Category: Biography

Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir [Signed]

Price: $145.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1966

Seller ID: 8053

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Hotchner to blank fly. Brown and black cloth with accompanying dust jacket. No previous owners' names or other defacement. Dust jacket present.
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Memoirs of My Life (SIGNED by author)

By: Alex Woskob

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Kyiv, Ukraine, WUS Publishers : 2004

Seller ID: 6386

Condition: Fine

Signed by author to title page. Pictorial paper boards with gilt text to front board and spine. Color photographs and illustrations throughout. The author has organized the book into 4 sections: Ukraine 1922-1944, Germany--Canada 1944-1953, The USA 1953-2000, and More Thoughts. 272 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. First Edition.
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Illustrated by Salvador Dali (SIGNED)

By: Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (Trans.)

Price: $785.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday and Company, Inc. : 1946

Seller ID: 7321

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED by Dali and dated 1945 to limitation page; limited to 1000 copies, this being #194. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; deckle fore-edge. Housed in a black paper-covered slipcase with askew red label to front. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. A mixture of full color hors texte plates and black and white illustrations throughout. General wear to slipcase at edges and slight sunning to spine of book (see image). 442 pp. 7 x 9 3/4 inches. First Edition.
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Image for The Life of Napoleon III. Derive from State Records, from Unpublished Family Correspondence, and from Personal Testimony. (4 Volumes - Complete) with Family Portraits in the possession of the Imperial Family, and Facsimiles of Letters of Napoleon I., Napoleon III., Queen Hortense, &c.

The Life of Napoleon III. Derive from State Records, from Unpublished Family Correspondence, and from Personal Testimony. (4 Volumes - Complete) with Family Portraits in the possession of the Imperial Family, and Facsimiles of Letters of Napoleon I., Napoleon III., Queen Hortense, &c.

By: Blanchard Jerrold

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. : 1874

Seller ID: 6657

Condition: Fine

Scarce first edition of this publication. Half black morocco over marbled boards, and 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Hors texte plates with tissue guards throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Occasional foxing. Vol. 1 is organized into 3 books, and each subsequent volume with the following books: Birth, Youth and Education; The Italian Insurrection; and, Arenenberg. Vol. 2: Between Strasburg and Boulogne; Ham; The Revolution of 1848. Vol. 3: The Presidency; The Coup d'Etat; Establishment of the Empire. Vol. 4: The Crimean War...
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One More Time: A Memoir [SIGNED by 36 CELEBRITIES, including Carol Burnett & Janet Leigh]

By: Carol Burnett

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1986

Seller ID: 7858

ISBN-13: 9780394552545

Condition: Fine

Signed by Carol Burnett, Jackie Joseph, Barbara Luna, Albert Haque, Jane Kean, Anne Jeffreys, Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Gisele MacKenzie, Margaret O'Brien*, Ruta Lee, Joni Berry, Shirley Mitchell, Jane Withers, Barbara Billingsley, Rap Taylor, Jack Carter, Onna White, Ken Berry, Don Crichton, Randy Donay, Fayard Nicholas, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Carrie and Jody (Carol Burnett's daughters, to whom the book is dedicated), Janis Paige, Grover Dale, Earl Holliman, Dom DeLuise, Janet Leigh, Frances Taylor David (wife of Miles Davis), Mr. Richard Blackwell, Nancy Olson, Donald O'Connor, John Byn...
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Young Boswell, Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer, based largely on new material

By: Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Price: $170.00

Publisher: Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press : 1922

Seller ID: 6327

Condition: Fine

Half dark brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule. 5 raised bands, 3 green morocco labels, and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Deckled edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, Robert Wetherill, Jr., otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. Black and white hors text plates throughout. [viii], 266 pp. 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. First Edition.
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Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton, A Sketch of Their Lives and Family Connection

By: E. Marston

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co. : 1908

Seller ID: 6923

Condition: Fine

Attractively bound in dark green half morocco with gilt rule to boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. First Edition.
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My memories as a Brooklyn Dodger, as told to Greg Gulas (SIGNED by author)

By: George "Shotgun" Shuba

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Self-published : 2007

Seller ID: 6614

Condition: As New

Signed by author with inscription to title page: "Alvin, Have a great life. George "Shotgun" Shuba." Pictorial glossy paper wraps with text. Section at middle of black and white photographs printed on glossy paper. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. xvi, 208 pp. 6 x 9 inches. First Edition.
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Kingdom of Fear, Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (SIGNED by author)

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Price: $700.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 2003

Seller ID: 6500

Condition: As New

SIGNED by Thompson to title page in black ink. Brown paper boards with black paper spine with gilt particulars. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Deckled fore-edges. Organized into 3 parts, and within those are these subsections: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro; There Is No Such Thing as Paranoia; In the Belly of the Beast; Politics Is the Art of Controlling Your Environment; Seize the Night; Speedism; The Foreign Correspondent; It Never Got Weird Enough for Me; and, Amor Vincit Omnia. Forward by Timothy Ferris. Black and white photographs throughout text. No previous own...
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Precious Stones of the Jews of Curacao, Curacaon Jewry 1656-1957

By: Isaac S. Emmanuel

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Bloch Publishing Company : 1957

