Biography and Autobiography
(Authors N to Z)
Arranged alphabetically by author.

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  O'Meilia, Matt:  Garth Brooks The Road Out of Santa Fe.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Second Printing. Fine in paper and cloth covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. 202 pages of text and photographs.
  TB14783  $14.00



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  Oedel, Howard T. (Editor):  Daniel Hand of Madison, Connecticut, 1801-1891.  Madison, Conn.: The Madison Historical Society, Inc., 1973. . Near fine in heavy, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. 58 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and line drawings.
  TB25564  $20.00



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  Orange, John:  Farley Mowat: Writing the Squib.  Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. First Edition. Fine in wraps over a stapled binding. Without a dust jacket as issued. 126 pages. One of the volumes in the Canadian Biography Series.
  TB27866  $10.00



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  Pack, James:  The Man Who Burned the White House Admiral Sir George Cockburn 1772-1853.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1987). First Edition, First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/4". In a fine unclipped dust jacket. A biography of the man who planned and executed the burning of Washington, D.C. in 1814, and later became the gaoler of Napoleon at St. Helena and eventually First Naval Lord.
  TB30032  $35.00



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  Parris, John:  The Lion of Caprera.  New York: David McKay Co., Inc., 1962. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and a blue-green top edge. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact with a 1" closed tear at the base of the front panel, a 1/3" closed tear at the upper edge of the spine area with wear and rubbing at the edges of the panels. The biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi in which the author provides new information based on his own extensive translations of material not previously brought to light.
  TB11045  $15.00



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  Paul, Elliot:  My Old Kentucky Home.  New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in tan colored linen covered boards with a green and gilt text block on the spine & front board with foxing on the end papers. In a very good+ dust jacket with light wear at the ends of the spine areas with flecking and a 1/4 inch chip at the top of the front panel. A colorful collection of memories of youth in Louisville. Overall a handsome book and jacket.
  TB05817  $24.50



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  Peterson, Roger Tory:  The World of Roger Tory Peterson.  New York: NY Times Books, 1977. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with just a hint of fading around the edges. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with several short closed tears to the ends of the spine area. An authorized biography of Roger Tory Peterson co-authored by John Devlin and Grace Naismith with a forward by Elliot Richardson. 266 pages containing an index.
  TB20437  $8.00



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  Pohanka, Brian C. and John M. Carroll (Editors):  Nelson A. Miles A Documentary Biography of His Military Career 1861-1903.  Glendale, Calif.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 3/8 by 6 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 327 pages including an index, text and illustrated with black and white photographs. A biography based on a manuscript found at West Point in 1980 written by General Miles. With a foreword by Robert M. Utley. This is the thirteen volume in The Frontier Military Series by The Arthur H. Clark Company.
  TB24137  $25.00



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  Prescott, William H.:  History Of The Reign of Ferdinand And Isabella, The Catholic.  New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848. Tenth Edition. All three volumes of this three volume set are in very good+ condition in 3/4 leather and brown cloth covered boards with four raised bands on the spine, gilt on black leather title labels and gilt tool work in the compartments. The end sheets are marbled paper with a matching marbled design to the edge of the text blocks. All three volumes are octavos measuring 9" by 6". Each has an early prior owner's name written in pencil on the second free end pages. The pages of the three text blocks show modest spots of foxing and light age tanning. The hinges and joints are extremely tight. Volume I contains 411 pages of text and illustrated with a steel engraving frontispiece portrait of Isbella. Volume II contains 509 pages of text and is illustrated with an engraving frontispiece portrait of Ferdinand and a map preceding the first page of text. Volume III contains 531 pages of text including an index for all three volumes and is illustrated with an engraving frontispiece of Christopher Columbus and a map of Italy which preceding the first page of text.
  TB24882  $175.00



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  Randall, Willard Sterne:  Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor.  New York: Wm. Morrow & Company, 1990. Second Printing. Near fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with slight fading around the edges of the boards and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down under the dust jacket flap. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with minor wrinkling at the ends of the spine area. A biography of Benedict Arnold by an award winning journalist and a recognized historian who has uncovered new materials to help resolve the mystery of why Arnold may have changed sides. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and maps.
  TB20105  $25.00



