Search Results: Biography from 100 POCKETS

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1926. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/As New. Vintage 1926 First Edition. Embossed maroon linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Gilt upper text edge; frontispiece, photo portrait; decorated endpapers. Illustrated text with fold-out map (also, As New) of places one might visit on a trip around the world with Kipling. Last volume of The Mandalay Edition of the Works of India-born, English novelist & poet,and Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936). The 5 essays & authors are: 1, Kipling at Home (Irvin S. Cobb); 2, Rudyard Kipling: A Biographical Sketch (Anice Page Cooper); 3, Rudyard Kipling's Place in Literature (Richard Le Galliene); 4, Rudyard Kipling (William Lyon Phelps); and, 5, Rudyard Kipling as a Frenchman Sees Him (Andre Chevrillon). Followed by Index to Kipling's works.

Collins/Harry Abrams, 1954. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/Near New. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Monograph. Life and works of Itaian painter Sandro (born Alessandro di Mariano Filipei)Botticelli (1444/5 - 1510) whose work had significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites. 30 pages in full color (6 of which are produced across two and three pages) and 22 b/w illustrations. Strong copy.

London, UK: Vintage Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/Near New w/(1) folded corner. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips & faint creasing lower front corner, with faint echoes corresponding text corners. PO name to front cover Verso. Biography of gifted English novelist and travel writer Charles Bruce Chatwin (1940 - 1989), author of Patagonia (1977). Bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain to have succumbed to AIDS.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. BRAND NEW COPY w/remainder mark & trace spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. 2000, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/New. Memoir & biography. Tales in the lives of journalist, NY Times Editor (a human) Christopher S. Wren and Henrietta (a cat). Wren, retired after near 29 years, having headed Times news bureaus in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa & Johannesburg. One X'mas, a kitten, a New York City stray, arrives at his doorstep with a bottle of Scotch --- for 17 years Henrietta travels with Wren and family. Her adventures include being lost for weeks on Cairo streets for weeks, a checkup by China's People's Liberation Party, and, interrupting a formal dinner to present the guest of honor, Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, with an offering of a mouse. Captivating tales of man and cat.

New York, NY: Skira, 1956. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Off-white linen boards w/red embossed lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; w/loss & closed tears to upper front & water spill marks to back. Monograph. The life and works of Russian-born French artist Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985). Illustrated with tipped in color plates.A chronology precedes 6 chapters: 1, The Background 1907 - 1910; 2, The Shock of Paris 1910 - 1914; 3, The Return to Russia 1914 - 1922; 4, Hopes and Fears 1922 - 1938; 5, Face to Face with Tragedy 1938 - 1947; and, 6, Autonomy of Color and Touch 1947 - 1956. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.

R.B. Pamplin Corp, 1993. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Text/NEW & Collectible. 1993 First Edition. First Thus. Boards/Fine. DJ/Fine, A memoir, a family history, a romance reaching far back in time to the Crusades, to the founding of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, today, one of the world's largest manufacturers & distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products, and related chemicals. Text in 3 parts:I, Pamplin Family History; II, Robert B. Pampin, Senior; and, III, Robert B. Pamplin, Junior. Foreword by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. Collectible - Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace edge wear. A 3-generation family biography, a memoir, a social history of modern Chinese immigration woven from memories, letters and old photographs, and narrated by a Canadian-born granddaughter. The family saga begins with poverty stricken peasant Chan Sam's immigration to Canada in 1913, two years after the collapse of the Ch'ing Dynasty. He sends for a young concubine whose labours help maintain the two households separated the oceans. An ultimate family reunion takes place some sixty years later following the intervention of the Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and ensuring civil war leading up to Communist control of the China mainland.

New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower left front by spine. Biography of Irish Australian journalist, social worker and lifelong friend of Australian aboriginies Daisy May Bates (née Dwyer), (1859 - 1951). Known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' (grandmother), her life was the basis for the Margaret Sutherland opera The Young Kabbarli.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1974. BOMC/Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Red boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/rubs to leading edges. PO name on front cover verso. Court intrigue of 18th century Russia. Historical narrative of the powerful Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great and whose peasant lover became "Emperor of the Night", and her "successor of choice", the German Princess Sophie of Anzalt who reigns supreme as Catherine the Great. Fine copy.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed maroon linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped (likely by publisher); light edge wear w/rubs to back leading edge & fine abrasion (sensed by the hand) to back surface. Trace smudge to fEP. First published in Spanish under the title: Frida: El Pincel de Angustía; this is both a translation and an abridgement of the original text. An initimate biography of talented Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1910-1954), illustrated with historical photographs and 75 reproductions of Kahlo's works.

Ringwood, Australia: Penguin, 1988. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner. Remainder mark to lower text edge. Biography of New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield, pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888 - 1923). A life through notes, poems, letters and stories, photographs linked by commentary. Fine copy.

