Search Results: Literary Biography from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned, corners bumped, pages toned.. 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth binding with printed labels on front boards and spine. Many illustrations, index. Maynell and her husband Wilfrid were editorial and publishing partners for several different magazines, including The Pen, The Weekly Register and Merry England. Both Meynells were Catholics and social activists, and Alice was strongly in support of women's suffrage. ; Life and Letters Series, No. 47; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 354 pages .

NY: Grove Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder stamp on page bottoms, . jacket toned and lightly edgeworn.. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780394413495 . Xxx, 302pp, illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1991. Revised Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395631181 . Revised edition of this 1977 title with new foreword by Sexton's daughter and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, front outer joint cracked, 1920 . address by James Oppenheim about Whitman pasted to rear endpapers.. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown paper-covered boards with printed paper spine label. Photogravure portrait of Whitman in Smokey the Bear hat and flowing beard. Signature of Albert H. Boni, possibly the publisher and bookseller, on front pastedown endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages .

NY: McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark on page bottoms, label . residue on front free endpaper.. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0070657599 . x, 211pp. A collection of interviews granted by bestselling author Stephen King from a variety of printed venues from 1979-1987. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: The Horn Book, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket sunned at spine.. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0876752822 . xvi, 216pp. Selected and with an introduction by Jane Crowell Morse. Epilogue, appendix, index. Burgundy cloth binding.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Frederick Warne. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0723237808 . Illustrated endpapers, black and white illustrations, black and white photographs, and Peter Rabbit books list. “In this book writer and novelist Elizabeth Buchan tells the fascinating true story of one of the most remarkable children's authors and illustrators of all time, ” from the rear jacket panel . Features original illustrations by Beatrix Potter. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, remainder stripe on . page bottoms.. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 067088460x . Index, sources, chronology, profusely illustrated. A look at the lively and talented artist and author, Ludwig Bemelmans, who is best known for his beloved children's book heroine, Madeline, the intrepid Parisian orphan girl. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall .

NY: Harcourt, Brace and World. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with closed tears, chips, and . light toning.. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Margaret Freeman Campbell on the front free endpaper. Mustard cloth binding. xvi, 304pp. Black and white portrait photo frontispiece, listing of books by Cabell, and index. “This collection of correspondence between James Branch Cabell and such luminaries at Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, H. L. Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, and many others, offers personal insights into a remarkable group of friends -an assemblage of worldlings with ranging interests, abilities, and temperaments, who delighted and outraged each other. ” from front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679423931 . The autobiography of the acclaimed designer, artist, and children's book author, Leo "Swimmy" Lionni (1910-1999). Many photos and illustrations, including some in color. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages .

NY: Longmans, Green & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Frontispiece photo of Canon Sheehan. xix, 405pp. List of Canon Sheehan’s literary works at rear. Large handsome bookplate of J. A. Coyle on front pastedown of monk reading by candlelight in his room. Biography of the Irish priest and author (1852-1913). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671228110 . Signed by the author on the title page. Gray paper quarter-bound in green cloth. Black and white photos, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index and picture credits. I don't want to read it, but he certainly knows more about me than anybody else does, including myself. Truman Capote quote from the rear jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 632 pages .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket of spine toned.. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670209945 . viii, 438pp, index. White and red cloth binding. Red top stain. A compilation of Auden's favorite literary passages on topics from Accidie and Anaesthesia to Writing and the End of the World. A sharp copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner bookplate on front pastedown . endpaper, jacket creased and rubbed.. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0713802820 . Index, bibliography, illustrations. Relates the tremendous success of Dickens' travels throughout America and Great Britain delivering his dramatic readings of his works. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket rubbed, faint dampstain at heel of jacket.. 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0684141841 . Translated by Moura Budberg and Gordon Latta. Photos, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages .

NY: Walker and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802713629 . xiv, 368pp. Bibliography, works of Chester Himes, notes, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: George Braziller. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket has several small tears, jacket . flaps creased.. 1971. First Printing. Hardcover. 0807606073 . xxiii, 607 pp, index, notes. "Professor Fruman's work is indispensable to students of poetry, criticism, the Romantic Movement, and the creative process, and it should prove to be of absorbing interest to the general reader concerned with literature, ideas, and the psychology of genius." (from jacket blurb); 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and top edges of jacket . foxed.. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 019812614X . xiv, 365pp, index of recipients, general index.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Charles Skilton Ltd.. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and foxed,. 1968. Hardcover. 0284391603 . xv, 184pp. Illustrations. Green leatherette binding. A biography of English author Thomas Hardy comprised of recollections from friends, family, and colleagues. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and soiled, pages toned, shaken.. 1930. Hardcover. Cloth-backed orange boards. A collection of letters by the Irish novelist (1852-1933). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages .