Resultados de búsqueda: Biography from Great Northern Books

Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2004. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. A biography of a remarkable women, friend of Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and Eleanor, founded the world-famous Arizona Inn, ran an airline, and was elected to Congress as Arizona's only representative. [from publisher] Includes black & white illustrations, bibliography, and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2003. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. The first biography of the controversial author of" Grendel," "The Sunlight Dialogues," "October Light," and "On Moral Fiction." A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1915. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Limited ed., no.80 of 500 numbered copies. Paper label on front cover, untrimmed edges. Portrait frontis, title page in red and black, drop cap letter on first page. Also includes several lists: portraits, plays, and other writings. Ex-library with minimal markings, slight cracks beginning to start on spine. Still a very presentable copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1932. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, bibliographical references, and index. Ex-library with usual markings, still a good reading copy.

New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. FIrst printing. "Biography of Eddie Wenzek, his family owned bar, and Buffalo, New York during the 1940s." [from publisher] Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Adams was the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Education of Henry Adams." Gilt author, title, and publisher on spine and front cover panel with a blind stamped vignette. Also includes deckle edges. Ex-library with minimal markings, no external markings, lacking a dustjacket. Still a presentable copy.

New York: Scribners, 1956. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Collected and edited, with an introduction and explanatory text, by Elizabeth Nowell. Also includes portrait frontis, bibliographical references, and index. Ex-library with minimal markings lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Scribners, 1912. First American edition. Ex-Library. Collected and edited by his son, William Maxse Meredith. Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Two volume set with four full page portraits with tissue guards and index. Ex-library with minimal marking, Dewey number on spines, bookplates on front pastedowns, former owner's contemporary gift inscription on front free endpapers, else a clean, bright, tight, otherwise unmarked copy.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2009. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Originally published in 1997. Includes illustrations, bibliography, and index. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "Bright was a Quaker, a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. He did more than any other man to prevent the intervention of this country (Britain) on the side of the South during the American Civil War." Trevelyan was once the most widely read historian in the world. [from Wikipedia] Includes numerous illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, and an index. Ex-library will minimal markings.

New York: Scribners, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Meredith was the model for "The Death of Chatterton," a notable painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, who two years later ran off with Meredith's wife. Includes color frontispiece portrait with tissue guard , bibliographical references and index. Hardcover with paper labels on spine and front cover. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Includes a contemporary newspaper clipping that has caused darkening on a couple of pages.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. "This moving biography reassesses James Boswell's achievements and uncovers the breadth of his world." [from publisher] Includes color and black and white illustrations, bibliography, and index. One half inch tear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

London: George Allen & Sons, 1910. First UK edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiecce with tissue guard, 8 black & white photographs and a two page facsimile letter. Green covers with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover panel. Includes a bibliography and a one page ad for Maeterlinck books. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Southampton: Ashford Press Publishing, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. A biography of the founder of the famous British publishing company. Includes Joseph family tree on endpapers, numerous black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. Dustjacket is price clipped, has one small closed tear, and edgewear. Ships from USA.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Second impression. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes 13 full page portraits. Biographical portraits of thirteen prominent British figures including Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, and Winston Churchill. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket, still a good reading copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1935. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated by F.L. Lucas. Biography of a women living in Montpaon, France (Bouches-du-Rhône) in the 1930s. Includes photograph frontispiece. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket. Still a good reading copy.

New York: Knopf, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. "The first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir." [rom publisher] Includes [16] pages of plates : illustrations, glossary, and index. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2010. First German Editiion. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Translated from English into German by Gertraude Krueger. Ships from USA.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. "An address delivered before the Radcliffe club of New York city on November 25, 1934, and before the Harvard club of New York city on December 11, 1934, at meetings held in happy remembrance of Dean Briggs." [from publisher] Briggs was the beloved first Dean of Men at Harvard College. Includes frontis portrait. Ex-library with minimal markings.

New York: Scribners, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. First printing (with A). "In conversations with Mary Lawton, Paderewski retraced the story of his boyhood, his musical career, and his early years as a statesman in his native Poland." [from publisher]. Includes [31] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, and index. Ex-library with minimal markings, dustjacket is worn along edges with sunned spine, still a presentable copy.