Search Results: Biography from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1972 1st Am. ed. 178pp. illus. navy cloth sm 4to: Good+ in an edge torn dj [corner bumps; ink name; owner has written Kipling’s dates on title p. & has made an ink note or two in text; else a nice complete & tight copy] A colorfully illustrated portrait of the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) who was the first English language winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 1931 1st ed. 353pp. illus. burgundy cloth tall 8vo w/gilt titles: Good/no dj [information from original dust jacket is tipped to front & rear pastedowns; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A biography of the French poet and writer by the American lawyer and writer Sedgwick (1861-1957).

New York: Knopf. 1993 1st Am. ed. 551pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj. A literary biography of the Victorian English novelist Trollope (1815-82) with jacket praise from A. N. Wilson, Anita Brookner, Andrew Motion, et al.

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: 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: Twayne, 1969. 150pp. burgundy cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; usual markings from a public library deletion; else a very nice clean, complete & crisp copy, evidently little read. A Twayne lit crit bio of Irish writer Behan (1923-64).

New Haven: Yale Press, 1975 1st ed. 282pp. illus. russet cloth 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj [cover cloth is faded; ink name ffep; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = small tears near spine tail; else nrVG]

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.

Athens: UGa Press, 1968 1st ed. 179pp. blue cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A bio of the Georgia writer Corra May White Harris (1869-1935).

New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980 1st ed. 165pp. burgundy cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good dj in poly cover [corporate gift stamp on ffep; else VG; dj = p-c; else VG] An unemotional scholarly evaluation of the lasting importance of the writing of English novelist David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930).

London: Macmillan, 1997 1st ed. 338pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [edges and endpp. are foxed; text is age browned owing to quality of publisher's paper; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The English writer and editor Massingberd (1946-2007) was a master of the literary obituary.

London: Macmillan, 1995 reprint. 338pp. hardback 8vo: Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [edges and endpp. are foxed; text is age browned owing to quality of publisher's paper; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The English writer and editor Massingberd (1946-2007) was a master of the literary obituary.

London: Macmillan, 1996 1st ed. 338pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [edges and endpp. are foxed; text is age browned owing to quality of publisher's paper; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The English writer and editor Massingberd (1946-2007) was a master of the literary obituary.

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

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).

Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1995 reprint. 150pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. A bio of the English writer Pargeter (1913-95).

Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1963 1st ed. thus. 292pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good. A critical study of the work of Virginia novelist Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945), who won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for "In This Our Life."

New York: Macmillan. 1938 1st ed. 387pp. burgundy cloth sm 4to w/gilt titles & device: Good in a tattered dj now stabilized in a Brodart poly cover [age browning of text and endpp; fore edge is foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A solid first edition copy of this bio of the British actress Fanny Kemble (1809-93), an antebellum celebrity in the USA, who used her prominence to criticize slavery.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994 1st ed. INSCRIBED title p. by author.  222pp.  cloth tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [bookplate; else nrF] Sixteen pioneering men & women are depicted herein by the award winning biographer, among them Meriwether Lewis, John Kirk Townsend, James & Granville Stuart, Pretty-Shield, Calamity Jane, et al.

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