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  Rhodes, Richard:  John James Audubon The Making Of An American.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 brown cloth and red-orange paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6 1/4" with a 1/2" scuff to the 1/4 cloth binding which appears to be a binder's mistake. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with hints of rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the upper fore corners of the panels. 511 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with full color plates, maps, photographs and recreations of contemporary works of art.
  TB25291  $15.00



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  Roberts, Kenneth:  For Authors Only.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with bright gilt stamped on the spine and on the front board. There is slight wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and the end sheets show minor foxing due to a reaction to the glue used in binding. There is also a prior owner's small name tag on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with several closed tears and related creases at the ends of the spine area and at the upper and lower edges of the front panel. Signed and inscribed "With Best Wishes" on the first free end paper by the author. 446 pages followed by four pages of ads for other books by Roberts. Very scarce in dust jacket as only 5,603 copies of the first printing were produced.
  TB03703  $250.00



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  Roberts, Kenneth:  Kenneth Roberts A Biographical Sketch An Informal Study.  New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Edition, First printing. Good+ in heavy blue paper wraps with a stapled binding but with an archival tape repair at the upper edge of the front and rear panels with rubbing and flecking of the colors at the spine fold and two creases on the rear panel. Signed by the author on the verso of the front panel. A tribute to Kenneth Roberts prepared by his publisher, Doubleday The full title reads: Kenneth Roberts A Biographical Sketch An Informal Study His Books & Critical Opinions. 32 pages.
  TB14303  $50.00



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  Roberts, Kenneth:  Kenneth Roberts: A Biographical Sketch.  New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ with light rubbing to the edges of the printed, paper covered wraps and with a crease at the lower corner of the front panel. In wraps without a dust jacket as issued. A 32 page pamphlet published by Doublday, Doran & Company (the publisher of almost all of Roberts' titles) which pays homage to the Roberts' works as a writer of historical fiction. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs.
  TB24580  $50.00



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  Rodd, Francis Rennell:  General William Eaton The Failure of an Idea.  New York: Milton, Balch and Company, 1932. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on blue title block on the spine and on the front board and with map end papers. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price on the front flap with moderate soiling on the panels and spine area. A biography of General William Eaton, a native of Woodstock and Mansfield, Connecticut, who was an army officer and appointed to counsel of Tunis in 1798. He was later appointed Navy Agent to the Barbary States in which capacity he lead an incredibly difficult march through the Libyan Desert in an attempt to restore the throne to a deposed Pasha of the country. Leading a ragtag army he was able to secure a seaport town near Tripoli only to be recalled to the United States because of a negotiated settlement with the illegal ruler which called for the payment of a ransom for imprisoned American seamen. Eaton returned to the US humiliated and burning with anger. His efforts to undermine the American treaty with the despot and vindicate his actions only created enemies for Eaton. He retired from government service and died at the age of 47 in Brimfield, Massachusetts. 314 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary art.
  TB17868  $40.00



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  Sabatini, Rafael:  Heroic Lives.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in red cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and with a gilt embossed decoration on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5" with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head of the spine and with repairs to the front hinge. In a good unclipped dust jacket with a 2" deep chip across the upper edge of the spine area and three small narrow chips from the fold to the front flap. 416 pages of text. A collection of six sketches of famous and heroic historical figures to include Richard I; Saitn Francis of Assisi; Joan of Arc; Sir Walter Ralegh; Lord Nelson; and Florence Nightingale.
  TB24678  $95.00



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  Sandoz, Mari:  Crazy Horse The Strange Man of The Oglalas.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with red and blue decorations on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" with the cloth in the gutter of the front joint foxed due to a reaction with the glue used in the production of the book. The front end paper shows similar foxing in the hinge areas due to the same issue. There are no ownership marks, labels or book plates. In a very good- price clipped dust jacket with very shallow chipping across the upper and lower edges of the spine area and nicks at the fore corners of the panels and a a 3/4" deep by 1 1/4" long chip at the lower edge of the front panel and with the rear panel slightly soiled. 428 pages with the fold-out map at the front of the book.
  TB27714  $200.00



