BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General from Barbara Bilson Books

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1953. Near fine (minimal edgewear at top of spine, slightly dusty top page edges, clean & unmarked pages) in good only+ dust jacket (soiled and edgeworn with some closed tears, now protected in an archival plastic wrap). This is the first volume of what eventually proved to be a five-volume biography of James. 350 pages including index… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Very good (edgewear at top of spine) without dust jacket except for two clippings from the original jacket laid in (see scans). A valuable addition to the library of readers interested in Henry James. Nowell-Smith long studied James and collected material useful to understanding his long, productive life. Thus, he assumes here the role… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1964. Very good+ (light edgewear) in very good dust jacket (top edgewear, sunned spine). Signed and inscribed by the author to a friend. A loving tribute to the recently assassinated president, pretty much overlooking his faults and focusing on his personality, his "grace." A good quality in a President who represents us everywhere whether… Read more about this item

Seattle: Madrona Publishers, 1981. Fine in very good dust jacket (small tears on back panel, crease on front flap). Truman was the man who refused to leave his resort on the shoulder of Mt. St. Helens when the mountain was clearly ready to erupt. Written by his niece and illustrated by family photographs. 163 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus.… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1960. Very good+ (light soil on page edges, one bumped corner at spine) in VG+ edgeworn dust jacket. 456 pages including index. The author, Elizabeth Nowell, was Wolfe's literary agent and close friend who understood when Wolfe's novels and his own life separated. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran , 1933. Very good (wear at spine top and bottom; label on spine--pasted on as issued--is a bit chipped and sunned but intact; label on front cover is fine) without dust jacket. Interesting historically, representing the traditional treatment of Serra without appreciation of the indigenous cultures. Attractive book, 312 pages including index.. 1st Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

New York: Hastings House , 1950. Near fine in good only dust jacket with two 1-inch pieces missing and several closed tears. Edition not stated but apparently a first since no additional printings are listed. 360 pages including index. The book focuses on the Stevenson's courtship of the married Fanny, their marriage and adventures. A side of Robert Louis Stevenson… Read more about this item

New York: Taplinger, 1970. Near Fine (slight sunning at top of spine) in VG+ dust jacket (edgewear at spine). Intended by Wright to be published posthumously, the manuscript was "lost" and finally edited by his great granddaughter, Margaret P. Medlicott, whose name appears on the jacket and title page. Wright was a bookseller and publisher with an interesting… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1994. Near fine (slightly mottled top page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author. Not strictly history, of course, but a very personal memoir of Wolff's confused years in Vietnam as an "advisor" to the south Vietnamese army when he hardly knew what was happening. Brilliant and moving book.. Signed by Author. 1st… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1964. Near fine (some rough cut bottom page edges) in Very Good dust jacket (water-stained front flap and water-wrinkled front panel; edgeworn; now presentable in plastic protective cover). A biography of the judge who presided at the Salem witch trials, but showing his multifaceted career.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961. This is the true first edition. Memoir of treasure hunting expedition in Africa, with 8 pages of photos. Very good- (faintly sunned cover edges and spine bottom; foxed front pastedown and ffep; less so on rear pastedown) in fair dust jacket (price-clipped and edgeworn, spine chipped, foxed back panel and interior of… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's, 1981. Very good+ (sunned top cover edges, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket (price clipped). 24 pages of black and white photographs. Good biography of superstar. 224 pages including index. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993. Very good+ (two bumped corners, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket (very minor edgewear). Horgan writes of famous people he has known at significant moments in their lives: Frieda Lawrence, Greta Garbo, T.S. Eliot, Stravinsky, and others. 260 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. Very good (a few faint foxing spots on page edges, mainly the small section of glossy photos) in fine dust jacket. 400 pages including extensive notes and index. A close study of this most amazing American family at the center of the American Renaissance in Concord, Mass, the women's movement, and abolition. .… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1976. Near Fine (slight, barely visible water damage to cover; interior fine) in Near Fine dust jacket (the water damage to the covers has left some signs on the bottom 1/4th of the jacket interior, also barely visible; exterior fine; price-clipped). Biography of the Trappist monk and mystic. The appendix contains interesting extracts and commentary on… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners , 1967. Very good+ (very clean, unmarked interior) in heavily edgeworn dust jacket w/two tears (see scan). DJ now in Brodart archival cover to protect and to improve appearance. 1st edition: copyright page shows "A-ll.67[H]". 374 pages including index, 3-page chronology, chapter notes and sources.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.