Category: Biographies & Memoirs

The Education of Henry Adams [Modern Library No. 76]

By: Adams, Henry; Introduction by James Truslow Adams

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Libray/Random House

Seller ID: 011895

Condition: Very Good

Gray cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering on green to spine and front cover. Slight wear to the boards in a price-clipped dust jacket with edge wear and rubbing wear. Previous owner name on the title page, otherwise no writing or marks. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. No date, but the latest copyright date shown is 1946 (Charles Francis Adams) and the only Modern Library copyright date is 1931. This is a later printing. 517 pages with Index plus a listing of Modern Library titles. Verso of the jacket lists 408 Modern Library titles.
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White Knight in Blue Shades: The One and Only Authorized Biography of a True Texas Original... Marvin Zindler

By: Agris, M.D., Joseph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, A-to-Z Publishing : 2002

Seller ID: 05362

ISBN-13: 9780971234819

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

456 pp., numerous photos.
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W.B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu

By: Alldritt, Keith

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Clarkson Potter : 1997

Seller ID: 04740

ISBN-13: 9780517799895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

388 pages, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Black & white photos.
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The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

By: Alun-jones, Deborah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson : 2013

Seller ID: 08581

ISBN: 978050051677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Gift inscription on the front free endpaper covers half the page, otherwise a clean, fine copy. 208 pages with Bibliography and Index. 75 illustrations, 12 in color. From the publisher: "In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which they drew inspiration. Each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the ...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life and Books

By: Anderson, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial : 1995

Seller ID: 09606

ISBN-13: 9780060973469

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Oversized book, 12 inches tall. A clean, flawless copy. 119 pages of text and photographs documenting the life and works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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The World of Louisa May Alcott

By: Anderson, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPerennial : 1995

Seller ID: 09605

ISBN-13: 9780060951566

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Oversized book, 12 inches tall. A clean, flawless copy. 120 pages of text and photographs documenting the life and works of Louisa May Alcott.
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Carlyle's First Love, Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman: An Account of Her Life, Ancestry and Homes, Her Family and Friends

By: Archibald, Raymond Clare

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head : 1910

Seller ID: 08546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A structurally sound copy with a good bit of scattered foxing, particularly around the endpapers and plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt (scratched and somewhat faded), while the fore-edge and bottom edge are untrimmed. Looks like a book plate was removed. 214 pages with 21 illustrations, including one in color, plus ads for related titles from the publisher.
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Passing it On: An Autobiography with Spirit

By: Baker, Susan G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, Bright Sky Press : 2010

Seller ID: 10209

ISBN-13: 9781933979847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

180 pages with black and white photos. Signed by the author on the title page. "Chronicling the life of the wife of politician James A Baker III, this memoir reveals the private world of a wife and mother and how her faith in God helped her through difficult times."
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To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, the Doctor Poet

By: Baldwin, Neil

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1984

Seller ID: 04773

ISBN-13: 9780689310300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Faint smudge or markings to fore-edge of the page block. Upper-corner of fornt free endpaper clipped. Rear panel of jacket has some wrinkling. 223 pages with Source Guide for Quoted Material, Bibliography, and Index. Black and white photos.
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One Life

By: Barnard, Dr. Christiaan & Curtis Bill Pepper

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan : 1970

Seller ID: 10147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear, darkening to jacket along the spine and top-edge, The jacket also has a bit of edge wear. Clean copy, no writing or marks. 402 pages with Index. Autobiography of the famed South African heart surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967.
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Hemingway in Key West

By: Bellavance-Johnson, Marsha

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ketchum, Idaho, The Computer Lab : 1987

Seller ID: 05239

ISBN: 0092970908

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

32-page booklet, illustrated, and with a Bibliography. A brief guide to Hemingway's connections with Key West, Florida.
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Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist (Women in the West)

