Edison which is largely autobiographical. Presents the business as well as the technical aspects of Edison's work. Larson 418., (Order No: 1911 ), $95.00
208. ( Edison ), Dyer, Frank L. & Martin, Thomas C., EDISON HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1929, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 1036pp, very good+, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), Originally published in 1910 as the first authorized biography of Edison, which is largely autobiographical. Presents the business as well as the techincal aspects of Edison's work. Larson 418., (Order No: 1928 ), $75.00
209. ( Edison ), Frost, Lawrence A., THE THOMAS A. EDISON ALBUM: A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA, (1969) 1st ed, B&W photographs, 175pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 1926 ), $17.50
210. ( Edison ), Greenwood, Ernest, EDISON: THE BOY - THE MAN, Nat'l Electric Light Assoc, New York, (1929), B&W illustrations, 64pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), A brief story of the life and work of Thomas Alva Edison. Bookplate - "Compliments of the Potomac Electric Power Company.", (Order No: 52657 ), $10.00
211. ( Edison ), Garbedian, Gordon, THOMAS ALVA EDISON: BUILDER OF CIVILIZATION, Julian Messner, Inc., New York, (1947), ill. by Robert Burns, 231pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 52983 ), $7.50
212. ( Edison ), Hutchings, David W., EDISON AT WORK: THE THOMAS A. EDISON LABORATORY AT WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY - THE FAMOUS MUSEUM SERIES, Hastings House, Publishers, New York, (1969), B&W illustrations, 94pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803818939 Where did Edison work? What sort of shop did he have? How did he go about discovering his world-changing inventions? The answers are in the Thomas Edison Museum at West Orange, NJ, the laboratories and machine shops he worked in for forty-four years, and left for the last time only three months before his death at age 84., (Order No: 52658 ), $17.50
213. ( Edison ), Jones, Francis Arthur, THOMAS ALVA EDISON: SIXTY YEARS OF AN INVENTORS LIFE, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York, (1908) 6th 1000, B&W illustrations, 362pp, good, green cloth (hardcover), Author interviewed many early acquaintences of Edison in preparing this book. Chapters on many of his inventions., (Order No: 2037 ), $20.00
214. ( Edison ), Josephson, Matthew, EDISON: A BIOGRAPHY, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, (1959) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 511pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), One of the better biographies of Edison with extensive notes., (Order No: 2848 ), $7.50
215. ( Edison ), Millard, Andre, EDISON AND THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION, The Johns Hopkins Univ Press, Baltimore, (1990), B&W illustrations, 287pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 080183306X Story of Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision., (Order No: 3662 ), $20.00
216. ( Edison ), Miller, Francis Trevelyan, THOMAS A. EDISON: AN INSPIRING STORY FOR BOYS, The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, (1940), B&W illustrations, 320pp, good, black cloth (no dustjacket), First published in 1931 as: THOMAS A. EDISON - BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND: THE ROMANTIC LIFE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST INVENTOR., (Order No: 4676 ), $15.00
217. ( Edison ), Edison, Thomas A.; Runes, Dagobert D. (editor), THE DIARY AND SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON, Philosophical Library, New York, (1948), B&W illustrations, 247pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The diary of Edison which is presented here for the first time in book form, is only fragmentary, and so are the many chapters of his observations and notes. Thomas Alva Edison was not a desk scientist. His mind was forever searching for new paths, new ways into the mysteries that surround us, and many a precious secret was he able to wrest from nature., (Order No: 4496 ), $17.50
218. ( Edison ), Simonds, William A. (introduction by Francis Jehl), A BOY WITH EDISON - ONE BOY'S EXCITING EXPERIENCES WITH AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR, The Sun Dial Press, New York, (1940), B&W illustrations, 285pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Firsdt published in 1931. "Young Moderns Bookshelf", (Order No: 52768 ), $10.00
219. ( Edison ), Simonds, William Adams, EDISON: HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS GENIUS - THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR, Blue Ribbon Books, New York, (1940), 364pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscrip., First published in 1934., (Order No: 53010 ), $14.50
220. ( Edison ), Tate, Alfred O. (Edison's Private Secretary), EDISON'S OPEN DOOR - THE LIFE STORY OF THOMAS A. EDISON: A GREAT INDIVIDUALIST; BY HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1938 1st ed, 320pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, small tear top spine, "This is the most personal story that has ever been written about Edison and could not have been told by anyone else." Light edgewear, slight can to book block, and a small tear at the top of the spine., (Order No: 52984 ), $17.50
