Biography from Browsing Is Arousing

Boston, MA: MFA Publications , 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to edges of cover boards. Record # 354718

New York: Greenwillow Books, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures in center. Tight copy. Record # 354645

NY: Crown, 2021. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. 394 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became… Read more about this item

London: British Library, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Ernest Cromwell Peake arrived in the Hankow region of inland China in 1899, the first medical missionary to attempt to bring modern medicine to the rural Chinese. Black and white images throughout.… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 380 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, translated by Andrew Hurley. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, small water stain on top and bottom spine edge, otherwise, internally very clean and tight copy. Record # 456654

Buffalo NY: Prometheus Books, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages, b&w photos. "At night she was a loving wife and mother. During the day, she'd put her children on the school bus, pack her sequined G-strings and feather boas, and leave for New York City - to take her… Read more about this item

NY: Calla Editions, 2010. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 119 pages. Hardcover. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Picture this: A master photographer shoots the most breathtaking movie star of her time high in the Canadian Rockies in the summer of 1953. And the negatives are filed away for nearly 60 years —… Read more about this item

US: Bulfinch , 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 264 pages includes index. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A graceful, lively memoir by photography's first historian, with accounts of his friendships with many of the century's great photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Newhall (1908-93) wrote… Read more about this item

NY: Freundlich Books, 1986. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 795 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy. 'A work of immense historical proportions - a biography of America's first and possibly greatest broadcast journalist.' Notes on primary manuscript sources, index, bibliography. The definitive biography of… Read more about this item

NY: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 99 pages, b&w photographs, genealogical chart on front end paper. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light rubbing to corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 385176

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Frank Throne. 83 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Frank Thorne throughout. Record # 368673

Wilmington NC: Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts, 2002. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 52 pages, b&w illustrations. A politically incorrect view of the Antebellum South from the view of a girl that lived through it. Clean copy. Record # 385071

NY: Arcade Publishing, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 372 pages with b&w illustrations, index. The life of Western maverick Charles Fletcher Lummis is laid bare in this entertaining biography of the journalist, photographer, poet, and Native American rights advocate who spent most of his life fighting injustice in the West. Mild… Read more about this item

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959. 1st us. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) , English soldier and statesman. The commander of the Anglo-Egyptian army from 1890, he helped to win back the Sudan for Egypt, and was made a peer. After the… Read more about this item

London: Picador , 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 757 pages, b&w illustrations. Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him and Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced… Read more about this item

NY: A. A. Wyn, 1953. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 181 pages. Autobiographical story of young Manuel, growing up near his grandfather's cigar store (complete with wooden Indian) on the corner of 50th St. & Third Ave. The years from 1890- 1910 included The Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, airplanes, cars, movies &… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 399 pages, b&w illustrations. A biography of this important American photographer who worked with the FSA. Clean copy. Record # 385027

NY: Hachette Books, 2022. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 316 pages, b&w photos. A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh PA: Bissell Block Publishing, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in tan cloth with gilt lettering. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in pencil, dated 1913 on a prelim page. 192 pages, 29 illustrations: halftone plates of river, scenery, oil, rigs, glass-making, bridges, mills, comic drawings, few signed Syd Smith. Record # 384843

NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fading to spine. Otherwise clean. Record # 384840