Category: Biography & Autobiography

View Categories / Biography & Autobiography

Sub Categories: Historical

Sort

Showing 1-7 of 7

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser. Vol. I. Life of Spenser, with Appendix. By the Editor

By: Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827-1899)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: N.P., Printed for the Spenser Society: 1884

Seller ID: GG818-166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Volume One of Nine Only. 4to. 9 x 7 inches. [ii], lxiv, 571, 1 blank pp. Half-title; text clean, unmarked, pages very lightly toned. Full black crushed morocco, 5 raised bands, spine titled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers, gilt turn-ins, binding SIGNED with a "B. H. Blackwell, LTD, Oxford" rubber stamp on the verso of the front free end-paper; binding square and tight, only very minor shelf wear, light offsetting to the marbled end-papers from the gilt turn-ins. GG818-166. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies. The Preface to this volume is by Alexander B. Grosart, and n...
View More...

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949 - 1967

By: Clark Kerr (1911-2003)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berkeley, etc., University of California Press: 2001

Seller ID: JR1018-027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

FIRST EDITIONS. Volume I: Academic Triumphs; Volume II: Political Turmoil. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 427; 540 pp. Numerous illustrations on plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Navy cloth, spines titled in gilt, dust-jackets in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Fine. Clark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University California, Berkeley (1952-1958), and twelfth President of the University of California (1958-1967). As President of the University of California system, Kerr oversaw the opening of campuses in Sa...
View More...

His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph John Ellis (b. 1943)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: MB718-007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Fifth Printing. 8vo. xiv, 320, [6] pp. Index; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket; binding square and tight. Very Good. Joseph John Ellis is an American historian and writer whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. This biography of George Washington is based on Ellis' careful reading of the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia. This book is a finely detailed portrait written in lyrical prose.
View More...

Understanding Of Self In The Process Of Day-To-Day Living

By: Nolie Mumey (1891-1984)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Denver, CO, The Range Press: 1978

Seller ID: JR1018-036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

LIMITED EDITION of 125 numbered and SIGNED copies of which this is number 66. 8vo. 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. 134 pp. Twenty-five chapters giving inspiring life lessons; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped half green morocco, green paper over boards, plain white jacket with debossed spider-web pattern in mylar; binding square and tight, minor shelf wear, jacket with light toning. SIGNED on the limitation page by Nolie Mumey. Very Good. Inspirational messages on various aspects of life. Doctor Nolie Mummy was a noted physician, Western historian, author, and collector. Mummy amassed an extensive pr...
View More...

88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary

By: Robert L. Grenier

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, etc., Simon & Schuster: 2015

Seller ID: MB718-012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

FIRST EDITION with full number line. 8vo. xix, 443 pp. 3 maps, 32 photographic illustrations on plates, index; text clean, unmarked. Paper over boards, gilt-titled spine, dust-jacket; binding square and tight, small green felt-tipped marker mark on top edge, looks more like a stray marker tip than a remainder mark, minor wear to jacket. Very Good. Robert Grenier is a longtime CIA officer who served as the CIA's top counter-terrorism official from 2004-2006. Robert Grenier was the CIA's man in Pakistan and Afghanistan on September 11, 2001. In this autobiographical account, Grenier give...
View More...

Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory

By: Roger E. Backhouse, editor

Price: $30.00

Publisher: South Bend, IN, St. Augustine's Press: 2000

Seller ID: DBW4298-10

ISBN: 1890318280

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Key Issues Series. Trade Paperback. ix, 257 pp. Figures, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked. Pictorial wrappers; binding square and tight, some minor shelf wear. Brand-New. Excellent! Your order receives my personal attention. This book makes available the contemporary reactions to John Maynard Keynes' "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (1936).
View More...

Purely Personal

By: Ruth Hoffman and Richard J. Hoffman (1912-1989)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Van Nuys, CA, Richard J. Hoffman: 1972

Seller ID: BO618-004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies, printed by Richard J. Hoffman. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches. (144) pp. Title-page printed in 3 colors, headpiece in 2 colors, printer's device on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Quarter red cloth, spine titled in gilt, patterned paper over boards; binding square and tight, gentle bumps to upper corners, else Fine. Subtitle: "The record of a sabbatical year, 1966-67 made up of notes written by Ruth Hoffman with asides [in brackets] added by Richard Hoffman who first set the type in 1967; the project was resurrected & completed in the Fall of 1972." Reco...
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Biography & Autobiography

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser. Vol. I. Life of Spenser, with Appendix. By the Editor

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949 - 1967

His Excellency: George Washington

Understanding Of Self In The Process Of Day-To-Day Living

88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary

Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory

Purely Personal

This website uses cookies