221. ( Edison ), Vanderbilt, Byron M., THOMAS EDISON, CHEMIST, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1971, B&W illustrations, 373pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0841201293 Thomas Edison - inventory, innovater, electrical and mechanical wizard - was first and foremost a remarkably versatile chemist., (Order No: 2174 ), $8.50
222. ( Edison ), Wachhorst, Wyn, THOMAS ALVA EDISON: AN AMERICAN MYTH, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1982) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 328pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0262231085 Book traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues: hard work, perserverance, the gospel of technological progress, the mythology of the self-made man, individualism, optimism, practically mingled with idealism., (Order No: 3661 ), $5.00
223. ( Epstein ), Epstein, Jacob, EPSTEIN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Hulton Press, London, (1955), B&W illustrations, 294pp, very good+, green leather, teg (hardcover), THIS EDITION IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTAINS A COLLOTYPE REPRODUCTION OF HIS WATERCOLOUR PAINTING 'LILIES'. IT IS LIMITED TO 195 COPIES OF WHICH 185 ARE FOR SALE. THIS IS NUMBER 181., (Order No: 52299 ), $185.00
224. ( Evarts ), Evarts, William Maxwell (edited, with an introduction by his son Sherman Evarts), ARGUMENTS AND SPEECHES OF WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS - THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1919, B&W frontis, good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) inscribed by the editor, William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901) served as President Andrew Johnson's Chief Counsel during the impreachment trials and later served (1868-9) as the US Attorney General. From 1877-1881 he was Secretary of State. A very accomplished person he later raised the monies for the base of the Statue of Liberty. He is buried about 40 minutes from our shop where his family resided. This set comes from the family's estate. Volume I: 722pp, ads, inscribed on the title page "Elizabeth P. Evarts - Nov. 1, 1919. - from her father [the editor], this first volume exhibits edgewear, the other volumes are very good. Volume II: 647pp; and, Volume III: 461pp., (Order No: 54246 ), $125.00
225. ( Faulkner ), Faulkner, Katharine B., DREAMS HAPPENINGS AND THE ADVENTURES OF A WOOLGATHERER IN POLITICS, Shiver Mountain Press, Inc., Washington Depot, CT, (1981), unpaginated, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 089488011X Contents include: The Dreams; The Happenings; and, The Adventures of a Woolgatherer in Politics., (Order No: 44587 ), $25.00
226. ( Filson ), Walton, John, JOHN FILSON OF KENTUCKE, University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY, (1956), 130pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), A biography of Kentucky's first historian and cartographer, the man who discovered Daniel Boone and quickly spread his name and exploits to distant parts of the world., (Order No: 38058 ), $40.00
227. ( Fischer ), Fischer, Brigitte B. & Zohn, Harry (translated by), MY EUROPEAN HERITAGE: LIFE AMONG GREAT MEN OF LETTERS, Branden Publishing Company, Boston, MA, (1986), B&W illustrations, 314pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0828318972 These memoirs outline the story of one of the world's great publishing houses, S. Fischer Verlag. With the aid of a diary, Fischer evokes the atmosphere of her parental home, a mecca for writers and musicians, and describes how, after her father's death in 1934, she and her husband escaped the Nazis and established an American branch of the company., (Order No: 13495 ), $6.50
228. ( Fischer ), Fischer, Louis, MEN AND POLITICS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Jonathan Cape, London, (1941), 639pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Contents include: Part One, The Post-War Period, 1921-1930; Part Two, World Crisis and World War, 1930-1940., (Order No: 30129 ), $7.50
229. ( Fisk ), Porter, Donald, JUBILEE JIM AND THE WIZARD OF WALL STREET, Dutton, New York, (1990) 1st ptg, 568pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0525248412 A fast paced novel of Jim Fisk, Jay Gould and their colorful times. Slightly bent facts, and created characters to aid in giving a flavor to the times of the Erie wars, and scandals of the Grant administration., (Order No: 2060 ), $2.00
230. ( Fisk ), Swanberg, W. A., JIM FISK: THE CAREER OF AN IMPROBABLE RASCAL, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1959), B&W illustrations, 310pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "America's most flamboyant crook, murdered in 1872 by his mistress's lover after a career of colossal swindles and impudent ostentation.", (Order No: 2742 ), $5.00
