Biography, General  (See also Military Biography)

[5502] Alexander, Holmes. To Covet Honor : A Biography of Alexander Hamilton. Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1977. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0882792326. Dust jacket like edge wear, 473pp. $4.00 [3297] Angelou, Maya. Maya Angelou, 4 Vols. NY: Bantam Books, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. As New ISBN: 0553634798. Cased set of four Maya Angelou books: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Gather Together in My Name; Maya Angelou Poems; Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. $5.00 [3254] Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a Woman. NY: Bantam Books, 1997. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0553380095. 324pp. Fourth volume in autobiography series. Appears unread. $2.00 [6166] Appleyard, John. Stephen R. Mallory Secretary of the Navy Confederate States of America. Pensacola FL: John Appleyard, 1993. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. As New 27pp., illus. Biographical article on Stephen Russell Mallory U.S. senator from Florida and CSA Secretary of the Navy. $4.00 [5534] Astor, Gerald; Jacobsen, David. Hostage : My Nightmare in Beirut. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Donald I. Fine Books, 1991. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 1556112653. Dust jacket rear sticker paper lift, remainder mark lower page ends, o/w appears unread, 308pp. $2.00 [3076] Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh. NY: G. P. Putnam, 1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0399144498. 628pp., illus. Third printing. Biography of Charles Augustus Lindberg. $8.00 [3503] Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh. NY: G. P. Putnam, 1998. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0399144498. Dust jacket price clipped, 628pp., illus. Biography of Charles Augustus Lindberg. $5.00 [5731] Branand, Claire D.. Overboard! : A Provocative History of the USS. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850). Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.: Skye Publishing Company, 1999. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0967516005. Remainder mark lower pp edge, 140pp., illus. Author as a teenager visits destroyer, falls over the side, and sues Navy. $2.00 [2301] Cochran, Jacqueline. Jackie Cochran : The Autobiography of the Greatest Woman Pilot in Aviation History. NY: Bantam Books, 1987. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Very Good / Very Good. Usual stamps and pocket, mylar cover, 358pp., illus. Autobiography of woman pilot who began flying in the 1930's. $5.00 [3728] Dolgun, Alexander. Alexander Dolgun's Story. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0394494970. Dustjacket closed tears and nick on back, 370pp. Story of 22 year old American Embassy worker, non CIA, kidnapped by the Soviets two blocks from the embassy and held for eight years in the soviet gulag system. $4.00 [5227] DuPre, Peter. Caught in the Act. UK: Costello, 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0710430558. 250pp. Author's inscription on ffep, "To Marty, Best Regards, Peter Dupre Nov 95" Author jailed for smuggling East Germans out of Hungary. $3.00 [4297] Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. ill. Hall, Kleber. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. Dust jacket with heavy edge wear, soiling and chipping on top edge, 286pp., illus. Riverside Bookshelf for Boys and Girls. $4.00 [3379] Fraser, Antonia. Mary Queen of Scots. NY: Delacorte Press, 1970. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Previous owner's inscription, 613pp. $5.00 [2717] Gillingham, John. Richard The Lionheart. NY: Times, 1978. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0812908023. 318pp., illus. $5.00 [1608] Gross, John (ed.). The Age of Kipling : The man, his works and his world. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. Name on ffep, small closed tears to edge dj, illus. Twenty essays on Kipling and his works. $5.00 [3644] Halasz, Nicholas. Captain Dreyfus : The Story of a Mass Hysteria. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Ex-Library. Very Good Stamps and pocket, chip on lower spine, 275pp. $3.00 [4995] Hutchins, Robert Maynard (ed.). Boswell (Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D) Vol. 44, (Britannica Great Books of the Western World Series). Chicago IL: Encyclopaedia Britannica , 1952. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. As New Blue trim, top edge gilt, volume 44/54 Great Books of the Western World. $8.00 [3359] Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger : A Biography. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0671872362. Remainder mark, appears unread, 893pp. $4.00 [6447] Larrabee, Eric. Commander in Chief - Franklin Delano Roosevelt : His Lieutenants and Their War. