And, below are the biographies on our shelves as of March 27, 2008, whose subject's last name begins with I through Z. And, remember, ordering is easy from Ray Boas, Bookseller, in Walpole, New Hampshire.
324. ( Ingersoll ), Ingersoll, Ralph McAllister, POINT OF DEPARTURE: AN ADVENTURE IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, (1961) 1st ed, 247pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Ralph Ingersoll has been everywhere, seen everything, and known everybody!, (Order No: 32676 ), $5.00
325. ( Irving ), Stoker, Bram, PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF HENRY IRVING - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Greenwood Press, Publishers, Westport, CT, (1970), B&W illustrations, very good+, light blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0837128455 Originally published in 1906. Volume I, 372pp; Volume II, 388pp., (Order No: 53159 ), $50.00
326. ( Irwin ), Irwin, Will, THE MAKING OF A REPORTER, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1942), 440pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 40561 ), $20.00
327. ( Jackson ), Jackson, Maisie Cowper, UP FROM DOWN UNDER, Maisie C. Jackson, Hanover, NH, (1992), B&W illustrations, 145pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) owner's name, Contents include: Foreword; My Parents and Grandparents; My Early Days; Sugar and Spice; Gathering Strength; Loosening Strings; My Own Apron; No Strings Attached; Afterword., (Order No: 50986 ), $20.00
328. ( Jay ), Morris, Richard B. (edited by) (associate editor Floyd M. Shumway; assistant editors Ene Sirvet and Elaine G. Brown), JOHN JAY: THE MAKING OF A REVOLUTIONARY, UNPUBLISHED PAPERS 1745-1780, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1975) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 866pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060130806 The first of three volumes of Jay's previously unpublished papers. This volume is a documentary biography of Jay's life from his days as a King's College student to the climactic moments of his mission to Spain on behalf of Congress in 1780, and includes the record of his courtship of Sarah Livingston and the first years of their long and happy marriage., (Order No: 33223 ), $17.50
329. ( Jefferson ), Bowers, Claude G., THE YOUNG JEFFERSON: 1743-1789, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1945) ltr ptg, 19 B&W ill., 544pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Along with the author's JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON and JEFFERSON IN POWER, this constitutes a three-volume biography of one of our greatest presidents. In the present volume, we follow Jefferson's education and youthful love, his early practice at the bar, his entry into the Continental Congress and witness the immortal hour of the composition of the Declaration of Independence. As the volume closes, the mature statesman returns to America to become George Washington's first Secretary of State., (Order No: 15053 ), $3.00
330. ( Jefferson ), Burstein, Andrew, THE INNER JEFFERSON: PORTRAIT OF A GRIEVING OPTIMIST, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1995), B&W illustrations, 334pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813916186 The author shows Jefferson to have been a man of substance and character, yet possessed of a mean streak, alternately strong and frail, convivial and reclusive, ordinary and extraordinary., (Order No: 22695 ), $7.50
331. ( Jefferson ), Bear, James A. (edited, with an introduction by), JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO, Univ. Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1985) 7th ptg, 144pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) owner's name, ISBN 0813900220 First published in 1967. Includes: MEMOIRS OF A MONTICELLO SLAVE as dictated to Charles Campbell by Isaac; and, JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON by Rev. Hamilton Wilcox Pierson., (Order No: 48549 ), $3.00
332. ( Jefferson ), Boyd, Julian P. (editor), THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON - VOLUME 10: 22 JUNE TO 31 DECEMBER 1786, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1964) 2nd ptg, 654pp, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, First published in 1954., (Order No: 53661 ), $45.00
333. ( Jefferson ), Dole, Nathan Haskell, JOSEPH JEFFERSON AT HOME, Estes and Lauriat, Boston, MA, 1898, B&W illustrations, 110pp, very good, blue cloth, teg, (hardcover), A compact sketch of the life of Joseph Jefferson, an actor., (Order No: 45552 ), $14.50
334. ( Jefferson ), Lehmann, Karl, THOMAS JEFFERSON AMERICAN HUMANIST, Univ. Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1994) 4th ptg, B&W illustrations, 273pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0813910781 Originally published in 1947, this book deals with the meeting between a genius and a great subject., (Order No: 40685 ), $6.50
335. ( Jefferson ), Peterson, Merrill D. (edited by), THOMAS JEFFERSON: A PROFILE, Hill and Wang, New York, (1967) 1st ed, 263pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) some spotting to cloth cover, By calling on the leading scholars in the field, Professor Peterson has put together a composite portrait of this giant figure., (Order No: 29593 ), $5.00
336. ( Jefferson ), Thomas, Elbert D., THOMAS JEFFERSON: WORLD CITIZEN - MEMORIAL EDITION, Modern Age Books, New York, (1942), 280pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), From Thomas Jefferson's public and private utterances on democracy, liberty, religion, agriculture, and foreign affairs, Senator Thomas has here compiled a portrait of the man whose words and political concepts are more vital today, of more universal validity, than they were when spoken and written 120 years ago., (Order No: 29594 ), $8.50
337. ( Jefferson ), Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, THOMAS JEFFERSON APOSTLE OF LIBERTY, Liveright Publishing Co., New York, 1962, 417pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 2210 ), $7.50
338. ( Jerome ), Leslie, Anita, THE REMARKABLE MR. JEROME: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LEONARD JEROME, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S AMERICAN GRANDFATHER, Henry Holt and Company, New York, (1954) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 312pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) insc. by author, Here is the portrait of a man who found it easy to make fortunes, but who loved horses, yachts, and women more. It is a narrative of gaslight and grandeur and marble palaces on Madison Avenue., (Order No: 18358 ), $10.00
339. ( Johnson ), Boswell, James (edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald), THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. TOGETHER WITH A JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES - THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Bickers and Son, London, 1874, good++, 3/4 leather, marbled boards, teg (hardcover), "...A Reprint of the First Edition. To Which are Added MR. BOSWELL'S CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS, Issued in 1792; the Variations of the Second Edition, with some of the Author's Notes prepared for the Third: the whole Edited, with New Notes, by Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A. in Three Volumes." Volume I, 538pp; Volume II, 527pp; Volume III, 525pp. A very nice clean and tight set, actually very good but some light edgewear rubbing to the leather., (Order No: 51813 ), $200.00
340. ( Johnson ), Foster, Lawrence G., ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON - THE GENTLEMAN REBEL, Lillian Press, State College, PA, (1999) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 736pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0966288203 Robert Wood Johnson built Johnson & Johnson into a world renowned company and gave new meaning to the need for corporations to serve the public interest., (Order No: 46816 ), $5.00
341. ( Johnson ), Wain, John, SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Viking Press, New York, (1974), 388pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 0670616710, (Order No: 6495 ), $2.00
342. ( Johnston ), Johnston, Harry H., THE STORY OF MY LIFE, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1923), B&W illustrations, 504pp, good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 40422 ), $10.00
343. ( Johnstone ), Johnstone, Charlotte G., ARTISTIC AND POETIC EXPRESSIONS AND TRIBUTES, Charlotte G. Johnstone, Hartford, CT, (1963), B&W illustrations, 90pp, very good, tan cloth (hardcover) signed by the author, This volume is a tribute of a devoted and gifted wife to the memory of her husband the Rev. John F. Johnstone., (Order No: 45045 ), $45.00
344. ( Jones ), Jones, Thomas, A DIARY WITH LETTERS, 1931-1950, Oxford University Press, London, 1954, B&W illustrations, 583pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) w/signed letter, Letter from author to previous owner of this copy is laid into an envelope attached to front pastedown. Additional information on that envelope indicates owner received this copy fromn Dr. Abraham Flexner, first Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and was a close friend of the author. Much of the correspondence in this book is between Abraham Flexner and the author., (Order No: 40040 ), $35.00
345. ( Jordan ), SARA MURRAY JORDAN: A MEMORIAL VOLUME TO COMMEMORATE SIXTY FULL AND USEFUL YEARS OCTOBER 20, 1944, Havard University Prtg. Off., Cambridge, MA, 1944, B&W illustrations, 75pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), Biography of a respected physician and educator., (Order No: 52928 ), $25.00
346. ( Josephy ), Josephy, Robert (foreword by Albert E. Stone), TAKING PART: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, (1993) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 227pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0877454124 Rob Josephy on his journey through the world of publishing, politics, and celebrities., (Order No: 39157 ), $17.50
347. ( Kellogg ), Kellogg, David S. (edited by Allan S. Everest), A DOCTOR AT ALL HOURS: THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF A SMALL-TOWN DOCTOR'S VARIED LIFE, 1886-1909, The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, VT, 1970, B&W illustrations, 232pp, very good, brown cloth spine (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0828901120 Here is the story, told in his own words, of a most uncommon doctor's life in the sparsely settled northeastern corner of New York State during the last decade and a half of the 19th Century and most of the first decade of the 20th., (Order No: 52317 ), $7.50
348. ( Kelly ), Dowling, Kitty, HOW FAR HOME?, Kitty Dowling, Dublin, (1997), B&W illustrations, 207pp, very good+, pictorial boards (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0953156907 The author tells the story of her mother's life., (Order No: 48833 ), $25.00
349. ( Kennedy ), Lane, Mark, PLAUSIBLE DENIAL: WAS THE CIA INVOLVED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK?, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, 15 B&W ill., 393pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1560250003 The author makes startling revelations about the CIA's involvement in a plot to murder the president. This book is the result of documents made available by the Freedom of Information Act and by sworn depositions the author was able to take from former CIA operatives and officials for a little-publicized libel trial in the U.S. District Court of Miami., (Order No: 12512 ), $2.50
350. ( Kessel ), Kessel, Marie Adler, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCES: ONE WOMAN'S STORY, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR, 1990 1st ptg, 274pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) fade to spine, ISBN 155728119X This volume tells the story of this extraordinary woman who early on rejected the stereotyped "Southern Belle" role into which she was born in favor of an assertive, challenging, adventuresome life., (Order No: 45152 ), $7.50
351. ( Kinney ), Kinney, Jean, START WITH AN EMPTY NEST, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, (1968), 276pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, The book that asks the question "Can a high-powered Madison Avenue advertising woman find happiness as a bride after she becomes a grandmother?", (Order No: 32457 ), $5.00
352. ( Kinsey ), Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, ALFRED C. KINSEY - SEX THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: A BIOGRAPHY, Pimlico, London, (1999) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 513pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0712664661, (Order No: 51822 ), $7.00
353. ( Klein ), Gaines, Steven & Churcher, Sharon, OBSESSION: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF CALVIN KLEIN, Birch Lane Press, New York, (1994) 1st ptg, 31 B&W ill., 414pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1559722355 A tale of fashion, power, and self-creation-a riveting business story of an ambitious man who scaled his way to the top of New York's cutthroat garment industry, building an influential and far-reaching financial kingdom., (Order No: 12907 ), $6.00
354. ( Knox ), Bellot, Leland J., WILLIAM KNOX: THE LIFE & THOUGHT OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMPERIALIST, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, (1977), B&W frontis, 264pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0292790074 The author's comprehensive narrative reveals Knox as a person--one whose Calvinist heritage and Scots-Irish upbringing profoundly influenced his view of empire--and as a historical actor and witness., (Order No: 35397 ), $12.00
355. ( Koning ), Koning, Hans, THE ALMOST WORLD, The Dial Press, New York, 1972 1st ptg, 213pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This is a chronicle of one man's propulsion out of a European cultural background into an intense involvement with the American peace movement., (Order No: 14980 ), $5.00
356. ( Kronenberger ), Kronenberger, Louis, NO WHIPPINGS, NO GOLD WATCHES: THE SAGA OF A WRITER AND HIS JOBS, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1970) 1st ed, 309pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A witty, delightfully personal account of Louis Kronenberger's varied career, whether on magazines or in publishing houses, as a drama critic or a literary critic, as a writer or a teacher., (Order No: 28197 ), $4.00
357. ( La Follette ), Freeman, Lucy; La Follette, Sherry; and Zabriskie, George A., BELLE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE, Beaufort Books Publishers, New York, (1986) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 253pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0825303141 Here, often in her own words, is the life of Belle Case La Follette., (Order No: 45430 ), $4.00
358. ( La Guardia ), Brodsky, Alyn, THE GREAT MAYOR: FIORELLO LA GUARDIA AND THE MAKING OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, St. Martin's Press, New York, (2003) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 530pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312287372 A comprehensive and accessible biography of Fiorello H. La Guardia., (Order No: 40427 ), $27.50
359. ( La Guardia ), Mann, Arthur, LA GUARDIA COMES TO POWER - 1933, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1965) 1st ed, maps, tables, 199pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), This book is an interlude between the first and final volumes of Arthur Mann's comprehensive biography of La Guardia., (Order No: 43356 ), $12.50
360. ( Lafayette ), Gottschalk, Louis & Maddox, Margaret, LAFAYETTE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THROUGH THE OCTOBER DAYS, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, (1969), 414pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This is the fifth volume in a multivolume biography of Lafayette which deals with the first nine months of Lafayette's activity in 1789-up to the climax of October 5/6., (Order No: 10820 ), $7.50
361. ( Lamont ), Lamont, Thomas W., MY BOYHOOD IN A PARSONAGE: SOME BRIEF SKETCHES OF AMERICAN LIFE TOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE LAST CENTURY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1946) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 203pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 31337 ), $3.50