231. ( Fiske ), Clark, John Spencer, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN FISKE - VOLUME I AND VOLUME II - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1917 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, very good, red cloth, teg (hardcover) no dustjackets, Vol 1, 533pp; Vol 2, 523pp., (Order No: 8538 ), $17.50
232. ( Fitzgerald ), Martin, Robert Bernard, WITH FRIENDS POSSESSED: A LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD, Atheneum, New York, 1985 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 313pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0689115571 The first full biography in almost forty years of the heretofore much-misunderstood translator of the RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM., (Order No: 23911 ), $5.00
233. ( Forbes ), Jones, Arthur, MALCOLM FORBES: PERIPATETIC MILLIONAIRE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1977) 1st ed, 30 B&W ill., 211pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0060122048 Malcolm Forbes did not inherit a fortune-he inherited a struggling magazine. From that base, in less than thirty years, Forbes magazine grew to a major moneymaker-for one man. How it grew, why it grew, and the fun Malcolm Forbes, a modern-day adventurer, had along the way making it grow is the tale told in this book., (Order No: 12565 ), $4.00
234. ( Ford ), Burlingame, Roger, HENRY FORD - A GREAT LIFE IN BRIEF, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1955 1st ed, 194pp, index, good, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - couple ink marks, (Order No: 52769 ), $4.00
235. ( Ford ), Graves, Ralph H., THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEA: THE STORY OF HENRY FORD, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1934 1st ed, ill. with 52 photographs, 184pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), A slight, publicity type of book that traces growth of Ford production and describes plants and processes. Larson 408., (Order No: 1922 ), $5.00
236. ( Ford ), Garrett, Garet, HENRY FORD: THE WILD WHEEL, Pantheon Books, New York, (1952) 4th ptg, B&W illustrations, 220pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "The fascinating Story of the Man and the Industrial Empire which he built." The author knew Ford well over many years and his story is based upon notes and recollections of many discussions with both Ford and his associates., (Order No: 17969 ), $15.00
237. ( Ford ), Lasky, Victor, NEVER COMPLAIN, NEVER EXPLAIN: THE STORY OF HENRY FORD II, Richard Marek Publishers, New York, (1981), 307pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on jacket, ISBN 0399901043, (Order No: 8233 ), $3.50
238. ( Ford ), Sward, Keith, THE LEGEND OF HENRY FORD, Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York, 1948, 501pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - light edgewear, The result of ten years of research, this is the first definitive work on the great industrialist who built an automobile into a veritable empire., (Order No: 41473 ), $4.00
239. ( Ford ), Wik, Reynold M., HENRY FORD AND GRASS-ROOTS AMERICA, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1972), B&W illustrations, 266pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0472972006 Re-creates the era of the Tin Lizzie and the Fordson tractor. Tracing and evaluating Ford's activities and ideas in many fields - agriculture, science, politics, education - the author examines the ways in which Mr. Ford came to epitomize the values of the "little man" in the minds of many rural Americans, who looked upon Ford as one of their own., (Order No: 37213 ), $15.00
240. ( Foster ), Foster, Herbert D., COLLECTED PAPERS OF HERBERT D. FOSTER: PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 1893-1927, Privately Printed, n.p., [1929], B&W frontis, 249pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) few pencil marks in margins, (Order No: 40291 ), $15.00
241. ( Fox ), Drinkwater, John, CHARLES JAMES FOX, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., New York, 1928 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 389pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) faint tear top of spine, (Order No: 2460 ), $4.50
242. ( Fox ), Fox, Caroline (edited by Horace N. Pym), MEMORIES OF OLD FRIENDS: BEING EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF CAROLINE FOX OF PENJERRICK CORNWALL FROM 1835 TO 1871, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1882, 378pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) edgewear top/bottom of spine, (Order No: 53173 ), $15.00
243. ( Fox ), Lascelles, Edward, THE LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES FOX, Octagon Books, New York, 1970, B&W frontis, 345pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), First published in 1936., (Order No: 34246 ), $14.50
244. ( Fox ), Reid, Loren, CHARLES JAMES FOX: A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, (1969), 475pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0826200761 This full- length biography describes and analyzes Fox's speeches. The author focuses on Fox's personality and speechmaking providing a detailed description of events directly connected with his career., (Order No: 52093 ), $10.00
