Category: American Biography

Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern a Southern Jewish Woman. Edited and with essays by her grandson, Marcus D. Rosenbaum.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., (1998). First Edition.

Seller ID: 3243qsl

Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), xvii + 222 pp. Fine. From lower cover: A sizzling portrait of a Southern Jewish woman: self-educated, nurtured on novels, poetry, and the classics, caught in a lifelong struggle between duty and desire. For forty years, Helen Jacobus Apte wrote in her diary from every compass point of the heart. Her rich inner life glistens through her grandson's deft and subtle editing.
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Reminiscences: Fifty Years a Lawyer, and Appendix, Containing a List of the Officers and Members, and a Copy of the By-Laws of Phoebe Humphrey Chapter, Daughers of the American Revolution, of Collinsville, Connecticut.

By: Barbour, Sylvester.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hartford: Hartford Press / The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1908.

Seller ID: m1950

1st edition. Octavo, blue cloth, vi, 166 pp. Photos, portraits. Former-owner signatures; otherwise Near-Fine.
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The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath.

By: Bernanke, Ben S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 60813bd

Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 610 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be little time to celebrate. The bursting of a houseing bubble in 2007 expsed the hidden vulnerabilites of the global financial system, bringing it to the brink of meltdown. From the implosion of the investment bank Bear Stearns...
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The Life of John Marshall. Volume I: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker 1755-1788; Volume II: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman 1789-1801; Volume III: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815; Volume IV: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835. [Four volumes].

By: Beveridge, Albert J.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1919.

Seller ID: 2074gls

Four volumes. Octavo, ribbed green cloth (hardcover), uncut, xxvi, 506 pp + xviii, 593 pp + xxii, 644 pp + xviii, 668 pp. Color frontispieces, b&w plates. Near-Fine, mostly unopened, in chipped and spine-darkened dust jackets.
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Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion.

By: Brinkley, David.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition.

Seller ID: vita5524

Bearing a bookplate signed by the author. Octavo, cloth & boards, [xii], [176] pp. Near-Fine, former owner signature, in dust jacket.
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The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal.

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Cowles Book Company, [1970]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70313s

Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), 218 pp. Photos. Former-owner inscription; otherwise, Near-Fine in a chipped dust jacket.
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L'ABC de l'Argent. Traduit de l'anglais par Arthur Maillet.

By: Carnegie, Andrew.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Paris: Ernest Flammarion, n.d. [ca. 1904].

Seller ID: 51617bd

Octavo, quarter brown morocco & marbled boards (hardcover, leather), gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g., uncut, [iv], [1]-379, [iv] pp. French translation of Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth. Very Good; cover lightly scuffed, pages beginning to tone.
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Henry Adams and His Friends: A Collection of His Unpublished Letters. Compiled, with a Biographical Introduction, by Harold Dean Cater.

By: Cater, Harold Dean.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1947.

Seller ID: 4716s

First Edition. Octavo, green cloth, brown labels, gilt letters, 797 pp. Very Good+ in a chipped dust jacket. ÔThis new collection of Henry Adams letters throws fresh light on the man. Here is the well-known Adams brusqueness and eccentricity, and here also is his litt-known warmth and tenderness. This is the most complete picture yet presented of Henry Adams. He emerges as a scholar, teacher, writer, and warm-hearted dilettante. There are about 650 letters in this collection, written to a hundred different people, and they date from 1858 to 1918...An important introduction brings out ma...
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space. [Signed by Eugene Cernan].

By: Cernan, Eugene and Don Davis.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, (1999). First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 9726gcs

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 356 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American space program from one of its pioneers... Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of space flight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to the moment when he left man's last footprint on the Moon as commander of Apollo 17. Between those two historic events lay more a...
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John Tileston's School. Boston, 1778-1789: 1761-1766. Also, his Diary from 1761 to 1766.

By: Colesworthy, D. C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston: Antiquarian Book Store, 1887. First Edition.

Seller ID: 2130gls

12mo, brown cloth (hardcover), marbled endpapers, gilt letters, 80 pp. Near-Fine.
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Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander.

By: Dykeman, Wilma and James Stokely.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York: The Norton Library, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1962.

Seller ID: 05180scs

Octavo, softbound, xvi, 343 pp. Very Good+, with remainder mark (black inked mark to the lower edge of pages). Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a national legend, for he was one of the greatest white champions of the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who worked his way through Vanderbilt University and became a Methodist minister, he was a tireless enemy of the abuses, large and petty, which he saw around him. In 1919 Will Alexander helped establish the Commission on Interracial Co-operation in Atlanta...
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John and William Bartram, Botanists and Explorers: 1699 - 1777, 1739 - 1823.