By: Benson, Maxine

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press : 1999

Seller ID: 08796

ISBN-13: 9780803261556

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Bison Books printing. 335 pages with Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Black and white photos. From the publisher: "Maxwell, called a 'modern Diana' in the popular press of her day, devoted her life to taxidermy, which she thought of 'as a fine art, subservient to science.' A childhood love of animals developed into a hobby and then, to her daughter's and husband's distress, a consuming, but never lucrative, profession. This is a biography of Maxwell. "
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A Matter of Passion: Letters of Bernard Berenson and Clotilde Marghieri

By: Berenson, Bernard; Marghieri, Clotilde (Edited By Dario Biocca)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California Press : 1989

Seller ID: 04422

ISBN-13: 9780520065277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

286 pages with Index.
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Second Diary of a Diplomatic Correspondent [Inscribed to Jacqueline Kennedy]

By: Bilainkin, George

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd : 1947

Seller ID: 11094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition and publication date not indicated, but a letter from the author, which accompanies the book, indicates 1947 as the year the book was printed. The book shows just a trace of wear, the jacket has some chipping and rubbing. This copy either belonged to or was intended for Jacqueline Kennedy, while in the White House, because of the author's association, as a journalist, with her husband and father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. during the World War II era in Great Britain. A typed, signed letter from the author, addressed to "Her Excellency, Mrs. John Kennedy" is laid in at the front of ...
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I'm Not Dead Yet: The Incredible Story of Randy Bird, Paraplegic and Professional Rodeo Cowboy

By: Bird, Randy; and Ron Westmoreland

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Waco, Texas, WRS Publishing : 1992

Seller ID: 11685

ISBN-13: 9781567960006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Gift inscription to previous owner accompanied by a color photograph (affixed to page) of Randy Bird competing in a rodeo event. Randy Bird added an inscription on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is price-clipped and in fine condition otherwise. 236 pages plus a one-page Glossary and two pages of ads for other titles from the publisher. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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The Reign of Elizabeth 1558-1603

By: Black, J.B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press : 1969

Seller ID: 11414

ISBN-13: 9780904017144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1969 reprint of the 1959 Second Edition (first published 1936). Mild edge wear to the boards. The front pastedown endpaper has a bookseller label (Foyles) and a previous owner bookplate. The front free endpaper has a handwritten date in ink. The price-clipped dust jacket is edge-worn with tears at the spine ends and is protected now in a Mylar cover. 539 pages with Bibliography, Lists of the Holders of Certain Offices, and Index, followed by maps and genealogical tables.
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The Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance Driver During the Great War

By: Bowerman, Jr., Guy Emerson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, University of Texas : 1983

Seller ID: 02367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

178 pages, illustrations, maps, appendix with complete roster of S.S.U. 585 from August 7, 1917 to April 23, 1919, and a second appendix with a Station List, Section 585. Light edge-wear, bumping. Previous owner address label on half-title and rear pastedown along with a written date.
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Winston Churchill: The Years of Preparation - A Biography

By: Broad, Lewis

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc. : 1958

Seller ID: 03645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

446 pages, Index, Bibliographic Notes, Churchill's Election Record, a list of his government record, and a list of books he authored. Light shelf wear. Jacket chipped with wear along the edges and extremities. Rear panel rubbed. Protected and looking nice in a new Mylar cover.
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Mayakovsky: A Poet in Revolution

By: Brown, Edward J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press : 1973

Seller ID: 06423

ISBN-13: 9780691062556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor wear to the extremities, jacket protected in a new Mylar cover. 386 pages, including Biographical Essay, Index of Names, and Index of Titles. Several black & white photos illustrate the text. Literary biography of Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930).
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The Moon and I

By: Byars, Betsy C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner : 1991

Seller ID: 01590

ISBN-13: 9780671741662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Maroon cloth boards, lightly bumped. Jacket shows slight wear at head of spine and some color bleed to inside of jacket at head of spine. The Newbery Award winning author finally gets her childhood wish of having a pet snake, which she finds on her front porch. This is the story of the summer she got to know Moon the blacksnake, with reminiscences through her childhood. 96 pages with a bibliography of published works to date and photos of the author and her family from childhood to present.
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs