Category: Biography & Autobiography

California of the South, A History, Biographical. Volume III, Illustrated.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Los Angeles, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. : 1933

Seller ID: 2453

Condition: Fine

Vol. 3 only; 501 pp., indexed; 4to; brown fabrikoid, spine titles stamped in gilt; full page black & white portrait photographs throughout. Approximately 250 prominent citizens of Southern California represented, along with brief histories of several institutions such as the Santa Monica Writer's Club, Mount Saint Mary's College, Ventura County Free Library, Redondo Union High School, and Riverside Public Library.
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George John Pettit, A Memoir.

By: 'Bibliopole'.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, (The Book Collector) (1985) : 1985

Seller ID: 9780

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

11pp.; 8vo; stapled wrappers I first came upon George John Pettit, the artist, composer, poet, and architect, in Beak Street in 1960.
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Image for A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated. Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future.

A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated. Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future.

By: (Cover Title: Pen Pictures of the Garden World).

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co. : 1891

Seller ID: 6888

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

637 pp. Illustrated with 34 plates (including 30 steel-engraved portraits, 1 wood-engraved, and 3 from a photographs), including frontispiece. 11x9, original full decoratively embossed brown morocco, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt-vignette on the front cover, inner gilt dentelles, gilt-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" and the spine is lettered "Northern California, Illustrated." Rubbing to covers at edges; moderate rubbing to a faded spine, otherwise a very clean, solid copy.
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Vallejo. Being a Brief Sketch of Don Mariano Vallejo with His Address Before the Junta at Monterey in the Year of 1846.

By: (Friends & Patrons of Schwabacher-Frey Stationery Company).

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Schwabacher-Frey Stationery Company : 1927

Seller ID: 9841

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

12 unnumbered pages; folio; printed, stiched wrappers with chips and three closed tears (up to 1") at edges; first page with dog-eared lower leading corner tip.
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The Future Lasts Forever, A Memoir. Edited by Olivier Corpet and Yann Moulier Boutang. Translated by Richard Veasey.

By: Althusser, Louis.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., The New Press (1992) : 1992

Seller ID: 9902

ISBN-13: 9781565840874

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

365pp.; 8vo; cloth in dust jacket. On Novermber 16, 1980, Louis Althusser, while massaging his wife's neck, discovered he had stangled her. Here the philospher takes us on a journey inside his own madness.
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Germaine, A Portrait of Madame De Stael.

By: Andrews, Wayne.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Atheneum : 1963

Seller ID: 5395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

237 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; green cloth with moderate foxing bottom edge; in price clipped, lightly soiled blue jacket wear at corners & edges; loss up to a half-inch top of spine.
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The Unique Genius of Thomas Paine.

By: Anger, Mark (pseudonym of Irving Israel).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: (by the author) Thomas Paine Productions : 1994

Seller ID: 9366

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Glossy, pictorial wrappers. Contains 91 quotations from the writings of Thomas Paine. San Francisco Actor Irving Israel (aka Mark Anger) 1930-2014, was a stage and screen actor living in San Francisco. His career included The Actor's Workshop with Julius Irving, and Berkeley Repertory Theater.Screen work (as Mark Anger) included episodes of The Streets of San Francisco and the part of Mr. Kroot in American Graffiti. His own The Venture Theatre, produced his one man show portraying Thomas Paine. In the process, based on the introduction he penned for this book, he appears to have become fairly ...
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Diary.

By: Arguello.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Friendso of the Bancroft

Seller ID: 7609

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Fine

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr : 1990

Seller ID: 000558

ISBN-13: 9780312051358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Paper over boards, hint of foxing to top & foredge, in jacket with a few chips at corners, moderate rubbing to back panel, else a bright copy.Illustrated with black & white reproductions.; 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall
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The Forging of a Rebel (complete Trilogy including The Forge; The Track; The Clash

By: Arturo Barea

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Walker & Co. : 2001

Seller ID: 002487

ISBN-13: 9780802776150

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Translation by Ilsa Barea; introduction by Nigle Townson. One of the great autobiographical works of the century.; 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall
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Wittgenstein's Nephew A Friendship

By: Bernhard, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1990

Seller ID: 11171

ISBN-13: 9780226043920

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Illustrated wrappers. ; Phoenix Fiction; 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.4 inches; 100 pages
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"Just a Gigolo", The Life and Times of Louis Prima.

By: Boulard, Garry.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lafayette, LA, The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana : 1989

Seller ID: 3813

ISBN: 0984940490

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near fine condition in fair jacket, in protective mylar wrap.

182 pp.; 8vo; red cloth stamped in gilt, in pictorial red jacket; black & white photographs. Light soil to front endpaper; jacket heavily creased at bottom and top edges with with chips and some loss including a 1" square piece out near heal of spine.

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[Two Volumes] Vladimir Nabokov, The Russian Years; The American Years.

By: BOYD, BRIAN.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press (1990, 1991) : 1990

Seller ID: 8700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

607 & 783 pp. ; 8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Half-inch closed tear inside one flap, but essentially fine copies. Fine in protective mylar wraps
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Clemens of the Call, Mark Twain in San Francisco.

By: BRANCH, EDGAR M., EDITOR.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University Of California Press : 1969

Seller ID: 8906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap

335 pp., portrait frontis; 4to; cloth in price-clipped, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs and other reproductions.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Man.

By: BRANDEIS, ERICH.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: N.Y., American Offset Corp. (1936) : 1936

Seller ID: 8500

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

55 pp.; 8vo; orange wrappers; illustrated with portrait drawing, photographs.
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[3 volumes] Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making; the Years of Peril; the Saviour of the Navy. Plus 2: Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy; Samuel Pepys Curioso.

By: Bryant, Arthur.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London; New York, Cambridge, Collins; Macmillan 1947; 1935;1949 : 1947

Seller ID: 10194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A mixed set of three volumes, first and last titles Collins, New Edition; second volume Macmillan, 1st U. S. edition. 8vo; cloth in jackets, Years of Peril price-clipped; Saviour of the Navy with some foxing to edges, offset tanning to endpapers. Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy, Lees Knowles Lectures Delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge 1919, by J. R. Tanner. Very Good s, with protective Mylar Wrap
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The House of Fear, Notes from Down Below.

By: CARRINGTON, LEONORA.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: N.Y., Dutton : 1988

Seller ID: 9137

ISBN-13: 9780525246480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Cloth-backed blue paper over boards; illustrated white dust jacket. A crisp, clean copy, in protective mylar wrap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages
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George Sand, A Biography.

By: Cate, Curtis.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin : 1975

Seller ID: 4271

ISBN-13: 9780395199541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

812 pp.; 8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket; illustrated with photographs. Near Fine , with protective mylar wrap
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Yuan Shih-K'Ai

By: Ch'En, Jerome

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr : 1972

Seller ID: 000351

ISBN-13: 9780804707893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

Cloth, with a light sprinkle of foxing to top & foredge. Includes bibliography and index.; 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall
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The Price of Power: A Biography of Charles Eugene Bedaux

By: Christy, Jim

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Doubleday : 1984

Seller ID: 000679

ISBN-13: 9780385189095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Illustrated with black & white photographs; includes index, appendices, notes. The story of a rags-to-riches millionaire, inventor, and explorer - until the charge of treason.
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Category: Biography & Autobiography