The First White Man of the West, or the Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky;; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country

Cincinnati, OH, Applegte & Company, 1854. early Printing. Hardcover. Embossed black cloth with gilt title on spine. ffep with image and text, reverse of ffep with portrait of Boone, then title-page, colophon with copyright date of 1847, then pp. v-x, pp. 11-252, followed by two blank sheets (one with ragged loss at top but ownership inscription on backside. An early edition of this scarce classic that appears to have been printed often but in small quantities each time. This copy contains old ownership insciptions at the rear and a partial booksellers label on the inside of the front cover from Poughkeepsie, NY. Howes F-199. Contains woodcut illustrations facing the following pages:23, 43, 55 (this one with a small amount of crude hand-coloring),67, 71, 97, 94, 121, 147. Good, 2 pages have small chuncks of paper missing from the top or bottom with no loss of text; one page with a torn piece missing no loss of text, uniform and light to moderate foxing (as is typical), cover corner worn in a compact fashion cloth gone from top 1/16' of top and bottom of spine .

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Book number: 191895

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Boone, Daniel ; ;

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Late Emperor of France, from His Birth to His Abdication, and Retirement to the Island of Elba; Including His Parentage, Military Achievements, Remarkable Actions, Speeches, Battles, & Victories, and a Full Account of His Campaigns... Interspersed with Anecdotes & Biographical Memoirs of the Principal Generals in the French Armies. To Which Is Added, a Geographical Description of the Island of Elba

London, Printed and Published by W. Mason, 1814. Second Edition, with Considerable Additions. Hardcover. Bound into dark olive green cloth with gilt title on spine. 72 pp. one illustration. Date, which is not printed in the book, is derived from the scribed date at the base of the colored-portrait frontis. A very solId copy, with the exception of the close trimming. Uncommon and not found in the auction records. Frontis is printed by the book publisher. VG-, closely trimmed title-page with minor loss to price at base of page. Colored frontis.

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Book number: 179514

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Bonaparte, Napoleon ; ;

Prestige de la Photographie (Volumes 1-9)

Paris, Ed. E. P. A. 1980. Hardcover. French language text. Black cloth boards with illustration. Photographs, illustrations. Each volume individualy paginated. 9 volumes. VG Covers have some minor wear .

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Book number: 189061

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Photography ; Biography ; ;

Pushkin : A Collection of Articles and Essays on the Great Russian Poet A.S. Pushkin

Moscow, The U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1939. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with black spine. Black itle lettering. 187, [1] pages : illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles. Contents: The greatness of Pushkin, by Prof. I. Luppol.--The life and death of the poet: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a biographical essay) by Prof. V. Kirpotin. The lonely Pushkin, by Prof. A. Blagoi.--Pushkin's work: The father of modern Russian literature, by I. Lezhnev. "Eugene Onegin," by A. Gurstein. Pushkin's lyrical poetry, by Prof. L. Timofeyev. Pushkin's epic poems, by Prof. M. Khrapchenko. Pushkin's prose, by V. Shklovski. Pushkin as a playwright, by G. Vinokur. Pushkin and folklore, by Prof. M. Azadovski. Gorky on Pushkin, by Prof. S. Balukhaty.--A genius of world significance: Western Europe and Pushkin, by Prof. V. Neustadt. Pushkin and western literature, by Prof. V. Zhirmunski.--Theatre and music: Pushkin and the stage, by M. Zagorski. Pushkin in Russian music, by Prof. V. Ferman.--Pushkin in art. VG Cover has general wear, discoloration, spotting. Bookblock/interior pages have age toning. Interior binding is loosening.

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Book number: 185587

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Pushkin ; Pushkin ; ;

Airy, Osmund

Charles II

London/ Paris/New York, Charles Scribner's Sons/ Goupil & Co, 1901. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 red leather and color illustrated paper boards, 5 raised bands with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated end papers, color illustrated frontispiece with descriptive guard sheet, V, 282 pp with unpaginated illustrations, facsimiles. Printed in edition of 1250 copies, this being number 80. Each plate and illustration accompanied by guard sheet with discriptive letterpress. Good (heavy wear to covers, front and rear detached, leather spine torn, bookplate inside front cover, pages are otherwise clean and clear) .

