Search Results: Biographies and Essays from The Purple Chair Antiques and Curios

Winterich chose 20 famous works of various famous authors and dedicated an entire chapter to each, and added a collection of fun, interesting illustrations. Authors covered include: Walt Whitman, Daniel Dafoe, Charles Dickens, Izaak Walton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Du Maurier, John Bunyan, John James Audubon, Robert Burns, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Washington Irving, Samuel Pepys, Edward FitzGerald, Benjamin Franklin, and William Makepeace Thackeray. The book itself is in very good condition, though the cover is a little rough, mostly from general shelf wear, and the binding is starting to split in the seam of the front cover.

Autobiography styled book by the TLC star Buddy Valastro, of the #1 hit show Cake Boss. Recipes and photos are sprinkled throughout the text, with 8 pages of full color photos. A very nice book in excellent condition.

A biography of Elizabeth I, written for young readers by Dell Shannon under the pseudonym Elizabeth Linington. There is a stain at the bottom of the spine, and a little shelf wear, other than that the book is in very good condition, with no writing or marks.

This is the luminous personal story of a great man of God, written by his wife -- a moving record of an inspired ministry and a warm, truly happy marriage. The inside of the front cover has been partially torn off, and has been signed by a previous owner, other than that the book is in pretty good shape.

A book covering the philosophies of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll. The binding has come apart inside of the back cover, but everything is still intact. Other than that the book is in very good condition. It is an interesting, unusual book. It has gold gilt on the top edge of the pages.

Joshua Armstrong is the founder and leader of the Seekers, an elite team of the most successful bounty hunters in the country. Anthony Bruno is a veteran crime writer who has published more than a dozen books of both fiction and non-fiction. Book is in excellent used condition, and the dust jacket is in very good shape as well.

An in-depth history of England from the time of the Norman Conquest (William the Conqueror) to the death of Richard III - excluding William (Rufus) II and Henry I. The first volume in this work begins with the final scenes in the reign of Henry I, whose daughter married Geoffrey of Anjou and whose son succeeded in due course to the throne of England as Henry II, thus beginning the brilliant Plantagenet dynasty. The book itself is in very good condition. Original edition was printed in 1951.