Search Results: Biography from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1974. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0682480207 A portrait of one of the most significant figures in the intellectual history of Western man, with new insights on his present-day relevance. 297pp.

n.p.: n.p., n.d.. PB. good+, wraps (softcover) with original tissue jacket w/tears. Includes remarks made at The House, and At Sleepy Hollow (cemetery). 27pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1967. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Selected and edited by Thomas J. Fleming from the thirty-seven volumes of Washington's collected writings, this is a book that will be a revelation to our era, and do much to restore Washington as a President who is loved as well as respected. 280pp.

Sussex, UK: published by the author, 1986. HC. fine, tan cloth, AEG, (hardcover) in very good slipcase. B&W illustrations. From the author's letter forwarding this book on his late-wife, "...it consists of remembrances, photographs and selected reprints of Alena's articles. ... Her professional career as a journalist, editor and writer spanned well over 25 years." 201pp.

New York, 1924. PB. good, wraps (softcover). sepia toned frontis tippedin. Very small tear top of front cover. 12pp.

New York: American Tract Society, 1931. HC. good++, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. 193pp.

New Jersey: published by the author, 1964. HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Lippincott has shown the power of prayer and Divine Guidance as experienced in his life and in the lives of others. 70pp.

Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company, 1925. HC. very good, 3/4 leather (hardcover) light rubbing and edgewear. B&W illustrations. A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY WITH A SELECTION OF HIS BALLADS AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAHICAL LIST OF HIS IMPRINTS. One of 300 copies signed by John Spargo. Born Portsmouth, England, in 1756, Haswell played a role in the early development of the State of Vermont, served in the Revolutionary War, was a Master Mason, a Balladier and poet, and publisher and printer. 293pp.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888. HC. good, full calf, (hardcover) - SEE CONDITION NOTE. B&W illustrations. CONDITION NOTE - CALF LEATHER WORN TOP/BOTTOM OF SPINES, and some external separation on hinges. Internally hinges are tight, endpapers not cracked. Happy to provide images. Extra shipping may be required. An invaluable set to the collector of 19th century paper for identification of signatures and personalities thus bringing importance and value to documents or stock certificates. A reference book that along with the Dictionary of American Biography should be in the scripophilist's library. Sold working set with wear to spines and edges of all covers. 6 volumes.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888. HC. good, 3/4 leather (hardcover) edgewear to boards. color illustrations. 768pp.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover) some spotting on boards. 461pp.

Worcester, MA: Privately Printed, 1939. HC. good, black cloth (hardcover). B&W frontis. Rugg lived from 1862 to 1938. 151pp.

n.p.: Privately Printed, 1920. HC. good, blue cloth (hardcover) - no dustjacket. B&W illustrations. Our hope is that the book may gratify those of our friends who knew and loved him well, and serve either to make him better known to those who knew him only slightly or introduce him to others who knew him not at all. May its readers find some of the inspiration that we have derived from the privilege of knowing and loving him for twenty-five years." No Dustjacket, as published? 203pp.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948. HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 282pp.

n.p.: Fultus Books, 2005. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1596820241 Rob R. Thompson is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. This is the story of his journey through life. 274pp.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. HC. good+, 3/4 leather, teg, marbled boards (hardcover). engraved frontis is stained. Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of His Time." 576pp.

Philadelphia, PA: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1880. HC. very good, green cloth (hardcover). 540pp, ads.

Washington, D.C.: RLF Press, 1994. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0964139308 Tells the story of Jim and Stevie Quigley's lives and of Jim's efforts after Stevie's death in 1987 to bury a portion of her cremated remains in the Polish-Ukrainian town of Berestechko, where she had been born. 240pp.

Hartland, VT: Solitarian Press, 1956. HC. fine, green cloth (hardcover) with original tissue jacket. Inscribed by the author with errata slip tipped in. 90pp.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in. ISBN 0395971306 Sixteen of Galbraith's friends and colleagues collaborate on a book about him. This book pays homage to a man who has based his life on the belief that economics should be about people, not numbers. 176pp.