Category: Biography

A Boy of the Great North West; The Rousing Experiences of a Young Canadian Among Cowboys, Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders, Fishermen and Indians

Price: $52.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, Graphic Publishers Limited : 1930

Seller ID: 1309

Duodecimo, 7 3/4" tall, 259 pages, illustrated cloth, with many intertextual black and white photographs. A very good, clean hardcopy with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, a slight cant to spine, paper clean and just slightly yellowed. Previous owner's name plate (large sticker) on front endpaper. In a good+, clean dust jacket with small chips at the fore-tips. Scarce with dust jacket.
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A Camp Without Walls: the Journey of an Italian Survivor of a Nazi Labor Camp and His Family's Plight from World War II to the Present

By: Maria Lombardo [Salvatore Lombardo]

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Roma, Italy, Italy Italy Enterprises : 2001

Seller ID: 26011

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Fine/Fine

Quarto, 12" tall, 240 pages; with 47 pages of annotated photographic illustration; illustrated boards. A fine, clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight. paper white. In a fine dust jacket.
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A Celtic Childhood

By: Watkins, Bill

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Ruminator Books : 1999-10-01

Seller ID: 58983

ISBN-13: 9781886913318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 322 pages, tan boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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A Claim in the Hills

By: James Wickenden; illustrated by Ralph Thompson

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Rinehart & Company : 1957

Seller ID: 25996

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 275 pages, green quarter-cloth over brown boards. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers. A very good, clean hardcover edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good, edgeworn dust jacket with chips at the folds and at the ends of the backstrip, with the original price.
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A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life

By: Whynott, Douglas

Price: $9.50

Publisher: North Point Press : 2004-11-24

Seller ID: 61617

ISBN-13: 9780865476479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The price is clipped on this dust jacket. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 289 pages, beige boards. A fine, clean neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; gently read, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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A Daughter of Napoleon; Memoirs of Emilie De Pellapra, Comtesse De Brigode, Princess De Chimay

By: Emilie De Pellapra, Comtesse De Brigode, Princess De Chimay; Princess Bibesco (introduction); Frederic Masson (Preface); Katherine Miller (translated)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1912

Seller ID: 40580

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good -

Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, xv + 166 pages + plates, paper titles on decorative cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat hard cover first edition overall with moderate shelf wear, fore-corner tips through to boards; hinges and binding solid, BUT paper lightly yellowed, with foxing to the fore-edges and on the endpapers. Without dust jacket .
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A Different Valor: General Joseph E. Johnston C.S.A.

By: Gilbert Govan & James Livingwood

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Konecky & Konecky : circa 1993

Seller ID: 46503

ISBN-13: 9780914427810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 470 pages, tan boards; with nine b&w maps. A fine, clean hard cover with minor shelf wear, one corner tip slightly bumped; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, slightly worn dust jacket.
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A Discourse, on the Occasion of the Death of William Henry Harrison, Ninth President of the United States, Delivered at Roxbury, April 16th, 1841.

By: George Putnam

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, William Crosby & Co. : 1841

Seller ID: 6364

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Good

Ex-library with stamp on title page, but no other marks present. Octavo, 30 pages. A good, clean, pamplet without original wraps, disbound from a volume of variously published works collected by a previous owner, binding residue present as well as thread holes, but all four signatures complete, paper only lightly yellowed with the moderate discoloration of scattered foxing throughout.
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A French Volunteer of the War of Independence

By: The Chevalier de Pontgribaud; translated by Robert B. Douglas

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, New York, D. Appleton and Company : 1898

Seller ID: 39679

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Possible first printing but lacks the 'I', or any other number on the last page. Sold as an original reading copy only. Octavo, 7 7/8" tall; xvi + 294 pages + ads. Silver titles on decorative yellow cloth. A good, sturdy copy over all with minor rubbing to to the extremities, back strip cloth darkened, back cover cloth foxed at the fore-margins; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, BUT there is a damp stain to the upper fore-corner visible in the upper margin of most interior pages (text not affected).
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A German Pompadour; Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg; a narrative of the Eighteenth Century.

By: Marie Hay

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1906

Seller ID: 13951

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Sold as a good original reading copy only. Octavo, 9" tall, 358 pages, decorative green cloth; top edge gilt. A good, clean hardcover edition with moderate shelf wear fading and foxing fading to cover cloth; foxing to the endpapers, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with occasional light sporadic foxing, and the previous owner's book plate on the front endpaper.
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A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

By: Richard Rhodes

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Simon & Schuster: NY : 1989

Seller ID: 5500

ISBN-13: 9780671690663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 271 pages plus plates. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine dust jacket, with original price present
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A House by the Shore: Twelve Years in the Hebrides [signed]

By: Alison Johnson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, England, Victor Gollancz : 1986

Seller ID: 36451

ISBN-13: 9780575038684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good / Very Good

Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 215 pages, black boards. A very good+, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear, spine slightly canted; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with light foxing at the fore-edges. In a very good, clean dust jacket with light wear at ends of the backstrip, a 1/2" tear, with original price.
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A House in St. John's Wood: in search of my parents [Stephen Spender / Natasha Spender]

By: Matthew Spender

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux : 2015

Seller ID: 44075

ISBN-13: 9780374269869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 436 pages, gray boards + b&w photograph plates. A fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price present.
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A House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian Childhood

By: Joan Colebrook

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, : 1987

Seller ID: 5410

ISBN-13: 9780374173104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 256 pages. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, light edge worn dust jacket, with original price.
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A Kangaroo in the Kitchen; and other adventures of an American Family Down Under

By: Ethel Sloan

Price: $5.20

Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobbs-Merrill : 1978

Seller ID: 27108

ISBN-13: 9780672523786

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 198 pages, blue boards. A very good+, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear but spine slightly canted, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with the previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good+ clean dust jacket with minor wear and with the price clipped.
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A Letter to Robert Frost and others.

