Search Results: Biography from Great Northern Books

London: John Murray, 1882. First English language edition. Hardcover. Fair. Translated from the German and edited by Fred A. Eaton. Complete in 2 volumes. Includes frontispieces, numerous illustrations, plates (some folded) and portraits. Also includes indices and 16 pages of publisher's ads. Covers have bright debossed gilt image of a knight on horseback holding a banner with Dürer's initials. This is an ex-library copy with minimal markings. Hinges are weakening with the head and tail of the spines worn. A somewhat fragile copy still intact.

London: Hutchinson, 1980. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Lane was the British publisher who founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market." [from Wikipedia] Lane was also the first to publish an unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, resulting in a landmark obscenity case. Includes index and numerous black & white illustrations. Dustjacket has slight edgewear, else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley. "This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors." [from publisher] Includes numerous black and white illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. "From a living legend--James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for revealing the structure of DNA--comes a personal account of the making of a scientist." [from publisher] Includes numerous black and white illustrations. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, small red remainder dot on bottom of book, else a clean unmarked copy.

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1899. First UK edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Gilt author, title, and designs on spine and front cover panel. Deckle edges. Includes photogravure frontis with tissue guard, and title and publisher in red type on title page. Includes fourteen illustrations including frontis, musical scores, facsimilies, and portraits. Also includes bibliographical references, appendices, and index. Ex-library with minimal markings, weak back hinge.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1946. Reprint. Slipcased. Ex-Library. "Reproduced from the Dictionary of American biography, vol. VI, pages 585-598." Includes bibliographical references and prefactory note. Ex-library with minimal markings in worn slipcase with paper label.

London: Heinemann, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. 428 pages including illustrations, portrait, map (in lining papers) and facsimile. Also includes introduction, index, and appendices. Very bright, colorful dustjacket with slight edgewear. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. First printing. This book is about Paul and Meredith, abandoning the big city life in New York City, to embace the hippie life in New Mexico, by building a one room home. Tri-color binding with numerous mostly color illustrations. Slight soiling to front free endpaper, jacket is only in fair condition with several tears along bottom edge. Still a presentable copy in a Prodart jacket protector.

London: Virgin Books, 2005. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. A biography of Charles Bukowski. Includes bibliography and index. A clean unmarked copy, ships from USA.

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. New/new. Originally published in 1955 by the Blue Heron Press. Reprinted here with a new introduction by the author. Includes index, glossary, and black and white illustrations. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Ecco Press, 1991. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. "Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life." [from publisher] Includes12 black & white illustrations. A clean, unmarked copy.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Wylie was a poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s, notorious, during her lifetime, for her multiple affairs and marriages. [Wikipedia] Includes 9 pages of sepia illustrations with a fold out facsimile poem. Also includes an appendix, "Poems by Elinor Wylie From Her First, Privately Printed, Book, 'Incidental Numbers.'" Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket. Still a very presentable copy.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. First printing. "This study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts." [from publisher] Includes black and white photographs, bibliographical references, and index. Several small pin pricks to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1935. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Moore was an Irish novelist whose writings influenced James Joyce. Includes two full page illustrations. Ex-library with minimal markings, no dustjacket.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Biographies of four 17th century characters. Includes four full pages illustrations and index. Ex-library with minimal markings with dustjacket. Still a good reading copy.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes forty-three illustrations consisting of frontispiece with tissue guard, plates, portraits, and facsimiles. Also includes an index and thirty-one pages of publisher's ads in rear. Brown boards with author, title - on spine, and armorial symbol on front cover, all in gilt. Untrimmed pages. Ex-library with only a sticker shadow on spine, markings not affecting text. Still a tight, bright, very presentable copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. George Henry Borrow, 1803–1881, was an English author known for his close affinity with the Romani people of Europe. [from Wikipedia] Includes photogravure frontis with tissue guard, 13 full page illustrations, and 24 in-text illustrations. Also includes index. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket.

[Yellow Springs, OH]: Antioch Press, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated from the Danish with introduction and notes by Llewellyn Jones. Includes portrait frontis, bibliographic references, and index. Grundtvig was a Danish bishop and one of the most influential people in Danish history, as his philosophy gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of the 19th century. [from Wikipedia] Ex-library with minimal markings, no dustjacket.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1947. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes frontis portrait, facsimiles, bibliographical references, and index. Lewis co-wrote, with Charles Bennett, the screenplay for the first version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Ex-library with minimal markings not affecting text, lacks dustjacket, still a good reading copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, Jeffrey Miller, on the title page. 400-plus letters extending from 1928 to 1991. 604 pages, including 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, bibliographical references, and index. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.