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Book number: 191392

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Charles II, King of England ; ;

Amberger, Annelies

Giordano Orsinis Uomini Famosi in Rom: Helden Der Weltgeschichte IM Fruhhumanismus

Munich, Germany, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ cream spine printing. 576 pgs w/ bw illustrations. red, glossy illustrated dustjacket. text in German. In 1432, Cardinal Giordano Orsini had his palace on Montegiordano in Rome equipped with a cycle of frescoes, which represented a world chronicle systematized according to six world ages in the form of a Uomini-Famosi series. The sequence of figures comprised about 400 people, beginning with Adam and Eve and ending with the Mongol Khan Tamerlane. The wall cycle already described by Filarete in his architectural treatise has not survived, but is fully known from six illustrated manuscripts and two manuscripts that contain the picture captions. The illuminated manuscripts can be functionally redefined: One manuscript served as a draft for the image program, another manuscript was available to the wall painters as a template for transferring to the wall. Image sources and literary models can be found in protagonist chronicles in the manner of Paolino Minorita, in illustrated chronicles prefixed genealogies as well as in world chronicles after Eusebius Hieronymus, in copy series and inventor catalogs. In its representative selection, the series of figures showed heroes who correspond to the image of man newly determined in early humanism, especially by Francesco Petrarca and Nicolaus Cusanus.--Amazon, translated. VG (light edge-wear to covers; corners curled; spine top creased, textblock thread frayed; textblock firm. dustjacket scratched, corners & spine ends creased; spine lightly sunned) .

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Book number: 186777

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Giordano Orsinis, Cardinal Giordano Orsinis ; Giordano Orsinis ; ;

Archer, Vicki and Carla Coulson

My French Life

New York, Viking Studio, 2007. Hardcover. plush, pictorial boards. 228 pgs w/ color illustrations. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. pictorial dustjacket w/ reflective, red printed script. In 1999, Vicki Archer, with her husband and three children, made a lifelong dream a reality when she bought a seventeenth-century property in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. She spent three years lovingly restoring the farmhouse, bringing back to life the abandoned apple and pear orchards, and planting an olive grove of more than two thousand trees. In My French Life, Vicki shares an insider's view of life in France, from its landscapes, delicious food, and scents to its charming people.--Jacket. VG+. small, black remainder mark to bottom textblock. clean interior. dustjacket has edge-wear & scratches.

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Book number: 181094

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Vicki Archer, Carla Coulson, French Life, French Culture, French Lifestyle ; Vicki Archer, Carla Coulson, French Life, French Culture, French Lifestyle ; ;

Atkinson, Margaret A. S.

To the Water's Edge; Skillman, Galley, Atkinson and Allied Families

Philadelphia, Atkinson, Margaret A. S. 1967. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt lettering. 238 pages illustrations, portraits 24 cm. "Limited to two hundred copies."/ Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238). #107. Chiefly ancestral families, relatives, and family of the author and her husband. Margaret Algeo Skillman was born in 1888 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Willis Bishop Skillman (1854-1920) and Annie Walker Gayley Skillman (1857-1927). She married James Clarence Atkinson in 1910. They had two sons, 1917-1921, born at Germantown and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James Clarence Atkinson (1884-1952) was the son of James Quinby Atkinson (1838-1927) and Mary Cleaver Atkinson (1846-1887). Includes memories of the author. Ancestors include: Thomas Skillman (1640-1697) of England and Newtown, Long Island -- Peiter Clasen (Wyckoff (b. ca. 1625) of Holland and New Netherlands -- Samuel Maxwell Gayley (1802-1862) of Ireland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- James Algeo (b. 1793) of Donegal, Ireland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- John Atkins (b. 1695) of England and Pennsylvania -- Pieter Kleaver (Cleaver) (fl. 1697) of Germany and Pennsylvania. VG, rubbing to covers. Inscribed and signed by author. Pages clean and tight.

