Biography

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown, 3rd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 503 pages. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? Dery draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Gorey. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 302 pages. A follow-up to Margaret Murie's classic Two in the Far North about their earlier life in Alaska, this book set in and around Jackson Hole was co-authored with her husband Olaus, who died before its publication. In alternating chapters, Olaus, a renown wildlife biologist, writes about his animal studies, especially of elk (wapiti), and Margaret writes more generally about "their life together, on the trail, in the various camps, and nature adventures in the wilderness during four seasons." The Muries were pivotal in the wilderness movement and lived at the base of the Tetons in Moose, Wyoming. Their home is now the Murie Center in the National Park. Margaret has been called "the grandmother of the conservation movement." With photographs and illustrations by Olaus. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 381 pages. From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Winchell Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Clean. Helene Iswolsky, daughter of a Russian diplomat, grew up in Japan, Denmark, Russia, and France. In 1911, her father became Russian ambassador to France. She returned to Russia for her debut in 1914, to be presented to the Tsarina Alexandra. While there she attended the wedding of Prince Felix Yusupov, who was to murder Rasputin three years later. After the Tsar was overthrown, her father retired to Biarritz and died there in 1919, leaving unpaid debts. The author took up translating and writing. She had a religious awakening and became a Catholic. A sojourn in a Benedictine monastery left her changed, but she decided not to make the cloister her life. The author knew many notable people in the Paris area, especially writers, poets, critics, philosophers of the "new wave," Christian humanists, and Russian emigres. She attended the Sunday afternoon gatherings of Jacques Maritain and Nicholas Berdiaev, and worked on Emmanuel Mounier's journal "Esprit." When the Nazis occupied France, she escaped to America with her mother. Here she founded an ecumenical movement called "The Third Hour" and taught Russian at Fordham University and other schools. She was a close friend of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. Scarce.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, March 27, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Light foxing on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Henry Colburn, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. 1/2 leather bindings with gold marbled covers and end papers. Gilt top edges. Volume 1 - 476 pages plus 16 pages of ads. Raised bands on spine. Rubbing to edges. Clean, unmarked text. Volume 2 - 510 pages. Raised bands on spine. Rubbing to edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Softcover. US, Somogy Art Publishers , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover with little to no wear on edges. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Bringing the famed Parisian illustrator to light, this biography centers on Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, who studied at the prestigious Royal Academy but failed to win the coveted Prix de Rome. The study relates that the subject reacted to this disappointment by throwing aside all hopes of a traditional artistic career and hastening out into the thoroughfares of Paris to sketch everything in sight, living an errant, bohemian existence and succumbing increasingly to an obsession with drawing. Detailed and engaging, this recollection demonstrates that, despite his personal eccentricities, Saint-Aubin was employed as an artist all his life.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Luella Cole Lowie. Illustrated with 24 b/w photographs. Chronological biography, bibliography. Lowie wrote this book to document ethnographic study in the early 20th century; to put his own professional life on record; to stress methods of field work and their application under very different circumstances.

Chicago, Allen-Bennett, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear, chipping. 240 pages. This book is a good behind the scenes look at the business of Playboy and Hugh Hefner in the '60s and early '70s. The major focus is on the business side of the industry, Byer was a corporate Vice President of Marketing for the Playboy empire. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 454 pages, b&w, color illustrations. Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple--Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the era's unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realm--"furnished like an amusement park," Andy Warhol said--that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with pop masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Warhol, and welcomed a who's who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers. In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun, the decadence, the radical politics, and, ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew their union apart--Easy Rider.

Hardcover. New York , Appleton, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, 336 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth covers with black lettering. Minor wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs and art by Tasha Tudor. Dust jacket worn with Short closed tears along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. B/w illustrations throughout. Front flaps very lightly yellowed at top, otherwise clean inside and out. previous bookseller tag on back. From the dust jacket front flap: "As we follow Peres from his ancestral home in Poland to Israel, from the youth village of BenShemon to Kibbutz Alumot, from the youth movement leader to prime minister, we are introduced both to a man and to a nation."

