Search Results: Biography from McCormick Books

Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original navy cloth boards with gilt lettering rubbing to points, gift inscription on front endpapers. Very faint 1" blemish lower front panel corner of Volume II else corners straight and tight, a handsome two volume set. Volume I (607 pp.) with frontis of Lincoln plus map and seven additional photographs, Volume II (739 pp.) with frontis of Stephen Douglas plus eight illustrations.; MCN32318; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

Private Printing. Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Memoirs with numerous photocopied family photographs. ; MCN15601; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 237 pp .

Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Memoirs of the children and family of Fred and Catherine Koenig of Kansas City. Signed by several of the children, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Scarce.; MCN15050; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pp .

Pridemark Press. Very Good+. 1982. 1st Edition. Softcover. A few loose pages but a clean and complete copy. Memoir and informal family history of the Herr and Garber families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Illustrated with family photographs, genealogy chart at rear. Allied surnames include Eby, Leatherman. ; MCN24669; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pp .

Los Angeles: Parker, Stone & Baird Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards worn on points, foxing to endpapers. Author's inscription front endpaper, "Roderick Taft From his affectionate grandfather the author With the hope that this story will stir you towards your best". Abolitionist, publisher, and author Stephen Taft was founder of Humboldt, Iowa and later active in the Santa Monica, California community. Illustrated. Author's obituary laid in. Scarce.; MCN26894; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pp; Signed by Author .

Uitgeverij Vantilt. Fine. 2013. Softcover. 9460041167 . Author's personal inscription on title page. Text in Dutch. ; MCN29672; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pp; Signed by Author .

Springfield Printing Corp.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Family memoir - "Francis Talcott ("Cork") Fenn Born, July 13, 1887-Died, January 29, 1979. Mildred Quiggle Fenn Born, July 11, 1888-Died, December 8, 1957. Emma Wupperman Walsh Fenn Born, July 11, 1898." ; MCN19440; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pp .

Ann Arbor: Gomidas Institute. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine hardcover copy, illustrated.; MCN33138; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 265 pp .

Private Printing. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. Gold wraps lightly soiled. Memoir with some family history - the life of Benjamin Kramer, born 1906 in Ruth Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Illustrated. ; MCN20482; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pp .

Private Printing. Fine. circa 2000. Plastic comb binding. Not dated, published circa 2000. Memoirs of a southern Methodist minister, Charles Eldred Swain, born 921 in Idebal, Oklahoma. Illustrated with family photographs. ; MCN20622; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pp .

Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Oversized high-quality volume is part memoir and part family history commemorating the marriage of Charles Henry Spaulding and Ann Emerson. ; MCN19216; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 852 pp .

Private Printing. Very Good+. 1977. Plastic comb binding. Author inscribed front endpaper. Informal autobiography of Rockville, Maryland obstetrician includes a bit of narrative family history, family photographs. ; MCN21643; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 137 pp; Signed by Author .

University of New Mexico Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0826316409 . Fine copy in dustjacket. First edition stated.; MCN32959; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 303 pp .

Private Printing. Fine. 2008. 1st Edition. Softcover. 0979501318 . Biography of Nathan Knowles describes a farming life in Manitou Beach, Lenawee County, Michigan during the early twentieth century. ; MCN25374; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 107 pp .

Boston: Art Publishing Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. Two-toned boards with gilt lettering, light rubbing with offsetting to endpapers, address sticker front endpaper. Light foxing, mainly to photographic plates and tissue guards, a few pages starting to detach at gutter but overall a solid and clean copy. Includes brief Ayer ancestry, numerous plates. ; MCN18293; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 58 pp .

Cune Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. 1885942451 . A fine hardcover copy in dustjacket with a small tear rear panel, else fine. Author's inscription front endpaper. Lebanese immigration to the United States during the early twentieth century, based on correspondence, oral histories, etc. Illustrated with photographs. ; MCN28676; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pp; Signed by Author .

New York: Rinehart & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1948. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Green cloth boards show mild wear, blue smiley face sticker inside front board. In a rubbed and edgeworn dustjacket with small chipping head of spine, now in protective mylar. This is a Selection of the Book Find Club. Well researched and detailed early biographical study of Henry Ford. ; MCN30523; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 501 pp .

LaGwana Printing. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0981658709 . Previous owner's address stamped front endpaper. Author signed "Wishing you the best Eldon Hostetler". Autobiography of Amish inventor and collector of Hudson automobiles. Museum flyers laid in. ; MCN29808; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 189 pp; Signed by Author .

Easton Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. Full red leather boards embellished with gilt, all edges gilt with attached ribbon bookmark. Publisher's blurb laid, in a fine collectible copy. Foreword by Alfred Habegger. ; MCN33814; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 592 pp .

Miami: American Institute of Polish Culture. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. A fine hardcover copy in pictorial dustjacket show scant wear, now in protective mylar. Biography of Marie Sklodowska Curie, illustrated with historical photographs. Map endpapers.; MCN32830; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pp .