Biography from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1865, 1866 1st editions. 504pp., 643pp. illus. orig. blue stamped cloth tall octavos with gilt & silver decorations & titles: near Very Good copies. Hinges cracked but very firm; else clean, complete & tight. A nice set of this important high Victorian era biography of the English businessman/potter and social activist Wedgwood (1730-95)

New York:St. Martin's Press, 1999 1st ed. 361pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [a top edge bump and a top corner bump; touch of top edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947 1st ed. 624pp. frontis. illus. burgundy cloth tall 8vo: Good+ to near Very Good/no dj [some light age browning; touch of shelfwear @ extremities; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A legal biography of Baron Erskine (1750-1823), who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for a time during the early years… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Citadel Press, 1990. 255pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Good [front covers are torn & thumbed @ top edge; edge browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Almost 100 celebrities ranging from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Gloria Steinem dish on their own experiences.

New York: Dover, 1985 1st ed. thus. 228pp. illus. paperback 4to: near Fine. Includes 372 black & white illustrations.

New York: Viking, 1991 1st ed. 323pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Good in a Fine dj [short rem. line bottom edge; age darkening of edges with several tiny fore edge spots; else a complete & tight copy] A bio of the famous English gardener Jekyll (1843-1932).

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983. 249pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Very Good in a near Fine dj [some top edge foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Summit Books, 1983 1st ed. thus. 447pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Good+ to near Very Good.

Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2006 1st ed. 321pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [touch of top edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy]

Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1967 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author ffep & also inscribed by Jesse Stuart. 288pp. mustard cloth 8vo: fair in a Good+ dj in poly cover [some unfortunate insect staining near lower portion of fore edge; else a complete & tight copy; would be Good+ without this flaw] A scholarly lit crit biography of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1995 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 230pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj.

Boulder, CO: privately issued, 1993 5th ptg. 42pp. illus. staple-bound paperback 8vo: Fine.

Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1996 1st ed. 255pp. illus. paperback 32mo: Very Good+ [some foxing of edges; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A shirt pocket-sized book of 150 biographical sketches ranging from Field Marshal Harold Alexander to Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats.

New York: Harper, 2016 2nd ptg. 545pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [small roughed place @ spine tail; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1918 reprint. 333pp. illus. green cloth sm 8vo: Good in a worn dj [age browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977 1st ed. thus. 799pp. burgundy cloth sm 4to: near Fine/no dj.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. 1923 reissue. 224pp. frontis. port. beige cloth 12mo: about Good/no dj [foxing of edges & endpp; else a complete & tight copy] A bio for juvenile readers by the prolific Pennsylvania born writer Whipple (1856-1942).

Oxford Univ. Press, 1986 reprint. 347pp. hardback 8vo: Fine/no dj [bookplate; a turned page corner; else a nice clean & crisp copy] Biographical sketches of all the popes from St. Peter to John Paul II.

New York: Viking, 2002 1st ed. 338pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [dj = tiny closed slit tear @ bottom edge of rear fold; else F] Irish novelist Doyle's first non-fiction work, a literary transcription of his parents' oral memoirs.

London: James Clarke. [1925] 144pp. frontis. port. olive cloth sm 8vo w/gilt spine titles: Good+/no dj [top corners are bumped; some darkening of endpp; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A biography of the Church of Scotland cleric Macfarlane (1861-1923).