Seller ID: 7334

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to front and spine. Remains of pictorial dust jacket. Black and white images throughout text; 2 full color fold-out maps, a black and white map, and a full color fold-out cemetery plan. Included is a handwritten letter from one of the great granddaughters of a person mentioned in the book, and a small, loose summary booklet of "the letter to the members of the Cuacao Scientific Society and other subscribers on" [this book] in both Dutch and English. Previous owner's bookplate to front fly, otherwise no other names or markings. Slight wear to boards ...
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Produced and Directed by Dan Curtis with a foreword by Herman Wouk Signed by cast members

By: Jim Pierson, Mark Dawidziak

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, New York, & London, Pomegranate Press, Ltd. : 2004

Seller ID: 5511

Condition: Fine

Black cloth covered boards in jacket. Signed by Lara Parker (Angelique), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans), Roger Davis (Peter Bradford), and James Storm (Gerard Stiles) on front fly, of which all were former cast members on the original Dark Shadows (1966-1971), created by Curtis. Among Dan Curtis' memorable credits include TV movies The Night Stalker , Dracula , and Trilogy of Terror . He is responsible for the adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide . He is also the Emmy-winning producer and director of the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War and its 1...
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Image for Marci Antonii, Joannis Antonii et Gabrielis Flaminiorum Forocorneliensium Carmina : quid praeterea in hoc volumine contineatur, duae indicant ad lectorem epistolae.

Marci Antonii, Joannis Antonii et Gabrielis Flaminiorum Forocorneliensium Carmina : quid praeterea in hoc volumine contineatur, duae indicant ad lectorem epistolae.

By: Marco Antonio Flaminio; Antonio Flam; Gabriello Flaminio; Giuseppe Comino

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Patavii (Padua, Italy), Excudebat Josephus Cominus : 1743

Seller ID: 7347

Condition: Very Good+

Full vellum boards with gilt particulars to spine. Fold out frontispiece of a portrait of Marco Antonio Flaminio. Latin text throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Occasional age spotting to pages; light wear to exterior boards (see images); nonetheless a handsome copy in the original vellum. 5 x 7.25 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition.
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Memoires De Marie Capelle

By: Marie Capelle

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Rene : 1843

Seller ID: 5822

Condition: Very Good

Handsome, supple set in quarter morocco over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and gilt title to spine. Foxing throughout. 337 & 391 pgs; 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.
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Wayne: the Extraordinary Story of a Consummate Entrepreneur

By: Mark Seal

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: Washington, Fenwick Publishing Group Incorporated : 2012

Seller ID: 7928

Condition: As New

Delivered to us in publisher's shrink wrap, only to be unwrapped in our care during photographing. Very clean in publisher's matching slipcase with pictorial pasted to front of case and gilt lettering. First Edition.
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, The Limited Editions Club : 1987

Seller ID: 6851

Condition: Near Fine

Full natural vellum with gilt text to front board and spine. Housed in publisher's black cloth slipcase. Limited edition this being number 265 of only 800 copies. Paper for the text was mould-made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani and bound by Recalcati in Milan. Slightly deckle edges. No previous owners' names or other markings. Some toning to exterior vellum (see image), nonetheless an unused and unfaded copy. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. All shipments by boxed, insured USPS Priority Mail.
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Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences [SIGNED]

By: Richard Pryor, Todd Gold

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books : 1995

Seller ID: 7856

ISBN-13: 9780679432500

Condition: Fine

Autographed by Richard Pryor through the use of a customized stamp, as well as hand-initialed on the title page. Due to his multiple sclerosis, Pryor used a stamp to autograph books; the stamp on the front fly is custom-made for the specific occasion of the signing and reads "Live on the Sunset Strip 6-10-95" in Pryor's handwriting. Stamped a second time to title page with Pryor's name. Additionally, his initials appear to be hand-written on the title page. Also signed by co-author Todd Gold to title page. In publisher's original dustjacket, which has been encased in protective mylar. Photogra...
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The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist

By: Robert Buchanen

Price: $130.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Son, & Marston : 1868

Seller ID: 7801

Condition: Fair

Bound in dried quarter black leather, hinges separated but boards still firmly attached. Gilt particulars to spine, marbled edges, frontispiece of Audubon. Ex-libris stamp reading Philp's Cockburn Hotel Edinburgh on final page. No other markings. Pages bright and clean. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. First Edition.
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Image for History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, At Washington In Two Volumes, Complete

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, At Washington In Two Volumes, Complete

By: Thomas L. McKenney, James Hall

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Kent, Volair Limited : 1978

Seller ID: 6634

Condition: Fine

Full tan leather with gilt decoration to boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt; purple moire endpapers; silk ribbons present. 120 full color portraits, one for each Native American, throughout. Contains three black and white maps at back of volume 2. Introduction by Dr. Herman J. Viola. Light wear to boards and small abrasions to base of page edges. Small amount of sunning to endpaper edges. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Please expect extra postage as this is a heavy set. Vol. 1: xxviii, 470 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 534 ...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln; from His Birth to His Inauguration as President

By: Ward H. Lamon

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, James R. Osgood and Company : 1872

Seller ID: 7189

Condition: Very Good

Dark green textured cloth boards with debossed emblem to boards, and gilt particulars to spine. Black and white illustrations with tissue guards throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Wear to boards with some abrasions and fraying (see image). 7 x 9 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition.
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Category: Biography