Search Results: Biography from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

1933 three quarter bound hardcover as pictured. Ex-library with usual markings. No volume number given, but on the half title the code is AB 56-1. Red pebbled leather and maroon cloth boards are rubbed and scuffed with moderate edge wear and bumped corners. Marbled endpapers. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes many b&w and sepia toned portraits of featured individuals. Your purchase helps support our small village library. Because of weight this book may require extra charges for shipping. sAR

1968 hardcover as pictured. A nicely made book in good condition. Carl Van Vechten as one of America's most distinguished men of letters. This book traces his life from la belle epoque through the roaring twenties. Binding is firm. Head and tail bands. Embossed maroon cloth boards are clean with only slight shelf wear. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on FFEP. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes many b&w photographs of Van Vechten and his cohort. Dust jacket is price clipped but otherwise complete with light shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1996 hardcover as pictured. A biography of the world famous circus clown, actor and writer. Binding is firm. Boards are clean with minimal shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes several pages of photographs. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

2013 hardcover as pictured. This is a wonderful book following the life of Nannie Figgat nee Godwin through the late 19th and early 20th centuries using her letters, diary and recipe book to document life in Fincastle, Virginia. Includes many photographs and illustrations as well as a number of mid nineteenth century recipies. Binding is firm. Head and tail bands. Pictorial boards are clean and unmarked. Printed endpapers. Signed by both editors on half title page. Text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Would be as very good except for minimal shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OD3

1940 three quarter bound hardcover as pictured. A collection of short biographies of prominent citizens, many with beautiful full page b&w or sepia portraits. Blue cloth and leather boards are rubbed and scuffed with moderate wear of the leather at head and tail of spine, hinges and at corners. Printed endpapers with linen reinforced hinges. Text block is wavy and a bit musty but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1970 hardcover as pictured. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Binding is firm. Orange and black boards show light shelf wear. Colored ends, edge of text block is tanned. Text itself appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s(AR)

1877 two volume hardcover edition as pictured. Bindings are firm. Embossed tan boards with black and gold stamping are lightly soiled and show some edge wear with slight fraying head and tail of spines and at corners. Endpapers and texts are tanned but appear otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jackets. A handsome set. your purchase helps support our small village library. s (ON4)

1971 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Yellow cloth boards are clean with minimal shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and lightly soiled, protected by a plastic sleeve. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1885 two volume hardcover set as pictured. These are volumes 1 and 3 of the 3 volume biography of Mary Ann Evans otherwise known as George Eliot. The books are based on her letters and journal writing and edited by her husband. The books are beautifully made and in good shape given their age. The are from a private library with lettering on the spines being the only markings. Bindings are firm. Embossed green cloth boards with gold stamping show light edge wear and gently bumped corners. Colored endpapers, head and tail bands. Texts are lightly tanned and wavy but appear otherwise clean and unmarked. A number of illustrations are included. Volume 3 has an detailed index. No dust jackets. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OG1-1023

1886 hardcover as pictured. Binding intact. Tan cloth boards with brown and gold stamping are soiled with moderate edge wear and bumped corners. Both hinges cracked. Stamp and writing on front endpapers. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1990 leather bound hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Gray boards with gold stamping and raised bands on spine are clean and show only slight shelf wear. Patterned endpapers. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Gilt edge of text block, ribbon marker. Text clean and unmarked. would be as new aside from slight shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1888 hardcover as pictured. A nicely made small volume being a ahort biography of the Dutch theologian, Jacobus Arminius/Jakob Hermanszoon (1560-1609). Binding is intact though the front hinge is cracked at title page. Brown cloth boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled and show some fraying at spine and corners. Patterned endpapers. Previous owners' plates on FEP. Includes an engraved frontispiece portrait of Arminius. Tissue guard of same is partially detached. Text appears clean and unmarked. A rare copy, not a reprint. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (A1)

1974 hardcover as pictured. The story of Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky and veteran of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Number 699 of a limited edition. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal shelf wear. Inscribed and signed by author on FFEP. Text is lightly tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed with light edge wear. We have a number of books on Kentucky history on offer. Please see our storefront for more information. Your purchase helps support our small village library.

1862 leather bound hardcover as pictured. A nicely made edition that has seen moderate wear. Binding is intact. Embossed boards with gilt stamping are rubbed and scuffed with gently bumped corners. Mottled endpapers. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait and many other illustrations. Several tissue guards have been torn out. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. OL4

1905 two volume hardcover set as pictured. A collection of short biographies of financially successful Americans. Maroon cloth boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled and show wear at edges with slight fraying at corners. Marbled endpapers. Bindings are intact though the tipped in frontispiece and title page have come loose from volume 1. Hinges lightly cracked. Gilt top edge of text block. Fore edge is mottled. Text is tanned but appears unmarked. Includes many photographs. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sOO2

1881 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Olive cloth boards with beveled edges and gold stamping are rubbed and scuffed with some fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Owner's book plate and pencil marking on FEP. Edge of text block is soiled. Text is wavy but otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Circa 2000 softcover as pictured. This is the autobiography of Claude Bragdon, renowned Rochester, New York architect, designer and Theosophist. Features chapters on his several careers and interests including a long section on the occult. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are rubbed with a few stains. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1994 hardcover as pictured. A biography of William Olaf Stapledon, best known as a writer of mid 20th century science fiction. Binding is firm, boards clean. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Would be as new except for slight shelf wear and one inch ink mark on lower edge of text block. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OB3

2011 hardcover as pictured. The edited diaries of Bina Appleman, a woman born in Imperial Russian Poland, was separated from her family who eventually emigrated alone to the United States at 17. Includes 68 pages of photographs and illustrations. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows only light shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OE2

2017 hardcover as pictured. This is the story of a forgotten hero which reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world. In 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. Binding is firm. Boards are clean with light edge wear. The plastic veneer is delaminating in places along spine and hinges of the pre-printed cover. Endpapers and text apear clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR