Category: Biographies and Autobiographies

Woodrow Wilson

By: August Heckscher

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1991

Seller ID: 002337

Condition: Near Fine

Solid biography of idealistic U.S. President and educator and historian.
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Galleria Storica dell'Italia Contenente in Cento Intagli Miniati i Fatti Piu Notabili Avvenuti nel Corso di X Secoli Illustrati di Descrizioni e Notizie (Two Volumes)

By: C. Sabattini, C. Rusconi, etc.

Price: $3,750.00

Publisher: Firenze, David Passigli : 1845-6

Seller ID: 002204

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Uncommon title with 100 bright and hand-colored plates depicting major figures and events of Italian history. Each plate accompanies generally eight to twelve text pages relating a tale or biography of the figure(s) depicted. The articles are ornamented with lovely ornate borders which vary in color and design from one piece to the next. The work itself was issued at a time when Italian consciousness was finally being roused with the first rumblings for unification, which would finally come to fruition two decades later, but it is significant that in this work the heros and heroines highli...
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Le Plutarque Francais, Vies des Hommes et Femmes Illustres de la France, Ave Leurs Portraits en pied; publié par Ed. Mennechet. (8 Volumes)

By: Dumas, Alexandre, et. al. Edited by Eduoard Mennechet

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, L'Imprimerie de Crapelet : 1835-1841

Seller ID: 004583

Binding: Quarter Morocco. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 26.5 by 18 cm. 192 hand-colored engraved plates starting with Clovis and continuing on to the Napoleonic era, with the final portrait being of Eugene de Beauharnais. This is then a chronological presentation of the most important French personages -- monarchs, courtiers, warriors, poets, essayists and novelists, artists, saints, scientists, politicians, etc. The portraits accompany biographies of the individuals. Other than Napoleon, these articles run six to sixteen double columned pages, and so the treatments are most certainly not superficial glosses as one might find in a typical...
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Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evlyn, Esq. F.R.S. . . . (Two Volumes)

By: Evelyn, John. Edited by William Bray, Esq.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, John and Arthur Arch for Henry Colburn : 1818

Seller ID: 002888

4to. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Seven plates, some folding. Bookplates of Estelle Doheny and James Bros. Contemporary calf tooled in gilt and blindstamped decorative band. One joint split. Rebacked, both volumes. Covers soiled, with first volume front cover having a large surface abrasion.
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The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. (Three Volumes) With Portrait.

By: Jenkins, Louis J., ed.

Price: $2,800.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1885

Seller ID: 003220

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

A "Grangerized" copy -- extra-illustrated and augmented with many original letters and autographs by a virtual who's who on the English political and literary scene of the day tipped into the text. Among these are Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington (when he was known as Arthur Wellesley and the Field Marshall in Spain), George Canning, Lord Holland, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Isaac Disraeli, Queen Victoria, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Newcastle, Gladstone, Lord Bentinck, Lord John Russell. Also included is a short inscription from Metternich. In addition, ...
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Ariel ou la Vie de Shelley

By: Maurois, Andre. Illustrations by Ferdinand Fargeot

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Mornay : 1932

Seller ID: 003859

Binding: Full Decorated Calf

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 20 by 15.5 cm. 329 pp. Original wraps bound in. Since there is no number to this copy, it is presumed this was one of the 55 copies produced "hors commerce". Regardless, the full calf binding is special, with its watercolor cameo centerpiece of a sailboat on the front, the floral vignette on the back, and portrait of Shelley on the spine. Alas, the calf is heavily rubbed along the joints, with starting by the lower rear joint, and the spine is darkened and heavily rubbed. Inside, the book is clean and fresh, with the color illustrations uniformly a delight.
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Bonaparte

By: Montorgueil, G. [Georges] Illustrated by Job [Jacque Onfray de Breville]

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Boivin et Cie. : 1910

Seller ID: 003361

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Folio-sized (Grand 4to.) 37 by 29 cm. iv, 84 pp. Flamboyant and lively Job illustrations set to colortype. Every other page is a full page illustration, and there are a number of double paged illustrations. Probably the most sought after title in the series of young adult illustrated biographies issued in this young adult series. The interior leaves are clean, with age toning pronounced around the edges. The pictorial cloth binding has light soiling and a minor closed tear along the joint.
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Bonaparte

By: Montorgueil, G. [Georges] Illustrated by Job [Jacque Onfray de Breville]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Boivin et Cie. : 1912

Seller ID: 002949

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Good

Folio-sized (Grand 4to.) 37 by 29 cm. iv, 84 pp. Flamboyant and lively Job illustrations set to colortype. Every other page is a full page illustration, and there are a number of double paged illustrations. Probably the most sought after title in the series of young adult illustrated biographies issued in this young adult series. The interior leaves are clean, with age toning pronounced around the edges. The pictorial cloth binding is heavily soiled and worn, with a few spots entirely worn through, one on the front, a few on the rear, in addition to heavy edgewear. Endpapers are chipped and so...
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Duveen

By: S.N. Behrman. Illustrations by Saul Steinberg

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1952

Seller ID: 002343

Condition: Very Good Plus

Highly readable and entertaining biography of the colorful art impresario of the turn-of-the-twentieth century who made a fortune selling and reselling Old Masters paintings from impoverished European nobility to American Robber Barons. Behrman was a highly successful and commercial playwright on Broadway in the mid-20th century and in fact based one of his plays, "Pongo", loosely on Duveen, with Charles Boyer cast in the part of the larger than life gallery owner. Clean and tight copy. DJ has wear, with a few closed tears and chips. Most of the DJ is however present.
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Lola Montez. A Life

By: Seymour, Bruce

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press : 1996

Seller ID: 002842

ISBN-13: 9780300063479

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Victoria. An Intimate Biography

By: Stanley Weintraub

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Truman Talley Books, E. P. Dutton : 1987

Seller ID: 002351

Condition: Very Good Plus

Lightly used, with DJ all there but with a few closed tears, rubbing, etc. from the book probably having been read with DJ on and not cared for.
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Robert Smith Surtees 1803-1864 Creator of "Jorrocks"

By: Surtees, Robert Smith and E. D. Cuming

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons : 1925

Seller ID: 002721

Condition: Very Good

Light soiling to the cloth binding. Age toning to the leaves. Creases to the dust jacket, along with a few chips and soiling. Now protected by Mylar.
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Album de Cinelandia. Biografias y retratos autenticos

By: Villegas, Lucio A., editor

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Hollywood, CA, Mac Printing Company : 1928

Seller ID: 002861

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good Plus

An oversized Hollywood facebook album from when they had faces, issued less than a year after the release of "The Jazz Singer", when silent movies was in its last gasp. Folio-sized, 14 by 10 inches, 35 by 26 cm. 201 pp. Photos of leading Hollywood stars on rectos, with biographical information on the facing page. Among the hundred stars are the giants, many whose names are still big, generally because they survived the transition to sound unharmed -- the obvious stars such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Chaplin, Fairbanks, Marion...
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Category: Biographies and Autobiographies