New York, NY: William Morrow, 1977. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF; rubs, short closed tears to edges. light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text edge. Biography of the very colorful and legendary American journalist, author and dramatist Gene Fowler (1890 - 1960).

New York, NY: Lyons Press, 1988. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/short, closed tear to upper edge of first title page. First published 1956; this is a 1988 paperback re-issue. Polish army officer Slavomir Rawicz (1915 - 2004), imprisoned by the Soviets in a Siberian Gulag (Soviet prisons & labour camps) from the 1920's to the mid-1950s housing millions). 1941, he & 6 others escaped, trekked some 4000 miles south, through the Gobi Desert, Tibet & the Himalayas to reach British India in the winter of 1942. Outstanding chronicle, written w/Ronald Downing; a historical record, w/the Introduction to the Polish edition, and, a new Afterword by Rawicz.

Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed dark brown linen covers w/gilt to upper text block/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. First published 1929; this a 1994 reprint. Autobiography & memoir of silent films times by cowboy star, screenwriter, director & producer William Surrey Hart (1864 - 1946). A star in the film industry --- Hart's boyhood years (the 1870s & 1880s), besides affording tutoring in frontier values & the life of cowboys, also allowed him intimate contact with life & culture of Sioux Indians. Memoir of a film star of when we recognized the era of American Frontier culture & the early days of cinema. Essays include beginnings of United Artists, and honor of Will Rogers. 417 pgs w/archival photos in 20 chapters, followed by Epilogue.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. F. Strobel (Illustrator). Text/NEAR NEW w/short yellow marker strike to fEP. Red linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/light edge rubs & showing fading. DJ/None. Biography of prolific author, humorist & columnist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876 - 1944) who authored some 60 books & 300 short stories. This retrospective is penned by daughter Elisabeth Cobb (1902 - 1956), an author & screenwriter in her own right. A collection of memories related w/the same high humor that marked her father's writings. Exit Laughing (1941) is Irvin Cobb's autobiography ... volumes affording comparison of father & daughter perspectives?

New York, NY: Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Text/NEW & Bright. 1998, Stated First Edition, First Thus; later re-published 2011 by the Univ of Alaska Pres. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Memoir of Julia Scully's (1929-2023) childhood in the barren town of Nome, life experiences in an Alaskan orphanage around 1940. Array of central figures are Julia's mother, Rose; her father, whose suicide was discovered by his two daughters (when author Julia Scully was but seven years old) --- extraordinarily distinguished being recollections of one so young --- a liquor shop owner named Hessel Green; a ''bad'' woman named Norma; her mother's roadhouse where miners drank & played cards --- all portrayed against the unadorned background of Scully's memory. In the early 1970's, while an editor at Modern Photography, Scully was among the first to recognize & admire the photography of Mike Disfarmer (-1929), who ran a… Read More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Text/As New Vintage 1952 First Edition, 3rd Printing. Bi-color boards/VG; strong w/corner tip rubs. DJ/Poor; intact w/losses to edges, closed tears, and re-attached front inner flap. Discoloration to upper, dyed text block. PO stamp to fEP & rear cover verso. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned subsequently. LAID-IN: Undated newspaper clipping on Berenson. Diary of historian of Italian Renaissance art Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959), known to intimate friends as "BB." Reflections, for the greater part, of in retreat from Nazi gang rage, all the while reading Italian & German dailies & in tune to radio news from France & England. Records, published 60 years after written, of four fateful years from Jan 1st, 1941 to Nov 12th, 1944 while in retreat. Strong copy w/poor dustjacket.

New York, NY: World Publishing, 1971. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hard Cover/Slipcase. Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/None As Issued. Black slipcase/NF w/corner tip rubs & light soiling. Biography of English poet, writer, critic, editor & founder of The English Review (1908) Ford Madox Ford (1898 - 1939), best known for his novel The Good Soldier (1915). Influential in the development of early 20th-century English literature, Ford was with the War Propaganda Bureau before seeing active duty in France with the Welsh Regiment in World War I. Of his some 70 published works, dozens were novels, two of which were written in collaboration with Joseph Conrad (The Inheritors, 1901, and Romance, 1903. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1983. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Text/BRAND NEW. 1983, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Embossed dark-wine linen boards/Fine. DJ/Good; Strong & sound w/closed tears, rubs, losses to edges & rubs to surfaces. Autobiography & Memoir. Award winning novelist, essayist & photographer, Wright Marion Morris (1910 - 1998) recounts his year's solo sojournment in Europe during 1933 - 1934. A rich experience of a young, romantic Morris harvests a rich in experience.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed beiige boards/Fine. DJ/NF; showing light edge wear & faint discoloration; under mylar. Blue endpapers w/faint erasure shadow to upper front corner of fEP. Biography of American mountaineer and US Airforce jet pilot John Elvis Harlin, II (1935 - 1966). Conqueror of mountains, it was the soaring north face of Eigar in the Bernese Alps that he revisited again and again until rope gave ... his spirit lives on through his son John Harlin III, whose has conquered Eigar.