Biography

Portland: Dunham's, 1946. Book. Illus. by Colista Dowling. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. brown textured cloth with gilt titles. light corner wear. 159pp..

BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1956 PBO, Softcover, 1956, Stated 1st edition on back Cvr WITH #180 ON FRONT CVR, NF+/VG,Softcover, light edgewear scuff, with Original price of 35 cents on Cvr. Tiny corner cvr Crease. Interior nice tight clean light wear fox. 149 PGS.. First Edition. Soft Cover.

Slough: Ricardo Consulting Engineers Ltd, 1990.. This edition of Sir Harry Ricardo's Memoirs has been produced to mark the 75th Anniversary of the foundation of Ricardo Consulting Engineers. "Because the author felt that radical development in the early days of the internal combustion engine were of more interest than the steady progress of recent times, and because of his awareness of the influence of his own early activities on his career, the emphasis of this book is on the early days and it ends at a time before World War II. ...This is the life story of a pioneer in mechanical engineering written in a manner that reflects the zest and passionate interest that has led the author to the top of his profession." Pp.264, black & white photo portrait frontispiece + 16 further photo illustrations. Black cloth, dustwrapper has edge wear bu now has a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/VG.

New York The Penguin Press 2008 First edition. First printing [stated]. Hard cover. New in new dust jacket. NO FLAWS. UNREAD. 483 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gellman documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.

Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1825. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 4 p.; 25 cm. Caption title. At head of title: "Institut Royal de France. Académie Roayle [sic] des Sciences [Académie Royale des Sciences]. "Ch Ravel" written next to title; ink underlining of "de Lacépede" in title. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). On p. 2, "public" has been crossed out and "publique" written above in ink. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) was a French naturalist and colleague of Jean Baptiste Lamarck. Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède (1756-1825), was a French naturalist who worked with Buffon on his Histoire Naturelle and served in the French legislature. In Near Fine Condition: minor foxing; period ink notations as noted; otherwise, clean and bright. Scarce.

London: London: Smith, Elder and Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1873. 1st Edition . Full cloth. Very Good. First edition, two volumes, octavo; xi, [i], 413, 380pp. In original uniform publisher's brown buckram with gilt and blind decoration to spines and front boards, bindings lightly worn, original endpapers, volume one title page annotated with brief biographical details of the author, light spotting to opening and closing leaves of each volume otherwise clean and complete, with portrait frontispiece to volume one. Family association copy with the small ownership label of W.B. Drummond to each front pastedown. Attractive example in very good original state of this well researched study.

London: Putnam & Company. 1963. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket - DJ has been price-clipped & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. B/w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 157 pages. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer was a Guyanese novelist, the earliest novelist from the West Indian region to establish himself in Europe and gain a significant European readership. He is considered the first professional novelist to come out of the English-speaking Caribbean. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

French language 1st Edition (precedes the English language translation of 1929). 282pp + 8 photographic plates (containing 9 illustrations) + 4 maps - all collated and present. Good+ condition - light foxing, slant to the text block and minor edge wear / corner curl. No inscriptions. Better than this description sounds. A superior survival of a rare book.One time Captain in the Caucasian Divisional Cavalry, "The Savage Division". Charged for anti-revolutionary activities in the Russian revolution. Established in 1923 on a stunning archipelago close to the Arctic Circle, which had hosted one of the most prestigious monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Fifteenth century, the camp of the Solovki was created in order to solve one of the many problems for the newborn Soviet state. Prisoners, arrested in an ever increasing number since 1917, were being kept in improvised prisons. The Sovnarkom decided to create a Special Purpose Camp on the Solovki islands, on the model of already… Read More

Scribner, 1988-01-15. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. First edition, First Printing, Full Number Line Displayed. 1987, Macmillan. 404 pgs. Unmarked. Text free of highlighting, underlining /writing. Dust jacket included, shows some smudging, small tear at base spine, edge and shelf wear from use/ storage. Cover boards in vg condition. Binding solid. Ships quickly in box with care. Thank you for shopping with us!

