Biography from Monkey House Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Biography of the Israeli general whose life and career paralleled the establishment and rise of the state of Israel. 466 pages, b/w photo section, index. Jacket clipped, else Fine.

New York et al.: Doubleday, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Brilliant sequel to Palimpsest, 277 pages, index. The celebrated 20th century novelist, essayist, critic and public intellectual continues his the story of his eventful life, covering 1964-2006. Light edgewear to jacket.

Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Unauthorized biography of the son of President John F. Kennedy. Explores his relationships with his uncles & stepfather, his education, dreams & career, and his tragic death in a plane crash in the late 1990s. 370 pages, photo section, index.

Melbourne, Australia: Smith Street Books, 2016. Hardcover pictorial boards. Fine. With illustrations by Libby Van der Ploeg. Story of the life and career of the rock star and cultural icon through his songs & albums, personal facts, characters & persona.

New York: The Noonday Press, 1995 [1977]. Softcover. Very Good. 428 pages, b/w illustration section, endnotes, bibliography, index. Price sticker. Alcott, 1832-1888, was an American writer best remembered for Little Women.

Bombay: Huma Enterprises, 1996. Softcover with vestigial flaps. Very Good. 217 pages. Story of the love of a mother and son and their spiritual journey to happiness.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Introduction by Garry Wills. Personal account of McCarthyism and the blacklist years of the 1950s by the author of Little Foxes, The Children's Hour, and Watch on the Rhine. 163 pages, b/w photo section.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition good. A Half-Century of Rousing Adventure By One of the World's Greatest Explorers. Story of the author's explorations in Siberia & Alaska, an Arctic expedition, his experience with the Danish underground in World War II, and his imprisonment by the Germans. Translated by Johan Hambro. 312 pages,… Read more about this item

Interlaken: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1989. Softcover. Very Good. Papers presented at the Long Island Studies Conference, Robert Moses and the Planned Environment, June 10-11, 1988, sponsored by the Long Island Studies Institute, Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra University, Hempstead. Works by Kenneth T. Jackson, Jameson W. Doig, Peter S. Kaufman, and others. 230 pages, b/w photos, light… Read more about this item

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Edited by the writer's great-granddaughter Margaret R. Medlicott. Written between 1813 and 1871, the journal tells of a rebellious youth, four marriages, his experience in the bookselling and publishing business, and provides a warm and candid portrait of 19th century middle-class English life. 162 pages.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Lengthy biographical essay on the American sculptor of the Minute Man in Concord, Alma Mater at Columbia, the Lincoln Memorial marble statue, and the Spirit of Life in Saratoga. Adams began work on the biography during a visit to Chesterwood and finished it… Read more about this item

New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Biography of the controversial and powerful FBI Director who ran the organization throughout the early and mid-20th century. BCE, 399 pages, index.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Story of the troubled actor, a leading Hollywood sex symbol of his day, his secret double life, and his death at age 44. BCE, 273 pages, b/w photos, light wear.

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007. Softcover. Very Good. Assemblage of mini-memoirs and musings on 20th century America. Edited by Daniel Simon. Inked gift inscription inside cover. 145 pages.

New York et al.: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Softcover. Good. ARC, advanced reading copy, uncorrected proof. Moderate wear, creasing, cover stains, but text unmarked. 508 pages, no index. Biography of the commander of the CSA's First Corps who was active in nearly every campaign of Lee's army, particularly Gettysburg.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Biography of the film director and cinema stylist who came to the United States from Vienna in the 1930s. Preminger's films include The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder, and Advise & Consent. 279 pages, b/w photos, index. Jacket clipped.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Autobiography of the 20th century actress who fled Hitler's Germany to the cabarets of Paris, later enjoyed Broadway and Hollywood stardom, and whose marriage to Rex Harrison ended in scandal and tragedy. 320 pages, b/w photo section. Jacket clipped, close tear taped. First American… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Blue Point Books, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Biography of the early 20th century Chicago doctor, whose brief career changed social perceptions of blind peoples' capabilities. 236 pages, cover wear.

Oxford University Press, 2008 [1994]. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition very good. Explores how de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the 20th century. 349 pages, with a new introduction, endnotes, works cited, index. Light wear to jacket.

New York et al.: Free Press, 2004. Softcover, trade paperback. Very Good. 251 pages, b/w illustrated section, notes & bibliography, index. Light edgewear. Morris, 1752-1816, is one of the lesser-known Founding Fathers, but a wonderful character nonetheless. He served as statesman & diplomat, member of the New York provincial congress & Continental Congress, signer of the Articles of… Read more about this item