Biography/Autobiography from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (1984). Illustrated by B&W photographs throughout, cover portrait by Don Schaar commissioned by Shirley, Inc. for Pioneers in Cardiac Surgery 1980. Stated First edition. Burgundy washable cloth, gilt stamping. Signed by author on ffep. 8vo. pp. xviii, [10] photographs, 240. Index. Fine/Near Fine/14.95 price (jacket rear) in mylar. Foreword by Arthur Hailey [longtime friend]. Light rubbing… Read more about this item

Seattle: Fantagraphics Press, (2011). Illustrated by B&W reproductions and photographs. Stated First Hardcover edition. Cloth backed pictorial washable cloth. 8vo. pp. 166, [2] colophon. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Trace edgewear. Written by his friend. ISBN: 978-1-60699-2..

New York: Carlton & Porter. Sunday School Union, 200 Mulberry Street, [Preface: Norwich, November 1858]. Illustrated by B&W sepia frontis and 17 plates (collated). Original blind-stamped red cloth, yellow eps, a.e.g. 12mo (17,5cm). pp. 235, [1] blank, [6] ads. Very Good+/No jacket, as issued. Trace cover wear and soil, spine gilt faded, caps chipped, internally fine. Owner inscription front pastedown..… Read more about this item

Northampton MA: The Hampshire Bookshop [1916-71], 1942. First (SD) edition. Black leather backed paper printed boards. 8vo. pp. 104. Index, List of Publications. Very Good/In original glassine wrapper. Glassine is yellowed with a chip to the center spine. Trace toning to boards at leather edges, internally near fine. Contains a bibliography of 569 numbered entries from the noted bookshop… Read more about this item

Buffalo [NY]: Rockwell & Baker, Printers, 1864. Black Stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 20. Very Good. Old creases and light cover rubbing, spots of foxing on inside covers, no marking or writing. Full biography online in the Ledger of the Litchfield Historical Society, Connecticut. photocopied insert on Fuller from the Genealogy of the Hyde family pp. 918 laid in..

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. Edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Illustrated by b&w block frontis with tissue guard, one plate of Walden. Stated Advanced proof author's edition. Rebound in blue library buckram, white spine print (trimmed to 14x10cm). 12mo. pp. x, [2], 234. Very Good/Ex-Lib. Small stains internally, short repair to title page, stray pen mark pp. 61. Binding has… Read more about this item

Columbus: Trillium imprint of Ohio State University Press, (2016). Illustrated by b&w centerfold photos pp. 101-24. First (N1) edition. Black cloth. 8vo. pp. xxi, 257. Index. Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. No flaws, marking or ownership. Foreword by Congressman John Lewis. "...American attorney, civil rights pioneer and politician, serving 15 terms in the United States House of Representatives and… Read more about this item

London: ILN and Sketch Ltd, June 1982. Illustrated by Colour & b&w. First edition. Stapled wraps. 4to. pp. 114. Very Good. Light wear and soil. Battle for the Falklands, Canaletto paintings, Inside Wormwood Scrubs, London's Bridges, Cambridgeshire, Fighting Slavery Today, Lessons of South Florida, Health-farm Holiday, and wonderful period adversisements..

New York: Philomel, (1981). Second printing edition. c.1979. Oblong cloth covered boards. Oblong 8vo. pp. 95, [2]. Very Good/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Traces of wear..

Albany, NY: Printed for the Author, 1863. Illustrated by Tissue frontis. First edition. Original green blind stamped cloth, pink eps. 12mo. pp. 437. Very Good. Copy of James A. Bell. Sunned spine, internally near fine. Members of the Assembly, Assembly Standing Committees, Officers of the Senate and Assembly, Reporters for both years..

Boston: James R. Osgood (University Press), 1871. First (SD) edition. Original brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt print spine, original brown eps. 12mo (19.5cm). pp. 385. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Cap crushing, old board crease to back pastedown, one corner chip rear ffep; pencil owner. Penned mostly by daughter, Josephine. Proprietor of National Intelligencer 1812-20 with brother-in-law Joseph Gales; 42… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967. First edition. Printed stapled wraps. 4to. pp. 36. Very Good. Toned/sunned cover, internally near fine (no writing or ownership). Rear period society publication list..

Boston: W. G. Corthell (Rand Avery & Co.), 1880. Illustrated by Double port tissue frontis, one music notation and 9 b&w plates. First edition. Original decorated green cloth with gilt stamped spine, floral endpapers. 12mo. pp. 252, [2] blank. Very Good. Cap and corner wear, slight cock. Intriguing Baptist Missionary work of Justus Hatch Vinton (1806-58) and Calista Holman Vinton… Read more about this item

(Boston): Privately Printed (D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press), 1918. Illustrated by engraved subject tissue frontis "after Rembrandt". First thus edition. c.1914 Charles Scribner's Sons; c.1918 author. Quarter black cloth stamped gilt over marbled boards, uncut. Inscribed by "To Charlotte Fiske from Uncle Ned, Dec. 28, 1918" on half-title. 12mo (<18cm). pp. [x], 119, [5] blank. Very Good/No jacket, as… Read more about this item

Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, March 1980. Illustrated by b&w photographs and line drawn maps. Stated first printing edition. Illustrated wraps. 8vo (21cm). pp. 231. Near Fine. Minor cover wear and previous pastor ink stamp ffep. John Morrison Birch (1918-45), Baptist missionary and American Intelligence officer WWII, shot in China; John Birch Society. ISBN: 0842358625..

Berkeley & London: University of California Press, (1977). First edition. Purple cloth, black print spine. Inscribed by "For Michael Reidy, With every good wish, Jean O. Love P.S. Thanks for your interest, May 15, 1978". Medium 8vo. pp. xiv, 379. Notes, Selected References, Index. Very Good+/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Heel rubbed on book and jacket. Originally… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Verlag von A. Kroner, 1864. First edition. Pebble cloth backed illustrated paper covered boards. 8vo. pp. 381, [1] blank, [1]. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Spine sunned, limp corners, toning and chipping to paper binding. Foxing starting internally. Johann Ludwig Uhland 1787-1862..

[MD]: [Books On Tape, Inc., Random House], [1999]. First thus edition. [c.1998 HarperCollins, book] Audio Book #5022. boxed cassettes. 21 hours. As New. Unopened in original shrink wrap. "This landmark look at the slain Israeli leader describes in detail Rabin's evolution from desert warrior to pioneering peacemaker". ISBN: 0736646418..

Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, (2003). Illustrated by 8 page centerfold of b&w photographs. First edition. Illustrated stiff wraps. Inscribed by "24 September 2003. To Rita and Bo: From one German-American couple to another - both with ties to Harvard. I hope you like it, Steve Wechsler (aka Victor Grossman). 8vo. pp. 328. Near Fine. Slight corner… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1899. Illustrated by Engraved port frontis and 21 text drawing, plates, maps, and folding charts. First edition. 2 volumes. Half maroon crushed levant morocco over marbled boards and endpapers, five raised bands and gilt spine decoration, burgundy marking ribbons, t.e.g. by Zachnsdorf. 8vo. pp. xviii, [2], 402; viii, [4], 406. Appendices, Index, Sources. Near Fine. Traces of… Read more about this item