Search Results: Biography from Book Happy Booksellers

Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Cloth in DJ; 432pp; Scuffing & minor chipping to DJ, DJ protected by mylar sleeve, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/Good+ condition. Autobiography of pioneer in the field of home economics. Illustrated with photos.

London, UK: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; 302pp; DJ price-clipped, age-toned with minor chipping & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, endpapers age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Autobiography spanning the years 1922 to 1941 of Anglo-Irish writer and founder of the Woodcraft Folk.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 329pp; Minor foxing & slight edgewear to DJ, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG- condition. Diaries of Zinaida Hippius, Russian poetess, critic and religious thinker. Translated and edited by Temira Pachmuss.

New York: The James A. McCann Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. 324pp; No DJ, red cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, small stain to front board, else boards clean & bright, spine faded with wear to spine ends, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author, with date Feb. 17, 1920. Firsthand account of the old-time Scottish entertainer's life, adventure and career in music halls and vaudeville.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 228pp; DJ price-clipped with slight edgewear & minor chipping, rear flap of DJ contains War Bonds ads, DJ protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG condition. Book-of-the-Month Club insert laid in. Autobiography of the acclaimed African-American author Richard Wright's early life in the Jim Crow South. Introductory Note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

Los Angeles: Kellaway-Ide Co., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 253pp; No DJ, orange boards with titling to front & spine, boards square & bright, front boards slightly bumped at top edge, spine slightly scuffed, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Signed by Author. Related news clipping laid in. First-hand account of the author's experiences as a Red Cross nurse in 1914-15 in Budapest, Hungary. Illustrated with photos.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 236pp; Slight handling wear to book, covers clean & bright, previous owner's name to flyleaf, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Signed by Author. Memoir by Portland author, consisting of a "memory experiment," a collection of sweet and funny snapshots from childhood. Illustrated with photos in "P.S." section at rear of book.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. 320pp; No DJ, light orange cloth boards with titling to spine, minor staining to boards, previous owner's name to front pastedown, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Biography of George Francis Vanderveer (1875-1942), an American lawyer who defended members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) during their years of deepest trouble.

London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 415pp; Covers clean & bright, spine lightly creased, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Family memoir about a daughter trying to assemble her father's story that includes parachuting into France and Burma for British special forces during World War Two, as his mind dissolves into dementia. Illustrated with maps & photos.

Risca, UK: The Starling Press Ltd., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 181pp; DJ creased & slightly rubbed, dark green leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Biography of master draper David Morgan by his grandson. Illustrated with photos, maps and foldout family trees.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good+/None. 242pp; No DJ, tan cloth boards with red titling to front & spine, minor staining to boards, spine age-toned, slight forward slant, previous owner's name to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Vintage lesbian autobiography written under a pseudonym by Frances V. Rummell (1907-1969), an educator and columnist.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. 210pp; Covers clean & bright with small light label stain to back cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Signed by Author. Memoir of writer Donald Windham's Depression-era youth in Atlanta Georgia, praised as a "masterpiece" by Georges Simenon.

San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 91pp; Rebound in 1921 as per inscr. inside cover, stiff cardboard marbled covers, cloth spine, slight wear to spine ends, corners of boards rubbed, inside covers & title page age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Scarce volume of brief biographies of eminent Cornishmen in all fields including: Bassets of Tehidy, Killigrews, St. Aubyns, Arundels, Admiral Boscawen, Godolphins, Grenvilles, John Opie, Wm. Bickford, Wm. Carvosso, Samuel Drew, and many others. Based on a lecture delivered in Sierra City, California.

Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 278pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Inscribed & Signed by Jose Sarria, the subject of the book, as "Widow Norton, Jose." Stories from the life of Jose Julio Sarria (1922-2013), aka The Grand Mere, Absolute Empress I de San Francisco and the Widow Norton, a drag queen performer who in 1961 became the first openly gay candidate for public office in the US and was the founder of the Imperial Court System. Illustrated with photos.

Manila, Philippines: National Historical Commission, 1969. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 7" x 10" Hardcover; 549pp; Maroon boards, gilt titling to spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Biography of Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896), Filipino nationalist, writer & polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, considered the national hero of the Philippines. Introduction by Carlos Quirino. Awarded First Prize in the Rizal Biography Contest held under the auspices of the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission in 1961.

Vancouver, BC: Privately Printed, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8-1/2 x 11 Hardcover in DJ; 241pp; DJ edgeworn with minor chipping, boards clean & square, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/Good+ condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Autobiography of an ex-Catholic priest who later became a psychoanalyst. Illustrated with photos

London, UK: Buckland Publications Ltd., 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 264pp; A few smudges to back cover else covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Biography of Gerald Massey (1828-1907), an English poet and writer on Spiritualism and ancient Egypt. Illustrated with photos.

London: Hutchinson & Co.,, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 344pp; Red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, top edge gilt, corners of boards slightly bent, slight wear to spine ends, boards square & bright with a few nicks, endpapers age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, all photo plates present, Good+ condition. Biography of the Empress Dowager of China, Tze-Hi. Illustrated with b/w photographic plates.

London, UK: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Cloth in DJ; 226pp; DJ edgeworn with moderate insect damage & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, pencil inscr. to FFEP, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG/Good- condition. Six studies in the uses of adversity with biographical essays on: Mary Lamb, Beethoven, Arthur Kavanagh, Henry Fawcett, W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson.

Bingen, WA: West Shore Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 260pp + plates; Blue boards with gilt titling to spine, minor staining to boards, marbled endpapers, boards square & bright, previous owner's name to front pastedown & flyleaf, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Edition limited to 700 copies. Biography of political cartoonist of Silverton, Oregon. Divided into two sections: Book 1: Narrative Biography and Book 2: Picture Biography. Illustrated with cartoons & photos.