A Serious Character The Life of Ezra Pound
London: Faber & Faber, 1988. FIRST. F / F. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this massive study.
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Northcliffe Britain's Man of Power
New York: Dodge Publishing, 1918. VG / VG.
The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey
Chipping Campden: The Alcuin Press, 1930. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A lovely copy of this scarce title. From a limited edition of 325 copies, this one being number 226. Large quarto. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in deep red buckram, lettered in gilt on the spine. Beveled edges. The book remains extremely.....
Titian
New York: Farrary, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. FIRST. NF / VG. A very nice copy. The jacket has some closed tears and some wear along the edges but remains very pleasing and complete. Cover art is an example of Titian's genius.
Memorial Life of General Sherman
Chicago: R.S. Peale & Co., 1891. FIRST. VG.
Moliere, A Biography
New York: Duffield & Comany, 1906-09-01. First edition. Near Fine. Original russett colored cloth. Lettering on spine faded but the remainder of the book is bright, clean and solid.
Goethe
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. FIRST. F / F. As new. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this highly regarded biography.
Browning's England
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1908. FIRST. VG. Lovely pictoral paste-down on cover. Illustrated endpapers. A very lovely copy.
Radical Jack The Life of the first Earl of Durham
London: The Cresset Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very bright and pleasing copy of this biography. Previous owner signature on the front paste-down, else fine. The jacket is complete and shows only minor edge-wear.
Charlotte Corday
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1931). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Bound in original grey cloth with titles to spine and upper board. Previous owner signature to title page. Evidence of book-plate removal at the front free endpaper. The first edition in English of this biography of the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat written by a true descendant.....
Jules Verne Inventor of Science Fiction
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. FIRST. F / NF. A very clean, bright and attractive copy.
Chaucer And His England
New York: Russell & Russell, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original gray cloth, lettered in burgundy to the spine. In a complete and very nice dust jacket with a very small chip to the foot of the spine, else fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy.
Arthur Conan Doyle
New York: Frederick Ungar, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of this biography of Conan Doyle.
Lord Byron's Jackal A Life of Edward John Trelawny
London: Harper Collins, 1998. FIRST. F / F. "Here is a wonderful adventure story about a man who invented himself in the image of the Byronic hero and lived to the hilt the final passionate and violent flowering of Romanticism in the cause of Greek independence." As new. Unopened and unread.
Babe The Legend Comes to Life
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Full brown leather decorated and lettered in gilt. A.E.G. Collectors Edition. A perfect copy of the classic biography of Babe Ruth.
The Story of Nell Gwyn
London: Navarre Society, 1927. VG. A nice copy of a scarce title. Very nice Book plate of Oscar Hammerstein II showing a man conducting.
Arnold Bennett
New York: Henry Holt, 1915. FIRST. VG.
The Miscast Barbarian
New Jersey: Saddle River Press, 1975. FIRST LIMITED ED. Limited Edition Number 885/900. NF. Large wrappers. A Biography of Robert E. Howard.
Boris Pasternak His Life and Art
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. NF / F. Previous owner name on the ffep as well as embossed name. A very nice and bright copy.
John Philip Sousa and The National Anthem
Frederick: The Great Southern Press, 1983. FIRST. F / F. As new. From the private collection of Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County, Maryland jurist and author.
The Life of Thomas Johnson
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. As new. Green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. From the private collection of Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County, Maryland jurist and author of this work.
Ravel
London: J. M. Dent, 1956. F / F. A very clean, bright and solid copy. As bright as the day it was issued.
James Watt Craftsman & Engineer
Cambridge: Babcock & Wilcox, 1935. FIRST. VG. Salmon colored cloth on boards. Cover somewhat soiled but the book remains very tight and solid with no foxing whatever.
Curzon in India (Two Volumes)
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Two volumes, complete. Volume I is subtitled: Achievment; Volume II: Frustration. Both volumes have the previous owner signature on the front paste-down and his stamp along the top edge. The text blocks are clean and without underlining or marginal notation. The dust jackets are complete, bright and without flaw.....
The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
London: Routlege, Warnes & Routledge, 1859. VG. With a new introduction by his son, B. Disraeli. Some wear on the hinges. Internally still strong.