Biography from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Printed And For Sale By The Author And By Parry And M’Millan, Philadelphia, 1854; First Edition; 12mo (5 1/8" x 7 3/4"); 349 pages; embossed pebbled cloth; gilt titles; engraved frontispiece portrait plate of the author, with guard tissue. Autobiography of distinguished Irish-born American journalist and publisher John Binns (1772-1860), who after repeated jailings in Britain for… Saber más sobre este artículo

Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 1962; First Edition, first printing; 8vo, 513 pages; orange cloth, silver titles; blue topstain. Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Award winning novel by journalist, novelist, and self-professed communist Clancy Sigal (1926-2017), who after moving West and graduating U.C.L.A. in 1950 went to work for Columbia Pictures, only to be fired by Harry Cohn for using… Saber más sobre este artículo

W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1985; First Edition, first printing; 8vo, 430 pages. Author Ved Mehta’s memoirs of his triumph over personal difficulties as a newly arrived adolescent from India enrolled in the Arkansas School for the blind in 1949. Fifth in the series of his autobiographical novels. Fine, in Fine dust jacket.

The Folio Society, London, 1970; First Folio Society Edition; tall 8vo, 88 pages; cream colored boards; gilt titles and decorations; illustrated. Beautiful edition of Einhard’s 8th century biography of Charlemagne, mellifluously translated from the original Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe and illustrated with sixteen full-page color reproductions of scenes from illuminated manuscripts dating from the 8th through… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984; First Edition; 8vo, 82 pages; tan boards, brown cloth spine; gilt titles. Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Boll’s revealing autobiography of his school years in Cologne during the period of Nazi domination. Frontispiece photo portrait plate of the author as a young man. Translated from the original German by Leila Vennewitz. Fine,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980; First American Edition, first printing; 8vo, 320 pages. The resumption of Graham Greene’s memoirs, nine years after completion of "A Sort Of Life" in 1971. Here are first person tales of exploits during his world travels, candid revelations about himself, and details of the genesis and circumstances leading to each of his… Saber más sobre este artículo

W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1984; First Edition, First Printing; 8vo, 525 pages. Fourth in the series of autobiographical novels by author Ved Mehta, here covering the post-war period from 1940-1949, as the dissolution of the British Raj was approaching. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket that has a single 3/4" closed edge tear at… Saber más sobre este artículo

Clear Fork Press, Albany, Texas, 1989; First Edition, limited; large octavo (9 1/4" x 8 1/4"); 65 pages; red cloth spine; gilt titles; photo illustrated. Boyhood reminiscences of life in 1860’s rural Louisiana and Texas as recounted by John Allen Tippit (1862-1939), school teacher, rancher, and orchardist, who was affectionately known as "Apple Jack." Tippet and his family… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1929; First trade edition, fifteenth thousand (quinzieme mille); small 8vo, 249 pages; marbled boards. Autobiography of Georges Scapini, WWI French veteran blinded in action who went on to become a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, serving as French Ambassador of Prisoners during WWII from 1940-1944. A popular hero distinguished for his stirring public… Saber más sobre este artículo

Harper & Brothers, NY, 1866; First Edition; sm 8vo, 178 pages; brown cloth; beveled board edges; gilt titles; chocolate brown end papers; frontispiece engraved portrait plate, with guard tissue. James Grayson’s compelling biography of his fellow Southerner and lifelong friend James Louis Petigru, lawyer, orator, attorney general for the state of South Carolina, judge, and president of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1940; First Edition; 8vo, 287 pages; illustrated. Fascinating biography of beleaguered 19th - 20th century American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, known popularly as "The Poetess Of Passion," for whom public condemnation of her wantonness was exceeded only by demand for her books, and who was once described by Louis Untermeyer as "Pure thoroughbred lowbrow,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Osborne Publishers, Inc, Santa Clara, CA, 1987; First Edition; 8vo, 314 pages; illustrated blue cloth boards. Biography of pioneer American aviatrix Bobbi Trout (1906-2003), who came to California in 1920 and at age 22 solo’d at Burdett Fuller’s airport on South Western Avenue in Los Angeles on April 30, 1928 . Trout went on to become holder of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Privately printed by the author, Los Angeles, 1978; First Edition; Signed; small 8vo, 16 pages. Transcription of an inspirational 1978 Craft Talk delivered at Westwood Village Rotary Club by longtime Los Angeles physician Herbert J. Andrews, M.D., who entered medical school at 33 years of age, established his practice in Westwood in 1935, and built his medical bldg.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Howell, Soskin Publishers, NY, 1947; First Edition; 8vo, 360 pages. Absorbing biography of Sigmund Freud which, together with examining details of his life and psychoanalytic methods, traces Freud’s internal conflict about being a Jew. Very Good Plus in a clean and bright Very Good Plus dust jacket with a small crease at the upper extremity of the spine… Saber más sobre este artículo

Simon and Schuster, NY, 1963; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 474 pages. Autobiography of Pulitzer-Prize winning dramatist Elmer Rice. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication to Anna Bing Arnold, notable Los Angeles millionaire patron of the arts: "For Anna, with my love, Elmer, Stanford, July, 1963." Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust… Saber más sobre este artículo

Institut fur Europaische Ethnologie und Kulturforschung der Universitat Marburg, Marburg, Marburg, 1986; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 88 pages; illustrated. A volume of writings from numerous colleagues and friends of Robert Bartlett Haas, presented as a tribute on the occasion of his 70th birthday, together with a "bio-bibliography" by Haas himself, in which he reveals his views on life,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Doubleday & Co., Garden City, 1978; First Edition; 8vo, 248 pages; photo illustrated. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

University Of Alabama Press, , 1986; First Edition; octavo, 238 pages. Authoritative biography of Norman Corwin and the golden period of radio from the mid 1930’s to late ‘40’s. A fascinating look at radio and one of its major creative figures. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket with no chips, creases, or tears. Clean,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Harper & Row Publishers, NY, 1975; First Edition; 8vo, 261 pages. First hand account of the 1950’s and early 60’s beat scene in San Francisco, as told by insider Jerry Kamstra, author of "Weed," and "Adventures Of A Dope Addict." It was Kamstra’s intimacy with the City and its beatnik inhabitants that earned him the nickname "The Frisco… Saber más sobre este artículo

Urban-Verlag, Freiburg im Breislau, 1931; First Edition; 12mo, 175 pages. Personal reminiscences and commentaries upon Rainer Maria Rilke, by over twenty close friends and associates, many of them notable German literary figures. Text in German. Very Good, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a 1" closed tear at the upper left shoulder of the front… Saber más sobre este artículo