245. ( France ), Segur, Nicolas (authorized translation with an introduction by J. Lewis May), THE OPINIONS OF ANATOLE FRANCE, The Bodley Head/Dodd, Mead, London/New York, (1928), 217pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 31439 ), $14.50
246. ( Franklin ), Ford, Paul Leicester, THE MANY-SIDED FRANKLIN, The Century Co., New York, 1899, B&W illustrations, 516pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) light edgewear to cloth, (Order No: 49250 ), $8.00
247. ( Franklin ), Franklin, Benjamin (Franklin, Wm. Temple), THE WORKS OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, IN PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND MORALS: ... VOLUME IV ONLY, William Duane, Philadelphia, PA, 1817, 564pp, good, full calf leather (hardcover) leather cracked at hinges, "...CONTAINING HIS DIPOLMATIC CORRESPONDENCE, AS MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE COURT OF VERSAILLES; HIS PRIVATE EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE, MISCELLANEOUS, LITERARY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1753 AND 1790, DEVELOPING THE SECRET HISTORY OF HIS POLITICAL TRANSACTIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS. PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS, BY HIS GRANDSON, WM. TEMPLE FRANKLIN." Vol. VI only containing: Private Correspondence. Miscellaneous. Part II; Political. Private Correspondence. Part II (Part I is in Vol V.; Political. Private Correspondence. Part III. Relating to Negotiations for Peace. Clean and tight copy, leather on spine cracking from outside., (Order No: 52518 ), $300.00
248. ( Franklin ), Franklin, Benjamin; Sparks, Jared (edited by), FAMILIAR LETTERS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED, ... WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, Jackson and Walford, London, 1833, 295pp, good, green cloth spine, paper label (hardcover) wear to boards, 128 of Franklin's letters from 1726 through 1789 followed by seven papers., (Order No: 53360 ), $200.00
249. ( Franklin ), Holman, Louis A. (reproductions of paintings by Charles E. Mills in the Franklin Union, Boston), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, MA, 1916, B&W illustrations, 83pp, good, brown cloth spine (hardcover) light wear to corners, The paintings which form the subject of this volume constitute the frieze in the entrance hall of the Franklin Union Building on Berkeley Street in Franklin's native town, Boston., (Order No: 52418 ), $15.00
250. ( Franklin ), Labaree, Leonard W. and Bell, Whitfield, J. (editors), MR. FRANKLIN: A SELECTION FROM HIS PERSONAL LETTERS, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1956, color illustrations, 61pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "Here are twenty-seven letters that reflect the appealing personality of the first American to achieve world fame.", (Order No: 16215 ), $5.00
251. ( Franklin ), Morgan, Edmund S., BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (2002) 6th ptg, B&W illustrations, 339pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300095325, (Order No: 44532 ), $4.00
252. ( Franklin ), Stifler, James Madison, "MY DEAR GIRL", George H. Doran Company, New York, (1927), B&W illustrations, 279pp, good, grey cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) wear to cloth, The correspondence of Benjamin Franklin with Polly Stevenson, Georgiana and Catherine Shipley. CONDITION NOTE - Light wear top/bottom of spine and light discoloration to cloth., (Order No: 16214 ), $8.00
253. ( Franklin ), Smythe, J. Henry (compiled and edited by), THE AMAZING BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1929, color frontis, B&W ill., 297pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover), "This book is here presented by the Sons of the American Revolution as a patriotic tribute to the memory of Benjamin Franklin and as a record of his genius and achievements.", (Order No: 31656 ), $10.00
254. ( Fremont ), Herr, Pamela, JESSIE BENTON FREMONT: A BIOGRAPHY, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, (1988), B&W illustrations, 496pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0806121599 At seventeen, Fremont defied her family and horrified Washington society when she eloped with explorer John Charles Fremont. What followed was a life of extremes, of glittering successes and bitter failures, as Jessie channeled her energy and drive into her husband's career, using her political contacts and writing talent on his behalf., (Order No: 44630 ), $5.00
255. ( Frey ), Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, A RUSSIAN'S AMERICAN DREAM - A MEMOIR ON WILLIAM FREY, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS, 1965, 147pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), William Frey (the adopted name of the son of a Russian general) gave up the prospect of a brilliant career in geodetics at home, and in 1868 emigrated to the United States with his bride., (Order No: 50158 ), $12.50
