Search Results: Biography from Caterwaul Books

NY:: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A tight clean copy in dustjacket with slight . rub to top flap edge. Rem mark. 2000. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679445994. 331 p.; "Julia Markus focuses in particular on the American Charlotte Cushman, the most-famous English-speaking actress of her day, and on the Scottish Jane Welsh Carlyle, a brilliant London hostess who gave up private ambition to become the wife of her friend Thomas Carlyle. " B&W illus.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Victorian Women, History.

NY:: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in fine dust jacket!. 2010. Hardcover. 9781400066919 . 1st Printing; Gypsy Rose Lee, 1911-1970. B&W illus. .

Cambridge, Ma:: Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A bright solid copy in price-clipped . dust jacket with light rub to spine ends. 1968. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 505 p.; Leading 19th-century American Botanist & Advocate for Charles Darwin in America. B&W photos. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Botanical History.

Francestown, NH:: Marshall Jones Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Tiny nick to heel of dust jacket; . else, a tight clean copy!. 1985. 1st Edition (?). Hardcover. ISBN: 0833801902. 500 p.; Volume 1. B&W illus. + color plate by Copeland.. Catalogs: Biography.

NY:: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Bright clean copy with slight crimp to heel. 1999. 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525942572. 288 p.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Chinese American Literature.

Iowa City:: University Of Iowa Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A fine copy in fine dust jacket!. 1992. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 087745356X . 261 p.; Singular Lives: The Iowa Series In North American Autobiography. Foreword by Albert E. Stone. A Mesquakie Poet's recreation of his life on the Black Eagle Child Settlement. B&W illus. .

Singapore:: Times Books International,. Near Fine; Bright solid copy with modest creasing to bottom front . corner of cover. 1995. 1st Edition (?). Softcover. 260 p.; B&W photos. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Malaysian History, Penang Politics.

NY:: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket; A tight clean copy with just a hint . of soiling to tan cloth boards and top edge. No dust jacket.. 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 121 p.; Scribner's "A" and Colophon on copyright page. Woodcut illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Armstrong Perry.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Steamships, Inventors.

Tuscaloosa:: University Of Alabama Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in white dust jacket . with modest creasing to flaps and short crease top edge of front panel.. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0817303375 . 249 p.; George Johnstone (1730-1787) : Creator of a Gulf Coast colony in West Florida, Commander of a British naval warship, member of Parliament, notorious duelist. B&W illus. + maps .

NY:: Persea,. Near Fine; A bright fine copy!. 1975. Reprint. Softcover. ISBN: 0892550147. 297 p.; New Introduction by Alice Kessler Harris. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Jewish Immigrants.

Dunfermline, Scotland:: Cualann Press. As New; A bright fine copy in glossy pictorial wrappers!. 2003. Stated 1st Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0954441621. 192 p.; "Recounts the tale of Robert Burns, a grandson of the Bard, who sailed to Singapore in 1846 and worked as a trader in Singapore, Labuan, and along the North-West coast of Borneo. He was a courageous, at times foolhardy young man, who was the first European to explore a major river system in the country that is now the East Malaysian State of Sarawak, and which was then controlled by the Kayan, one of the fiercest tribes of headhunters. Burns was murdered by pirates at sea off the northern tip of Borneo. Burns' death evoked a furor in Singapore, Scotland, and the House of Commons. The torturous attempts to reveal the young man's true identity end with a newspaper report and the discovery of a letter from a hitherto unknown brother who practised as a 'surgeon' in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In a century replete with accounts of… Read More

Cambridge, Ma:: Harvard University Press. Fine with no dust jacket; Small owner's name; else, a tight clean copy!. 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 285 p.; [NAP]; Red buckram boards; Gilt spine lettering; No dust jacket. B&W illus + frontispiece. Boston Preacher; "Father of Civil and Religious Liberty in Massachusetts & America.". Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: American Colonial History.

NY:: Free Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in dustjacket!. 2003. 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0743226860. 316 p.; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879) & Charlotte de Rothschild (1819-1884). B&W illus.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: History, Victorian England, Jewish Bankers.

New York:: Carroll & Graf Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Remainder . line bottom. 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0786707046 . England's legendary Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. "The extraordinary story of young Winston in Africa--as Boer War correspondent, combatant, prisoner, fugitive, and hero. " With B&W illus. .

NY:: Harcourt, Brace & World. Very Good+; A tight clean copy with minor edgewear and modest tanning . to cover. Small price sticker. 1963. 1st Edition Thus. Softcover. 248 p.; A Harbinger Book. With A New Introduction by Alan Heimert. Originally published in 1891.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: American Colonial History, New England, Christanity.

Edison, N.J.:: Castle Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in fine dust jacket! 2004. Reprint. Hardcover. 177 p.; Portraits of twelve of the most distinguished courtesans in Paris during the Second Empire. B&W illus. .

Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Remainder line to top edge.. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 340 p.; B&W Illustrations .

NY:: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Faint damp mark top page corners; . else, a tight clean copy in dust jacket with light edgewear and chipping . to spine ends. 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 417 p.; Winner of the Modern Language Association Oxford University Press Award to encourage work providing a greater understanding of significant literature in a foreign language.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: French Literature.

Chapel Hill, NC:: University Of North Carolina Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Very slight rub to cloth at heel; else . a bright fine copy!. 1974. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0807812218. 283 p.; 18th-century American Botanist. Illustrated endpapers + Map. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Botanical History, Colonial American History.

NY:: Free Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in fine dust jacket! . Rem line bottom edge. 2001. 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 068486715x. 242 p.; B&W illus.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: American History, Steamboats, Inventors.