Search Results: BIOGRAPHY from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Post, Texas: JPL Art Publishers, 1989. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 91p. Jacket corners chipped. B&w and color illustrations and b&w photographs. (10"x8")

[Las Vegas]: Self-published, 2019. Softcover. Very good. 193p. Cover corners lightly worn. Collection of reminiscences of drug trafficker and smuggler Jung, also known as Boston George, about his adventures. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Biblio fair Oct 2022. 188p. Signed by author on title page. Gently read. In 2005, Didion's book, in which she reflected on her husband's death, was published. That same year her adopted daughter became hospitalized, diagnosed with various illnesses, and subsequently died. Here is Didion's memoir of that time, her daughter's life, and her own. Includes a leaflet from the Library Foundation of Los Angeles event where this copy was signed. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")

New York: Paine-Whitman Publishers, 1954. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very Good/good +. 204p. Bookstore stamp on back pastedown, jacket rubbed with spine sunned and small chips and tears to edges. Includes bibliography. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Good +/good +. [xx], 326p. Signed by author on title page. Bottom of back cover has a moisture stain and bottom of page edges slightly warped, jacket has small tears to edges with corners chipped and worn. Includes selected bibliography. B&w photo plates. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")

[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Da Capo Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xiv], 338p. 1st printing. Jacket corners lightly worn. Biography of Thomas "Tommy" Weber and Susan "Puss" Coriat Weber, young and beautiful members of the English upper class, and how their marriage reflected the turbulent times of the 1960s. 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Da Capo Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xiv], 338p. 1st printing. Jacket corners lightly worn. Biography of Thomas "Tommy" Weber and Susan "Puss" Coriat Weber, young and beautiful members of the English upper class, and how their marriage reflected the turbulent times of the 1960s. 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Culver City, California: Fred & Barney Press, 2021. Trade paperback. Very good. Walsby, Brian. 24p. Depicts the life and death of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and his relationship with serial killer Charles Manson. [WorldCat] Color illustrations by Brian Walsby. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. Softcover. Very good. xii, 292p. 1st printing. Spine sunned and corners slightly worn. 4 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9"x6")

[New York]: HarperSanFrancisco in association with The Basic Foundation, 1995. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xii, 233p. Price clipped jacket lightly scraped to edges. B&w illustrations. (8-1/2"x5-5/8")

[Chicago?]: Women for Racial & Economic Equality, 1979. Softcover. Very good. 56p. Stain on back cover. Biography of one of the most influential women of the civil and voting rights movements and a leader in the efforts for more significant economic opportunities for African Americans, as well as helping to organize the 1964 Freedom Summer. [National Women's History Museum website] Includes bibliography. B&w photographs. (8-1/2"x5-3/8")

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [iv], 236p. Bookstore label on back pastedown, top and bottom of spine bumped. (7-1/2"x5")

Peabody, Massachusetts: Peabody Institute, 1953. Stapled wraps. Very good. 23p. Sticker remnant on inside back wrap, wraps sunned with light stain on front. B&w halftone photographs. (7-1/4"x5-1/4")

Elkhorn, Wisconsin: Self-published, 1887. Embossed cloth. Very good/No Jacket. 316p. Signed by compiler Frank Leland under his portrait, and the same hand captioned the two additional photographs. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt and black cover titles and decorations, decorative endpapers, all edges marbled. Cover edges worn, a clipped poem on newsprint has yellowed portions of pages 252 and 253. A collection of Hattie M Perkns LelandÂ’s poetry and writings, including Wisconsin people, events, and history, as well as world events, letters, and her thoughts on events throughout the country and the world. A scarce piece of Wisconsin history. 3 b&w plates and frontispiece. (7-7/8"x5-3/4")

[San Pedro, California]: Self-published, [196?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 23p. "After twenty-five years of managing an elementary school cafeteria," Hollister humorously recounts her experiences with students, coworkers, and supervisors. Printed by the Graphic Arts Classes, San Pedro High School. B&w illustrations by Ingrid Tostrup. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

Boalsburg, Pennsylvania: Bear Manor Media, 2005. Soft Cover. Very Good. [viii], 514p. Signed by author on half title page. Cover corners worn, no creases on spine, front cover warped. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

New York: Youth Salute Paul Robeson Committee & Young Workers Liberation League, [1978]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 60p.) Program for the Youth Salute to Paul Robeson, "Here We Stand to Live Like Paul Robeson," held at the Felt Forum (now The Theater at Madison Square Garden) on Saturday, December 16, 1978. Includes biographical essays with anecdotes from friends and colleagues, a chronology of his life, and sponsorship ads. One copy located at New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Berlin: Ahnenerbe-Stiftung Verlag, 1939. Hardcover. Very good/fair +. Dombrowski, Ernst von; Portrait of Löns' by. 72p. Toned jacket has chips and tears to edges with holes on spine. Includes 4 leaves of facsimile pages from Löns' World War I diary. Text in German. B&w illustrations. (7-3/8"x5")

London: Picador, 2016. Softcover. Very good. 376p. Cover corners lightly worn. Biography of the Irish aristocrat and socialite during the swinging 1960s in London. Includes select bibliography. 8 leaves of b&w and color photo plates. (7-3/4"x5-1/8")

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 396p. Signed by author on title page. Page edges have brown spots, endpapers have light acid discoloration, jacket has been covered with a clear yellow plastic film that although it has protected the wrapper has caused the jacket to wrinkle. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. 14 b&w photo plates. (8-3/4"x5-5/8")