Biography from Browsing Is Arousing

Dover NH: John Mann, 1820. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Two volumes in one, 194 and 181 pages. Leather bound with maroon spine label with gilt lettering. Page 9/10 with a partial tear, no paper loss. Bookplates on endpapers otherwise a clean, well preserved copy with light foxing to pages. Record # 402664

New York : E. P. Dutton, 1943. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 428 pages, illustrated by the author. Scarce in this edition. Dark gray cloth with gilt titles, no dust jacket. Light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 856301

Cincinnati OH: Review Printing Co., 1885. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, brown cloth with black stamping, 174 pages. B&w frontispiece engraving of Sabin with tissue guard. Green floral pattern on endpapers. First blank page INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, DATED 1890. Record # 412324

London: Henry Colburn, 1848. 1st. Hardcover. Good/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. Record… Read more

London: Folio Society, 1978. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 362 pages, with illustrations throughout, edited and introduced by Christopher Hibbert. Gilt decorations and title on orange cloth boards with slipcase, spotless and bright copy. Record # 854532

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 1st ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 292 pages. Blue cloth boards. Pictorial dust jacket is tinted with light fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855656

Boston: Little Brown , 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 306 pages, b&w photos. Best known for his sweet-natured character Latka on Taxi, Andy Kaufman was the most influential comic of the generation that produced David Letterman, John Belushi, and Robin Williams. A regular on the early days of Saturday Night… Read more

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, 275 pages. Map drawings. True account of the Lindergh's survey flight around the North Atlantic in 1933. Worn dust jacket, repaired, chipped. Library bookplate inside front cover. SIGNED BY BOTH CHARLES AND ANNE LINDBERGH on title page. Record # 301736

Philadephia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Comapny, 1913. 6th pr.. Hardcover. Good/None. 192 page. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Gutter cracked on title page with fabric showing through. Spine lettering faded. Clean copy. Record # 369292

NY: Knopf, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 892 pages, in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Record #… Read more

New York: Double, Doran & Company, 1930. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. 362 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY HELEN KELLER on front fly leaf. Cover with light fraying to edges. Binding a little loose. Light soil on spine. Good condition. Early printing. Record # 368816

New York: Broadway Books, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 683 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear to front bottom dust jacket. Small stain on fore edge top. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 369399

New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. 1st US . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 359 pages, hardcover. 16 pages of color illustrations. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 351040

Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press , 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 219 pages, endpapers map. Describes Jefferson's European journeys during his time as minister to the court of Louis XVI between 1784 and 1789, and explores the significance of his travels to American culture. Illustrated with some 60 b&w… Read more

NY: Harper Design, 2011. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 308 pages. Eleanor Dwight delivers the definitive biography of Diana Vreeland, the twentieth century’s most influential fashion editor. Lavishly illustrated with exclusive photographs and personal materials from the legendary style maker's private collection, and featuring a new preface from Vogue’s André LeonTalley, Diana Vreeland is an indispensible look at… Read more

NY: Knopf, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 393 pages plus a 16 page index. With eight pages of illustrations and a frontispiece. Clean copy. Record # 379109

London: Black Dog Publishing Limited London, 2011. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 224 pages. Softcover. Color photographs throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers. The long-awaited paperback reissue of the previously censored Kenneth Anger. A counter-culture icon of the twentieth century and patriarch of underground cinema, Kenneth Anger is a unique figure in the history of art and film. His… Read more

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. 5th pr.. Softcover. Good/None. 221 pages. Softcover with minior wear to paper wrappers. Gutter glue slightly dry, cracking on rear hinge and page 120. Otherwise clean. Cover features Arnold Schwarzenegger. Record # 368269

Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran, 1935. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover. 338 pages. Contains some black & white photos of Green and family. Dark top edge. Soiling, stains to covers. Dust jacket with faded spine, soiling, tears, creasing, chipping. Record # 503407

New York: Viking Press, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 307 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper. Record # 368278