Biography from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Silver Arrow Books; William Morrow, 1990. First edition, signed by Borman on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy, jacket price-clipped. 95 x 6.5 inches. 448 pages. Original white cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "From the time he was sworn in as a cadet at West Point in 1946 to the day he resigned from the… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine dull and with a slight tear. 8vo. Illustrated. Original cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition of this work comprised of biographical portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Edison, Henry Ford, Lenin, Mussolini, and Calvin Coolidge. One of 200 copies in this binding and signed by Bradford. The… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing, 1992. A fine copy. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 224 pages. Boards; dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and with letter from author laid in. First Edition. "Bolt from the Blue is Pintoff's vivid accout of his stroke and his determined struggle to recover. A natural storyteller, Pintoff weaves an… Read more about this item

City of Washington: Sold by Wilder & Campbell, New York, 1825. Some light browning to text, soft creases (probably from pressing during rebinding) at beginning and end, generally very good plus. 8vo (21.4 x 12.7cm) Engraved portrait frontispiece after Charles Wilson Peale by Rawdon, Clark & Co (lightly offset on title). viii, 364 pages. Modern half calf preserving… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. A near-fine copy with some light spotting to sheet edges and spine panel of jacket. 8vo. 490 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. The story of McGregor's early life in the inner city, through prison, and his eventual life as a Fortune Society counselor, prison-reform spokesman, and Hollywood actor.

New York: Asher Aarons / Harper Collins, 1992. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear to the jacket. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Rivers on the half-title: "For Susan / Happy birthday / Larry Rivers.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927. Two volumes, 8vo. Plates. Original cloth; dust jackets. Owner's inkstamp crossing text on title, wear and chipping at extremities of jackets. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Scarce with jackets.

Padua: Seminario, 1807. First edition. Dried and somewhat cracked, bottom spine compartment perished, internally a fine, crisp copy. Two parts in one volume, octavo (240 x 165 mm). 441 pages. Errata leaf at end. Contemporary Paduan red morocco, richly gilt, the arms of Padua at center of each side, a wide gilt floral border, spine gilt, black morocco… Read more about this item

Haarlem: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Fine. Folio. Illustrated by René Ben Sussan. Original floral-decorated cloth; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Translated from the French by Arthur Machen. Selected by J. Rives Childs.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Fine. Quartro. Woodcuts in color by Robert Quackenbrush. Original patterned cloth, title label on spine; original glassine; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 605 of 2,000 copies signed by the illustrator.

New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1901. 2 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece and photographic plates. Contemporary plum morocco gilt, spine with acorn tool centered in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered in the remaining two, marbled boards, top edges gilt (slightly sunned, a few small chips at extremities). FIRST EDITION. An attractively-bound set.

London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society [by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh), 1924. 3 volumes, octavo. Printed in red and black. Frontispieces and plates. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated blue cloth, original purple silk page-markers preserved (slightest wear at extremities, generally clean and bright). Provenance: Walter Chrysler (morocco booklabel). A FINE SET OF THE NAVARRE EDITION. This reprints the text… Read more about this item

London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. 4to. 397 pages. Frontispiece. Portrait, facsimiles and plates. Quarter vellum, gilt-lettered on spine, marbled boards (vellum somewhat mottled). FIRST EDITION. Limited issue, one of 1480 numbered copies. This volume was issued uniformly in format with the Keynes Collected Works published by the Nonesuch Press two years earlier.