Biography from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
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Maggie No Doubt
by Maggie-Own Wadelton
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Missing jacket.
- Edition
- 1st edition, stated.
- Published
- 1943
- Binding
- Light green cloth over boards.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$76.00
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Gold script spine and front titles. Deckled outside page block. Clean with light wear to cover, minor spine tilt. Classic autobiography sequel. Rare. Item Price
$76.00
Ronald Reagan; A Life in Politics;
by Lou Cannon
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Nearly New Box
- Edition
- Boxed set of 2. ISBN vol. 2: 1891620916.
- Published
- 2003
- Binding
- 2-volume boxed paperback set
- ISBN
- 9781586482848
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$45.00
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"Definitive political biography". Political conservative and Republican, popular, engaging public figure in 1980 was elected President of the United States. Respected historian and journalist Lou Cannon had observed and researched Reagan for about 25 years before focusing on Reagan's California governorship and U.S. Presidency. Complete set. The cardboard box in which these two volumes are placed as a set… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
Self Portrait
by Man Ray ; Autobiography and Artwork
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$195.00
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Black cloth over boards. Spine titles in gold and lavender. Blind-stamped front cover publisher Icon. Jacket in gold w/ black ink; art In black and white, 36 reproductions of author's photographs and artwork. Top page block, lavendarMany lively reminiscences, recounted with candor. A Brooklyn native, the artist is considered both an American and Parisian major influence. Item Price
$195.00
Matthew Calbraith Perry; A Typical American Naval Officer
by Griffis, William Elliot
- Condition
- Used - Discard, Exeter N.H. Public Library. Good. No dust jacket. Edge wear, spine end damage. Separating boards, still holding.
- Edition
- Preface Boston, July 1st, 1887, Shawmut Church Parsonage.
- Published
- 1887
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$65.00
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Boston.: Cupples and Hurd / The Hyde Park Press., 1887. Preface Boston, July 1st, 1887, Shawmut Church Parsonage.. Hard cover. Discard, Exeter N.H. Public Library. Good. No dust jacket. Edge wear, spine end damage. Separating boards, still holding.. 1 459 p. 28 cm. Dark blue tightly woven cloth over boards. Gold small subject profile, front. Steel-cut style B&W… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
Out of the night
by Valtin, Jan
- Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has minor edge wear, short tears, mid-spine.
- Edition
- 1941 Alliance Book Corp. 1942 Garden City NY.
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$42.00
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Garden City NY.: Garden City Publishing., 1942. 1941 Alliance Book Corp. 1942 Garden City NY.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has minor edge wear, short tears, mid-spine.. Salter, George (Jacket illustrated by).. 1 Dark blue heavy cloth over boards; blind-stamped titles angled on front. vi, 749 p. 25 cm. Out of the Night… Read more about this item Item Price
$42.00
The Long Walk; A Gamble for Life
by Rawicz, Slavomir, and Downing, Ronald (As told to)
- Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Jacket soiled and damaged, with some clear tape repair. Minor spine tilt. We
- Edition
- Book Club Edition. Author copyright.
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$14.00
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New York.: Harper & Brothers., 1956. Book Club Edition. Author copyright.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Jacket soiled and damaged, with some clear tape repair. Minor spine tilt. Well-bound.. 1 Woven maroon cloth over boards. 245 p. 22 cm. Yellow top page block dye. Outside block deckled. Autobiographical survival account of 7… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.00
"Lenny"; The Real Story of Lenny Bruce
by Smith, Valerie Kohler, and Barry, Julian (Based on the Motion Picture written by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Edge wear incl. lower spine damage, repaired. Light scuffing. Well-bound.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1974
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$8.00
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New York.: Grove Press / Dell Publishing Co. / United Artists Corp., 1974. First edition. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Edge wear incl. lower spine damage, repaired. Light scuffing. Well-bound.. 1 176 p. Mass-market paperback. 18 cm. B&W cover photo, actor Dustin Hoffman. 16 pgs B&W photos. Aqua page block dye. Cover small sticker scar. Biography, stage… Read more about this item Item Price
$8.00
Two Escaping the Last Battle
by Rajaniemi, Brunhild
- Condition
- Used - Fine. Signed by author. Inscribed by author, "To Laurie with best wishes, " [author].