256. ( Frick ), Harvey, George, HENRY CLAY FRICK: THE MAN, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928, B&W illustrations, 382pp, good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 2256 ), $5.00
257. ( Galbraith ), Sasson, Helen (editor) and Williams, Andrea (associate editor), BETWEEN FRIENDS: PERSPECTIVES ON JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1999 1st ptg, 176pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0395971306 Sixteen of Galbraith's friends and colleagues collaborate on a book about him. This book pays homage to a man who has based his life on the belief that economics should be about people, not numbers., (Order No: 24032 ), $10.00
258. ( Galitzine ), Galitzine, Princess Nicholas, SPIRIT TO SURVIVE: THE MEMOIRS OF PRINCESS NICHOLAS GALITZINE, William Kimber, London, (1976), B&W illustrations, 199pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) AUTHOR INSCRIBED, ISBN 0718303946 It falls to few human beings to experience the extremes of circumstances that have been the destiny of Princess Galitzine. What qualities enable you to endure first deprivation, than the collapse of the world around you, the execution of your father and then solitary confinement with the expectation of your own death? Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated 1977., (Order No: 47470 ), $175.00
259. ( Garfield ), Garfield, James Abram (edited by Burke A. Hinsdale), THE WORKS OF JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY, (1970), very good, green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0836953304 First published in 1882. Volume I, 779pp; and, Volume II, 816pp., (Order No: 54028 ), $50.00
260. ( Garrison ), Nye, Russel B. (edited by Oscar Handlin), WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE HUMANITARIAN REFORMERS, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1955) 6th ptg, 215pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), William Lloyd Garrison's passionate revolt against man-made authority became a symbol of the struggle between slavery and freedom, progress and retrogression. A social being, tied to humanity and incapable of acting without it, "his life graphically and dramatically illustrated the complexity of the reform impulse as a whole.", (Order No: 16568 ), $4.00
261. ( Gautier ), Richardson, Joanna, JUDITH GAUTIER - A BIOGRAPHY, Franklin Watts, New York, 1987 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 312pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0531150259 Judith Gautier was born in Paris in 1845, the daughter of Theophile Gautier and his mistress, the contralto Ernesta Grisi., (Order No: 42121 ), $6.00
262. ( George ), Edwards, J. Hugh, THE LIFE OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE WITH A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WELSH PEOPLE - TWO VOLUME SET, Waverly Book Company, London, (1913), B&W illustrations, good, maroon cloth (hardcover), Two volume set: Volume I, 270pp; Volume II, 226pp., (Order No: 36699 ), $45.00
263. ( Getty ), Lenzner, Robert, THE GREAT GETTY: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF J. PAUL GETTY - RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1985), B&W illustrations, 283pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517562227, (Order No: 4523 ), $2.50
264. ( Gilder ), Gilder, Richard Watson (edited by his Daughter Rosamond Gilder), LETTERS OF RICHARD WATSON GILDER, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1916, B&W illustrations, 515pp, very good, dark green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 52871 ), $10.00
265. ( Gladstone ), Marlow, Joyce, THE OAK AND THE IVY: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM AND CATHERINE GLADSTONE, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1977 1st ed, 26 B&W ill., 324pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) (closed tear/fold rear of dj), ISBN 0385112904 This is the dual biography of a fascinating couple--William Gladstone, the most famous politician of Victorian England, and his wife Catherine, a popular, unconventional woman who was devoted to her husband and family yet managed to live a remarkably independent and productive life of her own., (Order No: 14561 ), $5.00
266. ( Godfrey ), Vickery, James B. (introduction by), THE JOURNALS OF JOHN EDWARDS GODFREY - BANGOR, MAINE 1863-1869, Courier-Gazette, Inc., Rockland, ME, (1979), B&W illustrations, 442pp, good+, wraps (softcover), Over a hundred years later, the journals of Judge John Edwards Godfrey, of Bangor, Maine, recreate a time when personal and political sentiments were actively expressed in daily life., (Order No: 52567 ), $14.50
267. ( Gonzalez ), Marquez-Sterling, Manuel (inscribed by), FERNAN GONZALEZ, FIRST COUNT OF CASTILE: THE MAN AND THE LEGEND - ROMANCE MONOGRAPHS, INC. NUMBER 40, Romance Monographs, Inc., University, Mississippi, 1980, B&W ill. and maps, 154pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 8449940567 Fernan Gonzalez is one of the most interesting figures in the history of medieval Spain. His rebellions against the kings of Leon and his eventual success in segregating the county of Castille from the kingdom of Leon in the middle of the 10th century changed the course of Spainish history. Less than seventy years after his death, in 970, Castile under one of his heirs became a full-fledged kingdom and led the vanguard of the reconquista., (Order No: 52858 ), $75.00
