Mark Twain His Life and Work a Biographical Sketch by Clemens, Will M - 1892

Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1927. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with advertisements printed on both covers. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with large fold out map. Containing names, occupations and addresses. Business Directory, House directory on blue pages. Street directory and miscellaneous information. Advertisements printed on orange pages. New Hampshire, New England ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .

New York: The Dryden Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows light wear, minor bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and flap folds, DJ spine lightly sunfaded. ; The author was a British-born film critic, best known in the U. S. For his political activities and as the co-founder of The National Guardian, a radical weekly newspaper. Belfrage belonged to the American Communist Party for a short period of time in 1937. The subject of the biography, Claude Williams, was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, who is better known for his political and labor activism. He took his understanding of the Social Gospel to an activist level beyond what most clergy do. His involvement in politics and labor led to his dismissal as an ordained clergyman in the 1950's, about the time he was called before the House Un-american Acitivities Committee. It was not his first accusation of being a communist. His ordination was reinstated before… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Spine lettering rubbed off/spine cloth soiled. Corners bumped/rubbed with fabric just beginning to separate at tips. Spine ends gently bumped. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. States First Edition. Small stain on side text edge bled onto margins of first 20 text pages, by about an eighth inch semi circle. ; 8.75 X 6 X 1.75 inches .

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).

Joseph Cullen Root was an outspoken proponent of fraternalism and of what good fraternalism could accomplish toward the promotion of human welfare. This hard to find First Edition is in very good condition with a partial original dustjacket. Inside the front cover is a name stamp from a member of the Omaha Woodmen.

Boston, Mass.: Sampson & Murdock Co.. Very Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Frontispiece, a large fold out map. Pink, blue and white pages. Business, house, street directory and miscellaneous information. Manchester, New Hampshire ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 900 pages .

New York: The Dryden Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows light wear, minor bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and flap folds, DJ spine lightly sunfaded. ; The author was a British-born film critic, best known in the U. S. For his political activities and as the co-founder of The National Guardian, a radical weekly newspaper. Belfrage belonged to the American Communist Party for a short period of time in 1937. The subject of the biography, Claude Williams, was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, who is better known for his political and labor activism. He took his understanding of the Social Gospel to an activist level beyond what most clergy do. His involvement in politics and labor led to his dismissal as an ordained clergyman in the 1950's, about the time he was called before the House Un-american Acitivities Committee. It was not his first accusation of being a communist. His ordination was reinstated before… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Spine lettering rubbed off/spine cloth soiled. Corners bumped/rubbed with fabric just beginning to separate at tips. Spine ends gently bumped. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. States First Edition. Small stain on side text edge bled onto margins of first 20 text pages, by about an eighth inch semi circle. ; 8.75 X 6 X 1.75 inches .

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

Blackie and Son, 1874-1875, in six half volumes.. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated by numerous authentic portraits on steel. These six half volumes, issued as a part work over 2 years, could then be rebound by the purchaser into 3 full volumes if so desired. These half volumes have their own title pages, but volumes 1, 3 & 5 also have engraved titles for full volumes 1, 2, and 3. Half volume 6 contains printed titles for full volumes 1, 2, and 3, as well as contents pages and lists of plates. 71 of 72 steel engravings. That of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo missing and never bound in. lPerhaps the publisher had run out of copies of the plate of Sir William Forbes. Top & tail of spine of vol 6 slightly frayed. First 3 pages of vol 3 a little foxed. A very clean, crisp set