Search Results: Biography from Lippincott Books

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Ex-Library. The Adams Papers, Series II. Volume 1: December 1791 - May 1776. lxvi, 424 pp. Volume 2 : June 1776 - March 1778, Index. xxiv, 490, [2] pp. Brown cloth, spine title gilt, illustrated. The usual library markings with numbers on spine and plates on pastedowns, still in Very Good condition. Foxing to endpapers and edges, a little thumb-soiling, very light edge wear. Multiple volumes: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening, 1886. Hardcover. Good+. xii, 660 pp. Red cloth stamped with black decoration, titles gilt. With appendices. Text is in GERMAN; with quellen, anmerkungen und beilagen. Water stain to lower corners not affecting text; corners rubbed; pencil markings on reverse of ffep; otherwise clean & tight. G+

New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xxxvi, 633, [3] pp. With appendix, bibliography, index. Printed paper-covered boards over black cloth, title stamped in silver. Color frontispiece, 40 b&w plates, 36 figures. Thumb-soiling, previous owner's small label on front paste-down, lightly toned. Dustjacket has edge wear, spine is sunned.

Ventnor NJ: Ventnor Publishers, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 176 pp. Presentation copy from one of the contributors. Essays on medicine, science, and various other subjects by descendants of the Gordons. Includes 16 b&w plates. Near Fine.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. Stated First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Marguerite de Angeli. [VIII], 258, [6] pp, with index. Red cloth, spine title gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and b&w and color plates from her books. Price-intact dustjacket has a touch of wear at corners and spine edges. Signed by de Angeli on title page; with a Centennial Celebration of De Angeli brochure with color cover illustration laid in.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Wilson. Frontispiece photo of Cameron, who wandered the brothels and opium dens of San Francisco's Chinatown to rescue young Chinese girls from trafficking. Includes a chapter on War on the Tongs. With photographs. VG

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Volumes 1- 3 with corrections from the 1963 edition. Volumes 4 - 5 are first editions. This is the first comprehensive edition of Swift's correspondence since the Ball edition of 1910-1914, adding a number of letters not found in Ball and reproducing the spelling and punctuation of the original letters where available. Volume I: 1690-1713; Volume II: 1714-1723; Volume III: 1724-1731; Volume IV: 1732-1736 ; Volume V: 1737-1745. With plates. Appendices and indices for the complete works in Volume V. All volumes Very Good or better. The dust jacket of volume I has a piece out of 1/3 of spine, the dust jackets of Vol. II-V are VG or near VG. Oversize/multiple books: all orders will require additional postage - at cost. International customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the books will ship to overseas destinations at cost.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 759 pp. Includes general bibliography and index. Dustjacket missing a 1" diagonal piece of lower front corner, otherwise very good. Oversize book: overseas and Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1092 pp. Includes general bibliography and index. With two page publisher's letter and a copy of a 1982 review from the Globe and Mail laid in. Oversize book: overseas and Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1295 pp. Includes general bibliography and nominal index. Dustjacket has one mug shaped stain and a torn corner. Oversize book: overseas and Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 782 pp. Includes general bibliography and index. Dustjacket missing a 1/2" piece from back panel, otherwise very good. Oversize book: overseas and Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale / Cengage Learning, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 557 pp. Biographical sketches of 80 writers who began writing after 1945, or whose most significant work was done after that date. Each entry has a complete (through 1978) bibliography. Corners bumped, and spine slightly slanted.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 755 pp. Includes general bibliography and index. Oversize book: overseas and Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Manchester, N.H.: John B. Clarke, Printer, 1885. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 147 pp. With 2 steel engravings of Emma Smyth and her Husband Frederick who was Governor of New Hampshire. Brown cloth with bright gold stamping shows slight wear. Several small holes in ffep. Very Good

New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii, 338 pp. Includes notes and index. Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Spine edges and corner tips slightly rubbed, else near fine.

Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 280 pp with indices. Red cloth, bookplate on ffep. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

London & New York: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1960. Eighth Annual Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1566 pp. Some advertising and Specimen Questionaire which would be the basis for inclusion in the Ninth (1961) edition. Includes addendum and indices. Oversize book: overseas and Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

New York: Anglo-American Publishing, 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. [vi], 154, [20] pp. Tan cloth stamped in black. top edges gilt, frontispiece. Includes 20 pages of ads and newspaper accounts about Wardner. Bookplate and previous owner's name on front pastedown, one leaf loose with tape stains on that and adjacent leaf, pencil notes on rfep.

Cleveland, Tennnessee: Pathway Press Inc, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 224 pp. Maroon cloth, titles and cover decoration gilt. Bibliographies, indices, b&w photo, errata slip tipped-in. Dustjacket very lightly sunned with a little edge wear. PRESENTATION COPY. "Dr. Marin will not be forgotten as a doctor, a naval officer, a diplomat, or as an important officer of the OAS, but it is quite possible that as a man of letters [poetry, fiction, medical essays, philosophy, travel-civilization] he will be remembered even longer.

New York,: Macmillan Company, 1943. Stated First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 359 pp. 'Kansas Irish' is the first in Driscoll's trilogy of the immigrant experience: homesteading and growing up on a farm in Kansas. Discoloration along gutters of spine mar an otherwise near fine copy. Dust jacket spine faded, with frayed edges, inside front flap corners clipped but publisher's price of $2.50 remains.