362. ( Langdon ), Mayo, Lawrence Shaw, JOHN LANGDON OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, The Rumford Press, Concord, NH, 1937, B&W illustrations, 303pp, good, dark blue cloth spine (hardcover) EX-LIB - LACKS FRONTIS, Contents include: The Langdon Boys; Learning the Ropes; Trade; George Grenville and George Meserve; The Tea Question; The Capture of the Castle; The Second Continental Congress; Woodbury Langdon Goes to England; Congress Again; "The Frightful Word Independence," The Building of the Ship, The Agency and the Privateers; Bennington and Saratoga; The Return of Woodbury Langdon; The End of the War; The Rivals; The Federal Convention; "Placing the Key Stone in the Great Arch," President Washington; A Close Call; The Impeachment of Woodbury Langdon; Federalists and Republicans; Thomas Jefferson; Index. NOTE - LIGHT EDGEWEAR TO BOARDS., (Order No: 53996 ), $65.00
363. ( Lawrence ), Hill, Hamilton Andrews, MEMOIR OF ABBOTT LAWRENCE, privately published, Boston, MA, 1883, B&W frontis, 243pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 32488 ), $65.00
364. ( Lawrence ), Wilson, Jeremy, T. E. LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, National Portrait Gallery, London, (1988), B&W and color illustrations, 248pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0904017869 Published for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London: 9 December 1988-12 March 1989. A celebration of Lawrence's life and achievements., (Order No: 53458 ), $50.00
365. ( Lee ), Matthews, John Carter (edited by Edward M. Riley), RICHARD HENRY LEE, VA Independence Bicentennial, Williamsburg, VA, (1978), B&W illustrations, 86pp, good, wraps (softcover) light chipping to foredge of front cover, In 1750 Thomas Lee, a gentleman representing the third generation of one of colonial America's most remarkable families, died at his estate, Stratford Hall, in Westmoreland County on the south bank of the Potomac River., (Order No: 46380 ), $25.00
366. ( Lemmon ), Lemmon, Robert S., OLD DOC LEMMON, The Midwest Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1930 1st ed, ill. by Harold Butterfield, 180pp, good, yellow cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Biography of a Minnesota country doctor., (Order No: 35901 ), $14.50
367. ( Lenin ), Theen, Rolf H. W., LENIN: GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A REVOLUTIONARY, Quartet Books, London, (1974), 146pp, good, purple cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0704320487 This biography of Lenin differs from most in concentrating on the Bolshevik leaders formative period and, while not ignoring the impact of Marxism, highlights the peculiarly Russian origins of Lenin's thought., (Order No: 26883 ), $5.00
368. ( Leverson ), Wyndham, Violet, THE SPHINX AND HER CIRCLE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ADA LEVERSON, 1862-1933, The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, (1963), B&W illustrations, 128pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In this book, Violet Wyndham's daughter has drawn an enchanting portrait of Ada and of the world in which she moved., (Order No: 53411 ), $5.00
369. ( Lewis ), A DOLLAR TO A DOUGHNUT OR DOC LEWIS, AS REMEMBERED BY HIS FORMER STUDENTS, Privately Printed, n.p., 1953, B&W illustrations, 62pp, good+, red cloth spine (hardcover), Several hundred of Doc's former students have contributed their recollections of the stories he has told over the years, and of their run-ins with him., (Order No: 43666 ), $15.00
370. ( Lichnowsky ), Willis, Edward F., PRINCE LICHNOWSKY AMBASSADOR OF PEACE: A STUDY OF PREWAR DIPLOMACY, 1912-1914, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1942, B&W frontis, 318pp, good+, wraps (softcover), This study of prewar diplomacy was written as a doctoral dissertation in history between 1931 and 1935., (Order No: 41565 ), $20.00
371. ( Lincoln ), Cushman, Charles Rowley, MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ... ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JAMES A. GARFIELD, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1903, B&W illustrations, 246pp, very good+, black cloth, teg (hardcover), Addresses delivered before the two Houses of Congress: Abraham Lincoln by Hon. George Bancroft, February 12, 1866; James A. Garfield by Hon. James G. Blaine, February 27, 1882; and, William McKinley by Hon. John Hay, February 27, 1902. Exceptionally nice clean and tight copy with portrait engravings of each President., (Order No: 54260 ), $17.50
372. ( Lindbergh ), Berg, A. Scott, LINDBERGH, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1998) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 628pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399144498 From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, here is the definitive life of one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figures in American history--Charles A. Lindbergh., (Order No: 53636 ), $4.00
373. ( Lindbergh ), Luckett, Perry D., CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1986), B&W illustrations, 148pp, very good, dark blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0313230986 Contents include: A Lindbergh Life; Lindbergh, Aviation, and American Society; Lindbergh in Popular Culture; Lindbergh in Print: A Bibliographical Essay; A Selective Bibliography; Chronology., (Order No: 49116 ), $10.00
374. ( Lindbergh ), Nurnberg, Rolf, LINDBERGH, HAUPTMANN UND AMERIKA, Verlag Dr. Rolf Passer, Leipzig-Wein, (1926), B&W illustrations, 476pp, good w/chipped and poor dustjacket (hardcover), Text in German., (Order No: 49463 ), $20.00
375. ( Lindbergh ), Ross, Walter S., THE LAST HERO: CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1968), 16 pages of photographs, 402pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 8027 ), $3.00
376. ( Lindbergh ), Roberts, Randy and Welky, David (edited by), CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: THE POWER AND PERIL OF CELEBRITY, 1927-1941, Brandywine Press, Maplecrest, NY, (2003), B&W illustrations, 165pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1881089428 This volume uses documents, the lifeblood of his celebrity, to explore why Americans made him famous and how he exploited his fame., (Order No: 52047 ), $11.50
377. ( Lippincott ), Lippincott, Paul S., ANSWERED PRAYERS, published by the author, New Jersey, (1964), B&W illustrations, 70pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Lippincott has shown the power of prayer and Divine Guidance as experienced in his life and in the lives of others., (Order No: 42652 ), $20.00
378. ( Lippmann ), Lippmann, Walter (introduction and annotations by Arthur Schlesinger), EARLY WRITINGS, Liveright, New York, (1970), 356pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871405032, (Order No: 32876 ), $4.00
379. ( Locke ), Harrison, John M., THE MAN WHO MADE NASBY, DAVID ROSS LOCKE, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1969), B&W frontis, 335pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This biographical study is concerned with Locke's career as editor, publisher, lecturer, politician, and public figure, aspects of his life that have been largely obscured by the image of the fictitious Nasby., (Order No: 35372 ), $7.50
380. ( Long ), Long, Peirce, THE NAJA HAJE LETTERS AND OTHER WRITINGS, 1887-1941, Margaret Long, n.p., (1943), 151pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) inscribed by author and his wife, These letters and verses of Peirce Long present the implicit portrait of a human being., (Order No: 39992 ), $45.00
381. ( Lowenstein ), Stern, Norton B., MANNIE'S CROWD: EMANUEL LOWENSTEIN, COLORFUL CHARACTER OF OLD LOS ANGELES, The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, CA, 1970, B&W illustrations, 136pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870620037 Colorful character of old Los Angeles and a brief diary of the trip to Arizona and life in Tucson of the early 1880s., (Order No: 52678 ), $7.50
382. ( Lyon ), Lyon, Cecil, THE LYON'S SHARE, Vantage Press, New York, (1973) 1st ed, 266pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533001900 This book provides a detailed account of his life from the time of his growing up through his eventual occupancy of the position in Paris., (Order No: 43212 ), $12.50
383. ( Macaranas ), Macaranas, Natividad, CHOCOLATE ISLAND: CHILDHOOD IN THE PHILIPPINES, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Vision Publishers, Chapel Hill, NC, (2000) 1st ptg, B&W map, 306pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1570875146 A memoir of Natividad's first twelve years, filled with stories told to her by relatives, and her own memories., (Order No: 38781 ), $20.00
384. ( MacKenzie ), Mackenzie, Compton, MY LIFE AND TIMES: OCTAVE TWO 1891-1900, Chatto & Windus, London, 1963, B&W frontis, 327pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 52927 ), $10.00
385. ( Maclaurin ), Pearson, Henry Greenleaf, RICHARD COCKBURN MACLAURIN: PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1909-1920, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1937 1st ptg, 12 B&W illustrations, 302pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 14922 ), $5.00
386. ( Malraux ), Madsen, Axel, MALRAUX: A BIOGRAPHY, William Morrow and Company, New York, (1976) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 383pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688030750 This book is what the author calls "the biography of a unique witness, protagonist and chronicler of our century, the incandescent story of this revolutionary, novelist, art historian and confidant of world leaders, written with the generous cooperation of the man himself.", (Order No: 15206 ), $6.00
387. ( Malraux ), Suares, Guy (translated from the French by Derek Coltman), MALRAUX: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1974) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 196pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In two passionate, luminous interviews, Malraux draws on his knowledge of man, history, and art to speak out on some of the most vital questions of life and our time., (Order No: 17714 ), $5.00
388. ( Manegold ), Manegold, Robert L., GRANBOB'S MEMORIES, Alger Brook Press, South Strafford, VT, (1995), B&W illustrations, 287pp, very good++, green cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author, "Countless times over past years, especially in recent years as the sands in Sallly's and my hourglass run lower, we have voiced regret that we didn't ask our parents and grandparents more questions about their lives, their experiences, their joys and sorrows, their vocations and avocations, their memories of our beginnings and those of our siblings. I resolved not to repeat that mistake and so have completed this volume of stories from my life and my family.", (Order No: 50946 ), $45.00
389. ( Marcuse ), Bokina, John and Lukes, Timothy J. (edited by), MARCUSE: FROM THE NEW LEFT TO THE NEXT LEFT, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (1994) 1st ptg, 281pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0700606599 Lively and engaging essays which make a strong case for the continued importance of Marcuse's thought., (Order No: 38741 ), $15.00
390. ( Marx ), Carmichael, Joel, KARL MARX: THE PASSIONATE LOGICIAN, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1967) 1st ed, 4 B&W ill., 262pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), In tracing the development of Marx's ideas, the author shows how they were related to a personal struggle, and how varying interpretations of them have come to govern the lives of a third of mankind., (Order No: 11391 ), $12.50
391. ( Marx ), Raddatz, Fritz J. (edited by) (translated from the German by Ewald Osers), KARL MARX - FRIEDRICH ENGELS: SELECTED LETTERS, THE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1844-1877, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1981) 1st Amer, 194pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316732117 A selection of the famous correspondence between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels written to each other between October 1844 and July 1877, while living and working as exiles in London and Manchester respectively., (Order No: 15093 ), $10.00
392. ( Mason ), Cox, Marian Buckley, GLIMPSE OF GLORY: GEORGE MASON OF GUNSTON HALL, Garrett & Massie, Inc., Richmond, VA, (1954), drawings by Elmo Jones, 254pp, good, light blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 5560 ), $7.50
393. ( Maxwell ), Bower, Tom, MAXWELL: THE OUTSIDER, Viking, New York, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 539pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670846546 This compelling portrait, the subject of numerous libel suits brought by Maxwell in Britain before his death, is now published in a thoroughly updated edition in the United States. It provides a fascinating look at the man who was relentless in his attempts to obtain media power and respectability, attempts that would eventually destroy him., (Order No: 19808 ), $7.50
394. ( May ), May, J. Lewis, THE PATH THROUGH THE WOOD, Lincoln Macveagh-Dial Press, New York, 1931, 188pp, very good, 3/4 vellum, blue paper covered boards (hardcover), (Order No: 47094 ), $5.00
395. ( Mayes ), Mayes, Herbert R., THE MAGAZINE MAZE: A PREJUDICED PERSPECTIVE, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1980 1st ed, 378pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0385153228 In this revealing autobiography, self-educated Herbert Mayes brings the magazine scene into focus. At the beginning, he became editor of small trade journals; later, of "Pictorial Review," "Town & Country," "Cosmopolitan," "McCall's," and "Good Housekeeping.", (Order No: 17369 ), $7.50
396. ( McCormick ), Smith, Richard Norton, THE COLONEL: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF ROBERT R. MCCORMICK, 1880-1955, INDOMITABLE EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1997 1st ptg, 579pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395533791 Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Tribune, this is the first biography to benefit from unlimited access to McCormick's personal papers. The author gives us a vivid, subtle, sympathetic portrait of an American original, a man both sage and naif, fox and loon, and a far-seeing media visionary., (Order No: 21990 ), $12.00
397. ( McHenry ), Steiner, Bernard C., THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES MCHENRY - SECRETARY OF WAR UNDER WASHINGTON AND ADAMS, Arno Press, New York, 1979, 640pp, fine, light tan cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0405118740 First published in 1907., (Order No: 54029 ), $50.00
398. ( Melady ), Melady, Thomas Patrick, THE AMBASSADOR'S STORY: THE UNITED STATES AND THE VATICAN IN WORLD AFFAIRS, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., Huntington, IN, (1994), B&W ill., B&W map, 224pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0879737026 Thomas Melady, the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican from 1989 through 1993, shares his intimate, personal experiences as the representative of the world's greatest superpower to the world's foremost global moral authority., (Order No: 29288 ), $15.00
399. ( Middleton ), Middleton, Drew, WHERE HAS LAST JULY GONE? MEMOIRS, Quadrangle/NY Times Book Co., New York, (1973), 284pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812903927 Here is one man's journey through history from the complacent Britain of 1939 awaiting the storm of World War II to the turbulent Middle East of the early seventies. Events that made today's world are recorded as seen by one reporter., (Order No: 11103 ), $4.00
400. ( Milton ), Sensabaugh, George F., THAT GRAND WHIG MILTON, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1952, 213pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This book traces the impact of Milton's arguments in the battle of ideas which led to the acceptance of Whig principles in the Revolutionary Settlement and the Bill of Rights-theories which, as the author points out, "still lie at the basis of English society and indeed animate free men everywhere in the Western world.", (Order No: 14140 ), $7.50
401. ( Mitchell ), Earnest, Ernest, S. WEIR MITCHELL: NOVELIST AND PHYSICIAN, Univ. of Pennyslvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1950, B&W illustrations, 279pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 39516 ), $7.00
402. ( Mitchell ), Mitchell, S. Weir, THE YOUTH OF WASHINGTON: TOLD IN THE FORM OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY - AUTHOR'S DEFINITIVE EDITION, The Century Co., New York, 1905, 292pp, good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 25098 ), $6.00