- Published
- 2001
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780759605596
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$25.00
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Self-published w/ 1st Book Library., 2001. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed by author. Inscribed by author, "To Laurie with best wishes, " [author].. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 356 p. Audience: General/trade. Back cover autobiographical notes, "a dramatic true story about two Berliner girls, my girl friend and I, who escaped on April 22, 1945, at 11: 30… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Never A Dull Moment, Memoirs of H.O. Woltz, Sr.
by Woltz, H.O., Sr.
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. With light top page block spotting. Half-inch edge damage, top rear board.
- Edition
- First edition. Presumed 1st.
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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$37.00
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North Carolina.: Self-published., 1968. First edition. Presumed 1st.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. With light top page block spotting. Half-inch edge damage, top rear board.. 1 328 p. Black leather over boards; gold front stamped building, titles. 22 cm. Numerous B&W photos. End papers are a collage of news clippings, scrapbook entries. Autobiography.… Read more about this item Item Price
$37.00
Maria; The True Story of the Beloved Heroine of "The Sound of Music"
by Von Trapp, Maria
- Condition
- Used - Good. Signed by previous owner. Spine creasing. Front spine edge with spine has damp stain, not through to inside covers. Clean
- Edition
- 9th printing. 1st in 1973.
- Published
- 1980
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780380007837
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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$14.00
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New York.: Avon Books / Hearst., 1980. 9th printing. 1st in 1973.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Spine creasing. Front spine edge with spine has damp stain, not through to inside covers. Clean interior and red dye page blocks. Well-bound.. 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Autobiography set in Austria and Vermont U.S.A. after escaping the Nazis.… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.00
Out of the Night
by Valtin, Jan (pseudonym for, Krebs, Richard Julius Herman)
- Condition
- Used - Fine in very good dust jacket. Volume blemished only by two small top page block smudges. Jacket has edge wear.
- Edition
- Book Club Edition. Book-of-the-Month Club Selection.
- Published
- 1941
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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$41.00
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New York.: Alliance Book Corporation., 1941. Book Club Edition. Book-of-the-Month Club Selection.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Volume blemished only by two small top page block smudges. Jacket has edge wear.. Salter, George (Jacket illustrated by).. 1 Dark blue heavy cloth over boards; gold titles, angled on front. vi, 749 p. 25 cm. Autobiography of… Read more about this item Item Price
$41.00
Bend in the River; Saltpeter Coast, A Whale is Dead; Cape Horn; Juanita, (Author of Autobiography "Out of the Night")
by Valtin, Jan, and Price, Arthur L (Foreword by), and Rankin, "Pat" Gil (Introduction by, with Valtin who was in San Quentin)
- Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Staining to covers. Top rear corner damp stain, not into pages. Bookplate: pre-p
- Edition
- First edition. Likely 1st. No print line.
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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$85.00
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New York.: Alliance Book Corporation., 1942. First edition. Likely 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Staining to covers. Top rear corner damp stain, not into pages. Bookplate: pre-printed "Louis Gordon". Firm binding.. 1 281 p. Sturdy woven tan cloth over boards. Light blue titles. 21 cm. Blue top page block.… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
The Essential Lenny Bruce
by Cohen, John (Compiled and Edited by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Page block soiling. Age-toning to text pages.
- Edition
- 1967 Ballantine Books 7th printing.
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780345018823
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$12.00
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New York.: Ballantine Books w/ cooperation of Douglas International., 1971. 1967 Ballantine Books 7th printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Page block soiling. Age-toning to text pages.. Shea, Edmund (Cover photo by).. 1 Mass market paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. When stage comic Lenny Bruce was arrested on charges of obscenity in New York, over 100 men… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
The Plums Hang High
by Finney, Gertrude E. Bridgeman
- Condition
- Used - Very good in fair dust jacket. Wonderfully illustrated jacket has wear and tear w/ clear tape repair when possible.
