Search Results: Biography - Americans from Texas Star Books

San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is clean and tight with bookplate from Western Hills Hotel on ffep. Pages are yellowing with some foxing. Dust jacket some darkening to spine and edges. Minor edgewear.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1964. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green linen-like boards are crisp and bright with light wear to corners and spine ends. Bottom page ends have a little very faint soiling. Interior is clean and without marking. Price-clipped dust jacket haschipping on corners, spine and edges. There are several chips missing, the largest about 1/2". Folds and hinges have some rubbing and wear, and the rear flap fold has 1/2" tear. White of flaps are darkened on edges. 530 pp.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, "The Man Behind the Myth - On and Off the Court". 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 286 pp. Crisp, bright and clean copy with light bumping on spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is bright with small scuff to laminate on spine and a little creasing/wear on edges.

Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 226 pp. Inscribed by author on title page. Crisp, tight and bright copy - previous owner's bookplate on front pasted down paper. Dust jacket is bright with very minor wear. In protective cover.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 343 pp. Tight and clean copy with light bumping on edges. Dust jacket has corner bumping and wear. Four small closed tears (larges 1/2") on top edge - one one either side of spine and two on rear panel. A little rubbing on hinges and flap folds. Spine is sun-faded.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition with minor shelfwear. Front hinge has slight separation inside at pasted down paper. Dust jacket is intact with tearing along spine and on front bottom corner especially. Creasing on front and at hinges and some staining and rubbing on white background on back of dj. Yellowing to white background.

Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A.: Texas Christian Univ Pr, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright, crisp, tight and clean copy, as is dust jacket. 300 pp.

New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is crisp and tight with a little faint spotting on bottom page ends. No interior markings. Minor edgewear and one instance of dogeared page. Dust jacket has chipping with loss and tearing on back top. Creasing and edgewear with rubbing. Intact with bright red and FDR's famous profile with cigarette holder in black on front.

New York, NY: Scribner, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Autobiographical work of Texas writer - author of "Tender Mercies" and "The Trip to Bountiful". 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 287 pp. Crisp and bright copy with very minor wear. Bottom page edge has black remainder mark - else clean. Appears unread. Dust jacket is bright with light creasing and a little rubbing.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by author on title page. 352 pp. Clean and bright copy has a slight right lean and minor edgewear. Dust jacket is bright and crisp with minor shelfwear.

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 420 pp. From the collection of a Civil War generals burial site researcher. Two-tone gray cloth boards with bright gilt design and print. Hinges are slightly loosened. Light corner and spine end wear, with light rubbing on hinges and bottom edges. Glue residue from manufacturing on front board where the two colors of fabric meet. Front pasted down paper has note on top edge, "9/24/81, Appomatox, VA" and rear free end paper has calculations in ink. Other ink notations, mostly dates under pictures throughout book, obviously used as resource material. Page edges are a little darkened with light soiling on bottom edge. Dust jacket has creasing, and rubbing wear, especially showing on rear panel's light colored background. Chipping on top of spine end and corners. Now in protective cover.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete with pencil sketches and wash drawings of Private Bellard. 7 3/4"W X 9 1/2"H, 298 pp. Blue cloth boards with bright silver print and design. Light bumping on corners and spine ends. Very faint shelf soiling on bottom page edge and slight spotting on other page edges. Dust jacket has had price removed in a carefully torn semi-circle. Blue of background shows a little light spotting and is rubbed white on front flap fold. Lighter rubbing on rear flap fold and both hinges. Corners have some chipping, along with spine ends and hinge top.

Port Arthur, TX: La Belle Printing Company, 1977. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Life story of a little know industrialist, Arthur E. Stilwell, who built Port Arthur, Texas, as the terminus of his Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf Railway. First printed in the Saturday Evening Post, 1927-8. This is the second edition. 112 pp. Green boards with bright gilt graphics and print. Clean and tight copy with light edgewear. Last two pages have diagonal crease. Dust jacket has very light wear and somewhat faded spine.

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Personal narrative of the experience of a Blackhawk helicopter pilot in Somalia. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 361 pp. Tight, clean and bright copy with minor edgewear. Dust jacket is bright and crisp - light creasing and rubbing.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EX-LIB copy of the biography of an early Texas entrepreneur. Usual library markings and stamps - card pocket on front free end paper.Slight soiling on dedication page and verso as well as on the "Contents" page. Beginning of loosening of front hinge.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Noted editor and writer Carl Van Doren comments on Virginian James Branch Cabell - the reality and the legend. Special revised edition, 1932. Book shows minor edgewear, and is tight. Black and white boards with black cloth spine on which the ink of the title has faded. Pages are yellowing with some foxing on end papers and edges.

Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1948. Various . Hardcover. All Vols. Very Good/One Dust Jacket VG+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Six volumes with various printings and only one dust jacket. All have blue cloth boards with gilt type and graphid. All tight, bright and clean with light corner and spine end wear. Boards show light rubbing.Vols one through five have dust jacket flaps taped onto rear end papers. Volume Six has the dust jacket intact. Volume One: The Virginian, 12th Ptg. - Very Good/No Dust Jacket; Volume Two: The Rights of Man, 7th Ptg., Very Good/No Dust Jacket; Volume Three: The Ordeal of Liberty, 2nd Ptg., Small scuffed area on bottom front hinge area. Very Good/No Dust Jacket; Volume Four: First Term 1801-1805, 1st Edition, Front bottom hinge area has small scuffed area and rear hinge area has small damp stain that does not affect rest of book, Very Good/No Dust Jacket; Volume Five: Second Term 1805-1809, 1st Edition, Very Good/No Dust Jacket; Volume Six:… Read More

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1925. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography of early famous boxer/pugilist John L. Sullivan. 209 pp. Spine is cracked but intact. Green cloth boards with black design and embossed print. Moderate bumping to corners and spine ends - head of spine has light fraying. Some wrinkling of cloth along front hinge and spine. Some staining and soiling. Clean interior.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 116 pp. Light tan linen boards are clean, crisp and bright with very minor wear on edges. Appears unread. Dust jacket is crisp with a little wear on spine ends and some rubbing on cream color of back of dust jacket. Very nice copy.

U.S.A.: Casemate, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright, crisp and clean copy with a little spine end and corner bumping. Dust jacket is also bright and clean with very minor edge creasing. 274 pp.