268. ( Goodman ), Goodman, Arnold (aka Lord Goodman; preface by Lord Annan), NOT FOR THE RECORD: SELECTED SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, Andre Deutsch, London, (1973) 2nd ptg, 173pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, ISBN 0233963464 Composed with an urbanity and a wit which never disguise their basic seriousness, these articles and speeches by Lord Goodman illustrate his central preoccupation with equity and justice., (Order No: 38764 ), $14.50
269. ( Gordon ), Nutting, Anthony, GORDON OF KHARTOUM: MARTYR AND MISFIT, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, (1966), B&W ill., B&W maps, 338pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 23110 ), $7.50
270. ( Gore ), Pinkney, Helen R., CHRISTOPHER GORE: FEDERALIST OF MASSACHUSETTS 1758-1827, Gore Place Society, Waltham, MA, (1999) 2nd ptg, 180pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), First published in 1969. Through speculation Gore acquired great wealth and built a country house that is one of America's finest examples of Federalist architecture, and from the ratification of the federal Constitution until the beginning of the Era of Good Feelings, he applied his talents to shaping the policies of the Federalist party in Massachusetts., (Order No: 54024 ), $12.50
271. ( Gould ), White, Bouck (introduction by Edward Dorn), THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW: A GLIMPSE OF THE FISK-GOULD-TWEED REGIME FROM THE INSIDE, Frontier Press, New York, (1969), 423pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), Originally published in 1910 - The Inside Story of the First Great Wall Street Speculator. Written in the form of an autobiography, this book about Daniel Drew is a mixture of reality and fiction. It seems to catch much of the "spirit" of one of the early great operators on the New York stock market, who is especially known for his efforts to control Erie. Often quoted as though authoritative. Larson 532., (Order No: 685 ), $5.00
272. ( Grannis ), Case, Leland D. and Grannis, Edith E. H. (edited by), NEW HAMPSHIRE TO MINNESOTA: MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL HIGBEE GRANNIS (1839-1933), Edith Emily Higbee Grannis, Tucson, AZ, (1962) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 187pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) inscribed by Edith Grannis, This first edition is limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 152. "These pages reveal a warm and interesting personality; they are also a slice of American history. It starts in New Hampshire where the Connecticut river picks up the fast water from the Sugar (pronounced locally exactly as is Shugah, the Indian tribe which provided the name). This natural mill site may have been noted by Rogers Rangers, returning from the raid on St. Francis in 1759, for fewer than ten years later from New Haven and nearby Connecticut communities came settlers to establish the town of Claremont. And amongst them were men bearing names that show in these Memoirs--Ashley, Sumner, Higbee, Rice, and Grannis.", (Order No: 39999 ), $50.00
273. ( Greeley ), Cornell, William M., THE LIFE AND PUBLIC CAREER OF HON. HORACE GREELEY, D. Lothrop & Company, Boston, MA, n.d. c1880, 4 B&W illustrations, 317pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 40322 ), $15.00
274. ( Greene ), Stegeman, John F. and Stegeman, Janet A. (foreword by Harvey H. Jackson), CATY - A BIOGRAPHY OF CATHERINE LITTLEFIELD GREENE, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1977) 4th ptg, 235pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0820307920 The wife of Revolutionary War general Nathaniel Greene, Caty was a close friend of George and Martha Washington, a business partner of Eli Whitney, and mistriss of two Georgia plantations., (Order No: 52651 ), $6.00
275. ( Grimke ), Todras, Ellen H., ANGELINA GRIMKE: VOICE OF ABOLITION, Linnet Books, North Haven, CT, (1999), B&W illustrations, 178pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0208024859 Based on her diaries, letters, and other primary sources, this biography follows an intense and sometimes difficult woman from childhood to her career as a reformer, her passionate courtship and marriage with abolitionist Theodore Weld, her later life of service to the cause in spite of chronic ill health., (Order No: 52701 ), $7.50
276. ( Guggenheim ), Hoyt, Edwin P., THE GUGGENHEIMS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, (1967) 1st ed, 382pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In 1847 the Guggenheims (fourteen of them) left a tiny Swiss ghetto for the dream of freedom. Simon and his eldest son, Meyer, became manufacturers of stove polish. By World War I, Meyer's sons were worth more than $500 million, and were the most important men in the world metal industries., (Order No: 4576 ), $5.00