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy blue cloth boards with large gilt titling. No titling remains on spine. 5 ¾ X 8. 374 pages, indexed. Time period covered is 17th and 18th Centuries. JESUITS. ANTHROPOLOGY. SOCIAL SCIENCES. HISTORY OF FRANCE. HISTORY OF CANADA. CANADIANA. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Clark was the first archaeologist in the world to translate The Badianus Manuscript, aka The Codex Barberini, an Aztec compendium on traditional herbal medicine dating from the Fourteenth Century. Will ship from Oregon.

Jeffers, Robinson Cawdor and other poems. Copyright 1928 Horace Liveright, New York. Stated Second Printing Thus December, 1928. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Purple boards with black leather spine. Gilt titling and cartouche of nude at center on front panel is still in very nice shape but stamped titling is no longer visible on the black leather spine. Gift inscription by someone other than the author on the front endpaper makes mention of "the Crows Nest" and has dated his entry 1930. 160 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Signed by Patti Smith on a special page added by the publisher. First edition / First printing. Special Signed Edition. Brown spine, brown boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Legendary Poet, Artist and Punk Rock Icon. Inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith was Robert Mapplethorpe's roommate. She befriended Writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, had an affair and co-wrote a play with Sam Shepard. She contributed to albums by Door's Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and Blue Oyster Cult, before forming her own band. The Patti Smith Group was one of the earliest Punk Rock groups and was a huge influence of countless later acts. Her first memoir, Just Kids, won the 2010 National Book Award.

Octavo (8 3/4 by 6 inches) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. First Edition. x, 502 pages, eight folded maps, frontis is an engraved portrait of Thomas.

Appendix contains "Roster of Troops Engaged at Mill Springs, Kentucky January 19, 1862," and "Organization of U. S. Forces Commanded by Major General Geo. H. Thomas, at the Battle of Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 15 and 16, 1864." Index, and six pages of Publisher's advertisements.

Original blue cloth binding, with facsimile signature of General Thomas centered on upper cover in gilt; and title, author, and publisher in gilt on spine. Very good condition (light, old water stain to lower right corner of front cover, and lower left corner of back cover; not affecting contents that are intact, bright, and clean).

A biography of "The Rock of Chickamauga," previously belonging to a West Point graduate, Captain F. W. Mansfield, U. S. Infantry, with his book plate on front pastedown, and his inked signature, at "Fort Apache, Arizona, September 1897" on… Read More

El libro relata las campanas y combates del general jose maceo durante la guerra cubano hispano norteamericana de 1895-1898 libro con encuadernacion de la epoca,y con dedicatoria del autor primera edicion.los combates y campanas del general antonio maceo,inscrito como José Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales (San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, 14 de junio de 1845 - San Pedro, La Habana, 7 de diciembre de 1896) fue un militar y político cubano, mayor general y lugarteniente general del >Ejército Libertador, apodado "El Titán de Bronce" y uno de los líderes >mambises. Luchó por la independencia de Cuba en la >guerra de los Diez Años y, tras varios años exiliado fuera de la isla, en la Guerra de Independencia de 1895, cayendo en combate durante su desarrollo.su autor manuel piedra martel,[villa clara cuba 1869-habana 1954].
Nace en Cifuentes el 25 de septiembre de 1869. Cursó estudios de arte. Abandonó su >educación y su trabajo y se incorporó a la guerra libertadora de 1895 alcanzando el grado… Read More

The three books that comprise Machen's autobiographical trilogy. 1923 and 1924 Knopf first American editions.
Far Off Things - January 1923 first printing. Very Good condition, sound binding, complete and unmarked inside pages. The main condition issue is light soil to the yellow boards, and aging of the spine label.
Things Near and Far- February 1923 first printing. Very Good condition, sound binding, complete and unmarked inside pages. The main condition issue is light soil to the yellow boards, and aging of the spine label.
The London Adventure - August 1924 first printing. Very Good condition, sound binding, complete and unmarked inside pages. The main condition issue is light soil to the yellow boards, and aging of the spine label.
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