Biography

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 372 pages with b&w illustrations, index. The life of Western maverick Charles Fletcher Lummis is laid bare in this entertaining biography of the journalist, photographer, poet, and Native American rights advocate who spent most of his life fighting injustice in the West. Mild fade to dj spine otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard & Co., 2nd printing, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to front board and spine, blue dust jacket with illustration, b&w frontispiece of Hamilton's portrait, 7 additional b&w plates. Mild rubbing and chipping to dust jacket, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, otherwise pages crisp and unmarked, clean covers; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Springfield, Ma, Milton Bradley and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Illustrated by George Gray. Red cloth boards with title on front and spine. Some fading on front and back endpapers. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Flyleaf has childrens crayon drawing of cowboy and indian. Illustrated dust jacket has minor chipping. Still a very nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 437 pages, in a bright dust jacket. The story of the rebuilding of Skinnerville, Massachusetts destroyed in a dam failure and flood along with Skinners silk thread factory in 1874. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on bottom edge.

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Rothstein was a photojournalist for more than 45 years and the photographs in this volume are from his years as photographer for the Farm Security Administdration. His job was to photographs small towns, rural areas and general agricultural conditions throughout the country.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Hardcover, 352 pages. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it.American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1891 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 318 pages, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, handwritten poem on front end paper. Foxing, soiling to end papers and first few pages. Else pages clean and crisp. Mrs. Ward has inserted many new passages taken from the last French edition. Amiel was a Swiss poet & philosopher, professor of aesthetics and moral philosophy at Geneva Academy, author of this introspective diary.

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, MN, North Loop Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. London, Dent / Everyman's Library, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn blue dust jacket with fading to spine. 302 pages. The author was an actor, dramatist and theatrical manager and gives an account of the British stage in the first half of the Eighteenth century. First published in 1740. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 367 pages. (previously published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1966). Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; top spine worn, overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.

Softcover. London, IB Tauris, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages. Ali Shariati is, for many, the ideological father of the Iranian revolution. A charismatic leader and teacher, his radical blend of Islam and Marxism mobilized a whole generation of young Iranians. This full-length political biography looks at Ali Shariati's life and thought in the context of the complex and contradictory cultural, social and political conditions of the Iranian society that shaped him. Clean copy.

Softcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2nd pr., 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY KELLEY on the title page. Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state's abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens's household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries. In the last years of Stevens's life, as his declining health threatened to short-circuit his work, Smith risked her own well-being to keep him alive while he led the drive to end slavery, impeach Andrew Johnson, and push for the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. Clean copy.

Softcover. Destiny Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages. The author wrote both the Superman and Batman comics as well as many other comic-book titles during the 1940s and 1950s. He is the author of two philosophical novels, No Such Mirrors and The Blowtop, which was described by the New York Times as the first conscious existentialist novel in America.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Al Hirschfeld. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages. The autobiography of a legendary advertising and marketing genius who was active in the early 1900s. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, H.W. Fisher & Company, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth on boards with gilt lettering and border ruling around front, gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square. Story about a man from Philadelphia who buys an island in Rangely Lake in western Maine and builds a summer house. Great information about Maine, it's people, the flora and fauna of the area, and history too. Seems to be a blend of fiction and memoir. Color frontis, 15 b&w plates. Small water stain to first 10 pages, in the top of outer margin, not affecting plates or text. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 224 pages. B&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Leicester UK, Edmund Ward, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 263 pages. The first attempt to view Andrew Lang's work as a whole, and to attempt some account of the man himself. In specialized fields of scholarship Lang has always held his own; but as a literary figure he has been sadly neglected. Yet the late Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch ranked his style above that of Pater and Stevenson and Kenneth Grahame, and George Saintsbury considered him as among the chief minor poets of his period. As poet and essayist, and also as writer of tales and fairy stories, Andrew Lang at last gets his due in this study. Color frontis. portrait. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light yellowing to top and bottom of dust jacket, front and back, otherwise clean tight copy.A dazzling book that looks back at six decaders of paintings by one os America's favorite artists. What makes the book truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting- an "autobiography" told through conversations with Thomas Hoving, the former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - which offer fascinating and sometimes unexpected facts about Wyeth's life and art.