By: Earnest, Ernest.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Preses, 1940. First Edition.

Seller ID: 9078gcs

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 187 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges; in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jackeT: The second volume of Pennsylvania Lives is in the field of science, dealing with the Bartrams, father and son, early American botanists. These two quiet but energetic and talented Quakers were among the first to make systematic studies of the flora and other naturalistic elements of America, gaining through their studies and writings a truly distinguished international reputation. John Bartram, with only a meager education...
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William Bartram: Interpreter of the American Landscape.

By: Fagin, N. Bryllion.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1933). First Edition.

Seller ID: 51600bd

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, ix, 229 pp. Very Good, with neat former-owner signature and date to title, bookplate to ffep; In a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From Preface: In 1791 William Bartram, a Philadelphia botanist, published an account of his Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws; Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions...
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers.

By: Fleming, Thomas.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Smithsonian Books, 2007.

Seller ID: vas761

Octavo, charcoal boards (hardcover), silver letters, 456 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming examines the women who were at the center of the lives of the founding fathers. From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers' mothers powerfully shaped their sons' visions of domestic life. But lovers and wives played more critical roles as friends and often partners in fame. We learn of the uyouthful Washington's tortured love for the coquettish Sarah Fairf...
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Quest for Survival.

By: Fletcher, Charles J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Glenbridge Publishing Ltd., (2002). First Edition.

Seller ID: 335468qs

Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xv, 254 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: He came out of America's ÒGreatest Generation,Ó those born in the 1920s, survived the Great Depression of the Ô30s, and fought in the world's last big war. This is the story of Charles J. Fletcher, born and raised in a rural mining town in Sussex County, New Jersey, and who went on to make history in the world of aviation. Inducted into the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, Charles Fletcher's important contrib...
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Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes.

By: Franch, John.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (2006).

Seller ID: 9710gcs

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 374 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Standing alongside J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837 - 1905) was one of the most colorful and controversial public figures in Gilded-Age America. Robber Baron is the first biography of the streetcar magnate who was the mastermind behind Chicago's Loop Elevated and the London Underground, bankroller of the world's largest refracting telescope, and real-life inspiration for Frank Cowperwood, the ruthless protagonist of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy ...
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The Obstacle Race: The Story of Ray Hugh Garvey. [Signed by Olive White Garvey].

By: Garvey, Olive White with Virgil Quinlisk.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1970. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas5380

Signed by the Author. Octavo, brown textured boards (hardcover), ix, 233 pp. Near Fine, with foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: All realist when assessing a situation -- a man of vision when it came to plotting his course of action. This was Ray Hugh Garvey, liberal arts student at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, switching to law for a tuition advantage -- changing from legal work in Colby to real estate in Thomas County because sales were more profitable than drawing up the papers -- making land work for him by...
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Preachin' Every Fourth Sunday.

By: Henderson, Eloise Cozens.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbus, GA: Quill Publications, [1987].

Seller ID: 70553s

Signed by the Author. 12mo, softbound (yellow illus. wrappers), vi, 155 pp. Very Good+, with light wear to spine, former-owner signature. Illustrated. ÒPreachin' Every Fourth Sunday is a partial autobiography of the author -- in particular, her early life as an orphaned child who had an overwhelming love for her older sister, from whom she was constantly being separated. Interwoven with the story of childhood antics is a touching concern for her sister's happiness -- the motivation of her efforts to persuade her sister to accept the new parents as she did...Ó
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Asafetida: That Was My Bag.

By: Hobrock, Peg Masters.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Dorrace & Company, [1973].

Seller ID: 70438s

Octavo, olive green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 44 pp. Fine, in like dust jacket. ÒHere is a collection of warmly nostalgic, often witty descriptions of a bygone era at the beginning of the century, before the advent of automobiles, electrical appliances, and pollution...There is real insight into the innocence and wisdom of the era, conveyed through subjects as diverse as...chicken, telephones, women's lib, and the movies. The author's tone is wonderfully wry, and vibrates with a zest and appreciation for even the commonplace which makes living worth the trip.Ó
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Tio Doroy's Field. Edited by Dottie Anderson and Chris Lee Gammon.

By: Hower, Prima Guipo.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tampa, FL: Prima Publishing Company, 2005. First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: vas618

Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), [410] pp. Fine. From lower cover: Prima Hower invites the reader to meet four generations of her family as she chronicles their lives, aspirations, and endeavors in the Philippines and in America. Of particular interest is the harrowing experience of the family during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Entertaining, educational and amusing, this book is wonderful and dlightful...
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Category: American Biography