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  Saroyan, William:  Sons Come & Go, Mothers Hang In Forever.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a very good+ dust jacket with a closed tear at the base of the spine. A memoir of many of the famous personages in this writer's life.
  TB02049  $10.50



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  Sears, Stephen W. (Editor):  The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan Selected Correspondence 1860-1865.  New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with small gilt text stamping on the spine with a black remainder mark on the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. A small quarto measuring 9 3/16" tall by 6 3/8" deep containing 651 pages including an index, index of addressees and text and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of McClellan. Over half of the 813 letters and dispatches printed within this volume are published for the first time making this a new and valuable resource for specialists of the War Between the States.
  TB18990  $30.00



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  Selzer, Richard:  Down From Troy A Doctor Comes of Age.  New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 white cloth and paper covered boards with a red remainder dot on the bottom edge. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The author, both a surgeon and writer, returns to his hometown in upstate New York to recount his coming of age.
  TB13519  $7.00



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  Simpson, Elizabeth:  Earthlight, Wordfire The Work of Ivan Doig.  Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1992. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and lime colored paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. fine. Signed & dated by the author on the fly title page. The author provides a thorough study of the literary works of Ivan Doig. His core novels o This House of Sky, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Winter Brothers and the Sea Runners are analyzed in great detail. 208 pages containing an index, text and photographs.
  TB13703  $85.00



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  Smith, Alson Jesse:  Brother Van A Biography of the Rev. Willaim Wesley Van Orsdel.  New York: Abington-Cokesbury Press, 1948. First Edition. Fine in tan cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and a slightly faded spine area. The biogrpahy of a "sturdy pioneer preacher who won the heart, if not always the soul, of everyone in Montana Territory." 240 pages including an index.
  TB11991  $35.00



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  Sobel, Dava:  Galileo's Daughter.  New York: Walker & Company, 1999. 6th Printing. Fine in paper covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Signed, inscribed and dated in January 2000 by the author on the title page. 420 pages including an index, text and illustrations.
  TB17425  $24.50



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  Steffen, Jerome O.:  William Clark Jeffersonian Man On The Frontier.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1977, 1978. Second Printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2". In a fine, but price clipped dust jacket. 196 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art.
  TB25953  $20.00



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  Stegner, Wallace:  The Letters of Bernard DeVoto.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Very good in 1/4 blue cloth and paper covered boards with a remainder spray on the bottom edge. In a very good+ dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends (but no chips) and light soiling. A revealing collection of letters compliled and edited by Stegner who wrote DeVoto's biography - The Uneasy Chair.
  TB06553  $17.50



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  Swanberg, W. A.:  Citizen Hearst A Biography of William Randolph Hearst.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1988. Collector's Edition. Fine in full black leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work stamped in the compartments with gilt borders stamped on the boards. The edges of the text block are gilt and there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" containing 555 pages including an index, appendix and text. Laid-in is the publisher's brochure outlining the contents of this volume. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of American History series. A bright, clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's marks, names, dates or book plates.
  TB25945  $75.00



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  Talese, Gay:  Unto the Sons.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine in purple cloth covered boards with bold gilt stamped text on the spine and the same on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" deep. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the first free end page. 635 pages including a bibliography, author's note and text.
  TB23239  $65.00



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  Tassin, Ray:  Stanley Vestal: Champion of the Old West.  Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1973. First Edition, First printing. Fine in pinkish cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6". In a near fine dust jacket but with a price clipped jacket flap and lightly rubbed at the corners of the front panel. 299 pages with index and numerous black and white photos. The biography of Walter Stanley Campbell (better known as Stanley Vestal) who wrote 24 books on the old West.
  TB18464  $35.00



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  Taylor, Robert L.:  Vessel of Wrath.  New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition, First printing. Near fine, an Advance Review Copy In a very good+ dust jacket 1" closed tear on bottom of face. With the publisher's review materials laid-in.
  TB01329  $14.00



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  Trevelyan, George Otto:  The Early History Of Charles James Fox.  London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. First Edition. Very good- in 3/4 leather (calf) and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text on a red leather label and gilt decorations in the compartments. The edges of the leather on the boards is decorated with blind embossing and the end sheets match the marbled paper on the boards. The edges of the text block are marbled. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/4" with a 1/4" chip from the leather at the head of the spine and the leather is worn through at the tips of the boards. The previously weak front joint and front hinge have been professionally repaired. 545 pages including an index.
  TB27063  $50.00



