[Four] Shirley Temple Movie Books
Saalfield Company: Akron, Ohio, 1936. Soft cover. 'Twinkletoes' No. 1730-E; 'On the Movie Lot' No. Cover and some photos crayon-colored; 'Little Playmate' No. 1730-A; In Starring Roles No. 1730-B.
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?
Saalfield Company: Akron, Ohio, 1936. Soft cover. 'Twinkletoes' No. 1730-E; 'On the Movie Lot' No. Cover and some photos crayon-colored; 'Little Playmate' No. 1730-A; In Starring Roles No. 1730-B.
Folded Paper. Wladyslaw Bukowinski (1904 - 1974) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who served in the diocese of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. During World War II in Poland he became renowned among his parishioners for his calmness and his intelligence. He made an effort to meet the conflict with the.....
New York: Viking, 1985. Illustrations by John Lawrence. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. This charming diary will appeal to bird watchers, gardeners, walkers and anyone else who enjoys nature. Lawrence's drawings are exquisite.For a full year, Richard Adams (Watership Down) kept a......
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover Hardcover. The author captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people, the animals, the land itself.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The moving and dramatic climax to the story of Elsa and her cubs.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. First Edition with code b.10.61. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several.....
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 - 1947) was a Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer. He is mainly known as a collector of ethnographical objects, and a recruiter of indigenous peoples for the ethnographical shows for a......
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Michele Albion explores an important facet of Edison's life that is largely unknown. In doing so, she presents the full story of his professional and leisure time while on holiday. Particularly interesting.....
New York: Doubleday, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. An intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often-surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with.....
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
England: Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Short Biographies of distinguished ladies of the 16th century.
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover.
Atlanta, Georgia: Ellis Lane Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race.
USA: PublicAffairs, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
New York: Random House USA Inc, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Background Information:'James Atlas is a model biographer. He writes with the conversational ease of a born storyteller, giving us both a richly informed history of one of America's most original and gifted writers and a......
London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Biographical sketches of the authors and their chief works: Ben Johnson; Sir William Davenant; John Dryden; Thomas Shadwell; Nahum Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Rev. Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Rev. Thomas Warton; Henry James Pye; Robert Southey; and.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Badé was commissioned in 1915 as literary executor of Muir's estate, and he immediately began to collect Muir letters of copies of letters, accumulating nearly two thousand in all. Muir was a prolific letter-writer.According to his daughter, his.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. An investigative history that reads like a novel, this story recounts a courtroom drama involving a slave owner and his slave, who may or may not have been the daughter of a German immigrant. Bailey, a......
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Old Fort, NC: Wolfhound Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. In this collection of tales, tied together with the filament of his life, Mart Baldwin hooks us with rollicking fishing and hunting adventures from the Outer Banks in North Carolina to the Coosa River in Alabama.....
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. The author is a creator of pop-up books. This is in the theme with decorated envelopes, illustrated letters, postcards, and very creative artwork. "Impossible to stop until the book's end."
U.S.A. Boydell Press, 1996. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Cambridge, Mass: Privately printed; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1932. Limited Edition. A Very Good Soft cover. Outram Bangs (1863-1932) was an American zoologist, curator of Mammals at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1900. He gained an international reputation in ornithology. He is responsible for making Harvard's.....
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Louis XIV's younger brother Philippe (1640-1701) is usually portrayed as a court buffoon, one who took delight in displaying his male lovers and suffering public humiliation. Making judicious, undogmatic, and expert use of some.....
USA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. A Fine Hardcover. Dancing around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968) and four of the most important American postwar artists: composer John Cage (1912-1992), choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009).....