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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library edition, 1950 (unconfirmed). An autobiography by England's John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890). This work arose from a dispute with Charles Kingsley of the Anglican Church which also led to Newman's departure from the Anglican… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1962]. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A Modern Library reprint edition presenting Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. Charles George "Chinese" Gordon. With a brief preface… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [c.1939-59]. Hardcover. To say that Frederick William Rolfe (who wrote this pseudo-history under his famous nom de plume of Frederick Baron Corvo) was an eccentric would be to understate the turbulent life of the author. In this Modern Library reprint edition, he describes… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1930. Colonel G. F. Young's profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Marshall Sprague profiles nine mostly European people of means, eight men and one woman, who sought adventure, wealth, hunting and/or the experience of traveling in the untamed American West in the 19th Century. With plenty of black &… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Half Leather. A three-volume first edition (so indicated by Published September 1912 statement and 'K-M' code on each copyright page). An illustrated biography of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) by his friend and fellow author Albert Bigelow Paine. The book is liberally illustrated… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine. 1915. Half Leather. Stated seventh impression, 1915. A deluxe two-volume set presenting the life and letters of John Hay (1838-1905). Beginning with his stint as a personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Hay went on to a lengthy distinguished career in Washington, including as a diplomat and Secretary of State… Read more about this item

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. A first Everyman's Library edition, 1963 of two biographies of Sir Thomas More. A Roman Catholic, More refused to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 067940788X . The evolution of Abraham Lincoln during the period 1831 to 1842 is examined by presidential historian Douglas L. Wilson. During this time, Mr. Lincoln was transformed from an unsophisticated young man to an up-and-coming orator and politician. With two maps of… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good+. 2001. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 0806133872 . A first printing of historian Robert M. Utley's revised version of his acclaimed biography of George Armstrong Custer. Includes a section of black & white photos and a couple of maps. Volume 1 in publisher's Oklahoma Western Biographies series. --- In stiff… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 1566193699 . A first printing of the Barnes & Noble reprint edition of a collection of correspondence between General George Armstrong Custer and his wife Elizabeth Bacon. The letters serve as a revealing history of their life stories. Successful… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of an examination of the Civil War career of Confederate General Daniel Harvey Hill by Hal Bridges. The General, considered to be a competant, able miliary leader, served under Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Braxton Bragg, but… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0684810433 . First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Historian Jeffry Wert presents a detailed biography of George Armstrong Custer, not only detailing his loss at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but also his triumphs… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of a profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive end notes.… Read more about this item

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Stated third impression, September 1922. An exploration of the early part of the life of Edinburgh's James Boswell, the noted biographer of Samuel Johnson and author of other highly-praised works. With numerous illustrations, including a tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Boswell. --- In light… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0060118792 . Stated first U.S. edition, 1971. Per the jacket flap, Christopher Hibbert's work provides the first minutely detailed life of Samuel Johnson since that of James Boswell. Much of the content includes details not known to Boswell, or… Read more about this item

Boston, Chicago: Allyn and Bacon. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. A collection of letters written by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, or Pliny the Younger, intended for the English-speaking student in Latin. Edited, with lengthy introduction, by John Howell Westcott. The text is presented in Latin, with extensive notes by Westcott in the back half of… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Stated new edition, revised. A series of brief biographical sketches, written in Latin, of notable Greeks and Romans by Cornelius Nepos (c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC), a biographer from northern Italy. Intended for the English-speaking student in Latin, this work includes numerous maps… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c.1880s-1920s]. Hardcover. The life of George Eliot (pen-name of Mary Anne Evans) is told in her letters and journal entries. Born in 1819, the English author wrote numerous highly-regarded novels such as "The Mill on the Floss," "Silas Marner" and "Middlemarch," among many others. Entries… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. Fine. 1991. Hardcover. In these two memoirs, Robert Louis Stevenson shares his observations as he travels from Scotland to America, sharing the plight of poor emigrants on a steamship and his experiences crossing the continent to California. In the second part, he describes his unconventional honeymoon at an abandoned mine in the… Read more about this item