Biography from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

London: John Murray, 1835. Complete in ten volumes. The second Croker edition. The first 8 volumes are 1835 printings; volumes 9 and ten are from 1839. The ten volumes are uniformly bound in a contemporary full light brown leather. In 1831 Murray published a 5-volume edition that included for the first time the additions and notes of… Read more about this item

Dearborn, Michigan: Edison Institute, 1937. 1167 pages in 3 volumes. Volume 1 is a second edition dated 1937; volume 2 perhaps is a second printing--dated 1938 with the "eight" effaced and replaced with a pinted "nine"; volume 3 is a 1941 first printing. Bound in the original green cloth, with gilt lettering on spines and front covers.… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1989. 248 pages, including 346 duotone photographs by Howard and text by James Watters. Folio. First edition. Signed on the title page by famed Hollywood actress and photographer Jean Howard and inscribed by her to her close friend Dorothy Shoemaker. There is also a a separate note to Dorothy… Read more about this item

Santa Monica, California: General Publishing Group, 1995. Deluxe edition of Nancy Sinatra's pictorial memoir of her father, which includes both the CD of Frank's music that accompanied the trade edition and 4 additional CDs that are housed in a black leatherette portfolio that matches the binding of the book. Both are housed in a black leatherette-covered slipcase. All… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. 206 pages. Small 4to. First edition thus. A typical Easton Press gift edition, beautifully bound in full burgundy leather, decorated in gilt. All edges gilded. Lovely silk moire covered endpapers. A pictorial biography of the Kennedy clan--from Palm Beach to JFK, Bobby & Teddy to the next generation. … Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. 177 pages. Small 4to. First edition thus. A typical Easton Press gift edition, beautifully bound in full red leather, decorated in gilt. All edges gilded. Lovely silk moire covered endpapers. A pictorial biography of Jackie Kennedy. In as-new condition.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Clifford, Herefordshire: The Lewis Carroll Society, 2001. 552 pages. The first unabridged edition of Carroll's diary--includes a detailed 55-page index for this volume as well as the notes and annotations of Carrollian scholar Edward Wakefield. The book is in as-new condition in an almost as-new dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read more about this item

New York: Printed for Samuel Campbell by D. And G. Bruce, 1809. First New York edition.  12mo.  viii, 344 pages.  This book by Scottish-born Anne MacVicar Grant (1755-1838) includes both her recollections of her childhood (ages 3 through 13) years that she lived with her parents in colonial Claverack and Oswego, New York, and her memoir of Madam Catalina… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002. xvi, 265 pages. Limited First Edition: number 779 of 1150 copies SIGNED by the famed American humorist Art Buchwald. Beautifully bound in full brown leather, with gilded decoration on spine and both covers; all edges gilt. Laid in are an Easton certificate of authenticity and an Easton card with "a note… Read more about this item

Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1961. 287 pages. First printing of this biography of Sandburg, wwho won 3 Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry and his biography of Abraham Lincoln. SIGNED by both the author and Carl Sandburg, without inscription, on a tipped-in leaf for members of Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle. The book is clean… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002. xi, 270 pages. Limited First Edition: number 302 of 1150 copies SIGNED by the former U. S. Senator from Nebraska. Beautifully bound in full green leather, with gilded decoration on spine and both covers; all edges gilt. Laid in are an Easton certificate of authenticity and an Easton card with "a… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. 285 pages. Limited first edition SIGNED, without inscription, by American actor Larry Hagman, who was best known for his portrayal of J. R. Ewing on the prime-time soap opera "Dallas." Issued simultaneously with the trade first edition published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Beautifully bound in full black leather that is decorated in 24kt… Read more about this item

Dublin, Ireland: P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1793. Frontispiece, vi, (2), 303 pages. The first printing of the Dublin edition, preceded in the same year only by the 2-volume first London edition--both preceding the first U. S. edition published in 1794. The Dublin edition is significant not only for its apparent scarcity but also… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1988. xxxv, (9), 227 pages. Written in 1928, the book remained unpublished until 1988. It portrays the early life of Ella Bird Dumont (1861-1943) on the Texas frontier. Both book and dust jacket are in as-new condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1986. xvi, 424 pages. This 1967 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the books in the "Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Beautifully bound in gilt-decorated full red leather, with black author and title patches on the spine; all edges gilt. The book is in almost… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: R. H. Woodward & Company, 1891. x, 362 pages. First printing of this scarce biography of Confederate General J. E. Johnston. The book is clean and tight, with minimal edgewear; dusty top edge of the textblock; lettering on spine rubbed but still legible. On the first blank page there is a pencilled Christmas 1891 gift… Read more about this item

New York: Lancer Books, 1962. 144 pages. First printing of this paperback original biography of Marlon Brando. Hamblett also wrote a book on the death of Marilyn Monroe and c0-wrote the first book on "Generation X." The book is clean, tight, and unread, with light toning of the white cover and light uniform tanning of pages--more… Read more about this item

London: C. Bathurst, et al., John Hearne, 1769. (10), 578 pages and xxiii, 195 pages. Two books bound together in tan buckram in 1907. Both first editions--the Ruffhead book published in 1769; the Roscoe book published in 1825. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917), the Concord, Massachusetts author and educator who was… Read more about this item

Kittery Point, Maine: The William Dean Howells Memorial Committee, 1991. 25 pages. One of 2000 copies printed by the Stinehour Press, this chapbook includes the text of the first Howells Memorial Fellowship Lecture delivered at the Portsmouth Athenaeum on July 27, 1989 by Don Cook, Professor of English at Indiana University. The book is in almost as-new… Read more about this item

St. Louis, Missouri: Boar's Head Press, 1977. 181 pages. Biography of 3 sisters who were lifelong St. Joseph, Missouri residents: the noted folklorist Mary Alicia Owen, the noted speleogist Luella Agnes Owen, and ornithologist Juliette Owen. The book is in virtually as-new condition.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.