Search Results: Biographies from poor mans books

NY: O. F. Parsons, Publisher. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. 335 pages plus adv pages; Width: 5.5" Height: 7.5". Fernando Wood (June 14, 1812 – February 14, 1881) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and the 73rd and 75th mayor of New York City; he also served as a United States Representative (1841–1843, 1863–1865, and 1867–1881) and as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in both the 45th and 46th Congress (1877–1881). A successful shipping merchant who became Grand Sachem of the political machine known as Tammany Hall, Wood first served in Congress in 1841. In 1854 he was elected Mayor of New York City. Reelected in 1860 after an electoral loss in 1857 by a narrow majority of 3,000 votes, Wood evinced support for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, suggesting to the New York City Council that New York City secede from the Union and declare itself a free city in order to… Read More

Mallette and Vivien Dean. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. C1963. Designed, printed and bound by Mallette and Vivien Dean. Ltd ed of 245. Orig jacket with 4" closed tear to panel bottom. Photo frontis. .

Ferrariae: Manfre. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1742. Cloth. Full vellum, brown morocco spine label. Worm track across first six leaves, into printing. Binding is sound and contents clean. Engraved title. Endpieces. .

Good with no dust jacket. 1881. Hardcover. Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 363 pages; Biography of Painter and Writer. French language. Numerous tissue covered plates. Exemplair 9 of 100 copies on Holland paper. Limited Edition hard cover. Lacking title page. Repaired with library tape [first and last leaves and rebacked with tape. ] not collated. .

Universidad Central DE Venezuela, Caracas: Instituto De Antropologia E Historia,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages; Small tear at foot of spine, otherwsie clean and sound two parts in one voluem. .

N Y: Henry Holt,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 100 pages; DJ olive cloth, some library markings. Contents VG. .

N Y: Thomas Selttzer. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First American Edition. Hardcover. Photo frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Blue cloth, paper spine label, fading to spine. A stalwart of the Labor Party. .

Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 310, [2] pages; An account of her great grandfather, John, Duke of Argyll and his family. Green printed cloth, library markings, contents VG. .

New Directions. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1963]. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxviii, 579 pages; DJ with 8.50 price. DJ edges mildly rubbed, contents VG+. .

Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake. Good with no dust jacket. 1807. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, In Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons.... Two only of 3 volumes. Vols I and 2. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers. 1807. Foxed. External staining. Tears within Vol II’s title page publication statement. .

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf At the Hogarth Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; Some chipping to jacket with paper loss to L of lions on the crown. Fictionalized autobiography. Bright appearing. .

John Lane, the Bodley Head. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 9"; 61 ILLUSTRATIONS by BEWICK. Large octavo, original cloth, gift inscription on end paper, very good, in dust wrapper with scrape to spine. .

Bogota, Columbia: Editorial Kelly,. Good with no dust jacket. 1960. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 217 [5] [1] pages; Top of book waved, covers frayed at edges, contents VG and unopened. .

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 14 portraits . Book sound but shelf worn, Contents G+. .

Portland: Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 9 x 12". One of 675 copies. Orig. Cloth, spine gilt. Frontis. Portrait, photo plates, plans. Book plate of Boies Penrose II. Presentation copy, inscribed to Boies Penrose & signed by author Fiske Kimball on 1/2 title. ; Signed by Author .

Emmert, David. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; "Presented by the author to the General School Library" who, lacking in graciousness, deaccessioned it. Blue, black and silver cloth. Two pieces of black tape at crown and foot of spine. Many photos .

Folio Society. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 6.5 x 9.5" in glassine wraps with publuisher's slip case. .