Ro, Ronin

Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution

New York, Bloomsbury, 2004. First US Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 18619

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Non-fiction, COMICS, JACK KIRBY, STAN LEE, SUPERHEROES, BIOGRAPHY

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Q. Curtii Rufi de Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Libri Superstites Cum Freinshemii Supplementis, Suis Variorumque Notis Illustravit A. Huguet

Paris, Excudit C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Nova scriptorum Latinorum bibliotheca". Complete in two volumes. xii, 290pp; 288pp. Later brown half cloth over marbled boards. Scattered foxing to text blocks, law firm unobtrusive stamps on titles and last leaves, old stain affecting the top edge of some of the leaves of volume I, a touch of wear to edges. A nice very good set. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 32650

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: LATIN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, CLASSICS, ANTIQUARIAN, HISTORY, ALEXANDER THE GREAT History Antiquarian

Simenon, Georges

Letter to My Mother

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First US Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a short crease to rear flap. Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 19239

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: BIOGRAPHY, non-fiction, GEORGES SIMENON

Singlande, R. P. de

Memoires Militaires, Et Voyages Du R.P. De Singlande, Ancien Aumônier Des Armées Du Roi, Reçu En Furvivance Aumônier Des Bains de Barege

Paris, Chez Lacombe, 1766. Hardcover. Second edition after the one from 1765. Two volumes in one. xvi, 246pp; 224pp. Recent green morocco, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold, all edges stained red. The memoires of Father de Singlande, military chaplain. Includes an account of the conquest of Corsica. Small, faint stain to lower corner and tiny wormhole to margin affecting the last few leaves of volume I and the first few leaves of volume II; title page of volume one in facsimile. A clean, near fine copy. ; 12mo. .

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Book number: 26812

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: FRENCH BOOKS, FRENCH LANGUAGE, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHIES, non-fiction, CORSICA History Antiquarian

Sparks, Jared

The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold. [Bound with] Lives of Anthony Wayne and Sir Henry Vane. (the Library of American Biography Volume 3 and 4)

Boston, Hilliard, Gray, and Co, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Green half morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gold. 1) Volume 3; xii, 335pp; engraved title, three facsimiles, one plate, one map. 2) Volume 4; x, 403pp; engraved title, one facsimile. Boards are rubbed, wear to extremities, occasional foxing and a few annotations in pencil. A good+ copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 23554

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: NON-FICTION, BIOGRAPHIES, UNITED STATES, HISTORY, ANTIQUARIAN History Antiquarian

Thwaite, Ann

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: The Story of A.A. Milne and His Writing for Children

London, Methuen, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 192pp. Cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 28145

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: BIOGRAPHIES, A. A. MILNE, WRITERS, WINNIE THE POOH Children and Young Adults

Trevelyan, George Otto

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by His Nephew. In Two Volumes

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, 475pp; viii, 480pp. Contemporary brown half calf over cloth, spines with five raised bands, gilt decorations, and morocco labels lettered in gold, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Likely Selkirk historian Thomas Craig-Brown's copy with a Selkirk, Scotland bookplate and his signature on it. There is a handwritten letter addressed to Craig-Brown tipped in in volume one but unfortunately not all the text is readable. Light rubbing to covers, black labels on the spines are gone. Internally extremely clean with only mild foxing to the first and last few leaves. A bright, very good set. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 33004

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN, BIOGRAPHIES, LEATHER BINDINGS Antiquarian

Tumiati, Gaetano

Prigionieri Nel Texas

Milano, Mursia, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 204pp. Pictorial boards. The poignant reminiscences of an Italian prisoner of war who spent more than two years in an internment camp in Hereford, Texas. Tumiati later became a journalist and writer. His novel Il busto di gesso won the 1976 Premio Campiello. Light toning to pages else a fine copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 26136

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: non-fiction, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, ITALIAN BOOKS, ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR, UNITED STATES, HISTORY, TEXAS, WORLD WAR II, MEMOIRS History

Welty, Eudora

One Writer's Beginnings

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in very good dustjacket with very mild fading to spine panel and two short creases and nick to upper edge. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 25894

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: non-fiction, BIOGRAPHIES, WRITERS

Williams, Beryl; Epstein, Samuel

The Great Houdini

New York, Scholastic Book Services, 1970. Paperback. Scholastic T76. A fine copy. ; Small octavo. .

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Book number: 31323

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: non-fiction, BIOGRAPHIES, HOUDINI, MAGIC, MAGICIANS

Wind, Herbert Warren

The World of P.G. Wodehouse

New York, Praeger Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good+ copy in very good dustjacket with some creases on back panel. With photographs, drawings, manuscript pages and more. ; Octavo; 249 pages. .

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Book number: 9861

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: non-fiction, Biographical Notes, P. G. Wodehouse

Senofonte (Xenophon)

La Ciropedia Di Senofonte Tradotta Da Francesco Regis, Professore Di Letteratura Italiana Nell'Accademia Di Torino E Membro Dell'Accademia Imperiale Delle Scienze, Lettere E Delle Arti. [Bound with] la Spedizione Di Ciro Tradotta Da Francesco Ambrosoli

Milano, Molina, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Collana degli Antichi Storici Greci Volgarizzati. Three volumes bound in one. xlvi, 192pp; 248pp; x, 364pp. Contemporary full vellum with red and green leather labels lettered in gold on the spine. Engraved foldout map of the Persian Empire in volume 1; engraved foldout plate in volume 2; large engraved foldout map of the expedition of Cyrus in volume 3. The fictionalized biography of Cyrus the Great. Two tiny tears to two of the leaves, light rubbing to covers. A clean, near fine copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 26376

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: non-fiction, HISTORY, CLASSICS, BIOGRAPHIES, CYRUS THE GREAT, GREECE History Antiquarian