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 1988. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0671663828. Clean, tight, no markings, 723pp. $5.00 [2085] Lash, Joseph P.. Eleanor and Franklin. NY: W. W. Norton, 1971. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Moisture stain on page edges, dust jacket closed tears, 765pp., illus. The story of the relationship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt based on Eleanor's private papers. $6.00 [5060] Liddy, G. Gordon. Will : The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy. New York, NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1980. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-312-88014-6 . Library stamp one place, rear pocket, mylar cover, clean & tight, some top pp corners lightly clipped, 374pp. $2.00 [5214] Lyons, Eugene. Herbert Hoover. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1964. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Dust jacket price clipped, book plate ffep, dust jacket top and bottom edges protected by clear tape, 444pp., illus. $4.00 [6568] Michel, Lou; Herbeck, Dan. American Terrorist : Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 2001. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0060394072. 426pp., illus. $5.00 [4542] Miller, Carolyn Paine. Captured!. Chappaqua NY: Christian Herald Books, 1977. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0915684179. Dust jacket edge wear, chips, 288pp., illus. Story of the Miller family, Wycliffe Bible Translators, taken captive in Vietnam in 1975 and held for eight months by the communist. $3.00 [5061] Morris, Edmund. Dutch : A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0-394-55508-2. No marks, 874pp. $6.00 [5558] Nicolson, Nigel (ed.). Volume II of the Diaries & Letters of Harold Nicolson The War Years 1939-1945. New York NY: Athemeum, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 1299528481. Dust jacket heavy edge wear, chips, sunned spine, name on ffep, tight, 510pp. $2.00 [4277] Pollock, John. A Foreign Devil in China. Minneapolis MN: World Wide Publications, 1988. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0890661413. 355pp., illus. Story of Dr. L. Nelson Bell, pre WW2 missionary to China and father-in-law of Billy Graham. $3.00 [3914] Randall, J. G.. Midstream: Lincoln the President. NY: Dodd, Mean & Company, 1953. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Dust jacket edge wear, sunned spine, 467pp., illus. Lincoln at the height of his powers, caught in a swirling current of war, politics and personal tragedy. $4.00 [6816] Rausa, Rosario. R. G. Smith, the Man and His Art : An Autobiography. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 1999. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 076430755X. Mylar dust jacket protector, 112pp. $30.00 [5386] Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The War Years, Vol 3. New York NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth cover, name inside front cover, weak rear hinge, 673pp., illus. $6.00 [2957] Smith, Page. John Adams : Volume 1 1735 -1784. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Dust jacket sunned, 599pp., illus. Vol 1 of 2. $5.00 [5665] Teale, Edwin W. (ed.). Wilderness World of John Muir. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0395240832. 332pp. $3.00 [6448] Thatcher, Margaret. Path to Power. New York NY: HarperCollins Publishers , 1995. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0060172703. Pristine, no marks, 656pp., illus. $5.00 [4479] Vasilieva, Larissa; Porter, Cathy (translator). Kremlin Wives : The Secret Lives of the Silenced Women Behind the Kremlin Walls - from Lenin to Gorbachev. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 1994. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 1-55970-260-5. 251pp., illus. Trans. from Russian. $3.00 [5299] Watson, Bernard. Soldier Saint: George Scott Railton William Booth's First Lieutenant. London UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0340108142. 254pp. Biography of George Scott Railton (1849-1913) early leader in Salvation Army and right hand to General Booth, Army founder. $3.00 [6613] Woodward, Bob. Bush at War : Inside the Bush White House. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0743204735. Clean, no marks, no tears, 376pp., illus. President Bush in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. First printing. $6.00 [5291] Woodward, Bob. Shadow : Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0684852624. 592pp., illus. Examines the Presidencies of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton to show how the office was forever changed by Watergate $4.00 [5112] Ziegler, Philip. King Edward VIII : A Biography. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1991. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0-394-57730-2. Name on ffep, 552pp. $5.00

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