403. ( Mitchell ), Mitchell, Homer R., RAMBLINGS OF A ROTARIAN, published by the author, Dallas, TX, (1937), B&W illustrations, 123pp, very good, faux leather cloth (hardcover), Letters written by Mr. Mitchell to his family and friends in America during his travels during the summer of 1937., (Order No: 51603 ), $20.00
404. ( Mizner ), Burke, John, ROGUE'S PROGRESS: THE FABULOUS ADVENTURES OF WILSON MIZNER, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1975), 304pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399114233 Wilson Mizner was an American original; his life, a series of panels illustrating the Rogue's Progress. He was a scamp, a rascal, a knave-- and larceny lurked in his heart--but he had many redeeming features and brought laughter to thousands of people who heard his outrageous comic remarks., (Order No: 23552 ), $12.00
405. ( Monaghan ), Monaghan, William E., WALKING INTO TIME - TREASURES FROM THE AMERICAN SCENE, The Pen-Art Publishers, Westwood, NJ, (1968), B&W illustrations, 39pp, very good+, green cloth (hardcover) signed by the author, (Order No: 50130 ), $10.00
406. ( Montgomery ), Montgomery, Horace Binney, RETURN THE GOLDEN YEARS, Franklin Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1965), B&W illustrations, 148pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) one small chip on dj, Faintly nostalgic, deliciously funny, and always vivid and colorful are these collections of the author's boyhood., (Order No: 34854 ), $9.50
407. ( Moody ), Dunbar, Olivia Howard, A HOUSE IN CHICAGO, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1948) 2nd ptg, 288pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is the story of Harriet Moody and of her romance and marriage with the leader of the poetic renascence, William Vaughn Moody., (Order No: 10733 ), $4.50
408. ( Mora ), Mora, Pat, HOUSE OF HOUSES, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, (1997) 1st ptg, 296pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807072001, (Order No: 49832 ), $4.50
409. ( Moreau ), By an Officer of the Staff; Davis, John (translated from the French by); Bliss, David (printed for), THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF VICTOR MOREAU, Southwick & Hardcastle, New York, 1806, B&W frontis, 288pp, good+, original calf binding (hardcover) -- SEE NOTE, "Compending His Trial, Justification and Other Events, Till the Period of Hist Embarkation for the United States." CONDITION NOTE CONTINUED - small crack in leather on front board along fold, lacks two last blank leaves -- text complete., (Order No: 39834 ), $225.00
410. ( Morgan ), Allen, Frederick Lewis, THE GREAT PIERPONT MORGAN, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1949 1st ed, B&W frontispiece of Morgan, 306pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 2000 ), $5.00
411. ( Morgan ), Canfield, Cass, THE INCREDIBLE PIERPONT MORGAN: FINANCIER & ART COLLECTOR, Harper & Row, New York, 1974, B&W illustrations, 176pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060105992 Contents are divided between Morgan the man and his business dealings, and Morgan the collector and how he built up his art collection., (Order No: 1899 ), $4.50
412. ( Morgan ), Corey, Lewis, THE HOUSE OF MORGAN: A SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE MASTERS OF MONEY, G. Howard Watt, New York, 1930, B&W illustrations, 479pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) faint hinge repair, Example of the spurious biographies of the time. In telling a chronological story of Morgan's life, the author (whose real name is supposedly Louis C. Fraina) presents a mass of facts (carefully citing references), with clarity, logic and emphasis. He draws a forceful picture of Morgan and the changes in American business at the time, but the book does not stand the test of careful examination of its workmanship. Its conception is Marxian - Morgan is represented as the highest in capitalistic exploitation as to personality, character, methods of operation, and control. The system which he helped to build is presented as illustrating high concentration in the Marxian sense. Unscholarly workmanship makes one doubt the whole book. Larson 677, (Order No: 6068 ), $12.50
413. ( Morgan ), Jackson, Stanley, J. P. MORGAN: A BIOGRAPHY, Stein and Day, New York, (1983), B&W illustrations, 332pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812828240, (Order No: 2138 ), $9.50
414. ( Morgan ), Morgan, Lucy (with LeGette Blythe), GIFT FROM THE HILLS - MISS LUCY MORGAN'S STORY OF HER UNIQUE PENLAND SCHOOL - ENLARGED EDITION, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1971), B&W illustrations, 331pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0807811653 First published in 1958., (Order No: 50630 ), $6.00
415. ( Morgan ), Sinclair, Andrew, CORSAIR: THE LIFE OF J. PIERPONT MORGAN, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, (1981) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 269pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316792403, (Order No: 4906 ), $6.00
416. ( Morgan ), Satterlee, Herbert L., J. PIERPONT MORGAN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1939 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 595pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Written by a son-in-law, who used original material accessible only to the family, this book contains new information on Morgan and is especially useful as an intimate portrait of the man. It does not deal fully with Morgan's business, but it contains much that is valuable on the work of Morgan and his firms. Larson 562. First published in 1939., (Order No: 18684 ), $17.50
417. ( Morhange-Begue ), Morhange-Begue, Claude (translated from French by Austryn Wainhouse), CHAMBERET - RECOLLECTIONS FROM AN ORDINARY CHILDHOOD, The Marlboro Press, Marlboro, VT, (1987), 115pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0910395268, (Order No: 41019 ), $5.00
418. ( Morison ), Beck, Emily Morison (edited by) (foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill; Some Reflections on Style by David McCord), SAILOR HISTORIAN: THE BEST OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1977 1st ptg, 431pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0395254442 A selection of Samuel Eliot Morison's writings edited by his daughter., (Order No: 21643 ), $3.50
419. ( Morley ), Morley, John (Viscount), RECOLLECTIONS - TWO VOLUME SET, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover) a few pencil marks, Volume I, 388pp; Volume II, 431pp., (Order No: 40102 ), $15.00
420. ( Morrell ), Morrell, Ed, THE TWENTY-FIFTH MAN (25TH MAN) - THE STRANGE STORY OF ED. MORRELL, THE HERO OF JACK LONDON'S "STAR ROVER", New Era Publishing Co., Montclair, NJ, (1924) 1st ed, 390pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) light dampstain SEE NOTE, "The celebrated bandit has written one of the most extraordinary and fascinating confessions of the time." CONDITION NOTE: A nice tight and bright copy, BUT the faintest of an old dampstain to the bottom edge and front board. Dustjacket is bright and nice but does show the slightest of this dampstain also, and has two old tape repairs to the rear panel. A difficult dustjacket to find, making this still a worthwhile addition to your collection., (Order No: 38452 ), $200.00
421. ( Morris ), Sumner, William Graham, ROBERT MORRIS - "MAKERS OF AMERICA" SERIES, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1892 1st ed, 172pp, ads, good, red cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB w/minimal marks, faded spine, The most essential information about the life of Robert Morris which is contained in "The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution.", (Order No: 52554 ), $40.00
422. ( Motley ), Motley, John Lothrop (edited by George William Curtis), THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1889, good+, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), Volume I, 395pp; Volume II, 423pp. Nice clean and tight set., (Order No: 52938 ), $10.00
423. ( Muir ), Fuller, O. Muiriel, JOHN MUIR OF WALL STREET: A STORY OF THRIFT, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, (1927), B&W illustrations, 325pp, very good+, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), A slight biography of a Canadian who held executive positions with some of the leading American railroads and became an odd-lot broker on the New York Stock Exchange. Larson 401., (Order No: 2552 ), $15.00
424. ( Murry ), Lea, F. A., THE LIFE OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, Methuen & Co Ltd, London, (1960), B&W illustrations, 378pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The first biography of one of the most controversial figures in recent English letters., (Order No: 33961 ), $7.00
425. ( Nachod ), Nachod, Joy Nevill, OF PRISONERS...POETS...AND PEOPLE, Vantage Press, New York, (1977) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 138pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533025524 A warm, moving, and action-inspiring story of a teacher who accidently--through a poetry workshop--becomes involved with a group of prisoners at a maximum-security state penitentiary., (Order No: 39104 ), $45.00
426. ( Nadal ), Nadal, E. S., A VIRGINIAN VILLAGE AND OTHER PAPERS: TOGETHER WITH SOME AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917, 277pp, ads, good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 31553 ), $17.50
427. ( Nadaud ), Tindall, Gillian, THE JOURNEY OF MARTIN NADAUD: A LIFE AND TURBULENT TIMES, St. Martin's Press, New York, (2000) 1st US, B&W illustrations, 310pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0312261853 Through the life of a little-known French political figure, the author re-creates the world of France's master stonemasons--builders of the Pantheon and the Louvre--and brings to life the turbulent atmospheres of Paris and London during the nineteenth century., (Order No: 28538 ), $3.50
428. ( Napoleon ), Aretz, Gertrude (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul), NAPOLEON AND HIS WOMEN FRIENDS, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1927) 2nd ptg, 374pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket fade to spine, (Order No: 52468 ), $5.00
429. ( Napoleon ), Constant (translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin) (preface to the English edition by Imbert De Saint-Amand), MEMOIRS OF CONSTANT: FIRST VALET DE CHAMBRE OF THE EMPEROR ON THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON HIS FAMILY AND HIS COURT: 4 VOL SET, The Century Co., New York, 1900, very good+, light tan cloth (hardcover), Four Volume Set Complete. Volume I, 336pp; Volume II, 318pp; Volume III, 307pp; and, Volume IV, 326pp., (Order No: 54182 ), $30.00
430. ( Napoleon ), Forbes, Archibald, THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON THE THIRD, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1897, B&W illustrations, 355pp, good+, decorated brown cloth (hardcover) review slip laid in, (Order No: 42713 ), $17.50
431. ( Nehru ), Norman, Dorothy (selected from his writings and speeches and edited with a commentary by), NEHRU: THE FIRST SIXTY YEARS, The John Day Company, New York, (1965), very good w/very good dustjackets in worn box as published, "Presenting in his own words the development of the political thought of Jawaharlal Nehru and the background against which it evolved. Including significant passages from Nehru's writings, speeches, statements before the court, press conferences, conversations, interviews and other documents up to the founding of the Republic of India, 1950." Two volume set: 698pp; 613pp., (Order No: 16834 ), $25.00
432. ( Nehru ), Shorter, Bani, NEHRU: A VOICE FOR MANKIND, The John Day Company, New York, (1970), B&W illustrations, 312pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A delightful and inspiring introduction to both Nehru and India., (Order No: 26018 ), $10.00
433. ( Neilson ), Neilson, Francis, MAN AT THE CROSSROADS, C. C. Nelson-Publishing Co., Appleton, WI, 1938, 272pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) no dj, inscribed by the author, Neilsen, a leader of the Georgist movement, was a memeber of the British House of Commons for six years until World War I led him as a pacifist to resign. He left for America where he pursued a literary career, and he became a citizen in 1921., (Order No: 51761 ), $25.00
434. ( Neilson ), Thompson, Robert T., COLONEL JAMES NEILSON: A BUSINESS MAN OF THE EARLY MACHINE AGE IN NEW JERSEY, 1784-1862, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1940, B&W illustrations, 359pp, very good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A case study, from manuscript sources, in the history of American business in transition from mercantile to industrial capitalism. Neilson was interested in banking, turnpike, canal, stage and steamboat companies, development of water power and manufacturing and real estate. Concerned with promotion, investment, and policy determination rather than management. Also, influence of the business man on social and cultural life of his community. Larson 549., (Order No: 2953 ), $10.00
435. ( Neilson ), Thorp, Margaret Farrand, NEILSON OF SMITH, Oxford University Press, New York, 1956, 363pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) card signed by author, Card signed by the author tipped to the front free endpaper., (Order No: 6182 ), $5.00
436. ( Nelson ), Members of the Staff of The Kansas City Star, WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON: THE STORY OF A MAN IN NEWSPAPER AND A CITY, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1915, B&W ill., 274pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 29939 ), $17.50
437. ( Newton ), Newton, Joseph Fort, RIVER OF YEARS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1946) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 390pp, good, blue cloth w/light fading to spine (hardcover), "While this is not merely a personal history, it is necessary to tell enough about myself to show the angle from which life has been seen betimes, the changes wrought by experience of the vicissitudes of the years, and what living has taught me.", (Order No: 25892 ), $5.00
438. ( Nicoll ), Auerbach, Joseph S., DE LANCEY NICOLL: AN APPRECIATION - A LEADER OF THE BAR, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1931 1st ed, B&W frontis, 125pp, very good, tan cloth spine (hardcover) in stained slipcase, (Order No: 40359 ), $10.00
439. ( Nobel ), Halasz, Nicholas, NOBEL: A BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED NOBEL, The Orion Press, New York, (1959) 1st ptg, 284pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This might well be considered the first biography of Alfred Nobel, the lonely genius who invented TNT, became one of the world's wealthiest manufacturers and left as his legacy an honored prize dedicated to world peace., (Order No: 26019 ), $7.50
440. ( Noguchi ), Eckstein, Gustav, NOGUCHI, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1931 4th ptg, sepia toned illustrations, 419pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket light cover wear, (Order No: 51824 ), $4.00
441. ( Noyes ), Noyes, Pierrepont B., A GOODLY HERITAGE, Rinehart & Co., Inc., New York, (1958) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 275pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "The continuing autobiography of an imaginative businessman and the part his boyhood in the unique Oneida Community played in shaping his successful career." Noyes helped to build one of America's largest silver companies, Oneida Ltd., makers of community plate., (Order No: 2906 ), $5.00
442. ( Nutting ), Nutting, Wallace, WALLACE NUTTING'S BIOGRAPHY, Old America Company, Publ., Framingham, MA, (1936), 6 photographs, 295pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), An exceptionally nice clean and tight copy of Nutting's biography., (Order No: 48906 ), $50.00
443. ( Oastler ), Driver, Cecil, TORY RADICAL - THE LIFE OF RICHARD OASTLER, Oxford University Press, New York, 1946, 597pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 49781 ), $3.50
444. ( Ogilvie ), Pensoneau, Taylor, RICHARD OGILVIE GOVERNOR: IN THE INTEREST OF THE STATE, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1997) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 293pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0809321483 Although he served but a single term as governor (1969-1973), Ogilvie presided over some of the most significant reforms enacted in Illinois for more than a century., (Order No: 38960 ), $15.00