277. ( Guggenheim ), Lomask, Milton, SEED MONEY: THE GUGGENHEIM STORY, Farrar, Straus and Co., New York, 1964, B&W illustrations, 307pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 2043 ), $7.50
278. ( Haddad ), Haddad, George (taken down by his daughter Emily Marie Haddad) (assisted by Berenice Rachel Tuttle) (intro by John Abner Mead), MT. LEBANON TO VERMONT: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE HADDAD, Tuttle Company Publishers, Rutland, VT, (1916), B&W illustrations, 187pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover), Raised in Syria, after travelling around the Mediterranean, the author settles in Rutland, Vermont. The second part of the book (Pages 135-171) is a collection of Syrian Recipes., (Order No: 49993 ), $45.00
279. ( Hadley ), Hadley, Morris, ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1948, B&W illustrations, 282pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 39945 ), $4.00
280. ( Hamilton ), Fothergill, Brian, SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON: ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, (1969), B&W illustrations, 459pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151826765 The first biography of a uniquely accomplished and attractive personality hitherto unjustly known only as a background figure in the scandalous relationship between his second wife Emma and Lord Nelson., (Order No: 40372 ), $12.50
281. ( Hamilton ), Hamilton, Lord Frederic, THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY, George H. Doran Company, New York, (1920), 349pp, good++ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Turning to the memories of his youth, Lord Frederic opens the pages of a very rich book of reminiscences--of experiences which preceded the interesting record set down in his first volume: THE VANISHED POMPS OF YESTERDAY., (Order No: 53419 ), $10.00
282. ( Hamilton ), Schachner, Nathan, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, D. Appleton- Century Co., Inc, New York, (1946) 1st ed, 488pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), An authoritative biography of the great American Federalist., (Order No: 6453 ), $5.00
283. ( Hanke ), Hanke, Ruth, REMEMBERING CLAYTON, Vantage Press, New York, (1998) 1st ed, 56pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533122643 The author's cousin, Clayton, was told by doctors, at age forty-eight, that he might have only a short time left to live. The author distills the memories of their vacations together and the mutual fellowship they felt., (Order No: 49183 ), $20.00
284. ( Harding ), Russell, Francis, PRESIDENT HARDING: HIS LIFE AND TIMES, 1865-1923, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, (1969), B&W frontis, 691pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 041327500 Harding, the author points out, 'came at a dividing point in history when men moved forward and looked back. The first new President after World War I, he was also the first President to be born after the Civil War. His election was in one sense a nostalgic yearning to recapture the years before the war, seen through the imperfect haze of memory, at a moment when twentieth-century America was inevitably if belatedly taking form.', (Order No: 37910 ), $12.50
285. ( Harriman ), Abramson, Rudy, SPANNING THE CENTURY: THE LIFE OF W. AVERELL HARRIMAN, 1891-1986, William Morrow and Company, New York, (1992) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 779pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688043526 The first full-scale biography of this amazing figure., (Order No: 31170 ), $11.50
286. ( Harrison ), Harrison, Irene (foreword by Mrs. V. L. Pandit), AGATHA HARRISON: AN IMPRESSION BY HER SISTER IRENE HARRISON, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, London, (1956), B&W frontis, 157pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, "Almost by accident Agatha Harrison moved from her earliest post as a kindergarten teacher to become a most influential worker in the vital cause of Anglo-Indian friendship.", (Order No: 51797 ), $25.00
287. ( Haswell ), Spargo, John, ANTHONY HASWELL: PRINTER - PATRIOT - BALLADER, The Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT, 1925, B&W illustrations, 293pp, very good, 3/4 leather (hardcover) light rubbing and edgewear, A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY WITH A SELECTION OF HIS BALLADS AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAHICAL LIST OF HIS IMPRINTS. One of 300 copies signed by John Spargo. Born Portsmouth, England, in 1756, Haswell played a role in the early development of the State of Vermont, served in the Revolutionary War, was a Master Mason, a Balladier and poet, and publisher and printer., (Order No: 51435 ), $200.00
288. ( Haveloc ), Cooper, Leonard, HAVELOCK 1795-1857, The Bodley Head, London, (1957), B&W frontis, 192pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Henry Havelock was one of the mutiny generals in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. "He died in Lucknow conscious of his duty done, but unaware of the gratitude and admiration of his Queen and countrymen.", (Order No: 50335 ), $15.00