Hardcover. Charlotte Harbor FL, Tabby House Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards with matching dust jacket. 301 pages, Illustrated with color and b&w photos. The career of the international rally race champion, as told by his navigator and co-driver. Scarce. Small repaired tear to edge of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photographs of President Abraham Lincoln spanning over 20 years. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 302 pages. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Black boards with white binding, small gilt pictorial to front cover, many page ends uncut, black book ribbon, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, burgundy slip case with black pasted labels. Light soiling to spine, very slight rubbing to boards, pages crisp and unmarked, edgewear to slipcase. Fascinating work being a diary written by the famous American cartoonist between September 1st 1925 and March 1st 1926. It is profusely illustrated with numerous in-text b/w drawings along with 17 full-page line and 20 full-page halftone illustrations.

Hardcover. Portland, Paul E. Merrill, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages plus additional 28 page pamphlet laid-in. Hardcover. Both hardcover and pamphlet illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Both book and pamphlet have musty odor. Dust jacket with wear and tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, University of Massauchusetts Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs in center. Little to no wear to edges.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill , University of North Carolina, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth, gilt lettering, design on spine, 280 pages. "The story of a Confederate childhood, a Reconstruction boyhood, and the education of a medical pioneer in the new South." This book is first of all a personal narrative that is alternately dramatic, thoughtful, and hilariously funny. It is also a vivid picture of plantation life before and during the Civil War and the beginnings of the building of a New South. Clean copy, spine a bit darkened.

Softcover. NewYork, Aperture, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 214 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Vol. 2: 290 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Soil/stain on bottom foredge, does not affect pages. From the back cover of Vol. 1: "To see, to react, to create; these are the fundamentals of all art production. But also to share is the measure of the great artist and the great person. In both his magnificent photographs and in the confidences and clarifications of his Daybook, Edward Weston takes us into himself and shares with us his particular mirror of beauty and compassion."

Hardcover. London, Seven Dials , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 427 pages, color illustrations. From Gavin Thurston, the award-winning Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II cameraman with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough comes extraordinary and adventurous true stories of what it takes to track down and film our planet's most captivating creatures. Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over thirty years. Against a backdrop of modern world history, he's lurked in the shadows of some of the world's remotest places in order to capture footage of the animal kingdom's finest: prides of lions, silverback gorillas, capuchin monkeys, brown bears, grey whales, penguins, mosquitoes - you name it-he's filmed it. No dj issued.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Little Brown, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is a biography of C.L. Franklin, one of the black preachers in American history. It tells the story of black migration and activism, alongside the rise of gospel, blues, and soul music, with a cast of characters including Martin Luther King, Jr., B.B. King, Art Tatum, and Coleman Young.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with gilt titles. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with tears, creasing along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 304 pages, b&w illustrations. Acclaimed journalist Robert Timberg's extraordinary, long-awaited memoir of his struggle to reclaim his life and find his calling after being severely burned as a young Marine lieutenant in Vietnam In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go before he got to go back home to his wife in Southern California. That homecoming would eventually happen, but not in thirteen days, and not as the person he once was. The moment his vehicle struck a Vietcong land mine divided his life into before and after.

Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color pictures throughout. Photographer, art director and fashion enthusiast Giuseppe Santamaria takes us to the streets of six incredible cities to showcase the unique and stylish women that inhabit these towns. From classic elegance to menswear-inspired casual, a woman's dress style speaks volumes about her personality - and the city she inhabits. Featuring interviews with the everyday women whose distinctive styles cut a fine figure in the world of women's fashion, this striking photographic collection will take you on a global sartorial adventure.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 562 pages. During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and is a model for schools worldwide, especially in emerging democracies. But how was this lifetime of thought enmeshed in Dewey's emotional experience, in his joys and sorrows as son and brother, husband and father, and in his political activism and spirituality? Acclaimed biographer Jay Martin recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing important themes through the philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 383 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. "Born in Paris in 1903, she was hired as an assistant to the famously visionary modern architect Le Corbusier when she was just twenty-four. She soon became one of his closest collaborators, and their ten year working relationship yielded some of the best-known icons of modern furniture. Perriand went on to become a world renowned designer in her own right, at a time when that was almost unheard of for a woman."

