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Cape Cod Prime Time, October 1995. Periodical. Pages 8-11, biographical sketch with photos & Gorey drawings; 32 cm. "The Life of Edward Gorey-- Mystery, Whimsy & Cats." "Text by Alan W. Petrucelli/ Photos by Jon Hamill/ Drawings by Edward Gorey." Stapled in pictorial paper covers; minor wear; good. stock#44872.

Penguin Books [1988]. Soft Cover. 453 p., index. "A witty, literate, and marvelously entertaining memoir of New York's literati and their scene." "A veteran writer of 40 years at The New Yorker, E. J. Kahn has seen it all, from the days of Harold Ross to the gossip about William Shawn's successor. His witty stories and anecdotes about his years there present a memorable portrait of The New Yorker itself, that arcane institution on West 43rd Street, which continues to publish some of the best writing in America." Paper; ink owner name; VG. stock#24701/h.

Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing, nd.. Hard Cover. vi, 482 p. front. (port.), 21.5 cm. Biography of the 16th President by a noble British admirer. Stock# 33,436. Good, spine faded/ no dj.

Kingsport, Tenn. : Privately printed at Kingsport Press, c1947.. Hard Cover. x, 62, [5] p., [1] leaf, [2] p. of plates : col. port., facsim. ; 26 cm. Title continues: prefaced with an introductory comment / by Paul M. Angle." "This edition of the autobiographical writings of Abraham Lincoln has been made available to friends of Kingsport Press, Inc., through the courtesy of Mr. Angle and the Rutgers University Press. Set in 12 pt. Linotype De Vinne, it was printed on all rag paper in an edition of 1250 copies, of which none is for sale."--Colophon. The wording indicates that this edition was probably issued in 1948, as was the limited edition issued by Rutgers University Press. Sources (p. [65]). Includes facsimile of Lincoln's letter to John Coulter, 4 Sept. 1860, concerning his political rivalry with Peter Cartwright. Stock# 44,689. Vg / cellophane wrapper, good, worn, tears.

N.Y., Random House, 1959. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 444 p. 23.5 cm. An engaging self portrait of the playwright in his youth, in the Catskills as an acting waiter, and writing his first play, Once in a Lifetime, which was a hit and changed Hart's life for ever. First printing. Stock# 31,695a. Vg/ dj vg. Another copy. Later printing. First p.l. torn out. No d.j. $5.00. Stock# 31,695b.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1918 (Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press). Hard Cover. x, 519 pages ; 24.5 cm. Editor's preface / Henry Cabot Lodge. "Henry Adams (great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams) asserts that his conventional education was defective because it did not prepare him to live in a world transformed by the new science and technology. This autobiography provides an insightful exploration of the tumultuous age in which he lived." Stock# 47740. Vg / no dj.

N.Y., Oxford UP, 1987. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 310 p., 24 illus., genealogical table, 24 cm. "The full story of some of the most interesting and important and articulate women in American history." Stock# 32,877. Vg/ dj vg.

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 946 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Continues his Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Includes index.Stock# 35,1181. Vg/dj good, several tears.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1915.. Hard Cover. xii, 252 p., index, 22.5 cm. Essays on Nietzsche, Casanova, Zola, Huysmans, "St. Francis and others". Three of the subjects were living when the first edition appeared in 1898 and the three had died by the time of this second edition. NS. Stock# 39,720. Vg/ no dj.

New York, Knopf, 1961. Hard Cover. xx, 662, xv p., illus. 25 cm. Intended to be the first volume of a trilogy, this biography of Churchill's first thirty-seven years is rich in detail. First American Edition. Stock# 35,000. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1973. Hard Cover. 828 p. plates 24 cm. As the New York Times foreign correspondent, and son of the publisher, Sulzberger had access to well placed sources throughout the world--and had lunch with them all. There are all sorts of nuggets here, but no obvious pattern and, as the nuggets aren't investigated, their validity has to be questioned. The issue becomes who is the mediocrity. Stock #29,291. Vg/ dj vg

Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1972. Hard Cover. xiv, 206 p.; 24 cm. "Hoover the editorializer, the mobilizer of the press, and the instigator of public relations campaigns. …[his] performance as president was entirely consistent with his lifelong approach to administration…" ISBN(10): 0814201814. Stock#NEU320. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

Oxford University Press [ 1926, c1908].. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 334 p., 1 l. inc. fascisms. front., plates, ports. 22.5 cm. "Second impression 1926." Preface -- An Alabama student [John Y. Bassett, reprinted from the Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan., 1896] -- Thomas Dover, physician and buccaneer. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan., 1896] -- John Keats, the apothecary poet. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan. 1896] -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. -- John Locke as a physician. [The Lancet, Oct. 20, 1900] -- Elisha Bartlett, a Rhode Island philosopher. [Transactions of the Rhode Island medical society] -- A backwood physiologist [William Beaumont] -- The influence of Louis on American medicine. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, nos. 77-78, August-September, 1897] -- William Pepper. -- Alfred Stillé. [University of Pennsylvania medical bulletin, June, 1902] --Sir Thomas Browne. [The Library, Jan., 1906] - Fracastorius. [Proceedings of the… Read More

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1971]. x, 370 p., index, 23 cm. Biography of Progressive U.S. Senator from Indiana, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge,1862-1927 Neu149. Vg, a few red ink ticks and marginal highlighting / dj vg.

London, Phoenix, 1999. Soft Cover. xiv, 369 p., illus., 23.5 cm. Biography of the British military writer and theorist. A casulty of WWI trenches, Liddell Hart argued for armored, fast moving armies. The Germans and, eventually, Americans took him up on it. He believed in the "indirect approach" and much of this revealing book is indirect (we learn that his 1970 holiday wih Montgomery was the last, but of previous?). The most substantial revelation is LH's manipulation of the German generals he admired and whose admiration of him he, an alchemist, turned from common metal into gold. Stock #29,416. Vg/ wrappers.

Berlin. Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung, 1996. Periodical. 8 p., (43-50) pp.; 30 cm. In "Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung Mitteilungen." With English summary. Humboldt's connections with the United States spanned 60 years. Stock#L-334.

Chester, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, ©1989. Hard Cover. viii, 343 p., illus.; 24 cm. "Journalists Black and Oliphant paint a picture, going into great detail to explain where and how Dukakis's presidential campaign strategy went awry. Dukakis's numerous mistakes are fully outlined here, all of them colossal, stupendous, dramatic, intricate. ISBN (10): 0871065479, Stock#47667. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.. Hard Cover. x, 258 p., [16] p. of plates, illus., index, 24.5 cm. Based on author's thesis, Brown University. Bibliography: p. 227-251. NS. Stock# 39,643. Vg/ dj vg.

Garden City, Doubleday, 1978. Hard Cover. xi, 532 p. 'New Expanded Fourth Edition' Short biographies of the 38 men who had served as president. BOMC. Stock #100,673. Vg/vg. American History Politics

NY, Random House, ©2008. Hard Cover. xxiv, 483 p., [32] p. of plates, illus., 25 cm. "A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency." ISBN (10): 1400063256. Stock#46923. Vg, gift inscription / dj fine.