Search Results: Biography from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1999. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A71

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 2005. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Greenwillow Books, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. G

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in near-fine (price-clipped; tape reinforcement inside jacket at spine top), mylar-protected dust jacket. NF27

New York, NY, U.S.A: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. She was a living legend, a symbol of fierce independence who defied convention to live life on her own terms. He was the greatest screen actor of all time, the personification of the rock-solid American male. During their twenty-six years together, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy mesmerized the world with their famous on-screen chemistry like no other couple. Yet their private love affair - which ended only with Tracy's death in 1967 - remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, as Hepburn turns ninety, international best-selling author Christopher Andersen draws on his own extensive conversations with Kate - as well as those who knew the legendary duo intimately - to paint the first full, inspiring portrait of these beloved American icons and the life they shared. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, , in fine, mylar-protected dust… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Weidenfeld & Nicholson., 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AFRICAN LIVES offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the "white tribe" in Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that inexhaustible continent. It presents an irreverent and original collection of characters, crises, and stories, amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys, missionaries, and knockabouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years, Denis Boyles, journalist, writer, and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats, sketches portraits not only of some of the great personalities of the past--Rhodes, Lugard, Markham--but of such colorful, more contemporary figures as Patrick Shaw, a police official in Nairobi;… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton, 1990. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A6

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Limelight Editions, 1984. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Actors, friends, and critics reminisce about the famous British actor's career, stage performances, and work as a director Contributors include Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Bennett, Michael Billington, Peter Brook, Michael Coveney, Christopher Fry, Derek Granger, Alec Guinness, Harold Hobson, Angus McBean, John Mortimer, J.C. Trewin, Emlyn Williams, and Irene Worth. Fine, first edition, first printing,in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BIOS1

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine (sm upper front flap crease), mylar-protected dust jacket. A69

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1986. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. N38

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ALL TOO HUMAN is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president & his other advisers at every important moment of the first term. What Liar's Poker did to Wall Street, this book will do to politics. It is an irreverent & intimate portrait of how the nation's weighty business is conducted by people whose egos & idiosyncrasies are no sturdier than anyone else's. Including sharp portraits of the Clintons, Al Gore, Dick Morris, Colin Powell, & scores of others, as well as candid & revelatory accounts of the famous debacles & triumphs of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2002. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A27/A58

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. Mint, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A69

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, 1993. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very readable, compact and concise history of THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, this is the best single volume of presidential biographies we know. The book includes the important data on the lives and political careers of each chief executive through William Jefferson Clinton, as well as the major issues, policies, and events that marked each presidential term. This is a very fine reading copy, and the book includes several sections of of black-and-white presidential portraits. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A38/II/A69

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, Publishers., 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Original Cloth. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very fine, first edition, first printing in maroon cloth boards, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A27/A58

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a biography of the first family of anthropology - Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey, whose discoveries have laid the foundations for much of our knowledge about the origins of man. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BIOS1

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy in black cloth, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A72

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 716 pp.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: The Dial Press., 1996. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. W

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy, in near-fine (rear flap has edge crease, else fine), mylar-protected dust jacket. Z