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Book number: 187524

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Skillman Family ; Skillman Family ; ;

Baker Pierce, George

Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell: Private Correspondence

Boston, Massachusetts, The Bibliophile Society, 1908. Hardcover. white vellum spine w/ gilt printing & green emblem; white vellum corners. boards inlaid grey paper. book xxx, 152 pgs w/ numerous tissue-guarded plates; some color. white, slipcase w/ blue pebbled spine. larger blue pebbled paper slipcase. A nice, sharp, bright copy. Remains tightly bound. Of 493 Copies printed for Bibliophile Society members only. VG. (spots of foxing to vellume spine. foxing to textblock edges; light remnants to pg edges. concentrated foxing to the edges of pastedowns & flyleafs. inlaid board paper scuffed w/ wear. slipcases have edge-wear, rubbing, smudges & scuffs) .

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Book number: 184949

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Charles Dickens, Maria Beadnell ; Charles Dickens, Maria Beadnell ; ;

Barber, Red

The Broadcasters

New York, Dial Press, 1970. Hardcover. Dark green cloth with white lettering on spine, green illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white lettering, 271 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. Contents include: Listen -- The pioneers -- Focus 1 -- Baseball on the air -- Focus 2 -- The business of broadcasting -- Focus 3. VG/G (red ink markings on several pages throughout, inscribed to previous owner and signed by artist, dust jacket has overall wear and tears) .

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Book number: 177217

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Red Barber ; ;

Barker, Richard Hindry

Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane

New York, Columbia University Press, 1939. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and design elements on spine. 5 preliminary leaves, [3]-278 pages. Issued also as thesis (Ph. D.) Columbia university./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index. Very Good. ex-lib copy. Associated library markings throughout book. Cover has general wear, some staining. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning .

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Book number: 190272

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Cibber ; Colley Cibber ; ;

Barnard, Daniel D.

A Discourse on the Life, Services and Character of Stephen Van Rensselaer

Albany, Hoffman & White, 1839. Hardcover. Black textured leather boards with red spine. 144 pages. VG Cover has edge damage and chipping. Bookblock has age toning. End pages have age toning and foxing. library sticker from previous owner on inside front cover .

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Book number: 185063

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Van Rensselaer ; ;

Baruch, Bernard M.

Baruch, the Public Years

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, white and blue dust jacket with color illustration on back, xii, 431 pp, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits. Inscribed and signed by author on front end page. Contents include: Discontent with Wall Street -- America goes to war -- The Advisory Commission -- The War Industries Board -- Some Washington friends -- The Paris Peace Conference -- The Big Three -- The fight for the League -- The Farmer's Plight -- Democrats in defeat -- The Harding-Coolidge years -- The defeat of Al Smith -- The Great Crash -- F.D.R. and the New Deal -- The fight for preparedness -- War production problems -- Plans for reconversion -- Mission to London -- Control of atomic energy -- The Cold War -- The world we face. VG/G (light age toning to edges as expected with age, pages are otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has overall shelfwear and small tears. Signed and inscribed by author) .

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Book number: 177218

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Baruch, Bernard M. ; ;

Baruch, Bernard

Baruch: My Own Story

New York, Henry Holt and Co, 1957. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine, color illustrated dust jacket, [i]-xii pages, 1 leaf, 1-337 [1] pages: illustrations. Signed and inscribed by author on front end page. Contents include: [1] My own story -- [2] The public years. "In this, the first volume of his memoirs, Mr. Baruch analyzes his personal philosophy and shows how it helped him solve the many problems that confronted him in his public life as chairman of the War Industries Board during World War One and as United States representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Informal yet penetrating, intimate yet penetrating, intimate yet never losing sight of major events and issues, Baurch: My Own Story is infused with the remarkable personality of a truly distinguisted American." - dust jacket. VG/G- (Signed and inscribed by author on front end page. light age toning to block, dust jacket is torn, not attached with overall wear) .

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Book number: 177219

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography ; Baruch, Bernard ; ;

Basker, James G., Sandra Trenholm, Susan Saidenberg, and Justine Ahlstrom

John Brown: The Abolitionist & His Legacy

New York, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2009. Paperback. Stapled, color pictorial wraps. 79 pp. Many color illustrations. Title continues: Historical documents and objects from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and the New-York Historical Society. VG-. Some edge wear, otherwise clean and tight.

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Book number: 166010

Catalogue: Biography / Autobiography

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography; Collections; John Brown ; Brown, John ; ;