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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.
BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR
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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The Life of Thomas More [16th Century England]
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Thomas More was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a genre and a worldview (Utopia), and, most famously, a Catholic martyr, who paid with his.....
A Nature Diary
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.
Forever Free. The Final Volume of the Most Beloved Animal Story of Our Time
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine 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. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
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. Very Good in a Very Good 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.
Please Be With Me: a Song for My Father, Duane Allman
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A deeply personal, revealing, and lyrical portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter.Duane Allman, who would become one of the most influential and sought-after musicians of his time.....
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. Fine Hardcover in a Fine 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.
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
USA: PublicAffairs, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
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.....
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.....
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans
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......
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. “Baird thoroughly and engagingly strives to restore a truer perspective of both woman and sovereign in her fine work, Victoria: The Queen. . . . Baird’s biography successfully presents the queen in all of her roles, some of which were contradictory, to.....
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Drifting the River Growing up Wild in the South
Old Fort, NC: Wolfhound Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
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."