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[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.
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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?
Wladyslaw Bukowinski Folded Biography in Polish with portrait front
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.....
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Rose O'Neill [Kewpies]
Branson, Missouri: Self Published, 1968. Illustrated Stapled Wraps. Rose Cecil O'Neill was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published female cartoonist in the United States.
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A Nature Diary [Isle of Man]
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......
Born Free: A Lioness of the Two Worlds.
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.
Forever Free. The Final Volume of the Most Beloved Animal Story of Our Time
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.
Living Free. 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.....
Alaskan Voyage 1881-1883: Johan Adrian Jacobsen. An Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America
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......
The Florida Life of Thomas Edison
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.....
Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)
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.....
John F. Kennedy and the Young People of America. Compiled and Edited from the Thousands of Letters Written to the President and Mrs. Kennedy.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Ladies of the Reformation
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.
Only One Year
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover.
The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit [African-American folk art]
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.
Bellow
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......
The Lives of The Poets Laureate. With an Introductory Essay on The Title and Office.
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.....
Illustrated Biography of Salvador Dalí
Spain: Dosde, 2018. The Spanish painter Salvador Dali remains one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. Over the last few decades, Salvador Dali has gradually come to be seen, alongside the likes of Picasso and Matisse, as a prodigious figure whose life and work occupies.....
The Life and Letters of John Muir
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.....
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Carlos Baker's classic portrayal brings into sharp focus one of the titans of twentieth-century American literature, a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend. Baker draws not only on Hemingway's diaries, letters, and unpublished writings, but.....
Drifting the River Growing up Wild in the South
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.....
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes
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."
Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine
U.S.A. Boydell Press, 1996. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
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The Life, Time and Works of Victor Hugo [Two Volumes, Complete] [Biography]
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1902. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition. Half Leather. Alfred Barbou was himself a famous writer at that time as well as an intimate friend of Victor Hugo. This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages.....
Outram Bangs
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.....
Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans
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.....