Resultados de búsqueda: Biography from 100 POCKETS

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed beiige boards/Fine. DJ/NF; showing light edge wear & faint discoloration; under mylar. Blue endpapers w/faint erasure shadow to upper front corner of fEP. Biography of American mountaineer and US Airforce jet pilot John Elvis Harlin, II (1935 - 1966). Conqueror of mountains, it was the soaring north face of Eigar in the Bernese Alps that he revisited again and again until rope gave ... his spirit lives on through his son John Harlin III, whose has conquered Eigar.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978. 1st Paperback Ed, 1st Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND. Illustrated soft cover (two reverse silhouettes of Hitchcock's profile)/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to surfaces, all leading edges & faint creasings. First published in 1974 by Faber & Faber of UK and MIT Press of the US in hardcover; this copy is the First MIT Press Paperback Edition of 1978. An analysis of Hitchcock's entire feature-film output.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New w/whispers of smudges to lower text edge corners of pgs 14 - 17. Textured beige boards/NF w/light edge wear & rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. Upper text edge dyed green; soil spot to lower text edge. Autobiography, and final book from of Michigan microbiologist & author Paul Henry de Kruif (1890 - 1971), noted for his 1926 book, Microbe Hunters. De Kruif was schooled at the Univ. of Michigan, from undergraduate through his 1916 Ph.D. He was a Private in Mexico w/the Pancho Villa Expedition, an officer in World War I in France in the Sanitary Corps, and recognized contributor to Sinclair Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Arrowsmith (1925) with scientific & medical information supporting the plot. and likely, with development of relevant character sketches.

New York, NY: Lyons Press, 1999. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. First published 1966. Autobiography/memoir. Life story of American author, folklorist and educator William A. Owens, (1905 - 1990). Reflections on a remarkable journey from a one-room schoolhouse situated in a rural, poverty stricken area of Texas while earning of a doctorate in English from the Univ of Iowa in 1941, to ultimately teaching at Columbia Univ. This book was the subject of a Bill Moyes PBS special. A chronicle of a life lead when regional differences in the United States were substantial.

London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. EX-LIB; UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards w/gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/Fine; under mylar. No loan-pocket; white-out to fEP and publication data page, and library stamp to lower margin of pg 103. Biography of English travel writer and historian Alexander Kinglake (1809 - 1881), author of Eothen, or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844). Fine copy.

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Red linen boards w/silver lettering/NF. DJ/None. Illustrated end papers; dyed upper text edge. Frontispiece portrait by Benjamin West. LAID-IN: BOMC REVIEW. Biography of novelist and adventurer Edward Trelawny (1792 - 1881). If "Byronic" is understood as evoking the romantic, handsomely dark, mysterious and moody characteristics, then Trelawny may be said to be the incarnation of "Byronism". Like Lord Byron, Trelawny joined the fight for Greek Independence, and likewise, was drawn to close friendship with Shelley. He is remembered for his account of the last days of Shelley and Byron, and the scene of the burning of Shelley's body on the Italian beach.

Salt Lake City, UT: Telestial Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Sticker remanent to front cover verso. True to title, a collection of biographies of celebrated, glamourous native sons and daughters of Utah who have made their mark in the world of entertainment. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Seattle, WA: Superio Publishing, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/Bright, clean, and Near New. Blue/gray linen boards/NF, showing faint discoloration. DJ/None. Biography of gunfighter and scout, stagecoach driver, lawman of the frontier terretories of Kansas and Nebraska, soldier in the Union Army, and professional gambler, and legendary figure of American West, Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok(1837-1876). Wild Bill Hickok was born in Homer (now named Troy Grove), Illinois; now a historic site. He died in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, in a gambling shootout; here he is honored with a Memorial Hall. Many fictional tales surround Wild Bill's life. This biography attempts to "sift facts from fiction, reality from legend" with Bibliography to rear. Fine copy less dust jacket.

Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1997. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light wear & faint creasing to back. Trace corner bends from poor shelving. First Edition, First Printing. Unauthorized biography of Lucy Lawless, born Lucy Ryan in Mount Albert, New Zealand. 12 chapters: 1. A Private Catholic Education; 2, A Big Fish in a Small Pond; 3, Three Measly Installments; 4, A Copper-Armored Bustier; 5, A Woman of Many Skills; 6, Shocked to Be Called a Feminist; 7, Good Childbearing Hips; 8, Recuperating; 9. Left Dumb, Speechless, & Limp; 10, Stretched in Every Direction; 11, Heroes, Monsters, & Singing, Too; and, 12, A Crowd of Adorers at Her Feet. Followed by an Encyclopedia of the Xenavers, and an Unofficial Dictionary of Lucy Lawless' English.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Author signed 1963, w/dedication to Jack La Follette. Blue linen boards w/silver spine lettering/NF w/light edge rubs. DJ w/portrait by Schreiber to back cover/Good; price-clipped, intact w/heavy edge wear & rubs to leading edges; under mylar. Biography of talented journalist, writer and dramatist Gene Fowler (1890 - 1960), referred to as "the young man from Denver" by Hearst. Author Will Fowler paints an intimate portrait of his father who was indeed a living legend.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/Near New w/soil spot to pg 203. Blue linen boards/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/None. Biography of journalist, writer and dramatist Gene Fowler (1890 - 1960) by his son, Will Fowler.