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A celebration of jazz legend Sonny Rollin's incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation in pictures and words combines the images of John Abbott, who was Rollin's photographer of choice for the past twernty years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages, 16 pages of b&w illustrations. A legend in her own time, Clara Barton, comes to life in these pages. One can almost sense the death and destruction of the battlefields (American Civil War) and disasters to which Barton was the first to bring aid and comfort to the suffering. Barton's life is great testimony as to the powerful influence that one person can have on the outcome of history, and was achieved in an age when women were secondary figures. A diminutive five-foot tall, she rose as a giant among her historical peers (e.g., Susan B. Anthony and Dorothea Dix, et al.) and forever shaped the topography of American society, healthcare, and emergency relief, by founding the American Red Cross [1881] at age 59. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Very good dust jacket with minor rubbing on rear bottom edge and top edge spine. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and tight interior. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, MICK FLEETWOOD opposite title page. Black and white photos in center.

Hardcover. US, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1912, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages. 16 B&W illustrations. Brown cover with gilt title to spine. Sun-fading and spotting. Unfinished front edge. Heavy foxing to all edges. Ex-Lib sticker on front end page. Tissue-protected frontispiece. Soiling to end pages. Overall, a clean, tight copy. A biography of Agnes Sorel, known by the sobriquet Dame de beaute, was a favorite and chief mistress of King Charles VII of France, by whom she bore four daughters. She is considered the first officially recognized royal mistress of a French king.

Softcover. NY, Picador, 1st pbk, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 436 pages, color and b&w photos. It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the hope that she can save Conde Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is plunged into the maelstrom of competitive New York media. She survives the politics and the intrigue by a simple stratagem: succeeding. Here are the inside stories of the scoops and covers that sold millions: the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. Written with dash and verve, the diary is also a sharply observed account of New York and London society. In its cinematic pages the drama, comedy and struggle of raising a family and running an 'it' magazine come to life. The irreverent diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. 126 pages: 98 black and white illustrations and maps. Synopsis: A richly illustrated account of the historical background to, and life of T. E .Lawrence. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An uncommon biography of strong-willed Greenwood, Mississippi professional studio photographer Lillian Spurrier with the autobiographical musings of her like-mannered daughter, Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963), who taught creative writing at Ole Miss, authored one book of fiction titled IN THE PINK (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), was a close friend of Eudora Welty, and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1935. Topp family b/w portrait images upon front and rear endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Company, 1st Edition, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. Volume 1: 558 pages. Volume 2: 562 pages. Both volumes: B/w frontispiece. Dark red cover boards, black design on front covers, gilt title on spines. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. Tanning to edges and pages from age. Spines straight. Binding good. Biography of Charles Darwin, including correspondence, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures in center. Tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, Sutton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 243 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Clean copy.

Softcover. AuthorHouse, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper and pages clean. This book is the story of just one newly graduated nurse told in her own words in her letters home saved by her parents and friends. It is one of the few stories of nurses in the Pacific area.

Hardcover. Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill, 1st edition, 2012, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards, excellent. Very clean pages, edges. Biding tight. Spine straight. Like new. most remembered for his biblical criticism, Vossius played a central role in the early modern European world of learning.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. A facsimile reprint from the pages of the author's Miscellaneous Works (pages 285-348) published in 1751. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Werner Laurie, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 160 pages. A biography of a much-neglected genius of 20th Century physics. Clean copy.

Softcover. Southport CT, Sasco Associates, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages, b&w illustrations. With extensive disography, bibliography, and indexes of song titles and names. A biography of radio's first superstar, a singer and announcer. Clean copy.