Search Results: Biographies & Memoirs from Whiting Books

New York: Greenwillow, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. 198 pages, b&w photos. Autobiography of the Newbery Award winning author. Includes a list of books by the author (1939 to 1995)..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Mother's Day gift inscription on front free endpaper, else clean and free of writing or marks. 310 pages with Index and black and white photos..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. 505 pages, illustrated with photographs. Biography of the New York governor, who was defeated in the presidential election of 1928 and left his succesor to Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a working government and blueprint for social reform that Roosevelt would later put to use as President..

Lincoln, Nebraska: Iuniverse Inc, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Signed on the inside cover "Semper Fidelis, James M. Godbold." Memoir of a retired Marine Corps colonel, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was a decorated Marine pilot from McComb Mississippi, winning two Distinguished Flying Crosses and numerous Air Medals in the Pacific Theater. After his military service, he became a nationally known photojournalist and was named the first Director of Photography at National Geographic Magazine. He later published newspapers in Illinois and Texas..

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. Signed and dated (2005) by Senator Hutchison on the title page. 384 pages, 11 chapters covering various fields, such as education, aviation, sports, art, public service, etc. Each chapter features women in history as well as present day, representative of their respective fields..

Brandon, Mississippi: Quail Ridge Press, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED by Mounger on the title page. Just a trace of wear to the book and jacket. About Fine, but graded Very Good because of two things: On the front free endpaper is an ink stamp that reads, Parkway Place Library and the Index has some underlining of entries. There are no other indicators that this book resided in some sort of library, nor are there any other markings. 480 pages with Appendices, Notes, and Index. Following page 240 is a 16-page section of black and white photos..

New York: Schocken / Nextbook, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light pencil underlining scattered throughout the text. If not for that, the book would be graded Fine. A sharp copy. 287 pages. From the dust jacket: "In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza's progeny. In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition's… Read More

New York: W W Norton & Company, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. A clean, solid copy with barely a hint of wear. 287 pages with Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Black and white illustrations..

New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Lower corners mildly bumped. Small, light smudge to the top edge of the page block. 518 pages with Index. A new selection from Leslie A. Marchand's twelve-volume edition, edited by Richard Lansdown..

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner stamps on the first two pages. 393 pages with Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. An intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most influential historians..

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very light wear, spine bumped near tail. 495 pages, Notes, Sources, Index. Illustrated with photos, drawings..

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1910. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A structurally sound copy with a good bit of scattered foxing, particularly around the endpapers and plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt (scratched and somewhat faded), while the fore-edge and bottom edge are untrimmed. Looks like a book plate was removed. 214 pages with 21 illustrations, including one in color, plus ads for related titles from the publisher..

Huntsville, Alabama: Dorrance & Company, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light shelf wear. Jacket rubbed, chipped along top-edge rear panel. 320 pages, numerous photos of President Carter and the whole family from Plains, Georgia..

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967. Book. Good. Wraps. A rare, but rough-looking copy, with a tear to the lower spine, stains along the fore-edge, and general wear. Title and publication information handwritten on the green paper covers. Publisher's letter to reviewers and editors laid in. Some reviewer notes penciled in margins, mostly small check marks. 259 pages with Bibiography..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: Self Published, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Several light stains to front cover. Autobiography of grocer/food distributor--Fadler Company. 225 pages, black & white photos..

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 335 pages, Notes, Bibliography,a nd Index. Illustrated with black & white photos..

New York: Viking, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition.

New York: Atheneum, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Autobiography focusing on the author's youth from 1933 to 1954 growing up in North Carolina. 304 pages. Black and white photos..

Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 178 pages, illustrations, maps, appendix with complete roster of S.S.U. 585 from August 7, 1917 to April 23, 1919, and a second appendix with a Station List, Section 585. Light edge-wear, bumping. Previous owner address label on half-title and rear pastedown along with a written date..

Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 252 pages, illustrated. Includes a Crockett Bibliography, List of Contributors, and Index..