Literary Biography from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Twayne Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket sunned, price sticker on rear . jacket panel.. 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 0805782672 . Blue cloth binding. xvii, 175pp, black and white illustrations. Chronologies, index, bibliography, notes. A look at the life and books of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff and their much beloved Babar the Elephant children's series.… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679423931 . The autobiography of the acclaimed designer, artist, and children's book author, Leo "Swimmy" Lionni (1910-1999). Many photos and illustrations, including some in color. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Christmas stickers on front jacket flap and . front free endpaper, gift inscription on front free endpaper, jacket . tattered, red stains on fore-edge.. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding. Many photos. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages .

NY: Macmillan. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, owner name on front free . endpaper.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 199pp. Gray cloth. A volume in the English Men of Letters series. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Lacks original slipcase, boards toned, foxing to . some of the tissue guards.. 1937. Hardcover. Off-white buckram with gilt-titled leather labels on front boards and spine. Foreword by John Erskine. Unpaginated. 30 sepia-toned portraits tipped-in with tissue guards printed with biographical information about each writer. Writers include Edna St. Vincent Millay,… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket foxed and toned.. 1970. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0822931931 . Examples of Hemingway's journalism from his 1917 year as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. Frontispiece illustration and rear foldout reproduction of the newspaper's 1925 style sheet. Black cloth binding. xiii, 66 pp. Essay by… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slightly rubbed at the corners.. 1889. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Maroon illustrated cloth with top edges gilt and deckled fore-edge. xxxviii, 385pp + 6pp publisher ads. Color frontispiece illustration with tissue guard, notes, black and white photos and illustrations, appendix, and index. A beautiful copy of this biography of the… Read more about this item

NY: Harcourt, Brace and World. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped, worn, and . price-clipped.. 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. 0151792801 . Edited with an introduction by Edward Steichen. Gray cloth. Photographer and source photographs lists, black and white and color photographs. Although not a biography in the conventional sense, the book starts with Sandberg's immigrant Swedish parents,… Read more about this item

NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. First Printing. Hardcover. 0385196946 . Brown paper quarter-bound in brown cloth. Acknowledgments, black and white photo section, notes, and index. Tytell maintains a striking balance between the rambunctious man and the gifted poet and tells his story not as an act of judgment but as a searching… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges and endpapers foxed, rear hinge weak, . jacket rubbed, chipped, price-clipped, and has a small wedge missing from . the top of the front panel.. 1927. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Decorated orange cloth with orange topstain. Notes and biographical note. A solid copy of this critical biography… Read more about this item

New York and Cleveland: World Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and worn, owner . writing on front pastedown endpaper, edges foxed.. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, 284pp. Many photos. Orange cloth binding. Biography of the prolific, bestselling author of 85 books, and considered to be the "father of the Western". ; 8vo 8" - 9"… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed, jacket flaps creased.. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307959538 . Signed in black marker by the author on the title page. Brown paper quarterbound in black cloth with deckled fore-edge. Acknowledgments. A memoir of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's early years growing up in Gloversville, New York.… Read more about this item

NY: Columbia University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. Underlined, jacket lightly worn. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0231046960 . xxxii, 301pp. Introduction and notes by Taylor. Index. Navy cloth binding. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, jacket price-clipped . and toned.. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. xiii, 340pp. Blue cloth binding. Library of Congress number 64-19258. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's 46th book, in which she relates the New York City literary scene in the early 20th century and her friendships with Amy… Read more about this item

London: Lime Tree Bower Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Page tops foxed.. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 0902441019 . Blue cloth binding. xii, 319pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1894 first edition of this literary biography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, remainder stripe on . page bottoms.. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 067088460x . Index, sources, chronology, profusely illustrated. A look at the lively and talented artist and author, Ludwig Bemelmans, who is best known for his beloved children's book heroine, Madeline, the intrepid Parisian orphan girl. ;… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape. Good in Good dust jacket; Owner stamp and writing indentations on front . free endpaper, pages toned, lower corners bumped, jacket lightly toned and . worn.. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding. New Yorker review of this book laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages .

Washington DC: The Film Company. Very Good; Edges of folder creased.. 1985. Softcover. 32-page illustrated Companion Guide staple bound softcover and 36-page photocopied stapled transcript of the documentary film about the life and work of Herman Melville produced for public television. Both housed in dark green embossed card pocket folder. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall… Read more about this item

NY: The Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and gift . inscription on front free endpaper.. 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0289797721 . The children's book author and illustrator relates a bit about his youth. Many of his illustrations throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages .

Sag Harbor, NY: The Bookman Press. Near Fine; Light arcing indentation line at fore-edge of half-title page, . as if a fingernail were run along it.. 1998. Softcover. One of 200 numbered copies. Photo reproduction frontispiece by Eugene Atget. Printed by the Stinehour Press. Marbled wrappers with glassine jacket. An excerpt about Salters friendship with fellow writer Irwin… Read more about this item