Search Results: Biography & Memoir from Elk River Books

Charlottesville: Hampton Roads, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 314 plus eight plates of photographs. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Blue boards with red spine text. Light bumping to top of spine and dampstaining to bottom of back board and bottom back of jacket.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 208. Front right upper corner has some light creasing and curling.

Billings, MT: Western Organization of Resource Councils, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (23cm), pp. 192. Signed by author on title page. Includes xeroxed epilogue written in 2006 by author, stapled in back. A memoir from renowned conservationist rancher and co-founder of the Northern Plains Resource Council.

Missoula, MT: Friends of The Mansfield Library, University of Montana, 1985. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Small octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 28. Blue cardstock wraps. Introduction by Dale Johnson, archivist. Biographical essay by Brier. Includes several black and white photos and a complete listing of the archival holdings of Dorothy Johnson's papers, correspondance, manuscripts, press clippings, etc. in the University of Montana's Mansfield Library. Light tanning to spine, else fine.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Dedman on title page. Octavo (24.2 cm), pp. 460. White boards with black quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Photographic jacket with $28 price. Slight bumping to head of spine, else fine. A fascinating exploration of the reclusive life and fortune of the duaghter of W.A. Clark, a "copper king" of Butte, Montana.

Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 276. Navy boards with silver titling, pictorial jacket. Jacket has slight edge wear; one dog-eared page.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 630. Light blue boards with peach quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Photographic jacket. Includes 16 plates of black and white photography, 30 plates of full color artworks, bibliography and index. Minor bumping to spine ends and rubbing to jacket, else fine.

Helena, MT: Riverbend, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 333. Signed and inscribed by author on dedication page. Blue cloth with silver titling. Blue and yellow jacket with photo of Coates. Several black and white photos throughout. Light rubbing to jacket, else fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 370. Red cloth with gilt spine titling. Decorative endpapers. Photographic jacket. Includes several plates of black and white photos. Slight bumping to spine ends, else fine.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo (20 cm), pp. 317. Red cloth with navy blue and gilt-stamped titling. Frontispiece author photo with tissue guard. Previous owner's name, dated 1923, on front free endpaper. Small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. Bumping to spine ends. No jacket.This is the third book by MacLane, a "Canadian-born American writer and pioneering feminist whose frank autobiographical account of her life—written at age 19 and published as The Story of Mary MacLane—by Herself in 1902—became an instant best-seller and made her a celebrity for two decades," writes Ohio State University professor Julia Watson. "Called the 'Wild Woman of Butte,' she used a Modernist confessional style to express erotic desires. She was largely forgotten until feminist interest in women’s lives revived her work during the 1970s." In a tribute to women in Montana's history, the Missoulian noted, "She was a sensation, hailed by some as a literary… Read More

New York: Hyperion, 2001. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 362. Signed by both Nielsen and Vollers on title page. Later printing. Navy blue boards and quarter cloth with silver titling. Spine is cocked, former owner's address label on front pastedown.

1981. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Signed by Wells on title page, # 263 of 500 copies. Octavo (21.5), unpaginated. Staplebound, with pictorial wrappers. Gift inscription on title page, wrappers with moderate wear, tear at top staple. Black and white photos throughout. Biography of a famed Northern Michigan fishing guide, James "Rainbow Jim" Coster III, co-authored by his grandson Orie Wells.

Novara, Italy: Instituto Geographico de Agostini, 1939. Hardcover. Very good. Folio (42 cm), pp. [6], 7 - 518, [8: index]. Grey/cream textured boards with red titling and design. Buckram quarter cloth. Decorative endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with Da Vinci's paintings, sculptures, drawings, studies and scientific inventions. Text in Italian. Minor foxing to buckram and edge wear to boards. From the collection of Dr. William J. Kerr (1889-1965), professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine and founder of the Gold-Headed Cane Society. "Giorgio Nicodemi was an Italian museologist, essayist and art historian. He was born in Trieste on May, 29 1891 and dided in Milan on June 9, 1967. In 1919, he became a director of the Civici Musei of Brescia and of the Biblioteca Queriniana, where Nicodemi remained until 1928. In 1928, he became a director of the Civici Musei of Milan, including museums of the Castello Sforzesco. From 1928 until 1938, Nicodemi also taught art history at the… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5cm), pp. 200. Some light staining and evidence of minor dampstain on back dust jacket. Back board and last two pages show light dampstains.

Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 304. Dark gray cloth boards with red spine text. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To my old friend ---, with all good wishes. Dick O'Malley." Bumping to spine edges. Jacket, with original $6.95 price, shows moderate to heavy edge wear, small closed tears and chipping. The classic memoir of growing up in the mining world of Butte, of which publisher Russell Chatham (in his 2004 Clark City Press reprint) wrote, "If you want to read only one book, hoping to finish it with a fairly comprehensive understanding of Butte, Montana, you are holding it now."

Clark City Press, 1996. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 154. Stated first edition, second printing. Beige cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Querencia "is celebratory of lives spent well in the reality of juniper-scented wind, lightning bursts and good hot chili..." (Arizona Daily Star)

New York: Viking Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 424. Red boards with black quarter cloth and gilt spine titling. Photo-illustrated jacket. Minor bumping and edge wear to boards and jacket, else fine. The first 30 years in the life of a vital poet of the Beat era and beyond.

Santa Cruz: Carole Chelsea , 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21.5cm), pp. 141. Black and white photographs throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 588 including notes, bibliography and index. Silver spine titling. Light blue boards with black cloth quarter binding. Pictorial jacket. Pastedowns and free endpapers with black and white drawing of Stratford Hall, Lee's birthplace. Jacket with light edgewear, slight bumping to spine. A definitve biography of Lee by noted historian, Allen Guelzo. Illustrated with several black and white plates and hand-drawn maps.

Hill & Wang Pub, 1986. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 245. First American edition. Translated by Linda Coverdale. Jacket is price-clipped and shows slight bumping and rubbing.