Biography
A Tribute of Bradford Booth
Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in wraps 8vo 6pp. More
Shake My Hand: A Personal Touch with the Past
Point Reyes Station, CA: Floating Island Publications, 1990. Illustrated by with several b/w drawings. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in wraps 8vo 64pp Signed by the author. More
Herbert Hoover: A Public Life
Connecticut: Easton Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, unmarked Near Fine copy. Bound in full leather, spine and covers decorated in gilt, moire-patterned silk endpapers, all edges gilt, silk bookmark. More
Bibliography of Illinois Imprints, 1814-58
Univ. Chicago Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is in very good condition with a very good condition dust jacket. General shelf and handling wear; some general bumping and wear to dust jacket. Interior is clean with a tight spine. More
In Search Of Bisco
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good condition copy. Clean text, tight spine, sharp corners. Very minimal shelf wear to dust jacket including a small nic to top front edge. More
Old Men Forget (Lives & Letters)
Century, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" An acceptable reading copy (heavy wear, creasing to cocked spine, text browning). More
James Monroe (the Library of the Presidents)
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1986. B/w Illustrations. First Edition Thus. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full navy blue leather elaborately decorated in gilt, spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Nice copy. More
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers: Dante and Beatrice
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1906. Black/white Illus. First Edition. PB. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some wear to wraps. Vol. XVIII, No. 3; March 1906. More
One Canada: Memoirs of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker
Macmillan of Canada, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed by former Prime Minister Diefenbaker on House of Commons notecard taped opposite title page, with typed note to Verna Sturrock. Also inscribed on title page by Sean O'Sullivan, M.P. (at that time the youngest M.P...... More
Mars versus Maple School
Seattle: University Book Store Press, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and inscribed by author to noted American writer David Shields. Very scarce. More
Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries
New York: HarperCollins, 2010. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A VG+ copy. Light wear. More
The Reenactments: A Memoir
W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Light shelfwear, else a clean and tight copy. More
Unspeakable Joy
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and inscribed by author to noted American writer David Shields. Shields provided a laudatory blurb for this book, which fills about one third of the rear cover. More
Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough, with Twenty-Six Years' Experience as a Public Speaker
Springfield, Mass. Bill, Nichols & Co., 1869. Illustrated By George Cruikshank and Others. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition of this classic autobiography of one of the world's leading temperance advocates. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt (light wear to cloth). 552pp Illustrated by..... More
Autobiography of a Face
Harper Perennial, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good condition. General shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine. 236 pp. More
The Confessions of a Collector
London, England: Ward & Downey, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original red cloth, paper spine label (label darkened, wear to cloth with heavy wear to foredges and some nicks and holes to cloth; bookplate). Inserted at front is one of the more unique publisher's labels..... More
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Volume XIII (Orators Book II)
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1903. B/w Plates, Elaborately Hand-Colored title Page;. First Edition. Full-Suede. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full green suede, brown leather labels stamped in gilt, top edge gilt (some fading to suede; chip to top of spine). More
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers (Book I) Volume XVIII
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1913. B/w Illustrations. Later Printing. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Full flexible green leather (not suede). Binding chipped and rubbed. Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood. William Godwin and Mary Wolistonecraft. Dante and Beatrice. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. Charles Parnell and Kitty..... More
Mark Antony (series: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators)
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1903. Frontis. First Thus. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Series: Little Journeys: Volume XII, No. 2, Febuary, 1903. No frontis, some wear, tear to foot of spine. More
A Silver-Plated Spoon
London: Reprint Society, 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and inscribed by auhtor on front endpaper: "... 'a fabulous story'..." Good hardcover reprint in jacket (jacket darkened with wear; binding has some minor dampstaining to edges). More
The Milk of Paradise: Diaries, 1993-1997
John Murray Pubs Ltd, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Hardcover in jacket (a prior reader has folded a fair number of page corners; ink name). More
Famous Builder
Graywolf Press, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed and inscribed by author to noted American writer David Shields on the dedication page (beneath the inscription to his parents: "And For David Smith - With admiration for your writing and all best wishes. Take care Paul."..... More
A Mother's Tale (21st Century Essays)
Mad River Books, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good hardcover in jacket (some bumping and wear). More
Memoirs of Marmontel Written By Himself (volumes 1, 2, and 3 - of four)
Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, 1808. First Edition Thus. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Attractive small leather-bound set in 3 volumes (of the original 4), bound in early 19th-century full brown polished tree calf, spines with twin black morocco labels and compartments elaborately bordered with..... More