Search Results: Biography from La Playa Books

Naval Institute Press, February 2017. Trade Paperback . Used - fine. A square, tight and unmarked copy.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1960. First. Hardcover . Used - very good/Fair. Sm 8vo; 421pp. First Edition stated. Inscribed on title page to Dan McKinnon, the author of 'Rescue Pilot', with his blindstamp on ffe. One sentence (with insignificant content) on p. 61 is underlined. A square, tight copy, in price-clipped dj with medium-sized chunks missing, but now protected in a removable mylar cover.

Lydia Inglett, 2014. Hardcover . Used - fine. 8vo. Limited edition, copy no. 200 of 500.

American Institute of Physics, May 1997. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. Inscribed to William Lanouette, author of Leo Szilard biography, 'Genius in the Shadows.' A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1850. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 12mo; 2 vol. set. Endpapers heavily foxed, text light to moderate. Each vol with owners name (different names but each dated 1850). Owner bookplate, vol 1. Front hinges hanging on by a single cord. vol 1, spine slanted a bit. Covers of vol 1 with very light rubbing and some tiny spots to front panel. Covers of vol 2 moderately rubbed, spine tips frayed and with short tears.

Lerner Pub Group, January 1990. Third Printing. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. Third Printing. INscribed by author on FFE. Fine in Fine dustjacket, protected in removable mylar.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. Hardcover . Used - very good. Appears to have been recased, with well-matched new endpages and retaining spine. Front cover bright, TEG.

Crown, May 2014. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. Inscribed to William Lanouette, author of Leo Szilard biography, 'Genius in the Shadows.' A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

Random House, 1996. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. c. 1996 A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1959. Second Printing. Hardcover . Used - very good/Near very good. Second printing. Inscribed by author on FFE. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket, unfortunately taped and with chips especially to tail of spine, now protected in removable mylar.

Winchester Press, January 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near fine. Second Printing. Inscribed to Willam Zaenglein, Jr. Unclipped dustjacket protected in removable mylar.

North Point Pr, January 1983. Trade Paperback . Used - fine. Inscribed. A square, tight and unmarked copy.

The Lewis Carrol Society of North America. Hardcover . Used - fine/No Jacket. A square, tight and unmarked book except for 'LCB 213' marked in neat pen on FFE.

Kessinger Publishing, February 2003. Trade Paperback . Used. A square, tight and unmarked copy.

London: John Lane, 1909. Limited. Hardcover . Used - near fine. Two volume set, Limited to 500 copies. Red buckram boards with title and illustration in bright gilt on front covers and spines. Deckled edges and top edge gilt. Pretty bookplate of Mary Emily Wortman on front endpapers. Illustration opposite title page of Volume 2 loose, but laid in. Books are square, tight and unmarked.

Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1836, 1842. Hardcover . Used - very good. Square 8vo. 1836 and 1842 editions re-bound into one volume. Prelims foxed. Otherwise, a square, tight copy with generous margins (very few notations faintly pencilled therein). Steel engraved frontis of 'MacKay,' with tissue guard, in 1836 edition. Bound in quarter leather over cloth (buckram-like), very serviceable and plain.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 8vo; 476pp. Front hinge endpaper split but binding remains tight and square. Owner name scribbled out, ffe. Plum-colored embossed pebbled boards with light rubbing, spine faded, yet gilt lettering still quite legible and mostly unaffected. The book is now protected in a removable mylar cover.

San Diego: Press of Frye and Smith, 1924. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 8vo; A square, tight copy with unmarked text. Foxing to prelims and edges. Laid in is a bookstore receipt from Joseph Tabler-Books, sold to the equally famous Wahrenbrocks Books, dated 5/18/76. Dark maroon cloth covers, moderately scuffed, although the gilt lettering is still bright.

John Biggins Fiction, September 2010. Trade Paperback . Used - fine/No Jacket. A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. As new.

Donald m Grant Pub Inc, January 1983. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near fine. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket with light wear to head of spine now protected in removable mylar.