445. ( Oswald ), Epstein, Edward Jay, LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, (1978) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 382pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0070195390, (Order No: 3006 ), $2.50
446. ( Oxenhandler ), Oxenhandler, Neal, LOOKING FOR HEROES IN POSTWAR FRANCE: ALBERT CAMUS, MAX JACOB, SIMONE WEIL, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (1996), B&W frontis, 234pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874517311 Oxenhandler examines the impact of Camus, Jacob, and Weil on his own evolution as a writer, a scholar, and a human being. He writes: "They taught me morality, politics, and religion, they gave me clues to secret parts of my psychic life.", (Order No: 13490 ), $8.00
447. ( Paine ), Hawke, David Freeman, PAINE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1974), B&W and color illustrations, 500pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0060117842 Hawke describes a life of incredible diversity., (Order No: 53007 ), $7.50
448. ( Paine ), Woodward, W. E., TOM PAINE: AMERICA'S GODFATHER 1737-1809, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1945 1st ed, 14 B&W ill., 359pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Mr. Woodward depicts the tragedy of Paine's life, quotes copiously from his writings, and shows how the things in which he believed led to his destruction., (Order No: 12030 ), $4.00
449. ( Parham ), Osborne, Joseph, WASHING THE ELEPHANT: AN AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF BETTIE ESTHER PARHAM, Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc, Pittsburgh, PA, (1994) 1st ptg, 175pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805934790, (Order No: 36301 ), $20.00
450. ( Parker ), Coburn, Frederick W., MOSES GREELEY PARKER, M.D., Privately Printed, Lowell, MA, 1921, B&W illustrations, 199pp, very good, green cloth, teg (hardcover) light motling to cloth, This biography is the work of Frederick W. Coburn, and has been prepared from diaries, documents, and other original sources, in accordance with the instruction contained in the fourteenth clause of Dr. Parker's will, which directed his sister and his nephew "to have my biography written by a competent person, and when the same shall have been written, to have the same published.", (Order No: 45584 ), $45.00
451. ( Parkman ), Doughty, Howard, FRANCIS PARKMAN, Greenwood Press, Publishers, Westport, CT, (1978) 1st ptg, 414pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0313203873 A critical study of Francis Parkman., (Order No: 35034 ), $10.00
452. ( Parkman ), Farnham, Charles Haight, A LIFE OF FRANCIS PARKMAN, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, 1900, frontis, 394pp, good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 45488 ), $4.00
453. ( Parkman ), Wade, Mason (edited by), THE JOURNALS OF FRANCIS PARKMAN - TWO VOLUME SET, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1947 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 718pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjackets (hardcover), (Order No: 33582 ), $12.50
454. ( Pasternak ), Pasternak, Alexander, A VANISHED PRESENT: THE MEMOIRS OF ALEXANDER PASTERNAK, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, (1985) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 214pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151933642 An affectionate remembrance of a Russian childhood and youth-before and after the Revolution., (Order No: 9045 ), $5.00
455. ( Pasteur ), Grant, Madeleine P., LOUIS PASTEUR: FIGHTING HERO OF SCIENCE, The Scientific Book Club, London, (1960), 220pp, good, cream cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 26002 ), $4.50
456. ( Patai ), Patai, Raphael, APPRENTICE IN BUDAPEST: MEMORIES OF A WORLD THAT IS NO MORE, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 1988, B&W illustrations, 326pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874802873 This frank autobiography covers the first twenty-two years of the life of Raphael Patai, famous anthropologist and biblical scholar., (Order No: 25941 ), $10.00
457. ( Paton ), Alexander, Peter F., ALAN PATON: A BIOGRAPHY, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994, B&W illustrations, 510pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0198112378 Explores the public figure and the private man., (Order No: 53633 ), $7.00
458. ( Peabody ), Hanaford, Phebe A. (introduction by Joseph H. Hanaford), THE LIFE OF GEORGE PEABODY; CONTAINING A RECORD OF THOSE PRINCELY ACTS OF BENEVOLENCE ..., B. B. Russell, Boston, MA, 1870, 308pp, ads, good, green cloth (hardcover) lacks front free endpaper, "...WHICH ENTITLE HIM TO THE ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE OF ALL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION AND THE DESTITUTE, BOTH IN AMERICA, THE LAND OF HIS BIRTH, AND IN ENGLAND, THE PLACE OF HIS DEATH.", (Order No: 54027 ), $8.50
459. ( Peel ), Montague, F. C., LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1889, 225pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), Contents include: Early Years, 1788-1809; Political Apprenticeship, 1809-1819; In The Liverpool Cabinet, 1820-1827; In The Wellington Cabinet, 1828-1830; The Leader of the Opposition, 1830-1834; Peel's First Administration, 1834-1835; In Opposition Again, 1835-1841; Peel's Second Administration, 1841-1846; Last Years and Death, 1846-1850; Character and Achievement., (Order No: 40031 ), $85.00
460. ( Penrose ), Fairbanks, Helen R. and Berkey, Charles P., LIFE AND LETTERS OF R. A. F. PENROSE, JR., Geological Soc. of America, New York, 1952, B&W illustrations, 765pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), "Beginning with notebooks, diaries, and letters in the possession of the Society, and adding thereunto material slowly accumulated from his family, his friends, his associates, and acquaintances, the story of his life has been pieced together.", (Order No: 53153 ), $10.00
461. ( Pepys ), Moorhouse, E. Hallam, SAMUEL PEPYS: ADMINISTRATOR, OBSERVER, GOSSIP, E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1909, B&W illustrations, 328pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) wear top/bottom of spine, Fade to spine, and wear to top and bottom of spine, old repair to front hinge., (Order No: 43980 ), $15.00
462. ( Pepys ), Emden, Cecil S., PEPYS HIMSELF, Oxford University Press, London, 1963, 147pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In this study, primarily based on the Diary, the author analyzes and comments on much of the evidence indicating the kind of man Pepys was., (Order No: 33502 ), $25.00
463. ( Perkins ), Severn, Bill, FRANCES PERKINS: A MEMBER OF THE CABINET, Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York, (1976) 1st ptg, 256pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 080152816X Frances Perkins, secretary of labor during FDR's administration, was the first woman cabinet member., (Order No: 37663 ), $10.00
464. ( Pestalozzi ), Krusi, Hermann, PESTALOZZI: HIS LIFE, WORK, AND INFLUENCE, American Book Company, New York, (1875), B&W illustrations, 248pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) a few pencil marks, (Order No: 46361 ), $10.00
465. ( Petrarch ), Wilkins, Ernest Hatch, PETRARCH'S EIGHT YEARS IN MILAN 1353-1361, Mediaeval Academy of America, Cambridge, MA, 1958, 266pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) owner's name, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication No. 69., (Order No: 47232 ), $25.00
466. ( Pierce ), Pierce, Walter M.; Bone, Arthur H. (edited and expanded by), OREGON CATTLEMAN, GOVERNOR, CONGRESSMAN: MEMOIRS AND TIMES OF WALTER M. PIERCE, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 1981, B&W illustrations, 500pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0875950981 In this volume, the late eastern Oregon journalist Arthur H. Bone, Pierce's friend and confidante during his retirement years, accurately weaves excerpts from the Pierce papers with his own explanatory passages to present a balanced portrait of Oregon's 17th governor., (Order No: 44474 ), $6.00
467. ( Pierce ), Boas, Norman F., JANE M. PIERCE (1806-1863) - THE PIERCE - AIKEN PAPERS, Seaport Autographs, Stonington, CT, (1983), 113pp, fine, wraps (softcover), "Letters of Jane M. Pierce, her sister Mary M. Aiken, their family and President Franklin Pierce, with biographies of Jane Pierce, other members of her family, and genealogical tables." The author in 1980 had the good fortune to discover and acquire hundreds of unpublished letters of Jane Pierce and her family, including her husband President Franklin Pierce. This is a catalogue of that collection that now resides in the Library of Congress., (Order No: 48759 ), $15.00
468. ( Pierce ), Bell, Carl Irving, THEY KNEW FRANKLIN PIERCE (AND OTHERS THOUGHT THEY DID), April Hill Publishers, Springfield, VT, (1980), B&W illustrations, 25pp, fine, light blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0917780019 A sampling of opinions about the 14th US President drawn from his contemporaries., (Order No: 49973 ), $30.00
469. ( Pierce ), Bartlett, D. W., THE LIFE OF GEN. FRANK. PIERCE, OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Derby & Miller, Auburn, NY, 1852, engraved frontis foxed, 300pp, very good, original brown cloth (hardcover) some lt. foxing, An early biography of Franklin Pierce written to introduce the public to the Presidential nominee by National Democratic Convention at Baltimore., (Order No: 52464 ), $85.00
470. ( Pitt ), Ayling, Stanley, THE ELDER PITT - EARL OF CHATHAM, David McKay Company, Inc., New York, (1976) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 478pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679507175 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, is best known as the "Great Commoner," the statesman who transformed Britain into an imperial power in the mid-eighteenth century., (Order No: 52966 ), $10.00
471. ( Pitt ), Lord Rosebery, PITT, Greenwood Press Publishers, New York, (1969), 297pp, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0837119685 Twelve English Statesmen series, originally published in 1891., (Order No: 16953 ), $7.50
472. ( Pitt ), Reilly, Robin, WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1979) 1st Amer, 502pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In this biography, Reilly reveals the complex man behind the aloof, rigid public figure., (Order No: 31480 ), $17.50
473. ( Pizarro ), Shay, Frank, INCREDIBLE PIZARRO: CONQUEROR OF PERU, The Mohawk Press, New York, 1932, B&W illustrations, 342pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 45374 ), $10.00
474. ( Post ), Major, Nettie Leitch (inscribed by Marjorie Post), C. W. POST: THE HOUR AND THE MAN - A BIOGRAPHY WITH GENEALOGICAL SUPPLEMENT, Judd & Detweiler, Inc., Washington, DC, 1963, B&W and color illustrations, 318pp, good+, blue leather (hardcover) light edgewear, The first full-length biography of C.W. Post emphasizing the intense activity of his entire life. Includes much family history and genealogy. Post, known as founder of 'Postum', 'Grape-Nuts', and 'Post Toasties' (forerunners of General Foods Corporation) has many little-known accomplishments as an inventor and humanitarian., (Order No: 2145 ), $12.50
475. ( Prescott ), Gardiner, C. Harvey (introduction by Allan Nevins), WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT: A BIOGRAPHY, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, (1969), 366pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0292700059 A biography of the distinguished historian and man of letters which treats him as a creative historian, family man, traveler and clubman, as investor and humanitarian, and as private citizen with strong political preferences., (Order No: 11415 ), $10.00
476. ( Prescott ), Ticknor, George, LIFE OF WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1864, B&W illustrations, 491pp, good+, brown cloth, teg (hardcover) light edgewear, (Order No: 52853 ), $12.50
477. ( Prichard ), Parker, Eric, HESKETH PRICHARD D.S.O., M.C. - HUNTER: EXPLORER: NATURALIST: CRICKETER: AUTHOR: SOLDIER, E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, [1924], B&W illustrations, 272pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), Uncommon memoir of the versatile Hesketh Prichard. A nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 27180 ), $125.00
478. ( Pumphrey ), Newman, Henry Stanley, MEMORIES OF STANLEY PUMPHREY, Friends' Book and Tract Comm, New York, 1885 2nd ed, B&W frontis, 308pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) nice clean and tight copy, (Order No: 52423 ), $10.00
479. ( Putney ), Putney, Henry Marcus, SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF HENRY MARCUS PUTNEY, John B. Clarke Co., Manchester, NH, 1910, B&W frontis, 128pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 52981 ), $25.00
480. ( Pym ), Wade, C. E., JOHN PYM, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, London, 1912, B&W frontis, 356pp, good++, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), "The object of this book is to set before the general reader a clear account of a great man who has been too much forgotten.", (Order No: 45634 ), $22.50
481. ( Quennell ), Quennell, Peter, THE SIGN OF THE FISH, The Viking Press, New York, (1960), B&W illustrations, 255pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Quennell has used his personal reminiscences as as taking-off point for some shrewd discussion of literary forms and style, and to air his own refreshing ideas about some of his writing ancestors and contemporaries., (Order No: 25160 ), $5.00
482. ( Quigley ), Quigley, James M., BACK TO BERESTECHKO, RLF Press, Washington, D.C., (1994), 240pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0964139308 Tells the story of Jim and Stevie Quigley's lives and of Jim's efforts after Stevie's death in 1987 to bury a portion of her cremated remains in the Polish-Ukrainian town of Berestechko, where she had been born., (Order No: 38832 ), $20.00
483. ( Quincy ), Howe, M. A. DeWolfe (editor), THE ARTICULATE SISTERS, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1946, B&W illustrations, 249pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), Passages from journals and letters of the daughters of President Josiah Quincy of Harvard University., (Order No: 3421 ), $7.50
484. ( Quincy ), McCaughey, Robert A., JOSIAH QUINCY, 1772-1864: THE LAST FEDERALIST, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1974, B&W frontis, 266pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0674483758 A new interpretation of the man while casting a light on the changing fortunes of New England's colonial elite, the character of early nineteenth-century urban life, the history of Harvard during its most tumultuous years, and the conservative contribution to the anti-slavery movement., (Order No: 41733 ), $8.50
485. ( Radcliffe ), Grant, Aline, ANN RADCLIFFE: A BIOGAPHY, Alan Swallow, Denver, CO, (1951), 153pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A rare treat is this biography of one of the most interesting people of the eighteenth century., (Order No: 53705 ), $12.50
486. ( Randall ), Randall, Margaret, PART OF THE SOLUTION: PORTRAIT OF A REVOLUTIONARY, New Directions Publishing, New York, (1973), 192pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0811204707 Included in the book are notes from Ms. Randall's diary (1970-72), detailing her day-to-day life in Cuba, and a retrospective collection of her prose, poetry, and translations written over the past several years, culminating in the fervent "I Am Attica.", (Order No: 17308 ), $7.50
487. ( Randolph ), Conway, Moncure Daniel, OMITTED CHAPTERS OF HISTORY DISCLOSED IN THE LIFE AND PAPERS OF EDMUND RANDOLPH, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1888, B&W illustrations, 401pp, good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), EDMUND RANDOLPH -- GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA; FIRST ATTORNEY-GENERAL UNITED STATES; SECRETARY OF STATE., (Order No: 53723 ), $40.00
488. ( Raspe ), Carswell, John, THE PROSPECTOR: BEING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RUDOLF ERICH RASPE (1737-1794), The Cresset Press, London, 1950, B&W frontis, 7 B&W plates, 278pp, very good+, pictorial boards (hardcover), The life of Rudolf Erich Raspe, author of BARON MUNCHAUSEN., (Order No: 15256 ), $30.00
489. ( Rasputin ), Oakley, Jane, RASPUTIN: RASCAL MASTER, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1989) 1st ed, over 150 B&W and color ill., 208pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312032277 "A highly illustrated, colorful biography of one of our most celebrated dark heros of the past.", (Order No: 5919 ), $7.50
