Biography from Old Bookshelf

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932. 353pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Spine faded but readable, corners rubbed, contents slightly age-toned, binding is tight, and book is in overall sound condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The American Magazine, 1946. 16pp unpaginated. String-bound stiff cardboard, pasteon label, author's signature on front cover could be facsimile. Text is facsimile typwritten pages with occasional marginal notes. Excerpts from Gaskill's coverage of the Near East during World War II as a correspondent of The American Magazine. . First Edition. Soft Cover.… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1924. 368, 365pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering an gilt Mark Twain signature stamp to front covers, frontispieces in both volumes. Minor external wear, contents are clean, owner's bookplate on front pastedowns. Introduction by Twain's longtime friend Albert Bigelow Paine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. 413pp. Blue cloth gilt lettering. Very slight rubbing to extremities, nearly invisible dampstain to top margin of frontispiece, text is clean and unmarked, binding is sound. Book was prepared for publication with comments by Albert Bigelow Paine.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read more

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1952. 312pp. Grey boards, black spine lettering. Spine ends lightly rubbed, boards sound, former owner's name on front free endpaper, bookseller's label on front pastedown, contents mildly age-toned. Unclipped dust jacket is worn and chipped along edges. The selection of the baseball dream team, and how it was chosen.. First… Read more

St.Helena, Califronia: James E. Beard, 1965. x, 12pp. Leaf pattern green paper over boards, paper spine label. Very clean, near fine condition. Stevenson's love affair with the wines of the Napa Valley.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Garden City,NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. 321pp. Blue cloth. Book is clean and unworn. Clipped dust jacket is edgechipped and darkened along spine and folds. INSCRIBED to Elmo Roper and SIGNED "Bill Fulbright July 1970" on half-title page. Elmo Roper was a well-known pollster, and an early innovator in thew polling industry.. Signed by Subject.… Read more

New York and Hartford1928: Coward-McCann, Inc. And Edwin V. Mitchell, Inc. 407pp. Brown embossed boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Book is clean and unworn, mild toning to contents, former owner's name on front pastedown. Unclipped dust jacket is missing large piece from head of spine with some… Read more

Lafayette, Louisiana: The University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1970. 216pp. Grey cloth, blue trim and gilt lettering, inscribed and SIGNED by author. Book is clean and unmarked. The author inscribed the book,dated June 27, 1971, on the front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly edgeworn.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo -… Read more

New Haven and Philadelphia: H. Mansfield, 1848. 328 pp +11 Brown embossed cloth, gilt spine lettering and decoration, color frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Spine chipped at head and tail, covers edgeworn, slight fading, rear free endpaper missing, foxing and scattered dampstaining to contents. Binding is tight, and text is complete. . First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1927. 694pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine darkened, corners sound condition, cover and contents are in clean and sound condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. , 1935. 252pp. Marroon cloth, gilt lettering, grey spine. Very light wear, spine darkened, binding is tight and text is clean and unmarked. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York & Chicago: Chanticleer Press Inc., 1949. 121pp. Cloth with gilt spine lettering. Book is clean and sound inside and out. Dust jacket is lightly chipped at head of spine, and edges lightly rubbed. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New York University Press, 1961. 394, 387 and 473pp. Red and gre cloth. All 3 volumes are in very good condition, Only Volume III has a dust jacket. Jacket is in good condition, spine is darkened and it has a small chip at head of spine. Volume I and II were published in… Read more

Bonanza Books, 1983. 215pp. Red leather, gilt lettering and decoration, all edges gilt, copy number 16. Signed by the author on number page, and inscribed and signed by him again on front free endpaper. Book is in clean and unworn condition inside and outside, and is handsomely bound. The author discusses his career as a firefighter in… Read more

New York: Frank Harris Publishing Co., 1925. 294pp. Brown boards, green cloth backing. Light wear to edges, abrasion to front pastedown from bookplate removal, interior otherwis clean and sound, binding is tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. 288pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. 177pp. Red cloth. Near fine with very good dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to fellow author " Dr. Robert Holzman whose fine biography of Grandfather Pryor is greatly appreciated. from Sara Pryor Dodge Kimbrough.". Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 368pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Book is sound, light wear and slight fading of spine. Laid-in are 3 letters addressed to the book's owner, Alexander William Armour with references to the book about Viscount Knebworth, son of Victor Bulwer-Lytton. Letters are from A.J. Armstrong of Baylor University, Charles… Read more

Bridgeport, Conn.: Printed and Published for the Author, 1854. 223pp. Plain boards. Cloth covering has been removed from boards, boards soiled and detached but present, spine missing, endoaoers are darkened, text is foxed but the text block is solid. An amazing biography of an incorrigible counterfeiter and cad.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 16mo -… Read more