- Edition
- Book Club Edition.
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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$14.00
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New York / London / Toronto.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Wonderfully illustrated jacket has wear and tear w/ clear tape repair when possible.. Bock, Vera (Jacket art by).. 1 Gray cloth over boards. Black spine titles. Green dyed top page block. Plum and black title page.… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.00
Rudder Grange
by Stockton, Frank Richard
- Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Back cover discoloration.
- Edition
- Earlier: 1879; 2nd edition.
- Published
- 1887
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$8.00
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New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons / Trow's Printing & Bookbinding., 1887. Earlier: 1879; 2nd edition.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Back cover discoloration.. 1 Green cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. vii, [1], 270 p. 17 cm. Pen&Ink Illustration, front.. Early married life on a canal boat. Series beginning w/ "Treating of a… Read more about this item Item Price
$8.00
Anything Can Happen; The Adventures of a Russian who became an American in a Land Where...
by Papashvily, George, and Papashvily, Helen Waite
- Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket edge wear.
- Edition
- 4th edition or later.
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$9.00
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New York: London.: Harper & Brothers., 1945. 4th edition or later.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket edge wear.. 1 vii, [1] p., 1 l., 202 p., 20 cm. Memoir / Immigration Humor: George Papashvily arrived in America on a Greek ship near the start of World War II. He had come from Russia. Fellow… Read more about this item Item Price
$9.00
Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams, and Distortions
by Hughes-Hallet, Lucy
- Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st U.S. edition, stated. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780060162160
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$18.00
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New York.: Harper & Row Publishers., 1990. First edition. 1st U.S. edition, stated. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Textured green paper over boards. B&W art renderings, photos of actresses. Color art, jacket covers. Audience: General/trade. Biography: Sorting out fantasy from fact. Three principle characters: Cleopatra, Antony, Octavius. Historians and artists for centuries have… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
An Epistle to Posterity; Being Rambling Recollections of Many Years of My Life
by Sherwood, M. E. W. (Sherwood, Mary Elizabeth Wilson)
- Condition
- Used - Fine. Signed by previous owner.
- Edition
- Same date, copyright and title pages. No print line.
- Published
- 1897
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$55.00
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New York: London.: Harper & Brothers., 1897. Same date, copyright and title pages. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine. Signed by previous owner.. 1 First edition. A high quality volume, light brown buckram cloth, gold cover decorations, border, central flying egret title box. x p., 1 L., 380 p. Deckled outside page block. Sepia frontispiece w/ tissue, author… Read more about this item Item Price
$55.00
Touch Wood, A Year's Diary
by Ernst, Morris Leopold
- Condition
- Used - Fine in good dust jacket. Jacket has edge wear. Light soiling.
- Edition
- First edition. Stated First.
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$14.00
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New York.: Atheneum., 1960. First edition. Stated First.. Hard cover. Fine in good dust jacket. Jacket has edge wear. Light soiling.. 1 Durable black cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Blind-stamped front author's initials. Red top page block dye. 370 p. 22cm. "Morris Ernst is interested in everything. His curiosity is insatiable, his opinion provocative, his activity tremendous,… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.00
Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer (Radcliffe Biography Series; Dr. Margaret Lawrence)
by Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence, and Lawrence, Melody (Series edited by)
- Condition
- Used - Fine in very good dust jacket. With light reading wear. Jacket near fine, only light top spine wear.
- Edition
- 2nd printing in same year as 1st.
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780201093124
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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$118.00
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Reading MA.: Addison Wesley Publishing., 1988. 2nd printing in same year as 1st.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. With light reading wear. Jacket near fine, only light top spine wear.. 1 Off-white cloth over spine, teal paper over boards. Copper spine titles. 321 p. Audience: General/trade. Written by Margaret Lawrence's daughter, who is a MacArthur… Read more about this item Item Price
$118.00