BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1979. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to; 771, 15 cloth, rubber stamp on endpaper This was originally published by F. A. Battey & Co. in 1882. Some portraits.

Indianapolis: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong quarto, 449 pages, fore-edge spotted (coffee? tea?) Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. Extensively illustrated with photogravures.

Dublin: James Duffy, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimos; 418. 318 pages, full calf, extra-gilt spines, marbled edges and endpapers, one cover detached. some foxing; ex libris John Sheepshanks, 1852: he was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist. This work covers the years 1760-1820. Wolf Tone and others, inspired by the French Revolution, organized in 1791 to… Read more about this item

New York: Lancer Books, ( 1968 ). First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 16mo, 190 pages, lightly worn wrappers A collection published in the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination. With a photographic section of recent highlights from his life, to go with the biographical material.Lancer book 74-955.

Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. maps, woodcuts, engraved portraits. Quarto, 875 pages, fresh leaves in publisher's original half morocco, bevelled edges, extremities rubbed, title-page lightly spotted, hinges reinforced, dark, varnish-like strip on top cover. The Standard History of Chicago through the 19thC - and not since superseded in its usefulness. [Jewell A18].… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo, green cloth, cracking hinges Coffin was a war correspondent in the Civil War, and was called, "the Ernie Pyle of his era". Most of his post-war books were historical fiction, but this details his travel by train - especiallly the Northern Pacific R.R. - from Chicago,… Read more about this item

London: J. Madden & Co., 1842, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimos; 452. 538 pages, full calf, extra-gilt spines, marbled edges and endpapers, covers rehinged. some foxing, small tear to map at gutter; ex libris John Sheepshanks, 1852: he was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist.. Scarce - especially the large map, for which I find no… Read more about this item

Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1884, 5, 6. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. maps, woodcuts, engraved portraits. Quartos, 648, 780, 875 pages, original most deluxe of the bindings in full morocco, extra-gilt spine and both covers, a.e.g. (sets were done in quarter, 3/4 and full morocco) ; edgeworn, vol. 1 rehinged. The Standard History of Chicago through… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1845 - 1850. Mixed editions. Hardcover. fine . 8vos, embossed blue cloth. Inked name of Lord Barclay Campbell was a Chief Justice and Lord High Chancellor of England. A standard work.

Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. maps, woodcuts, engraved portraits. Quarto, 780 pages, contemporary half morocco, chipped spine, covers detached - in a black cloth custom clamshell box: offered "as is" with various small faults to the pages; folding photographic plate of the Great Fire (at page 758) chipped, and mended at folds. The Standard… Read more about this item

Leeds, Wakefield: B. Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1816. Second edition Enlarged. Hardcover. Good. engravings, woodcuts. Folio; xvi, xvii, 261 [i.e. 268],123, 159, 11: pagination irregular; 42.5 cm. contemporary panelled & diced calf, extra gilt, newly rebacked, foxed . Ex libris Alfred Harris, and G. F. Ferrand. 2 vols in 1. With the… Read more about this item

Cody, WY: Stockade Publishing, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/issued without dj. photogravures, map endpapers, sketches by Bob Edgar & James E. Bama, . 4to, brown cloth,viii, 244 pages An account of the Pitchfork Ranch, founded in 1878. Inscribed to Rod on the title-page by co-author Edgar at Cody, WY 5/19/79, with a sketch of an arrowhead. This is… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, 265 pages, two corners bumped "This work is based upon research in family papers and other sources not previously used by Debs biographers."

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo.192 pages, cloth Letters, mementos, and personal effects from those who sailed on the doomed ship - with a facsimile of a second-class ticket.

London: Macmillan, 1869. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos, 3/4 calf, extra-gilt spine, scuffed (DNB) Robinson was an intimate friend of Lamb, Hazlitt, Madame de Staël, Flaxman, Sir John Franklin, and was acquainted with Goethe, and other leading figures of his day.