Search Results: Biography from Quadrant Book Mart

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. Signed. Signed on FFEP 'To Andy, with best wishes, Jack'. Tidy red cloth boards, front is slightly bowed. Binding is tight. Text is unmarked. DJ has pinhole on front near spine heel. A bit of light foxing on rear end paper and page edges. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'William Malcolm Hailey (1872-1969) was by common consent the most distinguished member of the Indian Civil Service in the twentieth century and one of the few raised to peerage (1936). Going out to Inida in 1894, he served as the first chief commissioner of Delhi (1912-18), as finance and then home member of the Viceroy's Council (1919-24), and then as governor of the Punjab (1924-28) and the United Provinces (1928-34). As adviser to five viceroys, he was one of the most intelligent developers of the British strategy in response to the challenge of Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. After leaving India he had what amounted to a second… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Apparent First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Signed. Black boards with red titling on front and spine. 3-in. backstrip chip flapped off but holding along front. Binding is sound. Tape residue to ffep where signed card was taped in. Laid in is an inscription written and signed by Friedelind Wagner. Former owner's bookplates on half title page and weirdly on verso of list of illustrations page. 8vo. BOOK INFO: By Friedelind Wagner, Richard Wagner's granddaughter, and Page Cooper. 8 B&W illustrations. Daughter of Winifred and Siegfried Wagner. Adolf Hitler was a great fan of Wagner's music and became very close to Winifred Wagner (there were even rumours that they would marry). Hitler also befriended her children and treated them as his own. In 1940, Verena Wagner (Winifred's youngest daughter) and Hitler were also rumoured to be romantically linked.\n'I feel very strongly about the frequently heard statement, totally untrue, that my… Read More

US: Rutgers University Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed. Navy blue paper-covered boards with gilt titling on the spine, tidy and clean. Binding is tight. Ddustjacket is bright and crisp except for light softening at spine heel and upper corners and a small crease to front endflap. SIGNED and inscribed by Florio on half title page. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Book appears to be unread. 8vo. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography. 'James J. Florio is best known as governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. But his career in local, state, and national government is far more varied, and his achievements as a progressive reformer are more substantial than most realize. This political memoir tells the remarkable story of how Florio, a high school dropout who left to join the Navy as a teenager, went… Read More

US: Dovesa, SA, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/None. Pictorial softcover with uncreased spine; two stickers on rear cover and with a small plastic UPC security tag affixed to inside rear cover. Binding is tight and square. Interior is unmarked. Illustrated throughout with B&W reproductions of historical photographs and documents. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: The story of a family of European origin who experienced the gold and silver condition in the place that was known as the Panama Canal Zone. The Panama Canal Zone. These are the memoirs of a tailor of Panama. In the first chapter, he relates the story of the living conditions that he and his family endured. Even though his family had to struggle against odds that would seem impossible to overcome, they were able to subdue the monster of penury and hardship to finally find their way out of the jungle of poverty. The second chapter depicts memories of Folks River, his years of adolescence, and the march of coexistence with loyal friends… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Signed. Inscribed and signed on ffep, apparently to artist Charley (Charles) Kaeselau. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling on spine; lightly rubbed at extremities and edges faded. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Rough-trimmed side edges. Dustjacket is very worn with detached but present rear flap. Quarto. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography. 'Hutchins Hapgood in his day was more famous than Lincoln Steffens and most of his other contemporaries. He has been called the noblest Roman of them all because, by and large, he was the only one of a celebrated group of world-shakers who frankly and consciously felt himself to be a Victorian. Unlike Mabel Dodge and Lincoln Steffens and John Reed and the rest,… Read More

New York: John Day Co., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Denim-blue cloth boards with red and gold titling on spine, lightly rubbed at extremities. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Unclipped dustjacket is chipped along edged and front is moderately rubbed. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Illustrated with a short section of B&W photography. 'Carmelo Soraci grew up in the streets of New York, talented, intelligent, with the benefits of a good Italian mother and father. From early youth he showed an unusual gift for drawing and painting--and for getting into trouble. The latter was to put him in prison for most of his adult life; the former was to bring his eventual release. While serving a mandatory life sentence in Sing Sing on a fourth conviction for forging a twenty-one dollar check, he was asked by the warden if he would… Read More