490. ( Rawlinson ), Smithers, A. J., TOBY: A REAL LIFE RIPPING YARN, Gordon & Cremonesi, London, (1978), 191pp, good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Toby Rawlinson was one of the most endearing, eccentric, and inventive, ingenious people to ever lend excitement to the conduct of any war. He devised a new gun for the British to repay German mortar fire, modified a stethoscope to detect Zeppelins, scared off a vast Russian-armed detachment with a cardboard tank, and etc., (Order No: 3587 ), $15.00
491. ( Reitman ), Bruns, Roger A., THE DAMNDEST RADICAL, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, (1987), B&W illustrations, 332pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0252009843 "The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician." Loved or loathed, Reitman always seemed to have an audience for his radical acts and beliefs. In this biography--based both on exhaustive archival research and on interviews with Reitman's friends, associates, and family members--Bruns gives this remarkable man his due and much, much more., (Order No: 17161 ), $7.50
492. ( Reston ), Stacks, John F., SCOTTY: JAMES B. RESTON AND THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (2003) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 373pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316809853 More than a brilliant biography, this volume is a secret history--of one man's life, of what went on behind closed Washington doors, of the stories that shaped our world and the stories that never made the papers., (Order No: 39001 ), $5.00
493. ( Revere ), Goss, Elbridge Henry, THE LIFE OF COLONEL PAUL REVERE; WITH PORTRAITS, MANY ILLUSTRATIONS, FAC-SIMILES, ETC. - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY, (1971), B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 689pp, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0836957997 First published in 1891., (Order No: 51756 ), $40.00
494. ( Revere ), O'Brien, Harriet E. (compiled by), PAUL REVERE'S OWN STORY, Perry Walton, Boston, MA, 1929, B&W illustrations, 47pp, very good, cream cloth spine, teg (hardcover) good slipcase, This edition is limited to 500 copies, of which this is no. 423. An account of his ride as told in a letter to a friend, together with a brief sketch of his versatile career. - SMALL BUMP ONE LOWER CORNER, (Order No: 42601 ), $75.00
495. ( Reynolds ), Allen, Frederick Lewis, PAUL REVERE REYNOLDS: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - WITH CHRISTMAS CARD SIGNED BY PAUL REVERE REYNOLDS, Privately Printed, New York, 1944, B&W frontis, 107pp, very good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), "This biographical sketch (of this notable literary agent) has been prepared under unusual circumstances. I have written it at the suggestion of Mrs. Reynolds for the Reynolds family; and as the principal condition laid down by her was that Mr. Reynolds must know nothing of the plan--to which his modesty would probably have objected--I have had to secure the information contained in it in a positively surreptitious way: by putting to him supposedly idle and innocent questions about his experiences, by drawing on the memories of Mrs. Reynolds and of two or three close friends who were let in on the secret, and by consulting the early files of the Reynolds agency.", (Order No: 43667 ), $40.00
496. ( Rhodes ), Millin, Sarah Gertrude, CECIL RHODES, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1933 3rd ptg, B&W frontis, 449pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), From his first experience at eighteen in the gold and diamond mines of South Africa until his death and burial in the Matapos hills, Rhodes's story is one of dramatic success and complete failure., (Order No: 16931 ), $15.00
497. ( Richards ), Richards, Laura E., STEPPING WESTWARD: THE STORY OF A LONG LIFE, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1932, B&W illustrations, 406pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Among the friends Richards grew up with were the Hawthorne family, Louisa Alcott, and many other literary figures of Boston, Cambridge, and Concord., (Order No: 44626 ), $10.00
498. ( Ries ), Ries, Estelle H., ELIAS E. RIES, INVENTOR, Philosophical Library, New York, (1951), B&W frontis, 369pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 46264 ), $6.00
499. ( Rimbaud ), MacCombie, John, THE PRINCE & THE GENIE: A STUDY OF RIMBAUD'S INFLUENCE ON CLAUDEL, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, 1972, 197pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The author demonstrates that, rather than Rimbaud the voyou, the homosexual, the sordid, sadistic, iconoclastic enfant terrible, it was Rimbaud the mystic, the spiritual seeker, the subtle poetic technician who influenced the deeply religious Claudel and who was the younger poet's poetic model as well as spiritual mentor., (Order No: 31552 ), $5.00
500. ( Ripley ), Steele, Robert G., WITH PEN OR SWORD: LIVES AND TIMES OF THE REMARKABLE RUTLAND RIPLEYS, Vantage Press, New York, (1979) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 346pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533037786 Energetic, inquisitive, and prolific, the members of the Ripley clan tell their tales in letters and diaries., (Order No: 44280 ), $60.00
501. ( Rivett-Carnac ), Rivett-Carnac, J. H., MANY MEMORIES: OF LIFE IN INDIA, AT HOME, AND ABROAD, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1910 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 448pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), Contents include: Parentage and Early Life, 1838-1857; Arrival in India, and Life in Calcutta, 1858; In the Mofussil, Midnapore, and the Income-Tax Commission, 1861; Up-Country and the Central Provinces, 1862; At Nagpore, 1862-1864; In Camp--Bombay, 1864; Chandah, 1865-1866; Cotton Commissioner, 1866-1868; With Lord Mayo, 1868; Work Under Lord Mayo--His Assassination, 1872; Home, 1872; The Famine, 1874; At Ghazipore, 1876 Onwards; On the Ganges and in the Hills, 1877-1885; Later Years in India, 1885-1894; Home Again, 1894; At Home, 1894-1900; Conclusion, 1903-1909., (Order No: 40393 ), $60.00
502. ( Rockefeller ), Chase, Mary Ellen, ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER, The Macmillan Co., New York, (1951) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 159pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) EX-LIB usual marks, (Order No: 2806 ), $7.50
503. ( Rockefeller ), Goulder, Grace, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: THE CLEVELAND YEARS, Western Reserve His. Soc., Cleveland, OH, 1972 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 271pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) signed by author, ISBN 0911704094 An intimate and dispassionate examination of John D. Rockefeller's life based on exhaustive research. Reflective of the oilman's personality., (Order No: 2131 ), $12.50
504. ( Rockefeller ), Morris, Joe Alex, THOSE ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS - AN INFORMAL BIOGRAPHY OF FIVE EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG MEN, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1953), 275pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The grandsons of John D. Rockefeller, and what they are doing with their fortunes., (Order No: 46592 ), $10.00
505. ( Rockefeller ), Nevins, Allan, STUDY IN POWER: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST - VOLUME I AND VOLUME II - TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1953 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 940pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjackets), Much new material was discovered since the publication of Nevin's earlier work on Rockefeller, and is included here., (Order No: 3065 ), $40.00
506. ( Roiphe ), Roiphe, Anne, 1185 PARK AVENUE: A MEMOIR, The Free Press, New York, (1999) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 257pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684857316 Novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what is was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s., (Order No: 37856 ), $7.50
507. ( Roosevelt ), Abbott, Lawrence F., IMPRESSIONS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1919, B&W illustrations, 315pp, good, maroon cloth, TEG (hardcover), (Order No: 17300 ), $8.00
508. ( Roosevelt ), Asbell, Bernard, WHEN F.D.R. DIED, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1961) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 211pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) old tape on jacket, The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt is now long past. The author has traveled thousands of miles and undertaken hundreds of interviews to discover not only what happened on that fateful day, but why what happened became, for so many people, so personal an event., (Order No: 23308 ), $3.00
509. ( Roosevelt ), Fay, Bernard, ROOSEVELT AND HIS AMERICA, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, (1933), 345pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "Now Franklin Roosevelt, with a smile, introduces us to a new America, an emancipated, liberal, slightly fantastic America--an America which likes young people's company and despises elderly bankers.", (Order No: 25543 ), $15.00
510. ( Roosevelt ), Johnston, William Davison, TR CHAMPION OF THE STRENUOUS LIFE - A PHOTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Theodore Roosevelt Assn., New York, (1992) 7th ptg, B&W illustrations, 142pp, fine, wraps (softcover), First published in 1958., (Order No: 51859 ), $4.50
511. ( Roosevelt ), Lash, Joseph P., "LIFE WAS MEANT TO BE LIVED": A CENTENARY PORTRAIT OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1984) 1st ed, over 125 B&W & color photos, 198pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393018776 This visual drama recreates through illustrations the full span of Eleanor's years. This book tells the compelling story of Eleanor's life, from her painful childhood in the old New York aristocracy through her marriage to a distant cousin, and then on to the stage of history, as FDR moved from his stint as assistant secretary of the navy to the governorship of New York and, ultimately, back to Washington as the nation's thirty-second president., (Order No: 14676 ), $5.00
512. ( Roosevelt ), Looker, Earle (Member of the Gang) - New Edition with Dale Carnegie's Foreword - 1938, THE WHITE HOUSE GANG, Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, (1929) [1938], James Montgomery Flagg ills., 244pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) bright red/black dj!!, "Theodore Roosevelt, from a new and interesting angle...that of a group of mischievous small boys...The account of his sympathy and understanding, and the tactful and successful handing of young people, individually and collectively, by both President and Mrs. Roosevelt, is a rare tribute...replete with anecdotes and very entertaining." GREAT DUSTJACKET Dale Carnegie's foreword states, "This book tells how Theodore Roosevelt handled his children, how he won their love and respect, and how he won them to his way of thinking.", (Order No: 29975 ), $75.00
513. ( Roosevelt ), Lord Charnwood, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, (1923), sepia toned frontis, 232pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 39836 ), $5.00
514. ( Roosevelt ), Manners, William, TR AND WILL: A FRIENDSHIP THAT SPLIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, (1969) 1st ed, B&W ill., 335pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Contents include: Heir Apparent; The White House; Renominated by Europe; The Breach; and, TR vs. Will., (Order No: 34557 ), $10.00
515. ( Roosevelt ), Riis, Jacob A., THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE CITIZEN - THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE MAN AND THE CITIZEN, hodder and Stoughton, London, 1904, B&W illustrations, 471pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 1524 ), $7.00
516. ( Roosevelt ), Venkataramani, M. S. (compiled and edited by), THE SUNNY SIDE OF FDR, Ohio University Press, n.p., (1973), 292pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0821401076 Roosevelt's own "humorous words" showing his own individual brand of humor and new insight into the politics and personalities of three decades., (Order No: 38025 ), $15.00
517. ( Roosevelt ), White, Graham J., FDR AND THE PRESS, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1979) 1st ptg, 186pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226895122, (Order No: 37561 ), $4.50
518. ( Rothschilds ), Cowles, Virginia, THE ROTHSCHILDS: A FAMILY OF FORTUNE, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973 1st US, B&W and color illustrations, 304pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) tape repairs to jacket, ISBN 0394487737, (Order No: 2810 ), $5.00
519. ( Rothschild ), Rothschild, Guy de, THE WHIMS OF FORTUNE: THE MEMOIRS OF GUY DE ROTHSCHILD, Random House, New York, (1985) 1st ed, B&W and color photos, 337pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394540549, (Order No: 7646 ), $5.00
520. ( Rothschilds ), Ravage, Marcus Eli, FIVE MEN OF FRANKFORT - THE STORY OF THE ROTHSCHILDS, The Dial Press, New York, 1934, portraits by Karl S. Woerner, 341pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) edgewear to cloth, First published in 1929., (Order No: 45631 ), $9.50
521. ( Rugg ), ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG: CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, A MEMORIAL, Privately Printed, Worcester, MA, 1939, B&W frontis, 151pp, good, black cloth (hardcover), Rugg lived from 1862 to 1938., (Order No: 39946 ), $15.00
522. ( Russell ), Russell, Charles Edward, WHY I AM A SOCIALIST, George H. Doran Company, New York, 1910, 301pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 40351 ), $7.50
523. ( Sabanci ), Tanju, Sadun (translated from the Turkish by Geoffrey Lewis), THE LIFE OF HACI OMER SABANCI: THE TURKISH VILLAGE BOY WHO BUILT AN INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE, World of Information, Saffron Walden, UK, (1988), B&W illustrations, 291pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0904439712 This biography, the first on Haci Omer, describes in a series of colourful sketches how he built his success through an alertness for opportunity and a determination in dealing., (Order No: 42317 ), $25.00
524. ( Sainte-Marthe ), Ruutz-Rees, Caroline, CHARLES DE SAINTE-MARTHE (1512-1555), Columbia University Press, New York, 1910, 664pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) some wear to cloth top edge, signed, This book attempts to give some account of the life of one of the lesser men of letters of the early Renaissance, and to describe and estimate the value of his work., (Order No: 35685 ), $17.50
525. ( Sarnoff ), Lyons, Eugene, DAVID SARNOFF, Harper & Row, New York, (1966), B&W illustrations, 372pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), "The extraordinary story of an immigrant boy who became an industrial giant. As head of RCA and pioneer in electronics and communications, he has probably affected our daily lives more than anyone since Edison.", (Order No: 3912 ), $5.00
526. ( Saville ), Saville, John, MEMOIRS FROM THE LEFT, The Merlin Press, London, (2003), 197pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0850365201 These memoirs cover a long life in socialist politics and the academic world, from his travels in France and Nazi Germany as the Second World War approached, through war service as an Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Sergeant Major and army life in India., (Order No: 53025 ), $27.50
527. ( Schoenberner ), Schoenberner, Franz, YOU STILL HAVE YOUR HEAD: EXCURSIONS FROM IMMOBILITY, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1957 1st ptg, 247pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), For eighteen weeks, Mr. Schoenberner lay in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down. This book is devoted to his fascinating thoughts during that period., (Order No: 34569 ), $12.00
528. ( Schweitzer ), Seaver, George, ALBERT SCHWEITZER: THE MAN AND HIS MIND, Harper & Brothers, New York, (1947), 346pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 3198 ), $3.00
529. ( Scott ), Callard, D. A., "PRETTY GOOD FOR A WOMAN": THE ENIGMAS OF EVELYN SCOTT, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1985) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 202pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393022765 A remarkable and illuminating portrait of one woman and her generation., (Order No: 31653 ), $4.50