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  Untermeyer, Louis:  The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Second Printing of November, 1963. Very near fine in heavy white covered boards with black and green text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price of $10.00 on the front flap and with light wear and rubbing at the ends of the spine area and at the fore edges of the panels at the folds to the flaps. Laid-in at the front of the book is a book review by the New York Times on the biography of Frost by Jeffrey Meyers. A compilation of a huge body of letters sent by Robert Frost to his friend Louis Untermeyer from March 22, 1915 to January 12, 1959 highlighting not only a deep friendship but many previously unknown facts about the great poet. 388 pages of text.
  TB31474  $15.00



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  Villiers, Alan:  Captain James Cook.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in gilt decorated dark blue cloth covered boards with only hints of rubbing at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with several tape stains to the lower quarter of the spine area. 307 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices, text and illustrated with contemporay art and maps. The author, who had an extensive background sailing square rigged vessels in all the oceans of the world, an in-depth provides biography of Captain James Cook.
  TB15919  $14.00



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  Waters, Frank:  To Possess The Land.  Chicago: Sage Books, 1973. First Edition, First printing. Near fine with just a slight rubbing of the white stamped letters on the spine in a light brown cloth covering. In a very near fine dust jacket with a price clipped jacket flap, a 2"
  TB06110  $28.00



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  Watson, Douglas S.:  The Life of Johann August Sutter.  San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in heavy light brown printed paper wraps with a thread sewn binding. A folio measuring 14" by 9 1/4" with minor creasing at the lower fore corner and with a dent through the wrapper and all the pages measuring approximately 1/8" in diameter which is about 3/4" from the lower edge and 1 1/2" in from the fore edge. This dent (tear) does not impact the text on any page. 5 pages of text. Printed by The Grabhorn Press in 1933 for the "Members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco." This is not one of the print-on-demand, facsimile copies.
  TB24487  $125.00



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  Wilcox, George A.:  A Christian Philanthropist: A Sketch Of The Life of Mr. Daniel Hand and of His Benefaction to the American Missionary Association, For the Education of the Colored People in the Southern States of America.  New York: Rooms of the American Missionary Association, 1889. . Good in heavy paper wraps over a hand sewn binding. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. The front panel of the wrapper has a 2" closed tear at the joint to the rear panel and there are two small chips around the edges. 31 pages of text.
  TB25563  $75.00



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  Wilstach, Paul:  Jefferson and Monticello.  Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First trade edition. Very good in dark blue, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with a raised image of Jefferson on the front board. The front board is faintly spotted and the gilt text on the spine is quite tarnished making it difficult to read beyond 12 inches away. 258 pages including an index, appendices, text and illustrated with photographs.
  TB15618  $20.00



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  Wyeth, N. C.:  The Wyeths: The Letters of N.C. Wyeth, 1901-1945.  Boston: Gambit, 1971. First Edition, First printing. Fine in heavy cloth covered boards with a blue and gilt title block on the spine and a gilt facsimilie of N.C. Wyeth's signature on the front board. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket although soiled at the folds. The front flap has been price clipped leaving the secondary price of $22.50 in place. The intimate correspondence of N. C. Wyeth from 1901 to 1945 as edited by Betsy James Wyeth. A very nice collectable copy. 858 pages including an index, text and numerous illustrations.
  TB25358  $85.00



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  Zabriskie, George A.:  A Little About Washington Irving.  Ormond Beach, Florida: Self-published, 1945. First separate edition. . Near fine in light blue-gray cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board and with printed end sheets. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with faint staining to the upper fore corner of the front board. In a very good+, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a 1/4" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area which is also slightly faded. A presentation copy signed and inscribed by Edward C. Zabriskie (under the author's printed name) to the recipients who "honored Washington Irving High School through unique service." 19 pages of text with a frontispiece portrait of Washington Irving and with seven reproductions of early works of art and black and white photographs. This is a reprint of an article which first appeared in the January Bulletin of The New York Historical Society.
  TB26915  $12.00


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