Little Journeys to Homes of English Authors: S. T. Coleridge
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters. Stapled Wraps.
The best biographies give us a satisfying glimpse into a great person’s life, while also teaching us about the context in which that person lived. Through biography, we can also learn history, psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, and more. Reading a great biography is both fun and educational. What’s not to love?
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters. Stapled Wraps.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Revealing in what it shows about the criminal mind . . . [Huddy has] the perfect blend of skills and experience to tell the story of Vigoa. [Seattle Times].
Chaple Hill: Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Often depicted in Civil War literature as an inept commander who brought shame upon himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878) stands as one of the most disputed military figures.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A pictorial account of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, with pictorial maps, which also form the covers. Includes a chapter by Edmund Hillary on The Summit and a list of Hillary's clothing and equipment. The.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The autobiography of Hakim Jamal, a streetwise kid from Boston whose life was changed by Malcolm X. Having been a heroin junkie and alcoholic, Jamal would become the president of the Malcolm X Organization of Afroamerican Unity and.....
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The story of that revolution through biographical portraits of four pioneering figures in the early institutions of psychoanalysis: Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein.
Boston: Chester R. Rice Company, 1910. Hardcover. Subjects include: Tradition of Hyde Park, The Pillar of Hercules, Origin of the name Piccadilly, the Green Park, May fair, Cavendish Square, Bond Street, St. James Street, The Clubs, Cocoa Tree Taver, King Street, Pall Mall, Carlton House, Marlborough House, Gardiner's Land, The.....
Caldwell, Idaho: The Claxton Publishers Ltd., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. John W. E. Thomas, the first African American elected to the Illinois general assembly, held a prominent position as the leader of the state's African American community for nearly two decades. His impactful contributions paved the way.....
St. Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong, 2004. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In this highly illuminating and deeply moving book, Kay Johnson provides an intimate portrait of the complex processes by which, over the past decade, thousands of little Chinese girls have made their way from orphanages in China into adoptive.....
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1938. Designed as a school book contains information from many sources.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1914. A Very Good Hardcover. A sympathetic retelling of exploration to the tropical Americas, encompassing the travels of the Spaniards, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, William Dampier, Lionel Wafer, the Darien Scheme, ..Background Information: Sir Henry Hamilton, was a British explorer who travelled widely.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Background Information:Adrian H. Joline, a lawyer and noted book collector, author of Meditations of an Autograph Collector (1902) and Rambles in Autograph Land (1913). His collection was sold at a series of auctions conducted by The Anderson Galleries in.....
Kanas City: Sheed Andrews and McNeel, Inc., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga—a six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world—revealing both a rich sense of history and.....
Kanas City: Sheed Andrews and McNeel, Inc., 1977. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give up—even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving in.....
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Later Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Martha Berry founded Berry College, Georgia...but the story actually begins with a log cabin in the woods where she taught poor mountain children math and reading.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A detailed reconstruction of Whitman's life and times considers the poet's years of apprenticeship on New York newspapers, his experiences in the Civil War, and his lifetime devotion to the writing.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
USA: Viking, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Follows the life of Walt Disney from his boyhood on a Missouri farm through his struggles as a young animator to his building of a motion picture and amusement park empire.
New York, NY: Atria Books, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. From the acclaimed author of Schindler's List, the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters from Australia, both trained nurses, whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Profiles the group of extraordinary women who shared Hemingway's life, his mother and four wives, or who served as prototypes for such fictional heroines as Margot Macomber and the idealized nurse.....
Los Angeles: The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Soft cover. Excerpts from five letters written by Muir to a close friend, Mrs. A. H. Sellers; interesting for John Muir’s thoughts on death. With additional material relating to the club. Book reviews and an article.....
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Chronicles the life and writing career of New Zealand author Janet Frame, who overcame a childhood filled with adversity and her own mental illness to become one of the great writers of her time.
London: Arms & Armour, 1999. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The Zulus were great warriors, and this book recalls 10 of the most notable ones, from King Shaka to Bambathia Zondi. Each account includes details of Zulu forces, weaponry, tactics and achievements.
New York: Basic Books, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. A bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling.....