530. ( Scott ), Scott, J. W. Robertson, THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY: MEMORIES OF AN UNEDUCATED MAN, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, (1951), B&W illustrations, 294pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Robertson Scott describes with candor, particularity and vivacity, scenes of his Cumberland and Midlands boyhood and young manhood in a now vanished world., (Order No: 39179 ), $12.00
531. ( Seabury ), Mitgang, Herbert, THE MAN WHO RODE THE TIGER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE SAMUEL SEABURY, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1963) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 380pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Samuel Seabury was the most inspired investigator of municipal corruption in the first half of the twentieth century, a New Yorker born and bred, who almost singlehanded took on the Tammany Hall tiger and freed the city from its clutches., (Order No: 24366 ), $6.00
532. ( Selwyn ), Jesse, John Heneage, GEORGE SELWYN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES; WITH MEMOIRS AND NOTES - NEW EDITION -- FOUR VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Bickers & Son, London, 1882, B&W illustrations, very good, 3/4 red leather (hardcover) light edgewear, Nice clean and tight set with raised bands, 6 spine compartments, gilt tooling, marbled boards and endpapers. Volume I, 418pp; Volume II, 404pp; Volume III, 400pp; and Volume IV, 411pp. George Augustus Selwyn (1719- 1791) was an English politician and wit. One of his peculiarities was to preserve not only every letter addressed to him by his correspondents during the course of his long life, but also he saved the most trifling notes and unimportant memoranda. All this adds to the interest and amusement of these volumes in looking at the life of his times., (Order No: 51689 ), $385.00
533. ( Severn ), Birkenhead, Sheila, ILLUSTRIOUS FRIENDS: THE STORY OF JOSEPH SEVERN AND HIS SON ARTHUR, Reynal & Company, New York, (1965), B&W illustrations, 393pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) ownere's name, (Order No: 53748 ), $5.00
534. ( Sewid ), Spradley, James P. (edited by), GUESTS NEVER LEAVE HUNGRY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES SEWID, A KWAKIUTL INDIAN, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1971) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 310pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300010753 The story of James Sewid, a twentieth-century Kwakiutl Indian chieftain, brings to life the experience of one man caught in conflict as the traditional Kwakiutl culture gave way to the demands of an expanding Western society in British Columbia., (Order No: 44619 ), $12.50
535. ( Sharkey ), Ostransky, Leroy, SHARKEY'S KID: A MEMOIR, William Morrow and Company, New York, (1991) 1st ed, 223pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688103251 Leroy Ostransky begins the gritty and often painful look back on his relationship with his father, the brutish and powerful Sharkey., (Order No: 30065 ), $4.00
536. ( Shaw ), Graybar, Lloyd J., ALBERT SHAW OF THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY, Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, (1974), B&W illustrations, 229pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813113008 This study deals with Shaw's career as editor of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS and as a public figure during the Progressive Era., (Order No: 35374 ), $8.50
537. ( Shepard ), Shepard, Tim, PEACHES POINT, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, (1976) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 267pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0690011687 "The Summer World of the Irascible T. H. Shepard and his Clan." A sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always engaging picture of a bygone way of life which existed during the first half of the 20th century., (Order No: 36363 ), $10.00
538. ( Sherman ), Zeitlin, Jacob and Woodbridge, Homer (with ALS by), LIFE AND LETTERS OF STUART P. SHERMAN - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, (1929) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 880pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjackets, Tipped to the front paste down of Volume I is a envelope from Homer Woodbridge to the former owner of this set with an interesting ALS (autographed letter signed)., (Order No: 51619 ), $25.00
539. ( Sihler ), Sihler, Ernest G., FROM MAUMEE TO THAMES AND TIBER: THE LIFE-STORY OF AN AMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOLAR, New York University Press, New York, 1930, B&W frontis, 267pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 39885 ), $6.50
540. ( Simon ), Simon, Kate, A WIDER WORLD: PORTRAITS IN AN ADOLESCENCE, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1986) 1st ed, 186pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060155264 A sequel to BRONX PRIMITIVE, this book is about growing up in the Depression-ridden but vital New York of the 1930s. With a spirited sense of self-preservation and without a trace of sentimentality, the author explores the wondrous flowering and momentary terrors of her adolescence., (Order No: 19079 ), $3.00
541. ( Siney ), Pinkowski, Edward, JOHN SINEY: THE MINERS' MARTYR - A BIOGRAPHY, Sunshine Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1963 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 335pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, John Siney was an Irish immigrant who came to America in 1863 at the age of thirty-two, settled in Saint Clair, Pennsylvania, and rapidly became the leader of coal miners from the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania to the border mines of Missouri., (Order No: 50660 ), $40.00
542. ( Smith ), Morison, John H., LIFE OF THE HON. JEREMIAH SMITH, LL.D. ..., Charles C. Little, Boston, MA, 1845, frontis and 1/2 title plate, 516pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) light edgewear, clean and tight, "... MEMBER OF CONGRESS DURING WASHINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION, JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT, CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ETC.", (Order No: 47147 ), $100.00
543. ( Smith ), Smith, Seba (Major Jack Downing, Pseud.0, MY THIRTY YEARS OUT OF THE SENATE, AMS Press, New York, (1973), B&W illustrations, 458pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0404021697 First published in 1859., (Order No: 49777 ), $5.00
544. ( Smiths ), Parker, Robert Allerton, THE TRANSATLANTIC SMITHS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY WITH AN UNUSUAL FLAIR FOR THE SPECTACULAR, Random House, New York, (1959) 1st ptg, 238pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This biography of the vivid, unpredictable Smiths is embellished with their associations with the literary, artistic and political leaders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., (Order No: 40018 ), $5.00
545. ( Smollett ), Bruce, Donald, RADICAL DOCTOR SMOLLETT, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1965 1st Amer, 240pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 39172 ), $5.00
546. ( Snow ), Snow, Wilbert, CODLINE'S CHILD, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILBERT SNOW, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, (1974) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 489pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0819540692 Wilbert Snow's life embodies the American dream. Here is his account, told in his own inimitable way., (Order No: 31617 ), $10.00
547. ( Soskice ), Soskice, Juliet M. (with a foreword by A. G. Gardiner; new introduction to the reprint edition by Elizabeth Longford), CHAPTERS FROM CHILDHOOD: REMINISCENCES OF AN ARTIST'S GRANDDAUGHTER, Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, DE, (1972), B&W illustrations, 239pp, very good, light green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0842013474 "These reminiscences, written a long time ago, are not a recital of facts from day to day, with stated names and dates, but merely the presentation of certain scenes and incidents of childhood, such as often remain clearly in the memory long after childhood has passed.", (Order No: 47966 ), $15.00
548. ( Sperry ), Durgin, Russell L. (editor English section); Kawaguchi, Zenichi (editor Japanese section), DR, SPERRY AS WE KNEW HIM, The Nichi-Bei Press, Yokohama, Japan, 1931, B&W illustrations, 477pp, very good++, red leather spine, teg (hardcover) in slipcase, Published in the memory of the inventor and business man Elmer A. Sperry. The Japanese section runs to page 199, and the English section (a translation) to page 477. Contents of English Section: I. The Life of Dr. Sperry, II. The Achievements of Dr. Sperry, III. Reminiscences, and IV. Memorial Service. An ABSOLUTELY EXCEPTIONAL COPY in the original publisher's cardboard slipcase. Presentation statement on the front free endpaper dated Oct.5, 1932. An uncommon item, especially in this condition. (as a child, Elmer A. Sperry, Jr. lived just down the road from us in Connecticut, and the Sperry-Gyroscope Company was in the neighboring town - I often caddied for Elmer A. Sperry, Jr., at the Silver Springs Country Club in Ridgefield., (Order No: 46017 ), $500.00
549. ( Spofford ), Halbeisen, Elizabeth K., HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD: A ROMANTIC SURVIVAL, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1935, B&W ill., 273pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Spofford is a mirror for the literary period in which she wrote. She achieved an enduring individuality that merits this account of some length of her life and work., (Order No: 35303 ), $75.00
550. ( Spry ), Lewis, John Frederick, THOMAS SPRY LAWYER AND PHYSICIAN, Patterson & White Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1932, 10 B&W ill., 126pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) small water stain front board, The first attorney admitted to practice under English Law in the Delaware River Settlements now included in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware., (Order No: 10369 ), $14.50
551. ( St. John ), St. John, Robert, THIS WAS MY WORLD: A FAMOUS REPORTER TELLS THE STORY OF HIS OWN EXCITING LIFE, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1953, 380pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 44480 ), $7.50
552. ( Staats ), Wilson, Carol Green, CALIFORNIA YANKEE: WILLIAM R. STAATS - BUSINESS PIONEER, The Saunders Press, Claremont, CA, 1946 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 184pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) wear bottom corners, William Staats headed for California in November, 1886. From 1887 to 1928 his contributions to the development of California were far reaching., (Order No: 9467 ), $7.50
553. ( Stalin ), Basseches, Nikolaus (translated from the German by E. W. Dickes), STALIN, Staples Press, London, (1952), 404pp, good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author depicts the man, his character and his career, but he lays bare the roots from which this Stalin sprang. He emphasizes the influence that Stalin's background had in shaping his policy, and we are shown how he has come to be dominated by his own success., (Order No: 15681 ), $5.00
554. ( Stalin ), Conquest, Robert, STALIN: BREAKER OF NATIONS, Weidenfeld, London, (1993), B&W illustrations, 346pp, very good, wraps (softcover) UNDERLINE ON ONE PAGE, ISBN 0297813889, (Order No: 53531 ), $4.50
555. ( Stalin ), de Jonge, Alex, STALIN: AND THE SHAPING OF THE SOVIET UNION, Collins, London, (1986), B&W illustrations, 560pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0002168049 The author examines Stalin's life, from poor childhood to early Bolshevik activities, from his rise through the Communist Party to his assumption of one-man rule, from his purges and liquidations to his World War II victories and subsequent expansion into Eastern Europe., (Order No: 20801 ), $6.00
556. ( Stalin ), Trotsky, Leon (edited and translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth), STALIN: AN APPRAISAL OF THE MAN AND HIS INFLUENCE, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1941) 1st ed, 35 B&W ill., 516pp, good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, without censorship either by Trotskyists or by Stalinists. Dustjacket lacks about a two inch piece at the top of the spine., (Order No: 16718 ), $30.00
557. ( Stanhope ), Stanhope, Aubrey, ON THE TRACK OF THE GREAT: RECOLLECTIONS OF A "SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT", John Lane Company, New York, 1914, B&W frontis, 311pp, (Order No: 40067 ), $15.00
558. ( Stanwood ), Richmond, Chandler S., BEYOND THE SPRING: CORDELIA STANWOOD OF BIRDSACRE - NEW AND REVISED EDITION, The Latona Press, Ellsworth, ME, 1989 2nd ed, B&W illustrations, 155pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 093244802X "Maine's Pioneer Ornithologist and Photographer.", (Order No: 36352 ), $25.00
559. ( Stedman ), Thompson, Stanbury (edited by), THE JOURNAL OF JOHN GABRIEL STEDMAN, 1744-1797 SOLDIER AND AUTHOR, The Mitre Press, London, (1962), B&W illustrations, 437pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Including an authentic account of his expedition to Surinam, in 1772. This journal gives a true picture of social, military, and diplomatic life, in the middle of the 18th century., (Order No: 52691 ), $12.50
560. ( Stein ), Fuller, Edmund (edited by) (introduction by Van Wyck Brooks), JOURNEY INTO THE SELF: BEING THE LETTERS, PAPERS & JOURNALS OF LEO STEIN, Crown Publishers, New York, (1950), B&W ill., 331pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), An autobiographical chronicle revealing the extraordinary mind of an independent thinker., (Order No: 32128 ), $12.50
561. ( Stern ), Stern, J. David, MEMOIRS OF A MAVERICK PUBLISHER, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1962 1st ptg, 320pp, good w/lightly edge worn dustjacket (hardcover), "The candid confessions of a liberal, independent newspaper man, covering his forty years from cub reporter to owner.", (Order No: 44409 ), $5.00
562. ( Stevenson ), Baker, Jean H., THE STEVENSONS: A BIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1996) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 577pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393038742 The compelling story of four generations of Stevensons, from the earliest Scotch Irish settlers to the present, framed by the life and career of the icon of liberal politics, Adlai E. Stevenson II., (Order No: 38571 ), $14.50
563. ( Stevenson ), Martin, John Bartlow, ADLAI STEVENSON AND THE WORLD: THE LIFE OF ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Doubleday & Co., Inc., New York, 1977 1st ed, B&W photos, 946pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0385121792, (Order No: 7759 ), $5.00
564. ( Stokkebye ), Stokkebye, Peter (with Don & Scott Jeffries), STOKKEBYE: THE LIFE & GOOD TIMES OF A TOBACCO MAN, Selective American Marketing, CA, (2002), B&W illustrations, 191pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0972178805 Peter Stokkebye was born into the tobacco business, as was his father before him. His family's history was shaped by the passion of the Danish people for tobacco, and he, in turn, brought this passion with him to America., (Order No: 52316 ), $30.00
565. ( Stopes ), Hall, Ruth, PASSIONATE CRUSADER: THE LIFE OF MARIE STOPES, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1977) 1st Amer, B&W ill., 351pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Marie Stopes: an extraordinary woman, an eccentric woman, a contradictory woman, a twentieth century Joan of Arc. A woman who transformed her own personal struggles into a movement that came to be known as a revolution just a decade after her death in 1958., (Order No: 31683 ), $8.50
566. ( Storrow ), Pearson, Henry Greenleaf, SON OF NEW ENGLAND: JAMES JACKSON STORROW, 1864-1926, Thomas Todd Company, Boston, MA, 1932, B&W and color illustrations, 283pp, chart, good+, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 27751 ), $7.50
567. ( Stowe ), Blythe, LeGette, ROBERT LEE STOWE - PIONEER IN TEXTILES, published by the author, Belmont, NC, 1965, B&W illustrations, 288pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author in 1966, (Order No: 43478 ), $10.00
