Search Results: Biography from Bruce Davidson Books

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine. All four volumes are first printings. There's a 1940 gift inscription to the front free end paper of Vol I and a 2" closed tear to the half title page of Vol I, otherwise the volumes are in fine condition. The volumes are housed in a slipcase that is quite worn and reinforced with strapping tape.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. Perfect. (box 169)

Chicago: Riverside Press, 1977. First Thus. . Hardcover. As New. First printing of the Riverside Press reissue of this memoir of a young Wyoming lawyer in the early years of the 20th century. As new, appears unread. No dustjacket, as published. (box 111)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing. SIGNED by the editor, Dale Peterson, who was Jane Goodall's long time friend and collaborator. Fine in a fine dustjacket.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 46)

NY: Aperture, 1990. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of the Aperture reissue of this biography first published in 1973. Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 147)

NY: Pegasus, 1971. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing. Near fine (lightly bumped corners and spine ends) in a near fine, unclipped dustjacket dustjacket. (box 125)

NY: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dj. A memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

South Royalton Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1995. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 121)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing. Near fine in la near fine dustjacket. An excellent biography of the very talented but troubled poet who took her own life in 1974 at the age of 45.

NY: Random House, 1999. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a dj with light edgewear. An extremely engaging, well written memoir by a publishing exec and bon vivant who knows about everybody.

NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1994. First US Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing. Near fine (lightly bumped corners) in a near fine dustjacket with minute edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 99)

NY: G.P. Putnam, 1980. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing. Briefly inscribed (For Dorothy, with affection and happy memories) and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Not priceclipped and no markings. Laid in is a four page pamphlet describing/offering Benkovitz's "A Bibliography of onald Firbank, Second Edition". (box 63)

NY: Viking, 1978. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine in a very good or better dustjacket with a creased front inside flap. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 101)

Berkeley: Conari Press, 2000. First Thus. . Soft cover. As New. First printing of the Conari trade paperback edition. As new, perfect. Foreword by Susan Stamberg. You will note that the title does not say female or woman. Nuff said. (box 44)

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First printing. Briefly inscribed (To Lucy) and SIGNED by Barney Frank. Lucy, the inscribee, was Lucy Wilson Benson, who served as the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs under Cy Vance, then the highest ranking woman ever in the State Department.As new in an as new dustjacket, perfect. (box 176A)

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition with light wear to corners and ends. Bookplate to front pastedown. text is clean and unmarked. (box 27)

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Hardcover. As New/As New. Book club edition (identical to the publisher's first edition except there's no flap price). Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 28)

NY: Miramax Books, 2004. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. SIGNED (without inscription) by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine, unclipped dustjacket.

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First printing of the author's autobiography/memoir. There's neatly written previous owner name to the upper left corner of the front pastedown, completely covered by the flap, otherwise fine in a fine dustjacket.