289. ( Hawkins ), Gosse, Philip, HAWKINS: SCOURGE OF SPAIN, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1930, B&W illustrations, 290pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), A portrait of a great Englishman., (Order No: 42592 ), $20.00
290. ( Hay ), Sears, Lorenzo, JOHN HAY: AUTHOR AND STATESMAN, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1914, B&W illustrations, 150pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB minimal marks, light foxing, Contents include: Early Years; Formative Influences; Literary Labours; Diplomacy; Impressions And Conclusions., (Order No: 46170 ), $15.00
291. ( Hearst ), Chaney, Lindsay & Cieply, Michael, THE HEARSTS: FAMILY & EMPIRE: THE LATER YEARS, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1981), B&W illustrations, 411pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671247654, (Order No: 2796 ), $3.50
292. ( Hearst ), Tebbel, John, THE LIFE AND GOOD TIMES OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1952 2nd ptg, 386pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Biography of Hearst: publisher of twenty newspapers, owner of endlessly rich mines, of magazines, ranches, palaces, castles, and of men and women who both loved and hated him., (Order No: 3493 ), $10.00
293. ( Hellman ), Hellman, George S., LANES OF MEMORY, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1927, B&W illustrations, 243pp, good+, blue cloth spine (hardcover) dustjacket front laid in, In this volume of connected miscellanies, a poet, art critic, collector, gambler, and educator gives us the choicest of his remembered adventures among books, manuscripts, pictures, and personages., (Order No: 40554 ), $14.50
294. ( Hershey ), Hershey, Lenore, BETWEEN THE COVERS: THE LADY'S OWN JOURNAL, Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, (1983), B&W ill., 242pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0698112261 In this book Lenore Hershey goes "between the covers" of her own life as wife, mother and career woman as well, to share what she has learned--and is still learning., (Order No: 35977 ), $3.00
295. ( Hickey ), Hickey, William (edited by Roger Hudson), MEMOIRS OF A GEORGIAN RAKE, The Folio Society, London, (1996) 2nd ptg, engravings by John Lawrence, 414pp, fine, maroon cloth spine, pictorial boards in fine slipcase, The Folio Society edition first published in 1995., (Order No: 34362 ), $20.00
296. ( Hickey ), Quennell, Peter (edited and with an introduction by), THE PRODIGAL RAKE: MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1962 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 452pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "One of the most entertaining autobiographies in the English language." Provides insights to 18th century social life., (Order No: 3519 ), $4.50
297. ( Hirohito ), Behr, Edward, HIROHITO: BEHIND THE MYTH, Villard Books, New York, 1989 1st ed, 12 B&W ill., 437pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394580729 Edward Behr, distinguished European editor of Newsweek and author of The Last Emperor, takes the reader from Hirohito's birth amid imperial splendor to his death and the pomp of a funeral attended by countless foreign dignitaries., (Order No: 10862 ), $4.50
298. ( Hirschmann ), Hirschmann, Ira, CAUTION TO THE WINDS, David McKay Company, Inc., New York, (1962) 2nd ptg, 312pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple pencil marks, signed, The story of Ira Hirschmann--industrialist, publicist, pianist, diplomat. Inscribed by the author 2/18/63., (Order No: 29771 ), $4.00
299. ( Hodge ), Hodge, Orlando John, REMINISCENCES, The Imperial Press, Cleveland, OH, 1902, 247pp, very good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), The biography of Col. O. J. Hodge of Cleveland, Ohio., (Order No: 51231 ), $25.00
300. ( Hogarth ), Quennell, Peter, HOGARTH'S PROGRESS, Collins, London, 1955, B&W illustrations, 319pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This study is not confined to Hogarth's artistic genius-- it also examines Hogarth against the background of his age., (Order No: 24093 ), $4.00
301. ( Holden ), Taylor, Ina (compiled by), THE EDWARDIAN LADY: THE STORY OF EDITH HOLDEN, AUTHOR OF THE COUNTRY DIARY OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1980) 3rd ptg, B&W and color ill., 207pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0030574544 The author brings together a unique collection of photographs, paintings, and mementos of the Holden family, as well as excerpts from Edith's own lively correspondence and highlights from COUNTRY DIARY that tell the story of her life and the background against which she developed her talents., (Order No: 18502 ), $4.00
302. ( Holland ), The Earl of Ilchester, THE HOME OF THE HOLLANDS, 1605-1820, E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, (1937) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 410pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, This account of Holland House is based on a collection of letters and manuscripts., (Order No: 52145 ), $15.00
303. ( Holmes ), Holmes, Justice and Pollock, Frederick (edited