568. ( Strachan ), Henderson, J. L. H., JOHN STRACHAN, 1778-1867, University of Toronto Press, Canada, (1969), 112pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small chip on jacket, ISBN 0802032257 In this study Professor Henderson traces Strachan's life from his childhood in Scotland when his mother decided that he would be a minister to his death in Toronto in the year of Confederation., (Order No: 48701 ), $10.00
569. ( Sumner ), Reed, William Howell; Merrill, Moody; Verry, George F.; Smith, Joshua B.; Phillips, Willard P.; and Phillips, Smith R., A MEMORIAL OF CHARLES SUMNER, Commonwealth of Mass., Boston, MA, 1874, B&W frontis, 317pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) light wear to corners, The Joint Special Committee, acting under an Order, were appointed to prepare an Oration upon the life, character and public services of Charles Sumner., (Order No: 44736 ), $17.50
570. ( Symington ), Symington, Charles J. (edited by Pam), SKIPPIN' THE DEVILS: MEMOIRS OF CHARLES J. SYMINGTON, FEBRUARY 2, 1883 - FEBRUARY 2, 1966, Charles J. Symington, New York, (1966), B&W illustrations, 183pp, very good+, bound in red Scottish plaid cloth (hardcover), Written for his twenty grandchildren., (Order No: 49268 ), $20.00
571. ( Synge ), McCormack, W. J., FOOL OF THE FAMILY: A LIFE OF J. M. SYNGE, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, (2000), 500pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0297646125 In this authoritative biography, McCormack details the complex religious and social environment in which Synge slowly refined his talents as a writer., (Order No: 52679 ), $10.00
572. ( Szymanowitz ), Szymanowitz, Raymond, EDWARD GOODRICH ACHESON: INVENTOR, SCIENTIST, INDUSTRIALIST, Vantage Press, New York, (1971) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 628pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The story of a poor American boy who had only a few years of formal schooling yet rose to international fame., (Order No: 49166 ), $7.00
573. ( Taber ), Taber, Sydney Richmond, ARTHUR RICHMOND TABER: A MEMORIAL RECORD COMPILED BY HIS FATHER, Privately Printed, n.p., 1920, B&W illustrations, 203pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), "Our hope is that the book may gratify those of our friends who knew and loved him well, and serve either to make him better known to those who knew him only slightly or introduce him to others who knew him not at all. May its readers find some of the inspiration that we have derived from the privilege of knowing and loving him for twenty-five years.", (Order No: 39947 ), $150.00
574. ( Tannenbaum ), Maier, Joseph and Weatherhead, Richard W. (foreword by James Gutmann), FRANK TANNENBAUM: A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, Columbia University, New York, 1974, 41pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), For almost twenty-five years, the University Seminars at Columbia were the central focus of Frank Tannenbaum's career. During his terminal illness--as Joseph Maier and Richard Weatherhead recount in their biographical essay here published to mark the 30th anniversary of the University Seminars--he referred to them as the source of the richest experience of his life., (Order No: 39564 ), $20.00
575. ( Tanner ), Johnson, Gerald W., THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIST: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF SIMPSON BOBO TANNER, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1952), B&W frontis, 84pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 21660 ), $14.50
576. ( Taylor ), Montgomery, H., THE LIFE OF MAJOR GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR, J. C. Derby & Co, Publishers, Auburn, NY, 1847 2nd ed, B&W frontis, 360pp, good, original brown cloth (hardcover) edgewear to spine/corners, The life and times of General Zachary Taylor. Some light foxing on endpapers and some preliminary pages., (Order No: 49652 ), $35.00
577. ( Teale ), Teale, Edwin Way, DUNE BOY: THE EARLY YEARS OF A NATURALIST, Bibliopola Press, Storrs, CT, (2002), ill. by Edward Shenton, 255pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0939883090 The great naturalist, Edwin Way Teale, spent his boyhood holidays and summers at his grandparents' farm, Lone Oak, in Indiana. In this volume, first published in 1943, he relives these bucolic visits and his budding interest in the natural world around him., (Order No: 54213 ), $10.00
578. ( Templewood ), Templewood, Viscount, THE UNBROKEN THREAD, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1950, B&W ill., 320pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A retrospect and a self-examination, setting into order the things he loved and that most deeply influenced him., (Order No: 34799 ), $7.00
579. ( Thayer ), Hazen, Charles Downer (editor), THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1926, B&W illustrations, 441pp, good, dark green cloth (hardcover) dustjacket cut and laid in, In his many associations as editor, author, and university official, William Roscoe Thayer, was a participant in correspondence of extraordinary range and quality, resulting from a great number of interesting contacts both in this country and abroad., (Order No: 18851 ), $6.00
580. ( Thomas ), Thomas, Lowell, GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: FROM CRIPPLE CREEK TO SAMARKAND, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1976 8th ptg, B&W illustrations, 349pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688030688 The fascinating life story of one of the most remarkable men in U.S. history. Lowell Thomas may be best known as a newscaster, but to millions of Americans he is equally famous as a foreign correspondent, lecturer, biographer, explorer, and business executive., (Order No: 21454 ), $2.50
581. ( Thomas ), Thomas, M. Carey (edited by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin) (foreword by Millicent Carey McIntosh), THE MAKING OF A FEMINIST: EARLY JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF M. CAREY THOMAS, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, (1979), 314pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0873382323 Illuminates the history of women's education in America as well as the social and psychological influences in the lives of early feminists., (Order No: 37544 ), $12.00
582. ( Thomas ), Thomas, Augustus, THE PRINT OF MY REMEMBRANCE, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1922 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 477pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author, Augustus Thomas (1857-1934) was an American dramatist and president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In later life he displayed an interest in psychic phenomena and was an experimental writer in many genres., (Order No: 51744 ), $12.00
583. ( Thompson ), Sanders, Marion K., DOROTHY THOMPSON: A LEGEND IN HER TIME, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, (1973) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 428pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0395154677, (Order No: 33655 ), $8.00
584. ( Thomson ), Braddon, Russell, ROY THOMSON OF FLEET STREET, Collins, London, 1965, B&W illustrations, 397pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 39860 ), $8.50
585. ( Thorndike ), Casson, Patricia (edited by) (with THE BEGINNINGS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Sybil Thorndike Casson), MY DEAR ONE': A VICTORIAN COURTSHIP, Julia MacRae, London, (1984), B&W illustrations, 159pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0862031850 Presents Dame Sybil's parents as two warm, loving and committed people and throws light on her much-revered character, further enhanced by the inclusion of her autobiographical fragment., (Order No: 35410 ), $6.50
586. ( Tilden ), Cornell, William Mason, LIFE OF HON. SAMUEL JONES TILDEN, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; WITH A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF HON. THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS, Lee & Shepard, Boston, MA, 1876, B&W frontis, 336pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) light edgewear, "... THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF INDIANA.", (Order No: 52772 ), $40.00
587. ( Tillich ), Cali, Grace (introduction by Jerald C. Brauer), PAUL TILLICH FIRST-HAND: A MEMOIR OF THE HARVARD YEARS, Exploration Press, Chicago, IL, (1996), 123pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0913552585 Grace Cali was Paul Tillich's administrative assistant during the seven years he was a University Professor at Harvard. This book is not a biography; rather, it is a memoir of their interaction "from her side of the desk.", (Order No: 46654 ), $20.00
588. ( Tobin ), Lapomarda, Vincent A., THE BOSTON MAYOR WHO BECAME TRUMAN'S SECRETARY OF LABOR: MAURICE J. TOBIN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, Peter Lang, New York, (1995), B&W illustrations, 342pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 082042448X This biographical study of Irish-American Maurice J. Tobin discusses his development from parochial to international stature during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras., (Order No: 51486 ), $75.00
589. ( Tootikian ), Tootikian, Vahan H., MY VANTAGE POINT, Armenian Heritage Committee, Southfield, MI, 1988, B&W illustrations, 124pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover), Dr. Vahan Tootikian's latest collection of prose and verse., (Order No: 45427 ), $30.00
590. ( Tootikian ), Tootikian, Vahan H., FROM A MINISTER'S DESK - VAHAN H. TOOTIKIAN, Armenian Heritage Committee, Southfield, MI, 1987, 218pp, very good, wraps (softcover), A book of essays by the Rev. Dr. Vahan Tootikian who at the time of publication was pastor of the Armenian Congregational Church of Greater Detroit, and Moderator of the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America., (Order No: 49872 ), $30.00
591. ( Towne ), Morgan, Katherine Redington (edited by), MY EVER DEAR DAUGHTER, MY OWN DEAR MOTHER: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JULIA STONE TOWNE AND MARY JULIA TOWNE, 1868-1882, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 316pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0877455643 The only published collection of sustained correspondence between a nineteenth-century American mother and daughter., (Order No: 44447 ), $8.50
592. ( Towne ), Towne, Ruth Warner, MYRON SMITH TOWNE AND THE MEANING OF SUCCESS, 1829-1918, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Press, Kirksville, MO, (1998), B&W illustrations, 298pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0943549507 Through Towne's letters,diaries, and the stories he shared with his family we come face to face with a dynamic society at the turn of the century in America., (Order No: 37738 ), $14.50
593. ( Toynbee ), Kadish, Alon, APOSTLE ARNOLD: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ARNOLD TOYNBEE, 1852-1883, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1986, 286pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0822304899 The author undertakes a critical approach to the intellectual and social activities of Toynbee during his short life (1852-1883), while also giving due attention to the religious convictions that prompted many of those pursuits., (Order No: 30756 ), $10.00
594. ( Trollope ), Bigland, Eileen, THE INDOMITABLE MRS. TROLLOPE, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1954 1st ptg, 255pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 54242 ), $4.00
595. ( Trotsky ), Krasso, Nicolas (editor) (introduction by David Horowitz), TROTSKY: THE GREAT DEBATE RENEWED, New Critics Press, Inc., St. Louis, MO, 1972 1st ed, 191pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0878530029 Here are four conflicting theorists and activists of the Left in a brilliant, hard-hitting debate on the meaning and contemporary relevance of Trotskyism., (Order No: 37728 ), $12.00
596. ( Truman ), Burns, Richard Dean (compiled by), HARRY S. TRUMAN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS TIMES AND PRESIDENCY, Scholarly Resources, Inc., Wilmington, DE, (1984), B&W illustrations, 297pp, fine, maroon cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0842022198, (Order No: 37448 ), $17.50
597. ( Truman ), Cochran, Bert, HARRY TRUMAN AND THE CRISIS PRESIDENCY, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, (1973) 4th ptg, B&W illustrations, 432pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 42492 ), $5.00
598. ( Trumbull ), Trumbull, John, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, REMINISCENCES AND LETTERS OF JOHN TRUMBULL, FROM 1756 TO 1841, Wiley and Putnam/B.L. Hamlen, New York/New Haven, 1841, B&W ill, and both maps, 439pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) edgewear and foxing - EX-LIB, The autobiography of the painter, public orator, spokesman for soldiers and statesmen, and historian. Few Americans have not at one time or another seen the signing of the Declaration of Independence through Trumbull's eyes., (Order No: 53144 ), $45.00
599. ( Trumbull ), Weaver, Glenn, JONATHAN TRUMBULL: CONNECTICUT'S MERCHANT MAGISTRATE (1710-1785), Connecticut Historical Soc., Hartford, CT, 1956, B&W illustrations, 183pp, very good+, green cloth spine, decorated cloth board (hardcover), "It has been the purpose of this study, therefore, to trace Trumbull's mercantile career through the forty years following his association in 1730 with his father in a family business.", (Order No: 27727 ), $25.00
600. ( Tugwell ), Tugwell, Rexford G. (introduction by Leon H. Keyserling; afterword by Otis L. Graham), TO THE LESSER HEIGHTS OF MORNINGSIDE: A MEMOIR, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1982, B&W frontis, 264pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small chip on dustjacket, ISBN 0812278275 In this colorful memoir, Tugwell begins with his entry as a freshman into the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1911 and concludes with his acceptance in 1933 of the post of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the Roosevelt Administration., (Order No: 49901 ), $15.00
601. ( Tweed ), Lynch, Denis Tilden, "BOSS" TWEED: THE STORY OF A GRIM GENERATION, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927 3rd ptg, 15 B&W ill., 433pp, good+, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 18286 ), $7.50
602. ( Tyler ), Tanselle, G. Thomas, ROYALL TYLER, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1967, 281pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is the first book-length study of Royall Tyler (1757-1826), a distinguished Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and a writer who is generally considered to be one of the most significant figures in American literature in the period just after the Revolution., (Order No: 13152 ), $6.50
603. ( Van Dyke ), Teague, David W. and Wild, Peter (edited, with an introduction by), THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN C. VAN DYKE: SELECTED LETTERS, University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV, (1997) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 166pp, fine, brown "simulated leather" cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0874172942, (Order No: 38637 ), $25.00
604. ( Vane ), Adamson, J. H. & Folland, H. F., SIR HARRY VANE: HIS LIFE AND TIMES (1613-1662), Gambit Incorporated, Boston, MA, 1973 1st ptg, 14 B&W ill., 498pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0876450648 The authors approach the paradox of Sir Harry face on and place their subject against a detailed background of his times. Sir Harry lived in an age of great intellectual ferment and naked violence, of momentous political upheavals in England and the formation of an American character. By reflecting these turmoils in the life of their subject, the authors do much to resolve the enigma of his career and to rescue from the past one of the most fascinating and imposing figures of his time., (Order No: 14159 ), $6.50
605. ( Vilas ), Merrill, Horace Samuel, WILLIAM FREEMAN VILAS: DOCTRINAIRE DEMOCRAT, State Historical Soc. of WI, Madison, WI, (1954), B&W illustrations, 310pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This book tells how heritage and environment shaped Vilas' character and career and how he himself contributed to the development of a Midwestern area during a dynamic era of growth and expansion., (Order No: 38805 ), $14.50
606. ( von Hindenburg ), Weterstetten, Rudolph and Watson, A. M. K., THE BIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1930, B&W illustrations, 276pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 40264 ), $8.50
