Search Results: Biography from Zoar Books & Gallery

New York, NY: Times Books, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 286 pages. How the AARP struggled to remake itself into a responsible voice for the aged, and how it largely succeeded, which AARP products are good buys and what to stay away from, and more.

Springfield, IL: Phillip H. Wagner, 1988. Printed Wraps. Very Good. Lloyd Ostendorf. 8 1/2" X 11." 157 pages. Special Edition--June 16, 1988. Reopening of the Lincoln Home. 133 Original Lincoln Drawings. 101 Rare Lincoln Related Photos. Map of the Lincoln Heritage Trail on back. Corners curled.

New York: Continuum, 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 156 pages. Minor shelf rubbing to dj.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882. Decorative Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. 6" X 4 1/2." 184 pages. 7th edition. Illustrated. Two newspaper articles about Celia Thaxter laid in. Front, back and middle hinges broken. Owner's bookplate on ffep. Tissue and frontispiece present. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn. Page behind ffep detatched. Brown boards with gilt lettering.

Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, 1879. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 6" X 8 3/4." 188 pages + Ads. A collection of stories from throughout Lincoln's life. Red boards with gilt lettering and black borders. Spine ends and corners bumped and worn. Lightly soiled. Spine faded.

New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2." 363 pages. Signed "Happy birthday, Mom & Dad! Frank McCourt" on title page. Growing up in depression-era Ireland. Owner sticker remains on front pastedown. Spine ends and corners bumped.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1994. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some rippling on dust jacket front.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1950. Cloth. Very Good/Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 419 pages. With 24 pages of illustrations. Has an introduction, a glossary of persons and a bibliography. Minor soiling to dust jacket. One 1" tear on top of dj spine. Some fading to dj spine.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8" X 5.25.(typ.)" All five books of Leonard Woolf's (husband of Virginia Woolf) autobiography. Book #1 - Sowing, 1880 to 1904; Book #2 - Growing, 1904 to 1911; Book #3 - Beginning Again, 1911 to 1918; Book #4 - Downhill all the Way, 1919 to 1939; Book #5 - The Journey Not the Arrival Matters, 1939 to 1969.

Neptune City, NJ: Paganiniana Pub., 1981. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/2" X 11", 144 pages. Z-53. Illustrated throughout. Contains pictures of music sheets. Some foxing on edges. Spine tail bumped.

New York, NY: Coward-McCann, 1966. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good+. 220 pages. 5 3/4" X 8 3/4" (8vo). With photographs from Carson McCullers' family Album. Book spine ends bumped. Dust jacket has two small tears on the top edge, one of them on the spine. Spine ends bumped & worn. Some staining of dj with minor foxing.

New York: Knopf, 1973. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 272 pages. Publisher stamp on rear board. Minor shelf rubbing.

1st Books, 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6" X 9." 367 pages. Memoir of the war in France.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. 8.25" X 5.75." 263 pages. Book - spine ends and rear bottom corner bumped. Dust jacket - light soiling, corners and spine ends chipped with a small tear on spine tail.

Holyoke, MA: City of Holyoke, 1973. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 389 pages. Green boards with gilt lettering. Embossed picture of women on front cover. Written for Holyoke's Centennial. Illustrated with photos of famous Holyoke women. Errata slip pasted to ffep. A beautiful copy.

New York, NY: Arts Magazine, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. 9 1/4" X 12." 168 pages + advertising. Contains a 1963 directory of museums and galleries. A tearsheet of Klimt's "The Kiss" is laid in at page 150. A collection of critical essays, reviews, articles and memoirs, The Best in Arts brings together some of the most lively and refreshing writing from the pages of ARTS MAGAZINE. Spine ends bumped and slightly worn. Some shelf wear and light soiled dust jacket. Small tear on bottom front of dj.

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota: John R. Meyer, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 334 pages. Brodart protected. Small 4to. Inscribed "To my friend "Charlie", with best wishes & good luck, J S(?) Robinson, Feb 21/82". Illustrated with 24 beautiful color photos and paintings by the nations top wildlife artists. There are over 150 pictures dating from the turn of the century. Head of spine bumped. Dust jacket has some edge wear and tiny tears on edges.

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5" X 8." 253 pages. The story of how this Harvard dropout created the operating system that would become the worldwide standard for millions of computers is legendary. And equally legendary has been the take-no-prisoners tactics of his corporate colossus, Microsoft. We've witnessed Gate's transformation from a geeky wunderkind into a business titan.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1957. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Edwin John Prittie. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2." 276 pages. Part of the children's classics series. Great story. Lightly soiled. Spine ends and corners bumped.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1952. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 9" X 6". 345 pages. Signed by author on title page. Inscribed by author on ffep: "To Wells and Finette with love from Wally and Beth, 1952." Here is a dramatic story of political graft, of the man who symbolized it, and of the publisher who exposed him. Slight fading to spine. Light chipping on top edge of dust jacket.