Category: Biography & Autobiography

Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World

By: Guest, Barbara

Price: $12.95

Publisher: USA, Quill : 1984

Seller ID: 46020

ISBN-13: 9780688047092

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

9.25" x 6" x 1.25", 360 pages. Clean, used book. Some wear and tear to the corners and edges. "Enhanced by exclusive access to unpublished material, HERSELF DEFINED is a captivating work of scholarship and an intimate portrait of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and the circle of novelists, artists, and poets who were her friends: D.H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and others who blazed new paths in the arts of the twentieth century." Our book number 46020.
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Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker, My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf

By: Hope, Bob, as told to Netland, Dwayne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: United States, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York : 1985

Seller ID: 50118

ISBN-13: 9780385174428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

10.5" x 7.5", 230 pages. Clean sound book, some soil to the Dust Jacket. Not price clipped. Foreword by President Gerald Ford. Bob Hope's "Lifelong Love Affair with Golf." Anecdotes and humor on the golf course. Our book number 50118.
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Gauguin

By: Huyghe, Rene'; Translated by Slonim, Helen C.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. : 1969

Seller ID: 3014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Oversize. Ex-Library, also late of the Nelson Collection in Tulsa. Dust Jacket in good condition. Book very clean and nice. No publication date listed, but the donation date to the library was in 1979. Printed in Italy. Translated by Helen C. Slonim. Our book number 3014.
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The Best of TV Sitcoms: The Critics' Choice Burns and Allen to the Cosby Show, the Munsters to Mary Tyler Moore

By: Javna, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harmony Books : 1988

Seller ID: 29065

ISBN-13: 9780517569221

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

Old ex-library copy. Soil spot on pages 110-111. Worn and dog-eared. library markings. Text complete, spine has one crack but all pages are secure. Stated First Edition.
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They Led The Way (Original title: Women Themselves)

By: Johnston, Johanna

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Scholastic, Book Services : 1973

Seller ID: 4016

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Ex-library. pages yellowed. wear to edges, creased at hinge of spine. Looks like the 11th printing, 1973 Scholastic paperback number TX3917. Numbers read "12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11 7 8 9/7 0 1 2/8, Printed in U.S.A. 11."
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Walt Whitman: A Life

By: Kaplan, Justin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon And Schuster : 1980

Seller ID: 46039

ISBN-13: 9780671225421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

9.5" x 6.25" x 1.5", 429 pages. Biography of the poet/philosopher. Very nice, clean, sound copy, slight curve to block center right. Our book number 46039.
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Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

By: Keller, Helen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: U.S.A., A Watermill Classic, Watermill Press : 1993

Seller ID: 4039

ISBN-13: 9780816728893

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

5" x 7.5". 153 pages. Slight aging of paper around the edges. Complete and Unabridged. Cover clean, spine not creased. Appears not to have been read. Clean text. No marks. Our book number 4039.
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Helen Keller, The Story Of My Life

By: Keller, Helen, with introduction by Barnett, M. Robert

Price: $3.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Airmont Publishing Company, Inc., 22 East 60th Street, New York 10022 : 1965

Seller ID: 4038

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

4.25" x 7". 282 pages. Paper discolored with age. Book has not been read. Spine had faded some. Complete and Unabridged. Airmont Classic Series number CL70. Includes the Braille aphabet and facsimile of Miss Keller's writing. Our book number 4038.
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KISLING

By: Kessel, Joseph, author; Kisling, Jean, Editor

Price: $89.95

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York : 1971

Seller ID: 3005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library, library markings obliterated with magic marker. Also late of a private collection, stamp and signiture of previous owner. Text very clean and cover in good condition. Some dents and shelf wear to dust jacket. Oversized Book, will require additional shipping. Six Lbs. in weight.
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Blake Studies; Notes on his life and works in seventeen chapters

By: Keynes, Geoffrey

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Great Britian (UK), Rupert Hart- Davis : 1949

Seller ID: 3037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

208 pages of text and 48 pages of plates. 10"x 7.75". Block firm, pages slightly aged. Original price in pencil front endpaper. Previous owner name on front endpaper facing.Some small soil spots. Some fading at top of Spine. Our book number 3037.
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From McKinley To Harding, Personal Recollections of Our Presidents

By: Kohlsaat, H.H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New york : 1923

Seller ID: 29043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A very clean and well preserved copy. Ex-library. Very clean. Paper title on the spine is yellowed and worn, but blue cloth binding is not , and the pages are clean and the binding tight. tissue paper photo protector at title page has been wrinkled and is partily loose from halfwy down the hinge attachment. all other pages are secure. Previous owners name in pencil inside front cover. Illustrated. Scribners, New York, February, 1923.
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Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Villard Books : 1997

Seller ID: 4033

ISBN-13: 9780679457527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library, covers protected with library plastic protector, pocket inside the back pages, Maps on the endpapers are not defaced. very few library markings, pages clean, text clean, book tight. Looks like a first edition, numbers read'4 6 8 9 7 5 3,' perhaps the third printing.
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The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem; A lively account of Famous Authors and Their Feuds

By: Land, Myrick

Price: $94.99

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York : 1963

Seller ID: 29061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Cover designed by Ernst Reichl. Number 85134-0113. Withdrawn from the library. Stated first edition. LCCCN 63-7121. Library markings on dark blue endpapers and one stamp on title page. Clean text. clear paper, not aged. Cover clean. Library sticker on spine.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Preaching Beggars

By: Larnen, Brendan, O.P., and Lomask, Milton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Vision Books, Farrar, Straus & Cudhy, New York, Burns & Oates, London, Manufacture in the U.S.A. : 1962

Seller ID: 6003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket protected by plastic, library copy withdrawn. Name of library stamped inside front and back covers, and pocket. Book tight and pages clean. Vision Books, Farrar, Straus & Cudhy, New York, Burns & Oates London, Manufactured in the U.S.A. Fourth printing, 1962. Some browning of paper. Copyright 1957. Fourth printing, 1962. Our book number 6003.
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John D. Rockefeller, Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman?

By: Latham, Earl, Editor

Price: $12.00

Publisher: D.C Heath and Company: Boston, Printed in the U.S.A. : 1968

Seller ID: 6004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

6.5" x 9.25", 115 pages. Printed March, 1968. slight wear and natural ageing of paper. small rip in edge of front cover. No markings inside or out. Readings Selected by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College. Part of a series called 'Problems In American Civilization'. Our book number 6004.
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The Egg And I

By: MacDonald, Betty

Price: $20.00

Publisher: United States, J.B. Lippincott Company : 1946

Seller ID: 4047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8.25" x 5.5", 287 pages, Green cloth-covered boards. Twentieth Impression, October 1946. Book clean, sound, very little wear. Some fading to spine and tops of boards, previous owner's name and address on front paste-down. Humorous account of the life of the author in the chicken business... in the early twentieth century. Our book number 4047.
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Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe

By: MacKsey, Kenneth John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: United Kingdom: David & Charles : 1978

Seller ID: 4005

ISBN-13: 9780713408621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library. White smudge on front cover (liquid paper?) Shelf wear to corners. Pages white and clean, Black Cloth binding in good condition. Stated First American Edition, 1978.
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Homestead Year

By: Moffett, Judith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: United States, Lyons & Burford, Publishers : 1995

Seller ID: 17038

ISBN-13: 9781558213524

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

9.25" x 6.5" x 1.25", 298 pages. Good book in good dust jacket - some foxing to page block. Gardening diary by a writer who only spent one year at farming. In town. A concentrated experience. How she did it. Her poor husband. Our book number 17038.
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"Old Bruin" Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry

By: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Price: $10.95

Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little, Brown and Company, Boston : 1967

Seller ID: 4021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition, Dust Jacket has nicks and scrapes and tears. Book is in Good condition, some scuffs to spine, very light shelf wear to edges and corners. Presented to the library, but never circulated, dedication sticker on title page, but no other markings anywhere in the book. "Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858, The American Naval Officer Who Helped Found Liberia, Hunted Pirates in the West Indies, Practised Diplomacy with the Sultan of Turkey And the King of Two Sicilies; Commanded the Gulf Squadron in the Mexican War, Promoted the Steam Navy and the Shell Gun, and Conducted the Naval Ex...
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Bean Blossom Dreams

By: Murphey, Sallyann J.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: United States, Hearst Books : 1994

Seller ID: 4048

ISBN-13: 9780688123253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8.5" x 5.75", 318 pages. Very clean copy of a first edition, no dust jacket. First person account of first-time farmers, homesteading memoir. Our book number 4048.
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Category: Biography & Autobiography