Biographies from Books of the World

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Very Good book / no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and sound. Corners and spine ends bumped. Fading to covers. No markings. xii + 337 pages. This truly was a 'domestic' biography, documenting the life of Forster's great aunt. Marianne died in 1887, when Forster was aged eight,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Very Good. No markings. Spine creased. Reading wear to covers. Not from a library. 370 pages. The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize. authors: Pablo Neruda; Hardie St. Martin (trans) The south of Chile was… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, dog-ear to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxii + 434 pages. Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, newspaper editor, and one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression.… Read more about this item

New York: Twelve, November 2008. Twelve. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 448 pages. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright with one-inch dog-ear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 759 pages, 32 pages of plates. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it… Read more about this item

New York: Twelve, September 2009. Twelve. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket clipped, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 532 pages. 40 pages of plates. Senator Kennedy speaks with candor about his extraordinary… Read more about this item

Middlebury, Vermont: Long Trail Press, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Second Edition. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Reading wear to corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 382 pages. During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Perennial, May 1991. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition Near Fine. Tanned but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiv + 431 pages. Small Victories is a remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with… Read more about this item

New York: The Lyons Press, July 2000. Trade Paperback. Second Lyons Press Edition. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight with a single very slight crease. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xviii + 267 pages. b&w photos, maps. In 1955, Sydney Wignall organized the Welsh Himalayan expedition to climb Tibet's… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, September 1992. Hardcover. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Prior owner's name to FFEP. Text unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean, spine faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 532 pages.

New York: Basic Books, November 1995. Hardcover. First Edition / second printing. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 329 pages. The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, October 1979. Trade Paperback. Glued binding. Fourth printing per number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Slight reading wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 174 pages.

New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. Remainder dot to top edge. xiv + 242 pages. A former CEO of Ben & Jerry's tells how two '60s holdovers built a single ice cream store into one of America's hottest companies. From modest… Read more about this item

Guyana: Rock View and St. Ignatius Mission, 1994. Large staple-bound paperback. Good. Ex-library, otherwise clean and unmarked. 62 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs and drawings.

New York: Penguin, July 2021. Hardcover. First Edition / first printing (stated). Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 578 pages.

New York: Viking, September 2007. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight; tail slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight shelfwear to bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 332 pages. Zhang Dai (1597-1689), subject of this absorbing and evocative… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Jacket scuffed and stained with short tears at hinges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 564 pages. An account of Lenin's impact on the… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, June 2020. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 577 pages. As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it… Read more about this item

New York: Catholic Digest Book Club, 1962. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners and spines ends lightly bumped. No jacket. Not from a library. 160 + 275 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 22 cm. Dr. Tom Dooley's Great Books: 1) Dr. Tom Dooley, My Story, New and Revised Edition… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder marks. xx + 343 pages. The remarkable story of Billy Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world's largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war… Read more about this item