Category: Biography & Memoir

View Categories / Biography & Memoir

Sort

Showing 151-175 of 1367

THAT MAN HEINE

By: Browne, Lewis; Elsa Weihl

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NY, The Macmillan Company: 1927

Seller ID: 6274

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

First Printing (October 1927). Publisher's black cloth over silver boards, gilt (silver) lettering on spine, embossed corner boarders on covers. 8vo. 420 pp. Illustrated with glossy frontispiece portrait and full page B&W reproductions. Gift inscription on ffep, front hinge starting, boards lightly rubbed, else near fine. VERY GOOD.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
View More...

Growing Up with Southern Illinois 1820 to 1861

By: Brush, Daniel Harmon

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons: 1944

Seller ID: 12244

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and borders on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with sepia frontispiece portrait. Daniel Harmon Brush was born April 15, 1813, in Vergennes, Vermont. When he was 7, His family moved to Greene Co. IL. His father died same year. Daniel helped hold the homestead together for eight difficult years. His mother remarried and moved to Sangamon County. In 1828, Daniel moved to Jackson County to live with his older sister, Mary, who had married Alexander Jenkins. From 1837-47, Mr. Brush gained political experience work...
View More...

Growing Up with Southern Illinois 1820 to 1861

By: Brush, Daniel Harmon

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley: 1944

Seller ID: 20122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and medallion on cover. Illustrated with sepia portrait frontispiece and map of Southern Illinois.. Corner lightly bumped, else fine; tight, square, unmarked, and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. B&W Photo . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xxxii), 265 pp
View More...

Children of Ol' Man River: The Life & Times of a Showboat Trouper

By: Bryant, Billy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1988

Seller ID: 17894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with numerous color and B&W photographs and maps.. Gilt on spine is slightly faded, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 86. Color and B&W Illustrations. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. lxix, 360 pp
View More...

Children of Ol' Man River: The Life & Times of a Showboat Trouper

By: Bryant, Billy

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company / The Lakeside Press: 1988

Seller ID: 19921

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine+ with no dust jacket

Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with numerous color and B&W photographs and maps.. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Color and B&W Illustrations. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. lxix, 360 pp
View More...

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Books: 2006

Seller ID: 21450

ISBN: 076791936X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Quarter bound in blue cloth over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine, photographs on endpapers.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. x, (iv), 270, (3) pp
View More...

The Agrarian Crusade A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics

By: Buck, Solomon J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1920

Seller ID: 22758

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, gilt design on cover, foredge deckle, top edge gilt. Illustrated with five B&W photographs . Spine sunned and faded, else tight, square, unmarked, and clean. VERY GOOD-. The Chronicles of America Series Series. Vol. 45. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 215 pp
View More...

Women of Words A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writers

By: Bukovinsky, Janet (ed.)

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Running Press: 1994

Seller ID: 17757

ISBN: 1561384151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full khaki colored cloth with dark red lettering on spine, dark mauve endpapers. Illustrated with pastel drawings by Jenny Powell. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Dust jacket is price clipped, else fine. AS NEW/ NEAR FINE. . Color drawings. Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. 176 pp
View More...

The Age of Charlemagne

By: Bullough, Donald

Price: $39.95

Publisher: London, Ferndale Editions: 1980

Seller ID: 344

ISBN: 0905746074

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full plum cloth, gilt lettering on spine, photographic endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 87 illustrations, 32 in color. . This is an unmarked copy with only modest shelf-wear. The unclipped dust jacket shows only slight shelf-wear. NEAR FINE/FINE.. Color and B&W illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 212 pp
View More...

Pilgrim's Progress and The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert

By: Bunyan, John and Izaak Walton; Charles W. Eliot (ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, P. F. Collier: 1909

Seller ID: 20717

Condition: Near Fine

Volume 15 Only. Edition de Luxe, this is set # 6215. Publisher's full gray buckram with Veritas emblem embossed in gilt and red on cover and spine, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., fore-edge and bottom edge deckle, patterned endpapers, b&w frontis. . Head and heel of spine are very lightly rubbed, gilt emblem on spine is slightly dulled but lettering is still bright, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Harvard Classics Series. Vol. 15. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 324; 101 pp
View More...

Shakespeare

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1970

Seller ID: 20779

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Covered in brown cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers. Clean and tight. . Unclipped dust jacket shows wear, fading and chipping on spine and corners. Boards show fading near edges. . Color Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 272 pp
View More...

The Gravest Show on Earth America in the Age of AIDS

By: Burkett, Elinor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton and Mifflin: 1995

Seller ID: 15305

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

0395745373 Publisher's glossy wraps. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. ix, 375 pp
View More...

Montezuma: Lord of the Aztecs

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1973

Seller ID: 23354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 269 pp
View More...

A True Picture of Emigration

By: Burlend, Rebecca; Milo Milton Quaife (ed)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press: 1936

Seller ID: 12256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and borders on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece. On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca’s narrative, written with the help of her son...
View More...

The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

By: Burlingame, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press: 1994

Seller ID: 14785

ISBN: 0252020863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Abraham Lincoln's excruciating, yet highly productive, midlife crisis; his woeful marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him; his intense estrangement from a shiftless father; his streak of cruelty; his explosive temper; and his aversion to women are among the topics covered by Michael Burlingame in The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. Based primarily on long-neglected manuscript and newspaper sources - especially on reminiscences of people who knew Lincoln - this psychobiography casts new light ...
View More...

Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, from the Restoration of King Charles II to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace of Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne: To which is Prefixed a Summary Recapitulation of Affairs in Church and State, from King James I to the Restoration in the Year 1660; together with The Author's Life, by the Editor and Some Explanatory Notes (Four Volumes, Complete)

By: Burnet, Bishop Gilbert; Sir Thomas Burnet (ed)

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, J. Nunn; R. Priestley; M. Priestley: 1818

Seller ID: 16845

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Richly bound in half speckled calf over marbled boards, spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on burgundy labels in one compartment, elaborate gilt tooling in the remainder, t.e.g., fore-edges deckle, marbled endpapers. Gilbert Burnet (1643 – 1715) was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian. Burnet began his "History of My Own Time" in 1683, covering the English Civil War and ...
View More...

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

By: Burns, James MacGregor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1970

Seller ID: 26726

ISBN: 0151788715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Full red cloth, red and silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, showing only very mild shelf wear. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly chipped and worn. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 722 pp
View More...

Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945

By: Burns, Michael

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, HarperCollins Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 6806

ISBN: 0060163666

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's orange cloth over blue boards, maps on endpapers, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Includes extensive Notes, Bibliography and Index.. This is a new, unread, unmarked copy. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. B&W Photographs. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. 576 pp
View More...

Weir Mitchell: His Life and Letters

By: Burr, Anna Robeson Brown

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, Duffield & Company: 1929

Seller ID: 17032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine, black endpapers decorated with gold stars. Illustrated with b&w reproductions of paintings. Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome) and erythromelalgia. He is considered the father of neurology as well as an early pioneer in scientific medicine. He was also a psychiatrist, toxicologist, author, poet, and a celebrity in America and Europe. His many skills and interests led his contemporaries to cons...
View More...

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father

By: Burroughs, Augusten

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2008

Seller ID: 21165

ISBN: 0312342020

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Publisher's full black cloth, red lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xi), 242 pp
View More...

Dry A Memoir

By: Burroughs, Augusten

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2003

Seller ID: 21213

ISBN: 0312272057

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine+ in Fine dust jacket

Covered in gray cloth with silver lettering on spine, clean and tight. . Unclipped dust jacket shows minor fading. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 293 pp
View More...

The Book-Hunter, etc. with Additional Notes by Richard Grant White

By: Burton, John Hill

Price: $140.00

Publisher: NY, Sheldon and Company: 1863

Seller ID: 16320

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Half leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on black labels in two compartments, marbled endpapers. . Expertly refurbished, faint old dampstain affecting lower corners of all pages, former owners' signature and library stamp on ffep, else fine. GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 411 pp
View More...

Reflections Life After the White House

By: Bush, Barbara

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2003

Seller ID: 23092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Quarter blue cloth over white boards, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated with color photographs. Signed by the author, Barabara Bush, in blue pen. . Price on dust jacket clipped, else tight, square, unmarked, and clean. FINE/VERY GOOD. . Color Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 420 pp. Signed by Author
View More...

Decision Points

By: Bush, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown: 2010

Seller ID: 18105

ISBN: 0307590615

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine. In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we lived. "Decision Points" brings readers inside the Texas governor's mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during ...
View More...

The Way of All Flesh

By: Butler, Samuel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City, Long Island, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1944

Seller ID: 22928

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with full color plates by Andre Duanceau . Spine sunned, else tight, square, unmarked, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Color Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 429 pp
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Biography & Memoir