Search Results: Biography/Autobiography from Trench Books

Crescent, 1983. Reprint . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Light wear to edges and spine ends, inscription on back of front flyleaf. Jacket shows minimal edgewear. A biographical sketch, with several hundred B&W photos.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1941. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear at corners, endpapers yellowed, remainder mark to bottom edge. Jacket shows edgewear, soiling, not price clipped. Inscribed by the author on a bookplate afixed to the flyleaf. Mr. Sloan writes about his rise to power with General Motors. In collaboration with Boyden Sparkes.

New York: Norton, 1983. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light rubbing, not price clipped. True spy adventure.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1972. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light wear to covers, edgwear to bottom back edge; clean, bright and unmarked. "Reminiscences of Francis Parkinson Keyes". Numerous B&W photos. 600+ pages. Extra postage outside the US.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953. First Edition . Black Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear to covers, spine faded, name & date on flyleaf. "A Biography of Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle".

New York: W.W. Norton, 1939. Brown Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Clean and unmarked, exceptional condition. Jacket shows wear/chipping to edges. "Adventures in 45 Countries". Twenty-second printing of a bestseller. Extra postage outside the US.

New York: Basic, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Superb copy, clean and unmarked. "The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man who Dreamed of Walking the World". Mostly forgotten now, Ledyard travelled widely in the 1700s.

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1956. First British Edition . Green Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal wear, not price clipped (7/6). "An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Anna Sewell (1820-1878), author of that most famous of all animal stories...". Compact volume, 77 pages.

New York: Harper, 1946. First Edition . Gray Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Minor wear at corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket is complete, worn and soiled. Mr. Spring writes of his own discovery of religious values.

New York: Harper, 1946. First Edition . Gray Cloth. Good+/Poor. Modeate shelfwear, light soiling to front cover, unmarked. Jacket quite worn, chipping to edges and corners, soiled.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Minimal shelfwear, light foxing to endpapers, spine a bit darkened, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn; fraying at top of spine, wear to edges, lower back quarter missing, tears and creasing to top back, not price clipped. A thorough biography, several photos, indexed. Heavy volume; extra postage outside the US.

New York: Bantam, 1966. First Paperback Edition . Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Minor edgewear, clean and unmarked copy. "From the dance halls and mining camps of Arizona to deadly aerial combat over Verdun...". The story of Frank Luke Jr, World War I fighter ace. Reprint of the 1928 original.

New York: Morrow, 2006. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Prev. owner's blind stamp on flyleaf. otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket near perfect. A thorough, and detailed, look at the life of the great Barbra Streisand. B&W photos, indexed.

New York: St. Martins, 2006. First Edition . Green Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light wear/rubbing. "My Deranged Quest for the Perfect Husband, Family, and Life", from the co-host of radio's 'Bob & Sheri Show'.

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Spine faded, light wear, prev owner's bookplate inside front cover, binding a bit loose, cello tape repairs where title page and frontispiece meet; unmarked. The inside scoop from one of the silver screen's first moguls. Many great old B&W photos.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Morrow, 1979. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Hundreds of B&W photos spanning the career of big band great Benny Goodman. Photos are from Goodman's own collection. Dealers price sticker upper right corner of jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Reprint . Green Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. Very minimal wear at corners, spine lightly faded, nice copy; small gift inscription inside front cover. "Into Forbidden Afghanistan". Numerous drawings and B&W photos. Signed on the half-title page "With deepest salaams! Lowell Thomas". This is one of the "Century Vagabond Books of Travel".

New York: Free Press, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Small dent at top edge of front cover, otherwise a nice copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal wear. Illus with several B&W photos. A memoir by the two well known New York booksellers.

New York: Harper & Row, 1928. Reprint . Gray Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Slight rubbing to boards, otherwise very clean and unmarked. Jacket shows a bit of wear to edges and spine ends. Originally published in 1928 with the cooperation of Orville Wright, this copy appears to be a 1960's reproduction. Front flap shows price of $3.95. A real nice copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Exeter Books, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Clean unmarked copy, slight bumps to spine ends. Jacket worn at corners and spine ends, small tears and chips to edges, both flaps creased. Hundreds of B&W photos tracing Brando's career through "Apocalypse Now".