The Rabbi of 84th Street: The Extraordinary Life of Haskel Besser
Harper, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
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?
Harper, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This passionate love affair offers a profound glimpse into the realm of art and artists during America's first half of the 20th century, a treat for those who hold these matters dear. Eugénie Kuh, who lived a......
New York: Putnam Adult, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Through interviews with Grace Kelly's family and friends, the author of Ford: The Men and the Machine penetrates the storybook veneer around Kelly's life to reveal a surprisingly complex, conflicted woman.
New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Billy Wilder is one of the last living members of the generation of important film directors active in Hollywood's Golden Era.His credits include such landmark films as Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered.....
New York: William Morrow, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important-yet almost always overlooked-chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as.....
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. A Fine Hardcover. Eleanor and Franklin is one of the most highly acclaimed biographies written in recent times. Its author, Joseph Lash, won the Pulitzer and National Book Award in biography, as well as the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American.....
New York: History Book Club, 1971. Book Club [BCE]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Eleanor and Franklin is one of the most highly acclaimed biographies written in recent times. Its author, Joseph Lash, won the Pulitzer and National Book Award in biography, as well as the Francis Parkman Prize of the.....
Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsbury Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
San Antonio. TX: The Naylor Company, First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A story of a cowboy who led a charmed life. A real-life telling of Indians, cattle, thieves, ranchers, gold mining, western justice and more.Ref: Adams/Herd 1312, "Has some information on ranching."
New York: William Morrow, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
Quebec: Sainte Anne de Beaupré, 1965. A Near Fine Softcover. According to Christian apocryphal tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from.....
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In Hockey Tonk, owner Craig Leipold and Richard Oliver take readers on a fascinating journey from the birth of the Nashville Predators to the planning and execution of the team's inaugural season.This book.....
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Reinterprets the life and thought of the controversial Puritan New England clergyman, examining his religious conversion, his role as an historian and literary figure, and his fanatical attitudes concerning witchcraft.
New York: Arco Pub. Co, 1978. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Roy Harley Lewis offers a captivating glimpse into the enchanting world of rare books. In this concise and insightful work, Lewis, an industry expert, takes readers on a journey through the corridors of antiquarian bookstores, sharing his wealth of knowledge.....
New York: Hachette Books, 2013. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 'For those who had a figure like Mr. K in their lives, STRINGS ATTACHED will resonate. Everyone else will wish they had been so lucky.' NYTA powerful memoir about resilience in the face of unspeakable tragedy, an inspiring and poignant tale.....
London: William Heinemann, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. This very lengthy tour of 1899 includes commentaries on the various Christian Missions, the land, people, flora, fauna, rivers, mountains, opium, customs, native peoples, tradition and a wealth of valuable commentaries. This well illustrated volume describes the author's.....
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Named one of the "Five Adventure Books” You Need to Read This Summer" by Backpacker Magazine.
New York: Coward, McCann And Geoghegan, Inc, 1980. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A biography of the woman whose marriage to King Henry VIII of England resulted in an irreversible break between the Church of England and the Papacy, the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I, and in.....
New York: Brentano's, 1910. A Good Hardcover. The Second French Empire (French: Second Empire), was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870.
Minneapolis: Privately Printed for Edmund D. Brooks at the Torch Press, 1911. A Very Good Hardcover.
Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. An autobiographical memoir covering the five decades Sister Marie Lucita, a dedicated social worker, devoted herself to aiding the underprivileged residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Through her tenure with Catholic Charities.....
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A thoroughly researched, carefully documented, and beautifully illustrated book on Parrish containing detailed chapters of Maxfield Parrish's work, including book and magazine illustration, posters and advertisements, as well as paintings and murals often depicting fantastical or mythological.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Soft cover.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Derek Lundy's vivid book follows the field of the 1996 - 1997 Vendee Globe through the race's grueling four-month circumnavigation of the globe, most of it through the terror of the Southern.....