Search Results: Biography - Historical Figures from Texas Star Books

New York: Dorset Press, 1990. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 300 pp. Crisp and bright copy with minor wear and slight foxing on top page edge. Dust jacket has a little creasing and light edgewear. Nice copy.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1964. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green linen-like boards are crisp and bright with light wear to corners and spine ends. Bottom page ends have a little very faint soiling. Interior is clean and without marking. Price-clipped dust jacket haschipping on corners, spine and edges. There are several chips missing, the largest about 1/2". Folds and hinges have some rubbing and wear, and the rear flap fold has 1/2" tear. White of flaps are darkened on edges. 530 pp.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Brace, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 310 pp. EX-LIB copy with usual stamps, markings, etc. Front free end paper has been excised. Dust jacket is in library mylar cover taped to boards. Light wear with clean text block.

Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1977. Facsimile Reprint . Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Historical facsimile reprint. 300 pp. Bright and crisp copy with light wear on corners and spine ends. Very faint spotting on page edges. Nice copy without dust jacket.

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography of Mary Tudor, Mary I, Henry VIII's daughter dethroned by Elizabeth I. Clean and crisp copy with slight shelfwear and a slight scuffed spot and faint pen mark on ffep. Dust jacket has a little chipping and light tearing on edges and along spine ends. Nice copy.

Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 226 pp. Inscribed by author on title page. Crisp, tight and bright copy - previous owner's bookplate on front pasted down paper. Dust jacket is bright with very minor wear. In protective cover.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd Ptg. Great tri-color book - red, white and blue. Tight and crisp, clean and bright copy with very light shelfwear and no interior markings. Dust jacket has minor edgewear and slight rubbing.

New York, NY: Free Press, 2005. 1st Am. Edn., 1st Ptg. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 501 pp. Bright, tight, clean and crisp copy with slight spine end bumping. Dust jacket is also bright and crisp with light edgewear and rubbing. Spine ends have light creasing and bottom of spine has 1/4" closed tear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Am. Ed., 1st Ptg. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 877 pp. Bright copy with slight right lean and minor shelfwear. Gift message for previous owner on front free end paper. Dust jacket has chipping on top of spine with light corner wear. Edges have some creasing with small tears - 1" tear on top edge of rear panel. Light rubbing shows on front white background.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 2nd Printing . Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By noted British historian and biographer. 774 pp. Crisp and clean copy with light wear and rubbing to dark red cloth boards. No dust jacket.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography of England's medieval king. 479 pp. Tight copy with light wear to boards. Front end papers each have small spot - else clean interior. Dust jacket has small tear on bottom front edge near hinge. Light chipping and yellowing to white background. Now in protective cover.

New York: World Publishing, 1971. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 2nd Ptg. Tight, crisp, bright and clean copy. Gray cloth boards with embossed front cover and large black print on spine. Very light wear to corners and spine ends. Rubbed line across front board near bottom edge. No dust jacket.

New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is crisp and tight with a little faint spotting on bottom page ends. No interior markings. Minor edgewear and one instance of dogeared page. Dust jacket has chipping with loss and tearing on back top. Creasing and edgewear with rubbing. Intact with bright red and FDR's famous profile with cigarette holder in black on front.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 220 pp. Crisp, bright and clean copy with the slightest bumping on spine ends. Dust jacket is bright and crisp with very slight rubbing. Appears unread.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book club edition - Tight bright copy with minor shelfwear and slight soiling to page ends. Corner bumping and edgewear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. Tight, clean, crisp and bright copy with very light shelfwear. Appears unread. Dust jacket is bright and colorful - has a small ship missing fron front hinge area and very faint rubbing. Very nice copy.

New York, NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 376 pp. Book has a very slight right lean and light wear to edges and corners. Clean interior. Dust jacket is bright with light edgewear. Nice book club copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Quill, 1999. 1st PB Ptg. . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 364 pp. Trade paperback is tight with minor wear to wrapper. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page. Red page numbers on reverse of front wrap, and noted pages have small red check marks in text.

Port Arthur, TX: La Belle Printing Company, 1977. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Life story of a little know industrialist, Arthur E. Stilwell, who built Port Arthur, Texas, as the terminus of his Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf Railway. First printed in the Saturday Evening Post, 1927-8. This is the second edition. 112 pp. Green boards with bright gilt graphics and print. Clean and tight copy with light edgewear. Last two pages have diagonal crease. Dust jacket has very light wear and somewhat faded spine.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1925. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography of early famous boxer/pugilist John L. Sullivan. 209 pp. Spine is cracked but intact. Green cloth boards with black design and embossed print. Moderate bumping to corners and spine ends - head of spine has light fraying. Some wrinkling of cloth along front hinge and spine. Some staining and soiling. Clean interior.