Traveler in a Vanished Landscape: The Life and Times of David Douglas
New York: C. N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good 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?
New York: C. N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Washington, D. C. Island Press, 2001. Hardcover. Though best known for his conservation efforts in California and his creation of the Sierra Club, Muir considered his final journey the most rewarding, writing while in Africa in 1912 that "on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful.....
USA: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Orlando: Tribune Pub, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This compilation offers a touching and informative portrait of one of America's most influential writers. Nathiri has enlivened and broadened our image of Hurston by bringing together Hurston's friends and relatives for a comprehensive interview, furnishing a gallery of color photographs, and providing.....
London: Picador Original, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Amid the peak of the Cold War's era of confrontational rhetoric, a young man, descended from multiple generations of Russian writers, ventured across the Western border. His exposure to Soviet schooling was nil;.....
Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 1986. Mr. Nevins presents the life story of a remarkable figure, Grover Cleveland, revealing both his limitations and strengths. Cleveland lacked the charisma of a popular orator and his writing style carried the heaviness of legal jargon. Despite this, he coined phrases that remain in political.....
New York: Viking, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Peter C. Newman's series on The Canadian Establishment has made publishing history, its two previous volumes having sold more than half a million copies. In this new book, Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. 'Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read.' [Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea] In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in.....
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Will Rogers (1879-1935), was an American entertainer, radio personality, film actor, and writer who was famous for his pithy and homespun humor and social commentary. A popular raconteur touched Americans with his humor, newspaper columns.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. O'Brien's collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. Considered one of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature.
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Brainard Cheney published in Shenandoah a positive review of Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood. After receiving a copy of the review, O’Connor asked after Cheney and reached out to him. Thus began a......
New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
New York: Ecco, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. William Dana Orcutt, printer, author and type designer, narrates his quest for the perfect book as a vehicle for the expression of truth, the true objective of a humanist.The history of book.....
New York: St Martins Press, 1996. First Edition, Second Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. An impressionistic portrait of a woman revered and reviled in Argentina, just in time for the scheduled December release of the Madonna film Evita. Eva Peron became an icon during her 1945-52 reign.....
Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1983. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. King Edward III's fifty-year reign during the 14th century saw the transformation of England from a fractured land into a cohesive nation. Despite spectacular military victories like Sluys, Crécy, and Poitiers, and the founding of the Order of the Garter, it.....
New York: Random House, [1939]. Illustrated by Bellamy Partridge. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A 1900 graduate of Hobart College, Edward Bellamy Partridge went on to study law, and for about a decade practiced law with his father, Civil War veteran and country lawyer Samuel Selden Partridge, in the.....
USA: Villard Books/Random House, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The complete history of the Opry is given, from the early days of Roy Acuff and the Carter Family through Dolly Parton and Minnie Pearl to Garth Brooks and Reba McIntire, all illustrated.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1935. Later Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This autobiography of Robert E. Peary’s daughter, born in Greenland during one of his Arctic expeditions, the narrative for children describes life with the Eskimo [Inuit] delightfully showing the culture and daily life. The illustrations are from photographs.....
New York: W. R. C. Clark & Co., 1859. Second Printing. Christopher Houston Carson, known as "Kit Carson" (1809-1868), epitomized the spirit of the American frontier as a seasoned fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and Union Army general. Renowned in his lifetime through biographies and news articles, his adventures.....
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The U.S. government's space program is depicted as a corps shaped by an arrogant, ingrown elitism which discouraged racial diversity among its candidates regardless of their competencies. For the first 17 years of manned space flight, America's.....
New York: Fromm Intl, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Masterspy Kim Philby's secret life is a saga more compelling than any spy fiction. Recruited by the Soviet KGB while at Cambridge in the 1930s, he infiltrated the British Secret Intelligence Service, eventually rising to head its.....
New York: Franklin Watts, 1962. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The authors knew John Glenn and collaborated to write this biography of this extraordinary man and his historic flight.
Privately Printed, 1946. Limited Edition. Cloth with paste-on title. George Plimpton's first book. Uncommon, there are no records of how many were printed.The book consists of letters to his parents from his time in basic training to his deployment in Italy in 1946. His parents had the letters printed, perhaps.....