607. ( Wallace ), House, Jack, LADY OF COURAGE: THE STORY OF LURLEEN BURNS WALLACE, League Press, Montgomery, AL, (1969) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 164pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0876950225 Contents include: Lurleen Burns; Wife and Mother; Out of the Background; Alabama's First Lady; A Fateful Decision; "Ma" and "Pa" Wallace; A Time to Fish; The Inauguration; Her Excellency, the Governor; The Way of a Woman; A Long, Hard Struggle; The Final Journey; Epilogue; and, Footnotes., (Order No: 40188 ), $7.50
608. ( Wallace ), Schmidt, Karl M., HENRY A. WALLACE: QUIXOTIC CRUSADE 1948, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1960, 362pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An account of the Progressive Party and of Wallace's presidential campaign in 1948., (Order No: 37426 ), $10.00
609. ( Walpole ), Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, HORACE WALPOLE: THE A. W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS, 1960, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, Pantheon Books, New York, (1961), B&W illustrations, 215pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, A study of the great eighteenth-century English collector, printer, Gothic novelist, arbiter of taste, and above all letterwriter. Bollingen Series XXXV 9., (Order No: 40388 ), $7.50
610. ( Wanamaker ), Appel, Joseph H., JOHN WANAMAKER: A STUDY, Rodman Wanamaker, n.p., (1927) 2nd ed, 103pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 23951 ), $15.00
611. ( Ward ), Elliott, Maud Howe, UNCLE SAM WARD AND HIS CIRCLE, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1938 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 699pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 39733 ), $14.50
612. ( Ward ), Thomas, Lately, SAM WARD "KING OF THE LOBBY", Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, (1965) 2nd ptg, B&W photos, 533pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Ward lived from 1814 to 1884. He was one of New York's most prominent bankers., (Order No: 7317 ), $5.00
613. ( Washington ), Armstrong, Edward Ambler, SOME LETTERS OF WASHINGTON: CAMDEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - CAMDEN HISTORY VOL. 1 NO. 5, Camden County Historical Soc, Camden, NJ, 1926, 23pp, good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 27301 ), $17.50 614. ( Washington ), Brookhiser, Richard, FOUNDING FATHER: REDISCOVERING GEORGE WASHINGTON, The Free Press, New York, (1996), 230pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, ISBN 0684822911 This generation's premier essayist and political writer, goes in search of the real George Washington and discovers, under layers of both 19th century piety and 20th century cynicism, a figure who can still evoke our deepest admiration., (Order No: 11164 ), $7.50
615. ( Washington ), Fleming, Thomas J. (edited by), AFFECTIONATELY YOURS, GEORGE WASHINGTON: A SELF-PORTRAIT IN LETTERS OF FRIENDSHIP, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, (1967) 1st ed, 280pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Selected and edited by Thomas J. Fleming from the thirty-seven volumes of Washington's collected writings, this is a book that will be a revelation to our era, and do much to restore Washington as a President who is loved as well as respected., (Order No: 24411 ), $9.50
616. ( Washington ), Klapthor, Margaret Brown and Morrison, Howard Alexander, G. WASHINGTON: A FIGURE UPON THE STAGE, Smithsonian Institution Pr., Washington, DC, (1982), B&W and color ill., 231pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0874745934 Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, February 22, 1982 - January 7, 1983. A presentation of George Washington as a man who definitively reflected the values and customs of his century, social class, community, and family through objects, documents, and contemporary pictorial material intimately associated with him., (Order No: 25168 ), $8.00
617. ( Washington ), Ogden, H. A. (text and pictures by) (foreword by Harrison H. Dodge), GEORGE WASHINGTON: A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, The Century Co., New York, (1932) 1st ptg, B&W ill., 153pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 32902 ), $30.00
618. ( Washington ), Thane, Elswyth, MOUNT VERNON IS OURS: THE STORY OF ITS PRESERVATION, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1966) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 467pp, good++ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This is the amazing story of the rescue of Mount Vernon from near ruin. It is also the story of an unknown American heroine, Ann Pamela Cunningham, the extraordinary founder of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association., (Order No: 24413 ), $6.00
619. ( Waterton ), Aldington, Richard, THE STRANGE LIFE OF CHARLES WATERTON 1782-1865, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1949), B&W illustrations, 231pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The story of a man gifted in a score of fields from zoology to the familiar essay. He was the Last Great Eccentric., (Order No: 50833 ), $7.50
620. ( Watts ), Watts, John, LETTER BOOK OF JOHN WATTS: MERCHANT AND COUNCILLOR OF NEW YORK, JANUARY 1, 1762 - DECEMBER 22, 1765, New York Historical Society, New York, 1928, 448pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with usual markings, The Honorable John Watts, author of these letters, was a prominent man in New York's social, mercantile, and political life, during the three decades preceding the outbreak of the American Revolution. "Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1928 - The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series.", (Order No: 45819 ), $25.00
621. ( Webster ), Rollins, Richard M. (edited and with an introduction by), THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF NOAH WEBSTER: FROM THE LETTERS AND ESSAYS, MEMOIR, AND DIARY, Univ. of South Carolina Pr., Columbia, SC, (1989) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 378pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0872495744 This book publishes for the first time Noah Webster's formal autobiography as well as several other accounts of various aspects of his life., (Order No: 44709 ), $8.50
622. ( Webster ), Webster, Caroline Le Roy (with an introduction by Claude M. Fuess), "MR. W. & I", Ives Washburn, Binghamton, NY, (1942), B&W illustrations, 264pp, good, 3/4 brown cloth (hardcover), BEING THE AUTHENTIC DIARY OF CAROLINE LE ROY WEBSTER DURING A FAMOUS JOURNEY WITH THE HON. DANIEL WEBSTER TO GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT IN THE YEAR 1839., (Order No: 28710 ), $4.50
623. ( Webster ), Webster, Daniel, SPEECHES AND FORENSIC ARGUMENTS BY DANIEL WEBSTER - VOLUME II (ONLY), Perkins & Marvin, Boston, 1838, B&W frontis, 482pp, good++, brown cloth (hardcover), Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 40804 ), $14.50
624. ( Weil ), du Plessix Gray, Francine, SIMONE WEIL, A Lipper/Viking Book, New York, (2001) 1st ptg, 246pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, ISBN 0670899984 This biography traces Weil's transformation from privileged Parisian student to union organizer, activist, and philosopher, as well as the complex evolution of her ideas on Christianity, politics, and sexuality. Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page., (Order No: 36089 ), $20.00
625. ( Wells ), Bartlett, Donald, DOCTOR WELLS OF VERMONT, Dartmouth Publications, Hanover, NH, (1958), 16pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 40281 ), $20.00
626. ( Wells ), Wells, Ida B.; Duster, Alfreda M. (edited by), CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF IDA B. WELLS, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1972), B&W illustrations, 434pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0226893448 An illuminating narrative of a zealous, race-conscious, civic- and church-minded black woman reformer, whose life story is a significant chapter in the history of Negro-White relations., (Order No: 52681 ), $12.50
627. ( Wesley ), Heitzenrater, Richard P. and Forsaith, Peter S. (curated by), WESLEY IN AMERICA: AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF JOHN WESLEY, Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX, 2003, B&W and color illustrations, 77pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 094188130X Catalogue to an exhibition at Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, February 3 - April 11, 2003. This exhibition pays tribute to the founder of Methodism., (Order No: 53596 ), $20.00
628. ( Whipple ), Corner, George W., GEORGE HOYT WHIPPLE AND HIS FRIENDS - THE LIFE-STORY OF A NOBEL PRIZE PATHOLOGIST, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1963), B&W illustrations, 335pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, author inscribed, Nice clean and tight copy, probably never read., (Order No: 51139 ), $6.50
629. ( White ), De Armond, R. N. (compiled and edited by), 'STROLLER' WHITE - KLONDIKE NEWSMAN, Lynn Canal Publishing, Skagway, Alaska, 1989, B&W illustrations, 237pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0945284039, (Order No: 49767 ), $7.50
630. ( Whitney ), Hoyt, Edwin P., THE WHITNEYS: AN INFORMAL PORTRAIT 1635-1975, Weybright and Talley, New York, (1976), B&W illustrations, 280pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679401342 In the long sweep of American life there have been few families whose affairs, from the very beginning, have generated interest and excitement. One of these is the Whitney family, which began in Massachusetts with the coming of progenitor John Whitney in 1635., (Order No: 27014 ), $6.00
631. ( Whitney ), Mirsky, Jeannette and Nevins, Allan, THE WORLD OF ELI WHITNEY, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1952 1st ptg, 346pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) edgewear to cloth, (Order No: 46593 ), $4.00
632. ( Whitney ), Swanberg, W. A., WHITNEY FATHER, WHITNEY HEIRESS - TWO GENERATIONS OF ONE OF AMERICA'S RICHEST FAMILIES, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1980) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 518pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684164485, (Order No: 46265 ), $4.00
633. ( Willard ), Willard, Frances E., THE YEAR'S BRIGHT CHAIN - QUOTATIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF FRANCES E. WILLARD, Woman's Temperance Pub Assn., Chicago, IL, 1889, illustrated, unpaginated, very good+, decorated brown boards (hardcover), "The National WCTU Convention of 1888 asked for the preparation of a children's souvenir in connection of Miss Willard's golden milestone. In carrying out this plan, it has seemed fitting that the 'year's bright chain' of child-life, pictured with its varying joys and pastimes, should be associated with her whose whole life is devoted to making of 'straight paths' for 'the million little feet'..." An exceptionally nice copy., (Order No: 49456 ), $40.00
634. ( Wilson ), Baker, Ray Stannard, WOODROW WILSON: LIFE AND LETTERS - YOUTH 1856-1890, AND PRINCETON 1890-1910 - TWO VOLUMES, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927, B&W illustrations, good, black cloth (no dustjackets), Two volume set: Volume I - YOUTH 1856-1890, 335pp; Volume II - PRINCETON 1890-1910, 373pp., (Order No: 17441 ), $10.00
635. ( Wilson ), Link, Arthur S., WILSON THE DIPLOMATIST: A LOOK AT HIS MAJOR FOREIGN POLICIES, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD, 1957, 165pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The foremost biographer of Woodrow Wilson here analyzes and interprets the most important aspects of Wilson's conduct of foreign policy, basing his brilliant analysis firmly on detailed, factual knowledge of Wilson's career., (Order No: 41614 ), $10.00
636. ( Wilson ), Wilson, Harriette, THE MEMOIRS OF HARRIETTE WILSON WRITTEN BY HERSELF - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Navarre Society Limited, London, 1924, B&W illustrations, 2 vols, 696pp, very good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), These memoirs were first published in 1825. Harriette Wilson was born in London on February 22, 1786. She "was on terms of intimacy, about 1805, with the sixth Duke of Argyle, and that in the following year she became the mistress of John, afterwards Viscount, Ponsonby.", (Order No: 53799 ), $30.00
637. ( Winters ), Winters, Catherine compiled by in memory of her husband, Kurt Winters, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT - KURT WINTERS, published by the author, Keene, NH, (1990), 313pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) inscribed by author in rear, ISBN 0874919176 Kurt Winters was a "philanthropist, businessman, humorist, musician, WWI veteran, member Social Friends Lodge #42 F&AM Bektash Temple.", (Order No: 40487 ), $30.00
638. ( Winthrop ), Black, Robert C., THE YOUNGER JOHN WINTHROP, Columbia University Press, New York, (1968) 2nd ptg, B&W frontis, 459pp, very good+, light green cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 45079 ), $8.00
639. ( Wolcott ), Lawrence, Wiliam, ROGER WOLCOTT, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Cambridge, 1902, B&W illustrations, 238pp, good+, dark green cloth (hardcover), "In writing this short Life my object has been to bring before the people of Massachusetts, whom he loved and who loved him, the personality of Roger Wolcott.", (Order No: 53137 ), $10.00
640. ( Wolfe ), Kinney, Jean, AN AMERICAN JOURNEY: THE SHORT LIFE OF WILLY WOLFE, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1979) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 317pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0671228579 This is the story of what happened to a young, handsome, bright kid from a prosperous Connecticut family who was caught up in a confusion of idealism and alienation that tore apart so many of his generation in the sixties. Warmly inscribed by the author., (Order No: 32456 ), $12.50
641. ( Wollstonecraft ), Todd, Janet, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE, Columbia University Press, New York, (2000), B&W illustrations, 516pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231121849 Mary Wollstonecraft was the first major feminist in England, author of the pioneering VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN IN 1792. This biography argues that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy., (Order No: 30469 ), $12.50
642. ( Woodhull ), Goldsmith, Barbara, OTHER POWERS: THE AGE OF SUFFRAGE, SPIRITUALISM, AND THE SCANDALOUS VICTORIA WOODHULL, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998 1st ed, B&W ill., 535pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394555368 A combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again., (Order No: 36055 ), $10.00
643. ( Woodward ), Woodward, George, FAMILY LETTERS AND PROLETARIAN ESSAYS, George Woodward, Philadelphia, PA, 1937, 196pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), Contents include: Family Letters -- Part I and Proletarian Essays -- Part II., (Order No: 45458 ), $40.00
644. ( Woolley ), Marks, Jeannette, LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY EMMA WOOLLEY, Public Affairs Press, Washington, DC, (1955), 300pp, good, blue cloth (with some light wear) (hardcover), (Order No: 39084 ), $7.50
645. ( Zedong ), Zedong, Mao (translated, and with an introduction and notes by Roger R. Thompson), REPORT FROM XUNWU, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1990, B&W frontis, 280pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804716781 This is a fascinating new look at Mao Zedong: not as the excited generalist of the Hunan report, but as a down-to-earth pragmatist, teasing out the facts on the minutiae of class status, occupation, and skills., (Order No: 49258 ), $15.00
646. ( Zerffi ), Frank, Tibor (translated by Christopher Sullivan and Tibor Frank; revised by Geoffrey Heller), FROM HABSBURG AGENT TO VICTORIAN SCHOLAR: G. G. ZERFFI, 1820-1892, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2000, 469pp, fine, dark blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0880334746 From an infamous journalist the turncoat George Gustavus Zerffi became an anonymous Austrian secret agent, to be converted into one of the first chairmen of the Royal Historical Society in London, an internationally recognized scholar. To a certain extent his biography is a cumulative symbol of the intelligentsia of the 19th century, a survey of the potential ways and traps of literati and public figures., (Order No: 34556 ), $30.00