By: Robert Hillyer

Price: $5.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1937

Seller ID: 28734

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 69 pages, maroon cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor exterior shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. Without dust jacket.
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A Life Full of Holes: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi taped recorded by Paul Bowles.

By: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi and Paul Bowles

Price: $36.00

Publisher: London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson : 1964

Seller ID: 26452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 8" tall, 310 pages. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear and slight soiling to the fore-edges; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with the copyright notice marked out by the publisher (for American distribution). In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price.
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A Life I Did Not Plan; an autobiography [signed]

By: Roy J. Clampitt

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace-Homestead : 1966

Seller ID: 11428

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Signed by the author on verso of front endpaper. A very good+, clean hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a good, moderately edge worn dust jacket with chipping at the folds.
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A Life of Our Lord for Children

By: Marigold Hunt

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Sheed & Ward : 1939

Seller ID: 40943

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, [ix] + 162 pages, yellow cloth. A very good, clean sturdy hard cover first edition over all with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with the previous owner's inscription on the dedication page and name on the from endpaper, with light foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. In a good edge worn dust jacket, with light soiling and color fading; original price present.
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A Life of Song

By: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Price: $5.20

Publisher: Corte Madera, California, Anro Communications : 1987

Seller ID: 26695

ISBN-13: 9780930623029

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine/Fine

Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1929. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 181 pages, green cloth. A fine, clean, neat hardcover with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper clean, cream white, with slight foxing at the fore-edges. In a fine dust jacket with price clipped.
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A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin / Starting out in the Thirties (two volumes sold together)

By: Alfred Kazin

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Harper Collins (Harpercollins) / Atlantic Monthy/Little Brown : 1996 / 1965

Seller ID: 40046

ISBN-13: 9780060190378

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth / Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine and Very G

2 individual vols. 1: Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 341 pages, black quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price. / 2: Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 246 pages, green cloth. A very good, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with light foxing to the endpapers, and a few pen markings. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, chipping at the foldswith the original price.
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A Lifetime In Every Moment; A Memoir

By: Joseph F. Littell

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin : 1995

Seller ID: 18709

ISBN-13: 9780395737927

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Fine/Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, x + 302 pages, brown quarter cloth; b&w photographs. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with original price.
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A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman

By: Rosemary Mahoney

Price: $4.40

Publisher: New York, New York, Doubleday : 1998

Seller ID: 29407

ISBN-13: 9780385477932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 273 pages, gray boards. A near fine, clean hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price.
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A Marriage Made in Heaven: A Love Story in Letters

By: Vatsala and Ehud Sperling

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, Ten Speed Press : 2000

Seller ID: 2009

ISBN-13: 9781580081825

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, ix + 276 pages, plum colored cloth; photographs. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with rubbing to the cloth at the edges, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the folds, with original price.
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A Memoir of Harriet Ware, First Superintendent of The Children's Home in the City of Providence

By: Harriet Ware

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island, George H. Whitney : 1850

Seller ID: 9237

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Duodecimo, 7 1/4" tall, 151 pages, red cloth, full gilt edge and decorations. A good, clean, hardcover with fraying to the cloth of the backstrip edges, fore-tips worn through; hinges and binding sound, gilt dimmed on backstrip yet quite bright on fore-edges and front/back panels; paper slightly yellowed with light foxing to the endpapers. Memoir of independent woman who established schools in impoverished areas. Illustration of author on frontispiece. Ex-school library copy with library stamp on back of title page only.
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A Memoir of Horace Binney, Jr. (read at a meeting of the Union League of Philadelphia, June 1, 1870)

By: Charles J. Stille

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Henry B. Ashmead, Book and Job Printer : 1870

Seller ID: 45384

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

An ex-library copy with small markings on the title page and cover. A good copy over all with significant shelf wear and chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and bottom fore-edges. Scarce.
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A Memoir of the Life of James Milnor, D.D., late rector of St. George's Church, New York

By: Rev. John S. Stone

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, American Tract Society : 1848

Seller ID: 41735

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, fronticepiece (Milnor) + 646 pages + plates (St. George's Church and rectory), gilt fore-edges, gilt titles and decoration on leather. A good copy overall, interior very good but cover shelf worn, spine leather frayed and chipped at top and bottom of backstrip, backstrip loose at back hinge, fore-corner tips worn through; hinges cracked but secure and binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with light foxing primarily at the margins throughout.
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A Place In Thy Memory

By: DeKroyft, Mrs. S. H. (Helen)

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New York, New York, Poole & MacLauchlan : 1872

Seller ID: 10798

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 191 pages, decorated brown cloth with gilt titles and fore-edges; previous owner's signature on half-title page. A good, clean, neat hardcover with moderate shelf wear, some fraying at the corners with one corner through, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed; gilt bright. Collection of letters published by the author to raise money for her own support after she was married, widowed and went blind within a month.
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A Precocious Autobiography

By: Yevgeny Yevtushenko; translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew

Price: $4.40

Publisher: New York, New York, E. P. Dutton : 1963

Seller ID: 27855

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 124 pages, brown cloth; b&w photographs. A near fine, clean hardcover with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket with the price clipped.
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A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

By: Laurence Sterne; illustrated by T. H. Robinson

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Longmans, Green : 1898

Seller ID: 41393

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

A great reading copy. Octavo, 8" tall, 442 pages, intertextual black and white illustration throughout gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles and decorative green cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hardcover edtion with minor shelf over all but some slight roughing to the cloth at the cover edges several places, slight foxing to the fore-edge, hinges and binding tight, paper clean, lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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Category: Biography