Search Results: Biography from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

St. Ingbert: Röhrig UniversitätsVerlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. 3-86110-128-9 . Light pink wraps with French fold flaps, covers illustrated with wrap-around grouping of photographs, illustrated with photographs, text in German. ; 6-3/4" x 9-1/2"; 407 pp; Covers lightly soiled and creased at corners, pages clean and unmarked, some are slightly creased at upper right. .

London: Henry G. Bohn. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1846. Hardcover. New Edition, with numerous additions and notes, by The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P. to which are added, Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana, by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and Others. An notes by various hands. Also, upwards of Fifty Engraved Illustrations. Volumes are uniformly bound with blue leather spines and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, spines with elaborate gilt decorations and five raised bands, two brown leather spine labels with gilt lettering,top edge gilt, the aforementioned illustrations on plates, each volume separately paginated (300+ pp per volume). Heavy, extra for international postage. ; 4-1/2" x 6-3/4"; A well-preserved set. Volumes show light rubbing along edges and at top/bottom of spine, Volumes III and IV are a bit worn at spine top with tiny losses. Hinges remain solid. No inscription s. The paper for the… Read More

New York: Pageant Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth, brown lettering to spine. Cream dust wrapper illustrated with portrait of Goldsmith. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 86 pp; The author's "first serious, full length biography" (jacket rear flap). Uncommon, especially in dust jacket. ; Little wear to book. Jacket edgeworn with closed tears but minimal losses, several spots of brown staining, not price clipped ($2.50), in clear protective cover. .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Good with no dust jacket. (2001). Third Printing. Hardcover. 0-7432-1122-7 . Red cloth boards, white cloth spine lettered in silver, frontispiece photograph of author, additional b&w illustrations. White and red illustrated dust jacket. This title bound with the half-title page following the Contents; this copy with the inked signature of the author thereon, uncommon thus.; 5-3/4" x 8-3/4"; 351 pp; Signed by Author; Ex-library (withdrawn from Oakland Public Library), with several markings on front free endpaper and three labels affixed to dust jacket. Book has wear at corners, vintage clear jacket cover is taped to the book boards. Spine is cocked, book has dampstain seen only on top edge of pages and rippling across the top 1/3 of pages, text unmarked apart from the author's signature. Jacket lightly edgeworn under the vintage library cover. .