Biographical Essay (73 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In an effort to grow Lou Gehrig's star (today we would call it His Brand), pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou's tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Until now, those columns were largely forgotten and lost to history. Here you have those accounts followed by an insight biographical essay by historian Alan Graf. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have around 215 baseball biographies and more than 90 books on Yankee players and teams in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

Softcover. Condition: Fine+. An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Price Cl'd, Else Very Good. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7ū" - 9ū" tall. Corner tips lightly rubbed. D/j has top and bottom front flap corners clipped, light edgewear. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. 366 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Henry Vaux (Cover Illustration); George Mackie (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 214 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 142 pages, illustrations; 25 x 30 cm. Design by Marvin Israel. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Previous owner's blind stamp/back flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Profusely illustrated. Another copy available. *** "A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: "For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them." Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/FR. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Printing. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. G/FR. (1975). First Printing. Cloth w/DJ. REVIEW COPY. Has an inserted photograph that is indicated to be used in the publication. . 8vo., xiii, 366pp., tears in Dj, Dj rubbed, ink and pencil markings .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 144 pages. Clean inside, illustrated with photos. Boards are discolored and have age spots, spine cover has a one inch crack, corners bumped. Essay "Man of the Century" by Grunwald. Includes The Churchill Family Tree, Churchill in the military, As a Artist/Painter, As a Writer, Politician, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photo - Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Navy blue cloth binding with light blue p[rint on spine. Very Light wear at spine ends. Light grey endpapers. Light black rubbing at top area of hinge in front endpapers. Tight, sound and otherwise unmarked. 142 pages including bibliography. Book published in conjunction with " Lewis Hine Retrospective" by the Brooklyn Museum, 1977. Dust Jacket Has closed tear in top corner of rear cover. and small tear on top edge. Wear at both spione ends with small divot on top. Ligght tatter on top edge of front panel near foredge. In mylar and not price-clipped ($22.50)_. Slightly larger than standard book, S&H may be adjusted.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 142 pages, illustrations; 25 x 30 cm. Museum Edition. Design by Marvin Israel. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. *** "A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: 'For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them.' Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. New Edition. No dust jacket. ; Originally published in 1891 by Gale & Polden Ltd with the title The Battle Of Spicheren, August 6th, 1870, And The Events That Preceded It, A Study in Practical Tactics and War Training. ; 272 pages.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL UPI Photos (illustrator). First Edition. VERY GOOD Condition,; cover has large photo of Winston in dark bow tie. ; 14pg pages; picture history,well written text with large selection of pictures, white hard covers.

1988. South America. University of Iowa, 246 p., very good -fine cloth and dust jacket still in original shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 863pp; Index. Blue cloth, gilt stamped; gilt lettering on red spine blocks. DJ front cover affixed to front pastedown; dj blurb affixed to front blank endpaper. Owner's name written in pencil on front endpaper: W.K. Bracken. Former college library volume with customary stamps and labels. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. DJ: By far the largest single-volume collection of Lincoln papers and the only one completely annotated for the guidance of the general reader.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine condition. Trade paperback. Former store price sticker on free front endpaper. Very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing inside the front cover and on the title page. ; Original wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rubbed. Library stamp on inside front cover. No DJ. Clean, no writing, no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing inside covers and on opposite pages. ; Two items including May 1970 Supplement "Consisting of Some Works 1968-1970." original wrappers, 64 & 16 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original blue cloth-covered boards with light rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1942. First (1st) Printing of the "First Modern Library Giant Edition" (stated at top of copyright page). Very Good+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, lightly tanned, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full blue cloth, Modern Library Toledano Binding Style G4, colors uniform but a little dulled at the spine, unmarked off-white endpapers, and corners bumped, with abrasion wear to the top edge. No Jacket. See the photos. xxvi, 683 pages. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Included are letters, addresses, orders, memoranda and other writings from 1832 to April 14, 1865. Edited with a Biographical Essay by Philip Van Doren Stern, and an Introduction by Allan Nevins. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 842 grams / 29.7 ounces, and, when packaged, may require extra postage for international shipment.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Frontispiece (illustrator). First Printing. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, and labels; Some light rippling to top edge of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Maroon top page edges. Light blue cloth in great condition, some faint sun toning to spine and library label on foot. 863pp., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7ū" - 9ū" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.

Paperback. 99p., various running texts illustrated with colorphoto and b&w exhibit and site photography, softbound in 8x8 inch color wraps, tail of spine is scuffed one inch otherwise slight general edgewear, partially erased seller's marking on the first blank, a good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xxiii, 198 pp, portrait frontispiece. A very good copy in a dust wrapper with some small tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. 366pp. Faint dampstain on rear board near the bottom edge, very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with corresponding dampstain.

Full Leather. Condition: As New. Nichols, David - Edited with Biographical Essay (illustrator). Collector's Edition. unused.

Subtitle reads: Facsimile reproduction of 21 coloured paintings, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920. Oblong 4to; original cream boards with lettering to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; unpaginated (but pp. 95); colour illustrations to rectos and author-artist's descriptive text in manuscript facsimile to facing versos. Occasional fox spot, else fine. "A Celebration of Birds is the showcase for C.G. Finch-Davies's final twenty-one paintings, and judging by the exquisite detail appearing in the finished works he was, without doubt, at the height of his artistic powers. Publication of the volume - in association with the British Museum (Natural History), London - is intended to perpetuate the memory of one of the world's truly gifted bird artists.".

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 56 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Artist's name embossed on front cover. Full-page B/W illustrations of sculptures. Text in English and Spanish First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Minimal library marks, lightly rounded corners, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; NOTE: additional postage necessary for international shipping; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages.